Page Two LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919 LENOIR, N. C. A PREACHER ON SLOW TIME Sm Ootber Interesting Episode in Mountain Life -By CoL Fred A, Olds- ing their guns and pistols at the teacher age. It was plainly stated that the -men who do this sort of thing are the sons or grandsons of deserters, of whom there were a I rood many in that rssrion during K the civil war, as it was a sort of no- man s land. Anyway, some of the shooters were eaptured and sent to prison. It is declared to be difficult to get teachers in the mountains, this being a big problem in all parts of the State and causing- many a county su perintendent to sit up at night and groan. It used to be the case that teachers would take four months in the mountain schools, which begin The gentle reader has been told of the fact that in some parts of moun tain North Carolina the folks kept three kinds of time slow, common and fast At one point on the writer's tramp we ran into a glorious result ef this tangle. One of the very pret tiest mountains girls was to marry a gentleman from elsewhere; the house wass went and psrnishprl. marta lnvp- 1t and fraerant with the brilliant i the first of August generally, and flowers of that dear high world. The I tnen nilte down the State and teach preacher, who lived some miles away, another four months, but under the had been chartered for the occasion , nw school law this is thoroughly and booked to aDDear at a certain : blocked, for six months school is re minute. All the outfit gathered, the family, the friends and people who go whether they know you or not if there is a wedding, or perhaps even a guneral. When the psychological moment arrived the preacher was conspicuous by his absence. The quired. 1 From Crossnore, where a hand some main building of brick is under construction, well placed upon a hill, the road led by one of the finest farms in all tha tregion, and about this farm theie is a story which the folks did not have rice to throw at reader can verify if he pleases by the happy couple, but flowers in stead; a delightful exchange, by the way. Thirty minutes passed, each seeming an hour at least, and then the groom and bride-to-be climbed into an auto, which, with gladsome honks, took to its heels and fled to the nearest railroad station. There a good "Squire" was on hand and tied the knot with neatness and dis patch. Thirty minutes more passed and then there came into view on the one street of the village the preach er, dressed in a Prince Albert coat as long as a lady's old-fashioned rid ing skirt and an antiquated high hat, commonly called a "beaver" atop of his head. With legs and arms flap ping like a wheat reaper he drew up, almost fell from his mule and started to rush into the house. He almost died when he was informed he was an hour late. Poor thing! He was running on slow time and missed ten dollars by exactly sixty minutes. He did not sleep any that night but sat in th eporc hand groaned, ref using to be comforted, an dnow has left the neighborhood and migrated into Ten nessee. Before he departed he told th folks he had set up his watch and was running on fast time. Saying good-bye to our good Scotch friend, Mr. Alexander McRae, high up on old Grandfather moun tain, the writer tramped merrily away to Linville Falls, stopping at Pineola long enough to make some talk with Uncle Jimmy Stuart, who, in civil war days, "fout" in the 58th North Carolina regiment. Pineola is the southern end of the narrow gauge railroad into Tennessee, and at it are the Kelsey nurseries, which used to be very attractive. From Pineola we went to Crossnore, wehre there is an excellent rresoytenan school in tharg of Dr. and Mrs. Sloop, this good lady being a doctor also. The folks round about call them "mis onary doctors." Children were as thick as huckleberries at the school and seemed to come out of the ground like lizards. In that school diatrict there ar el 83 children be tween the school ages and 144 were resent, an uncommonly fine record. The teachers from various parts of the State have a pleasant building all their own, known as the teacherage, an dthere they served lunch daintily prepared by their dietitian. As soon a we had consumed all of it, this W tof work being thoroughly done, tories were told to the children, who all looked the picture of health. There are some people with odd jwtions in the mountains, as else arliere, and some drunken fellows "of the baser sort," as St. Paul would ay, have amused themselves by fir- reference to the official county rec ords. A soldier of the Revolution, returning home after the victory at King's Mountain, saw this farm land, in the valley of the Linville river, and was so delighted that he took it up in other words, got a State grant for it, raising the money by selling his -horse and rifle. Thus he entered or took up 640 acres, one mile, or splendid land, at 12 H cents an acre. Some years passed and a man who had run away from Ken tucky with another man's wife en tered the neighborhood, having lost his way, and turned up at this very place. He, too, was charmed with it and struck a bargain with the owner by which he traded the stolen wife for C- - farm. All these facts are duly set out in the papers in the transfer of the land. Those were surely easy times. It is not record ed what the lady in the case thought of the transaction, but she surely stuck to husband No. 3, if he can be given that title, and they located nearby. What became of husband No. 1 does not appear. Not a great many years ago preachers and magistrates were not extremely plentiful in some parts of the mountains, and into that region, for summer evangelistic work, went a dozen or more students of a theo logical college in this State. A good many people would rather have a preacher, or a near-preacher, than a squire perform the marriage cere money in their cases, so the students, not licensed at all, fired away and performed the ceremony a number of times. Then the legislature had to step in and put through an act mak ing these marriages, really no mar riages at all, lawful and binding. And this was not fifty years ago, either. The road passed by Altamont, once the grand home of Col. John B. Pal mer, 58th regiment, N. C. State troops, C. S. A. Its grove was one of the finest in the State, with great trees and blue grass, the Linville river running directly through the rich valley. During the war Col. Palmer and his regiment were al ways at the front, but the deserters, known as buffalos, bushwhackers, etc., burned his house while he was in service. His regiment was the only one in the Confederate service which was allowed after surrender, which occurred near Greensboro, to take its rifles and equipment home, the Federal general who received the surrender saying those weapons would be needed. One of these ri fles, a long Enfield, English-made, is now in the Hall of History in Ral svtL oum 'itouaq jo ladiBH j -f 1919 A. B. S.. Inc. :'t' Jilt to'SHUBERT "Shubert" Wants carouAa Furs ALL YOU CAN SHIP And Will Pay These Extremely High Price GET A SHIPMENT OFF-TODAY NlEXTRA LARGE I N?l LARGE I Nl MEDIUM I N?l SMALL I h2 eca TO avtBftOt I fTa tq AvfaaGC rO v t a apt t f TQ avtBAfit AS TP S'Jt C Ql'L'T MUSKRAT wintcT 1 43 to 3.75 1 33d to 3.00 1 2.75 to 20 I 125 to 2.00 I 1.75 to 15 Fall 1 3-50to 3.00 1 L80tO 2.401 2J0 to 1.S0 1.70 to 130 130 to 1.00 MINK Fine, Dark 115.00 to 1100 1 11.00 to 9.00 1 8.00 to 7.00 I 6.00 to 525 I 6.00 to 4.00 Usual Color 11.00 to 9.00 8.50 to 7.00 6.50 to 525 5.00 to 4.00 5.00 to 3.00 Pale 1 8.50 to 7.00 1 6.75 to 5.75 1 5.00 to 4.00 1 350 to 3.00 330 to 2.50 RACCOON Bladi 115.00 to 1100 1 1100 to 9.00 1 8.00 to 7.00 I 630 to 5.50 I 630 to 4.00 Heavy Furred 10.00 to 8i0 8.00 to 7.00 6,50 to 530 430 to 4.00 430 to 3.00 Ordinary 1 8.00 to 7.00 1 6.50 to 530 1 4.75 to 3.75 330 to 3.00 330 to 150 These extremely high prices are based on the well-known "SHUBERT liberal grading and are quoted for immediate shipment No. 3, No. 4, and otherwise inferior skins at highest market value. For quotations on other North Carolina Furs, write for "Cbe ftftabtrt ftblpjer," the only re liable and accurate market report and price list of its kind published. It'i FREE Write for it. A shipment to "SHUBERT" will result In "more money" "quicker." SHIP ALL YOUR FURS DIRECT TO A. B . S HUB ERT THE LAR6EST HOUSE IN THEWRLD DEALING EXCLUSIVELY IN AMERICAN RAW FURS 25-27 W. Austin Ave. Deptf74Chicago.U.S.A. with the 58th from first to last. When the members of this regi ment were discharged the only pay they received was one dollar each in Mexican money. After paying the one dollar around enough money was left to divide one dollar among each seven men. Since all the money was in one-dollar silver pieces the men got together in bunches and drew straws for the dollar. Maj. Harper has the dollar which was given him. Several years ago he had it engraved, showing the date on which he en tered the service and the date of his discharge. Editor. Altamont was sold years after the war to a retired naval officer, who built the present home and outfitted it with superb mahogany furniture hauled on wagons from Morganton, installing also objects of art which ft f Ipi 1 iM DON'T NEGLECT A RHEUMATIC PAIN So after it with Sloan' Liniment before it gets dangerous Apply a Utile, don't rub. let It Irate, and good-by twinge ! Same for cA(crni acnes, pains, strains, stiHness oi joints or muscles, lameness, bruises. Instant relief without musiiness or lonen cioinmg. Keliable the biggest selling liniment year after year. Eco nomical hy reason of enormous sales. Keep a big bottle ready at all times. Ask your druggist for Sloan's Lini ment 35c, 70c, $1.40. Copyright tin 91 R J. Reynold TobnccoCo. , XTEVER was such nght-handed-two- can get. nve aces out or a iamiiy aecK! so, wnen you nit pziL i& ni Prince Albert; coming and going, and get up half an hour earlier just to start stoking your vive or rolline cierarettea. 1 1T"- :Lr fisted smokejoy as you puff out of a jimmy pipe packed with Prince Albert I That's because P. A. has the quality t You can't fool your teste, apparatus any more than you can get five aces out of a family deck! So, when you hit . - - . -. . you know you ve got the big prize on the end of your line 1 i Prince Albert's quality alone puts it in a class of its own, but when you figure that P. A. is made by our exclusive patented process that cuts out bite and parch well' you feel like getting a flock of dictionaries to find enough words to express your happy days sentiments I Toppy ted bagt, tidy nd tint, handtome pound and half-pound tin humidor and that clany, practical pound crystal glan humidor with r pong moist mr top that hup th tobacco in tach perfect condition. TL J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C L ATA ' ' (f ) ' ; o 1' I : J he had gathered in cruises all about in the world. He hauled the lumber from Morganton for his dwelline. Now the house is in other hands, and the place is but poorly kept com- parea ot its lormer grandeur. Next on the journey came Lin ville Falls, easily one. of the most de lightful places in all the mountain region, though known to but few outsiders. As the writer approached his good friend, the hotel keeper there, Mr. Stokes Penland, ran up with a two-hand welcome. He ia a cousin of the late Gov. Vance and has a wonderful knowledge of the moutnams. THEN AND NOW (Yorkville Enquirer) Discussion in front of the People's Bank and Trust Company the other morning ran to the high coat of liv ing, and there was a little cussing and discussion. "Of icourse it costs like everything to live now, but it does not cost near as much as it did during the war between the States," was the argument of a Confederate veteran who was among the party. He took from his pocket a list of some prices that were in effect then. Here is the list as he read it to his nme audience: Corn, J5.85 per bushel; meal, 3.66 per bushel J ba con, i per pound; porlc, 60 cents per pound; lard, 81 per pound; wheat, $5.60 per bushel; flour $27 Ser barrel;, sweet potatoes, $4 per uahel ; Iritish potatoes, : $2.60 per bushel; onions, $6 per bushel; salt, $4.40 per pound; sugar, $1.75 per pound; molasses, $8.50 per gallon; rice, 40 cents per pound; coffee, $3.60 per pound, and tea, $10. per pound. , , Your Money Back If Rat-Snap Does ox V.OPI ud ia 1 but L.laima . X J A. l.Mt ' 1 . .. t i-eru w kiii raw ana mice, cremates them. Rodents killed w.i ' RAT SNAP leave no amell Put aa nn all- food to get at RAT-SNAP. Heir nrst meal is their last RAT-S V P I COmeS in cake. Nn mivincr f!at i,- dogs won't touch it. ' Thro ni ipa 25c, 60c, $1.00. ,Sold and guaran teed by Bernhardt-Seagle Co., Le noir Hardware and Furniture Co., Ballew's Cash PViarfflflPV and TTnAV L --It mm:: TfTTP . Lights Like a Gas Jet Simply raise the gallery of a Rayo lamp and apply the match. Don't remove either shade or chimney. The Rayo brings steady, com panionable light wherever used is restful and economical. Rayo lamps last a lifetime won't smoke or smell fill, re wick and clean readily. None better at any price. Built of solid brass, nickel plated. Over 3,000,000 in use. Aladdin Security Oil gives best results STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Washington, D. C. BALTIMORE. Ch.rloite. Norfolk. Vi. MD. Ch.rle.too. W. V. Richmond, Vt. ChnrleMoo. S. C TTTv 'Mmlb LAMPS i c a package before the war c a package during the war c a package NOW THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! 187 INFLUENZA- a Kill Cold. At th Bret" nmmre tnJca ;,1 i X . -1. . i . n " . 1 V 1 1 em L QU1NINI Bundvol tai fmilf for to ytari epiatit dwim up coia in z : L poun rciigrea nnp in m oin, Money back U it fails. Tht pcnuin emi m a km cup wnu ear. : nw At AllDng Stmt Help YeirDijjestiari When odd-distreaMd, reller the indlsestion with Dissolre mjif on toBgneag pleasant to tako as candy. Keep your stomach awaet, try Kl-aiolda made by acorr a bowns v MAKcna of acorrs emulsion ! Mottier--Wculd you like to come and rock the baby for a bit, Tommy? Tommy Rather I bat I haven't got a rock. ' ,

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