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- ,-jt - 4 ' 1 g' ;.r 7 - " k - . - . .... . ;----'ri THE POWER Of AN ENDLESS LIFE. Youth's Companion. r It was just, after Easter, and a half-dozen men lingered after their luncheon at the club, discussing a matter which had been committed to them, and for the consideration of which they , had come together. They found themselves in agreement sooner than they expected, and the report which the chairman of the committee had drafted was approved without modification and, signed by all; and so there was a little , un exDected time at the end of the meal in which none of . those ordinarily, busy men made naste ..to go. rney had got into conversation about Easter, and the topic had -reached a level of general interest. There . never . had been a mdre perfect day, they all agreed. The air had been balmy, the grass had been green, the birds had sung, the churches had been filled to overflow ing, and the day had left a most pleasant memory. But what had the day really meant? There was some quotation of sermons, either as heard or as reported in the newspapers, and some comment on the change of emphasis in Easter preaching now and in former years. And there was .some tendency to agree that the hope of personal immortality seemed less large in the mind of the man of to-day than in the mind of men of other generations. "After all," said one, the ques- tion is not how loner we live, but how well. This life is quite as long as most men make good use of and I don't know but it is as long as I care for. One world at a time is nough, and if there is any other, ltwill take care of itself when it comes." Others spoke in the same vein, and this appeared to be the general feeling among the men present. Near the end one of them spoke who had been a silent yet deeply interested hearer of all chat the rest had said. Said he: "Two weeks ago I was called back to the old home by a message that my mother was dying; and I sat for the greater part of the two days that elapsed .until the end came, holding her hand on one side, while my father held the other hand. "She was conscious to the end. She faced death without fear, though she was a somewhat timid woman. "Those were sad hours, but beauti ful hours; and she was able to live over with us the years of the past, and to tell us her hopes and her wishes. We had never realized be fore no man can realize until he goes through that experience what the fulness of life is. "We saw the change approaching. My father, who had walked by her side for more than fifty years, said, 'She is nearing the shore; she is nearing the shore!' Then came the - last breath, and the death-rattle, and my sister cried, 'Oh, what is it?' for she had never heard that terrible sound before. "What is it this thing we call death? It is a beautiful thing my mother's death wasf yet it is an ominous and a terrible thing. What is it? And what is there beyond it? "I agree with what you have been saying, yet it is not all I want. I came to this Easter-time with a deep yearning for a word of positive com fort, and I have heard it the clear faith of my mother reaffirmed in the WOrds, 'I am the resurrection and the life. I believe in the immortality of the soul. I believe in my moth er's religion. And this has been for me a beautiful Easter." There was something in this bit of a business man's heart that made all academic discussion seem out of place. The conference ended, and as each man passed out he took the hand of the man who had last spoken but few of them said anything. The Third Person. In the town where Rev. Dr. Em mons was pastor lived a physician tinctured with the grossest form of pantheism, who declared that if ever he met Dr. Emmons he would easily floor him in argument. One day they met at the home of a patient. The physician asked Dr. Emmons : "How old are you, sir?" The doctor, astounded at his rude- ness, quietly replied, &ixty-two; may I ask, sir, how long you have lived?" "Since the creation," was the re ply of the pantheist. "Ah, I suppose, then, you were in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve?" "I was there, sir." .. "Well," said the wily divine, "we all know there was a third person present." ' Professor Brander Matthews, the brilliant writer and teacher, was dis cussing literary quaintnessat Colum bia. In illustration of the quaint he said: " "A little girl I know was very bad one day. She was so bad that, other corrections failing, her mcthar took her to her room to whip her. "During the proceeding the little girl's brother opened ' the door and was about to enter. But in her prore position across her mother's knee the little girl twisted around her head and said severely : '"Eddie, go out I Can't you see we are busy ?'- C . The police of-the entire s city , of Chicago are searching for ' Raymond Williams, o years oiu, wno is seuu wj . ; have been lost 76 times. V The young- ster disappeared : from a street car In which Jiis mother and he were rid inj? Saturday afternoon. v - THE BOLTER. Charity and Children. - ' Party regularity is an excellent thing when -the -party is what it ought to be. It is fine to see a man stand by his party, his lodge or his church when he can do so and keep his ;-. conscience. But there come times when he must turn sadly away fro n the organization that has here tofore "commanded his allegiance, anq declare his independence. - We have just had- a striking example of thii in the recent contest before the primaries in Raleigh The party in power had become corrupt. -The af fairs of the city were shamefully mis managed. The public revenueswere wasted in salaries and in various forms of graft. The sturdy citizen ship, after a period of amazing pa tience and forbearance arose in their might and swept the" field. They wefe in a sense "bolters," but the time had come to bolt. Nothing else, under the circumstances, could have been done. The honorable and the manly thing to do was precisely what the good citizens did, and the old officials were ingloriously de feated. In former days party regu larity was a name to conjure by. The lash of the boss rang loud and clef r, and in self-defense good men wejre forced to swallow pills that they need not. and will not swallow under the new and better dispensa tion. The colored vote, usually on thej side of the "vicious and corrupt, is no longer a menace, and men are free to consult their own consciences' rather than the political exigencies of he time. A bolter who bolts for a good cause and because he will not endorse by his vote a bad or incom petent candidate is a benefactor to his! country and not-a renegade. The oldj time party boss lost his power when the amendment to the consti tution that disfranchised the colored voter was ratified by the people. The South has suffered more, per haps, than any other section of our ountry because of the peculiar po litical conditions with which we had to deal. But the time has come at last when a man need no longer vote forja candidate he knows to be cor rupt because he belongs to his party. Under the new conditions, party loyalty can be as strong and true as ever; but party slavery is a thing of the past. His Sign Down. A disheveled man, much the worse for) liquor, staggered out of a Maine "speak-easy" and laboriously prop ped himself against the door. For a while he owlishly surveyed the passers-by.- Suddenly his foot slipped, and he collapsed in a heap on the sidewalk. A moment later he was sndring. 4- hurrying pedestrian paused, re flectively surveyed the fallen man for a few seconds, and then poked his! head in the door. fOh, Frank," he called. "Frank, come out here a minute." . Presently the proprietor of the joint, smoking a fat cigar, emerged. He! blinked in the bright sunlight. "Hello, Hud," he said, pleasantly. "What's up?" Hud jerked his thumb toward the slumberer on the sidewalk. f Yer sign has fell down," he ex- plained, and briskly resumed his wa k uptown. There to "Get Through. Atlanta Constitution. The Mulberry News has a story of a school teacher who reproved a girl pupil forot knowing her geography lesson : The next day the child's mother appeared on the scene and let go of this phillippic: 'I guess you don't know it all. I send my little girl here to school so that she gets through. I want her to get through so she gets a man. You never mind about geography. I don't care, just so she gets through. I want her to get through. My other daughter, she didn't know geography and she got through, and she got a good man all jright. Lots of girls, they don't know geography, and they get men. But you you (and she pointed her finger directly at the teacher), you ain't got no man at ail and can t git none. What's this geography good f0r anyhow ? You just see my daughter gets through school and I'll learn geography to her.' When to Stop Advertising. Will a merchant who is wise Ever cease to advertise? Yes when the trees grow upside down; When the beggar wears a crown; When ice forms on the sun; When the sparrow weighs a ton; When gold dollars get too cheap; . When women, secrets keep; When a fish forgets to swim; When Satan sings a hymn? y When girls go back on gum; When the small boy hates a drum; When no politician schemes; When mince pie makes pleasant dreams; When it's fun to break a tooh; When all lawyers tell the truth; yhen . cold water makes you drunk;! When you love to smell a skunk; When the drummer has no brass When these things all come to pass, . Tfeen the mans that's wise . i Will neglect to advertise. r - A colored girl H Years old, irents 4ive near Dillard. whose parents Stokes county. : ten ' miles from Madison, gave birth Sunday afternoon to a fully-developed girl baby i weighing 8 pounds. The father of the child is only 13 years of age. . - ROADS SENTIMENT GROWING. Lexington Dispatch. - 'The growth of sentiment for good roads in Davidson county ? is truly amazing. " The Dispatch has never seen such a demonstration for any- thing in this county. -A trip out in to the country will convince any man that the farmers are determined to put an end to their mud tax and to build decent highways over which they can haul their products to mar ket, or on which they can travel with ease; if only for pleasure. People are stirred up as they have never been on a public question before. mi i-v t l . ... . . ine uaviuson roaas at uus time are. fearful. It is really dangerous to travel some of them at night. Time and again in the past the Dispatch has tried to draw people out and get them to write letters to us; on the subject of road improve ment; but with poor success. No body seemed interested This spring the whole county is struggling through the mud to put in a word for better roads. In the light of past apathy, the present situation is little short of a revolution. Let's just simply get right down to it, gentlemen, map out a cam p iign, adopt our plans, vote bonds, select good men to co-operate with the county commissioners in spend ing the money to the bestead vantage aid build good roads in Davidson county. There isn't but one way to go at it, and that is the right way, and now is the time. There ought t ) be a preliminary meeting of rep resentative farmers and business men in the court house, and com- fmittees appointed to take up the va rious phases of the work. The mer chants of Lexington and Thomas ville, the Farmers' Union, and farm ers from every section ought to meet and agree on something, and then pitf h in for a good road? cam paign. Meanwhile let every citizen do something to advance the cause. The Postponed Baptizing. Atlanta Constitution. The old colored brother prefaced his sermon marks : with the following re- "I well knows dat some er you has travelled fur ter see de baptizin' to day, but I has ter announce dat dar won't be no baptizin'. Five big alii- H j i i i - , i i gators nas Deen seen sunmn aersens on five logs in de millpon'; bavin' des crawled out f um der long winter sleep; an' hit stan's ter reason dat w'en a alligator sleeps all winter he's mighty hongry w'en he wakes up. Hit may be dat Providence will pro tect de canderdates fer de babtizin', but hit's my opinion dat ter wade into a millpon' wid five hongry alli gators playin' 'possum on a log, would be flying in de face er Provi dence!" To Hold Liquor Witnesses. United States District Judge James E. Boyd Friday made an announce ment in open court at Greensboro which practically shuts the door on prosecutions in the Federal courts for retailing liquor without license. A similar construction of the law by State and Federal authorities will go far toward making it impossible to convict under the law prohibiting the sale or manufacture of liquors in North Carolina. Judge Boyd stated that in the fu ture he will hold as a matter of law that where a witness testifies he has purchased liquor from a defendant he will be held as aiding and abet ting in the commission of the crime. As a natural consequence witnesses will hereafter be scarce. Stole Six Cents Worth of Coaf. James.Finley, a boy of 17, was ar raigned before Magistral Crane in New York Saturday charged with stealing six cents worth of coal from the railroad yards at Mott Haven The widowed mother of the boy said he went after the coal because it was cold in their home. She and he were on the verge of starvation. The magistrate, apparently affected by the pitiful case of need, discharg ed the boy, remarking, "Young man I am going to discharge you; but I want to tell you something. If you want to steal wait until you are pres ident of a railroad. Then you can steal anything you want and have no fear of punishment. Until then you must never at a railroad car, or you might be arrested." Mother Shipton's Prophecy. The folio wing, which is Known as "Mother Shipton's Prophecy," was first published in 1485, and republish ed in 1641. All the events predicted in it, except that mentioned in the last two lines, have already come to pass: " . ": Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe. Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye. Waters shall yefc more wonders do Now strange, yet shall be true.. The world upside down shall be And gold be found at root of tree. Through hills man shall ride, And no horse or ass be at his side. . Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black, in green. Iron in the water shall float, As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found, and found In a land that's not known.. Fire and water shall wonders do, - England shall at last admit a Jew. The wjrldto an end shall come " In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. . Two and a half inches of snow fell in Denver: Sunday and last night. This : was the forty-fourth: day on which snow has fallen in Denver since the cold weather began. - OLD FASHIONED COURTING. - Uncle Joe Cannon. oourung s ; w ny , mess you,-my boy, the young: fellows of today do not know the meaning: of that word! When a young man would walk five or even ten miles througfithe snow or rain and mud, freeze his ears and fingers, and face the danger of wild cats, to see his girl, and that too in the "general living-room with! the family, he was entitled to admit that he was courting. -And that was the rule, not the exception. The young fellows would start out Sunday afternoon to see their sweethearts, and no weather was to bad to ket?p them at home. It might be too cold or too muddy to take out a horse; but in that case he would go on foot, and he would go through as much hardship to sec his girl as did knights of old to rescue fair maids in castles bold. But it was his devotion, his courting; and when he won that girl he stuck to her through thick ajid thin, through good report and evil report, obeying the scriptural injunc tion that what God has joined to gether no man should put asunder. There were no marriages of conven ience and few hasty marriages then. The courting was long and there were no divorces-to follow. The young people might meet often at the singing-school, or the dance, or the husking bee; but these did not take the place of regular courting. "The courting was on Sunday night and the young man went re ligiously to se his girl and remained so until midnight with the object of his affection, even though her father and mother and the younger children were present to share the visit; and when he went home, either through the storm or under the bright starlight, he walked the earth as a conqueror, for he had been in presence that to him represented the real poem of life. He had been courting! And that is all we need, to bring safe and sane ideas of mar riage courting courting in the true sense of the word, the man seeking, If not serving, like Jacob, seven years for the object of his af fection. Then he will stick to her and she to him through life. There were some old fashions that have not been improved upon, and one of them is the old way of courting. Tax Exemption as An Inducement Charlotte Chronicle. The town of Camden, S. C, as an inducement to secure the establish ment of manufacturing enterprises, has voted to exempt new plants from taxation for a period of six years. It is an old plan and of doubtful effi cacy. It was in operation in Char lotte once when a single factory was exempt from the payment of taxes, but as soon as the law expired, fac tories began springing up on every hand. It would not be fair to make existing manufacturing enterprises pay taxes and exempt new ones. As a general thing, however, manufac turing enterprises seek the field that offers the best opportunities and the matter of taxation is of secondary consideration. Whenever manufac turing enterprises flourish they are able and willing to pay taxes, it is no inducement to be exempt from paying taxes unless-the location i3 a profitable one, and good business men generally prefer to be on the same basis as other business men of a community. Salute for Taft When the Southern Railroad's New York and JNew UrJeans Limited en ters the North Charlotte yards on the morning of May 20, the thou sands and thousands or people in Charlotte will know it, for a big can non stationed on the hill in front of the depot will signal the approach of the President, with the firing of twentv-one guns. Mark W. Wil liams, who is chairman of the parade committee, stated at a meeting of the Central committee that he would arrange for the salute, provided the committee would pay for the broken glass in the vicinity of the cannon. Mr. Williams stated afterwards, however, that the gun would be placed where window glass would not be in any great danger. $1,000 Bill in Church Plate. The insertion of an advertisement in a local paper in Washington Thurs day that there had been found in the collection plate of the Roscoe Meth odis Episcopal Church after the services last Sunday night a $1,000 bill developed the fact that the church officers think the donor made a mistake. The yearly collections of the church do not average much more than this amount. The officials in the adver tisement state that they will return the money to the owner if he wants it back and can prove that he in advertently dropped it into the plate. Champion Cow Passes Away. s Estella. the champion butter Jersey cow of the world, is dead at Nher home, the Missouri Agricultural College Farm, at Co lumbia, Mo. "' In 12 months she produced 712 pounds of butter, 100 pounds more than her nearest competitor, usteua . 1 ' IlL A J t-J was in gooa neaun, dui stumDiea into a ditch and when aid reached her she was too far gone to recover. The university statistician estimat ed that the income from Estella for one year would have kept an average student in the University of Missouri for a similar term. Pretty near time to go a fishing ! THE HEW HATS. Charlotte People's Paper. ; . - The designer, or architect of the ladies' hats this season should, if the hats are used as they can be, receive a royalty on every one sold7"as long as the style continues stylisn. First stvie we call the J cap. Be sides a head covering ;ts the correct size and. shape forcapping wheat shocksror it can bemused for a calf shed. The hat is about the size of a 1200-pound sea turtle's ' shell. If two ladies enter the same street car they will be required to take seats in front of the car. ; otherwise there will not be room to pass them. The second style we notice is the waste basket style, they fit any head, coming down, ta the sohulders; can be pulled over the head as you would a meal sack, trim them to suit your j respective tastes. When not on the head these can be used for carrying fruit from the orchard, .eggs from the barn, corn to the hogs, chips, cotton seed out to the .field, is also fine and useful at tater digging time to load the wagon, is nice to set in the corner to keep the shovel, poker, and tongs u. Every female in the country should have one of these: in city they can be used for market baskets, coal scuttles, kennels for poodle dogs, waste baskets and the like. The third style for want of an of ficial name, we call the bake pan Outside of tbeir utility as nead gear they are the correct shape for ladies work baskets; for setting hens and geese they are dandies as they hold 15 to 18 eggs, witn plenty or sea room left for the hen or goose, are nice too for baking the Xmas cake. A fellow who lives up the States- ville road that has ne er read'about Ananias says his best girl bought a roll of crepe paper and some headed tacks, then took a chopping bowl, turned it upside down and tac mg the paper around it put it on her head "and said she was ready for Easter. If you have any doubt about the truth of what we have said calrpnd see the hats. - THE SERVICE FOR THE DEAD. Charlotte Chronicle. The Presbyterian Standard . hap pily adverts to some changes that are taking place in the conduct , of funerals, all o f which, it says, are improvements, and all of which coming about only too slowly, is pleasing," says The Standard, see the practice of opening the fin at the grave disappearing. are "It "to cof One notes its continuance now only in dark corners or where the objection able habit is very inveterate. The custom of making elaborate addres ses in eulogy ot tne dead is also pas sing away. It is distressing, be it said, that it passes so slowly. All such heathenish things owe their existence either to lack of education or the great power of custom among men." The adjective "heathenism" is not at all too strong. The f ascini - tion oi gazing at a dead race comes up from the dark acres, It Is far more in accord with enlightenment and civilization that one should pre fer to remember a friend as he look ed in life rather than as he appeared when turned to clay. The age of morbidity is, indeed, passing away, but less speedily than could be desir ed. The habit of laying in state the bodies of public men is a heathen ori gin, and should have no further countenance by an enlightened peo ple. The best service for the dad is to put them away decently and in Order and with no undue pomp or ceremony. Coughed Up Tack. Elton Parker, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Parker, of Char don, O., has coughed up a carpet tack that had lain imbedded near the lung for three years. It is one of the strangest medical cases on rec ord. That the sharp tack in its downward course1 had not torn the delicate lining, caused inflamation and ended the boy's life is a source of wonderment. Although none the worse for his experience, Elton says he is glad the . tack is out. It was just three years ago when Elton sat on the floor playing. A carpet had iust been put down. He spied a bright tack near him, and, babylike, I went to his mouth. Bryan Mule Awarded. Announcement was make Friday at the office of William J Bryan in Lincoln, Neb., that Esmeralda coun ty, Nevada, having made the great est Democratic gajn in the election last November, had been awarded the prize mule. The mule. Maicr Minnemasco t, was presented toMr. Bryan during the campaign by Min nesota admirers and Mr. Bryan titter ed it as a prize to the county making the greatest Democratic gain. Esme- raTda county showed a gain of 694 per cent. - One evening last summer a vouncr man and his best girl were sitting on A.1 M A. ' m ' . . . uie iruoi piazza, in our quiet little town. " Just across the street a vouncr lady was playing-very beautifully on the piano, while in the top of an old oak tree the katydid was : sincincr merrily. "Oh, how delightful' said the young lady, wha was listening to the mu?ic. , , ; . v -: : 'Yes, and they say she does - it all with her t hind : legs." replied the young fellow, who had noticed only the chirping of the katydid. HaO. 'spring! You frisky young thing - PARAGRAPHS. ; In the New York Mail of Saturday last, Mr. Joseph Edgar Chamberlain discussed "Mr. Harriman as a hu man being." Quite y. novel idea it was, indeed; nobody seemed to have thought of it before. ::' V': ;? Well, well ! Mr. Tft roundedout his first month in the White House. And all's quiet along the Potomac.- "Figures cannot liV notes the Baltimore 'American. But In the matter of the feminine waistline they can certainly keep us guessing. 'The Atlanta Georgian" seems dis posed to take a lenient vfcw of the man who traded his wife for a keg of beer." says the Milwaukee Sentinel. (-Milwaukee, naturally, is interested in: I the views vitn'nna (nmmnm'Kca : f aVa of that proposition. - TTn1o T. ' , tUXt- Champ Clark doesn't discriminate between facts that are facts and facts that are not facts is somewhat ambiguous, but it seems to be wholly parliamentary. ; . That Virginia man who has three wives must feel sale in i lil for three years at least. Just about the time the home leaders think they have it in hand. the tariff breaks out in a fresh place. Some few slight oisagreements over the tariff. Texas always goea the limit. She proposes to give President Taft a banquet of humming birds to offset the Georgia possums. Europe is beginning to realize the ominous presence that is approach ing her. Mr. Cortelyou has a nice light job now president of the gas company. Hunting in Africa has been de scribed as like "shooting cows in a backyard." However, if anybody thinks this would not be exciting, let him try it on the cows of any aver age farmer. LONG-DELAYED PROPOSAL Baltimore American. One of the longest delayed pro related in a young subal away to the posals on record is French story of a shy tern, who was ordered wars. Jot daring to speaK, ne sent a nosegay of yellow rosea to the gjrl he loved, with a little note inside begging her, if she returned his love, to wear one of the fl jwers in her breast that night at the ball. , She appeared without it and he went away broken hearted. Years afterward, when he was a lame old general, he again met his old love, now a white-haired widow. One day his old sweetheart .gently asked him why he had never mar ried. "Madame," he answered some: what sternly, "you ought to know best. If you had not refused to ans wer that note in the boquet of yel low roses 1 might have been a nap- pier man.' rne note in tne do quet?" she repeated, growing pale. She opened an old cabinet and took out from a drawer a shrivelled boquet of what had been yellow roses, among whose leafless stalks lurked a scrap of paper yellow with age. "See! I never had your note," she said, holding the boquet up. If I had I would not have answered it as you fancied." "Then answer it now." said the gallant old soldier. And the long delayed proposal was accepted at last. Twins Bring Tragedies. The announcement that he was fie father of twins was too much . for William Hedinger. aged 55 years. a farmer living near Bouquet, West moreland county Pa. It was also too much for Mrs. Hedinger's moth- i i . a i : l er. and an oecause oi tne . arrival uj. he twins both Hedinger ana nis mother-in-law are dead. The twins arrived last Tuesday, and Mrs. Martha Smith, the mother of Mrs. Hedinger, was present, She was extremely happy when toe first of the babies, a bouncing boy, ar rived. When the nurse told ner tnat Khere was also a little girl, Mrs. Smith became greatly excited. Within an hour she was deadoi heart disease, brought on by the ex citement. . - . When Mr. Hedinger heard or tne arrival of the twins he, too, became greatly excited. With a large fam ily already, he bemoaned the arrival nf twn oririitinnal members. When he learned that the news had caused he death of his mother-in-law. lied- inger went to tne earn auu ouu. himself, dying Instantly. The "clean-up" dy idea is spread ing all over the State. Since ..Uiar- otte inaugurated tnis movement nu merous other towns have set apart certain days to be given over to the task of removing trash and generally improving the appearance of things. Monroe has iust observed "clean-up day and the Journal says : Cleaning up day was a nowung buuu. hundred million old tin cans have al- rtAv hpn hauled off and tne wag ons are still aMvork hauling trasn. Monroe will be a good town now thanks to the good women wno pegan he movement." Charlotte news. Wifie -Several men I rejected aro now wealthier than you. - Hubby That'a why they are. 9 T v.-
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