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New York, Nov. Affection day
here is usually little sad. This may
be because the saloons are closed or
it may be a mass consciousness of
shame over the motives that are caus-
ing the little hvtrs to go down.
They stream into Publ c schools and
barber shors, bookstores and delica-
lessons to exercise the illusion of In
dependent Choice. They are, seen as
a whole, drealnless and fetid sheep
moving toward tie brief moment in
which they can chip their minuscule
mica-flakes of Power from the Will
Of the Mob
Pride? The fierce grim reasoned Sc
lectivity of the eally New England
villagers choosing village fathers to
lead them for another year against a
Wilderness? Selfless decision, unin-
fluenced by hope of private, pidling
plumber in the form of handouts?
Pure patriotism-that thinks only in
terms of the long years ahead and the
dangers they may bring to Liberty, a
word so mystically beautiful that men
are perhaps unworthy of it's coinage?
You see, or think you see, few of
these things And yet this vast, lum-
bering electorate, capable of appall-
ing errors and slow to see through the
shallowest rabble-rousers; tickle, alb
surd, quick to envy and slow to full
blooded, righteous wrath; a pushover
for schemes which would have made
Ponzi or Wallingford laugh--this ele-
phantine Will remains the best, the
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only form of rational government so
far devised.
It is easy to watch the lines before
the voting booth and grow heavy
hearted about the future of America.
1t is too easy. No matter what the
result is in any election, that same
clumsy giant, the electorate, has a
habit of reversing it's pigheaded
choices at long last, and with such
laundering vehemence that the dam
age is quickly repaired.
Only when you imagine the alter
natives do you grow really appalled,.
Only when you think of voting booths
closed and the whimsical CULVER of
the Franchise pinioned and cowed by
little Ogpus brandishing machine
guns do you wonder how you ever
doubted CULVER Then he seems pref
ty wise and pretty grand. Then you
can watch his puckish descent upon
the polling place, on spree perhaps
this one time and eyes dazzled by
every stick of red-striped candy and
explosive cigar proffered him, with a
tender understanding.
You know that he is, all things con-
sidered, the best friend you have in
the world. The red-striped candy will
give him a Stomach-ache and the
cigar will go off in his mouth with
a loud disillusioning bang.
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TODAY,S YESTERDAYS

Nov. 4, 177O-Augustus Montague
Toplady was born at Farnham, Sur
rev, England, in an earnest calvlnlSt
family who reared him to be a clergy
man. He was 35 and a country vicar
when his hymn, Rock of Ages, was
was first published. This and Jesus
Lover of My Soul (by Charles Wesley
are the most widely sung hymns in
the English language.
Nov. 4, 1775ACongress directed
that a pint of milk and a quart of
beer be issued daily to each soldier
in the Continental Army.
20 Years Ago Today-The World
War-There was renewal in German
papers of agitation for peace, even
on the basis of a draw. Edward
Bernstein, a Socialist deputy said in
the Reichstag, I'VE started the war,
but we are unable to finish it, land
was shushed down. The Berlin YER
warts sounded a warning note, IF
we are going to drag this war on in
definitely, then the whole of Europe
will bleed to death, and American
and colored races will be their heirs"
Same day, Hindenburg, the new
commander-in-chief, gave an inter-
view to an Austrian newspaper deny
ing rumors that he contemplated
shortening his line on the western
front why should I do it? The
front in the west stands as firm as a
rock, and if our enemies, by gigantic
use of artillery, here and there gain
little terrain, they shall never break
through. In order to do this they
would have to attack for 80 years, pro
vided they had enough men,"
The interview was naturally wide
ly quoted in Germany, yet it did not
quiet demands for peace. Military
leaders, furious with what they term
ed the defeatists, saw victory at any
cost more vital than ever, and such
measures as unrestricted submarine
warfare was increasingly necessary
regardless Of the effect on world opin-
ion
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wait until they break up and go to
pieces-which is the way we have
been doing-and then have the ad-
ditional expense of reconditioning the
roads by rebuilding the bases, as well
as the cost of surfacing them," Way
nick said We can re-surface these
roads at cost of about $1,000 a mile,
provided it is not necessary to tear
the road up and rebuild the base.
Thus the expenditure of $1,00O,OOO
year-much less then the amount now
being diverted from the highway fund
for other purposes-for resurfacing
some 1000 miles of highways each
year, would in the long run save mil
lions Of dollars which otherwise will
have to be spent in the complete re-
building of many miles of highways.
1t will also save the high cost of wear
and tear to the cars Of users of these
roads during the time they begin to
go bad until such a time as they can
,ce rebuilt
During this past spring, summer
and fall, the highway department has
rebuilt and re-surfaced some $50 miles
of surface treated highways the
most part the roads which went to
pieces last winter, Waynick pointed
out. Much of this mileage could have
been saved if these roads could have
been retreated and re-surfaced the
previous summer and fall.
1--WE are going to have still more
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ANSWERS

l. 49,. any group of voters, which
at the last preceding general state
election, polled for it's candidate for
governor, or for presidential electors
In the State at least three percent of
the entire vote cast therein for gov
ernor, or for the presidential cleo
tors"
2. The North Carolina election laws
give the state board of elections DOW
er to reject or accept the naming of
a political party, if it is in any way
similar to the name of any existing
political party.
8. When it fails to cast three per-
cent of the total vote cast for gov
ernor or the presidential electors in
the general election.
4. BY filing with the state board of
elections, at least ninety days before
the general election, a petition signed
by ten thousand qualified voters. The
petition must state the name to the
proposed new party.
5. They shall assemble on the first
Monday after the second Wednesday
in December next following their
election in the Capitol at the CITY of
Raleigh, and then and there give their
votes"
6. Thirty one counties These were
widely scattered over the entire state.
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TODAY
TODAY,s ANNIVERSARIES

,771-Tames Montgomery, Scottish
roet and hymn-writer, born. Dleo
April 80, 1854.
1SO3-sarah H. B. Judson, noted
missionary to Burma, born at AL
stead, N. H. Died Sept. l, lS4o'
18O7-9Ienry Gassett Davis, noted
pioneer orthopedic surgeon, born at
Trenton, Maine. Died at Everett
Mass, Nov. IS, 1896.
1909 Benjamin R. Curtis, Boston
lawyer, Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court at AZ, born at Watertown, Mass
Died Sept. Is, 1874.
1816-Stephen T. Field, New YORK
lawyer, California 49'er, State chief
Justice, appointed by Lincoln to the
U. S. Supreme Court where he served
nearly "a years, born at Haddam'
Conn. Died April 9, 1899.
1879-Will Rogers, jokester, home
~ philosopher, beloved character, &C
tor and movie star columnist, in OK
lahoma cowboy who became the most
loved parsonage in America, born IN
Indian Ter. Died in plane crash, in
Alaska, Aug. Is, 1885.
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IT'S TRUE

What They Say About
Zoroaster, Persian philosopher. He
never ate anything except cheese for
more than 30 years.
Peter the Great, emperor of Russia
His favorite recreation was to be
pushed around the palace grounds in
a wheelbarrow
John Randolph of Roanoke, Vir-
ginia statesman. He never married
because his fiancee, Maria Ward,
broke off their engagement to wed
his cousin, Peyton Randolph.
Calvin Coolidge. A Washington
matron, who had wagered she could
make him talk, sought to disarm him
by her frankness< "Mr. President, I
have made a bet I can make you say
at least three words" He replied
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Today is the Day
BY CLARK KINNAlRD
Copyright, 1886, for this Newspaper
l. by Central Press Association

"You lose"
Charles Babbage, English mathema-
tician and inventor of calculating
machine. His pleasure was picking
locks and opening safes a la Jimmy
Valentine.
John Paul Jones. He was kidnap-
ed and held prisoner in Paris by a
lie Fevre.
Sam Houston. When his young
bride left him, he resigned as COVER
nor of Tennessee and went to live
among Amerindian tribesmen.
Queries, reproofs, ETC., are welcom-
ed by Clark Kinnaird. Address him
care this paper.
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NOTICE.

Under and by virtue of the au-
thority vested in me in that certain
Deed of Trus. executed by Southern
day of August, 1888, and recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds OF
Vance County, in Book 1855 page 70
default having < cen made in the pay
ment Of the note Thereby secured, and
at the request, of the holder of same,
I shall offer, for sale at public auc-
ton, and sell for cash at the Court
House door in Vance County, N. o.
on Monday, November Both, 1886, az
IL o'clock noon, the following de-
scribed real property, to-wit:
1ST TRACT: Adjoining the lands
of John S. Royster, ct al, on the
by the lands formerly owned by S. T.
Wilson; on the East by lands for
merly owned by j., P. Hunt; on 5 by
the lands form eriy held by Sallle
Hicks, now John S. Royster; on the
West by lands of D. T. Barker, now
Mrs. r. A. Wilson. Being the lands
decided to Ira T. Hart by Mary u.
Kelly, Deed Book 6, page 355, being
Ill 1-2 acres more or less.
2ND TRACT: That tract of lana
consisting of SO acres more or less
that was formerly owned by John
Mcmillan, now owned as tenants IN
common ~ the Southern Loan q
Realty Company and J. E. Hamlet
the interest hereby mortgaged beng
the Southern Loan & Realty Cos one
half interest in said land. See DeedS
on record.
BIRD TRACT: A lot of land at North
Henderson on the East side of High
way No. so, adjaining a tract OF lana
formerly owned by ]. c. Champion
and being the same lot of land pui-
chased by the Southern Loan & Rear
ty Co. from j. H. Goodrich. Decd
Book SO page 304 On this lot Is
situated small tenant house.
9TH TRACT: Also a lot, beginning
at the corner made by the interSec,
ton Or junction of the West line OF
Garrett Street with the South llhe
of Young Street in the City OF hen
derson, N. c., and run thence along
the west line Young Street IN
northwesterly direction, 30 feet "
an iron stake in said South slGc
OF Young street; thence in SoutheldS
direction parallel to Garnett street "
feet: thence parallel to the first line
sc feet to the West line of Garnet
St: thence along Garrett street ~
feet to place of beginning. See Deeo
Book SO page 1856.
A. A. BUM Trustee
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CHAPTER 81

Of1AT 1Ef6 d
MAE ALEXANDER stood at
Alix's elbow but she didn't speak
until Alix turned to her with a
wry smile.
Don't girls always act this
way before they're married?" she
asked.
II don't know, Alix, because I've
never been married but I don't
think they should. When a man
like Bill asks girl to marry him,
he knows his own mind and he
knows that he has met the one
woman he wants to spend his life
with. And when a girl like you
says that she'll marry a man like
that, she knows she's found the
one man. So why shouldn't she be
anxious for her wedding day?"
II don't know" Alix said for
lornly. Macs words had started
her thinking things that were up
setting. That lone woman" and
lone man in her life" idea made it
seem all wrong.
Bill Boyd wasn't the one man in
her life. But need he be? Wasn't
she going to give Bill all she had,
all her devotion? Never, never
would that past come back again
TO hurt him or to hurt her if she
was with him.
Even while she tried to tell her.
self that it was fair, that Bill
knew what he was doing, she
knew that he was being cheated
somehow, that the thing that had
kept her from making plans for
her wedding was this unadmitted
truth that even Bill didn't seem to
act or feel the way a man did who
was marrying the one woman he
wanted.
She made a sudden resolution.
Let's not go to the movies to-
night" she said to Bill that night.
Let's go for drive. I want to
talk to you"
Something the matter, honey?"
he asked with that tender cOnsid-
Grafton he always had for her.
Il don't know, darling. That's
for you to tell me-"
It wasn't easy for her. She was
stricken with the same inarticula-
ton that had oyertaken him when
he had tried to talk to Dorcas at
the costume party. At last she
began: 81
"Bill, I don't know how to say
this but :. know you must have
wanted me to marry you or you
wouldn't have asked me. Are you
satisfied with me? With every
thing as it is ?"
"Of course 1 am, Alix. don't
know what you mean. Aren't you
happy with me?"
Eyes, am, Bill. Happier than
with anyone else but oh, Bill,
have to tell you something. I
was in love with someone one
time"
II guessed, Alix. was in love
with someone too, but, after all,
we're both pretty grown up and
what happened in the past has
nothing to do with today"
us that why you've never told
me you loved me?"
Bill didn't answer her directly.
He said: Don't you know how /
care for you?"
Her answer was to put her hand
In his. Then she said, IF that's
The way you feel, Bill, and you're
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quite sure, IT'S all rlgnt with me.
I need you . F.. need you badly"
If that was their moment to
undo anything that needed to be
undone, the moment went past
when Alix said she needed him.
Bill had always known that and
that made it all right for him. He
needed someone too. ~
They decided to be married on
Saturday, Oct. Is.
There was a three-line notice in
the Bairdsvale Clarion. It said:
1.-THE marriage of Miss Alix
Carey, daughter of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Felix Carey, to Mr.. Will
liam Boyd, Jr., will take place on
Saturday afternoon, Oct. Is, at the
home of Miss Mae Alexander"
It was short but it was enough
to bring pandemonium into the lit
tie decorating shop.
There was procession of cars
lined up an hour after the notice
appeared in the Clarion. The tele-
phone rang necessarily. All the
girls and matrons, old and young,
that Alix had met in her 10
months in Bairdsvale, as well as
many whom she had not met but
who remembered her as child
came to greet her, to telephone her
and wish her good luck.
She was immensely touched by
it and saw that quality that so
many city girls would never know,
that bond that exists even where
there is no kinship.
Her beauty. Bills charm, the
rumors of the home that they were
going to build-these and a hum
dred other things were source of
wonder shared by strangers and
friends alike.
To all their queries Alix said be-
whereby, Were not quite sure
yet" or It'll have to ask Mae"
Mae was running the whole
wedding apparently after winning
a hard battle with Miss Lizzie
Ellis. It was Mae who ordered
the wedding announcements, de-
cided that Alix was going to wear
blue organza gown and fixed the
hour of the wedding at her house.
IF only you'd marry Bill and
let me run the business until you
come back from my honeymoon,
Mae, I'd feel that everything
would be perfect" Alix said to her
one late afternoon when Mae had
finished checking and rechecking
the list of guests.
You're fine one to talk, Alix
Carey, and if / were you I'd be so
proud and happy, I'd shout from
the housetops that no one could
have my Bill. My, you ought to
be thrilled to death having all
these people telephoning you and
coming in to see you just to tell
you what wonderful boy he isl"
IT am, Mae. I'm terribly proud.
1 can't understand it. l. can't see
why it should happen to me. I
can't believe it could"
well, it has, so there's no rea-
son to look as if it were miracle
you just imagined. Oh, that tele-
phone!" She broke off and picked
up the instrument. Hello. I.
Hello. Mrs. Graham ? -. No,
this is Mae. said this is Mae.
Oh, I'll tell her. She's busy
now. You're coming to the we'd
ding, aren't your That's fine.
Yes. at six o'clock" She rang off.
II didn't think you wanted to
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TODAY IN HISTORY

1694-An English slave-shlp a&rlVeo
at Barbados with 800 of the $50 Ne
groes in the cargo dead in the cross
ing.
1884 colony from Scotland set
tied on the Panama Coast-enterprise
of a Scottish company planning to
open marts on both ends of Panama
to trade with South America and Asia
Did not last long.
1791-Gov Arthur st. Clair of the
Northwest Territory defeated by the
Indians in battle on the Wabash with
loss of more than half the American
force.
1842-Abraham Lincoln of Spring
field ILL.,, lawyer, 33, married Mary
Todd, %, of Lexington, KY.
1924-Calvin Coolidge elected Pres
ident; Al Smith reelected governor of
New York; ma" Ferguson elected
governor of Texas. ~'r
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Gena Branscombe of New York,
composer born in Canada, SIS years
Mary S. Watts of Cincinnati, move
list, born at Delaware, O., 65 years
ago.
DR.. Chevalier Jackson of Philadel-
phia, bronchoscopist, born in Pitts
burgh II years ago.
1t. Com. Thomas G.. w. Settle, u.
S. NJ, balloonist, born in Washing
ton, D. c., Al years ago.
James E. Fraser of New York, not
ed sculptor, born at Winona, Mich,
60 years ago.
Roland J. Mckinney director of the
Baltimore Museum of Art, born at
Niagara Falls, N. Y, 38 years ago
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flowers AT HER FEET
BY M A RE Bill A RID

talk to her. She's 80 deaf. Well,
I guess that exhausts that list Is
there anyone in all Bairdsvale that
you know who hasn't been around
with good wishes ?"
Alix stretched out on one of the
lounges that was for sale and said
slowly, Eyes. Only one"
"Who?"
"Dorcas Hill. Do you know Of
any reason, Mae ?"
"Why, child, what's the matter
with your memory? Dorcas was
at the Spencers when Marion gave
that first luncheon for you. She
was at Mrs. Cyril Flount's bridge
and :"
"She was there and she said,
Hello Alix, how are your and
that was exactly ALL"
$50 what?"
80 nothing except that
troubled expression came on
Alix's face. "Oh, I don't know, ex-
cept that I'd feel better about it if
she did come and say something.
1t seems to me that she doesn't
approve, as though she doesn't
think that I'm good enough for
Bill. Not that am, I guess"
You're good enough for the
best Bairdsvale has to offer. Don't
forget it! 1 guess maybe Dorcas
is another case of sour grapes"
why should she be?" Alix
asked calmly. You said that if
she had wanted Bill and he had
wanted her, they would have
known before 1 came here. Are
you sure that it's really that
way?"
very sure"
Then wonder why DorcaS
went to Canada a few DAYS after
our engagement was announced?
also wonder why she isn't seen
so much with Will Hartley? I
wonder about quite a number of
things. Mae, if I were to discover
that J, had made a bad blunder
with two hearts, I'd oh. I might
repeat something I did once be.
FORE"
II don't know what you did be-
fore but I do know that you're go
ing home right now and lie down
for one whole hour before YOU pet
dressed for tonight. Poor lamb.
you'll be exhausted by the time
the wedding day arrives"
"Is it very exhausting? mean
is there much more to do?"
There's lots for me but Won
haven't much. One more fitting at
the dressmaker's and the Newbold
party. That really will be a party.
too, Alix. Gretchen is dying to get
chance to show off her new
things. You'll want to wear your
best gown. It will be real gala
occasion, coming on the holiday
and ALL"
''The holiday?"
Eyes, don't you remember? It's
Columbus day."
olumbus day." Alix said
dreamily. "How could I forget?
Something very important hap
pened to me on that day once. No,
1t was to another girl. There was
a girl, Mae, on a golf course and
tnere were two men. There were
burning leaves and a new moon
10 be pulled up on a string"
Then she laughed and rocked
with her laughter. Rocked back
and forth laughing at that other
girl.
(TO Be Continued)
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ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

1. At the suns equator, about IS
days.
g. Copra
3. Yellow Springs, Ohio.
4. Scottish poet.
5. A gum resin, highly esteemed by
the ancients as an unguent and
perfume, used for incense in tenn
Piles and also in embalming.
6 Countee Cullen.
T. Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
Washington, D. C.
g. Meant only for the initiated, pri-
vate, confidential
9 On the island of Martinique.
TO- Nebraska.
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TODAY'S HOROSCOPE

Today's mind is prudent and full of
resource. There appear to be sur
rounding conditions that may lead to
trouble, and they are so hidden that
it may require all the natural prud-
ence to overcome them. The danger
of this degree lies in bringing out
traits that will not tend to the higher
facilities, though they may protect
the NATIVE from injury.
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roads or stretches of road go to pieces
this winter, due to the fact that we
were not able to do the amount of re-
surfacing this year which was really
needed" Waynick said. "The syste-
matte re-surfacing of 1000 miles of
roads year would prevent most of
this wear"
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Wednesday, Nov. 4; Feast Day OF
St. Emeric, from whose name Anne
RIGA comes. Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Birthstone: topaz. Moon: last quart
err tomorrow.
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1795-Dayton, Ohio, laid out by sur
veyors and so-named after Jonathan
one of the proprietors.
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What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED H. MAY

1. What is recognized as a political
party in North Carolina?
2. May a political party in North
Carolina adopt a name similar to
that of an existing party?
3. When does political party cease
to be recognized in this State?
4. How does a new political party
gain official recognition in North Car
DINA?
5. When do presidential electors
meet to cast their votes?
6. How many counties refused to be
included in the 1885 act making the
term of register of deeds four years :?
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WANT ADS

WATKINS HARDWARE co. CAN
supply you with every heating need
window glass, putty, weather strip.
Watkins Hardware Co. Phone 46.
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CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE
Early Jersey, Wakefields home
grown and nice ones. Plant now for
spring heading. A. j. Cheek 4-1ti
LOST BLACK MALE DOG WITH
white spot under neck. Was wear
ing gear. Reward for recovery.
Notify Walter Wheeler, Route /,
Henderson, Box 81. 4-2ti
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ADMINISTE ATOR'S NOTICE.

ADM1N1STS ATOKS NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of Grandson
Hail. late of Vance County, N. c., this
is 20 notify all pcreons having claims
against the said estate 20 present
them to The undersigned 1T l<ittrelI,
N. c., on Or before The 18th day Of
October, 1887, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This the 9Th, day of October. 1886.
JAMES II BURWELL,
Administrator, Estate of
Grandson Hall.
Charles w. Williamson,
Attorney
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FOR SALE-1OO ACRE TOBACCO
farm, room dwelling, large Pack
house, Two Tobacco barns, large
stable, stream one boundary; Good
Terms. Price, 100000. r. L. Young,
313 Union Trust Building, Peters
fcurg, Virginia. 29-7ti