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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13
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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13

When spring un1ocks the flowers to
paint the laughing soil.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13

The annual fly crusade is due to
start.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13

The happy combination of fortuit-
Gus circumstances.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13

Italy is apparently ready to be
bought off from going to war.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-13

MHtared nj the Postoflcs In Colds
bore aS second class mail matter.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17
DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
When the Joy Of Your Kiddes
Brings Tender Memories of
Years Ago.

In these strenuous shopping days,
writes Louis James, have you caught
yourself remembering suddenly, in all
sorts Of queer, unexpected places, all
sorts of queer, half forgotten things?
Have you remembered how these days
before Christmas are the wonderful
days in the life Of the child, more
wonderful days, perhaps, than any
that are to come?
You know that yourself. You can't
help recalling now time went by those
days before the great day. You re-
member how each day seemed some
how more wonderful than the one be-
fore, each day prelude of real Joy
to that first marvellous moment OF
Christmas morning, when, after a
night of little If any sleep, you scram-
bled up and stood breaihless on the
threshold OF the room which had been
forbidden you all those interminable
hours that went before,
The child you take with you through
the wonderlands Of the modern toy
department wants what you did. The
little girl stops before the baby doll,
wide eyed, still with desire The boy
stands flooded with happiness before
an ark in which is every imaginable
creation. You remember What a small
thing your own was, a fourth the size
But his joy is no greater than yours
He pushes toward the rocking horse
Now it runs by machinery, when once
you ran your own across the floor to
the imminent danger OF total destruc'
ton to persons and furniture that
might stand in the way. But Christ
mas day was your day. The day when
"don'ts" were not and you we're king
or queen in your kingdom Of toys.
You pass on to trains and there
again electricity is running them. You
pulled them yourself
Then you catch the look on the face
of your boy. He Is watching the huge
engine move slowly, smoothly along. 1t
passes under infinite tunnels and
bridges and over made hills that pre-
sent intricate difficulties Of passage,
Your tunnels were of chairs and the
table in your kitchen made a SPLEEN
did bridge to cross.
He turns to you, the child of this
twentieth century. His smile 10 be.
attic. He wants it--that train. He
never wanted anything SO much be-
fore. He never will again he is
sure.
And as you move away you smile, a
little sadly, little gladly. You are
proud to be able to make him SO
wonderfully happy, this child Of yours,
but you are sure, too, that he is no
happier than you were these same pre-
Christmas days, those years before.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17
Had One Already.

Il don't know what to give Lizzie
for Christmas present" one chorus
girl is reported to have said to her
mate, while discussing the tilt to be
made to a third.
Give her a book" suggested the
other.
And the first ono replied, neditative-
ty: mo, that won't do; sAo's got
book"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17

dulged In the matter, her support Is
unavoidably more expensive from year
to year. 1t was acute realization OF
this that had prompted Mllliecnt to
adventure citywards, armed with her
diploma from the Tingleville CONNER
clal college, proving her to be fully
trained stenographer.
Millicent had found no positions
open, however. Nobody seemed in
need Of stenographer without past
experience or even a typist Some
business men, she found, wanted a
girl In their Offices. but they expressed
themselves as being more personally
interested in Millicent's good looks
than in her Tingleville certificate, So
Mile wisely looked elsewhere. Wise
ly maybe, but fruitlessly, Then one
evening In her bare hall room this
second week she came across the two
line "ad' of the National Film Manu-
featuring company, which, 1t seemed,
was lukewarmly interested in secur-
ing a girl for fling" A princely
stipend of six dollars per week was
the practical inducement offered.
Six dollars doomed gigantic to our
Millicent Just then and, although the
thought of being only an Office girl
was humiliating, it was considerably
better than nothing. She determined
to be first OF the hundredodd appli-
cants at the studio on the morrow,
and so, indeed, she was.
On the way out next morning Miss
Mile occupied herself with a perusal
of the newspaper and therein read a
long account OF the stupendous pro-
duction which the National Film Man
ufactnrirs company was about to re-
lease. The names Of fascinating Au-
frey Arlington, darling OF the movie
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17
change Of Scenery.

The fool who rocked the boat will
now proceed to put on set Of cotton
whiskers and light the candles on the
( Christmas tree.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17

ture portrayals, much less heard of
that opulent magnate OF lilmdom the
National Film Manufacturing COM
pany. Truth to tell, the very first
time she learned of its existence was
that evening when, worn out by a
bOotless tour OF business Offices where
she had hoped for employment, she
read its lad" in the Help Wanted sec.
ton of newspaper.
Millicent had come to the metropolis
abrim with the high hopes and dimi-
nent enthusiasm of youth. Incidental
ly she brought remarkable good looks
with her too, although, being unso
phisticated and from the country, she
was not as sef-conscious of them as
most city girls of her age are. The
home farm was hopelessly mortgaged
and for several years past she had
realized with increasing poignancy
what a tax upon her aged parents
slender resources she was.
As girl grows older she Graves
more and better things. and, no mat
ter how slightly she may be III
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17
A GREAT DAY.

This is Christmas day, the an
niversary OF the worlds great.
est event. TO one day ell the
early world locked forward, to
the same day the later world
looks back. That day holds time
Observation-Disclosures Smith.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-12-17
- II.LIcENT HEBARD had

iAAA4A N1NN A. $ASA 1865
not the slightest idea
that she even remotely
resembled Audrey Ar
lington, stellar member
of the National Film
Manufacturing com
pany's cast. In fact,
having only recently ar
rived in the big city
from a downstate farm,
she had not even seen
any of Miss Arlington's
celebrated moying-Dic-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

AS an event, it is on a parity with
the opening of the Panama canal. Ii
is another connecting link that physi-
cally binds the far east and the fa1
west Of America into one complete
union.
Four thousand Miles Instantly
One-tifteenth Of a second! Like a
flash Of lightning goes the spoken
word through storm and sunshine over
thousands of miles 1t starts in Bos-
ton at p. m. and, paradoxically,
reaches San Francisco three hours
earlier. The time schedule has been
turned topsy turvy. While you wink
your speech hs been carried nearly
half way around the world.
Imagine a giant with lungs power
full enough to carry his voice $500
miles through the air. Picture him
standing on the dome of the Massa-
chusetts state house and yelling
Hello" as loud as he could. -Four
hours later it would be family heard
at the Panama Pacific exposition
Blow up a million pounds of dynamite
on Boston common and the sound
would travel but a few miles. And
yet the telephone wizards with a tiny
wire have outdistanced nature. Surely
brains and energy have won a great
victory.
In 1849 Pixies peak or bust was
the slogan that dominated those hardy
pioneers and urged them forward In
1909 TO naranhraSn fhis tho -looaa M
the telephone engineers was 1.-The
Golden Gate or bust" That was the
goal upon which they set their eyes
more than five years ago. The LONG
distance lines had already been ex-
tended as far west as Omaha. Two
years ago Denver became a reality by
telephone, and now, in one long jump
Of over 1860 miles, the Pacific coast
has been reached.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

fastest trains it. takes five days and
five nights-120 hours-to go from
Boston to San Francisco. And yet it
will only be a little while before the
business man can sit comfortably in
his office and travel instantly by tele-
phone between the two cities over
tons Of copper wire.
The opening Of this line has a Pc
culiar significance to the people OF
Boston and New England, for it was
in Boston that Professor Alexander
Graham Bell invented the telephone in
1876, less than forty years ago. A
little later the longest toll line in the
world stretched from Boston tC
Lowell and the service was poor and
intermittent. How marvellous has
been the progress.
And the men who we're associated
with Bell in those telephone pioneer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

Telephoning over such a great dis
lance would have been absolutely i'm
possible without another wonderful
coils. Without any technical descrip-
ton, it is sufficient to say that these
loading coils are placed at various
points along the line and give the
electrical waves additional force and
power.
cisco runs direct to Buffalo, 465
miles; thence to Chicago, 605 miles,
to Omaha 500 miles, to Denver 585
miles, to Salt Lake City $50 miles and
to San Francisco no miles, total
of 1905 miles.
A spur line runs from Chicago to
Pittsburg, 545 miles, and thence to New
York, $50 miles. Another spur con-
meets Buffalo and New York, $50 miles
On the same day the line between
Boston and San Francisco was opened
telephone conversation was estab-
l1shed between New York and San
Francisco. Professor Bell talked from
ciate, Thomas A. Watson, from San
Francisco
An interesting fact in connection
with the opening of this line is that
Professor Bell used at the New York
end an exact reproduction of his first
crude instrument. At first it could
be used only a few feet. That that
instrument could be used in talking
between New York and San Francisco
is due to the skill and inventions OF
those engineers who followed Bell af-
ter his retirement from the telephone
business, in the perfection of the
telephone and of switchboards, cables
and the hundreds of other accessors
to successful telephone transmission.
Looking Backward to the Beginning
On the evening of Oct. 8, 1876, the
first long conversation over the tele-
phone was made by Bell and Watson
They talked for three hours over &
telegraph line between Boston ane
Cambridge. 1t was the wonder O
the day. In May, 1877, a Charles
town man leased two telephones-the
first money ever paid for telephone
service. The same month the frs
tiny and crude telephone exchange
was born with five telephones con
nected.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

Crossing the continent-from Bos-
ton to San FranciscO-in One-ffteentt
of a second is an actual accomplish
ment. Direct conversation between
the two cities so far apart was es'
tablished for the first time, the other
day, over the longest telephone line
in the world-more than $500 miles.
The successful contamination OF
this great work is an epoch in history
the acme Of telephone attainment.
1t is an achievement made possible
only by the scientific study and per-
sistent effort of the engineers of the
great Bell system.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

days, ana developed his great idea
until one in every eight persons in
the United States is connected by
telephone, are Boston men. Many of
them are living today.
Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, has been in the telephOne
business almost from the beginning
Today he is perhaps the greatest con-
structive business man in the world.
John j. Carly, chief engineer OF
the company, the master mind in
scientific telephony, was a Cambridge
boy who worked as an operator in
the early days for SIS a week.
Thomas D. Lockwood. general
patent attorney of the company, a
telephone expert for nearly forty
years, lives in Melrose.
Thomas A. Watson, the youthful
mechanic who assisted Bell in his
early experiments and who was the
first person in the world to hear the
human voice over a wire, lives in
Braintree and in Boston
Some Facts and Figures
At the present time there are two
complete physical circuits, each 35O5
miles long, between the two cities.
Then, by means of a wonderful de-
velopment of electrical study, in the
transposition of these two circuits ac-
cording to certain scientific formula
third circuit called a phantom
circuit is created, making it possible
for six people to talk at one time
Shree at each end-over these two pair
OF wires.
There are 1920 niles of hard
drawn copper wire in both of these
| circuits. Each circuit mile of wire
weighs $40 pounds, so that the entire
weight of both circuits-four wires
is over 5000 tons. This tremendous
weight is supported by 140, 900 poles !.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

Think for moment what the open
Ing of the Boston-San Francisco d1-
chusetts and California neighbors. 1t
will carry the business message from
the Atlantic to the Pacific quicker
than man can write letter and it
gives him an answer at once. 1t has
annihilated distance. It's commercial
value is priceless.
Boston Men Built the Line
Across twelve states! Do you
realize what that means? Have you
ever travelled to the far west? On the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

By August there were IT'S tele-
phones in use-al in Boston-and
four men had an absolute monopoly OF
the telephone business. A little later
Theodore NJ Vail was prevailed upon
to resign from the government mail
service and become general manager
of little telephone company that
was hardly organized and had no
money. Month after month the lit
tie Bell company lived from hand to
mouth. No salaries were paid in
full. Often, for weeks, they were
not paid at all. In 1880 John j
Carly timidly asked for a job as
operator in the Boston exchange. He
showed such an aptitude for the work
that he was soon made one of the
captains.
In 1893 Boston and New York were
talking to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pitts
burg and Washington, and one half
the people of the United States were
within talking distance of each other.
The thousand mile talk had ceased to
be fairy tale.
Several years later the line was
pushed over the plains to Omaha, and
subsequently nearly 600 miles were
added, enabling the spoken word in
Boston to be heard in Denver.
| The Boston-San Francisco line win
probably not be offered for general
commercial use until the early sum
mer.
Telephone engineers have dreamed
6f the time when the wires would
span the continent. That time has
come. For the moment it seems as
though there is no other great thing
for which to strive. And yet progress
in telephony in the United States is
making such tremendous strides that
no man can prophesy the wonder
full things that may be done in the
future.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

Orleans high school and Newport
high school played very close and
interesting game of basket ball at the
opera house last night, the final score
being Ia to Is in favor of the Newport
boys.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27
BOSTON CALLS
SAN FRANCISCO
Direct Telephone Line Open
Across the Continent
SPEECH CARRIED $500 MILES
Bell Telephone Engineers Ex-
tend Long Distance Line to
the Pacific Coast Science
and Inventive Genius Finally
Overcome Great Obstacles
WHAT 1T MEANS TO
TELEPHONE FROM BOs-
TON TO SAN FRANCISCO

Distance-35O5 miles.
Twelve States Covered.
Miles of Copper Wire-14 ,02O.
Weioht of Wire-Over 5000 tons.
Poles on Line-Over $40, GOO.
Speed-One- fifteenth of second.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27
THOUGHTS ON LIFE.
The present hour alone is
man's.-Samuel Johnson.

AhC p1SoCuL uOuI dlOu0 is
man's.-Samuel Johnson.
Life is the gift of God and is
d1vine.-Longfellow.
Have more mind on thy books
than thy bags, more desire of
goodness than gold, greater af-
lection to die we'll than to live
wantonly.-Lyly.
Life is a mission. Every 9TH
er definition of life is false, and
it leads all who accept it astray.
Religion, science, philosophy,
though still at variance upon
many points, all agree in this
that every existence is an aim.
-MaZzini.
When life is true to the poles
of nature the streams of truth
will roll through us in song
Emerson.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27
THEODORE N. VAIL
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26
In the Shops

a very beautiful shade for . lamp
hasa black lacquer Anish, and on It are
A'gs eretonne fruits. This costs $3.50.
Another combines a green so pale that
we imagines IL Is white. with black
" soft and lustroUs that one might
~'hk II purple, since II is used In con-
'she'ion with design Of some conven-
"ohsl towering IN which the plum hue
EeaominGtes. In this shade the flow
uihg outlines the darker upper section,
tpS'aung II from the green below. II
W" 20, and is unusual in its beauty.
le black stand Of carved wood with
'l,eh u is used costs $3.50.
o." delightful shade, very French In
- conception, IS painted In yellow and
,e stripes. On II are painted fine
..s''ons Of black flowers. And there
@ small cretonne flowers and small
Nspohne birds in cages. Price, $3.50.
tainted parchment is now being
sIIvn~n great favor for lamp shades.
,tNAough II IS difficult 70 work on II,
e eoiors look very well. A large
..sIehment shade was obviously pat
p.nso after the work done by the
sseshers Adam. II had on il large
.s'msi pattern in yellow and black, and
a. sogihg Of old gold lace. The stand.
iofmal lines, further carries out the
s or scheme. The lamp and shade
"fpiste cost sos.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26
g. WOnANS VARIED INTERESTS &
The Delinquent Parent, Not the Wayward
Child, Is the Crux of the Chill
drens Court.

difficult 70 deal. and with them IL
has been found that the greatest good
work may be done directly through the
child. The drunken mother or father
who surrounds the child with infu-
ences that are decidedly bad presents
a great problem. Incarceration in the
workhouse does not accomplish much
with either the man or the woman.
They generally come out embittered
more than ever against the world and
society. Their terms in such q place,
Il has been recognized by authorities
on the subject. are not OF long enough
duration TO do any real good. They
return to their old ways. Again. while
the father is being punished In this
way what becomes Of his family7
az do not know that II would be wise
TO distribute money from . fund to tho
parents for the care Of their children
when both parents are at work. That
has long been thought Of. 1t would
take a corps Of highly trained persons
to investigate cases and to decide upon
the advisability of such a thing. 10
me II seems that a stipulated sum
should be placed at the disposal OF GER
tain neighbour ood' centres for the pur-
nose OF caring for young children when
both parents are employed. There you
bav. the advantage Of right training,
and a certain educational value. But
- IN. money Is given directly to the
nar.nt, for tho care Of the children
during such hours Of enforced absence.
what (. TO be gained? There are not
always day nurseries In their immedi-
ate vicinity. and would the parents take
an interest in having their little ones
there? That Is the question. and ono
that has been deeply thought OF.
"The work to be done with the de-
l,nouent parent. Of all classes Is one
Of education, should emphasize.
"The parent question is closely allied
with that OF the child. and there is
enough in this court in day TO wiring
ones heart. What Is really TO be done
70 relieve the situation Is a great
question. 1t Is now in its experiment
tai stage"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26

"These parents feel that when they
have fed, clothed and housed their
little ones their duty Is fulfilled" says
Justice Mayo. Tho art OF instilling
moral principles goes by the board. To
know where this child goes when It
leaves the house Of an afternoon.
morning or evening does not occur to
them.
"The children Of this class are given
far too much liberty. They govern
themselves, they 60 where they wish
and select their own companions and
are given money with which to indulge
In moving picture shows and trips
about town.
people have scofred at the old fash
toned idea of chaperons. II there was
more OF this practice to-day there
would be fewer heartbroken mothers
and fathers, who only too late realize
their mistakes.
Liberty and freedom for the chill
dren to a certain degree IS good
thing, but the parent should always
Judge OF companions and amusements.
"A club for mothers end daughters
would be a splendid thing. 1t Is the
dav of club work for women TO a large
extent. The only trouble IS that the
club for the mother does not include
the daughter Let such a club be
formed. let the younger members OF
the family cooperate with the mothers
in their work. Stimulate an atmos-
pierre Of community interest This
must be impressed upon the minds Of
men and women who have children and
ar, in comfortable circumstances. 1t is
by no means only those in poverty and
in vice that come TO this court
There Is another class brought to
the Chldren's Court with which 1t IL