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VOL. 19-NO. 16.
After Sixteen Years.
Hug-h E. Gardner is at home to
spend Christmas with his mother
for the first time in sixteen years,
he having enlisted in the United
States army in 1899, and durii;g
hi.s six years of service in the army
he done service both in the' Phil
ippine Islands and in Alaska.
Fora short time before going to
Alaska he was located at Fort
Thomas, Ky.. where he met Miss
Weaver, of Covington,
Ky., and as soon as he was dis
charged from the army he re
turned to Covington and secured
a position as conductor on the
Cincinnati, which positition he
still holds. Upon his return to
Covington he married Miss
Weaver and has been living there
since, occupying the same house,
at No. 20 Martin street. He
came home a few weeks ago on
his annual vacation but was call
ed to Covington by his employers
on important business, but re
turned here Monday of this week
to spend Christinas with his
mother at the old liorne-stead west
of town where he was born.
Hugh says he wanted to spend
one more happy Christmas on his
natiye heath and among his old-
time friends.
Cfi TIITY TOWARD ALL-|
■ice toward none.
BURNSVILLE, YANCEY COlWY, N. C., DECEMBER 24,1915,
Only Paper Published in the County
Death Toll of This Year’s Hunting
Season.
. A Chicago dispatch says: Fifty
nine persons killed and sixty-six
injured is the hunting toll in
eighteen States for the season
which ended November 30th. ac
cording to statistics available
here. • Last season 111 persons
were killed and 162 wounded.
Dragging shotguns through
fences and other accidental dis-
chargeofguns again claimed a
amiority of the victims. A score
Jlits hunting deer were shot
unjcrs, who mistook
lyn killed, with
Our Bloody Record.
Statistics of hoirricides in the
registration area of twenty-four
States of the Union, compiled by
the Federal censit^'.bureau, show
that North Carolirni'led all the rest
in proportion to pilpulation. Our
urban rate was 274 per million
habitants and the' rural rate 17.3
per million, against an averageof
72 in the balante of the registra
tion area'in 24'States.
nction of which
boast; we will not
firide to the fact that
lina leads in the num-
igs in proportion to
But it is a record
that should be blazoned in every
community., in the State, kept
constantly in public view, until it
is corrected. We ought to know
our own shame—the shame that
we have so little regard for hu
man life, that we view the shed
ding of blood with so little con
cern. In fact we are now seek
ing to make it easier for the mur
derers—and God knows few
enough of them are punished —
by inaugurating a movement to
abolish capital punishment.
Mr. J. H. Lassiter, who un
earthed these facts for the Uni
versity News Letter, was so dis
turbed about them that he spent
a month trying to find something
to modify the showing. The re
sult of the research is published
in the Ne\y^s Letter and The Land
mark is printing it today. Taking
the cases reported as brought in
to the courts in four years, from
the fall terms of 1910 to and in
cluding the spring terms of 1914
which by no-;-.ieans includes all
the homicides 'in the State, be
cause many are not brought to
al—Mr- LAssiter reduces our
average annual killings per mil
lion inhabitants to 95, which still
leaves us in the lead. The figures
of the homic^Ies in the different
countiH
ed thq
testj
?i'o estfinTTfe oTF tlie am?!^r of’
the amount of game killed
made, but it is believed the 7,000
deer killed in Wisconsin and
Michigan last season will remain
the record for years.
Statement of ownership, man
agement, etc., required by the
Act of August 24. 1912, of The
Eagle, published weekly, Burns
ville, N. C., lor October 1, 1915.
Editor, J. M. Lyon, Burnsville,
N. C.
Publisher, O. R. Lewis, Burns
ville, N. C.
Owners, J. M. Lyon and O. R.
Lewis.
Signed, O. R. Lewis, Publisher.
Sworn and subscribed before
me this I7th day of December,
1915.
Lours ENorgsir,
Clerk Superior Court.
The Federal Pensions disburs
ed lo soldiers, widows and de
pendents during the year ending
July 1, 1915, was $165,518,266.
It is nearly seven million dollars
less than the year before. So
reads a recent report of the Fed
eral Pension Commissioner. The
number of Federal pensioners
living in North Carolina is given
at 3,315 and they received §733,714
last year-.
FOR SALE—A 63 acre farm
for sale at a bargain; sandy soil,
61-2 miles from Sanford, N. C.,
1-2 mile of good school. Will
grow fine tobacco or cotton. Ap
ply to J. T. WICKER, Lemon
Springs, I.^e County, N. C.
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The Stevens Hammerless
costs no mere than some hammer guns.
It has the celebrated
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Chlcopas Fails, IVIs&s.
Two iTrkeiJs Weigh !,100 Pounds
Each,
David draft, of Eagle Rock,
Botetourt bounty, is proud of the
tact that /he has made a record
weight with his Berkshire pigs,
having killed two, Wednesday,
weighing u,100 pounds each. 5ir.
Craft, in.fi letter to his son, W.
L, Crafty in Roanoke, says he
thinks his porkers have beat the
season’s record in Botetourt, and
probably in the State. In addi
tion to the two eleven-hundred
pounders, he killed a third weigh
ing 700 pounds.
Mr. Craft has been making a
specialty oi Uie Berkshire pigs,
and is elatia over his success -
Roanoke Tymes.
Baptist Statistics.
A summaily of statistics for the
Baptist State Convention, which
met in Charfttte, shows 64 Asso
ciations witl( 2,136 churches and
268,088 raenjbers, not including
19 churches ^at have not report
ed to their Associations. The
membership f^In for the year was
11,489, and tUtre was a gain of
43 in the nunter of churches.
There were‘i,7,“00 baptisms, a
gain of 3,187!over the previous
year. There were 573 churches
which reportef no baptisms.
Money raise! for all Conv'ention
purposes aggiWates S208,1«J5, a
gain of Sl3,53eover the previous
ve women’s
missionjry societies, including
the junijr organizations. They
raised *2,.598 for regular pur
poses ail a special fund of 56,273
for the ffudson centennial and
home ch -ch building fund.
Snnda school enrollment is
220,000, gain of 13,785, with a
net gain f 68 in the number of
Wireless Telephone in Cald
well County.
Mr. H. C. Martin, former editor
of the Lenoir News, has the fol
lowing interesting communica
tion in last Friday’s News:
No doubt most of your readers
will be sqrprised, as I was. to
learn that there is a wireless tele
phone in operation in our county.
I was talking with Capt. Fen
nell, conductor on the Carolina
and North Western Railway a few
days ago. and he told me that for
a space of six miles, between Col-
letsville and Gorge there •
telephone communication, but no
telephone wire. The operators
and. agents at Colletts and Morti
mer, Messrs. Fry-and Yount, ac
cidentally found out that tele,
phone communication could be
held between them, though there
is no teleplione connection. The
Lenoir & Blowing Rock telephone
line runs into the office at Col-
lottsville and between Gorge and
^^o^t^mer there is a short inde
pendent line, but between these
two points, adistance ofsix miles,
there is only telegraphic wires
and these wires are in no wa}’: con
nected with the telephones at
either place. Neither operator
can call the other over the phones,
but by calling over the telegraph
lines and directing the operator
at the other end to take down his
receiver at the telephone, com
munication is establish ;d.
The phones work much better
and clearer in damp weather than
ly other time, heneeit is pre-
•d that an earth connection is
established between tlie two
places making the use of the tele
phones possible, even though
there is a gap of six miles with
out wires.
Some of our telephone .^experts
may be able to explain the singu
lar wireless process, but v\hethei'
they can or not, there is no doubt
bout existence.
O'il
|e State.
II A YEAR
Bml
store ol
tile CoS
day mo(^
stolen,
ruined. J
Mt. AirJ
three new 11
there—notf
up-to-date f
costing fioj
I open a safe'in the
■volution Mercan-
SGreensboro, Mon-
|nd over §300 was
safe was utterly
■at twenty-
re going up
pnents, but
iie of them
i> S4,OO0.
Gratitude as the Real Key
to Christmas Joy.
(By “Billy” Sunday.)
Nineteen hundred years ago a
star poised above a lowly manger
in Bethlehem, and above the |
moonlit hills of Judea the angels
heralded the beginning of the i
life of Jesus Christ upon this |
earth. And once more the birth-
da)’’ of the Savior approaches.
How fast these festal days fol
low one another! Only a few
days ago I was penning a Thanks
giving day message. Now we
are looking forward with happy
hearts and bright anticipations to
Christendom's great g-iftgiving
day. ”
Gratitude inspires in us the
grace of giving.
Gratitude is the great original
source of noble living and service,
just as sin is the original source
and root of all selfishness. The
great all seeing eye of God, as it
suiveysthis planet, with all its
scenes of revelry and its riot of
sin, beholds but one festering
ulcer—selfishness—and gazes up
on one thing .of great beauty-
gratitude—which recognizes in
every need of man the voice of
God.
The immortal Francis E. Wil-
lard said: “I regard ingratitude
as one of the basest of sins.”
ThePsalraistsaid: “M hatshall
I render unto tlie Lord for all His
goodness to me?” Then answ
Gasoliiie.aHd Oil
, Burning Engines
Washington
county married
the foui^^B^^^at the advanced | I"® own question by saying,
age pf 92, tn^^^ide only 39. Mr. j wUl take up the cup of salvation
Davis is the fmther of 41 children, "lud call upon the name of the
33ofwhDmaiBe still living, and ' Lord.’
has 192 grrnqjchiidren. | Never before have we so
riously faced the question o
Within the liast week no less [ p/^'wation to Almighty God,
The best-low-priced engine on the market'
For opernlifelicht farm madilnery, pumps, wood saws, feed
Koges
1.1-2 H. P. Gasoline engine,
2 3-4 .
§37,50
§60.00
S90.00
§100.00
§125.00
lam more powerful than the j
combined armies of the world
I have destroyed more men than
all the wars of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets,
and I have wrecked more homes
than the mightiest of the seige
guns.
I steal in the United States
alone over §300,000,000,000 each
ye:
I spare no one, and I find my
victims ciinong the rich and poor
alike; the young and the old; the
strong and the weak; widows and
orphans know me,
I loom up to such proportions
that I cast my shadow over ever)’
field of labor from the turning of
the grindstone to the movement
of railroad trains.
I menace thousands and thous
ands of wage-earners in a year.
I lurk in unseen places, and do
most of ray work silently. You
are warned aga-ns*- me,' but you
heed me not.
1 am relentless, I am every
where; in the home, on the streets,
in the factory, at railroad cross
ings and on the sea.
I bring sickness, degradation
and death and yet few seek to
avoid me.
I destroy, crush, maim; I give
nothing, but take all.
I am your worst enemy.
My name is CARELESSNESS.
—Exchange.
than a dozen and as many I are thousands of heavy,
bear have bc^^Bfchipped nortii hearted, world-worried men and
from Elizabe^^^Wy. Bjg. g-ame women who will never find life
seems in bare this I worth living until their lives are
year than||[^^^^^^^easons. j Hj^cd with Jesus Christ.
is no safety save in ser-
{iter must use or lose. The
notli^ig out
, ■- .
1 fwu mother I Lves arc like the Dead sea. If
Jett the cdild ^n the room in the You would have the joy of Christ-
careofanothc r child, and in her I nias, you must find if in
absence the ch
from an open
H. p;?
4 H. P.’^il Burning
7 H. P, ^il Burning
F. O. Asheville, N. C.
PrirJnYtelii:'!' ^ reasonable advance.
* plfcatio^ En.?ines (on wheels), saw outfits, etc., on ap-
““ I f'oLY' o' (aftercaefnl examination)
.,j j sold under a PlVE YEAH GUARANTEE.”
Write for Prices.
s. MORRISON 8c CO-
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Id’sclothes caught
ire-place.
North C;
mined to have
camp like the
last summer,
raington, Gree
Raleigh and o
camps. Whil
gram is bein,
will likely be n
Plans have
the Carolina 1.
tion in Salisbui
gooffi _ No one will ever find the
L-hristian secret of a happy life
.^ave by trying to make it easier
for others to do right and harder
to do wrong.
There is joy in lifting any
burdens of others, as the little
ho was carry
liua seems deter-
an army training
‘ne at Plattsburg
Charlotte, Wil-
sboro, Mt. Airv, ! ffit-l found it w...
her places desire baby brother across the streeL
the defense pro-
discussed, there
3 decision.
\ een perfected for
ve Stoclv Associa-
y on January 25,
^ continue thnmgh January 28,
The features of ;he session will be
swine day, bee'^attle day and
dairy c:ittlej]j,^^he last date
be knowndM^il day, when
after the_ judg.^ contests, the
awards will be announced,
Sunday s lools.
A \Va:
Ordin:ir)
States tr
about
ton dispatch says:
eceipts of the Llnited
sury in November were
OOO.OOU more than
the s;itn(iionth last year, while
the incr^e in ordinary disburse
ments f(j the ,s;uiie' ’period was
approxiileiy §3,00t),O00.
j The iancial stalement sub-
: mitted I the Stat e department
of agiRure in atimial session
, Wedneb' in Kalleigh shows a
I deficit December 1 of §9,064,
■ the fir|he deparfmefYA has had
in maiAears. The deVicit is at-
tnbuflc to a phonominAl falling
off in/tilizer tax paid >15(0 the
Stateprtment of agriculture.
Wedding a Widow.
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatcli.
It is no new thing for a Pres
ident of the United States to wed
one who has already made a voy-
age on the sea of raatrimon,v.
Some one with a turn for hunting
up statistics finds that Washing’-
toii, Jefferson, Madison,
more and Benjamin Ha'
married widows. Tyle:
Roosevelt were married
ond time,but their wived H
been wedded before.
Andrew Jackton nevei
much for fashion set by
and so he established hil
precedent by leading to the,
a divorcee, the former wife *
array officer.
In spite of the warning
immortal Tony Weller the
dents who married widq
blessed with happiness,,,
whole country hopes thir
i:iv2 but sunsnine may fall/
|tathw:iy of President
his bride.
H. B. Varner, of Le\
after a visit to New YorkU
back enthusiastic over thej
ness outlook. lie
the New York business j
say the prosperity wav
throughout tlie nation.
Mr. Bion H. Butler, writing in
the Ne,ws and Observer tells of
a new indusfr,^r the State—the
new packing fiduse at Southern
1 ines, which is the beginning of
a meat packing Alant and a local
market for Norfa Carolina meat,
poultry and dairf product. Mr
Butler predicts aigreat future for
the plant if the firniers will pro-
'ude i:t with tilte'ii • —
He was almost as big as she was.
Isn t he heavy.’' asked a passer-
by._
Oh, no; he’s my brother.”
You cannot be a Christian with
out being a good fellow in the
sense of trying to help other to
be good, or, as some one has put
It, • Except you erect the cross
in your own heart, Jesus will
profit you nothing.”
O Holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend on us we pray;
Cast out our sin and enter in;
Be born in us today.
A Prize Joke.
following was taken from
the Belfast (Ireland) Weekly
telegraph, for which that publi
cation gave a prize of half crown:
_ A pretty young woman stepped
into a music store the other day.
mTbuotess'coS
■ / Asheville, N. C.
. and fit yourself to be .in independent, self-sopportinst
' Citizen.
Write for catnlojToe and particniars in regard to
different courses, terms, etc.
Why?
vide It with t^Hve stock. The She tripped up to U-e connVJ’
plan IS to sup^ North Carolina where a new clLk was
markets with North Carolina I music, assorting
stock. I . ’
At the ninj
Show of the
of AgriculturijJ
North Carolij]
other ’
The Dii
th^
ssbrting
, , her sweetest tones
asked: Have you Kissed Me in
the Moonlight?’” The clerk
annual Fruit Ihalfway round, looked at
York College ber answered: “It must
Ithica, N. Y., have beeii the man at the other
'pies added an-[“^”ter. I’ve only been here a
:heir long list. ! week.”
[Horticulture of j
|aa Department
'entered eight j^ome Odd Christmas Supersti-
lidges awarded j tioffs.
arietffiT^which beJwS" lY'nd^io crossroads I
’ were: Stay- vo, w- v-l ‘'^bnsmas night
I )ou will hear what most concerns
you in the coming year.
^Yliy suffer the pain of toothache or neuralgia? Wfiv-
“"‘f '’"'fermine your lienitf bv kevpl
i Wbyinfiin.nfpu, b„a.b 3
My business is to
breath on your
Kano, Bonu„-,
■Rome Beauty,
Voyal Limber-
Christmas ove you make a
little heap of salt on the table
and it melts overnight you will
die the next year. If in the morn-
ing It remains undiminished you
will live.
If a shirt be spun, -^voven and
sewed by a pure, chaste maide’
on Christmas day it will be proof
against lead or steel.
If you are born at sermon time
on Christmas morning you cun ,
see spirits.
If you burn elder on .Christmas !
- I have revealed to you i
:>se who are ^ all the witches and the sorcerers i
|ies seem to | of the neighborhood. i
L It would j D is unlucky to carry anvthinir
^rkville Ell- mas morning until something has
^ ' been brought into it.
J noticed,” in
Bnan the other
■ence it makes
1 going on in
that every-
|of course, be-
JSome of these
ret it—don’t
ay when the
■gs seem dif-,
|seems to have •
for every- i
iS above evils ip an uo-to-
scientific, sanitary manner. ^
Ip All work fully guaranteed, and prices reasonaWe.
1^ DR. S. J. HAMILTON, BURNSVILLE, N. C. il
Office Over Citizens Bank. ' $}$■
Put Your Money
pfit-c \ utmost possible b^n-
^st ’ and f u fundamental hon-
nCciai ltJenglhl" “ ‘‘P ““ *'
We are rigrbt here at home. You know u.s. We
watch the sutements which show the
comUtipn of our bn„k. This is a live and ffrowiu °
w“ tclifil ’“''■■■'““d methods, yel
watchful and conservative in every respect. We'
^re equipped to handle al! vour banking business
promptly and satisfactory, and price you free s rvlce
iwmy simfr- -e alwaysfiis^
ly: WEl.COME YOUR .\CCOUNT, HOWEVER 3MAIT
irT’' ' stamlinit to vou;
tin. ’’■Wital for tlie (rood of
tile home community.
Drop in and talk it ovp^.
Bank of Yancey