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HERE'S A TOWN RIGHT.
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"The town of Roxboro has
voted $25,(XX) in bonds for the
improvement of the water sys
tem and the streets. Out of a
registered vote of 143, the vote
stood 1 10 for bonds, 11 against
bonds and 22 not voting- The.
overwhelmidjr majority is a
conclusive expression of how
our people teel on the subject
of municipal improvements.
These bonds bear 5 per cent
and run for thirty years. The
bonded indebtedness of the
town as present is about $30,
000, this beiutf $10,000 for water
and $20,00() for the graded
schools."
The above clipping from Sat
urday's Clmrlnttv Ohsvnir
ouulit to make tis ashamed.
Roxboro is a town of about 2,
(HHI people. Thomasville has
4.000. Roxboro is tucked away
up in Person county on a little
jerkwater road that runs up
from Durham - away from any
where. Thomasville is located
on the main line of the South
ern with a hundred trains a
day. And yet Ro.lxro has
electric lights, paved streets
and waterworks. Thanks to
the progress iveness and energy
of less than half-a-dozen citi
zens Thomasville has electric
lights- and nothing else. Rox
is growing and will continue
togrow-she'sbotind to. Thomas,
viile has been growing too,
but unless she wakes up and
introduces some, at least, of the
necessifries of modern life litfr
growth cannot continue much
longer. Lexington on one
side, and High Point on the
other saw this need long ago,
and acted. ( liven the choice
of three towns in the same sec
tion, how long will people con
tinue to choose the one with
out any conveniences, even
though, as in this case, it is
slightly better located than
either of the others? We must
act or fall behind in the march
of progress. Other towns w ill
draw capital,,, .industries and
citizens that Thomasville might
secure if she had chosen to ex
ert herself. And don't blame
this fatal inertia on other peo
ple. If you are a citizen o:
Thomasville vtm are to blame.
and if vou choose. roi can bring
about a change for the better.
If every citizen expressed his
advocacy of a progressive pol
cy, how long do you think it
would take the Hoard of Alder
men to pass a bond issue for
improvements as they have a
legal right to do." I liev are
willing if only the voters will
sny the word. ''I'nder which
flag Mezonian? Speak or die! "
We are extremely gratified to
observe that the courts of law
of the State of North Carolina
have again proved to the world
that there is still justice for the
lowly in the Old North State.
That magistrate at Asheville
whoupheld the inalienable right
of a rooster to crow whenever,
wherever, and in whatever man
ner he is minded to relieve his
surcharged breast, so long as he
refrriins from trespassing on
other people's property, has
covered himself with glory.
Noting the action of Wise
county, Virginia, in instituting
a good -roads agitation the
Charlotte Obaerrer prophesies
that Wise will become the
Mecklenburg county of Vir
ginia. As that state is already
tieiedsE and tinfuuHHtH of n MwW-
vwwiai ffc VApvv r uvni 0
mighty howl presently from the
Neighborhood of Clarksville and
Buffalo Lithia Springs.
BUTLER.
We have always been astok-
ished that the Republican . par
ty of North Carolina will toler
ate for a moment a demagogue
like Marion Butler. A. slick
and artful political trickster, he
has profited by the ruin he
has wrought. He led the pop
ulist party to its speedy down
fall but on its scattered frag
ments he rose to opulence.
Now he issues his orders from
Washington to the Republican
party in North Carolina and in
stead of being lifted out of the
organization and set down with
his baggage in the middle of
the roiid, he has a considerable
following, ami is received at
the conventions and allowed to
participate in the counsels of
the party the same as if he
loved the State he betrayed and
left.
Mr. Robt. (1. White, a busi
ness man of (ireensbo'ro, and a
consistent Republican, received
one of Hutler's circular letters
he sends out occasionallv from
his oftice in Washington,
which he usuallv abuses his
betters and undertakes to 'dic
tate to the party the policy
ought to pursue. Mr. White
took the time and trouble to
reply to this letter. It is red
hot stuff. It tells the plain and
honest truth on this man that
would blister his hide if it were
not so tough. We quote one
paragraph that is a fair sample
of this virile document: ' As a
politician you stand discredited
and repudiated, not because
of the convictions you now pro
fess, but because of the parties
you have betrayed, and the
principles you have deserted iii
the past. You have tried all
parties, and to none have you
remained true. During vour
short c;reer in the Republican
party, we find you in one cam
paign living up and fighting
for those you are now pleased
to term the "ring bosses,' and
in the next campaign we find
you assuming leadership in the
ranks of the insurgents. "
We have no suggestions to
offer to Hon. John Motley More
head of the Fifth district as to
what course he should or should
not pursue in the conduct of
his campaign, but we agree
with Mr. White that if he
shoulders Marion Butler, he
jyill stagger under a load that
will requ ire the' strength of a
giant to bear.
No party can prosper any
where that accepts the leader
ship ot Marion liutier. He is
a Jonah, and the ship that car
ries him must put him over
board or go to the bottom of
the sea. However, he differs
from Jonah in that the fish was
not made that can swallow him
but on the other hand he jumps
astride the fish and rides safely
to shore!
He is smart as a steel trap.
The man who takes him for a
fool is clean off the track. He
is one of the most adroit politi
cians in this country, but he is
out for the swag, and the good
of the country cuts no more ice
with turn than it does witti a
jaybird.
The steadv rise of Marion
Butler to fame and fortune is a
study. He mounts on the lad
der made by the people, and
when he scales the top throws
the ladder away.
That midsummer is a hard
time on the newspapers is clear
ly shown by the fact that the
dailies have carried scare-heads
for three days because a gentle
man from Ohio sprained his
ankle. Of course the gentle
man's name is Taft, and that
explains part of the uproar, but
the dearth of other news is more
responsible.
When Greek meets Greek
then comes the tug of war, but
when Scot meets Scot then
war itseit a la Sherman.
Notice the sixth district.
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THE BILL NYE MONUMENT.
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Our readers are no doubt fa
miliar with the movement, set
on foot by "the North Carolina
Press Association to erect a
building at the Stonewall Jack
son Training School at Concord
to cost not less than $5000 as a
memorial to Bill' Nye the great
humorist who made his home
in Western North Carolina, and
now sleeps in her soil.
We heartily commend this
proposition which will serve a
double purpose. The building
is greatly needed at the Train
ing School for there are scores
of wayward boys knocking at
the doors for admittance and
there is no room for them; and
it will serve to perpetuate the
memory of a man who let the
sunshine into many a darkened
life.
If within the circumscribed
limits of the circulation of the
Davidsonian there be those
who feel like making a contri
bution to this 'worthy object,
we will take pleasure in send
ing it forward to treasurer John
M. Julian of the Salisbury Post,
free of cost to the giver. It
would be a graceful tiling for
Thomasville, known far and
wide for her public spirit as
well as for her generosity, to
help this great enterprise along
bv a lilieral contribution.
Probably by this time Jess
Morris is as firmly convinced as
Saint Paul that the love of
money is the root of all evil.
St. Peter, (to applicant): What
was your business when on earth?
Applicant: Kditorof a newspaper.
St. Peter: Big circulation of
courser
Applicant: No, small; smallest
in the country.
St. Peter: Pick out your linrp.
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Mayor's Court.
Mayor Myers disposed of the fol
Iowingeases Monday night: Claren
cel'ulbret, drunk and disorderly, tin
ed $0.10. This one was rearrested in
High Point. Neck Karris, a Syrian,
assault, fined $.".(!; .Brown Grubb,
drunk fined $5.or; These besides
the picnickers whose cases are re
ported elsewhere.
A Mother's Trials.
Mrs. J. H. Berry, of Wilmington,
died last week following a stroke of
paralysis. She was the mother of
I (.'. Hancock, who is serving five
years for the embezzlement of the
Lamb-Fish Box Company's funds
at Winston. Although old and fee
ble, she was in Winston to greet her
wayward son when he was brought
back from San Francisco, All
through his trial she stood by him,
fighting for him. He was released
on a bond of $1,500 which she fur
nished. On his conviction he had
hardly got to prison before she
began effort to get him pardoned.
The intense strain the poor old
soul passed through for the last
two years proved too much for her,
and she finally gave way under it;
but to the last she was the loving
old mother, battling for her son,
worthless and dishonest though he
is.
And how do you suppose he feels
with his shaven head and his locked
step and his striped clothes, when
he knows she is dead and that he
brought her gray hairs down to
her grave in sorrow"- Exchange.
BOYS AND BOYS.
One day a poor woman drove in
to town in a rickety spring wagon.
She tied her horse to a post near a
schoolhouse. It was about as bad
looking an old horse as you ever
saw. The woman hobbled away
with feeble steps to sell a few eggsJ
which she had in a basket. Just as
she wus out of sight the bell rang
for the noon hour, and a crowd of
jolly, noisy boys rushed out of the
schoolhouse. The air in a moment
was full of their shouts and laugh
ter.
"Halloa! See that horse!'1
"Ho! ho! ho! Who ever saw such
a looking old thing!"
"As thin as a rail."
"Yon can count his ribs."
"He look as if he hasn't spirit to
hold hie bead up."
"Looks half starved. Say, bony.
is there enough left of you to scare?!
Two or three boys squealed in the
ears of - the horse, and gave him
small pokes, others jumped up : be
fore him to try to frighten. ' -M?'
' Let's lead him 'round to the back
of the building and tie him there,
so that when the folks he belotfg's
to come they'll, think , he's run
away." ' '
" "Say, boys," put in one boy, who
loved all animals, "there's no fun
in tormenting such a poor fellow.
He does ; look htdf starved ye,
more than half, I should say. And
we all know it isn't good to feel that
way since the day we got lost in the
woods." " : -:: ;: ' "'
Ha e you ever noticed how easily
boys and men, too, for that matter-.-are
led either into kindness or cruel
ty? One word in either" direction
and all follbwlike a BockotshttlK
Wouldn't it be good for boys to r. I
member this, arid' to' reflect upcm
how far they may be called on to
answer for the influence they may '
exert over others? . " I
The boys stopped theirteasing and I
began to look af the horse with '
different eyes, while one ot them J
brushed the flies off him. '
"Let's tie him under that tree," I
proposed a second; "the sun's too.
hot he re. ' '
"Look here, boys, I wish we could
give him something to eat while
lie's standing." '
"Can't we?"
"A real bang up good dinner, 1
such as he hasn't had for a centu-
t y, by the looks of him.
"Let's do it. I've got a nickel."
"I've got two cents."
"I'll give another nickel if you'll
come over to father's feed store." j
More cents came in. The man at j
the feed store contributed a nearly j
worn-out bag, and in a few mo
inputs the poor old horse was en
joying u good meal of oats. I
By the time he had finished it the ;
old woman came back, her basket
tilled with groceries, for which she
had exchanged her eggs. Thecord
of sympathy and kindness once
touched in the careless yet well- ;
meaning hearts continued to vi-!
biate. We all know how one taste'
of a kind act makes us long to taste
more. "I'll lift your basket in," i
said one respectfully.
"See?, here' 8 a lot of oats left.
We'll put 'em in the wagon."
"She looks pretty near as starved
as the horse," came in a suggestive
whisper.
A few small contributions from
lunch baskets were hastily wrapped
in a piece of paper and laid on top
of the basket.
"Now I'll untie."
The old woman was helped as if
she had been a tpieen. And every
boy's heart glowed as the quaver
voice and dim eyes bore a burden
of warm thanks as she drove awav.
Those were every-day schoolboys.
There are millions and millions
like them, only they do not quite
realize what a spirit of loving kind
ness dwells in our hearts. Let it
out, boys and girls; for it is you
who are to lift this whole world in
to an atmosphere higher, sweeter,
and brighter than it has been in be
fore. Suudaj- School Adrociite.
A Cemetery for Suicides.
There is in the world a cemetery ex
clusively for suicides hist one. so
faras the writer knows. And it is just
where one would naturallv exnectit
to be, viz, ricrht beside the greatest
gambling rendezvous on earth.
Ihousands go, have been going
through the years, to Monte Carlo.
on the French Riviera. carrvinir
No man, however wealthy he be, should be without a
Ready Cash Reserve for some quick business stroke which
may yield him quick fortune. No business Is a profitable
business from which a man may not draw out some money
and bank it
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with them their belongings, to stake
11, and win or lose, on the roulette
tables. -As in every gambling game,
many lose, and,' with loss of fortune
goes lota of hope.' pispair follows,
and often, thwtrtfjrlcally often sui
cidtl results. 'And so they have a
cemetery at Monte Carlo for those
who, having "lost," commit sui
cide, each grave being marked only
with a number on a little board.
That number tells its silent story
of the life that hae"lost" the life
that Is lost. The wages of sin is
death. "-r-Chriqt ian Sun.
About 36 members of the Baptist
Sunday-school spent the day pic
nicking about a mile from Lake.
They report a large time.
EMBROIDERY!
Anyone desiring Hand Km
broidering or Original Km
broidery designs can secure
same by calling
Vrm. J. H.IShauu, Phone
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Thirty Months Ago There Was Not
A Factory Running by Electricity
In Thomasville. To-day there is 295 Horse 'Power
in Motors running Thomasville' s Factories, Mills,
Etc Get in line. Start right now put in
ELECTRIC DRIVE
The Power you eventually use.
Thomasville Light and Power Co.,
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FOR SALE OR RENT!
Small Manufacturing Plant.
A two story . ironclad building 30
x 00 feet in the town of Lexington, on
spur track, with vacant lot Cheap.
If desired will put it in as part of
capital stock of some new enter
prise. Address either W. H. WAL
KER, K. I. BucHAif AN or J. R, $f
Crary, Lexington, N. C.
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