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GREENSBORO, N. C PAGE TWO Reminiscent. J Id tUta Department tbe Old Mnn wrlten paaslng fanciea maybe recalling bappeu- Inga nt forty yean ago maybe aometblug of only A few mootbs. All people live ltber to the paat or tbe future. It la what you Tld ycaterduy or what you will - do tomorrow. Never it-Hut you are doing now. TUU department la conducted aim ply to Ukf enre of thoae pienannt Iblne tbat happened aa we wulkcd along I lie rood tint la now grass grown and India- tlnct tbo road over which we will never 'walk renin. Mora Tolerant. Towns ihanpe ami customs chnno T,-ith wonderful rapidity. I reim-tul'iT about fU'tefu years Ofio I was iu Clrccns roro ono Sunday auJ I'ic k Morse now no doubt in plor was attomprinr to give ft freo lcctiiro on prohibition. Dick had his scraw led i liurts with him wretched pictures of the intori'iil or jthiis. and with these he showed the ill effects of alcohol on the human syntem. lick had his vngon and was maUiiig ono of his forceVul tnlks with little re gard to grammar or pronunciation, when a policeman stepped up and ar rested him. Ho was thrown in jail tor disturbing tho peace on Sun.luy. A great many people grew indignant. After a few hours in jail he was re leased. I recall that 1 went home, to lianvillo, and gave (jreeusburo a tirst- class roast in double leads. To think that ft Christian city would iuil a man for talking prohibition on tho street on Sunday was to me the limit. 'ow ft days ministers get out on the streets with the Salvation army and help do iiood: ministers talk from moving pic ture show houses, and any religious ereed or sect can proclaim its belief from the streets or house tops and no one thiuks of "disturbances." It sim ply shows that as we jog along we are growing better, or at least more toler ant. ; To Cure ft Cold. One night a half dozen years or so ago Deputy Shariff Joe Phipps and Your Uncle wanted to go fishing. And be it known when a fellow wants to go fishing he wants to gd pretty bad. We didn't have a buzz wagon of our own ao we laid a proposition before Zeb Conyers who is something of a fisher man himself. I said that I had spent about all the money I Intended to spend buying alarm cloeks to wake up at four o'clock and that hereafter I was going to go early without going to bed. Zeb said he would go, but he had such a frightful cold. And he had a cold for fair. But we talked it over and pic tured the big fish we would get and finally we started at midnight. It was cold. Cold enough to build a fire. We bad no lights on the machine, so Joe Phippa held a lantern and once we had to get out and strike matches to find a track over a new roadway across lots but we made it. It was at Davis' pond, and we got the'ro about two o'clock. We had cooking utensils, and concluded we 'd get some cat-fish for breakfast it there were any. 1 set a hook and was baiting another when Zeb thought he'd set one. The bank made a circle just ahead of me. and Zeb sa,w where I was standing and he came down and stepped square into the water about eight feet deep. Joe and I pulled him out. He was wet aa a rag, and I was certain with the dreadful cold he had, it would prove his death. We had a big fire going, and he hustled off his shoes and put his socks on some brush to dry, while he hugged close to the fire. Presently Phipps thought he would renew the fire and burnt the feet of the stockings, and Zeb was obliged to put on bottomless hosiery for that trip. Daylight came we cooked a little breakfast and Zeb's cold was goue. He never sneezed again; he quit coughing, and the severe eold water ducking he received abso lutely removed every particle of cold. Tell this to the heathen, you may say; relate it to the Hottentot in his own jargon but what I relate is a faet and the witnesses are all living. The trouble I have been having to get my paper out because of delayed machinery and finally because of the sickness of Heaves, who runs the lino type the general confusion reminds me that Everything has been in trouble before. When I first sprung it in this town, or soon thereafter, the Stone Printing Co. was then doing business in the Bevill building, and one night there was a tire. J. Ed. Albright, the plumber, had his store down stairs and some excelsior caught fire, swept up tho elevator shaft and everlastingly put the Stone Co. out ot business. My pa per was then hand set. There was only one machine in Greensboro, that owned by the Telegram. Incidentally, now there are fourteen. But it happened that while my type w-as tip and every thing had been knocked galley west and galley east inside that ollb-e, none of my type Avas disturbed. Then as now, I went to the Christian Advocate, then down on West Washington street, and Andrew Williams did the press work. Temporary quarters were rigged up and my publication was set by the Stone people' and the press work was done out for two or three issues. We arojapt to forget as we go along. Every man recalls the nearest he ever came to getting killed. And if you will take notes you will find that most every man has had some hair-breadth escapes been dangerously near the "all in" line. BI have had many expe riences, some others of which I will re late from time to time but the nearest T ever came to being accidentally ''ed wag in New York City. About -r six years ago with the late C. F. ho died when he shouldn't have 1 eft Boston at six o'clock at lowerful White steamer-go-'ork. The roads were good, 1 drive over Common eing the starter and on "ecticnt stopping at Barnnm made his daylight, be nd engine iron ing down Je 1 Park . and was break I once or twice tho mounted guards in Central Park told him to slow up a bit but we kept on ami were heading for the Na varre hotel and had to cross the street car track on Broadwav. Just as we were in the middle of the track we looked up and saw the motorinan do ing all ho could to stop a swiftly ad vancing car ho was swinging away out ou his platform nud he wore a look of terror. King said to the driver: "Why Walter" and we both prepared for the crash. Por u moment the whole world' history o tar as my making it was concerned appeared before me; 1 thought of a thousand things with wonderful rapidity--1 was certain the cud hail come and T prepared til meet it. Luckily the car hist brushed the top of our car which ns down- jolted us a little but what little hair u on my head n fused to lie '!nvn until 1 had reached the lintel. Heing up nil night we tit once retired and soon 1 was tileep. The trouble mis still ill my svti in. Ml ef a siM.ic'i 1 found my self mi the lli.or el' I he hotel -1 had .jumped abiini a i'"t in the air and fell on the lli.i.r. I lui-l dreamed over again what 1 li" 1 experienced in the earlier li.mr-. i'l ;ii was the ch.M-st call I ever h:id in the :i.t of an acci dent and nlle on l--ity t i -U - nf he watch, would hi'e made all the differ e in the world. The .liamc-' are tnat I wmu.i ;ot oe i-iu'iil: nere tellini: von about 't. The , ity papers would have done that. Tint spi-akiikg of .itln-r il.Ai' calls 1 vent to I.cadville in 1-T. There were ixty thousand people there ami not a hon-e. Xt even a board sawed, al though there were billions of feet of timber standing in the forest. Civil ization hadn't arrived. Everybody lived in tent and the snow was twen ty feet deep. We had no bill boards there but we had variety, and tun old dames dailies as tuff as Gertie Hoff man, had come along with the adven turers and miners and the crew of float ers which had come up from I'eadwood Gulch. Tn one tent there were a dozen dancing girls: there was drinking and gambling to beat the baud. Faro was running; three card nionte Canada Bill was in the gang and if a census had been taken of that congregation it would have revealed a wonderful assortment. The teachers, ministers, college men and highwaymen; every thing w-as there save a virtuous woman. About a hundred ponies were sheltered outbide this tent and inside in the fumes of tobneco and whiskey men were fighting and singing and doing all sorts of things. I was talking witn a man from Denver, a gronp of four were standing together when suddenly shooting commenced and the man to whom I was talking fell over a corpse. A gang of horse thieves had come in, and in order to create confusion did some promiscuous shooting and then stampeded the ponies. They had cut a way through the deep snow into the woods where the fall was lighter and made good their escape. Jf I had been one foot closer to the other wnll it would have been instead of the Denver man I who was planted and left with an unmnrked grave. Xo one knew his name. Several were wounded and the ponies were never found. So if a man goes along and the Fates knock him down now and then, and then give him another footing, he must per force con clude that he has a message of some kind to deliver: he must accept it as true that he has a mission and a pur pose. Else why, if there is a destiny that shapes our ends, are 'men miracu lously grasped from the very jaws of death . Ave, it . is true, my lirother. God watches ove us all Among the Exchanges It has been quite a while since we looked over the exchanges. When we ran the "mag" we didn't have any exchanges because w-e didn't need 'em, now when we send out a hurry call fir t-omething to inspire us, the boys ome across, fn- the most part, and some ot the laces are iamiliar, and ome are not. Judge- Clark' wenv' to be the same at StateniUu He is stilt making his Landmark one of the neatest and most interesting weeklies printed anywhere.. He siill hands down his judicial opin ions, and is seldom reversed by the higher court of public opinion. The Landmark is a -Landmark- and it will nlci cs l.e one of the leading papers ol th') smith, if Judge ''lark holds out to handle the qui!, au-l he is iu good health and happy. The Henderson Gold Leaf doesn't look jike the Gold Loaf wo knew when Thad Manning ran it. it is now a quar to, but looks alive and reads as smooth as oil. - :. JTj&Oxf o'ft "rui'i'lTXedger ha? put on a jfr$" head, changed its form and en larged itself and prints twice a week, and the name of our old friend and compatriot, John T. liritt still stands as editor. The Ledger i a popular paper and enjoys a good patronage. COLONEL I W. H. OSBORN, 7 Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Who Rumor Persistently Insists Must Be a Gandidate for Governor. A IMMH'HKCY. Another Xtirth Curolinian who Will Have Place in Hall of Fume The movement to put a memorial to William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) in the historical building at Raleigh reminds ug that one of these days we trust a long time In the fu ture when all of us who are doing things In North Carolina snail have passed away, some one will be start ing a similar movement to perpetu ate the name of another of the state's most distinguished men of letters one who has won merited recogni tion at home and abroad, and has done it in such a modest and unob trusive way that his most intimate friends hardly realize the impression which he has made. - We refer of course to Dr. Archi bald Henderson, of Chapel Hill, who finds time In the midst of his col lege work to pursue exnaustlve liter ary studies and write criticisms which have attracted the attention of the leading literary scholars both in this country and in Europe. His last work. "European Dramatists" has called forth the most generous praise and brought to the already fa mous author new laurels and new demands for contributions from his pen. , A recent reviewer has this to say of it: "This brilliant and original work deals with certain of the leading figures in contemporary dramatic lit erature. The author enjoys an inter national reputation .ax a critic. His essays appear in leading magazines' in Europe as we.ll as ;n the I'nited States. They find place in such publications as The North American Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Forum, Bookman, La So ciete, Nouvelle, Mercure de France, Deutsche Revue. Illuslrere Tidende, Finsk Tidskrift. T. P.'s Magazine, etc., etc. "Contemporary life Is endowed with certain qualities which prompt people to call it "modern." It is those particular features which the author has sought to reveal In the works of Striiulborg, Ibsen, Maeter linck, Wilde. Shaw and Barker, This work is notable in considering cer tain leaders of contemporary drama fundamentally as interpreters of life and of that modern spirit which Is a function of the age" 0 IIEM OCT tiik iioim: ut maiii; wrii ji.vndi V Imilil with human dceda "Tin- house not inrtde with hands, Kiel mil Iu the heavens.-' .Vol set on shifting siiiids of i .1 i-ttily imitiildllly, I'.ut with foundation strong pen the ltiM-k of Arcs. K.ni net of kindness hIhiwii T.i pilgrim who, with bleeding feet Airl heart o'er imrdcncit, walks alone on life's rough highway. Is f,. shinned Into building stone And I.? the Muster set In mortar Indestructible T i stand throughout eternity. The simple, bumble deed,, l.lli" cup of water cold. And word of cheer to soul 1'tiMl cannot aee the way Through clouds of darkness luiuk'd earthly sorrows, nor the ruy Of Light IHvlue heyniui the hills Where stops the thorny path, ,iliiei out, In aplrit light, V flittering gem on turret high if mansions, where abide The ponls of tbone wao biillded well. These are the elect Those who give while here (if talents, ns of substance, loaned To.' little earthly apnn. These nrc the elect T'noM who. of time and faith, and love, lilve of the portion amnll A'lolli d ns their share. '1 hese arc the elect Those who live while here No. not for self alone. Hut for others have a enre! - Mrs. Al Fnlrbrother. CHANTED REPIUEVE Walter Shelton Given Ninety Days Longer to Live The Salisbury Evening Post is a new one for our table, but it seems to be a live ono all right. Typographically it is tho neatest evening paper coming our way, and it carries the news of the world and handles the local field. The merchants are giving it a good run of business. "The Winston-Salem Journal is thor oughly metropolitan in appearance and every once in a while throws a double number. The Journal is on its feet these days, and is certainly a credita ble' paper for Winston. It takes the Associated Press dispatches; has a good local force' and there is some one be hind the pen on the editorial desk who says things worth while. The Durham Daily Sun came across and is chock full of business, reflecting the commercial life of the Bull City. The Sun had hard rows to hoe for a long time, but it "sailed on and on" and Beems to be in smooth waters. ; The Square Deal comes np from Snow Hill, and Colonel Jones still throws out his hot stuph and is' giving the peo ple of his little town a better paper than they are entitled to, judging from the patronage in evidence. But finally they will appreciate Jones fully and hand him some more business. There are others but next go round will do. Let, Every Good Citizen Join in This Movement The Hod Cross Seal is a beautiful .stamp, designed for Christmas times and is used to seal your packages; also to put on backs of envelopes during the Holidays. The stamps will be on sa!- in Greensboro at several places, and Guilford County will re ceive 7.". per cent of the gross sales. This sum will be used in stamping out tuberculosis in this county. Fif teen per cent goes to the state for the same purpose, and ten per cent to the National fund. The Red Cross seal is popular all over the world, anl those who-buy them have contributed to a most worthy cause. Make it a point to tuy some -they sell at a cent apiece. Get anywhere from twenty-five to a hunlred. Put them on your Christmas packages and use them on your let ters. Help out and at the same time accommodate yourself, for tbe seals are very artistic and beautiful. r o Mt. Airy Is looking forward to hav ing a city carrier mall service, the post office receipts and other things putting It In the class entitled to such service. The several hundred stone cutters employed by the granite com pany many of them from the old country runs up the postal receipts erf the mountain city beside contri buting to Its supportNln many other Walter Shelton killed his wife In Reidsville. Shot her three times, and he was tried and convicted, The Supreme Court reviewed his case and found no error. He was to have been electrocuted today but Gover nor Craig granted him a ninety day stay. . ' Of'cottrse the last ninety days may be worth something to a felon; worth something to a man who had killed his wife in cold blood but is it? Shelton had made his preparations to die. He had asked God's forglv- uess and felt he had secured that. Wonderful feeling It must be, -.to know that you can: shoot down a he'pless woman, one you have sworn to honor and protect a woman who lo'ves you and who gave you her heart and soul shoot her down like you would shoot a dog, and then ask God to forgive you, and feel that your prayer is answered. Wonderful we say, and more wonderful for tbat is the word- . Shelton wrote letters to his attor ney, M. P. W. Glldeweil in which he stated' that whiskey and bad com pany caused him to threaten Glide well's life, towander from his better nature. -Whether Shelton ever ex- caused ins terrible crime we are not Informed. ( All the way round we are opposed to capital punlsiiment we think a life sentence better lor al' concerned but If a man will delib erarely shoot the one person In the world who Is his friend through all conditions possibly there are times when the world were better by being entirely rid of such natures, o : ..- An Interesting Case It has been decided by the Supreme Court that usury is usury, so matter .whether collected as a fee or as straight interest. And the chances are that this is true. Often it hap pens, however, that a man can af ford to give fifty dollars for a thirty day accommodation. It might mean that the fifty was twenty per cent but when a man needs money badly he is willing to pay for it. However as we are not on the bench we wid reserve an opinion in this case until a later day. , James J. Curtis, MANUFACTURER AND JOBBER Storage and Distributing Agent GREENSBORO, N. C. 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