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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-12-10
MORTGAGE SALE.

Under and by virtue of the power Of
sale contained in a certain mortgage
deed, executed on the first day of Oc-
tober 1912 by Cherry Best to F. B. Ed
mundson, which is recorded in book
Ito at page 305 in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for Wayne county,
the undersigned will sell for cash at
IL o'clock M, on Monday, the 4th day
of January, 1915, at the Court House
dor in Goldsboro, N. c., a certain lot
of land lying in Goldsboro township,
county, in said State, and described as
bounded as follows:
Beginning at a point 100 feet south
of the intersection of Canal and Hall
streets, and running south with said
Hall st. 40 it., then easterly 100 #. to
Arthur Manley's line; thence northerly
with said Manley line 40 #. to the line
of Laura Day; thence easterly 100 #
with said line to the beginning: known
as Lot No. 1O8, situated on Canal ST.,
in plan known as Little Washington,
adjoining the lot of Laura Day.
This 9Th day of Dec, 1914.
GEO. A. NORWOOD,
Assignee.
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70 r: K Z: r Fssss' Atlantic Coast Realty Co. A. isd %s
GOdsbOroN &C. Home Office, GreenVle, N. c. NJ

portions that within a few years they
ranked as leading merchants in East
ern North Carolina, and at the time
of their deaths, they ranked as two
of the wealthiest men in Eastern
North Carolina. But while they &C
cumulated fortunes during their lives,
they did it without oppression, and
their hearts and purses were ever open
to the call of distress, to the suffer
ing and needy.
Judge w. r. Allen, who was attor-
ney and COUNSEL for these men for
twenty years, says that they never
dressed a debtor Or f%oreclosed a mort
gage during that time if ne advised
them that he thought the debtor was
honest and doing his best.
AS citizens of North Carolina and
of Wayne county, they occupied con
s%picuous positions, and many positions
of trust and honor; and their names
have always stood at the foremost of
civic duty in this community.
They we're born and reared in the
Jewish faith, and conforming their
faith to the teaching of their church
with the conf1ding trust of a child to
authority of a beloved mother, their
minds were untroubled with doubts
of the future and they were lot shaken
to and fro by the speculations of
philosophers whose theories usually
end in doubt and uncertainty. And if
a man can bring himself to h a state
of unquestioning confidence and trust
though, we may not be able to agree
with him, who shall say he has not
been wise? The solution of this ques-
ton is not for us but for Him alone
whose field of vision is infinite, while
ours is almost infinitely small. But
though their religious belief was thus
settled they were tolerant of the be-
1iefs and opinions of others.
Notwithstanding our differences of
religious belief, the more / saw of
Henry and Solomon We'll, the more
appreciated their good qualities of
head and heart Inc the more warmly
1 became attached to them. Among
the first citizens of the commonwealth
it will be hard to find their worthy
successors.
These brothers represented the very
highest type of the great Jewish race,
to which people the world owes a debt
of gratitude. Whenever we look about
us, from the undoubted tomb of Abra-
ham to the reputed sepulchre of Jesus,
we see the followers of Christ and
Mohammed all ~zeaIously guarding the
memorials of this great ace. | have
often wondered if these people must
not feel a secret pride when they re-
n no% ho+ ounrxr vyOrI Of tho Obj ri cfian
Bible was written by Jews, that the
Moslem Bible, the Koran was founded
on Jewish faith, and that the entire
Christian world worships Jesus of
Nazareth as divine, and a large portion
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with their best efforts he duties i'm
posed upon them. And when the sum
mons came,-dreadful to all but them
-sereneIy they laid down the burdens
OF life and passed through the shadow
OF the valley. There were no unmanlv
rep1nings, no complaints of opportuni-
ties neglected, of wasted time. of lost
occasions.
With a calm confidence in the sure
reward that awaited them, they folded
up the book of life, and bound it with
the golden clasp of faith in a glorious
immortality.
Nothing seems to be left but their
memory and examples; the one we will
cherish, the other we will emulate.
But grief is not the end of all. AS
we listen we seem to hear the funeral
march become a lean and see beyond
the peaks the moving banners of a hid
den column. Our dead brothers still
live, and bid US think of life. not
death. AS l listen the great chorus
of life and joy begins anew and around
the awful orchestra of seen and I'M
seen powers and destinites Of good an1
evil our trumpets sound once more a
note of daring, hope and will. They
have not persisted, but wait for US
upon that far away shore.
Cali shall come back, each tie
OF pure affections shall be knit
again,
Alone shall evil die
And sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy
realm"
The closing exercises then followed,
and the audience were dismissed I'M
der the eloquent benediction of Rev.
II. Dickinson, rector Of st. Steph-
ems Episcopal church.
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ocean, bleak, unf1uctuating and bound
less stretches between these earthly
coasts and those invisible shores-we
do not know.
Whether on that morning after death
they saw a more glorious sun rise wit,
unimaginable splendor above q ce-
lestial horizon; or whether their apa-
thetic and unconscious ashes still sleep
in cold obstruction and %insensibIe OBJ
1ivion-we do not know.
Whether their energies found instant
exercise in another world, whether
their faculties are now %contending in
a higher form, or whether their powers
were dissipated and dispersed with the
parting breath-we do not know.
These are the unsolved and unsolv-
able problems of mortal life and hui
man destiny which caused the troubled
Patriarch to ask that momentous ques-
ton for which the centuries have
given no w eff a man die shall
he live again."
Every man is a centre of a circle
whose fatal circumference he cannot
pass. Within it's narrow confines, he
is potential, beyond it he perishes;
and if Immortality Is but a splendid
and delusive dream, if the incomplete
ness of every career, even the longest
and most fortunate be not supplement-
ed after it's termination here, then he
who breads to die should fear to live,
for life would be a tragedy more des-
olate and inexplicable than death.
With the passing of these comrades
we are solemnly warned of the truth
of the divine utterance: "Get thine
house in order; for thou shalt die and
not live"
AS Henry and Solomon We'll lived
they died, discharging to the last, and
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CfHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
ROUND TRIP HOLIDAY FARES
Via Southern Railway Premier Car.
rier of the u

OAO
Account Christmas and New Year
holidays the Southern Railway an
nounce the sale of very low round trip
tickets to various points.
Tickets will be on sale December
16, II, 1S, 10, 20, 81, %, %, "a, rs. and
81, 1914, and January 1, 1915.
Final limit, January 9Th, 1915, prior
to midnight of which date return trip
must be completed.
In addition to the above, round trip
tickets will also be on sale to points
in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Dates of sale December 20, 81 and %,
1914. Final limit January 1S, 1915,
prior to midnight of which date return
trip must be complete.
Will also sell round trip tickets to
points in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota.
Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and
Wisconsin. Dates Of sale, December
10 to 81, 1914. Final limit January 10,
1915, prior to midnight of which date
return trip must be completed.
For full and detailed information
ask any Southern Railway Agent, OF
write,
o. F. YORK, Trav. Pas Agt.,
Raleigh, N. c..
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THE WISDOM OF 1T.

Republicans and democrats having
been committed to the civil service
policy-competitive examinations for
government positions-the operation
of the act has been extended by ex-
ecutive order from time to time until
now about 70 per cent of the offices
are under civil service rule.
The competitive system has a hrm
supporter in President Wilson,; ana
he has quietly increased the numper
of civil service oficeholders, who are
not removable except for causes other
than politics.
1t was but natural in the early days
of the republic for the party in power
to treat all minor offices as party
spoils; but as the country increased
rapidly and place hunters became
more bothersome to the department
heads and members of Congress SEN
timent in favor of a merit system de-
veIoped and ~crystalized until 1883
when a civil service act was passed
and signed by President Arthur. only
$4,000 positions were brought within
its D. DIVISIONS at that time but with
one exception each succeeding Presl-
dent-republican and democrat-has
extended it's provisions. That execp-
ton was the lamented Mckinley, VIC
was prevailed upon by a few polite
ians who we're his intimate friends to
relax the forward or broadening policy
in regard to the civil service that had
been so well established. President
Roosevelt and President Taft made
large additions to the civil service
list.
There is scarcely a doubt but that
within the next 10 years 95 per cent
of all the civil positions under the
United States government will be OF
the competitive examination class.
With a rapidly increasing population
Uncle Sans pay rolls necessarily in
crease. Today there are in round
numbers 400, 900 places of the civil
class. OF these nearly 100000 are now
in the classified service.
Some congressman who express re-
greet that there is so little patronage
left to distribute to their supporters
should be glad that the civil service
has taken the hold it has, for besides
being business-like, it relieves then
of considerable embarrassment.
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LATE w. e. ORMOND.
His Death Caused by Shot From Ne
grO's Pistol In Atlanta.

SEOS IlSJUl III AGAdAIds
The Atlanta Journal Of Monday af-
ternoon, Nov. 80, contains the follow
ing in reference to the brother of Mr..
1. F. Ormond, of this city, who was
summoned to Atlanta Sunday night:
CIV. E. Ormond, of SO Cooper street.
died early Monday morning as the re-
suit of gunshot wounds received Sat
urday night when he went to the res
cue of his wife, daughter and son,
highwayman.
"Tom Ballard, a negro arrested
shortly after the shooting, has admitted
that he fired the fatal shots, but
claims self defense, alleging he was
attacked by young Ormond, who mis-
took him for the negro who held UP
Mrs. Ormond and her daughter and
then fed.
Ballard made his statement Sun
day afternoon to Police Officer Shaw.
who arrested him, and to Chief Beav-
ers. He told the police they would
find his revolver hidden in a certain
place at the home of Anna Woodward
a negress, in the rear of 9 Woodward
avenue. The officers went there and
found the gun.
1.-THE police are inclined to credit tC
a certain extent the negrO's story, since
the negro who knocked Mrs. OrmOnd
and her daughter down fed when they
shouted for assistance, while the negro
who chased young Hardy Ormond and
later shot the boys father, was coming
from the opposite direction when the
youth encountered him.
1.-THE tragedy leaves a widow and
ten children.
1.-THE bullets fired by the negro en-
tered Mr.. Ormond's face yer the
cheek bones at points equidistant from
the center of his nose. One bullet
ranged across the cheek and was re.
moved from a point near the back OF
the neck by DR.. W. B. Lingo, to whose
hospital the wounded man was car
ried. The other bullet ranged down.
ward and inflicted the injuries which
resulted in death about 1870 O'Clock
Monday morning.
Besides the negro Ballard, the po-
lice are holding Ella Jones, a woman
who was with Ballard a few seconds
before he did the shooting.
1.-THE funeral of Mr.. Ormond will be
held Wednesday morning at 10 O'CLOCK
from Poole's chapel, the Rev. c.. A
Ridley, pastor of the Central Baptis1
church, officiating. The interment viii
be in West View cemetery"
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SUPREME COURT DENIES
FRANK A WRIT OF ERROR,
No Further Legal Effort Can be Made
to Save the Prisoners Life Out
side AnDeal for CIemency.

No Further Legal Effort a be Made
to Save the Prisoners Life Out
side Appeal for CIemency.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Supreme
court today refused to issue a writ to
review Leo M. Franks conviction of
the murder of Mary Phagan, an At
lanta factory girl.
The courts action ends attempts to
save Franks life by it's Intervention.
Frank Expresses Surprise.
Atlanta, Dec. Refusal of the SUI
preme court of the United States to
grant a writ of error for review of
the case of Leo M. Frank resulted in
an nnouncemen from Solicitor Cen
eraI Hugh M. Dorsey here that i'm
mediate steps would be taken to have
a new date set for Franks execution
for the murder of ~14-year-old Mary
Phagan.
Lawyers here familiar with the case
said tonight that they knew of no
further legal efforts that could be
made to save the prisoners life, out
side of an appeal for clemency to Gov
n Slaton, of Georgia, and the state
prison commission.
Frank was conversing with his
father when news of the Supreme
courts decision was brought to him
in his cell. He received the an
uncem calmly and said:
"I had thought the Supreme court
would give me a chance"
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of it reVerences a Jewish woman as
the Mother of the Son of God. And il
must be with great pride when they
r2aect that a large number of the
worlds greatest statesmen were Jews
G~a1nbetta, the hero of the French ma
ticn after it's terrible defeat by Ger
many, was a Jew; SO was Lasker the
only man whom Bismark feared; SO
was Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Bea,
consfield, at one time the virtual SOW
ereign of the British Empire; so was
Emilio CASTELAR,, the most eloquen,
orator and brilliant man in Spain; SO
was the Poet Heine and the Noveliss
Averbach and the Philosopher Spen-
OLA.
In Art and Music it is the same.
Once give the Jew a chance and he
springs into the front rank as did
these worthy brothers.
That the membership of Goldsboro
Lodge of Elks loved Henry and Solo
mon We'll u presence here evinces,
and we remember them in scenes to
which the world was not witness, and
where the better feelings of mankind
were exhibited without disguise.
The members of this Lodge and the
people of this community know too
well how liberal and generous the two
brothers rel were, and of their lib
eral donations, both public and pri-
vate.
Anthony at the funeral of Caesar
proclaimed a common failing not con-
fined to his own time. Over the bleed
ing form of his dead tomrade he re-
minded the Roman people that:
1.-THE evil men do lives after them,
The good is oft inferred with their
bones"
The true Elk knows not this rule.
The faults of our brothers are buried
with them and forgotten, as they should
be. That they had faults and foibles
is but to repeat what mortality dem
onstrates-that they had human ma
lures, not divine. In the loss of these
brothers we feel hat the chain of
friendship and brotherly 10y has been
weakened, but we find comfort in the
belief that we have laid for a season
only their dust beneath the soil that
bore and cherished it.
Life is a narrow. vale between the
cold and barren peaks of two eterni-.
ties. We strive in vain to look beyond
the heights. We cry aloud, but the
only answer is the echo of a feeble
cry.
From the lips of our dead comrades
there comes no word; but in the night
of death hope sees a star, and, listen
ing, love can hear the rustic of a.
wing.
Whether their journey thither was
but one step across an imperceptible
frontier, or whether In interminablel
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And none of us dieth to himself"
In obedience to this dictate, the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
has set aside this day to pay general
tribute to all departed brothers, and
Goldsboro Lodge No. 139 is assembled
today to join in the general tribute,
and to pay special tribute to the mem
DRY of those brothers who nave died
since our last meeting.
On the 9th day of August, 1914, in
the City of Baltimore, Md, Henry
We'll, in the sixty-eighth year Of his age
departed life calmly and in possession
of his faculties, thus yielding another
victory to death, the %conquering hero
of the human family.
And on the 9th day of September,
1914, in the town of Fabyan, N. H., the
earthly career of Solomon We'll was
closed in the sixty-ffth veal Of his age,
thus manifesting the infallible truth
of the divinely inspired words: cit
is appointed unto all men once to die"
Henry and Solomon We'll were no
ordinary men. They belonged to a
race of Kings, of what house I never
knew, / asked their lineage; they
had all the marks of men descended
from the royal line; they had the
movements of men born to command;
confusion never sat upon their brows,
and shame never hung it's curtain
across their faces.
These brothers were born in Ger
many and came to the City of Colds
h0rO in tha wear 1265 Under innum-
cradle difficulties and disadvantages
these ambitious and determined men
started into business in the City of
Goldsboro when this country was de-
vastated by the war and had not be-
gun to rebuild itself, and manifesting
that will and perseverance which yield
ed to no obstacle however formidable,
their business increased to such pro-
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LODGE OF SORROW
|CoIdsbore EIks Hold Inter
esting Memorial Services
Sunday
Eloquent Address BY Mr.. Larry I,
Moore of New Bern and Beautiful
EulOgy Delivered on Henry
and Solomon Well By Mr..

UAOOAO VI "
EulOgy Delivered on Henry
and Solomon Well By Mn.
Matt H. Allen.
The auditorium of Go1dsboro's sup
erIatively beautiful new court house
was thronged yesterday afternoon by
a large and representative audience of
Goldsboro people to participate in the
services of the Elks' lodge of Sor-
row." which is convened annually on
the first Sunday in December to pay
public tribute of loving remembrance
to departed brothers.
Artistic hands had beautifully dec
grated the bar, wherein the lodge of
icers' chairs were arranged and the
other participants in the program
seated, and from the solemn opening
to the close the hush of deep interest
and the calm of sentiment permeated
the audience and lent additional i'm
p-ressiveness to the sacred ceremon-
les.
The Professional was rendered by
Mrs. Geo. P. Bynum, who was also
accompanist for the musical numbers
on the program, and the lodge cere-
monies were presided over by Exalted
Ruler, Mr.. Matt H. Allen, whose de-
livery of the solemn ritual of the
Lodge of Sorrow" was most impress
sive.
The several musical numbers were
by Mrs. T. M. Bizzell, Mrs. T. B. Jen-
kins, Messrs. Edwin Lee, Leslie yell
verton and w. E. Genres.
The calling of the roll of departed
brothers by the secretary, Mr.. J. T.
Swisher, vas a solemn and impressive
incident, and was followed by the
beautiful ritualistic prayer delivered
by the Lodge Chaplain Mr.. VIM. L.
Jones.
The orator of the occasion was Mr..
Larry I. Moore, of New Bern Lodge
B. P. o. E. 764, and he was gracefully
introduced by Col. John D. Langston.
Mr.. Moore's Grafton was ornate and
Lodge and the lay audience with every
mark of interest and appreciation.
He was followed by Exalted Ruler,
Mr.. Matt HI. Allen in a eulogy of the
late Messrs. Henry and Solomon We'll,
that vas so beautiful in thought, so
true in tribute, so tender in sentiment
and so eloquent in diction that we are
sure every reader of the Argus will
appreciate our securing it for publica-
ton. Mr.. Allen spoke as follows:
Brothers, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is the dictate of both religion and
philosophy that we cherish and honor
the memory of our worthy dead who
now quietly sleep in the sepulchre,
that universal and venerable teacher
which declares to us today the same
truths which it has for fifty eight cen
turtles past declared in all climes and
in all tongues of the earth, to all
classes Of people, to the King upon
| his throne, to the peasant in his hut, to
the wise and to the ignorant.
"Our lives are rivers gliding free
To that unfathomed, boundless sea
The silent grave"
The lessons which the sepulchre i'm
part impress on us the momentous in
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The Argus is grieved to chronicle
the critical illness Of Mr.. r. c. Free
man, who was taken to The Goldsboro
Hospital this morning for nursing,
and where his condition is considered
grave.
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The lessons which the sepulchre i'm
part impress on us the momentous in
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FOR RENT-Four rooms and bath, for
house; cheap. 502 East Ash st.
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St0ckhaIders:

Jos. E. Robinson, H. Wei & Bros,
Bank of Wayne, Geo. G. Royal, E. B..
Borden, Geo. A. Norwood, NJ E. Robin
son, M. J. Best, B. G. Thompson, e. L.
Edmundson, b. H. Griffin. C. B. Mil
Ter, F. K. Borden, N. O'Berry, Jos.
Edison Carr, W. E. Borden.
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terests which cluster around life,
death and eternity.
"For none of us liveth to himself,
And none of us dieth to himself"
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STATEMENT OF THE GOLDSBORO
WEEKLY ARGUS.

JOS. E. Robinson, Editor Goldsboro,
N. C.
Argus Publishing Company, Publish
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-08-28
GUARDING THE DIAMONDS.

Thousands Of Miles o. 1arbsd Wire
inoloss kImbsrlsy's Mines.
Machinery and barbed wire have
supplanted the rude methods OF break
Ing up diamond bearing blue earth and
protecting the valuable finds employed
twenty years ago In the South African
diamond mines.
The depths Of the strange, crater
shaped hole In which the peculiar dia-
mond bearing earth Is confined are
now penetrated by shafts, reaching
hundreds of feet down into the earth.
with forty foot levels. The broken
earth is removed In closed trucks to
the surface. where, after a season Of
exposure to sun and atmosphere strewn
on the ground, 1t Is hauled to the mtlls
Here pulsat0rs finally locate the dia-
mOnds on grease covered inclined tn
bles, to which the diamonds adhere.
while loose sand, earth and gravel are
washed away by water.
Acres Of ground covered by broken
earth brought up from the mines con
tain possibly millions Of dollars worth
Of gems, and these treasure troves are
protected by high fences Of barbed
wire, with intricate arrangements at
the corners and at the gates. About
1900 miles of wire are used I'm the de-
lenses about the Kimberley mines.-
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