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JANUARY 15, 1S30 Only 1,430 Confederates! On State Pension Roils Raleigh, N. C. Only 1,4210 Con.federate veterans remained on the State pension rolls at the last seiiiiannual payment, as of December 15, receiving $1 a day or cheeks for $182.50.'-e ach, for a total of $233,075, at which time there were 79 negro servants of soldiers, each drawing $200 a year, a total of $7>? \ 900 for the half-year, according to the records of State Auditor Baxter Durham, who has charge of the' distribution. The two classes of widows ol veterans, class "A," those totally disabled and confined to their homes, numbering 322, and the class "B*'| dows, which includes all of those irried to veterans before 1880 and a few others added as meritorious by the State Pension Board who married veetrans before 1899, numbering: 3,633, received a total of $229.5)50 in December. Haywood County had 58 veterans, the largest number in any county, while Mecklenburg and Surry had 56 each. Yancey had 33. David ion 52, Wilkes 30, Rowan 29 and Gaston and Yadkin 28 each. Wake had: 25 and Surry 21 completely disabled | widows, while Mecklenburg hail 95 j and Iredell 92 class "B" widows. The! 79 negro servants soldiers were in! 51 counties, Granville leading with! eight; Gaston hod six, and Harnett,! Union and Yadkin three each. Dare) had only one pensioner, a soldier, I and Tyrrell had four, all Class "13" widows. Watauga County received a tctalj of $4,105 in the last semi-annual ac!-i vance distribution in December, in-i eluding $2,555 to the fourteen veterans, and $1,550 to the 31 class "B" widows, Auditor Durham's report shows. When a veteran dies during the six-month period befoie the check is distributed, the money goes to his next of kin. ? Gold Nuggets FAITH ALU THE WAY Faith is needed all the way, Faith To-toil -anti fa: ih to pray. j Faith to learn and faith to teach, j Faith to practice, faith to preach, I Faith to start each day anew. Faith to do our duty, too, Faith to help the weak along, Faith to hear, in patience, wrong, Faith to smile though sad within, Faith to conquer every sin, Faith to ask Him for His care, t While we earthly trials bear.; Faith to smother every sigh. Faith to live and faith to die. ?Southern Churchman, j BIRTHDAYS On the household calendar there Is no mule important event than the birthday anniversaries of the children. Times and customs change and it is said the home is not what it used to be. hut a child's birthday an-J a niversary remains a red-letter day. i Of course there ave birthday pros- j <?nts and great, confusion duving the; administering of one spank or tug of the car for every year the little j lu iv or heiress has ten in the house- ; hold. And sometimes the occasion is ' celebrated with a birthday party. j Every fond parent knows it is out H i ?y Pre-Leavened Flour Takes Gue QfnOrt bre'ads, of which iniilKns are a type. jhaye an Iii"?vJ?>rl5inr place in ,?ur tnesds since they act as an emergency luvad and are enjoyed by our landtj&Ttor tiieffi lKffi8gn?Kpniiq var?;;i wfea-..-f.K- v* -- >"Sp-1.is** ?-' ety in flavor and 'texture.Success with niuflln.s as with alt other quick breads depends largely upon ?he kind and amount of leavening'agent r.sed and the method of baking. Accurate measurement and Rood material ate necessary, with close nttent foii to oven temperature. To be wholesome, quick breads must he thoroughly baked and free from fill heaviness. Inasmuch as niuflins depend' for their success upon the kind and amount of leavening agent used, that should he of ntinost impovtance to us in tiibir making. And we can have good muffins- every time we make tliein if we use self-rising Hour in making them. Self-rising flour is pre-leaVened -flour. That is. it is flour to which the baking powder and salt have been added in the proper proportions. This combining ot the main ingredients of nniflins makes, ha king simple and easy for u.s. A chemist, highly trained aud fCnOhlAlwnil oil tlin work t??r \\s. All that we have to do is to odd the egg or eggs, the milk and the fat and then we have our znuflin better. Not only 1ms the chemist done this accurate, difficult task for ns by combining the Hour and leavening in correct proporrions, bnt under Ins direction the self-rising: flour has been sift- 1 cd r.nil mixed together l?y machinery 'or 33 minutes, which means that we have our principal ingredient*, flonr. baking powder and salt, sifted for us as we could never sift them ourselves. | Because of this we get finer grain muffins. 1 - J r On Pmver Board j | 1 'i ank> 1 ^^ ^m ^^ ?'' NT(r Ui ("r.rnUna appointed hy President to the Federal Power Commission. He was a Bryan Democrat until 1928, now a Republican. of tune to punish little Bobby on his birthday, so the day is inaugurated with solemn vows that no matter what he does there are to be" no scoldings or whippings the i day. Unfortunately, the juvenile hero of the <lay has more reasons for be-| injr naughty An his birthday than at! other times. He is excited and full of energy. He cannot understand why be cannot have his own way since it is his birthday party. And he is quick to discover that the bars of parental discipline nave been lowered for the day. Youthful, minds do not distinguish between liberty and license. Nor do they realize that there are. other rewards for being good than security | from punishment, if the parental vows of the morning are broken one usually knows where to place the responsibility. A birthday anniversary without temper or tears is ardently to be clesired, but seldom realized. Fei tho* the honored one may have been a gift from the gods-his conduct is most human even on the anniversaries of his presentation. THE WORD OF GOD All of the atheists; "infidels," unbelievers. rationalists, and rational-i istic higher critics, lower critics and; other critics of^ fifty generations ofi men. have claimed that they could J and many of them that they would, dest roy the Bible or parts of it. If they have destroyed it, then they hnvo been right in their claims. But they arc dead, and the Bible is still here If the Bible were not the "Rock of \ges," the very Word of God, and therefore indestructible, could not some man, or some millions of men together, of some, or all of the fifty generations of hostile men, have managed td break or destroy some of it? Docs the man who contends against the Word of God <U-stroy it. or is he destroyed by it? "Is not ray Word like a fire? saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketn the rock in pieces,?" "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord." "For the word of God is <juiclr and powerful, and sharper than any lwo-edj?ed sword." Is he a Wise gnan who contends against hto fire and hammer and sword of God 7 ????y JCCESSFUL | iEMAKING | ACE VIALL GRAY scWcrk Out of Muffin Baking l l til id h best i?? have a standard ! j hiullia recipe which can Vie used as a .wpc Km; y??i iji u(mi>. 11 we masier pup,! good umiiVu* recipe then we can *nnke -'in on-Jlos-s varioly of myfeffis. Suclv a hnsfc rp<-:)>o is as* follows: JScupS' self-rising 1 run milk Hour 1 tbsp, ei t- l ie ?1 j 3 tVs'u- su&ar. V'.'gffl- shortening '3i?l 1 CSP . Sift and measure the flour. -Add | rggs. in ilk, inched and cooled shorten- j inc. lteat. vigorously. I Nuxr bailor Into! woll-greascd muffin {ins, half flmng! ihorn, and hake in a hot oven (UHl degrees F.) JS to -0 mi nines. Tins recipe makes I t muttins. Now. yon can lake this foundation recipe ami make blueberry or dale muf-! flns. poppy seed, choeolate or coconut niudins. And then there are cereal muffins. mil muffins, and f reach muflins, and I suggest" you try some of the following, dorieious ihiiffins: Date or Raisin Mufrin*. Use basic recipe with hut threefourths cupful of milk. Flour two thirds cup chopped and pitted dates or raisins and add to batter. If you like a sweeter date inuflin add onc?fourtli cupful more sugar. For variety one-half cupful finely chopped citron and candied cherries may l>e used instead of the dates or raisins. Ccconui Muffins. Use basic recipe, oinit shortening and arid one-hair cupful shredded coconut. These are best baked in tiny greased tnatiin tins, so that you have about 2^ small oi.es. Jam Muffins. Use basic recipe and stir in four tablespoons raspberry Jam. strawberry jam or any <dher desired jamPoppy Seed Muffins. Use basic recipe Jind sprinkle poppy seeds over the top. UoHuKtho'id Science 2HMHKI? . THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?B ? Today and rp Tomorrow ?{rag$p By FRANK P. STOCKBRLDGE Slang There is nothing new under the sun. A smart scholar has been digging into t.he classics of literature and finds that many expressions which are generally regarded as strictly modern slang are hundreds of years old. Alexander Pope, for example, the English poet who died in 1744, originated the sxpression "nobody home," to signify an empty-minded person. Dean Swift, famed as the author of "Gulliver's Travels," described a middle-aged woman as "no chicken." The phrase "twenty-three," in the sense of "it's your turn to disap-j I pear," comes from Charles Dickens. I In "A Tale of Two Cities," Sydney Carton, the hero, is awaiting his turn] to go to the guillotine, in the French Revolution. The old woman, knitI tins', call off thr? mimhm mq r> v _ ecutiortcr's victims pass. "Twentythree," they call, and Carlton is led to his death. About the only "modern" slang that is really modern is derived from modern inventions. Shakespeare could never have one of his characters advising anothei to "step on the gas.'' nor Dickens refer to an individual as a "flat tire." i Flying Colonel Lindbergh the othei dsy pointed out that the improvement it* airplanes since he made his New York to Paris flight has been so great that it is only a question "i a short time, in his opinion, before the public takes to flying as it has taken I to motoring. i Planes are safer, faster and carry j larger loads than a few years ago. What is needed most is landing fields closer to the centers of towns, says Colonel Lindbergh. Where 00 miles : an hour was a good ci'uisjng speed in i 1927, now tin- same type of plane i 110 miles an hour easily, and eairies 1,200 pounds as against I0U J pounds then. With increased safety. ! flying becomes a mutter of routine ; like driving a car. Colonel Lindbergh's opinions are entitled to respect. ITe prolialiiy knows more about both the science and the art of flying than anyone else living, and has proved himself * a conservative and accurate prophet | ill tlKi |>??t. j Wakefield I Nearly two hundred years ago George Washingtons' father planted two thousand cedar trees on the family estate, "Wakefield," near Fredericksburg, Va. Today that cedar fori est is the scone of the greatest at | tivity since the birth of the first President, for workmen arc engaged in restoring the- old house, which VrU-S hurried on Christmas Hay 150 years ago. The stone foundations and the chimneys still stand, and1 bricks kilrt has been constructed to inalc& bricks from the local clay, just like [those of which the original house was | built. I The iesto ration and preservation of the homes and birthplaces, of tnp I Fathers of our Nation is a splendid and patriotic undet'^king. We paid | too little attention in the early diiyp ; i a;.th ; higtdi tf w i t h.esult j that many of them have disappeared, never to be- replaced. I Glucose "Corn sugar" is the - fashionable word now for what used to be callad glucose. As; glucose it was violently attacked a quarter of a century ago by the cane sugar and bhet sugar interests, with the result that the I Department of Agriculture made a j ruling that all food products containi ing glucose should bo so marked, on j the Jabeil I The effort to discredit glucose? j or corn sugar?as a article of food, failed because it had no sound foundation. Now the Secretary of Agriculture has removed the restriction on its use in prepared foods; the la-; bel does not need to tell whether: com sugar; cane sugar or beet sugI ar is used for sweetening. As Mr.; Hyde says, corn sugar is about three quarters as sweet as cane sugar and; contains nothing detrimental to the health. He estimates that the potential market for corn for the manufacture of sugar may be as high as 100,000,000 bushels a year, or nearly 4 per cent, of the nation's crop. i Wood i\otning has ever replaced wood; satisfactorily for the. interior "trim" of buildings. With wood, effects can I | be obtained which are impossible with metal or composition. But the use of wood in large buildings in the cities has been discouraged because j | of the fire risk. New York authorities are now ;-x! perimenting with a new fireproof ing I method which seems likely to be adopted. It consists in soaking" the I wood in a chemical solution which, when heated, gives off u fire-extinguishing vapor and at the same time covers the surface of the wood with a protecting coating. In New York new wooden shelves, paneling, doors and trim are not permitted in tall office buildings and hotels and wooden floors ar<? allowed only when laid over solid concrete. ' ^ 1 iVEKY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C. Well Kept Records Prove Poultry Profits! I That the person %vho keeps at least; 100 standard bred hens on his farm j is engaged in a profitable venture j is proved by a series of records kept j by 12s flock owners in 13 North Carolina counties in 10*10. "One of the jobs of the poultry extension office is to keep, study and summarize cost of production records kept on poultry flocks in co-operation with the county farm agents," says P. A. Seese, poultry extension specialist at State College. "Last year this work was carried on in 4:1 counties located in widely separated parts of the State. The records were kept on 128 farms with an average of 21,425 birds for tbej year. The gross income from eggs; I alone in these flocks amounted t<?' $99,o25.*30. The brids consumed 889,-' 840 pounds of mash feed and 780,(?42 pounds of grain feed which cost* the owners $50,220.8(1. This left a:. profit of $19,104.50 as a return 1 above feed cost." Air. ^e.ese says the 21,425 birds, jaiu ?3/i3pu5<>9 eggs which >vas an j average of 159.1) each a hen. Commenting on the figures, the! poultry specialist says they are as J accurate as arty set of figiiips that; are being kept today. They show, be-j yor.d all doubt, that the man who! keeps a good flock of birds and gives them propel* care and feed J houses them well and keeps down! disease and parasites, may expect ;i i good profit from his enterprise. It is the purpose of the poultry\ workers in North Carolina to make \ tlie poultiy industry of, greater cowmojiial importance and they cite that ii is even now Fifth in value to ail crops grown. There are some six million hens of laying age on thej farms and the value of the industry is around forty million dollars. I. W. NAVE NAMED MAYOR OF MOUNTAIN CITY, TENN.j I. W. Nave, one of our best ot.i-j zens: a prominent lumberman -it' Kit-1 Tennessed, and a good road and iphool advocate, has recently baili ne?v honors bestowed upon him. He! has succeeded the iv.ie Kvirator E. K. Butler as Mayor oi Mountain C'ity| and pvesidn'ct of the Merchants and Traders Bank. Ke is progressive* in {everything he undertakes and has a 1 host oi good frmnds who wish him i \ypli..Johnson County (TeRh.)} News. ?V/-: Dusty 5ke--Please, sir, I've a sick wile?-could you help me out? business Man?1 n\n give you a jpb next Week. Dusty Ike?Tot> late1 She'll hoj able to go to work herself bv then. ;l I jj i Kat 1 Whi< 1 Seri Ws . r Sossarnon's Sayings I Hy LEROY SOSSAMON IT S BETTER AS IT IS ! t ;vv ! * Where would all our lawyers be If we culled halt oti Trouble? ! , Or the thorns that prick cur feet j , If flowers left no stubble? Where would all our Doctors ;o Should pain take w ings and flj The human stream, where would it flow. If no 0110 chose to die? "So far, so good," would be your cry J* When Trouble hit the wall; And Pain could go, sans a goodbye,?- e You'd glory in its fall Lawycis and doctors? well, let's sue. In place of fees and stitehv? { You's let them take a dip at sea? fW *\ * * V. It ua-i' rnoosi-. tug: QIwCne>. So far you've planned with mastei | thought? j c J'ui vfri amoui pour vous? j ( But, ah, upon yourself you've Drought: x Proverbial Waterloo ! .Sans death, and pain, and lawyer's fees The earth would be a place To live the life of greatest easeTo start a primal race. I j Mais ici, nioit brave Sawueur des:1 hommc?, , Is where you make your error: j Your y.?lan has one weak spot that; strikes j { To every heart a terror: i ' People would soon be more than food _ .lust hpw would you provide For all this surging multitude That with you would abide? j t iVrhaps you'd want your magic warid; \ To wave it once again. So that your schemes with all this Would conic as per plan? ^ But. other difficulties would Come crowding fast about: L You'd bear as much as humancould? Thru cuss the whole works out! [ j SfPl So my advice, as man to man. { Is bear it with a smile; Add ever do the host you can Though worries on you pile. j ( if trouble, pain, ami lawyer fees j Hnnnii^BmSDBS^Mi .ryii w? rcvtii., 1U member, worse can come than J a these? OTaf { , lust catch a better "holt"'. j i * Goil has a plan foi everything:, t i A purpose with it, too; t Perhaps the worst some u'pod will t bying:,: < So don't feel down and blue-. ] A God above plans our. day 1 Bcttv'i than we rapid do, And if all thine? come not our way: Others huv<* their troubles, too. 1 ' TV T _ j- j - - Tf ' i\ot too i^aie Begin Reading GIRL" *ascinating Stt by hleen No * :h Is Running al Feature in 1 itauga Democi d^. Doughton Celebrates Seventy-Fifth Birthday Raleigh.?Christmas came again to he State Highway Commission on Saturday, when Chairman R. A. loughton observed his 75th birthlay. Born in Alleghany County, on anuary 10, 1857, Mr. Dough ton has iveu there all of his life and has een in public office almost continuity since his election to the Gcnval Assembly of 1881. He was elecfcd to thirteen terms as a member of he House, serving one as Speaker ,nd for ten years an chairman of he Finance Committee- He rcsignil during his thirteenth term to bepme Revenue Commissioner in 1928 ind resigned that office to take; his iresent place in 1929. He hys been mown as "Governor" since his elecion as Lieutenant Governor in 1892. Kopwah?Do you think the dead :ao communicate with us? Harnruhr?! know they can't. )Rce I managed to borrow a dollar 'roxn a Scotchman. A week later he lied, and I haven't heard a word inco. Caldwell County tanners plan to :a h in on the favorable outlook for at hogs this season by growing and attening- a larger number. NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE By virtue 61 the. power of sale conained in said mortgage deed ex ecu L t! to O. G. Mitchell by J. C. Hodges md wife, Julia Hodges, on the 14th lay of March, l'J422, and defauli hav_ ng been made hi the payment of the noney therein secured, and therein ?yoyided, I will, on Saturday, Fsbruary 14, 1931, at 1 . o'Clock P. M. it the courthouse door of Watauga ountv. sell to the highest bidder for ash, the following described real es:ite, to-wit: BEGINNING on a stake in the nad near a sugar tree, fflown's coricr and runs south about J 5 poles o a stake bp top of a ridgy on south >af?k cVl road; then south 80 west# iK>jig the ro.ad six poies to a stake t thv1 old saw mill setting; then south Tossing the branch 9 l--r, poles to buckeye; then north 80 cast S polos 0 a beech; then south Toxoids to 1 beech in the Bill Milbw line; then iorth 77 east I 1 poles to a stake near i birch; then south 89 east 2o poles o a stake in the Little's line; then lorih '20 wesi with said line 12 poles o two water oaks, Little's earner; Hen north with Little's line to a hestnui. Browns' corner, then with Brown's* line to tho beginning, confining 20 acres, move or less. This the Kith day of Jan.. !93V: horton, s lo-l Assignor of O: G. Mitchell WfyrM|?T^wtaniTlinfTT wMmmm as a 1 fl mkrnmrnm-iitmmmmiXa . ^
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