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FEBRUARY 7, 1924. A BEAUTIFUL AND FITTING TRIBUTE At the recent annual meeting of the Grand Lodge <>f North Carolina Mason*. Judge Winston paid the following tribute to the late Richard N. Haekett, who for two terms, was Grand Master cf the Grand Lodge. Most Worshipful Grand Master my brethren of the Grand Lodge: With this official announcement of the death of Past Grand Master Richard Nathaniel Hackett, 1 ask your permission to speak loving words in his memory, and to drop a /lower on the snow covered mound beneath winch he sleeps tonight. in his story of the "Lady of Lyons' the poet Bulwer, makes the beautiful Pauline, standing by the side of her hand -<?me lovt r, look upward to the stars of the night and appealingly say to him?"Tell me again Sweet Prince, what star shall be our home when our iove becomes immortal.*' At night my love for my dear dead i friend points my eyes to the starf lit blue, and gazing there in puny offort to fathom the ways of the Master. 1 seek to find in God's illimitable wilderness of worlds that dot the sky the home celestial of Richard Nufhariel Hsrketf Master Mason. He was born under the shadows of the towering hills fifty-six years ago. His parentage and ancestry were gentle, noble and patriotic. I first knew him as a freshman at the University of North Carolina and followed him to his graduation. He carried there from the sky touching hiils of his native Wilkes, a princely form, a genial smile, a happy and handsome face a cordial greeting, a hearty hand clasp, a high hope, a well grounded faith., a lofty ambition and an intense zeal to serve his state and fellow man. These marked characteristics, these noble qualities, followed him from his graduation to hi> grave. How full of life he was, of the glad rollicking joy of life, how often ir manhood, he was a very boy again scattering laughter and sunshine # "turning to mirth all things of the earth as only boyhood can." la storms of life he was as strong as the oak primeval, in life's sorrow: and shadows, he was as gentle as z daisy How sympathetic he was when sorrow folded her pallid win* and brov over the hearts and th< homes of those he loved. Ir. his pres ence madness seemed less sod, and : softer light crept in among the shad ows for in what he said and did then was something so like the nieltinj music of woman's 'speech and tin tender touch of woman's hand He loved the beautiful and th? good, the tint of a flower, the exqui site shading of a brush, the goldei glory of the autumn sun droppinj gent... u rest behind the everlastinj hill: : s he swelling symphony of th sea; the glee and merry prattle o childhood; the myriad voices of na ture; the sweet aroma of bud am j flower; these, all these, fired his gen tie soul and touched his great hear with the magic wanu of sweet c:: ehanlmont., li< lived for his f How man. 11 wrought good deeds. He spoke kin words. I knew him in every relation * life, private, public a.. i profession*! I have joyfully watched him wear th deserved laurels of wei] earned vie tory; and bravely and calmly wen the cypress crown of defeat and soi row. 1 have been with him in heate political campaigns, when the pa: sions and hates of men were keye to a desperate pitch. I have hear Pan<rr(vtL< nf our natio sway orators with his eloquence ar. coinvince opponents with his logi< I have measured him in courts c justice, where I sat in judgmei with powerful sympathy, asking f< givcness for the misguided ard men for t' e en ng. We have heard hi hero appeal for the distressed, tl ^ helpless and the sorrowing, and ha^ been lifted by his speech to a high' plane of life and a grander hopehave stood by his side on the pes of one of his native hills by tl grave of a beautiful ister he iov< with intense emotion. I have seen him gaze calmly up? FOURS AND SKI F. M. RICHARDS W. H. GRAGG Banner Elk, N. Carolii Boone, - North Car T J a raging torrent which ruthlessly I swept from its granite foundation a : valuable mill and its productive surrounding and greatly impaired his! worldy possessions. In the silence of his chamber he j has soured out to me the crushing | *u..? -? 1, l: . nr.. ; ? mfw likii. auui'iv iu> iiiv ?t?| foundation and hurried him to the j beyond. In every scene he was the courteous and courageous gentlemen, the .same high minded citizen, the same exponent of our ancient institution, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, given to hospitality, kindly affectioned, preferring hi- brethren all honor, rejoicing with the fortunate' weeping with the sorrowful, cleaving to the good. Masonry fed his soul and sustained his drooping heart. He lived in its beauties and Fls glories. He practiced its brotherhood and its benefactions. He stood with the weak and the erring. He gave gifts with lavish hand, lie discharged his public and private trusts with clean hands and loyal heart. Here he won and held our love and our confidence. We gave him our| highest gift. We shall miss him here. He will be missed in his mountain home where he was loved and esteemed beyond all men. To them under any and oil circumstances, to young and old, he was Dick Hackett. And so among them lie sleeps tonight on the crest of the high lands he loved, near the graves of kindred, mighty in battle and glorious in peace, and under "watch and ward" of 1 those w ho loved him living and dead, j And there 1 must leave him rest, j SENIOR B. Y. P. U. i You members of this Union that were absent last Sunday night rniss ed something, and if you are not ; careful you will miss something else. So let's not take any more chances I but let's go to our meetings because ', if you are not going to work for i your group you arc going to miss ' the best social you ever attended u> * the contest we decided 011 last Saturday night is as following: The group > that reaches the standard of excellence first and holds it for at least 1 one month will he rewarded with a ?, special social to be given by the C other three groups . Tlu winning ? group will only have to be present - at the social and I will see th; i you 1 have plenty to eat and a real good " time. Now who couid miss such a - chance. Listen group captains get - after your members and let them | u know what this victory means. Never pet into your head that you L* can't reach the above mentioned point j as this is a small matter if you will 1 ! only pet interested in this matter. ?! Your hardest point will be the dailv ? i Bible readings, which requires that e the winning group shall be seventy ^ five per cent in D. !5. R., thats only i three fourths of your membership, L* and surely you can do this once. It is earnestly requested that the Sec* retm\ shall keep a strict record of the propicag of the group- -?> we can know how the fight for the standard ? i excellence is progressing. Last of :.ll get after your absentees, bring them back. Our lesson the Precious 1 Blood of Jesus was a great success l* to be pushed with time to render the e program. Sunday night we must be on hand 1 so that, we can get through for prea* ching time. Come on time. We have " to study Sunday night Psalm 19, teaching us how to live right. Psalm 19 is one of the favorite memory psalms 1 of our childhood. It falls into two " clearly marked .divisions, namely, d * Thf^ :: ^ ^ ik \ ^ vj>, <> . \ > ' -..;v - j (; !.. / 311 , ^ Who dare deny that there J is a magnetic power in e \ SAVINGS BANK -i BOOK? I With it von can waive off calamity J laugh at many a turn of Fortune' j off-wheel and meet old age gracefull and smilingly | Try the never fuilin | magnet of saved $$$$$$$$$ safel laid away, at interest in our stron boxes, and you're on the sunny sid of life's street. na Bank of Blowing Rock Blovrinf Rock, N. C. HE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV verses 1-6 which deal with the works! of nature, and verses 7-14 which deal with the book of the scriptures; orj to put it more briefly, the works of God and tbe Word of God. As we < a<i itiL* t.rst 01 vision our 1 magma- j tiers are fired with the sweep and 1 ai.iy of the words describing the' row. and s$oiy of the heavens and j the earth, and oar hearts are at once] filled with -t new reverence for the creator id b. power. Ao we read the second division our admiration for the Word of God increa.es. David piles up the adjectives o as to set forth the supreme excellence ef the scriptures. It has been said that this psalm was w r it ten to prove that idolatry, denying Clod, and the inspiration of the scriptures, is wholly inexcusable. In this day of evolution and growir g ii reverance for the Sabbath and things sacred, may this psalm sink deep into our souls. 1.-th I'salm contains mighty truth:? in wonderful words. Come to the B. Y. P. I" Sunday at o p. m. and lot's study this wonderful psalm. HERMAN WILCOX. THE WHIP OF CARE Edgar A. C'jftl. Oh, there are burdens to bear and the trials are many. Butcher, and bread man must have their last penny? Life's not all laughter and loving, and well do I know it: Care leaves a welt on the flesh be you merchant or poet; Lawyer cr doctor or tradesman the great or the small of us Care has a whip in his hand and he lashes at al! of us. Oil, there are times when I groan and fee: my flesh stinging Times when there's too much of pain and not enough singing. Times when men's greed seem to stifle me, times when my duty Seems to be foolish and vain, rob Ding ii??' ot an oeauij ; Then comes a boy to my knee with eyes brightly flashing And I laugh in derision at care and the whip he is lashing. This I shall wrest from it all; their peace and their pride in me, The faith arid respect of friends who have glimpsed the aside of mo; The butcher and baker and bread man shall have what 1 owe them, They shall be happy to have known me as i have been happy to know them. For from the care of the world, the burdens and stings of our duty. Come the treasures of love and esteem. come honor and friendship and beauty. Not without these is lite good am! not without care capi man gait them. The garments of honor shall fade 1! ffiSnSMBBHMHHHS for ?.co?OTn?? i SUPERIOR MODI $55 We can furnish j ; rolet line on easy mc We refer you tc Chevrolet owners in of them in use for s! y without one cent foi e y * The Boc WALTER j - ERY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. the butcher and baker shall stain them. With courage we purchase our friend care sanctifies all that we cherish By faith and by strength we find | peace, and without them we Ian giiish and perish. ! Byt the burdens we bear and the | hurt., by tn - conquests which run through life's story, rbe tr.. v v. e call manhood is made ; ,..ood*s the giver of glory. Leaps From Boat. Swims Out Into Lake to Die Ctereltod.?After jumping from the steamer Great Western in harbor here. Harry C. Nelson stripped off bis overcoat, 8?atu several hundred fee; out into Lake Erie and was drovvued Flo spurned rope thrown to b'.m by ? wbeejsuma. NeJsoo carue here from Waw York. where Ma pareota realde, four months age. Tfce body wan roaoTerad. Farmer Swims His Geese Down River to Market | CiAmwt, Willi.?Or*? Watts. IIt- I i leg near here. awaro bis flock of geese to market down the Wenatcbee river to save transportation expense. He ! followed the flack Ie a canoe, allowing | | tbena to go ashore nnd Jia fed shelled ' j earn when neceaaarj. Japan Has Woman Fire Brigade. Tokyo.?A brigade composed of women ban been organized !n the village of Aosuna. Akita prefecture. The , brigade If made up of women from twenty fe thirty years old and Is being trained In every department of firefighting. Tills is said to be the first women's organization In Japan for protection ngainst Ore. i ! i | rm?a - wmw mi imhhiahibm. > ' ? f Big Freighter to Be | Scrapped by Germany I r Now* York.?The Minnesota, of [ | 33.000 deadweight tons, the J world's largest freighter, soon | will leave here to be scrapped 55 In Germany. A Dutch tug is now csosaing the Atlantic to take the vessel in tow. The freighter has been sold to German interests, represented here by the General Shipping Corporation. and lias been transferred to the German dag for the trip to Uoniburg. where she win he dismantled. The name ?#f the purchaser Is given as the Schiffswerft Unierelho Aktlen Gesellsrhaft, of w lii.-ti M F Her tel is the representative. R II R. D. JENNINGS DENTIST Office at Blacburn Hotel 1 BOONE N. CARC Patients from a distance would d well to write and have appointment arranged beforehand, * rcnsporic 5, TOURING CAR 0.00 ou anything in the Chev inthly payments. ) any one of over thirty Watauga County- some nearly eighteen months r repairs. me Garage IOHNSON, Mgr. Rum Unearth* Ancient City Near Simferopol Berlin.?German ttrchaeuiiOi^tf) are greatly interested In reports that the Hiw* > ; ii nrnfti.HKUr Siihinln uliu f<ir year* hu* been excavating near Sim* i fer??p??I. U3 the Crhuea, has discovered : the ruins of a city which waft in lis ' prlm?- during the time the Scythians rules! the Crimea. This period, accord lug t<? archaeologists who have studied t relics from Scythlc tombs, roughly appesirv -o have begun about The Sixth centiirv before Christ and to have con tinned to the Second century anno Domini. The Scythians at various , times fought for their existence against Darius and Philip 11 of Macedon and other warrior? of those ages. Cat Saddened by Death of Mouse It Mothered x'Kh-n, rv i. -<?p* or tne greatest curiosities Id the relations of oat and . Qjoufrf hue just been terminated in the death of a mouse which had been cared for by a cat here. After the en? lost six kittens she lavished her affections on a mouse, caring for It as tenderly ac If tt hcd ueeo a kitten. The cat is the property of a Goshen restaurateur, where the animal Is now very disconsolate. The mouse answered to the 4*ujeown" of the cat by appearing immediately when called, and at tiinee was carried by the cat as she carried her own kittens. Enraged Men Shoots Three Gypsies. Oakland. Cal.?Enraged because his fortune as told by Georgia A. Adams, gypsy, did not contain enough good om^ns, Ralph Cusslo is charged by the police with having shot three other members of the Adams family, seriously wounding John Adams, tribal chief, believed to be the "king'* of the gypsies In the United States. The shooting took place to the crowded Southern Pacific company station here. Cassia missed the fortune-teller. IB "\4TE ^ave use^ BlackC3 ww Draught ever sine* D we have had a famH ily and that was shortly g after 1874," says Mr. E A. Branstetter, of St H James, Mo. "It is my first n remedy when any of iu H geti aick. . . . We us? Q Black-Draught for torpic fcf liver and stomach com R plaints. Eg "Whan I get sluggish t| and don't fool ?o good, ' K take Black-Draught?anc H you have to show me thai D there is a better medicin< fer- . =: Ret R If irJ Not ThBI 1 BLACK-! 13 Vegetable! MfiSHKSsflfiiHHflKSSfiflBttJSHfiii ' i One Man a i ' ! A man by himself is Multiply him by hu millions and he bec< nation. If "he gets on in the hundreds or thousar If he fails, so will a g others for no one r self by his actions. Because of this fac bank exists to help i problem of finance :j i i L. ICUI1MUC1 eu ciiiu 115 ut You are invited to ta vice. The Peop] i Trust J PACE THREE B&yoone. N'. J.?DetecdteB tavestf?] fared th? strange death of Max Mich**let. found dead in his home. 8b K&at Twenty-sixth street, linyuuns, thr*| weeks after his dying '.vife'd fhrea# tlxftt she "would goum back for htm." Ac a u tops* Was ordered. George M:'-hoick, eldest son, told th? police UU father was brutal, driving hi 10 fj'OCD his home wben he was a email boy. He said he had returned only whea hearing of hie mother' IIIuv?a. Th? father. be? aaaerted, bed abused Mleholek just before her death, uad she then made the threat the "would come buck after him." A few mlnmee later the died. KehtLW<tt told the police thej believe eooe- mysterious intiuance caused hie death. j Nice, Gentle Volcano Offered Rich American? Washington,?Certain Bolivia;; geuUei:>eo want tc sell Tattlo, a idee, mantle volcano on the Chilean-Bolivian' frontier, to same wealthy American, tt wm announced In the Cononerc*; topaftmeut * liat of trade oyportunl- , tfcM Tactic la gcjarniitead extinct In-j toad at amittim.' ; h?* fire ?ml sttu-iIt? of It* youth it 1m cojiLgnT now, La old wl$b eroding ci<Kids of ?up?^ hiflttod ?*s&m through Ibe urucks cf its frtdes. This can be converted tate electric power capable of prortucto# 400,000.000 horsepower a year. It a mtCntfiLn-jd &2an Get? Back Coin He Marked 17 Yesrs Ago 2'aduoul). Ky.?Scventevr. years ngt> Hn-ttl Williams, a decorator residing at BooneviUe, Mo., stamped Ms nun<e oa a quarter of a dollar and spent it Re cently C. a. WUllarns, k brother. re siding here found the marked quar ter in the cash register of his etors am sent It to his brother, who ?L?? ra < !n Roonevihs, ZI^r!TOT!TIZX!3^X^^a| the Family m -'in Missouri. I think it is Qffl . fine for indieestion or for HH headache. It is a splendid ? I family remedy. My wife Z uses it for any stomach r B ailment, indigestion and r B . biliousness. We never let ' B ; the house be without it if I B i I know it. We aiso give it r B . to the children for chil- 2 a [ dren's complaints, colds or B . fever." - B Keep a package of Black- " B , Draught in the house for " B [ all the family. - B j Your dealer will eel! you a - H mammoth package, containing I- B c (Wa ef the regular-ei*? pack- " B ! ages. It's cheaper. - B Ms, its sot 11 1RAUGHT II Jver Medlcins SB ind His Town ! just?one man. ndreds or thousands or )mes a town a city or a world*' so will dozens or ids of his associates, reater or less number of j nan can affect only himt of human nature our ? . r l _ j i :is rrienas succeea. a i put up to us is carefully ;st advice is freely given. j ke advantage of this serLes Bank & Company , l ; . a.'Mi ,ik ... . M
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