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The Robesonian., 1917-02-01


sonal and Other Items
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Lumberton, R. 4, Jan. 30-Farm-
ers seem to be very busy preparing
for another crop. We thin kthere is
going to be lots of tobacco in this
section this time.
We heard OF a certain boy going
to see certain girl a few nights
ago and it seems that the girl got
mad with that certain boy. Anyway
the girl bit the boy on the hand,
maxim ga bad cash. We hope his
hand will soon be we'll. But he don't
want anybody to bite him.
We are having lots of rainy wealth
er along now, not much work DONE
Mr.. S. A. Williamson has put in
a grist mill near his home and his
mill day will be Saturday only.
Messrs. Haynes Collins, Troy NJ
White and Clyde Seasons spent Sun
dav p. m. in this section.
There is lots of measles around
here now, among colored folks.
Miss Hattie Cox spent part of last
week with her brother-in-law and
sister, MIR. and Mrs. C. L. Lamb, at
L umberton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Cox spent last
Thursday D. m. in Lumberton.
Misses Atelia and Minnie Rowan
spent Saturday night in Lumberton.
Little Miss Sadie Rowan spent
last week in Lumberton
Mr. Dave Cox and Miss Hattie
Cox spent Sunday with their brother
Mr.. Tom Cox above Lumberton.
Mrs. Julia Britt is spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Spi-
vey in the Centerville section.
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Britt have
moved to farm near old Kingsdale
to farm belonging to Mr.. Lonnie
Billiard.
Our Sunday school is better since
the new year has come in. Last Sun
day there were 120 present. There
will be Sunday school here next Sun
day at p. m. if nothing happens
This is done on account of preach
ing at Hog Swamp at $3.50, then all
that want to can go down there to
preaching.
Mrs. Lester Rowan spent part OF
last week in this section.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. D. Lamb and sor
Mr.. Henry, and daughter, Miss Es-
telle, spent last Friday in Lumber
ton shopping.
we think there have been some
good laws made by the present Leg.
islature.
We will again have to say some.
thing about our old shcool house tc
Mr.. Pool and the people around here
We won't have any school next year
for we can't get a teacher and we
don't blame anyone for not doing
it. 1t ie lust not fit for a schoo
house. Why, the people will come
along the road and say they have
never seen such thing used for {
school house. Prof. Poole, we want
you to get busy and get the folks
around here interested in it ant
have US a new school house by mex
school. 1t is just a shame for ou,
old house to be seen by anyone. L
would 60 for an old barn, but moth
ing else. W. want Mr.. Pool to COM
to err school house just as quick a
+, 90, ard he will believe what WI
s"v about it.
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

ing his health good, it has prolonged
his life, and brought ease and COM
fort
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold
by druggists everywhere, and costs
only fifty cents a bottle. To avoid
limitations and ineffective substitutes
be sure to get DR.. CaldweIl's Syrup.
Pepsin. See that facsimile of DIR.
Caldwell's signature and his portrait
appear OH the yellow carton in which
the bottle is packed. A trial bottle.
free of charge, can be obtained by
writing to DR.. W. B. Caldwell. Ass
Washington St., Monticello, Illinois.
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01
sDee9 Just 2 Drops of 'Gets-It.' Now
Tomorrow I1l j lust Peel That Corn
Right Off and It's Gone!"
SMYRNA NEWS NOTES

New School House Badly Needed
Prospects for Lots of Tobacco
Sunday School Has Improved-Per-
SOnaI and Other Items
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01
FELT LIKE 90. NOW LIKE 21

Like weak link in a chain, a
weak organ enfeebles the whole
body. Weak kidneys lower vitality.
A. W. Morgan, Angola, La. writes:
~ suffered with pains in the back.
I am 43 years old. but I felt like a
man of 90. Since I took Foley Kid
ney Pills 1 feel like ] did when I was
21." soc and S1.00 sizes. Sold Ev-
erywhere.
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

2 Washington Cor. Greensboro Daily
News: Friends of Representative
Robert L. Doughton have started a
good sized campaign in his behalf
for Governor four years hence. Sew
eral Democrats who have been in
Washington recently predict that Mr..
Doughton will be the next Democrat
ic nominee for Governor of North
Carolina. ="
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

l wish you could see my home-it is so
clean and bright and CHEEKY and whole
some -thefinest, ,whitest, healtMest tobacco
factory in all the world.
| am called SOVEREIGN-King of Them
All! But my middle name is Smoke.
trlend-and all over the South my loyal
friends are with me, because
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

man, Robert Smith, Katie Smith,
Mrs. Camey Singletary, Miss Hattie
Swingdale, Miss Aisle Bell Walters.
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

I'm mighty glad was born a real South
erner. Just suppose had been an Eskimo,
or All INDIAN or something with rings in
my nose and ears!
Yes, sir-I am good and proud of my
Southern BIRTH My mother is from Vir-
glnia and my father is from the Carolinas.
was born and raised down here among
you ALL
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

Persons calling for the above mail
will please saw "advertised".
D. D. FRENCH, U. Bf.
The Robesonian., 1917-02-01

Mrs. Britt's mother, Mrs. Edmund
will return home this week.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Flower LANGUAGE.

The earliest nations had their flower
language, or Photography, which was in
timately connected with mythology, re-
igion and national life. Among the
most commonly known symbolic mean
ings attached to certain flowers are
the following: Oak, patriotism; bay,
poesy; myrtle, beauty; olive, peace !;
ivy, revelry; rose, love; apple BIOS
SONS, preference; buttercup, riches !;
anemone, frailty, anticipation; dande-
lion, coquetry; daffodil, unrequitted
love; lilac, fastidiousness; narcisSus,
self-love; marigold, contempt; gold
enrod, encouragement; lily, majesty,
purity; Gala, magnificent beauty; for
get-me-not, true love; poppy, oblivion !;
amaranth, immortality; gentian, virgin
PRIDE geranium, deceit; foxglove, in-
sincerity; hyacinth, sorrow; honey
suckle, fidelity; pansy, thoughts; hello
trOpe, devotion; sweet william, gal
lantry; candytuft, Indifference; cow
slip, youthful beauty; white violet,
modesty; snowdrop, friendship in need
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
FORESTS SURVIVE THE AGES
That of All Other Countries
in the World

One readily understands why the
Australian loves his trees The groves
of giant eucalyptus form pictures never
forgotten, and the scent of the waffle
brings a homesick feeling like the smell
of sage to the Westerner.
The flora is not only beautiful, it is
unique and has no counterpart in other
lands, observes the National Geo
graphic Magazine. Of the 10000
species of plants most of them are
purely Australian and are unknown
even in New Zealand The general
impression one gets of Australian for
ests is their total unlileliness to any
thing seen elsewhere. The great for
estS of timber trees are not damp and
shaded and all of one species, but are
well lighted and filled with other for
ests Of shorter trees; in places the
woods consist of large, widely spaced
trees, surrounded only by bunch grass,
and even in areas where water is not to
be found on the surface for hundreds
Of square miles true forests Of low
trees are present.
Forms which may be recognized as
tulip, lily, honeysuckle and fern take
on a surprising aspect. They are not
garden flowers, but trees, and the land
scape of which they form a part re-
minds one of the hypothetical period
antedating our own millions of years.
The trees are indeed those of a by
gone age. In America and Europe
shadOwy forms of fossil leaves of
strange plant species are gathered from
the rocks and studied with interest ;
in Australia many of these ancient
trees are living. The impression that
one is looking at landscape which
has forever disappeared from other
parts of the world is so vivid that the
elms and naples and oaks in some of
the city streets strike Earring note.
The transition from Jurassic to modern
times is painfully abrupt.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Effect of a Motto.

Samuel GrindStOne was hustler of
the modern school. He believed in
the gospel of speeding up. Over every
desk in his office he placed a large
printed notice reading: do it now ~
But week later, with tired fingers
and an exhausted air, he tore them all
down.
'HalloI" said a friend, dashing in
Oh the ceremony of destruction.
whats up? Doesn't hustling pay?
Going back to the old leisurely meth
ods?"
eyes, I am," snorted, Grindstone
''Hustling doesn't pay. I gave sixpence
each for those notices, thinking they'd
spur on my staff to hard work"
"Well?"
"Well, the net result is that they've
all acted on the motto. The chief cash
Ter has bolted with the contents of the
safe, my typist has eloped with my
youngest son, four juniors came in yes
terday to ask for a raise and the Office
boy has found better job and ac-
copied it."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Accusation Was False.

"When I hired you last week." said
the boss, who had summoned the new
employee into the inner Office, "did you
tell me the whole truth about your
self"
"Why, yes. What do you mean the
whole truth?'
swell, I have letter. about you.
will take your word If you tell me that
it is false. The letter is anonymous"
"Wh-wh-what does it say about
me?'
Don't be scared. It doesn't accuse
you of any kind Of crime. It merely
says that you are reformed drunk,
ard"
"That, sir, is a malicious lie, made
out of whole CLOTH"
That's all wanted to hear you say.
Don't worry about it"
And as the new employee went forth
in the pride of his virtue, he said to
himself:
'The idea! And I never thought of
reforming!"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Standards In japan.

1t is not known when the signboards
first came into use in Japan, but pre-
sumably it was not long after the in
PRODUCTION of writing, though that
would not be necessary among a peo-
pie where pictures and designs pre-
coded ideographs representing them
Indeed, japanese writing, like Chinese
consists of signs rather than express
sions Of SOUND, says T. Nakayama, M
Coligny writes IN the Cincinnati En-
quirer. The national ideographs are
for the eye rather than the ear; to be
seen rather than to be heard.
There is no mention in Japanese his.
tory of the fact that in the reign of
Emperor Godaigo 1319-1339) each gov
eminent official set up door plate sig
nifying his name and occupation,
which may be regarded as the first
mention of signs in Japan.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
COURTESY in the Aon,e

Why should daily life together de.
stroy the mutual consideration and
courtesy man and woman show be-
fore marriage, which they would con-
tlnue as mere friends? If husband
and wife, no matter how much they
love each other, no matter at what
close range they live, would strive to
grant each other the treatment which
ordinary good breeding exacts, would
respect one another IS individuals, not
as household furniture, would foster
mutual forbearance and ordinary po-
likeness in little things" then the
divorce courts would be cheated, chill
dren would suffer fewer violations of
their inalienable rights to home and
harmony and there would be less
cynical complaint of something rot
ten In the state of matrimeny."-Mary
e. Walter, in the Chicago News
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
clergymen, ana II

voice, clergymen, ana IN
Stuffier attn. res? On thinking
over the matter the only difference the
writer could perceive between a cler-
gyman's and a lawyers speaking was
that clergyman spoke down to his
congregation, and lawyer spoke up
to the judge. the former thus pressing
on his larynx and causing congestion,
whereas the lawyer had his larynx
and throat in a normal position, or
rather in a hypernOrmal position.
From that time he has always adj
vised such patients to speak looking
up to their audience and never down.
He has used no local applications or
treatment except to rectify condition
such as granular pharyngitis, but
where necessary he has suggested a
rest of voice for two or three months.
In all cases this plan has been success
full.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
The Dead LANGUAGES.

Greek and Latin are all right in their
way, but they don't weigh much in the
way of gaining for us the common ne
cessities of life, such as meat and
milk-or nuts and Notwithstanding
to ones proclivities. Modern English
is what we really need and we waste
our time in trying to acquire it through
the Greek and Latin route. About the
only thing a knowledge of Latin can
do for us is to enable us to read the
doctors prescription-and perhaps the
less we know about that, the better off
Well be. Then If we know Greek we
can tell our children what kind of a
cork screw the word "knock" resem-
bles in the original-and of what value
is that?->Exchange
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Was Huxley CoIer-BIind?

Hon. Doctor Lyttelton relates a
story of of the late Professor Huxley.
He was walking one day with friend
who differed from him in being sim
cere believer of the Christian faith.
Suddenly Huxley said: "When I feel
that people believe in Christianity, l
take it for granted they are middle
headed and confused in mind, but you
are man with clear head. How
does it come about that you believe in
those things. which to me are unimag-
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
GIRLS WHO FAIL AT SCHOOL
They Acquire a Sensitiveness Which
Causes Great Deal Of Unnecessary
and unsupported Unhappiness.

The suicide of girl who failed to
pass a mathematical examination at
the Girls high school is an extreme in
stance Of form of sensitiveness which
is very common among school chill
dren and which causes great deal of
wholly unnecessary, and sometimes I'M
suspected unhappiness. says the Brook
Ign Eagle.
This poor girl thought that she had
disgraced her family by her failure, an
absurd notion which could only find
lodgment in mind not entirely recov-
cred from the general unsettling Of
adolescence. At that age the unsettling
affects both boys and girls, but the re-
suit is more likely to be serious with
girls because they take less exercise in
the open air. Their nerves are less
dominated by muscles tired out in
healthful sport and they have more
time for intrOspectiOn-a process which
is pretty sure to distort ones view of
his relations to his surroundings until
such time as the mind has hardened
and grown up and experience has
taught that the world does not revolve
around the success or failure of any
one Of us.
The prevention for this sort Of IN
happiness is to be found in keeping a
sharp eye-On no account a sharp
tongue-on children when they are be-
ginning to study too hard, and to have
some diverting relaxation at hand for
them when the point is reached at
which study is no longer productive.
Children sometimes middle for hours
over lessons without getting any clear
idea and when all the nervous force
they put into their study is wasted.
Sometimes that is because they have
not learned how to think and some
times because no one has aroused their
interest in that study. They "just hate"
algebra or civil government, and in
that frame of mind the effort they put
on it is almost sure to be wasted. The
remedy in that case is not more study
but either a better understanding or
more play to rest tired brain and
nerves. But the application Of the
remedy requires a very close and SYM
pathetic understanding Of the child,
and parents sometimes find that harder
with their children than outsiders.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28

nable?" The other replied: DO YOU
think there is such thing possible as
mental color-blindness. by which /
mean there are some minds incapable
of seeing what others see quite dis
tinctly, just as there are some others
who cannot see coiors which others
see plainly?"
Huxley stopped in his walk, and
said: 'Of course, that may be, and
that is perfectly possible" and then,
with all the grand honesty of his tenn
permanent, he said: "And if l hap
pened to be a man of that kind,
should not know it." He then walked
on without saying any more.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
A Complete Job.

They were a very tired battalion and
very Cockney battalion, and when
they spoke to the members of the bat.
talon who had met them their speech
was rich with explosives.
Said sympathizer of the other bat.
talon:
"You look jolly tired, mate. Ave
yer bin far?"
The spokesman Of the weary ones
answered shortly and sweetly:
BIN fer! Why, we've walked over
nearly the ole o. France, and wot we
amt walked over we've got in our sand
bags."-Tit-Bits.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Possible ADVANTAGE.

Wederly-Can the girl you are en-
gagged to marry swim?
Singleton-Really, don't know. But
why do you ask?
Wederly-Because If she can you
ought to be happy. Any girl who can
swim knows how to keep her mouth
shut.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Lean Year.

BY the present method of reckoning
time every year of which the number
is diTiSible by four without a remand
er is leap year, excepting the centen-
NAL, or even hundredth years, which
are only leap years when diviSble by
four after suppressing the two ciphers.
The year 1900 was a leap year, the
years 100, 1900 and 1900 were not leap
years, but the year 1000 will be and
every intervening year that is exactly
diyisible by four. From 1896 to 1904
and from 1896 TO 1904 were eight-year
intervals without leap year.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
Clernvnan,s Sore Throat.

George Steel-Perkins communicates
to the Lancet his views on the pharyn-
gifts and laryngitis Of public speakers.
He states that it is now over thirty
years since he first asked himself why
we speak Of the condition s-s clergy
mems sore throat and not as lawyers
sore throat. Why is this condition so
rarely seen in lawyers who use their
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-05-28
A Panacea.

Myrt-Have you ever found any
thing that will cure severe headache?
Em-Oh, yes; an eleventh hour in
vltatlon from Jack to go to the thea
ter relieves mine instantly.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
VISITING NURSES
TAG DAY WEDNESDAY,
Additional. Funds Are Needed
This Year to Care for Fam
lilies of Soldiers in the
Trenches.

Mrs. Barton Millard, president OF
the Visiting Nurse association. calls
attention to the additional burden the
society will carry this winter in the
care of families of soldiers who are
ordered to the front.
Tag day, Wednesday, September 5,
must bring US more money this year
than in previous years in order that
we may carry on our work" she said.
More industrial nurses are needed.
Ehe work of Mrs. Grace Wheeler, the
visiting nurse assigned to the care ef
families of smelter works employees,
has proved so gratifying to the COM
pany that a small car has been fur
nished for her use by the company.
Other nurses are assigned to certain
districts, but the smelling company's
employees are scattered all over the
city. The car saves the nurse much
time in getting from place to place"
Mrs. Luther Kountze, Mrs. w. ].
'Hynes, Mrs. Victor Caldwell, Mrs.
Ben Gallagher and Miss Daphne
Peters will have their cars out
Wednesday to collect the money from
different stations. Headquarters will
be in the United States bank building.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
The Hedgens aR
September
By WILLIAM F. RIGGE.

On the 23d at 9:0l a. m. the sun is
at the autumnal equinox, crosses The
equator and enters Libra. Day end
night are then equal aff- over he
world. The sun rises on that day 1T 6
a. m. and sets at 6 p. m, exactly, ac-
cording to the sundial, except that re-
fraction accelerates its rising and re-
tards its setting by about three min
utes. As it is seven minutes fast on
that day, and as our clocks are set
twenty-four minutes ahead in order to
keep central time, the time of sunrise
according to our timepieces becomes
6:13 and of setting 6:2l.
The days diminish in length during
the month by one hour, seventeen
minutes, being thirteen hours six
minutes long on the 1st, twelve hours
twenty-nine minutes on the 18th and
eleven hours forty-nine minutes on
the 30th.
Venus is our brilliant evening star,
easily seen in the western twilight. 1t
sets on the 18th at 7::54, one hour
twenty minutes after the sun. :
Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are morn
ing stars, rising respectively on the
18th at 1905 p. m, 40 a. ma and
2:30 a. M. The times of rising and
setting may be found approximately
for other days by allowing four min
utes to a day, knowing that these
times are that much earlier every
day.
The moon is in conjunction with
Jupiter on the 9TH, with Mars ron the
18th, with Saturn on the 18th and
with Venus on the 10Th.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
Has PedaIed His Bike
1000 Miles Since April

Everett Harris, aged 16,s of SIS
South Twenty-sixth street, has rid
den his Harley-Davidson bicycle
1850 miles since April, 1917.
Everett is employed by the West
ern Union as messenger, and while
on his vacation in June started home
from Minneapolis on his bike. He
covered the distance of 500 miles IN
five days, alone. He was caught in
two transforms and pedaled through
mud for LIS miles, but he experienced
no trouble whatever on the trip; ;sone
Auncture and one broken spoke, which
as caused by hitting stick, is the
bofa of his troubles since he bought
plantte.
whis lyouthful tourist is entered in
to griu u-rniie bicycle race to be held
in Conjanction with the big 100-rnile
motorcycle race at Omaha Speed
way SUNDAY, September 9.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
Wife win Run Farm While
" Husband FiuhtSJ in Army

I've got N64O-acre farm of good
Nebraska land, but my wife can run
it as well as can. Ny country needs
me now more than my farm does" !"
said a man of A years who enlisted
yesterday in the Lucky Seventh.
Besides the farm, Athe man has a
good position in Omaha. He is will
ing to give this up and 10 to the front
when called. He asked to enter as
a private and made no mention of his
property till queried by Lieutenant
Leidy as to his wife's means of sup
port should he be failed, when he
modestly admitted she need have no
lear of need. 4
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
Alleged Omaha Stacker
Pinched in Qnden. Utah

Charles Johison is being brought
back to Onisha from Ogden, Utah,
for failure tc register for the draft.
Johnson was arrested in Ogden by
an agent Of the Department of JUS
tice upon eyiiepce furnished from the
local Office. The man will be prose-
cuted in the federal courts on a
Stacker ~ctYQe
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
Patriotic Services for
Inmanue1 Enlisted Mer

lasA special patriotic service will be
aseld at the Emmanuel Lutheran
church, Nineteenth and Cass streets,
i1Emil G. Chinlund, pastor, Sunday
,evening at 8 o'clock, to which the pub
Flic is invited. The young men of the
piioagregation who have enlisted and
habo have been called to the colors are
,eerl fciaiiy urged to attend.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-01
Freshmen Register Fast
At the Central Hiqh School

An unusually large class OF fresh
men is registering at the Central High
school. The 'freshies" are being as
sisted by upper classmen and teachers
to select their subjects, teachers and
neriods, The girls are much IN the
majority, although there are more n r.;
than zoo boys. Saturday from 3 tn
noon will be the last chance tor pupils
Much enthusiasm is being shown
in the cadet regiment. The enroll
ment is alreAdy past the 500 mark;
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Longwelii
thinks he has the finest bunch OF
freshmen that has joined the regi-
ment for several years. He attributes
this to the training received IN the
nlayeround army and the Boy Scout
organizations. The rumor that the
cadets must join the Seventh Ne
braska is causing some anxiety among
the mothers, but it is stated enlist
ment in that organization is purely
voluntary. o..
! DELIGHTFULLY."- REFhEshlNU
Borsford's Acid Phosphate
Il, hot weather, teaspoonfui ma siass
Of water, sweetened to haste, Is nt mos.