Px? Eiffct
Old Timers Quit Con- t
Sgress to Await the Sun- s
set at Home
The following from the Toledo (O)
Blade, although a little old makes (
some "good reading:*'
"Unrle Joe" Cannon is going
home.
And so is John Sharp Williams. "(
Of course, there art* 100 other ,
members of dying congress, who will
not be in the next, most of them ,
having been defeated for re-election,
but these two veteran legislators,
one of the House and the other of
the senate, will attract more attention
in then voluntary leave-taking
from the Capitol than all the others
put together They are going home
to await the "sunset."
Songs of the mocking birds, the
fragrance of the magnolia trees, his
books, dinner in the noddle of the
day and supper at night are luring
Senator John Sharp Williams back
to his plantation near Yazoo City,
Miss, after !0 years in Congress,
whjle the rolling prtrarie of Southern
Illinois, a 50-room house in Danville
and the '"boys" of Abraham Lin-j
cola's time an Reckoning to "Uncle
Joe, ' who first came to Congres> a
half century ago.
The Illinois legislator, who in the
stormy days of his -peakership in
the house .va branded a tyrant, a
czar, and was accused of nepotism,
but whs. is now looked upon as a
kindiy. warm hearted man, from
whom his colleagues dislike to part,
carries the reputation "f having
served u?nger as a member of the
American Congress than any other
man in history.
Joseph. Gurney Cannon came to
fch< house "0 year- ago. and with
the "Were ie-i <.f -w> terms, he has
been ever cdr.cc. Twice was
overcome by Democratic landslides,
but each time came back two
year iatei New he quits after 10
years "of actual service. Senator Justin
Smith Morrell t' Vermont, who
died e quarter of a century ago,
. /ached nearcs' to Mr. Cannon
i ugth <.l* service. His time in I
-.mats and house aggregated -Id
. nine months and -5 days.
Dec 29, 1920, "Uncle J e"
at that record by one day onu the
iousc celebrated with speeches and
tributes to th?- 11'inoiss.n. General
Isua<. K. Sherw. od of Ohio, who was
in the house when "Uncle Joe" arrived
nearly half a eeniurv hidnr.?
but who has not beer, in Congress so
many years, referred to his colleague
as a mere boy but "Uncle
Joe" said that when he was elected
to congress in I >72. "Nick" Longworth
at the age of ?. was showing
interest in his first pants.
"The year 1K72." said Mr. Cannon
"was a memorable one in many respects.
Vesuvius had a violent eruption
that year and General Sherwood
and I were elected to the house.
There were other happenings?the
organization of the German empire
and the French republic, the emancipation
of siaves in Porto Rico, the
connection of \ustralia with the
rest of the world by cable, the great ,
Boston tire and the Geneva award
of the Alabama claims."
The tempestuous years through .
which Cannon lived in Congress, the |
active part he played in the many i
bitter parliamentary tights, and his \
nearly 87 years of life are onfeeh- ;
ling him perceptibly, and h?< vision j
is so greatly impaired that he can j
vdv km to read even with the j
strongest glasses, but he keeps ac? !
fcsve, attends formal dinners and on- i
joy.s t.nnelf with his old friends.. >
Tiu- intense enmity resulting from t
the f.gnte it. the house of rcpresen- i
tative.- to strip him of his powers in organizing
that body and in expediting
action throuirh "^n-aro roll ??% <
tactics, which resulted in him de- :
fyiri.tr the to remove him as
speakcj", have mellowed with the j
year.. There is no noe now to speak 1
ill of him. and his friends are glad i
he has lived long enough to see this <
change. ,
"In the fullness of time," Mr. Can- j
ron used to say in his speeches to ]
the h use. "the pendulum wili swing .
back." And it has. Other Can- i
nonesoue sayings which always will
live arc:
"A majority can do anything.
"Nearly all legislation is the result
of compromise.
"in the last analysis sound judg-l
will pre\ ail. j
c.. legislating we all do alot of
aping tobacco across the lines, i
You can't make a silk purse out i
a sow's ear and you cant change ,
human nature from intelligent self-'
intere-t to pure idealism?not in this?
life; and if you could, what would
fce left for paradise?"
Walking up and down the aiMes
of the house when he spoke Uncle
JoV invariably shook his left hind
and waved his left arm. When he
was a youngster as a legislator, he
asked "Sunset" Cox of New York
yield to him on one occasion.
"I'll do it as long as the gentleman
from Illiqpis keeps his left hand
in his pocket," said '"Sunset." Cannon
started to speak warmed up a
hit., pulled out his left hand and
-waved it high above his head.
"Time's up" shouted Cox, and
Cannon took his seat amid loud
laughter and applause- from the galleries
as well as the- floor.
Many farewell dinners have been
given to "Uncle Joe," but Senator
John Sharp Williams ran away from
his. The only f axe well dinner he
attended was one given by Phillip
Koche, an Irishmen, born in county
Tipperary, who has idolized John
Sharp for 30 years?he la a door
tender now at the CapitoL
J
I;
He has a modest home, and when
te invited Senator Williams and
one of his closest friends there ,he
lelped to wait on table.
When John Sharp Williams
lipped quietly out of Washington a
lav or two before this congress
dosed, it was Phillip Roche who stood
>n the station platform with tears
streaming down his chocks. No
wan song was sung by the ?uthern
jrator. He did not wait for any
iribute to be paid by his colleagues.
[The closest ite came to a farewell
was a few weeks ago when ho said:
"I won't be here to bother you much
longer, and God knows 1 won't let
you bother me."
Alice M. Robertson of Oklahoma
the first woman who ever presidec
over a session of the house of re pre
sentatives, cvxosea ner congtvssiona
career with a sigh of relief. Mis>
Robertson is in her 69th year.
"I want to go home as oois a:
possible," Miss Robertson said.
"1 am going back to my >ld anr
chair, in the garden where the flow
srs will be blooming, to listen to th*
mocking birds, and at dusk out ovej
the wide prararie to watch th twin
kiing lights in the southvv j>tern o:
fields?just to rest and think for thi
twilight of life is a time for reverb
and rememberance."
THE SUGAR BUSH
Mew York Times.
When the sap begins to flow in th<
"sugar bush" in New England it i
not Spring, but it is more --rely j
sign that Spring is coming .p tha
way than the overture <?r the son}
Bp arrow. Then the maple grove i
.livaded by the farmer renewing hi
youth, with the women nek and tin
hildren bringing up the rear and car
T ying buckets and spout- to catch th
i ?u... . ; ?u
<?;/. vTiivu crrejt- i - ?? m oil1
u.. The trees an- art- ? not i
swelling bud to be >>-er. A mouh
!* 'eaves covers the ground. Then
i.- a tang: in the air. Only chick
adee. alert inquisitive. shift "\g frori
bough to bough, greet? the intrud
ers with In- cherrv monologue. Th
tapping of the downy woodj ker re
sounds. This gathering in the suga
bush is a jovfui ceremony ...thougl
there is hard work to be dor -.. Th>
farm dog feels the spirit ? f the occa
siot! He frolics about ami bark
madly. Looking at these gray tre
trunks, scattered, gaunt, bleak, on*
wonder^ that they car; contain store
of sweetness. In a timely article ii
The Forecast, U. F. Wells savsy:
'"The total annual value of the ma
pie sugar products of the Greet
Mountain State is given as $2,266,001
many of hte farmers depending fo
th?*ir living to a considerable degre
on the product of their maple trees
There are in the State 10.000 produc
ers of maple sugar and syrup, wh<
tap 5,000,000 trees annually."
As soon as the frost of night i
succeeded by thawing days the aa|
in the maple is ready to run. 1;
Southern and Central Vermont thi
season begins about the middle o
.March and lasts a month. Near th<
Canadian line, whore snows are deep
er and the bite of the cold ie sharp
i-r. it may be April before the ma.pl <
tree feels the urge of the changing
feasor.. Xev, York City knows mapb
sugar as a Vermont product ? a>
least the syrup and the cakes an
usually offered for c*lo as such. Un.
xappily, the unsophisticated may havt
i blend of maple and cane sugars im
|K>se:i upon them. Consumers max
ret iheir supply direct frunt Vnrmoiii
t' they know the lord of a sugai
osh or a member <*{ me a&soccaticE
.1" producers. Marketing maple surar
in cakes and cans has become ar
x tensive Ivdaitxesp The paraphe-raa
la of manufacture n a tirade in. it
elf. One of the veterans of the su
rar 'bush" Uncle Amos Eaton oi
South Royalton. Vt. told Mr. Willi
iboiit the old days and the new:
"Fifty years ago we boiled sap lc
1 big kettle out of doors. My grand
father hired a sugar place from hi:
3rother, gathered the sap ?\a a. sled
jr carried it by hand on snow shoe:
where the snow was too deep to us*
a sled, cut his own wood alone for h?
had no man or annual to help him?
and made a ton of sugar, instead oJ
the metal buckets we use-now in th<
sugar orchards he used a trougl
made from a split log of balsam. Thi:
log could be, and was used year af
ter year. For spouts he used bits a
sumac with the pith removed."
The equipment of the sugar make
now improves with every year. Thi
old days of outdoor boiling are gon^
except in the back country. Connor*
sours do say that the flavor of suga
:. . .i~j .i-_ > j :
UUMCM ui nit* upen in me oia way i
more delectable than the product o
machine driven apparatus under
roof. In St. Jobnshury there is
factory that has a capacity of eight
tons of sugar a day. It is knownr 1<
cally as the largest plant in the worl
devoted to the manufacture of ums
pie products." In outdoors Veroior
| where sugar is still made by ban
here is a saying that something i
the climate makes the maple sugi
of the Green Mountain State tl
sweetest in the world. The farme
often toil sixteen hours a dy, a mt
and his wife tapping 2,000 trees &i
boiling syrup which runs elev<
pounds to the gallon. And yet son
people believe, as Mr. Wells saj
that the-maple sugar they put <
griddle cakes flows from the tree
"Uncle" Amos Eaton once work
"continuously" from 5 o'clock Mo
day until midnight Tuesday to get I
sugar in. A St. Albans man owns I
000 maplt trees. It ib calculated th
3,000,000 trees in Vermont are n
tapped at all. Any one that thin
that sugar making is a recreation
occupation may try it.
THE WATAUGA 0
SAVE THE IRISH POTATOES
Diseases of the Irisn pototo car- I
ried to the field annually by seed j
stock can be reduced by proper seed j
selection and seed treatment, says
G- W. Fant, Extension specialist in ]
i plant disease. He states that a careful
selection to eliminate unsound. |
1 non-vigorous seed before planting . is
worth while, and that this will get |
rid of potatoes showing outward signs
j of rot. black scurf, scab or other di,
seases. The selection should then be
, followed by the seed treatment to
: further reduce the amount of disease.
For this purpose Mr. Fant recom.
mends that corrosive sublimate (bil
chloride of mercury) be used at the
rate of four ounces to thirty gallons
' of water. A small quantity of hot
water may first be used to dissolve
5 the poison since it dissolves in cold
water very slowly.
; j The seed potatoes are treated al
ways before being cut and best beJ
i fore they have sprouted to any ex
r tent. They arc dipped?usually in
" sacks?into the solution for a period
* of thirty minutes. If scab i3 bad
* the seed may be dipped safely for
an hour or an hour and a half, after
which they are spread out to dry.
Treated potatoes arc fit for planting:;
purposes only, as the poison is absor- |
bed by the corky skin.
L' Mr, Fant states that corrosive sub-'
s limate solutions rapidly grow weaker
* from use. When treating a largo
^ (juantiU of potatoes therefore he adg
vises the grower to add an ounce of
s 1 corrosive sublimate to each barrel af2
j ter treating each batch of potatoes,!
and also enough water to bring the1
solution up to its original volume.'
This should not be repeated more1
11 than four times. The treating solu- J
! tion should then be thrown away and |
j a new one prepared if necessary. j
' Mr. Fa?it finds that formaldehydeI
. i.-s sometimes used in place of corroq
i sive sublimate, and if employed, he
-] recommends the use ??f one pint of
r| formaldehyde (commercial formalin)
h i to thirty gallons of water. Seed are
rj treated for the same length of time
as where corrosive sublimate is used. \
* The formaldehyde solution does not
2 corrode metal and is not a dangerous
s poison as is the bichloride.
a
TWIT MAN WORTH WHITE
It isn't the man with the merciless
n smile,
[) Nor the one with the cop> right grin,
r That is always the victor and always
p worth while
k When the news of the ganu tumbles
>'i ;
j But the hard working* quiet ar.d pleasant
young chap
s| Who cannot be shoved from his place
p I on the map,
!! Who for smiles and cajoling doon not
e J give a rap.
f But who sticks to the job and for
,? nothing will shark,
_ And who thinks ivf naught else when
there's work on. but work.
f Tiic man with the smile has his placein
the world.
I Though the smile* be as false as
himself,
. And often in luxury youTl find him
curled
With more- than his share of the pelf..
But the chap who's the best of the
finest and few.
Who's staunch and reliable, square J
, { and true blue,
I Is the one with the slogan "Play the.
Game?You!"
t.:T ...J ...;n
MU MUHS .iu kill' JUU iUUl W III IJUIL '
not nor shirk.
Ami has thoughts of naught else
' when there's work on but work,
j ?Fdmund Leamy in Forbes Muga- j
sine (New York)
HUMAN SPIDERSSH
> The human spider stunt?climbing
the face of tail buildings?had about;
5 j palled on the public, because "nothing
happened." The performances of
the last of the building climbers in
Charlotte scarcely collected a street
"j crowd, and by the time he gy?t down
and started out with the hat, the
c | small gathering bad melted away al- ]
- j together. It required just the thing
f? that occurred in New York to bring
j revival to the industry. Of course the I
r; human spider will be making reap-:
e| pearance in all the cities, and in its
'* j heart the prowd will know that it is
r standing around just to see if he will
sj fall. The New York boy was a hero
f in the public mind when he was csala
ing the hotel wall, but after the thrill
a he gave he was forgotten. It is comy
plained that he was buried almost un>
noticed and that of the hundreds who
d were given "'the thrill"' not asingle
l" one was thoughtful enough to send
^ flowers.
n His fate will not deter imitators
ir in the art of climbing. On the contra
iC i ry the adventurous spirits will be
rs j tempted to try and outdo what the
in; dead climber had undertaken to do.
id And it will be with their performance
-n as it has been with all before it. Afne
ter they have left town we will see
s' the American small boy undertaking
J8 wall climbing stunts. Shortly after
e(j the visit of a human spider in Charn_
lotte. a south Tryon Street father
lis attracted by a group of urchins looker
ing up at a neighboring building, reat
cognized his own young hopeful cling.
ot ing to the sill of a second story winks
dow and being encouraged to "go on'
lal by the admiring group below. The
father got the boy and talcing him
EMOCftAT
Trapping the Tin* Oerm.
Germ of the -flu" has beeo "tap.
Iitfld." which la the. doctors' word for
cased, ao that it can be mlcroscoped.
It la. no doubt, dashing wildly about,
gnashing ha teeth with rage; and aa
demoniacally possessed of the will to
do evil as If It were a baleful-eyed
fire breathing dragon of the sort that
St. George slew.
There are dragons In our day, too;
only they are well-nigh Invisible. They
are as ravenous of hentleut life m
anything which wandered among the
great ferns of the steaming prehistoric
ages, although a microscopic
photographic picture or uiem makes
them look no more ferocious than a
hyphen or the point of a needle.
All the large predatory animals that
threatened man are extinct or on thelt
way to extinction. It Is the Invisible
world of malevolent creation that w?
have now to fear; and our reeentiuenl
against the Influenza germ hardens
our hearts almost to a desire to practice
cruelty upon it. If that were po?
Able
Had Money Enough.
Twenty years ago or so there u??
te be a story of s negro boy who re
fused to carry a grip uptown for j
traveling se'esman. "Give you i
quarter," offered the salesman. "!
got a quarter, boss." The same Uttl<
darky, now grown, was encountere<
by a Kansas City man on a Jarl
street the other night. As there wa:
no one about, the Kansas City mai
shied to the edge of the sidewalk
giving the darky plenty of room
"Nev* mind, mister," the darky as
acred him. "I ain't gonna hold yoi
up. I got as much money as yoi
have."
NOTICE
Vnh Carolina >
Wa: uiga County) Town of Hoot.-.
S- 'lct? hereby given that ther
ptill be held in the court hou.-e in th
t"V- ii i.f B'.xine. X. C. on Ala/ S. 11*2
an election for the purpose of elect
ing a mayor and three town conmtis
sioio rs for said te?v;?. All voters no
heretofore registered on the regis
iratian books ??f said town art noti
Notice is further given that .1. i
Hodges and J. L. Winkler have be*,
appointed judges for said electior
and thai J. D. Counciil iuis been ap
pointed registrar for said electior
and i hat he will keep the books ope:
tor the registration of voters betwee
the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. fo
seven day* before the second Satui
day before the said election the sai
books will be closed.
Done by order of the board o
town Commissioners.
E. N. UAHN, Mayer.
mll>4te
home treated him to the most cow
pietc job of trousor doatinp ever pei
formed ia Charlotte or anyw here eLs
and the human spider feat has n
more attractions ior that particula
^outh. The treatment administers
by this father is about the only thin
that will operate in suppression c
amateur human spideriamr? and tfc
fond parents won .id do well to sts
on the lookout for prospective sul
jeets.?Chsdotte Observer.
M
I
About twenty one years ago
Loan of Lenoir, N. C. and have
i >
have paid half in another sent
and will soon have matured si
. that my stock in the Building a
! r made in my life*
I never have borrowed a cent
eral hundred dollars saved that
I would advise every one to ei
i
|?;ven if it isn't but one share,
money and get a good profit or
time if you wish to build you a
Y
WHY NOT THE PEOPLE O
DO AS MR. BARLOW FIAS DC
Watauga Bui
Asso
D. J. Cottrell, President.
1 BOON!
: ?
VOLUME OF MAIL
Assistant Postmaster Gives Figures
That Stagger.
Probabiy Ftw Americana Realize the
Extent of the Wonderful Business
Transacted by Department.
From the use of the dromedary la
biblical times to the swiftly dying
mail plane of todaythe history of the
' letter, as a written means of communication
between peoples, was
traced by Assistant Postmaster General
W. Irving Glover In a speech recently
to postmasters and postal em1
ployees in a postal conference conven'
tion at Winston-Salem. N H.
| "On the post office Job.** he said.
uounng ctixi uiKc uie ui uie ?dividual.
While In many greet Industrie*
the human equation ha* been
reduced to a minimum, no one baa
yet invented anything to take the
place of a man in the delivery of let1
ters. Today, as a hundred year* ago,
we are dependent on the nerve and
1 the sense of loyalty of a human being
' tor the punctual delivery of our mall
regardless of the weather and every6
thing else.
"The history of the postal service
4 goes buck as far as the Sixth century
3 B. C. and may be called the hand2
maid of civilization and, tracing it
" from the dispatch bearer of tne Assyu
rian and Unman times to the airplane
h service of the present day. the iH?stal
a Justness has doubled In the last de11
cade while the number of employees
has in< t eased only 9 per cent.
"The use of postage stamps is now
so common and the mailing of letters
so genera! that it seems as IS there
never was a time whan Uils practice
was unknown. But the stamp Itself
Is comparatively new, while the sending
of letters is older than Solomon.
'The Book of Esther in the Bible
tells of how King Ahusuerus. teaming
from Queen Esther that Hainan had
ordered the death of ai! the Jews,
" commanded Mordecai to call togetner
the scribes and send letters to every
province of the kingdom forbidding
!* the massacre.
' "The Romans, too, out tfeeir letters
by mounted courier* ^ Toe courier
' carried the message abcul twenty
11 miles when he would come tp a 'post**
" where another raeesdngar was etar\
Honed with a freeh b?r*e. H*. I?
turn, would be reHevejl' b/ atlll jtnothd
er courier. Thua by ftjlaf. gfter relay
the letter waa aped on mil! at. jaat U
f arrrive.1 at Ita deatlL. j "'ftosta.1 yiaan|
leg atatlon or atopplng place, and
from that word wa obhjufd the word
! 'poet' bn found In poet" ofllue, poet
j card and many alurllar words. j
j "Is the tixuaa of Keajamln Kranfelta
each letter eat charged rpr Uy til
,j aheet Inalsad of by weight. and alM
1 for tha distance it waa carried. Tee
?' centa waa charged tor one aheet, *
^ I rente for two abeeta. and ae on, eat
for ererj OP tallee another full tot
V I waa added. Baratepee were net afM
,f I ia thoee day* the Utter pimply beta]
in i folded cp and aaatafL .
,J j "And new we tone te the ataggar
I Ing ?gurea ah owing tha growth a
[ thla, great bualneaa. In averj alngli
hoar of tha 84 lb ore" are mallei
. tmilllil
Open Lc
1 took stock in the Building and
matured stock in three series and
s. My son is also carrying stock'ock
to his credit. I wish ttj say,1
na Loan is the best money I-ever ;
. from the B & L but I'have sev- .
Ii
otherwise I wouldn't have -had.
irry some stock in the Association
It will enable you to sat?j some' ,r
> the investment and at the same
-S- : home
it will enable you to do so.
ours truly, Ii
J. S. BARLOW, Lenoir, N. C.
t BOONE AND WATAUGA CO.
r
>NE?
Iding & Loan
oiation
H. ri. GieaM.Sec^rnu.' * ' (
E, N. C. \2
ui L,. d&iiii*MJ&L lin
MARCH 15, 1923
, >
1,400.000 letters and la every day of
the 995 of the year 38.600,000 letters
slip Into the box. To carry this great
vol any* of letters there was sold li-;
000.000.000 postage stamps. 57.000.000!
spee^l delivery stamps. 38.000,000
new ? pa per wrappers. 6?.000.000 postage
due stamps used on short paid
mall matter and 1.0(10,000,000 postal
' Minis printed and sold. and. all count*
ed. we used and sold 18,000.000,000
units during the last fiscal year. And;
again, to carry this vast quantity of,
mall we operate a very large motortruck
service, having In operation today
4,433 motor vehicles, and then In
the carrying of this volume of mall
by railroad it requires 21.000 railway
mall clerks, who cover 215,000 miles
dally."
It Grew. j
| Miss M has been working fn the
East for more than a year. Has
> uncle has written repeatedly, king
her to come home on a visit, telling
her In every letter that her home
| coming would be the occasion for the
killing of the fatted calf.
But ami soa cum come. av uw
| other evening ha changed the tone t(
, his letter. "If you don't come pretty
, eoon," he wrote, "y<ju won't get ta
eat veal, for that calf Is growing up.
' And If you wait another year, you'll
ha^e to eat 't as corned beef."?Indianapolis
News.
What Happened.
"My nephew, Lester Petty, has been,
desperately In love with a lady doctor;
over at Skeedee." stated old BosweU
Rasp.
"And I suppose she shook him?" re-;
turned an acquaintance.
"No. Her professional knowledge^
told her that desperate disease* dau
Mi i id desperate remedies, and so
they'll be married next Wednesday at
High noon."?Kansas City Star.
Reduction.
Brown?Met your wife and little
daughter today. I remarked to your
wife that the child Is the very photograph
of her mother.
Jones?You might have udded phonograph
as well. ? Boston Evening
Transcript.
Betterment.
you think you are getting better
every day?" A
"Of course, I do." answered Senator
Sorghum. The only difficulty 1* te
convincing my audieneea."
I
Inacirina Interost. j
"It took Die long time to got tha
opposition editor oat home to prink
that extract from my speech," noa
mured Senator Sorghum.
"Bow did yon manage It!"
"Wrote It In a letter addressed he
aomebody else, tint appernuUy pat lata
the wrong envelope and marked It
| cMMptcaously, 'Hot tor Publication."
> I
I An Overnight.
I Daughter?Hew do you like aw
l ' new evening gown, father!
I Pather?M) dear girl; yea surety
, aren't going eat with bait of yonr
back expaaedt
. Daughter (looking la mirror)?Oh,
f Ifa that stupid dressmaker's fault;
i d? forgot to cut off the ether half I
^
*tter
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\ MONTHLY INVESTMENT OF
$1.00
i Watauga B. & L. stock matures
$100 V
i about six and a hall years. ' - y
a navmilbl INVESTMENT OP
$2.00
i Watauga B. & L. stock mature*
$100
I about thru* and oaa half year*.
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PREPAID STOCK
$100 CamK Per Share
Pays 6 per cent per annum, pay}Ie
annually, and about 1 per cent
Iditional at maturity in about atx
id a half years.