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i S- 0"' I. v Z Yi ' 1 M V .THE NEWS AKD OBSERVE!, sITKOAY BECEMBEtl 0, 1 00B - A 3i- I m mi and. mcmm. GUAS& r, for V. hdnksgiytttg & - s- tie, national holx- tlA Y, set-apart, f of good chek. r and" the' giving Of '-tHfii ks ls at hand. : : : If y-ru wltj entertain per haps you Will heed some , thing hew to add to the ! attractiveness of . the , tablfe. ! 'If ou: 5 will H final 1 ' handsome; ! SEPERATE PIECES OF PAINTEp 4 CHINA hfcre, also pretty things In ; CUT - GLAS, CJEL EIhfl. T R A YS. FRUIT anil NUT BOWLS SUGARS iand CREAMS, "... t lower vases etc. :: BE READY FOR THANKSGIVING. H. MAHLER SONS (JEVfELERS, j RALEIGH, v N. C. C6mmencing Dec. 1st WE yiLL.SELL U ...For $I.25..J ;v .. ... . , , ,j CARCLINA POWER & LIEUT Both 1'aones i Z2S COMPANY Phones is fMOEM COMFY utoograpims Richmond, vaj I 1 -ii Cotton ! Isabels. Glnirhani Rack and Mill Lithography. .Labels land' 1 ; Commercial Work. I V Iv ! WEBER HO EH v. Write tor Sample, 12 i&:''JTUB LRO'J'S HOT ! aud.lt's the time to strike. First, be y raua Ui (hooding yonr Autumn and y Winter suit today, you Tlew our con '. pleie iino ot new fabrics. Second, be- -auie you Mill be prepared with mm- I fortable and corrett garment When - the mercury Klu-lnks. . ;.-.-i;-':-H.-.' -fej I . E very shade I the mode approves Is :i among . oar . fterinjfs. Everyl model Fashion has ?avbre4 Is ? reproduced , with unfailing fidelity In our garment. ' For Htyle, gra and 8uperlo work i t knansbip. wo. .yield to - no. one. i - But , i we'd raUier -prove It than mt It. i M"t us jurutsti the evidence today, i GILBERT C. WfflTE, fci- El CONSULTING ot IvrnTinramK 5 4; 1 . DURHAM, ci : r Waterworks. 8 w.erage. Streets! Wate Filtration Sewage Disposal; Plans Itenorts, - Ektlmatea. ' Supervision ' . of Construction . M .-.! . J h --T k wancor A ' !' W ' wnt sjm- sad- tonuf ta U Potted BUU to kttow wht we srt driag. W vi eurlaf atocert, tanon tut cbronlo tore without tM, w at k&ift, sad sr iartomd b tb KraaU and IctilattiM el Tlrttsla; If yen wt84 earei ieooM here sad yo will get wi 1 GUaiAirrn oui cuts. KSLLAU noSPTIAJUl : - KUTtimondU va. ARE YOO flNE THE WISE INjflSIORS 11 who iflcurtd wyin pr cnt prifimd "fctock In the "only successful cotton -Plskln marhlfit over put on the mart ?ktT! If not. IwrJU now toJohn ia VTnurman, i'roarnt vacuum cotton jiMokin Machins Co., BU Louis no. r: SEVERAL HIGH CLASS RE3I' S desirable building . ota ' on Ashe Avenue, near liilUboro Street ' City ;,;;Iow.-.;.; I . : V h I v.';,; :. ., Ay ' -' - 1: . ' ,T 1 - A IVoman Has No Until She Has SO SAYS AMELIA K. BARR, WHO BEGAN. WRITING AFTER SHE HAD HAD FIFTEEN CHILDREN,! AND- " "'''"" ' - "''I ! :-- - i' EIGHTY HAS JUST PUBLISHED L 1 NOVEL. By FRANK C. DRAKE, IN Amelia E. Barr. the Promising young authoress -iwho wrote "A Bow of Orange Ribbon. thouzh barely eighty years of age, ha jus. puJ.suad her fifty-ninth auctttstul novel. I do not mean to be flippant, but she is such a dear, gay. J yoling i old lady, her full, rounded brow Is so fair in its furrows of bitter and sweet experience, that one somehow- feels It a discourtesy to rtpect her. lace cap and glasses with undiluted seriousness. We were sitting jn .her room at he i Hoffman House, ana tne soaring white tower of the Metropolitan Life Just across Madison Square had . suggested the trite old speculations oh the amazement of Peter Stuyvesant If he were alive to see the New TorK Of today. I observed tnat there seemed to be a sort or patriotism no less than com mercial 1 sagacity in the , erection of such a colossal and beautiful struc ture, as though New York ht said, "I am the metropolis of my fcountry, and these towers shall be a token of Its greatness to alien people as they approach my harbor." I thought that was rather a good Idea. , VI am at ratd." said Mrs.-Ba.rr. "that we should find New York's patriotism disappointing. It it came to a test in these days. Behind t patriotism lies principle, and behind that lies the sense of reverence. And the men sot New ;i York -and -even rof the smaller places have come to reverence noth-lng--nelther jGod nor their ., fathers, nor the memory of their fathers' deeds. '. ... ; . -. . . . ; f y i "During the : four- months when " I was reading tip on the history of New York City tcvprepare myself for writ ing The Strawberry Handkerchler i I couldn't help' asking myself ' If New York business men iwould sacrifice as much for a principle today as they did when King George Imposed the; Stamp Act. Perhaps : you do not know I that before the Revolution even starter the merchants of . New York not only threw the King's revenue stamps into the river, but .they let a whole crop of tobacco rot in the bales rather than profit by marketing It in England. They sacra iced the profits or a sea son eome of them -ruined themselves for a principle. f y, . I doubt If New York would do that today. New York : doesn't . read its B4ble, It has no God of righteous ness, no faith In the power of1 -rinci pie. Its reverence is gone. And rever ence reallyI wish you might have heard the fine-note In Mrs. Barfs voice "Is thg.. foundation of good clt Izenshlp. You cannot 1-aye good citi zens . unless you have rood children; you can't have good children unless they revere Jheir parents, and -th7 won't do that unless their parents are worthv of It. jO i "Now what sort of parents have'you is ew Yorkers trained up In your apart ment-house llf? Iknow. I comeJdown from Cornwall every winter and live In New York, and I keep my eyes- open. Therekure miles and miles i of apartment ' houses and tens of thou sands of young married people living in . -them. t some. pf these but not half enough.' : mind youhave children wnat ideals or conduct In their paf rents have these! children to emulate Th wrmtlffLfathAP la fllnh.nl i, ilinm irreligious arid, laufghlngly tolerates all of these -qualities in his child. The mother has her head full, of theatres. shopping, - luncheons and - society fol-de.rol.- Both . are connoisseurs In cocktails. Card playing for money is a commonplace of the evening: at home. Let me tell you, declared Mrs. NFanv with .a slap of her I capable old hand on the table, th.at when a Htt child In Its nightgown comes to kiss its mother and- father good nlfht,, and finds themLpaying poker." with tum blers alongside of the chiDs. you cant epeot him. to grow up Into a good' citizen.- Is he doesnt reverence his father and mother he won't respect the law. "But behind and to blame for all this Is your New York apartment house. I know you say you can't help living In a flat. T)ut you could j help It If vou WerenV too lazy to Hv In the suburbs. ' There Is no real home life possible without vohlldrenl not one, but two or three- enough Ito keep the young mpther too busy to make .be lieve, she belongs to the smart set. And apartments are either too small for ,that or the landlords won't tolerate children at all. - And then, there Is no neighborhood life. Ifs a good thing to have gosstpy neighbors; .you're more apt to be careful of the way you live.- v ..... i : ( :. -. , . - i "I always think of apartment-house life as a sort-of Joke-on socialism a lot of. strangers under one roof with Just two mutual Interests, a dumb waiter shaft and an artificial palm. And; I'm bound to say that I think it is responsible for : a . heathen race with no children. Children mean sacriflc. and j It's sacrifice that makes irooJ men and. women. , ; "But even Lwhen they have children and - don't gamble and .drink In thslr presence.- people today don't seem to know how to Inculcate any veneration In them. These 'fresh children are the bane of the- age. declared Mrs. Parr... Why ,my daughter is a settled married womani and has lots . more pense than I have about some things, but she '..would no more think of speaking tot. me the way I've heard mere babiea talk back to their mother than she Iwould think of striking me. it's alt tommytot. this modem fad of encouraging "children to exercise their shallow wills. Good gracious! Iwas railing on a young mother the other dy and vz at the top of the stairs her little girl . iyas piping imperiously, 'Mama! mama!' Well. I've known the mother Mince she was born, and I raid; .'Why under the sun don't you make that child come to you Instead of letting her, cull you to here?' JOh, nhe said the goose! 'we don't do anything ! that might weaken her sptrtty Fudge! If hermother doesn't break her spirit aomebody elteo will, and nuno too gently, either,", J Tlic Girl' Who iK't Marry Wlicn ' Kite Gcu the Right Clmnco U a -FkI j i :- -, -v- " t "How itbout -the matinee girl,"; I kpi, '"wlUi : hery itast Idolg.. h?r violet and soda water and her Hniur dav promenade on Urosdwayf Have the condition you jnt'htlon given her u diinMroanpolntC vlflw?'1 - v -i "No!" wld, Mr.;Uarr ,mphatlcal!y. "The matinee girl 1 all right. Ur frivolity. or whatever you choose to call It. Is only the ' unthinking, un formed enthusiasm of youth; In Lan raster, where I was born, w used to have a saylns: 'Where you find froth you fnd (good ale:' and under the ef fervescence of the matinee girl , you will find Just as sound and sweet a heart as In the prim girl of the -village. There's nothing hopeless In what '..I have perhaps Incorrectly described. "But let me tell you one thing."; con tinued Mrs. Barr earnestly, "the mati nee girl has ijiref future unless, some good man makes 3ier fall In love with him, and makes her marry . hlnu The borne' glrl ls the only.one' that Is vrorth while, and the girl" who doesn't marry tH..,H,(,( pt,,,,;,,.!, a fool. Only that way lit j happineaj.-And by the rihr chance I don't mean money Right , to: a 'Career Had 'Children WHO AT THE AGE OF IIEIt FIFTY-NINTH NEW YORK WORLD and automobiles and the chance to.be idle.f A. salary or n.500," $1,200 or even 11.000 a year a enough, and motet than enough, for any -young couple to live happily on,I don't care who they are. And If they have any sense they can do It right here In New York, too. "A girl has no business to go trapes ing oft to an office or a store uitTesa it is a matter jof sheer bread and butter. She j has no business trying 'to carve out a so-called -'career for herself. If she is making her home a better place to live In her career will .come without her seeking It. f " - ' . -: "It doesn't matter whether she Is a gifted. woman or not. What If she does possess a talent for music or art -or literary work. A woman has no right to a 'career until she has married and had chlldren-and gone through suffer ing and sorrow. I don't care how great a genius she Is) it Is on'y through this erdeal that she can make herself fit to sing or paint or write as Ood in tended she should when He endowed her with her talent. She must have ex perienced the heights and . depths of life In order to make her art what ever it Is a speaking, vital, original forces and marriage is tne oniy gate to that experience. And without it. ir she writes, she is doing no more ad mirable, a thfcg than pouring the contents Of: one Inkstand lrttd another. f 'Ir never wrote a line until after I was flftylflve years of ae and had married and reared fifteen children. I am prouder of them -than t arn of my books. "" Every period of a wo man's life has Its own peculiar mental and .psychological secret; and I am not so sure that It Is because I am an old woman that I sometimes feel that youth and Its powers have attained a ridiculous- degree ot exaltation In modern opinion. Is the poise of age andj bitter-sweet experience not as ptatent? Should lt not be more po tent than the impetuosity of early life? Poise Is the magic that enters Into women's lives at about the age of fifty-five. Without poise we can do very little In any field, and it is this icluality which most women con spicuously lack. The want of It through her younger years brings her a large share . of unhapplnesa . and failure, whether ii. the home or In the literary and artistic llfe "At fifty-five or sixty a woman should find herself at her brightest and best. She is now - far enough oast the child-bearing period to have- fully outlived the physical strain of motherhood, with its decades of bur dens and cares. At sixty life assumes a. truer perspective for a woman. She herln then., and hardly before then. to see the great vital truths of life t 1 and character In their proper propor tions. r . ;L " - . "Especially is this true of her ex periences with meti. At sixty she looks back upon the tragedy of twenty, or thirty, or forty and takes an almost humorous comfort in the knowledge that - 'he' was not entirely to; blame. Ah. dear man, that Is the lesson which it takes us women so long to learn to get the perspective, to see the ag gregate good 'which tho years pile US against the bitternesses of . the long vista of our lives. S i "Therefore I say to' the girl '' who dreams jof a career, 'M4rry; learn your lesison before you try to teach It.' And let no girl sets herself up as too precious a jewel of genius to -marry what. lt may please! her to con sider a commonplace man. it is not that he is brilliant and ambitious, that his whole;.thought Is :.bf .- achievement and success and fame that fits a man to bring happiness Into- a girl's life. I might almost, say that it is the, ab sence of these. Qualities Mhich makes happy homes and raises jtp a race of worthy children. A man whose every waking moment Is given to his ambition.- who has: no time fpr .the lear Interests of home and for! genial hob bies and diversions - Is not the j one who' will bring contentment" to J his wife or give normal children to. his country. - , I V The Bible and the Clergy, i ; "Genius Is a luxury.. Give me rath er the plain man who locks up his ambition when he. closes his desk at night and takes only his own good, beloved self home to his wife ! and children and makes them the salient part of his life, I tell your said this wise old., lady, "that nature loves the sane, the normal the commonplace, if you will. I '.. - "I "It Is the commonplace people,' the people ' who aren't so brilliant " that they don't believe iniGod and old fashioned morality, who don't v think it's their place to question the accu mulated experience of the ages; It's the plain citizens who keep the world going not the geniuses. ; "Oh. if people would only- have more faith In the -old truths!" ex claimed Mrs. Barr. "Here I am at seventy-nine years of age. I have studied '-all the 'cults . and j'new. thoughts,' Hindoo mysticism, reincar nation, spiritualism and the rest,! and back -I come to the old-fashioned re ligion that's "between the two covers of the Bible. I don't try to find out whether the scriptural hisory of the Jews Is correct or not, of whether the old Book is wabbly in its science. Those things are hot essential, and the clergymen . who dissect and com pare and analyze anrt qualify the Bi ble oo It. not because they think It will help people to do right and be decent,, but to tickle their own Intel lectual vanity and get their names Into the newspapers. "I. believe In the Bible from cover to cover, but I declare I don't know the-Church and the ministers! ; You know; I . always read a great deal of history In preparing to write my nov els. I read. 124 volumes to get facts for the 'Lion's Whelp.' and ninety volumes before I started The Black frhllllng And It seems to me that, as,,a body, the clergy have never, once V AT LEADING DEALERS lllllrinr! f THE : : fi j I 1 l I I I f Mil OfMtmmMma Marks a new epoch It i$ a bench made, I ing in quality in faultless fit, in every line, the work of the expert shoemaker. You find i, in the Steadfast the exact features that you pay twice as much for in made-to-order shoesi In its comfort, its individual styles, and its unusually high grade of leathers,jit is to-day absolutely unsurpassed by any footwear at ' any price. "j .' - ; ;'. ' .' 1 C : Our stock for winter includes the nobbiest line of footwear everj shown in this city. All the newest leathers, the newest "toes" built according to the latest dictates of " shoedpm.r We are exclusive agents for the Steadfast Shoe in this city. A Southern Shorn for Southern CentUmen Mad by SMITH-BRISCOE SHOE CO. (Ins.), Lysohburg, Va, j. $5.00 ' $6.00 PEEBLES a EDWARDS, 12 EAST MART1X STOKET. Raleijh,U.C ; THE WINTER The Winter Home Garden It's dowie i. the hln't o'har'st With the wa'gang of the swallow TheV wind's blow cauld. burn's run bauld The woods a'hlngln yellow. A. B. STRONACII. There Is too little attention ,pald to the "home winter garden with us. Almost any One can grow vegetables in the spring or early summer.- In July and August when the, weeds begin to grow and General Lassitude has his Inning,' the seed (weed) for, future troubles Is sown. If the weeds are al lowed to stand during, the fan and winter-until tmrlne nloutfhlne. they will breed future trouble for the-gardener and his neighbors. Clear , up the weeds before thev. seed. Those' that have, a tap-root, pull or' dig up by the roots and burn. Wire grass, which, if not cultivated. Is a surfacb grass, is easily leradicated during the fall months. ' Nut grass Is not so easily, and for this don't take any theorist's word as to cuttpg off the grass at the surface, but take your spade and go down to the elay and get the put sor nuts,maybe adozen, or more.,, It 18 slow work, but it Is sure. It's "sad at the end of har'esC' when the leaves, all hanging yellow begin to fall, but that's the time for been identified with a single move ment toward greater justice to the mass of people until they-knew the movement would succeed. Where tfye money is, where the power Is vested, thre I. have always found. the organ hied Church, Protestant and -Catholic. "It is the clergy's own fault ' if church-going is falling off. If unhjf lief is rampant and (lt certaiily Is in New York and the other large cities, it - is because tne ministers,. after, building up a blind belief in them selves rather than in the simple com mon sense of righteousness, have been caught serving two masters. Iiack of Reverence a Siaiace to Citl zenshlnV "As I said inl the beginning. It is this very unbelief, this -lack of rev erence, which is the greatest menace to, good citizenship today. ' iAnd the churches that -are loudest; now In tlielr denunciation , of socialistic tenden cies are themselves to blame for the mod ern habit of disrespect for what i Is stable and good arid wholesome in Civilized society. If; their; ministers had been with the people in their age-old fight for political liberty in stead of arraying i themselves with t-mug and prosperous injustice they would now be fighting, as they are. for very existence. ; . . ' "You see this lack of - reverence working evil In many ways. Learn ing, and culture are; laughed at while greed and cunning are applauded. It affects not only manners, but even dress. High culture and moderation In living and dress go together. Take Cambridge, Mass.; ; for example, the eat of Harvard University. Its very best society Is also its most reverent and orthodox society. And In all things it is singularly unostentatious and the wive and daughters of Its dignitaries entertain without extrava gance and look for respect and admi ration from some loftier standpoint than their dress trimmings. "Contrast thisattltude with that of this pagan, scoffing: New York. Here you see crowds of women wearing dresses and ' Jewels In the subway trains which have no place except in a carriage or at a formal dinner. Let the men and women of New York think, over the! relationship of this quality of reverence to all things in life taste as well as patriotism, the home as well as religion. Really, it Is the most important thing In the world, and that Is why, tf we are to be moral, we must! learn to bow our heads at certain Umea." you to get in your work for both win ter and spring gardening. For a seed i ri n i r n W - ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE bHOE in ready-made footwear. hand lasted shoe, show 1 HOME GARDEN bed in this climate It's hardly even necessary, to make a cold frame, a well manured piece of ground pro tected from the North and I East iwith cheese cloth or thin domestic and you have a "cold frame hot bed'1 for cab- bare lettuce, col lards, etc i . Davs when you have nothing. to do or a few hours to spare take a four- prong hoe and lay off I a certain amount of space, dig down to ; the sub soil and clean out the weeds, roots and wire crass. One day In the fall saves three days work in the spring. After digging and raking over scatter coarse manure over the ground ana plow under. Save your leaves, slops and asnes maKe a compost mu i yoiur garden for this. Chicken manure Is j equal to the best Peruvian guano (S80.00 per ton) and . human zoeces almost as good. Leaves j make the best of bedding for cow. o,: horse Do not'lclean out the stall' from-dayi to day, but throw in .fresh bedding, the horse or cOw' will keep dry and clean. the leaves that have drawn of tfip best from the soli will retain the urine, the best constituent, and! will not overheat. ' Last fall I turned my col lards down plied leaves and earth on the stalks. This fall I am simply heap in;g leaves between the. rows. Leaves keepr the ground - and roots . j from freezing, keen the soil mellow I and the collard leaves keep, the leaves from blowing away. This Is an expe riment. !- ':-:.?.':-"; ' " Some of iny friends were twitting nie the other day, saying Oiat I wrote of -my work but told nothing of; the fruits thereor.1 tnougnt i naa, any way I know I - extended two - general invitations to my friends -to ' come and see. For example, you've" seen t the beautiful pictures in the seed books. My youngest girl I came into my garden one day in the early spring and, speak ing of four rows of McLean Gem Peas, she said: "Father, they are Just like the pictures in Ithe seed book." , raised ' from two' to tour crops jOnVal most the entire garden. ) Thepossl bllltles of not autte half an acre gar den Is- something ' wonderful. , We ate our last sugar corn (Country Gen tlemen) the last . week Ih October, and dispite.the fact that I practically lost from September 1st to November 1st onjaccount of a break down from not yet having tearped "Judgment have lettuce. , celery, collards, . onions. salsify, turnips, cabbage, parsley and a mint bed that I have been trying ever since the dispensary I went out of business, to keep in bounds by chew ing its leaves. From decayed onions of last fall's planting, stuck, in the ground In September, we have al ready salad onions. In r my enthu siasm, that's my gait. 2:10. After my return from Scotland I wrote of. my "Intention to have or make a Scotch garden, and. that in twelve months. I havei extended, the time to twelve months more and -doubtless will again ask for; an extension. And that scotcn garden reminds mc of the editor of the 1 Progressive Farmer s comparison of the fields and gardens of Scotland i as compared, says he, with the "worn out, washed out gullied lands, shackly fences and un painted houses to be seen in North Carolina.' Now lets see as(-to how long this Scotch garden has been In the making, etc. Scotland is not as large as North Carolina, and only about one-third of It tillable soil. The balance loch, firth and ben, lake, bay and mountain, over two , thousand years old. 'North Carolina. (two bun dred years old and ,lut recovering jrom a war tnat in ur nnanciai con ditlon alone, it only regained ithe strength it had in I860. I think, four years ago. A Scotch garden in twelve months "Quotha." 1 inere are poor lands and poor farms! In Hoot land alin. I have seen farm steading on the Moors and under mo aroiatv uou-rorsakon looking mountains of Scotland that made me long even for the poor lands of North Carolina. A my friend, -tscar lllack- nan, , in writing of the Country Com mission, says i "It's well to stir ub the wrath of a peonl; it cwUses them to sit up and think if nothing else. To be able to heel off "page after page" of smoothly flowing words, advice I ad libltujm. Book wisdom Is hot common ense; and really sljows t! me- a lack of Knowledge anyway of farming con ditlbna In the South In ante-bellum days.! . rA - V :-....... An old' Hebrew friend Of mine said to me once.i"You readt apout U'at (that), londf voti Moses talk't apout vot flowed mlt milk und't! honey. Veil the landt vot I know'd vot flowed, mlt milk und honey vos ta'at Jeems River country pe fore the var (war)- To: these theoretical latter j day critics we have to say: , - - - .We are coming iFaiher Abraham, Five hundred thousand strong' mm We built the foundation, made 4' bridges without straw, rear you, this genera tion, tne superstructure thereon and see to It that it s in keeping with the foundation, "hard granite laid In lime cement mortar" - j - . Guld sake, I have strayed- a long way from my garden. Now is the best time to plant raspberries, blackberries and dewberries, and don't forget a fig bush or two, a branch broken from a bush will root and there Is no better food or medicine than figs, they take I the place of calomel and blue mass and I I de not doubt but wnat a aiet course ot figs would drive out malaria and I eradicate the "Stylus Trlcblnus,: hook-worm. 8 - 1 al have gone so far astray I have lost iy garden.1 and. oh yes..! like to have I mv carden.: and. oh ves. forgotten In my boasting tnat i grew flowers. beautiful i flowers, so my friends - said, and as ! proof there of one day one-1 of my daughters. returning from a florist, where she had been to purchase flowers for an out-of-town friend, said: ! "Father. Mr. asters yire nothing like 1 so beautiful as yours and he charges seventy-five cents Per dozen for them Maybe by another season I will learn to sell vegetables and 1 flowers. . Stan. Ing in my (garden early this morning a ring of blusky not too deep a blue- Overhead and a rim of fog framing it j in, tne moruinis ouh, disk peering through the mist that under the sun s rays was amongst tne trees and my! hedge breaking up into long trailing streamers, one or my daughters, I have many, hae mony. came into the garden ana saia: "Father, your garden look beau tiful" and I replied, Vwlth a two thousand-dollar-a-year garaener it certainly should rtainiy snouia. Jilt' ?!. LlS before you let your garden ; go, plant a few rows of cornfield peas, for they need no cultlvaUon and wilt come in 'powerful handy" later when green Deas are 15c to 20c. per quart Be sides, you will be greatly surprised inj of light grey washed out iana tnat 1 i,mraH iot Jniv rioimtte the fact that ' . i. -.-- an!! rV black, and a"Dlece of stiff red clay that I had down in cabbage and piantea in neas In Aurust is as mellow as A harvest apple. John I. wise, in nis book, the "Last of An Era, says that I some one asked General Lee as to who, in his opinion, was the best friend to the Confederacy. General , uee, wno had a dry sense of humor, replied: The only unfailing friend the con f ederacy ever had was cornfield peas. $ays Mr. Wise, further. "Many States have chosen flowers as their emblem. Some, if not all of. the members Of the Confederate sisterhood, oughts in gratitude to select the blossom of the cornfield pea. Time- was when It was their friend in need and ' friend naeea. joooay Knows now many people" in the Confederacy It kept from -starvauonif I never see a Pag of cornfield peas that I do not feel like taking , my hat off and saying: Here is to you and the rest of your family.! May you - live long and prosper. ' ' -. s - ' i'A.:.-; ' A;, Today, Thanksgiving Day, to give myself a half holiday. I undertook to do my day's task of. .digging with prong hce in a half day. I Coming out exhausted . I remarked .that I was tired and seemed to have done noth ing. My oldest, a girl, "av coorse.' said It reminded her of Mark Twain's jay bird story. Mark said that a Jay bird; finding a knot hole in the roof of a cabin decided it would be a good place for' his winter storehouse.- He worked -hard) and faithfully, endeav oring to fill up the hole. Finding that his work seemed "to be "Of 'nO avkM he investigated, and Mark said - that, as rhe, 'the Jay, leaned exhausted against the. cabin chimney, sweating like ah Ice pitcher, he made things blue with profanity. . . ' j - - And this reminded me that how at one time during the war,' sent to the hospital, at thls. place; a ghostly weak from . chilis and fever; Dr, E. Burk Haywood furloughed me home, saying: "Go home Alex .and drink woodpecker soup." "And to this day I worry because I did not ask: "Why woodpecker, soup ?' I am of an 'en quiring mind, but possibly It was like the street hand's - (laborer's) codfish story. Years ago In the early days of the firm of -W. C & A. B. Stronach we ' sold to the " street forced of the " city of Raleigh. In those days they Iwere paid in scrip. One Saturday evening a party of them who were; In the store j trading, spied a box of codfish and commented on them. One of, the party had been a Confederate soldier. A prlsdner at Point Lookout had codfish Issued ,to him and. with no knowledge asto how to cook it. it was the remembrance of 3 e?J$ 0X1 countera a' km .Price, $1.20. .h--. t-v .TraU of the fjonesome Pine .. ..... little Brown Jns of IUIdare.. UlnAroon. .. 4 . ... . . ; 5"L South. . ... :', i " " -'--.....;;.i....!.w..... . . . .MacGraf!. Two Gentlemen nff Vlnrfnla LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS uxvice suppiiLES AH H kSgflSMk. MM Prices COME AND BE thejyALUES AS E3 $1.00 and 51.25 SilUs IKWtoiri 51.00 and 51.25 Dress Gopds, Plain f laids i and Fancies, Broad Cloths included .1; ; i. . ; 88c. Ladies' Vest and -ahts'l.OO : viUfi4firt' t-:v""- ' WOOl.. .-v: . .' --j: ; U'V.V J f ; . 78c each 8 pairs of Dlanftcts left; 56.50 valads forr. 54.50 55.00 values for...... .. ; J tVi 53.00 $5.50 Values for .v; , ; v. 53.50 NicrjCotton Comforts $1.25, 51..50 ahdp. 52.00 Ladies Siloes, 53.50 value for. V ; I v. i . 52.48 Men's Shoesi Patent Leather; ' v r 55.00 Shoe for C4.C0 V i 54.C0 SHcb for .25 $3.50 Shoe for 52.75 V -$3.00 Slgoa for 51.98 --Wl3 -SELL PICTORIA the swill alone that remained Hwlth him. He forcibly: expressed his disgust as to codfish. One of the party spoke up: and said "I worked for a man in Ol Ftrglnny (Virginia) onct, he run a sawmill, an' he use to give us cod fish soup for Breakfast everv morn ing an' it sho was strength'ninV and the Confederate growled "By Od ef she tasted like she smelt she sho must have been." Maybe woodpecker - noun wm vtiranrth nln " And this . a rain reminds ; me that with th com-M ng of 'Sherman's Army the Jaybird ; disappeared from 8herman's line of march. - Whether It was the Jaybird's . disgust : at finding that there were : greater thieves and robbers In the,' world than hi mielf. or that the tegro I urmp wtih nnnAth bnr. mnkt u! pientirui m tne ne.nos or tne nerroesi A. At A. . A ..'w.ISaI . . I A. i at that time - as pistols are said to-1 day,, slaughtered the Jay birds on ac- count of I their legend that on Fridays! they gathered together- and carried f sticks to the Devil or from a pure love nf dptrnrHnn n.vpfthp.lwN the Invhlrrl ;. disappered, .certainly frtm these parts,' and I who have watched the -coming: ana going, or biras ait-ox my vays nave not until; the week before the Presi dential election heard a Jay bird's cry in the city's limits. For a week befoi e tttm AlanflAn 'ln Klrirl i mnrnliU' af teffj morning in the oak tres on Oakwoodi avenue called out their harsh rancour cry of Jay, Jay, Jay. and thief and, robber to some extent highwaymen," his launty build and plumage Is a bet ter fitting name that he la ; I hail hi$ return as a gooa omen. . .- . And fall this rambling talk remind me of that country cosslon "a power- v ful sight ! Of talk an little dolnV I1 like -that i-editorial In . the 'News and . Observer of this Frldayi November 27 I Almost tempted to say that Vxt glad that, anyway hew to that line? ana tne eflltor is worm. ten ximes mure to North (Carolina than if he wex,e Postmaster General In Mr, Bryan's in him Cabinet. ;! AH things ; come who ajtg.' i. . - ,ar ivi r i -.rvu n isii ni lij iixii and cul fdl re 1 - r-y the itailais caU I tivatej wnat,itne Italians ,cau( paste-ia ldy. Clare Tere de Vere" The toil worn cotter - frae his labor goes. H -;k K---tf This night-his-weekly moll is at v an end:' v ' -;"."-- .'w-'St Collects his spades, his mattocks and T his hoes. ; v-'---'-1 . vx .i-:" " 't Hoping the morn his ease and rest to spend . - And weary o'er the moor jiis course- , ( "v,Vcr?'Jl " U : v i '?l.4i-'i;v 4:-vJi .--r llilJ' IV ! r I y; ; ,.?. f rvt ( v .. : one ; or the tew living -privates' ot I the Confederate army, I ? yet receive i wwb viutmi wwuwiu v'w;",B j present major has been my top limit," I out xoaayi comes my promotion,- 'iius' 1 from; a gentleman to whom I had I written what I thought and which fte seemed to think a nice letter, for as neither he has . been . addressing hla letters to Major comes one today ad dressed to Col. A. B. Stronach. and possibly: may reach at last the title which i my "siightiy overcome? com rade addressed . me on one j occasion, balancing himself up to a party of us standing on. t Eayetteville street He hlccuped f addressing me, j "Howdy. General. X said, "I have no title only a private." v(Hic) ; TBy G-W saldV he, 1f you ain't a general you7 bughtf to be," and this morning when I told my " wfe of my promotion! she said she thought "a major' ranked higher y than a colonel. :h A'-'r: -.. j ?-.i;!4-.': So what's the use' of promotion af- ' ter all? - V :''.'' '-'r.-i!. -:.; M '- - ' ' ' v - ' .' r, .; ' ' NOIlic 'SOUTHERN f1 tzgerald,: Wplcott ib' Kelrrfll'-h' ; . .'.: 'i .Receivers.)'. r:P . : RKDUCED ;ltATES. tf d-i f . -On. account i of, the , Baptist State Convention, Wilson. N. C the Norfolk t & Southern ' Railway announces that . for , the above occasion reduced fare tickets win be sold from points On its iine, irom: :y: : - . v..,-.- .-: ..fi; ,:. . h;-. Raleigh .' --.''. ..'.-,j.'iV. ,V. i . . Iz.l.f' Knlghtdale ' . i . v . " .... . . .1.70 Wendell ?Vr .'. 1.S5 ' Zebulon' I .'. ... . . . . . ... . ,'. . 1.10 .Middlesex. i . .bi 4J.S01 Bailey, i.i.j., .vJ.;. ; Farmvllle I -. i . 4. . ... V. . 1.10 ?. 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