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I WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE ' =
SuililiiiiimiuiimiiTinTiTiMiiiiTmuiiiin
Cepyright. 1922. by the MacnnlUi* Co.
NE of the first things that a |
Iff new reporter on our paper has |
to learn is the kinology of the
town. Until he knows who Is kin to
'whom, an<l how. n reporter Is likely
at ady time to make a huil break.
. Kow. the kinology of a country town
is no simple proposition. a!
man has spent ten years writing tip j
[weddings, births and deains. attending
old settlers" picnics. family re 1
| unions and golden weddings, he may
! run Into a new line of kin that opens
a whole avenue ??f hitherto uue\ I
plalnable facts to him. showing why j
certain families lir e up in the ward j
primaries, and why certain others are;
'fighting tooth and toenail.
The only person In t<>wn he know all
of our kinology?and most of thar
In the county, where it is n separire
and lntenninaMe study?Is "An*'
Martha Merryfield. She has lived
here since the early fifties, and was a 1
Perkins, one of the eleven IVrktns j
children that gscw tip in t??wn; and
uiv c erKinses ?r?> reiarou ??> ma
rlage to tho M <?rt?? s. of whom then1]
are over fifty living adult descendants
on the town-site now. one begin*
to see why she Is called "Aunt" Mar
tha Merry field. Sho Is literally aunt
to over a huudn- ! people here.
She lives a one in the his bri !;
house on fl hill, though her children
and grandchildren are in and out all
day and nn>st of the night, so thai!
ahe Is not nt all lonesome. Slie Itha
only person to whoru we can 1??.??
for accurate Inferinntion about b* tl1
history, and when a mau dies who ha*
been at nil prominent in affairs of th* ,
town or county or state, we alwaycall
up "Aunt" Martha on the p' no
oe send a reporter to her. to learn |
the real prin able and unprintable
truth about him.
Aunt Martha used to bring us flow
ers for the < table, and it was
her delight to sit down and take out
her corn-knife-? - she e, led it?at:
go after the town shams. She has}
promised a dozen times to write an,
article for the pa; r. which sin <a>?
we are not to print. tied i" :
Made Women T Have Kn.ovn.** S1 *
. anys that nn?n were alw.ivs bragging!
about how they l ad clerked, worked
on farms. dug dit-hes and whacked}
mules across the pla'ns : ' :v
railroads came; b .* that -ir \v . insisted
that they wore prim esses ? t
the royal blood.
1 Tt.. ....? ... ?? .1 .
iH-r I : 1 " % "? *
town Is Mrs. Jr. i N.al W'or! n; i
Aunt Martha to''! us that when Tin
Keal came to t \.u l o I 1 a I t o
you could s.'rnp a i,".? as i
"O" before his r: e you . nthl ;
,a hogshead with. **Aud that woman.-*
exclaim* 1 Ar >I..r: -aI.
' was uii'li'r f.: 11 sa "" it worn a . !
cause she hits x\\ \? oases in t!
front rmi: a; <1 reads ti e ho. ^ reviews
In the pel. .ator. t: n.s
she Is cultun ! When her f- >t
came to town th? v ere as p .
Job's turkey. wh.ch v.as :. ?t to tl r?
discredit?ev? r. one wi> p..or in tl
days. The dd man NVal was as hon
est an old M. ns y : 1 meet in a
day's journe; or at a fair and he
, used to run o lemonade and peanut J
Stand down by ?: ' > oner Hut
Ms fflrls. v ! > were raised n It, un
til they bc_an tea hir.c so!:.ml, use
to refer to the peanut star ! ts *pn
-- Ppi pctciu tuav uc Will; mui
It for -e ro?ti >n. and say: "N \ w: \
do you suppose papa enjoys it??\\>
Just can't eet hi-a to cive It tip!' And
now Julia is pre-i lent of the Woman's
federation, has stomach trouble
has had two operations, and is suf
PRferlpgl BSttBBBi'lWiWjl
tnntls. And yet."' Aunt Martini wourT
ay throuirh a beatific smile, "she >
a good-enouuh woman In many w i
and I wou! :n"t say anything against
^ her for the
Once Mss Larrahee. the society'
reporter, hmupht back tins from a
Jjfeit to Aunt Martha: "! !:r.w, r.:y .
[dear, that your turner says there are
so cliques and cr?> , ds In society in
this town. Hial that It Is s<? demo*1
'cratic. But yon .;r..i I know the truth,
iWe knQjv about s ty in this town,
jWe know that If there ever was a
'town that looked like n s. le of hecon?streak
of lean and streak of faf
jail the way down?it is this blessed
iplace. Crowds??why. I've lived here
jover fifty years ami It was always
| crowds. 'Way back in the days when
the hoys used to pl^k us up and cnrry
ns across Kim Creek when we went
'to dances, there were crowds. The
girls who crossed on the boys* backs
weren't considered quite proper by
the girls who were carried over in
the boys' arms. And they didn't dunce
.In the same set."
Miss Larrabee says she looked Into
the elder woman's eyes to find whi h
crowd Ann? M?r?hn belonged tor when
he flashed out:
**Oh. child, yon needn't look nr me?
I did both; It depended on who whs
looking! Bnt. as I was saying. If
anyone knows about societyx In this
town. I do. I went to every dance
la town for the first twenty-five years,
and T hare made potato salad to pay
the ralnry of every Methodist preacher]
for the past thirty years, and I ought]
to know what I'm talking about."
There was fire enough te twinkle In
her old eyes as she spoke. "Be.itnffftng
at the bottom. on*: may say that
tbe base of society Is the little tads.
jmmgiog down from what your paper
r?
ctlls the Amaljcnnuited Handheldera.
to the trundle-bed trash Just out of
their kisaiug gaui-Mk K-s funny to
watch the littie lads crow up and
pair off and see how bravely they tt7
to keep in the swim. I've seen teh
grandchildren Ret out and I've a greatgrandchild
whose mother will be
pushing her out before she is old
enough to know any thine. When
young people get married they all say
they're not going to be old-raarrledly.
an I they hang: on to the dances and
iittie hops until the first baby comes.
Then they don't trot out to the dances
much, but they join a canl club."
In tier dissertation on the social
progress of young niarrteil people.
Aunt Martha e\| i tied that aner the
second year the vple g? only the
big th n. s where e-.e.-ye is invited,
hot ihc. ?> i:tore attention to curds.
The >e ;rtir mother begins g.-ing j0
afterti p::::i*-s. I } :*s other
yours n il s in dinner.
Tit en. before they ' : trtff it, th-\v are
Ipvitod t.? receptions : v 1 parties,
where little tads preside at the punchboa*
Is at ! nv :tIr ? n tu'de, are seen
an*! not heard. Aunt Martha continued:
**l>y tie* r:: the v a,J baby comes
they take one of two shoots -either
go in for ;urch socials or edge info
a whist eltib.
Aunt Martha's *\es -1 with tie
mischief in her h . t a.** - * went on:
"Now, If after th? **n-l h.ihy comes*,
the g | ar? * - *: ? feel '.ike
saving i.ion-y, at i h* ;rg no at
the lank, they jo'n r!:e church and go
In for uttrch s < .. is. which don't take
so much r e .*r :.cy s the whist
cluhs and re - The bah:**.*
V p corn g and the young people
K?-. *. en it : r. ving their heme. nitwit
g n the lit*:- house to th.e big
! - ; the yn*:r.g ir.a: ? ?;a:ae begins
to <:. ;? int.i list- f directors at tlie
! \ trt? 1 tli invite I out to the
big p *.. s. -he gees t > all the
stand- ;;- and 'g 'V-g**V V and git*
recef 'Ions. As tl ** grew older, they
r: - a?-ui-d v. ith f <* preaclnr*s an 1
v lews * -r t!ie drst eight < :' a series
of parties at a leu - to g * th.ua out
of the v :iy and over with before the
c;;n: folks c?- ? later In the wee!:.
Wh.-n they get to a point where the
y ! g f. l v- laugh end * i..p their
ban-is at MTle pudgy daddy when he
dun--* 'Oi l L'au T.idv.r at the b.g
t? I
*. W* \
I .v 'tJ - - :.\
\ T Ljt
X-iTkra
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Sr( AT < > 0
A' .jO*
The Judge Walked Over and G;
parries in .tie n-tcl: house, it's all up
with tltetn?thfy nr..* oM married
folks, and the next step takes them to
T::' ?-ld folks" whist eluh. where the
! :i*:! "?n*s* wives and the insurant
san. ruary. the lioly of h>'.ies it. ' e
so; '."t>' "fv' s r??\vn."
"That remirds me of the 1 *Irtlii
; s. \Vh? n they enme her . !?;. l%
in the sixties, it happened to he
Fourth of PMjt. and the bar . was out
playing in the grove bv 'he denot,
Mrs. Wintlirop g??r off t e train quite
grandly and bowed a: waved her
hand to the band, and the Judge
tiwaike l over and gave the bend leader
five dollars. They said afterward that
they felt deeply touched to find a raw
! western town so appreciative of the
coining of an old New Er.u a.nd family.
that it erected them with a band.
Before Mrs. Winthr-'p had beer, here
tluvo weeks she called on :ne. 'as onr
of the first ladies of the town.* she
| sr.1. to organ-re and see if we
Couldn't break up the habit ??f the
hired girls eating at the table with
j the family."
Tho talk drifted bark to the old
, days-, nr*'1 A"** ?!;::-ti:n so? out he
phot- ..j and showed Miss
Lnrrabee the nlctvro of tli >><e whom
she r:\Vf! ';..e r:; !e forefathers nl
the vili re." la their quaint old costumes
of war-times. In the hook were
baby pictures of middle-aged men ami
women, and youthful pictures of the
old men nr.d women of the town. But
most Interesting <>f all to Miss Lnrra
bee were the daguerrotvpes?rfuaint
old portraits Iri tlieir little black
boxes, framed In plush and gilt. The
old woman brought out picture aftet
picture?her husband's nmopg the
others, in a broad heaver J^jE with s
high choker taken back in Brattlebon
before he came to Kansas. She
looked at It for a long minute, and
then said gayly to Miss Larrabee
"He was a handsome boy?quite the
beau of the state when we were mar
- ? ? - -r " ? |
THE CHEROKEE SCOUT, h
! rl?d?Judge of tho District court at ^
twwity-four." She head tho cooo to
j 'her hand and went on opening the
I others. She com# to one showing ?
must ached and gun teed yonth in a
captain's uniform?a alhn. straight
soldierly figure. As aha passed It to ]
Miss La its bee Aunt Martha looked
sidewise at her. nylng: "Ton wouldn't
know Mrr now. Yet you see him
every day. I suppose.** After the girl
shook her head, the elder woman continued:
"Well, that's Jim Purdy.
taken the day he left for the army."
She sighed as she said: "Let me see.
, 1 guess I haven't happened to run
across Jim for ten years or more, hut
he didn't look much like this then.
Poor old Jim, they tell me he's not ;
having the best time In the world j
Miss Lniruhee caine down the lilac j 1
. bordered walk from tho stately old,
brick house, carrying a great bouquet
of sweet peas and nastnrtlums and ,
popples and p!i!"X a fleeting memsry
of some association she had in her :
mind of tnde Jinmiy Purdy and'1
Aunt Martha kept tantalizing her i
She could not get It out of the back-},
ground of her consciousness, and yet i
St refused to form itself into a tan i
gihle conception. It was associated' !
i Ml- w t'? 'i.?r .t?-n '
us thongh. ii::' : e ages ago. hor
tr:i: I: !-or liu I said something that
had lodged in the girl's head.
When tlie <v ishm made itself.
MIj-s Larra .h> us :.-I her granduit-rl
or the quest to that puzzled her.
and learned that Martha Perkins and
Jim Ihirdy wore lovers before the
v.u.r. and that slie was wearing his :
ring when he went away -thinking!
hi' would be back in a few weeks with t ,
the Civil war ended. In 1. fir-*
fight lie was shot in the head v I w: a |
In the hospital for a year, nte I;
v. hen he w as put hack in t . rar .s
he was captured and his it: e g -n ,
out among the killed. In prison ids
dementiu returned ami he <??1 : ere
tv. . years. Then for a r? after his
exchange he followed ' e Union
army 1 :.o a land, rent*:- an ! not
nt.t.l two years after tt ?*e f the
war did the poor fellow drift home
ug n. a- one fr*?m the dead?all un? ]
certain of the p. st and unfitted for
the future.
And 1 s sweetheart drank her eup
alone. The el ! s. : 11 ts say that she
never fl.nchcd i.ur i-I.ran... but fur ,
1 _ ,
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1 *' //
pC
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iH
ave 'ue Bind Leaeer Five Dollars.
.!**. en after i r :::trr:. go, the .
. ::i\ .:.sn kept a ii111 grave .ov- j
ercd a liowcrs, that l?ore the J
sc..pic >i-ru.s: " .Martha, aged live
months : d three d:ivs."
The ;.r br-.u-h: Icr . so
i.amy . raws that V
w.i- - ;:<-n. the }cai? passed s?r,d
. . . -1 i>eo<f the community
kr.-.w :t :: !;ttle grave beside
the jm.ge's arid their little hoy's, j
e.v Purdy grew into at snnvoth:
< e(l
hi tar.n, clerking in tlie bookstore for
a i.: e, serving ;s <-:?y clerk lor ,
1 > \--.irs. and later living at the Palace
la lei ?>n his j. n-h-n. lie worshiped!
Aunt Martha's children, but he never .
saw her e\? ?.?pt v. hen they met in some
casual way. She was married when
he c. rae hack from the war, and if
he ever knew her agony he never .
. | spoke of ii,
i
One day they found him dead in
his bed. And Miss I.arrabee hurried
out to Aunt Martha's to got the facts j
ah-.ut Is is life for the paper. It was
u bright October morning as she went :
| up the walk to the old brick house, i
i end she heard someone playing on the
, piano, rolling the chords after the
! grandiose manner of pianists GO I
! j ears ago. a voice seemed to be sing- j
ing an >ld ballad. As the g'ti mount- ,
ed the steps the voice came more dis- j
tinetly to her. It was quavering and :
h.., ..-m ? * ?i-? !
I , a .ttvnu VI JJUWJ'JU j
, the words came forth: 1
"As I lay my heart on yonr dead J
heart?Douglas,
Douglas, Douglas, tender and trne?w :
Suddenly the voice choked with n
groan. As she stood J>y the open door I
Miss Larrabee could see in the darkened
room the figure of an old wnmnn.
k : racked wttn sobs a great mahog,
j any sofa, and on the floor beside her
, lay a daguerreoty^je. glinting Its gilt
I j and glass through the gloom.
: ! The girl tiptoed across the porch,
i ! down the steps, through the garden,
. | and out of the gate.
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IURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA
Why Music Should Be 1
In The Public School
Papier read before the
County Teacher's Association
Meeting in
Murphy Saturday, January
1 3th, by Mrs. J. N.
Hill.
The p>ubiic school system of Amor- 1
ca is unquestionably weakest in the
most significant of all factors of edacalion.
i. e., character buildirg.
While music in itself does not buhl,
rharacter, its stimulating, ennobling
nflutnee, its power to serve as a ,
anifying force in all assemblie?, it^
Effect in training the m;nd to ex (
pccd.ng rapid, accurate action, make !
it an indispensable background for |
iht? more direct character forming
activities. I.et us consider this very
serious problem and perhaps suggest j
what, part music shall play n it> j
solution.
Music is the universal language? '
ho gasport to the hearts of all r.n- '
lions. It has this in common with J
ill languages, that it is most ea-itv
acquired in childhood and early
fouth. Among our greatest soloists
rnd composers, both classical afpd
in. .r!j all uere children of
n .c . uers. or, ir .omr? way dur- '
i. their if v ar . c .hood con- 1
*
at!; .iri inslr .ue: or vocal!
. . -isic.
T1 . .he ntlc art - * music may
..av lac: ..una: a value greater
Lh: in; one v ? of the iny
[>o Qt 1 .ncht u lly taught in
public schools t . --ges few parrots
realise.
Parents, especially mothers, or
en these who have had little or no
mu.-ieai training and probably consider
themselves unmu ha*. can help
tr. ir.endously toward our national
ma-. crowthgg- At th?* same time *
their ci ldren will be gaining quali- j
tn both thri ugli discipline and dc- j
vci'c n.ent, which v.il make them Ir. j
all Tt/spi s better citizens, giving
:i i :a a:; influence, perpetually broad
inir.g their mental h ?riz ?n towardl
' e t: lh and beauty.
<*omparing the study of music to
that of subjects considered essential
in the school or coiiege cirriculunv
mathematics, both theoretical and ap- j
plied, is perhaps mj I rrarly akin is.
iv.m'cd stud\. We do not use many 1
actual figures?2, 3, 4, 6, sometime* !
.. ... :h. . - ... m.-.i I
art' Oil III JU: i piv'i"'.vi\?u *...?* ^ - ? -..
sequence.
Viewed as a langaag., m;:s o I .ih
it- pr;^e and ; :-y; its grammar j
and rhetoric, analy- and scansion.
History and geography may no: on !
first thought seem c!o: e!y related to
the study of n;u-ic. but consider how
intimately nsoc;ated with every nation,
every ciinv? is its national nn?
sic, how certain forms of music inevitably
picture to u* the social, political,
or conditio**
that produced thrtm.
Farents should not fail to real Ire
the ethical importance of music in
school and at home. The neec
lor strong training in ethical trutr.
m.d i?iOblcmr the child must I
confront, sooner or later, may be
taught in the home, in the church,
in the Sunday school, through the
Bible, but the best place to reach all
of the children is in the school?every
school day of the year. The
process of giving a child an ethical
weight in his mind, that he may determine
what i- hi? duty v .1 r g'v?
?: .... - ? <>c tliniu'hl
t'll ? ? e-?
and iristant adaptability. It requires
a sense of idealism combined with
practical experience. It is 1 that
music plays such a vital part in education,
because of the inimitable
mental and physical drill that it invariably
gives to every child who
studies an instrument.
But wherein lies the value of music
as an education for those children
who will never use it professionally,
who have perhaps not the natural
aptitude ever to sing or play
rome instrument acceptably as an
; accomplishment? it is genera?*?
i conceded that an all-round develop,
j ment, physical and mental, moral
and spiritual, is the goal to whic^ we
all strive. Through an intelligent
[ musical training may he developed
| patience and sympathy, perseverance,
I accuracy and pieolsior.. Per feel
poise is developed, a relaxed elj
though alert attitude of both rrynd
1 and body. Such a condition must
| surely promote physical well-being.
I Then music plays a most impor
DIXIE GROWERS
ASSOC 1 ATI
B, DR. FRED CO(
THE l.ARCE WHITE BURLEY TO- ,
BACCO SEEDS ARE NOW AV. ,
AILABLE AT GREEN'S GROCE- ,
ERY, MURPHY. THOSE AWAY
FROM MURPHY AND ADJOINING
SECTIONS MAY GET THEIR
SEED JJIRECT THROUGH AS .
SOCIATICN HEADQUARTERS, i
SOME PUBLIC QUESTIONS .W !
SWEREP. 1?Why different price.*
iri memberships? Answer?We h -v i
vo far. made two rates in member- J
hips the straight rate of ?10 f >r
land owner- and tho.-e who plan to
grow a full crop and take advantage
f the full member hip. Then, the
Club Membership, which is issued to
young people under the age of 20
and to women all arc entitled to a
half crop?half of thctwc acres. A
club membership or two have been
isued to old people who will grow
nly a small amount of tobacco. Wc
base our principle of procedure upon
business method and are willing to
cave it to the judgment of falrmindd
readers.
WHY HAVE SOME PEOPLE
REALIZED SO LITTLE OUT OF
THEIR TOBACCO CROPS IN THIS
SECTION IN THE PAST?
There are several answer*. The
first is. possibly tho tobacco that
the e parties raised and marketed wof
a very poor grade, as the nioun
tin scrub tobacco often is; bring of
a wry heavy, dark, strong, firry
type, good for nothing but to smoke
ut pole cat - with. Again, possibly
there were no tobacco fertilizers usd
under the tobacco mentioned. Totant
role in the curricula of our pub- f
lie schools. If it merely supplied the !
nspiration which made the child
look toward nobler things, its place
in thc public school sv torn would
justified. Rut the study of interpretative
music does far more
th:in this. It trains the mind t.? make ;
exceeding rapid and accurate decisie
s and synchronises it wit|| l? ally
motion . I? no other art is the
soul frem youth to eld age so refie
bed rfml ed fled. Dr. Charb -
KII:? 11 Harvard Univer ity i:; qu t-1
* '" g^aMusic., rtghtiy taught I
is thi- best mind traiiv r on the 1? "
I?a forceful 20th century end
I ment. |
Every child should have the op-;
portur.ity of a dr'l! in learning t:?i
play an instrument as a regular pa:t
of his education. Of all the schorl
tudies music is the one which the
average person will meet the nm-t Ir. I
later life. Every day in his home,
r.t church ar.d the theatre he will feel!
the ennobling influence of music. ,
These, then, are ine ra?vi? miy j
music should be classed as important
n our modern school curriculum as
IRadin', Tttin* and *Rithmetic.
CULBERSON NOTES
The flu is still raging around Cul|
berson.
I We are very sorry to report the
j death of Mrs. Iven Harris, which occurred
last Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hawkins are
on the sick 1st this week.
' -
IT eachers
Is Your Sc
Do You Plan to Att<
We offer, bepnninjr with I
that will count for summer
clarification of your certific
full information, address?
W. E. E
STATE NOR
CULLOWHEE
I
Friday. January 20. 1923 M
AND SHIPPERS'
?KRAN, President I
_ U
?
lay we kave orient if icallj^prepared
tobacco fertilizers that greatly aid
Iho tobacco crop in maturing: early,
ivith a pood color and quality.
A Rain, th cutting and curing: of
he tobacco crop mentioned was of
tvne. without the
r pht pialization of heat and shade
y v-s for i normal cure. These
iTV.c of tho answers piven
f - the failure of a crop. The most
important an wor. and One that
should he made public more than it
in.- s the robberies that have taken
place in tobacco marketing. No farm
r :">! turn his tobacco crop into
h: of any proup of unreliable
men t? say what it is worth and how
mucj, t ?- :irht to brinp. This is often
:h- . c e. A train, there are tobacco
snecula "rs who poeeround spreading
ffloom about the market; bt'inp
low and that tobacco wil not bo wanted
tbis year. h"\vever. 1 will pive you
so much.etc." This is often pulled
off. Farmers arc the victims of
more schemers than any praup of
people in the world. They are afraid
of a coid proposition.
Many people will wait to see the
lemons; ration tried and wis], this
f.*11 that thry would have prown a
tobacco crop. To illustrate? The
writ r has j i t becn to Monroe
County, Tcnn.. where a few farmers
were finally rotten into the notion
to prow a tobacco crop there last
year. They followed directions and
realized more off -mall plots of land
than tin y did off all the rest of their
fan Th y prow the larpe white
h t--bacon. This vear more than
a thousand farmers in that county
-a; i pr \v an i xtonsive tobacco crop.
. N y Mull is vi. ...ip home
folk .
M s. I . M. S1 . ' en quite
sii l; " ?r tie p." * '
11- v. W. 1 family are
nil sick \vi
Tlx ?ng 1 Arthur Burns
Inst S was enjoyed by
alar ?wd.
Townson is visiting her
i Cearley this week.
Mr. C . Lance was the guest of
I . W. J. Townson Sunday.
y ci Faille and Pauline Kisselburg
are intending to enter school
at Blue Itylgo Monday.
Mr. W. A. Nichols ha^ his store
almost completed.
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