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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, November 6, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Pubtith*d Evtry Friday at 111 King Straet,
New Barn, N. C., by the Soie Owner
J. 6ASKILL McDANIEL
.Editor and Publisher
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One Year $2.50 Six Months.
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under the act ^ March 3, 1879.
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RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS
New Bern youngsters who celebrated Halloween by dress
ing as spooks, witches and other supposed-to-be frightening
characters were following in the footsteps of their parents,
their grandparents and their ancestors even further back.
It was a strange way indeed to observe the eve of All
Saints Day, an occasion that is intended to have real religious
significance. Few of us recognize it, probably because in this
instance the saints have been supplanted by carved pumpkins
and false faces that gladden the heart of childhood.
This failure to emphasize All Saints Day in a proper man
ner is hardly unique, here in New Bern and around the
world. On two other religious holidays that are even more
meaningful—Christmas and Easter—jolly old Santa and Peter
Cottontail rather effectively obscure Bethlehem’s manger and
Calvary’s cross for many professing Christians.
Yet, The Mirror has the feeling that God in His heaven
doesn’t begrudge little children the joy of masquerade parties
on an October night, lights glorifying a cedar flanked by gifts
when Christmas comes, and a frantic hunt for gaily colored
eggs on the day that Christ arose.
It seems to us that a kindly Creator must surely have
placed His blessing upon these events that mean so much to
us when we are young, and continue to mean a great deal
to us when adulthood leaves us nothing of our childhood but
fond retrospect.
How else can we account for the fact that He has permit
ted them to remain constant and wonderful through the cen
turies? When the Man of Galilee said, “Suffer the little chil
dren to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven,’’
He made it rather clear that little boys and girls are quite
important in the marvelous plan of Creation.
A religious holiday should always have room for religion
in it. But the laughter of little children, to our way of think
ing, doesn’t necessarily desecrate it.
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IT WAS PLEASANT
Autumn is a leaf littered Memory Lane, where the clock
turns back to things you remember most and loved best.
Always, when the crisp days arrive, we miss the odor of
burning wood. Everjhvhere you looked you saw smoke drifting
to the skies from countless chimneys. Inside the lighted homes
you passed you knew there was an open fireplace, and neigh
borliness.
Nothing else, except maybe bacon sizzling in a skillet,
smells nicer than the right sort of chimney smoke in the gath
ering haze of a brisk November twilight. A fireplace in this
modern era is just as impractical as a kerosene lamp, but
something pretty wonderful disappeared from the New Bern
scene when open fires became an oddity rather than a lux
urious necessity.
A fireplace never was much for generating enough heat
to fill a room, much less a house, with steady and evenly reg
ulated warmth. However, it did warm your heart, and there was
something about the glow and the crackle and the rising sparks
that made the commonplace of simple existence into a verita
ble world of magic.
Many a tall story has been told beside an open fireplace,
and many a fanciful dream cooked up. It made a perfect setting
for courting too, if you could maneuver the old folks into
another room. If an ardent suitor couldn’t make headway in the
field of romance when he had an open fire to help him, he
might as well give it up as a hopeless pursuit of the maiden’s
hand.
Fireplaces were meant for folks who appreciate the fun
to be had just staying at home. Today, if for no other reason,
a fireplace would be impractical for a lot of us because home
is a place to get away from.
Anyhow, on Autumn’s leaf-littered Memory Lane, we miss
the smell of chimney smoke as much as anything else.
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Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
1840. CRAVEN COUNTY.
CORDING TO A RESOLUTION
THE SCHOOL BOARD
SHALL BE THREE SCHOOL CO!
MITTEEMEN IN EACH DISTRIG'
THE FOLLOWING APPOINTEb,
TO-WIT:
District No. 1, William P. Biddle,
Samuel S. Bidddle and Isaac B.
Cox. No. 2, Thomas Wadsworth, Le
vi J. Kent and J. Y. Carman. No. 3,
Johnson Bryan, William C. McCoy
and William Wise. No. 4, Jeremiah
Fonvielle, John Green and Elisha
Ernul.
No. 5, Nathan White, Jeremiah
Heath and Fred Ipock. No. 6, Ed
ward Rhem, Joseph Green and
Washington Carman. No. 7, Wil
liam French, John H. Richardson
and Haywood Rhem. No. 8, Henry
Shute, Solomon Witherington and
Worsley Davis. No. 9, John H.
Jones, John M. Hargett and Lemuel
Hudler. No. 10, William S. Black-
ledge, William V. Barrow and M.
Manley. No. 11, Gilfred Murphy,
John Bryan and Jesse Noble.
No. 12, Bishop E. Dudley, Spicer
Lane and Elisha Griffin. No. 13,
Alderson Ellison, John Jackson and
Abner Heartley. No. 14, William
Bright, Linclar Lancaster and Levi
Wayne. No. 15, John Askins,
Charles Kelly and Jacob Birch. No.
16, David Whitford, Sr., John Pow
ell and Bryan Whitford. No. 17,
Thomas Ewell, William M. Herri-
tage, Jr., and Stephen Willis. No.
18, James F. Lincoln, David Cutrell
and C. Dixon. No. 19, Samuel Brin
son, Daniel Holton and Lorel Lee.
No. 20, Shadrach Lee, Samuel
Willis and Morgan Banks. No. 21,
James Bennett, James Hardison
and Thomas Willis. No. 22, James
Pittman, William Bennett and Ben
jamin Brinson. No. 23, Caleb Dixon,
William S. Delamar and Oliver S.
Dewey. No. 24, Joseph McCotter,
Richard McCotter and Hawkins
Delamar. No. 25, Jacob McCotter,
Henry Woodard and William C.
Leith. No. 26, John Wise, Thomas
Jones and Abner Brickhouse.
No. 27, Horace B. Spencer, Lewis
Fowler and Levi Wharton. No. 28,
Matthew Holton, Thomas Lincoln
and Samuel Jones. No. 29, William
D. Fulford, William Lewis and
Burney McCotter. No. 30, Sylvester
Tingle, Noah Miller. No. 31, Rich
ard Smith, John Frieze, Sr., and
Thomas Austin. No. 32, Council B.
Wood, John Smith and Stephen
Hardison.
No. 33, William Holland, James
Mrashall and Joseph R. Franklin.
No. 34, Samuel Hyman, Needham
B. Whitford and David Gibson. No.
35, Hardy L. Jones, Abner White-
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Village Verses
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW
If you would like the sort of home
That’s spic-and-span and neat.
Then close the door on childhood
And toddling baby feet.
You’ll never have to wring your hands
At smudges on the wall;
Yon never stumbled over toys
And get a nasty fall
Your bedroom slippers you won’t find
In quite the strangest places;
Those prized tomes on your book shelves
Will bear no penciled faces.
And when you crave a movie
You won’t have to tend some brat
Who sprinkles talcum powder
In your one and only hat.
That lovely vase, or is it vazz,
Can rest on any table;
You won’t invest in diapers
While you long for mink and sable.
There won’t be night-long vigils,
JKept because a curly head
Is burning up with fever
In its little trundle bed.
You’ll live without restrictions,
Doing everything that’s nice;
Never knowing that a baby
Is cheap at any price.
—JGMcD.
(Reprinted by Request.)
head and Joseph Physioc. No. 36,
Left out. No. 37, E. M. Dudley,
Thomas Parsons and James Austin.
No. 38, John H. Nelson, James G.
Stanly, Jr. No. 39, Josephus Hall,
James Masters and James Salter.
No. 40, Charles Willis and William
Thomas, Calvin Huff.
All which is respectfully sub
mitted. Craven County, February
10. A. D. 1840, by John T. Lane,
chairman, William B. Perkins, F.
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IT MATTERS TO HIM
My child I know thy sorrows.
Thine every grief I share;
I know how thou art tested.
And, what is more—I care.
Think not I am indifferent
To what affecteth thee;
Thy weal and woe are matters
Of deep concern to Me.
But, child, I have a purpose
In all that I allow;
I ask thee then to trust Me,
Though all seems dark just now.
How often thou has asked Me
To purge away thy drossi
But this refining process
Involves for thee—a cross.
There is no other pathway
If thou would'st really be
Conformed unto the image
Of Him Who died for thee.
Thou canst not be like Jesus
Till self is crucified;
And as a daily process
The cross must be applied.
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