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(©, 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
When earth’s last picture is dusted, .
And the floors are painted and dried;
When the oldest carpet is beaten,
And the youngest spider has died.
We shall rest, and faith we # shall
need it;
Lie down for a moment or two,
Till the dust on the grand piano
Shall set us to work anew'.
—With apologies to Kipling.
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS.
This is the time of year when pars
nips are at their best. Some like them
Tilth
who think a parsnip fritter is the dish
of excellence. To prepare the fritters
the vegetable is cooked, then skinned
and mashed very fine, seasoned well
and a teaspoonful of the mashed pars
nip dipped into a fritter batter, then
fried in deep fat. These fritters are
usually served with some kind of
sweet sauce like hot maple syrup.
Cheese Souffie.—Prepare a thick
white sauce using one-fourth cupful
each of flour and fat with one cupful
of milk; when cooked and thick, cool
and add one-half cupful of grated
cheese, three egg yolks, one toaspoon
ful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of
paprika, one-lialf teaspoonful of onion
juice. Mix carefully and fold in the
stiffly beaten whites of three eggs.
Turn into a well-greased baking dish
and set this dish into a pan of hot
water; bake in a moderate oven un
til firm in the center.
Oysters a la Poulet. —Prepare a
pouiet sauce by adding one and one
fourtb cupfuls of milk to s-ix table
spoonfuls of flour, stirring and mixing
well before cooking, then cool slightly
and add two well-beaten eggs. Take
one pint of oysters, toss in a pan until
the edges curl, then drain and add to
one-half cupful of nm-hi coins, or the
same amount of celery cut in small
pieces, one chopped pimento, one hard
cooked ozz also chopped, two table
spoonfuls of melted butter seasoned
with salt and pepper, and serve in
cronstades, made by cutting bread in
to oblongs and hollowing cut the cen
ters; then brush with butter and
brown in the oven or toast under the
gas flame. Decorate the tops with
minced parsley.
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FRAMES HARMONIZE
WITH FURNISHINGS
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The two attractive mirrors shown
here are made by covering old mirror
frames with shlrrings of some material
which harmonizes with one’s room fur
nishings. The lower one of black vel
.vet Is rich enough for any living room.
It has a cording of black satin next to
the mirror and a corded ornament and
tassel at the top. The oval one has
flowered cretonne or plain sateen
shirred over the frame.
i Good Business.
*lf you can sell more cars than
you Can get why do you employ sales
men?”
“We need a few bright young men
to jolly customers who are standing
in line.”
Would Change Things.
“The great duke of Guise was prond
to be known as ‘The Scarred.* **
“Rather risky title.**
“How so?”
1 “Any printer might drop one *r,* n -
Sensatlon in Murder Trial.
Versailles, France. A sensation
was sprung in the murder trial of
“Blue Beard” Landru when counsel
for the defense announced certain per
pons had seen two of the women al
leged to have been slain, since tfcoir I
disappearance.
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{THANKFULLY YOURS j|
By MARGARET A. SWEENEY s;
U£), 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
Matilda Bennett, slim, short and six
ty, sat alone In her basement kitchen.
Outside, against the shining window
with its cross curtain of dainty dim
ity, the rain slashed and streamed In
torrents. Miss Bennett, having Just
finished her midday meal, gazed idly
at the storm-lashed window, and her
thoughts, from thirty years of habit,
began to center about her “rooming
guests.”
Between the window and her brood
ing eyes there slipped the picture of a
slim young man in a tawny raincoat,
dripping wet. He carried a violin case,
and his rather handsome face was
W'hite and sullen.
The picture faded, and Matilda
arose briskly, and took a black tin
tray from the shelf behind the stove,
and upon it she placed a large yellow
bowl which she filled with hot soup
and covered with a plate, heaped with
butter sandwiches.
Then she climbed the four flights to
the top floor where, breathless, she
paused to rest. The black tin tray in
lier trembling hands had become
smeared, and the little woman wiped
it clean and rearranged the sandwiches
before she knocked at the door of the
“front square room.”
“I didn’t see you go out this morn
ing, and I just remembered that you
had a bad cold when you came last
night,” she explained to her new
guest. “Ji'ow —now don’t thank me at
all, but sit right up and take this while
it’s hot.”
The young man upon the white Iron
bed squirmed to a sitting position, and
the woman placed the black tin tray
upon his lap.
“I have the rooms on this floor to
tidy up,” she told him, “and I’ll be In
for the tray on my way down.”
When the door had closed behind
her the young man ate ravenously and
drank the soup in great gulps; and
long before she returned, the last
crumb had disappeared.
“That soup was just fine,” he greet
ed his landlady when slie entered,
“and, believe me, I—-I appreciate—”
“How is your cold —I forgot to ask
you, Mr. —Mr. Dunlap?”
“Thank you; it —is isn’t cold. I’m
subject to a—a slight throat trouble,
and in wet weather my voice becomes
husky.”
“I’m glad it isn’t a cold.” Miss Ben
nett lifted the tray, and from the door
way she spoke again; “The day after
tomorrow is my birthday and I —l al
ways invite my rooming guests to have
dinner with me on that day. I hope
you can come.”
“That’s mighty good of you, and —
I —l thank you. I really have no home.
I—”
- “Excuse me; I hear my telephone
bell.” The little woman hastened
away, leaving Dunlap staring at the
closed door.
“Rooming guests!” There was de
rision In his husky voice. “Rooming
guests! Well, she is all right,” he
whispered to himself.
Toward nightfall, while drawing the
parlor shades, Miss Bennett saw Dun
lap go out. She watched him cross the
street, his tawny coat collar turned
high, and the rain beating down upon
the soft rim of his black felt hat. And
the thought came to her: “I’m glad
that I brought hli* that soup. He la
young, and he looks troubled, and he
has no home.” And, ever mindful of
the comfort of her “rooming guests, M
she added: “I must tidy up his room
before he returns.” j
Her thoughts still upon him, she
went to the small desk In the parlor
and opened the book where her lodg- ■
ers, as the law requires, had regls- (
tered. She read again: “John Philip
Dunlap, violinist, former address 14
Staba avenue, Boston.”
Miss Bennett was about to climb the ■
stairs to the top “front square room”
when the newsboy brought the evening
paper, and, pausing in the hallway to I
glance over the headlines, Miss Ben- !
nett read: i
$2,000 Reward 1 Messenger Miss
ing.
“John Dunn, messenger for the
Thurlow Trust, has disappeared with
SBO,OOO in United States bonds. Dunn
Is twenty-two, slight of build, medium
height, brown hair and blue eyes. His
voice Is noticeably husky. Two thou- !
sand dollars’ reward is offered for in
formation leading to his arrest or to
the recovery of the bonds. He —”
Matilda Bennett hastily made her -
way to the top floor. Upon the dress-,
er in Dunlap’s room she found a note
addressed to her. She read:
“Dear Madam—ls you had known
that I am a thief, hiding in your home
from the police, you probably would ;
not have been so kind to me.
“Well, at heart I am not a thief, for ;
I have been sorry every minute since *
I took what did not belong to me. It
Is my first attempt at stealing, and
It will be my last.
“The $30,000 in bonds that I stole.
Is in the violin case in the closet, and
will you please call up the Thurlow
Trust tomorrow morning and ask them
to send for it?
“I am going away, provided I am
not caught and sent to jail, to begin
all over again, and I am going to try
to be the kind of a man that you, no
doubt, thought me to be when you
brought me that nice hot soup today,
because you thought me sick with a
cold.
I “Some day when I hare made good.
HI come and have dinner with you,
i i •’Thankfully yours,
| “JOHN DUNN.”
WHEN SAM JONES PRAYED.
Noted Evangelist Once Brought Rich
Man to the Light.
J * All America knew Sam Jones as a
; great evangelist, writes Marvin A-
Franklin, in the Atlanta Journal. The
i bouth especially knew ana loved him
I ; ClO a foe to evil and a champion of I
! righteousness. Georgia was proud to
“! o*vn him as his beloved and honored
i son. But there are many who do not |
’ i know that' he began his ministry as
a Methodist circuit rider on the Van
t i wert circuit composed of five
churches in Polk, Paulding, Bartow
i and Floyd counties.
! Before the Civil War, Van Wert
was a thriving little town, the capi
tal of Polk county, with a happy and
'! contented people. It has the distinction
i of being the first town in this entire '
, j section to have waterworks, the water
being brought down from a mountain
spring two or three miles distant
through bored logs. Van Wert was in
the pathway of Sherman’s army and
when the northern troops had passed
' there was little left save the “meet
ing house” standing at the foot of
the hill.
It was to this little town, fifty years
ago that Sam Jones comes as the
“new preacher,” fresh from his re- j
markable conversion and in the glow-- ;
nig enthusiasm of his divine call to
the ministry. For three years he j
threw himself into the work and his j
evangelistic gifts and power were
soon in evidence, for all over the cir
cuit the revival fires began fairly to
dame, and whole communities were '
literally transformed. To this day,
there are Christians, loyal and true, i
in this section who delight to tell
| that they were converted and joined
the church under the ministry of Sam
Jones. During the three years he was
pastor of the Van Wert circuit more
than five hundred people joined the
church, and the circuit developed from
the poorest in the conference to one
of the best charges.
Many amusing incidents are related
about his ministry of those early j
days. Mrs. Jones in her “Life and
Sayings of Sam P. Jones,” tells the j
following which was typical of his
frankness in dealing with his mem
bers.
“One of our wealthiest members
was taken seriously ill, and thought
that he was going to die. He sent for j
his pastor to come around and pray ]
with him. Mr. Jones called upon him, j
and w'hen entering the sick chamber
the member said, ‘I have sent for you
to pray for me!’
“‘Well,’ said Mr. Jones, ‘I don’t see
any good reason for asking* the Lord
to heal you. If you can tell me any
reason why you should live, I’ll pray
for you; so far as I know you have
not done anything for the Lord that !
I can stand upon, while praying. You j
have paid absolutely nothing to the j
assessments of the church; none of |
the missionary money for home or for- j
elgn cause has been paid by you; the
stewards can’t get anything out of
you toward my salary; my wife, chil
dren anti mvselc have needed the ne
cessities of life, and my horse has had
nothing to eat, and jou had an abun
dance ot everything in your home,
and feed in your barn, and could
have helped us; therefore, I don’t see
anything to stand upon. There is no
use in my asking God,to restore yo<*»;
I can ask him to forgive and save
you and take you to heaven; but there
is no reason why I should ask Him
j to preserve your life; as you are ab
i solutely worthless to the cause!’
j ‘“You are righ,’ replied the sick
man, there is no reason why I should
live, ‘but I will make you a promise j
] if you can stand upon that.’
i “Very well,” answered Mr. Jones,
i “What is your promise?”
; “The member said, ‘I will see that
my assessment is paid in full, and
that you have the things that you
i need for your table and horse.’
i “Mr. Jones knelt down and told the
Lord about the man’s promise, say
. ing in his prayer: ‘Lord, you know
all about him; he may deceive me, but
he can’t deceive you, and if he is go
: ing to change his way, stand by your
I work, forgive him, heal him and save
j him!”
! The man got well and faithfully
• kept his vow.
j The little house in which Sam Jones
| and wife were so happy is still stand
i ing, showing its extreme age and
with clinging vines growing over its
• side.
j Then there is the quaint church
! house built in ante-bellim style. It
stands almost at the foot of the hill
; on a rise, overlooking the little vil
: lage of Van Wert. Its framing is
• hewn from the hearts of the pines
| such as once grew in profusion about
j it. The windows are high and num
erous.
j The interior is plain and simple, the
home-made benches very straight
the Bible, yellow with age, vrith one
back gone, and many pages missing—
for it has done service there for near
ly three-fourths of a century—still
, rests on the pulpit. It is easy to im
agine Sam Jones fifty years ago,
! standing in this pulpit, reading to the
congregations that crowded this lit
j tie church—and preaching wdth such
! power and earnestness that scores
j sought and found God about its old
' time altar.
| Mr. Jones himself always held the
j place and the people in tender esteem.
I Thirty years after his work at Van
, Wert had ended, and he had become
. a famous evangelist preaching to mul-
I titudes wherever he went, he return
i ed to deliver the commencement ser
| mon for Piedmont Institute and Rock
mart.
The Significance of “AD.”
Did you ever think of the signific
ance of those two letters, “A D?”
They have a world of meaning when
affixed to the fore part of certain
words, completely changing the mean
ing. For instance “A D” attached to
vice makes it advice, the thing every
body wants to give everybody else; it
turns age into adage, venture into ad
venture, vers into adverse, visible in
to advisable, just into adjust, mire in
to admire, a long-winded oration into
tender adoration, transforms '*'dd
hard ore into adore, here into adhere
and a lady’s dress into her address'!
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Profit by reading the ads in this
paper.
POOR AT FIGURES ,j
SO HE LEFT HER
Julius Berman Wanted Wife Who !
Could Juggle Mathematics With j j
Euclidianlike Precision. jjj
PROBLEM UP TO JUDGE |
Man Needed an Adding Machine So Hi ;
, Got Married and Then Found i[
His Spouse Was Nothing
but Housekeeper. |j
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New York. —And now its the mathe ; *
| matical marriage in which a wife If j {►
; pictured as the least common denom-, J;
I inator, with emphasis on the least. j
The fractions consisted of a husband ](
1 and six children, or 1-6 and alimony, {►
which at present is 0-2,000.
! Mixing in a little algebra, X, aa |[
usual, being the unknown quantity, j!
i there is the following equation: j j!
i A plus B equals O miuus X. jjj
Considering that A is husband, B ;!
I tvife and C, money, Justice Kapper haa j
to solve the marital problem, not by <!
multiplying the means and ex* j>
tremes, but by resorting to trigonome* N
try and calculus if he is to X
; equal happiness.
Wanted Figuring Wife.
It seems that Julius Berman, a wid*: |
ower, with six children and real estate, ||
1 married to get a mate who could figure j $
! up first and second mortgages with | A
Euclidianlike precision—that liis wife I
told him she was on speaking terms |
with Q. E. D., and most certainly inti* |
mate with addition anti subtraction. ; |
Berman, in effect, said lie wanted an f
adding machine, so he got married. He \
I told the court: i :*
“My wife falsely and fraudulently! 1
| represented that she was a lit person
to manage financial matters and so we ! ?
were married. As a matter of fact, ?
she is not. She cannot be trusted even 7
with a half dollar, because she does t
not know how much to pay the buck* --
ster and how much change, if any, she |
should receive. As soon r. 3 I found \
out she was unfit to disburse funds, I *
refused to live \vk lier and refused
to take her into my household.” |
Mrs. Berman, who is lighting pro- >*
ceedings to have the marriage annulled, |
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-I Mud Have Tima lo Thin. TM* vj
Ov#r," Said the Judge.
Bald that, while not an expert mathe
matician, she knew that a log table had K
nothing to do with w r ood. She added:
Found Better Bookkeeper. |
“He left me, I think, because hi |
found a woman who knows more arith* rjfjj
metic than I do. All the mathematic* h
required for the wife of a man of hll
type is to know how to buy the neces ft
eities of life. I want alimony and coun* j IjJ
sel fees pending trial of the suit, in j &
which I stand ready to prove I know K
more about the three Rs than my hus &
hand." Il
“I must have time to think this over,’ 1 jjj
Bald the judge. “It’s a long time sine* L
I went to school.”
MAN IS SILENT SEVEN MONTHS _
Alleged Murderer Even Refuses to
Recognize His Wife and
Children.
New York. —After spending seven i
months in jail, refusing to speak a
word to anyone or to recognize even
his own family, Salvatore Longo, mute,
alleged murderer, will be sent to a
prison farm somewhere, according to a
court order, in the hope that he will
regain his tongue and be able to de
fend himself. He has refused to rec
ognize even his wife and five children.
Edward J. Reilly, attorney for
Longo, said his client went mute the
day he was arrested and has since re
fused to speak to him, jail attendants
or anybody else. Under the circum
stances, Reilly said, it had been im
possible for him to prepare the man's
case for trial. v
Longo several times has been taken
to court, but each time It has been Im
possible to try him, because every
question j ut M him has been met by *
St'jny auue.
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You should see my line of Dress Shirts. They are beau- [fj]}
ties. Prices range from SI.OO to $2.00.
3 Work Shirts priced as low at 75 cents. Mi
h Spring underwear and Hose at bargain prices. M
My Grocery Department is Up-to-date II
and is Fresh and Pure. |||
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( The Pure Food Grocer.
| Main Street. Pittsboro, N. C. ||
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President
JAS. L. GRIFFIN
Cashier
W. L. FARRELL
Asst. Cashier