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The Lincoln County News. TWICE A WEEK Aw the Line. Id the .Chios Fall as they May. . $1.00 PER YEAR. Vol. 1 LINCOLNTON, N C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY' 12, 1907. No. 12 , . ; ; ' ' ; . . .., . , ""S -9 CHRIST AS THE GREATEST TABLE TALKERS. OF In a striking article in The-: llomiletic Review (New York) Bishop E. K. Ilendrix presents the Savior in a light that will prove new to many who have never given this side of . the-Dtviiie character any thought. ()f Confucius his dis ciples said, "While at table he did not converse," but the contrary was the case with the founder of Christianity. "He eateth and drinketh with publicans and sin ners',' wasaie ..jjiarge brought against him Hetilys4with so mauy 8(Ml frfeiultf of-oth-, r,. ' , , er ' dayH.Jirst of all I will men cepted all invitations to dine, but was sometimes a self-in vited guest" says Bishop Hendrix; "He gladly took his seat in the very center of that world where seriousness lis usually lost amid a congenial com pany at the table, and found and taught there the true solemnity of living." Table-talk of the Savior was the mast precious contribution to the wisdom and spiritual en lightenment of the world that has ever been recorded. Bishop Hen drix writes: "The savage eats alone because he has nothing to say. Why ex pect table-talk from one who has no sympathy with his kind, no thoughts to share, no exchange of ideas! Can we expect the table to be a clearing-house where there is no currency, no medium of ex change, where speech is scant be cause ideas are few! The savage munches his bone in silence save as the crunching is broken by some cry of anger at being interrupted in his gluttonous meal, as he sim ply eats to live. Man is already well advanced in civilization when he tidka wheii he eats Man's table-talk. tells with rare accuracy the measure of jiis civilization or enlightenment. lie is well ad vanced when lie abandons his sav age tendencies to discuss his ene at the table and begins to talk' of things. And he has; become a thinker when he talks more of ideas' than of things. He is at his best when he is fitted to enjoy and to share such table-talk as our Lord gave in his dinner parables or at the Last Supper. As he eats the broken loaf and drinks the crusht cluster which tell him of the great sacrifice, and discerns his Lord's body, he is getting robed for the marriage-supper of the Lamb." ' The example of Christ and his love of sharing the company and conversation ofmen during their hours of refreshment and relaxa did much to exalt,ahd"Tn some cases, to revise the virtue of hospi tality." "'";;'": r:--'--. A Great Teachers2 College. The Legislature of Tennessee has just passed a bill giving to the Peabody College for Teachers, at Nashville, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ap propriations from other sources, notably one from the Peabody .Ed ucation Fund of one million 'dol lars,, which had been made but de pended upon the appropriation just passed by the State of Tennes see, make the total already given more than a million seven hundred thousand dollars which will come to the College this year. """Assurances "of "other" donations had been given, to be made as soon as the College is permanently and adequately endowed, which is now practically accomplished. The College will have handsome buildings, new departments; addi tional professors, and promises to be one of the greatest Teachers' Colleges of the country. Look out for the serial story "The Castle Comedy," by Thomp son Buchanou, the first installment of which will appear in our issue of Tuesday the 19th. Kind Words For Lineolnton, 'Rev. W. L. Sherrill, of Char lotte, 'was here hist week in the in terest of the North Carolina Chris tian Advocate, which is "the official organ of the "Western North Caro lina Conference. The Advocate of the 7th inst., contains a write-up of Mr. Sherrill's "trip through this section. We copy what he says about Lincoluton which will doubt less be of interest to all: "During the past week I have visited old communities with which I have long been familiar and met tion Lineolnton. "This is the dear old town of my birth, ' where the days of my youth were spent. A splendid commun ity it is, and the old town has had a rich and varied history. In the good old days before the war she possessed a distinguished' and cul tured citizenship and ranked as one of the very important towns of Western Carolina. . After the civil war, which played ; such havoc with Southern fortunes, the old town lost her prestige as a coin inrrl cial centre and tor thirty.; years stood dead still. The world seemed to move on and leave her all alone, but ten -years, ago .she awoke to her opportunity; she caught the spirit of progress that was abroad in the land and ever since has been going forward at leaps and bounds, her population has quadrupled and her business has grown in far greater propor tion. Now she has handsome stores and great factories and her people have great faith in her fu ture and to a mail are united in la boring to build up the community in all that makes for solid and en during progress. ; The church has kept pace with the forward move ment. Ten years ago our church there was part of a weak circuit. Now Lineolnton station has a mem bership of 3'M) and nays the pastor 800. and will at the rate of growth soon be one of our very strong charges. Bro. Courtney, the pas; tor, is on his fourth year, has done a line work, and is loved by the whole community,.- and they are already anticipating his leave-taking with regret." Mr. Sherrill is a son of Mr. S. P. Sherrill, of Lineolnton, and has attained a wide popularity as a minister, and has been, for many years, Secretary of the Conference. The Stars And Stripes. It will probably surprise most people to learn that the Stars and Stripes, with a few exceptions, are the oldest national standard and ensiern in the world. The oldest of all is the flag of Denmark, a red swallow-tailed flag with a white cross, adopted in i.'iy. jxcxtm order of age conies the flagjtnvit- zerlarid, a red field with a white Greek cross, which was adopted in the seventeenth century. The Spanish flag dates from 1 785, the tricolor of France from 1794aiid the standard of Great Britain from 1801. The Italian standard was adopted in 1861 and the emblem of the German Empire in 1871. The flags of Japan and China are of la ter origin than those of'any other nation in the world. The llag of the Mikado dates from 1859 and the Chinese standard from 1862. 1 The American flag is a growth rather than a creation. It has been held by some that the stars and stripes were derived from the Washington coat-of -arms. This, however, is refuted diy Washing ton himselfrwho gave this explain ation of his country's flag: "We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, sep arating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity repre senting liberty." Mr, Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history with his story of the national 'flag.1 Literary Di gest. Mrs. Margaret Sherrill is ill with the grippe. HOW TO GROW ALFALFA. A Foraee Crop Which Can Be Grown in This Section by Intelligent Effort the First Year Value to the Pound Equal to Wheat Bran. During the past few years The i Progressive Fanner has given con siderable space to a discussion of the value of alfalfa as a forage crop and the methods found most suc cessful in its production. In this special issue the subject is again thorougly covered, but the crop merits all this attention from us. EXTKAOKDINAKV VAf.UKAK A KOK- A(H: cKor. It also deserves the thoughtful consideration of every farmer, un its value as a forage crop can scar ce! v be over-estimated. Any crop that when onceset on the land will remain for yearn without resecding and will produce on one acre each season from three to live tons of hay, every pound of which is near ly or quite edual to the same weight of wheat bran, for which we pay from 20 to 24 per ton, should not be passed by without a serious effort at its successful production. After all that has been written about alfalfa along the lines above- indicated, it is but natural that large numbers of farmers all over the country should have made ef forts to grow it, but it must be ad mitted that these efforts have not been as successful throughout most of The Progressive Farmer terri tory as could be hoped for. The writer has seen the results of efforts to grow alfalfa in all sections of the Southern States and he regrets to state that nineteen out of twenty of the first attempts have been dis mal failures. The second attempts, if. made on the Jiacie.'lkuuls, . have been more successful, but only slightly so, while the few that have been persistent enough to make a third trial after two failures have done very much better, many of! them making complete - success. Alfalfa is now grown successful ly on certain small areas in nearly every section of the South and under widely varying conditions, soil and management. FOUKTIT OK AN Al'UK IS KNOKill TO HIXilN WITH. What do these facts teach us' That since ultimate success is prob able while the first attempts are usually failures, it is the part of wisdom to make these failures as small as possible, consistent with a fair trial , We beleive the first attempt to grow iilfarfasliould 1e oit quarter ) of an acre instead of on a larger i - - .i . i ... . area.' ' '"' "; '.." And why failures" at first with subsequent success? Most writers fin ilv utihirtnf tutlT if IU 1ttif(HJV'.ll'l' 1 r- , " -ii rUltsxm'ounigliiglv. to learn how to manage the planCTr . . 7 . '" That is so to a certain extent. for some of the failures undoubted ly are due to faulty preparation of the land, unsuitability of soil, and insufficient and improper fertiliza tion; but it is ouropiuion that only a small proportion of the failures are due to lack of knowledge in these important .matters? So much has been written about the neces sity of selecting the right type of soil, thorough preparation of the seed bed, liberal fertilization, and liming, - that these essentials are very generally given proper atten tion in even first attempts to grow alfalfa. SOIL INOCULATION IS ALL-IMPORT-ANT. The chief cause of the failures to successfully produce this crop at the first and second attempts is lack of soil inoculation. We have little faith in the prac ticability of inoculation by 'any other method than with inocula ted soil from a field that has grown alfalfa successfully. Hut this method is not usually feasible because of the difficulty in secur- ing sufficient soil to adequately in oculate the area sown. How. then. is this diflicultv to be overcome? By growing your bacteria, not in a flask in a laboratory, but in your own soil. HOW TO (iKOW VOUIi OWN-. UAC TKKIA. ' In nearly every instance there are a few vigorous, inoculated plants, even at the first attempt; because a few bacteria are almost certain to be carried on the seed. These may, and probably ought, to be added to by means of inocu lated seed and soil, when practi cable; but all these methods com bined usually fail to introduce in to a soil, which has not recently grown alfalfa, sufficient bacteria to meet the requirement of a first crop. The most rational plan, therefore, is to start on a quarter of an acre of the right sort .of soil, lime and fertilize liberally, thor oughly prepare the seed bed, and then .'inoculate, as liberally as pos sible. If the fisst attempt fails, you 'may rest assured that if the land is .suitable, these bacteria that you have introduced will rapi dly multiply, and if the land is cultivated so as to scatter them and alfalfa planted each year for them to grow on, at the end of two or three years they" .will' be suffi ciently numerous to make the crop a success. When you have one ouarler of an acre properly inocu lated you have the material right on your own farmx fresh and the very best for inoculating as much more laud as you may wish to put into alfalfa. AND 1 'IX'Al.l.V ISK Til E MOWKI! ri;i:i;i.v. "There is one other point at which failures are common. The mower is not used sufficiently often--.and ('persistently.' Many seem to think that because the alfalfa has not grown sufficiently.. Since .'the hist cutting to be high enough to make hay it. does not need cutting again. Mow as soon and as often as the alfalfa begins to turn yellow or the grass and weeds get ahead .of it. Progressive Farmer. Was Well Fixed. One of the churches in a little, western town is so fortunate as to have a young woman its its pastor. She was called to the door of the parsonage one day, and saw there a much embarrassed young farmer of the German type. "Dev said tier minister lifed in dis house," he said. J' YcSjlLrepUdLiheJai r pastor. r -Veil in I vantto kit meriit!" . "To get married? Very well. 1 can marry you," said the minis- l.ll, l,..f r,,t .1 on- n mill' was the disconcerted reply. Town and Country. On The Scent. Crimson Rambler "Are you burning gasoline in dat automo bile, mister?" Sparks "Xo, my friend; "I'm trying alcohol just for an experi ment!" Crimson Rambler "I thought so. Would you mind me hangin' on behind fer a mile or so, jest fer de smell?" Puck. I've seed my sheer of "lheiiiirbf things, ; I've hoofed it many and many a '-'" -" miled, ; ;: ';r. But I never seed nothing that could orcan Jest get all the good from the heart of a man, Like the hands ot a little child. John Hay. Marriage is a lottery, but it draws more prizes than any other game of chance. Creswell McLaughlin. OUR RALEIGH LETTER. The Legislature Behind in its Work The Anti-Trust Bill the Order This Week Three Hundred Bills in the Hands of the Legislative Committee Not Considered Yet."''-'.' Kaleigh, Feby. J 2, 1907. The legislative-committees are very much behind in their work about three hundred bills now be ing in the hands of the Senate committee' alone, on which there has as yet been no report made. This of course means that as usual there is going to be a great rush to ptit bills through their several stages of passage in the closing days of the session, with the pros pect that many will get left and otheis will be passed without due consideration and go on the stat ute books and become a law that should not. The Senate has managed to clear its calender nearly every day before adjournment, -.and'-' therefore- ap peals to have made a good showing in thatwayJIut it does not de serve as much cmltt-asuiPJiearanc- es would indicate oecause ol Th light calender day after day, owing to the few bills, especially House bills, reported back by the Senate committee each day. It is a fact, however, that most of the bills in troduced in the Senate have been reported back anil have been acted on by that liody. But the number does not include several of the most important Senate bills. Among the latter class are the anti-trust bills of Senators" Rcid, Holt, and Aycock which have been before the Senate committee of the judiciary since last Friday. The prospects are that the Keid bill, amended considerably, will be the one reported back to the Senate. All four of the measures ( including the Koonce bill in the House.) so far introduced, are said to be en tirely too radical in their provis ions to enact into a law. The railroad passenger rate bills will get a hearing in both brandies within the next w,eek or ten days, and the Senate and House will have to come together on this matter. At present it is known that the Senate is opposed to a re duction of less than two and a half cent maximum for first-class fare, while the House wants to make it as low as two cents on the three big sytems. The mzire important matter of freight rates and the prompt deliv ery of the freight, and the preven tion of discrimination against North Carolina points will come up later. ( Ipposition toth"P""bill tto meet t.l'e pressing needs of the u n fortun-' ate insane, has developed as usual, and consists of theJ same tactics that were used so successfully two and lour years ago. - - Of con inc the endnies otitic Tii It had to have some excuse for the plot to postpone the bill to death. This time it was to. see if the state did not have a half million dollars or so lying around loose somewhere in the state treirMiry that might be fished out and used for this purpose instead of the bond issue provided in the bill, "if necessary," be thus avoided. Of course Ave all know that the bond issue will be absolutely and unavoidably necessary if the prov isions of the bill are ever carried out. . ' " 7 Thercwas mprein in the senate during the last week or ten days in the discussion of the liquor question, or rather several phases of the liquor question, than on any other subject, a fact .which proves that the Watts and Ward laws have not accomplished one of the most desirable objects intend ed, namely, the removal of the matter of local difl'erences on the liquor question from the halls of the state legislature to the local county and municipal ballot box es.' - map niakei's ''may as well add the new county of Lee to the state, as the bill creniiiHrtlio fmm- . r, v--v - ty (out of portions of .Moore and Chatham counties) which passed final reading in the Senate on Sat urday is sure to go through the House. Senator Buxton in re cording his vote expressed sur prise that the new county had not been called Mclver, in honor of the late president of the state normal and industrial college, who was a native having been born and reared in Moore suggestion -made- no and no ell'ort was made Hut his impression to change Uie name. The warmest and most feeling speeches of the session were made during the week in the Senate by Senators Iluxton, of Forsyth, K l.ultz, of Koan. and Keid, of Kocldnghain, on the demerits of the. Burton bill to make it a crime in this State for a person to drink too much liquor,- even oil occasions, and putting it within the power of any justice of the peace to send tothe roads. The bill was sent back ilcTthuciinimitteelVir mod ification, and . i Mts-4itery inateriaiiy changed on its next aj peafance,it will meet sure and speed y death: The Senators declared that the people were becoming exasper ated with the continual tinkering with the liquor question, and that if the .Democratic, party did not quit changing the law It would meet with defeat. The matter of a state reforma tory for youthful offenders against the law has during the past week enjoyed a period of rest. Also that of child labor. And the new or enlarged state-house proposi- . tion. Taming The Wildest. There are worse things to lie feared than the fiercest beasts that roam the forests, or lurk in the woods. Every man carries about with hi hi a whole menagerie that is. a nearer source ol danger than the cobra of the Fast Indies or the puma of the Rockies. The serpent of the still, that glides in on a phy sician's prescription, or is admitted oh a friend's' introduction, brings a poison that not even excision can save the victim lrom. And he who is to have dominion over this creature and its kindred can only gain it by developing the likeness to Cod in which he is made when he is born again. And what is true of that particular foe to man is -true uflall.othc.rSi; The tigerjif temper is, for many of us, the most H i-rtipn r'li,,i iir.- i 1-1 1. .wn 1 hi.uit inn But if we are like Cod 'in his won derful pat ienee, we shall have do minion' over that fiercest animal passion-: . . How Birds' Nests Are Made Round. The little, abandoned nest had fallen from the tree. The nature student took it from the frozen ground. "How round it is!" he said. "Xo cup rim could be rounder. Don't you wonder how the bird, with neither rule nor compass, can niakcher nest so round?" "Well, she does it easily. She builds the nest about her own breast, turning round and round in it, and its circular character comes spontaneously and inevita bly. -. "The circle is found everywhere in the buildings of the lower ani mals. The straight line, on the other hand, they can never achieve. "Cincinnati Enquirer. Rectifying A Mistake Of Nature. Ethel "What a finely chiseled mouth you have! It ought to be on a girl's face." Jack "Well, I seldom miss an: opportunity." Illustrated Bits. The
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