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Page 4. The Western June 2 Sentinel WESTERN SENTINEL: Tuesday and Friday SENTINEL PUBLISHING COMPANY Publishers Office: Liberty Street, Near Third SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One $1.00 Months .50 Bix Three Months .25 subscriber in changing his postuffice publishers reserve the right to In notifying this office. The reJect any communication they will not may deem Name of the writer will be best. Unsigned communications be published. withheld upon request.

All communications should be address- Wined: THE WESTERN SENTINEL, ston-Salem, N. C. N. Entered A8 at second Postoffice -class mall matter, Noat Winston-Salem, vember 30, 1907. THOUGHTS The common fallacy is that intimacy dispenses with the necessity of opposite politeness.

The truth is just the of this. The more points of contact there are, the more danger of friction there is, and the more carefully should people guard against Hamilton. One of the rights and privileges of a good neighbothere to give neighborly advice. is a corresponding right on the part of the advisee, and that is to take no more of the advice than he thinks is good for him-S. M.

Crothers. Let me not be such fool as to pay my thanks to blind Fortune favour which the eye of Providence hath bestowed upon -Thomas Fuller. It will be a great triumph for President Wilson if he succeeds in persuading Congress to pass both the tariff and currency bills at the present extra session. However, there are tions that he may meet with considerable opposition 1 in his plans for currency legislation, It is not an ordinary thing for educational institutions to turn down million dollar gifts but it appears that Vanderbilt University may take such action with reference to Mr. Carnegie's proposed donation.

The strings attached to it have lead some of the high authorities of the M. E. Church, South, to feel that the offer should be rejected. American advocates of equal suftrage, by refraining from the militant methods of the English women, are accomplishing far more than is being done in England in the way of popularizing the woman's suffrage idea, Just the other day, the women won a notable victory for their cause in Illinois. A few years ago, such a thing would have been deemed utterly impossible.

Verily, times do change. PROPOSED CHANGES. Innovations in government are constantly being proposed, some of them quite meritorious and others not so good. Among the most successful in recent years has been the commission form of government for cities. In Kansas, where many new ideas originate, governmental and otherwise, a plan is being proposed now for a kind of commission government for the state; also, a bill was presented in the Florida legislature not long ago with the same object in view, namely, the reduction of the legislative body by providing for sixteen commissioners to take the place of the legislature, this body also to elect the governor.

In discussing these two plans, the Charlotte Chronicle says: "Much better than either one of the plans suggested the Chronicle beHeves is the plan we suggested months ago to reduce the size of the two branches of our legislature, leaving a dozen or 15 members in the Senate and 35 to 45 members in the House of Representatives. Then pay these legisiators a respectable annual salary and let them meet once a year and stay in session just as long as is necessary for the best results for the state. The Governor should have the veto power and the Governor and his Council should be elected by the people just as at present. The Legislature should refuse to be bothered by matters of a purely local nature. We believe that we need a reform in North Carolina and we believe that a revision of what we have in the light of past experience would be better for so large body politic as the state than would be a commission." A.

body the size of our state legislature is necessarily unwieldy, to a certain extent, and some decrease in its size might prove advantageous in facilitating the transaction of public business. However, we do not think the state is ready to adopt a commission plan or to make such a material reduction in the number of legislators as proposed in some of the plane suggested. The present systen. will doubtless continue for some time yet. We are sure no plan looking to the election of the governor through other agency than the direct vote any of the people would find favor.

There is one reform the Chronicle suggests in the editorial quoted above that is certainly needed, in our opinion, namely, a plan to relieve the legislature of much of the local business it is now called upon to consider. This would give more time for matters of state importance and would be quite advantageous, we are sure. EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. Some interesting statistics compiled from records in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction are given in a recent issue of the Lexington Dispatch. They show, among other things, that the total available school fund last year was 752.57.

The general county fund amounted to $2,216,965.66, the special taxes raised $1,179,166.68, and the state supplemented the local funds with $216,429. The value of all public school property amounted to 616, and it will jump to more than $8,500,000 this year. every day in the year during For, past ten years a new school building has been reared until over half the school districts in the state have seen neat, model buildings rise, ranging in cost from a few hundred to several thousand dollars, where formerly stood the log cabin. With the increase in the appropriaation by the legislature the state fund will mount up to more than $600,000 to supplement the taxes raised by the local communities and will insure a six months' term in every district in the state. Children will be required attend for at least four months.

thEo The average value of the city school houses is $16,472, and the average value of rural buildings is $676,62. Rural accommodations have been improved steadily. great progress that has been made along educational lines in North Carolina during the past few years should be a source of great pride to every North Carolinian who is interested in the growth and development of the state. North Carolina has not held as high position in the past along educational lines as her attainments in other fields have seemed to justify but the great forward movement now in progress will bring about much better conditions in this respect. The six months' school law enacted at the recent session of the legislature and the compulsory feature should prove of great help in putting the state where she belongs in the educational column.

A decidedly hopeful feature of the educational situation in this state is the growing willingness of communities in all section of North Carolina to vote special school taxes. A few years ago, such a proposition always encountered considerable opposition, but this aversion to such special taxes has been rapidly diminishing and in all parts of the state the people are realizing to a greater extent than ever before that good schools, along with good roads and other improvements, are worth all they cost. PREDESTINATION SCORES AGAIN IN TUMBLING FAMILY Ford City, June remarkable series of accidents which have regularly befallen the male members of each generation of the Flanders family, who have resided in Paintertown, near here, for 70 years, was carried out in sequence, when Theodore, the 6-year-old son of Henry Flanders, fell down a flight of stairs which his greatgrandfather, his grand-father and his father had tumbled down in the past and like them, young Flanders fractured his right leg and arm and is likely to be a cripple for Sixty-two years ago William Flan ders, then 6 years old, fell down the kitchen stairs of his home and fractured his right arm and leg. Unskilled medical attention left him a cripple for many years. Just 20 years after the father's accident, William Flanders, also aged 6, fell down the same stairs and sustained a fractured right arm and right leg.

For some reason he never fully recovered the use of either member. Nearly score of later Henry Flanders, a son of William Flanders, took a tumble down same flight of stairs as had his forbears and oddly enough broke his right leg and arm. For years he could not use either member and it was only after both had been broken and reset by a surgeon that he recovered the useof his arm and was able to walk without crutches. Theodore, aged 6, a son of Henry Flanders, tumbled down the fateful steps and carried out the family traditions by fracturing his right arm and leg. The bones in the leg are badly crushed and the boy may be a cripple for life.

The Flanders family have decided to remove the steps. DURHAM FALLS IN LINE FOR FIGHT. Durham, June number of the business men met at the Commercial Club and organized a local branch of the Just Freight Rate Association for Durham. J. S.

Carr, was elected president. H. E. Seeman, vicepresident; C. G.

Creighton, corresponding secretary; J. E. Uzzell, rate clerk, and W. H. Holloway, treasurer.

Arrangements were made for the circulation of a peition which will ask the governor to call an extra session of the legislature for the purpose of passing such legislation as will alleviate the unjust discrimination against Durham shippers in particular and the whole State of North Carolina In general. The meeting was an enthusiastic one. RETAIL MERCHANTS MEET IN DURHAM NEXT YEAR With the unanimous re-election of all the old officers and the selection of Durham as the next meeting place the 11th annual meeting of the Association of North Carolina, which has been in session at Wrightsville Beach, adjourned Friday afternoon. Two cities, Durham and Salisbury, invited the association to meet with them next year, but it was unanimously decided to accept Durham's invitation as the association has never met there. Following are the officers: President, Joe Garibaldi, Charlotte: vice president, E.

H. Munson, Wilmington; secretary, E. W. Berryhill, Charlotte; treasurer, S. P.

Burton. Asheville. Reports from the local associations were made by their representatives or read by the secretary, and showed that splendid progress had been made. Norman Johnson called attention to the importance of having some definite plan for increasing the number of local associations. He stated that one reason the smaller associations had failed was because they had attempted to pattern too closely after.

the larger organizations of the cities. He suggested the advisability of devoting more time to the study of strictly mercantile matters and less to the delinquent list. While he did not believe the state association could afford the expense of a regular organizer he thought that the state could be divided up into sections, and the associations already in operation could look after working up new associations and probably do better work than a regular organizer. Edward E. Broughton, of Raleigh; R.

L. Poston, of Statesville, and J. T. Porter, of Charlotte, were appointed a committee on organization to incorporate Mr. Johnson's recommendations into a report which was later read 1 before the convention and adopted.

J. Norman Wills, of Greensboro, presented the report of the resolution committee. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE IS TO BE HELD JUNE 27-JULY 6 For The Sentinel. For ten days a summer conference under the direction of the Missionary Education Movement will be held at Blue Ridge, near Black Mountain, N. C.

The large modern hotel, "Robert E. Lee Hall," is especially suitable for a conference, being situated among the Blue Ridge Mountains, away from the noise and bustle of the world, with a beautiful view in front of the building. The daily program will be as follows: Morning, intercession; mission study classes, normal classes, and instruction in graded Sunday School work; the last hours of the morning will be devoted to open parliaments on methods and problems. The afternoon will be kept entirely for rest and recreation. In the evening open-air vesper services will be held, followed by an address in the auditorium by some leading missionary worker.

Among the leaders speakers are Bishop Lambuth, of Nashville; Mishop Strange, of Wilmington; President J. Henry Harms; Rev. T. Bronoon Ray; Rev. E.

H. Rawlings; Rev. E. C. Cronk and 1 others.

It would be well if every denomination in Winston-Salem could be represented at this conference, as in this way renewed and missionary interest might be brought into the church and Sunday School. The cost of room and board is as follows: One in a room, $20; two in a room, $15; three in a room, $12.50. An enrollment fee of $5 is required to defray expenses incurred in the conduct of the conference, and this should be forwarded at once to the Missionary Education Movement, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. GRADUATE WAS NOT LATE ONCE IN THIRTEEN YEARS. Orange, N.

June of the graduates of the Orange High School at the commencement exercises last night found his diploma bound with a blue ribbon unlike anything on any of the other diplomas distributed to his classmates. The graduate so distinguished was Harold Clark Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Thompson, and the distinction was a recognition of the fact that he has been in school for the last 13 years, all told, without having ever been tardy or absent.

Two of his brothers went through school with a clean record also. Oscar S. Thompson, was graduated from the high school in 1908 with a perfect record, and Bradley Thompson got his blue ribbon in 1910. Harold is one of the honor students of the class and is author of the class song, LOSES LIFE IN FIRE, 4 NEGROES ARE MISSING Emporia, June quarter of a million dollars damage resulted from the fire in the dry kilns of the Emporia Manufacturing and was still burning this afternoon after spreading over six acres of ground and destroying the box mill, planing mill and lumber yards. J.

R. Bryant, a cripple employed at the plant as watchman, was burned to death. Four negro laborers are missing. All others among the three hundred employes were accounted for. DROWNED IN ARARAT NEAR GRANITE QUARRY, MT.

AIRY Mt. Airy, June James Bowman, aged about 24, of Patrick county, near here, was accidentally drowned while bathing in Ararat river, near the quarry. He slipped off a rock into a deep hole and it is supposed that he could not swim and there was no one close by except some small boys who could not go in after him. One of the boys threw one end of a fishing line to him, but it jerked loose from the boy. The line was still in Bowman's hand a when the body was recovered about an hour later.

The remains were taken to Kibler, on the M. A. E. Railroad, en route to his former home. Mr.

J. T. Heare, superintendent of the Mt. Airy Eastern Rallway, returned Wednesday from Washington, D. C.

Mrs. W. H. Willis and children left Wednesday for the western part of the state. Mrs.

J. A. Hadley went to Greensboro Wednesday to visit her daughter, Miss Sallie, who is in a hospital there for treatment. Mr. Jerma Taylor left Wednesday for Dayton, 0., to secure a position there.

Mr. John H. Broske, billing clerk for the Southern Railway here, was taken to St. Leo's Hospital, Greens boro, Monday, being very sick with typhoid fever. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Fletcher Calloway and Agent C.

A. Shelton. It is reported that he stood the trip well. His many friends here hope for speedy recovery. Prof.

R. Smithwick, of Calumbus county, is visiting his brother, Mr. T. J. Smithwick, on Franklin Prof.

J. M. Reeves, of Dothan, is visiting his father, Mr. M. C.

Reeves. Mrs. C. L. Coon and children, of Wilson, are visiting Mrs.

Coon's father, Mr. B. Sparger. Mr. Walter Smith, for several years clerk at the Blue Ridge Inn, left last Monday for Greensboro through the country on horseback.

Rev. J. A. Gilmer went to Ellisboro last Saturday. Miss Lilly Hale left last Saturday for Monroe to visit friends.

Mr. Ray Mitchell left Monday for Black Mountain as a delegate to the Southern Y. M. C. A.

convention from Guilford College, where he attended school. Prof. and Mrs. I. H.

Turlington left Tuesday for Smithfield, their old home town. SMOAK-PHARR. Wilkesboro, June wedding of State-wide interest was solemnized early Wednesday morning at the home of Mr. D. E.

Smoak, when he gave in marriage his daughter, Jessie Gowan, to Mr. Renn Bynum Pharr. Just before the ceremony Mrs. Warner Miller rendered Schubert's Serenade and Miss Jettie Miller played the violin accompaniment. Then Miss Agnes Smoak sweetly sang "Con stancy." The bridal party entered the parlor to the strains of Lohengrin's wedding march.

Rev. C. W. Robertson entered first, and was followed the bridegroom and his brother, Mr. W.

E. Pharr, who was best man. After they reached the altar the flower girl, little Howell Smoak, sister of the bride, and Master David Edwards, nephew of the groom, preceded the maid of honor, Miss Ethel Smoak. Miss Smoak came in on the arm of her father. The impressive ring service of the Presbyterian church was used.

During the ceremony Mrs. Miller and Miss Miller softly rendered Melody in F. and changed to Mendelssohn's wedding march as the bridal party left the parlor. Miss Smoak wore a tan traveling suit and carried a shower bouquet of sweet peas. Miss Agnes Smoak was dressed in lavender messaline and chiffon.

An informal reception was held immediately following the ceremony, after which Mr. 'and Mrs. Pharr, left for a trip through Western North Carolina. They will make their home in Wilkesboro. Mrs.

Pharr is graduate of the State Normal and Industrial College. The bridegroom, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M.

Pharr, is the senior editor of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, and is prominently connected with movements of public interest both in Wilkes county and in the State. A LITTLE DOG'S SOLILOQUIES. This has been a great day for me. have left my mother, and have taken a situation. My master is an ugly little fellow named Pretyman.

In spite of his conceit, he seems a bit of a fool. Nor Das' his wife, who is not a bad-looking woman, many brains, should say. They have a baby- a hideous lump of lard named Chicky. He is aged about a year and a half, and is a bachelor, I believe. Apparently I am to be companion to this.

It is not much of a career for me, and whether I shall be able to consort with one who is so immeasurably my intellectual inferior remains to be seen. Besides, now that they have a nice little dog I do not see they need a baby. They live in a flat, but 1 should say they are fairly well-to-do. I am not quite sure whether Mr. Pretyman is a gentleman, or whether he earns his living.

They have provided a rather handsome kennel for me at the end of a long passage. It seems queer to have a house withi na house, but I am glad to have it, as it gives one the landed proprietor feeling somehow. I daresay I shall be all right here. It is a great thing to be independent at last, and to be free of my fussy old mother and her eternal lectures. Dog-tired after my journey from the country, I slept like top as soon as I turned in.From the July Strand.

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101 S. PRYOR ST. ATLANTA, GA. Keep Free From These Things BY DR, FRANK CRANE, The most distressing person to have, to deal with is that one upon whose word you cannot depend. Our faith in one another is the cement of society; when that cement will not hold, the house tumbles.

The liar is the arch enemy mankind. It might be advisable to let housebreakers and assassins go, and hang the liars; only it might come pass that there would be no one left to pull the rope. One who tells you what is so is not necessarily a liar, for the fables of Aesop, the of Kipling and the parables of stales are even more deeply true than things that are "so." They mislead nobody, blind and betray no soul, but their fiction is light and verity. The lies of art are no lies. So also there are the necessary and becoming lies of decency and love.

Of decency, where we conceal that which is shameful to reveal. Of love, where we disguise a fact that tends to create a false impression. This kind springs from cowardice, vanity or malice. So that, after all, the test of a lie is the in it. quality of purpose The lie of cowardice is what we tell for fear of the facts; as, when a man stolen money, and denies that he has stolen, "for fear of contempt and punishment.

The lie of vanity is what we say to than produce that a better opinion of ourselves to which we are when one pretends he entitled, as, when he is rich or wise, is poor and ignorant. The lie of malice is that the faslehood is told in order to bring harm tol someone. The history of politics and of society is ecclesiasticism, of lies. full of these To avoid being a liar ful to be it is not needfacts. There always careful to state but the it is is but one thing needful: see that our intention of cowardice, is clean When vanity and malice, these three poisons are not The Great for MAN Antiseptic Pain and BEAST.

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FOGLE BRO. 5 3 01 0 Phone 85 GOOD FARM FOR On SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 o'clock, p. on the premises offer for sale at auction my home, of 65 acres more or lest consisting the lands of D. Linvite and others, In Belews 4 Township. On the place are trol dwellings, three tobacco barns, barns and other outbuildings.

Ate time and place I offer for a lot of farming machinery. Tera CASH. For further inform salecall or write. R. N.

ADAMS, Belews Creek, N. C. you, you cannot lie, if you try. When they are in you, even the truth you utter is false. What a joy it is to meet one who never' seeks to make others think of him more highly than they ought to think! Humility is the quintessence of truthfulness.

And when you fall in with the man who is unafraid, who never stoops to substitute expediency for truth, it is like finding a wide and leafy tree in a desert land, yea, a fountain of water among intolerable sands. And the lie of malice is a squeezedout drop of venom from a mean soul. If you keep your heart free from these three things, cowardice, vanity and malice, you need fear neither God nor man. MAN AND WIFE BOTH SUBJECT TO PAY TAX Washington, June the night session the senate finance committee determined to change the basic exemption of the income tax from $4,000 as in the house bill to $3,000. This, however would apply only to single men or women.

An additional provision give to the married man with la dependent wife or to the married woman with a dependent husband more Further exemption, or a total of $4,000. exemption is provided for the family at the rate of $500 for each minor child, but in no case would this apply to, more than two children. This would make the exemption for the family The with two or more children $5,000. Underwood bill treated the man and the woman of the family as a unit in fixing the exemption of $4,000, but the senate committee has added another amendment which would make taxable the income of both husband and wife if each had separate taxable incomes. Birth -Born, to Rev.

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