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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, November 13, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Soie Owner
J. GASKILL McDANIEL
-Editor and Publisher
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HARD TO DEFINE
Without friends, life would hardly be worth the living.
Yet, it is safe to say that the average New Bernian can’t de
fine friendship in just so many words.
More articulate was the little boy who won first prize
in a national contest with this definition. “A friend,” he scrawl
ed in pencil on tablet paper, “is somebody who knows all about
you and loves you just the same.”
Rather than burden you with our own definition of a
friend, we figured you might be interested in the thoughts
of others, garnered from the dusty annals of time. Digging in
to the writings of men both famous and wise, this is what we
found.
“A friend,” observes Emerson, “may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.” And quite a few centuries ago
a gentleman by the name of Aristotle expressed it even
more simply but no less eloquently. “A true friend is one soul
in two bodies,” he penned for the ages.
Wordsworth admonished us thusly—“Of friends, how
ever humble, scorn not one.” That’s pretty good advice for
the fellow who discards a number of his considerate and kind
associates as he climbs the ladder of success. If he should
tumble from the top rung, which is often the case, they would
come in handy just to break his fall.
Michelet contributed as the obvious when he wrote, “The
way to gain a friend is to be one.” It shouldn’t be necessary
for us to be told that, but it’s lamentably true we overlook
this basic fact in a good many instances. You can bank on the
words of Thackeray—“It is a friendly heart that has plenty
of friends.”
Of something else you can be quite sure, real friendship
isn’t measured in dollars and cents. George D. Prentice recog
nized this when he wrote, “A friend that you have to buy won’t
be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be.”
Plutarch lived a long time ago, but nothing in this modern
world of miracles is more up to date and appropriate than his
canny interpretation of this thing called friendship. “Among
real friends,” he reasoned, “there is no rivalry or jealousy
of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike
whether they are equal of one or them is superior.”
J. C. Hare gives us this wistful and rather cynical appraisal
of friendship: “We never know the true value of friends. While
they live we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have
lost them we only see their virtues.” If you haven’t been guilty
of using the yardstick this way in measuring your friends,
you’re an unusual New Bernian.
A touch of the morbid is injected too in the writings of
Fenelon when he says, “Real friends are our greatest joy
and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all
true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.”
Lord Chesterfield had no faith in the hail-fellow-well-met-
sort of person. “Real friendship is a slow grower,” he warned,
“and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and
reciprocal merit.”
It could well be that George Eliot (a woman) had the same
thing in mind when she wrote: “It is easy to say how we love
new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never
trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”
You’ve often heard it said that a friend in need is a
friend indeed. An old-time philosopher named Ennius put it
a little differently but what he wrote adds up to the same
thing. “A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard
and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the
worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.”
Friendship, like love, is not a planned thing. “A friend
is never chosen,” says Barbauld. “A secret sympathy, the at
traction of a thousand nameless qualities, a charm in the ex
pression of countenance, even of voice or manner, a similarity
of circumstances, these are the things that begin attachment.”
That’s what having a friend and being a friend is, so they
say.
Look to
HILL'S
for Something Better
Historical
Gleanings
-By-
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
The Mirror Advertising Pays!
1841. Number and names of all
the children in Districts No. 4 and
5 under the age of 18 years of age:
Jane B. Lane, Elizabeth Lane, John
H. Lane, Enoch H. Lane, William
B. Lane, Sarah G. Garmon, Levina
Arnold, Sarah Ann Arnold, Eliza,
beth Arnold, James Arnold, Susan
Brock, Julia Borck, Sarah Brock,
Robert Brock, Allen Brock, Alexan
der Brock, John Brock, John Fern,
Marji Fern, Mary Ann French, Lew-
ezer M. French, Jeremiah F.
French, Mary Ann Green, George
Green, Cicero Green, Hannah
Brock, Sarah Woods, George Fern,
Permely Witherington, Aldridge
Witherington, Rual Witherington,
Louisa Witherington, Abner With
erington, William H. Witherington,
Sara C. Tucker, Osida Humphrey,
Joseph Humphrey, Susan Green
signed by Committeemen Elisha
Arnold, Burton Carman, Jeremiah
Fonvielle.
Frederick White, Benjamin
White, Reuben White, William Har
dy, Susan Hardy, Allen Hardy, John
Green, Sidney Green, Thomas J
Pearce, Junius Gooding, Hollon
Jones, John Jones, Levincy Pear
son, Lalatha Pearson, Mary McCoy,
Susan McCoy, George Charlton,
Nancy Charlton, Frederick McCoy,
Emila McCoy, Samuel White, Neal
White, Eli White, Robert White^
Eliza White, William Grady, Farni
fold Smith, Elizabeth McCoy, Wil
liam McCoy, Rebecca McCoy, Sarah
McCoy, Nancy McCoy, Zilphy
Heath, William Heath, Rigdon
Heath, Cloe Heath, Tercy Heath,
Hollon Heath, Thomas White, Ste
phen Ipock, Frederick Ipook, Ste
phen Hawkins, Jesse Hawkins, Sa
rah Hawkins, Ceald Hawkins,
Franklin White, Oliver White,
James Edwards. Signed by Commit
teemen William M. Heritage and
Samuel Pearson.
District No. 8. Brice Butler, Su
san Butler, Lelah Smith, Joseph
Kiteral, William Kiteral, Hansey
W. Witherington, Riley Withering
ton, Maria P. Davis, Daniel Davis,
Hezekiah Davis, Susa Davis, James
Heart, Patrick Stewart, Clarency
Stewart, Clement Witherigton, Re
becca Witherington, Maria Riggs,
John Green, James H. Anderson,
Joshua, Daugherty, Elizabeth
Daugherty, Caroline Daugherty, Ed
ward Daugherty, Wm. W. Daugher
ty, Daniel Daugherty, Henry
Daugherty, Susan C. B. Amyett,
Mary C. Amyett, Sarahann Amyett,
Penelope Witherington, James C.
Bratcher, Mary Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Samuel Taylor, Holon Ann
Taylor,, Eliza Taylor, Wm. Taylor,
Solomon Taylor, Ivy Taylor, Fred
erick Taylor, John Taylor, Josiah
Taylor, Nancy Taylor, Nancy Ann
Stanley, Sarah F. Sivils, John H.
Witherington, Mary E. Withering
ton, Thomas Outlaw, Alexander
Witherington, Julia Ann White, Al-
sey Bracher, Alfred Bracher, Eliza
beth Bracher, Elisa Bracher, Mason
Bracher, Hollan Bracher, Margaret
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■"S
Villoge Verses
AIR CASTLES
Long years ago a boy and girl
Built castles in the air;
They planned to have a bungalow,
And little kiddies there.
Fate decreed that they would part
Along a moon-kissed lane;
But neither of them ever thought
They’d never meet again.
An old man sits beside the fire,
And mumbles in his chair;
He’s dreaming of a blue-eyed girl,
And castles in the air.
—JGMcD.
Bracher, Reuben Bracher, Vincent
Sivils, John Williams, Elisha Wil
liams, James Shoot, John Shoot,
William Shoot, Ann Shoot, Hannah
Shoot, Susan Taylor, Abel Taylor,
Bryan Taylor, Obediah Heart. Sign
ed by Committeemen Lawson W.
Davis, Solo. Witherington, Henry
Shute.
No. 10. Thomas Wilson, George
Wilson, Sally Wilson, Alfred H.
Barrow, Joseph B. C. Barrow, Jacob
Gooding, Betsy Goooding, Susan
Goooding, Thomas Goooding, Jacob
Gooding, Nathan Goooding, Nancy
Chestnut, Elizabeth Ipock, Harriett
Brown, Harriett Taylor, Mary Mil
ler, Eliza Mathews, Mehitable Scar
borough, Ann Gibble, Hannah Gib-
ble, Julia Greech, Jane Wilson,
Margaret Wilson, Frances Stewart,
Frances Chestnut, Maria Mason,
John Charlotte, Edmond Watson,
Louisa Outlaw, Becton Davis, Jo
seph Barber, William Powers, John
Vendrick, Leonard Cambo, Mary
Ann McIntosh, Delilah Withering
ton, William Bowen, Mary Holton,
Luvenia Goooding. Signed by Com
mitteemen William S. Blackledge,
Thos. Sparrow.
No. 11. Armecy Gwalthney, Lu-
caser Gwalthney, Martha Ann
Gwalthney, Lucretia Gwalthney,
Rachel Gwalthney, Elias Gwalth
ney, Priscilla Gwalthney, Maria
Ann Gwalthney, Everett Gwalth
ney, Electa Gwalthney, Harriett
Gwalthney, Lusetta Gwalthney, Wil
liam Gwalthney, Jane Gwalthney,
Sally Ann Venters, Slade Venters,
Mary Venters, Love Jane Venters,
John Bryan Venters, J. F. B.
Gwalthney, Hollon A. Causey, Mas
on Pitt, Thomas Gwaltney, Celmon
Gwalthney, Sally Smith, Mary
Smith, Henry Pitt, Arthur Avorit,
WOODROW
MOORE'S
Supplying Indoor
Comfort With
Heating and Air Conditioning
Now located 318 First St.
Permilia Avorit, Allen Spers, Red
in Jackson, David Jackson, John
Jackson, Marchel Jackson, Eliza
beth Jackson, John Z. Gardner, Ju
lia Gardner, James Murphy, Celia
Bently, Elizabeth Bently, Benjamin
Bently, William H. Ward, Jesse A.
Wald, Ann Ward, BHizabeth Ward,
John Williams, Cicero Williams,
Calvin Williams, Jacob Spears, Ra
chel Spears, Mary Spears, Craven
Atkinson, Elizabeth Atkinson, John
Sutton, Dawsey Sutton. Signed* by
Committeemen John Bryan, Lewis
Gwalthney, Joseph L. Bryan.
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at
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137 Middle Street
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