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MORAVIAN FALLS. N.C DECEMBER, 191?
15 Cents Per YKiJi. Trai Cornsi i4o
SOME GOOD TOOLS FOR LADS.
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Some of nnr literary quill jerkere have wicked
some wbappin ftig essays on the subject of good
raisin' A great 'many of them have done bully,
but there's oodlins,6 say yet without spoiling it
Bvery few days there's children bein raised
somewhere or other, and to know just how to do it
is considered a gwt art .
About the best article to have layinVaround loose
for children to mess with, is a chunk of old-fashionr
ed honesty the kind that wonts sour over night;'
The LaWaecUrt honesWTS & -cet &m
ievetl)cttm Mtweenthe
L -it VTt--jj.!! needs and it
It took two winters, a multitude Of gum hickor
ies and fortitude enough to lick ,a whole army of
.Turks before I fully mastered that word, and eith
er; Noah Webster or t one, are sorter spraddled yet
bout the right wayto spell it.
. Then there's another tool that is bully for a
youngster to hacve in hewin his way thru the early
years of his adversity, and that is the art of bein '
at home of nights when the bedtime whistle blows.
I learned it when I was a lad. ,
That art was as familliar to me as corn-bread
and sow bosom for breakfast.
I knew it by heart.
It was the eleventh commandment in my cate
cism. '. ! ' . .
Pad taught it to the whole push of us while we
were brats, and if one of us were a little slow a
bout learnin.' itwe were invited out to the wood-
shed, aiyd there the arfwas explained to us so that
we got told of the. idea forever and amen.
Now-days, by the time dtnkey little dude is old
enough to kick off histrianglar bird's eye swkd
dlings.he's out aiid gone kt night-fall wandering
far away, with only the" Lord andi himself on to
the-racket; 1 " '
demand for another four years.
Probably the earth will continue to grind around
on its azletree while our political doctors dally with
the dudes and continue (0 serve for liire pander
to trusts and corporations for stray penniesr4md
that's no lie, but it's strong language tat will nd
echo in the heart of this mighty ation.. ,f? "
Official extravagance' will continu, thea vultare
of prey will fly on with wings uncropped, graft
will flourish as a bay-tree and the loud-smelling
old stable of corruption remain undeansedt ' i
We onlv continue to view the dancrer-lin which
is drawn Ulween1 IheuiuittJiitthii
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WE'RE DONE G6NE FOR. A-WHILE.
Ding-dong; ding, dongj toot, toot, toot, and
The Lash has fcteamed out from the political depots
Good-by-wkdhtersI leave vour glimmer
mir thhkb lur wiiiie ;. . -
. I shall retire froi politics and let the wounded
ajtmospher heal from tile foul stroke of the lpud
V mouth Uatctera and hair-brained bubblejocks. , '
Dur ti-i cSdals will t-ain flatter Mammonior
Vtheiribddzr end slobber over everything the plutes
man wuo nas millions in excess of jus
needs and the man whose chief capital is a strong
ann, a slice of cold corn pone and a soup bone. ,
Something must be done to make thes working
man feel that he too, has a country and that it is
in every truth "the land of the free-aid the home of
the brave.'' Something to give him courage to' say
to the enipying capiIy
tryman,not your slave, you can nave my .labor py
giving me a just proportion of its products, I ad
here to these principles, and they are not for sale
or rent."
REJOICE DOWN IN JOUR CRAW.
And high cost of hvin is now over with, all but
pidkin' your teeth and takin' a pill. . ;
Mr. Woodpile WUlsoon is goin' to waltz the old
pirate around the. nnk and call down the jhjlgh
cost of hog and hominy, and if he doesn't make it
ante, we'll plant Mr. Woodpile in the Taft patch
next time we get a whack at his wish-bone and let
the political ghosts dance on his official monument.
We believe Democracy can bring it down, like hog
hides skootint'down.a greased pole, because it
holds the original patent on cheap soup ; A
It is the only party known or unknown that can
build enough soup with one old'Shanghi rooster to
float a war shipl, ' V-''-'-.' v '
r gosk it done iVhank you. : v ; .
,' Besides thejr,gave Us free soup when democracy
bossed thegnibWunter under Grover. -J ' ;
' Then say they can't nuJke livin' cheaper? v-.r 1 .
. i With a lair chaneeI beliey tbif..-aiat.-could
mane' a black-snake strtdde a log, or even
eanse boneU'gtoWitt baMtlki
Swat 'it1 over , the .Wd ;Uncle 'Wf&k&gl
knock it down and sit on it, makehigh cost o' grub
beg for mercy.
I've run my thinner over the aituatibn goin and '
coming, and I've concluded that there is about as
much glory in founderin' on free soup as there is ( .
m'starving to death on- footv Tlkke :70m .choice.
One is as bad as the other and a blamed sight
worse. " .' -f , ,
We know what it is to eat dried apples for break
fast, drink water for dinner, and swell up for
supper. And when you propose to lower the price
we have to pay for rations to keep Sallie 'and ' the
babies alive, you have poked your voice'in at Jhe ,
window of our soul and sung a song that sounds
sweeter'nthfi the golden harps of airyXand.
We know vwhat it means to borsow seepnd-hand
biscuits and not be able to pay them 'back in a .
week, ' , V
.We have heard the hoarse howl of the wolf at
our cabin door more times than one. - 0 -
We have struggled with every degree of poverty r
and feel proud of it, but don't understand me to
6ayllove U. . r 7-. K
And when we survey the prime cause of most - of
these conditions coupled with .the woeful ; waste
and excessive extravagance of those we suffer to sit
upon the official throne, it demands our notice.
Into the world there's talent born. .
But without means' to bacK it:
Millions of true and honest hearts
Beat neath a ragged jacset.
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.Somebody said once 'that the good die young ;
somebody else said the younger the better. I recon
nbttiobe born at iali would be a sure dead thing. .
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''rThe Wilsonites tell ns they are raisin cotton all
ready instead of raising C. ; Now we are not
hiving an measly fits about(cotton goin' any high
er; our shirt tail lws!$eena 'ia ,
wearin' sinkers onfit to keep it In our breeches.
Hiai., we hate'to make yced.:li
maulin' away on Vour dear political party, . Wt
wben we catch a cuss stealing the gDaleti make .
a practice of Img him square between tae horns,
Mr. Taft sent the republican party up Silt lUvex
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w its tail frbz
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