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Vol. 5 NO. 17 Vital Statistics Law iiiJForce N The Stale, Friday. The vital statistics law, which ti was signed September 1, will become effective today, though cc 1 1 ?? * * - 1 rtAA ivrv.ni iC^lMliirS IOT UDOUl Z\) U townships in the State have not bi vet been appointed. A prize ol will be given to the first regis- in trar correctly reporting a birth e, or death, with the element of c, time of transmission of the report taken into consideration. ' \ Rules and regulations for the 111 proper registration of births and 2( deaths have been promulgated fii by the bureau, according to the llt provisions of the act, and forms ^ have been sent all appointees, or . local registrars, who must ,n appoint deputy registrars 1 to serve in their places in case of 11 absence or disability. Under the regulations a permit for burial issued by a local s<r registrar must be obtained before Cl the body of a person can be ,Tj interred. This duty devolves upon the undertaker, who in 111 turn has it checked by the per- S son in charge of the burying m ground. The attending physici- ? an also has to fill out a certifi- in cate. The attending physician or midwife at a birth must file a certificate within ten days after date of birth, and in cases where neither are present this duty ^ devolves on the father or mother of the child. 1 The law provides that a local registrar shall receive 25 cents c~ for each birth and death certifi- 1 cate, properly executed and filed 1 with the St^^^^^fcrar. On the tenth shall d: to the thorough and eificient u execution of the act carried out. 2 He is authorized to investigate I all cases of irregularity and vio S( lation of the law, and report SUCh cases to the /licit-J/M s: v ?itv UIOII IV! (lllVJJ nay, who must initiate court c proceedings against the alleged offender. The law provides a c fine of from $5 to $100 or im- ^ prisonment for 30 davs or both. n P Pneumonia?How to Get It and 11 How to Miss It c We Here give three good ,x ways to encourage pneumonia: jj (1) Drink lots of alcoholic (j liquors, the poorer the quality the better;'2) expose yourself without sufficient clothing, particularly in extreme weathhr;<3) -p live and sleep with your windows closedIf you don't want pneumonia tj heed the following ways of avoiding it: (1) Let all alcoholic drinks l( alone. y (2) Dress !irrnrilin<r il--. l\J IIIU I weather instead of according to (r( the fashion. jr 13) If exposed to rough weath- r er, or if you get wet and numb, 0| undress in a warm room, rub the j skin with a coarse towel and go y to bed. y( (4) Avoid constipation by eating more fruit and less meats and pastry and drinking more water and taking more exercise. (5) Keep your feet warm and ^ your head cool. Cv (6) Live and sleep in the fresh ? air all the time.?North Carolina Hoard of Health. People who fight for a principie sometimes disnlnv I ment in selecting the principle. The devil's bargain counter i,( often shows that some supposed ly good men have been sold for 2; a song. When all others fail booze can M always give the pugilist the knockout blow M IHE P PAGE ew Year Pardons, Paroles and Commutation lie State, Thursday. Fifty-five paroles, pardons and , >mmutations were granted yes- rday by the governor, which ings the toud number of cases clemency up to 1,544. Dur- . g the present week the chief . tecutive lias taken action in 99 | tses. 1). J. Griffith, superinten- , ?nt of the penitentiary, said last . ght that there were a total of 4 State prisoners?some con I tied in the penitentiary, some the State farms and others on e county chaingangs. Deduct g the number liberated yester- ( iy, there remain in custody . iout 149 persons who may be 1 assed as "State prisons." Pardons were granted in 1 veral instances to restore tizenship. The sentences of v any of th<? prisoners had * ready been reduced by com- 1 utation from long terms. In iveral cases the sentences were aterially reduced. Only three ' the prisoners were confined ( the State penitentiary. T wenty-eight manslayers ere among the number to v. sceive clemency yesterday. 1 here were three who had been ' jnvicted of criminal assault, e veral were serving terms for ' iglnvay robbery. Included in the list of elemen- 1 V were 16 pardons, 21 paroles ' id 15 commutations. ! i lw, e i iv oiaiv, ouiiuay. I Bringing the total number of is cases of executive clemency j p to 1,615, the governor yester- ( ay granted 71 pardons, paroles ad commutations to prisoners " intiary, on the county chainangs and at the State farms, "hirtv-three murderers, 16 perons convicted of homicide in a ?sser degree, one criminal asailant, one man who attempted riminal assault, one firebug and 0 men convicted of other rimes, ranging from arson and urglary to "entry of land after otice?" the last offense being unished fby a $15 fine, were icluded in the list to receive leniency from the governor. ' ixleen full pardons, IS paroles nd 37 commutations made up le list of 71 sent to the office of le secretary of state. The action of the governor oefnrilAt. ...Ill 1 * ** voivma.) win resuu in mi; im lediate release of 35 prisoners, 'here remain 133 State prison- 1 rs in the State penitentiary, four n county chaingangs and 5S at ! le Sjate farms. There are 155 ! egro hoys in the Lexington re < irinatory. including these the l >tal of State prisoners left is i S<?. I During the present week the ' jvernor has granted clemency ' i i/if cases. 1 le did not send a 1 jgular "Christinas list" to the 1 ffice ol the secretary of state. 5 ast Monday he took action in ' I cases, Wednesday in 55 and j ssterday in 71, * Quarterly Conference Dates 1 lie low is a part of Rev. W. A. lasseheau's round of quarterly inferences for the first quarter f 1915: Pa^elam! Circuit, Mt Crouan, l eh. 19th. lvast Chesterfield Circuit, | benezer, Feb, 20-21. i Chesterfield Circuit, St. Paul, j eh 21 , Middendorf Circuit, Patrick, < eh. X,. Mclk e Circuit, Ashland, Fob. '--28. , Jefferson Circuit, Jefferson, ( ?? I ^11 O / , Chora w Slat ion, Cheraw, arch 13-11. agelI :land, s. c., wednesIay Put Your Money in the Banl. I Every farmer who has tMy ^ money on hand, even if only S5, will do well to start the Nnv Vear by opening a bank acooi?t. " We fear that it is true that Ie 11 jreat body of Southern fnrirBis h ill is season have made tiwjs ^ larder than they need to hmrv n leen simply by failing, eiMn it when they did sell cotton or lo tf i.icco, to put what surplus mL 81 jy they had into circulation. ^ Put your money in the bank sffd n :heck on it as needed; or if p, will not need it for six monAsuo ir a vear. put it in the savin^u? iepartment and lot it be drawit s< nterest. There are numerols jj id vantages ot nutting yolr ^ noney in a bank: 1 j_ 1. It is businesslike and mole J >afe. By paying bil^ wim :hecks you escape the trouw' ind expense of money orde^ rou impress the men you dcJu ivith as being more businesslilE md you have the return*] . j checks as receipts that can't . questioned. 2. You will be less likelyAo w >P<-*nd the money than if it wire m ,n your breeches pocket, xmu- aj will begin to want to see J'ofj bank balance increase rathtf than decrease, and the first thiijg you know you will becomd a nan of thrift' You will h he the "saving habit" and begin tb set interest money from otb^j *n instead of paying interest moi^r .V* toothers. 3. The banks help those v|H help them. If you deposit ei^M| a small sum in a bank and shflB yourself thritty, sober, indutsj^Hj aus, you will presently f'gd ,.wiv ivr i #\/l IU W hold your crops or to get non^^H at six or eight per cent for bi^^P ing supplies instead of paying 8' five to ten times as much inter est in the form of "time prices." Put your money in the bank, NN and start out to be a "business a farmer."?Exchange. ? q The Sort of Girl to Wait For The Girl who is unkind to her ^ Mother isn't worth a tinker's ^ doggone. This isn't written in any part of the Bible, but it's Jc written in the history of thous- j( ands and thousands of misfb j homes. If one of you boys ey\ j tl run across a girl with her fac\ full of roses; with eyes tha would dim the lustre of a Colorado sky, and with a voice that ^ would make the songs of an ] angel seem discordant, and she says as she comes to the door: "I can't go for a few minutes; I've jot to help mother with the / Jishes," don't give her up. Stick to her like a burr to a mule's ^ tail. Just sit down on the door ^ ;teps and wait. If she joins you | n two or three minutes, so much cj the better; but if you have to st itay there on the door step for ^ aalf an hour, or an hour ,you | ust wait for her. If you don't, ?omebodv else will, and in time rou'll be sorry. Ko: .,-i'll i\.!- j r/.e what you have lost. I >v iii( ior iRT, Doy. Mie s aj worth it.?Bulletin. y< Notice Si Notice is hereby ve that the l'( Town council of l\u?eland asks ^ or applications for town Policenan for 191 :> at a salary of $35 >er month. Said application k nay be handed to the clerk on >r before Thursday, January 7th. ^ it 1 o'clock i). in. 1 bi Let it be understood that said c' policeman will he expected to lo street service and other work. A. I' lAinderburk, Mayor. n C. M. Tucker, i'lerk. ti (Advertlgmin-nt) If ND ,J< MORNING, JANUARY 6, How We Get The News. fadesboro Ansonian The oilier day a perfectly nice uly called us up and with tears 1 her voice reproved us for not entioning the fact that she had ad a friend visiting: her last t 'eek. JWe told her that she had ot let ifs k W>w anything about and therefore we&d not know lat she lied a visitor. Then she lid, "Well, you should have nown. I thought you were inning a newspaper/- Would 't that rattle your slats? Some eople think"'t h n editor ught {o be a crjMlj&ween Aruff and- Anna JjptFav. They ;?tn to think ^Hnpur fivetf^goby a sixth ts usfjKBow-' everything appens, seven it we see, ear, feel, lasfcfl^Or sm$ll it not. ear ladv^BPftors!areT>nlv hu iuu, wi nr^,i?ut>i aimosi numnn. 3'ou have a frietufvisiting yot,i, i you are goingjftfnv, or have sturned. from /a visit out of >wn, if Johanjt falls and breaks is arm, ilyxsjEr liusband chops is tee instead of a stick of ood,: if.any thing happens ' that lakes;yt^%uid, of sad, happy ma^ ^all us up. TW1 us >out it,v That's the way" $5 get in the paper. t *Twelve Things To Do This Month 1, Get out over the fields durg the winter rains and see if )ur soil is staying at home. If isn't, try some persuasion in l^^rp^fbrcad, cultivated terWII tunted through lack of feed and Teller 4. Visit your school and learn rhether there is plenty of fuel nd a sood water supply; use the pportunit} to sot better acuainted with the teacher. 5. Get your hoy interested in le Coin and Pis Clubs, and our daushter in the Cannins Hub work. 6. Look to your subscriptions ) your favorite farm papers, >cal newspapers, and a few ood magazines. Remember tat "the man who reads is the tan who leads." /. Examine the cotton you "e holding for better prices, and to to it that it is perfectly dry id not rotting. <S. Begin getting prices on immercial fertilizers, and aringe with your neighbors to Liy cooperatively in car lots. 0. See to it that the farm imlements not in use are aii under lelter. 10. Tackle the stumps every lance you get; remember that umpy fields and really good rming don't go together. 1. Keep your eye on the ood pile and see to it that [Other always has on hand enty of good dry material. I J. Make a King road drag id try dragging that piece of niddy road that has been giving :>n so much trouble; you'll be irprised how much good it will >._Prof. Massey in Progressive armor. Ilobbie's mother had just taen out her winter garments. "Ma," said the observant little 'How, "what did moths live on L'ldre Adam and Kve wore lothes?"? Kxchange. The school of experience is ot a "pay-as you enter" institu011, but collections are always Hide somewhere along the line. 31RNAI 1915 Nyag.-v Is it Right or Is it Law On July the 3rd, 1911, Dr. J. Monroe Railings, a legally and lawfully appointed cattle inspec tor of Chesterfield county, appointed bv the State Authorities, came to my home and he and myself with the assistance of one or two others, sprayed 19 | head of my cattle. The follow ing day they began to die and continued until 10 head of the 19 sprayed died. Dr. Railings was instructed by the State authorities how to dilute the medicine for spraying and how the cattle should be handled, and if they gave him the correct information he carried it out to the letter; he was even more careful than I would have been had I been preparing the medicine. He measured the medicine and water each and every time, and prepared only enough to spray one cow each time. Dr. Railings and others had told me that the proportion was 1 to 9. To see if he was preparing it that way I counted after him several times, and his counts were correct. Dr. Earle of Cheraw Drepared the barrel of medicine, from which Dr. Railings sprayed my cattle. Dr. Railings was working under the instructions of Dr. Earle. Dr. Railings knew nothing of the real strength of the solution; that WAS nnnn r? f r??o K....: ? * * .w.v ui 11 AO (uaiuc&s. II was his businees to take the solution as Dr. Earle had prepared it, dilute it 1 of medicine to 9 of water, and applyihwhicl^ he 'Ifll^P^riattes, which hechcRn the 4th day following the spraying. He saw some of the live ones that were "affected" and iradean "autopsy" of one of the dead ones. After Dr. Earle had satisfied himself, as to the conditions and cause of the death of the cattle, I asked him what he thought. He replied that it must be a case of arsenical poisoning. The cattle were all well and hearty prior to being sprayed The government furnishes Dr. Karle with an apparatus for the testing of all solutions. Dr. Earle tested the medicine after my cattle had been sprayed and part of them were dead and he told Dr. Railings that he had made it a little too strong. After making the barrel of solution he should have tested it before any of it was used but he didn't do it. 11^ 4^1.1 f*- T? If - - - 1 * ? i iit- iuju ui. naiiings rnai ne uia nol test it after he prepared it. Still Dr. Earle is allowed to retain his place, in the beginning Dr. Ivarle talked very fair and seemed willing to do the right thing about the matter, realizing as he did that it was his carelessness that caused the death of my cattle, and not Dr. Railings. Drs. Lewis and Earle came to see me one day recently concerning the matter and they efuse to pay me for my c ittle or to assist me in any way to get pay for them. From their conversation I am lead to believe that Dr. Earle has or is trying to lay the blame on Dr. Railings, who is perfectly innocent. It really seems that proficiency and honest conscientious work does not count for anything in the tick eradication work in Chesterfield county. If so, some of the ones whose services have terminated would have been retained, while some of the others' services would have terminated. No man in the State has had as much trou: ble to contend with this year as cj T k l * sy** <*+ rx-v _ g?i.uu per year Dr. Railings. Notwithstanding, he seemed equal to th t is:;, and has accomplished as much <u perhaps more than nn\ other man could under tin- existing I circumstunces. I believ lie has done as much it not in -' .-.oik than any man in i ^ | know Dr. Railings i uiai tel\ J | and I say this because I tliink it I is deserving. I Instead of making I some of the inspectors '<>. ' ? 1 has added still more a an his already long listot h - i This is written for the hen- . t the public that the fact case may be known iust .1 hi are. I have endeas01 quiet and ren^on P. matter. All 1 want i? ei cattle that died. l h that lived are InulU | I am not asking 1 for that. I ?J. A. An J Stole Copper From im \ . Hi Made Still Out < i ii Southern Pines, Deerdeen is debatin these merry A ulelii! does not know whet I * ions, funny, sacriiinio i- <. m plain stealing and in;, n lation of the revenue lnw>. H Last year Henry A. I H in Aberdeen a finechun . m I H was provided with ev :M;r ,. H necessary to make a in< clesiastical structure sheet copper was used I*?i llu H roof and dome, ami tie uuxcs H H quantities. It was noticed by the contrsu m j > r>;1 ? BeyoA^^r^ wonder inflow the copper fail ed to match the quantiu that came and the quaniit.\ thai seem ed to go on the roo! not much thought was given to the math and more was bought to m ' < up for what looked like a miscount in the supplies. The other day the hard in m en authorities of Moon- Oount\ caught up with the foot piint- < old John Harleycorn out sandhills to the west oi deen, and they follow -d to the swamps found one ol the n home-made coppi : ever saw, and when t tU : i < UIU Ul|Ul|HIll'lll lH'IOIt ' . inquisition it \\.i> that Mr. Page's eoppri purloined to i>e e >n\ still to satisfy tli ? wan. thirsty throats ?>' tin try. The jo!> of ntakii... was well done hand of some hn working in eopper. . i not made known In Five Months Brin London, Hie. Year finds lu li.wi , after five mi>nil si'1 as strongly ;is -.u i! , but see mi n g!\ will of immediate \ u t< trians again lia\ !> out of tile greatr! n.i anil according t<? merit, the Russian the Carpathins lot 11.. but in Poland, when tant battle is in ;> armies of the Kuss n man emperors still for the banks ol the i n. intersect the counii the upper \ istul.: rivers. In Inlanders unl i i. has been a lull 111 lie most of the front. ?li<: casionall v, ho\ve\ < i, 1 fire, infantrv atta< ; erattacks.