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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919 THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. REMINISCENCES ON FARMING AND SO FORTH In those early days farming was done on a small scale. Corn, rye, buck-wheat and flax were the lead ing farm products. Potatoes, cab bage, beans, turnips and ect. were the leading vegetables. Just corn enough for bread and to harden the fat of their porkers, as they would got fat on the mast, and to feed the team in plow time, those that used horses. Rye was raised also for bread and to make a wee bit of whiskey in case of sickness and snake bites. There were lots of snakes then. Buck-v.heat for pancakes Sunday morning with honey, butter anti goo'l cotToo. My! 1 can almost taste them now. This generation has niuvle no im- prov’ements on good healthy living. Flax was raised for .^hoe lhro:i l and for cloih. Or.e ‘tow shirt :ind a j!:iir of fkix pants would (5o a boy all summer, (k'e whiz! How we did hate a tow shirt. They never did quit scratching and never wore out. Tiiey holed up the potatoes and bank- Since “Peacc on Earth” was deem ed up the cabbage for the winter. c'd by God a gift so vast that the In All the rarming tools were made carnation, and death on the Cross in the :-^:u)p. axe.^ ho.'s. ' wore not too great a price to pay for mattocks and plows. The farmer ^ it, it muct be something very close to stocked his ov. n plows. The bull-! the heart of God ; something so noble, tongue wa^ the standard farm plow, I “O lovely, so Divine that it v.as worth i.roke (he ground and plowed the corn j all the human life and human death v.ith it. Some ci'ank invented the j of the Son of God to secure it. twistinii’ sliovel. The people were | A peace that is worth fighting for of sole leather and four holes made in them with a peggin' awl so they could be sewed on. For boys, the suspenders were sewed onto the pants at both ends. Parenths were careful not to let their children go out in cold weather without some good head wrap. If a boy started to run out bare-headed, he was ordered back to get his Jim mie Neil. I never heard of a case of catarrh as long as I lived in North Carolina. I am often asked if I could account for my longevity and full flesh. I answer— Wine and whiskey I do not use, A late supper do I refuse, ]\Iy feet and head are kept from cold, Thats the reason I don’t look old. J. R. HAMLIN Note—My next article will be on Something else. S PRAYER CORNER GOD’S PEACE slow to taki- hold of a n<‘W invention, j>! it Iinal!\ work 'd itself id ihj fror.t. it was ihe iiniit. The\ . owe ! rye in t!ie corn biu that h: (l to be piov.ed in v.ith the bull-.on- -Tue, the t\vi?ter vould covor it too and dying for it. something that we stai-cc'ly dreamed cf five yoar.^ ago. I’aci(isn\ we know nov/, v.as then an c--('ntial weakness in dealing with funrlanv. .'ita.'s: a willingni'.^s to toler ate ur.r'glueoiis’ioss and unjustice • icep. We had to cut tho slalks off ! rather than the fear and in the name thv- rye in Ihe winior v>h; a ll;-.* i of ('o;! to stamp them out. \\ v wr’i'e was frozen. 3iy, r.iyl liow I ciid haite weak pacifists with respcct to wrongs to cut stalks. We cut the ry-> with bct/.vcon "ations and wrong;:: at home. reap liook and beat it out with a | God h.P) us; we deemed nothing so flail, j good as our peace and the peace that The pco])Ie in those days observed ' v.e had v.;' ' not (]od’s peaci* at all. tho ?noon and the sie'ns. Thev i)lant- i Ic was a (k (':ance of Him and of His I c<! corn and potatoes on the old of ^ niitvht. It was He at length that bade I le moon; planted cucumbers v/hen us. I I'j sign was in the le;:s so they would lun; beans wdien the sign was in the arms so they would climb, and pepper when they were mad. For castorating young stock in the : it. It is a positive quality that com- snrinsj- t'v y were vt rv na.rticuVir ' us to liv'n’.ar.'l ’’onditions that about the signs, especially for coits produce normal livmg among other and lambs and calves. As for male -people. Thus laboring, thus fighting, .swine, the sign was always right. thus seeking, we may achieve a peace Flacki^niths made the hor e ho oa earth, peace that involves a reat- and nails, put six nails to the shoe?. ^ fulness in God, a complete casting of Most of the hauling was done w ith care upon Him since He careth for us, oxen. In fact, quite a few farmers a foretaste of the ineffable peace that “Take arnv a,i',ainst a sea of trouble And, by opposing, end them.” God’s peace, then, is a thing infin itely ereater than we used to think made their crops with oxen. The people over on the head of Davidson’s River, Gloucester and out in those rough mountains used oxen and a is the very breath of heaven. Martyrs suffering in the arena found peace. The devout of all ages, often ia povertv ci* in long sickness, in a)i- 1 _ \ , pack saddle to carry their saU, corn, jx'-ty an ' in sorrow, fouriu peace; groceries, and to bring in v;'niton, j Our Blessed Lord, hanging upon the ham*^, bear sliins, deer skins, and all j Cross found peace, and now nations, kind of fur skins and bear meat. All | engaged ir. bitter war for God’s ideals the freighting was done with oxen, j hav'e learned what is peace. The An old man by the name of (’lark , arinies v.c-re creating a better peace was the wagon maker. He made them ' by the bloody advance in Chateau without any iron. He made the hubs j Thierry to the Argonne than America of black gum—they didn’t need any ^ could ever have dreamed of apart band to keep them froni splitting. | from the war. For tires for the wheel.', he split Let us pray: hickory saplings and put them on j Give peace in our time, O Lord, ftTeen. It is astonishing how long 1 O, Thou Good Lord, and lover of they would last, after they got well | men, again and again we supplicate seasoned and dry. 1 Thee, grant us Thy peace. Not that Mr. Jimmie Neil ran a hatter shop; peace of yesterday out of which we made w'ool and fur hats. A Jimmie have been awakened, and of which we Neil wool hat was like the tow shirt, they never wore out. Buy a ten are now ashamed, a truce which un der the nanie peace cloaked the spirit year old boy a wool hat, at fifteen of war, while some prepared their he would have a wool hat. It is said j weapons and all sought by cunning that Rev. John Galloway got Mr. Neil ^ to obtain v.'hat men now manfully to make him a fur hat when he was ' battle for—not for this peace in name young man, and he wore that for a j do v.’e supplicate Thee, Thoa Cod of Sunday hat as long as he Fcace, ;:oL t’lat v/e may ru-a’l cur he lived to be an old man. I can say ' greed, or indulge our slothfulncss, that from my first recollection of Mr. that v.e may live once more at ease, Galloway to my last, he wore the ! and return to our pleasures and exact same hat for Sunday. It was a high j again the labors of the poor—not for hat, tapering smaller at the top. Men this do we presume to make our pe- in those days carried their handker chiefs in their hats. Coats did not have pockets in them as they do to day. Pants only had one pocket, for a man to carry his knife and tobacco. Boys had no pockets until they were •old enough to own a Barlov/ knife. tition unto Thee, O God of Righ teousness. But we pray for Thy Peace, which is of the heart. Grant, we pray Thee, that the spirit which carried our Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross may abide in us, that, partaking of His power, The knife had a hole in the handle to | we may labor, without self-seeking put a string in and tied in a button ! for the freedom of the world, and for hole so he could not lose it. Buttons for coats and vests were cut out of gourds sgid covered’ with permanent peace and good will among all peoples. To the glory of Thy name, through the same, Thy Son, cloth. For pants, tiiey we^fe cut out our Lord. Amen. C. D. C. Greatest Name fn start Notv on the I(pad to Belter Seeing Bring Your Eyes to DR. S. ROBINSON The Eyesight Specialist 78 PattoiuAve., Asheville, N. C. JUST BELOW POSTOFFICE **Look for This Si^n” C PRif®’ INK 1_JAS been respoiv * ^ sible for thousands of business successes throughout the country. Everybody in town may know you but they don't know what you have to selL Adyertising Will Help Yoa The Jarssst- suim in ths u'orid nat ural!/ has to heve a pacS^afis w;orthy of its contents* So icok for In sealed packaae that keeps sH of its £ocdnes3 in^ Tkiat’s v;hy D Toz FSayor Lasts! In order to properly drain your land so that you can make better crops you must open up your ditches, and when you get ready to do your ditching see as for GOODRICH RUl WU? Your feet v/ill be as dry wlien you come out as when you went in. WE HAVE THEM IN ALL SIZES ents’ Store Opposite Court House Brevard, N. C. Notice To Taxpayers: Unless you want to see your property advertised for sale in the Brevard News and see your name in the paper, you had better come into my office in the Court House, Brevard, N. C., J and pay your tax before the 1st Monday in April, 1919* I am going to advertise all unpaid taxes on real estate to sell the 1st Monday in May, 1919. And 1 or my Deputy will be around after J all personal property when the taxes are unpaid. If you want to save yourself trouble, embarrassment and « cost come and see me, because 1 MEAN BUSINESS. February 17th, 1919. COS PAXTON . \ Sheriff & Tax Collectoip.
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