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sonorous and preposterous platitude-
plays teaching the general doctrine
that virtue is not only possible in this
life, but even profitable and agreeable.
If the American shows a willingness,
now and then, TO venture a rod or two
into the moral Bad Lands, it is only
because of the excuse it gives him for
an affecting rush back. He will stand
for a play in which John Doe casts a
libidinous eye upon Mrs. Richard Roe,
but not for play in which John gets
away with it. No, there must be a sad
finish for John, and a reconciliation
between Mrs. Roe and Richard. And,
as a rule, the American feels that even
this small federation of immortality is
rather too much.
The same ferocious impulse Is at
the bottom of most of the "anti-ring'
and reform movements which peri
odically rack American cities. For
grating, in itself, the American has
only a theoretical horror, just as he
has only a theoretical horror of drank
enness Whether in public office or in
private office, he is commonly a graft
er himselg, at least in a modest way,
and what is more, the fact is univer-
sally recognized and taken into ac-
count The cash register is Omni-
present in the United States and
for a reason. In no other land in
Christendom is the bonding business
one-fifth as prosperous. Nowhere else
are the public service corporations
such as street car and gas companies,
for example-put to greater ingenui-
ty to protect themselves from their
customers But this petty dishonesty
the natural fruit, perhaps, of the
hypOcrisies engendered by the ma
tional Puritanism-does not interfere
with the rapturous chase of grafters
of more heroic cut Let but a news
paper announce solemnly that a given
public official is taking brfbes-a fact
already known, or at least strongly
suspected, by every reasonable man
in the communicated at once the
mob is up in arms, and a rousfng hunt
has begun. Loud demands are made
that the trial of the accused be rush
ed. that he be Jailed as quickly as pos
sible, that he be given the maximum
sentence under the law. All persons
who appear in his behalf, if only to
plead for his plain rights, are de-
nounced as accompIices and scoun-
drels. The whole population yells for
his gore; the racial bloodlust de-
mands an immediate victim. But once
he is safely behind the bars, once the
chase is over, all interest in it dries
up. A year or so later the felon is
turned out. Sentimentality now res
cues him, as savagery once condemn
ed him.
But does ali this show an unexam-
pied purity of national character,
unique frenzy for virtue, a unanimous
worship of virgInity? Is the Ameri-
can, then, the most chaste of living
creatures? Is he a frigid, ascetic
archangel, remote from all the low
passions and appetites of the brute?
Alas, fear cannot tell you that he
is! I wish l could, but I Garland
he isn't. On the contrary, he is one
of the lustiest rogues in all Christen-
DOM"
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If anyone wants to catch an idea Of
the size of the animals that infested
Florida in the prehistoric past, he is
invited to visit the Commercial Bank
He will see there a rib of leviathan
that will measure fully twelve feet in
length, and is larger in circumference
than an elephants tusk Surely there
were giants in those days'-especial-
ly among the animals on land and
sea.
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Some of our exchanges seen
think that the attacks on bFgs.
the attacks are in the nature o. !
grets" that he should take to me 9
ture platform to pad out his wv
thousand dollar salary-will le''
his nomination for the presidency
are reminded that he has the iAs
individual following of any ieao"
the democratic party.
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The New York World has raked
heaven and earth and the waters I'M
der the earth to find some scandal,
something that would tarnish the per-
sonal and business record of Chas. F.
Murphy. but so far has absolutely
failed. The political record of Tam
many's chieftain has also withstood
the assaults of the World. Murphy's
only crime is that he is and has al
ways been loyal to Tammany, and
Tammany has always been loyal to
the democratic party. and the chief
glory of the World is that it belongs
To no partv." and without parties in
the United states our government
would soon be at sea.
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The Pensacola News philosophically
remarks that the oldfashioned boy
who smoothed his hair down with
bears grease and tried to marry the
girls after taking her for a couple of
walks, is also among the extinct spe-
cles.
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The colonel will have to get busy
II he wants to keep in the limelight.
With Mulhall before the probing COM
mlttee of congress and Bryan on the
lecture platform, the colonel is more
and more falling into the twilight of
obscurity.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

The annual report of the tax col
lector of VOlusia county shows that
the Florida East Coast Railway paid
in taxes to Volusia county last year
nearly $4,000, and the Atlantic Coast
Line, little more than $4,000.
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The orange trees are we'll fruited,
and the white fly" is less in evidence
than for many years. All indications
point to a fine crop at gathering time.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

A negro at Palm Beach has a well
defined case of CHAMBERS. He was bit
ten by a horse suffering from the
same disease. The case is puzzling
the doctors.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Secretary Bryan spoke at the chau-
tauqua grounds at Warsaw, Ind, Sat
urday 10 big crowds. just for the
pleasure il gave him-he made no
charge.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Alex S. Woods of East st. Louis,
stole $4,000 from the American Epress
Company. 1t preyed on his mind so
that he returned the loot and surren-
dered himself
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Georgia has a bumper watermelon
crop. The Georgia Central has al
ready hauled two thousand cars, and
Is now hauling at the rate of 100 cars
daily.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

There seems To be a very general
movement to improve our cattle. The
eradication OF the tick will do more
along this line than any other one
agency.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Ambassador Wilson. on his way
back TO Washington from Mexico,
was in Key West yesterday.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

The Atlanta Georgian has gone just
a little "daffy" on pretty girls. The
Georgian is almost pardonable.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Jackson county is preparing to or
ganize a county fair association. The
farmers will find il helpful.
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FRIDAY. JULY 25, 1918

Why tax bananas? Why, for reve-
nue..
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the Periclean Greek Some of its
agents, true enough, have wormed
themselves, after fashion, into his
reluctant affections-the theater and
the dance may serve as examples
but he is still full of a vague feeling
that the devil sent them, he is still
disposed to apologize for them When
he filings his legs in air, it is by no
means in innocence, but with a full
sense that the act is subtly lascivious /:
that it will lay him up no stores in
heaven. In principle. indeed he is
wholly against dancing, as he is
against card-playing and wine:bibbing.
and the largest of his native religious
sects specifically prohibits all three.
Unable, by a defect of the magma
ton, to penetrate to their spiritual
uses or to apprehend the joy they
symbolic as a thing in itself, he sees
only their element of carnality, and
so he feels uncomfortably wickd ev-
cry time he yields. In the theater his
conscience is always with him, sit
ting sepulchrally at his side and IA
voring him with a clammy smack ever
and anon. The result is a constant
effort to stave it off, to placate it, to
compromise with it. That is to say.
his choice is ever for plays that tickle
it at least as much as they outrage it
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
Hgb foiut, N. C., 7husaqy, October 80 1913

We call attention to the ad of A
Banes who is conducting special
sale for the low dollar Read
what is said.
Let every loyal citizen of the
county read what is said in regard
to Good Roads Day and be ready
Nov. 5th and 9th to shoulder pick
Or shovel and help out in the worthy
cause.
The Mexico elections have deyel
oped one thing. that Huerta is mas
ter of the situation.
Glad to get even glimpse of
President Wilson as his train pass
ed slowly through High Point last
Tuesday. Several thousand citizens
were out to do him homage, includ-
ing hundreds of school children.
The revival services continue with
much interest The editor heard
an especially fine sermon Sunday
night at the First Baptist church
from the lips of Rev. Matthews Of
Raleigh. No better sermons are
delivered in this section of the
country. ~.
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THE FLYING CARPET OF THE
WRIGHTS.

\ WRIGHTS.
It's a long call today, from the
famous Arabian Nights magic fly
ing carpet.
Yet we see any day the twentieth
century flying carpet stretched tight
On its frame. The tail and the front
guiding pieces constitute it, with the
ripping noise of the engine, the aero
plane. On his carpet sits the air
man, cushioned On the wind; he
wishes himself hundred leagues
away, pulls lever or two and with
out exertion is at his destina-
tion.
The Arabian ancients surely have
nothing on the Ohio Wrights!
Two contemporaries of the Ara
bians seem to have seen afar off the
| coming Of the Wright boys.
Did not one long for a monoplane?
oh" cried he, "thatI had wings like
dove, for then would | fly away!''
psalms $3.50
Another, perhaps, visioned the
the man fiiers They shall mount
up with wings like the eagle" -
high into the armament, above the
clouds, Isaiah traced the man birds
| in their heavenward flight.
Did David think of the winged
man also, when he said of one
And he rode upon a cherub and
did fly; yea, he did fly upon The
wings of the wind" Psalms 18:19)
And how high and how far the
human eagles wing their flight-1t
| ascend up into /heaven, thou art
there, If take wings of the morn
ing and dwell (hy) in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even there shall thy
hand lead me and thy right hand
shall uphold mel For what but
the hand of God, in the marvellous
laws of his Nature, upholds the
Daedalus of today in his excursion
toward to sun. ....,...
When we consider the prophet
David who gazed down the ages at
the wonders of today, we marvel at
the Greatness of the man. Surely 1t
was by the power of his Crea ;or that
the Sweet Singer of Israel spoke
of the marvellous things at winch
we look in amazement one day and
the pext, on account of familiarity
pass by with indifference.
THE WANDERING JEW.
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B00KKEEPER STEALS OVER
500

Mr. Kincaid, Employed at the Nrenn.
Columbia Furniture Co, Walks
Off With the Pay Roll-His
Whe, eabouts Unknown.
Saturday just before noon Mr.
kineaid, bookkeeper at the Wrenh-
Columbia Furniture Co. was sent
after the pay roll. He was suppos-
ed to eat his dinner before return
ing Mr.. Wrenn, the proprietor,
waited impatiently until three
o'clock IN the afternoon for his man
He then got suspicious and upon
inquiry soon found out that his man
ha'I skipped. The telegraph keys
were kept busy but up to this time
the whereabouts of Kincaid is un-
known. He told that his home was
in Florida, that he was a married
man, and expected to soon bring
his wife here. The amount taken
was $406, This is the first theft
of it's kind in the history of the city.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30

of High Point, in the State of North Carolina
at the close f business Oct. 21st, 1913.
RESOURCES
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
New Store.

A new store for High Point is
Bradner & Pearsall who will open
for business in the Sherrod building
on Commerce street Nov. 5th, carry
ing a full line of boys and gents fur
nlshlngs of all kinds. These gentle
men are experienced men in their
line and we bespeak for Them a full
measure of success which they de-
serve.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30

Nation Drug Co. is featuring
Vinol, the great tonic, this week.
The two Stack boys raised rucas
in the Greek Cafe Tuesday night on
South main street, attacking Ed
Mitchell with a coca cola bottle, atd
breaking a glass in the door. They
appeared before Judge Edmunds
and were given road sentences of
four and five months each.
A number of the Red Men will
90 to Burlington next Saturday
week Nov. 9Th to attend district
meeting.
State Councillor J. W. Sechrest of
the Jr. O. U. A. NJ has issued a
Thanksgiving proclamation to the
Councils throughout the state
The Royal Theater is giving away
each week pair of the finest ladies
shoes to'the one holding the lucky
number. The shoes come from
the Blair-Hoskins Co.. and are we'll
worth competing for.
Mrs. W. G. Brown underwent an
operation Sunday at the Junior
Order hospital and is doing nicely
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
Special Notice!
8 Pages

Remember our store is
the only store where you
can secure as premiums
the Solid Comfort Rock
ing Chairs that we are
giving away every week
to our customers. Al
ways ask for premium.
cards when trading.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30

Major Stedman was busy yester-
dav talking to the supporters OF the
various candidates for the post
mastership.
Read the statement of the Home
Banking Co. in this issue.
At last Randolph county has be-
come awakened on good roads.
A large electric sign to advertlse
the citv is being look after and Will
he erected at an early date.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Dalton nave
returned from their wedding trip ana
have rooms in the Reddlng hats.
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Autobiography of The Wandering


Jew
The Wandering Jew" otherwise
Clayton J. Woodwork, of New York
City, is one of fifteen children born
to a humble farm laborer, 20 miles
from a railway, in remote section
of New York State. Ten of the
children are still living. Young
Woodwork did not learn to walk
until after he was two ears of age.
His parents abandoned hope of his
ever learning the simple art of
balancing himself on his feet, and
so, with a leather apron around his
neck, young C. j. had to make his
way around the other children as
best as he could. Under the Cir
cumstances, he is perhaps justified
in wearing as cuff-buttons two OF
the four gold medals which he won
in foot races in later years.
His early intelligence may be
judged by the fact that the first
railway train he ever saw was COM
posed entirely of the old-style dimin
utive coal cars once used, and he
fully expected to make his journey
in those cars. On the same journey
however, which happened to occur
in the heat of a presidential cam
paign, a man entered the car where
C. J. sat next to his mother enjoying
the SCI merry, and shouted loudly,
''Hurrah for Tilden and Hancock
Instantly, to the infinite surprise of
his mo her, and the enjoyment of
passengers, Young Woodwork, then
six years of age, jumped to his feet.
on the seat where he sat moment
previous, swung his cap around his
head, and in voice that could be
heard all over the Car shouted "Hur.
rah for Hayes and Wheeler!'
By the time Woodwork was eight
years of ago, his father, Charles R.
Woodwork, a one arm veteran OF
the Civil War, had so mastered the
use of his stump arm as to be able
to start again the pursuit of his trade
as maker of hand-forged cutlery.
The knives which he made were
peddled from house to house by his
sons, and before young Woodwork
was 16 years of age, at which time
he graduated from the Nunda
Academy IN. W with highest hon
ors, he had tramped several thou
sand miles, with vacation and other
trips covering much of New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Michi-
gan and Illinois; selling knives as he
went, and staying with the farmers
herever night overlook him.
Af;er graduating from the Nunda
Aca 1emy, our prospective phiIoso-
pher earned his first dollar, aside
from selling knives, in digging a
ditch in the public square of the
town. 1t was the first thing that
came to his hand. Then came a
year of peddling knives, a year
studying the theory of teaching,
year studying law, a year in New
York City newspaper office, two
yCdlS DIS uINotO 0N~ANSoiy W tAA0
president of d great steel corpora
ton, and at the age of % Wood
worth became Advertising Manager
and later Assistant Manager OF The
International Core spondence School
of Scranton, where he left his mark
for all time. He it was who gave
the name to the Schools, compiled
the catalogues, planned the sales
organization and managed the
branch offices from one end of the
country to the other. In the ten
years he was with the School their
membership increased from $500
to over a million students.
New Ads This Week
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
HEAR LAFOIJ.ETTF'

Senator LaFollette appears at the
auditorium tonight under the Lyce-
um course. Every citizen of High
Point should hear this distinguished
gentlemen, whether you have a
season ticket or not.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
ENTHUSIASTIC GOOD ROADS
MEETING.
-Four Committees Of Ten Each, Ap-
pointed to Prepare for the Coed
Roads Work to be Done on Nov.
5th and 9th

Quite an enthusiastic meeting was
held at the Manufacturers Club Nor
day night for the purpose of plan.
ming for the good roads work to be
performed in High Point Township
on Good Road Days, Nov. 5th and
9th.
After considerable discussion. it
was deemed advisable to appoint
committees TO handle the four differ
ent sections, these committees to
solicit aid from every person posi-
5le, who is willing to give Of his
time or means for the two days in
question. The first named in each
group is the chairman, and every
person willing to assist in any way
should report Immediately to him.
OF if this is inconvenient, then to any
other member of his committee.
Division No. 1-North of main
line of Southern Ry. and west of
Winston Salem road:
A. F. Tate, H A. White, Dr.. j
R. Reitzel, r. B. White, B. G. Lam
beth, }. B. Swain, John L. Moore,
Jot Hedgecock, EmorX~ Hamilton
J. M Hedgecock.
Division No. 2-North of main
line of Southern Ry. and east of
Winston-Salem road:
w. P. Pickett, Delos Hammer,
F. IA. Pickett, J. H. Tate, R. R.
Ragan, J. E. kirkman, Clark Men
denhall, J. W. Guyer, Alfred Pierce,
F., w. H. Idol.
Division No. 3-South of main
line of Southern Rv. and west OF
High Point and Archdale road:
w. P. Ragan, l.. G.. Sinclair, J
E. Marsh, B. H. Bradner, J. "
Clnard, w. @ Bradshaw, Jerome
Barker, R. w. Gray, E. H. G.. Field
L. M. Sillman.
Division No. 4-South of mair
line of Southern Ry. and east of
High Point and Archdale ROAD:
S. l.. Davis, G, H. kearns, D. n
Baker, Or. D. A. Stanton, DR.. w. j.
McAnnalIy, w. T. Parker, w. L
Xiv EFT, J. H. V, stal, j. Elwood Cox
i A. Robinson.
1t is expected that every citizen
in High Point, and living outside o1
High Point, in the territory specified
will make a good and willing hand
! on these two days, but if for any
reason any one can not attend in
person he will be expected to, contli-
butte the sum of $500 for each day
the sum to be paid over to the chair
man of each division, and this
money to be applied in paying for
the hauling of gravel or top soil in
covering bad stretches of road in the
township. Every person will be
expected to report for duty wi h a
shovel. The country people will
supply teams and wagons a q plows
and few picks will also BE- needed .
The factories of High Point are
all expected to close for at least one
of these days, so that all of the work
men may have the privilege of do.
na,ing one day to the tu!ding OF
good roads in the Township.
1t especially behooves the mer-
chants of the city to take leading
part in this work, not ocly by con-
tribufing of their own time and
means but BY making thorough
canvass Of the entire town in order
to make the working gangs just as
large as possible. When the mer-
chants consider the fact that they
are enabling the country people who
spend their r,oney with our mer-
chants to get to town with some de-
gree of comfort. they should ve!y
gladly do their full part by way OF
Showing appreciation for the patron
age of their country friends.
~ - n
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
New Ads This w eek

Mof6tt Furnishing Co. first page
A Bane. 9Th page.
The Fair. 5th page.
Arthur Stugues, 9Th page.
Coney Island Shows, 6th page.
Thacker Shoe Store, 1st page.
Jack Taylor, insurance, 5th page
Red Devil Lye, 4th page.
Solomon RobinoWitZ, 5th page.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
SUNDAY MORNING KILLING
I Dung Man Accidentally Shoots
Mrs. Jim Clark Through Head,
Death Resulting Almost Instantly

on SidtA 1hfOu9n Head,
Death Resulting Almost Instantly
sunday morning about nine
O'Clock Lee Merely, eighteen wears
OLD while fooling with a new DistoI
ne had recently purchased, a car
fridge exploded and entered the
head of Mrs. Jim Clark who was in
the room with a little daughter The
young man Merely was raised bv
the Clarks and it is not believed by
many that there was any i'll feeling
on the part of the young man to-
wards any of the family but that it
was accidental. Merely was placed
under arrest and at the hearing was
bound over to court for probable
cause. being sent to Jail in default
of bond.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30

S,ndctR rUR SALE-3 IS horsepower
montl mu,Floaker, only been used four
r'nS' it'll. almost brand new, run verv
viii ' aon S'>t with fixtures, over $1,000
o,oo ~, SeII Tor 1915, cash if taken at
ofce "A bargain, Apply Review
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
GUILFORD GOES INTO WESTERN
DISTRICT.

Washington, Oct. 29.-President
Wilson has issued an executive or.
der placing the counties of Guilford,
Rockingham and Randolph in the
western internal revenue district.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30

Dr. J. T. Burrus is at Rochester,
MINI, attending the celebrated
Mayo clinic. He will be gone two
weeks.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-30
: REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Home Banking Co,

of High Point, in the State of North Carolina,
at the close f business Oct. 21st, 1913.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts. So, ,O4o.75
OvsfdraftS secured and unsecured 3,642. 90
All other stock bonds and mortgages l $50 90
Furniture and Fixtures. $500. 2,o1O.Se
Due from Banks and Bankers. 1879 81
Cash items NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1892. 68
OOC Coln ........... 1880
Silver coin including all minor coin
currency -....... ..... ooZ.H
National bank notes
and other U.S.Notes .....- 4.1o5.OO
Insurance Department -. .... 10000
Total ................. .:........ .s194 ,974 90
LIABILITIES
Capital stock, paid in..............S 80 900 90
surplus Fund .... ....2 500. 90
Undivided profits, less current ex-
penses and taxes paid 61S.23
Netes and bills redscounted. .......26 $50. 90
Time certificates of deposit ..39, ,6O3.17
Deposits subject to check. ......... O,132. 20
Que to banks and bankers .....-, 4,s75.33
Cashiers Checks outstanding. 5e5.o7
Total ...................... s194 ,974 90
State of North Carolina, County of Gull
ford, SIS.
|, u. II. Milton, cashier OF the aboVe-nam-
ed bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my know
ledge and belief.
D. H. Milton. cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th
day of Oot., 1913
Edwin D. Steele, Notary Pubic.
Ny commission expires Nov. 4th. 1914.
COrrect--AtteSt:
J.. c. WEIGH
j. K. Reitzel Directors.
Geo. A. Nation