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SOADOITS.
.Ii the fear pf.night a human in
stinctbif is it an acquired morbidity
of the soulT
The spirit of roan is freest when
baskihg in the halcyon light of day.
me there has been from child
a ystenmis fascination
about steidows. :
i ;-As the years have multiplied
that strange charm has tightened
Us grip upn niy imagination, more
correctly speaking, my spiritual
self. This charm is compounded
in equal parts of admiration add
fear. For tenaUtless human habi
tations I have a disgust by day
ancT loathing by night I inva
riably associates with these unearth
ly sounds and black cats. The
shadows at night of any old house
charms me like a reptile, without
the snake-like repugnance. "
In every shadow there are tiro
elements: the ghostlikeness and
the artistic. The effect is awein
spiring and pleasing. Jt is irresist
able. Some shadows are grotesque,
some are beautiful and all are
ghostly. After all what is a ghost
but a shadow. At midday I have
seen a ghost skimming the broom
sedge and have awakenedirom my
spell at the croak of a raven; over
head. In the broiling Angust after
noon T have stretched in the kindly
shadow of a reat oak, the most
rore beyond the mist anshdJ:
We Inevitebly hestitate Cbeti?en
retreat arid advance yhfel$
stand ra the spectral 4 prcccn6 ;of
this shadow. , - f .'ir
? the very : ether: 4s- surcharged
with the mingled elmia1sof
dread and enchantment
Charles Frohman askedashe
was about to pass tl&h'lthis
shadow with die sinkings Lusi
tania, "Why fear 4eatnt'tif bVtt
most beautiful adventure;oue malr
be priviledged to have, r: - -
Death may not be so,ominouff a
shadow after aft; But tk may de
pend upon the moral shadow one
reflects in this life. , 1
If this be rue then happy is the
man who consorts a (f Selectable
shadow. ""Z r
. Jamesi H; Cathey
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The "Old BoK 1 .come again.
He is an enigma lf- jce is not a
AriOUIIEB GUESS AT "TllE OLD B0Iw
Editor Journal:For jsomje time
at different intervals thotihts Jiave
revolved in my mind, which now
seems an opportune time for ma
terializing. H -
As the season of thel yfear ap-
proaches when those , orjus ho
hQVA
bin to sniff tne ( summewaaen
breezes and pine for the rnbnhtains
of Western North Carolinaalso to
plan for a home comingj some time
during the hot sesonnothing
could be more enjoyable to some of
us, who are scattered here and there
especially those of us who are near j
enough to feel that we are in reach
to have a reuuion of the student
body of East La Porte Academy or
in other words the students of Daw-son-Hues
chobl
We Americans are great on search
ing the Archives of History in get
ting up reminiscences of the past
and paying tribute to our benefac
tors. Jackson county; that is rapidly
twining a wreath of laurels for
her brpw in educational; advance
ment should not iprget that educa
tional opportunities were first cra
dled in the Sequestered yalley of
East La Porte; and as the old school
building stands ; as a lone sentinel
on the brow of hat rjeautiful hillit
impresses one with the thought,
'after all I've done, am I forgotten?
Silent, historic orator, whose speech
I 11. .. ..L 1 1 li
snouia sur me souis oi me iivmg ere Bre hospUal shadows, and : account of itff inertia or inabUity to
so lnn as a snark of natnotism re- i . t. r e.wi-ii'-u-.--i-L ' 'ii--lt.v ;
- - . mnospuaoie. - ouauuw luaiivwi. , siay awaAe uut, sjuipiy ucausc it
mams on eartn.
Now, lest we forget, could we not
plan for a i reunion sonWitirniVin:
September and pay a tribute to our
tutors and patrons who struggled so
faithfully in those by-gone days?
Teachers and many of the patrons
cannot be present, for "God's finger
touched them and they sleep."
To our regret this procrastination
brings to mind that it is too late to
scatter roses in their paths we can
but water with our tears the violets
APPLE
BLIGHT
a trkk. I am not "wise but; he
has shrewdly refjlied to my quest
ions without answeririg. the test
ones. He is a rare oJd: gentieman
if hftisoidat alL frankly, -I do
not unjerstazid his &n3 1 am
prepared for ahstujnidisillusion
ment. J IL
E FODCE TBE iBlIlB fi U1T
The anttspinjyiw is an or-
diance that sleei)stKe whole year
gradous thing that ever permitted through in almost every town in
laziness to pass its threshold. North; Carolina, It doesn't sleep on
the flocks and herds from 'the burn- j has no one to' Wake it" up ' and put
ing ueat qf iil MfaV
energy and produce death.
There is the passing shadow of
the cloud turning the meadows a
somber hue, filling the purple glens
with gloaming and fire-fly lamps
and thrilling their wake with the
hope of refreshing.
There is the myriad shadow s of
the lonely woods by the moonlight:
thp, shadow of the waving branches
on their graves'wd honor ;them by f m .gtic treeg get in motion by
t i . j ,1 t : i
Dear Journal: Well "Old BoyMI
amJ99hemed of myself that I can
not call you to my mind, but it
see pis a hanfjob. My other guess
was at old Uncle Marve Angel, but
I missed. Will "try again." Now
a whole lot of people believe it is
iS$ J. H. Cathey doing the writing
but I don't think it is.
NowOld Boy" Were you not a
-'fgood old long Nuzzle loading rifle
shot? And did you hot at one time
in Ttickaseigee river, a short dis
tance above the mouth of Cane
Creek near where you lived-kill
a deer that we had run off- Double
lop mountain? And we dressed
the deer and divided it up among
a big crowd and eacrr one got a
small mess. MOid Bdy,w were you
not a man who enged in a little
'fisNHJurTing" Occasionally? And
did you not at one time get into a
"difTerence with old Uncle Jack
Messer? And while you and he
were trying to straighten your mat
tera, did not your son feddie (I
thmk that was his name) come up
and crack the the old fellow on the
head-with a rock? "Old Bov,M did
not your brother and Uncle Jim
Fri2ellone time get into a row and
Ifladi eW your brother pretty bad
ly with a knife?
wow y-uia Boy," if I anvf wrong
again, do as you said you would-
give me some more dates to think
over, and I will try again.? K
Why don't4 more Journal readers
go to guessing at the "01 1 B03
Every onet I amuret?ould enjoy
reading them. So now, dear Jour-
r nal readers So to giiessihg at the
The mider8jgned,8 attention is
called to an article on apple and
pear blight, written by Mr. H: R.
Fulton, Plant ; Pathotogist of the
North Carolina ibcperiment Sta
tion, whose ideas: are very much at
variance with my actual knowledge,
gained by observation and actual
1,
assembling and exchanging ideas,
perhaps, in regard to perpetuating
the work so nobly begun in the
years gone by. In this day of pro-
the inscrutable winds. The
shadow of the foliage stirred by the
fragrant breath of autumn;
The shadow of a former emperor
gress no material , should lie dor-!of , woodland stripped of his
mant, but should be utilized. Doubt-; princely regalia of bark and leaves
less this old building and grounds and wkh naked trunk aIld broken
can be again brought into servict.
We have in mind numbers of our
best citizens who follow the differ
ent walks in life who began their
education in this sehool, .
limb siihouett d by the pale moon
against the cold December snow.
, There is the shadow of the trel
lised vine against the moonlight
window nane. changing with the
nothing more can be -done we Ranging breeze into forms more
surely can meet and pay tribute t0 fantastic and beautiful than ever
those who were ' the harbingers cf. 5eduiled oriental fancy,
good to our country. s xhere are monstrous shadows.
This is.merely a suggestion and j guch ag tho$e that appear to us in
if there are those Vhp are interest-1 dreams and in ine contemplation
ed, would be glad to hear from! the weird iand oye; te
them through the columns 01 the ; border from triis life the land of
Journal as to the practicability of rremorse and fear,
such a movement. Shadow is easily explicable and
I began this letter in Tennessee phenominal at the same lime. The
and am finishing it in Kansas, the : hid understands this. Shadow
nance once in awmie in a town is
alive, good business from more
standpoints than one. Below are
the figures of one busy town
that found time and the inclination
to experiment with this law. These
fibres represent the number of per
sju arrjilo 1 for spitting andthe
disposition of their cases from Jan
uary 1, 1915 to May 1, 1915.
Persons arrested or summoned. 481
Persons lined .350
Person to City Prison (1 day)l
Persons sentence suspended 83
Persons discharged .21
Persons cases pending.. 26
Total amount of fines $442.00
Was the law not worth putting
into ellect in ms townr it was
worth it to be rid of 481 nuisances
to say nothing of these as sources
of disease infection. From a health
standpoint the spitting ordinancs is.
one of the best on the statute books
Air it needs is some live city offi
cer or health officer to resurrect it,
breathe new life into it and put it;
to, work.
Promiscuous spitting is not only
one of the filthiest habits tolerated,
but one of the most dangerous,
Dried sputum is the principle
means of spreading tuberculosis
I germs, pneumonia germs, diphtheria
ntnd AwK-f nal readers, go t
rfl tnwm i uia uoy; ana tet us see it some ' t
Ill
it Western State, with her wav
fields of vheat. r V
Lela Potts Hagan
West Nashville, Term. -
Mrs. W. L. Hensoii of Beta i n
visiting her daughter Mrs. McCrack
en of Haywood thisj week.
Hon. C. J. Harris of Dillsboro
was in the city on business.
Mr. and Mr. Mont Allison visit
ed Mr. Allison's J ' sister Mrs. Hix
Wilson Wednesday. ;
, ..
common colds and nearly all other
presupposes substance. It is a COmmunicable diseases.
reflected image and mseparablei
expenence.
Mr. Fulton sayS that the blight is
caused by a fungus or bacteria, and
is spread by insects, etc., and that
the bteda is located m the bark
add wood of theaffected tree; and
that a good remjldy to apply to the '
affected parts w(?uld be to use one
part, or one jdrbp, of corrosive sub-
imate to one thousand drops of
water, apply to the affected parts!
and to remove! all the affected
bloom buds andflimbs.
Now what I may have to say in
rrdvtQ te blight is the expeiencc
of TOrwha has 'spent over a quarter
of a century in fruit tree culture
and during those years of observa
tion I have lealned that the blight
is caused by what is known to nor-
ticulturists as the common ; fly,
and is not considered as being of
very much injury to fruit trees,
only at regular periods of from
twelve to fourteen years. Like the
seventeen year: locust, he disappears
for a period; and after many years
will make is Appearance again.
The saw flyis in reality a beetle
which makes an attack upon fruit
trees, usually just at the time the
tr jbirmng to bloom, and
pi ying bis deajdly work mostly on
the inner, part of the apple
tree limbs,tiritroducinghis poison
InlljuiastJSi -base or the bloom
bud, and on the outside and upper
part of the .-.pee. The, beetle sub
sists upon tb tender buds and sap
and rapid growing outside limbs,
by penetrating the choice parts
with his shafp bill, and in so doing
poisons the mb punctured, which
will in a ver short time cause the
bud, or limbto wither and die.
The saw fy deposits his egg in
the thrifty! ojitside . limbs, (never in
side) just atNjthe starting part of the
new growth and within a short
time will develop into a small, hard
yellow worm, which subsists upon
the juices o the pith, and as his
wormship begins to grow, he moves
up and!dbwi the pith of the limb,
eating and Jiving upon the pith and
wood . next lithe centre, until the
wood is all aten out, only leaving
the bark-of -jhe limb. As the worm
grows olderlhe extends his feeding
ground downward, passing another
set of leav whiph was not killed
when the jigg was deposited, but
will die iriyhily or in early August,
and can;befeasily detected by the
second drying of the leaves. The
worm either remains in his original
home or leaves the limb and bur
rows in ground until early spring,
emerging;fEom the ground or limb
early in April, punctures the bloom
Recently health officers ha ve buds and stems and disppears for
been finding out that ducks just j a Period of about fourteen years.
nrrlinyrv wph-fnntPrl farmvad ! Piuicu imiu, will spiuui UUL
us Mara't him.w
With very best wishes for the
Journal and all its readers, I am
Yours very respectfully,
Tom Frizell.
MESSER RECOVERING.
J. R. Messer was in the pity Mon
day enroute to Asheville to visit
his son who is in the hospital.
Mr. Messer was seriously burned at
Black Mountain some. time ago and
hasbeen in the hospital since.
Mr. Messer said they thought they
could bring him home about the
last of this month.
He was in his room at the board
ing house when a car load of logs
broke loose and ran away. Some
of the logs rolled off against the
room in which Mr. Messer was and
struck the bed and pinned Mr.
Messer against the stove which
had just been filled with coal, and
it was about ten minutes before
any one found hjni.
RAISE DUCKS
from that which it represents.
- Shadow is immaterial anu im
plies light.
Light dispells and illumines;
shadow iliudes and mystifies.
And this brings us to that strang
est of shadows that haunts man
like some nemesis from the cradle
to the rave: the shadow of death.
Here the shadow draws us back
while something most likely light
lures us, on. We fain would ex-
JOHN D1LLARD DIES
John Dillard who has been very
ill for some time died at his home
near this place last Friday at 2
o'clock, and was buried at the Dili
ard family ground Saturday even
ing. Mr. Dillard leaves a large family
and a host of friends to mourn his
loss.
ducks make good sanitarians so
far as the mosquito nuisance about
their pond is concerned. It appears
that ducks destroy mosquito larve
in rather large numbers. ; Just how
many mosquitoes per duck per day
we are not yet ready to announce,
Some of the mosquito larve are de
voured while others are doubtless,
ruthlessly detached from their
moorings trampled under foot
drowned and otherwise obliterated.
Health Bulletin.
more Dioora buds this season, just
at the lowr part.. of the poisoned
part of thej liinb, the new growth
forming blom buds next year, and
the year following will produce a
larger cronl of apples than would
have beer had ,. the saw fly not
made his Sappearanc in. the year
1915.lt's alright to clip off the pois
onedjimbland tljug giye the bark
a chance to heal oyer. ,You should
remove aU ttieJ4e wocd on the
upper ahdjouteide in . orc that an
occasidnalbeeyeworm nray be de
stroyed. Respectfully
' T R. Zachary.
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