THE^IAZETTE. c—ifr Prr«f manifestation of the spirit of selfish disregard, whether ol ouc's own duties or of the rights of others, are equally fatal. Na Boom far ldlara. Prnldcnt RoownU. ia Labor AOdrtaa at Smoua. There i* no room in oar healthy American life for the mere idler, for the man or the woman whose object it ia throughout life to shirk duties which life ought to bring. Life cau meau nothing worth meaning unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving. A recent writer has finely said: "After all, the saddest thing that can happen to a man la to carry no hardens. To be bent under too great a load is bad; to be crushed by it is lamentable; but even in that thdre are possibilities that are glorious. But to carry no load at all—there is nothing in that. No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden.” IllUsrate by Prafsroaca. Cbsclt?. and Cfclldm. The news item going the rounds of the press that there are ten thousand white boys in North Carolina between 12 and 21 years of age, who can neither read nor write ia a distressing statement. It mast be borne in mind, also, that it is not the fault of the State that these young men are so illiterate. They have the chance to learn if they want to learn; but this is the matter of deepest regret. They simply prefer to be in the dark. The loss of this suffrage is no great matter, for a boy who has the opportunity to learn to read and refuses to do so is not worthy of the suffrage, but the thought of this helpless element cast upon the State in the years to cOme without one gleam of aspiration ia enough to make us tremble. Whoever, by word or deed, can stir the ambition in a sluggish and stupid mind like this, has wrought a great work in behalf of the State and the race. An Affliction Nora Appalling Than lulk I. A. A**ry hi Charlotte Obaarrtr. "Iam going down to the hospital to tell a young man that he will never see again,” said an eye specialist a few days ago. He will never read again; never again see appreciatively the beauties of the universe. The incident will be marked as ordinary, though sad, and yet it is a tragedy worse than death. Death is kinder than a living hurt that does not die; and blindness ia a part of the loss-wail, which cries the grief universal. Blindness as a physical evil, weakness to replace strength, or the ion of character, or the end of love—these sum up bitterer distress than grief before a bier. To have a thing and lose it. Here is the large spring of tears—here mankind’s kinship in feebleness. Lost! 'Tistbe most direful word in the language. It ia God's term to describe a condition that we know not of and It is given to man to wear it as a badge of worst mourning. The telling of all sorrow that one knows could begin with that one work. To liye after remembering hap piness that is dead; to breathe and be mocked by the ghost of sweetness; to loss beyond recall—so comes the tragedy and the pathos. Lost! Blind! There are so much of both. Loss this side the gtarie is the worst after all; sod the most grewsome death’s head ia on real flesh and blood. Onr Bracking In. tktwad Nm-UlSn. Onr liyea are strange)? like and unlike those of the beasts we break in for out service. We know that like ns they begin with n stock of Inborn traits and tendencies inherited from somebody, sometimes from immediate progenitor, sometimes brought by the mysterious and processes of nature from some ancestry dead and forgotten generations ago. As with them, so with us, the time of breaking in is the most critical of all. Every horseman knows thst there is an art in it which no books, instruction nor axamplc cso teach. 8ome assn never can tnm out.a colt with good temper, ■“■“U ,od *Bd other men rarely fail to do it. We as chfld ren begin oar breaking in and our work time as soon as we begin to be conscious. From the very Mart o4 knowing anything wg Jegrn that our desires must be thwarted, onr wills oontroQed, our MU ** to ha taught that M»a tlcaaon until and we forget everything. Onr pontehnsenu and admonhkm*. the tpur and rain and whip and Wt, do not end with onr childhood. 1. fact, when we hays missed «ham atAat time and com# to manhood or womanhood unbroken ZjflSggLSf -««<*'■ u» »i>i>. menx asoas Heavily. Nature is master of ns and we cannot cacao* snd moraiky also is a master and trainer wboee reqnhemenu w* post obey on penalty of swift and heavy panlahment. WATCH THE BIG STORES THOMSON CO. ____n—— Moat of our fall goods are now open for Inspection and oar sales are growing every day. Everybody la this "Section and surrounding coun try knows we are headquarters. We keep every department at its best the season through. We are always on the alert for bargains and with experienced buyers always on the lookout. 4> WITH THE COLD CASH they are landing big bargains nearly every day. Our shoe depart ment Is at the top notch. You never get a stale or out-of-date shoe at this store. We clean up In earnest each season and start with new fresh goods with the next. d> 4 4 4 4 4 4. In no other quarter of the store Is there any greater activity than among the milliners. Returning buyers have brought Inspiration In the shape of smart street hats for early fall wear showing the new fashions that are going to be worn through September and October. Chic and smart Ideas In all the up-to-date styles. Stop at your leisure and see them. + 4444444 THOMSON :: :: The People’s Store, jj :: APPALACHIAN FOREST RESERVE. Outlook FmnUi Ur Succm la CiUnM-i Project Which Weeld Benefit the.Ceentry el Large. KnoattU* !8*«tJnel. An important meeting hu been in session at Asheville, N. C., this week the result of which may be manifest in the balls of Congress daring the coming winter. The advocates of a Federal forestry reservation in the South met in convention for the purpose of reviewing the progress that has been made in tbe past year by tbe Appalachian Park Association, in its effort to mold s strong congressional as well as s general public senti ment in favor of tbe Appalach ian Park. Tbe outlook is favor able for sncceea to a neater or less degree. One of the actions of tbe convention was to change the name to tbe Appalachian Forest Reserve Association, tbe reason for this being that it was feared the original name wonld be misleading to some members ui vunpoi woo are opposed to the establishment of "parks" st the expence of the government. The Appalachian Forest Reserve is sometbiag more than a jfrrk scheme. It has a higher motive than that of providing an oasis in the busy industrial, agri cultural and commercial world, to be visited by those in quest of the beautiful and of pieaanra. It propones that the government shall appropriate millions of dol lars with which to procure mil lions of acres of timber lands in the Appalachian mountain region in east Tennessee, west ern North Carolina, a corner of South Carolina, a part of north Georgia and a strip in south western Virginia. That timber I* becoming a scarcity in both the North and the South is a fact that cannot be denied. Un less some heroie effort, .re Sade to preserve timber lands, e country will within a few years be without a supply suffi cient to meet ordinary demands. The lumber famine has been visited upon European countries and they am importing Amer ican lumber,ia vast qnantities. Hardly a day goes by but that shipments are made from Knox ville tp Liverpool and to other Snropeaa ports. If the govern ment will make the appropri ation for which the Appalachian Forest Reserve Association is appealing, the timbered lands in the Appalachian mountains will be placed under government control, and government agents will see that they are properly cared for, with a view to coo serving the undergrowth and the yonng timber until it may be fnlly developed. Snch steps are absolutely necessary to meet the conditions that are certain to be confronted. If the present generation does not take some action in this matter,' it may be allowed to go unattended for years, and until it is too late. Then future generations will place the blame where it proper ly belongs, upon the shoulders of the men of to-day. This forest reserve is of more than a local benefit. While the track U located in this immediate section, as stated above, the ultimate benefits of the project will be participated in by the entire nation. It therefore fol lows that every patriotic Ameri can Congressman, who has at heart the welfare of the country •t Urge, cannot do otherwise Park biiPP°rt *** AW^«**«* Smator BmrMf* IndnatlNed .>yM«P—on. Hng experience hi a railroad re*, taurant at Port Wayne while on hia way to South Bend to ad dress the Indiana Bankers’ As sociation. H* wore an old salt of clothes, without a vest, andji slouc h bat. When he had finished his lunch !**. iTI?* 00 »°n«y. Ha the waiter that he bad either bten r°hb«d on the train. The waiter placed him self between his guest and the door and add he bad beard tales of that hind before. Ur. Bev eridga was greatly ember rased and Managm Hubbard was called and demanded hia pay. ft was only by producing hia railroad P«»*» and a number of letters that Senator Beveridge was final ly allowed to depart._ A cyclone struck Atlantic City Wednesday mom in* doing eon slderable property damage and cutting the city off from com munication with the outside world. Train Wrncidng Onght la fea a • Capital OSanaa S»U*Tr hi. Why nut make train wrecking a capital offense? Burglary & punishable by death, the law presuming that a burglar is pre pared to commit murder if nec e««y in order to effect escape, whether or not be actually takes human life. In the case of the tram wrecker scores of lives are imperiled and many frequently meet violent deaths at the hands of persons seeking either booty or vengeance- against some cor poration. Everything is ia fa vor of the burglar as against tbs trsinwrecker. Scandals In Hearty nil Oevera CkukUtObMmr. N Representative Wachter, Re publican, of one olthe Baltim ire aistricta, says the public service is permeated with grafting ond ft k»® session of Congress bo will introduce a resolution providing far an investigation of every department of the govern* inept. Thera is ground far sua piclon that lfr. Wachter'acbarrt Is well grounded. The Post* oMes Department has been shown to be reeking with cor ruption and Indian land frauds have been developed in the In* ELVEWST' “ of Jnstiee. The . -j Deportment is under the charge that there is collusion between the seed contractors and inspec tors, and scandals involving the Treasury. War, and Navy De partments are of long standing, indeed, the State Department is the only one that (a not under a cloud of greater or leaser stse. There was never a time when all the departments of the gov erament stood in greater need of a thorough overhauling, aad a determined and capable commit tee of Congress could no doubt ascertain facts aad make dis closures Which WOttW srtrmith the country. Incidentally if may he remarked that those who, mom than a year in advance, are confidently pronouncing t h • case of the Democratic party asktFsfbsh: n«t election, or the sSect of the disclosures upon the minds of voter*, % WAIST! NGS. ■■ Mttcm. «rty. * yard len