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THE SMITHF1ELD HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. WATCH YOUR LABEL. No receipt will be Bent for sub scription. *\ach subscriber is asked to watch the little yellow label on his paper. If the label is not changed within three weeks after remittance is made, the subscriber should notify us. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that we pay no atention.to communications without the writer's name. If you write every day be sure to enclose your name each time. Address all matters for publication to The Smithficld Herald, Smithtield, N. C. LEGISLATURE HAS ADJOURNED. The Legislature of 1917 adjourned Wednesday, after doing an immense amount of work. The usual cloning scenes were enacted, such as giving testimonials of respect to the Speaker and the President of the Senate, etc. All were happy over the prospects of getting a chance to quit the legisla tive halls for their more congenial homes and occupations. The Legisla ture was a hard-worked one and pass ed more real constructive legislation than perhaps any of its predecessors in a decade. Some of the people will praise it very highly for some of the big things it did, while others will condemn it for the same things. What ever its critics and friends may say, it will pass into history, marking a new era in North Carolina's institu tions. Governor Hickett ought to feel proud over the part of his program which has been enacted into law. While he did not get everything he asked for, he got enough to make him feel that after all, the law-makers were willing to listen to the State's leader. The General Assembly of 1!U7 may be called a progressive and con structive one, and the future historian will compliment it for the big things it has done. HICKETT GOOD TO JOHNSTON. Governor Hickett has been good to Johnston County in the matter of di rectorships. He has made the follow ing appointments from this county: Mr. W. M. Sanders, on the Board of Directors for the State peniten tiary. Mr. B. B. Adams, on the Consolidat ed Board of Directors of the Insane Asylums. Mr. C. W. Home, a member of the State Board of Charities and l'ublic Welfare. Miss Elisabeth Kelly, member of Board Trustees Caswell Training School. A movement is on foot to get tho I County Commissioners to call an flec tion on the question of a bond issue of $600,000 for road building in Johnston County. Petitions are being <ciru'ulated asking the Commissioners to cau' the election at a special meet ing to he held here tomorrow to consider this question. The Commis sioners are nskeai to call the election under the provisions oi the act pass- 1 ed by the recent Legislature. Should the election be called and carried for bonds Johnston County will get from the State money to build roads until the $000,000 is exhausted at !i per cent interest payable semi-annually. At the end of 41 years the B per cent interest paid to the State will be sufll cient to pay ofT the bonds in full, with out having to provide a sinking fund to retire the bvndp. , The Postmaster General, Hon. Al bert Sidney Burleson, formerly of Texas, has stirred up another "hor net's nest" among the politicians by announcing that after April 1, the appointments of all postmasters of the first, second and thin! class would be subject to competitive examina tions. Nominations will be sent to the Senate as in the past, but the President will be guided by the results of the examinations. Majority Leader Kitehin and other House leaders are stirred up over the ruling of Mr. Burleson, but he has given them to understand that it is too late to pro test. ACII) PHOSPHATE AND STABLE MANURE. It is Important to furnish, as far as possible, a balanced ration for the land. It is next to impossible to get potash, but we can give the land the proportions of acid phosphate and ammonia. Some farmers have not done this, but have U8?d too much ammonia and not enough acid phos phate. Where stable manure is used liberally acid phosphate at the rate of four hundred pounds per acre can be used to good advantage: The stable manure should be used either in the drill or broadcast and the acid phos phate should be sown the same way cn the manure. ? J. M. B. County Officers' Salaries Increased. The Legislature which has just ad journed, panned an act permitting the County Commissioners of Johnston County to increase the pay of the County Officer* whenever, in their judgment, it was necessary. Under the salary hill passed for Johnston County by the Legislature of 1913 the Register of Deeds was allowed the sum of $3,250.00. The County Commissioners have increas ed this sum to $3,8f>0 per year, an in crease of $600 per year. The oil act permitted an extra $300 for help in the busy season if it was made neces sary in order to keep the work of the office up to date. The recent act re pealed that clause in the law limiting the extra amount to $300 per year. The Commissioners have also granted an increase of $<500 to the Sheriff's office. The sulary bill pro vides thr* sum of $4,100.00 annually to puy the Sheriff and his deputies. The increase grunted makes the sum of $4,700.00 available in the conduct of the Sheriff's office. The Act creating the Auditor's of fice fixed the salary of that office at $1,500 a year. This office has asked ^>r an increase of $000 annually, but so fur the increase has Yiot been granted. Death of u Clayton Merchant. In the death of Mr. David W. Har bour which occurred at his home in Clayton, Wednesday afternoon about three o'clock, Johnston County has lout tine of her leading citizens. He was a member of the firm of J. G. Harbour & Sons and was one of the oldest and best merchants* of the county and was extensively known. More than a quarter of a century ago he, with his father and his brother, Mr. Julian Harbour, began business at Clayton. They have run a large and successful business. He is the last one of the original firm to pass away. Many years ago they started up a large farming business and for many years have held a place among the very be.it farmers of the county. Mr. Harbour was not only a good mer chant, but was successful at every thing he attempted to do. He had many friends who will regret to learn of his death. He had been in failing health for some months, but his /riends had hoped for his recovery as he wan not considered an old man. Prices Still Going Up. Mr. W. II. ltyrd, who does a brokerage business, says that almost daily he gets instructions to advance price# on food stufTs. He informs us that the best lard i* now worth twen ty-three cents per pound wholesale. Virginia meal is now $2.69 per sack to merchants. Pork, dressed but not salted, is nineteen cents per pound in Chicago, the place from which so much of it is shipped out. Irish potatoes are from $9.00 to $10.00 pei^bag of 2"^ bushels at the wholesale houses. Red Dog Shipstuff is $53.80 per ton. A report from Texas says there are sixty thousand farms in that St^te which have not as many as one nog on them. Is it any wonder than prices go up when so many people are raising nothing to eat? If things continue going in the same direction it looks like somebody might, after awhile, suffer for food. \ New Hank For Wilson. The Planters Hank will be opened for business at Wilson next Satur day, March 10th. This will be the fourth bank for that town. A well ar ranged building on Goldaboro "Street will be used. The capital stock of fif ty thousand dollars has been paid in by the more than seventy stockhold ers. Mr. W. ID. Smith, of Selma, will be the president of this new bank. He has had considerable experience as a business man and in banking and is well qualified for the place. He will continue to live at Selma and serve as the president of the First National Bank of Selma. Mr. Smith likes bank ing and thinks he can serve his county better by being connected with two banks. . The town of Henderson has launch ed a three-days' campaign for the re-organization of the local Board of Trade. It was launched at a business men's banquet Tuesday night. Every town that wishes to be numbered among the live towns should have an active Board of Trade or a Chamber of Commerce. We think we are spending some I money in North Carolina for educa I tion, but we have "another think | coming." The Kansas Legislature which recently adjourned appropriat ed $4,2H6,000 for higher education alone in that State, or about twice j as much as is paid for all purposes ! in North Carolina. ? Concord Times. Fuquay Springs school district has voted a $15,000 bond issue for a schdol , building by a ten to one vote. To th? Voter* of Johnston County. Since my notice of the ^th, I find we cannot vote on bonds only on the second Tuesday in April end the sec ond Tuesday in October of each year. The proposition from the State of North Carolina is to lend us money to huild our roads at 5 per cent interest for forty-one years. At the end of forty-one years make the county a present of what we borrow. We will l>e a foolish people if we fail to ac cept the State's offer. Petitions have been mailed to every township in Johnston County. If the county don't want to accept this great offer, Selma will be on hand asking for what we ne?-d in Selma township. I hope every township will be represented Satur day morning, March 10th, at Smith field, with names sufficient to call elec tion for the whole county. Should we call the election and vote the bonds we can get the money July 1st. M. C. WINSTON. Selma, N. C. Heading the Great 1'iifm#. One of the common mistakes of youth lies in the constant temptation to think lightly of the past by assum ing that the present generation jias u monopoly of wisdom. The struggle for up-to-dateness may lead to shal lowness of thought and giddiness of conduct. In order to make real pro gress, we all must have standards by which to measure our action and our thought; otherwise, we may be only moving in a circle without knowing it. It is my purpose to talk about great Hassic poetry, in which some of the best emotions and thoughts of the world "have been preserved, and to mention a few poems which the culti vated boy or girl cannot afford to ig nore. I'oetry makes a more direct appeal to the imagination than any other kind of literature, and young people have fresher imaginations than mid dle-aged or old people, and they can really inter into the feeling and see ing side of poetry better, though they may not get into the deeper thought of some of it as well as people of maturer years. The childhood and youth of the world are reflected in great poitry more vividly than in any other form of literature. If you want to understand the real spirit of a past age, read the poetry of that sine. If you wish to know, for instance, the daily life in field and village, es pecially at festival seasons, in and around an old oriental town, read slowly the Hook of Ruth and let your imagination have full play in the atmosphere of that exquisite piece of poetical prose. Poetry is the crystal lized expression of the vital experi ences of an age or of the human heart. You don't have to understand every word of a piecc of poetry in order to like it; sometimes the mere sound of the word ? as in Poe's poems or in Tennyson's songs ? is like de lightful music. When you were babies your mothers used to talk to you or sing to you in words you could not understand, but they pleased you mightily. Some poetry is good be cause it sounds good; other poetry is good because it makes you see pic tures; still other poetry is good be cause it helps you to have nobler feelings. And there is some wonderful poetry in the world which sounds good and makes you see pictures and stimulates to better feelings and makes you think great thoughts ? poe try that opens the heart and mind at the same time. This is what the few supreme poets of the world do; and that is the reason you hear so much in literature and from cultivated peo ple about the great classic poets like Homer and yergil and Dante and Shakespeare and Milton and Tenny son. There are three kinds of poetry which have always made a strong appeal to the world: Narrative Poe try, or that which tells the story of heroic deeds, sometimes called Epic when the deeds are very important in a nation's or a person's history; Lyric Poetry, which* sings in rhyth mical words some powerful emotion or emotions patriotic, religious, per sonal; and Dramatic Poetry, which speaks out the actions or thoughts of two or more persons as somehow re lated to each other in a story called the plot. The oldest poetry in the world is the lyric and the epic, which of course may have dramatic elements in them. The epic or narrative ap peals to your feelings by giving you a series of pictures; the lyric appeals more directly to your feelings by pleasing sounds and fancies; and the dramatic shows you how one charac ter affects another character, causing you to discriminate, now hearing one person speak and then another, and judging these characters relatively by their words and actions. Of all thrve kinds the dramatic is the most complex, and the lyric the most spon taneous-. Boys and girls like narrative poetry best, because it is apt to go straight on telling a story without many te dious stretches of description or an alysis; and so every boy or girl ought to begin with narrative potcry, such as Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, or Scott's Marmion or Lady of the Lake, or Lochinvar, or Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride. But I am more con cerned that you should read the great narrative poems like Homer's, for the shorter ones will probably comc your way in school-collections anyhow. Boys usually prefer Homer's Iliad, be cause it deals with battles and single combats; while the travels of Ulysses, in the Odyssey, are more like a mod ern novel and possibly make a strong er appeal to girls, though the ship wrecks of Ulysses make a pretty good pirate story for boys who like the sea- and what boy does not want to be a sailor or a fighter on land or sea ? Get Lang, l>eaf and Myers' transla tion of the Iliad (Macmillan Co., New York) in slightly abridged form in "The Pocket Classic Series," in good simple prose; or Bryant's translation of the Iliad in blank verse (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston), and you will have the best recent renderings of this delightful old classic. The same firms will supply you with transla tions of the Odyssey, one by Butcher and Lang and the other by Palmer (which, I y the way, I sat up reading nearly all night some years ago). Young people should read Vergil's story of Aeneas's escape from burn ing Troy, and his troubled journey to Italy. Crunch's translation (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) is a spirited rendering in blank verse. In the middle ages religious people thought very highly of Vergil, and Dante made him his adviser and guide in the great spirit ual pilgrimage as told in The Divine Comedy, a part of which young people should read for the awe-inspiring pic tures and soul-experiences. Our ear liest English epic shouW be known di rectly to boys and girls- ? Beowulf, so full of thrilling struggles and pictur esque legends of the war-like doings of our Tentonic ancestors. Our. young people should^ read Child's excellent little translation of this old poem (Moughton, Mifflin & Co.). The first few books of Paradise Lost, at least, should be known to every young per son. We seem a little afraid of Mil ton's austerity today, but the youth ful mind is readily impressed with those sublimely colored pictures in the first few books of his great poem; and if they are once seen by the in ner eye, they solemnize the human spirit. Of two great poems not strictly apic, 1 want to say a word or two by way of commending them to every boy and gir!. One is Spenser's Faerie Quee; *.', and the other is Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Spencer's great allegory is a many*olored fairy-tale to every imaginative youth, some what long-drawn out to us moderns, but one of the world's wonder books when sympathetically introduced to children, and full of wholesome les sons. Of all later poetical classics, i suppose Tennyson's Idylls of the King (the glorious King Arthur) makes the widest appeal. Gareth and I.ynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Holy Grail, The Last Tournament, Guinevere, The Passing of Arthur, are six supremely beautiful master pieces which every boy and girl should know. The best collection of lyric poems in our literature; a copy of which every young person would do well to keep near at hand, is Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. This little volume may be carried in the pocket.Jt is a mine of golden nug gets to any boy or girl who would enrich himself or herself. In dramatic poetry our young , people should know well some of the great plays of Shakespeare, such comedies as Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, As you Like It, The Tom post; such trage dies as Julius Caesar, Othello, Mac beth, Hamlet, King Lear; for to know them well is to knew better the warp and woof of human life and something of the "burden and ^he mystery of I all this unintelligible world." I have mentioned a few of the in dispensable books for a cultivated I young man or young woman. But let lour young people not forget that there are no finer lyric poems in the world than the Psalms, and that the Book of Job is the deepest sacred drama in all poetry. Just two suggestions, finally: Cul tivate the habit of reading poetry aloud. It is kin to music, and should be heard to be fully enjoyed. Mem orize every day some choice poetry, even if it be only a few lines. As the years go on, such a possession will help to enrich your life. ? J. C. Mit calf, in Kind Words. In a unanimous opinion, the United States Supreme Court has decided on restoration to her English owners of the liner Appam and cargo, brought into Hampton Roads more than a year ago by a prize crew from the German raider Mocwe. Ship and cargo, valued at between three and four million dol lars, must be delivered within 30 days, as the court's order is final. A CAR OF ONE AND TWO HORSE wagons at all prices. Austin-Ste phenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. HARDWARE We Buy it in Car Load Lots Everything in Hardware carried all the time at our Store. Complete line of 0. K. Cook Stoves and Ranges; Tin, Enamel and Aluminum Ware. JI ST RECEIVED' A Car Load of Cement A Car Load of Lime A Car Load of Plaster Fly time is near at hand and don't forget that we carry screen doors and windows, regular sizes and also made to order sizes. Smithfield Mardware Co. smith field, N. c Sowing THE SEEDS of kindness will bring happiness. Sowing our Field and Garden Seeds will bring a good crop. All our stock is fresh. They are certain to produce good results. Yours truly, HOOD BROS. Druggists On the Corner Smithfield, N. C. TRADE With TURNAGE Save your time and save your Dollars by buying your Groceries from me. They are Always A Little Different Often A Little Better Generally A -Little Cheaper. These are reasons enough to induce you to give me a trial. I'll do the rest and make you a friend and customer. S. Q. Turnage Smithfield, N. C. Tone ? A Tone Exquisitely Pure", Perfect, Rounded and Crystal ? Clear ? Makes the Columbia Grafonola The one incomparable instru ment. Other Styles $15 to $350.00 (EASY PAYMENTS) (irnfonoln >?. H."> Pl.?> ?* All l>i*c Record* Cotter - Underwood Company / SM1THFIELD. North CaroHha V
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