THE ELON COL LEGE WEEKLY.
January 11, 19] 1.
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HIGH POINT, N. C.
Wholesale and Retail House FumisherB and Jobbers.
IiIANTLES, GRATES, TILE, A SPECIALTY
1890 s, I9IO
ELON COLLEGE.
A young, vigorous College for both men and women. On Southern Railway,
sixty-five miles west of Raleigh, the State capital, and seventeen miles east of the
thiriving city of Greensboro.
THE LOCATION IS DELIGHTFUL; WATER PURE, CLIMATE HEALTHFUL.
Plant valued at $150,000, is modern in comfort and convenience. Steam heat elec
tric lights, water and sewerage oonnections with all buildings. Courses Lead to A. B.,
Fh. B., and A. M. Degrees.
Emmet L. A. B., LL. D., President
B. A. SELLARS & SONS,
High Class Dry Goods-
AND GENTS’ CLOTHIERS AND TAILORING MERCHANTS.
MAIN STREET, BURLINGTON, N. C.
FREEMAN DRUG COMPANY.
Burlington. North Carolina.
Are the leaders in Drugs, Chemicals and Toilet Articles.
CAREFUL ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS.
Alamance Insurance (Si Real
Estate Co.
Insurance. Loans and Real Estate.
CASH CAPITAL, ?30,000.00
MONEY LENT through this Company on real estate is secured both by mortgage
and Company guarantee. The lender receives 6 .per .cent, interest—3 .per .cent,,
promptly every six months—and is not bo thered about interest collections.
I-* TVT W. K. HOLT, President,
R. M. MORROW, Vice-President,
W. E. SHARPE, Treasurer and Manager.
n. B. SMITH.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Furniture and House Furnishings,
Phone 239,
BURLINGTON, N.C.
We have recently received another large shipment of Rugs and Art Squares.
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We have the most complete stock ever shown in Alamance County, in House
Furnishing Goods.
M. B. SMITH, BURLINGTON, N. C.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY AND
THREE OF HIS POEMS.
One of the sushine souls amongst Amer
ican journalists and authors, is James
Whitcomb Riley. He is 57 years old,
having been born in Greenfield, Ind. 1853
At the age of twenty he went to Indian
apolis and began work for the Indianapo
lis Journal and has resided in that city
ever since. His poetry, published in In
diana papers, soon attracted wide atten
tion, and, being written in the Hoosier
dialect, won for the author the title of
“Hoosier poet.” Mr. Riley’s first vol
ume, a collection of his poems, appeared
ten years after he went to Indianapolis
and was entitled “The Old Swimmin’
Hole, and ‘Leven More Poems.” The
pseudonym under which it was published,
and under which Mr. Riley still writes,
was Benj. F. Johnson, of Boon.
We are told that copies of this first
edition are very scarce and command a
high price, a copy having sold in New
York not long ago for $28.00, more than
twenty times what the book sold for when
first published. Mr. F. G. Darlington, of
Indianapolis, who is a great admirer of
Mr. Riley is making a collection from var
ious editions of the Riley books. This'
collection now numbers more than one
hundred and thirty-five volumes of all
sorts of binding, from paper-backs, or no
binding at all, to costly vellum. Mr.
Riley’s second volume, “The Boss Girl,”
appeared in 1886, and is very rare also.
It is quoted in the New York rare-book
market at $25.00 a copy.
These things attest the great popularity
of an author who is still livinar. Usually
first edition copies do not become so much
in demand until after the author’s death,
and sometimes, not even then. One can
buy rare leather-bound first edition copies
of seventeenth century English authors
as cheaply as one can some of Mr. Riley’s
first edition copies. This is not because
Mr. Riley is a man of rare and rich
thought, or that he is a great literary ar
tist, but rather because he is a soul who
dwells close to the average human heart,
and he is full of hope and tender sym
pathy. He and Bill Nye were friends and
traveled and gave readings together from
their writings, in Nye’s life time; and Mr.
Riley still gives readings from his poems.
These exibitions are very popular, for al
most everybody is acquainted with more
or less of his verse. It is said that his
poem “An old Sweetheart of Mine,” has
had more readers than any other poem in
the English language, Gray’s “Elegy in a
Country Churchyard” excepted.
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The following three poems are in such
happy keeping with the spirit, which
every one would like to have for himself,
and to see also in his fellows, that we
select them from a varied collection.
Those of us who may feel that we are of
those whom cruel fortune hath scratched,
or who are down in the dumps, these lit
tle poems will help:
In a Friendly Sort o’ Way.
When a man ain’t got a cent, and he’s
feelin kind o’ blue,
An’ the clouds hang dark and heavy,
an’ wont let the sunshine through.
It’s a great thing, O, my brethren, for a
feller just to lay
His liand upon your shoulder in a
friendly sort o’ way!
It makes a man feel curious, it makes the
teardrops start.
An’ you sort 0’ feel a flutter in the re
gion of the heart: y
You can look up and meet his eyes; you
don’t know what to say.
When his hand is on your shoulder, in
a friendly sort o’ way.
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with
its honey and its gall,
With its cares and bitter crosses, but
a good world after all.
An’ a good God must have made it—least
ways, that is what I say.
When a hand is on my shoulder in a
friendly sort o’ way.
All of us have felt and we understand
what the poet meant in these simple but
life-touching lines. And in the next is a
plea, gentle and persuasive for one to put
gladness in his heart in place of gloomi
ness.
Just to Be Glad.
Oh, heart of mine, we shouldn’t worry so!
Wliat we have missed of calm, we couldn’t
have, you know!
Wliat we have met of stormy pain.
And of sorrow’s driving rain.
We can better meet again.
If they blow.
We have erred in that dark hour, we have
known;
When the tears fell with the showers, all
alone.
ere not shine and shadow blent
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
For we know, not every morrow can be
sad;
So, fordgettting all the sorrow we have
had.
Let us fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years.
Just be glad.
Then in this final poem is an appeal to
add to gladness the greatest of all heart
qualities—love for our fellow men in the
hour of defeat, distress, and disgrace. In
tliese three poems is linked a chain of hu
man helpfulness not to be despised of any
one.
Let Something Good be Said.
When over the fair name of friend or foe
The shadow of disgrace shall fall; in
stead
Of words of blame, or proof of so and so,
Let something good be said.
Forget not that no fellow being yet
May fall so low but love may lift his
head;
Even the cheek of shame with tears is wet.
If something good be said.
No generous heart may vainly turn aside
In ways of sympathy; no soul so dead
But may awaken strong and glorified,
If something good be said.
And so I charge ye, by the thorny crown.
And by the cross on which the Saviour
bled.
And by your own soul’s hope for fair re
nown.
Let something good be said.
The Internal Revenue Commission
ers’ report shows that many more mil
lion gallons of intoxicating liquors had
been produced and consumed in the Unit
ed States during the year ending June
30, 1910, than during the preceding year.
In 1910 tliere was produced 156,237,526
gallons, an increase of 22,786,771 gallons
ov r 1909. This shows that the decrease
in production in the prohibition States
has been more than counterbalanced by
the increase of production in the license
States.