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ONE DOLLAR PAID-IN-ADVANCE GETS THIS PAPER , TWICE A WEEK FOR A WHOLE YEAR. Volume XV Lenoir, N. C Tuesday, November 19, 1912 No. 5 I r NEWS ITEMS d? INTEREST. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs . in Condensed Form. Pittsburgh, Pa., Not. 14. John Addison Matthews, aged 30, an insurance agent, shot and killed his second wife, Mrs. Pau line Matthews, shot his divorced wife, Blanche Gilger, of Salem, Pa. , and then ended his own life, shooting himself through the head. His wife died two hours after being wounded. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 14. At noon today all cars operated on the Spring tild lines, ltj in number, were called into the car barns and manned by con ductors and mortormen who have been on strike. It is rumored that seventy -five of the old men have gone back to work This will practically moan the end of the strike. Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 14. - Kiev en persons probably erished when the steam boat Mayflower went down Tuesday night in the Maeewaska river. The three survivors are so weak that they can tell little about how the ae cieent occurred. They were found last night half frozen on an island three miles below where the boat sank. Mr. Osmond Barringer has an nounced to some friends that during the worst weather of the Winter, he expects to make the trip from this city to Blowing Mock by automobile. Mr. Bar ringer is devoted to this run and believes that he will be able to make a record for bad weather speeding when the opportunity comes. Charlotte Observer. Halifax, N. S.. Nov. 14. -Four men are missing and pro bably drowned as a result of a collision between the steamer City of Sydney and the tug Douglas H. Thomas, as the two were steaming down the harbor late last nght. The City of Cyd ney caught the Thomas amid ships and she began to till. The captains sent her lull speed ashore to prevent her sinking b our of the tug s crew wen missing after the crash. New Bern. Nov. l". In the future every horse that is used for public service in New Bern must be in ship shape. Dr. E C. Folev. the city veterinarian and meat inspector, has been in struction to remove every anima from the streets whose physica condition and appearance is not what it should be. He has started his work and up to the present time has ordered the owners of several of these animals to take them out of ser vice. A violation of his order is punishable with a fine and a jai sentence. Significant and Gratifying . (New York Tribune.) Today's ceremony at Arling- j ton must appeal to every reflec tive mind as one of the most sig nificant and gratifying of the kind that has eTer occurred since the war between the sec tions; the best feature of it be ing perhaps, the lack of public controversy concerning it and the general acquiescence in its appropriateness. A quarter of a century ago a proposal to return to the southern states the con federate battle flags which had been captured in the war was negatived by a storm of xpular protest. lwelve years ago there were some, but far fewer, objections to the enrollment of Robert E. Lee in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans; but these were disregarded and his name was placed by the side of Grant's by the votes of the Chicago. 111., Nov. 14. Room and board and the use of parlor for from $3.50 to $5.50 week is what the Salvation array homo for girls, opened today offers its guests. Three parlors were added as an extra attrac tion that the young women roomers might not have to mee their men friends on street cor ners and in dance halls. The home will accommodate HO girls. It formerly was occupied by the Union club. Every room was taken before the home opened and 25 names are on the waiting list. If certain young men would roll up their sleeves instead of their trousers they would find better.jobN. ectors from New England and le middle states. in recent ears the battle nags nave ueen eturned, without objection and with general approval. Today n Arlington national cemetery le United Daughters of the Confederacy will lay the cornet- tone of a monument to the con-i federate dead, and the incident passed without challenge, as it hould. There are many who will re gard this as a triumph of forget- fulness. It will doubtless in a measure be that, but it will also be something more and better a triumph of enlightened memo ry. It is well that some things houl be forgotten; the hatred, the prejudic, the pain, the mis understandings and niisappre- lensions. These are necessarily forgotten, since they cannot be fully transmitted from one gen eration to another, l hey can be cherished only by those who lave personally experienced them. But there are other things, far more important. which can live in memory from age to age and which it is well to have remembered at this time more fully than they have hith erto been in years nearer to the anguish of the war between the sections. Among these are the facts that the confederates, equally, with the federals, were Americans, and that among them the same standards of per sonal character and heroic con duct were cherished. With those facts in view, the whole respect of affairs is materially modified from what it was when they were obscured or overlook ed because of passion. History was made on a tre mendous scale, and was made Irrevocably and irreversibly, by the impact and struggle of the war between the sections, If it has taken a half century for it to be accepted and regarded as history, we cannot deem the process to have been unduly slow in comparison with like processes elsewhere. At least we may today consider that it is at last fully received into the domain of history, the solemn ceremonial at Arlington setting upon that reception the final seal. Tb CfcrutiM Card. (Exchange.) The Christmas Card associa tion is the name of a New York organization which after one year of existence finds that its labors are not wholly without promise. The aims and objects of this association are really commendable, in that they con template a return to the saner methods of observing Christmas followed by our forefathers. In other words, the Christmas Card association would confine Chris tianity's great festival to the children, as far as the distribu tion of presents is concerned. For "grownup folks," the Eng lish custom of exchanging cards is advocated. If we might call the "card system a reform it will be slow in coming in this country, but to the rank and tile it will doubt less be welcome. There is no denying the fact that the Chrit mas gift of recent years has be come a burden and a hardsnip to many who are the slaves of a custom and have not the courage to break away from it. As a gift the Christmas present has gone beyond its meaning until it figures largely in exchange and barter, a "something. I'll give- you-what-you'll-give me ar rangement. The spirit of the day and season is lost in this grand exchange, and many strangements of years' standing can be traced back to the disap pointment incidental to the re ceipt of a present failing to measure in value to the one that was sent. On the other hand, the Christmas card exchanged with relatives and friends car ries a message that is eloquent in itself: In dollars and cents it doesn't express much, but it has a deep sentiment, one whereon the receipient can rely. For the children Christmas can be made much, but for those who have put away childish things, it can be made a season of annoyance and unnecessary hardship. Ask the average man and woman you meet and they will tell you that they "dread to see Christmas coming." Rare spirit' isn't it for the reception of the "joyous season ?" TV Lack of Politic,. lls Moines Register and Leader. The Wilson vote of Iowa will not exceed 17"), 000. In but few, if any. of the states will his total come up to the ngures oi the Bryan campaign of W.j; and yet the Bryan defeat of 116 is always referred to as the most crushing of recent years, while the Wilson victory of 1912 is -1 Bliv " iThe'Keiereml Charles TteUle. i COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS I believe in ray job. It may ' Items From Our Regular Corrcs- not be a verv important iob. but i pondenls and PleignDoring everywhere spoken of as a land slide. In l5ytithe Bryan vote in Iowa was 223,741, the biggest vote ever cast for a Democratic can didate for any office. Horace Boies was elected governor for the first time by but a few over 1N),U!0 and the second time by a few over 21)7. Bryan in 19U) received 20..2t'i"; but Bryan is s(oken of as the worst defeated candidate ever nominated by the Democratic party. Even four years ago, in his third effort to be elected, Mr. Bryan passed the 200.UK) mark in Iowa. If any of Mr. Bryan's candi dacies had been pitched in times like these it is not impossible that he should have been the unanimous choice of the elec toral college. As against a divided opjX)sition he might have carried every state; but Mr. Bryan fell upon hard lines. He had William McKinley against him, a united Republican party and enormous campaign resorses as has since developed. Governor Wilson's vote would have made any of the Bryan campaigns appear insignificant. And yet the impression prevails and will persist, that he is the most popular candidate the Democrats have named since Grover Cleveland. Mr. Bryan has reason - to question the virtue of his rab bit's foot. it is mine. Furthermore, it is God's job for me. He has a purpose in my life with refer ence to His plan for the world's progress. No other fellow can take my place. It isn't a big place, to be be sure, but for years I have been molded in a peculiar way to fill a peculiar niche in the world's work. I could take no other man's place. He has the same claim as a specialist that I make for my self. In the end the man whose name was never heard beyond the house in which he lived, or the shop in which he worked may have a larger place than the chap whose name has been a household word in two conti nents. Yes, I believe in my job. May I be kept true to the task which lies before me myself and to God Who instruct ed me with it. I believe in my fellowman. He may not always agree with me I'd feel sorry for him if he did, because I myself do not be- County Papers. HI ISON. Last week Mrs. J. K. Bush accidentally fell and broke her leg, but at this time, is getting along nicely. A little girl child of Mr. Eli Kirby died last Saturday and was buried Sunday at Sardis burying ground at 11 a. in. Hudson is going right ahead in education and religion. There is a new Baptist church and graded school under way of con struction. We hope the church will be ready in a short while. The school building will be ready by the first of the year. Fire from the train set an old field on tire last Monday and true to burned up a straw stack for Mr. B. B. Haves. Liss I.iena Deal ojened her school the first Monday in this month at Mt. Herman (Hudson township) with a good atten dance. bi a Gov. Wiison went to bed early on election night, in defiance of the brass band and the glee club. Over Sooner. "Will you have a biplane or a monoplane?" asked the sales man. "What's the difference?" - "With a monoplane, I believe, you hit the. earth a little quicker ueu the smash comes. Bullet Was Found. Wytheville, Va., Nov. All doubt as to whether or certain hole in the chair occu pied by Judge Thornton L. Mas- sie at the time he was slain was made by a bullet was removed today in the trial of Sidna Allen, when the excelsior padding on the back of the chair was re moved in the presence of the jury and the bullet which made the hole found. In this the de fense sees support of its theory that Judge Massie was killed by one of the court officers, and not by one of the Aliens as it is claimed the location of the bul let was such that it must have been fired from that corner of I the room in which the court of ficers were standing. Clerk Goad, on whose head the defense tries to place the blame for the tragedy, was a witness today and related the incidents of the tragedy in much the same manner he did at former trials. He was unshaken on cross-ex amination. Other witnesses testified as to alleged threats madeagainst the court by Sidna Allen and his brother, Floyd Allen. The Making of a Patriot. It is claiming rather a great deal to say that a child's whole future career may depend upon the hearing of a story! But, un quetionably, it is true. A boy I know, whose parents were ob liged to live in England during two of his early years from the time he was eight until he was ten said to his father one day Am 1 an bnglishman, an American, or haven't I any country at all?" His father, a loyal American startled at this question, read to the boy, "A man Without a Country." "You are an American," he told the boy. "Never forget that!" The boy, now a man, js just about to enter the United States Army. Much of his life has been passed in other countries; but he is an American, "I think I might have become an Englishman, or a man with no particular loyalty to any flag." he .said recently, had it not been for the story of A Man Without a Country" which my father read to me when I was a little boy in England. I didn't understand all, but enough to keep me forever loyal to the land of my birth, no matter where I might happen to be growing up. - Home rrogress. lieve some of the things that were absolutely sure in my own Wheat sowing and corn gath- mind a dozen years ago. May rintf wil1 son be thing of the le never lose faith in himself, l):lst in this section. I 1 1 I I w . . . . .. ... oecause. n ne uoes, ne may lose win ring ott until more news faith in me, and that would hurt develops, as it is scarce at this lim more than the former, and time. VI. it would really hurt him more Nov. Kith. P.H: than it would hurt me I believe in my country. I be- wataiga. lieve in it because it is made up twatauga democrat, of my fellowmen and myself. W. W. Wilfong of Vilas, pass- l can't go back on ed through town Tuesday en- either of us and be true to my route to Morganton with an im- creed. If it isn't the best coun- mense drove of turkeys, which ry in the world it is partly be- smacked much of thanksgiving. cause I am not the kind of a man There were 200 in the flock and that I should be. were driving as nicely as so ma- I believe in my home. It isn't ny calves. i. 1 t. I ancni.ome. iu vou.u.i t saus.j A Mr. Cook passed through .v,.o, u...v .j Ulti vinaKe yesterday witti a which cannot be purchased in fl k of 330 turkeys, and said he had enough bought to raise that the markets of the world. When I enter its secret chambers, and shut out the world with its care I am a lord. Its motto is Ser vice its reward is Love. There is no other spot in all the world which fills its place, and Heaven can be only a larger home, with a Father who is all wise and patient and tender. number to 000 by the time he turns down the Ridge beyond Blowing Rock. The drover was bound for Charlotte. Teacher' Aembly. Greensboro, Nov. 17. Greensboro is busy getting There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell. I believe in today. It is all ready for the twenty-ninth an- that I jossess. The past is of nual meeting of the North Caro- value only as it can make the Una Teachers' Assembly, which life of today fuller and freer, w ill meet in this city Wednesday There is no assurance of tomor- to Saturday. November 2 -30 row. I must make good today, the intention and desire of both tne officers of the association Washington, Nov. 1j. -Point and the local committees having ing out that violations ot the tne matter in cnarge oeing to white slave" act are not ex- make it the biggest and most traditable, Solicitor General successful meeting in the entire Bullit tiled a brief today declar- history of the assembly. ing no reason exists why Jack The matter of board and lodg- Johnson, negro pugilist, confin- ing for the visiting teachers, ed in jail in Chicago, should be which has frequently caused admitted to bail by the United trouble, is being handled in a States Supreme court. The systematic manner. The Greens- solicitor general said that a boro Woman's Club has under- guilty offender might be quite taken the task of securing homes willing to jump a small amount for 700 to NX) teachers and so of bail and escape to a foreign far as possible homes will be as- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It in volves many things, but above all the power of going out of one's self and seeing and ap preciating whatever is noble and loving in another. Ex. Modern books are inspired by the hope of selling them. country. Washington, Nov. 10 The American embassy at Athens today notified the American Red Cross that the Greek sick and wounded, as a result of the Bal kan conflict, numbered about 7 (XX). In'.Montenegro, there are 2,000 sick and wounded and about 4, (XX) prisoners. The American Red Cross Society to day cabled $1,000 to the Queen of Greece, for use in the relief work and similar amounts were cabled to the Bulgarian and Serva Red Cross organizations. This brings the total American lied Cross contributions up to $au,ux). signed in advance of the meet ing at the uniform rate of $1."0 a day. A committee headed by Mrs. C. I Lanigley of K." West Market street lias the mat Hr in charge, and those wish.g accommodations resened should communicate with her. Tins is in addition to the regular lunels which can take care of about iUX). A bureau of information and general headquarters will also be maintained, and all teachers have been requested to report there immediately uKn their arrival. The Lenoir News $1. the year. t i 1 I 1 it I 4 , ? i
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