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NEWS T. G. COBB, Editor and Owner. THEBUR.KECOUNTY NtWa ConiUliM,,.j fv loni THE MOR.GANTON HERALit Conso,ld,ed Ncv 29 1901 Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance VOL. XXX. MORGANTON, N. C, MARCH 4. 1915. No. 42 fl.ERALDo j ONES &IAJNS FORD Attorneys end Counselors Law, IV'OFGAMCN N. C, Partnership limited to civil bus iness. Offices on second floor Lvman Building. f RiCIi CO, Eeipse Engines and Threshers 1 wish to buy or exchange unuhinerv for 2 or 3 second ed Frick No. 01 or No. 0 saw niilis. 2 or 3 15 II. P. Frick or Peerless engines on wheels, also 2 each 15 and 16 H. P. Traction engines. Give description and best price. ( . H. TURNER, Machinery and Supplies, SfcatesviHe, N. C. I h.nc 1 - Iredell Phone 7& IViLLARD C. NORTHUP Architect MEMBER North Carolina Architectural Associ ation and American Institution of Architects. 712, 713 and 714 Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., WINSTON-SALEM, N. C REAL 1 ATE ! IN GLEN ALPINE, N. C. 7-room-house, 3 acres im-pi-oved land, waterand out build exchange for farm lands. 5-room-house about one acre good garden, orchard, water con venient, a real bargain, $500.00. 4 miles from Glen Alpine 130 acres of land, 6-room house, store house, good spring, .30 acres cleared balance wood land orchard. $2750.00, terms to suit. Three-fourths mile from CIpd Alnine. 6 acres land. $150. I have wood land laying well from $10.00 acre up. L,au or write, j. G. Parker, . Glen Alpine, N. .C BRIBGERS CAN FIX IT. Watch, Clock and Jewelry Re pairing. Lowest Prices. My Work Speaks for Itself. BRIDGERS, The Little Jeweler, on Main St. NOTICE. To the tay payers of Burke County: This is to notify one and all that, after the March court, I will hand the tax books over to my deputies in the various townships with instructions to levy and sell property for all unpaid taxes. If you haven't paid your taxes this means you! So Vou can govern yourselves accordingly, Sta xe and count v need their funds -and I can't pay them without I col lect the taxes. Respectfully, F. C. BERRY, Sherifl. This February 22, 1915. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Mrs. N. E. Shuping, late of Burke county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned, properly verified on or before the 11th day of of February, 1916, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of the recovery thereof. All persons indebted to said estate will please make prompt settlement thereof. This February 11th, 1915. J. F. WOODWARD, Administrator. Wood's Seed Oats are all choice, recleaned stocks, much superior to oats as ordinarily sold. Oats are one of the crops that promise profitable re turns. For best crop results, sow as early as practicable. Write for "WOOD'S CROP SPECIAL," giving prices and special information a bout the most profitable crops to plant at this season of the year. Mailed on re quest. T.W.WOOD & SONS. SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. Wood's Descriptive Catalog for 1915, telling about aU Farm and Garden Seeds, free on request. Write for it. COMMENDS POSITION TAKEN BY THE UNITED STATES. Viscount Bryce Bays Tribute to Our Country Regarding At titude Toward Warring Na tions. London Dispatch, 26th. Viscount James Bryce, in an article which will appear in the Daily Chronicle to-morrow on the position of the United States in the war, says it is "a complete error to assume that those who bear a German name or who own German blood belong to a pro-German party." Children of Europeans born in America," Viscount Bryce continues, "grow up normal American citizens for all practi cal purposes. Their loyalty is 10 uie oiars their feeling . i.1 Oi and Stripes and for the land ci is comparatively their parents weak. What is called the Ger man vote is, in some few cities, a force to be reckoned with. But when those who lead it try to use it as a means for applying political pressure in such cases as this, the native Americans resent such an attempt, for with them it is a fundamental princi ple that citizens must have nc loyalty save to the United States and the great bulk even of hy phenated German-Americans would refuse to respond." As to the neutrality of the American Government, Mr. Bryce adds, both sides have blamed it and the Government points to this as the best proof of its impartiality. One party ne says, moved Dy the tragic fate of Belgium, censured the Government for having failed to protest "against the violation of Belgium territory and the flagrant breaches of the rules of warfare prescribed by The Hague Convention." "But," says the Viscount, "it is right that neither side of the case should be put to the United States, the greatest of the neu tral Powers. The Administra tion might conceive that many questions will arise in which the rights of all the neutrals will be involved and it might think that the authority with which the United States can speak would be weakened if at the out set its Government takes up a position adverse to one or the other party to the struggle. However high the motive its impartiality would be question ed." Regarding question of inter national law and usage wThich have arisen between the United States and belligerents, Vis count Bryce says: "When a neutral is urged by its citizens to remonstrate with belligerents on the exercise of any rights, the oemgerents claim it cannot, unless convinc- ed that there is no substance in the grievance, decline to present the case of its subjects." Continuing Viscount Bryce says "If it is suersrested, as I think i it has been somewhere, that in I the matter of contraband and the Hght of search, powerful pecuniary interests have tried to influence the Administration, those who have watched recent developments in America will agree that nothing is so unpopu lar there as what is called big business and that any Adminis tration supposed to be yielding to its pressure would do so at its peril. So far as I can jude there is no foundation for any such notion." Viscount Bryce pays "high tribute to the American Red Cross, the Commission for P.e lief in Belgium and other Amer ican organizations and to the people and the Government and its representatives for assist-I ance rendered to non-combat- ants and to British subjects in belligerent countries. Wants a Law to Curtail Courtin'. A citizen of the State who is annoyed by too much "cortin' " in his section, has sent his Rep resentative in the Legislature suggestions for a law to prohib it same. The Charlotte Observ er prints the letter to the Repre sentative, which is as follows: "Any man that is maired or woman caught cortin, writin let ters or riding on the same horse behind other men's wives, or walking hugged up with some other man's wife, it ought to be a fine of five hundred dollars and 18 months on the chain gang. As this is becoming common for boys and girls to marry and leave their wife or husband and go cortin other parties, so we ask a law to be passed and any man highering a man's wife af- ter she is parted without the consent of tbe husband to make it five hundred dollars fine or the party that does it and har pers her or either of the above and make it two years in the State prison and no less.' WE have Grates from $1.5( up. WTilson Heaters have ne equal. Everyone who uses then is pleased. Morganton Hardware Co. Advertise in The News-Heralc" and get results SPEAKER WOOTEN OF HOUSE IS DEAD. , Pneumonia, Added to Iujuries of Accident, Ends Brilliant Career Funeral On Sunday. Raleigh News and Observer, Feb. 28. fnr n waalr farina- wTiiVh time I onflow n,tQ0 v,Q i gentle spirit of Emmett Robin son Wooten, Speaker of the House of Representatives, took its eternal flight yesterday af- ternoon and returned to the God ' who gave it. Death came at 3 :45 at the Rex Hospital, where he has been since the fatal au tomobile ride last Thursday night at which time William Ay cock, Engrossing clerk of the Senate, was killed and Senator Johnson, of. Duplin, and the ne gro driver of the car slightly injured. At the bedside when the end came were Mrs. Wooten, wife of the Speaker, his mother, Mrs. Mary Cobb Wooten, his brother, Mr. Harry Wooten and his un cle, Mr. D. F. Wooten, all of Kin ston. and his faithful physician, Dr. Hubert A. Royster, who has been in almost constant attend ance on him for several days. The Speaker was conscious up to within a few- minutes of the end and fully realized that death was only a question of a few hours at the latest. He was told of his serious condition Fri day and was resigned to his fate. He died as he had lived, a gen tleman unafraid. And when he embarked on that unknown journey from which none have i ever returned, there are none who doubt but that "he met hh j pilot face to face" and crossed i the bar safely and dropped hit j anchor in the heaven of the ! good. J When he was brought to thf j hospital last Friday morning i the 19th, suffering from shod ; and bruises one of the firs' things he said was that he woulc I get well if he escaped pneu ! monia, but bein exposed to th( cold for more than an hour af ter the accident he feared tha; ' pneumonia would develop anc he stated this fact to his phy : sician and also remarked tha' . his father had died from pneu monia and that he had alwray: had a dread of the disease. Dr. Hubert A. Royster, wh has been attending the Speake: :. since his injury, states that thf 1 immediate cause of his deatl : was traumatic pneumonia which is a form of pneumonu : due to injuries. Dr. Royste: ; stated that he stood the opera- tion, which was performed lasi j Saturday, splendidly, and thai I the wound was in good conditio! j and healing nicely. He sufferee1 j no further from his kidneys af ' ter the operation. Pneumonia developed Thursday night and in his weakened condition the disease could not be combatted Dr. Royster stated that it was a great surprise to him that the Speaker lasted as long as he did. The late Speaker, though, was a man of robust constitution and had never been sick a day in hn hie, hence he was better able to resist illness than those less fortunate. He was reared on the farm and in college days. and after he received his license to practice law he played base ball, getting plenty of fresh air and active exercise and this in a measure was responsible for his perfect health in after life. There was no more popular man -in the State than Emmett Wooten. Four times he has been a member of the House from Lenoir county, the last time being elevated to the speak ership. During the contest for the speakership he va.s as kind and affable' to his opponents as those who were his supperters. And after his election he forgot I that there had ever been any op- IJusiLiuii tu mm. mis iran uesi be illustrated be reverting to his committee appointments Mr. Doughton, whom he named as chairman oi the most im portant committee in the House finance, was supporting another one of the several excellent gen j i i tiemen wno were in- the race Mr. Page, who is chairman o another very important commit tee was not a supporter of Speak er Wooten, and so it goes all down the line. He was a Demo crat, he believed in men and af ter the Democratic caucus had named him as its leader he for got that he had ever had any op position. Sketch of His Life. Emmett Robinson Wooten was born at Fort Barnwell, Craven untV November 2, 1878 the Cobb, daughter of the late Dr. R. G. Cobb, a well-known phy sician of the eastern part of the State. When the late Speaker was two years old his parents moved to the old Wooten homestead, Elm Grove . nine miles from Kinston where young Emmett grew up,surrounded by the influences of a refined home and the healthy - surroundings attending those raised in the country. He attended the pub !ic schools of Kinston and later went to Wake Forest College co complete his education. He read law under the late Judge A. C. Avery of Morganton, and finished his law course at the University Law School, Chapel Hill. He was just a few months past 21 years of age when he secured his law license and re turned to Kinston where he has since resided and had built up an extensive practice. He was married in 1904, to Miss Nannie Cox, daughter of the late D. F. Cox, a prominent Kinston banker. Two children have come to bless the union, Emmett Robinson Wooten, Jr., and Grace Wooten. Tliese sur vive with his gray-haired moth er, Mrs. Mar Cobb Wooten, of Kinston. His home life was beautiful. On the night of the caucus, when all the other can didates had withdrawn in his favor, his first thought was of his wife, and rushing to the tel ephone, it was she at her home in Kinston, who heard the news of the honor that had come to him, first from the lips of the man-she loved. In religion Speaker Wooten was a .Baptist but ne had no harsh word for any denomina tion. Every one was his friend and he has contributed liberal- y to the support of all the churches. He was an Odd Fel- ow and a member of the Jnnior Order United American Mechan ics. He was also a college fra ternity man, being a member of the Kappa Alpha. He was also a true trustee of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Out of respect to the memory of the late Speaker, the flag over the capitol building, was owered to half mast yesterday just after his death and will re main so until after the funeral to-day. The Speaker's chair was also draped. The funeral, the most largely attended in Kinston, at which were present mends and ad mirers from all over the State, military companies, committees rom the General Assembly, raternal orders, and State of ficials, was held in Kinston Sun day afternoon at 5 o'clock. A great number of floral Pieces accompanied the DOdy, ;he designs sent by the Senate and House being especially beautiful. A request was made that the body be allowed to lie in state at the capitol but the family preferred otherwise and, of course, their wishes were ac ceded to. Death of Mrs. L. R. Whitener in Hickory. Mrs. Alice Ingold Whitener, wife of the late Leroy R. White ner. of Hickory, died at her home in that city last Thursday night, after an illness of several months duration. Mrs. Whitener was a daugh ter of the late Jeremiah and Margaret Ramsaur Ingold and was the oldest of a family ot eight children. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. C. C. Bost, of Hickory, and Mrs. J. H. Pitts, of Catawba, and one brother, Mr. F. B. Ingold, of Hickory. The funeral services were con ducted last Friday afternoon from the Corinth Reformed church, Hickory, of which she had been one of the most active members. Mrs. Whitener was prominent in social and literary circles in Hickory, as well as a leader in church work. She was a broad minded, kind-hearted woman, loved by all who knew her. She was twice married, the first time to Mr. John F. Murrill, who died in 1891. One son, Dr. Paul I. Murrill, of New York, survives. There are a number of relatives in this county, the Ingold family being related to the Warlick, Shuford and Ram saur families. A Tale of Love and Treachery. Jim Pool, colored, who lives at Wilson, secured a marriage license for his friend, Pharaoh Saunders, a few days ago, but instead of delivering the paper for which Pharaoh had given him three dollars, decided to marry his friend's lady-love. The coup was discovered when Rev. William Baker returned the license to the register Rev. Baker says he noticed the names were mixed, but he didn't let a little thing like that bother him It seems now that Jim has an other wife and that the parson is in trouble for tieing the un lawful knot. TOO MANY CHILDREN are under-stze, under-weight with pinched faces and poor blood ; they do not complain but apgetite lags, they have no ambition and do not progress. Such children need the rich medicinal nourishment in Scott' Emulsion above everything else ; its pure cod liver oil con tains nature's own blood-forming, flesh buildiner fats which quickly show in rosy cheeks, better appetite, firm flesh and sturdy frames. If your children are languid, tired when rising, catch cold easily or find their studies difficult, give them Scott' Emalnon; it supplies the very food ele ments that their systems lack. Scott' Emalnon contains no alcohol and is so good for growing children it's a pity to keep it from them. 14-47 Scott &Bowne. Bloomfield. N. J. SCARED MANY ATTACKS Railroad President Says Toe Much Doubt Has Caused De pression. Chicago Dispatch, Feb. 25. "The country is in the midst of a period of unemployment and distress, the like of which the nation never saw before," William Sproule, president of the Pacific system of the South ern Pacific company said here to-night in an address at the an nual dinner of the Traffic Club. Mr. Sproule attributed this condition to what he said was the clamor against all sorts of public business, and predicted its end only when returning prosperity for employers should spell prosperity for the employ ed. He took vigorous exception to any suggestion that condition would better because business men believed they would be bet ter. "The booster lifts nothing higher than the level of his own teeth," the railway executive said. "The trumpeter of pros perity beguiles only his own ears. Prosperity is real or it does not exist. We do not have to look for it ; it comes to us. It grows without sight like a plant coming in flow7er. It comes to us when the employer resumes employment, and it will not come to us until the people gen erally discover that their con dition, improves only as their employer is prosperous. "It is the habit to speak oi unemployment as if it related only to those who work for a specific wage. It is thought of chiefly as relating to those en gaged in minor places. Employer First Out of Work. "The facts run quite to the contrary. It is the employer who is first out of employment. As a natural sequence he is fol lowed by the employe, who next finds himself out of work. When the employer is prosperous and his energies are properly em ployed, employes have abundant employment and they, also, prosper. "But why is this period of unemployment? It is because all business is bewildered and uncertain. A long period oi misrepresentations, misunder standings and pettifogging has so misled the public mind that, throughout the country, every prosperous business, indeed, every organization, prosperous or not, which is big enough to attract the public platform per former, finds that it exists in an I atmosphere of attack. ' imt i - n 1 rne nation is mieu wiui po litical economists. Business is filled to satiety with economic theories. When men ask for work they are handed an epi gram. But the sad fact is, the more political theories are pro posed, the poorer become the people. I urge the prosperity of the average man. "To secure that prosperity I urge the imperative necessity of taking business out of the at mosphere of attack into the old fashioned-go-ahead atmosphere of business initiative and Amer ican enterprise. I urge relief from the fads, fancies and isms which have filled the streets with unemployment and put away the dinner pail of the working man empty on the shelf of the impoverished home. I urge the restoration oi confi dence in the fact that American business men are the peers oi any m the world. rinany, i urge that the public, interest m transportation is that it shall be prosperous in order that it may be a successful and energetic aid to all the business it is de signed to serve." That the President and many Governors are "anxious students of the needs of our time," Mr. Sproule said, wras "happy au gury and patriotic assurance that the present is a passing phase." Sheriff's Big Salary. Next to the President of the United States, the Sheriff of New York county probably re ceives more money for his ser vices than any other public of ficeholder in America, according to figures made public by Leon ard M. Wallstein, commissioner of accounts, in a report to May or Mitchell. Since 1905, the report as serts, the sheriff of the county has received fees totaling $402, 329, in addition to $12,000 a year salary, an average annual in come of more than $56,000. Half the fees turned in to the sheriff's office are paid to the sheriff. The report was made to place data before the mayor for use in his consideration of a bill to limit the sheriff's compensation to a salary. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. nie Kind Yoa Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature BUSINESS BY WHAT DR. DULA SAID. Buike Representative's State ment of Position on Corporate Extension Question. Dr. A. M. Dula, Burke's rep resentative in the General As sembly, had the following letter in the Greensboro News of last Saturday : Editor of the Daily News: I hand you herewith my plea, before the general asesmbly, to extend the corporate limits of Morganton, which I request you to publish: This is a very important mat ter with me. I come here to try to please the majority of my people and I hope you will allow me that privilege. We do not want to do anything but the right thing and the only way to settle a difference is to let the people vote on matters which arise among themselves. It is impossible to explain the true local condition which exist in that town without you" lived there. We have a good town. Last legislature it was put under a town manager system and since then it has done more permanent improvements than it had done in eight years be fore and we want to go ahead and make more improvements to everybody within limits of town. We do not want to rob anyone and if I thought that there was any intention of this I would be the last man to ask you people to stand be me in a you people to stand by me in a My people think that the general assembly will treat me with the proper courtesy and pass this bill, it being purely lo cal and does not affect any coun ty but Burke and I am their rep resentative. This bill has done passed senate and it's on my shoulders to hold up the rights of my people. I have had a hard fight to get this bill to the floor of house be ing about six or eight men here lobbying against me on this bill. I am trying to represent my people there and these represent their own private interest only. Before I let my people think I would lay down on them or be bought off by any corporation I would wire my wife and babies to meet me at a nearby station and w-rite the mayor of my town to sell my property for what he could get and not go back there any more. DR. A. M. DULA. Raleigh, Feb. 25, 1915. Dr. Tull's Funeral Held Last Thursday Afternoon. The news of the death of Dr. John Tull, formerly of Morgan ton, was carried in The News Herald last week. The Way nesville correspondent to the Charlotte Observer wrote the following under date of Feb. 26 to the Charlotte Observer: The funeral of Druggist John Tull, who died yesterday morn ing following a brief illness of pneumonia, was held this after noon at the Presbyterian church. The service was conducted by Rev. A. S. Anderson and inter ment was in ijreen Hill ceme tery. He was born in Newbern May 1, 1849, and at the time of his death was 65 years old. He was -a graduate ot .frmceton univer sity and studied pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from which institu tion he was graduated with hon ors. During the War Between the States he served as captain in a Newbern company. He sold his business interests in Morganton and moved to Wraynesville eight years ago. During the time he has lived in this city he made numerous friends and was considered among the best of citizens. He was a scholar of the old school; a gentleman, devout christian and consistent member of the Presbyterian church of which he was a deacon and treasurer, Of his family he has five brothers and one sister living Dr. M. G., H. G., Edward R. S Tull, Philadelphia: and Miss Julia Tull and Mr. George W. Tull, Kinston. Of his immedi ate family he leaves a wife and five children: Mr. John Tull, Mena, Ark.; Mr. Charles Tull, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Mr. Isaac Tull, Birmingham, Ala. ; Mr. Joe Tull, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Le Grange Walker, Georgetown, S. C. . A Pitiful Wage. University" News Letter. In the year 1914 the average white rural school teacher in North Carolina received $235.27 for 115.5 days of work. If the teaching was not supplemented by any other work, such teacher received for each of the 300 working days, 78 cents. If that is all the teacher is worth we have no business to entrust our children for her traniing. If we think well enough of her to put our chil dren in her charge she is worth at least the wages of a common laborer. We have loaned four Wire Stretchers in the county. If you have -borrowed one, please return to us. , MORGANTON HDW. CO. NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Brief Notes of Recent Happen ings in North Carolina. Marion last week established a new board of trade, and plans are being made for pushing the business interests of the town. W. M. Goodman, recently ap pointed postmaster at Marion, took charge of the office last Monday, with J. R. McNeely as his assistant. The Concord high school wras on last Wednesdty domiciled in new building which had just been completed. The building cost $15,000. Walter Brame, of Reidsville. deserves a Carnegie hero medal. Last Friday at Spray he rescued at the risk of his life an invalid child from a burning house. The child was six months old and the only occupant of the building when it caught fire. A $65,000 land and timber deal was closed at Granite Falls ast week when the Watauga Lumber Company sold their en tire holdings in Watauga county to a firm m Asheville. J. A. Martin of Hickory closed the deal for the purchasers. Dr. Charles E. Brewer, pro fessor of chemistry at Wake Forest College, has been chosen president of Meredith College Raleigh, to succeed Rev. Dr. R. T. Vann. The latter resigned to become secretary of the Bap tist State Board of Education. When Jesse Stuart, colored, resisted arrest at.Maxton last Friday, he was shot and instant- y killed by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Smith. The negro, a gener ally bad character, was in the act of pulling his pistol to shoot Mr. Smith when the latter fired. The officer was exonerated. The Hickory fire department is the possessor of a set of new ife-belts and ladders. In ad dition to these there will be pur chased an electric heater for the truck to keep the water in the radiator in the right tempera ture to avoid trouble in start ing the engine in cold weather. Senator Overman will accept an invitation from the Territory of Hawaii to visit that country in April, leaving the United States about April 21. Mrs. Overman will accompany him. His expenses will be paid and he will be entertained while there. Senator Simmons has also been invited to visit Hawaii. One of the strongest appeals made to the Legislature is that made by John E. Ray, Super intendent of the School tor the Blind in Raleigh, by which he shows blindness can be headed off bv legislation. ihere are fully 1,600 blind persons in North Carolina, not less than 500 of whom would now see if proper preventative measures had been adopted at the right time. "The Morning Sun" is the name of a new local daily which will be issued in Raleigh within the next two weeks. Announce ment will be made shortly through posters, declaring the purposes and policies of the new daily. It is to be edited by Geo. WJ Mitchell and published by Clarence E. Mitchell. It will be printed from the latter's print- shop on Fayetteville street and is to be devoted purely to loca1 affairs. The Newton corespondent tc the Charlotte Observer of the 27th says that local hosiery manufacturers, pestered a great deal about securing sufficient dye supplies, welcome the flesh colored hosiery that promises to be much m vogue this season The Fidelity Mills are making these light-colored goods and find much relief in doing so, as it is becoming more and more difficult for them to obtain dye stuffs of darker hue. The light er dye goes much farther than the solid shades, an ounce doing the work of a pound of the black. Both the Fidelity and Ridgeview plants are running full time at present. Plans are being made by . the executive committee of the Children's Home for the addi tion of a new $50,000 building to the plant to be known as the administration building; and ar effort will be made to raise funds for the erection of the building at once. The Home has three first-class and thor oughly equipped buildings in every respect, the High Point building, the Smith building and the Cornelius building; but an administration and other cot tages are badly needed. It has been 'decided to start a cam paign at once for raising the funds ; and Rev. J. H. West, field agent for the home, will launch a movement to raise the $50,- 000 at once. A; W. Dula, O. D Eye Sight Specialist will be at Morganton at Hotel Morgan March 8th and 9th, first two days of court, pre pared, to ht. glasses, lb years experience. Special low prices will be made on this trip.. NEWS FROM HOME. Denver Post. When the evening shade is fallin' at the closing of the day, An' a feller rests from labor, smokin' at his pipe of clay, There's nothing dees him so much good, be fortur.a up or down, As the little country paper from his Old Home Town. It ain't a thing of beauty and its print's not always clean, But it straightens out his temper when a feller's feelin mean; It take's the wrinkles off his face an' brushes off the frown, That little country paper from 'his Old Home Town. It tells of all the parties and the balls of Pumpkin Row, 'Bout who spent Sunday with who's girl, and how the .cropsH grow, An' how it keeps -a feller posted who's up and who is down, That little country paper from his Old Home Town. Now, I like to read the dailies and the story papers too, And at times the yaller novels and some other trash don't you? But when I want some other readin' that'll brush away a frown, I want that little paper from my Old Home Town. Borrowing. Youth's Companion. Borrowing is a habit delight fully easy to acquire; in fact, most confirmed borrowers hard ly seem to need to acquire it. The child of ten borrows a knife, or a sled,or a hockey stick, takes it home, forgets to return it, and forgets to apologize, just as gayly as the octogenaiian takes home an umbrella. .All sorts of life in common are great breeders of borrowing especially the life at boarding schools and colleges. To take a friend's handkerchief, or hat, or coat, or books, or carefully stored dainties can there be a greater proof of friendship? It seems so into mate! And the borrowing . never stops. Later on it seems more intimate to ask the same friend to indorse a note for $1,000. What a rude shock to intimacy it is if your friend ventures to refuse! : . The borrower always has a good excuse. He has left his money at home, or he is sure to have the money to pay you to-morrow ; or she has plenty of clothes of her own, but nothing that suits the occasion so well as that fascinating little scarf ot yours. .Excuses are the only thing that nobody needs to bor row. It is a dangerous, treacherous habit. It is a pestilent enemy to friendship. There always comes a time when the lender dreads the sight of the borrow-: , Al. 1 -L- 'j: C- when the borrower thinks" the ' l l !J - : ' ". It is true that all borrowers - x " believe that it should be a bor rowing wrorld. They all declare that they are as ready to lend as they are to borrow, and usual ly they are right if they have anything to lend. Borrowing and improvidence are twin sis ters, but they are so nearly re lated to that charming goddess, generosity, that they are likely to borrow more of her grace than they deserve. In reality, as Charles Lamb remarked long ago, the world is divided into borrowers and lenders, and the lenders are obliged to have enough for themselves and for the others also. But it takes elf-denial, and forethought and prudence to accomplish that. And then to be called mean, as is the usual fate of the lender, is somewhat hard. For the permanent satisfac tion of life it is better to belong to the lending class, and the way to do it is to begin young. The next time you are tempted to borrow a nickel for a telephone messageor a car fare, go with out. You will get more than five cents' worth of character out of the effort. If the South Fed Itself. Seaman A Knapp. These Southern States right fully should; be the richest in the land. They have the greatest crop-producing power. They control the clothing of the world almost absolutely. We have been raising cotton and selling it and buying everything else. That practice never made a peo ple rich. It we will produce everything that we consume, our own but ter, cheese, poultry, as well -as horse, and let our cotton be a cash crop, we will own the fac tories, we- will own the banks, we will be a factor in the policy of the country, and in the con trol of the world. In Swreden drinking places a ve closed Saturday because it is tv: v day and savings banks are kepi open until midnight. If vou contemplate investing in a cream separator you should try out a De Laval before mak ing your decision. Kead the De Laval ad on the fourth page of this issue. Phone 26 for Job WTork.
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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March 4, 1915, edition 1
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