m£fel « ill of the
■‘ a OU> DAYS ■ y
rh „ oe l Hill Weekly)
■« 'be ' M r.d installment of
B is thc ‘ ()f Peter M. Wilson,
rniversity here in
Bntered Xorth Carolina
I H '- nU> ' ed a nd was Chief Clerk
■sldngton » Senat e in the
I 1 ye ? r ; ) schools had a system
Engl'sh carrjed W ith it a
:i " g \7meaning; the military
Innls had a km 1 of
hazing! but Chapel
,r/ Ltem of deviling, that
a a *> s * n u and . ebbing
iy» roas 1 x freshman lad
une pep Pe r; , j He was
’"Tit T coSess .io.es,
he b ,T was sore, and »ub-
Unt ' „v small indignities, such
° ma l to enter the Chapel
,g made in order to
' thC teCk sustenance to which
rdi sT The rules for fresh
invented, Os course, by the
1 of whom Dr. James
dean of the faculty once re
“! do not know of a more
ible human being than » six
ophomore.” One of these
bade any freshman to enter
nless he had on a coat; if
so juvenile as still to wear
1 then he was too young for
ie sophomores held. George
ind I were about the small
in the freshman class and
r of us possessed an adult
the post-war state of our
arices it was obviously im
>r us to acquire such coats,
t our heads together and
>!ved a scheme. The sac
red that we attend chapel;
mores forbade our attend
ckets without tails. So we
rels to our jackets and with
r white tails hanging be-
K-e went to our devotions,
inston has served as presi
de colleges since those far-
But to whatever dignities
tained, he can never have
greater solemnity than he
he discreetly entered the
of chapel with a towel flap
id him.
my pilgrimage through the
sses I never saw a g*fne
played for amusement,
ly have been some gambling
ver saw it, and as I came
community where it was not
istlme but too often a pro
think I would have recog-
Jmhere was some drinking but no
Bnkenness. I certainly cannot re-
Bl seeing students so far gone as
B to be able to plumb the middle
I the road— that famous test of
Briety instituted by one of North
Brolina’s great chief justices. At
B night suppers of course there was
Bivivial drinking. We read of rare
Blernlan in our Horace and we
Bight a similar exaltation of spirit
I the more odorous product of our
Bn maize. On occasion we had
Bme old Nick Williams, memory of
Bich stirs one to fresh revolt a-
Bnst the iniquity of sumptuary leg-
Baticn. And on one very rare oc-
Bsion we watched a President of
Bese United States (or rather, a
■resident of the very disunited states
• that period) quaff a goblet of Ken-
Bcky nectar in the second story
Buthwest corner room of the old
■outh Building. (Remember that
Bat was before the nation had dried
Bp into “one vast, awful Kansas”).
■ President Andrew Johnson was in
Be state in 1867 to attend the be-
Bted unveiling of a monument to his
Bther in the Raleigh cemetery* and
B was invited to the commencement
Bercises of the University. Every
H°nor was paid him and in return he
B'ider.ced his own friendliness by re-
Blling in his public speech the kind-
H ss which he had met in Chapel
W forty one years before, when
and hungry, making his dis-
Bnlt way to his future home in
Bennessee, he had literally begged
bread!
I The President was the guest of
B°vernor Swain, an honest but mis-
Bidtu Lve-totaler, who visited his va-
Bries on h's guests. In was hot —
Bommeneement time is always hot.
President was in continuous
Btendar.ee upon the various cere
■onies. F.nally he escaped from
B .o.i* wandered about the
B v. .in a group of the college
Bl rs - Knowing his fondness for a
Bkv i ci the boys suggested that
B irt - • a bottle of real Kentucky
B 11 ;**- . clie dormitory. Ail of us—
By I ' l ' ■ the President—trooped up-
H Uirs in the Old South; there was
B e; - ivryiiig for ice, sugar and
. The President drained
■ c .■ a glass, then called defcr an_
h ° was athirst and., the
Ben iy hospitality of the boys was
But I do not mean to in-
Bnate that he had too much, for he
B net. Just enough to lift his
■rit above the heat and the weari
ng of life on parade ... to let it
■mo away from the animosities and
BKging responsibilities on a sort of
carpet.
i Dancing was popular, at Chapel Hill,
then as now. The Commencement ball
was the final expression of the social
life on the Hill and /attracted young
women from far and wide > in the
State.
The national game of baseball had
invaded the South and was displacing
the games previously in favor with
the larger boys, cat, bandy, etc. Even
the dignified juniors joined in the
baseball games, and there was soon a
“team” which beat Raleigh and the
older baseball clubs of the State, I
remember the high spirited games,
with especially fine catching. The
umpire by common consent was Rich
ard H. Lewis, a freshman. He had
been lame from his childhood and
this was the only way in which he
could take part in the games. His
decisions were law and there was
never an appeal from them. First in
class, first in eonduct and first in the
confidence of his fellows, he began;
and he has never slacked up in hie
good work. To no one man does North
Carolina owe a greater debt for its
present security and enlightenment
than it owes to Richard Lewis.
But in those days the college heroes
were not athletes, at least mot in the
3with. In North Carolina one rose
to fame byway of the hustings.
Oratory was the supreme gift. And
college life being a sort of rehearsal
for the life to follow, placed an eqnal
emphasis on skill in debate.
There were two debating clubs at
Chapel Hill, the Dialectic Society and
the Philanthropic. They divided the
students between them on a fairly
rigid geographical basis. The boys
from the West were Dis, the boys
from the East were Phis. Just why
these societies should have been se
cret, it is hard to tell but they were
solemnly so. Os course their guarded
secrets, like the curtained debates of
executive sessions in our national
Senate, were in the end better known
to those without than to those with
in. By processes of gradual selec
tion, the Dis and the Phis chose de
claimers for class exercises at Com
mencement and there was great rival
ry between them to furnish more and
better speakers. I have known de
bates to last all night to great weari
ness of the flesh but with oratorical
spirit undiminished. Can anyone
wonder that our southern solons to
day hold the Thermopylaean Pass a
gainst all fights for cloture of de
bate in our parliamentary proceed
ings?
These debating clubs, or literary;
societies as they were known, were .
affective lines of quick communica-,
tion between the faculty and the stu- !
dent body. And authority needed all
the props it could find just then, for
war breeds lawlessness and Chapel
Hill had not escaped the post-war
restlessness.
How could it have escaped? Think
of what we first-comers saw when we
matriculated in 1865. Actually the al- :
coves of the college library were
filled with straw bedding and stable
litter left by the detachment of Fed
eral cavalry, recently departed,
which had converted the alcoves into
stalls for their horses! In our Roman
histories we had read of the horse
that was made a consul. But never
before, surely, had a horse . been a
student. With sights like these be-1
fore our eyes, we younger boys could
hardly rise to a fine aloofness from j
political passions. And the older
boys, the ones who had served in the
army, had yet to adjust themselves
to a mild, academic authority which
held no bayonet with which to en-.
force its decrees.
There were many impetuous out-;
breaks. Once when a large meeting
of negroes, pitiable but dangerous in j
cheir ignorance, was held in an up- .
stairs Lodge room in the town, the
students dispersed it when it became
violent. Several students were in
jured, one almost fatally, and many;
negroes were shot and the stairway j
to the house destroyed. The affair
caused great excitement and Governor
Swain had to visit the military
authorities in Raleigh to persuade
them not to send troops to the town.
Such outbreaks interrupted the
studies scarcely begun and made it
difficult for the faculty and the saner
tudents to control the course of daily
work. I
mere was an undue amout of rough
play, too. Practical jokes were apt to
be carried much too far. As for in
stance, when a group of' young
wretches actually put gunpowder un-
the rostrum of a mild-mannered
professor and blew him up. It was i
not a fatal dose of gunpowder but it .
was an exceedingly alarming • one.
And the incorrig.bles who administer
ed it and thought it amusing to
imitate the Orsini bombs which had
been hurled a£ Napoleon, would have
faced a grand jury but for the kindly
interference in their behalf.
" The tale of “Old Tige’s” generous
act of forgiveness is a fitting intro
duction to a picture of the faculty
which struggled not only with our
coltish spirits and our obstinately
ignorant minds, but fought at the
same time a brave and losing fight
# \
, against grinding poverty and every
imaginable discouragement.. . There
were only nine of theffi holding the
fort but they set the house of their
i defense very high. . .. . .
ta o be eouuuued next week) 1
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TWO SHIPS ELOQUENT
REMINDERS OF PAST
Revived Memories of Other
Days in Sailors.
Two days from the Azores we were
chugging through a sea which scarce
ly rippled, a sea bereft of any vestige
of shipping fyeyond ourselves. For
days In fact, we had seen no other
vessel, for although we were on one
of the regular shipping lanes It is a
significant fact that the highways of
Ifce ocean are much less frequented
than they were in pre-war days, J. D.
Gill, writes In the Boston Transcript.
Now that we have returned to the
piping times of peace, if not of plenty,
we are apt to forget the war and all
to ugiy phases, which is perhaps all
Dhr the best.
Rut on this particular day we had
a Uttie reminder of the past
Buriy In the forenoon word trav
eled around the atdp that a sail was
sighted. A saH, mark you, In' these
days lo a very rare sight, for there
are few Indeed of the type of craft
? Which brought Bugland her glory, her
wehtelt, her supremacy of sea power,
above all her heritage of love for
the ocean.
So it was with eager eyes we sought
fe»r the name %i the lofty-masted,
greoeful vessel and fain would we
have read something which Indicated
her nationality to be British. But our
worst fears were realized as we read
the name “Parma” on her bow, and
simultaneously with the two ships
drawing abreast, her flag was hoisted
over the talT rail, to be dipped iu the
age-old custom of the sea.
The red, white and black of Ger
many.
Across the water, as we answered,
came at first the faint notes of a cor
net, and soon we caught the strains
of “Tipperary.” /
To the men who lined the rails,
there was little occasion to give fur
ther reminder of the war, for the ma
jority of us had seen service of some
sort, though mostly at sea. And to
those who spent weary hours watch
ing for only the sight of a Teuton and
many others who had the experience
us having had their vessel sink under
them without even that satisfaction,
it brought back a flood of memories.
So passed the Parma of Hamburg,
a gallant four-masted, square-rigged
: vessel, her colors flying proudly at her
guff.
j Two months later, almost to the
j day, we were lurching along In the
wako of a heavy southwest gale, off
the banks of Newfoundland. Before
breakfast a sail was sighted, though a
vastly different type of vessel to the
Parma of Hamburg. A small three
j masted schooner she was, laboring
heavily In the high Atlantic swell
which was the result of the gale that
had just passed.
i A rather forlorn little vessel she
seemed, struggling valiantly with the
huge seas that appeared to engulf her
as she was lost to sight in the trough
of the swell. But she seemed to rise
each time with a courage that was al
most personal in its triumph over the
elements, truly, we thought, a brave
little vessel to pit itself against such
overwhelming odds. A striking con
trast from the splendor, the grandeur
| almost amounting to arrogance! of the
Parma of Hamburg.
Across her stern we read the legend:
“Edith M. Cavell, St. John’s, New
foundland.”
Poetical Stock-Taking
With the Old Year going out, the
j prose-poet of the Tifton Gazette found
! himself in the stock-taking business, as
j follows:
“Look again, I would implore you,
! In the mirror before you; note the
i changes of the past year. Do you
differ much, from last year?
“Are you thirty-five or forty? Are
you sprightly and cavorty? Are you
: forty-five or fifty? Are you feeling
gay and nifty?
j “Oh, it’s often true, I take It, that
•ur age Is what we make It; yet we
may need stronger glasses, with each
year-mark, as It passes.
. “Yes, we’re very apt to find us, as
the time slips on behind us, with some
evidences showing that the days of
youth are going.
“And if any (let’s be truthful), can
succeed in keeping youthful, and can
i prove, as well as show it, he’s an
| artist and you know it!” — Atlanta
Constitution.
Practical Teaching
A French. German or Spanish lunch
eon is served each week in the model
apartment of the domestic science
j building of the Pasadena (Cal.) Junior
i college, under the leadership of the
j teachers, for pupils studying those
languages. The idea is carried out in
the menu and table decorations, and
■j as far as possible the language of the
( country is spoken.
Students to Pay More
Students of Antioch college, Yellow
•Springs, Ohio, in a recent financial
crisis of the college, voluntarily de
cided to Increase their own tuition
SSO a year. The vote was by secret
ballot, and passed by a nine-tenths
majority, . Antioch students In gen
eral earn about two-thirds of their col
lege expenses.
CHATHAM RECORD
5 MONEY TO LOAN—SIOO,OOO to
» loan the farmers of Chatham county
I within next ninety days. Loans from
, .1 to 30 years at 5 1-2 per cent. V.
R. Johnson, Pittsboro.; >
» ’ t • . A > '
Doughnut Revealed as
Poison Gas Producer
t Life seems to be just one menace
after another. Here is a jnan who
has died from the fumes of cooking
i doughnuts. Having reached the satur
ation point with all the other sorts
of major threat, and damage for the
time being become measurably ad
justed and reconciled to them—
bolshevism, communism, anarchy,
foreign wars and complications—just
when we are all growing a bit easier
fn mind this most unexpected and un
natural peril arises. The doughnut is
a work of peace, our most domestic
and tractable contrivance. Heretofore
Its disposition has been mild and
friendly. Nobody ever heard of a
doughnut going on strike, exploding
with a loud noise, turning to mob law
and violence. The only trouble it has
ever caused, according to the best
authorities, Is some controversial
friction on the question of resemb
lance to the cruller. Some have con
tended that a doughnut Is not a dough
irat at all, b«t the tree cruller, while
the cruller is really the doughnut
without the hole. Now it turns out
that the doughnut has suddenly, oom
mltted murder by an unsuspected ca
pacity to produce poison gau. For the
suke of the merest fragment of be
lief that there are still harmless and
Innocent things In the world. It is to
be hoped that this doughnut story
■say prove to have been exaggerated.
—Exchange.
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&HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED g
BY AN EXPERT—COSTS NO «
i i
§ Dr. J. C. Mann, the well kno\ynf|
eyesight Specialist and Optic lan g
*|will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in*j
£|Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tr.es- §§
f*day and at Dr. Thomas’ office. Siler
||in each month. Headache relieved fi
City, N. C., every fourth Thursday 4
g when caused by eye strain. Wheng
||he fits you with, glasses you haveg
§ the satisfaction of knowing thatg
*sthey are correct. Make a note of g
gthe date and see him if your eyesg
§ arq weak. g
g His next visit to Pittsboro will b?*j
on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
B His next visit to Siler City will beg
» on Thursday, Feb. 25 $
> IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
' NORTH CAROLINA:
i CHATHAM COUNTY:
. T. and W. F. Bland, Execu
tors of the Estate of T. M. Bland,
Deceased, and J. T. Bland and W. F.
Bland, vs.
M. L. Harris
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY
PUBLICATION /
The defendant above named will
take notice that a summons in the
above entitled action was issued a
gainst said defendant on the 23 day
January, 1926, by E. B. Hatch, Clerk
of the Superior Court of Chatham
County, North Carolina, for the sum
of $231.65, due said plaintiffs by ac.
count, which summon is returnable
before the said Clerk of the Superior
Court, at his office at Pittsboro, North
Carolina, on the 24 day of February,
1926, when and where the defendant
is required to appear and answer or
demur to the complaint, or the re
lief will be granted.
Witness my hand this 23 day of
January, 1926.
E. B. HATCH,
Clerk, Superior Court of Chatham
County, North Carolina. ~ -
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of the powers of sale con
ained in a certain deed of trust, exe
uted on the 23rd day of January
919, by Banks Oakley and Mamie
»akley, his wife, to the undersigned;
Trustee, and which said conveyance
a du’y recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Chatham Coun
y, North Carolina, in Book “F I,” at
ages. 566 and 567, and default hav
ng been made in payment of ib r
'>ondsy secured thereby, the undersign
•d trustee will sell, at public auctioi
o the highest bidder for cash, at the
Courthouse Door in Chatham .County,
N. C., at 12 o’clock noon on the
27TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1926,
all that certain tract or parcel ol
land lying and being in Williams
Township, Chatham County, in saici
State, and bounded and described as
fallows, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake and pointers
in J. W. Beavers’ corner, John Wil
liams* line; thence South 10 degree*
£ast 136 poles to a pine; thence South
16 1-2 degs. East 28 poles to Churcl
•ot; thence West 10 poles to cornel
Church lot; thence South with Churcl
tot 24 poles to pointers; thence Wes',
with J. D. Yotes’ line 34 poles to e
stake and pointers, J. D. Yates’ cor
ner; thence South 3-4 deg. West to a
stake and pointers, J. D. Yates’ cor
ner; thence West 40 poles to a stake
IWe Desire-to Serve, j;
t\ # |
This Bank is here not only to make money for • •
tj the stockholders but to serve the people of Chatham
fj county. It is our desire to help every legitimate enter
i: prise in the county so far as it is possible for us to do so.
8 *>erv farmer, particularly, should feel that we are his
s • friends, and ready to assist him in anyway in accord with
u safe banking.
fj CONSULT US
► * j ;
I We feel that the people of the county must econo- j
mize, must spend wisely, and work hard, in face of the
effects of the past two difficult years. Two heads are i
|i better than one. Consult your banker before making >
s: investments. We shall be glad to give you the benefit
l\ whatever knowledge and experience we have. There- | j
jj: fore do not hesitate to consult us at any time.
Beware of buying on time. Better cut expendi
■* tv res now than suffer consequences of another bad orop
j season, if one should come, upon those overloaded with
$ time accounts. . i :
| BANK OF PITTSBORo
V v
Off With a Rush- I
::: The New Year is starting off with a rush—looks like busi- ij
ness is going to be even better than 1925.
::: Shipments to replace that part of our depleted stock are jj|
;;; coming in daily. Car load of 5 V Crimp Rooting and car of Roll iS:
Roofing and Asphalt Shingles just arrived. Car loads of other jjj
is: material en-route. We are big buyers and big sellers.
You get what you want and when you want it at our store
LEE HARDWARE CO.
« SANFORD, N. C,
•Jif
j! Make Plans Now S
5 It is time for farmers to be making their plans i
for financing fertilizer purchases and other 1926 crop
: ~ c ? sts - They should get on a cash basis as far as pos- g
; ff sible, even if they have to borrow.
11l . Interest is cheaper than paying time prices, es- i
:! 3 ' pecially in the purchase of fertilizer. This bank is 8
| g farmer’s Bank and we shall be glad to co-operate to the I
\ 8 full extent of our ability.
| 3 Deposit Your Spare Cash Wit h Us. We Pay 4 Per Cent u
M| on Time Decosits
I-- ~ |
[I The FARMERS BANK I
I | PITTSBORO. N. C. ij
lill W. F. BLAND, Pres : A. M. RIDDLE, V. Pres. |
* I miTjpj. w. W. LANGLEY. Cashier. I
»inifiniw«iii;iiftmiilntmtt»mm««tmuu«i«iHi»»iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiniiiniimiii«
and pointers; thence North 20 poles
to a stake and pointers, Yates’ cor
ner; thence West with Yates’ line 58
poles to a stake, Caroline Marcom’s
corner; thence North 3 degrees East
with Caroline Marconi’s line 158 1-2
poles; thence South 76 degrees West
20 poles; thence North 3 degrees East
with Kelly’s and J. D. Williams’ line
64 poles to the Morrisville road, J. L.
Williams’ corner; thence North 62 de
grees East with said road 41 1-2
poles; thence North 76 degrees East
with said road 50 poles, Jos. Yate’s
corner; 'thence South 87 1-2 degrees
East 34 poles to the Beginning, con
. taining according to estimation
189 1-2 acres, more or less.
Dated this 26th day of January,
1926.
W. J. BROGDEN,' Trustee.
W. B. Bass, Att’y.
Durham, N. C. x ‘ •
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H Continual M doting"
with internal medicine
upsets delicate littla
stomachs. Treat colda
externally with Vicka.
You just rub it on. <
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