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A ft|? Four &tjc ?Hataufia Democrat. R. C. RIVERS. Editor sod Owner. 1 PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS J Subscribers wishing their address- j es changed will please favor us by giving the OLD as well as the NEW .j address. t SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 , Six Months 75 J Three Months 40 j Payable in Advance. , Advertising Rates on Application Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect. Obituaries, etc. are charged for at the regular advertising rates. Articles sent for publication without giving the name oi the writer will not J under any circumstance be publish- 1 ed <, II Entered at the postomce at Boone i : N. C. as second el mail matter. I 1 I THURSD \Y MARCH 22. 1923 ! i SWEET CABBAGE. SAUER KRAUT SEED POTATOES AND BUCK- I WHEAT CAKES Charlotte Observer 1 The- Observer made mention a few > weeks ago of the proposed advent of 1 the sauer kraut industry for western North Carolina and it. seem- now to be a certainty. Mr. John B. Steele. - 1 county demonstration agent for Wa- ' tauga and Mr. H. Neal Blair, sauer 1 kraut specialist for the State Exten- < sion Department. are getting the far- 1 mers of that mountain country or- 1 ganized to build a co-operative kraut 1 factory, together with facilities for handling well graded cabbage. They ' want to supply the Carolinas with a ; made-in-Carolina product of sweet cabbage and sauer kraut of high qual- ' ity. Watauga cabbages are known ! by their crispness and fine flavor wherever they are used and Mr. Blair 1 has had 20 years experience in making kraut ir that county. He has been 1 supplying the State Hospital at Mor- ! canton and other large institutions with kraut for that length of time. The promoters of this project propose to make a specialty of a small 1 package of raw sauer kraut for the hotels homes and markets to supply the hungry demands that will not be satisfied with a tin can. This will give lis the advantage of the great medicinal qualities of this popular food so much talked of these days by the doctors. The factory will a'so have a commercial product for the grocery; store and fuli barrels for the large institutions. When Mr. Steele went to Watauga as a county agent last summer he found the great need was not increased production but business management in marketing the things prod- . ueed in that section. He was lucky to get in touch with Mr Blair who is a past master in making the old ori-j ginal sauer kraut. The two together are going to make it possible for the people who crave this delicacy to eat and be satisfied. The Watauga farmers, together' with those of Avery and Ashe have learned through their county agents that they can compete with Maine and Canada in the production of high grade seed potatoes. Thi^ is due to the altitui and cool summer climate The Mountain Seed Potato Growers Association is now organized in these i counties and is putting on the mar-; ket in the Carolinas, a Government-1 inspected, certified seed potato which nu.* 1 .? !?.? Anlldl - - ?U. \! ...... w. . ... ... . >JU?I ..I tn\ iUaim; grown product. Now if the buckwheat growers and: the farmers who own forests of sugar maple will just organize and give us buckwheat cakes and maple sugar we will begin to reap the extent?? we will begin to reap the benefits of the extension of good roads. When! Mr. Bowie gets his railroad built that section of the country is going to lose the distinction of being called "The Lost Provinces** but will, instead, be a vital pan of North Carolina. The Baby Who Left mc a Legacy I have been left a legacy, a wonder \ ful, heart warming legacy: I smile through my tears for 1 have been bequeathed other people's babies! Their smiles, their tears, their whimpers, yes even their funny little tempers, were willed to me before the sunniest atom of all took sail in her white ship for the Land of Far Away. Music there lies for me in even the stormiest baby cry, -for it smites across the harp of memory and sounds forth the plaintive tones of that small sweet babe of long ago. Nainbows I find in the tears in a baby's eyes for they bring back the bricht snors that fflittf.no/1 ir? i eyes of heaven's hue and when I kiss! the tear's from the eyes 01 anothers, child, it strangely eases the ache in this heart of mine. For babies are cuddly and roseleafy and soft and sweet. Such friend they are to the lonely with their shy fleeting smiles, their wise quiet eyes and their gurgling glee at finding a friend just over the way. No matter, how dreary, no matter how sad this great world has grown } if you make friends with the babies whenever you meet them?in train, street car in carriages of state all smuggled in broidered covers and silken puff or pillowed close in a tired mother's arms on the broken steps of Poverty town?you will find that the grayness has somehow rainbowed in to gladness and that the shadows of life have scurried away under the magic touch of these god-given sunbeams. WHOSE BOY IS HE? (Greensboro News) Editor of the Daily News: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto he least of these my brethren, ye lave done it unto me." Math 25:40. In the February Missionary voice r??ad this article of a little boy falling off a ship far ut at sea. rhey brought him on board, gave him irst aid, then they waked the physician, told them what they had done ind he said: 44You have done all you ould, he is dead." But when he sawhat it was his own boy all had not >een done that could be done. With lis instruments and hot cloths he nrlru/l nn 1AB lint l] ?hp Kai- TVBC revived. When we begin to think of every nan's child as our own child, our vork will begin to live in our life. This leads to as much discussed conluct of the 17-year old orphan who las been abused, censored and hunt d, also 1 notice an article in your paper March :s that "Sentiment agiinst the youth who sh<one of his >enefactors is said to run high in Rockingham. Right here 1 want to ay, whose boy is he? I have been nterested in and tryii g to teach a Sunday School class for > years and I know from personal experience the worst boy needs the tn >.-! love, care dndness and personal n rest. That s the only thing to mak >:m a charicter worth while. They re losing II the light for a "Little !> : of Love" We are building good roads, tine iirick school houses. Why not raise money to provide a good home for rhe poor homeless children of this country where they will all be trea:ed alike, given a good education; make men and women of them of whom we will be proud. The wealth of our country consists not of material things but the character of our citizens. I love the boys and with a heart full of love I want to say that orphan boy of whom I never heard before, who under the impulse of the moment <lid a rash deed has my sympathy, 1 feel we are responsible for what we have not done and this poor orphan boy had to pay for our neglect. What would your boy do without love, prayer and words ; encouragement from parents. I do hope the Christian people of Rockingham will arise and stop the putting out (1 say this for lack of a bitter word) as slaves to the stingv "close listed" farmers of Rockingham the pooi helpless, homeless unloved children The farm help has demanded highei wages, so the poor litti unt'ortunaU orphan is treated as the negro it slavery time?only people had to pay for the negro and they ran get thes* children as servants for their child ren from the County Welfare officer for their board and clothes. A pool pretense of a home. Cannot we dc something? For all has not been don* Let this be our battle cry for bet ter equipment for our orphans: Someone has started the downwarc slope That leads to an open grave; Some one has abandoned every hop* Of trying himself to save. Some one should check him befori it's too late And tell him God loves him too. Nor let him feel I he world is all hat< Can't that some one be you? So like the old bridge builder le us build a home "hv the side of th< road" for the orphaned youth \vh? must pass this way. For we shall no pass this way again. A FKIK.M) OF THE BOYS Leaksvilie. I know! For my heart is wrapper about the chubby toes and pink fin gers, the sweet eyes and queer but tony noses, the rosehud mouths am the dimpled rhins of ail the babie that dower across my path. I kaov yo.i see. because they have all beei willed to me by the Baby Who Couh Not Stay.?Mary Eweete. The Bank a Good Place to Go T< A ~ ? ? (jiaLc ix man or woman is aiway proud to be seen at. A Bank Ac count always savors of succesj Open one with us. It will help you credit and enable you to get alon in life. With a Bank Account and a Chec Book you have all the cash you nee right with you, and the correct chang too. All banking matters are held in th greatest confidence here. Bank of Blowing Rock Blowing Rock, N. C. . . 1 will be in Boone daring court a the EUU Store Building to demon strate the Home Comfort Wasbinj Machine. T. G. Greene. THE WATAUGA WILLIAM THOMAS BLAIR Wiliam Thomas Blair was bora July 24. 1843 on the Blair estate in Watauga County near Boone North Carolina which is now known as the State Farm. On April 15, 1866 he married Mary Elizabeth Boyd and to them were born nine children, three sons and six daughters, all of whom are now living except one son. In early manhood he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and was always at his post of duty and present at all services whenever possible for him to be there. He was a Confederate soldier and fought through the whole war, pre- ( serving many tokens cf the struggle which were found after his deceasekept in a safe place. Among these , prized tokens the following verses were found, and although his pastor did not know his sentiments regarding death yet his sermon at the funeral was based on the same sentiments of these verses. For as he pointed to the casket he said: "This is not Brother Blair, he is not dead but living." How the Holy Spirit still inspires His ministers. "Not Death But Life" Call it rot death when I lay down The weapons of this mortal strife. Resign the cross to take the crown? Call it not death, but life. That is not life which shuts the soul Within the giided bars of sense, A plaything in the strong control Of passion and pretense. Only the dark before the dawn A brief, obscure, uncertain time, For whose deceits some madly pawn A heritage sublime. Threescore and ten years may run While twilight shades prevail. Not fourscore years reveal its sun? Till mortal sight shall fail. Only the twilight, till the soul Shall from its mortal thrall be free What then if Death's dark o'er it roll. Unsunned eternally? How else? If life's great heritage For earth's vain cheats is madly sold. How else shall it receive this age 1 Of death for sin foretold? Not thus shall Life's dim twilight pass j As to tht1 grave my feet draw nigh.! " Swift as the warm breath from the glass, j Or lightning o'er the sky. So would I prize Life's perfect day. Foreshadowed in time's little lapse That when my soul shall cjuit its cla> * Vet fond of it?perhaps. 1 1 may look into weeping eyes? Their glooms for me with sunrays rife? . And say, in view of Paradise, Fall this not death, but Life." REV. G. 0. BRINKMAN WISE ADVICE j IT WAS Publius Syrus who said "Look for a tough wedge for a rough log"?wise and f.ound advice. t Men prosper better who suit their ? tools to the job. It is foolish to drive 3 nails with a sledge hammer or to try t to drive piles with a mallet. The first uses up twenty times as much energy as is necessary; the sec ond accomplishes nothing. When you see in a legislature or a political meeting an orator tearing j the air into tatters over a very small ami unimportant matter you feel that he is using a sledge hammer to drive I a nail. s When you see a man in an ofiice employing three times the energy ^ necessary to do a very small and unj important job, you know that he is doing the same thing. Save vour ininortant weanons for important battles. Don't hunt rabbits with machine guns. If you have a big task to do, bend to it all your energies. Use the biggest weapons you have. But on the little jobs save your energy. We have seen legislators who made motions to adjourn as if they were engaged in a debate over the fate of nations. We have known architects who planned as elaborately for the construction of a one-car garage as better architects would plan for a skyscraper. Neither got much but ridicule for his efforts. ^ Save your energies for the big job that will come. You will need them s all then?all your thought, all your effort, all your skill. . For the little jobs use just enough of these to do them well?don't skimp r them?but don't overdo on them. P You have a mental tool chest which you will soon learn how to employ wisely. Make careful selections belt fore you do your work and it will be j done better and with less expense of tinle and energy, e ?Selected. e ANNOUNCEMENT On Saturday evening March 24, at 7:30 there will be a negro minstrel at the Cove Creek High School also a good string band will fur-nish plenty of music. Plenty of fun for all. Everybody come. Admission 15 - and 25 cents. t SWEET POTATOES FOR SALE AT I 80 cents PER BUSHEL. SEE B. F. herman; hudson, n. c. i6-3t * DEMOCRAT JOHN-HENRY John D. Rockefeller is a generous man, and has given millions of dollars for the betterment of mankind. He is a religious man whose personal life is above reproach. But nobody has ever mentioned or thought of hint as a candidate for President of the United States. Henry Ford does not believe in "charity" so called That is. he has never given Y dollar ?.o a college, a church or a hospital, so far as our knowledge extends. He has little use for "foundations" for medical research or for anything else. And yte there is a considerable element in this country in favor of his nomination for President by the Democratic Convention in 1924. We do not believe there is the remotest chance n t? u;? I the fact that he has a large following for that exalted position is significant. Now why the difference in these two men in the world. Well one difference is that Rockefeller made his money in collusion with Wall street; Ford made his on the' outside of that famous group of financiers and in antagonism to them.' Hut there is another and better rea-i son for the popular favor Ford reeives but that is denied to Rockefeiler. Ford gives his money to men rather than institutions. He thinks r'ne best help he can offer to a man self help. While he sells the lowe>t priced automobile in the world he pays the highest wages of any automobile manufacturer on earth. He encourages thrift in every way he can, and thousands of workmen under his plan are now home owners and fine citizens, who otherwise would be tenants and rovers over the face of the earth. Ford is not a "tight-wad" but he gives his money in a different way from Rockefeller and a way that pleases the common people. The very fact that he builds machines for the common folks fires the public imagination. The people know he is their friend, for he has proved it in a thousand ways and they would like to have a friend of theirs in the presidency, notwithstanding he declares that "history si all hunk anyhow" and knows much loss of books than of business. Old man John D. throws his dollars down from the pinnacle of financial greatjm-ss; Henry Ford stands on the I ground and scatters his money ; amongst his comrades who have j made him rich ami whom he never forgets. And these are a few of the reasons why Henry Ford has bloomed forth as a candidate while John 1>. could not carry a county in I t he union.?Charity and Children. MRS. ADDIE MAY M1ZE In His infinite wisdom our Heat venly Father called unto Himself our I beloved sister. Mrs. Addie Mae Mire on January 24. 1928. Sister Mire was .the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I A. J. May who came to this state from North Carolina about five years ago. She was horn July 17, 1907 in North Carolina where her childhood years were passed, and came with her parents to Kentucky in 1918. Sister Mize always had a great circle of friends wherever she lived as she always had a pleasant word for everyone. Her many companions and associates who are made lonely by 1 -*r departure realize that her place in their hearts and lives can never be filled. 1 In June 1921 she professed faith | in Christ as her personal Saviour, and was baptized into the fellowship of Science 11 ill Baptist Church, later moving her membership to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church where she remain 1 ed a consistent member until death. Her short Christiau life was one of frnittninf>c< iit h.?r !srn innv'c i>:iiko : Through her influence perhaps many : of her associates were ted to fori sake sin and accept the Lord. "They j that turn many to righteousness shall i shine) as the stars forever and ever." Sister Mize was married to Mr. | George Mize May 17, 1922, For a I while after her marriage she with ! her husband lived in Dayton, Ohio, ; later returning to her parents, with 1 whom they made their home until J her death. At all times she was a j faithful devoted wife and in her death ; her husband has sustained a loss in. expressable. In January 1923 Sister Mize contracted influenza which was followed i by a violent attack of double pneumonia. All was done by loved ones and friends that could be done but to no avail. On the morning of January 24, she came to the end of her suffering, which she had borne so patiently and quietly passed to the great beyond. . She leaves a husband, father moth< er and one brother to mourn her departure from them. The church of i which she was a member extends to j the bereaved its sympathy and shares i their sorrow. i ; We will miss her, yes we'll mis her ill ?aj uliuT? , But with joy we hope to greet her On that bright eternal shore. Trusting ever in onr Saviour, Who in all things knoweth best Yielding all to his good pleasure. Still we lean upon His breast. Saviour lead our hearts'still onward To that land of bright reward There to join our absent loved one. Where we'll ever praise the Lord. ?W. A. R. HALLECK WILLIAMS W. H. ELLER ! W. A. REESE Committee of Pleasant Hill Church. *11 MARCH 12, 19Z3P THE REMEDY man plans, A work for every head and heart and (James Monroe Dow num. Boone, N. hand. C.) But not through these alone are peace The world is swaying to and fro in ful ways. doubt. Still darker grows the scene, and Uncertain what a passing day may truer, firmer hands bring; Must hold in check the raging storRr We hold the balance in our trembling and truer eye hands Must see. and truer heart must find Nor know the likely way the trend the way. may be. Only an Eye, a Hand, a Heart DiWe're looking further, deeper for the vine can see hidden cause The hidden mystery, can stay the thr? As though our blinded eyes could see atening storm, within And mould to purer type the soul* The sealed unbroken mysteries and of men. nunian minas l nese truer, nigner, nooier rowew Could solve or feeble hands remake ! implored \ r," i r i By human hearts, will find the remAnd hearts and ways of men, and form anew e(*y By human plans a peaceful Paradise And bring from troubles dark a glorDoubt not there is a place for hu- ious end. \ Grass Seed, Seed Oats, Feeds and Grain j 'I We have just opened up in the store build ing where the Watauga County Bank is now located possibly one of the largest and best lines of Flour Feeds, and Seed Grain in this section of the country. FARMERS?IT WILL BE T OYOUR ADVANTAGE T BUY YOUR GRASS SEED AND SEED OATS NOW. WE HAVE LARGE STOCKS OF THE BEST QUALITY OF BOTH AND THEY ARE SOLD UNDER A POSt-nti rw? w t a n a a t?-v-*v?? w-? 111V HjU AK A IN 1 fcfc. We sell both wholesale and Retail SEE US BEFORE BUYING _______ S. C. Eggers & Company si Hml/1 t~k uunu ;;n inai | J Vacant Lot | p Bear in mind that a vacant lot produces no a] v inocme?in fact it is an expense. We say, seH lect and erect a house and derive an income, gf p Let us show you. IM For instance if you own a vacant lot you |1 pay taxes and get nothing in return. |jj Why not improve your community by er- |a |? ecting a desirable home for yourself or for K g some family who appreciates the comforts Ik of an up-to-date dwelling. Besides you will |a || receive a splendid income. I NOW IS THE TIME TO GET BUSY 1 11 Watauga Fur. & Lumber Co. 1 in' .| ff.. ' ^
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