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DECEMBER 13, 1923. OBITUARY Henry Greene, one of Watauga's best citizens passed to his reward at 2:30 a. m. Dec. 10th. Brother Greene was born Nov. 24 1866 on Beaver Dams. He was fir>t married to Manda Green, sister to Rev. Geo. Gieene, Missionary to China. She was a native of Caldwell County. She preceded him by eleven years to' tier reward. To this happy * union five children were born: Mrs. | Una Tester, Mrs. Clara Farthing of| I Blountviile, Trim., Mrs. Jane Dish-; * man and Robert Greene. One is dead.! Brother Greene united. with the! Bethel Baptist Church when a young man. When Timbered Ridge church \ was organized he moved his membership there, becoming a charter member of that church- Less tijpm two years ago he moved his membership to the Boone Church. While a member of Timbered Ridge he was the Church Treasurer, and for several years served as Superintendent of, the Sunday School. He was ever loy- \ .al and faithful to his church. Brother Greene was raised in a large family. There were seven children. Six brothers and sisters are dead. Mr. Greene was a successful farmer. He was also Secretary-Trea surer of the Watauga Building & Loan Association when he died. July 21, 1923 he was happily married to Mrs. Floy Mast of Boone. This brief married life was one of happiness. Brother Green was a good mar., a faithful husband, a loving father, a true friend, a public spirited zen. n loyal church member a devout citizen. The funeral services were conducted from his home on Beaver Dam by Revs. F. M. Huggins and W. Swift. The body was gently laid to rest' in ine iamuy grave yam rie<*i mt uiu; home. F. M. MUGGINS. COUNT THE BLESSINGS, TOO While traveling recently we came across a man whose point of view is tindoubttediy similar to that of many others just now. Hot long ago one of his best cows wr- taken sick! and by midnight it was evident that i if she did not receive medical attention soon her chances of recovery would In very plight. A veterinarian was called, who as soon as he examined the cow, ask ed why he had not been called sooner The farmer explained that he alreadyowed hint a bill and was ashamed to a&k for further credit. Further, he owed the implement dealer and the feed store. Once started telling his troubles he painted a very gloomy picture of the proposition he was up against. In the meantime the cow had been i relieved and the doctor began to ask questions. How many cows have you now and how many horses and hogs Isn't your barn and house comfortable'.' How long ago did you start farming, anyway? From thfc questioning it developed that this farmer had started 10 vears ago on a rented farm with a team, three cows, a few brood sows, and some hens, now he owns his farm almost free from debt has a fine bunch of cows, good horses and feeds out a carload of hogs every year. Suddenly grasping his friends arm the farmer almost shouted, "Why, I am rich," and in a modest way he was but never before had the fact dawned upon him. Success at farming necessarily extends over a long period of years. In common with all other undertakings it has its downs as well as ups. If we persist in counting the downs without ever stopping to consider the ups we leave ourselves open to attack to the first gloom bug that comes along, ft pays tc count the blessings, too.?Successful Farming. The Chamber of Commerce meet; on Saturday night at 7 o'clock anc 30 minutes. Your presence is need ed. Surgery in France Paris.?Two cases of what has been considered hitherto an incurable (lis ease were presented lately to The So ctet.v of Neurology of Paris. Turnon pressing on the spinal marrow hav? always proved fatal owing to the dlf >? Acuity of diagnosing them and of io eating theift. Professor Sicard ha Introduced a method of injecting ic dlzed oil into the bony canal forme by the vertebrae of the .spine whirl enables an X-ray to be taken, showin where the iodine has *?en depositee and where the deposit has been intei rnpted by the tumor. The exact spe for operating is thus seen. The application of this method 1 described as delicate but not e3 treniely difficult, nor beyond th power of any good surgeon. Farmer Ha* Watch That Wind* Up Automaticall I- , Chattanco??: Trull.?Slam Rird. farmer living near b.ere, owns what thought to be the only watch In tl world which does not have to 1 wound. The timepiece, made by tl /j former-Jeweler d iring his leisn hours, is provided with a small pend !um, which swings back snd forth wh he walks. This movement winds t springs of the watch. \ JUDGE GARY AND CHARITY Statesville Daily. Judge Gary, directing head of the United States Steel Corporation reI '-ently discussed charity in a public address in New York, and while he isn't noted as a charitable4,mail in any"aspect, so far as recalled at this moment, his remarks or* the subject are more than usually interesting, coming from the hea dof a fc?g Co poration First he iaid down the axiomatic principle that one must be generous not until he has been just, that charity is commendable only <11.,.. ;? a....- +t... existing obligations of the donar. In every day life for instance, if one owes money or duty, that ha? first call. When the obligations aie discharged one can be generous and lay claim to the virtue of charity. Sometimes folks are rather free in giving money for charitable causes for which they receive due credit, (when :their money isn't theirs to give. It belongs to their creditors. Their generosity is a fraud, they committed robbery in the name of charity by giving away what did not belong to them. Judge Gary's immediate purpose in discussing this feature of charity was preliminary to t&king the position that the,United States could not cancel the war debts due front European Nations so long as the government owes that money, that the government has no call to be generous with borrowed money and money which must be repaid. But regardless of the purpose, this eminently sound view of charity should be emphasized occasionally. It is too frequently disregarded, and sometimes when debtors give to charity they are disposed to take that much from Lheir creditors and impute it to themselves for righteousness. But here is the most interesting poifit in the steel magnate's remarks. "Real generous charity is fashionable and it is Christian, but the dtior is not entitled to credit it the money comes from that obtained by illegal unsconscionable and unfair means." That has been and is a subject of much controversy. Not a few peopletake the view that millionares who have made immense sums from oil, sloe*, tobacco or any other monopoly where the immense gains resulted, as everybody,* knows, from unfair methods that dominated and controll ed the market, are not entitled to credit for the millions they give to charity; that the money really belongs to those from whom it waif unjustly I taken by unfair means. The oil monopoly, for instance, can collect millions from the people by raising the price of oil one cent, and then gel credit for great virtue by giving ? portion of that money to educatior or some other good cause. Judge Ga Iry holds that, they are not enuuec to credit, but he modifies that bj I adding that it is appropriate thai | such ill-gotten gains be given as ai I assuagement of conscience to tltoa I who have unjustly suffered. But i ! is doubtful ir the returns go back ti the original sufferers. Certainly the: do not receive their own directly and giving their money to some canst no matter how worthy, when the mat or the corporation who robbed then gets the credit, does not make th unwilling victims feel any bettei i In fact that method adds insult t | injury. . t But then Judge (iary added th favorite camouflage of those wh i cannot defend the robbery but wh , condone the method which is the sam because a part of the toll exacte . is devoted to good purposes. He hel , that the millions which have bee , devoted to the cause of humanit j would net have been available fc such purposes had not large fortunt been concentrated in the hands < 5 a few. That is the favorite defens 1 that is supposed to end the argumen . The big combines that dominate ce taiflt lines of business and collect e: toirfo-iate profits^from unwilling bi helpless victims, give immense sun ( to numerous causes that help ma kind. But for these the money wou . not be available. Therefore let the s proceed with the robbery so long ? they give a part of the proceeds good purposes. Of course that is. " principle, the sale oi rndulgenci s formerly a practice of the Romi ^ Church which Luther and othc ^ have so heartily condemned. But t K Christians today *in effect, appro j the principle and thank God tli the Church benefits by it. >t s ?? ? <- A LINE (T CHEER ie I By John Kondrick Bang*. LIFE y i ? n I NWARD, onward apeed the w ! \Jf years; Js With their weight of hopes fie I and fears; t Trials lurking here and there. 1 1 Joys to ease the press of care: tie ' Light and shadow, sun and rain* ? Alternating peace and pain? But beneath the stress and strife u- 8esse of rich, pulsating life, en Jn whoso depths we find the stir Leading on to Character, fat < Vy MeClur* N^vrspapir Syndicate.) I l| ? THE WATAU< WAY DOWN SOUTH" <W A. WAlton. ) The happiest moments in my life were spent in the school room, stu* | dying history?the record of pas; | c:\ent . And how my heart and soul did bufn when ! read studied and pondered over the magic voyage, of the moit famous expedition that ever set. sail for unknown waters and land. | I say waters and land because Ponce Dc Leon the intrepid Spanish explo. rcr had a vision oi a "Fountain uf Youth" in which any aged person couM bathe, and come back to youth, and live forever; so to speak. Tradition and many winged legends have it that he landed and set his feet upon the flowers and Garden of Eden right here on St. An| drews Bay, Florida. This hay-is a part of the wafers I jutting out into the channel from tk?. i nb?. .v* ? , ? i v -J> wu. >iunco v?i JVJVU. After my prrival here when 1 would l He down on my bed to rest I could ; near the mighty roar of something? like the noi.se of many waters, angry and playing hide and seek along the coast batiks of sunny Florida?so I asked "What could all this moan?" and to my surprise I was told that what I heard was the wild waves or. the Gulf of Mexico at play. Oh, how my heart did burn and yearn Fo go uown and thrust my poor and feeble hands into this water, and to look with mine eyes upon the mighty deep of Blue Waters lashing at play with white caps that, were ' sailing to and fro through the spaJ ces that never seem to end. It was then and here that m)y* j childhood dreams were realized and i brought, back to my tnind when 1 j was a school boy in my teens. It was then that I realized for j what Ponce De Leon had sought out ' hut my only regret I have for this epistle of past history is that he could have been successful and have found the true "Fountain of Youth" but the Great God who rules the universe today, tomorrow and forever, blinded this Spanish explorer's eyes and His wisdom sent an angel from on high to watch, so that these wat. ers might not be troubled, and this old man like Peter at ilomo had to undergo the trial (of disappointment) and suffer an untimely death at the hands of a tribe of natives 1 a penalty for tresspassing upon the ; Flower Garden and sailing upon unknown waters. To think of all of this is to make one feel uncanny and almost brings to their minds of magic thought?the Garden of Eden, the Taradisc of which was created for the first mar of the human race. I j On the other hand to look upon the . Gulf of Mexico it makes us feel in > an earthly way what John saw spin ^ itually on the Isle of Patmos. * The beauty of what I have seer ?. i can never be described or lulu Iti . others for 1 feel that the great Spir it keep two all-seeing eyes upon mi and would not let me write the sen e timeuts of my heart,, so the memorj (1iof the sight fades from mine eyei r, when ltry to explain what I havi e 1 seen in the waters of the Gull* o - | Mexico and the nearby St. A ndrew I o.. . ?U . Innc Jftllirh q nay vnc iinuiviun . v..*, ,0Fountain of Youth, which could no be found?this links up history so t G speak with our very own "Lost Coi o ony of North Carolina" which is e mystery until this very day. d d Why Do They Crow? n y! From the Atlantic tto the Pacifi )r the three outstanding states show ;s ing industrial development and raj id growth in population are New Yor e Illinois and California, t, A recent survey of Illinois show r_ that it has more users of electri K. light and power than any state in tl union and these users comprise 1 lls per cent of all electrical users in tl n, country, according to figures pul Id lished in the Elevated News of Ch m en go. California ranks second and No to York third. Illinois has more res in dcnti^l electricity users thjm ar other state, is second in the numb sh industrial power users and thi ? in tho- nnmhcr r?f commercial Iicrh he I inp customers, according* to the r ve I port. [at' Of the i 0.800.UGO electric lit: j and power customers in this count 7S per cent were home users, 18 p I cent commercial users and 1 per < '.industrial consumers. There are So 1 [ 000 residential lighting customers Illinois. When you consider that clecti ? light and power are two of the grt test forces for the extension of mc era civilization it should readily seen why Illinois. California and N< York should show such growth, i they are leaders in electric power < velopment. You want to help your town a t county?then don't fail to be at I meeting of. the Chamber of C< "9^ merce at 7:30 Saturday night. A DEMOCRAT I?l?2>J! In I W^safc Gi Sugge A partial list of the usefu offering this 5'ear: Lach purchase, if desired, in Christmas paper, tags, sea ing without extra charge. i * FOUNTAIN Parker Lucky Curve, Par deal, Parker Pencils, Parke gold or silver pen and pencil ^ STATU I Crane's Linen Lawn, Cran Ldge Vallum, Rillette Bond, en. Highland Linen, Romanc a - 'r* 1 it? ! Linen, i uoerose, tJld Lnglis Writing Papers. CAN Jacobs' "Made Last Nighl dy of the South in most atti pounds. Miscellaneous choc bulk. BO( Complete Line latest ficl Morrocco bindings. Bibles, L Comics, etc. UACl irinvir A years subscription to i most acceptable gift, and on a.whole year. We act as age ter your subscription at pu t 1 charge for our services. 9 !l| FOR SIV ?r Pipes, Tobacco, Tobacco Cigarette Cases, Cigars in b Cigarettes, etc. FLO We are agents for Gunn Bristol Floral Company. C as early as possible in order fore the Christmas rush. MISCEL o Phonograps and records . Sticks, Manicure sets. Card Shaving Sets, 1 issue Paper Tinsel Cord, etc., etc., H M * iy IT rd it ht ry er t. fWM I km beew [or Greene B md the Boone, N >m PAGE THREE ;hristma!sP i cheer m ift istions il and attractive gifts we are will be attractively wrapped ils, etc., and packed tor mail PENS, ETC. ker Duofold, Vv aterman's lr Duette Sets, consisting of in velvet lined gilt box. DNERY ie s Kid Finish, Crane's Ravel Dalton Vellum, Autocrat Lin >, Old Chelsea Vellum, Paget >h Crushed Bond, Children's DIES t" and Nunnally s "The Canactive boxes from one to five :ola"tes and other candies in DKS Lion: Classics in leather and )ictionaries. Children's Books i i favorite magazine makes a le that can be appi'eciated for :nts for all magazines and enblishers price, without extra lOKERS Pouches, Cigarette Holders, o ,,r ?. c,.? luiiua)' uu.\ca, i l vv ci ivy nvu> WERS ar Teilmann &. Son, and the )rders should be given to us to insure prompt delivery beLANEOUS , mahogany and silver candle 1 Sets. Card Cases, Bill holds, s. Cards, l ags. Seals, Folders, JjBingham I orth Carolina. * Jje, . Jm i . Tfi8fti wBB
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