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'''-' "tVuC. I ''ISi ? if :, i'i a . ) f . r ... i t I j THAT WHfCH IS MQR4!LY WQHG CANKOT BE POLITICALLY RIGHT. VOLUME t. . THOJVlASVILtE. N. G.. FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 191 J;. NUMBER 48 1 ; "' i r. , f ' " I I Mfi 'i, I I, ' ' 'i.. mil' j ' ' - - Injunction DissoNed Cy Judge LyoW Thursday The D-nrifswolM received message Irani Ujxlhoton this! meralng f Tnursdyj sUting! that tine tatrrnhrr Inn. restrain.' Ina the Boafrkl of Altfennen oi TbamasviUe ' froiii issuing $75,009 rh bonds for water works amf sewerage, was dis solved by Judgfe Lyon when! Court convened this morning Municipal Campaign Up Warming DikU tiMtkgNsfcl Utt HlKtit And Another Wl to HaM To-algM-Llvehr TIim Ahead. From the present outloook Thorn sSvulte Is going to nave a warm campaign.. It look now like there will be two ticket in the field. The fact ia, tlie fight ia already on and both aidea aire lining up with gloves ojf. A mass meeting of citizen a was held last night in the Opera House. This group' was composed largely of citizens who are in sym patby with the present administra tiou. Talks were made by Mayor F. N, Tafe 6t High Point, Rev. J. D. New. ton, a. W. farnara and H. Kes ler. The present administration, com posed of Mayor W. O. Burg-in and Aldermen A. H. Ragan. F. E. Sig, man, D. R. Connell, J. C. Green and C. C. Moore, were nominated for re election. To-night (Thursday) another mass meeting of citizens will be held in the Opera House. This meeting is called by citizens who oppose the action of the present board of Alder men in regard to water works. We do not know who will be named to ..jpfehfc.hiitjjfclii generally understood and inferred from the pflgteni Issued that a new set of officers will be nominated. At any rate, from all indications, it looks like a lively time is ahead for Monday. Curry vs. Fleer In the case of Curry vs. Fleer, which was tried in the Superior Court at Lexington Tueslay, the jury awarded to the plaintiff dam ages to the extent of $500. Both sides seemed to be very well pleased and it is not thought that the case will go up on appeal. The plantiff was represented by Phillips and Brown and McCrary and McCrary, while the defendant was represented by A. F. Same and E. K. Raper. CamuKk' Tribute U tiw South. One of the most beautiful tributes ever paid to the South was the ut terance of the martyred Carmick of Tennessee while in the United States Senate, which is as follows "The south is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with the tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead: but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories. lo mat and, every drop of my blood, every fire of my being, ev ery pulsation of my heart is conse crated forever. "I wps born of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I way be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her encircling arms." Largo Mefittta Goes to Uxhtgtoi to Hear Injunction Argued. Wednesday was the .day set for the final hearing in the noted Thorn- asville Injunction proceeding, 'and the large crowd of people who went from here showed that both sides were intensely interested in the, out come of the hearing. Among those at the hearing in' Lexington werei W. B. Hite, D. R. Conned, P. L. . Ledford, L. W. Elliott, J. . Wyche, Df. L. Ritchie, B. F. W. Bryant, E. C. Lambeth, A. H. Ragan, J. R. I , Myers, F. E. Sigman, R. L. Urn ' heth, E. W. Cates, J. H. Lambeth, G. M. Hoover. H. .. I. JUec ju E. "Lambeth, J. A.Green. C. F. Li sen, C. F. .Lam Ut, C. R, Thnl njr gUrf! aSripr. ci . beth, i. w. uimDeui, UL. Suggs, W. O. Bur; . . A. Julian. : a Life Ssil IBnUB. Startot' aa His Lsng AUarta, Ga., April 26. WHh the assignment of Thomas Edgar Stripling to the State prison farm at MUTedgeville Tuesday by Good loe Yancey, secretary of the p rison' commission the last act of the fam ous case which has' been like dream closes and the former police chief of Danville begins bis life sentence on Wednesday. Captain J. M. Burke, superinten dent of the state farm has been no tified by the commission of its act ion and Has beetjordered to Colum bus on Wednesday, when be will take Stripling from the Muscoge county jail and carry him to Mii edgeville. There remains but one thing to be done to free the former chief from the1 prison stripes, and that ia carrying his petition for clemency to Governor Hoke Smith after he takes the oath of office. As to whe ther or not this will be done is not kown yet, as attorneys for the con demned chief have given no inti mation as to their next move. Following Governor Brown's act ion in denying Stripling clemency, letters have come to the Georgian commending the executive's action and the governor has received ma ny communications from all sect ions of the State commending him highly and thanking him for tak ing the course that he. did. Mrs. J. L Armfield Entertains. Mrs. J. L. Armfield most pleasant ly entertained the Ladies Tuesday Afternoon Book Club on April 10, at her charming residence. The president presided and the roll call was answered with quotations from great American statesmen. After the usual business was heard a committee was appointed to arrange the programme for next year's work. THe-CMrbwm study the Bay Vie course on England, Scotland, Ire land and Wales, as the same course on our own country will be finished soon. Mrs. Julian led the lesBon for the afternoon in quite an interesting manner and sketches by a' number of the ladies on the most important subjects studied were very interest ing. The resignation of Mrs. Frank S. Lambeth and Miss Klla Lambeth was accepted with much sorrow by the club. New members will be elected in the near future to fill the vacancies caused by their resigna tion. Mrs. R. L. Lambeth read the touching little poem the Bate and the Gray by M. E. P. Finch. Mrs. James Griffith and Miss Ella Lambeth sang several pretty vocal selections and Miss Perry Griffith rendered an instrumental solo. The guest were then invited into the beautiful dining room where many candles shed soft light on sparkling cut glass and elegant sil ver. The hostess was assisted by her sister Miss Griffith in serving a lovely Luncheon which was greatly enjoyed. The home was artistically deco rated in spring flowers and although the April showers Ml incessantly ten members were present and the visitors - were Mesdames Jones, Woods, Martin, Burnham, Chas, and James Griffith and Miss Griffith. Perry "Central" Speaks. Call me not with scornful numbers Like "two-seven-O-ring-three!" Snapped out in disdainful accents. Pray, be courteous to me! Would you like to sit here with a Telephone strapped on your head, All day long to answer summons? Wouldn't you wish that you were dead? When I say the line is busy, Honestly, sometimes it is. Why do you get so indignant When you hear the buzzers whiz? And Wrong numbers naturally Sometimes I am at loss: Bui, in fact, I give them mostly To subscribers Who are cross. Be polite; it will not hurt you. Even though I'm in a box1 an) tmman, although hidden, And am sensitive to knocks. Stripling it Serve Be polite; do-uato others j As you'd have them do to you. ,. It's ar food rnle to observe, and ; j YOU'D get better service, too. ; ". Exchange. FELICITY No labor truly Cone .ia unenial in the sight of Heaven. He that fills honestly the place for which b is fitted is no man's in ferior. I am as much you aa you are tome, whether I be a carrier of the bod and you a senator of Ihe nation. We cannot all be Solomons or Shakespears or Rockefellers. Nor, for the sake of Humanity, was it ever designed ' that we should be. The linnet does not cease its . song because ; 4 lacks the wings of the eagle, nor does the ant work any, the fess contentedly because it 1 cannot gather honey as the bee. In the mechanism of the cos mos there are no useless or untarorthy parts. Each in its place is master. : j "There is always' room at philosophers of today, seeking five. 'Twas never intended that, we should all be climbers. We are as near heaven at the foot f the mountain as at the summit, and the flowers are as sweet And let ut not forget that there is no summit, however lofty, that does not rest upon the great sea level. Whosoever, therefore, gains theinountain-top of material greatness owes it to those whq stand Beneath. An Edison, a Roosevelt,, a Carnegie, a Mark Twain, ju) not some one apart: he is brother to us all., The world's big meti are but the concrete ex pressions of our collective thoughts ani energies. No fellow be ing is so far unrelated to us but that ,wtien he reaches the top so do you and I. I No man knows all things. There is tot anyone, however wise he be, that may not learn something from you. Apelles took les- jfl sons of a cobler. We are all necessary) one to the other. In the final analysis there is no distinction;) "all men are at last of a U size." Do not, therefore, be disturbed Hy those evangelists of ther' strenuous life who slap you on the bacfc, with the admonition to somebody! You are already SomebodV if you are filling faithful. $ ly your present job. It isman, not God; who ranks the rose above 'gj the dandelion. i L You deceive none but yourself if yteu think to shirk the part C assigned to you in the business of the J universe. You cannot be I? what you are not Therefore, know ytmr limitations. Seek that;. which may be found. Infinitely more to be prized is contentment ? in overalls than lack of peace adorned with ermine. Only he is $ master of his happiness who is hones with himself, who knows '"js what work is his and who does it with singleness of mind and with b. all the strength and skill that God has given him. Clifford Howard. W TitharrHiinsis Causes Ten Per Cent of Church Deaths. National Association Reports High Death Rats Frsrn Consume ties. Statistics showing how serious a problem tuberculosis is to the ordi nary churcn congregation published to-day by the National Association for the Study and Pre vention of Tuberculosis in a bulle tin on Tuberculosis Day. From reports received from over 725 churches, with a membership ot over 31i,UUU communicants j twenty denominations, andfrom20K cities and towns iu VI states in var ious parts of the country, out of nearly 7000 deaths in WW, over 7(10 or 10.4 per cent were caused by tu berculosis. This means 2.24 deaths for every thousand members or communicants. While the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis as compared with otner diseases is not higher in the churches, according to these fig ures, than in the country at large, the tuberculosis death rate, as shown I by the church returns, is higher per thousand communicants than that for the general population in the Registration Area of the United States, which the Census lliireau gave as 1.67 in 1909. "The National Association," the bulletin says, "does not, however, consider the statistics received from ministers comparable from the point of view of accuracy with those reported by the Bureau of the Cen sus. A sufficient number of re turns from a greatvarietyof church es have been received, nevertheless, to indicate that one of the most ser ious social problems the ordinary church has to consider, is that of the devastation of its membership by tuberculosis. The need for edu cation from the pulpit and in the home is apparent. Every minister in the United States is asked to give thia subject some attention during the next two weeks." ACCeptS London Call. Asheville, April 26. The Rev. A. C. Dixon, pastor of Moody church, Chicago, and former pastor of the First Baptist church, this city, has accepted a call recently extended to him in London, Kng , to take the pulpit of the Metropolitan Taber nacle in that city. The board of Moody church accepted Mr. Dixon's resignation today, to become , ef fective June 1. The Rev. A. C. Dixon is a brother of Thomas Dixon, Jr., the North Carolina suthor and former Baptist minister.' , is the topi," exclaim the flippant , to spur us on. It is a false incen. Mr. L 4 Nmrton Talks to Dispatch Rap. f " raaantattva. Mr. J.D. Newton, of Thomasville, was in me city Monday. He told of uniting in the bonds of matrimony Sunday afternoon Mr. E. H. Hardy ana raise raaggie Koyals, the daugh ter of Mr. C. N. Royals. The cere mony took place at his home and was attended by a large number of young people of High Point and Thomasville. Mr. Newton said that the people of Thomasville and of the vicinity are very much interest ed in the great Central Highway and will co-operate with President Varner and the executive commit tee of association. The people of Thomasville look upon it as a big enterprise aod many have express ed a desire to help the cause along. If the road can be built these peo ple realize it will be worth thous ands of dollars to the state. Mr. Newton says that Thomasville ia wide awake, full of energy and climbing upward. The majority of the folks are in favor of the bond is sue and waterworks and every other good thing. He says that in west Thomasville alone there have been ten or a dozen new houses built since thefirstof the year.Dispatch. Clastls of Reform Church of North Carolina. The Classis of the Reformed church of North Carolina will be held in Heidelberg Reformed church, Thomasville, Wednesday May 3rd to the 7th inclusive. We give below the program which has been arranged for the meeting. There will also be two business sessions during each day. May 3rd. Wednesday evening 7:30 Annual Classical sermon by the retiring Pres. Rev. W. Rowe. Thursday evening: tivities of a Layman Congregation, Hon hart. 7:30, The Ac in his Home H. C. Barn- The Layman's interest in Foreign Missions. Friday evening 7: 30, the work of the Reformed church in the Foreign Field, Rev. Dr. J. Moore. Saturday evening, The Educated Young Man. Prof. John F. Buch heit. ' Christian Culture for Young Wo men. . Rev. J. L. Murphy, D. D. Sunday morning 11, sermon by Rev. W. H. Causey. Sunday afternoon 3, S. ' S. Rally, A Neetl for Greater Cbns'eof atic to Sunday-school Work. Rev; J. O. Leonfcrd, D. D. The Present Field for Sunday school growth. Sunday evening 7:30 Sermon, Judge Biggs Charges Mecklen burg Grand Jury Aot Urges Jsrsrs ta Pnos pe Recant Is Charlotte. Judge J. Crawford Biggs conven ed court in Charlotte Monday morn ing and in his change to the Grand Jury he urged a rigid investigation of the recent municipal election in that city. Referring to the charges of corruption and bribery in the re cent election at Charlotte. His Hon or had the following to say: "We live under a republican form of government, and the cornerstone upon which it is built ia the ballot. If this be corrupt, our whole system of government is undermined . It, therefore should be the supreme concern of every honest and patri otic citizen to do what he can to see that the ballot is kept pure an uncoi rupt and to lend every reasonable effort to the prevention of bribery and corruption at elections and to this end give his support and influ ence to any effort to punish those who violate the statutes enacted for the protection of the ballot. "The conditions existing in your city at the recent municipal pri mary and elsewhere in the state de -mand a rigid and thorough inves tigation by the grand jury, it any credence is to be given current re ports I do not refer to irresponei ble rumors, but both from the pul pit and the press of your city, chargers of corruption and bribery have been made and these charges affecting the integrity of your elect orate must not be permitted to pass unnoticed and I charge you to make an exhaustive and searching exam ination of these charges of bribery and corruption and use of whiskey at your recent primary. Go to the bottom of the matter, gentlemen of the grand Jury! spare no time or expense to ferret out tne guilty The machinery of the law is at your command. The officers of this court will give you such aid and assistance as they can." Possibilities of Youth The pride of life looms large among the motives that determine aspirations. This is the golden season of opportunity. We should make much of it while it lasts. When old age creeps on and our youthful vigor becomes trophied it is too late to think of what we might have done. It amounts to something to walk down the street and have people point you out as a man who has ac complished some great mission whether it is to accumlate wealth or to crave a great name in the world of men and women. The chosen youth gets what 'he goes after. The chance is open to all. The youth who thinks that he has only to idly wait and fate will thrust greatness upon him is sadly mistaken. He must work out his own salvation. The purse of for- tunates may smooth the way, but real work must be done by the boy himself if he expects to be success ful. Most of our great men have start ed life with but little before them. One of our presidents was a tailor and his old-fashioned shop still stands as a monument to him; an other was a carpenter, another chopped wood for an existence. At the time none of them ever thought the day would come when they would occupy the presidential chair. Fate sometimes makes it easier for some than for others, but fate is usually just in the distribution of her gifts. Great men are made. They are not born to greatness. They come into this world with the possibil ities of being celebrated. Take advantage of youth while the chance lasts. It can never be renewed. The wonderful fountain of perpet ual youth is myth. It has caused the death of more than one adven turer who sought to find it There is but one yonth to every life and it is all to brief. If the opportunity is not accepted in youth it can never be accepted at all. Memphis Ap. pea. Notlco. ' An election Is hereby called for the election of a mayor ' and five Commissioneis for the town of Thomasville to be held on the first Monday in May 1911. . .i W. O. BuolN, Mayor. Wallbtrrg News. The Commencement Exercises will take, place may the 23 end 2, 19l'l in the school' audWbrium. The program is as follows: Tuesday evening,' MSy 23rd at 8 o'clock Annual Concert. Wednesday mOrnfng, May 24th at 10 o'clock Debate. Query- Rp eolved that North Carolina should pass a compulsory school law. Messrs. W. S. Stone and J. H. Shep perd of the Aristotelian Literary So ciety will support the affirmative side of the question. Messrs. B. N. Boyd and J. G. Heat of the Philo technic Literatary Society the nega tive. Wednesday morning, May 24th at 11:30 o'clock Annual Address by Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson of Winston-Salem, N. C. Wednesday 'afternoon, May 2tth at 2:30 o'clock Meeting of Board of Trustees. At 3:30 Art Exhibit and Base ball game. Wednesday evening at H o'clock Declamation Contest. In an unmatched game of ball Friday the Thomasville team was defeated by the Liberty Piedmont boys by a score of 7 to 3. It was ap parent from the first that the visi tors could not manage Underwood's twirls. The team is improving in every respect and expect to do some close playing the rest of the season. Prof, and Mrs. Vantt of Lexington are spending a few days with friends in the town. The presentation of 1'ocahontaa Friday Evening by the Dramatic Club was a splendid success. The scenery was very attractive and add ed to the vividness and forciful- ness of the play. Trie characters were well adapted and the costumes added very much to the reality. The entire pla showed careful, per sistent training. The programe was as follows: Act. 1 The Landing at Jamestown, Act 2 Scene 1. The home of Ralph Percy. Scene 2. The Arrival of Lord Car- nal. Scene 3. The Abduction of Mrs. Percy. Trial and Acquittal of Ralph Per cy. Act 3 Scene 1. Pocahontas. Scene 5. Court of Pouowtan. After the play the Club served re freshments in the .dining hall. Mr. Jno. Reich and Mr. Phillips of Winston-Salem were pleasant visitors in the town. The catalogues will come from the press within the next week. Any one desiring a copy Should notify Principal K. R. Curtis. Among the visiters of the town last week were Mr. Walter Curtis of Ahoskie, Miss Klva Wall of Thom asville, Messrs. G. C and R. O. Wall of Wake Forest, and Mils Emily Boyd of Meredith College, Misses Maude and Mat Wall, have returned from a short visit to Greens boro and High Point Rev. O. A. Keller has gone to Greensboro where he he is holding a revival meeting. 'ome men are ardent church mem bers, but their lives are evidences that they have entirely missed the real spirit ol a Christian religion. Religion to them is a selfish instinct, and they practice none of the prin ciples of the brotherhood of man and few of the teachings of Christ. Their hearts are free of ttie milk of human kindness, and they contrib ute little to the blessings and hap piness of humanity. I have seen men high in the honors of the church too proud and self-centered to stoop to offer her a cup in the name of charity or to wipe a tear from the sorrowing eyes of a little child. I have little confidence fin, and no respect for, a man whose religion is based owns) border lines. LeakBrille-Spraj Omtette. ONE , CONDUCTOR HELPED BACK TO WORK. Mr. Wilford Adaaaa ia his naaae, and he writes: 'I was confined to my bed with chronic rheumatiem and used two ' bottles of Fogy's Kidney remedy witat gbod effect The third ftottle pWI snc oa cuy feet and J resumed work M conductor pn , the Lexicon, Ky.. 6treet Kail- , way, ix win oo an yam claim-in cases of rheumatism. Itc)MrsJhe blood of uricacd.
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