The Carolina Home and Farm and The Eastern Reflector. The Carolina Home and Farm and The Eastern Reflector. HE CAROLINA NOME art FARM and REFLECTOR Published by REFLECTOR Inc. J. WHICHARD, Editor. GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. Subscription, one year, . . Six rates may be had upon application at the business in The Reflector Building, corner Evans and Third streets. to raise a purse to tempt aviators to there and risk necks. Is to be taken for granted that Robin feathered his nest while he was at it. If the New Jersey women succeed in getting the law to compel married men to wear rings on their fingers they might complete the job with bells on their toes. -o------- As a place of depositing trunks and mattresses are a snare and delusion. -0-- cards of thinks and resolutions of respect will be charged for at i word. Communications be charged for at three per lino, up to fifty lines. Entered as second class matter August 1910, at post office at Greenville, North Carolina, under act March FRIDAY. 1911 Charlotte to keep her mint. o--------- The Greenville tobacco market will resume Bales Monday. Wilmington is coming up to the Even until now there are some who forget and write it you don't like Greenville, it might be easier to move out. We just imagine that Durham can crow over Greensboro in the matter of population, Once more we remind you that to find news the day it happens, look in The Reflector. It is up to the Greensboro papers to show the whereabouts of the re- of the Possibly Mr. Carnegie wishes that New York bank had not been named for him. The bath tub trust says it Is not guilty. Most criminals make a plea when they are called to trial. The government banks have opened, but there is no report that depositors are tumbling over each other to get on the ledger. The number of train robberies curring In the West look like that section has dropped back to pioneer days. With the numerous cases or small- pox reported in this county, would not be a bad order. -o The sugar has got scared and is asking the government to with- draw its prosecution, When everybody makes up his mind to help everybody else, things will move along more they ought to. ------o- If nothing Greensboro can be satisfied at the advertising she is get- ting it. Near-beer is in the knees over the prospect of a There is an old raying that goes up must come therefore r.-, , ,, a drop. Now Wilmington is being solicited it seems but a short while since we were talking about the beginning of a new century, but that was ten years ago. That once-upon-a-time Greensboro directory maker must been get- ting pay for his job according to the number of names reported. Some years ago The Reflector had King Edward on its subscription list, but you know he died. Yet Davis is one of our readers. The towns under will get census figures next. Greenville expected to come In that class, there- fore is not impatient. Congress got over its holiday spell and came together again today. Whether it gels down to business re- mains to be seen. The Reflector had its prediction right. It Speaker Dowd. And it is cause for more that he was elected without op- position. Just about all of them have taken a fall out of Greensboro, not that they had any spite against that town, but of overmuch bragging in advance of the census returns. ---------o Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, died Wednesday night in Washington City. The nation loses a man in his passing, one who has been many years a political leader. To be a winner and get things necessitates being in the hustle class. One thing especially that Greenville i ought to do, is get busy and hustle to secure some manufacturing en- Since recent decision of the in favor of a against a railroad for being put off a train because mileage was not ex- changed for a ticket, other suits of a similar character are being started. property law. That law as it now stands is a cloak for more dishonesty than any other on the statute book. o- Dix, of New York, proposes enact economic measures in the cf affairs, that he calculates will cave his state a year. If he succeeds we hope he Will show other states how it is done. Mecklenburg should now take top position in the satisfied class. It is the most populous county in the State possesses the largest city in the State, two of her citizens sit at the head of the two branches of the gen- assembly. No more room for complaint up that way. -o- There is nothing the matter with Mecklenburg, even if she did get both the president of the senate and the speaker of the house. The men are all right, too. The News and Record both mate that what Greensboro lacks in to she makes up In business, right., talk it That's Pitt county elected two widowers to the legislature, but Representative took unto himself a wife the day before the general assembly met and took her along to Raleigh with him. In that respect he stole a march on Representative Mooring. We wish the New Orleans now in Washington City every in getting their city named as the place for holding the Panama exposition in 1915. New Orleans is the logical location for the exposition This promises to be a big week in Raleigh. Besides the legislature, there will be the grand lodge of Masons the unveiling of the Ransom bust, the state historical association meeting, and several smaller lies. When you hear a man going around talking about prohibition being a fail- he is apt to be one who wants to see it a failure and would place every obstacle he could in the way of the law being enforced. Mr. G. B. Ford who since it started last spring has been editing the Farm ville Enterprise, has leased the pap- from the publishing company and assumed entire control of it. He is making the Enterprise a good paper. As suggestions to the legislature are going whether in order or not, we are going to say that body will not perform its full duty if it at end of session without eliminating or modifying the present homestead, and personal of The Greenville tor, that Girls From Rec- has He just can't get away from the petticoats, even though he has just had a chance of making a Dispatch. And that resolution was to stick closer to message to the legislature takes rank as an able doc- His recommendations are timely, and the legislature can well afford to enact laws along the lines he suggested. On the questions of prohibition and education his message was especially strong. -v The editors came along all right in getting offices in the present gen- assembly. Editor W. C. Dowd is speaker of the house Editor T. G. Cobb and Editor G. Scott Poole are principal clerk and reading clerk, respectively in the house, and Editor Mark Squires is reading of the senate. The town is not making any move toward getting Uncle Sam to give Greenville free delivery to which the post office receipts already entitle us. And that free delivery is not coming until the town puts itself in shape with properly numbered houses, and sidewalks that the mail carriers can travel on. The Greensboro News reprimands a South Carolina paper for saying the Republican party in North had got in such bad shape that the ex- chairman of the party attempted The News was entirely right in its strictures on the South Carolina contemporary. Newspapers often ex- press themselves in a vein of too much levity on serious matters. It was enough to shock better feel- the way the punsters about the hanging of Dr. less so were their jokes about Mrs. Eddy because Mrs Stetson, a religious fanatic, had ex- pressed the belief that she would arise from the and appear on earth in another life. In the face of death there should be no levity. Greenville is great, but we want to see a greater Greenville. The Times is complaining about Ike bricks and cobble stones lying in the streets. Get some of the Masons in town to lay them for you. Instead of some of the legislators introducing local anti near-beer bills, they had better save their work for an entire state bill that is coming along before the session closes. The Durham Herald the legislature does not put the clubs out of business it might as well allow the near-beer stands to Quite true, but we think I he will bolt the door against both these evils. A question like this was put to The a man had owing to him and could not collect it, how much better off is he a man who has We believe the man who has nothing is the better off of the two, for he at least would not have the worry over not being able to collect the ten thousand. The Home Building and Loan As- is not yet four years old, but it has some over in loans among people of the town helping them to own their homes. That is what The Reflector calls doing good work, both in help- the people and In the volume of business. Every meeting of the rectors there are more applications for loans. Men of Greenville, you business men the new year is young yet and it is not too late to make a good start If among your good resolutions was one to do something for your town and section this year, show it now by attending the next meeting of the chamber of commerce which is to be held soon. Some matters of to Greenville and Pitt are to be considered and your presence is needed. Stop your long enough to attend this meeting for it means bringing you more business in the long rum Mr. Ivy Smith, a good farmer of Braver Dam, dropped in Thursday, to say that he was glad to see The talking against dogs, and hoped It will keep going. He said the best would be to exterminate the dogs but if this cannot be done he would like to sec a tax of levied on them, the money thus raised to go either to the road or school fund. Dogs arc the greatest hindrance the state has to sheep raising. A few dogs on a plantation will keep it practically clear of game, as they roam about and destroy partridge nests and kill every young rabbit they can catch. he legislature ought to do dogs, Mileage As Mr. W. H. G. Belt of Wadesboro has the railroads of this section can escape the problem which President Finley makes lite basis of his argument for mileage exchange by simply issuing one class of mile- age-books Interchangeable with other roads and one not Interchangeable. As to the second class there would be no interline book-keeping at all. This arrangement would not obviate the inconveniences which through travel has suffered since the mileage-ex Change era began, but many people would appreciate it and It would save the railroad argument from such transparent self-defeat. The fact is that the real motives for this step by Southern railroads have never yet been frankly set forth by any responsible Official. We do not take the published statements seriously, for they are not serious. Probably it is doing the railroads a service to say for them what they shrink from saying themselves, name- that the only conceivable reason for a mileage-exchange requirement on the issuing from sore- over rate that the conductors are not trusted as they are up North or as they were trusted recently by the Southern roads themselves. A check on them in the form of mileage coupons was desired though opportunities for dishonesty could be very restricted thereby. The. question arises whether Southern conductors are less honor- able than conductors elsewhere There will be general agreement, we think, that as a rule they are superior men drawn from a superior class, ranking in this latter respect above their fellows almost anywhere else. Moderate business methods tend to eliminate the element of personal honesty as much as possible, but at many points this has never been very effectively done. To insist upon an additional check which operates no more effectively than mileage ex- change, nevertheless vexing the pub- grievously, impress us as far from Observer. of the criminal laws of the State To amend the laws of establishing a police for Asheville. Including Saturday the general as- of North Carolina had been in session four days. While the sen- ate committees were appointed in that time, the house being a larger body it was more difficult to make proper assignments and speaker Dowd re- served naming these until today. Several bills have been introduced, but so far they have been mainly of a local nature. Some of the meas- offered in the senate were. Resolution Fisher; Requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote for the city of New Orleans as the proper site, for hold- the world's fair. A bill by to regulate the practice of architecture and create a board of examination and for the regulation of same. By of Cumberland, establishing the county of Hoke out of portion of Cumberland and Rob- Bills of general interest in the house To provide for a call of a constitutional convention of the people of North Carolina. Carr, of To amend the laws of 1903, charter of Trinity Col- by striking out the limitation of the amount of property the college shall hold. To amend the re- to fees of and witnesses. Battle; To improve the A Look at Everything points to a business legislature. Talking with members of the body and looking over the personnel Of the two houses as a whole, one gets the impression that the legislature is going to do something for the stale. Three of the richest men in the state have sac- sixty days from their offices in order to give their services to the state and financiers are In the legislature. There are other members, not rich but successful bus- men who have sacrificed their time and business interests to aid in legislation they believe the state Stands In need of. First, and tower- above all other questions, is that of the equalization of taxation. The legislature is bent on passing an law and is not going to wait until the closing days the to do it. The drafting of the measure will done by Senator Brown and his finance committee and it will be Championed In the senate by Mr. of Rowan. The plan is to eliminate the counties. By that it is meant counties that draw more from the state treasury than they pay into it. There are of these counties and there is not one that should not feel ashamed to be called a pauper. Iredell with two big towns, and with two big towns are but instances. The law will probably provide a to visit these counties and equal- the assessed value of property. An equalization of taxation having been secured, the state will receive an enormous additional income, with no raising of the tax rate. The Will not apply to the counties alone, but to the entire state. Securing an equitable system of taxation this legislature will go down great in Raise Home Supplies. There is food for thought in facts contained in a bulletin just issued by the state department of agriculture on the amount of foodstuffs shipped into North Carolina. The state imported for instance. worth of wheat and flour; worth of cured meat; worth of corn and oats; worth of worth of butter The conclusion reach ed in this special investigation, as ex- pressed by Agronomist Burgess is that every farmer should make it a point to at least raise his own home sup- plies, no matter to what special crop his lands and section may be especial- adapted. He says he would not expect all counties to raise all their home supplies, but no reason why the crop development should not be brought to that point where the home supply products the state over should be such as to practically el- the heavy drain to which the state in now being subjected in purchasing these supplies out of the state. It strikes us that Mr. Burgess is not far wrong in the conclusions he has arrived at. Each year large sums of money go out of the state which could be kept at home. There is a tendency among farmers to raise their own supplies, but, according to these figures, the lesson has not fully News. Worked Old Racket. A slick game was worked successfully by an unknown man early last evening, whereby the firm of m Sykes, druggists, were separated from a dollar bottle of patent medicine and four dollars in cash. A telephone message was received at the store asking that a bottle of be sent to East Wash- street, together with four to make change for a five dollar note. The instructions were carried out. but when the boy arrived at the number given, he was accosted by a man, who said the medicine was for him. He look the four change and the bottle of and gave the delivery boy a cheek for fifteen dollars, telling him that owed the drug store ten dollars and that the cheek would settle the debt. The boy thinking that the was all right, accepted the check and returned to the store. Of course the check was a bogus one and the grafter has ed with his loot leaving the drug store lighter as to pocket-book but wiser. Some one doubt- less the same party attempted to work the same game on the Farris- Klutz Drug Company yesterday after- noon, but it didn't go through. Greensboro Record. It is related that when President entered Washington theater the other evening the orchestra struck up Save the The audience seem to have been pressed with the incongruity of tho selection and actually went so far, according to the report, as to The Anderson Mail notes the incident and comments leader of that orchestra is doubtless a foreigner who knows nothing of American and No objection can be made to the of the audience. They are assumed to have paid for their seats and consequently purchased the right even to laugh aloud if they felt so disposed. Nor can any one cavil at the attitude of The Mail. None the less we confess there is one phase of the incident which we do not thoroughly under stand. Save the music an old German is a stately anthem and is loved by Englishmen for its intrinsic merit, as well as on sentimental grounds. Indeed, so ex wrote Country of he intentionally framed his Ian to suit the English music and on this side of the ocean the strain means to the average man not Save the but do not quite see how the orchestra indicated that they were playing tho foreign setting of the music when it would be so much more natural upon the entrance of the head of the to burst forth in some patriotic selection. We will be gratified if some musically inclined will let light in upon the difficulty Observer. Right You Are. J. Milton Johnston, of the Green- ville Reflector force, has a decided talent for taming animals. His latest effort is to train an old gander to see-saw, jump through a hoop, and follow him around. This is not the first time a newspaper man has taught an old goose new tricks. Durham Sun. , If you have occasion to pick your use a magnifying glass. W mi