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CHILDREN'S CORNER By the Boy and Girl Readers of the Reporter. From Lucy Blancett. Peter's Creek, Va., March 16. Dear old Reporter : As all the little girls and boys are writing to the Reporter I ; thought I would write too. * I like to read the Children's i Department. Our school is out. Misses Mamie Leak and Flora Hutchens were our teachers. I like them fine. I study ten books. Practi cal Word Book, North Carolina history, United States history, civil government, agriculture, spelling, grammar, geography, physiology and arithmetic. I like arithmetic best of all my studies. I would like to go to school all the time but ma needs me to help her some as I am all the the girl that is here. I like to piece quilts, I have worked one crazy quilt. I am 14 years old. I have two brothers; their names are Mat and Jim. LUCY BLANCETT Roy E. Leak. Campbell, March 16, Mr. Editor: As I have never written to. the dear old Reporte, I" will try to write a short letter to the Chil dren's Corner. lam a little boy eleven years i old. My school is out now. But j I still study my books at home! some times. But work time is. here now and I am prepariug my- 1 self a garden. I have ordered! some seed to plant in my garden. I always plaut me a little garden j of vegetables every year. I have a small Nursery, but when lam a man if I live to be one, I am going to be a farmer, for I don't think there is anything as nice as farming, and raising \ cattle for I like it so well. Well, as this is my first letter to the Reporter, I will close. I wish to exchange post cards with some of the little boys. ROY E. LEAKE. Sam Gilley. Pilot Mtm., March 16. Dear Reporter : As I see so many of the little boys and girls writing to the Re porter, I hope you will give me space for a few lines. I am seven yearß old. And like to go to school better than anything else. Our free school is out, but Mr. Edgar Taylor is teaching a subscription school. lam going to say two speeches the last day. My brother takes the Reporter and I like to read the Children's Corner. How many of the boys and firls like to go to Sunday School, do for one. My brother is Superintendent, aud he always wants me to go with him. I will close for fear this reaches the waste basket. Your little friend, SAM GILLEY. Sarah Moser. Rural Hall, March 19. Dear Reporter : lam a little girl ten years old. I went to school nearly every day. Our school is out now. I studied four books, grammar, spelling, fourth reader, and arithmetic. My teacher was Miss Wilmeta Smith; she has taught for us two j winters. She was a good teacher., I have three sisters living and one dead. One brother at Whit sett Institute. I have two pet cats, their names are Tommy and Tab, and a dog namet l Jack. My papa takes the Reporter, and I like to read the Children's Corner very much. Wishing you all a happy vaca tion, I will close. From your little friend, SARAH MOSER. Ola Dujfins. Walnut Cove, March 18. Dear Reporter : lam a little girl twelve years old. I go to school nearly every day. I have two teaohers, their names are Mr. Joe Hill and Mies Lizzie Adkins. We like them but they won't let us whisper. I study Cmmar, spelling, arithmetic, rth reader, and geography. My papa takes the Reporter and I like to read it fine. Our sohool will be two weeks longer. Your little friend, OLA DUGGINS. Mr. T. S. Petree paid a short visit to Walnnt Cove Thursday of latt week. Mary Sue Alley. Madison, March 16. Dear Reporter : As I see so many boys and girls writing to the Reporter I thought I would write one too. I haven't any thing much to write about but will tell you what I know. I have been going to school most all the winter, but it has closed now. I certainly was sor ry when school was out, for wo had such a splended teacher, Mr. Thomas J. Covington. Mr. Cov ington certaiuly was a good teacher. I have a great desire for a good education. I have been going to school ever since I was 8 years old, and I atu now 14 yeais old. But I never did go very regular. I haven't any pets to write about. But I have 3 brothers and 4 sisters. 1 enjoy readiug the Reporter more than any other paper, es pecially the children's cornor. I remain your friend, MARY SUE ALLEY. Jim Blancett. Peters Creek, Va.,'March 16. Dear old Reporter : I am a boy ten years old. I like to read'the Reporter, but I like the Children's Corner best. My 6chool was out the; 28th of February. My teachtr was Miss Mamie Leak. 1 liked her fine. I have one brother and one sis ter; my brother's name is Mat'and ! my sister's name is Lucy. 1 would like to go to school all ! the time but I have to help papa work; he hasn't got any body to help help him ; my brother is crip pled and can't work. I study five books, spelling, history, grammar, arithmetic and geography. 1 like the arithmetic i best. i Goad bye. JIM BLANCETT. Lizzie B. Linville. Walnut Cove, Route 2, March 12. Dear Reporter : lam a little girl ouly ten years old. I have been reading some letters from little folks. I thought I would try myself and see if my Hotter would come out iin the Children's Deparmeut. Fur pets I have a little kitten, its I name is Tommy. I stay at grand i pa's; I have a cat down there: his name is Mink, i I will close for this time, and see if this comes out next week, i LIZZIE B. LINVILLE. I Mat Blancett Has Two Calves Which Pulls Good. Petei's Creek, Ya., March 16. j Dear Reporter : '! lama little boy twelve years I old. I have been going to school I some tliis winter. I wish I could |go to school all the time, for I can't work and I get tired of stay : ing at the house. Papa won't let me go to the field, i lam glad to see the Reporter I come, for I like to read it. I have got two little calves; their names are Sook and Buck. Jim and I work them to my • little wagon; they pull good. Hoping to see my letter in print. MAT BLANCETT. From Bessie Martin. March 18. Dear Reporter : I will try to write to the Re porter; this is the first time and I thought I would write. I go to school. My teacher is Miss Mae Wall; she is a good teacher, I like her fine. Our school was out the 28th of February. I have been reading the Chil dren's Corner; I like it. I have one sister. I have a cow, her name is Susie. We raise tobacco and corn and and all kinds of vegetables. I went to visit my grandma and graudpa. I live near Qideon. lam a lit tle girl twelve years old. If this escapes the waste basket I will write again. BESSIE MAE MARTIN. The Reporter is pleased to see so many subscription schools be ing organized in the oounty. There are lots of them. There is no better investment than in edu cation for the children. If the State cannot give ten-month sohools, by just a little extra ex penditure private schools can be provided which will largely answer the same purpose. THE DANBURY REPORTER. More About Nr. Bowman's Criticism ; Of the Public Schools. Dear Editors : I want to say a few words to ' Mr. Bowman in regard to his | criticising the free schools. It seems like he thinks because his free school is not what it ought to be, all of the rest of the free sohools are just like his. If their teachers have always been such terrible courting people why don't lie or some of the in terested patrons apply for a teacher that is married, and that will put and end to tho courting teachers? If your school is not what it should have been by the teacher not doing her or his duty, why, you have a right to dismiss him, or her. And if you are so much interested in education, and want a good teacher nnd school why on earth don't you apply for a good teacher and get a good old married person? I suppose he is just about one of those kinds of boys when a girl goes or speaks to another boy the next time you see him his lips are sticking out loug enough to drag on the ground. Now Mr. Bowmau if you will let me know through tho Repor ter I will apply for a good old married ,free school teacher dis interested in courting to teach your school next winter. I'm sure there isn't any thing wrong about the Graded school at Germanton. And as for the three teachers, you can learn as much going to one as you can going to three if you will put your mind on your books and try to learn. And as for the switch and cross words if you would mind and re spect your free school teachers as j a refined boy should, you could t say the same'about them. } Not go to the free school with your hoir standing like the fea thers on'a freezling chicken and your hands like you had been [ dobbing a barn bringing in enough , mud on your feet to dob a tobacco barn, hollowing,' p stomping, romp ing like a gang of mule colts. You ought to go to the free school and act as polite as if you were going to a graded school or Col lege and do'you do that? When you meet your teacher, or a lady, " raise your hat like you was a gentleman and had been to school a day in your life. If you was a j graduate and had no manners ■ your education would not be much help to you; no man is not educat ed unless he is polite, too. '' As for eating the Physiology, and Dictionary, I never heard of " any one eating books to get an education. I thought they used j their brain and common sense. If you never have been to a good teacher take and read the Reporter and you will see some of the good old free school teach s era' names in it occasionally. I'll admit that I am not the best but I do what I can do for the chil dren, and have never had a schol ar to get mad and was jealous be -3 cause I didn't talk to them. 1 You said you would work ten 1 months to get to go to a graded t school two months. If you are - that anxious for an education, want t to work and can't get work, apply to some of the good old married r free school teachers, I'm sure thero are some of them will give r you work to do. As I know they i want you educated it being } your sincere desire, Let me hear from some more i of the teachers, and let them have something to say in regard to the free school and any thing else concerning Mr. Bowman's letter. Wishing him lots of success. A TEACHER In Favor of Prohibition. > i Sandy Ridge, March 25. ) 1 sympathize with Messrs. J. H. t Covington and P. Oliver. I long to see the day como when we get - whiskey out of the good old North State, and we can say that we have i got a State of sobriety and not of drunkenness. We have got an op l portunity now before us to get the vile stuff out of the State. Let 1 everybody go to work and put their shoulders to the wheel and . push wifh all their might, i O. T. E. I _ - Notice. All ovcr eors of the publio , roads in >.:iker Gap Township, Stokes County, are hereby notified that who ftuls to report his road under a sworn and subscribed re -1 port and r Section 2716 and 2717 . of the Revisal Code, his name and section of road will be strictly re ported to the foreman of the grnndjary. This the I~''> day of March, ' 1908. J. T. T.YNCH, Chm. Bd. of supervisors. "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" The Only Way to Find How A Man Stands On the Prohibition Question Is To See How He Votes. Gann's, March 17. Editor Reporter : Tho old adage "that actions speak louder than words," is ap plicable to almost everything if not everything. It seems to us that tho way a maj votes on the liquor question on the 26th of May, will show where be stands on this impor tant question, much more than what he may Bay about the ques tion between now and the election. A drummer said that wheu ho was with the drys he was dry and when he wp.s with the wets he was wet. So you see you can't tell by what a man says sometimes and what ho means; but if you know how he votes'you then know where he stands. We can't understand how any intelligent, Belf-respect ing man could so far forget him self to get full of liquor, for if be was to lie down with a decent hog, the hog would grunt a grunt of disapproval, and leave his warm bed, preferring a cold place to a drunken sot for a bed fellow. Oh yes, they say we would be for prohibition if it would pro hibit. We believe that there is no law on tho Statute books that is carried out to the letter in every case, but that is no sign that the law does not do good. If prohibi tion was to do away with only three-fourths of the l'quor evils it would be a step forward that would save many a mother and wife's tears and save tlio tax-pay ers many dollars in the way of costs. Mr. J. E. Simmons Rings Clear For Prohibition. Vade Meoum, March 12. Editor Reporter : In regard to tho whiskey ques tion, I wish to say a few words along that lino. We have been asked a question whether we would have liquor or not. I say let us uot have it in tho country nor in the towns either, for we have some ineu that will have it if they have j to go to town and to doctors to get jit to get drunk on. So I say stop |it everywhere. Some will say we j need it for snake and 6pider bites. I But I will refer you all to the I doctors and ask them if it don't cause more trouble than it does ! good in such cases. I write this ! from home experience. I want 1 you all to take it to the Lord in j prayer and ask him to help you to I wipe it out of the whole union, for we find from the word of God i where it shuts men out of the | kingdom of heaven. It also de stroys their peace and happiness here on earth. We will refer you Ito the Smithtown people. How | many families are separated on ' account of whiskey ? Study and j see which way you will vote when jthe election comes. We thank | the Lord and our leading men for giving us the privilege of stopping jit if we will. Wishing you all ! God speed in this matter. J. E. SIMMONS. ASK US TO PRINT IT. j TELLS HOW TO PREPARE A SIMPLE ! MIXTURE TO OVERCOME DREAD DISEASE. To relieve the worst forms of j Rheumatism, take a teaspoonful of the following mixture after ! each meal and at bedtime: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one half ounce; Compound Kargon, loue ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. These harmless ingredients can be obtained from our home drug gists, and are easily mixed by shaking them well in a bottle. 1 Relief is generally felt from the first few doses. This prescription, states a well j known authority in a Cleveland morning paper, forces the clogg ed-up, inactive kidneys to filter ! and strain from the blood the : poisonous waste matter and uric acid, which causes Rheumatism. As Rheumatism is not only the | most painful and torturous dis | ease, but dangerous to life, this simple recipe will no doubt be greatly valued by many sufferers here at home, who should at once i prepare the mixture to get this 1 relief. It is said that a person who would take this prescription re ! gularly, a dose or two daily, or : even a few times a week, would ; never have serious Kidney or i Urinary disorders or Rheuma | tisra. Cut this out and preserve it. Good Rheumatism prescription { whioh really relieve are soaroe, indeed, and when you need it, you want it badly. Our druggists here say they will either supply these ingredients or make the : mixture ready to take, if any of ' our readers so prefer. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GARRjHi The other day I tell asleep and had a most curious dream. I dreamt I was dead and had gone up before the bar of Heaven to anßwer for the deeds done in the flesh. JI stood, the last one In a long line of men and women, who filed solemnly and terribly before the re cording angel, and I noticed as each one stopped for a moment, before that august presence that In some strange fashion, as In a mirage, we saw pictured the good or evil of the life that was being Judged. Before n man who had been a mil lionaire on earth rose wan faces pinched with hunger and cold, and the workknotted hands of those out of whom he had ground his fortune. Before a man whose fame had fol lowed him even beyond the grave stood the shadowjof a poor, forlorn, neglected wife with the tears still wet upon her cheeks. Before a mur derer there flitted the bloody corpse of his victim. Before a humble old man who had been too poor to do more than divide his crust with a starving child and share his room with a beggar, there shoue the faces of all he had succored. Before a woman who had had a shrewish tongue there appeared un endless nrray of bleeding hearts, ev ery one of which her tongue had stabbed, but a woman who had ; found a lost babe crying in the | street and comforted it, smiles and stretched out her hauds as if she i would take the little one again to 1 her breast. And as the dead men I and women looked upou the visions of the things that they had done, j they turned one to the right and i one to the left and each went to his ! or her allotted place, j At last my turn came, and with a ' certain degree of self-complacency, i for I hud been neither l>eaut!ful | enough to snare the affections of ; men, nor clever enough to outwit them lu business, nor cruel enough ! to wilfully injure any, and so feared | none of the visions that my fel ; low pilgrims had been confronted j with, I took my place before the I great judge, when to my horror I saw a grotesque and motley pro | cession moving toward me. ! It consisted of old chairs, old i tables, old bed springs, nickod [china, discarded clothing, piles |of shabby books and old inagaz j ines. and a hundred other odd I articles of household furnishing, j each of which I recognized as i something that once had belong ed to mo. But about each famil j iar thing there was a look of awful accusation that turned me, ; I knew not why, cold with fear and apprehension. "What is this?" I asked, when, at least I could command my voice sufficiently to speak. "We are the ghosts of your garret," replied the Things, in sepulchal tones, "that have ! arisen to confront you on the Judgment Day. We are the things that you stored away to rot, and mildew, and be moth eaten, and rat eaten, while all about you were people who were cold, and shabby, and wretchedly uncomfortable for lack of us. We are the good that you might have done with no saoritice to your self, but that you witheld your hands from doing." "I was always a careful woman, and a thrifty housekeeper," I re plied byway of excuse, "and I was taught that if you kept any. thing long enough you would al ways find a use for it." But at this the Things smiled n bitter, mirthless smile that pierced me to the heart, and pre sently I heard a deep, rich void saying in accents that sounded to me like the sentence of doom: "I am the big, softly cushioned chair that you sent up to the attic when you refurnished the library five years ago. All of that time I have sat there Idle and emptp, while the mice cut holes through my cover ing, and the dust settled In my carv ing, and the spiders spun webs across me. In all that time I have been of no use to any human being, yet three or four times every week you have passed a house where a little hunch-backed girl sat In a win dow making paper flowers, with no seat but a hard straight-back wood en chair. How I have yearned to take her In my arms and rest her but you kept me from it, and therefore do I condemn you." Scarcely had the chair ceased speaking when a squeaky raspy voice began upbraiding me: "I am the bed springs that have been rust ing in your garret for dear knows how long," It said, yet . there was right before your eyes the chair woman who comes every week to scrub and clean tor you, and who, when her hard day's work is over, has nothing but a thin mattress laid on hard boards on which to sleep. It would have rested her and com forted her beyond all telling to have had me, but yon never gave me to her. You let her sleep hard, whuH® fell to with decay In Jgys "We are the old clothes that let rot In trunks and chests, came In a sort of muffled through which I distinguished voice crying out, "I am the that the moths ate, yet winter winter you saw shivering men wit^H 1 thin coats l>uttoned across chests—men who coughed as passed them on the streets," ancfl another, "1 am the warm that your little boy outgrew, that fell to pieces with age, whlliS, you watched little children pasM your door crying with the cold."V And still another voice walled: "IB am the trunk of the little clothegl of your baby that died. For I tweuty years I gathered yellow-■ ness and decay, and finally fell to 1 pieces unused, yet there was your I poor housemaid, who when her I little fatherless child was born, t bad nothing but an old bit of flan- 1 nel in which to wrap it. You / have known innumerable poor $ mothers to any one of whom I would have been a blessing, and yet you would not bestow me upon them." "I thought that it was eoonoffiy to save my old clothes, and that f perhaps I might have them alter ed some time, or use a bit of trim- .. miug—or something," I moaned, - feebly, with my face in the dust. "A curse they replied sternly, "is upon every unused garment that perishes from moth, or mil dew, or rot." Then there was a clamor of many voices speaking at once. "We they said in chorus, "ate books" and the magazines that year after year were piled on the gar- f ret shelf to gather dust, and for rats and mice to gnaw, yet you knew boys and girls who were % finished for knowledge; libraries | where we would have started out 1 on a mission of sweetness and *" light, and lonely households I where the coming of new books and periodicals would have been like a ray of sunshine. It would ' $ have cost you nothing to have % passed me on, but you did not do ' § it." But I could hear no more. With a scream I awoke, and as soon as \ I could gather my distracted nerves together, I made a rash for my garret and before the sun $ set it was swept as bare and as clean as a new pin. » For I needed DO dream book to ( interpret my vision to me. Do you. ! FEDERAL COURT JURORS. The following jurors will serve during the regular term of United Slates District oourt to convene . in Greensboro on the first Mon day in April: f R. A. Gilmer, Greensboro. Walter F. King, Brown Summit. C. M. Hauser, Winston-Salem. . C. M. Pritchett, Greensboro. T. S. Griffin, Graham. Joseph D. Schoolfield, Greens- • boro. A. F. Neal, Madison. R. E. Dalton, Winston-Salem, fi L. W.Smith, Guilford College. Thos. R. Schoolfield, Brown Summit Jas. K. Norfleet, Winston- Salem. i E. C. Murray, Vincent. * John H. Alley, Danbury, R. 1. W. A. Tilley, Francisco, R. 2. a R. F. Byerly, Winston-Salem. Stephen H. Davis, High Point, I R. 1. Jesse Holt, Burlington. ...i- Ohas. B. Aiken, Reidsville, R. 2. j Amos Hinshaw, Ramseur, R. 1. \ T. V. Hamlin, Dobson. A. R. Moore, Mt. Gilead, R. 2. I Frank Allcora, Ruffin. | John T. Joyce, Sandy Ridge. {I Thos. L. Moir, Walkertown. 1 C. A. Wharton, Gibaonville. .1. 0. L. Badgett, Jackson Hill. Tfl John W. Cook, Greensboro. 11, D. I. Reavis, Yadkinville - 19 John G. Clark, Snow Camp. Wm. H. Slate, Mizpab. Jm J. L. Brockmann, Greensboro.! Lee Jess up, Westfield. LB T. A. Donaho, Milton. J. C. Beamer, Mt. Airy, R. 8. |,l Jesse Greenwood, Rnak. Charles Sschrest, Thomasville, Dobsou Nelson, Stokesdale. t P. L. Ledford, Graham. E Samuel L. Ray, Teer, Rrl. V Chas. D. Cabb, MoLeansville. )j U. W. Long, Tobacooviile. 8. A. Vest, Haw River, x } 1 Lee Davis, Greensboro. R. R. Ross, Asheboro. B. W. Johnson, S. N. Allen, Aoonite. Jfe. R. T. Stone, Stonevilfo. ■ 0. D. Rominger, J. A. Elliott, ThornMvill*. JS J. S. Connard, Pfafftown. R. O. Banter, BathanU. (JjS Joseph Smith, Hillaboro, B. ?>s■ Ellis Y. Coleman, Cedar Grcpfl
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