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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
A THANKSGIVING
Country Boy Learns Too
Late, Alas!
(For Everything by William "H Ross.)
HERE; is nothing doing
on the . farm' ssnd 7 the
boy; 'and he lef t it for a
big- city to get ' rich as
he had' read of other
poor country boys . do-
ing.,Vhenr hearrived
there lie -got a job lifting
heavy barrels on ;?nd oii vagc :s and lived in
a .room.so small Le could i:ot- ret.hjs old hair,
covered trunk into it. He had a big appetite
but did not earn enough to board-where food
rwas - fresh and abundant; i.asrit1' was ;at home
-on the farm. . v' ..'.V " : '?V
r. He - was often hajf hungry- and he learned
to drink; smoke and stay outs late, at night,
isoon losing the glow on' the'xheek wliich made
him so wholesome looking: When at last he'
.asked for a raise in.pay his boss gruffly -answered
"no!"; 'Then he .went after " another
jr'j nd got work in; a banbom.. There he
.v 1 f.aors,' cleaned spittoons; and' v,did all
' cf menial work;- He hoped-an time to
. .ix.: He lived off the lunch countermand
' -! 2 got; a -"chance toolv sty ;iiips of .:. liv.
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- the saiooniceeper , xugnt
:ick him outrof tt; div;;;
" -as 'r. fight' and iY - r"' ' cr'
- !lal. His i .
.'. !.j a'.jn 3 be
t smeued ,al fjie .i-iuagto. t),-Ci.uiiu io
: back of f henhouse ;and rest by the brook
v.. Jer. the trees,-He -would like to haVefed
. the , horses, thei cows and the pigs again; even
V 3 f he had to get up before dawn. He never
again would complain of . getting out of bed
at any hour if be only could open doors and
"walk afound as he pleased. ,;To be free to
come' and go as he liked no pleasure could
. .equal; that! :.:'V '. . ":';h
At last they took him to the prison office
I, and gave ; him some money, a suit of clothes,
new shoes and a new hat. '? h-h
"You are free now," h they : said : "Your
-term' has expired. Don't ever do anything to
bring 'you back. ...
i He went back to the farm on the first train.
It was the day b ef ore Thanksgiving. Fqlks
did not know him at first. His face, onceso
round and rosy, was long and bleached by
prison pallor. " There was something about
- bis walk, which years of lock-step had instill
ed, that made people lo6k at him.
He stood oh J the '.'station platform and gazed
! f around. ;Not a shingle seemed qhanged.
There, was Uncle Si loading groceries into
his store " wagon. Bill Jones was sitting on
'-the baggage truck just as he sat - the morning
'the -boy : had left s for the : city: ' .There was
;' AMandy Jane Perkins. She had been such a
' pretty girl when she sang in the choir. She
came across the track dressed in a calico gown
. and wearing a ' sunbonnet. Her sleeves were
r.oIled up - and - her arms ,: seemed big, red - and
oarse; Yes, she had changed. The convict
. iid not know she had married Sam Gray. She
looked at ' the - stranger curiously while she
talked to Uncle Si about the groceries she
wanted left at her house. But the convict did.
; not notice that. He was intently watching
children who had come into the world while
he was immured from it. Once he had been
as happy, innocent and care free as they were
then, -What would they do? Be healthy,
happy and content in the old home, or wicked
and foolish in the big city as he had , been?
When he ; turned down the road, Mandy
Jane said to Uncle Si : "Do you know who he
is? That's Tom Johnson he's been in pris
on : he killed a man. Isn't he dreadful! I
shant sleep a wink to-night with sich a char
acter in;town!
I -declare!";" exclaimed Uncle bi, peering
i;hrougrh horn spectacles at the figure slouch
ing down'the road. "I swan I can't see what
lie s after here. 1 11 speak to Amos.
Amos was the village constable. ;
.There were no telephones in the village and
nobodv oassed the convict on the road but
now the news seemed to spread ! At every
house people he' had known from childhood
-oeeked at him from windows arid doors,
Children he had never , seen before ceased
their olav and gazed at him in wondering
fear, or fled into houses to 'hide their, faces in
' mother's anrons. . , ' - .', -
"How did they know I was coming along
the road?" Tom asked of himself.- He was
o dazed that he did not seem to feel it -"ich
then but deep io.his mind and heart he, i.uew
it was aeronizing. , . . -'
: v The houses were unchanged, there was lhe
i same turn to the road and the hills looked as-
green and cool ' as ever. But still it was so
different all was so different. : He shut his
eyes to recall the pictures which had'haunted
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- - Heon, but he was tree now ana
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FOOLS NOT ALL DEAD
Mod
Adam
And Eve In
ern
Maine Woods;
EVER AL ways' theie are of get-
" At Vv'- ting into-- print, and one of the
MVji ways is Jo make a fool of your-
seitKio sometmng oaa or accen
it.tric. and get a reporter on a yel
low journal to play you up as
having done a stunt altogether,
original .' and quite beyond - the
imagination, ' sane and "sober folk who do
the yworth' while things in a world where the
freak always gets the front page.1 , j - : "
h' Just now a couple nipiiv 'Alaine a man and
his wife are attempting to demonstrate that
they can live, and be happy "under conditions
confronting no man or woman' since the time
of Adam and his introduction into the garden -of
Eden. Even the primal state df the First!
Man had advantages over that of the Maine
adventurers,- since, according to tradition the
garden in which the father of the race" found
himself - was located in a mild climate and
filled-with fruits, which he was .at liberty ."to
pluck and eat. - t. v'
Not so with, the Adam and Eve of the mod
ern -storyiappearihg with stock pictures-in-V
freak : pages llof the. -more or. less sensational
dailies. '-T- se proposed to g:o into the. Maine
.woods,in X 'bleak and checT.less month-; of,.
No vember h - only f th wearing, "'.'apparel',
brought vritL "i j-' tire "-rid, at the time
r f their birt1. , ' . f?r r-.c-pliar res of
7 kind v.-' ..y. -n 1 . .. .':.'. zatio:.. 'ar 1
ve bevc
cf
fat
editq try their daing;;expeiment..-;'-'-
lnd 11 reports are to be1 believed they are
doing it. They confess to feeling a" little bit
breezy in their improvised costumes of leaves
strung together" on a foundation of bark, and
have ' ha4 recourse to deer skin coats made
from the hide of an animal caught in a dead
fall. They are also getting: up an appetite for
bread like their mothers" made rather than
the hard tack compounded of blood and roots.
But great is . ambition and "the desire for
fame! Mr. and Mrs. Estes that is the name
if they live to get back to civilization will
doubtless show up in the movies as the orig-.
inals in the Eden story and a wondering
world will gaze in awe and admiration as it
puts up its coin for the latest. t
"V" ' O" ' '
Whims Of The Great.
" The amusements and whims of great men
have always caused astonishment on the part
pf the masses. Diogones thought that a tub
was the only fit style of dwelling, Nero liked
to set Rome on fire and then play the violin,
Dr. Sam Johnson, who wrote the first "un
abridged ' dictionary, used to walk around
London touching street posts, Shakespeare
was: given to poaching on the side, Lord
Bryon, who had a deformed foot, took his
chief delight in swimming, Ike Walton re
garded every occupation except fishing a
waste of time, George Howard', the bank
burglar, bought fine pictures, Andrew Carne
gie gives away libraries, John D. Rockefeller
plays golf, Tom Lawson writes books, Abra
ham Lincoln told stories, Carrie Nation chop
ped up pictures and William E. Gladstone
chopped down trees, Zion Dowie founded a
city and Pasteur found the hydrophobia bug,
Billy Sunday calls men to grace and Teddy
Roosevelt calls them liars.
And now they are saying that Germany is
about to be starved out. If the starving out
process is the only way to end the conflict J:he
sooner this is accomplished the better.
Latest advices .from Washington tell us
that the White House will be "gay" following
the introduction of the new First lady. How
soon we are forgot.
m And it looks like Claude Kinchin was rap
idly becoming a national figure.
where he had longed to be, so he could not
bring back .. the mood of anticipation framed
by bars, and cold gray walls. f
A woman white haired, dim eyed, old and
feeble was standing at the gate when Tom
got home. - She could not see across the
kitchen without her specs but she had seen
Tom , a mile away up the road.
He tramped with, downcast head : through
the dust under the hot noonday sun. He did
not see her until right abreast of the gray,
weather" stained house in which he was bofm
When he looked up he caught her eye. He
walked up to the old woman and into her
arms. She held' the close cropped head to her
breast and patted his cheek with long, thin,"
shrivelled fingers that seemed all knuckles.;
h "Mother !" cried Tom. " 7 ,
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"My jxrecious boy t'h said his mother hv, -
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1915.
JOHN D. HOST TO KIDS
T'HEY abuse him; they lampoon him; they
nave-used him for a National pounding
1)'ag untii his flesh is hardened and his soul is
sad "-and yet Old John D. Rockefeller looms
up big vand necessary in1 the economy of the
world.-'" Eery now and then he does some
thing worth while. If it isn't tossing a mil
lion info the lap of a university or endowing
a foundation for scientific research it is some
thing else which shows he has a heart and a
soul. The other day he was at Tarrytown,
his "New York home, and he telegraphed to
Cleveland and invited the ninety odd thou
sand school children to be his guests at the
flower show. A trifle you say yet had they
all accepted,, and all accepted who could get
therethe admission fee would have cost Old
John a little over tw'entythree thousand tlol
Jars. - ' r ; ' - .r., , '
And who t!ia1l say; that in doing this any
motive but tl r -jht motive moved him? If
he made glad e hearts' of the school children;
if lie stopped : '.'I - I;fe-to think of them,
vvbo shall S3 " benefactor of his
A Taswell, Virginia editor who "views with
alarm' the inevitable injury of the free trade
policy to American farmers as well as to
American manufacturers, offers advice to
Chambers of Commerce in the following:
"The Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Com
merce is seeking 'a practical solution of the
problem of placing idle men on idle lands.'
Certainly va great problem and worthy of
study, but no one' remedy will be complete.
There are. many things that would help, and
all combined would go far to bring idle men
and idle land, together. For one thing, every
effort should be made to make farming profit
able. No man likes to go into an occupation
which calls for the labor of himself, his wife
and his children unless he sees strong prob
ability of fair compensation.
"There have been some happenings in the
last two years that ought to shake the con
fidence of the American people in the perman
ence of profitable agriculture. For instance,
the enactment of the democratic tariff law
promptly closed beet sugar factories and put
the sugar beet growers out of business. Can
adian and Mexican and South American
stockmen began shipping cattle into the
American market, cutting the American farm
er's price. Argentine corn was sold in Illinois.
Chinese eggs flooded Pacific coast markets.
Dairy products began to pour in from Aus
tralia and Europe. The war put a stop to
most of this competition, but the importations
had assumed a sufficient magnitude to make
any cautious man hesitate to go into farming
unless he is reasonably confident of the con
tinuation of war or the restoration of a pro
tective tariff.
"There is no probability whatever that for
eign, producers will be able, even under free
trade, to seize American markets completely
and destroy American production! What they
can and will do is cut the price the American
farmer receives and make tarming unproht
able. That means more idle men and more
idle. land. Chambers of commerce that are
in real earnest about diminishing instead of
increasing idleness of men and land in this
country will do well to discuss this question
of foreign importation from an economic
standpoint, even if it is associated with, poli
tics. It is all very well for chambers of com
merce to avoid political questions relating to
individuals, but this question of getting idle
men upon idle land in America is something
more than politics, especially when existing
American legislation tends to put busy men
on busy land in China, Canada, Argentina,
Australia and other countries."
The Compensation.
When it is very cold there are no circuses
and no foot ball. Therefore we see compensa
tion in things that at first blush look against
us.
Winston-Salem is jubilant over the opening
of a great white way. Didn't we hear some
thing about Greensboro doing something of
that kind about the year so long ago. , we
have forgotten the date.
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The question of preparedness has two sides.
It is altogether the way you dope itout.i ;
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND N TRAINS
HANDS BRYAN ONE
Scriptural Quotation Calls For
Another One.
MAN who thinks he can make a
point and clinch it by finding an
apt biblical quotation is going
to miss it because the Bible is
so universal that it will cover al
most every thought we have.
A few weeks ago Colonel Bryan
sent Governor Stuart of Vir
ginia a parcel post package in
the shape of a paper weight, and it had en
graved on it a quotation from Isaiah reading:
"They shall beat their swords into plow
shares," and a waggish friend of the Governor
was inspired to turn the point of the "peace
propaganda plow" against the former Secre
tary of State.
In a communication addressed to Governor
Stuart, he comments upon the biblical quota
tion employed by Mr. Bryan, and remarks
that in view of the desertion of the ship of
state by the secretary in a crisis, Mr. Bryan's
attention should be directed to that saying of
Christ which is to the effect that "He that
puttieth his hand to the plow and . looketh-back
is not worthy of Me."
All we could say concerning this is that Mr.
I Bryan put his hand to the plow in good faith.
He saw that he was being used as a rubber
stamp--and, big man that he is, he gracefully
pulled out.
.When men -are plowing for other people -
other people should at least treat them with
respect. This Wilson. did not do. -v '.
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Andrew" Carnegie has said that the Unite !
impressed v lien he expressed it only because
armor platehas been a big source of profit to
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the Steel Trust which he organized. Howev
er a man might sell rum and at the same timo
say it was bad to drink. The naval question
is very engrossing to all nations that have a
seaboard." , It enters largely into getting and
holding trade. Great Britian clings to the
view that a big navy enters as largely into its
commercial prosperity as manufacturing
plants. In India, China and many other lands,
it landed its goods in the beginning under the
cover of its guns.
Naval warfare has shown that it is the
men behind the guns who really determine
a nation's naval power. Natural born sailors
make the best sea-fighters, as Napoleon learn
ed when he tried to beat England on the
water. The French were exquisite ship build
ers although inferior to the British in hand
ling the vessels they constructed. Some of
the best fighting craft in the British navy
were French built and captured in sea fights.
Islanders are sailors by birthright and that
is why the English beat the French on the
ocean and why the Japs could so easily de
stroy Russian fleets.
Whatever may be individual opinions as
to the value of a navy to a country, most
governments are agreed that it is a prime nec
essity. The difficulty that confronts them to
day is its cefst. In Lord Nelson's time, the
British government could build a thousand
frigates, corvettes, sloops and other style of
craft for what it costs now to put one vessel
of the Dreadnought's size and type into com
mission. I
Just before the civil war in this country
the United States was pushing England hard
for the carrying trade of the world. At the
close of the fraticidal struggle, the United
States had a navy that in numbers and guns
was second, to none. It required an immense
fleet to blockade the Southern seaboard. But
that war introduced a new epoch in naval
construction. The Confederacy built the first
iron clad when it armored the Merrimac and,
at the end of the drawn- battle between that
ship and the Monitor, wooden fighting craft
propelled by sails were as obsolete as the oar
galleys of the Carthaginians. Then .the
United States settled down to building rail
roads and Europe gave itself over to the war
ship industry. Now that this country has
Pacific Colonies, arid has taken upon itself
the duties of a world power, it is a question
if its naval policy for the first; decade or two
after the civil war was not a mistake. It
takes a long time to launch a modern warship
in American or European yards, although the
Japs have "shown that they can do it in about
the time it required to build an old fashioned
three-deck frigate. On the other hand naval
architects are going ahead so fast that a war
ship gets but of date in the light of improve
ments almost before its paint gets soiled. The
mighty British navy is. full of ships that
would not stand the crucial test of actual
fighting with craft launched within five
years. What the ultimate ship will be like is
beyond guessing.
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' Mr. Kitchin is in line to be the most talked
about man in Atnerica.
ESTABLISHED MAY, xgoa.
WILL BE LIVELY
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Something To Be Doing
In Congress.
HEN Congress gets
down to its knitting, and
the appropriation bill
gets fairly under discus-"
sion, there will be more . -doing
in this Nation by
the corner grocer loafer
than ever since the davs
of free' silver agitation ' or when "the Nation
was confronted with the perplexing probfem :
"Is Harry Thaw Insane?" From all quarters,
and in all quarters you will see the fur fly,
figuratively speaking. At the present time, .
before the discussion takes place; before Bry
an fires his long range guns .from the 1 outside
and Kitchin responds wit,h his long range r -guns
from the inside the average man says he .-,
is in favor of it. He hasn't analyzed the ques- -;'
tion. He doesn't know what it means. - He :
understands that the democrats arid repub-,'-Ni
licans are ior it, and naturally he is one of
these. Therefore he is for it and he doesn't,
know why. v V, :
The average man, however, stops to think -finally,
and- it is the average man that puts V'
on the brake. Those for it. will contend that
it is necessary for this, country to be prepared .
for an assault- by - any or all .the ..nation's.,'. "
the earth. "They canriqt tell ns why. ' They :
cannot rioirit to' any precedent."' They . c .' -simply
show, that "we should be pf c
that we should build bigger ship?
ships; that' we should. have -. hi
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' because son:-: :;h. ...
it to. us and we shou ... i:
to defend ourselves. Here w :
powerful nation absolutely at "ti;.e .mercy oi
all the other nations and while it "will tak'e ;
a billion dollars to do what should be done, !
the question of cost or the question of how we
can get the money is not considered or sug-
gested. - "
On the other hand &e man who expects to
oppose the preparedness programme is going
to show that we haven't the price ; we haven't '
any need at this time for all these prepara-.
tions; that for all these hundreds of years we
have managed to get along and that now of all
times, because every aggressive and fighting
nation is on crutches; has lost all their sol-,'
diers.and their treasuries are depleted, there
is no danger, and that if we prepare like Wil
son wants to prepare, a hot headed president
will be sure some day to use his power and
throw this nation into a terrible war. The
children who are to come after us will pay the
terrible toll and a great Nation will, because .
of its attempt at conquest be wiped off the
map as have all the Nations -of the world
as bloody and sorrowful history records it.
On the one side will be the Peace propagan
distson the other Wall Street and Mammon
and within a short time every, man will be
talking- and talking with all his force. There
are indeed more firey times ahead than we
have been promised in a long time and when
Kitchin, from the floor of the House fires his
first gu, the music will be on. And it will be
music that will be heard around the world.
Too Many Laws.
Most of the men who get elected to legisla
tures, state or national, are lawyers and of
course their capitol business is to make laws.'
No sooner do they adjourn and return to con
stituents, families and personal clients than
they join the great army of other-lawyers who
devote their working hours to learning how
they can devise ways and means of beating
out the provisions of the statute books. It is
very profitable and educative, but a nullifica
tion process which confuses the people. One
of the chief industries of the United States is
law-making. The different states and Con
gress are busy at it for a considerable time
every year and tlje country at large fills in in
tervals with infractions. On the side are town
and city governments framing ordinances,
and if it is true that the best governed coun- .
try is the least governed the American re
public is in a bad way. But the Americans
dearly 'love to legislate." Every party has a
few laws which it wants put on the books
and it is as common as the announcement of
an "alteration" bargain sale to hear a man say
about almost anything, "There ought to be a"
law to prevent it." -'' '
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There is a growing demand all over the
state for better school houses. ' And so it
seems that Greensboro is not the only 'North
Carolina town whose population has gone for
ward faster tharl its bond issues. . -V y .
. Let us all be thankful that we . are tlive
Americans rather than dead Europeans.' ; .
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