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Fine Tribute To Prof. Turlington Work of Miss Elizabeth Kelly Praised By Former John ston County Teacher. keen Pleasure Found In a Good Book. Dear Mr. Editor: ? The other day I was about to begin my class, when a bright girl came to me and asked me if I knew that Prof. Turlington has died. She supposed I had known him, and the announce ment made me feel very sad. I had hoped that this good man might have been granted many more years, but Providence ruled otherwise. Then I began to think over the life of that m.in, and wondered if his end had not been in keeping with the preceding years. He had fought all the best days of his life against all manner of obstacles that others might be trained, happy, educated. He made one last brave struggle against ill ness, and he was vouchsafed to know tho coming of the Great End. He had wrought an enduring work, that his impress on the county was an indel ible as the hieroglyphics that are carved on the granite of the oncient civilizations. For at best, all of us, who succeeded him, merely elaborated the plans which he had laid. Ours was the superstructure, in part, of the edifice of which he laid the en during. foundation. Thus he passed into the Land of Twilight with the consciousness of the task well accomplished, and there must have been happiness and peace in that great soul. ?- > ? I And there is one thought that comes to me as I recall the happy association with this golden-hearted teacher. We stood together near the little church of the Primitive Bap tists. We talked and finally sat down on the steps of that peaceful build in;?. He told me of his worries in days gone by, of his dreams, of his strug gles. He asked me with the deepest interest about certain children. I asked him in turn what he had done in difficult cases, whip, expel! There came a peculiar light in his ible as the hieroglyphics that are to me that have had a greater influence over my thoughts than any others: "I just worry along with them, and often the boy whom the community calls mean, turns out to be better than the one who all admire." "Worry along with them" was a big word. But after all is it noE^an other word for "love." The love that makes parents "worry" with their children with the assurance and con viction that there must come i\ day on which the wayward untrained child will come unto itself, and grow into a worthy member of the greater human family. I have often repeated that word. It has been the guide-star in many of my deeds. It fell from the lips of a man whose heart was afire with di vine love of neighbor, it was sincere, earnest, appealing, a clarion call to patience, to devotion, to service. There are sometimes prreat words that fall from the lips of men. I sat in church. The choir had sung, the service had been read, the preacher mounted the steps of the pulpit. I had heard him preach often, but this morning his soul got on fire, and" somehow this fire communicated itself to his vast audience until the ryes of men and women sparkled with the vision of better and greater things. 1 This man spoke of patriotism and ' of greater religion of the day. The i religion of self sacrifice, the religion 1 of the things real, the religion that > having found root in the innermost recesses of the human soul, flings < fourth from these recesses the bios soms, the fruits of the earnest life. Somehow he made no allusion te the I usual conventionalities, to those ' thiners which repetition has worn i thread-bare. He callcd on is hearers for a single expositon in their lives ' of tho life of the Nazarene, and as he J had mad himself sacrifice upon sac- 1 rifice, the congregation listened to i this preacher in silence, in the grim < determination of making this year * the most Christain, the most conse- 1 crated in their lives. 1 ? * m > i That brings up another idea, that 1 of the great work which the State has 1 given in the care of my former co- ' worker in Johnston County, Miss > Elizabeth Kelly. We had the pleasure of welcoming her the other day in ; our home and she spoke about her ' plans, about her hopes. 1 I listened with the deepest inter- 1 est to this able, devoted woman. What ' a tremendous task is hers! To lead I into the light the hundreds and thous ands of boys and girls, men and worn- 1 en, who live in our world and are t blind to its light.I was amazed when 1 she stated the number of illiterates, could be that in this land of irchools, of papers, there could be found still i so many who have never read! t And often the worst of this disease \\ of ignorance is that those who are r.f flicted with it, care not to remove it. It takes the energy of some good woman like Miss Kelly, to bring to them an appreciation of their im mense loss. It takes all the tact of a considerate soul to enter in the pre cincts of these limited minds and call them to a realization of their limita tions. It takes persjrverance to lib erate them from the prison walls of their ignorance. I was happy to see the devoted teacher, the splendid organizer of this great work. I prayed that she might be successful, for indeed hers is a noble mission. ? * ? And speaking of all these things, I feel that there are many of us who can read, that dwell voluntarily in darkness of our own making. Think of it, after many years of schooling, we are barely acquainted with the most elementary facts of modern events. We don't open a paper. We received our news from the lips of others, chewed up by them, and we are satis fied with this food, even as some lit tle child with the masticated stuff that a loving but careless parent puts on its lips. We barely know books besides those that we were made to study. And we move in a circle of daily duties without as much as look ing over the fence to see if some of our neighbors, who can dig up thoughts have not been at work. There is no keener pleasure than that of a good book. Talk to me about the tittle-tattle of the daily gossip, the idle talk of our leisure hours, how pitiful are these things, when we may spend an hour with men that are real ly refreshing. I have spent much of my time with David Grayson, the au thor of Adventures, in Contontment, of the Friendly Road. He end I sat down last week on the slope of a j mountain, by a cool spring, near a 1 little murmuring brook. And I can dream of no more exquisite pleasure than the meeting of author and read er in some fine field of thought. A friend told me of Grayson, I owe a debt to that friend. He has added much pleasure to my life. Have you read these books, gentle reader. If not, do so. A. VERMONT, Asheville, N. C., March 18th. "IT HAS MADE MY LITTLE SON SPRY AS A RABBIT!" Six- Year Old Boy Was Thin and Puny Father Gave Him Dreco and "I Can Almost See Him Grow, Now." He Says. As the school term reaches its height, attention is directed to the oft repeated advice of leading educators warning teachers, parents and schol ars against the fearful results of ex haustive brain work among young people. The thousands of boys and girls, un nerved by the strain of school life Dreco, the wonderful new herbal med icin, has been found a blessing, mak ing them ?well and strong, feeding the brain and nerves, and enriching and purifying the blood. The recent recommendation of Dreco by leading authorities and the equally outspoken praise of this greatest of remedies by scores of parents through out the S?uth are the best r ecommend ations any medicine can have. Nothing in the world so strength ans the weak, so readily restores lost nerve force, so surely makes the ail ing and peevish young women or growing boy well and cheerful as a treatment by Nature's own beneficient methods. "My little son, Varney, was in a terribly run-down condition," declares R. I. Lewis, the highly 1 spected f;irm of R. F. D. No. 3, Winston-Salem. He has always been a puny and deli cate child and 1 couldn't get anything to make him grow. But Dreco has hit :he spot and he is improving wonder fully every day. His color is good, rp r:e.ite fine, and I can almost se^ him rrow. It ha^ made him as spry as a rabbit and I told him the other day [ would have to slow him up as he was < jetting too alive." Dreco does its curative work in a simple, straightforward wry. It wastes J little time in getting all its energies ' to work feeding the tired, worn-out i nervous tract, filling the arteries v-ith < rich, new blood, and building up the 1 jody for its fight aganst disease. Dreco is sold throughout the country '? jy leading druggists and si par- ] ocularly recommended in Smithfield ' >y Creech Drug Co. ' A Dollar Saved at this time is nore than a dollar made. Put that < lollar in War Savings Stamps and it ? vill help defeat the Germans. i PLANS TO STRETCH 1 THE FLOUR SUPPLY EXPORTS ARE EAR BEHIND. Renewed Efforts Will Be Made to Dis tribute Stores So That There Will Be Enough to Feed Both America and Allies. Washington, March 19. ? The food administration tonight announced the first of a series of steps planned to stretch flour supplies sufficiently to feed the country and maintain ship- j ments to the allies until the next har vest. Beginning with the baking trade , which uses 40 per cent of the wheat flour consumed in tis country, the administration has approved plans for j a divinsion of flour supplies between shops sharing of wheat substitutes, ! and for a nation-wide educational j campaign to eliminate waste which 1 will be forked out at a meeting in Chicago next Friday. Further restrictions on the con sumption of wh>at which were an nounced last week as under consider ation will be put into effect next.1 Aside from the shortage of wheat in the United States another serious problem is confronted by the food ad ministration in making good promis es to the allies. Not a single week's shipments of grain and cereals abroad has equaled the announcement pro gram since January 1, so there re mains a deficit of 812,000 tons to be made up in addition to the regular supplies. Shipments reached a low point in the week of Feb. 1 to 7 as the culmi- 1 nation of weeks of bad weather which ' demoralized both railroad and ovev- J seas transportation. Only 84,658 tons j went abroad in that week. Improve- j ment has been shown since, but even with clearing weather it has been im- | possible to transport the 270,000 tons ! promised every seven days. Since Jan. J 1, shipments have totaled 1,41(5,914 , tons. Inasmuch as the allied peoples abroad are being rationed strictly, of ficials here do not contemplate any curtailment of exports nor do they ad- j mit of possibility of failure in sup plying the food necessary to carry on the war. From the response received i they believe the American public will j give cheerfully whatever is required to achieve victory with food and those who attempt to obstruct by hoarding or selfish buying beyond their needs will be held up to the public gaze for discipline. CUT WOOD AND THEN CUT MORE WOOD. The time to cut wood is now and during the spare time this summ.r. Governor Bickett says it is worse than folly for the people of North Carolina to depend on coal for fuel for next winter. The State Fuel Administration ur ges us to prepare for next win or now. Towns in Johnston should arr; nge for a -.community wood yaul now. Schools and churches should lay in their supply druing the summer. Farmers, cut wood n-jw to bring to town this fall. The wood will be lighter and dry if cut this summer. Again I quote Governor Bickett, "He who chops a tree in this cause serves his country no less than he who digs a trench." Town officers, talk to the farmers about this when they come to town. Encourage them to use their spare time this spring and summer In cut ting wood to bring to town in the early fall while the roads are good. We have been fairly warned by our government not to expect coal next winter if the war continues. We are wise enough to take this precaution and have the wood cut this summer for our fuel supply for next winter. E. H. MOSER, Chairman County Fuel Administration Committee. Spreading Manure and Lime It is almost impossible to spread manure and lime equally over the land with out using machine spread ers. Everybody who has manure to sprer.d should try if possible to use a spreader and the proper spreading of lime is no less important. The custom of hauling manure or lime to the field to be put down in piles and then scattered on smell area just around th? piles leaving a large pr.rt of it where the piles were made and much of the land in the field untouch ed is a bad custom. It is what usually tak?a place. Really not one farmer in a hundred does his best work in scattering manure with pitchforks. It pays well to scatter it carefully and then it would pay to go over the field and do a little extra work to get it )ver the land as evenly as possible. We like broadcasting better than irilling for lime or manure. But the nost important thing to do is to get t out evenly over the lend. ? B. | Girls What Do You Want for Easter? We have just received a big lot of silk, silk dresses, silk waists, silk skirts and, well, whatever it takes to dress you up and make you look nice you will find it in our Ladies Department. Our Prices on this line for the next two weeks will be reduced to the very bottom so we may help you get it. We are agents for the Standard Patterns and the De signer. Boys If you want a nice Suit, Hat, Tie, Shirt or Slippers for Easter we can fit you from stock or have you a suit made to order by one of the best Tailoring houses in the United States Ladies Our stock of Dry Goods of all kinds is very complete and we will be glad to help you make any selections you want from our big stock and our prices speak for themselves? They are our best salesman. Gentlemen If you need anything in the Grocery or feed line or fertilizer we can save you some money if you will see us before you buy. All we want is a chance. Our prices and goods sell themselves. Come and See Us. We save vou Money and Appreciate Your Business. Yours to Please Roberts Corhett ?: W oodard SeJma, N. C. Has that good, old, familiar taste o{ hops. And is non-intoxicating. This is what you have been looking for. Now it's here ? ready for you, at all places where good drinks are sold. J shows you the genuine. When you see il you know ycu are getting C?RYA No words can really describe CERVA But that taste will tell you what it's like. Just try a bottle? satisfy yourself. LEMP, Manufacturers, ST. LOUIS Crescent Candy Co., Distributors Water and Chestnut Streets WILMINGGTGON, N. C.
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