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Closing of Kenly High School.
Another successfulyear lnour high
.school has passed Into history, and
one of the best commencements In
the history of the school was the one
just closed. Prof. W. A. Harper, of
Klon College, a former principal of
our school, now professor of I .at in
In above named college, delivered the
annual literary address, and he must
have been at his best from the ad
dress he gave us.
The Kenly band furnished music
and It was good too.
All departments of our school were
represented In the commencement
and both teachers, and pupils deserve
our most hearty congratulation for
the efficient work done.
The following prizes and medals
were awarded:
A nice prize to Master Yates 8d
gerton for the best year's work in
North Carolina history
Prize to Miss Rosa Edgerton for
the best year's work in elocution.
There was to be one prize for the
best work in music, but finding a tie,
the teacher had to give two. Misses
Lillian Edgerton and Helen Siiuw be
ing the winners.
The gold medal that was to be de
livered to the successful contestant
In the elocution contest was found to
be usually won by two young ladies.
Misses (Jladys Kirby and Kosa l'!d
gerton and rather than to cut It In
twain, giving each one half, It was
decided to get an extra medal. Then
were many others that ran a close
race.
The patrons of the school will be
glad to learn that Prof. Polling* has
accepted the school for the next
school year. Orcat plans are already
in progress to make the school next
year the best high school in the
State.
A dormitory is to be erected for
boarding students during the vaca
tion. Reporter.
KENLY NEWS ITEMS.
l'rof. S. G. Rollings has accepted
the superintendent^ of the Konly
High school for another school lorui.
We had the heaviest rain last
Friday,?Friday night and Saturday
morning? wo have hud In about SI
years.
Our town continues to grow and
take on to city life. The Carolina
Telegraph and Telephone Co. have
just completed our exchange nystatin
and put us in service Wednesday,.
May 5th, at 10 o'clock. >j
Mr.j. Jno. G. High, Mrs. Einma;
Mathews, Mrs. llayes and Mr. II. KJ
Edgerton left Wednesday for Hal "i
eigh to attend the M. E. Conforo?co.
Dr. and Mrs. Coleman are moving
Into their new home, where Mr. A..
H. Hooks moved from.
Among the out-of-town visitors who'
visited us during the commencement
we note the following: Miss I.illian
Adams, of I.inden, Miss Mattie and
Mr. Benjamin Wellons, and Miss An
nie Martin, of Smithfield, Miss Itanu
Ayers, of Nichols, S. C., Miss Pauline
Griffin, of Wendell, Mrs. H. M. Rich
ardson, of Zebulon, Messrs. Earl
Bell and Hunter Bailey, of Wakefield
and B. H. Richardson, of Zebulon.
Mrs. W. T. Bailey returned home
Monday from a visit to Rocky Mt.
Mise Annie Strickland, one of our
most efficient teachers, left Wednes
day for her home In Loulsburg.
Miss Mary C. Alford, of Raleigh,
Is spending a few days with friends
and relatives here.
Mrs. Townsend and daughter, El
sie, of Wilson, spent a few day? this
.?week with Mrs. J. H. Kirby.
REPORTER.
Thos? who brut* it. ' Ine to the
Ilrei of others cannot keep It from
-themselves.?Barrie.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Week in and week out we re
ceive letters from people in
various sections of Johnston
county with the request that
they be published in The Smith
field Herald. We do not pub
lish them. Why? Because the
writer failed to sign his or her
name. We will not publish the
writer's name with any news
Item unless he wishes it. But
we must know who the writer
is before we can print his com
munication. We are glad to pub
lish news-notes from the various
sections of the county and re
cently we have had to throw
aside several communications
which we would have been glad
to publish but could not, for the
simple reason that the writer
forgot to sign his name. When
you write a letter for publica
tion in The Herald, sign at bot
tom of letter the initials or pen
name you wish published and
then write your real name on
another sheet of paper, or at
bottom of letter, with the re
quest that you do not wish your
name published, and we will fol
low your Instructions. It matters
not how often you write, sign
your name every time.
Very often communications are
addressed to J. M. Beaty or T.
J. Lassiter. When this is done
if the one addressed is out of
town, the letter remains unopen
ed until his return. Address ev
ery lett-r to The Smithfield
Herald, or Beaty &. Lassiter,
Smithfield, N. C., and prompt
attention will always be given.
If correspondents will follow the
above instructions it will be
gratifying to themselves and
pleasing to us.
PRINCETON ITEMS.
Miss Maud(> Pittman, of Goldsboro,
Is visiting Mrs. Wilbert Masse/.
Mrs. I<onnle Philips is visiting
friends and relatives here.
Mrs. Capt. Hart, of Wilmington,
is visiting her parents here.
Miss Miunie Strachan spent Mon
day in Goldsboro.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
Waverly Edwards is still sick.
Mrs. Lutlier Grantham is visiting
relatives In Sinithfield.
Miss Margueritte ltose recently
spent several days in Smithfield.
Mrs. J. Ben Howell spent Monday
In Goldsboro.
Quite a crowd of young ladies, ac
companied the Princeton base ball
team to Roso Wood last Friday
where they were to play a match
game with the Kose Wood team, and
also to witness the closing exercises
of the school. It promised to bo
quite an enjoyable, affair, but the
rain interfered with the playing. Also
in returning home the girls got a
soaking that will long bo remember
ed.
Mrs. Beatrice Oliver spent Tuesday
in town.
Miss Pike, of Goldsboro, Is visiting
Mrs. Mitchell.
Our election passed off very pleas
antly. The following were elected:
Mayor, C. H. Holt; Commissioners,
W. T. Edwards, J. L. Benton, D. H.
Wallace, J. D. Finlavson; Town Con
stable, J. H. Wellons.
Princeton, May 5. C. F.
ARCHER NEWS.
Setting tobacco is taking the day
in our section now. Our farmers
will all get through In a short while.
Messrs. B. O. Mooneyham and E.
R. Hlnton were visitors in the Wen
dell section Sunday.
Mrs. J. D. Wall has started an
entered school here. Her atten
dance it) Hinall yet as the children
have been busy setting tobacco. We
think she will have a full school In
a fw days. Mrs. Wall is one of the
best teachers that we have ever had.
She taught here during the winter
months, so let all the near by neigh
bors patronize her school.
Mr. C. S. Fowler and Geo. Mitchel
were visitors in the Wendell section
Sunday.
Kev. Mr. Pippin will preach at
White Oak Sunday.
E. It. H.
May 4.
Books.
I want books, not to pass the
time, but to fill it with beautiful
thoughts and images, to enlarge my
world, to give me new friends in
the spirit, to purify my ideals and
make them clear, to show me the
local color of unknown regions, and
the bright stars of immoral truth.
I wish to go abroad, to hear new
L.essages, to meet new people, to
get a fresh point of vliw, to revisit
other ages, to listen to the oracles
of Delphi, and drink dc?-p of the
springs of Pieria. The only writer
that can tell me anything of real
value about my familiar environ
ment is the genius who shows me
that, after all, it is not familiar, but
?'range, wonderful, crowded with
secrets unguessed and possibilities
unrealized.
The two things best worth writing
about in poetry and fiction are the
symbols of nature and the passions
of the human heart. 1 want also an
essayist who will clearify life by gen
tle illumination and lambent humor;
a philosopher who will help me see
the reason of things apparently un
reasonable; a historian who will
show me how people have risen and
fallen; and a biographer who will let
me toucb'the hand of the great and
the good. This is the magic litera
ture. This is how real books help
to educate us in the school life.?
Henry Van Dyke, D. D.
Character.
Character is greater and higher
than money, intellect, or love, be
cause it determines the use and di
rection of these three. It is the
character of the rich man which de
termines whether ho shall be a bene
factor or a curse to society. It is
character which determines whether
the learned man shall use his knowl
edge as a destructive or as a con
structive force In society. It is
character which determines whether
love shall be a passion working havoc
in human life or a grace beautifying
and ennobling life. Character is the
determining force behind money, In
tellect, love, and so It Is the greatest
force in human life. Realizing this,
all will appreciate the necessity of
careful thought and thoughtful care
In building character.? Great
Thoughts.
No man prospers In this world
by luck unless it be the luck of get
ting up early, working hard, and
maintaining honor and integrity.?Ex
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THE RUSSIAN PEASANT.
8tupid and Poor, a Good Fellow Who
Merely Exists.
The Russian peasant does cot live; 1
lie merely exists. "Nitcbevo" ("It Is
nothing"), he merely says when any
thing happens to him. Nothing mat
ters, nothing could be worse, and
"Nitcbevo" Is bis panacea for all evils.
And yet the Itussian moujik is really a
fine fellow. Ordinarily, H. P. Kennard
tells us in his book, "The Itussian
Peasant," he is a splendid, well built
man, large limbed, large betted and
healthy. He is equally uuaOected by
20 degrees of frost or twenty glasses of
vodka. He Is clothed in uncured sheep
skins and carries in winter more
clothes than the average Englishman
could stand up In.
He is unspeakably stupid, however,
and his dream of happiness Is to gorge,
to sleep as much as possible through
the winter and dance and sing in the
summer. But the stranger's first ob
jection to the moujik is that he smells
?not because be does not wash him
self. As a matter of fact. In every vil
lage there are public baths?baaza ?
and the peasants wash themselves
there unfailingly every Saturday in
order to be allowed to go to church on
Sunday, for the Orthodox church en
joins cleanliness.
i ue uusMuu peasant is always poor
and generally in debt. He plows tbe
land in the same way that his father
plowed It and sets as little for his la
bor. Ills main worry in life Is bow to
pay the governor's 'taxes. If he says
he cannot pay he is flogged, or perhaps
he will sell part of his next year's
power of work?1. e., work for noth
lug for several months?to raise a loan,
and of course he is worse oQ than ever
the following year.
On Christmas night at dusk the mar
rlageable village girls go out into tliel
streets and meet their young men. ami
one says, "What is your name'/" The
young man answers "Foma." and she
replies, "My husband's name Is Foma "
Some days later at tbe girl's home
relations are gathered together. There
conies a knock at tbe door. The sta
rosta and tbe young man enter, carry
ing loaves of bread. The starosta
says something like this:
"We are German people, come from
Turkey. We are hunters, good fel
lows. There was a time once in our
country when we saw strange foot
prints In the snow, and my friend the
prince here saw tbem. and we thought
they might lie a fox's or marten's foot
prints or it might be those of a beauti
ful girl. We hunters, we good fel
lows, are detetrmined not to rest till
we have found tbe animal. We have
been In all cities from Germany to
Turkey and have sought for this fox,
this marten or this princess, and at last
we have seen tbe same strange foot
prints lu the snow again, here by your
court. And we have come in. Come,
let us take her, the t>eautlful princess,
for we see her in front of us, or can
It be that you would keep her till she
grows a little olderV"
Thus does the moujlk ask for 8 wife.
Inventor Davy and Love.
Sir Humphry Davy, the Inventor of
the Davy lamp, found love something
of a delusion. If not a snare. Writing
to his mother, be said, "I am the hap
plest of men In the hope of a union
with a woman equally distinguished
for virtues, talents and accomplish
ments." And in a letter to his brother
he expresses his rapture thus: "Mrs.
Apprece has consented to marry me.
and when tbe event takes place I shall
not envy kings, princes or potentates "
The widow must have been a person
possessed of great powers of fascina
tion, for Sir llcnry Holland makes
mention of her as a lady who made
such a sensation In Edinburgh society
that even a reglus professor did uot
think it beneath his scholarship to go
down on bis knees In the street to fas
ten her shoe. The sequel need not be
dwelt upon further than to add that
tbe marriage turned out to be alto
gether a mistake.
Ferguston and the Rabbits.
Robert Fergusson, the poet, was flr*t
matriculated at St Andrew's unlversl
ty In the session of 1764-5. It was
tbe custom at this time for each bursar
to take bis turn in Invoking "blessing'
at tde meals. The college table having
been surfeited with an uubroUen diet
of rabbits In various forms of cookery,
Fergusson, on being called to say
grace, repeated what are now celebrat
ed lines:
For rabbits younR and for rabbits old.
For rabbits hot and for rabbits cold.
For rabbits tender and for rabbits tough
Our thanks we render, for we've bad
enough!
It may be added Fergusson was not
sent down, but the rabbits were "rus
ticated."
The Quipu>.
The quipus, upon which the ancient
Peruvians kept their records ami ac
counts, consisted of a thick main cord,
with smaller cords tied to it at certain
distances. Upon these smaller cords
the knots were tied by means of which
the reckoning was kept. The length
of the main rope varied from a foot to
several yards. The cords were of va
rious colors, each with its own proper
meaning?as red for soldiers, yellow
for gold, white for silver, green for
corn, and so on. The reckoning seems
to have been largely regulated by the |
distances of the knots from the main
cord and the sequence of the branches.
?New York American.
Same Effect.
"Cyril." said his mother as they sat
down to the breakfast table, "did you
wash your face this morning?"
"Well, no, mamma," said he slowly,
evidently casting In his mind fur an
excuse, "but," he added reassuringly.
"I crlod a little before I came down
stn IrsPelinea tor.
HOGS FOR SALE?A fine sow and j
seven pretty pigs for sale. Price $17. j
I could sell a few others. See them j
at my farm where Mr. W. A. Price
lives near Wilson's Mills. J. M. Bea- j
ty"
Had to Bow to Custom.
The late King Oscar of Sweden was
the least conventional of monarchs,
but be had to courtesy to custom nev
ertheless. The king and M. Bonnier,
the botanist, met as strangers while
out in search of flowers near Stock
holm. They were soon the best of
friends, and Bonnier suggested lunch
at bis inn.
"Come home with me instead," said
the other.
When the way led to the palace
gates Bonnier hesitated.
"I'm sorry," said his companion,
"but I happen to be the king of this
tountry, and this is the only place
where I can entertain my friends."
Teeth Chatter.
The Gold Tooth?Say, you'll be pulled
if you keep on disturbing the peace.
The Troublesome Molar ? Hoorayl
I'm just aching to get out of here, you
know.?Puck.
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