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VOLTOfJE XI. .LEIS'OrR, 3ST. C- JAJSTTJARY 3 5,:inOQ m NO. 21
Prayer of the Rev. H. C. Conden
the Blind Chaplain of the Nation
al House of Representatives on
the Opening of Conjress.
"We lift up our hearts in grati
tude and praise to Thee, O God,
our Heaveuly Father, for Thine
own best gifts unto the children of
men 1900 years ago, the light of
the world, the incarnation of
Thy love, the express image of Thy
glory; the Auoiuted One whom
Thou didst send to preach the gos
pel to the poor, to heal the heart
broken, to preach deliverance to
the blind, to set at liberty the
oppressed aud preach the accepta
ble year of the Lord.
"Hence we pray for a universal
faith, iu Him which shall sweep
away all doubt, and unite the
whole family of mankind into one
great brotherhood; an universal
justice which shall right all wrong,
an universal level which shall dis
pel all hate, bring in an universal
peace, which shall be stronger than
war and unite all hearts in the
glad acclaim, Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.
"And now, O God, our heaven
ly Father, as we separate to cele
brate the glad event of the season,
wreathe our faces in smiles, fill
our hearts with generosity, that we
may feed the hungry, clothe the
naked and fill our homes with joy
and gladness? and thus by example
preach the acceptable year of the
Lord and hasten the coming of Thy
kingdom; that Thy will may be
done in earth, iu the name aud
spirit of Thine only begotten, our
Lord and Master, Amen."
Fugitive From Justice.
Watauga Democrat.
On Tuesday morning, when the
news was 'phoned over the county
that Leroy Osborne, a well known
horse trader on Cove Creek, had
departed the Stato between two
days, his creditors got busy in every
quarter, trying to find something
they could attach to save their
debts. But, alas! nothing available
was iu sight. One creditor deter
mined not to lea loser in the game
(Riley May by name) mounted his
steed and headed for the State line
at Trade, Tenn., where lie found
that Mr. Osborne had fed his stock
for ibreakfast. Here he took the
law, as it were in his own hands,
and followed on in hot pursuit, un
til he sighted the wugon of Osborne,
with four fino mules and three good
horses tied thereto. He rode up
behind, the wagon bumping over
the stones muflling the sound of his
horse's feet, cut loose the stock and
with them was soon making the
mud lly in the direction of the Old
North State. Osborne, missing his
stock, soon overtook May, but as
they could not come to any agree
meut without Osborne paying over
to the said May the sum of 500.00
he kept hitting the road for Boone
where the stock is now held by at
tuchment. There was no man in
the county, so far as we know, who
stood fairer than Hoy Osborne, am'
his departure was a great shock to
the people here
i
(iovernor GJenn, being inforinei'
that the Stonqivall Jackson Manua
Training and Industrial School fo
the detention and reformation of
the criminal youth of North Caro
lina at Concord is ready for occu
pancy, issued his proclamation
Wednesday to that e fleet and noti
fies the .Judges, Mayors and record
crs of ciiminal courts that they
have the authority' and it is their
duty, to sentence to this ischool all
persons under 1(1 convicted of any
violation of the criminal laws.
Making Model Mechanics out of
Bad Boys.
Cinciunatti has an institution
whce sole business is iu the mat
ing of useful mechanics oat of bad
boys. A youngster embarked on
the road downward is given a com
pulsory chance to make a good cit
izen out of himself, but whether
he does so or not he is skilled in one
of the good trades which will en
able him to earn a living anywhere
before he is let go.
The institution is the Cincinnati
House of Refuge and it has been
turning out carpenters, shoemakei j
ironworkers, blacksmiths, bakers,
tailors aud other skilled workers
for several years. Many of them
are uow among Cincinnati's most
skilled mechanics.
These young mechanics while
earning their trade at the Refuge,
are at the samo time receiving a
good schooling. Their work at the
benches supply the institution with
clothing, shoes, and other garments
The bakers and cooks prepare
the food. It is an interesting fact
that the majority of these boys
would rather be carpenters and
ronworkers than bakers or taylors.
Probably 75 per cent, of all turned
out are graduated car pen ters.
Many of them become so interested
in their work that they prefer to
stay after their compulsory time,
and before they leave they become
highly skilled.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 6. A
Pensacola, Fla., special says that
Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pensacola, has
given orders that the street cars
cannot run on Sunday in that city
He says the laws against manual
labor on Sunday will make it a vi
olation.
Having been censured for not
enforcing the law, the sheriff say.-)
the city and county will now get
enough of it.
Deleware, O., Jan. (J. Ten days
ago a young dog belonging to James
Ball accompanied a crowd of boys
into the woods. The dog was lost,
and after a search of an hour which
failed to bring forth any trace of
the canine, the boys returned to
town. Yesterday the same boys
took a trip to the woods and gave
chase to a rabbit. The rabbit was
lost track of in the vicininity of a
groundhog hole, and was supposed
to have run into it. The boys
reached into the hole, and instead
of pulling out the rabbit, produced
the lost pup. The dog had got in
to the hole and was unable to- get
out; but after it had several meals
showed no ill effect from its
ten days imprisonment.
William V. Kitchen is now gov
ernor of North Carolina. The
eeremonies which attended the
inauguration of the Old North
State's new chief executive never
before was surpassed in brilliance.
The parade was elaborate. Gov
ernor Kitchin made a strong and
elaborate address to the immense
throng of people present, lie
advocates a legalized primary,
urges a fair trial for the Prohibi
tion w,' endorses the educational
policy, better living conditions in
mill settlements, inspector for
child labor law, more power to
attorney-general in regulation of
corporations, lor better roads; ad
vocates bank guaranty law for
those banks that want it, and
touches lightly on the railways.
Joseph C Brown, a negro mail
clerk on the Southern Railway,
was arrested in Greensboro last
Wednesday for robbing the mails.
Ho was placed in juil in default of
bond.
The Best Planet's Best Part
As for thousands of years past,
there are important drawbacks to
residence in Southern Italy. The
recent catastrophe suggests reflec
tions that the surface of this old
globe as a whole is scarcely any
more stable than it should be.
Whether holdingthe Laplachian,
the planitesimal or some other the
ory of tho formation and destruc
tion of solar systems constantly go
ing on in the universe, astronom
ers agree that each system is born
fiery hot throughout and grad
ually cools during the succeeding
ages. The immense mass of a cen
tral body or sun keeps it blazing
many millions of years after most
or all of the attending planets have
cooled, and iu ways not yet well
understood its heat is to some ex
tent renewed from time to time;
but in the end even suns "go out"
a number of such exist within
the astronomer's ken to day. Iu
our own solar system Jupiter, the
largest of the planets, has natural
ly cooled the most slowly. His
surface is Htill very hot and is the
scene of storms whose fury is in
conceivable except by comparison
with those prevailing on the suu.
Of course life in any form cannot
exist underany such circumstances.
At the other extreme stands our
highly interesting neighbor, Mars,
who, being very small, cooled or
aged quickly and has now reached
an advanced stage of planetary
evolution. His oceans have dried
un. -his atmosphere has become
greatly rarefied, clouds and rain
are almost or altogether absent
There must b decidedly low tem
peratures whenever and wherever
the surface is not struck directly
by the sun's rays. The wellknown
channels or "canals," running
and intersecting with geometrical
regularity, appear to bring water
from the poles to the more genial
though now arid regions and are
regarded by some astronomers as
proving conclusively the existence
of intelligent life on the planet
.iars, though the same age iu years
as Jupiter and every other kindred
planet, is thus very old. His in
telligent inhabitants, granting
their existence as a fact, fight
slowly losing light against the ex
tinctiou that visibly awaits them
Further advanced than any planet
is our satelite, the moon, which is
a dead and frozen world, water
less and practical y without an at
mosphere.
At a happy stage lctween the
very young and the very old is this
planet of ours, uow in its early
prime. It is fairly well advanced
in age, yet its crust has hardened
and cooled to a depth little if any
greater proportionately than that
represented by the skin on an ap
ple. We do not mean to say there
is casually any great permanent
connection, so far as known, be
tween changing interior and chang
ing exterior, but that the later
changes in each case apparently
proceed along parallel lines. So
tremendous is the pressure of grav
ity upon the earth's interior, that
although extremely dense and
more rigid than steel, it remains
hot and probably molten. In time
the cooling will penetrate deeper
and deeper but meantime the plu
tonian forces chaffing beneath are
separated from the surface only by
a thin crust and at time-! make
themselves felt through it. Vol
canic eruptions and earthquakes
are out of world's lingering imma
turities. The former are confined
to more or less definite regions and
it is usually only in or near those
same regions that earthquakes are
important. Mvidcntly some points
on the earth's suiface nuisllHi eith
er thinner than the sufficiently
thin average or have fiery ener-
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No.
Outside,
Inside,
Approximate weight., 800 pounds.
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Special inside iron door covi iiiii entire front of safe, with duplicate flat key lock.
Sub-treasury, 5x6x9, with -lupin-ate flat key and metal cash ti ay. Drawer and two pigeon
holes under sub treasury. Hook space. I9xi(xl'i.
Begin the year by protecting your books and cash.
In a recent fire here all books and papers were lost.
One of our No. 4 Victor Safes would have saved all,
and at the Small cost of $40.00. Your name on free.
gies of exceptional power at work
immediately underneath. Such
dangerous spots lare Sicily and
Southern Italy, the whole western
American coast in varying degrees
from the Arctic to the Antarctic,
Japan, and the vicinity of Java.
Other things being equal, weshould
not choose any of these as a place
of residence.
There is much reason for believ
ing that we live on the best planet
in the solar system or the univer
se. We are well satislied with life
in those sulnlivisions of the plauet
which our country and State com
prise. Therefore we are content,
and, being content, hope that ev
ery one equally fortunate is content
likewise.
It fs very annoying to telephone
subscribers to find during the very
busy hour in the evening when
they want to use the phone, that
some young couple is sparking over
the wire, or somebody else is hold
ing a long, gossipy conversation.
Some people use the telephone al
most anv time for almost anvthing.
Give tho boys something prac
tical such as a box or carpenter's
tools, a soldering set or a drawing
outfit, instead ol guns, drums and
tov pistols. Teach creative not
destructive force.
When a man gets so rich or high
in society that he is ashamed of his
bent old mother in her plaid shawl
and of her lack of grammar, he is
too snobbish for honest men to
trust out .
If the politicians were half as so
licitious for the welfare of the larm-
er after the election as they are for
J
his vote before it, he would soon
get all that is coming to him, in
cluding the postal saving bank.
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A GOOD HORSE BLANKET
WILL SAVE YOU FEED.
A BLANKET for your horse pays big interest by sav
ing feed, preserving health, and increasing horse service.
Every man works lest when comfortable, so does a horse.
A blanket for the horse is indispensable one kind for
tho stable and one for the street. We have loth kinds
the ne.M- pull -off" kind for use in the stable, at 1.00
and the warm well-tit and well-wear" kind to use in
the street, and asaiap rote, at $."."0
Mm HARNESS
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News From Granite Falls.
Miss Helen Shell, of Lenoir, who
has been the gmist of Miss Allred,
returned home Monday.
Mrs. Lula Hickman ami daughj
ter, Mina, have returned home
after spending the holidays with
relatives in Matthews and Char
lotte. Miss Terrell returned to her
work Tuesday after a visit to her
parents at Ansonville.
Messrs Fred and Marvin Terrell
were visitors in town last week.
Mr. Charles Russol returned to
Richmond, Va., (Monday, after
spending the holidays at home.
Rev. San ford and family arrived
last week and were given a Jhearty
greeting. We are glad to have
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tnem among us and trust that they
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dence is almost completed, and he
expects to mov-e into it at an early
date.
Miss Annie Stone js the charm
ing guest of Mrs. F. R. Tilley this
w: ok.
Mr. Jay Allred returned to Ca
tawba college Wednesday to re
sume his work. .
Miss Pearl Whisenant .returned
to Davenport college Wednesday.
The younger set" cordially in.
vited themselves to a New Year's
pa ay at 31 r- and Mrs. F. G. Ter
rells Friday night, aud enjoyed the
evening very much, Mr. and Mrs.
Terrell are always charming and it
seems that they tried themselves
on this occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shell returnj
ed Tuesday from Lenoir where they
have been visiting 'relatives. Mrs,
Shell is a lovely girl and will find
a cordial welcome in our town.