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FIT &T)f 1 JWUJV2 AIRY, NOR Til CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1911 NO. 2Jf 1 V I '" JMM, i 1 il . . ! ! f 1 I i J GUESTS OF HONOR "When thou makest a dinner feel they--it would nut be or a supper, call not thy frk-n.U, 1 "I know dim isn't much on nor thv brethren, neither thy frills, but he s full as good a kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest any of the other quests. And tiity also bid thee again, and a besides, he can't invite u to nny rceompenso be made the. j thing, now that he s lost his "But when thou makest a! home." least, c;tll the poor, the maimed, i Mrs. McPherson said : the lame, the blind; and thou j "Til ask him and Maggie fchalt be blessed; for they cannot "That's a good lass," said An-recomi-ense thee; for thou .shalt drew, h'us face brightening up. J3 iecomien.sod at the resurrec- '"I've got a fin.' eightecM-.wi.d tion of the just." i turkey promised by P-ailey from Andrew McPherson, manager the Hill Kami, hunt l"k f-r of the I'uion coal-mines in l'duck- me until tonight." Stone Vallev, va old f,us:-ioneil ! He kissed his wife and went enough to have fain LI v worship, out. At the turn of the dnve Ills father and hin grandfather way he waved his hand. His had ahvavs had family prayers, wife, standing at the window, and Andrew had never thought . answered his farewell, and re ef discontinuing them. He was maim-d lKkiiifr d-wn into the Scotch, and dun-,' to old ways, r'noky valley until .Mildred spoke He read the Pible as his father to her. and grandfather had ahvavs read il. a chapter at a time, until the last chapter of the Revelation was finished. Then the next morning he would calmly turn Lack to Genesis ami begin again. His family accepted the cus tom as thev accepted the day's work; that' is, with cheerfulness and equanimity. Loved ami re- spectde and 'sometimes feared, - Andrew Was lord of the house- l0 I The family circle family was seated for, worship in their usual! in the sitting-room Mrs. iuci ncrson on amiri'tt h ngni, then Mildred, Jean, Robert, and ll.iil . .. 4-1 .1.4 i 4V. . 4 kj..44 e tui' i u ink' si, nwu, lour jrais!i o - t It old el athisthersleft TheiMotlu, . fc . y reading that remarkable injunc tion 6f Jesus about inviting guests to dinner, his eyes rested a moment on his wife's face. Mildred and .lean noticed that their mother flushed. At the end of the chapter Andrew laid the Bible on a table, and with the rest f the household, including ., . i I. 4 ... he two servants, knelt to of ler ; the morning prayer. lie prayed with m-re than hw : usuiti uiieuoii: iiorti, inaKe i 4.. 4 : i ll u.i m n i l nui i ll. i a ' 1 1 i.v i i i i- ., 1 . 1 the needs ot a common human - ., 4 .1 . ,. ., (irant that we may ken the Heeds and woes o' the mitherle.s bairns an' hameless bodies; the feckless creatures that ha ne'er been invited out to dine wi' ony body except their ain sells; and make in apprehensive o' all the graciou hospitalities. Thou lia.st visited Um.ii us at the benefiei ent handiT mr mony friends, 'uiony (d' wnuni ha' ne'er missed what We took fra them, because they hud mair than they needed. Help us to do honest work today, whether we get fu' wages for it or not, and may we na be so tired or so weary when the day's toil is o'er that we canna find the way hame to our Father's house. All thruiigh Christ our Jjord. Amen." When Andrew Mcl'herson pray ed, he always expressed his thought in the vernacular of his mother country. At other times he oke with hardly a trace of SeottLsh accent. He ro.se from his knees and sat down. And beginning with Mil dred, each one of the children, not excepting Hubert, who was 4 4 i 1 1 1 t jiisi oui 01 nigh Hcnooi, eame up and kissed his ruddy cheek. This was another family custom as ancient as family prayers, ami accepted in the same unquestion ing .spirit. Andrew took. down his big coat, for the day was harp; Christ was only two weeks away. At the door he stopjM-d and said to his wife: 'Klsie. of course 1 don't want to insist, for it'b your party audi Mildnd's more than it is mine, 'drew bad clung to Jin all these but .1 do wish you would write years because he was l al, and to Jim. For auld lang srne, you j becuu.se he was Scotch. lut know. Jim's had hard luck, 'Mrs. Mel'herson wished that he what with all the sickness jiml had not chosen this particular that fire. He and Maggie would! way to show his friendship. appreciate it. Mrs. Mcl'herson looked vexed. "JJut, Andrew, they would not .Mother, why .toes lather in SLSt 'i bavin h. Hlai.vhLls for Christmas ? "I don't think he insists. dim and Maggie are very old ac quaintances, or at least they used ti be, ami your father " "I wish he wouldn't ask vou to invite them. It will spoil the whole dinner. They wont fit in With any one else. Do you have- k tin in T ' "You heard me promise, your lather 1 would. "It's a shame!" The girl pout ed. "It will spoil everything if tr J vv"i-. 'Maybe they will refuse." 'It's to be hoped they will i , 51 fit u.mu.4 ioiaikmi fi-w tt at 1 tell reason for inviting them, but none that I know of, except father 'si sentiment, for asking the IHaimlells." Mrs. McPherson went to a writing desk in the library and drew out a slip of paper. Mil dred followed her, and looking OVi.l llltl 111 li l . T'o. ul i .11 1 . 1 .. i. 1 4 , 4i , . the names ot the guests to be ... to the (.lldst uuiS llillIu.r. a M (, fe hailltWv invitt,, fIS t j.,,, times, aiu ., 1 1 41 1 4 i j never had tlieia here to dinner . . i , . i !)i't Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham,' Judge Henry and his daughter 1 haven't seen Louise since we left I'u'yn Mawr last summer. Hut they were very kind to me out at Manitou. We owe them something; .Mrs. Powell Richard son ami her two sons they are very influential people with the company. Father asked for them. Colonel and .Mrs. Hanni bal Swain and daughter. AVe must have them, mother. They entertained me so delightfully at Palm l.eaeh." "And Jim Ulaisdell ami Mag gie," said Mrs. .Mel'herson, fii: ishing tho list. Mildred bit her lip. "Mother, you know they will sKil everything. They they can't talk grammatically, and they are not our kind at all. I can't see why they should be asked." Mi's. Mcl'herson while in memory she twenty years, to the sat. silent, went back time when her husband am were working in -Jim Ulaisdell the same mine and were chums. Was it not. more than a dim memory that she ami Andrew cheri.shed of Jim Ulaisdell when he risked his life with his two hundred in a pocket mountain of d friend to rescue miners shut dovn and cut off by a el iris? Jim Pdaisdcll was st'!! a gang foreman. Andrew, company man ager in the HI.; 1-st one, holdings, li.nl built a fine hoiis on the slope at nagged nun .Mountain, anil littmcd it "ilill Crest." Au- jii spue oi me reeling on the part of both mother and daugh ter, it. never occurred to them f ' .! Xt' .1 to ask Andrew to change his mind. No one in the McI'hrson family had ever asked him. to do such a thing. iSo the letter of invitation waa sent, with a list of the guests of honor enclosed. Two days later carne a reply, evidently copied bv the oldest eirl in the lilaw- dell family out of some form! book, accenting th" invitation i with, thanks, ami signed by both Jim and Maggie. Mrs. McPhcrson accepted the situation) with a gixnl deal of calmness. Preparations for thej dinner went on during the week i of Christmas; the arrival of the' eighteen pound turkey w;is al-j most an event. A professional! caterer from Blaekstone Mime to the house on Christinas eve to aid the two servants. There were) to be fourteen guests in all and! seats at table for twenty, count ing Scott. Hill Crest was built on the ex treme end of the long shoulder of Uagge d 1! un Mountain. It was approached by a winding driveway. A magnificent elm stiHd directly in front of the house, and threw its branches out over th,- wdie veranda. Stretching on down by the ! river and far off through the', soot and smoke and palpitating heat from great chimneys, lay j the mining camps and the mine, company's shafts. The camps; formed a crescent round the! shouldei on which Hill Crest was1 Ioised; hundreds of miners, go-1 iug and coming, passed daily1 round the foot of the hill, and ! to save time took, not infre-j qucntly, a short cut by an old! trail over the mountains that came close by the edge of An-j drew 'a property and within a' short stone's throw of Hill Crest! itself. On Christmas eve there was a foot of S1KT.V on the ground the (Mfkwns TcppvamJ w w over. In the night, however, Andrew aw ke suddenly with a feeling that, some great and unusual thing either was happening or! was going to happen. The air ( in the room had in it the chill! that you feel on opening the dir, of a warm house and step ping suddenly out into zero weather. The house was rock ing as if in the fist of a giint. The electric chandelier, which hung from the middle of tlu ceiling, was quivering. Andrew sprang up, switched j on a light, and called out. Soon i the family hud gathered in eoii-i sternation. They realized that a' terrific tempest was sweeping! over the mountain and dashing the branches of the big elm again.stj the windows. A great limb, torn from the tree, shatter ed the glass, flung the frag ments across the room, and kiKK'ked Andrew off his feet. lie was up again, in an instant, and set aibout preventing further damage. ltlankets torn from the bed swerc stretched across the gaping hole, and held there, while Robert ran for a hammer and nails. Andrew drove the nails through the blankets into the window-casing, and then wheeled the end of a heavy dressing-table against them. As lie finished, the electric light went out. Scott began to cry. Oct the candles off the. tree!" culled out Andrew, calmly. Robert, crept down-stairs and got a dozen candles, and lighted half of them. The wind seemed to increase. The big clock down in the hall struck three. "It's an awful storm," said Andrew, in a quiet but sober j voice. "Pray Cud for any poor I creature. s caught out in it!" j He had just uttered the words! when a thundering crash was' heard above on the roof. ! "There goes the hig chimney " j cried Robert. They coul I hear the brick si roll ing down over the eaves. Robert; ran to the attic stairs. When; he opemd the door, a stream of ' cold air swept down on him. I lb. ran up, nod soon came back ! with n pale face to report that; a hole had been broken through! the roof by the great capstone of the chimney. A corner of the! stone, however, had stuck in the ragged nut and stopped it pf.rt- ( Cunt in ued to last page) FINE CORN YIELD THIS YEAR. Notwitiistandiiiff the Severe Drought Crops Are the Best Ever. Ualcigh.. Piispatch. The year PM1 as a crop year and the general progress and outhok of farming interests; in North Carolii.a came in for illuminating and most encourag ing treatment in the voluminous and able report of Commissioner of Agriculture Craham. While a drought of the longest continu ance known to the people of the Sta.t prevailed over a large art of the State, seriously reducing upland yields, still harvest time showed the greatest, production of wheat, corn and cotton in, the history of the State. In eastern Carolina, as far west as Raleigh, the yields were very fine for all crops and in the west from the mountain.1 to the Tennessee line greater crop yields were never known, the drought handicap applying to the vid stn teh of country from Raleigh westward to Morgantnn, uplands in this territory being greatly reduced in ' 'Id. How ever, iiKTc;Lsd yield in the bot tom and. lowlands made consider able! amends for the upland short age. Generally speaking, the cotton yield wan the best ever known, with an average of a bale to the acre and big fields and neighbor hoods in many instances reach ing two and two and a half bales to the acre. The wheat yield was exceptionally fine with the weight of the grain showing full tiO pounds to the bushel stand ard. The extreme west suffered a serious! shortage of hay yield but in most other sections where attention was given to the mat- for the winter. j It appears that the farmers of j the State have had to buy less, corn1 and other supplies than! ever lfore to make their crops, j There was moro hay required to he purchased this season than ! any other supply. A gratifying increase, in tin growing of home supplies by the! farmers is making it. much easier j for the farmers to hold their cot-j ton for hojx'd-for higher prices., CoiiimissioiHr Craham feels that! one important thing that the de- j purtment is steadily instilling into the farmers of the State is; that if they will devote iutelli-j gent attention to growing the supplies for the farm the mon-i ey crops will not have to be1 sacrificed to keep the farm go-j ing, but can be held without! suffering, for the best market development. j Tho farmers' institute and deni-1 oust rut ion work is. proving most! valuable in the improvement of! the methods1 of farming and, to gether with the exhibits that the' department is making each year! ai me Mate aiui many other county fairs is bringing about many of the marked improve ments in, farm conditions in creased crop yields as well us letter funning method generally. In ten years the corn yield has increased; in average from 12 to 20 bushels to the acre; wheat from .)C to ll1; bushels, cotton from 107 to 227 pounds t acre; the State holding, too, sec ond place, with Kentucky first, in tobacco yield. The agricultural authorities of the State inibt that, North Caro lina can easily produce all the corn needed, not only for the! farm supplies, but for the con-' sumption of the North Carolina towns as well, and do it id a decided profit. Furthermore,; that, in hog raising there is an ' immense profit that the farmers! are just beginning to realize. i Hoys' corn clubs are develop-j ing the cultivation of corn won derfully, the nveiage corn club; yield for l'.Ml having been ul bushels. The highest' was 2:!1 j bushels to the acre, by young; Charle Parker, of Hertford; county. ! Commissioner Craham insists; that coin is entitled to be king! in North Carolina. He and the State pMNird of Agriculture an1; pledged to the greatest possible; effort in furthering its most cx- tensive and intensive culture. There was a yield this year of not hs8 than o!),(XX),000 bushels, and, but for the drought that cut the yield in the central and middle western section of the State the yield would have been clone around 100,000,000 bushels. This State produced only J04, 000,000 pounds of tobacco this year compared with 12!),000,0)0 pound in 1010. The. quality this year was Ho jwr cent of standard compared with 7o per cent last year. And the market prices that the planters! are realizing this year are a decided advance over the prices last year in the opinion of Commissioner" Graham. Asks Pardon After 52 Years in Prison. Ilartford, Conn., Dee. 7. ; ing made by friends of the ric Anioiig the thirty-six convicts at ' gro. especially in the north to the state prison, at Wethersfield, : educate them, spending millions whose applications for parole or ' of dollars in erecting fine col pardon will be considered by the lege buildings, etc.. for them. State Hoard of Pardons when ; while the more practical and nec that board meets here next Tins- essary expenditure 'f funds to day, is John Warren, tlx oldest conduct clav-s of the nice to inmate of the prison, who has show them the evils of selling, spent fifty-two years of his life using and distributing whiskey in that penal institutim. In tie and cocaine among them was ig fall of 1S.?J John Warren was nored. "Far letter," he said, "It convicted of the murder of his seems to me would be if some wife and Sentenced to prison for of these many thousands were life. He entered the state pris-! devoted towards teaching all the on at Wethersfield ' November negroes the need of cleanliness 14, lSof), and has rernaimsl Lso- ' of body, mind ami heart, clean lated from the outside world sanitary surroundings, the ccono ever s'ince. Several times ho has' my of the kitchen, ami the evil appealed to the Hoard of Pardons ! effects of whiskey and cocaine." for his release, but in every case! In Guilford county Judge Al he was denied. This year he has ' len's idea is already being ear again petitioned for a pardon ! ried out to a certain extent, for and his friends confidently ex-'here the county physician gives ect that thin time the Hoard of illustrated lectures to the blacks Pardons will lie less obdurate. as well as whites in all parts of Tho history of Warren's crime the county on sanitation and the. is rather unusual. In the early summer of 1851) John P. Warren, then only twentv-one vears old. and hU lS.vear-old wife lived on little town in Tolland county, in the northeastern part of Con- nccticut. On a warm morning in ing tus kuuuiness at iieart. sense July of that year Warren and 'of patriotism and droll wit. Yes h'u wife took a walk in the terday an old red-headed man woods. It was hot, and when named Judge Rittenbury, plead they came to a brook not far guilty under an indictment for a from their farm, Warren propos-; nuisance. His prosecutors were ed that they tike off their shoes "Ism red headed neighbors, hus and stockings and bathe, their , band and wife, and they testi feet in the cool waters of the fied that the defendant in a -loud, brook. His wife consented and, Numerous and defiant manner, having taken off her shoes and. would get out on the big road stockings, waded into the brook, j and give them awful cussings be Warren sprang at her, threw cause of a dispute over a houn her down and held her head un-! dary line on their farms, der water until his wife was' Judge Allen, with the three dead. Just, what fury or passion ' old people before him, referring animated Warren and prompted' to their red heads, suggest.il him to commit the coldblooded 'that hasty temper might have ami upimrciitlv unprovoked crime been temperamental. Hut he has never been ascertained. War- s;''l. 'hile. he had no jKnver to ren hmsielf, although lie. confess- j make him do it, he would be very cd the crime, has never given ferlid if the old judge would any explanation of his action or j apologize to the two neighbors the motive re ted me ot the llecil. lit sec .4.1 1 1 It body of his wife in the woods, where it was soon cogitation, looked up and said, found. Warren was am st ed and!" Well, Judge, I'm sorry for it, mit thrioorli th "third .Wre." ' i if that's what you want." ! .... .... . - D lie confessed his crime, nut re fused to make any explaiuitory statement. H. Q. ALEXANDER IS ELECT ED PRESIDENT. N. C. Fanners' Union Elects Of ficers and Hears Warehouse System Explained. Wilson, Dee. 14. The North Carolina, Farmers' union, in ses sion here, today elected the fol lowing officers: President. II. (J. Alexander, of Matthews; vice president, J. M. Templeton, of Cary; secretary and treasurer, K.I L. r arris, id Charlotte; state or ganizer, .1. 'A. Green, of Marsh vilb'; business agent, J. IJ. Rives. of Sanford. Most of the mom-! ing session of the convention was; consumed in the election of the) executive committee. The follow-; ing were elected: . (. I row der, of Wake; W. It. Gibson, of I 1 ll i if , . , UNI l UN ,I.S lit I HI tl I' I'iOIMI Iredell; t. C. right, ot Wi kes; i . , , , , , , ,, . e 4,. .1 , Nru.'gs, colored, and the whu 1. P. ( oggins, of Chatham; audi i i i ci xr ,, ,.e ' ..... ' i ping was adininisti n d bv Siier- W . 11. Moore, of Pitt. .... , ' ' uft K has M. Davis. Spriggs was A Terriblt Blunder. to i.i' . lert liver trouble. Never lo ; it 'li. L .. T'.r k'lnir'a V..u. I 1I!1. on til loot Kln at rnrwliruition i ....... .-a. a.i..f. . . V ...in 4. lis biliousness or Inactive bowels and ' prevent virulent Indication, Jaundice I inuii-sLit'u, j.iuuuii'B jiri'scm. except wim They regulate liver., (,( t K!li.ri!f , wets and build up;..' i i r 25c at E. II. Heu- ( "'aa' J ul I''.v"'' or sail ttonc btoii.ach .nd bowf your bealh On.f uU Dru Co JUDGE 0. H. ALLEN ON THE EVILS OP COCAINE. Words of Wisdom Go With Sen tence of John W. McGhee. Greensboro News, ICth. In sopnoing John McGhee, a High Poiru tnegro, convicted of peddling cocaine, to six months on the county roals, Judge Oliver II. Allen yesterday declared that eocai;e and whiskey, while doing great harm to the white race, was particularly playing havoc with the negro. He cited many instances in which the very worst crimes were traced to ne gro cocaine users, especially kill- ! hig officers ajid assaulting wo- If 1 i i? i. .. 1 linen. He referred to et torts be- evil effects of stimulants and narcotics. In every appoiutinent this official has had in the coiw ty he has beenrefj' bv r AVulc from his moral lectures Jude Allen is continuously siiow- for having done so much cussing. The prisoner, after a moment's "That's all right." said Judge Oliver. "Hew old are you?" he asktil. "Am 76 years old. I fought three years under Joe Johnson and killed (0 Yankees," the de fendant judge replied. "You did," exclaimed Judg Oliver, and continued, "Mr. ClerK the old soldier has apologized, and, while not apparently hav ing been able to correct the habit of cussing possibly ac quired during the war, he has reformed from his habit of kill ing Yankees or anybody else, so please just mark the docket, 'Judgment suspended on pay ment of the costs." Wife Beater at Whipping Post In Maryland. Westminster, Md., Dc. 1:1. riii" first legal whipping of a" ; wife beater in this county took ' place at the jail here. The dis ! ;..,.;. ,. . .i .v !,,:. I Sentenced ten davs air, but the ! whipping was drlavcd ui.til af i ter the tr'al of a case in which . tile Wlte iKMter S testimony WUS wife beaters testimony presented. No witnesses were present except William Shearer, Dr. I horn is in. who saw the 20 lahes well laid on.
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