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TOPS AS A SCHOOL OF LIFE
To the eyes of the unobservant, I
the sight of a group Of boys spinning
tops may have no particular interest. !
,Uu to the philosophical, this incident
of daily life may convey some signifiance.
In this part of the United States,
the sight of boys spinning tops is act
,cepted as one of the fixed signs of
spring. Boys almost never play in '
the fall. But a few breaths of spring j
air bring them out.
This suggests how humorously tlx
ed the customs of boys are and quite
as iqtfexible as the dictates of fashion
to gown-up men and women.
It Is a study in human nature to
^ watch a group of boys spinning tops.
Four out of five boys will do anything
to win. The game is not formal
enoug-h to set up an umpire, and
youngsters of an aggressive and domineering
type get their own way.
As these boys are hot apt to have a
very active feeling for Justice, might
almost always makes right in the top
ring. The boy is not only a gregarious
tribunal but he is a hero war-'
shiper he must have a leader.
Boys with a keen sense of justice
are apt to fare rather hard. This
feeling of equity is apt to go with' a
rather sensative child niture. Boys
of his temperament are much more
apt to drop out of the ring and refuse
to play than defend their rights with
their fists.
Thus these little men of a future
day get In the top ring a first foretaste
of the wrongs of the wide
world. The wise parent encourages
his youngster to stick it nut nn mnl.
ter to what grievances he may bo J
subjected. It's a fine thing to win.
It is a still finer thing to suffer abuse
and to know how to resent it with
dignity and force. It's an even finer
thing to suffer wrong and keep good
natured over it, and wait a settlement
some other day. The top ring
is quite a little school of life.?The '
Florence Daily Times.
"A Walking Dictionary.
We have all heard of the man who
always began his day by opening his
Bible and choosing a text at random
to guide him for the next twentyfour
hours. But there is really another
man who begins his day with
the dictionary! Anyone who ever
meets that man is impressed at once
by his command of words, his fiu'.
and tlM remarkable number i
of things he seems to know about.
What makes his general Information :
more astonishing is the fact that he
never went to school beyond the i
primary grades. I
a* "There is nothing wonderful in
it," he told a Companion contribu- .
tor, "and I have no unusual gifts, i
My plan of memory training is perfectly
simple. For twenty years I '
have made it a habit to go to the i
dictionary every morning before I
leave home. Afternoon would serve i
as well, but then I urn busy at the
office. Night would do as well, too,
if I were not mentally tired nnt l>v
(hat time. I open the dictionary and 1
select an unfamiliar word, trying to 1
avoid any that are either obsolete or
too technical. I read the derivation i
>and definition carefully, and during!
working hours I try to keep it at the |i
back of my mind, and if an appropriate
chance offers, I use it. It is really
great fun! After a while you begin
to feel your power ol expression
grow, and I know of no more delightful
experience. In the twenty I
years I have added several thousand i
words to my vocabulary, some constantly
useful, others merely ornamental.
'i
"Then the pictures in the diction- [
ary, small a:* they are, repay close j
scrutiny. As for poetry, almost all <
the poetry I know is from the nuotations
given to show the use of words.
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i
Man Tiikes His Own Medicine Ih an
Optimist.
He has absolute faith in his medicine?knows
when he takes it for
ceitaln aliments he gets relief. Peowho
take Dr. King's New Discovery
for an irritating cold are optimists?
they know this cough remdey will
penetrate the linings of the throat,
kill the germs and opeif'the way for
Nature to act. You can't destroy a
' cold by superficial treatment?you
must go to the cause of the trouble.
Be an optimist. Oe a bottle of Dr.
Kink's New Discovery today. All
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If taken then as a tonic the Paver will not
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! animals, and flowers comes from the
same source. And yet once, whllo
walking with a naturalist acquaintance,
he declared that I had an
amazing amount of natural history
lore for one who was not a -specialist.
"I have been too busy to read
eany books; the dictionary has become
my literature. Let me tell you,
as an example, what I hit on this
week in my morning consultation.
On Monday I learned what the combacillus
1b?that it causes Asiatic
cholera. On Tuesday I discovered
the anemometer, an Instrument for
measuring the wind, saw what it
looked like, for Its Dicture anncunwi
in connection with the text, anil 1
learned the inventor's name. On
Wednesday I became acquainted
with the Junco, a bird of the ilnch
family. On Thursday I got a glimpse
of Babism, a religious cu't I had never
heard of, but which, I believe, has
made many converts in recent years.
On Friday it was a lesson in physiology?the
larynx, with several interesting
illustrations. - This moruir.g I
struck the word 'cognomen,' and
found out its Roman nppiicutiou.
"When I open at a page *hat I
have seen before, I refresh my mind
with an old world"and choose a new !
one. There is nothing to lose in the
game, you see. And I prefer my
scheme to that fifteen-minute-a-day
reading plan in the classics that we
hear so much of."?The Youth's
Companion.
There's Another Side.
"There's another side," said the
minister's wife, solftly.
"How do you know?" asked the
visitor who had told the discreditable
little tale, strictly in confidence,
as she had herself learned it in the
bosom of the Wednesday afternoon
setving circle. The minister's wife
had not been present, and it was only
right that she Bhould be put right
about this family of newcomers in
the parish. "Somethings had come
to the ears of the sewing circle that
were not?well?not exactly?"
"There's another side!" repeated
the minister's wife, not so softly this
time. In fact, there was a noticeable
little ring of indignation in her
tone, which dtpd out in a sort of
wondering pity as she noticed the
challenging look of her caller. "You
are glad there is another side, aren't
you? Why, of course you are. And
you see, I know all about It!"
"You weren't at the meeting!"
Raid the other, stifly. "If you had
been, you?"
"No, I was there?at the house!
And I saw?I saw?O, Mrs. Rabbltt!
If you sould have seen what I saw."
"I saw, too?with my own eyes!
That daughter of theirs is an
Dpium?"
"She isn't their daughter, not even
relation; not even a friend or a
friend's daughter; just a poor girl
who had been sick so long and so
terribly that the doctors themselves
had made her a victim of the opium
Imbit. And they have given up their
home?their very lives?to it. They
ilon't say a word about it. I just
found it out?with the help of the
[loctor."
The visitor rose suddenly?almost
unceremoniously. For a moment the
hostess looked troubled and aghast.
Had she spoken too sharply, discourteously,
even? Her mind fled
hack over the interview as she faltered
: I
"You are not going yet; You?O, |
on aren't oirenfled at anything I've
naid?"
"Yob, I'm goin*;. Offended?I?
I'm going around to see our ladies,
i vory single one of them!"
"And tell '.hem?"
The minister's wife hold her
brenth for the answer. One may he
vi ry bold, but it sometimes takes a
jront denl to ofTend "the ladies."
"And tell them," said the caller,
gathering hei wraps about iter, "that
beautiful 'other 'side'!"
"OI" breathed the minister's wife
gratefully. "And tell them, won't
you, that there always is another
side?always?always! And it is
our Christian business to try and find
It."?Zion's Herald.
May be in Order.
The flv-swatttnr season < nt h?nit
and Uncle Sam may take a awat at
the Mexican gad-fly.?The GreenvilW
Piedmont.
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The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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THE LANCASTER NEW!
CKUHADti AUAIXKT CIGARETTES.
Mr. Tho8. A. Edison, writing to
Henry Foard, under date of April 26,
1914, says: ,
"The injurious agent in cigarettes
comes principally from the burning
paper wrapper. The substance thereby
formed is called "Acrolein." It
has a violent action on the nerve oen
vx-.o, y>wuuviu| uegunerauon or m?!
cells of the bruin, which is quite rapid
among boys. Unlike most narcotics,
this degeneration is permanent
and uncontrollable. I employ no persoj)
who smokes cigarettes."
Head What Dr. Wiley Has to Say.
When Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was!
chief of the Federal Bureau of Chemistry
at Washington, he had impure
food and drug manufacturers on the
run all the time. He was -unquestionably
the leading health and food authority
in the United Sates today.
Would you know his opinion of the
cigarette?
"I commend Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison
and all people who join them in their
efforts to curtail or restrict, obliterate
or destroy the pernicious habit
of cigarette" smoking. The use of cigarettes
is making inroads on the
strength of the nerves of all who
smoke them, especially boys of tcndjer
yenrs, or women who smoke them
I because thev think th?
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smart. The effect may not be so bad
on people of more mature years, but
not in any case, no matter how old a
man or a woman, is smoking helpful.
Hesldes constituting a nuisance, the
financial strain connected with the
use of tobacco stands beetween millions
of people and home comfortB."
"Experience of many years chiefly
with boys between the ages of thirteen
and nineteen, has persuaded me
that all the agencies which make for
nonsuccess in high school work the
cigarette evil is the most serious
with which we have todcal."?Tugaloo
Tribune.
WOMAN ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
The women on the battlefield, the
women in tho hospital tent, or hospital
buildings, the women who are
nursing wounded and sick who have
been returned to their native'country
for care, are not those who suffer
most in time of war.
Suffering is not* alone a matter of
physical hardships.
The keenest suffering a women
can endure in that which her imagination
makes her suffer.
Her home life is broken when husband,
brothers, the men of her householdhold,
are taken from her.
All the happy routine which made
home is broken.
Her leisurb Is not occupied by
thought sof hope and anticipation of
pleasure. She is not looking for the
homecoming. Her anticipation is of
fearful news that may, will come.
She reads the lists of wounded and
killed. She watches to see what regiments
are engaged in battle. The
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uvuuhiicd, lllCIll IjUSS OI Li1I6 til
Rattle Now Going On!" makes the
would turn Inky black for her, and
the blood recedes from her heart.?
Ex.
Honor Roll Camp Creek School.
Following is the honor roll for the'
Camp Creek school for the month
ending April 2, also end of the term
Eighth Grade Advanced): Effle
Morris.
Eighth Grade (first division): Nettie
Roberts, Jazie Roberts, Leo O.
Montgomery, Oliver Crenshaw, Maggie
Lou Steele (part in 7th t.
Seventh Grade: Fannie Knight.
Sixth Grade: Ruth Montgomery,
Eula .Mae Steele, Mar? Roberts, Ida
Steele, Lucy Ogburn (part in 5th I,
Jennie Ogburn, Jessie Roberts.
Fifth Grade: Josie Montgomery,
Nonna Roberts, Nannie Knight.
Fourth Grade: Pauline Montgom
,.rv Unnllna il?*
.j, tivuiuiu MiuiliUil, iJ Uilllll l Alt'*
Daniel.
Third Grade: Maude Steele, Lillian
Roberts, Dwight Plyler, Paul j
Roberts, Ethel Steele.
Second Grade: Louise Sullivan,
Mary Lou Rlackmon, Pearlie Mae In- j
gram, Wesley Knight, R. A. Wil- j
llama.
Advanced First Grade: R. J. !
Helms, Melba Williams.
First Grade: Clarence Steele, Ed-j
na Roberts.
The above have BuccessftTlly passed
their examinations and have attended
75 per cent of the time durng
the month.
A. C. ROWELL, Principal.
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3, APRIL 9, 1915 .
BICitiKST CONTRACT
OF THK YEAR L.ET
The Charlotte Observer of yesterday
says:
The biggest construction contract
of the year was given yesterday by
the Southern Power Company of this
city to the Hnrdaway Contracting Co.
of Columbus, Ga., for the erection of
a mammoth power plant at Fishing
Creek, three miles above Great Fai's
S. C., at the point where the Catawba
begins its last precipitate drop
through the range of hills that separates
the piedmont country from
the lowlands. The plant will generate
30,000 of electrical horsepower
from a head of 50 feet. At Great Falls
just below is the 32.00 hovsepower
plant and at Rocky Creek, which is
hardly more than a mile from Great
Falls, is another 32,000 horsepower
station, mak'ng, with this Fishing
Creek development, approximately
100,000 of electrical horsepower gen
erated at this one point. The nuichin
ery equipment of the powerhouse wi1!
consist of five 8,000 horsepower units
The Hardaway Contracting. Company
will begin work immcditaley
and the job will be furnished by September
1, 1016. There i3 no reason
why there should be any delay at all
in starting for the railroad liuilt by
the Southern Power Co. when it
developed tireat Falls and Rocky
Creek passc3 within a few hundred
yards of the site. The Hardawaj
Contracting Company is now about
half through with the Lookout Shoal
development between Catawba and
Iredell Counties in this state and will
finish the Job this Fall. In the meantime
the activity at Fishing Creek
will be prosecued and this plant w!U
be put on in the Fall of next year.
Mnnana.
When you urge the Mexican to
make a business decision and close
up the deal, he squirms, shows his
teeth and says:
"Manana."
Which means tomorrow.
The habit of mind which makes
the Mexican say that has made him
a poor man, generally speaking, in
the midst of the most profusely productive
country in the world.
And there are others. Many of
us lose out in life because we put
off until tomorrow what we should
do today. We say:
Tomorrow I will decide.
Tomorrow I will begin.
Tomorrow I will reform.
Tomorrow I will be happy.
When tomorrow comes we do not
decide, we do not begin, we do not
reform, we are not happy.
The habit persists. It is fatal to
initiative, to resolute action. It becomes
easy to say to one's self: To-!
morrow I will start the business; tomorrow
I will speak the kind word;
tomorrow I will cu? out the bad hah- j
it. When thinking is requred, think: |
wnen action is required, act.
You may make a mistake. Rut al- j
so you may make a mistake tomorrow.
It' you make the mistake today
there is tomorrow to begin
over.
Plunge in! l)o not stand shiver-1
ing on the brink and fear to launch
away. The water may be cold, but
it will be no warmer tomorrow.
I do not need to tell you how
many mistakes you have made, how
many chances you have missed, by
putting things otY. You know.?Selected.
All persons indebted to the estate
of S. It. Caskey deceased are here
hy notified to settle with the undersigned;
and those holding claims
against said estate are hereby required
to present the came duly
verified to me.
J. HART CASKEY,
Administrator Estate of S. It. ("askew
Feb. 27, 1915. 2\vkly-4wks
EVER ll.WE IT?
If You Have, the Statement ol" This
latncaster Citizen Will Interest You.
Ever have a "low-down" pain in
the back?
In the "small," right over the
hips?
That's the home of backache.
If it is caused by weak kidneys.
Use Loan's Kidney rills.
Lancaster people testify to their
worth. Read a case of it:
Mrs. H. M. Parks, Market street,
Lancaster, 8. C., says: "I ached all
over and my hack was a constant
pain. When I sat down I got so stiff
across my.back I could hardly get
up. I couldn't do any stooping. I
was hardly able to do my housework.
I finally got a box of Doan's Kidney
Pills at the Standard Drug Company
and began taking them. They gave
me lasting relief from tho backache
and fixed my kidneys in good shape.'*
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
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The farmers' operations in Abbej
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! On account of the rains very little
deep plowing has been done. We
hope our farmers will plant "more
j corn and less cotton" when the
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