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VOL. XXII
WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1917
NO. 42
$1.50 A YEAR
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS jOF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
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6LD TIMES IN WARREN
By T. J. TAYLOR, D. D.
DAD.
pd never had much to say:
JVfrged along in his quiet way
Contentedly smoking his old dundeen
A he turned the soil to the. golden
sheen.
Used to say as he slapped the mare,
One horny hand in his tangled hair,
''Zest is jcy when your work's well
done,
Se pitch in, son."
Srnetimes he an' I'd not hitch:
Ouldn't agree as to which was which.
Fought it out on the same old lines
As we. grubbed an' hoed 'morig the
runnin' vines:
Ar.d his eyes would light with a gen
tle quiz,
Ad he'd say in that old soft way of
his,
As he idly stroked his wrinkled chin,
''All right, son, you win."
Pad was never no hand to fuss:
15ed to hurt him to hear us cuss:
Kind o' settled in his old ways,
Eorn an', raised in good old days
TYhen a tattered coat hid a kindly
heart,
An' the farm was home, not a toiling
mart, - ' :"'
Ak' a rian was judged by his inward
self:
Net hi? worldly pelf.
Seems like 'twas yesterday we sat
C? the old back porch for a farewell
chat
Er? I changed the farm and the simple
life
For the city's roar an' bustle an'
strife.
Tflaile I gayly talked of the city's
charm
His eye? looked ""out o'er the"' fertile
farm
Am' he said as he rubbed where the
hair was thin,
"All right, son, you win."
'Uember the night I trudged back
home.
Sir kin' deep in the fresh turned loam:
Sickin' sere for the dear old place,
Kungerin' most for a loved old face.
When I had climbed the hilltop o'er,
Taere stood dad in the kitchen door,
A' he says in a voice froom deep with
in,
"Kello, son, come in."
Oae winter's day, the first of show,
K went the way that we all must go:
A' his spirit soared to the relms
above
Or the wings of a simple-hearted love.
Ab' I know that when I cross the bar
I' find him there by the gates ajar,
A' he'll say, as he idly strokes his
chin,
"Kello, son, come in."
William Edward Ross.
"THROUGH THE SPECS OF JAS.
A. LkIuKTOI, ft iv."
Mr. Egerton was a native of Warren
County. His ancestors came to this
section in colonial .times and settled
i the neighborhood of thg present
town of Macon. The land on which
ty settled they received from the
rown. It was perhaps a part of the
Granville grant. Some members of
ttie Egerton family hold deeds to
lands purchased by their colonial an
cestors. Sometime I hope to write a
Utch of the Egerton family.
Jas. Albert Egerton, Sr., was a
lineal descendant, in the third or four
th generation, of the Egertons who
rifrinally settled in the Section. His
colonial ancestors pom a frnm F no-land
"here they were prominently connect
3. r. Egerton was born nrobablv in
tfce latter part of the year 1814. He
Ter,t his eaiiir years in the neighbor
! of Macon. This was long before
there was a town cf that name in the
county. He was intimately acquaint
cd with the leading families of this
etirn at the time of his death, which
ctcuie some twenty years ago; he
s v.ith the exception of the late Col.
' 1'v'-7 the only man in the state
Personally knew Nathaniel
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jj t-i-j uuuugii me vivm i. ej
ection of the features and personal
Ppearance of Mr. Macon that . North
Gar!Ra's distinguished artist, Mr. W.
Randall was enabled to paint ' a
h Tl which the late CoL Creasy
it knew Mr. Macon well, pronounced
i Rood Hkeness. This portrait is
aad l1PSSesion of the widow of Mr.
and it would he a wi.eu mftAS-
ur if -.
r 0Ur present legislature would
s it and place it with portraits
of other distinguished North CarolLi-
Mr. Egerton was a man of strong
convictions and he was inflexible in
the pursuit of what he considered
right. He was a man of largo ex
perience and knew much about iner.
of National reputation
th
other States. . ..' ' .
I j-ivuiiie that he was a '.T ijn rnnn
at the beginning ' of the war bue be
carr.f a tessionist when President
Lincoln callel for 75.000 mentocoerice
the secedirg States ;thence forward he
was devoted to the cause of the South.
He used to think that if President
Lincoln had possesed a correct view
of the conditions between North and
South he would have acted differently,
and he sometimes said, with a twin
kle in his eye, "I think I could have
convinced him in a ten . minute talk."
Well, maybe so; but I fear that, al- J
though a good man Mr. Lincoln, like
Mr. egerton was very mucn set rn i
his ways.
I have only time in this paper to
let you see through Mr. Egerton's
specs: "one or two Reconstructions
Scenes that occured in Warrenton in
1866- and 1867. He says that, some
white men deserted their friends and
aided in oppressing the people. Hap
pily the names, of most of these have
been forgotten. " Most of the offices of
the county were filled by ignorant
negroes and equally ignorant white
men. Fortunately the offices in trie
Court ilous.e were -occupied by capable
white men, such as Benjamin Cook,
W. A. White, N. R. Jones, and Henry
Eer.nett. But the magistrates in the
townships and the constables were
for the most part filled by ignorant
part filled by
men.
Mr. Egerton refers to the ignorant !
negroes who held offices and then
says, "There were some white men
! made justices who would have dis
graced any community in any posi
tion in which they could have been
i placed." It must be remembered that
this .strong" statement was r made -by.
a strong partisan who suffered great
ly and felt keenly the humiliation of
the Reconstruction Period.
Again, he says, "I will relate one
r- .1 l l a.;
a it u.mi my
one occasion I was in the eastern
part of our County on a survey, and
near the house ot a negro, who had
been made a justice. He had recently
married a couple, and came to me1 to
aslv if I would please carry the license
up to Warrenton and deliver them to
the Clerk of the Court, and asked me
if I'd please fill up for him the cer
tificate on the back of the license.
This I did for him the best I could
with his outfit. Then, he asked me to
please put his r ne to it. I did so,
when he pointed with his index fin
ger and said, ."Put J. P. there." This
filled me so full of laugh and grief
that I was scarcely in my right mind
and I mentioned it that those who
come after me may know what we had
to bear during Reconstruction.
Heavy taxes were imposed on prop-
erty holders by those who had no prop j
erty. Mr. Egerton says that he had
to pay tax three times a year. First,
the State and county, then, the town
shin and last, the town tax. The
x- '
farmers did the best they could un
der existing circumstances. The
Freedman's bureau together with the
carpet-bag and Scalliwag rule made
labor hard to get. The merchants
sold goods at very high prices. The
Government put a heavy tariff on to
bacco and cotton, and our people were
burdened almost beyond endurance.
But they fought the battle bravely,
bore their btirdens patiently, and with
their faces toward the sunrise pressed
toward a better day into which the
present generation in our dear old
county have come. -
The people, of our county, both white
and colored, rejoice that the horrors
of Reconstruction are past, that the
carpet-bagg:r and scalliwag have for
ever gone from our midst, that the
freed-man's bureau is dead and buried
never to be raised again, that the bit
terness and strife of those sad old
days .have f orever passed away, and
that the white man and the negro are
living together in peace and prosper
ity and passing on to better things.
Pledge for Good Health
The Red Cross offers this
pledge to boys and "girls, for a
"Modern Health Crusade" :
'"I WILL
"Keep my mind and body clean:"
"Keep my body strong with good,
plain food, fresh air and outdoor ex
ercise." "Let air and sunlight come freely
into the hou3e where I live and the
building in whieh I work."
Carrot Events.
moie ca.e 01 ine newiy inaue ju,of hjs haye been printed but j
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We Announce to the public
That, Commencing
THE WARREN RECORD
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will be issued in semi-weekly form.
Ve will publish The '-Warren Record
of four pages on Tuscfay . and Fri
day of each week --giving our read
er? the news while it is news. The
price 3nll be only $1.5Q per year.
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Ourrrespondents willinail us their
letters Saturday and Mob d ay for Tu
esday's paper and Wjelinesday and
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Thursday for Fridays paper.
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I "MAN BEHIND THE
THRONE" IN RUSSIA
Strange Career and Mysterious
End of Russian-Church Monk
Rasputin ,
; Tough war rages, Europe pauses to
j discuss with keen interest the death
'of Rasputin, a monk of the Russian
IrVmrrh. Manv conflicting accounts
"
seems tQ be undisputed that his
! body wag found -n the Neva. whether
j h& wag a guicide or the victim of a
murder dees not. appear.
For years Rasputin has been famed
throughout the world because of the
strange influence he is supposed to
have possessed over the Russian Czar
and Czarina. It is said that he was
a Spiritualist and claimed to get mes
sages and advice from the dead. Not
an important step has been taken for
years, so the story runs, without con
sulting him. The Duma has repeat
edly referred to him in memorials of
the throne; not by name, but as cer
tain dark influences." Nobles of high
degree had to seek favor from 'him,
for without his advice the Czar would
do nothing.
Of late Rasputin's influence is said
to have been strongly pro-German
He was accused Gf stopping supplies
of food and ammunition for the Rus
sian army, and so weaken the forces
in the field. For some such reason,
perhaps, he was assassinated.
Current Events.
THE THRICE-A-WEEK EDIT
ION OF THE NEW YORK
WORLD
- v , in 1917
Practically, a Daily at the Price of a
Weekly. No other Newspaper, in the
world gives so much at so low a price.
The value,-and need of a newspaper
in the household was never - greater
than at the present time. The great
war in Europe is now half-way into
its third year, and, whether peace be
at hand or yet far off, it and the
events to follow it are sure to be or
absorbing interest for many a month
to come.
These are the world-shaking' affairs
in which the United States, willing
or unwilling, -is compelled to take a
part. No. intelligent person can ig
nore such issues.
.THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD'S
regular s .' -ni;lin pr co is only $1.
per year, and this pays for 16 papers, pediency of raising the salary close on
We offer this uneaqual newspaper and the heels xof the great western Caro
THE . TWICE-A-WEEK WARREN iina flood were the chief objections set
RECORD both for one year for $2.20 Up by Ray of -Macon, Clark cf Pitt
Think of it! Warren Record twice and other opponents of the bill,
a week one year, The New York The measure, as it passed the House,
World three times a week for one'jWas sent by special messenger to the
year -both for $2.20. j Senate where it was passed without
The regular subscription price of : discussion and with only one - vote
the two paper is $2.50
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Snow on the ground is . generally i
conducive to snore in the bed. Hen- j
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SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT
CLOSE FOR EPIDEMICS
Epideraiclgist Advise Keeping
Schools Open- and Employing
Inspectors.
"To close school in case of an epi-
hemic is not consideren by expert epi-
demiologist as the best plan cf con-
trolling an epidemic," savs the State
Board of Health. ."The plan of a f ew
years ago of closing schools every-
time whooping cough or measles
broke out and turning loose the chil-
dren to congregate down a street or
meet in the alleys has not proven a
wise one. The old way has been
found to be expensive and in no way
to check the spread of the contagion;
if anything, it aided its spread.
"But careful epidemiologists who
have made stodies of both methods,
say that it is better in the face of an
r,,.
epidemic from both the financial and
public health stand-point to keep the
ov.i nnn atit m;ni
inspector and a school norse, at least
till the epidemic is under control.
Sometimes an efficient school nurse
can take the place of both and there
by decrease expenses.
"Children are themselves the nat
ural agencies for the spread of conta
geous diseases, such as measles, diph
theria, smallpox and scarlet fever, and
it is only when they are under con
trol as to their habits and means of
spreading infections that an epidemic
has any chance of being reduced.
Therefore, the teacher, as well as tne
inspector, is an important factor in
checking the spread of a disease in
her school. Cleanliness as to both
room and the children cannot be min
imized, while fresh air, sunlight and
a temperature of not over 68 degees
are , other essentials not to be over
looked." GOVERNOR GETS RAISE IN
SALARY
The Salary of the Governor of North
Carolina is to be $6,500 a year instead !
0f $7,500 as the upper house of the
General assembly voted it. should be
iast night, the increase being from
$5,000
The final contest over the issue came
in the House this afternoon when the j
committee bill for the $6,500 was put j
through, after a hard fight, 61 to 48 !
after amendments fixing $6,000 and
for the orignal $7,500, had been voted
down. Unconstitutionlity and inex-lman
against it, that of Little of Anson.
Turning from the passage of Gov-
ernor's salary bill, the House how-
ever, killed the companion Senate bill
salaries of the Secretary of State,
State Treasurer and Auditor. No roll
call was demended, and very few
Representatives voted for the bill.
Senator Jones offered in the Senate
a joint resolution to approve the ac
tion of Governor Craig and the direc
tors of the State's prison in paying
cut $4,060 prison funds in Christmas
gifts of $10 each to the dependent
families of the convicts. Senator
Person and others indicated opposi
tion and criticism on the ground that
there was neither law nor predecent
for the action. At their demand the
resolutions-.went to the committee on
appropriations. In the late afternoon
sjsion Senator Jones procured the
making' of the measure a special or
der for Friday, so that all who desira
tc ciseuss the bill may be heard.
At the night session of the House. '
there was another salary bill episode,
when' the House vo t:.I down a bill to
increase the salary of the State Superintendent-
of; Public- Instructions and
Attorney Genesal $3,500 in stead of
$3,000. This would put these consti
tutional officers on an equal footing
with their associates. -
The bill was opposed by McCrary
of Davidson and advocated by Swain,
McLendon and others, ;. but Clark of
Pitt offered an - amendment . to add
$500 to the salary of the Secretary of
State, already $3,500 and the amend
ment and -the bill were voted down
v i Charlotte Observer.
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HEALTH NEWS
. Consider the furnace. Theoretical
ly this is a machine for the econom
ical production of heat. If the proper
amount of the proper kind of fu:l v
put into it, if the ashes are properly
cleaned out, if the drafts are prop-irl
managed, the chances are that it will
heat the house properly. If, on the
other hand, too much or two little
fuel is put intq it, if the fuel contains
too much noninflammable material, if
the fife is not kept clean of ashes, or
i the dampers are badly regulated,
tns 1-urnace operates innemcienuy or
ceases work altogether. Perhaps the
: most important thing next to putting
I in the fuel is to clean out tns ashes
! If these are allowed to accumulate in
' the ash PH' the rate bars ma be
ourne1 out-
ooa iS taKv-n inzo zne numan Doay
T-l 1 ,1 1 J 1 1 t 1 .
'for the purpose ot producing heat,
purpose ot proau
1 he standard ot its value is tne num- ing as soldiers, hoping thereby to
ber. of heat units it contains. If too j show their desire, even at the risk of
little fuel is taken into the human life to serv bumaT1ity, and in serv
body an insufficient number of heating humanity to serve God. Besides
units to operate it are received and such heroes as these extravagance
it works inefficiently. If , on the other j and the waste of rotteness r
hand, too great an amount of foodjthese great banquets and social c
is taken, the body becomes clogged j casions must awaken the contempt
and works just as inefficiently as if
naa received too sraan an amount.
I The most important thing is to re-
move promptly all the waste material
remaining after the food has given
up its heat units. If too great an
amount of this debris is allowed to
remain the fires of the body are in
dan j-r-Dr of being put out by these
poisrncu materials. The elimination
of these materials is one of the func-
tions of the intestiskl canal. One of
the requisites of good health is an
educated intestinal apparatus. Per
haps this is even more important than
an educated set of brains. Certainly
aneducated set of brains cannot work
effectively so long as the intestiosjal
apparatus is badly operated.
Man in our present state of civili-
zation is obliged to pay particular at-
tention to functions which lh a state
of nature took care of themselves.
A robust man efsgaged in active ex
ercise in the open air may commit '
dietary indiscretions which would be
exceedingly harmful to a sedentary
workes. Exercise as a part of the
daily life is, however, absolutely nec
essary for both. Plain, wholesome
food is just as necessary- for the brain
worker as for him who labors with
his hands. Above all, both must keep
.the human furnace well shaken down
and' without accomulation of ashes and
debris in order that the fires of life
may born brightly and steadily.
When I get a letter from a farmer
written on a printed letter-head, I
i assume at once that here is a reading
and an intelligent farmer, and
much the contrary is the impression
when I get a letter scrawled on dark
poor paper which makes it hard for
the old eyes to read. Then another
advantage in the printed-letter head,
especially when the letter is from a
business man, is that many of these
signatures in the most complex man
ner, and but for the printed name at
top I could hardly know to whom to
send the reply. One can guess at a
good deal, but cannot guess at a sig
nature that is unreadable W. F.
BEWARE OF BEL-
HAZZA'S FEAST
While this country has been charg
ed, and, we are afraid, justly so, with
being "drunk with unearned prosper
ity," it is certainly pre-eminently true
that some of the people who ought
to be sober appear to be hopelessly
drunk and even sodden in their stupil
ity. This has been strikingly illustrated
in a number of foolishly expensive
banquets and of wildly disipated af
fairs which have been given recently
in various parts of; the country.
We do not know. whether the story
is true that was recently sent out
from St. Louis, that at one soiial oc
casion the guest 'were dressed as in
fants and were fed ..whiskeys and wine
through nursing bottles. If it be true,
the degree of intelligenie and decen
cy thus indicated, was far less than
that of the 'youngest baby born of:
the poorest negro Jn the South. For
the sake of ' 'humanity we hope the
report is not true..
' But events' almost as disreputable
and extravagant and. banquets almost
as foolish are 'being given where the
cost has run from $2 tq $100 a plate.
The people who gave these banquets
have boasted' "of their, cost instead of"
bowing- their. "heads in shame that in
this day of - Europe's awful misery,
with millions of people dying of star
vation and of other millions in tha
tortures of the lost through gaping:
wounds cn the battlefields, they gave
so little consideration to human suf
fering and sorrow and poverty as to
be guilty of such willful, wasteful
extravagance; it is rotteness. It in
dicates a rotteness of heart which
endangers civilization for it arouses
the int'ensest justifiable bitterness of
the poor an d the suffering in this
country who lack for foodstuffs and
clothes to keep soul and body together.-
It ,is also an affront to Europe,
whose misery we should look upon
with sorrow and sympathy and whose
suffering we should seek to alleviate
by gifts in proportion to the blessings
re enjoy.
Many American?, in t their pity of
the suffering in Europe and their de-
oire tq alleviate as much of it" as pos-
sjble, are giving themselves as nurses
and mnTW tncp, m
and m many cases, men a re volunteer-
even of the Devil himself.
Europeans are in prison, and as a.
pecple we have visited them not; they
are in want, and as a people we havn
not ministered unto them.
We have gone our way rejoicing
in that prosperity which has blossom
ed from the very graves of Europe's
soldiers, a prosperity which has been
water by the blood of millions of the
flower of European civilization, and
;yet we have lived within ourselves
and for ourselves, arid dared to say
that we are not our brother's keeper.
Individuals and nations have done
similar things in the past and tlfccn
had to pay a fearful penalty theref er. '
Surely we shall not escape a siiailar
penalty unless we awake to our ' re-
! sponsibility, and unless the decent
imen an(j WOrnen of this c6untry es-
tracise socially and in every "other
possible way, those who disgrace th
country and humanity itself in tk
wilfulness of their riotous4 living, ef
which many evidences are" constantly,
coming to the. public's "attention," arid
doubtless there are hundreds of cae
of which the public never hears'.1'
Manufacturer's Record. l'
! TWELVE
GOLDEN RULES
BOYS
FOR
1. Hold integrity sacred. N
2. Observe good manners.
3. Endure trials patiently.
4. Be prompt in all things.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Make good acquaintance's.
Shun the company of the idle.
Dare to do right, fear to do wronjr.
Watch carefully over your temp
er. Never be afraid of being laughed
at.
lp. Fight life's battles manfully,
bravely.
11. Use your leisure moments fer
study.
12. Sacrifice mony rather than prin
ciple. '
TnS NEW ERA-
Many a man who is going at a jal-