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EI1I1M VOL. IV. ANWILLE, D0pdpXlMTY, N. C, APRIL 7,1909, NO. 36. 4 VSTER Is the chief festi- . I val of tee Church, and P I of course, the Little Men ana women aiwajs look forward to it with pleasure. Festivals of some kind seem to be necessary to all the members of the" human race, big or little, aid nothing could be more natural than that there should be one at this time of the year, when na ture is waking up from her long win ter sleep to put on new life. There has perhaps never (been a tim when there -was not a celebration of some kind at the end of winter, for people must express their joy in one way or ano . er, even if it is only as the little p:.-i's do, when, at the first signs of spring, they invariably with one ac cord get out their skipping ropes, which may have been laid away and forgotten for eleven months. The word Easter is probably de rived from Eastre, the name of the Saxon goddess of spring, and it is asy to imagine that before our heath en ancestors were converted to Chris tianity they used to have a great pring festival in honor of the god dess. With the advent of Christianity the same season, when all nature sug gests joyous thoughts, would natural ly be selected for the festival that commemorates the resurrection of Christ. 1 WOMEN AT THE SEPULCHRE At first there was great disagree ment as to the exact day that should be set for this great festival. The Jewish Christians wanted to have it at the same time as the Feast of the Passover, but others would not agree to that, and the result was that for hundreds of .years different branches of the Ohurch celebrated Easter on different days. It is because a part of the Church did at one time keep Easter at the same time as the Jew ish Passover that the word "paschal" is now used in reference either to Easter or the Passover. The question as to the particular day on which Easter was to be celebrated was dis cussed in Church councils, and all the learned men of the Church gave it their most serious consideration, until it was finally decided that Easter Day should be "the first Sunday after the full imoon which happens upon or next after March 21; and if the fun moon happens upon a Sunday, East or Day is the Sunday after." No one is expected to understand this except the astronomers and mathema ticians, who disoover and announce to the : nera public on what particular day ::.-ister will fall eaoh. year. T only reason for mentioning cbia !;: Merlng decision of tU Church U :t ivea & hint of thf Cdnftctjon between Easter and rabbits. It must first be explained that the rabbit is all a mistake, and the animal that appears in our Easter pic tures and done in sugar in the windows of the confectioners " should really be a hare, instead of a rabbit. The hare has from time immemorial been the symbol of the moon, and, as the moon decides the time of Easter, it is quite proper and natural that the hare should be associated with this season. In Germany the Easter hare is almost as important a personage as St. Nicholas, and it3' habits somewhat resemble those of that much loved saint. On the night before Easter a white hare enters the borne of all children who have been good and hides in all sorts of out-of-the-way corners any number of beau tifully colored eggs. Anyway, the children find the eggs when they hunt for them, and it would perhaps be presumption on the part of any one ho 13 not a German to express, an opinion as to where they really come from. A rabbit is not a hare-, although they are cousins. There is one marked difference between them. The baby rabbit, as all know "vho keep these little animals as pets, comes into the world blind and helpless, while the baby hare has its eyes open from the beginning, and is soon EARLY IN THE MORNING. able to take care of itself. It has been believed that the hare never closes Its eyes, and that is one rea son why it is chosen as the symbol of the moon, which always has its eyes open, and sees everything that goes on at night. Just how the rab rit error was introduced is not known. It may have been all the fault of the confectioners, who no doubt thought they could make candy without studying nature, and there fore never learned that there was any difference ibetween a rabbit and a hare. The use of eggs in the celebration of spring is an ancient custom for the egg ihas always been the sym bol of creation a4d new life. It is easy to understand why this snould be, for every one knows that all the downy little chickens and ducklings come out of eggs, as -well as a multi tude of other birds that don't look so pretty because, they are In such a hurry to get out that they won't wait to put on their downy garments. The egg had 'been used in the Jewish Feasts of the Passover, and when the Christian festival of Easter was estab lished its ,use was retained with an added meaning, for it became the yabol f th RewrrMtloa. Tkifi bm foeea cwiwi oft servances lu : regard - to Easter, in which, shares and eggs are dying out, while new 9nes are coming-in, but the custom of wearing new clotfces is one of the old ones" that is not likely to die out. .This- practice lias been so long, and firmly, established that In some - parts of the world there 1b a superstition that It would brlngHbad luok to neglect it. Even if there were ho Easter festiral the coming of spring would .probably always create in the human heart a longing for fresh raiment. NOVELTIES FOR THE EASTERTIDE. Time was, and not so very long ago either, when a dainty card with simple "Easter Greetings" sufficed as a remembrance from friend to friend on this most glorioua, of days, but here, as in other things, changes have taken place, and florista and confec tioners' shops are filled with novelties characteristic of Eastertide as various in make as the prices which tag them. A miniature woodpile, on the top of wMoh a proud father of the barn yard seems about to air his views of life, Is another novelty of the con fectioner's shop. There is a little moss-covered foundation on which the tiny logs made of chocolate are piled," and the rooster has a white tody with real black wing and tail feathers, and high comb and topknot of red cloth.' One would never guess that the moss-covered foundation was a box to be filled with caodies One two-wheeled cart of willow shows a little golden-haired, blue eyed doH in dainty lingerie frock and hat seated amid the numberless lilies of the valley which fill the body of the basket. The carriage top is interwoven with spring blos soms and ribbon bowed, and the wheels are trimmed with sprigs of smilax. Mr. Rooster is reined with white satin ribbon, which the little lady's hands affect to control. His harness Is hung with tiny colored eggs of paper board and little - chicks peepjhere and there through from the openings in the basket and perch on the willow shaves and hide in the flowers. American Home Monthly. THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES. (Colossal Statue on Boundary Line Between Chill and Argentina.) See, where it stands in its beaty, Where the earliest sunbeams shine; Tall and stately and splendid; The Christ of the Boundary Line! Forbidden the evil impulse That leadeth to pain and crime; United the faith of nations, A compact outlasting Time! Telling the coming of Man, Who is born in the Image Divine; Like a grand, full, chord of music, The Christ of the Boundary Line! m ' sat As we view this beautiful statue From the mountain paths below, As we see its Face supernal In the sunbeams' latest glow; 'Twixt erstwhile waring nations Of a present peace the sign; A psalm and a prayer in marble; The Christ of the Boundary Line! AN EASTER PRAYER. So many eyes, tear-blinded, scarcely see The gracious hope and promise of the spring; mhough leaf and bud are rich In prophecy, They have no vision of the blossom ing. Oh, God of pity! at this Eastertide, May all the sweet, glad Dromise of the day Steal into troubled hearts, and there abide Grant visions unto such as these, we pray. HE IS RISEN. Sweet the chime the bells are ringing, Sweet the carol angels singing; "Risen Is our Lord most glorious, Over sin and death victorious." He is risen tell the story Wafted from His throne of glory; From the ibonds of death set free O, grave, where is thy victory? Angels, strike your harps of glory; Waft, ye winds, the joyful story, While with happy voice we sing, Praises to our risen King. 'Emily Houseman Watson, in Home Herald. A BIPjMiIpe Destroys $5,000,000 Worth of Property. SIX LIVES WERE SACRIFICED Fire Breaks Out in Fashionable Sesi-' . deuce District, Gets Beyond - Con trol Within Fifteen Minutes- Dynamite Effectire . Ajsigtance is Bushed From t Neighboring Towns. Fort Worth, Tex., Special- Fan ned by a stiff wind, a fire" in the southern portion of this city Satur day afternoon swept over an area of ten blocks in length and seven in width, destroyed property roughly estimated in value to be in excess of $3,000,600, and caused the death of six persons. - The fire, which broke out in a fash ionable resident district, was beyond, all control within 15 minutes after ii started, and was not checked until dynamite was resorted to, four hours later. The spread of the flames was not checked until they had eaten their way to the Texas & Pacific Railroad resrvatien on the east. On the south the fire was checked at the Texas Pa cific passenger station, this steel and btone structure forming a bulwark that saved the wholesale district of the city, which at one time was in im minent danger of destruction. A patient whose identity has not been learned, perished in Walker's Sanitarium and three men were elec trocuted and their bodies burned to cinders in the Sawyer electric plant. Herbert Stacy was fatally burned in an endeavor to save his dwelling, and a fireman fell from a4 house top and was killed. It is estimated that 500 families I are homeless. Many of -these have gone to Dallas, where shelter has been offered. ' A party of small boys carelessly handling cigraettes is believed to have been the cause of the fire. SULLY'S PLAN. Would Save Great Sums to Cotton Farmers He Warehouse Plan No Faith in it Say Aufnsta Cotton Exchange Men. Atlanta, Ga.;' Special. Daniel J. Sully, the one-time great cotton bull manipulator of New York was here Friday and set forth a scheme by which he claims $150,000,000 to $250,000,000 may be saved to the raisers of cotton in the South. He said, "A minimum " fund of $10,000,000. subscribed by the most conservative financiers of the United States, is available, to be invested in such iron-dad securities as shall in sure the ability and the responsibil ity of the plan's promoters to redeem their promises and obligations to the last detail. "The people ef the South will be given' the first opportunity to invest in this project, if, upon receiving it, it commends itself to their judg ment." The plan contemplates a chain of warehouses across the South suffi cient to hold one-third of the cotton crop and thereby enable farmers to store their cotton and draw small amounts upon it to enable them to sell at rnl! instead of by compulsion. A Savannah special of Sunday however, says the plan does not com mend itself to the cotton factories there. They claim that the scheme is not practical or it would have been adopted already through the Far mers' Union without the aid of Sully. They claim that no improvement may be expected from this source. Killed in Duel With Officers. Fitzgerald, Ga., Special. Robert Gresham was killed early Sunday morning in a pistol duel with Chief of Police Brubaker and Patrolman Johnson. The man was being hunt ed by the officers and fired upon them from a hiding place in a dark alley. The officers jointly opened fire and Gresham fell with four bullet wounds. Three-Coniered Duel in Streets of Georgia Town. Hazelhurst, Ga., Special. Eugene and J. L. Williams, brothers, were shot down on a street of this place by V. T. Stowers, formerly of Con yers, Ga., J. T. Williams being proba bly fatally hurt. The brothers are members of the firm of Jarman & Williams. It was stated that Stow ers had given this firm a check the bank would not honor; that Eugene demanded the money and a fight re sulted. J. L, Williams went to hi3 brother's rescue, it is alleged, when Stowers drew Jiis pistol. Whole Jury Panel Unfit For Services New Orleans, Special. In the criminal district court Thursday Judge F. D. Chretien dismissed the entire jury panel on motion of Dis trict Attorney Adams, who charged ' that the -panel as a whole had shown itself unfit for service; that although the State presented clear cases against a number of aecused persons it was unable to secure any convic tions before the juror? Dr. Jones Slain by Hill Men. Manilla, Special, A telegram from the constabulary at Echague re ports that the body of Dr. Wm. Jones, the noted anthropologist of the Columbian Musium at Chicago, who was murdered by tribesmen, was taken to that place by friendly Ilon gots. The . murder was committed about fifty miles south of Echague, where Dr. Jones was engaged in studying the -wild hill tribes, living among them for the purpose of pre paring an exhaustive report of tbeh NEWBERN HAS BIG FIRE Conflagration Destroys $4,000 "Worth . of Property. Newbern, Speeial.-r-Fire Saturday morning at 2 :30 threatened for a time the block on the corner of Middle and Pollock streets, and gutted the Hughes Building, a double story brick building, occupied by the DeMonieo Cafe and the George B. Waters eigar and stationery store. Soon after the firemen reached the fire an explosion took place in the Waters store and one of the colored helpers in the fire department was badly cut by flying glass. The loss is about $4,000 with $1,290 insurance. Mr. Waters, it is stated, had $1,300 insurance and a stock of about $2,500. - Probing Deforestation. . Winston-Salem, Special. Reid Wlhitford, of the United States engi neering department, has been in this section several days to ascertain by consultation with well informed citi zens, as well as by personal investi fations and examinations, the- approx imate amount of deforestation which has taken place in Wilkes and ad joining counties during the last 20 jears; this is with the view of deter mining hew this clearing of land has influenced the water- levels in the Yadkin river, causing disastrous floods, and at other times unusual and long periods of low Water; orpif de forestation has not caused these con ditions, to find out what has. The government seeks by some means to prevent such disastrous overflows of the Yadkin as are now almost yearly occurring. The New Building at the University. The site for the new building of the university for which the legis lature donated the necessary sum last session was decided on by the trustees at their last meeting and will be the corner of Bull and Pen dleton streets, facing towards the handsome building just being com pleted. This is a most suitable place " it is stated, as the new class room build ing which is about completed occu pies the opposite site on the corner of Bull and Green streets. This will also be in keeping with the plans laid out for the gradual enlargement of the university and the science building will be a fitting structure to stand on this corner. Dr. Smith Has Accepted. Chapel Hill, Special. Dr. CJharles Alphonso Smith, of the department of English, has accepted the call to the University of Virginia. The chair is that of English, not Teutonic langu gages. Negotiations have been under way for a year. Dr. James A. Harri son having urged the appointment of Dr. Smith as soon as the former thought of retiring.. "I have given the matter roost careful considera tion," said Dr. Smith. "Nothing can change my love for the University of North Carolina or my native State, but the call to the University of Vir ginia is a call to a wider field of ser vice. Bridge Falls; Killing Elder. Winston-Salem, Special. One span of the approach to the bridge over the Yadkin river at the east end of North Wilkesboro fell in while Elder J. Frank Hutchenson, a Primitive Bap tist preacher, was crossing, dropping him, his buggy and two mules into the river twenty feet below. Elder Hutchenson was fatally, injured, liv ing only thirty minutes, the buggy demolished and the mules badly crip pled. The bridge had been condemn ed and closed up, but the public in sisted on tearing down the obstruc tion and using it. $18,000 Fire at Salisbury. Salisbury, Special. With a loss of the Kincaid Veneer Plant in this city the Kincaid Veneir Plant in this city was destroyed Saturday morning by fire, which is said to have originated from a spark from a passing train. The blaze was discovered by a night watchman but had gotten beyond con trol. The plant had been idle for some months and was in the hands of receivers advertised for sale in April. The receivers held $6,500 insurance. Durham Boy Sent to Reformatory. Durham, Special.- Hobson Martin, the son of a very good father in this city, was Saturday morning ordered sent to the Jackson Training School by the recorder on account of the theft of a purse and a small amount of money. The young fellow has not been regarded as an incorrigible but has borne a rather good reputation for a kid. He is the first to go from this place to the reformatory. President Taft to Visit Charlotte. A committee of prominent eitizeus of Charlotte and Mecklenburg coun ty, N. C, waited on President Taft last Wednesday and secured his promise to attend the celebration of the Declaration of Independence in Charlotte on the 20th of May, 1909. Singularly enough, however, the President says he never heard of that historic event before. Winston Boy Stabs Another. Winston-Salem, Special. In a mix up Saturday Amos Flynn, aged 13, stabbed Moouey Langford, another white boy about the same age, in the right temple. The wound is an ugly one and Langford may die. Flynn is in jail to await results. Langford "was carried to the hospital. President Gonicz, of Venezuela, has conferred a special decoration upon John Brewer, of Maryland, United Stitoi Vlei Coniul it Cwjii, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON Use Stamped Envelopes. A special effort? is being made by the PostoflSce Department to increase the use of stamped envelopes instead of those whicti have to3 have a; stamp affixed. In furtherance of this endeavor A. L. Lawshe, Third Assistant Postmas ter General, has issued a highly or nate circular describing and illustrat ing the different sizes and colors of the envelopes " the government has on sale. This has been distributed by the letter carriers who, forgetting for the moment the length of. their routes and the weight of 'their sacks of mail, have for the most part, En tered into enthusiastic details as to the cheapness and convenience and altogether desirableness of this class of postoffice wares. "Everyone who uses government stamped envelopes is aiding the Post-' office Department in improving the service," is what Lawshe's circular says, and, in addition, it enumerates several advantageswhich are to be obtained from their use. For instance, it points out that stamps may be easily lost, misappro priated, or may become useless by sticking together. Also a stamp may drop off in the mail, and then there is the time consumed in affixing the stamp as an item of consideration. All of. these dfficnlties, the circular says, a overcome by : nsing the stamped envelopes. I Then when a purchaser is willing to buy as many as 500 stamped en velopes at a time, the government will print his name tfnd" address in the -upper left hand corner without aoy extra charge. The advantage of this is that such envelopes do not find their way to the dead letter of fice. If the address cannot be found the letter is returned without extra postage to the sender. Such enve lopes, if misdirected, are redeemable at the Postoffice from original pur chasers only at full stamp value. This is not true of-adhesive stamps. The Postoffice Department sells the envelopes in. various sizes, colors, and qualities, but the most usual size can be obtained for about eight for a cent, stamp value extra. Thus eight two-cent envelopes would cost about seventeen cents. One can get them in white, amber, blrfe, buff or ma nila. Officials of the internal revenue bureau of the Treasury Department are of the opinion that the temper ance movement, whicli has taken such a strong hold of certain sections of the country, particularly in the South, has resulted in increasing th number of violations of the internal revenue laws in the distillation of il licit whiskey. Recent reports indicate that in many Southern States, especially in Alabama, Georgia and North Caro lina there has been greater activity on the part of the lawless mountain element, who always have been troublesome to the revenue agents, than in many years. These three States now have laws prohibiting distilleries from operating within their borders. In Alabama the law went into effect on July 1, 1908; in Georgia on January 1, 1908; and in North Carolina January 1, 1909. Many legitimate distilleries have moved to Florida and other States where the inhibition does not exist Whiskey being more difficult to ob tain in a legitimate way has greatly increased the profits of illicit distill ing, with the result that the activi ties of the internal revenue bureau at this time is largely directed to wards the mountain sections of these three States. Eleven members were in their seats Saturday when the House of Representatives met to further con sider the Payne tariff bill. It was the smallest attendance of the special session and demonstrated the fact that interest in the debate had prac tically disappeared. Mr. Sparkman (Democratic), of Florida, opened the discussion by makinir an earnest plea for a restora tion of the Dingley rate on lumber and the imposition of a duty of 5 cents a pound on all cotton imported into the United States. The Philippine Islands were again heard from when Mr. Benita Legardo resident commissioner, spoke in op position to the proposed free trade between that possession and the United States. His views were prac tically along the lines of those ex pressed Friday by his colleague, Mr. Pablo Ocampo de Leon. In view of the diminishing supply of pulp-making woods and the conse quent increase in the cost of paper, the serious problem which awaits so lution is, whence will come our fif ture paper supply? Interest in the matter lies in the fact that every body uses paper and it is presented in its serious aspect when one consid ers that the destruction of our pulp making woods goes on at a termen dous rate. Experts declare that there are not enough spruce forests standing in the United States to furnish a future constant supply of wood pulp for making paper under the present methods, of forest conservatism and waste. The experiments thus far have had to do principally with such plants as corn stalks, cotton stalks, flax, sugar bagasse, tule, rice, straw, okra anc several other things. While these ex periments have not progressed fai enough to warrant definite conclu sions as to whether any of them can be manufactured on a paying com mercial scale, it is asserted that con: stalks offer the most promising out look. A very much finer paper cat bi made from com ptelk than tiort tbi w oed pulp. " -- VIRGINIANRY. OPENED The Great and Splendid Enterprise Financed by H. H. Rogers Given an Auspicious Send-Off. Norfolk, V., Special. -The opening of the Virginian. Railway, extending from . SeweU s Point, Norfolk, , to Deepwaterl; W. Va., on the Kanawha river, a distance of 446 miles, took place last Friday with a most auspic ious celebration here made more no table by the presence of i. H. Rog ers, who built the "Virginian" at a cost of about $40,000,000; Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)', and sever al prominent New, Yprk financiers interested with Mj?T Rogers ia the un dertaking, 'i The celebration - festivities began with the arrivel eyly in the day of 625 people from along the line of the new system, on a special train of 12 coaches atfd two Pullman cars. The day was filled with events of interest, the programme of enter tainment for the- visitors including an inspection of the Norfolk harbor, the new Virginian coal piers at Se weU 's Point, the largest in the world with a dumping capacity into ship bottoms of 36,000 tons per day, and finally, a public reception to Mr. Rogers and his guests. Mr. Rogers was the guest of honor at a $20-per-plate banquet Saturday night. The Virginian Railway, begun in March, 1902, was completed Febru ruary 17, 1909. More than one mil lion acres of coal lands in West Vir ginia have been made accessible by it and the road has opened up a coun try never before enjoying: railway facilities. Facts About New Bailway. Built by Henry H. Rogers at a cost of $40,000,000. Extends from Sewalls Point, tide water, Virginia to Deepwater, West Virginia, a distance of 446 miles. Work of construction started March, 1902, and the road was com pleted February 17, 1909. Sewells Point coal pier is the larg est one in the-world and has a dump ing capacity of 36,000 tons a day. Section traversed-bv the road one of the richest and most productive i the East. British medioal authorities are ut tering warnings against the peril of spreading disease by kissing the Bi ble in his Majesty's courts. In some American States the "wise" witness kisses his own thumb instead of the Book, observes the Boston Post. Mass achusetts has progressed so far be yond either that it's a reckless wom an who dares kiss her own baby now adays. All of which is a blow to sen timent but an aid to good health. Mr. Trucker M We do not contract' to 'grow crops; that is your end of the business.. It (4 our business to handle tlem on a commission basis hence we have nothing to conflict with shippers' interest. . If you want the best obtainable results, we will get them for you beside you will get a square deal and your returns promptly. Be Safe and Sure ship your Strawberries, Lettice, Beans, Cukes, Cabbage,, Cantaloupes, Mellcns, Potatoes and other produce to the safe and satisfaa tory Commission House of KAMMERER BROS. COMPANY PITTSBURG, PA. B.H BEAN, NORTH CAROLINA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, LETTUCE, STRAWBERRIES AND . VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY. PROMPT RE TURNS TO EACH SHIPPER. WRITE FOR STENCILS AT ONCE. GIVE US YOUR BUFFALO SHIPMENTS. WE ARE THE ONLY BUFFALO REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WRIGHTSBORO TRUCK GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, WRIGHTSBORO, N. C. 4 t A Commission Ptlerchant . SPECIALTIES: Berries and all Southern Veg- etables 113 Dock Street Philadelphia, - - - Pa. REFERENCE : First Nalional Bauk, Philadelphia Sixths Kat. Ban"f, Philadelphia; Morcntile Ag-'nc'ep; the Trade. . J ESTABLISHED 1884. Successors to DUR Wholesale Fruit and Merchant References : 937-939 B. Central National Bank. , Lord & Spencer, Boston. I, tfewhall & g9B9, Chicago, Appleij prufMj 9&3i The irst Diplomat. As the procession awaited the Hon. Slumkey's retirement to "his carriage, Mr. Perker .and Mr. Pickwick wore i Intent hearers but not eyewitnesses of the , proceedings; - A roar of applanse rent the atr. "He has kissed one of 'era!" ex- ; claimed the delighted little man. A second roar. - "He has kissed another," gasped Che excited manager. C Athird roar. "He's kissing 'em all!" screamed the ; enthusiastic little gentleman. We take off our hats anew to tiro first diplomat in Europe, and renew pdr felicitations that he has by TJfr " means forgotten his Diokens.t.' 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