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V? 'TV ' - "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.' VOLUMN MV. TMOCkSVHJJNO&TH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1912. . TL" ''iii:i.HwiJiiii"r,'-i,,J"iTTT''' ' W " " J NUMBER 5 UME - KILN CLUB. BROTHER GARDNER EXHORTS. High Cost of Living Fully Explained to Members of The Club. Velio Jacket. i'Fit u'. Maine to Califoruy," 6aid Brother Gardner as he rose in his j,l(?e 'uiolu de Atlantic to de Pacitie dar' am a howlin' aud screechii! aud acussin' 'bout de jigh cost of livio'. Mo dan a thousand iueu hab giben deir opin ions it. aud 1 propose to say a few word? on de subjick myself. I basobsaned and I'se gwiue to speak oi de universal habit of ex travagu uoe dat has fallen upon dis keDtry. "We have a list of members Durabeiiu over fo' hundred, and I do not believe dat two of 'em have got a dollar in de bank or could bury oue of de cbill'en widout bor rown de money. Every -cull'd, pus-! goo seem? crazy to pend every shilhV he can git holt of and go in debt besides. Yesterdy afternoon I took a walk over to de eabin of Giveadaf Jones to see how his 'taters was coniin' along. lie wasn't home, but his wife axed me to drop in and have a snack. I looked for a glass of buttermilk and a piece of hoe cake, but what'd ye s'poae was spread befo" rue on the tablet In de first place, dar was a white tablecloth- at must have cost $1.50. Ts been keepin' house lor forty ) eats, and I bas always reckoned dat oilcloth was good 'nuff for.me. "Den dar was silver knives and forks and spoons, same as you'd tind on de table of a king. After dem came napkins and cake and custard aud cold beef and sweet cake, aud befo' I could git my breath I was offered a glass of claret wiue! "Kiu you blame me for pinchin myself to see if I was dar or sumers else? ''Dar am Brodder Jones workin' in a wuodyard at $9 a week, and dai was all dat luxury, same as if he was de Emperor of .Russia. 1 hain't wantin' to discourage any body, but I'm tellin' you dat a crash will come in de Jones fam'ly sooner or later, and when it does come dat fam'ly will drop to the bottom like a grindstun thrown in to de sea. "A few nights ago me and the ole wouiau was invited to attend a birthday partj of de wife of Sam nel Shin. We went because it was hinted dat dar would be ginger ale and fried cakes for refreshments. We had ou de same Sunday clo e e had had for de last fo'teen years, and we had no sooner got into de house dan de old woman nigh had a fit. "Mrs. Shin had on a dress all kickshaws and frills and fnrbel lows a (jlefe8 fat uever cost lets dan $io ;it,ci do restof de women emed to be dressed up to attend a queen's weddin'. Mrs. Gardners ld bonnet and my old 4Mat looked uke poverty hung out on de clothesline. ' "I have nearddeword gorgeous ness many times, but nebber know 6(1 what it meut till I stepped into dat house. Dar was red and blue loathe floor, lookin' glasses over the, mantels, gold cha'is and Hcuur's a perfect revel of ex agauce. Me and de old woman Wdf just too scart to move around. "When we looked for de fried es aud ginger ale we got three inds of ice cream mixed togathef, tw sorts of wine, three kinds of cakt and a lot of candy. -When We got home at last we jest sot fi ere ad looked at each other for lf aa hur and neber said a word. ralder Shin works in: the flour nd feed store at $10 a week. Dats I lQcome His outgo must be at twice dat. How does he do it! He does it by runnin' in debt. and some day an airthquake will bust forth under dat house and lift it 50 feet high. ' "Waydown Bebee, sittin' ober dar wid his old suit on, looks to be a man of sense and economy but what did I see first thiug when I entered the house one day last week? It was a rug wid a great tiger on it". T axed for a drink of water out of de goard but it was brung to me in a glass goblet. When I was ready to go Mrs. Be bee axed me to wait a minit till she played a tune on her pianuer. Think of it! Brudder Bebee don't aim $10 a week de year around, and yet ha can have tiger rugs, cut glass and planners! When I went home and told the old woman about it she opened her mouth and held it open for ten minutes befo7 she could say: " 'May the Lord have mercy on my soul!' "De street dat many of as lib on is named Coon Street. , I has re sided dar for 20 years and had no fault to find. Six weeks ago Brud ders Penstock and White begun to go around wid a petition pray in' de Common council to change de name to Rosamont street. Dey contended dat de name Coon street was degradiu'. Dey got a piece of my mind, I tell you when dey got around to me, and I dun wint at it and blocked the game. W hat's de matter wid Coon street! Noth ing If dar am anything wrong it am wid de coon hisself. "I was in a grocery store the other night to buy some corn meal and codfish when Brudder Flim flam Johnsing came swellin' in. He didn't see me and he went ahead and ordered the best of tea and coffee, print butter, fine flour and white sugar, same as if he was a member of the Beaft trust. He payed for them" and swelled out and when he had disappeared de grocer said to me: "Keepyour eye on that coon, Brudder Gardner. He's bound to hit de ground wid a kerchug dat will be heard two miles.' "Me and de ole woman was soun asleep a few nights ago when sum body rapped on de doah. I didn't git up till I saw the pusson would not go away, and deu I went out to find Col. Canbiff on de doah step. He had on a plug hat; he had on patent leather shoes; he had on a frock coat; he had on a 75 cent -pair socks and a red neck tie, aud his diamond pin nebber cost less than two dollars. Why did he root me out of bed at dat hour of de night! His rent was behind, and he wanted me to see the landlord about it! "A short time ago I was walkin' down de street one afternoon and a culli'd woman come out of a carpt store and said she wantea my advice. I thought I had seen her eumwheres, but it was ten minutes befo' I could place her Den I made out she was de wife of Brudder Cahoots. Brudder Ca hoots is one of de bootblacks in de possoffis, and it's a lucky week wid him when he can scrape to gather $8. What his wife- wanted me to decide, was whether she should get a royal -wilton or an axmister carpet for her parlour, though at that time they had neither butter nor meat in de house! "All atoiind as the people of oar race are wrenlm' houses wid bathrooms in 'em. Dey am buy: in' cuckoo clocks and Japanese vases, De amhavin' lace cur tains6j& widows. ; Dey am'go ia' to hoss races and de theater and rentin' boxes at de possoffice. "AH around us the people are orderin' ice cream and angels food and nebber askin' de price. Dey want de shinist of patent leth- er and de redest of neckties. Dey am ridin' on de street kyahs like kings and if dar am a sale of brass bed stids you'll see 'em buttin in. De jewsharp has got too common, and dey musk-have dair planners. A plaster of paris bust of General Grant was once thought to be de catchest thing gwine but dey have replaced it wid a Japanese vase or a bronze. De white folks am pret ty good at droppin' deir dollars, but de cuil'd folks am surely set tin? de pace ki extra vagence. "I hain't gwine to-kick up no bobbery and pester you wid ad vice. I'm old fogy and 'way be hind de times and it would be iin pertnent in me to offer sngges'uns. I.have just got dis much to say. De next member of dis club who am living like a lord on $10 a week, and wna comes knockin' at my doah at 'midnight to borrow rent money, am gwine to feel sum-! thin' jar him, and if he ain't in oea lor a wees alter you 'a oeiter elect a new president! Let us go home!" Ham Sandwiches. Oxford Ledger. - . We were fully aware that the high cost of living had crawled up to an alarming point; but "we must con fess it has reached a - point ,beyond our expectation, if we are to credit the statement of an Oxford gentle man who has. returned from a trip to the western part of the State. Oar friend advises us that he stop ped off at Greensboro, and while waiting for his train he saw a man come from a nearby xestaurant with a ham sandwich in his hand, which he exhibited 'to, a crowd of fellow travelers remarking on the tissue like thinness of the ham." A gentle man, noting the discomfixture of the hungry man, laid a soothing hand on his shoulder and remarked: "My friend, let me tell you some thing; you may think that piece of ham is thin, but you just wait until you get to Charlotte and ask for a ham sandwich and see what you get. Why, sir, take my word for it, they have a machine by which they pho tograph a piece of ham on the bread Bnd hand it to you for a dime." Potato Seeds. .. . . Plenty of folks do not know that the seed of the potato is not the tu ber or root which we eat. Potatoes flower and bear a little seed in apod or ball. To get a new breed we have to plant the seed, not the "eve ' And here again you find a case where genus does not reproduce itself. The "eye" will give you the same sort of potato, but the seed harks back to a former ancestor and may give you something totally different. Yadkin Farmer. Wilson Not the Democratic Choke. Caucasian. Wood row Wilson is not the choice of the majority of the De mocrats for President Champ Clark was in the lead on the first ballot taken at the Balti more Convention and remained in the lead. for'more than two dys. In fact, he received a majority of all the votea cast oh six ballots, and while the Democrats claim to adhere to the two-thirds vote, still it has been the custom of that party to give the nomination to the candidate receiving the majo rity of votes in theconventiou, aud CUrk would have been nominated at Baltimore but for the severe de nunciation of the Speaker by Bryan linked with his veiled, threat to blt the convention if; Clark was nominated. The politicians finally decided to allo'Wilsdu's nomina tion j n order to save a! bolt,' bat it must be renftHttered that it will require evemmore than a two thirds Democratic vote and, Several . hun dred thousand eryjbliaijote3 to elect Wilson. s ' :2 v It is certain that WiMn will not get the full Democratic vote and he will not draw many Republican votes. Do not lose faith liu humanity: there are over ninety million peo pie in America who never played you a single ; nasty tricks ; J THE DAVIE COUNTY INSTITUTE. Will Be Held in This City, on Monday August 12. AH Farmers And Their Families Invited. Dear Sir: I will thank you if you will call the attention of your readers to the Farmers Institute to be held in Mocksville, on Mon day, August 12th, and urge' them to attend. We are wanting our in stitutes, this summer, to be tie best attended of any we have had, and to have them so it will be ne cessary for us to have the co-operation of every person who desires to see our agricultural and home on the-farm conditions improved. North Carolina, as you know, is on the jup grade in agriculture as well as other lines. It is a State of wonderful possibilities and we want to do all that we can to develop it as rapidly as possible. I know of no better way than by improving our agricultural and rural condit ions generally. Please call special attention to the Women's Institute features of these meetings and urge the wo men living on the farm to attend .them. I regard the women's in stitutes of more importance - than the institutes held for men. I want the women to realize their import ance, and also to realize the im portant position they hold in the economy of farm life. Their lines of work are of far more important e than making corn or cotton, or any line of agricultural endeavor. Their work is the building of the home and the rearing of the family. W e want them equipped for this very important work. As an inducement to get them to come out we are offering a pre mium of $1 for the best loaf of bread baked and exhibited by any woman or girl living on the farm. Town women cannot compete for this prize. We want to encourage the country women. The , follow -iug conditions are to be observed: The exhibitor may use any kind of yeat she prefers, but salt rising bread will not be given a prem ium. Not that it is not good bread, but-we want to get our women in the 'habit of making bread easier thai by the salt rising process. That process is too slow, laborious and: uncertain. The following score card will be used in judging bread: Flavor, 35 points; crust, color, depth, texture, 20 points; lightness, 15 points; grain and texture, 10 points; crumb color, moisture, 10 points; shape andsize, 10 points. Size recom mended: 7x3x2f inches. This size is not obligatory. By giving this matter promi nence in jour paper you will great ly oblige. Yours truly, : T. B. Parker, Director of Farmers' Institutes. Two Ways of Saying It. "It's the constant drop of water That weais away the stone, It's! the'cbn8tant exerciser That develops all the bone. It's: the constant advertiser That brings the bacon home." The constant diop of water ; Wears away the hardest stone; The constant gnaw of Towser Vanishes the toughest bone; ThQ constant cooing lover Carries off the blutming maid; Anjl the constant advertiser Is dhe one who gets the trade. . T-he young man who can smoke cigarettes or leave them alone 'is the first one to be laid off when panic comes. The meek shall inherit the earth but the hustler will have the es tate before the legatee cau probate the will. Writers seldom write the things they tfdnk. They simply write the things they think , other folks think they think, remarks one of our exchanges. Laying By Crops. . Southern Ruralist. The time was when the Southern farmer who could lay;by his crop of corn or cotton with -the fewest plowings -least cultivation- was the best fellow. Even now "early laying-by is a matter on which many farmers pride f themselves; These are the farmers who have most time forgoing fishing and at tending barbscues. They are not the farmers whose corn cribs are fullest or who make the most bales per plow. Indeed, the best farm ers have about slopped talking about "bales per plow," and now make "bales per acre." These facts are becoming gener ally recognized and the f truths on which they rest are becoming part of common practice. At this seas on of the year, however, it is "well to recall some of the principles in volved. Even the faith of the most devout believer is the better for occasional revival. So we do not hesitate to repeat the facts al ways important whether old or new bearing upon the "laying by of crops. The belief, once so prevalent, that early laying by was an ad vantage to the crop, was not origi nally wholly wrong.: It ' was the result of the implements of culti vation formerly in use and the kind of wprk .they , actually per formed. VThe Dixie plow : is re sponsible for this as for so many other errors. v . Unquestionably, a crop of corn often injured by late cultivation which this obsolete and inexcus able implement. With amoderate ly moist season the surface soil is filled with fine feeding roots. Any implement which turns a furrow, cuts or tears through the soil more than two inches deep will ruin a large part of these essential roots. The nop begins to -vilt, stops growth, and is irretrievably dam aged by this kind of plowing. The only prevention is to stop working the crop early laying by. . - The fact to bear in mind is that the fault in such cases is not with late cultivation, but with the kind of cultivation. The next important point is that if cultivation is good, much culti vation is better. Therefore, late cultivation is best. It is best , be cause it gives the crop longer bene fit of a good thing, " ' ' All this, however, depends on the right kind of cultivation. The kind of work is not wholly depends ent on the kind of implement used. It is possible to do good work with poor too.lB, but good tools - render good results more certain and much more easily secured. " The sweep and Dixie stock. ..; will sometimes do as good work as any cultivator. Even then however, it is hard on team and workman, while, if soil is too hard or. j too moist, bad results arer sure. . .For really satisfactory, lesults, there fore, late laying by requires a leal implement of tillage some form of toothed or regulatable - disc culti vator. " ; It must be kept in . mind that killing grass is not the object of cultivation. Conservation of soil moisture is the all important thing. Sfiallowanfi frequent cultivation is the means. The result is the dust mulch which prevents evapo ration of water and keeps the crops, growing in even the driest season. If this work is done a often as the s ik face soil crusts over, grass and weeds never get a start and plow ing for the purpose of killing them by burying alive'ts Ugj&Qrfiry,; The application of tb&e:: facts means that the timev for laying-by is not after the proverbial "three plowings" or any ether definite number of cultivations. The time to lay-by is when the." crop has reached full developmentcannot be induced to grow any more or when it has so completely covered the ground that a team cannot pass through the rows without serious damage. These points are as thoroughly established in good practice as is the law of gravitation: cultivation is manuie; shallow cultivation, of growing crops keeps them growing; late laying by means better yields. How It Fe;ls To Be Struck By Lightning. The Monroe Journal prints tie following description by MissKnby Cook of her feelings when struck by lightning: "We were all in the room sittiDg peacefully. I was sitting on a trunk and I said to myself, I had better get np or lightning might strike me.' As I went to get up the light ning struck me. When it hit me my feeling was so strong that I can't describe it. I shut my eyes and remember falling, but I don't know when I reached the floor. The last thing I beard was the screams of those in the room. I could not speak or move but I can remember that I thought that I would have to die and leave the world. Then my mouth opened three times, my body grew rigid: I seemed to be in heaven where ev erything was bright and shining. That is all I remember till by and by I heard some one say something and I could open my eyes." When this child was hit by the lightning she was sittiag with her back against the wall of the house. That is something that should nev er be done in times of electric storms. Almost every case in which one has been hit was one where that person was standing a gainst or leaning against some thing. When the lightning strikes the top or upper part of the house it seeks to get to the ground by traveling down the walls, hence when one is leaning against a wall or a tree, the lightning is apt to be transferred to his body. There fore, do not lean against objects during a storm. Mother and Child Deserted. Wadesboro Ansonian A pitiful sight at the National Hotel Friday night was a little 18-year-old mother and baby, pennl less, sick, and deserted by the hus band and father. They arrived here from the western part of the State without a cent of money. Finding her in this condition at the station, Fred Mills told the lady that he would carry her to the National Hotel. There she . was taken care of by Mr. Mills without charge, and when he let her condition be known, a number of the boarders and others chipped in 25 and 50' cent pieces until a sufficient amount was raised to buy a ticket to Darlington, 8 C, where the woman has a sister. It was a sad case, for the little mother was on her way to the hos pital, where she will undergo an operation for appendicitis. She married at the age of 14, and is now deserted by the man who promised to love and protect her. The husband should be arrtBt-. ed and placed on the chain gang, and bis wages turned over to his wife. Ed. My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the boss is away, as well as when he is at home. Ex. Many a man's reputation would not know hif character if they met on the street. The great mistake yon can. make in.ifiia lie is toT be continually fearing you will make one. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. i The Kind YcuHare Always Bought , Bears the Signature of
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