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THE HERALD, ! ?? ? ? ' UBI I l> KV1 IEY Fill DAY MOBKIKO ? ! JIATY A LAS8ITER, proprietors. Ktiteifd a* thl Postoffice ft* nul*hti<".il Jotnatou County, N. C., bh Mcocd-clai) en v tor. .Ulth Ol HOBWKlt'l'ION: Qoffc r, cn?h id advanre, ? ? ? |1.00 ^"intlis. cbhii In Advance ? ? .",0 A ? Friday, December 27, 11)07. AT christmas time. A merry Christmas to all, on this holy morning! A happy da\ to honest men and sweet women and bright-eyed children. Christmas, the feast day of Christendom, the joyful celebra- j tion ol t,ho coming of the I'rince of Peace, brings in this fruitful year 11)07 more happy memories, more goodness, more prosperity, and more promise than it ever brought before. The world is better than it was last Cristmas Men have turned their thoughts toward peace with greater ear neatness than ever before. The nations have not grappled and shed blood. The harvests have | been good all over the world.! There have bten no convulsions, no cataclysms of nature. The thoughts of men have been widen-! ed, and they have made new die coveries and inventions, making life longer and more comfortable. Disease, the hideous menace of pain aud death, is being master ed by science, Distance, the tyrant, has been conquered by the sightless couriers of the air. Now, what is the duty of man on Christmas morning? Is it not his duty to thank God for his blessings and to make his thanks real by being better? Is it not a time for giving the heart's warm impulses a little play? It is not a good season for forgiveness and forgetfulness of wrong? Is it not a time to become like a a little child? What is more odious OK Christmas Day than the sight of scowls aud the claek. ing of a complaining tongue? What is so shocking as aglimpse iuto the dark and stony heart of of a man w ho has no use for Christmas? It is like a den ot %ipei>l The influence of such a man is chilling to human nature. He is a blight aud a curse to himself and to every one who crosses his path. Whether he hoards up hatred and malice, as a viper hoards up venom, or whether he is a spendthrift of misery, he is an outcast at Christ - mas time?an outlaw in the do minion of good will! Why cannot there be, every where, one day in the .'{<>."> glori ous days of the year when peace and good will reigns? If cheer-' fulness and kindliness must wither and droop on other days, let them at least, oil Christmas, bloom like the rose of Sharon 1 Go now, you gloomy and wretch ed man, you louely and forsaken man, go and do an act of kind ness, or charity, or good will! 1 ?o it quickly, before your demon re turns! Smile at a child, if you cannot do anything else. You will be repaid instantly, with in terest, in the coinage of heaven. Try it, you pessimist! You don't know what you can do until you try. There is hope even for you, you selfish and graspiug misan thrope who thinks there is no such thing as untainted generos ity in the world. Itepeut, reform, | smile, lend a hand, and see what will happen! A merry, merry Christmas and a happy New Year to every one! ?Washington Post, Dec. 25. This is the last issue of The Herald for 1907. The year has been our most prosperous and we close it with more subscribers than ever before in the paper's history. To our friends and sub scribers, one and all, who have made this success possible we ex tend our thanks and wish for all a moat Happy and Prosperous New Year. RALEIGH DISPENSARY GOES OUT.1 Raleigh voted out the Riepen sary .yesterday by a majority of "47 out of 1,313 east The vote shows that the good people of j Raleigh are not willing to con tinue to build schools and roads and improve the citv with the proceeds derived from the eale; of diep; nsary liquor. The victory is a grea? one for the p-ohib' tionists and means much for temperance reform in this State. ~ ''" ? In The Olden Times When Liquor Didn't Make Drunk. Frequently we hear people speak ! of the good old times when men! drank without getting drunk. We havj always made consider able allowance for such state ments as we know that liquor can be depended upon to do its deadly work in all ages and coun tries and among all peoples. It may be that in a new country where almost every body works every day on the farm liquor does not seem to do so much harm a* in an older country where there are more towns and cities to lead in the drink business, but it has done entirely too much harm all the time. Some time ago we hearil of a case which occurred in the olden times when it is said liquor did not make druuk. A Boon Hill township farmer had the best orchard in all that section. He made brandy and wine to sell to b??i tinti?b mi <???/! .iiiii-nninli inn t?uu uuuu t y uiru lie sent a Wilson load of it to Smithfleld one court week by one of bin sous to be sold on the ooui t yard. The young man placed hie wagon on the grounds with the back end to the street. He took out the tail board and put his faucets to the barrels and be gan to sell. The people bought readily and drank freely. Some of them got drunk while others did not. Among those who be came drunk he noticed one man who drank more than auybody else. A freshet was rising in Neuse river and the water was backing up and getting deep in the road leading out north from here. -Next morning the pews went out over town that a man was drowned in the road at the Buffalo creek crossing. The peo ple of the town and those who uad assembled to attend court, many of them, Went iO see the drowned man. Among those who went was the young man from Boon Hill township. Heat once saw that the dead man was his customer of the day before. Alter thinking over the matter a little he took his outfit home without making any further sales. He told his father the circuinstauces and said he would never sell another glass of wine or brandy. The old man was disappointed at not selling all bis liquor and said to bis sou: "Well, you always were a d?d fool." But the young tnau had made up his mind and would not sell auy more. A Horrible Death. A horrible death occurred in Moon Hill township last Satur day night. Olliu Atkinson, an unmarried colored man about twenty live years old, went to Mine Level Saturday and patron ized the dispensary to such an extent that he became drunk, lie started home so late that a part ol the trip had to be made in the night. When about two miles from home it seems he fell from the buggy and got his legs entangled somehow in the under gearing of the buggy. The mule went on home dragging the man through mud holes aud over stamps and roots. After the mule reached home he walked all about the place dragging the man a round aud around. Sunday morn ing the mule was at home still hitched to the buggy aud the poor negro was near by and pre sented the most horrible sight ever seen in the neighborhood. Wet, muddy, bruised, bloody, dead! He had lived with Mr. J. M. Woodard several years aud j was said to be a trusty negro. He did his trading mostly in Smithtield with Austin-Stephen sou Co. This is the third man we have heard of who died full of Mine Level dispensary liquor. It will do the business. We do not doubt but that He who rules this world holds the people who es tablished this dispensary and are carrying it on responsible iu part for these deaths. Mr. F. W. Hell, bookkeeper for | the American Tobacco Co., at this place, left Monday for I University to spend the holidays. AIRSHIP AHOY! WHAT IS YOUR CARGO? When first the New Year came to town Appeared a baby boy In nothing hut a pair of winga And smiles of dimpled joy. E it, growing fast, the next decade He were a wig with curls And rode a fiery prancing steed And courted all the girls. V!e next arrived in coach and four, A ..quire in coat of blue A d snowy stork and buckled shoes Ard neatly n . boned cue. rr?t. r7?nwri BEHOLD HIS AEHOPLANE IN FLIGHT. Still making progress with the timei, A dandy with a cane, Tall hat, tight waist and ruffled shirt, He made his bow again. 'Twas only one short year ago We heard a rush and jar. In dust and smoke before us stopped A scarlet motor car. Forth stepped a chauffeur clad in furs And, mid the mingled din Of horns and bells, invited us To take a twelvemonth's spin. But now above the chimes, behold, We listen in the night To hear the whirling fans that bear His aeroplane in flight! ?Minna Irving in New York Times. Watching the Year Out. Throughout the world the practice of watching the old year out and the new come in has been a common ob servance for many centuries. In the monasteries and convents of various religious orders it has always pre vailed, and several Protestant denom inations observe it as a beneficial in stitution, promoting, as it does, piety and the formation of good resolutions. Resolves for the future are not limited to our own time, for nearly 1,'JOO years ago Pliny, the scrapbook maker, noted In Ills quaint fashion the return of the Saturnalia; made a memorandum that during the coming year lie must make sacrifices to certain gods whom he had neglected and that in other ways he must amend Ids life. There is no rec ord that lie did. so his New Year resolutions were probably forgotten ns quickly as tbose made nowadays.? St. I.ouis Globe-Democrat. "Ducking tha Drunkard." In Ilerzeg ivina "ducking the drunk ard" is a New Year's practice by the common people, and If no drunken man can bo found a prisoner from the near est jail is borrowed, then ducked, soundly kicked and set at liberty. In Oman It was until lately tlie custom to celebrate all marriages on the first day: hence during the last month of the year business was good with ttie go-betweens In Dnlmatla any man whose conduct had not been what it should was expected to go before the priest of the neighborhood and put good resolutions in writing, a certified copy being given to his wife. or. If un married, to Ids mother.?Boston Herald. Why We Call It January. The Romans called the first month of the year January in honor of the god Janus. At dawn of the year the people, roln-d In white, sacrificed elaborate of ferings to their gods, especially to Janus. Fraternal greetings, benevolent gifts and exchanges of costly presents marked the day All evil speaking, quarrels or excesses were for one day laid aside, and the Ideals of a nobler future were brought to mind by para bles enacted in public places. The sol diers renewed their vows of loyalty to Caesar and put on new uniforms. New Year's In the Alps, Among the tunny time honored ens toms of the Alps none Is more Interest lug than that of New Year, 'lite ell lage pastor delivers his sermon, which Is listened to by |ieoplo who have come a distance of many miles over snow frequently thirty feet deep. When midnight conies the bells ring out upon the frosty Alpine air, and as they re-echo far and wide over the hills and valleys mere are mountain villages where the melody of other village church bells chords in harmony, pro ducing a concert no city could alford iicptcb Kicses. A hijhly popular custom of the young Scots of pr- t years was for young men to go about the streets ringing door bells. and theirs was the right to kiss the girl who answered the ring. In case the girl proved elderly or unat tractive there was no evading the ex pected salute, however much It might go against the grain of the bell ringer. MX3iaC*}iOf*3*?e?<C*5C*?3lK * May This be 8 | The Happiest jj 5 Christmas fl 8 Of your life, is our sincere * H wish. Now would it not JJ 5 add to your home and its ! Q happiness to have a good Q ? piano? ? 0 If so, write us to day for 0 8 particulars about special M prices aud terms on the III ft Exposition Pian s. jj jj S*Don't Delay. Write Today. Jj B Every sale fully guaranteed, jg I We sustain the reputation 0 0of over 05 years making R and selling StiefF Pianos. Jg M Traveling expenses cred- fl 9* ited if you buy in Norfolk. ! All instruments delivered Q 8 free. Let us tell you more w about it by mail. 01 J CHAS.M. STIEFF J jj L. C. STEELE, Mgr. Jj 9114 Gran by St. Norfolk. V>. ? s Q Mention The Herald when writing jj THIS IS TO notify my friends and customers that Mr. Jos. D. Underwood will hereafter assist me in the business of Undertak-1 ing. We will give ourbest services day or night. With heartfelt thanks for past kind patronage I am yours to serve. S. R. Morgan. Kmithfield, N. C. Seasonable Merchandise In Car Load Lots We offer one car Tennessee wagons for sale next 30 days, one horse for *.>0, two horse $30.00. We offer for sale next 30 days one ear high grade bugitiea. Top boggy #55.00 open buggy #43.00. We are over stork ed and they most to. Several second | hand buggies and wagons at yonr own price. One car full patent flour just received. For shipstuff, bran, C. S. meal and hulls we are headquarters. One car Michigan hay now on hand, j Several young mules and horses on j hand we will sell cheap. While in town j call to see us. * The Austin-Stephenson j Company !!2 | /Ruck's--*? S Stoves "t i# /-tkeysavefuel | - <388** m lid m J{ inis is Ouife an Item to Consider Now to Ifl THEN, TOO, THERE ARE OTHER FEATURES ABOUT f|\ bit THE BUCK STOVE WHICH YOU CANNOT AFFORD }!! ||j TO MISS LOOKING INTO BEFORE YOU BUY : J|{ W THE GREAT WHITE ENAMEL LINE(& Jr: fffEBITEVENS CO] | \ PRINTING >2 ? ? * | THAT ALWAYS PLEASES i ' <4.* *41 <4f,? ?*C;T* ~4ftt?(; [?' % | IEN you want Job Printing?the kind that pleases the fc, I? eye?the kind which speaks for you when you cannot be present to speak for yourself?let us figure with you on t whatever you may need. ? THE SMITHFIELD HERALD | BEATY & LASSITER, Proprietors SMITHFIELD, N. C. f a Horses and Mules Coming: Mr Robertson is now in the West buying Two Solid Car Loads of Mules. All sizes, all weights, all colors and ail will be young and sound, fresh from the stock farms. Will airive January the 1st. Wait for them, you will be pleased. Terms easy as heretofore. B- 1*1. Robertson & Company Smithfleld, N. C. i w. r. longi *j HAS RETURNED i# *j with a Car of the Finest j* Young; f Up i ..I JU i uc gj Ever shown on Smithfield * market. ^ Anyone needing * *j a young . Mule or Horse * g> come to see Will Long. He jg has any kind you want. jjj * Don't fail to see Will Long's X g mule pen while in town, g
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