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President McFatrich of the Chicago board of education is opposed to sewing and darning for schoolboys also to tatting and dressing Can you blame him? the risks of such an exposure! Sor throat, coia in he head and backache to pay for this. Say, Doc, It wouid serve you blank right if some of the people inside fired a charge of bird? shot at you and drove you oil. Lands, but how it does pour!" Miss bad heard the man call himself a doctor, and her thoughts leaped to poor old grandma. She knew the doctors she had telephoned for, and this was neither of them. The case demanded a little boldness on her part, however, and she advanced a step or two and asked: "Did I understand you to say you were a doctor?" After a jump aside and an exclamation of "Good Lord!" the man Railroad fare Paid.

On account of Charlotte's being the largest city in the State of North Carolina, and in the heart of the manufacturing interests of the Carolinas-making it easy to get positions for students the Draughon College at Raleigh has been consolidated with Draughon's Business College at Charlotte. Draughon's Charlotte and Knoxville Colleges are now offering to pay railroad fare as a special inducement. Wrice Draughon's Business College, Charlotte, N. C. or Knoxville.

for particulars. Grandma 's Colic By John hilip Qrth (Copyright, 1812, by Associated Literary Press.) Grandma Burbanks had a little grandscj, six yearB old, and that little grandson and 5 cents' worth of raw peanuts brought about a case of the colic, a thunder-storm, a misunderstanding, a csfee of love and a very happy marriage. When all was over the old -lady thought she had done very well for a woman of her age. It was the grandson that bought the raw peanuts and brought them home to divide them with grandma. She couldn't have eaten a peck, for there were not that mahy to begin on, but at eight o'clock in the evening, as she was tucked away in her bed, the pains began.

Mr. and Mrs. Burbanks were away for the night; Harry, the son, twenty-three years old, was In town and not expected out until the midnight, train; the grandson was asleep, and the house was in charge of Miss Dorothy, aged nineteen. There are various remedies for colic There are hot drinks, mustard plasters and whisky with pepper in It, and It may be cured in ten minutes or everything may be found useless. After Miss Dorothy had worked away fpr half an hour she decided that the doctor must be sent for.

"Is that Dr. Holmes?" she asked when she telephoned In to the village, three miles away. "The doctor Is out and not expected back until after midnight," was the reply. Dr. Wlnchell was tried.

He was also out. The druggist thought he could put up something for that colic, but he had no boy to send. Grandma groaned out with every breath that that breath was the last she expected to draw in this world. The girl must MO UNLAWS A wealthy woman at a social function in New York halted the proceedings to have the guests searched for a missing handbag. Some of our society folk are so eccentric! Electric cars In Massachusetts are required to carry a lifting Jack to serve as a Johnny-on-the-spot in case of need.

Dr. Surface, Pennsylvania state zoologist, says that skunks should be conserved. Certainly, doctor, but at a good safe distance. The daughter of the Gaekwar of Baroda has been jilted and the Jujutku of Ursa has three who are unmarried. Some Parisian plays are to be given In the open air.

Can they stand it? Every day of winter, brings us nearer to spring. Valuable land for Sale. By virtue a decree of the Superior Court of Halifax County made in a special proceeding therein pending entitled Noah Viverette and Josephine Viver-ette, his v. fir, et als vs J. T.

Jenkins and Harriett Jenkins, his et als, I will on June 24th. 1912, sell at public auction at Essex, Halifax County, North CartdTna, at 10 o'clock a. the following described two of land: Situate in the County of War-reri, State of North Carolina, and "beginning at a black gum John A. Burt and Emily Thomas Burgess' corner; thence 2 108 poles 16 links to a stake with Holly, Pine and Poplar, Emily Thomas Burgess corner in J. M.

Birt's linerther.ee 61 130 poles 10 links to Elm, Sweet and Haw trees on Big Fishing Creek; thence up said creek as it meanders 38 1-2 poles to a small haw trep, hickory and persimmon tree pointers, John L. Burgess corner; thence North 35 1-2 166 poles 18 links to a horn bean, John L. Burgess and J. A. Burt's corner on the' Huff Branch; thence up said branch as it meanders 18 poles to a sweet gum, J.

A. Burt's corner, thence 86 31 1-2 poles to the beginning, containing seventy-five acras." (2) Situate in the County of Halifax, State of North Carolina, "beginning in the corner of the Brinkleyville Road corner for Mrs. Mary Exum a stake and post cak on the east side of the road; thence South 88 115 poles to a red oak, Mrs. Exum's corner in Feltx's- line; thence North 2 1-4 58 poles 20 links to a post oak (dead and down) thence 88 14 links to a white oak and post oak, J. A.

Burt.s coiner; thence 35 1-2 94 poles 5 links to th center of the Brinkleyville Road, J. A. Burt's corner, Rocky pile on the east side of the road; thence along the road in a south-westerly direction 255 poles 10 links to the beginning, containing seventy-five acres. Terms of sale, one third cash and one third JanuaryLlst, 1913, and the remaining one third January 1st, 1914, with interest oi deferred payments at the rate of six per cent, such deferred payments to be evidenced by notes and secured by a first lien on the land sold. The purchase to have the option of paying the amount of his bid in cash.

This May 8th. 1912. T. T. Thorne.

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62S 8U Washington, p. C. Imm.ii.ii fa tviih.Mv nut Cranmmilr.i "I can't make out who yon are, but I am a doctor, driven to shelter by the storm. If I trespass I am ready to go." "No, no. I had started to the village after medicine for my grandmother when the storm drove me back.

She is suffering with the colic, and I should call this an act of Providence if we could only get into the house." out, eh? I am a new doctor just about to set up practice in the village, and I have a bag of remedies with me. Let's see what sort of a burglar I am. Perhaps one of my 'keys will open the door. One of them did, and as soon as ne could throw off some of his outer garments he was at the bedside of his patient. Grandma was having a hard time of it.

Indeed, it was hours before she was easier, and the two worked over her now and then, and now and then had opportunity to talk. A doctor with his first patient, and a girl with a grandmother suffering from to many raw peanuts, don't have to stand on ice-cold formality. When Harry reached the bouse from the midnight train he almost made up bis mind that they were quite chummy. He didn't do any criti-cizing, however. He loved his grandmother, was happy her life had been saved, and he wasn't the kind of brother to offer his advice simply because he had a sister.

The only thing he did say was after breakfast, and that was partly to himself: "The ways of Providence are past finding out. Those peanuts and that thunderstorm may bring me a brother-in-law." "You need some one to get you home earlier," was the reply; and matters rested there. Grandma heard all about the storm and the providential appearance of Dr. Burnett, and when he called the next afternoon to see If she had fully recovered she was very grateful. Mr.

and Mrs. Burbanks were In the room with the patient and doctor, but that did not prevent the old lady from saying to her son: "James, I thought surely my time had come, and there was only one thing that I worried about. You know what I have often said to you?" "I don't recall it at this minute," was the reply. "Why, that we ought to have a doctor in the family. We can't get one through Harry, but we can through Dorothy.

I wish you would have a talk with her today." Just what the son and his wife thought, and just how the blushing girl got out of the room without falling over the rugs Is not recorded, but this much the historian knows the doctor bent forward at just the right instant to feel grandma's pulse and to warn her that at her age a person shouldn't swallow too many wooden toothpicks nor eat too many raw turnips just before going to bed. He didn't look over-red nor over-pale when he left the house, half an hour later. Dr. Burnett became popular In the village. In driving out that way he always bad time to make a call at the Burbanks' mansion, and after a bit It rather looked as If Miss Dorothy expected him about once in so often, but it was months and months- before grandmother's mind was put at rest.

After saying that she expected the next attack of colic to carry her off she said: "That is, unless we have a doctor in the family." He he asked me today if the family would take him in!" was the whispered reply from behind her chair. "And you said the family would and we will and oh, dear me, I almost wish I had the colic again and was hearing the angels strumming on their harps!" Why We Rap on Wood. In Farm and Fireside is the following explanation of the origin of the fiiinprKtition that rapping on wood is a good thing to do when one makes a 1 boast: "The superstition of rapping on wood when one has been betrayed into boasting of a special bit of luck, like immunity from illness, is of German origin. The raps were supposed to drive away evil spirits vexed by vaunted happiness or any piece of good fortune. "The three raps originally signified the three persons of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and the necessity for rapping on wood was because that has the material of the cross." Echoes From the Woods.

"Woodman," said the man who quotes poetry but lamely, "withhold the ax with which you are about to lay low this sturdy oak, thereby preserving a valuable asset to posterity and sparing yourself greater fatigue than the object striven for justifies," "I see," replied the woodman; "yon are a man of scientific ideaB and seek to employ the energy of conservation to the conservation of energy." Publication. North Carolina, Halifax County. In the Superior Court. June Term 1912. Kattie L.

Brehon vf. Baldy Brehon. Trie defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Halifax County to grant the plaintiff a divorce, absolutely, on the ground of adultery, and the said defendant will take notice that, he is required to appear at the next term of the Superior Court of Halifax County, to be held on the first Monday in June, 1912, at the court house in said county of Halifax, North Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff inaid action, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This first day of May, 1912. S.

M. Gary. Clerk of the Superior Ccurt. L. T.

WrllTAKER, M. D. P. C. WHITAKER, M.

D. Wnihiker Whitaker, General Practitioners. ENFIELD, N. Phones: Residence 45; Office 12. HUGH P.

VINSON, Attorney and counsellor at law. -ENFIELD, N. C. OFFICE; Second Floor Bank of Enfield. Practice Wherever Service Desired.

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Send for Spring Catalogue. J. PALMER GORDON, florist, ASHLAND, VIRGINIA. KrfiV GOLD ALASKA'S greatest problem is transportation. And Alaska has problems of vital interest to every man in the United Stfc2 who hopes for development of the dountry and for a square deal.

People may fuss about the coal lands, may dispute about governmental action, may shiver at the thought of long and severe winters, but still the real problem before the great country of Alaska is transportation not graft. It is not every man who has taken time to consider Alaska as a part ot the United States. It is not every man who has taken the trouble to learn that every Alaskan harbor south of Cook's inlet, on 60 degrees north latitude, is ice-free and open to navigation the year round. At the same time it is a well known fact that the ports of Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Albany and Buffalo are closed absolutely to navigation during the winter months.

And the commerce of these Atlantic and lake ports is tremen-rious when considered with the shipping nf the country year in and year ti writes A. H. Harris in the Los Times. As a matter of fact, the only important ports of Alaska that are closed by the severe weather of winter are Nome, St. Michaels and Fairbanks, etchikan.

Juneau, Skag-way, Cordova. Valdei and en-Joy at lesst a weekly mall service from the United States by steamer. Alaska, a country rich in minerals, In timber and in agricultural possibilities, 12 time" area of Ohio, has about 50 miles of railroad, operated by eight companies. Five of these roads are purely local, catering to the traffic of the mines in their respective territory. The other three, the Copper River and Northwestern, the White Pass and Yukon, and the Alaska Northern, are barely entitled to the title of railroads when considered on the basis of railroads In the United States proper.

The White Pass and Yukon alone furnishes transportation facilities to the interior of Alaska by way of the Yukon river, partly through Canadian territory, with only 112 miles of track all told. As the Yukon river freezes during a long period In winter, the White Pass road can only be used advantage-ly during the summer months. And II may be worth mentioning in passing that this railroad was built with London capital in an effort to develop that part of the great north country under the rule of the crown. In doing so it was necessary to pass through American territory to reach port on the Pacific ocean. Even with the handicap of partial or complete idleness during the severe weather of winter, the road was a financial success from the beginning Df operation.

Use Electric Cars. At Seward a standard gauge road has been constructed for 72 miles and surveyed for 700 miles, including branch lines, through the very heart of Alaska. This road, the Alaska Northern, gtves very good service with p'crtric cars dally, and with steam freight trains as demand requires. The company does not attempt to prorate In winter. Along the right of way of this road 1b the dog trail be-t won Seward and the Iditarod min-iBg district, used In winter as the only means of transportation.

At VMdoz there Is but little track iO. but the beginning of a road to the Fairbanks district has been made. The government trail to Fairbanks is one of the best in the country, and its building resulted In the opening of an immensely rich country tributary to Fairbanks and the Tanana river, and In developing a great gold-producing district. The Tanana River railroad, bich is in 65 degerees north latl-t is enabled to operate trains all the ycr.r round. rordova.

Valdez and Seward are and be the real ports of Alaska. Skag- I way is an Important port, but is mainly used in winter as the starting point for Dawson, which is in Canada, and not In Alaska, as many Americans seem to think. These three seaports are the natural termini for to the interior, and the only places where the commerce of the country could be handled cheaply and successfully. Cordova Is easily the railroad center of all Alaska, having more than 200 miles of track connected with the terminals on the coast; The Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate operates the road and gives pretty decent service. A man can take his camp equipment in 24 hours to interior points that before the advent of the road required months of unremitting toll to reach.

While railroad transportation is the great problem in Alaska, the building of roads and trails, especially wagon roads, is of great importance. In a country of such magnificent distances as Alaska claims, where much of the road-building must of necessity be In mountainous districts, the expense of constructing highways is enormous. And the system of construction so far employed has been piecemeal. Up to date the Alaska road commission has been handicapped for means to do the work necessary to meet the demands of settlements let alone to build feeders out into the country where the demand for roads Is strong and continuous. Good Roads Draw People.

In the building of roads and trails in Alaska Americans have njuch to learn from the Canadians, whose work In the Dawson country has put the average American road to shame. There is but little ir any difference between the country on the American side of an imaginary line and that on the side of the Canadians, yet in the toads alone there is difference enough to designate the flag under which the work was done. On the Canadian side there are more people, drawn largely by the fact that they can travel, than there are on the side of the United States, and on one side is a well drained, smooth road with minimum grades, fit for automobile traffic, while on the American side strips of mud and rocks and roots are ruinous to man's body and soul. The Canadians have realized the need of permanent development, while the American has merely reached out for exploitation and profit. When Americans and the United States congress get In as close touch with Alaska and her needs as have Canadians and the Canadian parliament with the needs of Canadian Alaska, then will come the end of Alaska's troubles.

For at the bottom of It all Is ignorance. Ignorance of Its Immense area; Ignorance of its climate, varied and peculiar though it may be; ignorance of Its resources aside from gold and coal; ignorance of Ub lm-nnrtnnr In the commerce of the world, and, worst of all, Ignorance of Its people. The most widespread and Injurious misconceptions are probably those regarding the climate and the people. The generally accepted notion Is that Alaska is a land of perpetual snow and Ice, Inhabited mainly (shy Eskimo, while the facts are that not one-third of the area of American Alaska is within the arctic circle, and that the majority of the population Is white, a sturdy mixture of the best elements of the Caucasian race. In other words, the people of Alaska are of the same stock as those who built nrnn.

Washington and California, that sturdy class which has ever been In the forefront of pioneering sinoe the days of Plymouth Rock. These people have troubles, but the greatest obstacle to progress Is lack of transportation. And the solution Is easy money and bralna. Talk is 6aid to be cheap, but did you ever take into consideration the actual rest of a session of congress! Grandma Was Having a Hard Time of It. harness the pony and drive to the village for the remedy.

Grandma might die during her absence, but she promised to live If she possibly could. As was deaf, the house would have to be locked, up. Miss Dorothy was so rattled that she didn't notice the thunderstorm coming up until she had driven a mile or more. Then a flash and a reverbera. tlon and a few drops showed her that she was in for a time.

Five minuteE later and the pony refused to face the storm. When held un to It he wheeled and started for home on a gallop, and did not pause until be had brought up under a shed. Tbe girl ran for the house to discover that she was locked out. A sprlng-loek and her mislaid key had done It. She tried window after window in vain.

It was no use to call to a deaf woman In her bed upstairs, or hope to awaken the boy whose peanuts had brought the trouble about. The girl was cowering on the veranda, dodging the flashes and scolding herself and all others, when the lightning showed her the figure of a man with a bag In his hand coming up the walk. He looked long and lank, and he dripped gallons of water. The stranger was after shelter. He did not ring the bell, but got what shelter the veranda afforded and did not even look around him.

Miss Dorothy was ten feet away, and believed the stranger a tramp until be muttered: "Well, of all the blank fools in this state you take the cake!" He had the voice of a gentleman, and he, swore like a gentleman. A real gentleman's swearing is not swearing. It Is only for emphasis. Instead of being shocked, Miss Dor othyswalted to hear: "No hurry to start out tonight, and yet you were blank fool enough tc think It would be a romantic walk! Well, you've got the romance of It! Soaked from head to heel and more coming!" Miss Dorothy liked the voice. Shf liked to realize that she wasn't thf only fool to start out in the face ol the storm.

She liked it when thf stranger gave himself a shake like collie dog after a swim, nd mum bled: "Call yUnrself doctor and yet.