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Ci: L y Ly tlie Cu.t.l lull, ...k.i.,tl iniittiiil (Incorporated) 7. . WHITE .Preside N. II. RICE Vice-President F,ates-(-Payibl8 in Advance: One Year.,,...,,, .. , . , ;..$1.00 Six -Months, i ....... ,50 Three Montha . , .-' . . . . '. .. .. -.2S Entered as second-class mail matter June 18th, 1!M)7, at the Postonice,at Marshall, N. U, under the aotof Cong ress ol March 3, ISia. Thursday, May 13, 1909. AIMLESS EFfORT. "Swards lack &H keenness, arrows lack all speed, If he who uses either gives 10 heed." . Selected Penny Wise, Pound Foolish. The temptation is to make the .. present our criterion and not consult the future. -All great fortunes, all great improvements have been planned beforehand and the initial cost was paid be fore a cent of profit came in. ..iK Men are willing to sink a for ; tune that it may bring forth many times what it cost. The great power dam- below the city wilt cost a " fortune before it " brings in a cent of profit. . But the trouble with a great many of us is that we look at the pennies now and in -that become pound foolish in the future. - The farmer CHunot stand the initial cost of improvement because it means a larger outlay.' But -in being penny wise, he will always be gathering the penntes and he . :n -ll ' . I - il A will tu ways yns iu me aauie straightened circumstances. - The capitalist holds on to the penny, protests against taxes, special or otherwise, and his profits keep the same. If he were pound ; wise, both farmer and capitalist, he would see that! improved roads and highways mean greater comfort, greater facility and greater ease in put ting products where they can be sold. A farmer had a large amount of corn that was wasting on his hands because it would cost more than the corn was worth to market it. .Why? ,Ba: Ciiu.se the roads were such that he could not haul it with profit Good roads would have given him an opportunity to sell at a profit. He was penny poor because pound foolish. School taxes are the same. We complain because we only have four months of school and still when we are asked to look to the future and pay a little more and have more school and better teaching, the tendency is to be come penny wise and the result is that we are pound foolish. Just the same length of schools, just the same kind . f schools and we complain., No one is to blame except our selves. . The remedy is to look more to the future and see what a little larger investment in the shape of taxes will give us. Zach Mc Gee,r the correspondent of the Asheville Gazette - News, has written a book called "The Dark Corner," that places this school question in ita proper light. He shows what can be done even where, conditions are the worst, and when we thus look.to the future we will reap even where we have not sowed. With irnrxA rnnrha anA trnnd I 1 L U A VUIUU ... . schools, land will increase in value so much that the .increase in taxes will be nothing in, comparison with the Increase in t'e wealth of the country and in' Uie value of the land. '" i"::t if through lc.k of business i v "1 V i- T to present, e ; i t. -y, Penny o i n t e d i Hnp- r-to Ia;(t 1 of Africa lionizing Ted dy, he is " teddy izing the lions. ' Little Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow," is the question just now. We are afraid to say how'many lions Roosevelt has killed. It was five when this was written. . "Madison county will soon be the banner county as to the small ness of docket in court. Have you noticed how little litigation there is? .1. There should be some public grounds where the people of town could take' an outing and the boys have game of ball They have to go away from town now fora game. Surely after the murders and massacres of Christians in Asia Minor, the nations of the world should enter and make it imposs ible for this to occur again. It is a disgrace to christian nations to even permit for a moment the existence of such a menace to humanity. '' Castro, exibd from his country, deported from St. Thomas, Mar tinique, and a host of other places, has been heard from in Spain. He says he wants to end his days in peace and asks Spain to per mit him to live off the Canary Islands. . Let him go there, but keep a" watch on him. The News was wrong last week when it stated that the Sugar Trust had paid two million doll ars. We should . have said two million one hundred and thirty four thousand, and besides thej are still subject to criminal action and liable to penitentiary sen tence. So much for Republican p osecution ; Roosevelt started it and Taft is keeping it a-going. That Chicago real estate deal er who lived on bogus mortgages and notes for twenty , years and fleeced the public out of more than a million and a half may be getting some good out of it for an "h nest confession is good for thesoul," but -some oC cr and it may be they wjll help him do some work, at Joliet in conse quence.'' ,. Grafting in Pittsburg has be come decidedly unpopular. It has become the fashion to send them to the -penitentiary and seven will keep each other com pany there. Formerly they slip ped over the line into Canada and rested, ' Now. they rest at home and at the expense of the State. Less expensive, it is true, but then they have to work and wear the State garb. Surely the public conscience has been awakened, ' Recipes for Sure Death. In the Federal Court at Ashe ville there was presented in court as evidence the following recipes for making whiskey. These rtcipes .call for ingredients that are almost sure death or at least will drive you crazy. ; We are debtors to the Asheville Citizen for the recipes: C 1 One gallon fresh corn whiskey, one ounce each, of ' prlckley asb cayenne pepper and laudanum; if not strong enough add more pepper. To tms aaa two gallons of rain water and shake well. H One other is sure death: "Sane quillaya, extract of can nabis, Indian tincture' of guinea pepper, tincture of pillitory acet ic ether, sulphuric acid, and powdered opium and mix with four gallons o'-water. Shake well and to iv&;avor; of old Bourbon aid tliretSjlrops of winteryreen, and to make .real Irish whiskey p H t'.ree drops of creosute. f i a .M a little tinc ture of tobr to ive tlie stuff -rip." tUire-?y ; 1' t C 'res a kr. , : it ' r '? i .ti.T 1 t ' ! " ' " ; v 1 " r : - .A town gets its reputa the way it is governed, t Mayor and Town Board t . t ones who are supposed to i t , sent the citizens. A cit! ticket, such as was elected last Tuesday, represents the senti ments of both the Republican and Democrat party and the combin ed ticket means that we are goin to do what is best for the town and that there will ' be good government. We are not tt ex pect partizanship but law and order, and we, the citizens, must stand back of our Aldermen and show them that we will back them up. If" they make laws, then they' must be .. enforced, Laws that are dead letters should be enforced or should be taken off of the books. - Now there are laws that have been made and under certain ad ministrations have been enforced but which with the passing of time have become almost dead letters.' The mayor is the ex ecutive head of the town govern ment. The Board of Aldermen is the legislative branch. If the Al dermen make the laws, the Mayor becomes the instrument in ex ecuting the laws through his offi cers, and he should execute them, hit whom it may, Now it has come to ; the knowledge of the News that the Sunday Closing law is not enforced and that some stores are : open wide on the Sabbath, 't- :--f;;t;t.t, '-. If we have a law that requires the stores and places of business to keep closed on Sunday, . let us see that they are closed and that the law is enforced. . " . t-e Laxity in one direction creates laxity in another and- finally we have a- number of dead letter laws upon our statute book. If you have to buy anything, do it Saturday and let the mer chants close on Sunday. Each throws the blame on the other. The mercant says that the people require him to open because they do not have time Saturday night to buy. 'The peo ple say that the merchant keeps open and therefore they buy. The transgressor ; is the ore who disobeys the law - and e .i dently it is the it "reliant. If the people' ope1 ' - if t-.e SwutB.., . . is transgressing- the ,urs. '..-..Tuo people would not buy if the" mer chant did not keep open, So let the new Mayor and Aldermen see to it that this law is enforced and the good reputation of Mar shall will be enhanced. . . Obscuring the Issues. '-t . Nothing is gained by. petty personalities in politics. . The great issues at stake are often times sacrificed to gratify a personal spite, and a little spleen splits the community on other issues than those which the party , have aaprinciples. We could name an election ' in which a party lost hundreds of votes just because some officious member jumped into the- cam paign with personalities that on account of the personal popular ity of the person attacked caused the party to lose many of its votes and it lost out. Fight for principle and not persons, except as they are worthy or unworthy of your con fidence. But nominate men wor thy of . confidence, and then vote on principle. The consolation for the ones who lost in the election in our neighboring city is not tocry over spilt milk, but not to spill it next time. . Senator Tillman of South Car olina has been taking. some of the Southern Senators to task for turning Republican. In a debate the other day when he had arraigned some Senator, the reply was made that "the only simon-pure honest man in the world is the Senator from Sooth Carolina. I have discussed and other Senators have discussed this question very often with the Senator from South Caro'iaa, and f!.--ua and a. rain he has spoken from 1 ' t s.'ut challenjir r the in I cf every tin: r who ; v i ..I 'y ; rt him iderofthel . .iplation. IIci o i , a not a native cf t'.,e at' anlmmigrant and 1 immigrant at that, v. oducing more wealth t ia mines of the, coun try, s "much as all but the ft. 1 1 or four of the great 'agrl.-..: ral staples. Yet bow little t ) is known and how little appro- ' ed! : --; ::: " We a u gh at her awkward walk and her still more awkward run; at her persistent habit . of cross ing the road in front of a, car riage, and then crossing back again; and ber serious Handed ness over what seems to us small concerns has sriven a new de- s-iriptive term to the language. - 4But the United States govern ment doepppreciate the hen. It has produced many books about her, the latest of which, just ' issued,; concerns the egg trade of the country. ; " - "There liS" much in the little monograph that will prove uier ful to those who keep, hens and to those who eat eggs. In spite of the great Increase in the poul try Industry during the last quar ter century, the supply , has not kept pace with the demand, as is shown by the fact that the price of eggs has been rising for the past ten or twfelve years. . "Freshness, the quality most desired in eggs, is, as the depart ment of Agriculture points out, not a definite term. It's only real mtiniug must apply to the con dition of the contents, Tand-this may be better in one egg that has been properly kept for eight months than in another that is only forty eight 'hours old . and not properly kept, -5 , ; r; ; "The methods of marketing eggs now in use are severely criti cised as wasteful and inefficient, entailing unnecessary losses" to the producer and needlessly high1 er prices to the consumer. The elimination of the ' "country gen eral store" a the first market, the encouragemt 6f quality buying instead of th ysent case-count method, mor ompt collections by the f. better storage by e f -1 pnd co-oper- ai: "rs cf r I 11 It... The Geo. 1 No. 88, G. A. annual- men the Sunday ' May the 29th, I ing program -The Post v Gahagan -Post ., will hold their 1 service ' with ools at Marshall JU9. Thefollow 1 Li: observed: ill meet at the Court House at 10 a. m. ; The procession wi'.l form and march. The Post will then meet iff the Court House at 10:30 u m. The opening song by Marshall choir.: The Post will then be opened in due form by the Commander. Music by the choir. - , -Address of welcome by Guy V. Roberts.' ' Music. 1 ' Response address by Hon. T. J, Murray. " - Music; '' ' .... . . President Lincoln's Memorial address at Gettysburg, read by Rev. J. H. Ballard. .' Music, v Address'- on the subject the "Young American" by Jancer L. Tweed. Music, t. ' ' Memorial address by , Rev. W. & Finleyi ' Music. Recess for one hour. At .l p. t-i. soi -.2 by the choir. Music. !, Address ly Col. John McElroy. Music. " , . Memorial r l by T.ev. T. 0, Reece. Musia : Resolut' ( W, Crow. Music. A cord' erate ve Spanish bo ly cor P f !, v . : p.n ii.it e (-u.ih-v. ': tiva f ! t..e f -.iily t.f s-. .1 . in the i. h iki.cJ t.-i-oitt '1 j-..,n-. vlsituig t s iilace, Mars Us SI and A;.: ville with Uiuir schools. It mil be in teresting to- have his report and sue what is the besetting sin of our part and the remedy proposed. America is awakening to the fact that Ve are up against a great social problem that must be solved. Are our conditions the the same as those of Pittsburir or will he find a different spirit from commer cialism in us. It by this study of social conditions American, life can be bettered and the cross materialism of the age lessened, it will be blessing. ' :. . i a ; ; ; : This is a summar of the report: . Mrs. Sage gave $10,000,000 to pay ex penses of ' Investigating social" condi tions in the United States. The trustees of the fund invested first in a study of Pittsburg.- For eighteen months they had expert investigators examining Pittsburg up and down, right and left, through and through. Their report is ready. It is of course an encyclopuedla in bulk; its whole significance cannot be digested in a newspaper article. - But to show its meaning in the large, Dr. Edward T. Devine, editor of The Sur vey, sums up "the gist of the situation" in eight paragraphs. Of these he him self says the first and last mean most. They read thus: - ' " ' 'L ,: An" altogether- incredible amount of overwork by everybody, . reaching its extreme in the twelve- : hour shift for seven days . in the ' week in the steel mills and the ' ,1 railway switchyards. . ' "U1. The contrast between the V : prosperity on the orie hand of the most prosperous of all the communi-' ties of our western civilization, with ' its vast natural resources, human -.energy, technical t development, enormous capital, and. on the other hand the neglect of life,' health,-., physical vigor, even industrial effi ciency of the individual. ' Certain- ; ' ly no -community ever before had "'. such a surplus, and never before had any great community applied what ' it had so meagerly to the rational . purposes of human life. Not by " 1 gifts of libraries, galleries, technl-' cal schools and Parks, but by the . . cessation of toll one day' in seven -.: and sixteen hours in the twenty-four, by the increase of wages, the spar-' ; ing of lives, by the prevention t accidents and by raising the stand ards of douiestfo life, should the. surplus come back to the people of the community in which it was ' - created." ' ' ' Tir. Devine concentrnt.t-s re- 'i . . j lui) !"-.";ib vice of the modern biteuK-sa world. Yet, to be fair, it is not so much a sin as some vices are, for the world didn't take to it of choice but slipped in unawares while .honestly! .-..J " J.L! ." 1 Just about a century ago Americans were seized with a tremendous zest for making the most of the material pos sibilities of . their country. It was a worthy even noble-'-ambition. With out It this would be a log-house, tal-low-dlp, stage coach civilization even yet.--.;::;- y' v. . But there was an inevitable' tempta tion in it. . If America had been Advis ed of the danger in advance, eternal watching might have' saved the country from falling into it; nothing else could. -, It was the temptation to subordinate men to what men could make. But of course nobody ever realized it wh n the industrial movement start ed. There was every reason then for thinking that the interests of men had been thoroughly taken care of In Ameri ca; all the revolutionary fighting and all the civic stress and contest of that time were for nothing else than that to get man his just dues as an indivi dual. ..'.'.' ' " ; '" So nobody wachedr : and the nation rushed ahead, and long before even the wisest realized it, everybody was clear over the line into a region where, the refraction of the atmosphere makes the man at work look small and the- work he is at look big. The man ean. fade and scarcely anybody notice, if only the pile of the product of the machine goes on increasing. '. . . S: But happily when somebody calls at tention to .this disproportion, there is enough of the orginal correct estimate of things left at the ' bottom of the human heart to prompt it to say that this is not the way the matter ought to be that by rights men are the great est values in the world and ought to be treated as such. .-' Nevertheless, even when the truth is realized, it's not possible for a busi ness man to get back ri,-ht on the jump Uj sound rules arid principles. That is c:'n Uie conscientious man's sorest trial that' he sees so many things wrong in the world which he is not big a id strci:j enough to charge right off. Yet t!.U t'io conchniliouK employer .1 bis w-.-n c.-m do he can -r ' l.-a ' ' :n I'-" .!.; :.r .i- i, t' . i - ' ' ': s i i 1 s ov i ; 1 ' t c H ft ) i t 1 ii d 1 unaeiu-ai tauLi.t lur uud 01 lite men won't call on hiintodo anyf.niatic thing. It won't demand that he shall make every employee proprietor of the business. But it will demand that he shall give every, employee what he would himself consider a fair deal,- if fate sent him to take - the employe's place; Here's the test that tells; ' Does the employer believe that he couta go Into his own factory, shop or store, and with the prevailing condi tions of labor feel that justice was be ing dealt him as a wage earner?' it Is a bad oversight about a . man's business management if be has never by imagination put himself that way into the place of .his workers. .'; - For that meant he has never applied the Golden Rule to business. ';' - But if he has, he knows men ought not to have to wear themselves out prematurely' with seven Jays' work a week; that they ought not to have to work In the presence of any preventa ble danger to life and limb; that they ought to have wages enough : at the least to keep their wWes and children decently clothed, and housed on 'econo mical spending; that they ought to have a good expectation of praise and promotion for faithftl work. And he will get those conditions or break himself trying. ' HOW MUCH TAX DO THE PEO PLE WANT LEVIED? . '"- :' ni i. 1111 1 11 11 ' , .i;-' ' : " Editor of the News: I wish to say a iew words in regard to our road law. It says in section 1 that the county com missioners shall on the first Mon- day in June levy a tax not less ition, Ernest R. Riddle; penman than 1 cents nor more than 56 ship, first prize', Herschel Sprlnk cents on each" hundred dollars te; second prize, Cassiua, Robin worth of taxable property, Now the point is this: ;What will . each ' township want? As for my part I suggest 25 cents for No. 5 township , for the first year, in tnat time we can see how the law,' will operate . I think it necessary 'for. every towhship'on that day to be rep resented by het' taxpayers' as to the amount they want." And al io I would like to kndwif t,'ie Road CbTiinisRionf-rs ravd uny vl2& as 1 7 i ' '1 'be a n s hue a ; c. , v. i.l go up 'uur money is pne and nothing in return." Now let every road officer do his duty and help the roads and please the taxpayers or they will be. called thievest ' . ' - D. S. -BALL. Mars Hill, N. C. If farmers needing mowing machine supplies for any make ot machine will mail list of their requirements to me at once, I will endeavor to be able to sup ply them in time for use. , T, N. James. .- -;' " . vwvwvwvwwwwwwv I SELL FERTILIZER LAND PLASTER . COTTON SEED MEAL BALED HAY STAPLE AND, FANCY GROCERIES. I BUY - TAN BARK. . - , BEES WAX : v -BEEF HIDES CLAY PEAS WOOL GINSENG ' - BOTANICAL ROOTS & HERBS . Write for prices. CASH. " ' T pay I have 100,000 feet cf bass wood lumber and 600,000'foct of other merchantable lumber on i' Laui't-1 to be deliv-(-' HtMai-shall. Iwantfi-c-'mSO 1 ' ) t.-ams t- deliver t!.h Krn ; SO.-.-1 t' . r ' ; v i'! ttWMUVUVVVHvmWH c , ( ' ,h - m invi y 1 7 ! 1 v i highly tuj y( 1 Ly a L.re crowd of visitors. The most enjoy able fea ;ure of the program was; the annual address given by Dr. Ji li. White, of Greensboro, who gave an interesting discourse on. "Youth and the Twentieth Cen tury." ;-.:-.--'.:," The board ot trustees held their annual meeting on- Monday. The jnost important business transacted was the lifting of .the debt on the new college building which will be completed by the. first of the following 'January.1 There was an enrollment of 3302students this school terra, and the average attendance for the year was the largest in the history of the college. The student body represented forty -five counties in North Carolina and ten spates in the Union, even going beyond its borders Into Mexico City, wBich was repre- sented by five students. The medals and prizes of the -year were awarded as follows: Student medal, Miss Mamie Elizabeth Allen; debater's medal P, C. Shugart; oratorical medal, John Marcus, Kester; recitation . medal Miss May Lawrence; de clamation medal, Ernest K. Rid-. die; Philomathian societo impro vement medal, William P. Bur gess; Euthalian society improve ment medal, Edward Black Cox, improvement in English compos- son. - In the election of town officers Tuesday Isaac Holcombe was . elected mayor, A. Li. Logan, treasurer and Sam Riddle, Jim ' Sprinkles and Fletcher Webster, were re-elected as board of aldermen." :'-.- '-'Hi ,i;'-v :v; v. ICS WELLS GETS JAI S. j ' Lon T' t . ; i: loriilit'i ia. f nlison Cuu.. , longing to t j liniTibarger i ber company, -wl.kh . is in t;,o hands of a receiver, was called to the bar and sentenced to sixty days in jail. Both Mr. Wells and his, wife were cited for con-, tempt, but a certificate from a physician saying that Mrs. Wells was too IU to appear was pre sented. '.. o v ..-V The lumber was removed from custody of the receiver after the court had passed an . injunctive . order forbidding Mr. Wells, his wife and all persons from remov ing or interfering with the same. Mr. Wells was taken to jail to be-" gin his sixty days incarceration for ""disregarding - the court's order. Citizen." ?. - -. Fifth Sunday fleeting The Fifth Sunday Meeting for the 3rd District of French Broad Associa tion will be held at Grand View Church. Sunday, May 30th 1909. : J . " ' PROGRAM 10 a.m.' Sunday School, conducted by the Superintendent. 11 a. m. 1 Sermon, Rev. Zeno Wall, Marshall, N. C. 12 m J Dinner on pronnd. , 1 p m. Song by Choir. . 150 Missionary Program: Bible Reading by Mrs. lliulins with explanatory talk on womaus work. '.. . : Reading by Mrs. Allison "The En trusted Letter." . . Missionary song by Mrs. Chipley. . "Reading by Mrs. v. C. Sprinkle on Foreign Mission work. ' Reading by Mrs. . McLenJun Home Mission Work. - Reading by Mrs. " Oteo. "Fortner oa Louisville Trniuii Pohool for women workers... -Arranged by Mrs M.' G. ITnV-; 'aa, Vice . President of Frer.t U l'-road Association. 2:.'!0 p. m. Fir t c ' n: F. what suiuva do we j t i I .t m rial for t bn h n .. : '! O hy Rev. J. U. As : i I- J. M. Ii :m. k--";--i :..; , i' .. r t- 'i a ' 1 i '! t .-.''
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