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VOL. XXTI.
HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1903.
NO. 2.
THE PRISONER
Who escapes from jail is by no means
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late he will be
tnent for his short -J
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rie of Ta1htive 111!
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escape for a time -
from the sufferings
oi ayspepsia are in
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as the escaped pris
oner. Soon or late
they will go back to
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and pay an added
penalty for tempor
ary release.
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ber of remedies without success. I finally lost
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blood and lungs.
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riks plaoe l(i nest ad vantaee.
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yspepsia Cure
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ALL
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of pregnancy, childbirth and
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chae.g-e of life.
11
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womb, and menstrual irregularity
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system, ads direotlv on the "eiu-
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I ra nsinir Wine of Cardui and Thed
fonl a BlRck-rraui;ht and I feet like a
diBerent woman alrt-a.lv. Sovcml la
dies here kevp the meiiicinra in their
noinrsau toe tune. I have three girls
and they are using it with me.
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INSURANCE.
PAY
OF
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less than agentt representing companies 'n
the Southeastern Tariff AsMciati l alt
asking
These are independent hoiv. companies
not connected with tin Insurance Ti-nta"rt
appeal strongly to home support B il
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ronage is solicited. j
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Henderson, N. c.
HJJBr-h 1
Am
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By
Charles
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Copyright. 190J. by Charles N. 'airi
H ATVD-
a wisht t I naa wings una
Xo-yah's dove!
a wisht t I had wings like
Xo-yah's dove!
wisht 11 ! Lawd a wisht t
Lawd a
1!
Lawd a wish t-
-t I had wings like No-
yah's dove!
"Hen, Lawd, I'd fly straight up, so
fas' en so hawd t-ll I crack de gates
oh liealien opMi en walk down Halle
lujiili street! Iat de on'y kin' ob walk
In' fuh Abs'lom."
Uncle Absalom, twisted with rheu
tiiii: ism, swayed to and fro as he sat
crooning and mattering to himself that
Miimy Florida Sunday afternoon in an
"M rocking .chair at the edge of bis
sweet potato patch Aunt IIU
Euealypfis. his wife, washing
i: !:es Just insnle the open doorway
' t'.ie shanty, cast an eye in his di
iveiioii occasionally to make sure that
be vas keeping the chickens out of
11. potato v-:ie-i.
"I.uvd-a wisht t I could pray like
i'mi-yul prayed." sang Uncle Absa
! ;:i through the whole verse, adding:
"1 would pray so loud tell de debbil
:..ek a coinpellmeht tub run tuh
c i's o!) 1" vuth. O Lawd, gimme
;!:- luinch tuh show dey wick'ness
!. :; '.' clriVb:' A violent croaking of
ld rocker ;'.::tl a mole powerful
"' in from Absalom brought Aunt Hil
l.;ry to the kitchen steps. "Wlia' de
maltali wid yo'. Als'lomV Ain' yo'
ci.i '.ah done 'greed wid yo";"
"! is dine pres":iiHti:eiisly. Ilill'ry
Ivui-.'l.vptus," replied Absalom solemn
ly, "but I hab dose cake walkahs so
I.- ivy on ma min' dat 1 'blecge tuh git
on ma knees en"
M ytih, yo' Ai s'loin! Den' yo' go
tloii.' any si-h fool'shness! Yo' 'mem
b;:!r; de las' time yo' tuck tuh yo' knees
yo' ! ruck up du Ik s' jiiece ob t'uhnchuh
i-i d,- bouse, en 1 ain' gwine liab no
iim' sieb p'eeodin's."
F :;: Absalom settled back painfully
as r.lie dl?appe:;red inside the doorway,
am! his shiny black forrhend drew it
svlf into dc per creases : s he groaned
to l!:e sweet ):.(: to vines: "Ilill'ry am
like de res' ob 'cm. She am tuck wid
lie stylish ob de new preachah. lie
go! !e town walk on 'im. De Lawd
hab 111 ussy'. Oh. v.o. Cay-bri yel; go
blow yo' trumpet loud:"
Absalom hobbled to church that night
on bis two heavy, gnarled orange
sticks. The evening announcement of
the watch meeting for the older ones
and the cake walk for thf younger
members of the church to be held si
mnUancom ly, the first at the church
and the second at Masonic hall, on New
Year's eve. was identical with that
which had so distressed Fnele Absa
lom's mind at the morning service.
"I wants tuh mek a tew reemabks on
de subjeck ob de cake walk yo' hab
'I'.i'iinee' 'long wid de watch meetin',
r.rothnh Mulberry," he said. "De watch
meetin', on de watch meetin' on'y, am
de place fuh tuh spen' de las' iuin't's
ob de ole yeah en de 1'us' ob de new.
De cake walk am one ob do wuks ob
de debbil, en I ain' ben tuh one of 'cm
pence I wuz eunvuhted de las' time
De Lawd hab gib me tuh toll yo' all
wha' de I'.a hble sez bouteii hit. I hab
heahed 'im say. 'Oh. Abs'lom, ma son.
ina son; toll '0111 de lambs ain' got no
biziiess mixin' wid de ways ob de
goats, fub do goatsos pranebi' en cuttin'
up shall ens' Yin intuh outah dahkness.'
He gimme de tex' 1'iim de fus' begimiin'
ob (Jen'sis. 'Watch en priy. but Enoch
walk wid tbuvd, en he wuz not ' Why?
l-'uh tlawd tuck 'im. t)b cou'se he
did. K:i yo' all gwiue ile same way.
"Hit jes' like Knoch w'en he got up
de walkin'. 1'e Lawd come 'long, en
he say. 'Enoch, wha' yo' gwiuc do?' '1
gwine git up a cake walk. Lawd.' De
Lawd ain' say nothin' mo' tell w'en de
ban' strike up be say, 'Ilyah. Enoch; I
gwine walk wid yo'.' De angels wuz
playiu' dey golden hahps. (Jay-brel wuz
soundin' bis hawu. en Enoch wuz 'njoy
in' hit splendid en thinkin' de profes
sioualshlp gwine b'long tuh 'im sho.
Dey wuz walk down one way en
sashay back, en dey had done staht
down ag'in w'en dey wuz de bigges'
kin' ob thundah en lightnln'. De sul
phuh begin rizin- en chokin' de angela,
de hahps en de ha was wuz all cou
Jungle togethah. en Enoch 'he wuz
not. fuh (Jawd tuck 'im.' Do dat look
like he 'proob ob de walkin'? 'Gawd
tuck Mm,' cn yo' all gwine de sam
way. Anybody sich a fool ez tuh wa;i
ag in de Lawd. he boun' tuh be tuck."
At 7 o'clock on New Year's eve Uncle
Absalom hobbled to the watch meeting
snd up to the altar rail. Aunt Hillary
was not to be seen. "I hab a call fum
de Lawd, breth'n en sistahs." he be
gan, "en he hab said: 'Stay not in de
house ob de richus, but go tuh de
cake walk, oh, Abs'lom. tna eon. ma
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TTSl'LE AiSS.VLOM 1 1 1. I THE I .ssl'l H A TIO.V j
OK A 1'AHrNLi:
0UM8'
1E1 TOUTS
N. Lurie
son: Go pray In de odds' ob de sebbin
debblls en de hawned beas'ses. Tuhn
dey hahts tuh de wrath ob de Lawd.' "
And the "eldah" hobbled slowly to the
door, his face streaming with perspira
tion, praying and exhorting as he went.
The cake walk was about to begin
when Absalom tutored Masonic hall
and took his stand in the middle of it.
The young people, remembering bis
fearful prophecies, spoke in awed tones
as the old man, silent and motionless,
waited for the last noisy straggler to
Lush and bear the further words of
warning. Only the leader of the "aw
chessy" dared to wtisi-er when the
"eldah" began solemnly. "lie will
stretch outen his ban' en destroy" A
wall from the fiddle cut off the words
"Fust couple up dtr middle!" Th-re
was a sigh of relief, and the "Cawn
tlel' Breakdown" set hands to patting
and toes to tapping an accompV nimr
to the wh:r.mg
music as the
head couple
started by L'n
c I e Absalom.
"Woe unto yo'!
Watch 01 pray."
he tried, "en
don' walk ag'in
de Lawd!" His
rheumatic old
body shook vi;!i
the power of his
emotion. II 0
reached for his
Sunday handker
chief, hanging
mm
mZ Mte-jSiSi from
111 outer
coat pocket, and
V' 1
one of his sticks
flew from his
trembling hands.
The couple re
passed him, and
his body swayed
violently. Then
YO ALL GWINE
UA Mli WAY."
the tip
grasped.
of the reond stick, firmly
came down on the lioor with
a loud thump
and Absalom, keeping
time with head
hobbled after tb
slid i;rms and stick,
couple. "U'ineuiber
Enoch en de walls
ob de La wd - de
watch meetin' in the lines
den:"
"Secon' couple fawivuds!
Hut Ah
Kalom, chanting, half breathless, "In
de mids' ob wolves wha' go yo' out
fub tuh see? De ri-chus neys en wrath
ob de Lawd!" started up and remained
the only one on the lioor. lor the sec
ond couple refused to submit to the
distraction the lirst had suffered.
'Yo' Abs'lom!'' And Hillary En
calyptus stood before him Mul neither
Absalom nor the music stopped ' Tok
hoi' ob ma alim, Ilill'ry, en see de
glory ob de Lawd on ob I, rul " Arid in
terror lest he should fall, as she real
ized that he was using but one stick,
and that in the nil, to accentuate his
language, she put her arm through his.
'i hen 1, or head straightened up, her
body tilted back and Ik r feot Hew out
as the music vibrated through her
every fiber and muscle. Fucle Absa
lom felt the inspiration of a partner.
Ills elbows cocked themselves at the
most approved cake walk angle, and be
took an extra stop to the right. Aunt
Hillary instinctively Citl the same.
"Tek de ole possum cu coot ketch In
yo' foot, lliU'ry," whisp;r. i Absalom.
"Dey ain' none ob 'em l:no..'s dat step
hyuh." There was no 1 iici;m::t ism in
Uncle Absalom's gait now and he did
not know that the orcheswa. with ex
tra zest, was playing at great 1 r speed
or that the hall was filled with giggling
young folk. He and Hillary were far
away on the old plantation walking
every ne down "Ole marsah" was
there with "ole missus," and "young
marsah" himself was playing his vio
lin for the whole harnful Such stepping-
and "sashaying," such pigeon
wings and scrapes and .bews, the young
generation in Masonic hall had never
before seen, and the gigglers, gradual
ly silenced to the verge of dizziness by
such an "cxpirf puffcshion.il pulfaw
mance," gazed with admiration aud
envy Hut Uncle Absalom and Aunt '
Hillary remained In the past, oblivious 1
to all but the steps of the couples who j
succeeded them, until the grand march
was over and the dissipated old year
nad gayly reeled out with it.
"Xuinbah 2 w ins de big cake!" called
the master of ceremonies, and Absa
lom and Hillary stepped briskly up to
receive it just as Preacher Mulberry,
having dismissed the watch meeting,
opened the door of Masonic hall. He
gazed, petrified, at Absalom's jaunty
air aud Hillary's youthful simper. "Ole
marsah and missus" suddenly van
ished, but religion returned only half
way.
"He he done gone, old Abs'lom," ex
plained the "eldah" as the 'preachah"
stood dumb before the two. "He done
gone wid de ole yeah en de rbeumatiz.
'Tain' no use full tub try tnh walk
ag'in de Lawd. preachah He gwine
hab bis way. en anybody sich a fool ez
tuh walk ag'in '!m am boun' tub be
tuck."
Football Fact.
Now, why is it that married men
Are not to football called?
The reason is that no one can
Play football If he's bald.
Baltimore American.
Hade the Beat of It.
Talking about philosophers, we have
this obituary line on the best of all of
them: "Spent all his life in hoping for
the best aud wasn't disappointed when
the worst came."-Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Tbe Better Fate.
"So long I've been by woman bossed
I feel." poor Henpeck said,
"Tls better to have loved and lost'
Than to have loved and wed."
Philadelphia Press.
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T waa a weary prinW mm Tda laid him down to rest
With trouble in his tired brain and dinnn- 'neath Ids vest.
The trouble was his daily work, that now perpbxed him sore,
For each conapositor he hired was vtoi-c tLnn :.'- before.
The dinner was a hearty one, made up of things i !. these
Of steak, cold slaw and Little Necks and hot mi::cc pi and cheese.
And with the load upon his mind and t'other load below
The printer tossed upon his couch, a writhing thing
of woe.
Aad as he writhed the midnight chime pealed
through the chamber's gloom,
And, lo! strange shapes came flocking in to fill the
dismal room.
In tattered shrouds bedewed with damp, in m jldy
graveclotbea thin,
Through wall and floor a host of ghosts like snow-
flakes drifted in,
And as the dreary winter wind moans through the
graveyard trees
So from the dismal company came spoken words like these:
"We are the ghosts of printers past, of many an age and clime.
Grim Death, that weird compositor, has pied our forms sublime,
But to us in our graves of ice or 'neath the tropic flowers
Your hard tuck tale was whispered, and we came to tell you ours.
All up and down the printer's spine a
As then to tell this dismal tale Confucius began:
"By the shores of the great Iloangbo, you know,
A printer there lived long ago, and, oh,
He printed each day for the folk of Cathay
Cards, l.o : lets and bills for the show, just so,
In a manner nrtistie, but slow.
Each type page was carven by hand and spanned
With ornaments gaudy and grand; they stand
As moir.-iioiiis now of the work of Lee Chow,
The first of the great printing band who scanned
His proof in the far yellow iaud.
A mandarin mighty was Ling Ah Sing,
1 1 '.'-! m
Bang out on the air: ' 'Tis a plot! 'Tis a snare!
'Tis the work of some wizard to spell my knell!'
And the mandaiTn quivered like jell.
That day the cook broke the great plate f state,
The hir.aes came off the front gate, a weight
Dropped full om Ling's toe, and he
woe,
"Tis the work of those dragons ornate; but wait
My thirst for revenge I will sate!'
He pounced on Lee Chow with a sweep aud whoop,
And boiled him next day into soup, poor dupe;
But the family came and took pay for that skame.
For they killed themselves all in a group, grim troop,
On the mandarin's spotless front stoop."
The Chinese spook its tale had told, but ere the echo died
The shade of Johann Gutenberg spoke near the priater's side:
"Long years ago, where, as you know, good printing first began,
In Germany, across the sea, there lived a printer man
e 1 ,r.ri 1
r7?!7i Who dailv made
In triumph grand athwart the land marched beld Ven Dunkersnitz, -A
man of war most mighty, for he gave the focman fits.
Wheu he returned, the bflres burned and fireworks
shod their blaze,
And with scare bead each paper spread abroad the
general's praise.
The Pumpernickel -wit was quick and strictly up to
date;
His brilliant editorial read: 'Von Dunkersnitz the Great!
Of those of birth and sterling worth whose heads
the Fates anoint.
The mighty Fritz von Dunkersnitz is one great case in point.'
Alas for haste! That screed was placed a brewer's ad. beside.
Alas for slip 'twixt cup and lip! A line or two was
that printer's lLfe.
They took the thing before the king, who said, 'My judgment is
That printer cad, depraved and bad, must eat those words of his.'
Now, German words have droves and herds of syllables galore,
And in the lump set up by Tump was one w"Hh ninety-four.
He ate the line to eighty-nine, but then ah. woe the day!
The ninetieth choked him to death, and so he passed away."
The grisly Teuton ceased to speak, and from tbe tmhbled bed
A quavering voice made answer as the troubled printer said:
"I thank you, gentlemen. Your tales save been so gay and bright;
But, as I'm rather tired, perhaps you 11 kindly say
good night."
In chorus spoke the ghostly host as chimes the fu
neral bell,
"We shall not leave you yet, for we've ten thousand
more to tell."
"Ten thousand!" shrieked the printer man. "Ten
thousand more like those?
fen thousand wornout fairy tales of long dead printers' woes?
No, thanks. I've troubles of my own!" He struggled to arise.
But clammy fingers pinned him down with dread, unearthly ties.
And every ghost in all the host, with shriek and sob and wail,
Benin in chorus wild and weird to tell its separate tale.
The printer roared, the printer howled, but louder howled the dead,
The printer writhed, tbe printer fought and tumbled out of bed;
And as he struck the floor a flash of radiance rent the gloom
The night -was gone, the ghosts were goue, and sunshine filled the room.
And inupon the morning breeze, home through the window wide,
There cume the Carrier's cheery call as he his papers cried.
The moral of this truthful yarn is plain and simple quite: '
Don't hire a bad compositor, don't eat too much at night,
Don't Tool with spirits, wet or dry; don't let your troubles pray
Upen your mind, and don't forget the CARRIER today.
Poor Xora!
We had no anthracite nor coke;
Our cook was new and green;
Some one told her that she should soak
A brick in kerosene.
She placed It in the stove a roar
It aeemed the roof was cleft.
And now we show a shattered door
Where our Nora left.
Chicago News.
In pure fraternal sympathy we burst our bonds
secure
And came." The printer, shivering, said, "You're very
kind, I'm sure."
Then forth from out the throng of spooks there strode
a stately shade,
With flowing robes of spectral silk that phantom
rustlings made.
Long were its ghostly nails, its skin was of a yellow
hue,
And peHdent from its ghostly skull there hung a
ghostly cue.
chilling qui?er ran
In politics quite tle whole thing that spring,
And our printer friend thought that a circular brought
To the potentate's notice might bring or swing
Some custom from those in the 'ring.'
So he carved in a manner quite new a few
Fine pages of words all askew and drew
As embellishments rare a big snake lure and thera
And a bug and a dragon or two, so true
They'd give one the shivers to view.
Now, Ling superstitious was quite; iu fright
He'd howl if they put out the light at night.
So when from the envelope's shell there fell
That circular gorgeously swell a yell
shrieked in
his
in course of trade the wnerewitnai
to pay
For bread and kraut by turniag ut a paper ev
ery day.
The printer's name, 'twas kaawn to fame, was Pum
pernickel, and
His paper, too, the Mete Bazoo, was sol on every
stand.
pied
Three words transposed. The 'form was closed. Next
day folk read with fear,
'The mighty Fritz von Dunkersnitz is one great case
of beer!'
The general swore, the general tore his hair and
drew n knife;
By grandsire's beard and oaths more jtveird he doomed
Lcanouiy la tsg.
When eggs are expensive, it is well
to remember that it is not necessary to
boil a whole egg to get a yolk, for gar
nishing. Sens rate white and yolk with
out breaking the latter and poach It
hard in salted water. The white is
saved for glazing or meringue etc
I
By Rik-y M
Fletcher Berry
A
Yi.i !;-M. l"02. by U.
ID
N Jan. 1, 1621, the sun rose, if 1
shone at all on that day on the
bleak New England coast, ou a
scene of misery on the spot
where the pilgrim fathers and mothers
had landed three weeks before. The
little company of seekers for religious
freedom had left Plymouth, England,
in September, at a season of tbe year
wheu the fields of the mother country
still present an inviting aspect, and the
contrast between the green downs and
the "stern and rockbound coast" al
most appalled them. Nevertheless the
weary travelers landed, and on Christ
mas day the beginning of "the first
house, for common use. to receive them
and their goods," was made. Before
the cCmlng of the new year the land
had been parceled out aud some of
the stronger spirits had begun their
bouses It was not until the middle
of January that all of tbe company
left tbe Mayflower for tbe laud.
In the meantime the rigors of the
winter 111 the new land had been ex
perienced. Before the wet spring had
passed and summer bad come to glad
den ihe land one-half of the settlers
were laid away in the frozen ground.
Vet when the Mayflower sailed to
England in April not one of the colo
nists returned to
face the intoler
ance at home, sofv(
strong
spirit
was the f
or inese
men and women, tefo
To t hose stern ?
old religionists ';
everything in the lV
nature of festiv-E
ity was an abom
ination, and it is
not strange to
find no mention
of any observ
ance of the be
ginning of the
new year. In
deed, at that
time among Eng
lishmen at large
Jan. 1 was scarce
ly recognized as
the beginning of
a new era, that hueting theiu dead.
distinction being given then and for
many years after to March the day
of the Annunciation, or Lady day. Not
until 1752 did Jau. 1 become the initial
day of the legal year. Before that time
it was customary to sot down dates
from Jan. 1 to March 24. inclusive.
thus: Jan. 15, 1020 1. signifying that
popularly the year was 1021, but le
gally K20. Iu this, as in all other
things, tbe pilgrim fathers followed
the English custom.
Instead of the eclebratiou of New
Year's day or of any other holiday we
find such entries as "Jan. 2J, dies Kose,
the wife of Captain Slandish." Sick
ness and death jyere induced by the
privation and exposure incident to the
season and the lack of strong, well
built domiciles. Wading through the
Icy water from the ship to the shore,
bearing the scanty building materials
and the still more scanty supply of
food, proved fatal to the men, while
the mental anxiety and lack of suita
ble provisions carried off the women
and children.
Not only were the pilgrim fathers
Stricken by the lack of suitable shelter,
but the scantiness and coarseness of
their food supply during that long and
terrible first winter proved disastrous
to the little colony. I'artial starvation
was added to the other terrors of the
settlers, many of whom h.-id been deli
cately nurtured in Tngland.
One atlii(tioi) was spared the pil
grims during the terrible winter days
that preceded and followed New Y :.r s
day, 1021 there was no trouble, a
had been dreaded, with the Indians. It
has been said of the "f.-ii h rs" that
immediately after landing they fell
first upon their knees and then upon
the aborigines." So far iiom this be
ing tbe case, it is pathetically noted
that "that v!i-ter they bad to form
seven times more graves foV the dead
than babltfitiens fcr the living." They
were buried on the bank not far from
the landing a spot still to be venerated
and, lest the Indians should take
courage to attack the survivors from
their weakened state, the s,'.! -.-Vj'-h
covered the graves of the:: 1.1 vl;
relatives was carefully bent, n .iov.-i:
and planted with a crop of corn
By March 23. 1021. the tin t real New :
Year's day in the Plymouth colony. tr:- j
surviving inoiety-of the r-oloni.-ts !.;'.
decided to remain in New Ln-.a:; 1
rather than go back on the Maj rvcr
On that day they assembled fcr the
transaction of public business, psrse 1
some simple laws for tbe government
of the colony and re-elected John Car
ver governor. He bad been cV'-n the
previous year aboard ship. l)u:it;g
tbe disembarkation Governor Cnrver'a
wife had been drowned, and bis son
perished early in the winter He him
self governed the colony only a few
weeks more, dyinu Apr;! 3 lie was
succeeded by William Bradford.
James Richard C-reen. the emir, out
English historian. In his "History f
the English People." says of the t il
grirn fathers and their sufferings dur
ing the first winter in the new v.orlJ:
"In 1G20 the little company cf th"
pilgrim fathers.is aftertimes loved 1 1
call them, landed on the barren coast
of Massachusetts at a spot to which
they gave the name of Plymouth, In
memory of the last English port at
which they touched. They had soon to
face the long, hard winter of the north,
to bear sickness and famine. Even
when these years of toil and suffering
had passed there was a time when
'they knew not at night where to have
a bite in the morning.' Resolute and
WOT
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VIM'S SIETO
M. Fletcher Berry
industrious as they were their progress
w;is very slow, and at the end of ten
years they numbered only oiK) souls.
Rut smiiil as it was the colony was
i.ow nrmly established and the strug
gle for mere existence was over. 'Let
it not be grievous unto you, some of
their brethren had writteu from Eng
land to the poor emigrants in the midst
of their sufferings, 'that you have been
instrumental to break the ice fer others.
The honor shall be yours to the world's
end.' "
mi hots
In the department of the humors of
Xew Year's day must be placed the
card sent abroad by Johannes Seiden
schwanz, grocer boy.
Johannes was a rawboned, innocent
faced youth who distributed cabbage,
kerosene and other delicacies among
the customers of Sebastian Schwein
furth, grocer. Joint nut scalled "llonee"
for short, had not been iu this country
very long; therefore he was proud of
his skill in writing and speaking the
English language. His task it was at
morn and noon and dewy eve to take
upon his shoulder a basket of grocery
goods at which a horse might look sick
and shake its head and carrv the same
hither and thither to persons who lived i
in the sixteenth story, more or less, of I
skyscrapi:...; iipartment houses. It was ;
Ul.-, 11,1111 i 11. . j 111 i' 1.:. 1, 1111(11,
shaft and i: '.mediately send the pota
toes aud sauerkraut howling merrily t-
upward afier the whistle. Ile was
good natureil; Uo was strong as an ox;
he was also as lacking in the divine
sense of humor as an ox.
Throe-fourths of t!:se to whose
kitchens llonee delivered onions and
molasses nevur has seen, never would
see, him in bodily presence, yet to
ward them he bad the warmest good
will, in which respoot be was an ex
ample to all. Though they knew him
not, he taiev, them, and k nt thtm a
joint stock New Year's carJ. It cost
possibly 2 cents. Its grouud tint was
the "greenery yallery" which is ex
pressive of the highest art in color
scheming. Upon this basis of greenery
yallery reveled in glorious profusion
danydowndillivs of a radiant yellow
that had no suggestion of green. The
green, howovw, was provided for in
several leaves borrowed pro torn, front
the rosebush and painted fast to the
daffodil stems ns though they grew
there.
Ilonoe, grocer boy though be was,
only a distributer of soap and mack
erel, who worked for .$1 a week and
found himself, was soulful. His senti
ment showed in the card's printed mot
to, which, in gilt letters upon the green
yellow background rrad. "Heart's
C lootings!"
Inside the card was the usual bene
diction. "With Kindest Remembrances
CP SHOT THAT CAI'.D WITH THE CHEESli
AND OARLIC.
and Best Wishes For a Happy New
Year." Then Ilance added a touch o!
bis own in bis owu handwriting, and it
was as follows:
4, ;
To All My Custerman,
J. SEIDENSCIIWANZ.
Please and T.cturn Thi3 Card Back.
The request for return was a device
to save expense. I'p shot that card
with the cheese and garlic wherever
Honce went on New Year's eve. Hack
it went in the basket down the dumb
waiter shout, usually with a dime or
nickel upon its face. Such New Year's
wishes were well worth the iluie or
nickel. At length it bowled skyward
once too often. It ascended, nestling
betweea a squash and a tide of cod
fish, but it returned no more. A silver
quarter lay in the harket when it went
bark, but no bii of preen yellow card.
That was a New Year's t-ouvenir too
precious for the -onseie:i ( less last re
cipient to i.;rt with. J. YAUOIIN.
So Joke.
"This," explained the Burterintendent
of the hospital for infants, "is the colic
ward." j
"Ah," mused the visitor. "Cramped
quarters, eh?" Jude. j
Convenient.
Ain' no U8 to fret yoh soul;
Life Is mighty sweH;
Vhlte folks hab de price of coal.
And we enjoy de heat.
Washington Star.
Good iBfiaracr.
Jerry How do good clothes make
man a gentleman?
Joe They make him feel as if he
was expected to act like one. New
York Herald.
What Would
You Give For
A Good
Appetite?
The hungry boy is the strong
and healthy boy. Farmers and
horsemen never buy animals that
are jdninty and won't cat not if
they know it. The man or womai
who cannot eat, cannot work lonjt
will soon be sick.
We know something that will giv
you an appetite. It will not be a
lictitious appetite such as is aroused
by powerful drugs, but a healthy
appetite for good food. It will als
arouse the vital organs not only t
an appetite for wholesome food,
but it will put them in conditioa
to take care of food, to grow strong
from it.
This preparation is called Vinol.
Its composition is no secret. It
is a happy combination of tht
valuable and essential principles of
cod liver oil, with iron and a good
table wine. It is pleasant to taste,
and both nourishes and creates art
appetite for nourishment. Thou
sands upon thousands of fcott'e
h?.vc been sold on the guarantee
of money bacic if 'not satisfied with
th : results, and it is very rare to
have a customer call for the money.
Kail Orders Rnnnlifil p Frnrecc PflM
",uu'u Bottle .
ParllCr'S 2 DrUgf StOrOS.
Dr. A. S.PENDLETON,
HhysMan and Surgeon,
HKXHKKSOX, X.C
Office:
Ovtr V. S. Parker it Co.
Phone, No. 74.
Residence, Masenburg Hotel.
I'. 15. TUCKKIC.
DENTIST,
IlKNDKftSOX, If. C.
I-jyOflice over Thomas' Diug Store.
John hill tucker
Physician and Surgeon,
HENDERSON. N. C.
Office (the late Dr. Tucker's) In Young
& Tucker building, Main strvet.
KaJf"' Phone No. oa.
H. H. BASS,
Physician and Surgeon,
HKNDKUSON, N. C.
Hf?Otlice over Dorsey's Drug Store.
D"
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DENTIST,
l SI NIlKKSON,
N. t:
tot- Mit
G. A. Coggeshall, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
IIKNDKKsON. N. C.
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