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9 %'■ 5j54»-‘ ;*■ By. P( ipe Pr' tinkr 0 >. I Job Work of Every Description Efficiently Executed I Our Mechanism Is Not To Be Surpassed Anywhere Dunn, North Carolina ■ + SJL—"ViLgj*. iSjUfc- 2 .. ■•■•T , „ ,.»r , - -- ^ ——. — _——g-Ms -i i I / ■ * ,*7 ;■ ,• •' •» • TV Cm* of High tiring. Eighty-eight millio gallons of whiskey were mad* ia the United State* last year. Who drank it all? Fifteen billion cigarettes erer* manufactured in th* United Bute* laat year. Who smoked them all f Thirty-two million pounds of snuff were manufactured in the United States last year. Who did all tha sneosing? Two hundred and twenty m1HI/»» pound* of smoking tobacco wars mad* In the United States last year. Who had all tha pip* dreams? Eight and a half billion cigars were made in th* United States last year. Who nude all the amoks? Half a billion package* «f chew ing gum ware manufactured hurt year in th* United States. Who worked their Jaws? Twenty thousand moving picture theatres paid f2M<N),000 for films laat year and UvOOOJM persons saw the moving picture*. Where did they get all the dime* and nkklas? Ten billion copies of newspapers were printed in this country last year. Who took time to road them? One hundred aad seventy thous and clergyman preached la two hun dred and twenty thousand church** last yaar, and the congregations, of all denomfoattona, numbered forty million. Who went to church ? It is Interesting to knew what la going on in this country—tha things that people are dolag and who are doing them—and why ? —Leslie’* Weekly. Owr Chases la Case af a Paste*l* War. If this gnat nation la at the mer cy ef say Invader, as soma farmer army oAears are saying, why b K that three real imraden—Russia, Prance aad Great Britain—an un able to crush poor Mttle Turkey aad npton Conteaatlnopb right off tbs naif They on the ground. A Ik— .te inter MM ate the Me great power sweep* the MM* ampin tun dries m awry from the I with Great Britain U tha remotert of all poaaibUitia*. With her neu tral. no other paver or combination of power* could get near ui except la the PhUHpptnaa. Wo are to have combined army and naval maneuvers near Now York this summer. Let the experiment be tried of landing troops from ocean-going stupa at some un defended point along our coast and lei the newspaper reporter* see it don*. When the time La recorded and tha number of men landed Is counted, we will atop worrying about finding an army bf » hundred thous and bona, foot and artillery dumped an our coast overnight. If an army did land in this way at some unpro tected spot and • storm came op, it would curve in * week. No foreign power will ever taka the risk Our army system would be reform ed by doing away with interior poets. Onr regulars should be kept where they can da tha most good and our militia eyeUm seed* reorganization; but these things do not entail added expenditures; they (Imply call for tha hnacct and dee (pending of the preseat appropriation of a quarter of a billion dollar* a year far defense. That is a largo mm—more than this country over spent in the peat except In time of war—and wo should bo getting better rmults If a tithe of what aicwi* of opr retired army and navy officers my la true—New York Commercial. TUB 8UPNUOH CLASS By filbert Bohbeid. the Noted Writ er of Beat Aamra, New York, whe Waa Lead WWk the Leek sole The term 'rujrlor class” was coin ed by people who belong to It TBo as* of virioneo to form a self appointed saparfar dam Is the one thing that has made this world a place of the rinti. me wpala alee* has ever been • aaaaaee end ehrays a curse to It self and ethers- Its dietiagalshlng »■«■* la to amlada. It to aerified ’ ing costly and peculiar clothing, by being carried ia a palanquin, by be ing waited on by servants, by eating end drinking at midnight, by attain ing culture that la beyoand the reach o/ moet, through owning things that only a /aw can enjoy. These are the araUtioas of tha eelf-styled superior class. Tbs superior class lives by Its ants or on the surplus earned by sieves, or men who ere deed. You ere deed, yourself when you live on tho labor of daad man—you ere so near drown ing that you clutch society end pull It under with you. To exclude ie to be excluded. When tho superior eleas shuts out the poor and so-called Ignorant, K is deprived of all the spiritual benefit the lowly have to give. Casta is a Chinees wall that shuts people In ae well as out. if yoa can make people kind, not merely respectable, the problem of the a gee will be solved. This bogus legal tender of gentil ity. which ia the chief asset of tbe superior class, can never be done away with through violence and rev olution. This be* beeu tried time and again. Revolution is a surgical operation that ever leave* the root* •f the cancer untouched. The remedy, is a new method of education which will teach men to be, sot seem—that will give pupils diplomas on what they can do, not on what they can memorise. Tha milHniom will com* in this way: First—lien will decline to. af filiate with a yoclai club that offers • reward for blind credulity. Second—Men will refuse to enlist as soldiers for any other reason than to protect from an Immediate inva sion throe ten tag their home*. Third—Parents will refuse te send their child ran t* any school, college or university where the curriculum does not provide that at least one half of the school day shall be spent ia prodoettv* work.—Hearst's Mage llan. Faaaa, K has always been said, is tha goal of ovary normal human, and one grant sociologist has defined the desiiw for IlNM te he liglllmsfis, fas. stiaetiv* yearning ter eternal Ufe. While there might he some doubt aa te ka reallaatiaa aa the ether side ef the grave. It we tartet that oar names shall he immortal ia the earth, w* are making a sera tMag at It. la ether words a Mrd fat the Wfw Is worth several frwte la the eahee «taat, be It gad m otherwise. TMe may ha tree er M my ha fake, hat thmwjp^aa dsaht whatever that we aet ha aetewsithy, we mehs ear eslvoe notorious and let it go at that. Some people have suck a mad pain 1/ they do not tee their names in the newspapers occasionally that they are willing to wear even a dunce cep or to do any silly stunt if they only get into the public prints Aa are think on all thing* earthly and reel I is* how soon they vanish, it seems ' we do not need fame, or If we most have It ws would realise for bow brief a time anyone will grant ue re spite from oblivion, and not worry. One plan adopted by some people of alienated Intellects ia to seek fame by attaching themselves to some one who has earned a high place In the world's history. They have evea gone no far aa to commit murder rather than die aad sink into psacs ful oblivion. Ereetratus fired the Ephesian dome only for fame. If anything in the world deserves fame it is the gigantic Sequoias of Calif nr nta. They are older than any living thing on the earth, but H la not for that a loos they deserve dt*t*P*4H hut because they have kept on grow-1 ing all the four or Ova thousand years they have lived. It la said they grow about one Inch every 13 year-. That Is not much, but In M or SO centuries this has mads them the telle it trees But this ia not their »i'i alas to tV, tight to have their name* placed <ti I hr scroll of the Immortals it la sain that whan fools, who have no 1 the' means of being ctasird with u* first of the earth—wh-n feats cut their aarr.ee and Inttia a on the w<fl and beautiful bark of one ef ' three treee, the true sets re work to cover It up aad beat the w,u*u», and after a few year nil trace of the au tograph of the Idiot has vanished. The tree does this ia very sorrow end | pity that men raa be such Insane rhumpe. It le a beautiful and kind ly leeeon. These trees bars Bred eo long end known so many varieties of imbeciles that they simply let thane •lone and whan they have finished their vandalism, the Sequoias gt gaatea patiently aad lndohtrioualy *•*•» the evidence, and forgot tt, aa they mount toward the blue skies ae rure In their own renew n. As Hfe grows more complex, and men and nations Hv* closer to eeah other the struggle far fame is hard er and the ehaneee ef attainment leas and less. But (Me has eompsnsa tfaws, and work far wotk'e sake ha re mee more aDurhsg aad we think meg# aad guru of the Joy in the la ber and lees end leas ef the i award. At we eanaet have fame we take philosophy and let It gu at that— ft - 1 — a — a oulfCiml, " The milk of human kindness la eeueRy distributed In rather small Tragedy at Spendthrift Wifa. Profeaaor O’Bolger of tha Ualver »lty of Pennsylvania, has coma out with an indictment of tho spend thrift wife. Ha denounces tha wo man who unceasingly demand, mon ey for pleasure and luxury without caring bow bar husband gets if —th» wife who regards her haaban I . duly a perambulating bank. Profeasor O'Bolgcr la not thoooij philosopher who haa rogarde-l the American woman with grave mWqiv Inga. David Or abaci Phillip, in his last novel excoriated tha carelccv, spendthrift woman, who takes all and give* nothing in return. And there hara bean too many similar accnaa tiona to laava an ydoebl of tha truth that a certain type of woman.beii ing to all classes, haa ao exploited bar husband as to prejudice a eon eidarabls portion of the male tax against matrimony. Tha tragedy of tha worthless wife is one of tha gravest tragedies of our civilisation—more tragic ib»n formerly because of tha restraints of tradition era being removed the aura bar of undotiful woman lands to in ereaae. Woman haa a moat Import ant ihara in determining tha destiny of man. Bo many great man have been made by thsir arises that it to an open question which ef tha pair deserved tha greatest credit. Time was whan marriage was the bast m reetinent a man could make, sloes there eras a reasonable chance o drawing a "good manager" foe a wtfa. but nowaday, the woman will ing to marry a poor man and help kirn on to aoooaoe grow steadily few. ar. The modern woman prefare aue eeas already mad, Richmond Timas Dispatch. A Largs Family. Mr. W. J. Morgan, who Uvea In the southern part of tho county haa reared a large family. In this fam ily were nine boys aad seven girls, all well and hearty, which meant eighteen people hfaifa *-■ aad wtfa, for every amal sorted. They used very httoj madietne and mMm eased a phytiriaa, Mr. Mm gaa’a chdlraa are aO doing frail. B*r ernl of tha girls aye married to goad mea. Three of his boys ate an tha /arm aad six ad them have goad po •Mean fa town. Oae ef them to fa Oreenshme end tha efaar ft** are In Dune. Mr. Merges haa bean a good farmer and a useful and highly re. tU average man ip atomy* paid VoSe* a
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