. '
Me Carnegie
5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends
and Influence People "
The Spinster Who Turned Down the Marriage
Proposals of a Thousand Men
The most wonderful woman I
have ever known has had a thou
sand men propose to her. She
has turned down offers from mil
lionaires and from fishermen and
farmers and penniless men on the
Bowery. A prince from one of
Europe's most prominent royal
families followed her for months
and begged her to marry him.
And now, although she has al
ready reached her three-score
years and ten, she is still getting
so many proposals by mail that
her secretary doesn't even bother
to show them to her.
Her name is Evangeline Booth,
and she is the head of the grand
est army that ever attacked an
enemy—the salvation Army—an
army with thirty thousand offi
cers, feeding the hungry in eighty
six far-flung countries and
spreading love in eighty different
languages.
I got something of a shock when
I met Evangeline Booth. I knew
she was old enough to be a grand-
J. M. FRANKLIN
Registered Architect
Phone 318 Elkin, N. C.
IT WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF IN
Performance
AND THAT'S WHAT COUNTS
The New Universal Washer combines beauty
with utility to make it the outstanding 1 value on
the market today. It's many new features,
including oversize tub, damp-proof motor and
silent transmission guarantees trouble-free
service. It|s new cadmium plated wringer is
equipped with quick-acting safety release and
double drain boards designed to automatically
control direction of water. If you are think
ing of buying a washer, by all means see the
New Universal.
ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION
mother, yet her dark her hair
was just beginning to show a few
streaks of gray. And she was
sparkling with vivacity and blaz
ing with enthusiasm.
Every summer when she is In
America, she goes to Lake George
and does fancy diving jack
knives and turtle-backs and swan
dives; and when she was sixty
three, she swam clear across Lake
George in four hours.
It takes her an hour to motor
from her house to the office; and
she dictates all that time in her
automobile,
Evangeline Booth says that one
of the most thrilling experiences
of her life occurred during the
gold rush to the Yukon. You may
recall that just before the turn
of the century, gold was discovered
in Alaska, and the news set the
nation seething with excitement.
Hordes of men began hurrying to
the far North, and Evangeline
Booth knew that the Salvation
Army would be needed there; so
with a couple of trained nurses
and three or four assistants, she
headed for the Yukon. When she
landed in Skagway, eggs were
worth twenty-five dollars apiece
and butter three hundred dollars
a pound. Some men were hun
gry and all of them carried guns.
And everywhere she heard men
talking about "Soapy" Smith, the
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
killer of the Klondike, the DUlin
ger of the Yukon, "Soapy" Smith
wad his gang laid in wait for mi
ners returning from the gold fields
and shot them down without
warning and robbed them of their
gold dust. The United States
Government sent an armed posse
to kill him; but 'Soapy" Smith
shot all of them and escaped.
Skagway was a tough place.
Five men were killed there the day
Evangeline Booth arrived.
That night, she held a meeting
on the banks of the Yukon River;
and preached to twenty-five thou
sand lonely men and got all of
them singing songs they had
heard their mothers sing in the
long ago— Jesus, Lover of My
Soul. Nearer My God To Thee,
and Home, Sweet, Home.
The Arctic night was chilly and
raw and cold, so while she was
singing, one man brought a blank
et and threw it around her.
This vast crowd of men sang
until one o'clock in the morning;
and then Evangeline Booth and
her helpers went out in the forest
to sleep on the ground under the
pine trees. They had started a
fire and were making a little
cocoa when they saw five men
approaching them with guns.
When they got within speaking
distance, the head man took off
his hat and said, "I'm 'Soapy'
Smith; and I've come to tell you
how much I enjoyed your sing
ing." And he added, "I was the
man that sent you the blanket
while you were singing. You can
keep it, if you want to." A
blanket doesn't sound like much
of a gift now; but it was a royal
present up there where men were
dying from chills and the damp.
She asked him if she would be
In any danger there in Skagway.
"No. Not while I'm here," he said.
"I'll protect you."
She talked with him In the
white night of the midnight sun
for three hours. She said, "I'm
giving life and you're taking it.
That's not right. You can't win.
They'll kill you sooner or later."
She talked to him of his childhood
and his mother; and he told her
that he used to attend Salvation
Army meetings with his grand
mother and sing and clap his
hands. And he confessed that
when his grandmother lay dying,
she asked him to sing a song
they had learned together at the
Salvation Army meetings:
My heart is now whiter than
snow.
For Jesus abides with me here.
My sins which are many I know
Are pardoned. My title is clear.
Miss Booth asked him to kneel
with her; and the Salvation Army
girl and "Soapy" Smith, the most
notorious bandit that ever ter
rorized the North, got down on
their knees together and prayed
and- wept together under the
northern pines. With tears rolK
ing down his cheeks, "Soapy"
promised her that he would stop
killing people and would give
himself up, and Miss Booth prom
ised that she would use all her
influence with the government to
get him a light sentence.
At four o'clock in the morning
he left her.
At nine o'clock, he sent on§ of
his men to her with a present of
freshly baked bread and jam tart
lets and a pound of butter—deli
cacies that were priceless up there.
He had stuck people up with a
gun and stolen the flour and the
butter, and one of the bad women
of Skagway had requested the
privilege of baking the bread and
Jam tar lets for the good woman
who had come to Alaska to preach
love and purity and forgiveness.
Two days later, somebody shot
"Soapy" Smith and Skagway
erected a .monument to the honor
of the man who killed him.
Evangeline Booth is one of the
happiest persons J have ever met.
Happy because she is living for
others. She told me that the
deepest passion of her life is a de
sire to make every persons she
meets—even every waitress and
pullman porter—a little better be
cause she has passed that way.
| THURMOND
A large crowd is expected here
Sunday for the decoration service
which will take place at 9:30
o'clock. Everybody is welcome to
come and take part in this mem
orial service to the dead. Bring
all the flowers possible. )
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Simmons
and children visited friends out
of this community last week-end.
- Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Norman
and family attended the funeral
of . the latter's sister in Longtown,
near Brooks Corss Roads, last
week.
Rev. Fred Page will fill his
regular appointment here Sun
day. • We are expecting a good
message. Everyone come and
get your soul fed from God's
word.
1 1 i
over 100 years old.
Benjamin Franklin did not be
gin his philosophical researches
until he had reached his flfteieth
year. > >
■
Lovely Lovey |
£■' I
§ 'V® W
fSßfc fSfell ■' *
MIAMI, Fla. . . . Lovely Lovey'
Warren, of Emporia, Kansas, has,
a new romper designed blue and
white checkered sun suit which she
is displaying on the beach at
Miami.
TIMELY FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED AT
STATE COLLEGE
Question: What is the best
time to apply nitrogen to corn
and cotton as a side dressing?
Answer: Applications should be
made to corn when it is about
knee high and to cotton im
mediately after chopping. Much
of the fertilizing value is lost
when late applications are made.
Apply the nitrogen as early as
iFor hundreds of years, from the time European craftsmer.
Hlearned the art of printing from crude wooden type, hand-
Icarved and hand-set, printing has been an art.
flToday—in our modern plant, equipped with modern types
Hand modern machinery—printing remains an art. Our HRnflEflMN
Sprinters are craftsmen, seeking perfection on each job, re-
Hgardless of how small or how large. And as a result we have nfIUP
■built up a reputation of doing good work at a fair price—a
•reputation of which we are justly proud.
Ilf you would have the best—combining the right inks,
possible so as to get all the ferti
lizing value.
Late applications may delay the
maturity of cotton and make the
crop more susceptible to boll wee
vil damage. With corn, late ap
plications will increase the plant
growth, but will not increase the
yield of grain.
Question: At what age should
chicks be fed grain?
Answer: This depends largely
on the mash fed. If a combined
starter and growing mash is used
the scratch feed should be started
at the fourth week. Where a
20 per cent, starter mash is used,
the grain feeding should begin
from the sixth to the tenth day.
There are, however, some "all
mash" systems of feeding with
wnlch no scratch supplement is
fed. Most commercial mash feed
tags have directions for feeding
on the back and these directions
should be carefully followed for
best results.
Question: How can I keep the
terrapin bugs out of my garden?
Answer: Applications of a Ro
tenone-Talc dust containing one
per cent, of rotenone will give
good control of this insect. Use
sufficient dust to cover the plants
thoroughly and repeat every week
as long as it is necessary for con
trol. Applications should be made
after every rain. A dust contain
ing three-quarters of one per
cent, of rotentone can also be
used, but this requires very liberal
applications. Rotenone is not
poisonous to humans. 
F. A. Brendle &
Son
HEADQUARTERS
For
LAWN AND
GARDENSEED
Elkin, N. C.
In lowa approximately two
thousand feeding stations were
provided for game birds the past
winter.
All bees in a hive do not look
alike—the aueen is the largest
and the worker is the smallest in
body.
j|p picture*. Each wee'b
jj|& jc. ■tx •*•*'' yA the action oi the worid
«3«« H H| in pictures and worda
W''wjß!!!S H H°' ever yday English...
easy to read and easy
keep you informed
o' interesting world
events.
■
■ Dear Mr. Editor t
■
Enclosed find $2.45 for which send me your newspaper {or one
■ year and NEWS-WEEK for 26 weeks.
■
j Name
■
| Street or H. F. P
■
■
S Town and State
■ *"
■■■■■•■■ ■■■■■■■•■■■■■
Thursday. May 20, 1937
Taßorlng teas Making
AH Kinds «f Sewing
Mrs. C. W. Laffoon
Wert sua St. nun ui-t
Patronize Tribune advertisers.