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THE NEW BERN MIRROR. NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, May 7, 1971
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
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N«w ••ra, N. C., by Hi* Sol* Own*r
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THE COMMON TOUCH
Hard for us to figure out is why an aloof man, with
snobbishness in his heart, ever runs for public office.
Only rarely does a candidate of this sort win. If he
emerges victorious from a battle of ballots, it’s
usually because his opponent beat himself by rubbing
too many people the wrong way.
That’s one of the hazards of being an extrovert.
Nothing, not even a friendly nature, can save a
politician if he makes a habit of telling it like it is, and
steps on the toes of the wrong people too often.
In this case, the pompous, puffed-up man opposing
him at the polls becomes, in the minds of many
voters, the lesser of two evils. But, in ordinary cir
cumstances the chronic snob is a loser at the polls,
and deserves to be.
Don’t every lay your money on a man who waits
until three weeks before election to discover the
many so called unimportant people in his com
munity. Being ignored isn’t accidental, if it has
happened to you repeatedly.
Campaigning, face to face, isn’t easy for the fellow
who has to come down from his self erected throne on
the mountain top, and grovel for support from the
peasants in the valley.
For one thing, the inflated egotist awakens to the
^smal fact that his circle of carefully chosen friends
is a great deal smaUer than the multitude outside that
circle.
Worse still is the realization that this multitude is
mostly made up of people he has never condescened
to speak to on the street, chat with across a counter,
or compliment at a teller’s window when he visits the
bank.
Sadly, he finds himself almost totaUy among
strangers, as he passes out his political cards to
pedestrians. Often, the local citizen he thinks he is
stopping turns out to be somebody from somehwere
else.
Even if it is a local citizen, there’s something
sli^tly absurd about having to introduce yourself to
people you’ve passed hundreds of times for tens of
years without speaking. In short, the snob is out of
place in politics.
Historical
Gleanings
ELIZABETH MOORE
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LANDS OF THOMAS
SINGLETON COART
Under the Wills of Thomas
S, Singleton and W. G. Single-
ton, Thomas Singleton Coart
became seized of the follow
ing tracts of land—a one sixth
li *erest:
A grant to Spyers Singleton
for 300 acres. Book 3 p. 63,
May 27, 1775: Lying In Craven
County at the head of Brice’s
Cre«k and Cat Fish Lake, be
ginning In the Southwest or
back line of a patent of land
granted to Thomas Daves for
640 acres, and at a point 56
poles from the west comer of
the same, &c &c to the first
station.
A tract granted to Spyers
Singleton for 300 acres. Book
3 P. 64, May 27, 1795, lying In
Craven County, situated on Cat
Fish Lake, beginning at the Lake
side the 4th corner of said
Singleton’s 100 acre survey,
dated May 4, 1795, then almg
the third line of said survey
East to the third corner of the
same &e to the beginning,
A tract of land granted to
Spyers Singleton for 100 acres,
book 3 P. 65 May 27, 1795,
on Cat Fish Lake, beginning at
a cedar and two laurels, at ttie
eastern edge of said lake by a
small Bay or Cove, then 100
poles East, then North 160 poles,
Ac to the beginning.
A tract granted to Slngleton-
Daves and Spalght for 3200
acres. Book 3 p. 66, May 28,
1796, South side of Trent River
In the Pecosln, both sides West
prong of Brice's Creek, begin
ning at two marked laurels In
Singleton’s cut path to the Cat
Fish Lake, being the beginning
comer of the 5120 acre survey
Ac to Singleton's 100 acre sur
vey, Ac to Henry line, Ac to
Spalght and Daly’s patent for 640
acres on Long Lake, then with
their Une South 46 West 278
poles to David Barrons’s 400
acre patent on Long Lake, then
with Barrens line NW120 poles,
then with his order line SW 160
poles to the said Barron’s
Patent oh Great Lake for 640
acres, being also the corner of
the above said Singleton’s
Dave’s and Spalght’s survey for
5120 acres, Ac to the beginning.
A tract of land granted to
Singleton-Daves and Spalght for
1920 acres book 3 p. 67, May
14th, 1798, on the South side of
Trent River, on the Cat Fish
Lake, beginning at a cedar and
two laurels on the eastern end
of the said Lake, being the be
ginning corner of Singleton’s 100
acre survey, then running with
said Lake Southerly and West
erly, Its various courses to
URGENT REQUEST
Science works miracles,
But what every gardner needs
Are flowers that will choke out
All those thriving weeds.
The colors, that won’t matter.
Make them yellow, red or blue.
Rather small, or large and tall.
Just teach them what to do.
—JGMcD.
MIRROR MIRTH
The hardest task of a girl’s
life is to prove to a man that his
intentions are serious.
Economists now say we move
in cycles instead of mnning
around in circles. I sounds
better, but it means the same.
The only kind of letters a
woman likes to receive from a
man are those which should not
have been written.
If a loafer is not a nuisance to
you, it is a sign that you are
something of a loafer your
self.—Edgar W. Howe.
It takes a strong constitution
to withstand repeated attacks of
prosperity.—J. L. Basford.
The best way to convince a
fool that he is wrong is to let him
have his own way.—Josh
Blount and Blackledge 640 acre
patent on said Lake, then with
the patent to the South corner
of th* same being the beginning
corner ot Leech’s line. South
45 East Ac to two marked
laurels In Slngletm’s Cut Path
to the Cat Fish Lake, being a
point North 80 East Ac to the
beginning.
Billings.
Any event, once it has oc
curred, can be made to appear
inevitable by a competent
historian.—Lee Simonson.
There’s too many folks of
limited means who think that
nothing’s too good for them.—
Frank McKinney Hubbard.
Be frank and explicit. That is
the right line to take when you
wish to conceal your own mind
and to confuse the minds of
others.—Disraeli.
There are only two kinds of
people who are really
fascinating; people who know
everything, and people who
know nothing.—Oscar Wilde.
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