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IKE'S IE Beer Star Reeders: A feller can larn sumpfing purly nigh every day if he will stay sober and keep his eyes open. I’ve larned sense I rote last last that hit won’t do tu tell the truth these times if you don’t want tu git into the dumdest mess you ever did: I don’t think I’ll ever tell the truth any more ful I shore have had lots of afflictions sent on me since Sal’s sister Mary Jane mar ried John back during the holidays, and all these afflictions wuz sent on me jist becase I took and rote hit up and sent hit down to Lee Weathers to be printed in the Star, telling the truth about hit. (Hit should have been printed over thnr in the social colum whar hit belong ed) but they got hit at the wrong place somehow. When Mary Janes folks read hit they wuz all jist as mad ns they could be, but they wern’t half ns mad as John’s folks wuz. One da while I wuz gone tu bor row a twist of home-made fur Sal to chaw on till the old hen wood lay eggs enough tu buy a plug: they all got tugether and took conn oil how they wood do tu git their revenge on me fur being a truthful man. So, I being kinder foolish any way, and not knowing of their evil designs fell an easy victim tu their wiles. Fuf the next few days the plagues fell on me fast and furi ous like they come in Egypt in the time of bondage. I endure them purty well till that cold Saturday nite about a month ago and then the burden got too heavy fur me. Hit must a been about midnight fur I had been asleep and waked up a little sorter cold and got up, with nothing much on and went out tu see what hit wuz the dog wus a barkin’ at. Rote thar furnist the grindstone thar stood about a doz en men, hit appeared like, with flour sacks over their heads and long keen hickory sticks in their hands. 1 knowed hit wuz me they wuz atter fur me an Sal wuz who lives here, and Sal hadn’t done nuthin. They made a dive fur me, but they wuz too slow, and hit wern’t but a little while till f wuz clean out of site. 1 run through a brier patch so fast that I didn't git scratched nary time. Thar ir. a big gully on tuther side of the hill and I made fur hit, whar I could feel safe. But hit wuz terrible cold way down in the bottom of that old red gully, and jist about the time I had begun to wish hit wuz summer time or something like hit, away off l heard somebody a singing and tn» nearer he got tu me the plainer I could hear the song. I knowed hit wuz Ous Richards fur thar haint another person in the whole world that sings jist exactly like (<u* duz, even if they sing the seme song I knowed whar he had been, fur every Saturday nite if hit haint preachin nite, Gus tolls his folks that thar is an old sick woman across over in Burke that sent hint word tu be shore and come tu sec her that nite if he wants tu see her alive. His folks believes every word he tells ’em and so while they hnint ‘ a lookin he slips a gallon vessel in his car and goes over in Burke tu see that old woman that has been sick so long. 1 craw lea out oi my guny ana when Gus saw me he had compas sion on me and threw some old sacks around me, and took out his jug and told me to drink all I wanted and that when he went back he would fetch me another big drink. Then he set me in his car and took me on tu Casar whar all is peace and joy. And veritly 1 say ; unto you that I rejoiced more over ' that one drink of whiskey than ( ! did over about ninety and nine gal lons that Bob Kendrick poured out one nitc when he visited me and Sal. But talkin about tellin the truth, what is the matter with folks these times do you think? Why t they pretend like that everybody is prosperous these times, but I doubt hit. They let on like all the schools air laming the children so fast that hit purty night is bustin their ■ heads tu hold in so much. Don’t you wish hit wus true. Then when a per V son dies they wus the most devout Christian in the world. But haint ,, hit sorter strange that nobody ever j found hit out on ’em till atter they | wus done dead ? Teliin lies is about ;■ the commonest thing you’ll find any whar now. I heard a preacher tell a lie once but 1 don’t believa he'd a done hit if he had been sober. One day I axed Sal tu tell me whar all this telUn lies originated at any way. She said that these here real es tate agents hatched hit from the lawyers and that the lawyers had had hit so long that thar wut no cure f»r hit. IKE. ARGENTINA WILL BUILD LEPER COLONY FOR 500 Buenos Aires.—The government has authorised the construction of a large leper oolony on the island Cerrito, situated on the junction of tile AHo-Parana and Paraguay The coat of building will be in' s neighborhood of a million peso hospital for tha colony will be to accommodate 600 patients. | Hi evening clothes, 50 policemen raided a popu * club and' arretted more guests for disorderly What Would Lincoln Do About China, Mexico And Nicarauga? Washington, (INS.)—What atti tude would Abraham Lincoln take toward Nicaragua Mexico and China if he were jn the White house today? The question was answered by two leaders in the congressional war over President Coolidgc’s in ternal policy, as Lincoln’s birthday anniversary turned their thoughts to his policy toward other nations. Lincoln would do just what the United States is doing today, de clared Representative B. L. Fair child, New York Republican, who introduced the first resolution in congress to endorse President Cool idge’s Nicaraguan and Mexican policy. He would do just the opposite, said Representative Huddleston, an Alabama Democrat, who startled congress with the charge that Mr. Coolidge was “consciously and do liebrately driving toward war with Mexico.” “Abraham Lincoln’s fundamental belief in American traditions and ideals would move him to uphold the honor of the nation in the pres ent situation,’ said Representative Fairchild. “Ho believed that the nation should he just and demand justice. His humanitarian instincts would cause him to try to aid Nicaragua, just as the United States is today trying to save that country from the horror of Civil war. Lincoln did not fear the consequences- of an acc w'hich he believed was right. “Lincoln would want a united country back of him. Just as he was criticized while tiying to save the Union, the President today is cru cified. “He would deal justly with Mex ico, and demand that Mexico deal justly with American citizens. Such a conclusion is unthinkable, in Representative Huddlestons opinion. “Lincoln was an honest believer in democracy and was a sworn foe - ------- of imperialism,” he said. “lie un derstood the spirit of traditional Americanism. “He had a high view of national responsibilities and he never would have consented to use the great power of the nation to oppress the weak at the behest of financial in terests. “His record speaks on the filth iest. Lincoln opposed war with Mexico in 184(5. H.ft spoke and vot ed against it. And the fundninent.il issues of that day are the same as those involved in ear present con troversy .” MR. LEE OF LINCOLN. HAS DRAWING BY LEE Lincoln County News. Several days ago a news story was printed carrying the informa tion that an old letter written by General Robert E. Lee had been found in the Blue Ridge Leo hall school near Black Mountain. An other piece of information which may be of interest is the hand drawn picture of Robert E. Lee’s now in the possession of William Forney Lee of Lincoln county. It i< claimed the picture was drawn by General Lee and given to the late William Osborne Lee, who was a r< lative, iust after the war. It is claimed the paper on which the drawing was made is worn and dis colored with age, but the the out line is very plain, and carries Gen eral Lee’s autograph. Mrs. W. L. Lowing, a daughter of William Forney Lee, states that her father prizes very highly the drawing of General Lee which has been handed down to him. Nowadays, when a Washington resident speaks of the new Senator from Texas he doesn’t mean any body less chan Tristam Speaker. Those who insists upon raising the religious issue in politic.- arc those who insist upon rebuking those who raise the religious issue. STREET Prope ty owners in Shelby own ing properly fronting paved streets cn which assessments against the prop erty are not paid, will please take no tice that these assessments MUST be paid at cnce. Unpaid assessments con stitute a lien upon your property and if not raid, THE PROPERTY WILL BE ADVERTISED FOR SALE, Street paving bonds are now due and must be met with money which property owners owe. A, P. WEATHERS, Mayor, MRS. OSCAR M. SUTTLE, City Clerk YOU AND YOUR DOLLARS What you now own is no fair measure of your fortune. You may be worth twice as much—or ten times as much—because of your probable earnings in the future. Read the advertisement of the Metropoli tan Life Insurance Company in this paper, headed THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE AT ALL AGES It refers to a new and very interesting cal culation of what human being*! are eco nomically worth and shows whv most men worth m"*e than thev had supposed, The local office'of the Metropolitan will ghdly explain how you can find your ac tual value iii dollars and advise prudent ways to protect you and your family against possible loss, -OFFICE UNION TRUST BUILDING, Shelby, N. C. L. R. St THORNVILLE CORNEVIN, Asst. Mgr. In Charge. -LOCAL AGENTS — N. D. Francis, John T. Robinson, Furman E. Corley. -CHERRYVILLE J. V. Rhyne. — LINCOLNTON Hugh Jenkins, Van Buren Wilson, Miller Rhyne. South Needs To Leant. A prominent business man of Hickory told this su>ry yesterday afternoon. He said he was in a northern city and went to call on a native of North Carolina who had been living and prospering in the North for a number of years. It so happened that the day the Hickory man selected for his call was on a legal holiday, and, know ing that such occasions were gen erally observed in that section of the country he was afraid he would not see his friend. However, he went to the place where the former North Carolin ian worked, and, to his surprise, found that he was the only man in the office. After exchanging greet ings the Hickory man remarked that he was surprised to find his friend at work on a legal holiday. Whereupon the man told him that he and his wife had made plans to visit some cousin in a city nbout 30 miles away. They had actually accepted the invitation ami had everything arranged to leave on the night before the holiday. Bui upon investigation they discovered that such a trip, coating about five dollars, would cause them to cuceod their family budget for pleasures, so they had to call off the trio. That accounted for him being at his place of business when the Hickory man called. That is a simple little story but its moral is evident. The man of the story has prospered in the north. lie could afford, if he wish ed, to travel the length and breadth of the land. But he had attained that stage of independence because he was systematic in his saving. The Hickory business man was profoundly impressed. H" doubted if there is a single family in Hick ory that operated on the budge system. Most of them, he said, spend So long as the money his.:-, and when it is gone they go in debt. This particular business man, whose- judgment v> unquestionably sound, would advise that all fam ilies start a budget, setting forth just how much they can afford to spend on certain things: grocer ies, theatres, car.dies, gasoline, trips, clothes, and so on down the line. When one of these items reaches the limit in the week, or month, it is time for the family to ‘op spending on that purdcular thing. The south lias r.ot yet learned to systematise its spending and rav ing. When wa have, we spend, whereas when we have we should save. Saving is difficult when there is not i n accurate account c" where the moi ey goes. And so long as the «uM;.h continues to spend hup hncardly its economic progress will be behind that of the north. The rich sections of the country have reached their desired state not lie cause manufacturing nidustries brought wealth but because the great mass of people have saved their money, fo.t investments. I Hickory, nor any other commun ity for that mater, could not make a more progressive step forward than the simple determination by a , great-proportion of its families to '-start systematic budgets and keep witirn their limits. If you ..now how much you make, or approxi mated;/ so, it is an easy matter to figure you- expo dilutes just a lit ‘l'e 'under that. Then stay within those appropriations —- Hickory Record. Blaming V. S. For chin Ilow. The fight of American missionar ies, teachers and Y. M. A. workers from their fields of labor in China to cities protected by for eign gunboats docs not mean that their work has been a failure and that they are abandoning it per manently. It does not prove that their converts to Chr;: tianity. or the people who have received them in a friendly spirit as teachers, have turned against tnem. Some of them doubtless have be into the ranks of the mob . • noeent people often are '' country front momenta!- , ! rnent. tn all probability i the rioters, who are ' !r u . ‘ r chapel and sehc>cl housu irig out the missionar \< to the large class that hav cepted the teaching; < " sicnarics and Y. M. C. A. Such urprlsiags and hostility have occurred ! ■ after the exeit/merit hn j3"! will be well..—Ik.-changr. The settlement as a \ ,,1( more than rivalled the fan der town.-. Tijuana and ' according to Alameda cialsj At the expiration meat period. District Aft- •• Warren v.-ill ask;' this in; department to dccia:\ .n rnent a nuisance unfit v,, habitation and will wipe locality for all time a; VOU3 of outlawry. The Value of Human Lift “Brolce”— but Worth $79,100 Dad earns $50 a week. He has just paid the rent, the grocery bill and the milk bill. He says he is “broke, but happy”. ... In reality, he and his family are worth a small fortune.... This American family represents $79,100 of the nation’s wealth. A LMOS T any man will agree that his life is jCA more valuable to himself than the things he JL JL owns. Now he can have the comfort of knowing how valuable his life is to others—from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. Today it is known that the lives of our men, women and children are the nation’s greatest asset. The economic value of these lives completely over shadows the value of all of our material wealth. Recent computations made by statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company show the real economic value of the lives of our people from baby hood to old age. These figures are based on the aver age family — with an average income—and take into consideration the average length of life of each mem ber of the family, together with the cost of bringing children into the world, feed ing them, clothing them, ed ucating them and bringing them up to a self-supporting basis. Long lives and short lives — small incomes and big incomes —are reckoned in these calculations. At 40, a man earning $100 a week is rated as having an eco nomic value of $45,670. At 30, the $50-a-week man rep resents a value of $31,000. He had a value of $9,333 the day he was bom. * —And then come the fig ures showing the total eco nomic value of all the men, women and children of the United States—the astound ing total of 1,500 billion dol lars ($ 1,500,000,000,000). * If you wUhfindout how much each mem ber of your family U worth, economically, • end for n booklet tocently prepared by the Metro (>ol;lun Life Insuranc a Company — li tV.ta hi,w a person of ony age may measure the «.cmcruiQ value of htt or her lite. It will he rnti’rU free. Perhaps the easiest way to realize this v. tupendous figure is to compare it with the total value of the entire material wealth of our country. The latest available government reports show that everything we own—land, buildings, railroads, mines, raw materials, manufactured products, crops, live stock —everything included—was 321 billions... .Our lives are worth nearly five times as much as our property. America can well be proud of the additional insur ance placed on the valuable lives of her people in 1926. More than 16 billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) was written and revived during the year by about 300 life insurance companies—making the total amount of life insurance in force apDroximatelv 80 billion dot. lars ($80,000,000,000). About one sixth of the grand total is carried by the Metropolitan. But while the people of this country carry 80 billion dollars of life insurance—or only one-twentieth of the economic value of their lives -they carry more than 160 billions of insurance on prop erty-more than one-half of its value. You would not insure a $5,000 house for $250—one twentieth of its value. You insure it adequately. But have you insured yourself adequately? Send for the booklet which tells you what you are worth. Study it. Then decide whether or not you carry enough insurance to protect your family. * America is rapidly gaining a better knowledge of the value of its greatest wealth —human lives. The America of the fu ture will better safeguard its wealth and happiness. ✓ r Fiscal Report to Policyholders for Year Ending December 31, 1926 Assets ..... i i Liabilities: Statutory Reserve Dividends to Policy - holders payable 1927 All other liabilities Unassigned Funds . ; $2,108,004,385.30 $1,862,873,176.00 $52,246,369.35 $70,648,717.81 $122,236,122.14 $2,108,004,385.30 Increase in Assets during 1926 . . $253,346,902.88 Income in 1926 .$595,596,505.88 Gam in Income, 1926 . . i . . $64,368,062.09 Paid-for Life Insurance Issued, Increased and Revived in 1926 . $3,011,775,150.00 Gain in Insurance in Force in 1926 $1,401,734,835.00 Total Bonuses and Dividends to Policyholders from 1892 to and including 1927 .$304,594,554.96 Life Insurance Outstanding Ordinary Insurance.$6,566,596,872.00 Industrial (premiums payable *eekly>.$5,487,800,648.00 Group Insurance .$1,444,584,107.00 I otal Insurance Outstanding . .$13,498,981,627.00 Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1926. ..... 37,239,579 HALEY FISKE, President —-****'» r ‘^o-JrresMent The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is a mutual orsanizatinn it holders. Its wealth is owned solely by its 24,500,000 Policyholders-in the Unhed States and C no stock Canada. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY NEW vniiv iligse-'t In the World. More Assets. More Policyholders. More Insurance In force More neJln „ * ~ KK ■;Not host because the biggest, but biggest because the bes," lnSurance each year
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