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t OUR YOUNG READERS I A Department In which tb Toons People who Bead , The Republican re OiYen ..en .Op portunity to Expreaa , Their Thoughts, Briefly, Upon Bach Topics u May Interest Them. From a Johnston County Boy Local Editor: We take your paper and en joy reading the "food news." 1 am 5 feet, o inches tall, weigh 133 pounds, sad am 14 years old. For amusement, I have a hoe and grass to last until the bottom falls out. DARIUS A. JOHNSON. Smithfleld. N. C. From a Wake County Cousin. . Local Editor: We take your paper and I enjoy reading it fine, and the epusins page still better. I read the rousins page every Friday, from top to bottom, and note them are a great many Christian cousins, snd some which are not hvi their writing. Svmantha Pearce. what about that piece of late corn t; If that shower of rain rnmes to that piece of corn, I know it Will help those weeds. t A FRIEND. Wake Forest, N. C. o From a) Pamlico Girl. Local Editor: My father takes your paper nd likes it one. I live in the country and like it. I help my father' on the farm. I have been chopping cotton. I don't like to work in the field, but I like to work in the house. I have black hair and brown eyes, and have dark complexion. I am 5 feet. 8 1-2 j inehaa fall and wetBrn 1 Alt nounas. ana am 17 years old. Will answer all ' lettera nd cards 1 get. Kershaw. N. C BROWS EYES. From a country GirL Locsl Editor: Cousin Lottie. I received , I.,,., it .a. fine I like to ret -rood I like to get good j Vsder. wnat has j letters like that, i Cousin become of vou I 'Why don't you write to the psper snd Coner Kid, what haa be come of you I I go to Sunday Hchool every Sunday, and like to go. I think every cousin who writes to ten paper, ought to sign their same, j Koses are red; violets are blue; Sugar is sweet, hut not like you. t SAVANNA U MILLS. B. 3, B. 7. Mt. Airy. X. C. From Two Forsyth County Girls. Iocal Editor: Irine Samuel, you called us little Democrats. We don't think we are very little. One of us weighs 1-16 pounds and the other 112 pounds. We are mending up aince Mr. Wilson came in. How many of you couaina go to Sunday School every Sunday! We harder ever miss. Why don't we quit writing about hobble skirts and peg leg pants? Aad write something more interesting. We will rlote with a riddle: If an egg snd s hslf cost a cent and a half, how much will a dozen cost t TWO DEMOCRAT CHUMS. Winston Saleis, X. C. From a Stokes County GirL Local Editor: Lam sending the cousins a receipt for keeping light-bread moist, which is being recommended by the ladies in the Farmers' Institutes of X. C, snd one which we find is much better thsn the old wsy. After the bresd is don, break loavea apart. let cool, then place in a lard ran and close can. A fifty-pound can ia large enough for an ordinary baking. The old method of wrapping it in cloth is entirely wrong, for instead of keeping it moist, the cloth absorbs the moisture which, is in the bread. : VIOLA PETREE. King, N. C. 1 o From New Cousin. Local Editor: Blue Eyes, your letter was fine, and also Blighted Life was good. I have black hair, black eyes, and fair complexion. Bessie Milts, please write to me and send me one of your pictures. Lottie Badgett, there is a boy close to you. I would like to correspond with if it suits him. I like to go ot to Sunday School, t I go,-jvery Sunday 1 can. We are aiming to have a singing school be fore long and a picnic. Would be glad to get some cards or letters from some of you cousins. Will answer all I get. ! ANNA MILLS. R. 3, B. 7. Mt. Airy, N. C. From a McDowell County Boy. Loral Editor: I like to read the cous ins' page fine. I live on a farm and like it fine. I am 18 years old. have gray eyes, , : . i-. 1 : . : I - llKRl nair . sou fair complexion, i am J feet tall, and weigh 135 pounds. I am go in,: to school now, and I like it very well, and I am in the sixth grade. There sometimes comes a change in the weath er; .' There sometimcsSromes a change in the sea; There sometimes comes a change in -true lov ers, fj But there is no 'change in me. j JOIIX MAR LOW. Fslrview, X. C. From a Pamlico County Girl. Local Editor: I am 15 years old. weigh OA pounds, am 5 feet and 2 inches tall. Have just been reading the rousins' page and saw s letter from a Pamlico county girl. I live seven miles from her home, although I have never seen her. My father is keeper of Pamlico Point Light House, and I stay with him in the summer.' He went to New Jer sey last week and when he returned, he brought me a nice present, (a watch). Being I am a new comer, will close by asking some of the rousins to send me the song "Good Night. Nur.e." i KATHARINE GWVXN. Lowland, X. C. j From Forsyth County Girl. Local Editor: I will take for my subject "Bad Habits." One is Indies dipping snuff. One is coffee drinking, one tobacco chewing and one roeacola drinking, one wine drink ing. one liquor drinking, one ladies cursing snd young men cursing and card playing, and ball playing snd betting on the games. I will aay all these; are not good habits. Why ran't we learn better habits and follow them as easily as bsd ones. Cousins, let us: all form a band and 'aay we ran live and hot follow all these bad habits. I think it is nice to go to Sunday School and preaching snd act real nice and be kind enough to apeak to each other. It. 4. Winston-Salem. X. C. From Two MorrtsvUle Cousins. Locsl Editor: We are always glad when Friday cornea. We are anxious for the pa per. How many of the rousins live on the farm, and how . do you like farm life f If you are like us. yon don't like it very much We raise tobacco snd corn, snd we hsve lots of fun together. One of us 16 years of age, snd the other ia it. The one has light hair. dark eyes, and fair complexion, and the girl or 17, haa dark curly hair, blue eyes, dark complexion and weighs 122 pounds. Home one send na the song "Steam boat BUI." May the pearly galea of heaven Ear above th sky. Open wide some day To welcome yon and I. TWO MERRY CHUMS. k. 1, Morrisvtiis, ft. u. From Two Randolph County Girts. Local Editor: We are cousins, and live in the country, l.illle haa light hair, blue yea. aad - fair complexion, and weighs 90 riounds. Ads haa black hair, brown eyes, and a fair complected, and weicha 120 pounds. We are real sorry for Blighted Life and she has our sympathy. Wo hope her life will be brighter ia the future, How msny of you rousins like flowers. We do snd hsve some real pretty ones. i" Earl Drake, yoar letter via fins. . May angels guard your path. While hers on earth yon atay. And heaven, be your resting place. When you are called away. , . . , LJLLIE JOXES. h ADA JOXES. Rtmtrar, N. C- , -Coleridge. X. C. From e Holly Springs Cousin. I.ocal Editor: ' I shall take the subject Education. Every person, rich or poor, should endeavor : to procure an education. Thia great fartor of the nation's prosperity could not bo procured so essily a few yesrs ago. but now look out upon the broad acres of tha farm land, and you will see school very 3 or 4 miles, and anyone can go. Ed ncstion is something which cannot be stolen A msn without an education stands no chanc. now. for what can ho dot And a woman! What msn. educated and refined, wants an Ignorant wife! I sm farmer's son and glory in the name, but by the help of the cre ator of all things both good and had. I ex pect to obtain an education. Cousin, let u the page for a better use than a talk on whiskey aud snuff. - ' R. C. MARCCM. R. . Holly Springs, X. C. ... -. s : - From a Kandnloh CoantyGIrL Local Editor: .Mv Leasue 1'iB arrived af Irr hiiuz nelayed severs! days, hut U ia all tO. K.. and I thank you very marh for it. 1 tow yon all go to Sunday fcSehoolu and are doing tour beat to r goon, imr lea ' aon today (July 13) in the advanced quar i irlT "Moses Prepared -for Phis Work, ( It ia jgreat lesson, and showsf'ua all ivery plainly "that we hare a work toe do and we isnould all try to do our work wen. lamgiau I to see so many of t..e cousins- write 'good I letters, and some one occasionally (tela n I some rood poetry. I love, poetry and Dow era. So I will drop s line or stf? of poetry. If f fitilrl Aim fnr a daw and rn I-' To that country lying- yonder, k I Who of all that I lore and koowj. Would mis me here, I wonder I j . If I could die to outward sense,? And hear them speaking of me' " Would it be worth Death's consequence. To know if any love mef j? . AXNIE J. W5KJDEL.L. Asheboro, N. C. i"; ! From a Rockingham County Girl, luteal Editor: I have to . keJ house. ran ; svmnathize wit those tliKl have no mother. My mother died the flMh of ,Feb ram 10.13 I have to keen hotiae for eev eral. The baby one will be two years old July 4.1st. She is the only girl besides myself.- I hare five brothers, and tone sister. My oldest brother ia arricd. 13 am twelve years old, have brown hair, blue? eyes, fair complexion. Hllgmea i.ue your -curr in fine. If every girl would take iier advice, there would not be so many livim blighted. Blighted Life, will you please acrid me your full name ana aaaress airrci io nir, would like to correspond with you some. I guess you all have gotten a league pis. I haven't, but would like to hive line. Some of vou cousins write to me. as.liwould likf to hear from aome of you. Here's wishing the Local Editor a happy vacation. Which unfortunately, he never takes. J-ocal i.01- v. I ADDIE WILLIAMS. R. 2. Stoneville. X. C. Is o - ' From a Davidson County Cousin. .' Locsl Editor: Blighted Lifcj -5 1 sm sorry to hear now your young, me was to hear blighted and to know that thcrS are . kind of young men in the world. J Boys', blighted and to Know mat mrre arc ;in. should try to do better and thitfk more of ourselvea than to go with aome -young girl until we find we have gained her love and then go off and make fun of ho. Let us think more about trying to dojvright and living better than we have. I waiit to spesk to the boys sbout drinking. Boys stop and think about how bad it ia to drinjc whiskey and go on in sin. Take my adviee and try to do better. Be prepared for a tjrtter place when you die. I aee aome of (he rousins have: been writing about flirts, j want to say to the boys and girls, let'a ty and not be called flirts. We cannot enter in the kingdom of heaven and flirt byt any one. I,ct'a try to make the future brighter than the past. Addie Howard, and also SolSier'a Lov er, I always love to read your lettera. FLOSSIE 3IARCH. Yadkin College. N. C. k. From a Pitt County Cousin. Loral Editor: Say. cousins, wilyou allow a farmer boy from dear old Pittf county to join the young readers' pagef jj will try to be as brief as possible, becsussj the good editor haa asked ua to do so. jitjr father was given a trial subscription to The Union Republican last year, and that is Hhe way I. became acquainted with the papery Aa long s we are given a page all to ourselves. 1 think the young readers will keep iheir fath ers reminded of their subscript io when it is due. I am 5 feet, '9 inches tall.weigh 135 pounds, and am 19 years old. My' eyes sre brown, my hair blsck snd curly on jccount of severe case of typhoid fever, and have a mediumly dark complexion. Sortie of the cousins come over to my home and iwe'll enjoy aome nice watermelons and . peaches : grown at our farm. I have seen several 1 letters from the cousins near Seven Springs. Y'on must write again. I like to hearfrom over that way. as some of my best friends live in that section. - - JAMES H. 35MITH. It. 3, Farmville. X. C. ?: : 0 : ; From a Davidson County Cousin. Local Editor: Blighted Life, IS am sorry i that your husband was mean to you, but you must trust in the Lord, who doeth all thine best, and he will provide for vou? and your two. little girls. I wish I could se you and 1 talk with you.. I wish you would?: sign your name. I would like to correspond? with yon. snd ?o Soldier'" Lov-r.' v;Addi ' Hdwanf, i you also write good letters.- 1 SouId like to correspond with : you. I lik: to. read good christian letters and when we write, don't forget to speak to the boys about drink ing whiskey for it haa ruined mitny young boys' lives. Now boys, take mv advice. If you drink, stop now. Don't wait until it is too late. If you watt until you are on your death bed, it may be too late then. But stop now while you can he saveiK. 1 think it is right to talk to the boys and get them to ston drinking if we can. r EM A WALSER. Y'adkin College, X. C. f From s Johnson County GPlrl. -Local Editor: Hurrah for the Stirry coun ty bov to the boys and girls on Siorsl con duct. 1 know he told the truthh I am a Johnson county girl of 13 summer I know it is sorry love that a boy has for a girl, if be has to get drunk to tell her: 1 do sym pathize with the girls who lovty drinking boys. Just think of the homes land h"arts that are made sad by strong drink. I am sure there is nothing else on eartfj that has made as many sad homes. I had vnther give up life, and go to my grave thaniiever be a drunkard's wife. I think if the hyys would look aa close after their drinking bills as they do hobble skirts, they wouldjihave less to talk about. Some may want to) throw, dip ping snuff. All right, come on. had rath er wash and iron a half dozen while' dress es thsn clean one suit of clothes wallowed in the ditches. Blighted Life, accep? my best wishes and prayera. May iod iiblesa yon and your little girls. Addie Howard. Samuel James and lieneva. vour letters (were fine. May God bless you ll. is the prayer of MI.VMl L, MALMOX. Four Oaks, N. C. U From a Onilford County Boy. I -oca I Editor: I am a farmer iboy of six teen summers. Boys and girls. IM us stop talking so much nonsense and itslk about something that will do us good.r I go to Sandy Ktrtge Sunday School.: I think every body ought to go to Sunday hrhool and preaching. I don t rhew. smoke.; mor drink, nor follow other bsd habits. : I belong to the M. E. church, and I think every bor and girl ought to belong to the ehurrti and try to do Ood'a will. Boys, don't criticise the girls. Remember that our mother-were once girl, and we know we don t want any boy saying any thing about our sisters Boys, if we will do our part and live right? ourselves, the girls will live right. Boys.j list think what a dreadful curse a lot of usjare bring ing upon ourselves, our mother and our country. Ono of the worst things in this country is the white slave trade. t'n tight it and banish it out of onr countfg. I am 5 feet. 8 inches tall, weigh 125 pounds, hare dark hair, black eyes, and dark" complex ion. ; If any of yon want to rorrieApond with me. aay ao in your next letter and I will send you a card. ! ' A 1AK M fill 1JOY. Friendship. N. C. From Virginia Oirl laical Editor: I am 23 yearsi old. have brown hair and grey eye. "BoyiC-'pholder of wins. your letter was goort. -v Header. I liked your letter fine. I think! ftsing snuff is a dirty habit. 1 don t see why any one would want to use tobsc, fori -I think it rums a boy's health to comment- using to- nscea while they are - young, ntiey. never seem to make strong men like the; ones that never use it. Men spend ao mych money for tobacco and whiskey, when their families haven t anything hardly to live1 on. : Don t think if I were the men I woorf aay much about hobble skirts, aa it doesn't -take much to make a dresa that way. and so-many men don't like to spend much for tBefr wives' clothes. "Chicken Feeder." fMsmms'a t'ook." "Cotton Chopper. fend "Corn Hoer." tbe answer to yonr second question, ia, bersnse she csn't go through it; fourth, i smoke; fifth, he waa his son. "Send rard. Would like to hear from some offtjie rousins . . ' TRL'LA I'RL'ETT. Rsyersville. Va. j : From sn Alleghany County Consln. Local Editor: I will sjr a j tew words aoout - - r.fluration. W-,at is s-yonng la dy or gentleman of today without an educa tion f Why a mere nebodv! Ri t think we all ought to atrive to get an education for variona reasons, if we ever intend to resch the top of the Mountain of society or of sny tning else, we have got to hae an edn cation. Blanche Moore.. I arret ' with nn If the boy a and girla would put 'more time n tueir nooKa than on so mnrlC nonsense, men- uiiii im- Hiwr ruuraicxL-wen, and wom en toaay than there are. -Kir tuachor l..i year aaid reading waa the principal part of an eduration. lie aaid that the- world waa not overburdened with people that could read Panama-Pacific Exposition to 'Have Largest 3- -V 5 I w C . .. . - 1 SssBSWifl a. . iMt 1 -.' -Vi. V I WORK on the buildings of the Panama-Pacific exposition In Ban Fran cisco is progressing so that an Idea can be bad of what many of the struct urea will look like. Machinery hall, for instance, is well under , way. An 'idea of its Luge size center of tbe arched trusses Is 126 feet 135 feet above the floor. When completed Machinery ball will be the largest frame structure in the world and will be; one of the Important buildings of tbe exposition to celebrate the opening of tbe without making errors, and I think he was right. Some of you cousins wanted to know who the first King of Knglnnd was. "Eg bert" was. and the first steamboat crossed the Atlantic iu 1819. Send on your card. Who built the first ' Monastery f What did this represent of the X. V. soldiers in time of the wart First at Bethel, last at Appomat tox, and last at Gettysburg. Answer corrert- y, and get card. BETTIE JOHNSON'. Mouth of Wilson. Va. From s Clio. S. C. Cousin. Local Editor: The girls always blame the boys and whiskey about their downfall. I j want to say that most girls are always in! Ik. (.nil t,w..n than I I. n ki-a Tf t lx. (-rlci' will always stay in their lace. the boys will stay in theirs. The; girls pre like an en gine without a governor belt. They never look .before you jump. They will say that such and such boy fooled in. "vVhen they fooled their self. A boy can go to see some girls two or three times and ran marry her. Then if he chooses, imd some times they marry that soon and they don't know whether they love one another or . not, and don't care then. But it's not long before thev see where they made their mistake. These are the girls that get their lives blight- ed. and are the ones that jump before they look. If you will always look at both sides! of. the matter, you can see who is to blame j the most. We know the girls are going to hold up their side if it's wrong. If we will! always plead guiltv the cost wouldn't be so much. Girls, give us boys what is due us and we won't grumble. I am 1-2 feit high, weigh i:i- pounds, have dark hair, blue eves and fair complexion. A COUSIN". Clio, S. C. ; ' ! From a Davidson County Cousin. Local Editor: Let us illustrate the nature of this : principle by the contrast between the case of an animal allured hi a bait into a snare by which he is to be destroyed, uiid that of a man who. foreseeing the danger .f certain ruin, rushes into it to gratify some momentarily strong impulse, say unit of re venge. The animal's action is natural tne man't unnatural; since the grat ilirat ion is purchased in thn latter case in disoledieti--lo the higher direction of selflove. The dif ference between this principle and mere im pulse or passion is. ;as in the case of con science, a difference in nature or kind. "If passion prevails o'er sdflove, the conse quent action is unnatural; but if selflove pre vails over passion, the; action is natural. It is manifest, that selflove is in human natnre a superior principle to passion. This may be rout rod i c ted without violating that nature; but the former cannot. Thus if we will art conformably to the economy of man's na ture, rt'vHOuable selflove must govern. 1 W. it. St" Kit ATT. Jackson Hill. X. C. From a Virginia Consin. Loral Editor: I see where some of the gids have been telling the rest to beware of young men. Well. I don't blame them for that. On the other hand, it looks like some of the girls "seem to think that, they are too good to go with the1 boys. I guess some of them are too good to go with a certain class of the boys, but these flirts are not any too good to go with tM-ir own class. I don't like to aee the girl threw off on the boys when the boys are jiist as good as the. girls that talk about thern. It is hard to find a true-hearted girl or boy that is the same thing all the time. I don't say all of them are that way, but the majority of them are. A word to Blighted; Life. I read yonr let ter, and thought they were line. Sign yonr name in full in vour next letter. I thank the kind Local Editor for giving up space in the good old Kepublican. W. .V. Watson, and Mr. Robertson,, if the: girla get too rough for me you can send me a curry comb and I will curry them off and muke them smooth. Iea I'liillips, 1 received ; your let ter all O. K., and I guess yui got mine. W. F. 'Tit AX lei:. B. 2'tC, Schoolfield. Va. Froma Forsyth Connty OtrL. Local Editor: 1 will take for my sub jeet "A Smiling Face." Oo any of us ever think what a smiling face is worth, which costs ua nothing! Home of the cousins said the girls were to blame for the way the bovs behave. I think if: thev would meet each other with s smiling face, the girls wouldn't spend ' ao many unhappy hours with their sweethearts. K. !. Woodie, I agree with you about girls dipping snuff. I don't know of any thing that a girl can do that looks any worse than sitting around with a snuff box in. her hand. As you said, scouring broom In her mouth. I am glad 'to say that I have never , dipped any snuff and never intend to. I am 5 feet, 5 inches tall, have brown- uair and brown eyes, and am 17 yesrs old. I suppose yon. all think I ran't rook, but I i can. I will send a good receipt for baking tes cake: - Take 3 eggs, 1 1-2 cup of sugar, 1-2 half cup of butter., 2 teaspoons full of Baking powder, with flavor enough to make s soft dough. - Flavor to suit the lasts. Koll the dough, then rut out and bake in a quick oven. SUNDAY SCHOOL CIKL, W inston Salem, X. C. From a Wataugs GirL Local Editor: I will take for my sub ject "Bad Company." A nice young girl or ooy can start out associating with bad com pany and the first thing you now. they are classed and equalixed with them. When once they were the best' and purest people our country- afforded. The - rising generation should atop and think that it won't be long at the longest, until we will have to take the Wooden, Building Y ' -4 " on f '4 tt u t 0 0 10 may be bad by considering that tbe above tbe floor, while the roof will be Panama canaL older people's places, and while "we are young is the time to build our characters. I know of church members who claim they are christians, that curse, play cards, go to dances, and drink every bit of intoxicating drinks that they can get. And still they claim they are saved. Iear cousins, isn't that bad company, or not, for any one to associate with! "Bad Company" has caused many a person to be put behind the bars, and then they have disgraced their whole family and connection. I will say one thing to the boys: let strong drink alone. Never become a captive to it. I'm proud to think that we have so many cousins that write to our page that say they do not know the taste of i whiskey. That certainly is grand of them. - Our country needs more such boys as those that write that way.; Blight ed Life, youhave.my deepest sympathy. I have heard of cases like yours kefore. Mr. Braswell, yo,,r letter, was fine Also Alvs's, fieneva s, Samnel James and Kobert Pow ell's were real interesting. Come again. CHAXIE E.; GRACE WATSON. ; Yuma, N. C. From a Davie County Girl.: Local Editors I am a little 14-year-old jfrom Davie. I have light wavy hair, gray eyes, fair complexion. ; I go to school at Advance, and I like to go. fine. I am spend ing my vacation in Chatham county, 7 mile from Pittsboro with my uncle and ; aunt. I like down here fine, although it is lonesome no children' to be with me. My uncle and hunt are both single- have never been mar ried. i ney are mamma's brother and sister. My uncle has large plantation, 75 sheep, i cows, turkeys,. '.chickens and peafowls. I amuse myself with them. My aunt takea Inn to church every Sunday, and we go out visiting in the neighborhood and read the cousins' letters. My uncle takes The fiepuo lican, and my mamma also. My papa ia dead, lie died 4 years ago. I have 3 lirothers and ti sisters. I came down here the 2tth dav of Mar. I will go' borne some time in Septem ber. I am expecting to visit Raleigh, the capital of our State before I go home. It is only '2 mil's from- here. You all may know I will enjoy that, as I have never been there. To make it niiort. I am, hav ing a good time, and will want to come to visit old Chatham again. I will nose by risking a riddle; If Dick's father is Tom's Fon. what kin is Dick to Tom!' Chicken l-'eeiler. '-our riddle No. 1. in "smoke." Send on your card. I will send a card to the one answering my riddle. AGNES PEEBLES. ! 1!. 1. B. C3. New Hill. -.. C. From Two Surry Connty Conslns. Local Editor: We read your paper, and like it fine. We live! rlose together, and visit each other very often. Wc are cous ins, and we have some: fine times. We sre shout the same size and we both have blsck biiir, and fair complexion and one of us has blue eyes and the other has brown eyes, snd one weighs 110 pounds, and the other ill 2. We are IS and 1H years of aee, and you bet we are two good-looking kids. We are two of the sweetest kids in Surry county. Ymi bet all tbe boys tip here think we are cute. We don't talk to the boys that drink, and play cards and smoke. We don't dip snuff. We are. real nice kids, any way.' We are real good rook. Wc ran rook', chnrn, wash, snd iron, and do most any kind of house work, and do most any kind of work in the fields too. ; We see in the pa fer where some of the jrirls say they don't wear hobble skirts. You bet we wear them, and think they are pretty. - Hello. E. C Woodie, we would like to get acquainted with you. We don't dip snuff, and we are two nice lit tle girls a yon eversaw. We know if yon all, were to ee .n, yon would get-struck on us. R. ('. Stanley, what lis become, of yon f Why don't you write again! We '.saw in the naper where two girls wrote and said they baked a cake, and flavored it with the dish rag. Ve bakei cakes verv often, bnt we don't hardly ever flavor our rakes -with the dish rag. And we think if we could not beat that, we would fiit. Some of the cousins send us the songs "On the Bank of the Ohio," and "Lonesome Road." We would appreciate it. ' i SPORTY KIDS. k R. 3, Pilot Mountain, X. C. ' troth a Davidson Connty Girl. ' tocal Editor; I wish to compliment Blighted Life. Soldier's Lover, Polly, and Rus sell Robertson. Would love to meet ' them. I feel orry for Blighted Life and Sad Heart, but if they don't enjoy life in thia world, per haps they will in the world to .come. ' I haven't any League- Pin, bnt I am sending a subscription, for which; I hope to get one. I spent a few days with V my consin at, Wel come, last week. ' and we iust . had a grand fine. Charlie York. I; will answer your-riddle. Yon ssid knowledge is slways gained by bravery. All it takes is little nerve. I believe thct. Would love to correspond with you. rl said I -would answer irour riddle. It Is a man's name. - rU'ud rard. Will answer all I get.. Just a few worda to W. A. Wat son. . If I were you, ' I would actually be ashamed of myself to have such a letter aa you .wrote published to the world.'- I don't think it is anv of juiur business whst the girls wear. I ran tell the way your letter fm 1 Kit , , t I sounds that you are as big a flirt aa there ever was or ever, will be. .luraho, I'm glad you and your wife sre so happy. . If there were more homes like your. I am sure this world would be much brighter. I agree with '.'Touch-me-not." I think every boy and jrirl ought to speak a they think. R. C. Stanley, would love to exrhang cards with you. for I am sure you hare some fiae view of Norfolk and other ritie and countries. I am always delighted to get views of other countries. Ssmantha . Pearce, . you hare my J . . ..- .:' . t ' ' ., ' . brother's birthday. My irthday Is Oct. 2. Some of the cousins . are oiscnssmg unn skirts. Well I think they are nice looking. 1 wouldn't wear any other kind. . J. NANNIE J. PICKETT, s, "'. K. 1, B. 122, Lexington, N. CY , : From aa Alexander Connty OtrL . C Loral Editor: If the advice the cousin give each other was practiced as much as preached, this world would be different from whst H is. Girls, if you want to reform the bovs, you will have to get at it in a differ ent form of manner than A publishing what you have to ssy, I don't say all of the girla do thia, but I think some of them do just to try to bold np their side and run down the opposite sex, and then go with the boys intoxicated with strong drink. . Now, girl, topi look I listen I I ssy the girls hsve got it in their power to reform the boys if they will do it. Not one girl, no. nor one bait of the girls can't reform all the boys by. themselves. It will take all the girla and 'parents too. This is the way to get at A. 'Get in your place first. And if the boys come around, intoxicated, don t pay any at tention to them. Tell them if they want yonr company, that they will have to quit liquor drinking. Now, if all tbe girls would teti itbem this, and stand to it, they will soon turn Thev nil not for some time, out sooner or fster they willtnrn and this workl4 will be almost a Heaven on earm, out n or two girls say this and stand to it, and the rest accept the company of each boyl, the bovs will ssy we don't esre; there are more than one or two. so if all the girls are not going to do this, none need try either, far it will make them worae. They will just trj to show the other girls whst they rando. and I can't blame them., E. C. Woodie, you said if any of the girla that didn't use snuff wanted to correspond wita yon. to let n e know. I am one girl. I don't use snuff in anv way .and would like to correspond with you. I am 5 feet. 8 inches tall, bav light hair, brown eyes, fair complexion, weigh 1S5 pounds. Robert C, Powell, would like to correspond with yon also. Our school began yesterday. ; I am going. Mis Lydia Bumgarner ia teaching. I like her fin. Wish to congratulate the cousins' good let ters. Some are real interesting. ; BERTILV ORREX. It. 5. B. 14, Tayloraville, N. C. From a Wilkes Caonty Consin. f Local Editor: "Polly," yonr tetter was good. Write again, and tell us your nme You don't live very for from here. "Blight ed Life," I certainly do enjoy reading yo4T letters. May God help yon and guioe you in thia life that yoq may see your bright dava vet. And that you will have sneeeas and happiness the rest of your life. Yonr little ones man bring delight and joy in the future. I think that parents should take more interest in sending their children to school, and encourage them in studying and getting an education. Wbrn any one bas an eduqation they can make their way ao murl easier than those who have to work hard for a living.' I am very thankful to ssy that I have good parents, who do not indulge in 'bad habit. My father always provides for his family as far as be able. Most rhildren do not appreciate a kind mother end father, and don't realise their comfort and pleasure until they are gone. Children, obey your parents: it will add to your credit. For it is a promise of God to honor thy mother and thy father, that thy days may be long upon the earth that the Lord tby God giveth thee.. Though I have been very dis obedient to my parents myself, still I think I should guide younger ones, who will accept advice. I think we should go to Sunday School and preaching, and live as near for Jesus aa we can. "An Adopted Virginian.?,' your letter waa good. I too have lived in both states, but there is no place like the Old Dominion to me. Maie Parsons snd Wilms Ballard. I received your card, and I will answer them soon. Nettie McGlamery. why don't you write to tbe paper! I wpt to thank the Local Editor, for giving us a apace in the paper for correspondence. Think we should make it more interesting. What creature walks-npon four feet in the morning, npon two at noon, ana upon three at night! Answer and receive a card. -g A LONESOME UIKL. Cricket, N. C. . o i From a Wake Connty Boy. , $ Local Editor: I will try to aay Na few more words on education, by your kind per mission. You boya and girls, who are ta school, make the best use of your time. Ed ucation is the fuel which runs tbe engine of life and the more fuel yon take aboard, the faster and further yon will go. I have come to the conclusion ithst' about half., of .the boys and girls waste their time, or at least the most of it, while in school. Now cut it out. Your whole future depends largely up on the use you make of the hours you are un achool. Tbe boy who is diligent with his studies, is laying tbe foundation of a suc cessful .career, and later en will nave 5 bank account, an antomobile and a good home. The boy who is shooting paper wads, put ting bees down boys backa, and arranging tacks for John snd Annie to sit on, will lat re on be digging post boles or bumming around saloons and ne'er do well. Remem ber, boys, and girla, life is real life is earnest. There is a time for work as well as for play. When you work, work with m will, but do not mix yonr play with your work. Most of us fail through lack of con centration. When you take up a task, put your whole heart into it, and keep your mind entirely on it until yon put the job through. The sun up in the heavena gives heat and warmth to the whole world. ihe sun s nest is diffused over the entire heavens. Now take a magnifying glass ana lei tne sun s rays fall directly on it, and pot a piece of paper under the glass at the proper focus distance, and those consentrated rays will burn a hole through it. That shows you whst conee--trstion will do. When you are in school, concentrate all your thoughts on your les sons, and later on in life, you will be able to blaxe your way through all obstacles to success snd affluence. Education bas been ia costlv thing. Men for hundreds of years have been toiling, fighting and praying for the verv things which you enjoy today, ana which you regard as too common place for notire. Remember the world haa had only about seventy-five yesrs . of schooling. Re member we are lucky and greatly blessed in having a chance to. go to school. A little more than a rentury ago, there were towns in Europe containing several thousand people, and not more than one in a thousand could read or write. Thank onr lucky stars, we did not live in those daya. These are not ideal daya by any means, but they are the best the world has ever known, and just how fsst they are to grow better, . depends eo tirely on the way we, who constitute the ris ing generation, act. It Is ignorance that kerps the world back: it is education that pushes it on. A century from now, every man and woman in thia country should and probably will, be as highly educated and cultured . and know as much as Harvard and Yale professors do in tbe present day. Juft imagine what a nation will be able to ae complied when every mind and brain ia cul-. tured and trained to the highest degree. Ke member, cousins, the future of the nstion depend on us. Put your whole soul into the tssks thst are set you. Whatever you take in band, do it with all - your might. Quit yourselves like men. Re-strong. Do this snd you will lift yourselves and the whole nation onward and upward to those heights where reigns love, justice, honesty, happiness, prosperity and contentment, and where graft, plunder, poverty, injustice aad nil the other , evils of our present unrivll- ixed. nnsrovial systems are oo more. You have to fight and conquer these evils, and only by applving yourselves, heart . and soul, to your studies now and getting an education von will be able to do it. If the Virginia cousin. Of Richmond, Vs., will write to me again and give her name, I would answer it. I think you wrote a good letter too. .. KOUEUT C. rOWJSLM It.; 1, B. 23, Wake Forest, N. V. From a Hyde Connty Boy. Loral Editor: The cousins' psge ha greatly improved in the past month. Aad can be made better if the cousins will write and expresa their views on certain subjeets of interest. If all the cousins sre sincere in what they write, we have over 200 boy and girls growing up in North Carolina that rannot be surpassed. Out of this little band of boys and -girls and others who are not ia this band, we -must nave preachers. teschers, lawyer, and doctors, and men of many other profession to be able to respond to the call of their country. . I certainly do enjoy reading the letters. I always read the cousins' page first. Although I like the po litical Issue of the V. B. very welL I think the Local Editor la kind to five ns a page in the paper. Every cousin ought to try and return hi kindness by getting a new ub srriber to the U. R. each year. I believe it would be a good way to build np the paper and especially the cousins page. If onr Lo csl Editor and cousins think it a good thing, I am in the ring with you. Irene Bamnel, rour letter was line. Earl Drake and Addie toward, yonr letters were fine. "A Caroli na Maid." who signed her name "Geneva." 1 enjoyed your letter, "Cousin Mary." yonr letter wa just fine, and many others whose letters were nice. Julia Myers, I received yonr .card today, and will answer it in j a few days. Wilt answer all cards I re ceive. I will ask a question.- Who was the ALL FANCY 1 (About 300 2-Piece Suits) TO LOSE OUT QUICKLY AT HALF - BLUES and BLACKS t BE QUICK FOR CHOICEST PICKING A RARE OPPORTUNITY THIS McDowell & Rogers nly Captain that carried 'the Confederate Flag around the world, and what State w be froraf A card to tne correct answer. . JEFF .DAVIS iSWINDELLE. R. 1, B. 42, Lake Land.ng , N. C. From an Oriental GirL Local Editor: I read some of the let ter over and over. Alva, Oeneva, and So lon B. Braswell. your letters were certain ly interesting to me. My ' papa takes tbe good old Union Eepublican, and has for years. My mother is dead. She has been dead 8 years. She left 4 children, 1 boy and 3 girls. She left a baby not old enough to go to school. My papa's business was so he could not be at home all the time, so wo tok ber to school with us. I tell you, cousins, I had a Lard time. I kept house for my papa, and did all of tbe work. My oldest sister and I. My baby sister is 16 years old, and can hardly remember her mother. My papa got married again about 4 years ago. He got a good kind step-moth, er. She is loved by us children, and every body thst knows her. I tell you it is sad to lose a dear mother. No body knows any thing about it, but those who have gone through with it. My mother tried to learn me bow to work while she waa with me, and I am so -lad she did. It is no- dis grace to know how to work. That is a thing a young girl ought to know to do, and that is to work. If she does, when she get married and gets a husband,! and bas to help him make a living, it would be very. m if she doesn's have to work, why what she knows abont it won't hurt her. I have heard girls say, "I don't want to know how to work. I am going to get married and let somebody work for me." Is that the way to think abont it! No. Some times a boy can fool a girl eaaily, get her to mar ry him and not have a hole , to stick his haad. in. . Don't vou know. I had -rather die an old maid than to marry a man and move every year, l believe a girl ought to look 40 times before she . leaps. Some of them think if they ran just change their nam from Misa to Mrs., it is sufficient. . It is a ssd.wsy to think about it. I think. 1. Ia. ilULHifcS. P. O. Box 303. Oriental, X. C. From, a Bobeson Connty Consin. Local Editor: . "Blighted Life," you have my deepest sympathy. May God bless you and your two little girls. ish I count meet you and have aa interview with you. I will aay a few words on ' Malice. liear cousins, what do you think about holding malice in your hearts! Do yon think you can enter the golden gate with hatred or malice in your heart! Xol Xol We must love our friends and neighbors as ourselves. God wanta us to love our enemies. Do we love them as God wants us to when we pass them and do not speak! No; bow can we! f am afraid there will be more souls lost for thiscrime than there will be for any other. : I never pass any one without speaking' to them and I always speak with a smile. To speak to any one will not hurt you even if it ia your enemy. If they do not speak to yon, taat doesn't matter. When you speak, you have done your part. I have heard of boys and men holding malice with their fath ers and mothera and would not .speak. O, dear rousins, I hope none of you are guilty of this sin. Satan can lead you any way, once let him get the reins. The best way is to shun him. Resist the Devil, and he will flee. Draw nigh unto God, land he will draw nigh unto yon. Now I will-say a few word abont education. I don't think we can say too. much about that. Dear boys and girls; if yon have the opportunity of going to school, make use of your time and do not sit and idle your time away playing. If you do, yon will regret it some day wnen it will be too late. My eduration is limited to only a public school. - I would be glad to go to a higher school, but it seems that I'll have to stay at home and work. Two of my friends are wanting me; to go with them to Athens. Tenn. to school, but don't know how it will be. Say. couginav if you want to correspond with an eld bachelor, let me know, and I will send yon his name and address. "SOLDIER'S DAUUHTER." Pembroke, - N. C. . s From a Yadkin Connty Consin. Loral Editor: I have been picking black berries. I hsve picked 200 cans. Julie, if a man can raise 250 bushels of wheat in fair weather, be can raise his umbrella in rainy weather. Dove, the answer to yours is "I." Send on yonr cards. I think the cousins have got the subject of flirting up pretty well. Soldier's Lover, write again. I rn- ioy reading your letters. "A Blighted Life.' certainly do sympathize' with you. Girls, we should take warning before it is too late. It is awful to be a drunkard s wife. Cousins, I think we should be cs refill in what we ssy and do. , How often we do things which we ought not to do and how often we leave things undone which we ought to do. T. M. A.. I agree with yoa on your letter. I think we should guard our tongue, for it. is the tongue thst causes lots of trouble, The greatest object in life 1s to prepare for death. Be ready whefi Jesus rail yon. . Be ready and watching for you know not the day nor the hour wherein ' the son of maa cometh. Boys, stop yonr drinking before it is too late.' Yon do not know when you are folng to lie called away from this world, t will be awful to be turned away from God ia the last day. Look around you' at the hotnee that ..are ruined by whiskey, where tnere couia , De happinesa. where there is only torment. Remember your mother who is praying for you. thst you rosy live a bet ter life. .Don t you want her prayers to be answered ! Then heed what she says for your mother is the best friend you have here on this earth. What ia borne without a moth rrf The couaina have been talking about what thev wear. I say, 4 let people wear wnat mey pieaae. l ae way.lhey rtres. is not all to look at. Look at their, actions to tell what they are. I will ask a question: What was tbe -Samaritan woman's name who talked with Jesus at jacob'a well! If any of the cousins know; please tell me. : Some one please send me the song "Silly Bill." I will aend a card in return. JETTIE MARTIN. R. 1. Cana. X. C. ; ,-1 , -o From a Davidson Connty Conala. Local Editor: I will take Tor my subject "The Salvation of Yonr; Soul." People think so mnrh about money;1 and getting rich these day, that they forget all about their souls,, bnt what good will , their Tichesr do tbem aome day when they die and leave all of their rirhea behind for somebody else! I wouia ratner nave my aoni right with Uod than to have millions of dollara and then die PR i bE ! t II OFF and go to the place of torment. I will tell tell yon, rousins, of a girlj whose parents were very rich and wicked There was a camp meeting going on near his girl's home, this girl had . companion: and she was a christian girl. So she snd hr rich compan ion were attending thia meeting. The chris tian girl, had almost succeeded in getting her companion to give her soul to God and be .a cunstian, but ner mother found out what was -omg on and etopped ber daughter from going with her companion, and to the meeting, and she seemed ver grieved abont it. So ber mother told herthat she would buy ber the finest dress that money could buy So she gsve wsy -to er mother, and therefore she never got forgiveness of her sins, and in a very few days she fell sick and grew wosee and worse, Until just s few hours before her death, she was thought to be getting better when her mother came in and brought her that fine dres which proved to be tne loss of her soul. sod. though she being not converted, realize that she had missed a home in heaven, ssift to her mother, to take the fine dresa from I her sight, that it was the ruin of her soul, 'land bad caused her to lose ber salvation, fee do not be per suaded to give up your soil salvation for ricbes, because it will be a great loss to you like the rich girl who lost her soul for al most nothing in spite of her companion's ten der pleading.Don t betempted to do wrong. A Blighted Life, you and your little girls have my tenderest love and sympathy. Also A Sad Heart and A Soldier's Lover. I feel sor ry for you both. W. A. Watson. I do not agree with you at all on your subject. R. C. Stanley, why. don't you s write again. I enior readme vour lettera. t A TRUE BdYS' R. 5, Lexington, X. C. i LOVER. - -rrnea Loral Editor: "Blighted' lUrfc'"'"- '- Admit i again; in your charm- ing cousins' psge A. Blighted Life. As there nas neen so much said on 1 ana about the flirty girl. I too, wiH try and give my views on the subject. First, cousins, don't think I approve of the flirty ?girl, for I cer tainly do not, and, girls, tskd advice from an unknown writer, and pleasej atop, lest you learn too late. But, first, cousins, what is i a. flirt! A girl that haa mores than one sweet- heart! No, cousins, this is not a flirt if she j is truthful and honest to them. A flirt is a liar. But come, let a go home with tbe flirty 1 girl, and nine tenths of them we will find , inotaerlcss. fehe may have la good lather. sisters, brothers, ana some one to give good advice, but cousins .that is j not mother. I tell you the band that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world, and perhaps she from a child, bas been imposed on. She' some times begins to tell ataries when only , euiiu, i ci un fa bmc waa .waaiiui), uinuc drops one and breaks it accidentally. She is punished for it. So the nextj time 1 ran see her go sailing around the house to bide it. When this accident cornea to light, she de nies it and so this sccideft by improper treatment is one first lesson jin lying. Then, perhaps she comes borne tired snd has not named home from her work but took her time, and is asked why she jis Iste, and she gives . her reasons she waa)' tired and did not stop any where, but did inot hurry. She is told she it not tru. Sn perhaps, next. time she comes from her werk she is tired and the thought comes to her miud. I sm counted a .falsehood, so I Just aa well be one. as to be slwaya called one. So she- stops on her way home and, when she gets none ine question is iiKfaiinii sue "'i" I came straight home. So suit finding has transformed a liar, and she becomes subject to lieing, so when she meets! a sweetheart, it cornea as natural to tell lies to him as it came to tell them at home. Bug the flirty girl find her sweetheart is truej ahe is true to him. She is afraid he will play false, and if she is not true to him, he) will court her 4 or 5 years, then drop her amd marry anoth er. So the flirty girls are afraid to let the boys out lie them.. Bat girlj, stop this. Let the boya' lie. but just slop ytiur ears snd tell them the truth. Far bettcf to be left an old maid than a blighted life. Far better had I been gilted than to hate been a wreck. Couaina. aome one wrote thai the girls are in the mud aa deep as the boysi Hon true thst statement is for when the pnir girl get in the mud she stsys and if she tjries lo raise out and get on solid land she ijs knocked hsck again while the hoy can step out of the i'id and go tipping down the streets in society, and is welcomed while the Spoor girl is loft behind with all the sin to i bear. God pity them. Cousins, I have got only two sweet little girl, and I am trying to raise Lhm right, but how do I know whst will befall them and my heart (roe otl to the wrecked lives which have caused nie msny a heart ache, many a lonely hour, for such has de prived my darling children f and myself of a happy home, clothes and Krimting to tt. Still my heart goea out in sytnpathy for theM. Once they were pure. 0r tbey were hon est. So God pity them. sKnme one wrote about putting trust, in God.? From a rb'M i have alwsv gone to. God riti my troubles. I am no christian, but God liaa been with m and cared for me. as snrws I've rsf'-d for my children. "Let my experience tell yen God never forsakes you. When I looked the first time in my baby's eyes. I Pr"v'MJ God to apare my life to see her grown and have been prsying ever since .and God ha so wonderfully answered iue so . far. One time I wa in Danville, Va,. in .trouble, and I got Nellie. Jessie , and myself a room t Pain'a Boarding house on l'alton St. It was the first time I ever saw gas light. On going to- bed, I got up to blow it out when my hand aeidentally turned' it .out. Had I blowed it out. next morning we would hv been dead. Again at Society Hill. S. C. 0d so wonderfully spared us. A horse wa hot only a yard from where li was i"i ""l shot hit me snd my baby,, Uf'n w"8 in Winston Salem, X. C, and in a dying con dition, and in trouble I gotl np and came to my father's and my doctor; ssid how won derfully you escaped deathi In June 191" I came home a wreck, and the -doctor si" I'm not going to tell you you will ever get well, but God has spared ?ne so far, snd, cousins, I am praying God give me bek my health to see my darlings grown. Cent ins. in your prayers, will you ask God to give me my health, and to spare my life. 1 know God will not always punish me. . BLIGHTED LIFE. Kemeraville, X. C, j . , - . f - Ma ior Jim '" Woodward of Atlanta aays that if the women lean atand the slit skirt he ean. 1 Something in this, to be sure. Charlotte Observer.
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