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VOL.  X 


CONCORD  N.  C.  NOV.  19,  1921, 


NO.  3 


A  Reflection. 


"With  harrowing  memories  of  more  than  ten  million 
men  who  laid  down  their  lives  in  the  awful  holocaust 
from  which  we  have  just  emerged;  of  countless  homes 
bearing  burdens  of  anguish  and  suffering;  of  the  desola- 
tion and  pestilence  that  have  sprung  from  the  war,  and 
still  ravage  whole  peoples;  and  most  of  all,  of  the  after- 
math of  bitterness,  suspicion  and  hate,  which  prevade 
all  lands;  let  us  insist  far  more  vigorously  than  ever  be- 
fore, that  war  is  an  unmitigated  curse  to  humanity,  and 
a  denial  of  the  Christian  gosp'el.  Let  us  declare  plainly 
that  in  every  war  the  Son  of  Man  is  put  to  shame  anew, 
and  that  every  battle-field  is  a  Calvary  on  which  Christ 
is  Crucified  afresh. 

Let  us  not  shrink  from  proclaiming  unequivocally  that 
war  is  not  a  necessity;  that  the  pacific  settlement  of  ev- 
ery international  question  is  possible;  that  a  warless 
world  can  really  be  achieved.  Let  our  witness  be  un- 
mistakable that  force  is  not  the  final  arbiter  among  the 
nations,  but  that  justice,  reason  and  good-will  can  con- 
trol the  life  of  nations,  as  well  as  the  life  of  individual 
men.  To  continue  to  point  to  the  mailed  fist  as  our  ul- 
timate reliance,  and  to'  carry  on  a  program  of  mutual 
distrust  and  fea.-,  is  to  undermine  the  very  foundation 
of  our  Christian  faith," 


-PUBLISHED  BY- 


THE  PRINTING  CLASS    OF  THE  STONEWALL  JACKSON   MANUAL  TRAIN 
ING  AND  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL 


THE  UPLIFT 


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Between  the  South  and  Washington  and  New  York 


Northbound 


SCHEDULE  BEGINNING  AUGUST  H.  I9Z1 


Southbound 


No.  36 


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( ATLANTA,  GA. 
Iv     Terminal  Station      (Cent.  Tin 
Iv  |  Peachtree  Station     (Cent.  Tin 
ax    GREENVILLE,  S.C.  (East.  Tin 
ar    SPARTANBURG.  S.  C. 
ar    CHARLOTTE,  N.  C. 
ar    SALISBURY.  N.  C. 
ar    High  Point,  N.  C. 
ar    GREENSBORO,  N.  C. 


No.  37 


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LYNCHBURG,  VA. 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 
BALTMORE,  MD.,  Penna.  Sya. 
West  PHILADELPHIA 
North  PHILADELPHIA 
NEW  YORK,  Penna.  System 


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EQUIPMENT 

No*.  37  and  13.  NEW  YORK  &  NEW  ORLEANS  LIMITED.  Solid  Pullman  train.  Drawing  room 
New  Orleans,  Montgomery.  Atlanta,  Washington  and  Now  York.  Sleeping  car  northbound  between  Atlai 
Club  car.      Libra ry-Obiervat ion  car.      No  coaches. 

Nas.  137  &  138.  ATLANTA  SPECIAL.  Drawing  room  sleeping  car*  between  Macon,  Columbui,  Atl 
Washington-Son  Francisco  tourist  sleeping  car  southbound.      Dining  car.      Coaches. 

Noa.  29  &  30.  BIRMINGHAM  SPECIAL.  Drawing  room  sleeping  car*  between  Birmingham,  Atlanta,  ' 
San  Francisco- Washington  touriat  sleeping  car  northbound.  Sleeping  car  between  Richmond  and  Atlanta  sin 
Dining  car.    Coaches. 

Noa.  35  &  35.     NEW  YORK,  WASHINGTON,  ATLANTA  &  NEW  ORLEANS  EXPRESS.     Drawing  room  sleeping  cars  between  New 
Orleans.  Montgomery,  Birmingham,  Atlanta  and  Washington  and  New  York.      Dining  car.     Coaches. 

Note:  Nos.  23  and  30  use  Peachtree  Street  Station  only  at   Atlanta. 

Note:  Train  No.  133  connects  at  Washington  with  "COLONIAL  EXPRESS,"  through  train    to  Boston   via  Hall  Gate  Bridge  Route, 
leaving  Washington  8.15  A.  M.  via  Penna.  System. 


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The  Uplift  r       zoj 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED  BY 

The  Authority  of  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Manual  Training  and  Industrial  School. 
Type-Setting  by  the  Boys'  Printing  Class.  Subscription  Two  Dollars  the  Year  in 
Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor. 

JESSE  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,  at  the  Post  Office  at  Concord,  N 
C,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


Recessional 

God  of  our  fathers,  known  of  old- 
Lord  of  our  far-flung  battle  line — 
Beneath  whose  awful  hand  we  hold 
Dominion  o'er  palm  and  pine- 
Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 
Lest  we  forget— lest  we  forget! 

The  tumult  and  the  shouting  dies — 
The  Captains  and  the  Kings  depart- 
Still  stands  Thine  ancient  sacrifice, 
An  humble  and  a  contrite  heart. 
Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 
Lest  we  forget — lest  we  forget! 

Kipling. 

BREAD  CAST  UPON  THE  WATERS. 

You  must  give  if  you  expect  to  receive— give  happiness,  friendship,  love, 
joy,  and  you  will  find  them  floating  back  to  you.  Sometimes  you  will  give 
more  that  you  receive.  We  all  do  that  in  some  of  our  relations,  but  it  as 
true  a  pleasure  often  to  give  without  return   as   life    can    afford    us.     We 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

must  not  make  bargains  with  the  heart,  as  we  would  with  the  butcher 
for  his  meat.  Our  business  is  to  give— what  we  can  get  to  give.  The  re- 
turn we  have  nothing  to  do  with.     It  will  all  come   in   due   time— in  this 

world  or  another. Samuel  Bowles. 

****** 

WILKES  AND  WRIGHT. 

The  Uplift  has  received  the  Annual  Report  of  the  Public  Schools  of 
Wilkes  county.  It  is  a  pamphlet  of  fifty-two  pages,  telling  the  story  of  all 
school  activities  *in  the  county  during  the  year  ending  July,  1921. 

No  such  a  report  would  have  occasion  to  appear  in  a  county  other  than  one 
directed  by  a  real,  live  school  man.  Though  Wilkes  county  is  geographically 
nearly  twice  as  large  as  Cabarrus,  mountainous  and  offering  many  difficult- 
ties  not  experienced  in  many  other  counties,  this  man  C.  C.  Wright,  the 
superintendent  for  years,  has  made  of  it  one  of  the  most  advanced  edu- 
cationally in  the  State.  With  vision,  indominatable  energy  and  marked  abil- 
ity, he  has  gone  about  his  problems, heroically  with  the  proud  result  that 
foe  pushes  his  work  rather  than  let  the  work  push  him. 

When  the  time  for  the  opening  of  the  schools  arrives,  he's  ready.  He  be- 
gins to  plan  for  the  next  before  present  schools  close.  He  has  his  teachers 
in  line;  he  keeps  in  touch  with  them— he  knows  them  and  they  know  him. 

Mr.  Wright's  Board  backs  him  up  in  all  his  enterprising  and  progressive 
efforts.  Under  the  head  of  "Standard  of  Excellence"  he  publishes  in  his 
annual  report  the  47  schools  that  met  the  conditions;  the  honor-roll  for 
teachers  carries  the  names  of  49  teachers  (white)  and  7  (colored);  pub- 
lishes the  names  of  thirty-three  children  in  the  county  that  made  a  contin- 
uous seven  years'  perfect  attendance;  and  three,  who  made  perfect  at- 
tendance for  eleven  years;  he  also  publishes  the  names  of  those  children 
during  the  past  year  that  made  a  perfect  attendance  record— the  number 
is  inspiring;  there  appear  239  names  representing  those  in  the  public 
schools  that  did  not  miss  a  word  in  the  spelling  lessons   of  the  entire    school. 

In  1900  the  per  cent  of  illiteracy  was  13— to-day  it  is  just  one  per  cent. 
This  tells  in  part  the  great  work  Prof.  Wright  has  accomplished  with  a  hard 
educational  problem,  under  most  adverse  conditions.  It  is  an  object  lesson 
for  those  who  are  waiting  for  something  to  happen, 

******  

TRUSTEES  MEET. 

The  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Jackson  Train- 


THE  UPLIFT  "  5 

ing  School  was  held  in  Directors'    Room,  in  the  school  building,  at  2:30  on 
the  afternoon  of  the  8th.     There  was  in  attendence    Mesdames    Burgwyn, 
Bickett,  Coble,  Cooper  and  Miss  Shaw,  and  Messrs  Coltrane,  Blair,  Wharton, 
Cone,  and  Cook.  Superintendent  Boger  attending  the  meeting  by  invitation. 

The  biennial  election  of  officers  of  the  Board  took  place,  resulting  in  the 
unanimous  re-election  of  the  old  officers  as  following:  Mr.  J.  P.  Cook, 
chairman;  Mrs.  W.  H.  S.  Burgywn,  Vice-chairman;  Mr.  J.  J.  Blair,  secre- 
tray;  and  Mr.  D.  B.  Coltrane,  Treasurer.  The  Executive  Committee  is 
composed,  by  the  constitution,  of  the  chairman,  treasurer  and  the  superin- 
tendent. 

Ttie  Board  expressed  its  pleasure  over  the  development  of  the  plant 
since  its  last  meeting  in  May.  The  new  Latham  Pavilion  came  in  for  mark- 
ed and  complimentary  appreciation.  The  Memorial  Bridge  and  the  new 
art  glass  in  the  windows  of  the  chapel  were  much  admired.  All  these  are 
additions,  by  friends,  entailing  no  cost  whatever  to  the  treasury  of  the 
Board. 

Superintendent  Boger  made  his  report  and  a  few  recommendations,  a- 
mong  them  the  employment  of  a  nurse.  The  absence  of  sickness  made 
the  request  rather  peculiar,  but  when  an  exhibit  of  how  many  toes  became 
stumped,  fingers  scratched,  boils  developing  and  other  little  things  that 
happen  to  growing  boys,  the  services  of  some  one  is  needed  nearly  every 
day.  There  is,  after  all,  more  in  prevention  than  in  cure;  and  since  our 
enrollment  is  nearing  two  hundred  and  will  soon  go  beyond,  it  seemed 
wise  to  authorize  the  taking  on  of  some  one  who  can  fill  the  place  of  a 
nurse. 

The  Board  found  occasion  to  commend  the  management,  expressing 
its  pleasure  of  the  prosperous  condition  and  appearance  of  the  whole 
plant.  Adjournment  was  taken  to  the  second  Tuesday  in  May,  1922,  the 
regular  time  for  meeting. 

****** 

■i 

EDITOR  ASHCRAFT'S  LAST  WORDS. 

Mr.  B.  Clegg  Ashcraft,  the  editor  of  the  Monroe  Enquirer  for  twenty- 
eight  years,  died  on  the  10th,  after  several  weeks'  illness.  Several 
years  ago  he  suffered  a  severe  attack  of  the  flue,  during  which  illness  his 
heart  became  involved. 

Mr.  Ashcraft  was  a  man  of  high  integrity;  he  had  positive  views  about 
things,  and  fearlessly  and  forcibly  stood  by  them;  he  was  a  loyal  friend  and 
wielded  a  wide  influence,  personally  and  through  his  paper.     He  was   the 


I 


THE  UPLIFT 


first  student  to  enter  the  A.  &M.  College,  when  its  doors  were  first  thrown 
open. 

From  his  own  paper,  The  Enquirer,  in  whose  conduct  he  had  the  loyal 
association  of  his  brother,  we  quote  his  last  words: 

"If  this  be  death  tell  the  people  I  meet  it  unafraid." 
"Duty!     The  greatest  word  in  the  English  language," 
"We  have  worked  together  for  many  years.  We  have  always  tried  to 
do  our  duty." 

****** 

PLUMMER  STEWART. 

Plummer  Stewart,  Esq.,  of  Charlotte,  is  a  lawyer.  He  is  a  mixer  and  a 
believer  in  causes  that  affect  the  great  common,  or  so-called  middle  class. 
He  does  not  despise  the  rich— in  fact  he  is  very  fond  of  them  and  loves  to 
represent  them  professionally—but  his  heart  prompts  him  to  serve  the 
average  folks  in  their  struggles  for  education  and  material  progress. 

For  quite  a  period  he  served  as  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  School 
Commissioners  of  Charlotte.  In  the  language  of  the  street,  he  made  good. 
But  at  the  last  election,  it  became  necessary  to  retire  him  to  make  room 
for  a  lady  member.  But  Stewart  did  not  remain  out  of  the  educational 
harness  very  long.  Recently  they  drafted  him  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the 
County  Board  of  Education,  making  him  chairman.  To  that  position  he 
brings  a  broad  experience,  faithfulness  and  wisdom. 

Goose  Creek  township  of  Union  county  has  been  put  on  the  map  by 
producing  such  men  as  Stewart,  McCall,  Cy  Long  and  others  who  have 
been  heard  of  in  no  small  way  in  the  Queen  City. 

****** 

The  two  buildings,  which  have  been  under  construction  for  the  past  eight 
weeks,  and  which  are  to  house  our  bakery,  laundry,  ice  plant,  cold  storage 
equipment  and  a  general  supply  storage,  are  nearing  completion.  These 
buildings  are  fire-proof  The  machinery  will  be  installed  at  an  early  day, 
and  instead  of  buying  much  bread  we  will  make  it  ourselves  and  train 
many  boys  in  the  business  of  baking.  And  it  will  be  a  happy  change  from 
the  open  at  the  spring  to  the  laundry.  And  the  Rockingham  Cottage 
which  contractor  Query  is  building,  is  taking  on  fine  form.  It  will  be  un- 
der roof  before  real  winter  sets  in. 

****** 

We  are  beholden  to  Mr.  H.  V.  Rose,  county  Superintedent  of  Welfare  of 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

Johnson  county,  writing  from  Smithfield:"I  regard  The  Uplift  as  one  of 
the  very  best  papers  that  come  into  my  hands.  After  reading  each  issue, 
put  it  on  file  to  hand  to  the  teachers  of  the  county  or  others  who  would 
appreciate  it.  It  is  worthy  of  a  great  success  and  a  wide  circulation." 
The  great  majority  of  the  county  welfare  workers  are  now  subscribers  to 
our  paper,  and  if  what  Mr.  Rose  and  others  say,  it  is  not  clear  why  all  of 
these  important  workers  should  not  find  it  worth-while  in  their  work. 
Ours  is  a  kindred  work  and  spirit. 

****** 

Under  date  of  November  10th,  Hon.  Heriot  Clarkson,  one  of  the  leading 
members  of  the  Charlotte  bar,  and  a  conspicuously  active  and  valuable 
force  in  state  affairs,  writes:  "Please  find  enclosed  check  for  ten  dollars. 
Send  me  The  Uplift  for  the  coming  year.  You  can  send  the  other  copies 
to  any  friends  you  desire.  It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  know  of  the  great 
work  the  school  is  doing.  Kind  regards,  &c,  &c.''  It  will  be  our  pleasure 
to  comply  with  this  order.     Next. 

****** 

A  prominent  Albemarle  lady,  refusing  to  accept  The  Uplift  at  its  adver- 
tised subscripton  price,  which  is  two  dollars,  sends  her  check  for  five  dollars. 
These  things  and  these  acts  seem  to  make  the  Linotype  produce  finer  music; 
and  Master  Faucette,  our  institutional  reporter,  who  is  also  one  of  the 
printer  boys,  comments  "it  is  very  cheap  at  five." 

****** 

The  number  of  automobile  licenses,  including  permits  for  Fords,  has 
passed  131,000.  Secretary  of  State  Grimes  has  already  made  the  order  for 
the  license  tags  for  the  year  1921 — 1922.  The  tags  cost  the  state  seven 
and  one-eighth  cents  apiece.     177,000  have  been  ordered. 

****** 

Governor  Morrison  has  called  an  extra  session  of  the  General  Assembly 
to  meet  on  December  6th.  The  chief  business  occasioning  this  meeting 
are  the  municipial  acts  and  the  cause  of  education — both  badly  balled   up. 

•   ***••  * 

The  Deaf  Carolinian,  a  strictly  institutional  paper  issued  by  The  School 
for  The  North  Carolina  Deaf,  has  adopted  the  weekly  appearance  rather 
than  twice-a-month.     Throughout  its  columns  it  breathes   life   and   hope,) 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

"So  near,  yet  so  far,"  was  completely  realized  last  week  by  Hon.  W.  N. 
Everett,  of  Rockingham.  Mr.  Everett  had  been  invited  to  deliver  an  ad- 
dress upon  the  occasion  of  the  presentation  of  the  Memorial  Bridge.  He 
started  in  his  car  through  the  country,  but  got  swamped  in  a  Cabarrus 
County  detour  road  causing  him  a  delay  of  such  length  within  three  miles 
of  the  Jackson  Training  School  that  he  missed  the  appointment.  There 
was  keen  regret  on  the  part  of  The  King's  Daughters  and  the  School  that 
they  were  deprived  of  the  presence  of  thiselegent  gentleman  and  prominent 
leader  in  North  Carolina  affairs. 


THE  MISER  AND  HIS  GOLD. 

Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  Miser  who  used  to  hide  his  gold  at 
the  foot  of  a  tree  in  his  garden;  but  every  week  he  used  to  go  and 
dig  it  up  and  gloat  over  his  gains.  A  robber,  who  had  noticed  this, 
went  and  dug  up  the  gold  and  decamped  with  it.  When  the  Miser 
next  came  to  gloat  over  his  treasures,  he  found  nothing  but  the 
empty  hole.  He  tore  his  hair,  and  raised  such  an  outcry  that  all  of 
the  neighbors  came  around  him,  and  he  told  them  how  he  used  to 
come  and  visit  his  gold.  "Did  you  ever  take  any  of  it  out?"  asked 
one  of  them. 

"Nay,"    said  he,  "I  only  came  to  look  at  it." 

Then  come  again  and  look  at  the  hole,"  said  a  neighbor;  it  wiil  do 
you  just  as  much  good." 

"WEALTH  UNUSED  MIGHT  AS  WELL  NOT  EXIST." 


THE  UPLIFT 

There's  Place  In  Life  For  the  Anecdote. 


FITZ  HUGH  LEE:  A  certain  Confederate  colonel  was  making  a  political 
speech  in  a  Virginia  court  house.  "Talk  about  my  war  record,"  he  said, 
"why,  my  war  record  is  a  part  of  the  State's  history.  Why,  gentlemen, 
I  carried  the  last  Confederate  flag  through  this  very  town." 


"Yes,"  replied  Fitz  Hugh  Lee, 
"for  I  was  here  at  the  time."  ' '  Thank 
you  for  your  fortunate  recollection," 
gratefully  exclaimed  the  colonel. 
"It  is  pleasant  to  know  that  there 
still  live  some  men  who  move  aside 
envy  and  testify  to  the  courage  of 
their  fellow  beings.  As  I  say,  gen 
tlemen,  my  war  record  is  a  part  of 
the  State's  history,  for  the  gentle- 
man here  will  tell  you  that  I  carried 
the  last  Confederate  flag  through 
this  town." 

"That's  a  fact,"  said  Fitz  Hugh. 
"I  saw  him  do  it.  He  carried  the 
Confederate  flag  through  this  town, 
but  Kilpatrick  and  Ellsworth  were 
after  him,  and  he  carried  it  so  blame 
fast  you  couldn't  have  told  whether 
it  was  a  Confederate  flag  or  a  small- 
pox warning." 


THOMAS  H  BENTON:  He  was 
charged  with  great  egotism.  When 
his  work,  "Tnirty  Years  in  the  Unit- 
ed States  Senate,  was  ready  for  press, 
the  publishers  sent  a  messenger  to 
ascertain  how  many  copies  he  desir- 
ed. He  answered:  "Sir,  they  can 
ascertain  from  the  last  census  how 
many  persons  there  are  in  the  Unit- 
ed States  who  can  read,  sir." 


A  short  time  after  Calhoun's  death, 
a  friend  said  to  Benton,,  "I  suppose, 
Colonel,  you  won't  persue  Calhoun 
beyond  J;he  grave?"  to  which  he  re- 


plied: 

"No,  sir.  When  God 
lays  his  hand  upon  a  man, 
mine  off,  sir." 


Almighty 
sir,  I  take 


A  Formor  Citizen  Dead. 

Older  residents  of  Concord  will  recall 
Mr.  Ruply  Schseffer,  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  G. 
F.  Schasffer,  formerly  president  of  North 
Carolina  College  and  also  of  the  Semi- 
nary, at  Mt.  Pleasant.  Young  Mr.  Schaef- 
fer  was  in  business  in  Concord  for  a 
period,  and  removing  from  here  later  to 
Johnstown.  Pennsylvania.  While  there 
he  was  a  victim  of  the  flood,  which  de- 
stroyed so  much  praperty  and  so  many 
lives.  Young  Schaeffer  was  caught  in 
the  flood,  and  suffered  from  several  days 
exposure  before  being  rescued. 

Later  on,  seeking  a  restoration  of  his 
health,  he  went  to  Colarado.  His  life 
may  have  been  prolonged  by  the  move, 
but  finally  he  fell  a  victim  of  the  fright- 
ful desease.  Only  one  of  this  prominent 
and  cultured  family  remain,  this  being 
Mr.  Samuel  S.  Schaeffer,  a  resident  of 
Geongia,  who  left  Concord  a  mere  boy- 
but  the  fact  that  he  had  a  son  across 
the  seas,  fighting  for  his  country,  re- 
minds Us  how  rapidly  time  travels. 


Lies  often  bring  on  apoplexy,  ac- 
cording to  Dr.  H.  S.  Langford,  not- 
ed English  psychologist,  who  explains 
that  exhaustive  tests  show  that  the 
blood  pressure  rises  when  a  person 
tells  an  untruth.  He  says  this  pe- 
culiarity is  more  marked  among  wo- 
men than  men,  and  it  accounts  for 
their  habit  of  blushing  when  corner- 
ed in  a  fib. 


IO 


THE  UPLIFT 


MR.  JOSEPH  H.  SEPARK, 

Gastonia,  N.  C. 


THE  UPLIFT 


it 


Joseph  H.  Separk. 

Industrialist,  Churchman,  Financier. 
(By  C.  W.  Hunt.) 

The  idea  of  former  editor  R.  R.  Clark,  in  his  story  in  The  Uplift  of  a 
man  he  calls  "Greatheart,"  appeals  to  me  in  that  we  can  do  good  to  the 
living  instead  of  memorializing  the  dead.  Throwing  flowers  (of  good  words) 
at  the  living  that  they  may  know  what  people  think  of  them,  in  what  esti- 
mation they  are  held.  It  is  not  giv- 
en for  all  men  to  become  great,  but 
opportunity  knocks  at  least  once  at 
every  man's  door,  and  at  many  doors 
many  times;  and  on  our  ability  to 
recognize  opportunity  and  take  hold 
hangs  the  matter  of  success  or  fail- 
ure in  life's  work.  Often  the  de- 
cision made  in  a  day  spells  destiny. 
But  if  I  were  asked  what  will  help 
men  most  in  knowing  opportunity  I 
would  say  education,  preparation 
for  a  life  work.  Note  the  part  edu- 
cation played  in  the  almost  incredi- 
ble advance  made  by  Joseph  H.  Se- 
park, of  Gastonia. 

Born  May  21st  1871,  of  a  good 
parentage,  in  the  city  of  Raleigh, 
and  grew  up  in  that  place  as  a  real 
boy.  Not  the  pampered  house-plant, 
but  a  real  boy.  We  will  not  say  he 
was  ever  a  "rag-a-muffin;"  he  was 
not  that.  Perhaps  "street  urchin" 
is  a  better  name  in  that  he  was  "on 
to"  most  things  boys  find;  from 
reaching  an  apple,  growing  too  near 
the  side  walk,  to  organizing  a  secret 
society  for  the  initiation  of  other 
boys  into  the  realm  of  wisdom  (?) 
His  father  was  Jos.  H.  Separk,  his 
mother  Mary  Ingram  Separk,  both 
of  whom  must  have  left  an  imprint. 
He  had  seven  years  in  Raleigh  city 
schools,  then  three  years  as  clerk  in  a 
dry  goods  store.  From  there  he  went 
under  the  tutorage  of  Morson  &  Den- 


son  in  their  academy,  and  was  prepar- 
ed for  college,  entering  Trinity  at  old 
Trinity  in  Randolph,  where  he  spent 
his  freshman  year.  Just  at  this  time 
that  wonderful  educator  Dr.  John 
Franklin  Crowell  was  successful  in 
his  fight  to  move  Trinity  to  Durham, 
and  this  young  man  spent  the  next 
two  years  there.  At  the  end  of  the 
junior  year  he  went  to  Albemarle  as 
Headmaster  of  Albemarle  Academy, 
but  returned  to  Trinity  and  gradu- 
ated with  an  A.  B.  degree  in  June 
1896.  This  made  it  possible  for  him 
to  be  trained  under  both  the  Cro- 
well and  the  Kilgo  regimes,  and  he 
came  on  the  scene  of  action  with 
such  men  as  Revs.  Plato  T.  Durham, 
Thos  A.  Smoot,  J.  A.  Baldwin  and 
others,  who  have  become  known. 
Both  these  great  educators  turned 
out  men,  real  men  from  Trinity,  and 
there  are  only  three:  Pegram,  Cran- 
ford  and  Flowers  now  in  the  faculty 
that  were  in  it  when  this  young 
man  was  graduated. 

About  one  month  before  commen- 
cement, 1896,  he  was  elected  Head- 
master of  Burlington  Academy,  Bur- 
lington, N.  C,  by  Trustees  of  Trinity 
College,  Burlington  Academy  then 
being  one  of  the  affiliated  schools  of 
Trinity  college.  The  next  year  he  be- 
came assistant  Superintendent  Char- 
lotte Military  Institute,  Charlotte, 
N.  C.  Went  to  Gastonia  in  June  1898 


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as  principal  of  Oakland  High  School. 
Conducted  this  school  until  the  close 
of  the  scholastic  year  June  1901,  thus 
making  three  years.  Entered  bus- 
iness, going  into  the  office  of  Loray 
Mills  October  1901,  remaining  with 
the  Loray  Mills  until  the  spring  of 
1903.  In  the  spring  of  1903  there 
was  organized  by  the  late  George  A. 
Gray,  and  others,  Gray  Manufac- 
turing Company,  Separk  being  one 
of  the  incorporators;  on  the  organi- 
zation was  elected  secretary  of  the 
corporation.  On  May  23,  1900, 
married  Miss  May  Gray,  eldest 
daughter  of  the  late  George  A.  Gray. 
On  the  death  of  George  A.  Gray, 
in  1912  he  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  Gray  Manufacturing 
Company,  which  position  he  now 
holds  with  this  corporation.  In  1915, 
with  associates,  orgaized  Parkdale 
Mills,  Inc.,  becoming  secretary  and 
treasurer;  in  1918  organized  Arrow 
Mills,  Inc,,  becoming  secretary  and 
treasurer;  in  1918,  with  associates, 
purchased  controlling  interest  in 
Arlington  Cotton  Mills,  and  became 
secretary  and  treasurer.  In  the 
spring  of  1918  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  Flint  Manufacturing 
Company. 

In  1918  organized  the  Myrtle 
Mills,  Inc.,  becoming  secretary  and 
treasurer.  In  1908  there  was  or- 
ganized in  Gaston  County,  the  Gas- 
ton County  Textile  Manufacturing 
Association.  On  its  organization 
was  elected  secretary  and  treasurer, 
which  office  he  now  holds.  G6ing 
to  Gastonia  in  1898  there  were 
twenty-two  hundred  (2200)  people. 
This  population  has  now  grown  to 
nearly  20,000.  During  this  period 
he  served  four  (4)  years  as  member 
of  City  School  Board;  following  this, 
four  (4)  years   as   member  of   City 


Council.  Was  one  of  the  incorpor- 
ators of  the  Gastonia  Commercial 
Club,  serving  as  President  one  year, 
and  Director  three  years.  Was  one 
of  the  incorporators  of  the  Gastonia 
Chamber  of  commerce,  serving  as 
Director  four  years  and  President 
one  year.  At  present,  President  of 
Gastonia  Rotary  Club,  Trustee  Trin- 
ity College  and  director  in  the  fol- 
lowing corporations: 

Gray  Manufacturing  Company; 
Parkdale  Mills,  Inc.;  Arrow  Mills, 
Inc;  Flint  Manufacturing  Coumpany; 
Arlington  Cotton  Mills;  Myrtle  Mills, 
Inc.;  Arkray  Mills,  Inc.;  First  Nat- 
ionalBank;  Piedmont  &  Northern 
Railway  Lines;  Gaston  Club,  Inc.; 
Gastonia  Country  Club;  Gastonia, 
Golf  Club;  and  member  of  the  Board 
of  Governors  of  the  American  Cot- 
ton Manufacturers  Assocation. 

For  the  past  fifteen  years  he  has 
been  a  Stewart  Main  Steet  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  Gastonia, 
during  which  time  he  served  five 
years  as  Chairman  of  Board;  and 
superintendent  of  Sunday  School 
M.  E.  Church,  South,  for  the  past 
fifteen  years. 

There  are  seven  (7)  mills  in  the 
group  of  mills  known  as  the  Gray- 
Separk  chain  of  mills  and  have  per- 
haps a  larger  production  of  fine  com- 
bed yarns  than  any  other  group  of 
millsin  the  South.  This  is  interesting 
for  another  reason,  namely,  that 
they  are  in  Gastonia,  North  Caro- 
lina. 

If  there  is  another  man,  fifty  /ears 
of  age  that  has  as  much  fastened  on 
to  him  in  the  space  of  20  years  the 
writer  does  not  recall  that  man. 
And  in  spite  of  it  all  he  still  has  time 
to  play.  While  what  follows  was  in 
no  way  responsible  for  the  rise  of 
Joseph^H.  Separk,  it  is  a  co-incident 


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i? 


that  we  were  at  Burlington  together, 
he  lived  at  my  house  when  in  Char- 
llotte,  and  it  was  on  my  front  porch 
that  he  received  the  "bid''  to  Gas- 
tonia  that  took  him  there  against 
my  judgment;  but  it  was  that  very 
day  that  "opportunity  knocked  at 
Joe  Separks  door"  and  he  answered 
the  call:  answered  the  call  prepared 


by  education  and  training:  a  substan- 
tial education.  And  back,  awajr 
back  of  it  all  was  the  free  street 
training,  under  parental  care;  the 
coming  in  contact  with  life  as  it  was 
that  made  him  practical  from  the 
start.  None  of  the  "greenness"  of 
the  college  graduate  ever  enveloped 
Joe  Separk.  , 


The  trouble  about  a  skeleton  in  a  closet  is  that  it  does  not  have  enough 
sense  to  stay  there.— Charleston  Gazette. 


"Next  Time,  By  Gunner,  You  Stick  To  Yo  Text." 

BY  R.  R.  CLARK 

Should  one  applaud  in  a  church  house?  Clap  hands,  stamp  feet,  is  some- 
thing in  the  proceedings  meets  approval  1  More  strictly  speaking,  if  a  service 
or  a  meeting  other  than  the  regular  church  service,  and  not  strictly  a  religious 
service,  is  in  progress  in  the  meeting  house  and  there  is  something  particularly 
pleasing  and  appealing,  is  it  permissible  to  manifest  approval  by  a  demon- 
stration 1 


I  am  asking  the  question,  not  an- 
swering. My  understanding  is  that 
applauding  even  the  preacher's  ser- 
mons, when  he  niaies  a  hit,  is  not  un- 
common in  some  sections  of  the  coun- 
try; but  applause  of  any  character, 
any  demonstration  other  than  of  a 
strictly  religious  nature,  or  what  is 
supposed  to  be  that,  is  so  uncommon  in 
a  church  building  in  this  territory 
that  it  is  a  matter  for  comment. 

I  attended  an  Armistice  Day  ser- 
vict  in  a  church.  It  was  not  a  strictly 
religious  service.  Aside  from  one 
prayer  and  the  National  Hymn,  which 
I  believe  is  in  most  of  the  Church 
Hymnals,  the  features  would  not  be 
called  strictly  religious.  The  service 
was  in  the  church  probably  for  conven- 
ience.    It  was  beautiful,  appropriate, 


impressive,  touching;  and  so  far  as 
I  could  judge  there  was  absolutely 
nothing  in  it  that  made  it  in  any  re- 
spect improper  for  a  church.  But 
after  some  of  the  numbers  on  the 
programme  there  was  applause — 
hand-clapping. 

The  applause — and  that  feature 
only — set  me  to  thinking  about  ap- 
plauding in  church  buildings,  the  pro- 
priety and  the  possibilities.  I  may 
be  far  behind,  but  I  can  recall  but 
three  occasions  when  I  heard  applaud- 
ing at  any  sort  of  gathering  in  a 
church  building.  Many  years  ago  a 
class  of  orphans  from  the  Oxford  or- 
phanage came  to  town.  A  church 
was  the  only  suitable  auditorium  and 
they  gave  their  concert  in  the  church 
building.       After    the    lirst    number 


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there  was  a  ripple  of  applause.  In- 
stantly the  pastor  was  on  his  feet, 
and  he  said  quietly  that  applause 
would  not  be  expected.  At  the  close 
of  the  second  number  the  applause 
was  more  distinct.  The  pastor  re- 
peated his  statement,  with  dignity 
and  composure  but  in  a  manner  that 
could  not  be  misunderstood;  and  there 
was  no  more  applause. 

My  second  experience  was  only  a 
few  years  ago.  I  dropped  in  at  a 
church,  as  a  spectator,  during  a  dis- 
turbance about  the  acceptance  or  re- 
jection of  the  pastor's  resignation. 
There  was  a  good  deal  of  feeling  (us- 
ually there  is  more  hell  in  a  church 
row  than  in  any  other  place  outside 
the  real  place,)  but  the  preacher's 
crowd  was  so  overwhelmingly  in  the 
majority  that  the  opposition  didn't 
black  the  board;  and  when  the  vote 
was  announced  there  was  vigorous 
hand-clapping.  This  was  new  to  me, 
and  it  didn't  impress  me  then  and 
doesn't  yet,  as  a  proper  exhibition 
of  Christian  spirit  in  that  particular 
case,  or  one  calculated  to  promote 
brotherly  love.  But  it  was  none  of 
my  business  and  it  is  mentioned  now 
only  as  pertaining  to  the  subject  un- 
der consideration. 

Of  these  three  instances  mentioned, 
which  constitute  my  experience  with 
applause  in  church  buildings,  only  one 
— voting  on  the  pastor's  resignation 
— could  be  strictly  classed  as  a  church 
meeting.  The  others  were  separate 
affairs  but  such  as,  in  my  opinion, 
were  entirely  proper  in  church  build- 
ings. Let  me  say  here  that  I  am  not 
of  those  who  think  it  sin  for  any  use 
to  be  made  of  a  church  building  ex- 
cept for  regular  services  or  for  meet- 
ings   in    behalf    of   some    branch    of 


church  work.  There  are  many  ob- 
jects not  distinctly  religious  in  char- 
acter which  the  church  should  and 
does  encourage,  for  the  promotion  of 
which  meetings  could,  I  think,  be  held 
in  church  buildings  with  all  propriety. 
But  that  is  always  a  matter  for  indivi- 
dual congregations  to  decide. 

My  Armistice  Day  experience  set 
me  to  wondering  whether  meetings 
other  than  of  a  strictly  religious 
character  would  not  be  held  in  church 
buildings  more  frequently  hereafter; 
and  if  the  applause  at  such  meetings 
should  become  a  custom  as  is  prob- 
able, would  it  not  gradually  be- 
come a  practice  to  applaud  on  occa- 
sions at  regular  church  services?  If 
there  is  a  concert  or  an  entertain- 
ment of  some  sort  in  the  churcTi 
house  and  we  applaud  the  musicians, 
the  readers  and  the  speakers,  as  we 
will  by  and  by  if  we  are  not  doing  it 
now;  and  then  at  Sunday  morning 
service  there  is  a  vocal  number  that 
is  particularly  pleasing  or  the  organ- 
ist does  particularly  fine  work,  why 
not  give  them  a  ' '  hand  ? ' '  And  if  the 
preacher's  sermon>  is  particularly 
good,  why  not  cheer  him  a  bit?  It 
might  put  more  heart  into  him  and  en- 
courage him  to  greater  effort. 

Hold  your  fire,  please.  I'm  not 
suggesting  that  this  be  done.  I'm 
simply  asking,  in  view  of  the  trend, 
if  it  isn't  likely  to  become  custom. 
We  can  all  see  that  it  could  be  over- 
done and  lead  to  embarrassment  at 
times.  But  so  could  other  things,  for 
that  matter.  If  it  became  a  custom 
to  applaud  the  preacher,  for  instance, 
when  he  was  lambasting  "Old  Jones", 
we  might  be  permitted  to  register  dis- 
approval if  he  got  on  subjects  that  we 
might  prefer,  for  personal  and  pri- 


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yate  reasons,  be  not  mentioned. 

In  the  old  and  sinful  days,  when  the 
use  of  strong  water  was  the  rule  ra- 
ther than  the  exception,  it  is  related 
that  a  certain  citizen  of  this  county 
(Iredell)  was  usually  comfortably 
full.  On  one  occasion  he  attended 
church  services  and  the  preacher, 
knowing  his  habits  and  surmising 
that  he  probably  had  a  quart  under 
his  shirt  right  then,  proceeded  to  say 
very  embarrassing  things  about  those 
who  looked  upon  the  wine  when  it  was 
red,  and  all  drunkards  were  promised 
their  part  in  that  place  where  the 
worm  dieth  not  and  the  fire  is  not 
quenched.  The  embarrassing  part 
was  that  everybody  present  knew 
whom  the  preacher  was  talking  at, 
and  nobody  knew  it  better  than  the 
old  man  himself,  for  he  was  by  no 
means  so  full  that  he  didn't  know 
what  was  going  on  and  what  it  was 
about.  At  .last  the  preacher's  fire  got 
too  hot  for  him,  and  rising  to  his  feet 
to  get  away  the  old  man  shot  back 
at  the  preacher,  "Next  time,  by  gun- 
ner, you  stick  to  yo '  text. ' ' 

Maybe  if  it  becomes  the  custom  to 
applaud  the  preacher  we  may  also 
take  the  privilege  of  inviting  him  to 


stick  to  his  text  if  he  manifested  a 
disposition  to  talk  about  things  we 
don't  care  to  hear. 

Speaking  of  applauses  in  church, 
one  denomination  that  I  wot  of  used 
to  have  a  regular  system  of  cheering 
on  the  preachers  but  they  didn't  call 
it  applause.  If  a  sentence  in  a  sermon, 
a  prayer  or  an  exhortation  appealed, 
anybody  was  priviledged  to  break  in 
with  "Amen,"  "God  grant  it." 
Sometimes  in  periods  of  religious  ex- 
citement the  "  Aniens"  were  many 
and  loud  and  there  was  hand-clapping, 
too.  But  that  has  passed.  Not  long 
ago  an  old-time  Methodist  was  telling 
me  that  he  hadn't  heard  an  "Amen" 
during  a  service  in  so  long  that  he 
thought  he  would  try  it  out  on  his 
preacher,  a  young  man.  And  so, 
when  the  preacher  made  a  point  he 
thought  he  should  be  applauded,  he 
shouted  "Amen".  The  breaking  in 
so  startled  the  preacher  that  he  almost 
lost  the  thread  of  his  discourse  and 
the  modern  congregation  elevated  its 
eyebrows.  Altogether  the  old-timer's 
applause  was  so  coolly  received  that 
he  subsided  and  kept  his  "Aniens"  to 
himself  after  that. 


Apparently  Japan's  chief  grievance  is  that  Western   nations    will   not 
let  it  wrest  peacefully.— Norfolk  Virginian-Pilot. 


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O.  Max  Gardner's  Eloquent  Tribute. 

On  the  10th  impressive  ceremonies  in  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the 
tower,  which  is  being  erected  at  the  A.  &  E.  College,  Raleigh,  N.  C,  were  held. 
The  speaker  was  ex-Lieutenant  Gov.  0.  Max  Gardner.  His  address,  a  tribute 
to  the  soldiers  furnished  in  the  great  War  by  this  college,  was  enthusiastically 
received.     It  was  in  part : 


"We  are  met  here  today  to  honor 
the  men  who  fought  an  honorable  war 
and  gained  an  enduring  peace.  No 
people  can  have  a  great  future  who 
forget  a  great  past.  For  many  years 
we  have  been  wont  to  thank  God  for 
fields  that  have  ripened,  for  the  song 
of  the  harvest  which  has  swept  across 
the  continent  like  an  antiponal  corns, 
state  answering  to  state  from  sea  to 
sea.  In  our  ease  we  have  been  prone 
to  thank  God  for  the  prosperities  of 
vine  and  meadow,  for  shop  and  ship, 
and  for  the  things  which  make  life  soft 
and  comfortable,  rather  than  for  those 
divine  happenings  which  make  life 
difficult  and  great.  With  the  utmost 
effort  have  we  perceived  that 
we  are  specially  and  divinely  fortu- 
nate, not  when  our  conditions  are 
easy,  but  when  they  evoke  the  best 
that  is  in  us,  when  they  provoke  us  to 
noblen  ss  and  sting  us  into  strength. 
This  year  and  the  last  our  fields  have 
failed  us  in  their  prodigal  response 
to  a  world's  demand;  but  our  harvest 
of  manhood  has  become  white  in  the 
unseen  fields  where  all  that  is  noblest 
in  a  people's  life  goes  to  flower  and 
fruit. 

"The  best  monuments  in  mens  lives 
are  often  the  hardest  and  most  peri- 
lous; but  when  the  bugle  calls  across 
the  fields,  the  deadly  line  of  fire  that 
must  be  crossed  is  forgotten  in  the 
responses  to  the  duty  which  beckons 
from    the   height    above.  Happy    are 


them  to  whom  life  brings,  not  ease 
and  physical  comfort,  but  great 
chances  of  heroism,  sacrifice  and  ser- 
vice. The  great  ages  have  never  been 
comfortable  ages;  they  have  deman- 
ded too  much  and  given  too  much. 
The  comfortable  ages  are  those  which 
neither  urge  a  man  to  leave  his  fire- 
side, nor  offer  him  great  rewards  if  he 
does ;  so  the  great  ages  are  those  which 
will  not  let  a  man  rest  for  the  multi- 
tudes of  chances  of  work  and  perils 
which  they  offer  hirn.  The  men 
whom  we  today  honor  lived  in  an  age 
when  the  whole  world  was  in  travail, 
and  one  who  truly  knows  how  to  be 
thankful  would  burst  into  a  song  of 
praise  for  the  chance  of  these  boys 
and  their  immortal  prototype,  Fran- 
cis Drake,  to  die  sword  in  hand,  fac- 
ing their  foes  half  a  world  from  home; 
for  Sidney 's  opportunity  to  pass  on  the 
cup  to  another  dying  more  rapidly 
because  he  had  less  to  assuage  his 
thirst;  for  Livingston's  noble  home- 
coming, borne  in  sorrow  and  silence 
out  of  the  heart  of  the  dark  continent 
on  the  shoulders  of  men  who  could 
not  measure  his  greatness,  but  who 
recovered  his  spirit. 

"We  who  remained  at  home  feel 
something  of  that  insufficiency  in 
measuring  the  spirit  of  our  own  he- 
roes. But  today  we  look  briefly  back 
and  thank  God  that  in  a  great  crisis 
the  children  whom  this  state  and  this 
college  nurtured  in  peace  and  prosper- 


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ity  suddenly  showed  the  stuff  of  he- 
roes. They  were  not  afraid  to  dare 
and  die.  Whenever  and  wherever  du- 
ty called  thern,  they  answered  with 
their  lives.  Let  us  all  thank  God  that 
this  State  still  breeds  and  this  college 
still  teaches  men  who  make  life  great 
by  service  and  sacrifice,  that  time  and 
work  and  pleasure  and  wealth  have 
not  sapped  the  source  of  our  inward 
strength;  that  our  men  still  know 
how  to  dare  all  and  do  all  in  that  hour 
•when  manhood  alone  counts  and  a- 
chieves. 

Let  this  shaft  rise  and  point  to- 
ward the  Great  God  whose  will  our 
soldiers  did  and  in  finding  whom  they 
found  themselves.  Let  it  look  to  the 
stars  which  in  their  courses  fought 
against  the  last  of  the  Siseras.  And 
let  it  bless  the  dead  whose  dying 
made  life  beautiful  and  great. 


"Think  of  it— Forth  Carolina  furn- 
ished to  the  army  and  navy  of  the  na- 
tion around  fifty  thousand  white  men, 
and  of  these  fifty  thouosand,  State 
College  contributed  more  than  two 
thousand;  that  is  to  say,  out  of  every 
twenty-five  men  who  offered  their 
lives  for  North  Carolina,  every  twenty- 
fifth  was  a  product  of  this  college. 
This  magnificant  record  of  patrotic 
service  shall  forever  stand,  and  shall 
forever  thrill  us  with  a  perpetual 
pride  for  those  noble  sons  of  this  col- 
lege who  held  aloft  the  honored  tra- 
ditions of  their  native  State,  and  ad- 
ded a  new  luster  to  its  crown  of  glory. 
The  most  glorious  pages  of  this  insti- 
tution's history  will  bear  the  names 
of  those  great-souled  heroes  who  laid 
their  lives,  rich  with  promises,  and 
bright  with  hope,  upon  the  altar  of 
civilization." 


Methodist    salaries  have  been  reduced  but  the  ministers  have  not  set  a 
date  for  a  strike  vote.— Omaha  Herald. 


THE    CHARTER    OAK. 


Five  of  the  American  colonies — Connecticut,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island, 
New  York,  and  Virginia — were  settled  under  charter  grants  made  direct  to 
the  colonist  by  the  king  of  England.  These  charters  set  forth  the  rights  and 
liberties  of  the  colonists,  and  so  were  worth  a  great  deal  to  them.  Without 
theij  charters  they  might  be  treated  unfairly  by  the  English  king  across  the 
seas. 


In  the  year  1686  the  king  appointed 
Sir  Edmund  Andros  governor-general 
of  all  the  New  England  colonies.  The 
new  governor-general  soon  demanded 
their  charters.  The  people  of  Con- 
necticut refused.  A  copy  of  their 
charter  was  made  in  June,  1687,  but 
the  original  document  was  carefully 
guarded  and  kept  under  lock  and  key 


at  Hartford. 

Since  he  was  unable  otherwise  to 
secure  that  which  he  demanded,  An- 
dros finally  decided  to  go  in  person  to 
Hartford  and  take  the  charter  in  de- 
fiance of  the  people's  wishes. 

A  session  of  the  Colonial  Assembly 
was  being  held  at  the  time  in  the  meet- 
ing house.     Andros,  with  a  company 


i8 


THE  UPLIFT 


of  soldiers  at  his  back,  appeared  be- 
fore them  and  commanded  them  to  de- 
liver the  charter  into  his  hands.  For 
some  time  the  representatives  of  the 
colony  discussed  the  matter  with  him. 
The  meeting  was  purposely  prolonged 
until  twilight,  or  as  people  then  said 
"early  candle  light."  Candles  were 
then  lighted,  and  the  charter  was 
brought  out.  It  was  placed  on  a  ta- 
ble in  the  center  of  the  room.  There 
Andros  saw  it  for  the  first  and  last 
time. 

As  the  governor  put  out  his  hand  to 
sieze  the  precious  document,  all  the 
candles  in  the  meeting-house  were 
suddenly  "snuffed  out."  Outside  many 
people  were  waiting.  They  began  to 
shout  loudly,  and  several  entered  the 
room  where  the  meeting  was  being 
held.  Among  them  was  Capt.  Joseph 
Wadsworth,  a  brave  and  clever  man. 
In  the  darkness  and  confusion  he 
picked  up  the  charter  unseen,  carried 
it  away,  and  hid  it  in  the  hollow  trunk 
of  an  old  oak  in  the  out-skirts  of  the 
town. 

In  the  meeting  house  the  candles 
were  presently  lighted  again,  and  all 


looked  about  him.  There  was  no 
charter  to  be  seen.  He  demanded 
that  it  be  given  up  to  him  at  once. 
But  no  one  there  could,  or  would,  tell 
of  its  hiding  place.  The  angry  gov- 
ernor was  finally  obliged  to  leave 
without  it. 

Long  before  this,  the  same  oak  had 
been  the  Peace  Tree  of  the  Suckiaug 
Indians.  The  acorns  were  the  sacred 
totem,  and  under  this  tree  they  held 
their  councils.  At  the  foot  of  the 
tree  their  war  hatchets  were  buried. 
Under  its  branches  they  smoked  the 
pipe  of  peace. 

This  giant  of  the  forest  was  fully 
twenty-five  feet  in  circumference. 
At  the  time  of  the  charter  incident 
the  hollow  in  its  great  trunk  was  large 
enough  to  hold  a  child.  From  the 
summer  of  1687  to  the  spring  of  1689 
it  safely  kept  the  charter  of  Connecti- 
cut. Eight  years  later  the  opening 
closed  completely.  The  Charter  Oak 
lived  on  from  year  to  year,  a  sturdy 
relic  of  the  past,  until,  on  the  night  of 
August  twenty-second,  1856,  there 
came  a  great  storm,  during  which  the 
old  tree  was  blown  to  the  ground. 


The    magazine    writer  who    says    a     dog    fills  an  empty  space    in  a 
man's  life  must  have  been  referring  to  a  hot  dog.— Greenville  Piedmont. 


A  Leader  That  Earns  His  Salary  And  Praises 

There  is  ample  excuse  for  the  publication  of  "Progress  in  Education  in 
Wilkes  County"  in  the  pamphlet,  which  Mr.  C.  C.  Wright,  the  county 
superintendent  for  over  twenty  years  of  said  county,  has  issued  for  the  in- 
formation and  benefit  of  his  people  and  which,  by  virtue  of  the  progress 
it  shows,  is  an  inspiration  for  greater  effort.  All  other  counties  that  can 
show  a  record  of  progress  for  twenty  years,  or  ten  years  or  even  three 
years,  would  find    the  issuing   of  an    annual,    printed  exhibit  of  great  in- 


THE  UPLIFT  19 

fluence  in  educational  matters. 

Mr.  Wright  earns  his  salary  of  $2,500,00  and  the  whole  county  applauds 

him  as  a  faithful    and   efficient   servant.     Here    is  a   comparison  between 

years  of  1900  and  1921: 

1900  1921 

Rural  Libraries 0 150 

Supplementary    Libraries   0 280 

Second  Original  Libraries --0 32 

Local  Tax    Schools 0 35 

Value  of  School  Property $6580 $213441 

Frame  School  Houses 64 148 

Log  School    Houses   34 „ 1 

Districts  with  no  House   33 0 

Painted  School   Houses   1 95 

Houses    with  Bells   8 121 

Houses  with  Desks 14 .. 143 

Teachers  Employed 130 300 

Schools  with  Assistant  Teachers __3 104 

Schools  Teaching  High   School  Subjects 4 58 

Schools  with  Three  or  More  Teachers 0^ 30 

Monthly  Salary    of  White  Teachers $20 $70 

Teachers  with  Normal  Training 6 61 

Illiteracy 13  percent 1 

Enrollment    6233 10181 

Attendance    2312 6880 

School  Census 10054 11397 

Members  of  Teachers  Association   30 314 

Graduation  Class,  County  Commencem't 0 205 

Raised  by  Local  Taxation 0 $14261 

Enrollment  in  Daily  Attendance  (per  cent)    .37 68 

Certificates  of  Merit  Awarded   0 698 

Perfect  Spellers  for  Term ,__ 0 239 

Debates   0 278 

Entertainments    0 192 

Spelling    Matches    0 1247 

Per  cent  of  School  Census  Enrolled   62 89 

Per  cent  of  Census  in  Average    Attendance_23 60 

Library  Certificates  Awarded ..0 47 

Medals  for  7  Years  Perfect  Attendance 0 35 


20  TH  EUPLIFT 

Teachers  on  Honor  Roll   0 57 

Districts  Attaining  Standard  of  Excellence  ..0 47 

Parents'  Meetings    „ 0 185 

Medals  for  11  Years  Perfect  Attendance 0 3 

Number    of  Homes  with  Telephones 972 

Number    of  Homes  Taking  Daily  Newspaper 363 

Number  of  Homes  Taking  Agricultural  Papers 1045 

Number  of  Homes  Taking  Religious  Papers 473 

Number  of  Homes  Taking  County  Paper 2062 

Number  of  Homes  with  Running  Water 86 

Number  of  Homes  with  Lights 219 

Number  of  Homes  Screened  form  Flies 887 

Number  of  Families  that  Raise  Own  meat  and  Bread 2581 

Number  of  owning  Automobiles 368 

Whole  Number  of  Families  in  County 5334 

Population 32000 

Church  Members 8327 

Number   of  Churches 144 

Number  of  Sunday  Schools 117 

Numbei  of  Miles  of  Improved  Roads 295 

Number  of  Districts  where  Parents  Visit  School _96 

Number  of  Districts  where  Committee  Visit  Schocl 99 

Number  of  Families  Engaged  in  Farming 4961 

Number  of  Families  Engaged  in  Other  Vocations 373 


The  World  Neglects  the    Country  Children 

(Community  Progress) 

The  following  instances  of  neglected  country  schools  and  country  child- 
ren are  taken  from  a  personal  letter  to  the  writer  and  doubtless  could  have 
been  multiplied  by  the  author  a  hundred  times.  No  mention  is  made  as 
to  the  locality  from  which  these  examples  are  taken,but  it  is  safe  to  as- 
sume that  they  could  be  duplicated  in  almost  any  state  in  the  Union.  Cer- 
tainly many  similar  situations  exist  througout  the  South  and  not  a  few  of 

them  are  to  be  found  in  North  Caro-  other  state.  The  best  way  out  of  the 

lina.    According    to     the    statistics  cellar  of  malnutriton  is  for  the  state 

gathered  by  the  Federal  draft  board?,  to  feed  its  people  from  a  home-made 

North  Carolina's  population  is  more  food  supply  and  the   only    hope    for 

poorly  nourished  than    that    of    any  that  is  to  first  produce  a  good   crop 


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27 


of  farmers.  That  will  never  be  done 
so  long  as  such  conditions  as  these 
exist. 

"The  G family  has  five  child- 
ren of  school  age.  The  parents  own 
200  acres  of  good  land,  a  comfort- 
able home  and  stock.  Not  one  of 
the  children  enrolled  this  year  and 
have  gone  very  little  before  that, 
though  they  lived  only  three-quar- 
ter of  a  mile  from  the  school  house. 
The  mother  was  absolutely  indiffer- 
ent, saying:  'My  husband  don't  be- 
lieve in  school  and  the  teacher  don't 
learn  'em  nothing'  nowhow.  No  not 
a  soul  cum  near.  Guess  nobody  car- 
ed.'    Both  parents  are  illiterate." 

"In  one  county  seven  schools  have 
not  been  in  session  for  seven  years 
and  others  for  two  years,  because  of 
Jack  of  funds,  but  that  county  voted 
$70,000  for  a  soldiers'  memorial." 

"The  teachers  of  one  school  said 
that  they  had  been  able  to  do  noth- 
ing about  school  attendance  because 
the  attendance  officer  didn't  believe 
in  compulsory  education." 

"Many  schools  are  a  decided  men- 
ace to  children's  health.  In  all  the 
schools  visited  in  17  counties,  only 
two  had  toilets  which  could  be 
classed  as  sanitary.     Indifference  to 


the  first  rules  of  cleanliness  is  gen- 
eral." 

"The  school  epuipment  would 
make  a  city  teacher's  heart  ache. 
In  52  school  there  were  no  maps, 
globes,  charts,  no  special  equipment 
for  hand  work  or  for  primary  work, 
no  good  pictures." 

"Considerably  less  than  one-third 
of  all  the  teachers  had  had  the  equiv- 
alent of  a  high  school  course.  The 
trained  teachers  'do  not  get  off  the 
hard  roads.'  One  teacher  said  he 
'attended  two  terms,  or  eight 
months,  of  free  school  in  Ole  Virginie 
over  20  years  ago.'  He  had  never 
taught  before  and  was  getting 
$125.00  per  month." 

"Only  half  a  dozen  schools  had 
even  a  semblence  of  playground 
equipment — provision  for  a  whole- 
some recreation  is  seldom  considered 
a  function  of  the  rural  school." 

"Even  now  I  have  told  you  no- 
thing about  the  child  labor  there. 
The  rural  child  lobor  problem  can- 
not be  approached  directly.  It  must 
be  solved  through  better  schools, 
better  attendance  laws— and  an  a- 
wakened  consciousness  of  the  needs 
of  children  among  farmers  them- 
selves." 


Reinterment  Alter  A  Period  Oi  104  Years. 


Rev.  S.  T.  Hallman,  D.  D.,  formerly  pastor  of  St.  James' Church,  of  Con- 
cord, and    was  the  pastor  during  the  erection    of  the  present  building,  is 
now  living  in  Spartanburg,  S.  C.    Dr.  Hallman,  a  veteran  of   the  War'Be- 
tween  the  States,  as  well  as  a  yeteran  in  the  Christian  ministry,  furnishes 

to  the  Spartanburg    Hearld   an    ac-  Dr.  Hallman  in  his  early  ministry 

count  of  the  reburial  of  Rev.    Fred-  was  the  pastor  of  the  church,  which, 

erick  J.  Wallern,   after  his    remains  was  served  by  Wallern  in  the    early 

had  been  in  the  original    grave  for  days.     The  body  was  reported  in  ex- 

104  years.  cellent   condition.     But  here  is   Dr. 


22 


THE  UPLIFT 


Hallman's  statement,  which  appear- 
ed in  the  Spartanburg  Hearld: 

As  far  back  as  1750  there  were  a 
few  German  Lutheran  churches  in 
this  state,  among  which  was  the  old 
St.  John's  Lutheran  Church  in  New- 
berry County.  The  land  on  which 
the  building  stood  was  held  under  a 
grant  from  George  III,  King  of  Eng- 
land. 

"These  immigrants  who  had  come 
here  to  escape  the  religious  perse- 
cutions of  the  old  country  found  it 
very  difficult  to  get  a  pastor  from 
their  Fatherland.  There  was  then 
in  the  community  of  St.  John's 
Church  a  German  school  teacher  by 
the  name  of  Frederich  Joseph  Wal- 
lern--a  learned  man,  but  not  then 
an  ordained  preacher.  This  the 
writer  was  told  by  the  very  old  peo- 
ple of  the  section  when,  years  ago, 
he  was  pastor   there. 

"The  people,  in  their  hunger  for 
preached  word,  and  for  the  sacra- 
ments of  the  Church,  naturally  tur- 
ned to  their  scholarly  teacher  and 
plead  with  him  to  fill  that  sacred  of- 
fice. He  finally  consented,  and  be- 
came pastor  of  that  church.  History 
has  not  recorded  the  duration  of  his 
pastoral    labors,  but  he  died  in  1816, 


and  had  begun  his  services  there 
some  time  in  1787.  He  was  buried 
in  a  wooded  section  near  his  home. 
There  his  body  reposed  for  one  hun- 
dred and  four  years,  a  suitable  in- 
scribed stone  markings  his  place  of 
rest. 

"Then  the  pastor  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  nearby  (the  Rev.  S-  P.  Koon) 
and  officers  and  friends,  decided  to 
remove  his  remains  to  the  church 
cemetery,  where  his  grave  would  be 
carefully  kept-  When  his  body  was 
taken  up  the  skeleton  of  the  man 
was  there  in  its  entirety,  the  teeth 
showing  the  dental  woik  of  long 
ago,  and  the  arm  ligaments  so  firm 
that  a  physician  who  was  present 
could  not  pull  the  fore-arm  from 
the  elbow;  nor  were  the  bones  de- 
cayed. Parts  of  the  lining  of  the 
walnut  coffin  remained,  with  the 
tacks  which  were  used. 

"A  strange  fact  remains  to  be 
told:  The  root  of  a  tree  had  made 
its  way  down  on  one  side  of  his  cof- 
fin bed,  passed  around  his  feet,  and 
up  on  the  other  side,  and 
then  twining  about  his  head,  as 
though  intended  to  hold  the  precious 
remains  together." 


Presentation  And  Acceptance  of  Memorial  Bridge. 

On  the  9th,  leaving  the  Chapel  where  the  King's  Daughters  witnessed 
the  dedication  of  the  memorial  windows,  the  services  being  conducted  by 
Rev.  G.  A.  Martin,  of  Concord,  and  Dr.  W.  A.  Barber,  of  Raleigh,  the 
assembly  passed  on  the  bridge.  There  the  'presentation  and  acceptance  of 
this  gift,  a  memorial  to  the  N.  C.  Soldiers  of  the  World  War,  took  place. 

The  following  is  Mrs.  Cooper's  Training  School:  It  is  a  great  priv- 
presentation  speech:  ilege  to  be  here  on  this  occasion  and 

Friends,  the  King's  Daughters  and  to  have  the  honor  of  presenting  this 
Sons,  Boys  of  the  Stonewall  Jackson      beautiful  Bridge.  It  is  a  gift  of  love 


1HE  UPLIFT 


23 


from  the  N.  C.  Branch  of  the  King's 
Daughters  and  Sons,  a  memorial  to 
our  own  North  Carolina  men  who 
gave  their  lives  for  their  country 
and  humanity's  sake.  The  first  two 
who  were  to  lay  down  their  lives 
from  North  Carolina  were  from  this 
school:  Daniel  Poplin  and  George 
Holden,  killed  in  action. 

Is  it  not  wonderful  to  know  that 
two  of  your  companions  who  walked 
and  talked  with  you  were  willing  to 
go  to  foreign  fields  to  fight  and  there 
gave  up  their  young  and  strong  lives 
for  you  and  me?  Whenever  we  cross 
this  Bridge  let  us  remember  them, 
feeling  they  have  passed  over  the 
Bridge  of  human  desires  and  aspira- 
tions on  the  highway  of  life  and  en- 
tered, we  trust  and  believe,  into  the 
beautiful  fields  of  paradise.  Do  you 
boys  know  who  first  suggested  to  the 
King's  Daughters  taking  up  this 
grand  Stonewall  Jackson  School  and 
who  by  her  efforts  and  prayers  made 
it  possible?  Mrs.  W.  H.  S.  Burgwyn 
President  of  the  N.  C.  Branch  of  The 
King's  Daughters  and  sons.  She  has 
worked  and  prayed  over  it  for  many 
years.  The  King's  Daughters  built 
the  first  cottage  then  the  Margaret 
Burgwyn  Chapel  and  this  Bridge, 
which  links  the  two.  The  first  condi- 
tion of  human  goodness  is  something 
to  love,  the  second,  somefhing  to 
reverence,  so  dear  boys,  love  each  oth- 
er and  your  teachers,  reverence  God 
and  His  house. 

In  presenting  this  Bridge  from  the 
King's  Daughters  and  Sons  to  Mr. 
Cook  for  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Train- 
ing School,  let  me  add  a  word  of 
praise  and  gratitude  to  Mr.  Cook, 
Mr.  Coltrane,  Mr.  Boger  and  their 
associates  for  the  grand  and  unsel- 
fish works  they  have  done  and  are 
doing  making   useful   men  for  the 


good  of  the  State  and  the  world. 

God's  blessings  will  surely  rest 
upon  them  for  He  says,  "In  as  much 
as  ye  did  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of 
these  my  brethren,  ye  have  done  it 
unto  Me." 

Mr.  J.  P.  Cook,  chairman  of  the 
Board,  in  accepting  the  Memorial 
Bridge  said  in  part: 

"As  an  official  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Jackson  Training 
School,  it  is  my  proud  privilege  and 
honor  to  acknowledge  this  most 
splendid  gift  and  to  express  our 
gratitude  for  the  beautiful  and  sin- 
cere words  with  which  you,  Mrs. 
Cooper,  representing  The  King's 
Daughters,  find  it  agreeable  and  ap- 
propriate to  employ. 

In  this  act,  the  like  of  which  have 
occurred  throughout  the  ages,  since 
that  awful  event  in  the  world's  hig- 
tory  but  which  gave  to  a  dying 
world  reasons  for  hope,  is  establish- 
ed again  the  truth  and  accuracy  of 
that  declaration'  "Woman  first  at 
the  Cross,  last  at  the  grave."  Well 
do  I  recall  the  serious  time  when 
our  Board  was  commanded  to  go 
out  somewhere  in  the  Common- 
wealth and  establish  the  very  first 
activity  on  the  part  of  the  state  in 
taking  care  of  the  by-products 
amongst  its  citizenship,  to  give  a 
helping  hand  to  unfortunate  child- 
hood, troubled,  deseased,  abandon- 
ed—and to  do  this  with  a  credit  of 
just  ten  thousand  dollars  and  that 
spread  out  through  a  period  of  two 
years. 

The  lamented  Walter  Thompson, 
our  first  superintendent,  whose  un- 
timely death  we  mourn  this  very 
day,  and  I  counseled  and  planned. 
Growing  out  of  this  conference  he 
was  sent  to  meet  with  the  North 
Carolina     Branch    of     The    King's 


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Daughters,  then  (1908)  in  annual 
session  in  the  city  of  Releigh,  to 
throw  ourselves  at  your  feet, 
begging  aid.  Generously  and  un- 
hesitatingly you  guaranteed  one  cot- 
tage—yonder it  stands  in  the  glory 
of  the  great  good  it  has  already  ac- 
complished, with  years  and  years  of 
hope  ahead.  Did  that  manifest  ex- 
pression of  interest  and  love  wane 
through  the  years?"  How  could  it? 
Once  a  man  deeply  interested  stood 
watching  a  woman,  unmindful  of  his 
presence,  who  was  putting  into  ex- 
istance  a  picture  from  somewhere 
out  of  her  beautiful  soul  and  mak- 
ing it  visible  upon  delicate  china. 
By  and  by  the  picture  developed. 
Spoke  the  man:  1  have  noticed  your 
intense  interest;  I  have  watched 
your  great  care  and  grace  in  mani- 
pulation of  the  brush  in  the  proper 
paints  and  I  note  the  time  you  have 
contributed  to  the  creation  of  that 
beautiful  painting  but.  my  dear  lady, 
I  can  take  a  finger  and  with  one  care- 
less, indiffernt  stroke  blot  out  all 
that  you  have  spent  hours  in  bring- 
ing into  life."  "Ah,  yes,"  replied 
the  artist,  "that  is  true  but  another 
process  follows— it  will  BE  BURN- 
ED IN." 

The  King's  Daughters  did  not 
mistake  enthusiasm  for  a  deed,  nor 
did  they  permit  one  act  to  become 
the  full  measure  of  their  endeavor — 
their  interest  and  love  for  the  cause 
was  "BURNED  IN,"  and  no  care- 
less or  ruthless  hand  can  mar  the 
lasting  expression  of  their  deeds  or 
stay  its  purpose  in  well  doing.  Look 
yonder— the  beautiful  chapel,  which 
Editor  Harris  calls  the  "the  beauti- 
ful chapel  on  the  rock"--that's  your 
gift  to  our  plant.  This  is  not  all. 
This  structure,  the  subject  of  our 
present      meeting  —this     Memorial 


Bridge— connecting  our  main  cam- 
pus with  the  chapel  grounds,  across 
this  National  Highway,  speaks  elo- 
quently not  only  of  your  devotion 
to  a  cause,  but  in  loving  remem- 
brance of  the  heroism  of  the  brave 
soldiers  North  Carolina  furnished  to 
the  United  States  in  its  contest  in 
the  World  War  for  democracy,  and 
among  them  were  twenty-eight 
Training  School  boys,  two  of  whom 
made  the  supreme  sacrifice. 

Beautiful,  strong  and  serviceable, 
this  Memorial  Bridge  is.  It  stands 
out  the  connecting  link  bstween  the 
three  great  forces  that  enter  into 
the  making  of  manhood  and  high 
character— the  home,  you  built;  pat- 
riotism, respecting  the  State  flag 
and  old  glory  flung  daily  to  the 
breeze,  leading  in  safety  and  securi- 
ty these  boys  to  the  highest  act  of 
man,  a  devout  recognition  and  wor- 
ship of  the  Great  Builder  in  yon 
chapel.  Home,  patriotism  and  wor- 
ship of  the  Master — these  be  they 
which  produce  manhood  and  good 
citizenship. 

Thirteen  years  ago  these  grounds 
were  an  old  worn-out  cotton  farm. 
A  dilapidated  farm-house  and  an  old 
barn  covered  all  the  conveniences. 
On  that  rock  yonder,  as  a  legend  has 
it  since  the  days  of  the  Indian,  was 
until  recently  the  big  foot-print  of 
the  devil,  and  over  yonder  where  the 
Latham  Pavilion  is  coming  into  its 
beautiful  shape  is  said  to  have  been 
another  foot-print  of  his  satanic 
majesty— he  was  making  long  strides, 
headed  northward  (Rev.  Dr.  Barber, 
of  Raleigh,  interjected  "may,  he 
never  return")  and  these  eyesores 
forever  obliterated,,  this  magnificent 
plant  for  a  glorious  and  responsible 
duty  has  come  into  existence.  Right 
well  it  is  discharging  its  obligations 


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to  the  unfortunate  and  bringing 
hope  into  lives  otherwise  hopeless. 
It  is  all  the  outcome  of  a  vision, 
of  strenuous  effort,  and  of  love,  in 
which  your  organization,  Mrs.  Coop- 
er, played  no  mean  part. 

Speaking  for  our  Board,  I  beg 
you  to  make  known  to  your  noble 
order  our  great  appreciation  of 
your  generosity  and  the  assurances 
of  our  deep  and  abiding  respect  for 
the  ennobling  purposes  and  aims  of 
your  fine  body,  which  faithfully  la- 
bors at  all  times  IN  HIS  NAME." 

DR.  BARBER'S   DEDICATORY    PRAYER. 

0  Eternal  God,  whose  goodness 
reacheth  unto  the  world's  end,  we 
reverently  place  here  this  memorial 
of  thine  abundant  kindness  to  us  as 
a  nation  and  people.  Thou  didst 
give  us  victory  over  those  who  threat- 
ened the  very  foundations  of  our 
Christian  civilization. 

Accept  and  bless  this  bridge  as  a 
memoriol  of  the  valor  and  patriotism 
of  our  soldiers  and  fellow-citizens-- 
those  who  made  the  supreme  sacri- 
fice and  those  who  are  still  with  us 
in  the  flesh. 

We  pray  that  it  may  also  be  a 
memorial  of  abiding  per.ce  in  our 
own  land  and  throughout  the  world. 
And  may  it  be  a  constant  reminder 
to  all  the  ejrthly  pilgrims  who  shall 
pass  over  it,  of  the  narrow  stream 
that  separates  us  from  the  loved  ones 
gone  before. 

Help  us  ali,  we  beseech  Thee,  to 
be  faithful  soldiers  of  the  great  Cap- 
tain of  our  salvation  unto  cur  life's 
end;  that  we  may  come  to  those 
unspeakable  joys  which  Thou  hast 
prepared  for  those  who  unfeignedly 
love  Thee;  through  Jesvs  Christ  our 
Lord,  Who  art  with  Thee;  in  the  un- 


ity of  the    Holy    Ghost,    One    God, 
world  without  end.     Amen. 


Ducks  In  C  jina 
There  are  more  ducks  in  China 
than  in  all  the  rest  of  the  world. 
Their  voices  are  a  familiar  sound  in 
every  town  and  country  spot  of  the 
seacoast.  and  the  interior  of  the  vast 
empire.  Even  jn  the  large  cities 
ducks  abound.  They  dodge  between 
the  coolies  legs.  Ihey  flit,  squawk- 
ing out  of  the  way  of  horses.  Their 
indignant  quack  will  not  unseldom 
drown  the  roar  of  urban  commerce. 
Children  herd  ducks  on  every  road, 
on  every  pond,  on  every  farm,  'on 
every  lake,  on  every  river.  There 
is  no  back  yard  without  its  duck 
quarters.  All  over  the  land  there 
are  great  duck--hatching  establish- 
ments, many  of  them  of  capacity 
huge  enough  to  produce  fifty  thous- 
and young  ducks  every  year.  Duck 
among  the  Chinese  is  a  staple  de- 
licacy. It  is  salted  and  smoked  like 
ham  or  beef.  It  is  served  as  a  delic- 
acy prepared  in  many  ways,  and  a 
number  of  travelers  declare  only  the 
Chinese  know  how  to  cook  and  serve 
a  nice,  fat  duck. 

In  royal  households,  and  among  the 
very  wealthy,  the  duck  is  served  in 
a  particular  style  in  honor  of  any 
distinguished  guest,  and  those  fortu- 
nate enough  to  have  eaten  say  it  is 
far  beyond  anything  they  get  else- 
where in  the  way  of  prepared  fowl. 
Many  ducks  are  exported  from 
China,  and  it  promises  to  be  a  grow- 
ing industry.  The  climate,  as  well 
as  the  care  of  the  fowls,  is  said  to 
produce  the  most  excellent  flesh. 
— From  the  Watchman.  d 


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"Burial" 

R.  in  N  C.  Bulletin 

The  word  "burial"  is  applied  to  the  prevailing  method  among  all  civilized 
nations  of  disposing  of  the  dead  by  hiding  them  in  the  earth.  The  usual 
method  of  mankind  has  been  to  bury  the  dead  out  of  sight  of  the  living; 
and  various  ways  have  been  the  methods  of  accomplishing  this  purpose. 
These  methods  of  burying  the  dead  may  be  put  into  three  great  classifica- 
tions. 


(1)  The  closing  up  of  the  body  in 
wood,  stone  or  metal. 

(21  The  burning  of  the  body  and 
preserving  the  ashes  by  putting  them 
in  a  tomb,  and 

(3)  The  embalming  of  the  body. 
The  first  of  these  methods  seems  to 
be  the  earliest  form  of  which  we 
have  any  record  and  it  is  the  form 
most  commonly  used  by  the  civilized 
world  to-day.  It  is  the  method 
referred  to  in  the  earliest  Scriptures; 
and  all  are  familiar  with  the  touch- 
ing scene  in  which  Abraham  buried 
Syrah  in  the  cave  of  Machpelah  in 
the  land  of  Canaan  which  belonged 
to  Ephron,  but  was  later  secured  by 
Abraham  as  a  place  to  bury  all  of 
his  dead.  The  first  account  of  get- 
ting a  burial  permit  is  the  permit 
given  Abraham  for  burying  Sarah 
by  Ephron  the  Hittite. 

There  are  frequent  allusions  in 
the  Scriptures  to  embalming  the 
body.  Bury  is  spoken  of  eighteen 
times  in  the  Bible. 

Probably  the  Egyptians  knew 
more  about  the  art  of  embalming 
than  any  people  before  or  since  their 
day.  There  are  to-day  Egyptian 
mummies  thousands  of  y^ars  old  in 
numbers  of  museums  throughout  the 
world.  These  corpses  of  Egyptians 
are  as  inoffensive  as  any  article  of 
wood  or  stone  and  are  as  well   pre- 


served as  they  were    the    day    they 
were  embalmed. 

Some  of  the  grandest  buildings  in 
the  world  have  been  tombs— such  as 
the  pyramids  of  Egypt,  the  Castle 
of  St.  Angelo,  the  Mausoleum  at 
Halicarnassus,  Westminister  Abbey, 
and  many  temples  scattered  through- 
out the  world. 

Now  that  the  World  War  is  over 
innumerable  beautiful  buildings  will 
be  dedicated  to  our  dead  heroes. 

Thus  the  respect  paid  by  the  liv- 
ing to  the  dead  has  preserved  and 
will  preserve  for  the  world  many 
magnificent  fruits  of  architectural 
gems  and  labor.  In  1913  North 
Carolina  made  a  great  stride  for 
ward  in  preserving  the  memory  of_ 
the  dead  by  enacting  the  Vital  Sta- 
tistics Law.  This  law  does  not  stop 
at  preserving  the  memory  of  the 
dead— no  matter  haw  rich  or  poor, 
whether  of  high  or  low  estate,  the 
memory  of  the  deceased  is  preserved, 
---and  more  than  this  the  cause  of 
death  is  recorded  so  that  health  au- 
thorities may  be  able  to  know  the 
number  of  deaths  from  certain  dis- 
eases that  are  known  to  be  prevent- 
able. They  are  thereby  enabled  to 
concentrate  their  efforts  on  certain 
diseases  in  certain  localities. 

Because  this  information  is  so 
valuable   the   law  makers  'n    their 


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27 


wisdom  put  a  severe  penalty  on 
burying  the  dead  without  making 
out  a  certificate  of  death,  giving  all 
particulars  of  family  history  over 
the  signature  of  some  one  familiar 
with  this  personal  history,  and  cause 
of  death  over  the  signature  of  the 
attending  physician,  and  filing  same 


with  local  register  and  obtaining  in 
exchange  a  permit  to  bury  the  de- 
ceased. It  is  to  be  hoped  no  one  in 
Nort  Carolina  will  be  so  foolhardy 
as  to  bury  a  body  withont  complying 
with  the  present  reasonable  law.™ 
F.  M.  R. 


Unsightly  Little  Town 

Greensboro  has  an  ordinance  requiring  the  occupants  of  lots  abutting  pav- 
ed sidewalks  to  keep  the  adjoining  grass  plots  neatly  mowed,  and  to  have 
snow,  ice,  and  other  obstructions  removed  by  10  o'clock  of  every  day;  it  also 
requires  all  property  owners  to  keep  their  sidewalks  clean  and  free  from 
weeds.  This  ordinance  is  strictly  enforced,  says  the  city  manager.  It  meets 
with     very    litile     opposition      and      ter— fifty-two  times  better. 


manifestly  it  contributes  to  the  trim 
appearance  of  the  city. 

A  similar  and  greatly  needed  ordi- 
nance would  require  all  vacant  town- 
lot  owners  to  keep  such  lots  clear  of 
weeds  and  unsightly  trash.  This 
ordinance  is  hardly  less  necessary 
than  the  other.  If  ordiances  of 
this  sort  were  faithf uly  enforced  the 
appearance  of  the  413  little  towns 
of  North  Carolina  would  be  improv- 
ed a  thousands  percent  almost  over- 
night. 

The  weedy,  trashy,  unkept  con- 
dition of  sidewalks  and  streetfronts 
in  Chapel  Hill,  for  instance,  never 
can  be  cured  by  any  street  force 
that  the  town  is  likely  to  be  able  to 
support  upon  the  taxes  paid.  What 
would  cost  many  thousand  dollars  in 
taxes  for  street  cleaning  is  a  very 
small  matter  when  every  property 
owner  and  the  occupant  of  every 
dwelling  or  business  tidies  up  the 
space  immediatly  around  him.  The 
once-a-year  clean-up  day  is  good. 
A  once-a-week  clean-up  day  is   bet- 


The  street-cleaning  force  of  a  lit- 
tle town  is  doing  very  well  to  clean 
the  ditches  and  cut  the  weeds  and 
grass  in  the  street  along  the  side- 
walk edges  and  street  fronts  once 
or  twice  a  year.  Property  owners  or 
occupants  could  attend  to  tnis  mat- 
ter of  appearance  every  week  or 
every  few  days. 

Trashy,  weedy,  vacant  lots  and 
backyard  lots  disfigure  the  appear- 
ance of  little  towns  the  whole  coun- 
try over— except  perhaps  in  New 
England  and  the  Pacific  coast  states 
where  sheer  persona!  pride  in  the 
look  of  the  home  town  takes  the 
place  of  ordinances  and  police  in- 
spection. 

A  good  many  towns  in  Ncrth 
Carolina  have  ordinance  requiring 
owners  and  occupants  to  keep  weeds 
down  on  their  property  or  in  front 
of  their  property  on  all  lots  either 
vacant  or  occupied  as  for  instance 
Ashville. 

However  nothing  will  take  the 
place  of   pride  when   it    comes   to 


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small  town  prinking.  All  the  little 
towns  the  country  over,  could  easily 
look  as  lovely  to  the  e37eas  the  little 
college  town  of  Amherst  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  the  little  towns  of 
Southern  California.  In  this  matter 
Oxford  leads  the  way  in  North  Caro- 
lina. It  is  charming  to  the  eye  and 
it  has  been  made  so  by  the  civic  ac- 
tivities of  the  women  of  that  town. 
The  women  of  our  little  fowns  in 
North  Carolina  could  work  a  similar 
miracle  of  transformation,  and  if 
the  women  do  not  do  it,  we  venture 
to  say  it  will  not  likely  be  done  in 
long  years  to  come. — The  News  Let- 
ter. 

Some  of  this   love    of   cleanliness 
and  civic    righteousness  could   with 


great  profit  be  manifest  in  appear- 
ance along  important  roads.  Especi- 
ally along  the  National  Highway. 
Thousand  and  thousands  of  people 
from  many  sections,  pass  during  a 
year,  and  the  advertisement  of  some 
places  is  not  calculated  to  do  justice 
to  our  sense  of  cleanliness  and  order- 
liness. The  presence  of  a  hog-pen 
by  the  road-side  is  a  fearful  thing, 
yet  people  who  know  better  often 
times  adopt  the  road-side  for 
such  unsightly  necessities.  The 
State  Highway  Commission  ought, 
if  it  has  the  right  under  the  law,  to 
order  hog-pens  removed  form  along 
the  highway.  Let's  have  a  law 
against  hog-pens  along  the  roads. 


Thirty-Second  Annual  Meeting. 

The  Thirty-second  Annual  Convention  of  the  N.  C.  Branch  of  The  King's 
Daughters  was  held  in  the  Auditorium  of  the  Jackson  Training  School  on 
the  8th  and  9th. 

At  the  first  meeting,  Rev.  T.  N.  Lawrence  conducted  the  religious  ser- 
vices.    Supt.  Boger,  on  behalf  of  the  School,  gave  a  happy  address  of  wel- 

were  opened  with  religious  services 
by  Rev.  M.  A.  Barber,  of  Raleigh. 
Following  this  the  various  officers 
and  committees  made  their  reports, 
all  of  which  were  interesting  and 
showed  a  good  year's  work. 

Mrs.  T.  J.  Manning,  of  Hender- 
son, member  of  the  Central  Council, 
made  an  interesting  report  of  the 
progress  and  work  of  the  National 
order. 

The  Wednesday  afternoon  session 
was  opened  by  prayer  by  the  devout 
and  consecrated  Mrs.  J.  B.  Cherry, 
of  Greenville.  Following  this,  the 
annual  election  of  officers  occured, 
all  the  old  officers  being  re-elected  as 


come,  Mrs.  R.  M.  King  gracefully 
and  cordially  extended  the  greetings 
of  the  local  circle.  To  these  words 
of  welcome.  Mrs.  M.  H.  Stacy,  of 
Chapel  Hill,  made  a  brilliant  re- 
sponse. 

Following  this  came  the  Annual 
Message  of  the  president,  Mrs.  Bur- 
gwyn,  a  pleasing  and  profitable  fea- 
ture of  the  Convention  for  nineteen 
years. 

Hon.  E.  R.  Prestion  of  Charlotte, 
the  speaker  of  the  evening  deliver- 
ed a  forceful  and  edifying  address 
using  this  text  "Progress  of  Hu- 
manities." 

The  Wednesday  morning  exercises 


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follows: 

Mrs.  W.  H.  S.  Burgwyn,  Raleigh, 
President. 

Miss  Easdale  Shaw,  Rockingham, 
Vice  President. 

Mrs.  Richard  Wiilams,  Greenville, 
Recording  Secretary. 

Miss  Margie  McEachern,  Concord, 
Treasurer. 

Mrs.  T.  J.  Manning,  Henderson,  mem- 
ber of  Central  Council. 

THE   EXECUTIVE   COMMITTE 

Mrs.  J.  A.  Cannon,  Concord. 
Mrs.  O.  Clarke,  Greenville. 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Rutledge,  Kannapolis. 
Mrs.  M.  H.  Stacy,  Chapel  Hill. 
Mrs.  R.  G.  Kizer,  Salisbury. 

MEMORIAL   SERVICES 

The  convention  and  the  student 
body  meet  in  the  Chapel.  Rev.  G.  A. 
Martin  conducted  the  opening  ser- 
vices, appropiate  to  the  dedication 
of  the  art  windows  which  had  been 
recently  installed  in  the  Margaret 
Burgwyn  Chapel— nine  of  the  win- 
dows are  memorials.  The  dedicatory 
was  conducted  by  Rev.  Barber. 

Concluding  the  exercise  the  audi- 
ence, led  by  the  boys  singing  "On- 
ward Christian  Soldiers,"  marched 
to  the  Memorial  Bridge  (account  of 
this  elsewhere.) 

CLOSING     MEETING. 

Wednesday  evening  the  closing 
session  of  the  convention  was  given 
over  to  a  evening  of  story  telling, 
presided  over  by  Miss  Shaw,  of 
Rockingham,  who  did  brilliantly  the, 
part  of  toast-mistress. 

Rev.  J.  Frank  Armstrong  con- 
ducted the  religious  services.  Those 
on  the  progamme,  and  who  delight- 
ed the  boys  and  the  large  audience, 
were  Mrs.  T.  W.  Bickett,  of  Raleigh; 
Mrs.  L.  P.  Russell,  of  Rockingham, 
Mrs.  Kelloway,  of  Wilimington, 
Mrs.  L.  D,  Coltrane,  Sr.  of  Concord, 


Master  Sam  Taylor,  of  the  School, 
and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Cherry,  of  Greenville. 

The  Silver  Offering  amounted  to 
over  one  hundred  dollars.  All  of  the 
exercises  were  interspersed  by  de- 
lightful singing  in  which  the  boys 
joined. 

The  convention  adjourned  to 
meet  next  year-with  the  Greenville 
Circle  in  Pitt  County. 


ECHOES  FROM  CONVENTION. 

The  King's  Daughters  occupied 
one  of  the  new  cottages.  From  all 
reports  they  had  a  jolly  time.  Mrs. 
A.  C.  Wolfe,  representing  the  local 
circle,  acted  as  house-hostess.  She 
made  it  pleasant  for  them;  and  they 
in  turn,  making  themselves  thor- 
oughly at  home,  when  off  duty — 
these  serious-minded  women — had 
all  kinds  of  frolics  and  sports  and 
made  for  themselves  a  fine  picnic 
outing.  The  Uplift,  rejoicing  in 
the  pleasure  of  these  folks,  in  a 
measure  our  guests,  can  not  refrain 
from  making  note  of  certain  echoes 
from  a  house  that  contained  forty 
or  more  lone  women  from  as  many 
quarters  of  the  state: 

A  Junior:  "My,  I  did  not  sleep 
much  last  night."  "Oh,  I  am  so 
sorry.  Why?"  asked  the  house-hos- 
tess. "The  older  women  held  reg- 
ular old-time  pillow  fights  and  kept 
us  juniors  awake." 

"Oh,"  said  one  of  the  Durham 
delegates,  much  amused,  "don't 
you  kno  w  Mrs.  So  and  So,  of  Green- 
ville, said  very  softly  in  her  sleep, 
'no,  I  thank  you,  I'll  not  take  any 
more.'  "  Only  dreams  the  evening 
after  Supt.  Boger's  barbecue. 

In  a  most  forlorn  way  a  Salisbury 
delegate  declared  that  she  just  could 


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not  sleep  in  so  large  a  room  as  the 
dormitory.  The  two  ladies,  who  oc- 
cupied the  "Jug,"  which  is  a  small 
room  to  which  in  time  past  it  was 
jocularly  given  such  name,  gracious- 
ly offered  to  exchange  places.  The 
Salisbury  delegate,  declining  the  of- 
fer, was  later  seen,  not  in  an  isolat- 
ed corner  alone,  but  in  the  midst  of 
the  crowd  engaged  in  a  pillow  con- 
test with  the  spirit  of  a  youth. 

The  lights  in  the  building  are  con- 
trolled by  a  master  switch.  This 
secret  the  guest  failed  to  learn.  The 
lights  are  up  on  the  overhead  ceil- 
ing; but  one  of  the  braver  delegates, 
from  down  East,  took  a  searching 
spell  and  finally  found  the  switch  on 
the  first  floor,  and  then  "felt"  (the 
way  they  say  down  east)  her  way 
back  to  the  dormitory.  Everthing 
was  quiet  until  5  o'clock  next  morn- 
ing when  suddenly  the  lights  came 
on.  This  was  excitement — all  kinds 
of  things  were  about  to  happen.  The 
night  watchman,  on  his  job,  forgot 
that  the  women  occupied  that  cot- 
tage and  through  force  of  habit  flash- 
ed the  lights  on  to  see  "if  all  was 
well." 

One  delegate  asked:  "Mrs.  Wolfe, 
do  you  have  any  absorbent  cotton," 
"No,"  replied  the  hostess,  all  excit- 
ed, "is  there  any  one  hurt?"  "Oh, 
no,  only  I  want  to  stuff  my  ears 
to-night  for  some  of  the  women  snore 
fiercely  and  I  cannot  sleep." 

There  are  many  other  echoes,  but 
we  must  refrain.  No  delegation 
ever  had  a  jollier  occasion,  and  ev- 
ery member  indicated  her  regret  ov- 
er its  conclusion. 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 

Roby  Moore  was  the  only  boy  to 


receive    a    visit  from   home"^  folks 
Wednesday. 

Two  or  three  car-loads  of  coal 
have  been  received  at  the  school  be- 
cause of  the  fact  that  our  supply  is 
low. 

The  friends  and  relatives  of  Miss 
Latimer  will  be  sorry  to  hear  that 
she  is  now  sick  in  bed.  It  is  thought 
that  she  will  soon  recover. 

Because  of  some  unknown  delay 
our  pavilion  was  not  finished  the 
date  agreed    upon,    but  now  all   it 

lacks  is  the  inside  furnishings. 

We  were  pleased  to  have  Profs. 
Webb  and  Williams  and  also  a  student 
from  the  Universisy  of  North  Caro- 
lina. We  hope  they  will  come  again. 

Rev.  T.  N.  Lawrence,  of  Concord,, 
filled  the  pulpit  Sunday.  He  didn't 
only  fiil  the  pulpit,  but  filled  the 
hearts  of  the  listeners  with  an  in- 
teresting sermon. 

There  has  been  some  recent 
troubles  with  the  pump  necessitating- 
boys  to  watch  it.  This  duty  is  very 
agreeable  to  the  boy  who  has  the 
job  because  he  is  free  to  play  any 
self-amusing  games,  or  he  may 
catch  rabbits. 

Because  of  the  fine  barbecue  they 
made  possible  for  us.  I,  as  spokesman 
of  the  boys,  desire  to  say  that  no 
words  can  express  our  gratitude  to 
the  King's  Daughters.  When  boys 
have  such  a  hearty  support  from  such 
good  people  as  these,  how  can  they 
go  wrong? 

Mr.  Brown,  of  Raleigh,  Supt.  of 
Public  Welfare,  aecompained  by 
two  boys  who  were  admitted  to  the 
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last  week.  While  here,  Mr.  Brown 
looked  over  our  plant  and  expressed 
himself  delighted  with  the  work  that 
is  going  on  at  the  school. 

Last  Friday  we  were  surprised, 
but  it  was  an  ageeable  one,  to  play 
the  part  of  host  to  the  Sunderland 
Hall  School  for  girls.  They  invaded 
the  campus  and  quite  filled  the 
Printing  Office  in  their  eagerness  to 
see  the  school  and  its  work.  We  are 
glad  to  have  any  one  look  over  the 
plant,  and  especially  so  in  the  case 
of  these  girls. 

The  well  digger  that  the  boys  mov- 
ed from  its  previous  location  near 
the  well,  has  been  placed  near  where 
is  being  constructed  the  laundry, 
bakery  and  ice  plant.  This  is  a  very 
desirable  place  because  of  course,  the 
need  of  water  is  plain  in  the  case  of 
the  laundry  and  the  ice  plant.  This 
situation  is  also  convenient  for  the 
water  boys  and  also  as  soon  as  the 
water  becomes  plentiful  with  two 
pumps  in  operation  the  Six  and 
Seventh  cottage  will  be  opened  as 
this  is  the  only  thing  that  holds  them 
back. 

Just  before  the  arrival  of  the 
King's  Daughters  the  memorial  win- 
dows were  put  in  place  of  the  plain 
ones,  so  the  Daughters  of  the  King 
had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  their  lat- 


est gift  installed.  This  gift  though 
small  covers  a  long  felt  need  and  the 
boys  think  that  their  place  of  wor- 
ship Is  now,  indeed,  a  real  church. 
This  is  just  one  of  the  innumerable 
gifts  of  the  King's  Daughters  and 
no  matter  how  much  we  try  we  can- 
not show  our  appreciation  and  grati- 
tude. Let  us  enumerate,  just  to  see 
how  much  the  King's  Daughters 
have  done  for  us. 

(1)  The  Chapel.  This  gift  is  more 
important  than  any  other,  because 
what  should  we  place  more  value 
upon  than  a  place  in  which  to  wor- 
ship Him? 

(2)  The  1st  or  King's  Daughters 
Cottage.  This  is  the  first  cottage 
to  be  erected  showing  the  early  be- 
lief the  Daughters  had  in  this  insti- 
tution. 

(3)  Memorial  Bridge.  This  is  the 
connection  between  the  grounds  of 
the  Chapel  on  one  side  of  the  high- 
way and    the  other   grounds. 

(4)  The  Memorial  Windows.  These 
have  already  been  discussed. 

(5)  The  Band  Instruments.  These 
Conn  instruments  are  a  necessity  as 
well  as  luxury.  Who  knows  of  an 
institution  without  a  good  band. 
This  by  the  local  circle. 

(6)  The  Kings  Daughters  also  put 
the  beautiful  little  cross  on  our 
chapel. 


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Ich  Dien— I  Serve. 

Tt/o  -men  "were  'coming  away  from  a  big  city  chuich, 
where  the  eloquent  and  famous  preacher  had  delighted 
his  congregation  by  an  unusually  fine  sermon.  "It  doe3 
one  good  to  hear  a  man  like  that,"  said  the  elder  man. 
**No  wonder  he  13  such  a  success.  I  would  go  and  hear 
him  overy  Sunday  if  1  liv^d  here."  "So  would  I,"  said 
the  younger,  "and  I  would  not  care  what  sort  of  a  ser- 
monha  preached,  either.  That  isn't  the  be3t  of  him. 
Xliat  isn't  his  real  power  at  all,  though  it  make3  one  feel 
proud  of  him."  "Why,  what  do  you  mean?"  asked  the 
other.  "If  his  eloquence  isn't  the  power,  what  is?"  "I'll 
tell  you,"  said  the  young  man.  "I  never  was  in  his  con- 
gregation, either  here  or  during  his  pastorate  in  our  lit- 
tle town.  But  he  knew  our  family  and  what  a  time 
mother  had  educating  and  bringing  up  us  hoys.  He  had 
left  our  town  for  this  big  church  five  years  ago,  but 
when  mother  died,  last  year,  the  very  first  letter  that 
reached  me  was  from  him,  and  it  was  a  letter  I'll  never 
forget.  And  I  have  since  learned  that  over  and  over 
again,  on  the  anniversary  of  a  bereavement,  a3  well  as 
just  after  it,  that  busy  man,  rushed  with  a  thousand  du- 
ties, sends  thi3  or  that  man  or  woman  a  letter  of  remem- 
brance and  comfort,  just  as  he  did  to  me.  And  they 
don't  forget  it,  any  more  than  I  do.  His  life  i3  full  of 
just  such  things,  and  that's  why  he's  such  a  power 
wherever  he  goes.  It  isn't  just  the  sermon  — it'3  what 
lies  behind  the  sermon."  — Forward. 


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Typc-Seiting  by  the  Boys'  Printing  Clas3.  Subscription  Two  Dollars  the  Year  in 
Advance. 

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Entered  as  second-cla;s  matter  Dec.  4,  192),  at  the  Post  O.Tice  at  Concord,  N 
C,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


THE  NEW  YEAR  AND  DUTY. 

"Look  not  mournfully  into  the  past,  it  conies  not  back  again, 

Wisely  improve  the  present,  it  is  thine; 

Go  forth  to  meet  the  shadowy  future  without  fear 

And  with  a  manly  heart." 


A  CHOICE  SPIRIT  HAS  DEPARTED. 

Ex.  Gov.  Thomas  Walter  Bickett,  beloved  by  his  state,  suddenly  stricken 
on  the  evening  of  the  27th  with  apoplexy,  passed  away  the  ■:>'.'-"'  vi. no  morn- 
ing at  9:15.  Though  just  in  his  53rd  year,  he  had  crow^e  r  \::' irjihat  short 
life  the  deeds  and  achievements  of  a  statesman  and  a  pL;  n  ^  ,,  Few  men, 
if  any,  in  the  history  of  Nonh  Carolina  have  wrought  as'^ii'ooiy.  He  has 
left  an  impress  upon  the  public  consciousness  that  can  never  die.  The 
whole  state  mourns  his  passing. 

The  Uplift  joins  the  thousands,  who  know  her  intimately  and  appreci- 
atively, in  sympathy  for  the  widow  who  is  passing-  through  this  greatest  of 
sorrows.     The  unassumed  and  unaffected  "devotion  of  this  couple,  Mr.  and 

Mrs.  Bickett,  was  a  most' beautiful  picture,  an  inspiration  to  all. 

i 

..■***«.»  4#  •  * 

HE  KNEW  HOY/  TO  D1SCRIMINAI E. 
The  late  Governor  Bickett,  who  was  sometimes  criticised  for  his  pardon- 
ing record,  rejoiced  in  the  possession    of  a  human  kindness  that  office  could 
not   destroy,     drone  occasion  a    certain    lawyer,    defending    a    youthful 


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•client,  succeeded  in  getting  the  presiding  judge  co  commit  the  boy  to  the 
Jackson  Training  School.  In  less  than  a  month,  the  very  same  lawyer  invok- 
ed his  friendly  relations  with  Gov.  Bickett,  seeking  the  pardon— a  foolish 
procedure— of  his  client.  Gov.  Bickett,  having  business  in  Concord, 
visited  the  Jackson  Training  School,  went  through  all  departments,  made  a 
complete  survey  of  the  work,  then  told  of  the  pressure  brought  to  bear  on 
him  in  this  one  particular  case.  Summing  up  his  impressions,  he  looked  the 
superintendent  square  in  the  face  and  said:  "I've  never  worried  the 
School  with  pardoning  boys.  I  know  I  have  the  power  and  right  to  pardon 
a  person  from  punishment,  but  have  I  the  right  to  say  when  a  boy's  train- 
ing shall  cease?  If  I  hav?  that  right,  I've  never  cared  to  exercise  it."  He 
knew  his  duty,  and  fearlessly  met  it. 

3      *      3      *      3      *      »      » 

MISS  STOCKTON. 

Cabarrus  county  rejoices  with  Miss  May  Stockton,  our  whole-time  public 
health  nurse,  in  the  recovery  of  her  aged  mother  from  a  serious  attack  of 
pneumonia,  at  her  home  in  Greensboro.  Miss  Stockton  was  with  her  mother, 
and,  while  desperately  sick,  the  aged  lady  thought  of  the  welfare  of  others 
and  when  the  election  for  a  County  Sanitorium  came  on  she  insisted  on  ex- 
ercising her  franchise  via  the  ab;ent-voter-plan. 

Miss  Stockton  has  returned  to  her  duties.  Finding  her  desk  piled  up 
"with  Calls  for  service,  she  philosophically,  faithfully  and  happily  said:  "Oh, 
I  like  to  work  --it  means  so  much."  This  splendid  young  woman,  by  her 
capability,  tness  and  sincerity,  has  unconsciously  wormed  herself  in- 

to the  hear!  V.arrus    people.     She  is  most  valuable.     To    her,    along 

.with  Miss  Wil  ■  i,  the  Home  Demonstrator;  Mr.  Goodman,  the  County 
Farm  Demonstrator;  and  the  superintendents  of  County  Welfare,  of  all  the 
counties  in  the  state,  here's  hoping  for  health,  support  and  sympathy. 
These  be  high  callings  among  progressive  and  aggressive  peoples. 

•  »*»»»*•. 
CELEBRATED  HIS  93th  BIRTHDAY  BY  PREACHING. 

Down  at  Elon  College  there  is  a  member  of  the  faculty  that  has  been 
and  is  yet  classed  as  a  most  remarkable  man.  Dr.  J.  W.  Wellons  is  his 
name.  He's  lived  a  beautiful  life,  full  of  love  for  his  fellow-man,  and 
thoroughly  upright  in  all  his  relations  of  life. 

Dr.  Wellons  was  ninety-six  years  of  age  on  New  Year's  Day.  He  wa3 
invited  to  preach  in  the  College  Chapel,  and,  never  having  learned   in   his 


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long  life  to  side-step  a  duty  and  a  service,  he  accepted  the  invitation.  Dr. 
Wellons  is  a  native  of  Eastern  Virginia,  but  coming  to  the  fine  climate  and 
the  invigorating  environment  which  North  Carolina  revels  in,  the  good  old 
doctor  has  guaranteed  long  so-journ  in  the  world,  and  there  is  no  reason 
in  the  world  why  he  should  not  preach  a  birth-day  sermon  in  Elon  College 
Chapel  on  New  Year's  Day  of  1926.  '1  he  correspondent,  reporting  this 
particular  service,  says: 

The  morning  preaching  service  in  the  college  chapel  was  very 
beautiful  this  morning,  being  conducted  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Wellons,  bet- 
ter known  as  "Uncle  Wellons."  Today  being  his  96th  birthday,  made 
it  more  interesting.  He  is  active  considering  his  age,  and.  while  he 
had  to  give  his  sermon  sitting  down,  he  could  be  heard  e'early,  and 
his  text  for  the  morning  was  taken  from  1st  Corinthians,  ]5th  chapter, 
b8th  verse:  Therefore,  my  beloved  brethren,  be  ye  steadfast,  unmove- 
able,  always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  forasmuch  as  ye 
know  that  your  labor  is  not  vain  in  the  Lord. 

He  dwelt  on  the  great  theme  of  salvation  and  spoke  of  his  sermon 
as  being  an  expository  one.  His  remarks  were  very  touching,  beauti- 
ful and  displayed  his  wonderful  faith  and  trust.  He  is  perhaps  the 
oldest  minister  living,  and  is  the  oldest  of  the  Christian  denomination 
today. 

<*      ft      ft      ft      ft      9      ft      * 

The  editor  has  received  a  pleasing  letter  from  Mr.  Milton  Wicker,  chair- 
man of  the  Junior  Class  of  the  Greensboro  High  School.  This  is  what  he 
writes:  "As  a  Christmas  gift  to  the  boys  of  the  Guilford  Cottage  at  the 
Jackson  Training  School  the  Juniors  of  the  Green=boro  High  School  have 
subscribed  to  two  magazines,  "The  American  Boy"  and  "Popular 
Science."  They  will  begin  with  the  January  issue  and  continue  for  one 
year.  Hoping  that  these  publications  will  delight  the  boys,  I  remain." 
Young  Mr.  Wicker  will  please  make  known  to  his  class  that  their  act  is 
highly  appreciated,  and  rest  assured  the  Guilford  boys  will  profit  by 
their  thougbtfulness  both  in  the  reading  of  this  high  class  literature  and 
especially  the  consciousness  of  this  demonstration  of  a  worthwhile  fellow- 
ship and  interest. 

•  ••••••.• 

Our  fifty-thousand  gallon  water-tank  is  gradually  filling  up,  in  face  of  a 
constant  use  of  the  supply  throughout  the  cottages  and  the  grounds,  from 
a  recently  punched  well  at  a  spot  pointed  out  by  the  "forked  peach  limb." 
Though  laughed  at  by  a  prominent  geologist,  who  declared  that  in  the  pe- 
culiar formation    of   the  rock  on  this  ridge,  no  water  could  be  found,  cer- 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

tainly    not    at    a  depth  over  200  feet/'     The  well  is  just  300  feet  deep  and 
is  giving- up  per  minute    in  the    neighborhood  of  twenty   gallons    and    the 
water-mark  in  the  well  is  not  lowered  after  a  pumping  period  of  ten  hours. 
It  is  a  risky  thing  to  poke  fun  at  the  forked  peach  limb  and  the    didoes    of; 
the  signs  of  the  moon.     Later:   L'he  tank  is  full. 


CROWING  OUT  OF  ORDER. 

There  was  nothing  else  for  the  special  session  of  the  General  Assembly 
to  do  than  to  provide  for  the  school  deficit  of  $710,000.  The  State  does 
not  repudiate  honest  obligations,  whether  they  arise  from  carelessness,  in- 
competency or  miscalculations.  The  claim  that  a  state  officer  drove  to 
cover  such  able,  honest  gentleman  like  Dough  ton,  Varser,  Everette  and 
others,  making  them  do  his  bidding  is  die  veriest  rot.  This  deficit  grew 
out  of  a  fundamentally  wrong  and  unnatural  law,  which  the  said  State  of- 
ficer really  inspired  and  engineered  through  the  General  Assembly.  The 
State  may  well  be  congratulated  if  next  year's  operation  of  the  miserable 
school  law,  now  doing  business  in  North  Carolina,  does  not  leave  a  greater 
deficit.  Thf  wisest  act  of  the  special  session  of  the  General  Assembly  was 
the  appointment  of  a  commission  to  make  a  business-like  educational  sur- 
vey. 

Speaking  the  appreciation  and  gratitude  of  this  institution  The  Up- 
lift acknowledges  the  receipt  of  a  generous  check  from  Mr.  W.  J.  Swink, 
of  China  Grove.  Coming  on  New  Year's  Day,  it  gives  the  machine' y  an 
easy  start-off.  Mr.  Swink's  contribution  shall  be  devoted  to  a  fine  purpose, ' 
a  purpose  that  will  figure  fir  years  in  the  problem  which  concerns  this 
institution.  Some  of  these  days,  a  central  library  must  be  started;  and 
this  voluntary  gift  from  a  fine  citizen  and  a  devoted  friend  will  fit  in  as 
a  nucleus    around    which  we  may  build  our  fond  hopes. 

In  this  issue  we  have  an  article  showing  the  devious  route,  by  which  our 
present  calender  has  come  down  to  us.     It  is  an  interesting  ami  instructive, 
article.     The  students  of  the  high  schools,  along  with    the  students  of    the 
world,  can  find  in  this  article  the  ans.ver  of  questions    that  no  doubt   have 
exercised  them  at  some  time.  !   '. 

The  boys  of  the' Jackson  Training  S.'hool  hi  i  fcha  biggest  aad  the  fullest  : 

Christmas  in  the. history  of  the  School.     This  was  made  possible  by  the  gen- 

■     ••  -■       .  .        ....;■':..        •!       ,  i  '.   ■ . ;\v> 


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erosity  of  good  friends, "who  contributed  to  the  Christmas  fund.  The  joy 
was  so  great  and  complete  that  it  made  the  olilcials  just  as  happy  as  the 
youngsters.  *'  ..       '.';'.'  ";■        '; 


HURCULES  AND  THE  WAGGONER 

lA  Waggoner  was  once  driving  along  a  very  muddy  road.  At  last 
ht!  came  to  a  part  of  the  road  where  the  wheels  sank  half-way  into 
the  mire,  and  the  more  the  horses  pulled,  the  deeper  sank  the  wheels. 
Si  the  Waggoner  threw  down  his  whip,  and  knelt  down  and  prayed 
to!  Hercules  the  Strong.  "0  Hercules,  help  me  in  this  my  hour  of 
distress,"  quoth  he.  But  Hurcules  appeared  to  him,  and  said: 
"Tut,  man,  don't  sprawl  there.  Get  up  and  put  your  shoulder  to 
the  wheel." 

"THE  GODS  HELP  THEM  THAT  HELP  THEMSELVES." 


THE  UPLIFT 


U.  LELAND  STANFORD. 
Etoneville,  N.  C. 
(In  our  -next   i  sue  will  be  found  the  picture  of  the  m.  gmiiccnt  school  building 
which  he  inspired,  and  which  is  his  living  monument.) 


THE  UPLFIT 


U.    LELANB    STANFORD. 

The  effort  to  achieve  distinction  is  one  of  the  motive  powers  of  civilization. 
Especially  is  it  a  characteristic  of  American  Youth.  Here,  where  the  doors 
•of  opportunity  swing  wide  to  merit  and  worth,  here  where  striving  against  odds 
is  constant  incentive  and  almost  certain  attainment  for  honest  effort.  This 
is  shown  by  the  career  of  young  U.  Leland  Stanford  of  Stoneville,  North  Caro- 
lina, and  others  like  him.     His  life  and  success  are  at  once  an  inspiration  and  a 


promise.  Hopeful  indeed  does  it  ap- 
pear to  all  those  who,  like  him,  are 
poor  but  who  aspire;  hopeful  for  all 
those  who  do  not  expect  the  help  of 
others,  but  who  must  depend  on  their 
own  unaided  efforts;  hopeful  for  all 
those  who  have  only  industry,  energy, 
ambition,  and  honest  purpose  to  speed 
them  in  the  race  of  life. 

Young  Stanford  was  born  in  Stone- 
ville, X.  C.  July  15,  1892,  and  a  few- 
years  ago  he  married  Miss  Rosa  Mae 
James  of  Forsyth  County.  Today  he 
is  the  only  lawyer  in  Rockingham 
County  that  is  practicing  law  in  the 
town  in  which  he  was  born.  Stanford 
accepted  life  as  he  found  it,  and  tak- 
ing hold  of  his  environments  lie  made 
"the  most  of  every  opportunity  as  pre- 
sented, and  to  him  obstacles  were  but 
invitations  to  greater  effort  while 
"stumbling  blocks"  were  used  as 
stepping  stones  as  patiently,  sincerely, 
and  determinedly  he  moved  on  and 
over  them  steadily  upward.  Farm 
toy,  newspaper  editor,  lawyer — these 
Are  the  steps  that  mark  his  progress. 

Years  ago  he  plowed  the  corn  and 
tilled  the  soil  right  where  the  Stone- 
ville High  School  building,  the  hand- 
somest in  the  county,  now  stands  in 
its  imposing  beauty.  As  young  Stan- 
ford worked  day  by  day  the  aspira- 
tion filled  his  heart  and  the  high  hope 
flooded  his  soul  that  some  day  he 
might  see  on  that  site  a  modern,  up-to- 
date,  handsome  High  School  building. 


As  the  years  went  by  this  young  man 
made  his  plans  and  waited  for  the  time 
when  the  opportunity  should  arrive 
to  make  his  dream  a  reality.  The 
hour  struck  and  he  put  his  tireless 
energy,  unbounded  enthusiasm  and  un- 
conquerable will  into  the  High  School 
movement,  and  laughing  at  every  ob- 
stacle, scorning  opposition  he  con- 
quered all  hindrances  and  crowned 
effort  with  victory  the  14th  day  of  last 
September,  when  Xorth  Carolina  ed- 
ucators of  note  went  to  Stoneville  and 
dedicated  that  beautiful  temple  of 
learning  to  the  eternal  interest  of  the 
human  mind.  Young  Stanford  is  the 
efficient  and  active  Secretary  of  the 
School  Board  that  erected  the  build- 
ing, and  every  dollar  of  the  nearly 
ninety  thousand  dollars  passed 
through  his  hands  and  all  of  his  re- 
ports rendered  to  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion have  been  complete  and  accurate. 
In  all  movements  to  uplift  and  bet- 
ter the  mental,  moral  and  physical 
condition  of  humanity  he  takes  a  deep 
and  abiding  interest,  and  his  recent 
speech  before  the  County  Commissi- 
oners of  this  County  pleading  for  the 
erection  of  a  Rockingham  building  at 
the  Jackson  Training  School,  aided  in 
securing  the  building  while  Stanford 
gave  another  example  of  striving  un- 
selfishly for  the  betterment  of  man- 
kind. When  we  know  his  strong, 
clean,  manly  character  we  are  im- 
pressed with  what  great  good  ambiti- 


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tious  youth  may  do  when  lie  decimates  emphasized  and  .so  docs  the  career  of 

his  life  to  progress,  honor,  truth,  and  0.  Leland  Stanford  though  scarce  be- 

service  to  others.     Selfish  interest  in  gun,   teach   us   that   common  honesty, 

this  great   age  must   he  placed  aside.  civic  pride  and   tireless  energy  mark 

Serving  and  helping  others  must  he  the  pathway  to  t he  goal. 


Foolish  Utterance:  Several  gentlemen  sitting  around  the  stove  in  a  pub- 
lic place,  discussing  business  ami  the  temper  of  the  times.  One  man  . 
remarked,  "if  I  can  do  half  as  v/ell  throughout  the  year  as  I  have  done  to- 
day (January  2,  1922.)  it  will  he  glorious."  Another  said:  "It  looks 
very  encouraging  to  me."  These  were  industrious  men  and  active  in  their 
line  of  business..  .A  glassy-eyed  loafer,  who  has  never  struck  a  real  worth- 
while lick  at  any  job  that  contributes  to  the  betterment  of  mankind,  butted 
in:  "You  men  don't  know  what  you  are  talking  about;  we  are  on  the  verge 
of  the  greatest  slump  in  the  history  of  the  world;  and  by  the  middle  of 
February  the  whole  bottom  will  drop  out."  This  pessimist  was  unknown 
to  the  gentlemen,  and  his  self-assurance  and  self-centerism  had  an  effect 
on  them  like  a  dull  thud.  This  is  the  way  trouble  starts — by  some  insig- 
nificent,  doless  thing.  Taking  stock  of  the  situation,  we  dismiss  the 
whole  thing  by  observing  that  if  every  body  was  as  sorry  as  this  pessimist, 
the  world,  including  business,  commercial,  industrial,  social  and  political, 
would  have  to  liquidate — and  ought  to. 


HOW  DEATH  BRINGS  IT  OUT. 

-••"<  '  "  By  Jim  Eiddick. 

The  other  night  I  sat  in  the  House  of  Representatives  Chamber,  at  Raleigh, 
looking,  into  the  faces  of  representative  gentlemen  from  every  quarter  of  the 
State.  There  had  been  deaths  of  prominent  men  and  women  of  the  state  re- 
ported in  the  press.  Though  a  Christmas  season,  when  all  seemed  in  joy  to  be 
barkening  back  more  than  nineteen  hundred  years  in" a  celebrating  memory  of 
the  one  great  birth,  which  brought  peace  and  hope  into  the  world,  not  a  per- 
son iu  that  audience  Of  fine  men  but  who  felt  keenly  that-  lie  was  in  the 
presence  of  death.         •■      -■':■ 

Ex-Governor    Bickett,.  the    golden-  —but  he  still  lived;  and  he  will-live 

■  hearted  -North  Carolinian,  Rising  from  for  his  preachments,  his  golden  words 

a  small  beginning  to  a  proud  position  of    wisdom    and    his    patriotism,    ex- 

into  the  hearts oFiiUm  and  women  of  pressed  in  deeds  and  acts,  for  ages  to 

•North    Carolina,   'hacV   jiis't    died.'  In  come.         Doesn't  matter  that  he  did 

"loving    memory    tender'  words    were  not   pile    up    worldly    wealth,   for   he 

officially  spoken-  and  a'ia'rge purse  for  '  didn't,^his  fortune"  was  built  in  the 

a  flora]  offering 'was_yoluntarily"  and  -'hearts  of   living   beings,  winning  for 

quicklv  assembled.    Biekett  was  dead  him  a  glorious  reward  in  that  golden 


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ti 


land  whore  fortunes  consist  alone  in 
goodness,  song,  peace,  happiness  and 
an  unending  glory,  none  of  which  lil- 
thy  lucre  can  purchase. 

There  was  another  event  at  that 
meeting  that  abides  with  me.  I  am 
constrained  in  this  presence  to  ask  the 
question:  "How  long  will  a  man 
live  in  the  memory  of  men,  who  has 
rendered  a  loving  service  to  humanity 
and  unselfishly  aided  in  building  up 
agencies  looking  to  the  relief  and  ben- 
efit of  others.'"  I  shall  answer  my 
own  question —  it  is,  and  ought  to  be, 
FOREVER.  Rack  yonder  in  Octob- 
er, 1920,  at  a  railroad  crossing  below 
Charlotte,  Edgar  Love,  of  Lincolnton, 
in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  was  dashed 
into  fragments,  in  tragic  death.  He 
was  not  a  governor.  He  had  been 
a  business  man,  a  cotton-mill  builder, 
a  promoter,  and  the  highest  he  ever 
reached  in  the  political  life  of  his 
state  was  mayor  of  his  town  and  a 
.representative  of  his  people  in  the 
lower  house  of  the  General  Assembly. 
In  both  of  these  positions  he  was  true 
to  the  common  good  of  all — these  po- 
sitions were  treated  as  sacred  trusts. 
There  is  to  be  expended  in  Lincoln- 
ton  soon  $250,000.00  for  a  modern 
and  splendidly  equipped  Sebool  Build- 
ing. It  is  to  be  called  the  "Edgar 
Love  School. ' '  I  wondered  why. 
There  is  usually  a  good  and  suf- 
ficient reason  when  the  public,  which 
unerringly  takes  the  measure  sooner 
or  later  of  every  man,  decides  to  per- 
petuate in  the  lives  of  the  rising 
generation   a   loving  memorial  to  the 


honor  of  an  individual.  The  reason 
was  revealed  that  night.  When  a  mo- 
tion had  been  offered  to  select  a  suc- 
cessor of  Edgar  Love  on  the  Stale 
Executive  Committee,  Will  Graham, 
a  fellow-townsman,  arose  to  second 
the  motion  and  asked  the  privilege 
to  say  out  of  the  fullness  of  his  heart 
some  things  about  the  late  Mr.  Love; 
When  Edgar  Love  lay  a  corpse  in 
Lincolnton,  hundreds  and  hundreds  of 
his  former  associates,  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances called.  It  is  said  that  no 
less  than  one  hundred  strong  men, 
breaking  under  their  sadness  over  his 
untimely  death,  audibly  remarked: 
"He  was  my  best  friend;"  "he  help- 
ed me  get  my  home;"  "the  average, 
poor  man  will  miss;"  "old  Lincolnton 
has  been  hard-hit;"  "he  has  helped 
more  widows  and  children  than  any 
man  I  ever  knew;"  and  other  expres- 
sions that  indicate  what  Edgar  Love 
had  been  in  life. 

These  constitute  the  estimate  of  the 
man;  his  living  has  answered  the 
question  "how  long  shall  a  m-vi  be 
remembered."  The  kindly  deeds  Ed- 
gar Love  did  live  in  the  lives  and  the 
bettered  conditions  of  hundreds  of 
people  and,  like  the  ripple  started 
by  a  pebble  thrown  into  a  lake  which 
only  spent  its  self  when  reaching 
the  other  shore,  will  touch  some- 
where, somehow,  silently  but  surely, 
throughout  eternity. 

Death  brings  out  the  good  and  the 
bad  that  men  do  in  life.  The  g.merous 
and  thoughtful  live  on;  the  selfish 
perish  and  are  forgotten. 


There  is  one  thing  hetter  than  the  pursuit  of  money,  or  the  habit  of 
•having  one's  own  way— those  I  take  to  be  the  two  great  errors  of  life 
in  our  own  day— and  that  is  a  human  home.    It  is  the  hest  thing  there 
is  in  the  worlrf.— Elisabeth  Stuart  Phelps. 


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There's  Place 


in 


Life  For 


The  Anecdote. 


CYRUS  B.  WATSON:  Few  North  Carolinians  ever  told  richer  stories  than 
the  late  Cyrus  B.  Watson,  of  Winston-Salem,  and  the  writer  is  indebted  to  the 
late  Judge  W.  J.  Montgomery,  of  Concord  for  this  one,  as  it  was  at  his  sug- 
gestion that  Mr.  Watson  told  it  to  the  writer. 

It  happened  while  Judge  Montgo-  son  leaned  over  and  said:  "if  you  had 
mery  was  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,      said  you  were  afraid  of  'tumble  bugs,' 


and  the  scene  was  at  Yadkinvillc.  A 
white  man,  who  for  a  better  name 
we  will  call  Mose,  was  indicted  for 
stealing  blockade  whiskey,  which  the 
blockaders  had  hidden  in  the  woods  to 
keep  the  revenue  officers  from  finding 
it.  Mose  came  into  court  without 
a  lawyer,  but  employed  Mr.  Watson 
to  defend  him,  who  took  the  case  with- 
out any  chance  to  know  its  merits. 
The  State  proved  that  the  whiskey 
was  hauled  away  on  an  old  ricket  wa- 
gon making  a  track  resembling  a  worm 
fence;  that  Mose  had  such  a  wagon, 
and  that  Mose  and  that  Mose  had  run 
away  from  the  neighborhood. 

Mr.  Watson  put  Mose  on  the  stand, 
and  he  denied  any  knowledge  of  the 
liquor,  and  that  he  went  to  his  uncle's 
in  Iredell  county  of  his  own  free  will. 
Mr.  Watson  thought  he  at  least  had 
a  fighting  chance  to  this  time,'  but 
Mose  was  to  be  cross  examined,  and 
the  solicitor  drew  it  out  of  Mose 
that  he  did  not  stop  at  the  home  of 
his  uncle  on  arriving  in  Iredell  coun- 
ty, but  that  he  was  found  in  a  barn, 
two  miles  away  from  here  at  seven 
o'clock  the  next  morning,  asleep;  and 
on  being  asked  why  he  did  not  go  to 
his  uncles  as  he  was  supposed  to  have 
done,  said:  "there  was  report  of  mad 
dogs,  and  I  was  afraid  of  mad  dogs." 
Mr.  Watson  called  Mose  ■  from  the 
stand  in  disgust,  the  judge  noting  Mr. 
Watsons  discomfiture.  Mose  took  his 
seat  behind  his  counsel,  when  Mr.  Wa- 


instcad  of  mad  dogs  you  would  have 
had  some  chance,  but  as  it  is  you  are  a 
'goner;'  and  submitted  the  case  oa 
his  honors  charge.  Mose  was  found 
guilty,  and' was  sentenced  to  the  pea 
for  a  term  of  years.  Up  to  this  time 
the  joke  was  on  Mose. 

A  few  days  later  the  sheriff  took 
Mose,  with  three  negroes  on  a  forty 
mile  drive  to  Winston  to  take  the 
train  for  Raleigh,  and  it  was  on  this 
trip  down  that  the  second  part  took 
place.  One  of  the  negroes  who  was 
satisfied  and  talkative  proposed  that 
in  as  "much  as  we  all  is  dun  fer,  that 
we  have  a  sperienee  meetin'  and  all 
of  us  tell  what  brought  us  here." 
With  that  Sam  called  on  Alex  who 
said:  "dey  swo  lies  on  him,  else  he 
would  now  be  at  his  home."  John  on 
being  called  said  "Dey  would  not  low 
him  a  chantz  to  git  eny  witnesses, 
else  I  would  a  cum  cler. "  Then  Sam 
said:  "I  am  here  cause  I  am  guilty  ob 
stealing  dat  man's  meat,  dats  how  I 
cum  here."  Mose  the  white  man  not 
volunteering  anything,  Sam  said: 
"Mr.  Moses,  you'is  er  white  man,  but 
bein  as  we  all  is  told  how  we  cum 
here,  we  would  like  to  know  how  youse 
was  sent  wid  us?" 

Mose  did  not  so  much  as  lift  his 
eyes,  but  drawled  out :  "It  is  doad 
easy  how  I  come  here,  I  had  a  fool  for 
a  lawyer." 

Mr.  Watson  had  a  great  store  of 
personal  jokes,  but  perhaps  there  was 


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none  that  be  enjoyed  telling  more  titan       this  one. — Contributed. 


I  was  riding  down  the  main  street  of  an  important  town  on  Monday 
after  Christmas.  I  passed  a  limousine  car,  bearing  two  young  women 
and  two  young  men.  Both  girls  were  deeply  concerned  about  their  ap- 
pearance. Each  were  headed  for  an  afternoon  dance  in  a  public  place. 
The  girls  were  using  each  a  lip-stick.  I  knew  the  mother  of  one  of  the 
girls — she  takes  in  sewing  for  aliving  (a  perfectly  honorable  occupation) 
and  does  her  own  cooking  and  house-keeping.  Has  she  the  faintest  idea 
what  her  daughter  aspires  to? 


REWARDED   BEFORE   HAND. 

(Anonymous)  ] . 

Mr.  Balfour  was  a  busy  man,  too  busy  to  look  up  any  one  in  need  of  a  kind 
deed,  but  ever  ready  to  help  those  who  asked  it,  and  at  times  went  out  of  bis 
way  to  do  some  one  a  favor.  For  some  time  he  had  been  heavily  occupied  with 
work  needed  to  be  done,  when  on  a  certain  Friday  evening  an  old  decrept 
black  mammy  living  near  hobbled  up  to  bis  home  saying:  "Ml".  Balfour, 
I  want  to  ask  a  favor  of  you;  I  want  to  ask  you  to  get  mo  in  the  county  home. 
You  knowhow  I  am  situated,  how  my  daughter-in-law  does  not  like  me,  and 

makes  it  unpleasant  for  me,  and  they  Monday  morning  came,  and  dressed 


tell  me  there  is  a  good  place  at  the 
county  home."  He  was  at  once  in- 
terested. 

"Grandma  Jane?"  said  Mr.  Bal- 
four, "you  know  I  will  accommodate 
you  if  I  can;  I  know  how  you  are 
situated,  and  I  will  go  before  the 
County  Commissioners  Monday  morn- 
ing and  state  the  case.  I  am  afraid 
I  will  have  trouble  getting  you  in,  as 
they  may  ask  if  your  son  is  not  able 
/to  take  care  of  you,  and  after  telling 
them  bow  old  you  are  and  unable  to 
work,  I  will  have  to  plead  the  way 
you  are  being  treated,  as  the  excuse 
for  the  request." 

"I  thank  you  Mr.  Balfour,"  said 
Grandma  Jane,  "I  think  the  weather 
will  fall  soon,  and  I  want  to  get  where 
I  will  be  warm  and  "comfortable"  be- 
fore the  weather  sets  in." 


in  a  nice  new  suit,  Mr.  Balfour  layed 
aside  his  work  day  clothes,  and  went 
early  to  the  court  house.  He  seldom 
went  there  except  on  business  and 
generally  in  a  hurry,  but  this  good 
morning,  on  mercy  bent,  he  was  in  no 
hurry,  in  fact  had  to  wait  some  time, 
and  this  morning  it  seemed  that  every 
one  be  met  was  his  friend,  and  each 
vied  with  the  other  to  see  which  could 
be  the  gladcst  to  see  Mr.  Bel  four.  One 
officer  called  him  in  to  give  him  a  pa- 
per he  had  been  keeping  for  him  and 
to  thank  him  for  a  favor  done.  Anoth- 
er friend  shook  more  heartily  and 
wanted  to  know  why  he  so  seldom 
saw  Mr.  B.J  a  nicely  dressed  lady 
wanted  to  be  shown  the  sheriff's  of- 
fice, and  was  profuse  in  her  thauks 
for  kindness  done.  Another  friend 
introduced  Mr.  Belfour  to  the  wife  of 


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a  mutual  friend  ho  had  known  many  with  "Grandma  Jane"  and  her  son 
years,  and  she  was  very  gracious,  say-  and  before  two  o'clock  in  the  af tar- 
ing: "Mr.  Belfour,  I  am  delighted  to  noon  "Grandma  Jane"  and  her  be- 
kuow  you;  my  husband  and  his  broth-  longings    were   in   Mr.   Balfour's   car 

er  so  often  speak  of  you,  I  know  all  and    speeding    north    to    the    county 

you.'  relatives  in ,  many  home;  "Grandma  Jane"  saying  ever 

of  whom  I  love  as  my  own  folks,  and  and  anon,  "I  think  the  weather  will 

all  these  years  we  have  never  chanced  fall  soon,  ami  I  want  to  get  to  a  place 

to    meet."     At    every    turn    he    met  .1  can  keep  warm."     In  half  an  hour 

some   one   with   a   glad   hand,    a   kind  the  good   old   black   mammy   was   un- 

■\70rd.  loaded    and    in    a    large    brick    room, 

doing  into  the  Commissioners  room  heated  by  a  stove  in  keeping  with  the 
Mr.  Belfour  found  a  most  elegantly  size  of  the  room,  and  seated  by  this 
dressed  lady  addressing  the  Board  in  stove  was  telling  the  six  old  women- 
reference  to  the  comfort  and  prive-  of  her  age  and  color  how  glad  she  was 
leges  of  prisoners  in  jail.  She  was  to  be  there,  and  how  good  Mr.  Balfour 
eloquent,  pointed,  poised,  a  splendid  had  always  been  to  her  and  her  son. 
speaked,  who  when  she  had  finished  Being  assured  by  the  woman  in  charge 
was  informed  that  what  she  was  ask-  of  these  seven  old  decrepits  that  they 
ing  for  was  already  on  the  way  but  were  and  would  be  well  treated,  and 
that  did  not  lessen  the  beauty  or  the  that  they  had  "nothing  in  God's 
talk  or  the  aim  thai  guided  her  and  world  to  do  but  eat,  sleep,  keep  warm 
her  associates,  some  of  whom  were  Mr.  and  behave  themselves,  with  even  a 
Balfour's  friends  and  came  forward  to  man  to  make  the  fires."  Mr.  Balfour 
speak  to  him.  looked     into     the     shining     face     of 

Hanging  his  hat  and  over-coat  on  a  "Grandma  Jane"  and  saw  that  look 

convenient  nail  and  taking  a  seat,  the  of  appreciation,  and  heard  her  telling 

Chairman  of  the  Hoard  came  forward  the  others  how  good  he  had  been  to 

to  speak   and   ask   what    he   could   do,  Iter,  and  saw  how  happy  she  was;  and 

and  being  told  he  kindly  advanced  Mr.  took     this    message     to    her     people: 

Balfour    above    some    others    waiting,      "Tell  and   that   I 

and  standing  before  the  Commission-  am  sitting  by  a  big  warm  stove  with 

crs  lie  staled   the  case  of  "Grandma  plenty  to  eat  and  a  good  place  to  sleep, 

Jane"   just,   as   it    was,    and   without  and  no  one  to  fuss  at  me,"  he  felt  he 

having    thought    of    it    before,    found  was  well  repaid  for  that  part  of  the 

a  champion  of  his  case  in  one  of  his  day. 

friends  on  the  board,  and  in  less  time  Soon'   he    was    speeding    homeward 

than  it  takes  to  say  so,  the  order  was  over    a    paved    road    in    a    splendidly 

made,    the    clerk    Idled    the    necessary  working  automobile,  every  throb  of  the 

papers,  and  .Mr.  Balfour  thanking  the  motor    seemed    in    unison    with    the 

Board    was    soon   on    his    way    home.  kindly  feeling  in  Mr.  B.'s  heart.  And 

The   Chairman   having   told  him   (hat  as  he  recounted  the  many  kindnesses 

he    would    have    to    carry    his    charge  done,  of  the  responsive  chords  of  syni- 

to  the  home.  pathy  and  good  will   that   seemed  to 

At   home   he   discussed   the   matter  prevade  in  all  he  met  on  his  errand  of 


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merey;  and  when  all  had  been  accom-  just;"    sound   and   sweet;   happy   at 

plished  and  Mr.  Balfour  was  safely  in  having  taken  a  day  to  do  a  kind  deed, 

the  precincts  of  his  comfortable  home,  and   having   been   rewarded   for  the 

and  the  deeds  of  kindness  to  him  and  same  by  the  kindness  of  his  friends, 

'  those  he' had  done  Were  recounted  to  not  one  of  whom  had  the  least  idea 

his  good  wife,  he  seemed  intoxicated  of  what  had  brought  Mr.  Balfour  to 

in  the  joys  of  serving  and  being  kindly  the    court   house,    except   the    County 

served  by  those  he  had  met  that  day;  Board. 

and  for  two  hours  he  lay  sleepless  on  MORAL:     There  is  more  real  joy 

his  bed  before  the  relaxation  of  the  in  serving  than  in  being  served, 
nerves  invited  sleep;  the  "sleep  of  the 


OLD  TRUTHS  FOR  THE  NEW  YEAR. 

"Love  thyself  last:  cherish  those  hearts  that  hate  thee; 
Be  just,  and  fear  not: 

Let  all  the  ends  thou  -urn'st  at  be  thy  country's, 
Thy  God's  and  truth's."— Henry  VIII 

"Above  all:  to  thine  ownself  be  true 

And  it  must  follow,  as  the  night  the  day, 

Thou  canst  not  then  be  false  to  any  man."— Hamlet 

"The  Successful  Man  is  the  one 

"Who  does  what  he  ought  to  do, 

Whether  he  wants  to  do  it  or  not. 

-'■'Many  happy  New  Years.    Unbroken 

Friendships,  great  accumulations 

■■-  •■  Of  cheerful  recollections  and  affections 

On  earth  and  Heaven  for  us  all." — Dickens 
'■/■' 

January  first,  1922.  Sincerely  j-our  friend, '      •    * 

Durham  -       '  ...v,.         -■="•  -  "'••--  * 

-JULIAN  SHAKESPEARE  CARE. ,  | 


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Swift  Island  Bridge 


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Designer 


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Courtsy  Raleigh  News  &  Observer 


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THE  SWIFT  ISLAND  BRIDGE.    - 

By  Ben  Dixon  MacNeill,  in  News  &  Observer 

They  may  have  been  speaking  the  same  language  on  both  sides  of  the  Pte 
Dee  river  down  in  the  hinterland  of  the  Sandhill  country,  but' they  didn't  learn 
it,  these  two  neighborhoods  didn't,  from  each  other.  Stanly  county  was  as 
far  from  Montgomery  county  as  Murphy  is  from  Manteo,  had  about  as  little 
in  common  as  have  a  Roanoke  Island  fisherman  and  a  Cherokee  lumberman. 
The  river  ran  wide  and  deep  between  them. 

It    is    no   uncommon    story.     Down      move   the  two  cities   nearer  yet.     Xo 


no  uncommon 
on  the  lower  reaches  of  the  Cape 
Fear  the  sluggish  waters  of  that 
river,  uuhridged  anywhere  from 
Fayetteville  to  Wilmington,  people 
have  lived  for  a  generation  within  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  of  one  another 
without  knowing  whose  chimney 
smoke  they  saw  curling  up  of  an  even- 
ing, or  whose  calf  they  heard  lowing 
across  the  river.  Rivers  just  don't 
make  for  neighborliness,  and  this 
Pee  Dee  river  that  skirts  the  lower 
rim  of  the  foothills  is  swifter  and 
sometimes  madder  than  the  Cape  Fear. 

But  the  Pee  Dee  has  been  tamed, 
bridged  over  and  made  harmless  and 
gentle.  Montgomerians  can  cross  ov- 
er it  now  and  visit  with  their  neigh- 
bors in.  Stanly.  They  can  go  to  the 
same  church  if  they  want  to,  the  far- 
mers can  swap  pigs,  and  the  women 
folks  can  take  their  darning  and  go 
and  spend  the  afternoon  with  the  wo- 
men folks  over  in  Stanly  and  find 
out  what's  been  going  on  over  th°re 
all  these  years.  And  Stanly  can  come 
over  to  Montgomery  and  get  a  "bait," 
as  they  say  down  in  the  .Cape  Fear 
country,   of   Montgomery   peaches. 

The  bridge  is  a  great  thing,  no1, 
just  for  Stanly  and  Montgomery.  By 
its  building- Charlotte- has  been  sor: ' 
of  annexed  to  the  State  Capital.  If 
not  actually  annexed,  brought  3G  miles 
nearer,    and   may   be    something   will 


more  going  around  the  Rockingham  or 
(lie  Greensboro  elbows  to  get  from 
Raleigh  to  Charlotte,  when  one  just 
cut  across  the  country  over  as  go  hI  a 
road  as  the  commonwealth  can  boast 
of  and  save  30  miles  ami  two  hours' 
driving  time.  It  can  be  done  now  in 
live  hours  and  still  give  no  lurking 
speed  regulator  a  joyful  thrill. 

Swift  Island  is  the  name  of  the 
bridge.  It  is  eight  miles  sjuth  of 
i'.adin  and  the  greatest  aluminum 
plant  in  the  world;  not  "ar  from 
what  used  to  be  the  biggest  gold 
mine  in  America  before  the  mad  days 
of  '49  and  California;  eight  miles 
east  of  Albemarle,  the  county  seat  of 
Stanly;  17  miles  west  of  Troy,  like 
honored  in  Montgomery;  eight  miles 
north  of  Mount  Gilcad,  Montgomery '3 
principal  town.  It  is  just  about  half 
way  from.  Tennessee  to  the  Atlantic 
ocean",  and' connecting  roads  give  on 
almost  every,  highway  in  the  St  ate. 

It  is  a  picturesque  country.  Y.rest- 
boumF^tralfic  gets,  its  first  view  of 
mountains  there.  Xqt  much  moun- 
tains, to  be  sure^  compared  with  what 
they' will  begin  to  see  up  abo.it  Bridge- 
water,  but.to  the  easterner,  mountains 
that  appear  almost  as  grand-,  as  tho 
Alps  of  the  picture  books.  The 
Uwharrie  mountains,  they  are  called, 
and  in  them  was  found  the  first  gold 
in    America.     Dotted    all    over    that 


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country  arc  abandoned  shafts  that 
•ceased  to  be  paying  mines  when  gold 
got  so  plentiful  in  California.  They 
still  find  occasional  nuggets  down 
there. 

Ba'diri  is  built  where  the  Pee  Dee 
cuts  through  the  [Twharrie  moun- 
tains. Few  people  in  the  State  have 
ever  seen  that  monster  power  u-jcesop- 
ment,  the  concrete  dam  210  feet  high, 
.and  the  lake  that  has  SO  riiilea  of 
shore  line.  The  water  that  'io\7s 
through  there  develops  120,000  elec- 
trical horsepower.  It  is  tha  fi'.vst 
natural  site  for  a  dam  in  all  the  Stale. 
The  Hadin  daia  is  less  than  l,5lHi  feet 
long,  and  juts  right  up  into  the  rock 
precipices  in  the  Uwharrie  wherj  the 
Pee  Dee  cuts  through. 

Swift  Island  bridge  is  1,090  feet  and 
9  inches  long.  Contract  for  its  con- 
struction was  let  by  State  Highway 
Commissioner  Frank  Page  on  October 
18,  1920,  to  Cornell-Young  &  Co.,  of 
Macon,  Ua.,  for  $199,300.  Workmen 
threw  the  lirst  shovel  of  dirt  sixteen 
days  later,  and  the  job  was  turned  o\  • 
er  completed  the  middle  of  Decem- 
ber, 1921,  some  time  ahead  of  the 
contracted  time. 

Into  the  bridge  were  built  244  ear- 
loads  of  material.  In  it  are  22  car- 
loads of  cement,  ()0  carloads  of  sand, 
.100  carloads  of  stone  and  10  carloads 
of  structural  steel.  Timbers  and 
-other  material  make  up  the  rest  of 
the  total  cars  of  stuff  that  went  into 
it.  The  bridge  weighs  .17,772,000 
pounds. 

Three  main  spans,  each  127  feet 
long,   make   up   the   bridge  proper   as 


it  crosses  the  actual  width  of  the 
river,  and  12  approach  spans  are 
used.  It  is  the  biggest  bridge  that 
has  yet  been  built  by  the  State 
High  way  Commission.  The  AVilliani- 
ston  bridge  is  somewhat  bigger,  and 
will  cost  about  50  per  cent  more. 
Federal  roads  bureau  engineers  pro- 
nounce it  one  of  the  finest  pieces 
of  concrete  work  in  the  United 
States,  and  the  design  of  the  bridge 
without  better  anywhere. 

Plans  for  the  bridge  were  drawn 
here  in  Raleigh  by  a  man  that  the 
city  sees  on  the  streets  sometimes, 
but  a  man  whom  few  recognizes.  He 
is  William  L.  Craven,  often  spoken 
of  as  the  best  concrete  bridge  de- 
signer iu  the  L'nited  States.  He  has 
offices  in  the  Highway  Commission 
building,  and  almost  any  hour  of 
the  day,  and  often  at  night,  he  can 
be  found  there,  drawing  away.  He 
has  a  passion  for  bridges. 

C.  S.  Currier,  now  district  en- 
gineer for  the  Highway  Commission 
in  the  Seventh  District,  started  out 
as  resident  engineer  on  the  job,  and 
stayed  by  until  he  was  promoted. 
Looking  around  for  a  successor  to 
him,  Commissioner  Page  picked  a 
young  engineer,  W.  S.  Morrison,  who 
had  been  a  draftsman  in  the  bridge 
department.  It  was  he  who  trans- 
ferred Mr.  Craven's  design  to 
blue  print,  and  it  was  he  who  Mr. 
Page  sent  out  to  see  the  job  through. 
He  lived  night  and  day  on  the  job, 
and  his  brodge  is  as  good  as  the 
best. 


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THINGS  I  LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 
Number  (V)  Dirtdaubers  and  Wasps. 

Dirtdaubers  and  Wasps  are  as  perservering  and  patient  as  any  of  the  insect 
family.  The  former  seems  to  perish  with  each  season,  leaving  its  young  in  mud 
cells  to  do  its  work  the  next  year,  while  the  wasp  seeks  shelter  in  hollows,  in 
any  warm  crevice  and  lives  over  the  winter  to  begin  again  the  work  of  rearing 
young.  In  all  the  years  on  the  farm  as  we  boys  grew  to  manhood  there  were 
few  if  any  insects  that  were  of  more  interest.  And  few  things  gave  the  boys 
any  livelier  time  than  a  well  stocked  wasp  nest, 

Both  these  insects  belong  to  the 
stinger  family,  but  the  dirtdauber  nev- 
er stings  unless  handled,  saving  its  en- 
ergy in  that  line  for  the  spiders  it 
catches  by  the  score.  The  dirtdauber 
family  I  divided  into  four  sections. 
A  jet  black  one,  a  reddish  brown  and 
two  others  that  do  not  build  mud  cells, 
but  bore  holes  in  the  ground,  catch  a 
worm,  sting  it,  put  an  egg  into  its 
body  and  cover  it  tightly  in  the  hole. 
There  were  two  of  these,  one  much 
larger  than  any  other  of  the  family, 
the  second  about  the  size  of  the  first 
two,  with  a  blue  wing.  The  two  first 
mentioned  are  the  main  ones,  and  of 
which  I  desire  to  1x11  this,  mainly. 
They  come  as  soon  as  warm  weather 
dawns,  (from  the  mud  cells)  and  be- 
gin a  new  set  of  nests  or  mud  cells, 
selecting  a  place  out  of  the  way  of 
storms;  an  out  house  is  preferable. 
Then  a  place  is  found  where  water  and 
clay  are  handy.  This  they  roll  into  a 
ball  the  size  of  an  ordinary  pea,  which 
they  carry  in  their  mouths  and  paste 
into  a  semi-circle  ridge  on  the  board 
and  hurry  for  another  turn,  which  is 
placed  on  the  first  shaping  into  a  tun- 
nel, and  the  work  goes  on  from  day 
to  day;  they  making  a  noise  like  the 
contact  points  of  an  electric  battery, 
as  they  deposite  the  clay.  The  black 
dauber  builds  a  cell  about  an  inch  and 


a  naif  long  and  about  three-eighths 
of  an  inch  in  diameter  inside.  This 
finished  it  begins  to  fill  the  cell  with 
spiders,  first  laying  an  egg  in  the  lower 
end  of  the  cell.  When  full  of  spiders 
it  seals  the  cell  up  with  mud,  and  at 
once  begins  work  of  building  another 
cell  beside  and  attached  to  the  first. 
This  is  repeated  from  four  to  six 
times,  each  time  filling  with  spiders 
on  the  eggs. 

The  larger  or  brownish  dauber 
builds  of  the  same  material  in  the 
same  protected  places,  but  builds  one 
long  cell  sometimes  two,  as  long  as  six 
inches,  and  about  half  an  inch  inside. 
This  is  filled  with  a  larger  spider,  as  a 
rule,  than  the  double  cells  contain, 
and  the  egg  deposited  the  same  way. 
When  all  are  filled  they  proceed  to 
build  another  and  another  until  the 
season  is  over.  Then  they  coat  all  ov- 
er with  a  heavier  coat  of  mud  to  pro- 
tect the  young  grub  from  the  cold  of 
winter. 

The  spiders  you  find  in  these  cells 
are  varied  in  color  and  you  wonder 
where  they  came  from,  but  they  are 
there.  These  insects  are  evidently 
provided  with  a  substance  like  ether, 
which  is  also  a  preservative.  The 
spiders  keep  as  if  in  alcohol,  and  as 
soon  as  the  grub  hatches  it  begins 
to  feed  on  these  spiders,  and  by  this. 


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time  of  the  year  they  are  mostly  eaten 
and  the  young  grub,  that  will  next 
year  be  a  dauber,  is  inclosed  in  a 
brown  chrysalis,  and  about  as  long  as 
the  cell.  It  will  from  now  until  spring 
be  in  the  transition  stage;  passing 
from  a  smooth  worm  into  the  shape 
of  a  dirt  dauber.  Later  it  turns  its 
natural  color  and  gains  strength  to 
cut  out,  a  full  fledged  flyer.  The 
ground  family  are  doing  the  same 
thing,  and  will  come  out  in  spring 
ready  to  make  a  summer  of  toil  to 
propagate  its  kind.  A  dauber  is  sel- 
dom killed  by  a  spider,  but  occasional- 
ly it  gets  tangled  in  a  web  and  dies. 
The  wasp  family  I  divide  into  three 
species :  the  large  red,  the  small  brown 
and  the  ground  or  "guinea"  which 
is  striped  with  yellow.  The  first  two 
build  nests  identical  and  up  off  the 
ground  in  a  house  or  under  an  cave  or 
(most  generally)  in  the  hedges  by  the 
fields.  The  ground  or  "guinea" 
builds  in  a  sunken  place  in  the  ground 
slightly  below  the  level,  and  attached 
to  something,  and  one  never  sees  the 
nest  until  he  has  stepped  on  it  and  is 
being  chased  by  the  owners,  which 
are  bad  stingers.  All  three  build  nests 
of  fibre  from  decaying  timbers,  such 
as  fences  and  dead  trees,  which  is  no 
doubt  made  adhesive  from  a  substance 
furnished  from  the  mouth  of  the 
wasp.  First  it  builds  a  strong  stem, 
fastened  tightly  to  a  limb  or  board, 
if  in  the  house.  If  in  the  field  they  al- 
ways set  near  the  ground,  and  face 
downward  to  shed  water.  Upon  this 
stem  they  begin  to  enlarge  and  shape 
the  fibre  cells  like  the  bee  makes  honey 
cells.  As  soon  as  a  few  cells  are  start- 
ed they  begin  depositing  an  egg  in 
each,  and  as  the  egg  .hatches  and  be- 
gins to  grow  the  cell  is  built  higher 


and  other  cells  are  coming  on  all 
around  this  one,  so  that  by  the  timer 
the  first  grubs  get  their  size  there  are 
other  cells  in  all  stages,  from  those  an 
inch  high  to  those  just  starting  and 
each  cell  has  its  grub  in  all  stages  of 
growth.  Some  are  bringing  fibre, 
others  busy  bringing  small  worms  and 
other  soft  insects  which  are  fed  hour 
by  hour  to  the  grubs.  As  soon  as  the 
grub  reaches  a  certain  size  it  is  cap- 
ped over  with  same  material  and  it 
begins  to  transform  into  the  shape  of 
a  wasp.  Later  it  grows  legs  and 
wings  and  turns  brown,  and  finally 
cuts  out,  a  grown  wasp.  Thus  the 
work  proceeds  all  summer,  and  cool 
weather  always  catches  them  with 
some  cells  started  that  they  never  fin- 
ish, the  little  grubs  perishing.  If  you 
will  find  a  nest,  at  this  season,  and 
examine  it  you  will  find  it  as  I  have 
told  here,  and  you  can  also  tell  which 
of  the  cells  were  finished  and  wasps 
hatched  from.  The  stingers  are  now 
in  winter  quarters. 

Properly  speaking  the  wasp  and  the 
dauber  are  useful  insects.  The  dau- 
ber catching  poison  spiders,  the  wasp 
feeding  its  young  on  small  worms  and 
aphides  and  other  sucking  insects,  that 
are  injurious  to  plants;  but  in  spite  of 
that  it  is  a  stinger,  a  fighter,  and  the 
large  nests  being  so  often  hidden 
where  they  are  not  seen  until  the  plow 
animal  or  the  man  is  into  the  nest  and: 
being  stung,  men  have  always  fought 
the  wasp.  Nothing  gave  the  bojs  on 
the  farm  a  hotter  time  than  the  find- 
ing and  beating  down  a  wasp  nest. 
When  all  the  stingers  were  run  away 
or  killed  we  would  get  the  nest  and 
spend  lots  of  interesting  time  feed- 
ing the  larger  grubs  in  the  cells  with 
the  smaller  grubs.     In  fact  they  seem- 


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•cd  to  eat  anything  they  could  swallow,  as  was  mentioned  in  the  story  of 
All  you  had  to  do  was  to  put  the  end  "Worms  and  Butterflies."  In  worrn- 
•of  the  small  grub  in  the  mouth  of  the  ing  the  tobacco  we  would  find  a  hole 
larger  and  down  it  went  little  at  the  in  a  leaf  and  the  young  worm  gone; 
time.  I  never  filled  one.  These  young  and  often  would  see  the  wasp  carrying 
grubs  made  a  very  high  grade  of  fish  it  off. 
bait  for  sun-perch  and  such,  it  being 
ivhite  and  easily  seen  in  the  water. 

The    wasp    would    feed    the    young 
*rubs  on  young  "horn-worms,"  such 


white  and  easily  seen  in  the  water.  The    next    number    will    be    about 

lie    wasp    would    feed    the    young      Birds  and  Animals. 


We  are  but  organs  mute,  till  a  master  touches  the  keys — 
Verily,  vessels  of  earth  into  which  God  poureth  the  wine; 

Harps  are  we,  silent  harps  that  have  hung  on  the  willow  trees, 
Dumb  till  our  heartstrings  swell  and  break  with  a  pulse  divine. 

• — Anon. 


DR.  MIKE  HOKE  HONORED. 

Friends  in  Raleigh,  the  city  of  Dr.  Michael  Hoke's  birth,  will  be  interested 
and  glad  to  learn  that  he  has  recently  been  highly  honored  by  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  Atlanta,  Dr.  Hoke's  present  home,  by  having  been  awarded  a 
certificate  of  distinguished  achievement.  The  award,  which  was  the  second 
given  by  the  Atlanta  chamber,  was  made  to  Dr.  Hoke  on  account  of  his  great 
.work  as  an  orthopedic  surgeon. 

The   idea  of  presenting  certificates  Robert    F.    fluke    of    Raleigh,   and   a 

^attesting  their  beneficial  service  to  the  In-other  of  Mrs.   Alex  Webb,  of  this 

city,  the  State  and  the  world  at-large  city.     General    Hoke   was   one  of  the 

upon    two    Atlantans    each   year   was  greatest    of   the    Confederate   leaders. 

'adopted  at  the  last  1920  session  of  the  It  is  said  (hat  General  Lee  had  chosen 

board    of    directors    of    the    Atlanta  him  to  succeed  him  in  command  of  the 

Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  the  first  Confederate     forces,     should     he     be 

■awards    were    made    last    week.     The  killed. 

other  recipient  was  a  woman,  .Mrs  Dr.  Hoke  was  captain  of  the  fa- 
Samuel  Lumpkin.  The  certificates  to  mous  football  team  of  1892  at  the 
Dr.  Hoke  and  Mrs.  Lumpkin  were  in  University  of  North  Carolina.  Fol- 
the  form  of  citations  and  the  vote  for  lowing  the  game  in  Atlanta  when 
their  presentation  was  unanimous.  the   Tar   Heels   licked   the   University 

Dr.    "Mike"    Hoke    is   one   of   the  of   Virginia    2(3    to   0,   a    Confederate 

most    distinguished    of    North    Caro-  veteran    stopped    Captain    Hoke    as 

lina's   sons.     His  remarkable  success  he  left   the   field,   muddy   and  bloody 

dn  the  field  of  orthopedic  surgery  has  from  the  fray.         •     ■ 

given  him  a  nation  wide  reputation.  ■     "What's  'vour   name?"   asked   the 

Dr.  Hoke  is  a  son  of  the  late  General  veteran. 


1  HE  .UPLIFT 


23 


•Hoke"  replied  the  victorious  cap- 


tain. 


"Any  kin  to  General  IlokeV" 

"Yes,  sir;  his  son.'' 

"Well,  you  go   back  and  tell  your 


pa  that  I've  seen  the  finest  lighting- 
today  that  I've  seen  since  Chati- 
cellorsville, "  said  the  veteran!— News 
&  Observer. 


"To  work,  to  help  and  to  be  helped,  to  learn  sympathy  through  suffer- 
ing, to  learn  faith  by  perplexity,  to  reach  truth  through  wonder;  behold! 
this  is  what  it  is  to  prosper,  this  is  what  it  is  to  live." 


THE  STORY  OF  THE  CALENDAR. 

By  Erfv/in  Tarisse. 

Measurements  of  time  based  on  the  phenomena  of  nature  were  naturally  re- 
garded as  peculiarly  sacred  by  those  ancients  who  worshipped  the  heavenly 
bodies.  They  venerated  even  the  motion  of  the  stars.  This  is  not  surprising* 
to  the  open  mind.  Partial  knowledge  made  them  attentive  to  conspicuous 
rather  than  to  less  observed,  though  more  significant  phenomena.  It  was  na- 
tural that  they  should  be  impressed  by  sudden  and  brief,  but  overwhelming, 
exhibitions  more  than  by  changes  that  occupied  long  periods  and  made  slow 
progress,  requiring  extended,  systematic  observation. 

The  calendars  of  the  ancient  world      and   the  ancients  did  not  even  know 


were  based  on  the  diurnal  revolution 
of  the  earth;  on  the  phenomena  of 
sunrise,  noonday  and  sunset,  the  peri- 
odic phases  of  the  moon,  its  division 
into  four  quarters;  on  the  four  sea- 
sons with  their  wonderful  variations 
of  temperature  and  storms,  thunder 
and  dew,  seed-time  and  harvest,  and 
on  all  the  multitudinous  phenomena 
of  the  skies. 

If  we  should  suppose,  however,  that 
the  primitive  races  were  without 
knowledge  as  the  results  of  observa- 
tion, or  devoid  of  interest  in  science, 
we  should  be  in  error:  They  may  have 
been  quite  as*  Scientific'  in  spirit  as 
ourselves,  though  they  had  fewer  in- 
struments 'for  scientific  p"itrsuit.  They 
were'il'ot'e'qiiippe'd  as  we'are.  The  solar 
year '  wlis  not'1  accurately'  'determined 
'  unf  11  the  sixt'ee'ilth  Christian  century, 
~'y .Jiia-.;'i lilr'r  i   ',.'s   ■•'lO'-.'^'KJ-    ■ 


that  the  earth  had  a  motion  round  the 
sun;  yet  the  Egyptians  of  four  thou- 
sand years  ago  had  fixed  the  year  as 
a  period  of  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
live  days,  divided  so  accurately  and 
wisely  that  it  was  copied  by  the  French 
Commune  a  little  over  a  century  ago- 
as  being  the  perfection  of  year  di- 
visions, and  the  Chaldeans  had  a  year 
of  twelve  months  two  thousands  years- 
before  that. 

The  day  was  the  simplest  of  all  ca- 
lendar periods.  Some  of  the  most 
civilized  nations  of  antiquity  had  no 
hours,  but  only  such  divisions  as  were 
understood  by  the  terms,  "dawn," 
"forenoon,"  "afternoon,"  "twi- 
light," "evening,"  and  the  foirr 
watches''  of  the  night.  The  ancient 
Greeks'  divided  the  day  and  the  night 
each  into  twelve  equal  parts,  and,  a's 


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the  parts  were  variable  in  duration, 
.'according  to  the  season  of  the  year, 
they  were  called  temporary  hours, 
summer  hours,  winter  hours,  etc.  The 
Jews  had  hour  divisions  for  the  day, 
but  many  of  the  ancients  had  none. 

The  origin  of  the  week  is  obscure. 
We  cannot  find  any  account  of  its  be- 
ginning. It  was  probably,  at  first, 
regarded  as  a  quarter  of  the  moon  and 
there  is  little  doubt  that  this  was  its 
origin.  Its  motions  were  regarded  as 
sacred,  its  phases  were  observed  by 
everybody.  Naturally,  one  way  of  de- 
scribing them  was  by  stating  what 
fraction  of  the  disk  was  illuminated 
or  any  particular  night.  They  did 
not  understand  the  progressive  in- 
crease and  decrease  of  the  moon's 
bright  face,  and  had  not,  like  the 
moderns,  lost  their  interest  in  lunar 
phenomena. 

Many  of  the  ancients  had  no  week 
in  their  calendar.  The  Greeks,  for 
instance,  had  none,  nor  the  Romans, 
until  after  the  reign  of  Theodosius. 
In  fact,  our  own  forefathers  borrowed 
the  week  from  the  daj-s  of  the  month 
backward  from  Orientals,  and  gave 
its  days  the  names  of  their  own  de- 
ities. The  people  of  the  . .  ast  num- 
bered the  days  of  the  week.  The  Ro- 
mans, who  had  no  week,  numbered  the 
•calends,  the  nones  and  the  ides. 

The  beginning  of  the  day  has  va- 
ried with  different  peoples.  The  Chal- 
deans reckoned  their  day  from  sunrise, 
the  Egyptians  and  Greeks  from  mid- 
night, and  we  follow  the  example  of 
the  Greeks  in  this  matter.  The  be- 
ginning of  the  week  has  also  varied. 
'The  Egyptian  week  began  with  Sat- 
urday, the  Hebrew  week  with  Sunday. 
:Arc  -we  sure  that  the  Jews  in  chang- 
ing the  beginning  of  the  day  and  the 


beginning  of  the  week  did  not  also 
change  the  identity  of  some  of  the 
days  ?  Is  our  first  day  of  the  week 
in  this  twentieth  century  the  same 
day  as  was  accounted  the  first  of  the 
week  by  Hammurabi,  King  of  ancient 
Babylon,  or  by  Moses  when  he  kept 
the  flocks  of  Jethro  on  the  pastures 
of  Horeb?  Is  it  the  same  as  the  first 
day  of  the  Egyptian  week  known  to 
Rameses  II  in  Heliopolis  and  Thebes? 
Romulus  established  a  year  of  ten 
months,  following,  it  is  said,  the  an- 
cient Alban  year.  Each  of  these 
months  was  of  the  duration  of  a 
moon's  age,  so  that,  if  we  omit  the 
added  days,  which  were  outside  the 
ten  months,  the  year  of  Romulus 
would  be  less  than  three  hundred  days 
in  length.  Did  these  added  days  have 
names  when  the  other  days  of  the  year 
had  none?  It  is  not  likely.  The  Ro- 
mans had  no  week  and  no  week  days. 
There  could  be  no  names  for  days  if 
there  were  no  months  in  these  added 
days  of  the  early  Roman  calendar. 
This  seems  to  be  an  interesting  field 
investigation.  It  is  well  known  that 
the  Chaldeans  (Accadians)  had  the 
week  in  their  system  3800  B.  C.J  that 
the  Egyptians  had  it  2000  B.  C. ;  that 
the  Hebrews  had  it  1300  B.  C;  yet 
the  Romans  had  no  week  whose  days 
correspond  with  the  days  of  the  mod- 
ern Jewish  week.  How  did  it  come 
about  that  our  first  day  of  the  week 
is  the  same  as  that  of  the  Jews?  The 
strong  probability  is  that  the  Jews  got 
their  week  from  the  Babylonians  or 
the  Egyptians,  and,  no  doubt,  we  got 
it  in  turn  from  them.  The  only  doubt 
arises  in  the  question  as  to  whether 
the  Hebrews  would  not  purposely 
■change  the  days  of  their  hated  cap- 
tors and  oppressors,  as  they  changed 


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the  first  day  of  the  week  from  Satur- 
day to  Sunday,  and  the  beginning  of 
the  day  from  midnight  to  sunset. 

The  year  has  been  a  more  difficult 
problem  than  any  of  the  periods  here- 
tofore named.  This  is  because  of  its 
natural  division  into  a  fractional 
number  of  days  and  moon  revolutions. 
The  celestial  wheels  have  no  cogs. 
The  earth  travels  a  little  too  slowly 
for  the  convenience  of  the  makers  of 
calendars.  If  it  completed  its  solar 
revolution  in  3G1  days  instead  of  in  a 
little  over  3G5  days — apparently  an 
easy  task — we  should  have  a  year 
consisting  of  exactly  fifty-two  seven- 
day  weeks,  and  Xew  Year's  Day  would 
no  longer  be  a  vagrant  through  the 
week,  as  it  is  at  present. 

The  Jewish  year  has  always  been, 
like  that  of  the  Babylonians,  one  of 
twelve  lunar  months  and  one  inter- 
calary month  added,  when  necessary, 
to  keep  the  year  in  proper  relation 
with  the  seasons.  At  first  the  em- 
bolisniic  year  was  added  once  in 
about  every  three  years.  In  later 
times  seven  months  were  introduced 
in  the  course  of  every  nineteen  years. 

The  ancient  Arabian  calendar  was 
purely  lunar.  Its  year  consisted  of 
twelve  lunar  months,  with  no  interca- 
lation to  keep  them  in  constant  seaso- 
nal relation.  Their  year  retrogressed 
through  the  four  seasons  in  about 
thirty-two  and  a  half  years.  Arabian 
or  Mohammedan  years  are  arranged 
in  cycles  of  thirty,  ninety-one  of  which 
are  common  years  of  three  hundred 
and  fifty-four  days  each,  and  eleven 
are  intercalary  years  with  an  ad- 
ditional day  appended  to  the  last 
month.  This  brings  the  average  du- 
ration of  the  Mohammedan  month  to 
within  2.8  seconds  of  an  astronomical 


mean  lunation,  an  error  which  would! 
amount  to  a  day  in  about  2,400  years. 
China,  like  nearly  all  the  Eastern 
nations,  has  a  lunar  calendar.  The 
months  are  alternately  twenty-nine 
and  thirty-days  in  duration,  and  be- 
gin when  the  moon  is  between  the  sun 
and  the  earth.  The  }*ear  begins  and 
ends  when  these  three  bodies  are  in 
the  same  relation.  The  Chinese  add 
a  thirteenth  month  to  the  year  after 
every  thirty  lunations.  Such  a  plan 
does  not  keep  the  year  in  consonance 
with  the  seasons.  Therefore  instruc- 
tions have  to  be  issued  relating  to 
planting,  reaping,  fishing,  and  hunting. 
This  accounts  for  the  great  bulk  of 
the  Chinese  almanac,  which  is  said  to 
have  the  largest  circulation  of  any 
book  in  the  world.  •  The  common 
twelve-month  year  contains  necessari- 
ly three  hundred  and  fifty-four  days. 
In  ancient  times  the  Chinese  years 
were  named  after  certain  animals. 
Even  the  hours  were  so  named.  A 
Chinaman  will  sometimes  even  yet  tell 
you  he  was  born  in  the  dragon  year  or 
in  the  dog  year.  Clocks  are  still 
running  which  strike  the  hours  of  the 
rat  or  the  horse.  Expressions  such  as 
"before  horse"  or  "after  horse," 
meaning  before  or  after  noon,  were  in 
use.  Noon  was  "full  horse"  in  the  old 
days. 

A  few  words  as  to  our  own  calendar. 
Our  day  names  were  derived  from  the 
Scandinavians.  The  week  came  to  us 
from  the  Jews,  the  month  and  the  year 
from  the  Romans.  Xo  institution  was 
ever  more  subject  to  whim  and  caprice 
than  the  Roman  calendar.  The  ten 
months  of  Romulus  became  twelve  un- 
der. Xuma,  who  added  January  and 
February.  The  year  was  now  one  of 
three    hundred    and    lifty-four    days,- 


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ftaving  twelve  months  of  twenty-nine 
and  thirty  days  alternately.  Then  a 
•clay  was  added  to  make  the  number 
odd  because  odd  numbers  were  ac- 
counted more  propitious.  A  mouth 
of  "twenty-two  and  twenty-three  days 
alternately  was  intercalated  between 
the  23d  and  the  24th  of  February  in 
every  second  year.  The  average  num- 
ber of  days  in  the  year  was  now  366%. 
Later  the  intercalary  month  was  omit- 
ted in  every  twenty-four  year.  The 
transaction  made  the  year  aver- 
age almost  solar. 

Alter  this  the  priests  seem  to  have 
had  power  to  increase  or  diminish  the 
days  of  any  year  at  will  under  any 
plausible  pretext.  Their  plan  was 
to  postpone  an  event  or  hasten  it  with- 
out changing  its  date.  They  inter- 
calated days  at  will.  No  one  knew 
just  when  a  year  would  begin  or  end. 
This  continued  until  Julius  Ciesar 
found  the  year  A.  U.  C.  707  so  disor- 
dered that  it  was  necessary  to  add  two 
months,  though  it  was  already  a  year 
of  thirteen  mouths.  He  thus  made  it 
a  year  of  fifteen  months,  being  455 
days. 

The  average  year  was  now  fixed  at 
SGSVi  days  by  giving  the  odd  months 
31  days  and  the  even  ones  30.  The 
exceptions  to  this  rule  were  the  com- 
mon years  when  February  had  only 
twenty-nine  days.  Even  now  the 
priests  seemed  not  to  have  had  enough 
intelligence  to  carry  out  Caesar's  or- 
ders, and  their  mistakes  had  to  be 
corrected  in  the  next  reign.  But  Aug- 
ustus, wishing  to  be  accounted  a  pa- 
tron of  science,  imitated  Julius  Ciesar 
by  having  August  named  in  his  honor, 
as  July  had  been  named  after  his  pre- 
decessor. 

But  August  had  only  thirty  days, 


and  July  had  thirty-one.  AVhy  should 
file  month  of  August  tie  briefer  than 
the  month  of  Julius?  This  was  an 
indignity  not  to  be  suffered,  so  another 
day  was  taken  from  the  already  long- 
suffering  February  and  added  to  Aug- 
ust. Then,  that  there  should  not  be 
three  thirty-ono-days  in  one  quarter, 
one  day  of  September  was  pushed  on 
into  October,  and  the  31st  of  Novem- 
ber was  pushed  on  into  December, 
and  lo,!  we  had  our  calendar.  It  has 
always  been  called  the  Julian  cal- 
endar, but  if  the  great  Ciesar  had 
known  what  anomalies  his  sueeesor 
had  introduced,  he  would  have  dis- 
owned it,  and  the  least  the  world 
should  have  done  was  to  have  restored 
the  Julian  calendar  to  the  state  in 
which  Julius  Ciesar  intended  it  to  re- 
main. This  should  be  done  now,  some 
scientists  contend,  and  without  the 
least  delay.  The  Julian  calendar  is 
clumsy  enough  with  all  the  improve- 
ments of  the  Gregorian  reforms,  with- 
out the  silly  meddlings  which  have 
made  it  a  curio  for  all  time. 

The  Gregorian  amendments  to  the 
calendar  are  described  in  a  thousand 
books,  almanacs  and  encyclopaedias, 
and  though  a  worthy  and  helpful  re- 
form, need  not  be  explained  here. 
Just  this  observation,  however  may  be 
made.  We  speak  of  the  Julian  and 
Gregorian  calendars.  Ciesar  and  Greg- 
ory were  the  instruments  by  which 
these  were  adopted  and .  are  to  be 
commended.  Perhaps  it  is  well  to  re- 
member, however,  that  the  astronomer 
Sosigenes  was  the  author  of  the  Julian 
calendar,  and  that  the  Italian  phy- 
sician Aloysius  Lilus,  devised  'the 
Gregorian  reform,  but  died  before  its 
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God  may  not  notice  when  a  king 
Ascends  a  throne  or  lies  in  state; 
He  may  not  watch  when  couriers  bring 
The  news  that  seals  a  nation's  fate, 
But  he  who  rules  the  cloud  and  wave 
And  sets  the  stars  in  place  beholds 
Ands  sheds  His  grace  upon  the  brave 
Who  bears  the  lost  lambs  to  the  folds. 

It  matters  little  when  the  proud 
Have  reason  to  forget  their  pride, 
But  when  the  roaring  storm  is  loud 
It  matters  much  to  turn  aside 
And  lift  the  fallen  and  the  weak, 
To  shield  the  crippled  from  distress, 
To  cheer  the  hungry  and  to  seek 
The  lost  lambs  in  the  wilderness. 

The  days  are  brief,  the  nights  are  long, 
And  tearful  children  ask  for  bread, 
But  if  the  grasp  of  Greed  is  strong, 
Good  Will  and  Kindness  are  not  dead! 
The  rich  forget  a  while  to  care 
Too  much  for  power  or  pride  or  gold, 
And,  here  and  there,  have  time 'to  bear 
A  lost  lamb  gently  to  the  fold. 

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By  Robert  Loticman 

God  toss'd  the  stars  away 

Then  made  another  day; 

And  tiring  of  the  light 

He  rears  another  night; 

He  speeds  the  untamed  comets  on 

Beyond  the  purple  dusk  and  dawn, 

New  orbs  he  whirls 

Like  lustrous  pearls 

Down  the  byways  of  the  highways  of  the  skyways; 

Ever  mating  and  creating; 

Content  a  moment  with  a  firmament, 

Then  fair  and  rare,  up  poised  in  air, 

He  makes  anew  drenched  in  dew 

A  fresh  and  fragrant  rose-world, 

Ocean  girdled,  cloud  encurled; 

He  mingles  loves  and  woes  and  spheres, 

Joy,  hope  and  hate,  immortal  fears; 

Ever  mating  and  creating; 

So  it  hath  been  and  so  shall  be, 

Through  infinite  eternity. 


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(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 


Mr.  D.  H.  Pitts,  formerly  an  offi- 
cer here,  came  back  to  spend  the 
Christmas  holidays  with  us. 

Miss  Mary  H.  Latimer,  matron, 
at  third  cottage,  has  returned  after 
a  very  much  enjoyed  short  stay  wi'h 
her  friends  and  relatives  in  South 
Carolina. 

The  societies  have  now  re-opened 
with  renewed  vigor  for  the  next 
year's  work.  From  the  present  out- 
look of  things  somethihg  must  be 
accomplished  within  the  next  twelve 
months  with  all  the  enthusiasm  that 
the  boys  are  putting  into  it. 

Every  chance  we  get,  the  force 
goes  out  to  work  on  the  terraces  on 
our  farm.  This  work  has  been  bad- 
ly needed  here.  We  make  some  each 
year  and  by  this  means,  it  will  not 
be  long  before  our  whole  farm  will 
be  pretty  well  terraced. 

The  New-Year  has  begun  with 
much  activity  in  all  department.  It 
seems  as  though,  every  one  has  made 
a  new  resolution  to  accomplish  more 
good  this  year  than  in  any  previous 
year  in  the  history  of  the  Jackson 
Training  School.  It  is  hoped  that 
the  spirit  may  be  carried  through 
the  entire  year  at  it  has  begun. 

From  the  number  of  boxes  of  can- 
ned goods  that  have  been  placed  in 
the  store  room,  we  have  nr>  fears 
of  going  hungry  during  the  winter. 
"With    peanuts    as   a  special — white 


beans,  pork  and  beans, limas,  hominy, 
etc.,  make  up  the  substantials.  We 
will  rest  easy  during  the  winter  re- 
gardless of  the  weather. 

Victor  High,  George  Howard, 
Waldo  Shinn,  William  Chalk,  Car- 
lyle  Hardie,  Lambert  Cavenaugh, 
John  Edwards,  Swift  Davis,  Clyde 
Willard,  Jackson  McLellf.n,  Ernest 
Allen,  Malcolm  Holman,  Doyle  Jack- 
son, Columbus  Meade,  and  Edward 
Cleaver,  Chas.  Mayo,  were  very 
much  pleased  to  receive  visits  from 
home  folks  Wednesday. 

Rev.  Mr.  Myers,  of  Concord, 
came  out  and  held  services  for  us 
Sunday.  He  preached  an  excellent 
sermon  and  chose  for  his  text:  "For 
ye  know  the  grace  of  our  Lord  Je- 
sus Christ,  that,  though  He  was  rich, 
yet  for  your  sakes  He  became  poor, 
that  _ve  through  His  poverty  might 
be  rich."  The  feature  of  the  ser- 
vice was  the  singing  of  some  girls 
from  Concord.  We  are  always  glad 
to  have  anybody  come  out  and  help 
us  in  our  religious  worship. 

January  is  here  again.  Well,  what 
of  it?  It  is  a  joy  to  those  who  have 
followed  the  straight  and  narrow 
path.  Jarvis  Quinn,  of  Bessemer 
City,  left  a  few  days  ago  with  an 
honorable  parole  in  his  pocket. 
While  at  the  school,  he  made  a  re- 
cord that  anyone  would  be  proud  of; 
though,  at  times  he  would  take  a 
dislike  toward  the  school  and  would 
leave  the  campus  for  a  while,  but 
he  would  always  return.  Master 
Quinn  left  the  school  with  the  high- 
est honors  and  it  is  hoped  he  will 
continue  to  live  the  life  he  has  start- 
ed. He  has  the  best  wishes  of  suc- 
cess and  happiness  from  the  boys  of 
the  Jackson  Training  School. 


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Christmas  at  the  J.  T.  S. 

By  Swift  Davis. 

Usually  upon  telling  of  a  Christ- 
mas celebration  it  is  best  to  begin 
a  few  days  before  that  time.  I  start 
at  the  time  when  all  of  the  boys 
wrote  home.  Each  of  the  boys  ex- 
pressed his  personal  desire  in  his 
letter  to  his  home  folks.  Some  were 
for  money  to  use  in  buying  presents; 
others  were  gifts  of  various  practical 
use. 

A  few  days  after  this  time  boxes 
of  every  description  began  to  arrive. 
The  vehicle  in  which  the  postman 
brings  our  mail  fairly  groaned  with 
the  weight  of  different  articles.  As 
days  passed,  each  boy's  eager  expec- 
tancy was  gratified.  The  boys  were 
told  of  the  arrival  of  their  boxes 
and  they  were  asked  if  they  wanted 
to  open  it  then  or  save  it  until  Christ- 
mas. Some  were  opened,  somp  were 
saved,  but  on  Christmas  day  the  boys 
were  too---yes,  "full"  is  what  the 
boys  say---to  open  their  boxes  until 
after  Christmas. 

After  much  tedious  waiting  Xmas 
Eve  finally  arrived.  On  that  .night 
we  had  our  entertainment  and  these 
boys  did  themselves  so  much  honor 
they  deserve  to  be  mentioned;  Lon- 
nie  Walker,  Vass  Fields,  Everett 
Goodrich,  Dudley  Spangle,  James 
Alexander,  Victor  High,  Carlyle 
Bardie  and  the  last  being  Sam  Tay- 
lor whose  oratorial  abilities  have 
been  mucu  spoken  of  before  in  this 
magazine. 

Carlyle  Hardieone  of  the  smallest 
boys  at  the  school  made  the  biggest 
"hit"  of  the  night  in  his  speech  of 
"Is  Santa  Married?''  He  said  Santa, 
was' married  t'o  Mary.  Mary  who?. 
Mary  (Merry)'  Christmas. 

The  boys  each  received  a   bag    of 


candy  and  other  various  sweet  meats- 
appealing  to  their  palates.  There 
was  a  sample  tube  of  Colgate's  Dent- 
al Cream  in  the  bag  and  a  card  re- 
questing the  signatures  and  promises, 
of  the  boys  to  keep  their  teeth  clean, 
by  washing  them  daily.  I  am  glad 
to  say  the  majority  of  the  boys 
signed  this  pledge  and  are  keeping- 
tbeir  teeth  clean,  because  this  is  an- 
essential  of  health.  The  boys  went 
to  bed  that  night  in  a  very  happy 
frame  of  mind.  Why  shouldn't  they 
be? 

As  most  writers  say,  Xmas  dawn- 
ed bright  and  cheerful.  So  it  was 
the  case  this  lime.  After  breakfast 
the  boys  whose  boxes  still  remained 
unopened  now  had  the  pleasure  of 
opening  theirs.  Exclamations  of 
delight  came  from  every  corner  of 
the  room  as  here  and  tl  ere  a  useful' 
present  was  disclosed  to  view.  As 
this  day  was  Sunday  quiet  and  order- 
ruled  supreme.  After  Sunday  School 
we  had  dinner.  Such  a  dinner  most 
boys  bad  never  seen  before.  Tabels 
were  laden  with  all  sorts  of  good 
eats,  there  is  no  use  of  naming  al!  of 
the  good  and  delicious  edibles  for  it 
wouldgtake  up  to  much  room,  suffice 
to  say  the  boys  left  the  dining  room 
feeling  as  though  they  could  eat  no 
more  for  a  week.  Church  was  on 
the  program  for  the  evening. 

Supt.  Boger  very  generously  al- 
lowed the  boys  three  holidays  in 
which  thev  delighted,  'the  Junior 
Circle  of  the  King's  Daughters  paid 
us  a  visit  Monday  and  brought  gifts 
of  candy.  Vass  Fields  one  of  our 
reliable  speakers  delivered  a  very 
creditable  vote  of  thanks  to  them 
for  all  tbeir  past  kindnesses:  •  t 

Tuesday  the  boys  had  a  big  bon-, 
fire  in  an  open  place  in  the  Woods, 
especially  selected  for  this  purpose. 


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The  boys  all  feel  that  Christmas 
is  a  fine  time  not  only  for  the  pur- 
pose of  having  good  things  but  be- 
cause their  Ideal,  the  most  perfect 
man  ever  known  or  ever  will  be 
known,  Jesus  Christ,  was  born  on 
that  day.  ~sl 

The  boys  retired  Wednesday 
night,  ready  to  do  their  full  duty 
the  following  m  >rning  and  so  ended 
the  best  time  of  the  year. 


HONOR  ROLL. 

Month  ending  Dec.  31st,  1921. 

There  apoears  below  something 
that  will  make  the  fathers  and 
mothers  of  the  boys  whose  names 
appear  feel  good.  The  honor  roll  is 
kept  and  published  every  month. 
The  Class  "A"  are  those  whose  con- 
duct has  been  such  that  their  names 
are  worthy  to  be  enrolled.  The  Class 
'B"  are  those  who  have  made  just 
one  slip  during  the  month. 
"A" 

Henry  B.  Faucette,  Sam  A.  Taylor, 
Swift  B.  Davis,  James  W.  Gray, 
Bertram  Hart,  Robert  Pool,  Eldert 
Perdue,  Victor  R.  High,  William  F. 
Gregory,  James  Honeycutt,  Jarvis 
Quinn,  Jack  McLeland,  Doyle  Jack- 
son, Muriy  Evans.  Clyde  Willard, 
Alley  Williams,  Edward  Cleaver, 
Harry  Sims,  Dudley  Pangle,  Chas. 
Mayo,  Floyd  Huggins,  Arthur  Mont- 
gomery, Fitzhue  Miller,  John 
Moose,  Vass  Fields,  Herbert  Orr, 
Ernest  Carver,  Autry  Wilkerson, 
Dohme  Manning,  Jake  Willard, 
Rufus  Wrenn,  Everett  Goodrich, 
Oscar  Johnson. 


"B" 
William  Chalk,  Magnus  Wheeler, 
Walter  Brockwell,  Marion  Butler, 
Ellis  Nance,  Malcom  Holman,  Hoyle 
Faulkner,  Walter  Shepherd,  VVeldon 
Creasman,  Roy  Baker,  Woodard 
Edmunson,  John  Wright,  Fred  Blue, 
Waido  Sliinn,  Edward  Thomas, 
Howard  Gilbert,  Anderson  Hart.  Joe 
Kennon,  Julian  Piver,  Albert  Keever, 
Willie  Morris,  Charlie  Bishop,  Ralph 
Goins,  John  EJwards,  Lonnie  Walk- 
er, GLrnn  Reddick,  Marshal  Will- 
iams, James  Suther,  Hubert  Yar- 
boro,  Henry  Reece,  Grover  Cook, 
Raymond  Scott,  Joseph  Pope,  Sid- 
ney Cook. 


Death  >f  Mrs.  W.  D.  Anthony. 

Mrs.  Sallie  Miller  Anthony,  one  of 
Concord's  most  estimable  aad  elder- 
ly ladies,  died  early  Tuesday  morn- 
ing. Had  she  lived  until  the  9th  of 
this  month  she  would  have  reached 
her  77th  birthday.  She  leaves  no 
brother  nor  sister,  her  husband  died 
years  ago  and  about  seven  years  ago 
her  only  child,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Rennet, 
passed  away. 

Mrs.  Anthony,  a  great  lover  of 
flowers,  having  in  her  own  yards 
the  largest  variety  of  flowers  in  this 
entire  section,  a  few  weeks  ago  fell 
--fell  amongst  these  flowers  she 
loved  so  well  and  tenderly,  struck 
down  by  paralysis.  This  was  the  be- 
gining  of  the  end  of  a  beautiful  life 
of  service,  faith  and  friendship.  Her 
love  for  a  gojd  cause,  for  a  friend--- 
the  intensest  loyalty---among  her 
other  many  ennobling  qualities, 
marked  her  as  a  superior  being. 


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t  soul  of  man.  If  you  listen  and  obey  it,  then  ,»  wrfl  speak 
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*  tie  by  little,  and  leave  you  all  in  the  dark  w.thout  a  gu.de. 
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public  welfare,  liberal  thought  or  peace  through  justice. 

The  amount  expected  of  North  Carolina  is  §35,000.00,  and  Mrs.  Josephus 
Daniels,  of  Raleigh,  has  been  chosen  chairman  to  direct  the  campaign  in 
this  state.  Already  she  has  received  encouraging  amounts,  and  yet  the 
campaign  is  set  to  formally  begin  on  the  16th.  This  is  a  most  worthy  un- 
dertaking, recognizing  as  it  does  the  patriotic  services  of  Woodrow  Wilson, 
twice  president  of  the  United  States. 


ANOTHER  CAMPAIGN 


Governor  Morrison  is  credited  in  the  public  press  as  having  declared, 
"that  too  many  people  in  North  Carolina  are  still  living  on  white  side  meat, 
poor  grade  molasses  and  corn  bread."  And,  accordingly,  he  announces  a 
home  garden  campaign  to  be  conducted  in  the  State  by  the  State  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  and  extension  workers.  1  he  Governor  is  eternally  right- 
there  are  "John  Smiths"  in  a  section  quite  familiar  to  us  that  do  not  have 
in  any  appreciable  quantities  the  trio— the  white  side  meat  is  absent  nirie- 
tenths  of  the  meals.  Any  kind  of  molasses  and  all  kinds  of  corn-bread  would 
sooner  oi  later  kill  a  billy-goat.  • 

Anticipating  this  garden  campaign,  Hickory  folks  are  exhibiting  a  peck- 


4  .  THE  UPLIFT 

size  turnip  and  singing-  the  praises  of  the  producer,  J.  W.  Starnes.  It  i.-? 
claimed  that  his  turnip,  weighing  nine  pounds  less  an  ounce,  fills  a  peck 
measure.  Shucks!  Within  a  hundred  yards  of  this  print-shop  our  young- 
sters have  a  patch  of  turnips  where  you  can  find  seven  or  eight  turnips 
that  would  fill  a  peek  measure. 

If  Governor  Morrison's  campaign  results  in  causing  the  "John  Smiths" 
to  keep  a  cow,  a  hog,  a  garden  and  to  continuously  swat  the  fly  and  use 
lots  of  pure,  clean  water,  he  will  have  accomplished  a  monumental  tasK 
and  rendered  an  undying  service  to  his  state.  Ihis  can  only  be  accomplish- 
ed by  giving  more  substantial  support  to  the  Home  and  Farm  Demonstra- 
tors and  to  the  unceasing  encouragement  of  All-Time  health  nurses  and 
County  Welfare  Woikers.  They  are  the  ones  to  carry  the  message  and  to 
fight  ignorance  and  indifference. 

The  light  of  truth  and  knowledge  must  be  made  !o  shine  brightly. 

SURROUNDING  US. 

The  Uplift  has  a  cordial  invitation  from  Supt.  Reap,  of  the  public  schools 
of  Stanly  county,  to  join  him  and  the  patrons  on  the  16th  on  occasion  of 
the  opening  of  Fair  View  School,  located  by  Millingport  on  the  Concord- 
Albemarle  road,  seven  or  eight  miles  beyond  Mt.  Pleasant.  "This  is  the 
first,"  writes  Mr.  Reap,  "of  our  consolidated  school  buildings  of  the  larg- 
er type  to  be  completed  and  we  are  planning  a  brief  but  attractive  pro- 
gramme. We  shall  have  one  large  truck  and  five  teachers  working  in  the 
school  the  remainder  of  the  year."  All  this  progress  and  activity  going 
on  around  Cabarrus,  makes  one  feel  as  if  he's  missed  the  train.  Give  it 
to  old  Stanly---her  strides  the  past  ten  years  are  strides,  such  as  live  men 
make! 


POE'S  TEN  DECLARATIONS. 

Clarence  Poe,  of  the  Progressive  Farmer,  issues  a  statement  carrying  ten 
points  of  Agricultural  and  Rural  Freedom.  Read  them,  and  honestly  go 
to  thinking  just  how  far  the  rural  sections  are  now  removed  from  the 
possibility  ot  enjoying  the  benefits  of  a  single  one  of  them. 

There  are  rare  exceptions  in  certain  communities  where  a  part  of  these 
blessings  touch,  but  not  in  such  a  way  as  to  enhance  the  desire  to  remain  in 
the  country.  Nearly  everything  put  into  the  hands  of  the  average  school 
child  emphasizes  the  beauty  and  advantages  of  town  living  or  the  worship 


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of  myths,  and  he  is  left  to  his  own  ingenuity  and  skill  to  find  out  the 
beauties  and  joys  cf  rural  life.  The  subject  matter  of  the  readers  which 
he  is  enforced  to  use,  must  give  the  average  country  child  a  queer 
feeling,  if  not  confound  him.     But  listen  to  Poe: 

1.  The  farmer  is  entitled  to  just  as  good  wages  for  his  labor  as 
others  get. 

2.  He  isentitled  to  just  as  good  livhg  c  mditions  for  himself  and  his 
family  as  others  enjoy. 

3.  His  children  are  entitled  to  just  as  good  educational  advantages 
as  other  children  have. 

5.  He  is  entitled  to  just  as  much  liberty  of  action  in  organizing1 
for  selling  his  products  and  for  regulating  production  to  meet  market 
demands  a-r  other  classes  exercise. 

6.  He  is  entitled  to  just  as  efficient  and  adaptable  service  from 
the  country's  banking  and  financial  institutions  as  other  classes  get. 

7.  He  is  entitled  to  taxation,  tariff:',  and  transportation  policies  which 
will  deal  just  as  fairly  with  agriculture  as  with  any  other  business  and 
occupation. 

9.  He  is  entitle  to  a  civilization,  culture,  educational  system,  litera- 
ture, art,  drama,  etc.,  which]  will  recognize,  reflect  and  utilize  the 
cultural  influences  of  country  life  and  i^s  environment  in  the  same 
degree  in  which  present  day  culture  recognizes  and  reflects  the  influ- 
ences of  urban  life. 


LITTLE  SHOP-TALK. 

The  Uplift  goes  to  quite  a  number  of  friends  and  acquaintances,  with 
this  issue,  thoughout  the  Sh.ate.  It  is  a  polite  invitation  to  all,  who  receive 
it,  to  become  a  subscriber  during  the  coming  year.  This  support  will  mean 
<mcouragment  to  the  printer  boys,  tc  the  institution  which  it  represents, 
and  master  Faucette,  who  reports  the  institutional  items,  insists  that  The 
Uplift  going  to  anyone  address  every  week  for  a  whole  year  is  a  bargain 
at  two  dollars  and,  therefore,  a  fine  in/estment.  In  this,  he  has  the  en- 
dorsement of  the  other  printer  boys   and ,  oh,  well,  just  send  in  your 

subscription  to  The  Uplift,  Concord,  N.  C.f  and  try  out  this  statement. 


"Where  North  Carolina  sits"  is  surely  at  the  head  of  the  table.  Little 
by  little  the  findings  of  the  census  ofjl920  are  coming  out,  and  in  every  de- 
partment of  human  endeavor  the  good  old  state  has  passed  by  others  and 
gone  higher.  In  her  resources  she  has  long  been  a  marvel.  Add  another  to 
the  long  list  of  her  natural  resources.  Elsewhere  in  The  Uplift  is  a  story 


6  THE  UPLIIFT 

of  the  establishment  of  the  fact  that  there  is  in  the  slate  tin  ore  of  sur- 
passing quality  and  in  seemingly  inexhaustible  quantities.  The  Carolina 
Tin  Company,  organized  and  financed  by  practical  and  successful  business- 
men, has  done  North  Carolina  a  great  service. 


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The  Uplift  is  never  happier  than  when  it  can  present  to  its  readers  the 
faces  and  stories  of  North  Carolina  fulks,  who  are  playing  important  parts 
in  the  affairs  of  the  state.  We  asked  Miss  Coltrane  to  give  us  an  Appre- 
ciation of  Mrs.  W.  N.  Reynolds,  Winston-Salem,  one  of  North  Carolina's 
most  superior  women,  who  never  loses  an  opportunity  to  render  wise  ser- 
vice in  solving  the  many  problems  that  cancern  the  betterment  of  the 
commonwealth.  Miss  Coltrane  has  done  The  UPLIFT  and  its  readers  a  very 
happy  service. 


Mr.  Rowland  F.  Beasley,  formerly  State  Welfare  Commissioner,  and  Mr. 
R.  E.  Powell,  formerly  Raleigh  correspondent  of  the  Charlotte  Observer 
and  other  papers,  will  at  an  early  day  begin  the  publication  of  a  daily  morn- 
ing newspaper  in  Coldsboro.  Capable  and  brilliant  men,  both  of  them,  un- 
derstand the  game  and  will  doubtless  give  Goldsboro  and  Eastern  North 
Carolina  just  what  it  wants  and  needs. 


The  Hon.  T.  D.  Warren,  of  New  Bern,  having  resigned  the  important 
position  of  Chairman  of  the  State  Democratic  Executive  Committee,  the 
said  Committee  met  in  Raleigh,  on  the  evening  of  the  28th,  and  elected  to 
succeed  him  Mr.  J.  David  Norwood,  of  Salisbury.  Mr.  Norwood  is  a  bank- 
er, manufacturer,  farmer  and  a  very   high-class  citizen  in  every  respect. 


To  the  city  of  Concord,  congratulations.  You  have  a  Board  of  Aldermen 
that  openly  recognizes  a  competent  and  just  Recorder;  and  the  city  has  a 
chief  of  police,  seeing  his  duty,  performs  it.  These  are  two  elementary 
forces  that  spell  for  law  and  order. 


It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  many  real,  good  folks  firmly  believe 
that  the  first  twelve  days  in  January  are  prophetic  of  the  seasons  in  the 
twelve  months.  Sunday  was  an  icey  day,  and  if  there  be  virtue  in  the  fore- 


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joing  belief,  look  out  for  a  cold  August. 


Just  imagine  what  the  result  would  have  been  had  the  Department,  keep- 
ing its  nerve,  pressing  and  securing  the"  enactment  of  the  bill  calling  for 
only  A.  M.  degree  men  for  the  position  of  County  Superintendents! 


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THE  HORSE  AND  THE  ASS. 

A  Horse  and  an  Ass  were  traveling  together,  the  Horse  pranc- 
ing along  in  its  fine  trappings,  the  Ass  carrying  with  difficulty  the 
heavy  weight  in  its  panniers.  "I  wish  I  were  you,''  sighed  the  Ass; 
"nothing  to  do  and  well  fed,  and  all  that  fine  harness  upon  you." 
Next  day,  however,  there  was  a  great  battle,  and  the  Horse 
wounded  to  death  in  the  final  charge  of  the  day.  His  friend,  the 
Ass,  happened  to  pass  by  shortly  afterwards  and  found  him  on 
the  point  of  death.  "I  was  wrong,  said  the  Ass: 
"BETTER  HUMBLE  SECURITY  THAN  GILDED  DANGER." 


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THE  UPLIFT 


THOMAS  McKINDREE  SKELTON, 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 


THE  UPLFIT 


THOMAS  MCKINDKEE  SHELTON. 

Contend  -what  you  may,  there  is  a  definite  time  and  place  when  every  man 
snakes  a  decision  that  shapes  his  life  in  the  business  and  social  life  of  tho 
■world.  There  is  a  certain  Gum  Tree,  about  one  mile  out  from  the  little  town 
of  Conover,  Catawba  county,  where  a  vital  decision  was  made  by  Thomas 
McKindree  Shelton,  the  guiding  genius  of  the  important  firm  of  Ed  Mellon 
Company,  of  Charlotte,  X.  C. 

Tom  Shelton  has  that  gum  tree  just 
as  vividly  fixed  in  his  mind  as  a  wit- 
ness of  a  decision  as  any  little  punish- 
ment that  came  his  way  when  he  de- 
served it  while  yet  under  the  parental 
roof.  There  are  men,  who  remember 
the  very  identical  spot  where  they 
used  their  first  "bad  word,"  and  these 
are  the  ones  that  sooner  or  later  re- 
member the  very  time  and  spot  where 
they  decided  that  "bad  words"  ac- 
complished nothing  and  get  you  no- 
where. It  is,  though,  a  far  cry  from 
a  twenty  year-old  young  man  under  a 
Catawba  county  gum  tree  to  the  proud 
position  of  directing  a  business  that 
reaches  annually  three-quarters  of  a 
million  dollars.  But  that  trip  was 
made  in  thirty-three  years. 

Here's  how  it  all  came  about. 
Young  Shelton  grew  tired  of  the  drud- 
gery on  the  farm,  as  they  used  to  farm 
in  Catawba  county,  before  they  learn- 
ed how  to  make  big  money  on  sweet 
potatoes  and  stocked  their  farms  with 
pedigreed  stock  and  learned  rotation 
of  crops.  Lost  his  father  when  young 
Shelton  was  but  sixteen  years  old, 
and  more  and  heavier  duties  fell  upon 
his  young  shoulders.  He  attended 
the  free  schools.  When  he  reached 
twenty,  he  figured  by  comparison  that 
he  could  go  to  College  and  prepare 
himself  for  a  larger  sphere  of  ser- 
vice, so  he  went  to  Conover  College 
in  August  1889.  In  his  quiet  and  de- 
liberate manner  he  begun  to  figure  a 


little,  and  being  a  country  boy  he  al- 
ways, when  he  wanted  to  do  some  real 
fancy  thinking,  broke  for  the  opening 
and  this  is  how  the  Gum  Tree  and  he 
became  such  fast  and  everlasting 
friends.  Finally  one  day,  while 
sprawling  under  that  Gum  Tree,  he 
made  a  calculation  in  this  wise:  "if  I 
get  to  be  a  doctor,  a  lawyer  or  a 
preacher,  it  means  four  or  five  years 
or  more  spent  in  an  educational  en- 
deavor, and  I  just  can't  provide  the 
means  for  it.  I'll  go  to  Charlotte 
and  try  for  a  job." 

So  on  October  17th,  1S89,  just  two 
days  before  he  reached  his  twentieth 
birthday,  he  paid  proper  respects  to  the 
authorities  of  Conover  College  and 
struck  out  for  Charlotte.  A  country 
boy  in  those  days  had  more  trouble  in 
securing  a  city  job  than  is  the  case 
to-day.  Merchants  always  have  their 
eyes  open  for  a  choice  country-boy 
these  days  and  times,  boys  that  have 
not  yet  learned  the  art  of  eternally 
watching  the  clock,  looking  for  pay- 
day, frequenting  moving  picture  shows 
and  constant  patrons  of  the  soft-drink 
stands,  and  boys  who  know  how  to 
use  their  hands.  After  considerable 
effort  young  Shelton  secured  a  posi- 
tion with  the  late  firm  of  C.  A.  Dixon 
&  Co.,  on  East  Trade  street,  on  tenns 
entirely  agreeable  to  him.  From  Oc- 
tober 19,  1889  to  January  1,  1S90, 
young  Shelton  worked  simply  for  his 
board.     Fine!      That    was   an   oppor- 


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tunity  to  demonstrate  his  capacity,  bis 
energy,  his  good  common  sense,  his 
character  and  his  line  fibre  of  which 
he  is  made.  The  new  firm  of  Leslie 
&  Rogers  took  over  the  business  of  C. 
A.  Dixon  &  Co.,  and  with  this  new 
firm  young  Shelton  remained  for  live 
years,  grew  into  the  business  and  -with 
the  business,  made  friends  of  every 
one  who  met  him — and  bis  star  began 
to  rise. 

September  1,  1S9(J,  Mr.  Shelton  and 
the  late  Ed  Mellon  organized  the 
clothing  firm  of  Ed  Mellon  Company, 
which  has  grown  into  one  of  the  lar- 
gest gentlemen  and  ladies'  furnishing 
houses  in  the  whole  state.  They 
started  with  a  capitalization  quite 
small,  but  the  success  of  the  business 
has  been  so  phenominal  that  the  cap- 
ital today  is  ^50,000.00,  with  a  surplus 
of  over  .{;200,000.00. 

Xov.  14th,  1895,  Mr.  Shelton  mar- 
ried Miss  Julia  Craig,  of  Gastonia,  and 
they  have  been  blessed  with  six  child- 
ren, four  girls  and  two  boys.  A  de- 
lightful family,  which  enjoys  a  wide 
and  deserved  popularity  throughout 
Charlotte. 

Mr.  Shelton,  individually'  and  per- 
sonally, is  a  most  pleasing  character. 
He  has  cordial  greetings  for  all;  con- 
siderate of  every  one's  feelings;  faith- 
ful to  every  trust;  careful  and  pains- 
taking with  every  detail  of  business; 
and  leads  a  clean  and  dignified  life 
among  his  fellow  men.  Enjoying 
the  confidence  of  the  public,  not  only 


for  his  moral  worth  in  the  community 
but  also  on  account  of  his  safe  and 
judicious  business  qualification,  Ml". 
Shelton  is  president  of  the  Morris 
Plan  Bank,  and  director  in  the  Ameri- 
can Trust  Co.,  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  the  Merchants'  Association;  and 
no  man  believes  more  in  the  safety  and 
the  benefits  of  the  B.  &  L.  associations, 
as  town  and  home  builders. 

Like  the  needle  true  to  its  course, 
this  man,  Shelton,  attributes  much  of 
his  successful  life  to  the  precept  and 
example  of  a  Christian  mother,  who 
held  up  always  the  necessity  of  thrift, 
economy  and  the  practice  of  common 
sense.  Tom  Shelton,  with  an  exper- 
ience of  thirty-odd  years  in  a  city 
and  there  respected  and  honored  by 
his  fellow  man,  could  go  back  to 
Mountain  Creek  Township,  Catawba 
county,  where  on  October  19th,  1869, 
he  first  saw  the  light,  and  be  just  as 
natural,  cordial  and  delightful  in  his 
splendid  manners  and  demeanor  as  he 
exercises  in  Charlotte,  whether  in  his 
store  or  in  the  Eirst  Presbyterian 
church — he  doesn't  know  how  to  put 
on  airs. 

Tom  Shelton  could  have  deserted 
his  decision  arrived  at  under  the  Cum 
Tree,  near  Conover  College,  and  be- 
come a  professional  man,  but  it  is  in- 
finitely better  to  be  a  first-class  and 
useful  business  man  than  a  quickly 
prepared,  ordinary  doctor,  lawyer  or 
preacher. 


We  die  hut  once  and  we  die  without  distinction  if  we  are  not  willing 
to  die  the  death  of  sacrifice.  Do  you  covet  honor?  You  will  never  get  it 
by  serving  yourself.  Do  you  covet  distinction?  You  will  get  it  only 
as  a  servant  of  mankind. — "Woodrow  Wilson. 


THE  UPLIFT 


ii 


A  NORTH  CAROLINA  TIN  MINE. 

Added  to  the  many  natural  resources  abounding:  in  North  Carolina,  it  is  now 
entirely  safe  to  add  another  and  a  very  important  one.  When  we  stop  to  think 
how  largely  tin  enters  into  the  affairs  of  life,  in  finishing  cutlery,  making  vessels 


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DANTEL  E.  RHYNE 
Lincolnton,  N.  C. 
President,  The  Carolina  Tin  Company,  and  a  large  cotton  mill  owner  and  in- 
dustrial developer. 

and  cups  and  containers — in  fact,  one-half  of  a  first-class  grocery  store  is  one 
kiud  of  tin  receptacle  after  another.     Without  tin,  the  canning  business  would 
have  to  suspend;  and  the  packing  of  most  things  that  enter  into  the  furnishing 
of  pantries  must  depend  upon  tin;  and      titute. 
builders  would  have  to  resort  to  a  sub-  A  very  common  thing,  tin;  but  up  to 


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THE  UPLIFT 


this  date  it  lias  been  found  in  paying 
quantities  at  but  few  places.  Pure 
tin  is  an  elementary  metal,  as  much  so 
as  lead,  iron,  silver,  or  gold.  The  prin- 
cipal tin-producing  country  is  Eng- 
land. The  Phoenicians  traded  with 
England  for  tin  1,100  years  before  the 
Christian  era.  There  is  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  they  also  got  tin  from 
Spain;  but  England  was  depended  up- 
on for  nearly  all  the  tin  used  in  Eu- 
rope until  this  ore  was  discovered  in 
Germany  in  1240.  It  was  discovered 
in  Northern  Africa  in  Barbary  States 
in  Kill),  in  India  in  1740,  in  New 
Spain  in  17S2.  Tin  was  mined  in 
Mexico  before  the  Spanish  conquest, 
and  used  in  T  shaped  pieces  for  nion- 
ey,  and  in  a  bronze  composition  for 
sharp  tools,  the  principal  mines  being 
at  Tasco.  Peru  has  valuable  mines  of 
this  metal,  so  have  Australia  and 
Malacca  in  the  Malay  peninsula.  Tin 
lias  been  discovered  previously  to  this 
time  in  several  of  the  American 
states,  but  not  in  quantities  to  tempt 
capital  to  engage  in  mining  it  except 
in  Dakota;  and  now  North  Carolina 
has  a  proposition  in  a  well-developed 
tin  deposit  that  is  creating  consider- 
able interest  among  capitalists. 

For  several  years  mining  engineers 
having  heard  of  deposits  of  tin  in  a 
section  of  Lincoln  county,  have  pros- 
pected but  capital  was  wanting  to 
make  a  thorough  and  complete  in- 
vestigation as  to  the  extent  of  the 
vein  and  its  quality.  About  twelve 
months  ago,  quietly  but  determinedly, 
a  party  of  gentlemen  of  affairs,  nerve 
and  hope,  joined  in  the  business  of 
testing  out  the  claims  of  a  tin  deposit 
in  paying  quantities  and  qualities  in  a 
section  of  Lincoln  county  near  the  C. 
&  X.  W.  railroad.     Options  were  se- 


cured for  the  property,  and  practical 
work  in  opening  and  tracing  the  vein, 
was  begun.  Recently,  since  a  thorough 
survey  has  been  elf  eel  ed,  a  company, 
with  a  capital  of  $300,000.00,  has  been 
organized  to  bring  about  an  active 
operation  of  the  mines  and  throw  the 
product   on   t  he   market. 

General  Hoke's  Discovery. 

Some  years  ago  the  late  General 
Robt.  E.  Hoke,  in  taking  over  what 
is  known  as  the  Lincoln  Lithia  Springs 
property,  and  making  excavations  for 
the  hotel  and  the  water  tank  struck 
a  peculiar  formation  which  he  after- 
wards learned  was  tin  ore.  The  vein 
is  positively  marked;  and  the  good 
old  general  much  of  a  miner  himself, 
was  certain  tin  existed  in  that  section 
in  large  quantities  and  awaited  devel- 
opment. From  this  very  point  (proper- 
ty now  owned  by  Mr  D.  E.  Rhyne,  a 
most  successful  and  far-visioned  capi- 
talist of  Lincoln  county)  decided  and 
positive  evidences  of  the  presence  of 
tin  have  been  traced  the  entire  way  to 
the  chief  veins  of  tin  which  recent 
operations  have  uncovered.  General 
Hoke  used  to  say  that  he  had  no 
doubt  that  sooner  or  later  tin  would 
be  discovered  near  the  Lincoln  Lithia 
Springs  in  such  quantities  as  would 
attract  capitalists,  who  would  in  turn 
operate  the  property  on  a  large  scale. 

What  General  Hoke  firmly  believed, 
and  with  fine  reason,  has  come  about. 
The  Carolina  Tin  Company,  recently 
chartered  with  a  capital  of  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  with  offices 
at  Cherryville,  is  officered  as  follows: 

D.  E.  Rhyne,  Lincolnton,  President, 

M.  L.  Mauncy,  Cherryville,  Vice- 
President. 

David  Rudisill,  Cherryville,   Secre- 


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tary. 

John  J.  George,  Ckerryvillc,  Treas- 
urer, 

■who,  •with  Jacob  Johnston,  D.  R. 
Maimey,  and  J.  H.  Rudisill,  compose 
the  Board  of  Directors.  Mr.  Johnston, 
■who  makes  his  home  at  the  mines, 
near  Southside  on  the  C.  &  X.  W. 
railroad,  hard  by  the  South  Fork  Ca- 
tawba river,  is  a  practical  mining'  en- 
gineer with  a  long  and  successful  ex- 
perience in  delving  into  the  earth, 
following  a  lead  for  various-  precious 
metals.  A  recent  visit  to  the  property 
by  the  writer  disclosed  what  has  been 
done  in  a  practical  and  substantial 
manner  to  reveal  the  true  character  of 
the  tin  deposits. 

Noshing  Taken  For  Granted. 

The  practical  business  men,  of  large 
affairs,  composing  the  company,  wan- 
ted to  know, the  real  facts,  the  char- 
acter of  tlie  ore,  the  size  of  the  veins, 
the  ultimate  quantity,  and  the  feasi- 
bility of  win-king  the  property  as  a 
commercial  proposition.  These  they 
have  ascertained;  and  no  sooner  than 
these  facts  were  established,. the  com- 
pany began  to  close  its  options  and  to 
secure  fee-simple  deeds  for  the  prop- 
erty which  is  in  the  neighborhood  of 
live  hundred  acres. 

The   Method  Invoked. 

To  open  up  the  veins  was  by  means 
of  a  hydraulic  plant,  located  on  the 
South  Fork  Catawba,  which  included 
three  pumps  of  1000  gallon  capacity, 
each  per  minute,  with  a  discharge  of 
six  inches  each,  making  a  volume  of 
■water  equal  to  18  inches  being  played 
on  the  crude  s  >il,  with  the  result  of 
leaving  the  veins  of  tin  exposed.  At 
convenient     distances,     necessary     in 


forming  a  proper  estimate  of  the  size 
and  character  of  the  ore,  these  veins 
were  subjected  to  cross  cuts.  There 
are  nine  separate  veins,  averaging 
in  width  from  50  to  ISO  feet.  A  num- 
ber of  shafts  from  25  to  160  feet 
have  been  driven,  and  at  each  there  is 
a  cross  tunnel.  In  addition  to  this 
extensive  investigation,  leaving  noth- 
ing undone  to  ascertain  the  true  facts, 
at  several  points  on  the  veins  they  have 
reached  with  a  Keystone  drill,  one  and 
half  inch  in  diameter,  as  deep  as  900 
feet,  and  the  character  of  the  tin  ore 
proved  even  more  satisfactory  than 
that  nearer  the  surface.  "With  the 
hydraulic  system  in  use  the  company 
has  been  able  to  remove  2000  tons  of 
crude  stuff  per  day. 

An  Inexhaustible   Supply. 

Is  evident,  for  having  made  certain 
of  a  depth  of  000  feet,  and  the  veins 
traced  for  more  than  three  miles 
and  a  half  there  is  no  room  for  doubt- 
ing the  quantity.  When  asked  what 
the  output  of  tin  ore  from  a  ton  is,  Mr. 
Johnston  said:  "it  will  average  twen- 
ty pounds  of  tin  to  a  ton  of  crude 
dirt."  Entirely  ignorant  of  what  is 
considered  as  rich  or  poor  tin  ore, 
and  showing  some  surprise  that  only 
20  pounds  may  be  secured  from  a  ton 
of  crude  dirt,  Mr.  Johnston  remarked: 
"At  the  Cornwall  mines  in  England, 
which  now  furnishes  more  tin  than  all 
other  tin-producing  countries,  the  av- 
erage is  just  one-half  pound  to  the  ton, 
and  the  operation  is  regarded  profit- 
able. ' ' 

Various  tests  have  been  made  and 
there  is  absolutely  no_  room  Tor.  doubt- 
ing the  richness  of  the  ores  of  the 
Carolina  Tin  Company.  These  tests 
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per  cent  ol!  metallic  tin. 

On  this  property  there  is  an  inex- 
haustible quantity  of  kaolin,  which 
is  chiefly  used  in  making  crockery. 
Mining  kaolin  in  the  extreme  western 
part  of  North  Carolina  is  carried  on 
in  a  large  way,  and  is  a  very  impor- 
tant industrial  and  commercial  activ- 

ity- 

There  is  Pride. 

In  the  fact  that  these  gentlemen, 
none  of  whom  have  any  special  train- 
ing in  tin  mining,  though  Mr.  Johnston 
has  a  long  experience  in  gold  mining, 
were  willing  to  spend  their  money  to 
ascertain  the  truth  of  so  many  be- 
liefs and  conjectures  that  the  hills 
of  Southern  Lincoln  were  full  of  prec- 
ious metals  and  that  tin  surely  existed 
in  paying  quantities.  They  have  ren- 
dered a  service  to  the  state;  and  by 
faith  and  enterprise,  they  have  dem- 
onstrated that  there  is  one  more  im- 
portant source  of  natural  wealth  in 
the  good  old  state,  already  standing 
at  the  head  of  the  list  in  natural 
resources. 

This  writer  understands  "that  Dr. 
Pratt,  the  Chapel  Hill  geologist,  has 
investigated  this  company's  property 
and  was  surprised  to  find  the  line 
quality  of  the  ore  and  the  apparent 
inexhaustible  supply.  Wouldn't  it  be 
a  fine  thing  for  North  Carolina  if  some 
practical  tin  mins  operator,  with 
long  experience  in  the  handling  of  all 
the    details    incident     to     tin-mining:, 


could,  get  hold  of  this  property  and 
work  it  to  its  fullest  capacity,  thus 
placing  North  Carolina  among  the 
leaders  of  tin  production  ?  For  years 
Lincoln  county  furnished  the  State 
with  all  its  iron;  and  were  there  ne- 
cessity for  it  Lincoln  county  today 
could  furnish  iron  ore  in  quantities 
sufficient  to  supply  the  state's  needs. 

The  phenominally  successful  and  in- 
tensely wise  man  who  is  at  the  head 
of  The  Carolina  Tin  Company,  Mr. 
Rhyne,  does  not  do  things  for  fun  or 
for  gamble.  If  he  and  his  associates 
made  up  their  minds  to  install  suffi- 
cient machinery  and  equipment  to 
work  the  undoubtedly  rich  mine  on  a 
commercial  scale  and  throw  its  pro- 
duct on  the  market,  there  seems  no 
doubt  of  the  result.  They  move,  how- 
ever, along  another  line — their  busi- 
ness is  primarily  cotton  mill  business, 
in  which  they  have  extensive  hold- 
ings. But  whether  they  operate  the 
mines  themselves  or  turn  the  operation 
over  to  others,  these  gentlemen  have 
rendered  North  Carolina  a  great  ser- 
vice in  reducing  to  a  CERTAINTY 
what  for  years  old  General  Hoke  be- 
lieved with  his  wholeheart  that  Lin- 
coln county  at  this  particular  section 
was  full  of  tin. 

In  this  issue  of  THE  UPLIFT,  on 
other  pages,  there  are  pictures  show- 
ing the  beginning  of  the  practical  in- 
vestigation and  tests  in  searching  for 
the  truth,  inaugurated  by  the  Carolina 
Tin  Company. 


There  is  one  consolation  tie  poor  man  has  as  his  steps  begin  to  falter; 
he  can  take  just  as  much  with  him  to  the  grave  as  the  other  fellow.  All 
are  born  with  nothing  and  all  leave  with  nothing.  The  path  of  glory 
leads  also  to  t..e  grave.— Hickory  Record. 


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THINGS  I  LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 

Number  (VI)—  Birds. 

If  tlicre  is  anything  in  nature,  to  a  boy  or  girl,  in  tlic  cities  or  in  the  country, 
that  has  more  charm  than  a  nesting  bird,  I  cannot  recall  it  now.  There  is 
something  that  thrills  at  finding  a  bird's  nest;  the  more  especially  if  that  nest 
happens  to  be  low  enough  to  be  reached.  It  was  so  with  me,  it  is  so  with  my 
grandchild.  The  birds  I  knew  and  watched  from  a  child  to  young  manhood 
cn  my  fathers  farm  as  I  can  name  them  off  hand,,  'were  as  follows:     Sparrows, 

two   kinds,   song   and   swamp;    robin,       reddish  yellow  and  the  male  th-3  deep- 
blue  bird,  red  bird  a  summer  migrator      est  red,  so  unlike  the  male  oi>3  would 


and  the  tufted  cardinal;  mocking  bird, 
tomtit,  tee-tat,  swamp-robin,  wren, 
house  and  woods;  cat  bird,  brown 
thrush,  dove,  quail  or  partridge,  'wood- 
cock, snipe,  a  summer  blue  bird,  yel- 
low throated  warbler,  snow-bird,  lark, 
black-bird  two  varities;  jay,  lettuce 
bird,  bee-martin,  martin,  swallow, 
-chimney  sweep,  kildee  or  kildeer,  king- 
fisher, bull-bat,  whippoor-will,  heron, 
crow  and  six  species  of  woodpeckers. 

Birds  of  pray:  Hawks,  four  vari- 
ties; owls  three  species.  To  this 
should  be  added  the  buzzard  and  the 
carrion  crow.  We  never  saw  i(  in 
action,  but  the  crow  is  also  a  bird 
of  prey  under  certain  conditions. 

The  little  song  sparrow  was  al- 
ways with  us,  while  the  swamp  spar- 
row went  to  a  colder  clime  in  summer, 
as  did  the  snow  bird,  and  we  never 
saw  them  nest.  However  the  snow 
bird  nests  in  the  Blueridge  moun- 
tains of  this  state.  The  robin  was 
very  plentiful  and  made  more  noise 
about  its  nest  and  young  than  all  oth- 
ers, and  the  young  robins'  weakness 
was  leaving  the  nest  bei'oie  it  could 
fly.  Their  nests  were  lined  with  mud, 
as  smooth  as  if  stamped  w;,l>  a  halt' 
bail  of  iron.  The  summer  red-bird 
was  double  colored,  the  female  b-.vng 


take  them  for  different  species.  The 
cardinal  is  at  home  all  the  year  and 
very  quiet  at  nesting  time.  The  cat 
bird  and  brown  thrush  both  left-  us  as 
cold  came  as  did  the  yellow  throated 
warbler,  the  lettuce  bird,  bee-martin, 
the  martin,  the  swallow  and  the  chim- 
ney-sweep. The  cat-bird,  thrush, 
mocking  bird  build  nests  almost  iden- 
tical, a  nest  nnlined,  as  are  many 
others.  Wood-cock,  snipe  and 
quail  all  lay  on  the  ground.  The- 
swamp  robin  makes  a  nest,  as  a  rul<5, 
so  low  that  it  can  be  reached.  Tile 
jay  is  a  high  builder,  is  fussy,  and  one 
of  the  few  that  is  accused  of  robbing 
other  birds  to  feed  its  own'  young. 
The  bee-martin  we  found  the  hardest 
fighter,  fur  its  nest,  of  all  the  birds, 
being  almost  fearless.  The  swallow 
builds  in  holes  in  banks  of  streams, 
the  chimney  sweeps  in  the  chimney, 
glueing  its  nest  to  a  smutty  chimney 
wall,  and  sometimes  they  fall  down  in 
the  cool  fireplace.  The  lark  and  black- 
birds are  ground  builders,  preferring 
meadow  or  boggy  land.  The  kingfish- 
er lives  on  fish  and  it  and  the  heron 
we  never  saw  nesting.  The  first  of  all 
birds  to  nest  is  the  common  blue  bird, 
which  likes  a  hollow  tree  best  of  all, 
and  a  deep  hollow.     They  are  called 


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"harbingers  of  Spring,"  coming  and 
singing  at  the  first  warm  days  of 
February,  and  if  a  warm  spell  of  any 
length  come  they  would  nest  in  Feb- 
ruary. Once  I  saw  their  eggs  freeze, 
and  they  had  to  try  it  again.  They 
were  all  killed  in  this  section  in  1891), 
by  freezing  and  was  several  years  be- 
fore they  were  able  to  migrate  and 
raise  more.  They  cannot  stand  hard 
cold,  and  zero  weather  fixed  them.  I 
have  found  a  dozen  in  a  hollow  log 
in  a  barn  on  stinging  cold  nights,  as 
they  crowded  in  there  to  keep  wine. 
JMany  of  the  above  built  nests  chat 
man  would  have  been  unable  to  build 
Perhaps  the  yellow  throated  warbler 
makes  as  ingenious  a  nest  as  any,  as 
it  swings  down  in  forks  of  two  limbs, 
and  is- laced  to  the  limbs  with  bark 
interwoven  as  though  sewed  bv  the 
hand  of  man,  and  no  kind  of  a  storm 
can  upset  it  or  toss  its  young  out.  No 
bird  makes  a  neater  or  cleaner  nest 
than  the  song  sparrow,  it  being  lined 
with  the  long  tail  hairs  of  the  horse 
and  cow,  and  always  set  low  in  weeds 
and  briars,  as  does  the  summer  blue- 
bird of  a  very  deep  blue  color,  and 
very  shy.  The  mocker,  cat,  thrush, 
swamp  robin,  cardinal  were  fine  sing- 
ers. The  robin  and  blue  bird  sang 
also. 

The  wood-pecker  family  I  divided 
into  six  sections,  and  the  tomtit  ought 
to  come  here,  but  it  is  different  in 
shape  but  builds  in  a  small  hole  it 
makes  itself.  There  is  a  wood-pecker 
little  larger  than  the  tomtit,  one  a  size, 
larger  then  a  good  sized  one,  all  three 
being  most  identical  in  color.  The'.-, 
comes  the  redhead  with  white  and 
black  that  lives  in  town  and  country 
and  can  carry  off  as  many  May  cher- 
ries as  a  good  sized  boy,  the  yellow- 


hammer  or  flicker  and  the  log-eock;  as 
large  as  a  small  duck  and  very  shy> 
prefering  the  deep  woods.  All  of 
these  dig  holes  in  soft  rotten  wood 
and  nest  there  away  from  the  reach 
of  most  of  its  enemies.  All  live  off 
tree  or  bark  insects. 

The  birds  of  prey  are  harder  to 
find  nesting  than  the  other  birds,  and 
are  enemies  to  all  other  birds  and  tbi 
small  animals.  The  smallest  of  the 
hawk,  tribe  is  the  reddish  blue  and 
brown  sparrow  hawk  that  generally 
takes  the  hole  of  a  larger  wood-pecker 
for  its  home  and  raises  its  young 
there.  They  eat  more  insects  and 
lizzards  and  mice  than  anything  else, 
and  while  about  the  weight  of  a  fat 
robin  they  can  swallow  a  lizzard 
whole.  I  had  a  pair  of  tame  ones 
once,  and  fed  them  on  everything  that 
moved  that  I  or  they  could  catch. 
They  learned  to  follow  and  beg  for 
food,  and  when  you  turned  over  a 
plank  or  rock  they  would  catch  every 
bug  and  carefully  eat  it.  It  kept 
us  busy  feeding  them.  Finally  we  left 
them  for  a  day  with  no  food  and  not 
being  able  to  fly,  we  found  them  eat- 
ing a  small  chicken  when  we  came 
home.  The  next  two  sizes  of  hawks 
are  great  chicken  eaters,  and  the  large 
gauze  hawk  feeds  more  on  rabbits 
and  rats,  things  it  finds  Hying  slowly 
just  above  the  ground,  but  it  is  not 
above  taking  a  hen  if  convenient.  The 
owl  family  was  the  screech  owl  that 
raises  boys  hair  at  night  by  their 
wails,  the  night  hawk  a  size  larger 
and  the  great  hooting  owl  that  werc- 
bad  about  robbing  hen  roosts.  TheL* 
cry  of  Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!  always  mado 
a  boy  feel  like  seeking  shelter  at 
night.  We  saw  many  of  them  killed 
in  the  hen  house  trying  to  get  a  he'll 


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in  dead  hours  of  the  night.  All  the 
owl  family  neat  in  hollow  trees  in  the 
woods  and  feed  the  young  on  such  as 
they  can  pick  up.  Uniting  owls 
catch  as  large  animals  as  rabbits  and 
the  smaller  ones  get  mice  and  insects. 
None  of  them  can  see  well  in  day  thro, 
as  the  pupils  of  their  eyes  are  too 
large  for  daylight,  hence  they  can  see 
by  night,  which  accounts,  too,  for  the 
size  of  the  eye.  All  this  owl  and  hawk 
family  pass  only  iluid  through  then1. 
The  feathers,  bones  and  such  as  will 
not  dissolve  are  thrown  back  by  the 
mouth  in  balls.  This  we  found  by 
having  tame  sparrow  hawks. 

Once  we  boys  had  contracted  the 
itch  at  school  and  the  home  remedies 
they  washed  us  with  at  night  were 
rougher  than  the  itch;  so  to  dodge  this 


bath  one  autumn  night,  we  decided  to 
sleep  in  the  pines  on  a  pine  straw-bed 
rather  than  take  the  bath.  We  fitted 
the  bed  up  and  went  to  it  soon  after 
slipper,  but  had  been  there  less  than 
half  an  hour  before  one  of  those  large 
hooting  owls  lighted  right  near  us  and 
set  up  its  call  to  its  mate:  hoo-hoo- 
hoo-ar-00  ?  We  did  not  stay  to  tell 
him,  deciding  very  quickly  that  any 
kind  of  a.  bath  was  preferable  to  that 
owl. 

It  was  intended  to  make  this  story 
of  both  birds  and  animals,  but  we 
Hnd  that  birds  alone  have  made  it  long 
enough;  so  animals  will  have  to  have 
a  chapter  to  themselves. 

The  next  number  will  be  about 
Snakes  and  Lizzards. 


There  s  Place  In  Life  Fcr  1  lie  Anerdote. 

ANGEL  GABRIEL:  At  those  rather  infrequent  intervals  when  we  feel  that 
to  shuffle  off  this  mortal  coil  would  be  more  or  less  of  a  relief,  we  are  re- 
minded of  the  old  negro  man  who  continually  expressed  himself  as  being 
weary  of  life.  The  burden  of  his  conversation  was  that  he  was  tired  of  this 
vale  of  tears,  as  he  was  "poly"  at  best  and  wushed  dat  de  good  Lord  would 


sen'  de  Angel  Gabriel  to  carry  Amos 
home  to  his  Ole  Marster." 

So  familiar  did  this  dolorous  refrain 
become  to  those  who  knew  the  old 
fellow,  that  two  of  his  white  acquaint- 
ances decided  to  try  out  his  sincerity. 
Wrapped  in  a  sheet  and  with  an  old 
cavalry  sabre  clanking  as  he  walked, 
one  of  them  advanced  through  the 
night  and  knocked  at  the  door  of  the 
old  man's  shack,  while,  the  othe/r 
watched  developments  from  the 
imshes. 


"Who  dat?"  came  in  slartled  re- 
sponse  to   the  knock. 

Silence,  and  then  another  impres- 
sive knocking  with  the  sabre  hilt. 

"Who  dat?"  again  in  a  voice  be- 
traying increasing  perturbation. 

"I  am  the  Angel  Gabriel  sent  to 
carry  Amos  home  to  his  Old  Marster, " 
in  sepulchral  tones. 

"Law,  Marse  Gabriel"  cried  a 
trembling  voice,  "Ole  man  Amos  done 
move  'way  from  dis  heah  house  two 
year  ago." — Xell  Rattle  Lewis. 


It  is  only  the  great-hearted  who  can  be  true  friends;  the  mean  and 
cowardly  can  never  know  what  true  friendship  means. — Kingsley. 


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MES.  WILLIAM  N.  REYNOLDS, 

Winston-Salem,  N.  C. 


THE  UPLIFT 


rs.  William  N.  Reynolds. 

By  MIfs  Jenn  Winslow  Coltrane. 

Patriotic  and  justly  proud  North  Carolinians  have  many  things  in  which 
we  excel,  many  things  about  which  our  undaunted  pride  will  not  permit  us 
to  remain  silent.  And  although  a  state  is  justifiable  in  praise  of  her  in- 
dustrial attainments,  her  agricultural  wealth,  her  natural  beauty  and  envi- 
ronments it  takes  real  men  and  real  women  to  make  a  state  great.  And 
truly  North  Carolina  can  boast  of  her  products  in  this  respect. 

It  is  only  a  pity  that  we  as  indivi-  who  suffer  are  not  alone  in  being 
duals  do  not  have  the  privilege  of  see-      remembered    by  her,  for    she  revels 

in  reminding  others  of  her  joy  in 
their  joys.  When  disagreeable  things 
are  repeated  to  her  or  slanderous 
gossip,  she  usually  says,  "We  must 
be  sure  not  to  repeat  that."  Gen- 
erous at  all  times,  but  she  does  not 
like  to  have  her  generosity  herald- 
ed, an  understanding  heart  which  is 
rilled  with  appreciation;  fun  loving, 
vivacious  and  most  pleasing  in  her 
impersonation  of  old-time  darkey 
sayings. 

Mrs.  Reynolds  is  a  true  lover  of 
home.  Those,  who  know  her,  know 
that  her  first  thoughts  always  are  of 
him,  who  has  shared  her  most  inti- 
mate life--an  example  to  all  women 
of.the  inspiration  cf  life  a  woman  has 
from  the  love  of  the  one  man,  who 
to  her  is  greatest.  She  is  often  heard 
to  exclaim  '"But  to  spend  one's  life 
with  Mr.  Reynolds  is  such  a  rare 
privilege,  his  disposition,  his  ways 
of  thinking---why,  he  himself  makes 
life  a  real  joy."  One  often- wishes, 
after  being  with  her  that  all  women 
felt  the  same  way  about  their  hus- 
bands. 

Although  Mrs.  Reynolds  has  no- 
children  she  has  reared  seven,  and 
many  boys  and  girls  in  the  state 
are  obligated  to  their  "unknown 
friends"  for  their  education.  When 
North  Carolina   undertook    to  train 


ing  into  the  rare  natures  of  all  who 
are  our  own.  Tn  our  journey  through 
life  ve  can  only  know  a  few,  even 
though  we  count  them  as  many, 
and  we  count  it  a  rare  privilege  to 
try  to  give  you  an  interpretation  of 
one,  whom  all  North  Carolinians  are 
proud  to  claim.  No  one  can  kno  .v  Mrs. 
William  N.  Reynolds,  of  Winston- 
Salem,  without  knowing  she  is  from 
North  Carolina,  for  it  is  one  of  the 
first  things  she  tells  a  stranger.  I 
say  stranger,  and  yet  those  who  meet 
her  almost  at  once  become  her  friend 
because  of  the  whole-hearted,  gen- 
uine welcome  all  receive  who  are 
fortunate  to  gain  her  acquaintance. 
One  of  her  most  frequent  sayings  is, 
"What  would  this  world  be  without 
our  friends;  we  can  never  have  too 
many,  and  never  a  one  to  spare." 

Mrs.  Kate  G.  (Bitting)  Reynolds 
is  typical  of  the  real,  true,  genuine- 
type  of  American  womanhood  that 
is  an  inspiration  to  the  world.  Gen- 
tle in  manner,  tender  of  heart,  fair 
in  decisions  always,  a  woman  who  is 
even  so  modest  that  the  praise  of 
her  friends  completely  ovei  comes 
her,  often  bringing  tears  to  her 
eyes.  Conscious  of  her  obligations, 
fulfilling  her  engagements  with  the 
greatest  punctuality,  forgetful  of 
self,  thoughtful  of  others,  and  those 


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her  delinquent  and  misdirected  boys 
for  service  to  the  state,  one  of  the 
first  chosen  for  the  Governing  Board 
was  Mrs.  Reynolds.  And  she  has 
been  most  active  in  Orphange  work. 
Her  duties  have  been  many,  and  her 
work  by  no  means  confined  to  the 
state.  She  now  is  Southern  Chair- 
man of  The  National  Civic  Federa- 
tion, whose  headquarters  are  in  New 
York.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Col- 
ony Club  in  New  York,  which  is  the 
most  exclusive  Club  for  women  in 
America. 

the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  in  North  Carolina  and 
nationally  have  been  most  fortunate 
in  having  Mrs.  Reynolds  concentrate 
much  of  her  efforts  on  their  organ- 
ization. She  began  her  D.  A.  R. 
activities  in  the  General  Joseph 
Winston  chapter  and  from  there  her 
leadership  soon  placed  hei  as  State 
Regent  of  North  Carolina.  Realizing 
the  great  worth  and  sterling  qual- 
ties  of  this  fine  woman,  the  State 
was  not  willing  for  her  work  to  end 
with  the  expiration  of  her  term  of 
office,  and  even  against  her  protest 
the  state  D.  A.  R.  placed  her  candi- 
dacy for  Vice-President  General  of 
theNational  Society  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution.  Due  to  her 
real  worth,  and  popularity  although 
she  was  not  tven  present  at  her  elec- 
tion, she  was  elected  by  a  decided 
majority. 

When  her  term  of  office  as  Vice- 
President  General  expired  in  April 
1921,  it  was  with  the  deepest  ex- 
pressed regrets  that  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  all  over 
America  saw  her  go  out  of  office, 
and  due  to  the  pressure  brought  to 
bear  by  many  of  these  women  she 
has  consented  to  aspire  for  the  office 


of  President  General  in  1923.  Mrs. 
Reynolds,  a  home  lover,  is  will- 
ing to  enter  a  public  career  only  to 
work  for  a  greater  security  to  our 
liberty  and  welfare.  She  would 
make  a  truly  earnest  and  worthy 
leader  of  so  great  a  body  of  women, 
because  she  is  absolutely  conscious 
of  the  obligations  we  owe  ourselves 
and  America.  Today  she  is  Chair- 
man of  the  International  Relations 
Committee  of  the  N.  S.  D.  A.  R. 
She  is  a  charter  member  of  the 
National  Officers  Club  of  the  N.  S. 
D.  A.  R.  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Commitee  of  the  Club. 
She  stands  as  one  of  the  great 
women  of  her  day,  one  who  has  al- 
ways had  the  highest  respect  and 
deepest  esteem  of  all  who  know  hpr, 
a  seeker  for  knowledge--- to  ieam  to 
be  guided---one  who  has  faith  in  God, 
that  faith  that  knows  God  is  our 
Father.  She  is  a  woman  who  is 
never  content  to  give  less  than  her 
best,  whose  blameless  life  is  a  contin- 
uous record  cf  patriotism  and  high 
resolve.  She  is  one  who  can  pass 
unperturbed  out  of  the  strenuous 
conflicts  that  grow  out  of  the  ambi- 
tions of  others,  for  she  strives  for  a 
perfect  consistency  with  herself,  and 
maintains  unswerving  and  coura- 
geous fidelity  to  her  convictions  of 
the  right. 

If  the  Daughter  of  the  American 
Revolution  honor  her,  as  well  as 
themselves,  by  electing  her  Presi- 
dent General  they  will  come  to  know 
the  untiring  energy  of  this  splendid 
woman  and  her  efficiency,  because 
of  her  love  and  devotion  for  Ameri- 
ca, the  outgrowth  of  hei  pure  Anglo- 
Saxon  origin  and  from  which  noth- 
ing but  the  strongest  leadership 
springs.- 


1  HE  UPLIFT 


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OR  PEE  DEE. 


(Stanly  News-Herald) 


"Just  where  does  the  Yadkin  eease  to  be  the  Yadkin  and  become  the  Pee 
Dee?"  asks  The  Charlotte  Observer.  That  paper  then  goes  on  to  say  that  "the 
older  people  of  Stanly  hold  to  the  tradition  that  the  point  where  the  Yadkin 
and  Uwharrio  come  together  marks  the  cleavage,  but  the  geographers  claim 
that  the  Yadkin  loses  its  name  at  the  point  where  Rocky  River  flows  into  it. " 

The  News-Herald  is  quite  sure  that  man  told  of  the  old  town  of  Heiider- 
it  has  at  hand  ample  authority  to  set-      son,  its  size,  location,  etc.,  and  in  so 


tie  this  disputed  question.  Tn  the 
first  place  the  fact  that  the  older  peo- 
ple of  this  section  hold  to  the  tradition 
that  the  river  becomes  the  Pee  Dee 
after  the  waters  of  the  Uwharrie  emp- 
ty into  it  should  be  given  serious  con- 
sideration. Having  in  the  past  taken 
some  interest  in  this  question  the 
News-Herald  has  asked  the  opinion 
'of  some  of  the  older  residents,  and 
they  invariably  have  confirmed  the 
tradition  generally  adhered  to  through- 
out this  section.  "We  recall  when  a 
boy  of  having  talked  with  a  well- 
informed  Stanly  County  citizen  who 
was  at  that  time  about  ninety-three 
years  of  age.  This  Stanly  County 
man  said  at  that  time  that  he  at- 
tended his  first  election  when  a  boy 
when  William  Henry  Harrison  was 
elected  President  of  the  United  States 
at  the  end  of  the  noted  "Log  Cabin 
and  Hard  Cider  Campaign."  The 
voting  place  where  he  attended  this 
election  he  said  was  at  "Old  Hender- 
son," then  the  county  seat  of  Mont- 
gomery County.  (Montgomery  then 
comprised  all  of  the  territory  now_ 
contained  in  both  Stanly  and  Mont- 
gomery.) Old  Henderson  was  located 
on  the  West  bank  of  the  Pee  Dee  at 
the  junction  of  the  Yadkin  and  Uw- 
harrie Rivers.  In  telling  us  of  this, 
his  first  election,  the  old  old  gentle- 


doing  announced  this  bit  of  history  to 
the  writer.  Said  he,  the  Yadkin,  the 
Uwharrie  and  the  Great  Pee  Dee  Ri- 
vers were  all  named  by  the  Indians 
who  lived  in  that  section.  They 
called  it  the  Yadkin  down  to  the  point 
where  the  waters  of  the  Uwharrie 
flowed  into  it,  and  then  it  was  called 
by  them  the  Great  Pee  Dee. 

We  have  further  and  still  more  con- 
vincing proof  than  this.  Shortly 
after  the  downfall  of  the  Emperor 
Napoleon,  a  very  intelligent  French 
physician  by  the  name  of  Kron  came 
to  America.  Lie  rambled  up  the  Sal- 
isbury road  from  the  FayetteviPe 
section  until  he  reached  Henderson, 
where  was  the  home  of  a  wealthy 
French  landlord,  Henri  De  Lamonthe 
by  name,  who  lived  at  that  town, 
which  was  then  the  county  seat.  Hert 
Dr.  Kron  met  and  fell  in  love  with  a 
neiee  of  this  wealthy  Frenchman  and 
married  her.  t  According  to  his  diary, 
which  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Tba 
News-Herald,  Dr.  Kron  was  professor 
of  the  chair  of  French  at  the  Lrni- 
versity  of  North  Carolina  from  1S24 
until  January,  1827,  when  he  again 
moved  to  Montgomery  County.  He 
purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the 
Stanly  side  of  the  river  about  two 
miles  from  the  point  where  the  Uw- 
harrie empties  into  the  Yadkin,  and? 


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remained  there  the  balan.ee  of  his  life 
time.     This  brilliant  Frenchman  was 
a  keen  student  of  Indian  lore,  and  his 
diary  reads  like  one  of  the  old  master- 
pieces.    We   now   come   to   the   point 
of    proving1  , conclusively    that,    cor- 
rectly speaking,  the  Pee  Dee  commen- 
ces where  the  Uwharrie  empties  into 
the     Yadkin.     On     November     25th, 
1835,    Dr.   Kron    wrote    in   his    diary 
among  other  things  as  follows:     "At 
the  landing   (speaking  of  the  Ferry- 
boat Landing  at  Lowder's  Ferry)  are 
the    frames    of    those    houses    which 
twenty  years   back   formed   the   bulk 
of    Tindalscille,    a    town    which    then 
promised   itself  great   things   from   a 
contemplated  improvement  of  the  nav- 
igation of  the  Pee  Dee  River,  FOR 
THIS  IS  THE  NAME  THE  YADKIN 
ASSUMES  AFTER  ITS  JUNCTION 
WITH  THE  UWHARRIE,  and  which 
it  expected  would  give  it  an  outlet  to 
the  sea.     On  the  East  Side  the  Uw- 


•harrie  flows  in  almost  at  right  angles 
at  the  mouth  of  the  tributary  stream. 
The  landing  on  either  side  is  bad,  the 
ground  being  soft  and  sandy  aud  rath- 
er steep.  For  ten  cents  the  ferry- 
man sets  you  over  and  tells  you  funny 
tales  on  his  neighbor.  On  the  East 
side  of  the  Pee  Dee  is  another  aban- 
doned town,  Henderson,  equally  for 
once  the  seat  of  Montgomery  court 
house  now  the  sole  property  of  one 
MeArthur  and  my  wife's  uncle,  Henri 
De  Lamonthe. " 

This  should  settle  this  question 
once  and  for  always.  While  it  is  true 
that  geographers  designate  the  river 
as  the  Yadkin  until  the  Rocky  flows 
into  it,  yet  this  is  incorrect.  The 
Yadkin  becomes  the  Great  Pee  Dee 
after  the  waters  of  the  Uwharrie 
flow  into  it.  That  is  what  the  In- 
dians said  about  it,  and  they  named 
all  three  of  the  rivers,  and  they 
knew. 


We  may  escape  from  disagreeable  companionship  without,  but  we  cannot 
escape  from  that  which  is  within.  No  one  can  run  away  from  himself. — 
Selected. 


Is  This  Your  Home? 


How  would  ym  like  to  carry  2,000  tons  of  water  140  feet  from  the 
pump  to  the  house?  i'hat  is  what  a  Lawrence  county,  Ohio,  farm  woman 
has  done  during  the  past  50  years.  In  making  that  trip  from  the  house 
to  the  well  and  hack  she  has  walked  5,710  miles.  Twenty-five  dollars  spent 
for  pipe  and  a  tank  in  the  house  would  have  saved  her  all  that  labor. 


Very  likely  we  have  many  women 
in  Illinois  who  can  beat  this  Ohio 
woman's  long-distance  water-carry- 
ing record.  Figure  it  out  for  your- 
self, on  your  own  farm. 

Would  you— we're  talking  to  fath- 
er now— svalk  5,710  miles  with  a  pail 


water  in  each  hand  for  $25? 
Would  you  carry  2,000  tons  of  water 
from  the  well  to  the  house  for  $25? 

Mother  has  only  one  life  to  live. 
Lee's  make  it  as  easy  for  her  as  pos- 
sible. Let's  make  it  possible  for  her 
to  have  a  little  time  for  reading  and 


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2> 


recreation,  for  keeping  herself 
young  and  up-to-date.  Let's  make  it 
possible  for  her  to  give  more  time 
to  the  children.  When  the  children 
are  growir.g  up  they  need  th^  care 
and  training  (hat  only  a  mother  can 
give— and  mother  can't  give  it  when 
she  is  worn  out  doing  the  job  of  a 
pump  and  a  few  feet  of  iron  pipe. 


Next  time  you  go  to  town,  bring 
home  some  pipe  and  a  tank,  and  a 
force  pump  if  necessary.  You  can 
put  in  the  ou'fit  yourself,  and  be- 
tween you  and  the  boys  you  can  keep- 
the  tank  full.  '1  hen  mother  won't 
have  to  carry  any  more  water  at 
half  a  cent  a  mile. --Prairie  Farmer. 


Once  there  was  a  farmer  who  believed  the  place  for  advertisements  was 
in  newspapers.  His  pet  aversion  was  signs  nailed  on  and  marring  the 
beauty  of  his  trees  along  the  roadside,  or  painting  on  his  barns  and  out- 
buildings. One  day,  however,  a  patent  medicine  man  came  along  and 
painted  on  his  garden  fence  of  broad  upright  palings,  a  two-food;  high 
letter  to  each  plank,  BOSTON  PILLS.  The  farmer  came  home,  and  of 
course  was  mad.  But  a  happy  thought  struck  him.  He  got  his  hammer 
and  knocked  oil  the  planks  with  the  letters  on  them  and  re-arranged  them 
so  they  read,  FOST  NO  BILLS!— Monroe  Enquirer. 


HOW  DID  THEY  START,  ANYWAY? 

Nell  Battle  Lewis,  in  News  &  Observer. 

We  heard  of  a  new  superstition  on  New  Year's  Day.  On  the  table  was  a 
dish  of  corn-field  peas,  which  hadn't  been  expected.  The  cook  explained  their 
appearance  by  saying  that  it  was  good  luck  to  have  them  for  dinner  on  New 
Year's.  We  partook  of  them  heartily  as  an  antidote  for  the  rather  dismal  hor- 
oscopes for  the  year  1922  which  appeared  in  the  feature  pages  of  various 
Sunday  papers. 

How  a  superstition  as  absurd  as 
that  originated  it  would  be  interesting 
to  trace.  A  book  on  the  origins  of 
superstitions  ought  to  make  enter- 
taining reading.  One  we  have  heard 
tentatively  explained  is  that  of  knock- 
ing three  times  on  wood  after  boost- 
ing. In  earlier  times  when  imagina- 
tion peopled  the  air  with  evil  spirits 
which  were  ever  ready  to  do  hurt,  it 
was  supposed  that  any  sign  connected 
with  Christianity  would  dispel  them 
and  annul  their  powers.  Hence,  the 
the  superstitious  touched  wood  in 
symbol    of   the    Cross,    and   knocked 


three  times  to  invoke  the  three  persons 
of  the  Trinity. 

The  late  Hon.  Kemp  P.  Battle  of 
Chapel  Hill  had  an  ingenious  ex- 
planation oft  the  superstition  of  good 
luck  connected  with  seeing  the  new 
moon  clear.  He  held  that  it  origina- 
ted among  the  farmers,  and  that  the 
industrious,  hard-working  farmer 
svould  be  coming  home  from  the  fields 
about  the  time  that  the  new  moon 
appeared,  and  would  see  it  from  the 
open,  clear  of  obstructing  houses  or 
trees,  and  the  industry  which  put 
him  in  such  a  position  of  advantage 


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■would  bring  him  good  luck.  Where- 
as, the  lazy  husbandman  who  sat  in- 
dolently on  his  front  porch  with  his 
feet  on  the  rail,  would  be  move  than 
apt  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  new 
moon  through  the  trees  that  surround- 
ed his  house.  And  it  would  be  his  lazi- 
ness that  would  bring  the  bad  luck. 

It  is  rather  interesting  to  discover 
that  the  famous  painter,  Leonardo  da 
Vinci,  seemed  to  believe  in  ill  luck  con- 
nected with  an  overturned  salt  cellar. 
Either  that,  or  the  superstition  start- 
ed from  his  picture  of  the  Last  Sup- 
per. If  you  will  notice  in  that  well- 
known  painting,  Judas  Iscariot  has 
overturned  the  salt  cellar  with  his  el- 
bow. There  were  also  thirteen  people 
seated  around  that  table.  The  idea 
of  Friday  as  an  unlucky  day  perhaps 
may  have  originated  with  the  Cruci- 
fixion. 

An  explanation  of  the  bad  luck 
brought  by  a  rabbit  crossing  one's 
path  is  said  to  lie  in  the  fact  that 
in  earlier  wilder  days  a  rabbit 
startled  appearance  from  the  bushes 


might  indicate  the  approach  of  ma- 
rauders, ready  to  fall  upon  the  hap- 
less wayfarer. 

But  think  of  the  hundreds  of 
superstitions  that  haven't  even  such 
a  far-fetched  explanation  as  that. 
Why  should  it  be  thought  unlucky 
to  give  a  friend  a  knife,  or  for  middle- 
aged  people  to  move  into  a  new  house, 
or  for  a  door  to  be  cut?  Why  should 
good  fortune  be  supposed  to  attach 
to  the  bride  who  wears  "something 
old,  something  new,  something  bor- 
rowed, something  blue,  and  a  piece 
of  silver  in  the  heel  of  her  shoe." 
What  lively  imagination  decreed  that 
the  new  year  would  be  fortunate  if 
on  its  eve  a  man  walked  through 
the  house;  and  disastrous,  if  a  wo- 
man? What  is  the  origin  of  the 
charm  that  a  rabbit's  foot  will  work? 
Who  made  the  black  eat  that  "takes 
up"  at  a  house  a  harbinger  of  hope? 
What  gave-sthe  horse-shoe  and  the 
"wish  bone"  and  the  four  leaved 
clover  such  significance.  And  so  on, 
ad  inlinitum. 


The  truest  test  of  civilization  is  not  the  census,  not  the  size  of  its  cities, 
nor  the  crops,  but  in  the  kind  of  men  the  country  turns  out. — Emerson. 


The  Mysterious  Boomerang. 

"These  savages  perform  feats  which  science  declares  impossible." 
That  is  the  report  which  one  scientst  made  after  visiting  a  Maori  camp  in 
Australia,  and  watching  the  warriors  cast  their  boomerangs.  A  boom- 
erang is  to  all  appearance  simply  a  thin,  flat  piece  of  hardwood,  with  a 
bend  in  the  middle.  This  bend  varies  all  the  way  from  a  right  angle  to  a 
slight  crescent  curve.     Captain  Rob-     can  perform  with  this    weapon    are 


ert  Quinton  says  that  this  bend  is 
always  a  natural  crook  of  the  wood. 
The  average  length  of  a  boomerang 
is  from  two  to  three  feet. 

The  feats   which    a   black    fellow 


astonishing  says  Captain  Quinton. 
One  man's  very  common  perform- 
ance consisted  in  hurling  the  boom- 
erang in  such  a  way  that  the  under 
side  touched  the  ground    lightly    a- 


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bout  forty  paces  away,  rebounded, 
and  continued  its  flight  at  an  angle 
of  forty-five  degrees  until  it  reached 
a  great  height,  when  it  suddenly 
curved  again  and  came  back  in  a 
streigh  line  to  the  thrower.  I  have 
seen  the  same  man  hurl  the  same 
boomerang  in  such  a  way  that  it  rico- 
cheted along  the  ground  the  way  a 
flat  stone  will  do  on  the  surface  of 
the  water.  It  struck  the  ground 
and  rebounded  three  times.  The  third 
time  it  rose  almost  streight  up  in  the 
air  and  hailed  back  to  within  a  few 
yards  of  the  man  who  had  thrown, 
it,  when  suddenly  it  again  changed 
its  course,  rose  in  a  curve  over  his 
head,  and  a  landed  a  few  feet  in 
front  of  him. 

I  have  seen  a  native  throw  his 
boomerang  in  such  a  way  that  it 
rose  streight  up  into  the  air  to  a 
great  hight,  then  it  suddenly  curve- 


ed  inward,  sailing  straight  over  his 
head;  dropped  downward,  flew  out- 
ward, and  began  to  rise  again,  twice 
as  high  as  before,  made  another  loop 
rose  still  higher  in  the  air,  and  at 
lastdecended  in  a  straight  line  to  the 
thrower's  feet.  These  astonishing; 
stunts  are  almost  endless,  and  in 
spite  of  all  scientific  theories  and 
measurements  the  Australian  boom- 
erang remains  a  fascinating  and 
mysterious  problem. 

Nevertheless,  the  Meoris  are 
changing  with  the  times,  like  the 
American  Indians.  The  time  is  soon 
coming  when  the  boomerang  will 
become  a  curiosity  and  a  tradition, 
like  the  lndianbow  and  arrows.  Ev- 
en more  so,  for  no  one  will  know 
how  to  make  or  cast  a  boomerang. 
-•■J.  Mervin  Hull  in  "Young  Peo- 
ple." 


"Howl  if  you  must,  but  don't  whine. 


WHO  IS  THE  RICHEST  MAN? 

By  Richard  Spillane. 

Philadelphia,  Jan.  7. — Just  before  dinner  Mr.  Ford  said  to  his  wife:  "Re- 
member 17  years  ago?     Seventeen  years   ago   when  you  and  I  tramped  the- 
streets  of  Detroit  to  get  a  chicken  for  our  Thanksgiving  dinner  and  none  of 
.the  stores  would  trust  us?" 

Ford  was  quiet  for  a  moment  and 
then  said  in  a  semi-undertone:  "Sev- 
enteen years  ago  .  .  .  and  I  paid 
Uncle  Sam  $76,000,000  in  taxes  last 
year." 

From  Babson's  report  of  his  in- 
terview with  Henry  Ford. 

It  used  to  be  common  for  people  to 
refer  to  John  D.  Rockfeller  as  a  bil- 
lionaire, but  not  now.  Tie  may  have 
had  that  much  mono}'  at  one  time  but 


it  is  questionable.  At  any  rate,  he  has 
disposed  of  so  much  of  his  fortune 
through  various  channels  that  it  is 
considerably  reduced.  Nine  or  ten  years 
ago  there  was  a  dispute,  with  the 
authorities  of  Cleveland  as  to  his  tax 
hill.  At  that  time  one  of  the  foremost 
statisticians  of  America  was  employ- 
ed to  investigate  and  report  as  to 
Mr.  Rockefeller's  wealth.  His  estimate 
was  .*600,0u0,000.  Since  that  time  Mr. 


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Rockefeller   has  given   away   a   very 
large  amount  of  money. 

In  the  first  year  of  the  war  taxa- 
tion it  was  reported  semi-olneially 
that  the  largest  individual  tax  paid 
that  year  was  somewhat  less  than 
$36,000,000.  The  supposition  at  the 
time  was  that  it  referred  to  Mr.  Rock- 
efeller. Possibly  it  was  Henry  Ford. 
Is  Mr.  Ford  the  richest  man  in 
America  ?  Is  it  possible  that  a  man 
"who  couldn't  get  credit  for  a  chicken 
for  his  Thanksgiving  dinner  17  years 
ago  is  today  America's  one  billion- 
aire? 

A  tax  expert  has  figured  what  that 
$76,000,000,000  in  taxes  paid  for  1020 
represents  and  his  finding  is  that  Mr. 
Ford's  income  for  the  year  in  question 
was  $103,050,240.10.  That  would  mean 
about  $282,329  a  day,  Sunday  and 
holidays  included. 

But  is  Mr.  Ford  a  billionaire?  Opin- 
ions differ  as  to  what  constitutes  a 
billionaire  or  a  millionaire.  A  man 
with  an  income  of  $103,050,240.10  a 
year  might  be  considered  a  billionaire 
by  some  persons  but  after  paying 
$76,000,000  out  of  his  income  to  the 
government  he  would  have  only  $27,- 
000,000  left  and  that  it  is  not  con- 
sistent with  a  billionaire  income. 

Under  the  present  rate  of  taxation 
it  doesn't  seem  possible  for  a  man  to 
be  a  billionaire. 

Ford  struck  the  right  note  in  his 
Thanksgiving  day  reverie.  There  was 
no    suggestion    that    he   grudged    the 


paying  of  the  $76,000,000  but  rather 
was  humbled  by  the  marvel  of  man 
who  17  years  before  could  not  get 
credit  in  his  home  town  for  a  Thanks- 
giving day  dinner,  having  come  to 
colossal  wealth  in  such  a  short  time. 
That 's  the  great  lesson,  the  lesson  of 
opportunity.  America  no  doubt  of- 
fers more  of  opportunity  than  any 
other  land  under  the  sun  but  it  is 
present  in  every  land  and  in  every 
clime, for  those  who  are  fitted  to  re- 
spond to  it  when  it  calls. 

And  there  is  another  great  lesson 
in  Ford's  millions.  The  Niagaras  of 
dollars  that  poured  in  upon  him  in 
the  last  17  years  have  been  clean 
dollars.  They  have  come  from  furnish- 
ing the  multitude  something  that  has 
added  to  human  progress  and  human 
betterment.  His  tremendous  wealth  re- 
futes the  libel  that  no  man  can  be  a 
millionaire  and  be  honest. 

To  Henry  Ford  and  not  a  few  other 
men  of  great  wealth  money  does  not 
mean  ease  or  luxury  but  rather  spurs 
them  on  to  higher  achievement.  Some 
of  the  very  rich  men  work  hardier  than 
day  laborers.  So  far  as  creataire 
comforts  are  concerned  there  is  no 
difference  between  $1,000,000  and 
$1,000,000,000. 

If  nothing  else  Henry  Ford's  story 
is  a  classic  in  the  great  tale  of 
America's  self  made  men,  for  it  is  a 
tale  of  opportunity  well  used  and  nev- 
er abused. 


"Woodrow"  Wilson  was  walking  with  his  friend,  Joe  Kennon  once,  and 
they  passed  a  jewelry  store  where  there  were  a  lot  of  precious  stones  in 
the'window.  "Would  you  not  like  to  have  your  pick?"  asked  Woodrow. 
"Not  roe  pick  but  me  shovel,"  said  Joe.— The  Leader. 


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29 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 

James  Sutter  was  the  only  boy  to* 
receive  visits  Wednesday. 

Miss  Eve  Greenlee,  of  First  Cottage, 
lias  taken  charge  of  the  new  school 
room  that  was  opened  Tuesd'iy  a 
week.  Now  we  have  three  rooms 
opened. 

Rev.  T.  X  Lawrence,  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church,  of  Concord,  p reunited  an 

inspiring  sermon  at  the  Auditorium 
Sunday  afternoon  and  chose  lor  his 
his  text:  "And  Christ  Increased  in 
Widom  and  Statue,  and  in  Favor 
With  God  and  Man." 

When  a  person  knows  a  good  thing 
or  place,  how  hard  it  is  to  keep  away 
from  it.  This  must  have  been  the 
case  of  H.  Sarvis,  of  Bessemer  City, 
who  was  paroled  last  August  and  who 
is  making  good.  Mr.  Zeb  Teeter  was 
■also  avisitor  at  the  School  at  the  same 
time.  He  was  formerly  an  officer  of 
this  School.  Of  course,  they  can't 
stay  away,  so  we  expect  them  soon 
again. 

Waldo  Shinn  has  left  us  for  Ills 
home,  having  made  a  very  fine  record 
while  at  the  school.  He  is  missed  by 
the  boys  in  the  cottage  as  well  as  0:1 
the  play-ground.  His  short  stay  at 
the  school  was  only  seventeen  mouths, 
but  while  he  was  here  he  made  num- 
erous friends  among  the  boys  and  of- 
ficers. He  carried  the  good  wishes 
of  all  with  him  and  we  believe  he  will 
make  his  mark  in  the  world  some 
time  in  the  future. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cloer,  whose  arrival 


at  the  School  has  already  been  spoken 
of,  are  now  making  head-way  fast. 
Mrs.  Cloer  is  matron  in  Mecklenburg 
Cottage,  and  Mr.  Cloer,  being  a  car- 
penter, is  running  the  wood-shop.  He 
and  "Red"  Harvell  have  already 
put  out  several  good  jobs.  All  the 
boys  admire  and  respect  Mr.  Cloer,  he 
is  not  aloof  from  the  boys;  he  jokes 
and  plays  with  them  as  if  they  were 
his  own  sons.  Mrs.  Cloer  is  also 
kind  and  motherly  to  the  boys. 

Cottage  Xo.  6,  or  Guilford  Cottage, 
is  now  opened.  There  were  25  boys 
who  were  proud  to  feel  that  their 
conduct  has  been  of  such  merit  that 
they  have  been  placed  n  this  cottage 
as  a  reward.  It  is  located  just  below 
the  new  school  building.  The  boys  in 
this  cottage  will  try  to  their  utmost 
to  keep  it  new  and  clean  so  that  the 
confidence  in  them  will  not  be  mis- 
placed. Two  other  cottages  are  lo- 
cated just  below  this  one  so  of  course, 
it  won't  be  lonely  or  out  of  place. 
This  event  has  been  looked  forward  to 
by  a  great  many  of  the  boys. 


RETURNS  ALL  IN. 

Several  weeks  before  Christmas 
came,  THE  UPLIFT  modestly  in- 
vited any  one  who  felt  like  it,  to  aid 
us  in  giving  the  boys  at  the  Jackson 
Training  School  a  Christmas  com- 
mensurate with  their  appetites  and 
desires.  The  response  accomplished 
the  purpose.  If  all  the  boys  in  the 
institution  are  surfeited  as  the  printer 
boys,  candy,  nuts  and  such  like  would 
hold  no  charm  for  them  at  this  time — - 
but  how  soon  youngsters  get  over 
things. 

The  complete  list  is  as  follows: 


3o  THE  UPLIFT 

Mr.  W.  E.  Parker,  Charlotte,.  .$10.00  Baptist  church,  Greensboro:. 

Col.  F  B.  MeDuwell,  Charlotte.  .5.00  Showing    their    appreciation-  every 

Mr.  J.  C.  Crowell,   Charlotte 5.00  boy  at  the  institution  lias  written  iu- 

Mr.  E.  I?.  Grady,  Concord 5.00  to  "his  little  book"  the  names  of  all 

Mr.  John  R.  Query,  Concord 5.00  these    delightful    friends.     THE    UP- 

Col.  A.  H.  Boydeiii,  Salisbury "'.DO  LIFT   rejoices   that    each   one   had  a 

Mr.  R.  S.  Huntingion,  Gre^n-..  full    Christmas,    and    wishes    for    all 

vjlle,    s.    C 3.00  these  generous  and  thoughtful  friends 

Prof.  C'has.  L.  Coon,  Wilson 10.00  a  prosperous  year. 

Mrs.  Edna   Yorke,  Concord 10.00  

Mr.  J.  R..Fairehild,  New  York.. .  10.00  D      h    f  £        Jq-  n  A  Bamhardt. 

Cash    Concord 10.00 

Mrs.  Myrtle  Freeland,  North..  On  the  7th,  in  No.  5  township,  at  the 

Wilkesboro 5.00  aSe  °f  83,  Esq.  John  A.  Barnhardt,  an 

Junior    King's    Daughters, upright,  conscientious  and  most   wor- 

Concord 5.00  thy  citizen,  passed  away,     lie  was  elo- 

Senoir  King's  Daughters,  Con-  quent    in   attending   to   his   own   busi- 

eonl 10.00  "ess   and   perfectly    dumb    when    that 

State  King's  Daughters, 15.00  of  others  was  involved,   lie  was,  in  his 

T.   M.   Shelton,   Charlotte 10.00  day,   one   of   the   most   practical   and- 

Chapel  Hill  King's  Daughters.  .10.00  success Oul  school-teachers  in  the  whole 

Mr.  D.  H.  Pitts,  Concord, 10.00  section.     When  his  pupils  closed  theii 

T.   J.    Fet/.er,   Wadesboro, 10.00  three-months  school  term,  the  teacher 

Mr.    G    B    Caldwell,    Monroe,    live  receiving    the    munificent    salary    of 

boxes  of  oranges.  twenty-five   dollars   per   month,   they 

Mr.    Morris   LeftkowiU,    Salisbury,  knew   all    the   capitols   of    the   states, 

40  ibs.  candy.  could  read  intelligently  American  sto- 

Mr.  J.  A.  Fasnacht,  Charlotte,  one  ries    about    worthwhile    things,    could 
pound  candy  each  for  every  boy.  spell  splendidly,  knew  the  mult  'plica- 
Concord    Steam    Bakery,  '  100    lbs.  tion  tables  (up  and  down),  kept  their 
cake.  books    tidy    and    guarded    weli    their 

Mr.  J.   M.    Hendrix,  Concord,   two  thick  slates  (a  luxury  of  the  day),  put 

boxes    apples,    two    bunches   bananas,  in  never  less  than  six  hours  at  genuine- 

two  buckets  candy.  study,  became   familiar   with   the   ten 

Mrs.  J.  P.  Allison,  box  oranges.  commandments,   heard   the   scripture* 

Mr.  G.  L.  Patterson,  one  box  oranges  read   every   morning  followed  by   the 

and  250  paper  bags.  Lord's  prayer   in   which   they  joined. 

Albemarle    Grocery    Company    two  What  have  we  today  ? 
boxes  of  apples.  The  old  man,  early  in  life,  had  lost 

Box      of      Christmas,      Greenville  an  eye;  but  with  that  one  eye  always 

King's  Daughters.  in  action  and  backed  by  the  courage 

Box  of  Christinas,  Durham  King's  to  do  his  duty,  John  A.  Earnhardt  did 

Daughters.  much  valuable  service  for  his  fellow 

A  victrola  from  Col.  F.  P.  Hobgood,  man,  and  left  a  fine  name  for  the  jo? 

Jr's.     Sunday     School     class,     First  and  comfort   of  a  crowd  of  splendi.l 


THE  UPLIFT 


3i 


■children. 


Of  A  Local  Nature. 

Concord  had  a  sane  and  sober 
Chrsitmas.  *  The  Concord  National 
Bank  holds  its  33rd  annual  stock- 
holders meeting  on  the  10th.*  The 
Citizen  Bank  &  Trust  Company  is 
having  the?  old  Dove  &  Bost  Store 
room  torn  down,  preparatory  for  the 
rection  of  a  modern  banking  house.* 
Ninety  teachers  attended  the  Teach- 
ers' meeting  on  Saturday.  *  Mr.  L\ 
H.  Webb  entertained  officers  of  the 
local  Rotory  at  a  dinner  on  Monday 
evening.  *  Dr.  VV.  H.  Wadsworth 
is  taking  treatment  in  a  Charlotte 
hospital.  *  Mr.  J.  F.  Goodman,  con- 
fined to  his  home  for  two  weeks  by 
illness,  is  improving.  *  Ninety  teach- 
ers attended  the  Teachers'  meeting 
on  Saturday.  *  The  total  tax  of  Ca- 
barrus county,  not  including  the  in- 
come tax  that  goes  direct  to  the 
state,  is  $123,132,82.  *  Farm  Dem- 
onstrator Goodman  is  conducting  a 
campaign  of  fruit-tree  pruning  in 
the  county.  * 


Judge  Bis  Ray  is  holding  Cabarrus 
Superior  Court.  It's  a  two-weeks 
term.  Civil  eases  deferred  to  another 
court  in  order  to  give  time  for  the 
trial  of  an  unusually  heavy  criminal 
docket.  Dan  Y7idenhouse  had  ti'.lcd 
up  the  jail  with  whiskey  folks,  and 


some  of  his  subjects  were  out  on  bond. 
Some  of  these  days  the  lawless  will 
awake  to  the  idea  that  the  law  means 
business  and  fooled  with  long  e- 
noMgh  may  let  loose  a  real  sting  Mas- 
ten  the  day. 


RATES  AND  FARES  CUT. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  January — Removal  of 
the  war  taxes  of  eight  percent  on  pas- 
senger and  sleeping  car  fares  and  of 
three  percent  on  freight  charges 
which  became  effective  at  midnight  of 
December  31st  will  mean  a  substan- 
tial reduction  in-  the  cost  of  both 
freight  and  passenger  transportation. 

A  statement  issued  by  the  Southern 
Railway  System  calls  attention  to 
the  fact  that,  as  these  taxes  applied 
universally,  their  elimination  will  re- 
sult in  a  material  cut  in  the  bill  the 
American  people  have  been  paying  for 
transportation. 

Under  the  ruling  of  the  Bureau  of 
Internal  Revenue,  the  railways  will 
not  be  permitted  to  make  refunds  of 
war  taxes  paid  on  unused  portions  of 
tickets  or  mileage  books  or  of  such 
taxes  paid  on  freight  overcharges. 
Refunds  of  taxes  will  be  made  only 
on  direct  application  to  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Internal  Revenue,  "Wash- 
ington, and  application  must  be  ac- 
companied by  certificates  from  the 
railway  agents  through  whom  refund 
of  the  railway  charges  was  made. 


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eekh)— Subscription  $2.00 


RD  N.  C.  JAN.  21,  1922, 


NO.  11 


letliocl  01  Going. 

.  man    coul  ]  get  to  heaven  without 
h?"    asked    three    good    men    of   a 


d." 

patted  him  on  the  back,  and    called 

u  a  question,  and  I  want  you  to 
i  quickly  as  I  answered  you,"  said 
iy  do  you  want  to  go  to  heaven  that 


chless. 

l  ask  me  another  question?"  sug- 
ter.  "Why  don't  yov  ask  me  if  a 
England  without  going  on  a  boat?** 
id,  "we  will  ask  you  that.  Now 
r?" 

why  a  man  could  not  get  to  Eng  - 
\  on  a  ship,  provided  he  was  a  good 
me  food  between  his  shoulders  lo 
md  strength  to  buffet  all  the  waves 
lot  get  him.  And  suppose  you  did 
without  a  ship,  do  you  think  you 
much  ahead  of  the  man  v/ho  goes 
.*d. 


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He  Upita 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 


The  Authority  of  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Manual  Trrining  and  Industrial  School. 
Type-Setting  by  the  Boy's  Printing  Class.  Subscription  Two  Dollars  the  year  in 
Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor. 

JESSE  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,  at  the  Post  Ollice  at  Concord,  N. 
C,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1&79 

TELL  ME. 

If  the  whole  world  copied  You— 

Copied  to  the  letter--- 
Would  it  be  a  nobler  world, 
All  deceit  and  meaness  hurled 

From  it  altogether? 
Would  selfishness  and  envy  fade, 
And  in  the  room  their  absence  made, 
Would  love  come  into  view? 
Tell  me,  if  it  followed  You— 

Would  the  world  be  better 

—Selected. 


LEE  AND  JACKSON. 


Lest  we  forget.     . 

Today  is  the  anniversary  :>f  the  birth  of  Thomas  Johnathan  Jackson;  and 
Thursday  last  was  that  of  Robert  Edward  Lee.  Impartial  and  correct  his- 
torians give  to  these  Christian  men  and  gallant  soldiers  and  masterful  gen- 
erals high  places  for  patriotism,  unblemished  character,  matchless  bravery 
and  brilliant  records.  There  are  thos\  however,  even  among  our  own, 
obsessed  with  their  knowledge  of  pedagogy  and  the  artfulness  of  teaching, 
with  loose-fitting  regard  for  the  greatness  and  sacrifices  of  the.'  past,  who 
are  willing  that  there  be  placed  into  the  hands  of  the  children  books  that 
declare  Lee  and  Jackson  and  their  heroic    followers    were    "traitors"    and 


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the  cause  for  which  they  most  honestly  and    bravely    contended    was    "re- 
bellion." 

Because  certain  teachers  and  certain  officials  wear  so  loosely  their  sense 
of  partiotism  and  gratitude,  it  is  fitting  that  the  Daughters  of  the  Con- 
federacy andjthose  who  honor  the  memories  of  the  heroes  of  the  GOs  should 
jealously  grasp  every  opportunity  to  keep  forever  alive  the  spotless  names 
of  Lee  and  Jackson  and  the  brave  men  that  followed  them. 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  of  The  Uplift  are  to  be  found  articles  in  re- 
ference to  each  of  these  beloved  men,  who  tendered  their  all  in  defense  of 
the  South.  We  only  honor  ourselves  and  do, a  simple  duty  when  in  loving 
memory  we  strive  to  keep  alive  the  patriotism  of  those,  who  gave  their  all 
for  their  cause,  our  cause. 


ACTIVITY  OF  THE  DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY 

The  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy  throughout  the  South  recognized  the 
anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Commodore  Matthew  F.  Maury  (Jan.  14,  1806), 
the  great  scientist,  who  first  made  charts  of  the  sea  and  wrote  a  Physical 
Geography  of  high  merit.  The  activity  of  the  Daughters  in  insisting  that 
books  in  the  hands  of  our  children  shall  do  justice  to  the  South  and  her 
heroes  has  been  criticised  by  some  whose  toes  have  been  stepped  on.  In 
fact  a  most  reputable  newspaper,  edited  by  one  of  the  finest  men  of  the 
whole  state,  actually  gave  publicity  to  the  slanderous  remark  that  the 
Daughters  of  the  Confederacy  were  influenced  by  a  campaign  fund  con- 
tributed by  a  rival  publishing  concern.  The  very  authors  of  that  slan- 
derous statement  against  the  patriotism  and  sincerity  of  our  women,  are 
past  masters  at  the  business.  Years  ago,  for  business  reasons,  they  im- 
pugned the  honor  and  integrity  of  Major  Finger  and  John  C.  Scarboro  be- 
cause they  could  not  control  them. 

This  is  a  very  fine  reason  why  the  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  hon- 
est, clean  and  patriotic,  should  tighten  their  lines  and  keep  themselves  on 
the  watch-tower.     Their's  is  a  most  important  duty  and  service. 


"THE  CALL  TO  KNOW  NORTH  CAROLINA." 

A  year  or  more  ago,  Major  Bruce  Craven  began  what  he  was  pleased  to 
baptize  "Seeing  North  Carolina"  which  occasionally  runs  in  the  Greensboro 
News.  Later  on'when  Mr.  J.  F.  Hurley,  of  the  Salisbury  Post,  was  presi- 
dent  of  the  North  Carolina  Press  Association,  he  eloquently  and    forcibly 


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outlined  a  programme  to  the  editors,  who,  if  they  undertook  its  execution, 
could    do    a  world  of  good  under  the  slogan,  "Know  North  Carolina." 

The  Press  Association  very  properly  endorsed  the  fine  suggestion  of 
President  Hurley,  and  a  committee,  composed  of  Clarence  Poe,  L.  R.  Wilson 
and  E.  C.  Branson,  was  appointed  to  suggest  the  subjects  and  the  doctors 
to  handle  each.  This  committee  has  performed.  From  the  Chapel  Hill 
News  Letter,  we  learn  that  the  business  this  campaign  contemplated  has 
begun.  It  starts  off  with  an  extract  from  the  Inaugural  Address  of  Hon, 
T.  W.  Bickett,  when,  on  Jan.  11,  1917,  he  took  the  oath  of  offlie  of  Gover- 
nor.    And  this  is  Bickett's  Dream: 

"Gentlemen  of  the  gentral  assembly,  ladies  and  gentlemen:  I  have 
endeavored  to  visualize  my  dream  of  a  fairer  and  finer  state.  I  have 
outlined  the  means  by  which  I  hope  to  make  the  dream  c<;nie  true. 
And  the  means  all  reach  out  to  a  single  end— a  larger  hope,  a  wider 
door  for  the  average  man  than  he  has  ever  known. 

"With  a  six-months  school  guaranteed  to  every  child;  with  the 
forces  of  disease  routed  from  their  ancient  strongholds;  with  the  curse 
of  rum  lifted  from  every  home;  with  our  fields  tilled  by  the  men  who 
own  and  therefore  love  them;  with  our  harvests  free  from  the  crop 
lien's  deadly  blight;  with  modern  conveniences  and  wholesome  diver- 
sions within  reach  of  every  country  home,  our  dear  old  state,  released 
from  her  bondage  to  the  blood-kin  tyrants  of  Ignorance,  Poverty, 
Disease,  and  Crime,  will  begin  to  realize  her  finest  possibilities  in 
riches  and  grace;  will  assume  her  rightful  place  in  the  march  of  civi- 
lization; and  from  the  blue  of  the  mountains  to  the  blue  of  the  sea 
there  will  spring  up  a  hardier,  holier  race,  not  unlike  the  giants  that 
walked  the  earth  when  the  sons  of  God  mated  with  the  daughters  of 
men" 

The  Movies  taking  out  two  million  dollars  of  insurance  on  the  life  of  Mr. 
Will  Hayes  leads  one  to  believe  that  they  think  they  have  come  into  the 
possession  of  a  ruby. 

•••••••• 

Great  is  the  joy  of  our  boys  in  the  entertainment  they  are  getting  out  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  Victrola  records  donated  by  some  good  people  in 
Greensboro,  at  the  instance  of  Miss  Nita  Gressitt,  teacher  of  mathematics  in 
the  Greensboro  High  School.  Th?  Seniors  of  the  Greensboro  High  School 
sent  a  lot  of  fifty,  and  the  Business  &  Professional  Women's  Club  con- 
tributed one  hundred.  Nothing  in  all  the  world  equals  the  thought- 
fulness  of  a  genuine  friend  when  in  action.  If  Miss  Gressitt  inspires  the 
young  Seniors  and  the  Business  &  Professionals  Women's  Club  to  make  us  a 


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coveted  visit,  the  boys  will  &how  them  how  they  can  play  the  records,  and 
how  quickly  they  even  have  picked  up  the  songs  and  learned  the  imper- 
sonations.     And  this  generous  gift  came  at  Christmas  time,  too! 


I                     THE  FOX  WI'I  HOUT  A  TAIL.  % 

*>        It  happened  that  a  Fox  caught  its  tail  in  a  trap,  and  in  struggling  * 

%  to  release  himself  lost  all  of  it  but  the  stump.  At  first  he  was  asham-  •:• 

X  ed  to  show  h;mself  among  his  fellow  foxes.   But  at  last  he  determined  •:« 

*  .        .  * 

•>  to  put  a  bolder  face  upon  his  misfortune,  and  summoned  all  the  foxes  ♦ 

•:*  to  a  general  meeting  to  consider  a  proposal  which  he  had  to  place  be-  * 

•:•  fore  them.     When  they  had  assembled  together  the  Fux  proposed  that  ♦ 

•:•  they    should    all  do  away  with  their  tails.      He  pointed  how  inconven-  * 

•:•  v 

*  ient    a    tail   was  when  they  were  pursued  by  their  enemies,  the  dogs;  * 
»*♦  *** 

*  how    much  it  was  in  the  way  when  they  desired  to  sit  down  and  hold  f 

•••  a  friendly    conversation    with    one  another.     He  failed  to  see  any  ad-  1* 

*>  vantage   in    carrying  about  such  a  usehss  encumberanee.     That  is  all  | 

*  very  well,"  said  one  of  the  older  foxes;  "but  I  do  not  think  you  would  | 

*  have  recommended  us  to  dispense  with  our  chief  ornament  if  you  had  * 
;•*  not  happened  to  lose  it  yourself."  1; 

|                             "DISTRUST  INTERESTED  ADVICE."  $ 

♦:♦                                                                                                     ■  * 

►♦♦  ♦*« 


TB.Ii  UPLIFT 


Guilford  Makes  Official  Visit. 

Wednesday,  January  11,  was  a  most  delightful  day,  despite  the  weather, 
at  the  Jackson  Training  School.  This  wag  the  day  set  by  the  County  Com- 
missioners of  Guilford,  accompanied  by  deeply  interested  others,  to  visit 
the  institution,  inspect  the  new  Guilford  Cottage  and  officially  turn  it  over 
to  the  institution  with,  as  the  meeting  proved,  their  entire  satisfaction  and 
blessings. 


Among  the  representatives  of  the 
Commissioners  were  Mr.  J.  A.  Ran- 
kin, the  chairman,  Mr.  W.  C.  Jones, 
Mr.  J.  G.  Foushe,  together  with  Mr. 
W.  C.  Boren,  who  was  chairman  of 
said  Board  when  the  appropriation 
for  the  building  was  made,  and  who 
since  has  become  the  chairman  of 
the  County  Road  Commission,  and 
is  a  master  at  the  business.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mason  W.  Grant,  clerk  of 
superior  court  and  Juvenile  Judge, 
were  present.  Mrs.  Blanche  Carr 
Sterne,  the  capable  and  efficient 
superintendent  ot  county  welfare 
and  others  were  among  the  visitors 
from  Guilford. 

The  visitors,  after  luncheon  in  the 
Guilford  Cottage  and  a  minute  in- 
spection from  basement  to  garret- 
all  declaring  it  perfect—the  visitors 
adjourned  to  the  chapel,  where  the 
boys  had  assembled,  together  with  a 
number  of  interested  friends  from 
Concord,  Judge  Grant  presided, 
and  after  scripture  reading  and  pray- 
er by  Rev.  R.  Murphy  Williams  the 
editor  of  The  Uplift  extend  a  cor- 
dial welcome  to  the  distinguished 
visitors  and  thanking  most  earnest- 
ly the  forward-looking  county  of 
Guilford  for  the  material  aid  con- 
tributed to  the  institution  in  work- 
ing out  its  plans.  Mr.  E.  D.  Broad- 
hurst,  one  of  the  leading  lights  cf 
the  Greensboro  Bar,  responded, 
making  ?.  timely  and  forceful  address 


which  impressed  the  audience,  es- 
pecially the  boys  for  whom  his  splen- 
did remarks  were  primarily  inten- 
ded.' Messrs.  Rankin,  Jones  and 
Foushe  of  the  Commissioners  made 
pleasing  remarks,  all  expressing 
pride  and  happiness  over  their  having 
the  opportunity  extended  them  as 
officials  to  aid  materially  in  the 
great  work  of  the  institution.  Mr. 
Boren,  the  former  chairman,  a  gen- 
uinely sincere  and  practical  busi- 
ness man,  made  a  few  remarks;  and 
Mrs.  Sterne  was  radiantly  happy 
over  the  fact  that  she  now  had  a 
strong,  right  arm  assistant  in  her 
great  work  of  reclamation.  Re\r. 
Williams,  whom  everybody  in 
Greensboro  regards  as  the  big  broth- 
er, of  the  average  boy  was  very  hap- 
py in  his  timely  remarks.  Throughout 
the  interesting  exercise  the  boys 
sang  a  number  of  songs,  which  de- 
lighted the  visitors;  and  Master 
Taylor  recited  Dr.  McGeachy's  "A 
Man  May  be  Down,  But  Pie's  Never 
Out.''  The  meeting  was  closed  with 
the  benedcition  by  Rev.  T.W.Smith, 
the  institution's  unselfish  and  devot- 
ed friend. 

At  the  close  of  the  meeting  the 
ten  boys,  from  Guilford  county,  were 
invited  to  come  up  on  the  stage  and 
personally  meet  the  Guilford  delega- 
tion—that meeting  was  of  the  pur- 
est and  deepest  friendship,  the  boys 
seeing  that  the  folks  back  home  have 


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a  regard  and  interest  in  their  welfare, 
and  they  were  deeply  impressed 
thereby. 

Mr.  W.  E.  Stanley,  the  County 
Welfare  Worker  of  Durham,  hap- 
pened in  on  this  occasion,  having  ac- 
companied a  boy   to    the    insitution. 

'I  he  exercises  set  him  on    fire  and 


said  he:  "Look  here,  I'm  going  to 
bring  Durham  down  hereandpull  off 
a  meeting  just  a  little  better  when 
our  Cottage  is  opened."  Brother 
Stanly  may  just  as  'veil  begin  to 
line  up  his  folks,  for  in  a  very  few 
days  the  Durham  Cottage  will  be 
thrown  open. 


With  reports  coming  from  Paris  that  this  was  the  "gayest,  wettest, 
and  costliest"  Christmas  that  the  French  capital  has  ever  experienced 
and  with  the  French  representatives  at  the  Armament  Conference  de- 
manding that  France  have  a  free  hand  in  the  construction  of  submarines, 
and  other  auxiliary  crafts  of  war,  isn't  it  about  time  for  America  to  de- 
mand payment  of  the  interest  on  that  war  debt,  rather  than  continue  so 
much  maudlin  talk  about  cancelization  of  the  debt?  "We  object  very 
strenuously  to  America  canceling  t':e  war  debt  of  a  people  who  seem 
unduely  anxious  to  prepare  for  future  wars  and  has  money  for  gayety 
and  carousal.  Let  the  money  spent  for  champagne  go  to  the  payment 
of  the  honest  debt  to  a  nation  that  has  written  the  law  of  temperance  in 
her  constitution. — Christian  Advocate. 


REMEMBER  THE  PATRIOTS. 

Robert  E.  Lee's  father,  General  Henry  Lee,  who  was  called  Light  Horse 
Harry,  was  a  famous  calvary  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Lie  was  often 
sent  out  as  a  scout  to  learn  of  the  enemies'  plans.  TLis  troopers  were  called 
the  eyes  and  cars  of  the  army.  His  work  was  highly  commended  both  by  Con- 
gress and  General  Washington. 

After  the  war  he  was  governor 
of  Virginia,  and  later  became  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress.  It  was  while  deliver- 
ing Washington's  funeral  oration 
in  Congress  that  he  said,  "Washing- 
ton is  first  in  war,  first  in  peace,  first 
in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen." 

Charles  Richard  Lee,  the  paternal 
great-great-grandfather  of  Robert, 
came  from  England  to  Virginia  during 
the  reign  of  Charles  the  First.  He 
was  akindhearted  man,  of  good  stature 
and  good  sense,  and  in  many  ways 
was  like  his  descendant  who  led  the 
armies  of  the  Confederacy. 


Robert's  mother  was  Anne  Hill 
Carter,  from  one  of  Virginia's  best 
families.  Stratford  House  in  which 
Robert  was  born  is  a  fine  old  mansion, 
which  stands  not  far  from  the  banks 
of  the  Potomac  River  near  the  birth- 
place of  Washington. 

He  had  two  brothers — Charles  and 
Sidney — and  two  sisters — Anne  and 
Mildred. 

Robert  was  very  fond  of  horses  and 
dogs,  and  spent  much  of  his  time 
around  the  stables.  He  enjoyed  out- 
of-door  sports,  especially  hunting.  In 
this    way    he    developed    that    great 


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strength  which  enabled  him  to  endure 
the  hardships  of  the  campaign. 

As  his  father's  health  was  failing, 
the  family  moved  into  the  city  of 
Alxander  when  Robert  was  four  years 
old.  When  he  was  at  the  age  of 
eleven  his  father  died.  His  mother 
was  not  strong  and  finally  became  an 
invalid,    unable    to    get    about    at    all 


noon  he  hurried  home  from  school  to 
take  her  for  a  ride.  He  carried  her  to 
the  carnage,  wrapped  her  up  com- 
fortably and  did  all  ho  could  to 
cheer  her  up  while  they  rode. 

Lee  attended  private  schools  until 
he  was  eighteen.  He  then  entered 
West  Point,  for  he  had  decided  that 
he  would  be  a  soldier  like  his  father. 


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alone.  Her  oldest  son  was  at  college, 
her  second  son,  in  the  navy.  The 
older  daughter  was  very  frail  and  the 
other  too  young  to  do  much  about  the 
house.  Hence  to  Robert  fell  most  of 
the  responsibility  of  overseeing  the 
housework  and  caring  for  his  mother. 
He  was  very  strong  for  a  boy  of  his 
years  and  could  easily  carry  her  about 
in  his   arms.     Every  pleasant   after- 


He  had  grown  to  be  a  handsome, 
well-developed  young  man,  five  feet 
eleven  inches  tall.  He  was  scrupu- 
lously neat  in  his  dress  as  well  as  in 
everything  he  did.  He  was  very  kind 
and  courteous  to  all  whom  he  met  and 
became  a  great  favorite  both  with  his 
instructors  and  classmates.  He  was  a 
devoted  Christian"  and  every  one  of 
felt  the  influence  of  the  strength  and 


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mother  became  very  ill.  Ho  sat  at 
her  bedside  day  and'night,  giving  heir 
food  and  medicine  with  his  own  hand, 
but  care  and  love  could  not  save  her, 
and  he  was  soon  bereft  of  her  to 
whom  he  said  he  owed  everything. 


purity  of  his  character.  During  the 
four  years  he  was  at  West  Point  he 
never  had  a  demerit  mark.  He  grad- 
uated in  1820,  standing  second  in  a 
class  of  forty-six. 

Xct   long   alter   his   graduation   his 

They  say   that  man  is  mighty 

He  governs  land  and  sea. 
He  wields  a  mighty  scepter 

O  'er  lesser  powers  that  be. 
But  a  mightier  power  and  stronger 

Man  from  his  throne  has  hurled, 
For  the  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle 

Is  the  hand  that  rules  the  world.— Wm.  Ross  "Wallace. 


STONEWALL  JACKSON. 


Thomas  J.  Jackson  was  born  Jan. 
21,  1824,  in  the  mountains  ot'  western 
Virginia.  The  home  of  his  childhood, 
near  the  Ohio  river,  was  not  far  from 
the  early  homes  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
and  Jefferson  Davis.  Jackson's  fath- 
er was  a  lawyer,  but  long  after  the 
birth  of  the  child  both  the  father 
and  mother  died.  The  blue-eyed  boy, 
with  the  hair  so  long  and  fair  and 
voice  that  was  quiet  and  sweet,  went 
to  live  on  a  farm  with  his  uncle.  He 
worked  hard  on  the  farm;  he  liked 
to  ride  horses  and  make  them  gallop 
fast  over  the  hills;  and  he  knew  well 
how  to  cut  down  trees  and  drag  them 
out  of  the  great  forest  to  the  sawmill. 
At  West  Point. 
In  1S42,  when  young  Jackson  was 
eighteen  years  old,  he  presented  him- 
self at  West  Point,  on  the  Hudson 
river.  He  wore  a  suit  of  coarse  stuff 
woven  on  the  loom  at  his  home  A  few 
other  articles  were  packed  in  a  pair 
of  old  saddlebags.  He  was  about  six 
feet  two  inches  in  height,  his  hands 
-and  feet  were  large  and  his  way  of 


walking  was  awkward.  The  other 
boys  at  the  military  school  tried  to 
[day  jokes  on  him,  but  they  soon  gave 
it   ui).     He    was   full   of   courage   and 


plenty  of  common  sense.  It  is  true 
that  he  was  bashful  and  had  little  to 
say  to  any  of  his  comrades,  but  his 
heart  was  overflowing  with  kindness. 


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When  any  one  of  them  was  in  trouble, 
Jackson  was  the  first  to  help  him. 
He  was  polite  to  every  one,  and  al- 
ways loved  to  speak  the  truth. 

Rather    Slow    at    First. 

Jackson  was  slow  at  first  in  learn- 
ing from  books.  He  had  to  work  hard 
to  keep  up  with  the  other  boys.  But 
he  kept  at  it.  After  the  hour  for  put- 
ting out  the  lamp  in  his  room, he  would 
often  lie  down  on  the  floor  and  study 
his  lesson  by  the  light  from  the  burn- 
ing coals  in  the  fireplace.  "You  can 
be  whatever  you  resolve  to  be,"  he 
said.  He  was  terribly  in  earnest  and 
meant  to  win  success  as  a  soldier. 
Slowly  he  worked  his  way  up  in  the 
class,  and  so  had  nearly  reached  the 
head  of  it  when  the  four  years  were 
finished. 

In  the  Mexican  War. 

Then  he  went  to  light  in  Mexico 
(1S4G)  as  an  officer  of  artillery.  His 
eyes  fairly  blazed  when  he  took  his 
cannon  into  battle.  At  Cliapultepec, 
in  front  of  the  city  of  Mexico,  the 
roadway  which  he  held  was  swept  by 
the  enemy's  cannon  balls.  In  order 
to  keep  down  the  excitement  among 
his  men  he  walked  back  and  forth  in 
front  of  them  and  said  very  quietly, 
"There  is  no  danger.  See!  I  am  not 
hit." 

Jackson's  Life  as  a  Teacher. 

After  the  Mexican  War  Jackson  be- 
came a  teacher  in  the  Virginia  Mili- 
tary Institute,  at  Lexington,  Va.  His 
life  there  was  very  quiet.  Every 
morning  regularly  he  arose  about  six 
o'clock;  after  kneeling  in  prayer  he 
took  a  cold  bath,  and  this  was  done 
even  on  the  iciest  mornings  in  winter. 


A  brisk  walk  followed,  and  then,  at 
seven,  family  prayers  and  breakfast. 
Then  came  his  work  in  teaching,  and 
after  that  the  study  of  books.  The 
Bible  was  always  first  in  this  course 
of  daily  reading,  and  then  history  of 
the  wars  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte.  Sun- 
day morning  found  him  regularly  in 
seat  at  church.  Every  Sunday  after- 
noon he  managed  and  taught  a  Sun- 
day school  attended  by  the  negro 
slaves  of  the  community  in  which  he 
lived.  He  always  did  what  he  thought 
to  be  right,  no  matter  what  it  cost 
him.  With  all  his  might  he  hated  a 
lie.  His  anger  always  blazed  out 
against  the  man  who  did  wrong  to 
another.  And  yet  he  lived  the  peace- 
able life  of  the  man  of  God.  In  his 
own  home  there  was  always  tender- 
ness and  affection. 

The  Call  to  War. 

When  Virginia  left  the  Union,  Jack- 
son was  ready  to  defend  his  native 
commonwealth.  One  Sunday  morn- 
ing the  governor's  message  came. 
Jackson  called  out  the  soldier  boys 
whom  he  was  teaching,  had  religious 
worship  conducted  in  their  presence, 
and  then,  at  one  o'clock  the  same  day, 
led  them  to  battle.  Jackson  himself 
was  made  colonel  and  was  told  to  hold 
Harpers  Ferry  on  the  Potomac  River. 
He  still  wore  the  plain  uniform  of  his 
school.  His  worn  and  faded  cadet 
cap  was  always  tilted  over  his  eyes. 
He  went  in  and  out  among  his  men 
without  noise  or  bustle.  He  rode  a 
quiet  old  horse,  but  he  kept  his  men 
at  work  and  kept  his  eyes  open  for  the 
coming  of  the  enemy.  Jackson  talk- 
ed very  little  with  anyone,  and  never 
told  his  plans,  not  even  in  his  letters 
to  his  wife.     He  wrote  to  her  about 


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the  roses  that  were  elinibing  over  the 
house  iu  which  he  was  staying,  and 
then  sent  to  her  this  message  from  his 
heart,  "My  sweet  little  sunny  face  is 
what  I  want  to  see  most  of  all." 

Jackson  at  Manassas. 

Another  Sunday  morning  eame,  and 
now  it  was  the  month  of  July,  1S61. 
Jackson  had  under  his  command  an 
entire  brigade  made  up  of  live  regi- 
ments of  Virginians.  He  had  four 
cannon  also.  These  were  directed  by 
a  minister  of  the  Gospel  who  had  be- 
come a  Confederate  soldier.  For  this 
reason  the  four  big  guns  were  named 
by  the  men  Matthew,  Mark,  Luke  and 
John.  Jackson  still  wore  his  hat  pull- 
ed down  over  his  eyes.  Ears  and  eyes 
were  open,  as  usual,  however,  on  this 
beautiful  morning,  because  Jackson 
saw  a  strong  Federal  army  coming 
against  him.  This  army  had  started 
southward  from  Washington  to  cap- 
ture Richmond.  The  Confederate  ar- 
my met  it  near  Manassas,  south  of 
the  Bull  Run  in  Virginia.  The  Feder- 
al soldiers  crossed  the  Bull  Run  at  a 
point  above,  and  came  down  along  the 
bank  against  the  end  of  the  Confed- 
erate line.  Jackson  was  near  that 
end,  and  when  Bee,  the  Carolinian, 
said,  ' '  They  are  beating  us  back, ' '  he 
replied,"  Then,  sir,  we  will  give  them 
the  bayonet."  This  filled  Bee  with 
hope,  and  he  called  out  to  his  men, 
"Look!  there  is  Jackson  standing  like 
a  stone  wall.  Rally  behind  the  Vir- 
ginians. 

The  First  Great  Confederate  Victory. 

From  that  hour  Jackson  was  called 
Stonewall,  and  the  men  who  fought 
under  him  there  were  known  as  the 
Stonewall  Brigade.     While  the  bullets 


were  Hying  thick,  he  rode  slowly  up 
and  down  in  front  of  them,  just  as  he 
did  Chepultepec,  saying  in  a  quiet 
way,  "Steady,  men,  steady!  all's 
well!"  When  the  enemy  eame  nearer, 
he  rode  to  the  center  of  his  line  and 
said,  "Reserve  your  lire  till  they 
come  within  fifty  yards,  then  (ire  and 
give  them  the  bayonet;  and  when  you 
charge,  yell  like  furies. "  The  long 
gray  line  of  heroes  obeyed  his  order. 
Suddenly  they  leaped  from  the  ground 
where  they  had  lain,  fired  into  the 
very  faces  of  the  foe,  and  then  with 
wild  yells  charged  through  shot  and 
shell  and  battle  smoke  into  the  en- 
emy's line.  That  line  waved  back  and 
forth  and  at  last  gave  way.  The  rest 
of  the  Confederates  came  to  Jackson's 
aid,  and  the  Federal  army  turned 
back  in  a  mad  rush  for  Washington. 
It  was  the  first  great  battle  of  the  war 
and  the  first  great  Confederate  vic- 
tor y. 

The  Great  Valley  Campaign. 
Early  in  the  year  1862,  Stonewall 
held  the  Valley  of  Virginia  with  six- 
teen thousand  Confederates.  Three 
different  Northern  armies,  contain- 
ing in  all  about  sixty  thousand  men, 
were  sent  against  him.  Hidden 
ways  of  marching  and  sudden  rushes 
brought  him  against  his  foes  at 
places  where  they  did  not  expect 
him,  and  one  after  another  he  de- 
feated the  three  armies  in  five  well- 
planned  battles.  Then  like  a  thunder- 
bolt of  war  he  moved  from  the  Valley 
to  the  James  River  and  fell  upon 
McClellan's  army  in  front  of  Rich- 
mond. ' '  Stonewall  Jackson  is  here ! " 
was  the  glad  cry  that  ran  along  Gen- 
eral Lee's  line  of  soldiers.  Then  the 
Confederate  soldiers  all  advanced 
through  the  swamps  and  forests  and 


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drove  MeClellan  from  Richmond. 
Jackson's  Last  Victory. 

In  the  last  half  of  the  year  18G2, 
Jackson  won  the  victory  of  Cedar  Run  , 
and  fought  beside  Lee  on  the  glorious 
fields  of  Second  Manassas,  Sliarpsburg 
and  Fredericksburg.  On  the  2nd  of 
May,  18G3,  Stonewall's  men  were 
marching  in  a  long  column  through 
(he  thick  bushes  at  Chancellorsville. 
The  commander  was  in  the  lead,  and 
the  soldiers  were  in  line  spirits.  "Tell 
old  Jack,  we're  all  a-coming.  Don't 
let  him  begin  the  fuss  till  we  get 
there,"  was  their  frequent  call  as 
they  moved  forward.  At  half  past 
rive  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  Jackson 
sat  in  silence  on  his  horse,  Little  Sor- 
rel. His  old  cap  was  drawn  down  ov- 
er his  eyes  his  lips  were  tightly 
closed,  and  his  watch  was  in  his 
hand.  The  troops  were  getting  into 
[dace  in  the  rear  of  one  end  of  the 
Federal  army. 

"Are  you  ready,  General  Rhodes'?" 
said  Jackson. 

"Yes,  sir,"  replied  the  brave  Ala- 
liamian. 

"You   can   go   forward,   sir,"   said 


Jackson. 

Rhodes  gave  a  nod,  and  the  nota 
•i  bugle  rang  out.  "Boom,  boom," 
roared  out  two  large  guns  in  the  road- 
way. Then  the  tierce  "rebel  yell" 
came  from  thousands  of  throats,  and 
Jackson's  men  rushed  forward  through 
the  woods  into  the  Federal  camp. 
The  Northern  soldiers  threw  down 
their  guns  and  (led.  It  was  the  last 
victory  won  for  the  Confederacy  by 
Stonewall  Jackson. 

Death    of    Jackson. 

That  night  he  rode  forward  in  tho 
darkness.  Through  mistake  his  own  . 
men  (ired,  and  Jackson  fell.  For  a 
week  he  lingered.  "I  should  have 
chosen  for  the  good  of  the  country  to 
be  disabled  in  your  stead,"  wroto 
Lee  to  tho  wounded  man.  Jackson 
said  of  his  last  battle,  "I  feel  that 
God's  hand  led  me — let  us  give  Him 
the  glory."  When  the  end  was  at 
hand  he  said,  "Let  us  cross  over  the 
river,  and  rest  under  the  shade  of  the 
trees,"  and  the  soul  of  the  great 
Christian  soldier  went  to  be  with  hi3 
God. —  (Dr.  White's  Beginner's  His- 
tory of  the  United  States.) 


STONEWALL  JACKSON":  When  on  the  plain,  he  drilled  no  eagles  to 
perch  on  his  banners,  as  the  third  Napoleon  was  said  to  have  done.  But 
one  thing  he  did,  he  impressed  his  men  with  such  an  intense  conviction  of 
his  unselfish  and  supreme  consecration  to  the  cause  for  which  he  had 
periled  all,  and  so  kindled  them  with  his  own  magnetic  fire  as  to  fuse  them 
into  one  articulated  body — one  heart  throbbing  through  all  the  members,  but 
spirit  animating  the  entire  frame — that  heart,  that  spirit,  his  own.  It  wa3 
his  sublime  indifference  to  personal  danger,  to  personal  comfort,  and  per- 
sonal aggrandizement,  that  gave  him  such  power  over  the  armie3  ho  com- 
manded, and  such  place  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  the  Confederate 
StatC3.    Dr.  Moses  D.  Hodge. 


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SWORD  OF  ROBERT  LEE    - 

Forth  from  its  scabbard,  pure  and  bright 

Flashed  the  sword  of  Lee 
Far  in  the  front  of  the  deadly  fight, 
High  o'er  the  brave,  in  the  cause  of  right, 
Its  stainless  sheen,  like  a  beacon  light, 

Led  us  to  victory. 

Out  of  its  scabbard,  where  full  long 

It  slumbered  peacefully- 
Roused  from  its  rest  by  the  battle-song, 
Shielding  the  feeble,  smiting  the  strong, 
Guarding  the  right,  and  avenging  the  wrong— 

Gleamed  the  sword  of  Lee! 

Forth  from  the  scabbard,  high  in  air, 

Beneath  Virginia's  sky,  ■  ■ 

And  they  who  saw  it  gleaming  there, 
And  knew  who  bore  i  ,tknelt  to  swear 
That  where  that  sword  led  they  would  dare 

To  follow  and  to  die. 

Out  of  its  scabbard!  Never  hand 

Waved  sword  from  stain  as  free, 
Nor  purer  sword  led  braver  band, 
Nor  braver  bled  for  a  brighter  land, 
Nor  brighter  land  had  a  cause  as  grand, 

Nor  cause  a  chief  like  Lee! 


Forth  from  its  scabbard!  All  in  vain! 

Forth  Hashed  the  sword  of  Lee! 
'Tis  shrouded  now  in  its  sheath  again, 
It  sleeps  the  sleep  of  our  noble  slain, 
Defeated,  yet  without  a  stain, 

Proudly  and  peacefully. 

— Father  J.  A.  Ryan. 


"I  know  no  better  way  to  define  the  word  'education'  than  to  say  it 
means  being  like  Robert  E.  Lee." — Dr.  E.  C.  Branson. 


THE-'OPUFT  ,5 

THIRTEEN  SCHOOL  TRUCKS  USED. 

Thirteen  specially  built  school  trucks  are  now  in  use  in  six  consolidated 
schools  in  Davidson  County,  and  in  addition,  it  is  reported,  are  being  supple- 
mented by  probably  as  many  as  four  regular  automobiles  trucks.'  About  eight 
hundred  boys  and  girls  from  tots  to  high  school  seniors  are  being  taken  to 
school  each  morning  and  returned  to  their  homes  each  afternoon.  These  arc 
all  protected  from  cold  and  rain  and  add  both  to  the  comfort  and  health  of  the 
pupils,  it  is  said.  Nothing  in  the  history  of  the  public  schools  of  the  county  has 
proven  more  popular  perhaps  than  the  transportation  of  pupils.  In  the  dis- 
tricts where  the  trucks  are  operated  there  are  no  long  distances  to  school,  for 
those  living  two  or  three  miles  away  are  within  a  few  minutes  of  the  school 
house  doors. 

The  trucks  are  being  used  at  Arcadia,  Welcome,  Reeds,  Tyro,  Churehland  and 

'  Linwood,   all  of  which   were   consolidated   during  the  early  months  of  1921. 

Linwood  was  the  last  of  these  districts  to  be  consolidated,  now  havng  a  good 

four-teacher]  school  under  Principal  Fussell  and  is  doing  splendid  elementary 

and  high  school  work. — Lexington  Dispatch. 

Why  are  the  children  of  rural  Cabarrus  and  some  other  counties  not  enjoy- 
ing equal  advantages?  Are  they  not  just  as  good  and  as  worthy  as  the  children 
of  Davidson?  There  is  a  reason  for  this  difference  in  educational  advantages, 
and  somebody  is  responsible  for  the  inequality. 


Washington,  Jan.  12. — There  is  much  astonishment  being  expressed  here 
at  the  discovery  today  that  the  late  Senator  Boise  Penrose,  of  Pennsylvania, 
had  $236,100  in  idle  cash  in  a  safe  deposit  box  in  one  of  the  banks  here. 
The  deputy  register  of  wills  of  the  District  of  Columbia  had  been  requested 
by  the  executors  of  the  Penrose  will  to  open  the  safety  deposit  box  and  in 
it  he  found  5236,100  in  cash,  this  in  five  §10,000  notes,  the  balance  in  de- 
nomination ox  31,000,  $500,  $100  and  $50  bills.  How  long  this  big  amount 
of  idle  money  had  been  laid  away  in  the  deposit  box  without  drawing  in- 
terest has  not  been  made  known  and  utterly  without  the  power  of  service 
to  any  causj,  whether  industrial,  commercial,  political  or  religious.  Ter- 
rible selfishness! 


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odera  Scliool  Building 


This  is  the  picture  of;  a  modern 
school  building,  containing  twelve 
recitation-rooms.  This  is  the  out- 
growth of  a  deep  educational  interest 
that  was  cultivated  by  certain  edu- 
cational leaders  in  Rockingham  coun- 
ty, chief  among  them  being  Mr.  U. 
Leland  Stanford,  a  young  and  promi- 
nent lawyer,  about  whom  THE  UP- 
LIFT in  the  issue  of  the  7th  carried 
an  appreciation. 

The  building  is  in  (he  small  village 
of  Stoneville  with  less  than  500  inhabi- 
tants, but  it  serves  the  school-child- 
ren of  three  consolidated  districts, 
with  the  probability  of  two  other 
districts  to  join  this  consolidation.  The 
building,  entirely  modern  in  every 
respect,  cost  with  the  equipment' 
$100,000.00. 

In  conveying  the  children  to  and 
from  there  is  in  use  now  one  truck. 
"When  the  two  other  districts  are 
added,  the  services  of  three  other 
trucks  will  be  employed. 

The  enrollment  of  the  school  is  314; 
the  school  term  is  eight  months;  and 
Prof.  Robert  if.  Scott  is  the  principal. 

This  is  one  of  the  superb  accom- 
plishments of  the  school  officials  of 
Rockingham  county,  which  enjoys  the 
able,  wise  and  tireless  services  of 
Prof.  L.  X.  Hickerson,  as  superin- 
tendent, backed  up  by  a  forward- 
thinking  and  alert  Board  of  Educa- 
tion. 


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THE  UPLIFT  I. 


There's  Place  In  Life  For  1  lie  Anecdote. 

THE  AMERICAN  BEDBUG:  It  is  told  that  once  upon  a  time  there  was 
an  English  lord  invited  as  the  guest  of  a  wealthy  Southern  gentl'omiui,_who 
hunted,  fished,  ran  foxes,  in  fact  went  all  along  the  lino  of  the  all  round  sport. 
He  had  a  butler  and  all  around  colored  man  at  his  beck  and  call,  who  had 
plenty  of  sense  and  heard  a  greater  part  of  what  went  on. 

boys,   but,  my,   they  are  not  like  tho 
English  jockeys." 

William  -saw  that  his  boss  was  not 
going  to  insult  his  guest,  and  felt  that 


The  Englishman  took  a  deep  interest 
in  all  the  sports,  but  at  the  end  of  the 
day  would  say.  "but  it  is  not  equal 
to  such  in  the  old  country."  William 
was  quick  to  see  this  and  was  soon 
getting  on  his  nerves. 

The  next  day  they  went  deer  limit- 
ing, killed  half  a  dozen  fine  deer,  but 
in  the  conversation  that  night  the 
guest  was  heard  to  say.  ''but  these 
deer  are  not  as  large  as  they  are  in 
the  old  country."  They  went  fish- 
ing, caught  an  unusual  string  of  fish, 
but  that  night  William  heard  the  guest 
remark  that:  "These  fish  are  not  'alf 
as  game  as  fish  in  the  old  country." 
And  when  William  was  waiting  on  the 
table  next  morning  where  these  fish 
were  being  served,  and  the  fineness 
of  the  flavor  was  being  remarked  on, 
the  guest  was  heard  to  say:  "but  they 
do  not  compare  with  the  flavor  of  the 
fish  in  the  old  country. " 

The  next  day  a  drive  was  taken  to 
another  plantation  of  the  host  to  see 
the  cattle  hogs  and  sheep.  All  agreed 
that  their  host  had  a  line  lot,  but  the 
Englishman  was  again  heard  to  say: 
"These  are  fine,  but,  la!  you  ought  to 
see  the  cattle  and  sheep  in  the  old 
country,  they  are  far  ahead  of  these." 
William  looked  at  the  guest  with  utter 
disdain,  but  said  nothing.   ■ 

The  next  day  they  went  to  the  races, 
saw  the  American  jockeys  in  all  their 
glory  but  William  heard  the  English- 
man say:  "yes,  they  are  pretty  clever 


the  prestago  of  this  country  was  trail- 
ing in  the  dust.  Just  by  accident  one 
of  the  black  boys  came  up  with  a  real 
live  snapping  turtle  of  medium  size; 
and  William  bought  it  for  a  dime 
and  hid  it  away,  saying  nothing.  That 
night,  as  was  his  usual  round  of  duty, 
he  went  to  the  guests  room,  bringing 
water  and  such,  then  getting  his 
turtle,  he  carefully  stowed  it  under 
the  cover,  right  where  lie  knew  the 
Englishman 's  feet  would  go  when  the 
light  was  out,  and  he  got  into  bed; 
William  having  bid  his  guest  good- 
night and  gone  where  he  could  listen; 
and  not  for  long.  The  guest  had  not 
fairly  settled  in  bed  before  the  turtle 
took  a  thunder  hold  upon  his  toe,  and 
with  a  yell  that  wakened  the  house- 
hold, he  rolled  out  of  bed  and  went 
hobbling  round  and  round  the  room, 
the  turtle  holding  fast  and  Hopping 
on  the  floor  at  everj-  jump,  while  the 
Englishman  was  yelling  murder,  fire, 
help.  William  was  the  first  to  reach 
him  with  a  light,  throwing  the  guest 
to  the  floor  and  taking  hold  of  the 
turtle  prized  it  loose  from  the  toe. 

When  sufficiently  recovered  to 
speak,  and  between  sobs  and  moans, 
from  the  pain  he  was  suffering,  looked 
pitifully  at  William,  saying:  "Wil- 
liam, 0,  William,  and  for  the  love  of 


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any  country,  and  what  is  it,  William?"       best  bow,  said:  "that,  my  lord,  is  an 
William  rising  to  his  best  appear-      American  bedbug;  can  you  beat  it?" 

anee,  and  facing   the  guest   with   his  — Contributed. 


THINGS  I  LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

Number  (VII) — Snakes  and  Lizards. 
BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 
If  there  was  ever  a  farm,  in  civilization, 'that  furnished  as  many  snakes  as 
-did  my  father's  farm  in  Franklin  county,  in  my  boyhood  days,  I  have  yet  to  see 
it  (excepting  my  present  home)  About  ten  years  ago  a  car  load  of  Charlotte 
people  were  sidetracked  in  Monroe,  awaiting  a  connection.  It!  was  late  and  men 
-were  quiet.  Dr.  W.  II.  Wakefield  and  I  were  discussing  early  farm  life,  all 
clone.     I  was  telling  mv  friend  about  going  hunting'for  snakes  on  the  farm  one 


summer  day,  and  netted  even  40  killed. 
I  was  not  aware  that  any  one  was  lis- 
tening until  K.  Kent  Blair,  away  at 
the  end  of  the  car,  called  out:  "Hunt, 
what  brand  had  you  been  drinking!" 
The  whole  car  roared,  to  my  discomfit. 
But  there  were  snakes  there.  The 
streams  had  fish  and  snakes  too,  water 
snakes,  while  the  old  fields  and  woods 
had  upland  snakes  galore.  We  had 
a  dog  that  was  the  only  wild  turkey 
dog  I  ever  saw,  and  he  hated  snakes  as 
he  did  no  other  thing,  and  he  was  a 
help  in  killing  them.  With  the  dog 
and  four  boys  always  looking  to  kill 
every  one  we  saw,  yet  they  seemed  to 
never  grow  less. 

These  we  named  were :  the  copper- 
head (we  called  it  highland  mocca- 
sin); Adder,  red  and  black  spotted; 
garter,  green,  ground,  black,  king  (it 
killed  all  other  snakes)  pilot  or  bull, 
■water  moccasin,  the  spotted  and 
striped,  the  latter  we  called  mud 
moccasin.  Of  all  these  the  cop- 
perhead was  considered  the  most  dan- 
gerous, though  we  classed  both'  the 
water  snakes  as  poison,  and  we  knew 
the  king  was  dangerously  poison;  all 
talk  and  natural  history  to  the  con- 


trary. We  saw  it  bite  the  dog  and  he 
came  as  near  dieting  from  that  bite 
as  any  it  ever  had,  and  it  was  bitten 
by  many  we  never  saw.  This  dog 
would  bay  a  snake  until  you  came  to 
kill  it,  unless  it  was  bitten  first. 

The  black  and  the  king  were  ratters, 
and  lizards  were  a  favorite  diet  for 
the  black,  but  it  was  some  job  to  catch 
a  lizard  on  the  fence.  The  adder  fam- 
ily we  put  in  about  same  class  for  pois- 
on as  the  copperhead;  and  they  liked 
toads  best  of  all  things.  The  garter 
snake  ,  is  striped  and  never  grows 
large,  but  they  are  poison  also.  The 
ground  and  green  snakes  ate  worms 
and  bugs,  and  they  were  often  eaten 
by  large  hens.  Fish  were  favorite  di- 
et ifor  water  snakes.  Then  the  streams 
were  full  of  fish,  which  would  make  a 
pile  of  gravel  on  a  shoal  and  lay  eggs 
on  the  small  stones.  A  snake  would 
stretch  itself  under  water,  lie  still 
with  head  about  the  fish  bed,  and  catch 
an  unsuspecting  minnow  spawning. 

Three  of  the  snakes  named  above 
carried  their  young  inside  of  them 
when  they  were  as  long  as  12  inches. 
Supposedly  they  hatched  eggs  in  the 
sun  then  took  them  inside.     They  en- 


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tered  by  the  mouth,  and  were  seen 
to  crawl  in  when  clanger  carne.  Many 
times  I  have  killed  the  mud  moccasin 
with  young  inside,  which  would  crawl 
out  a  hole  cut  in  the  mother  snake. 
These  were  the  moccasin  family  all 
three.  We  saw  the  king  kill  a  water 
moccasin  on  a  hot  day.  We  found 
them  fighting  in  the  water  and  in- 
serted a  stick  in  the  coil  of  snakes 
and  brought  them  out.  The  king 
would  uncoil,  take  the  moccasin  by 
the  jaw,  knot  itself  about  it  and 
squeeze.  When  satislied  it  was  dead 
it  dragged  it  to  the  shade.  We  came 
back  in  two  hours  and  found  a  very 
large  king  snake  in  a  comatose  state, 
it  had  swallowed  the  water  snake,  but 
by  evening  it  was  gone.  We  never 
killed  the  king,  except  for  robbing 
bird  nests.  Most  snakes  will  not 
trouble  you  if  let  alone.  The  black 
snake  will  chase  you  at  nesting  time. 
We  found  a  very  large  one  one  day 
that  showed  fight.  A  boy  threw  a 
rock  at  it,  the  snake  made  a  dive  for 
us;  all  ran;  as  I  turned  it  hit  me 
about  the  thigh.  That  was  the  only 
time  I  ever  ran  so  fast  I  felt  that  I 
was  Hying.  A  few  days  later  we  took 
the  dog  there  and  soon  put  it'  out  of 
business. 

Lizards. 

The  lizard  family  we  knew  as  four 
kinds,  the  common  tree  or  fence  lizard, 
the  male  being  reddish  brown  and  the 
female  of  a  grayish  color.  The  strip- 
ed or  "sand-skeeter"  as  we  called  it, 
also  known  as  "sand-swifts."  They 
have  a  forked  tongue  like  a  snake,  and' 
I  have  had  them  lick  out  the  tongue 
as   a   snake    does    when    it    is    found. 


This  lizard  was  I  he  swiftest  thing 
for  its  size  of  anything  that  moved 
on  the  ground.  Both  these  lay  eggs 
just  under  the  soil,  are  hatched  by  the 
sun,  and  take  care  of  themselves  from 
the  beginning.  The  other  two  we 
called  scorpions,  but  the  scorpion  of 
natural  history  is  a  stinging  reptile. 
There  were  two  of  these.  A  small, 
long,  sleek,  striped  with  blue  and  yel- 
low, with  a  blue  tail.  They  liked  to 
stay  about  houses.  The  other  was 
much  larger,  short,  pinkish  red  in 
color,  lived  in  hollow  dead  trees. 
Have  seen  them  12  inches  long,  and 
as  we  thought  they  were  poison  and 
would  bite,  we  feared  them  more  than 
snakes.  Wc  had  to  have  the  advan- 
tage to  tackle  them.  Our  favorite  way 
was  to  shoot  them.  I  doubt  now  if 
they  were  any  more  harmful  than  the 
common  scaly  lizard  we  handled  as 
we  did  bugs.  All  this  tribe  lived  on 
insects,  such  as  they  could  catch,  were 
prolific  raisers,  and  were  able  to 
stand  all  the  slaughter  they  were 
subject  to,  and  come  back  next  season 
as  plentiful  as  ever.  AVe  did  not  kill 
them  as  we  did  snakes,  but  they  were 
a  fine  thing  for  a  boy  to  chase. 

Both  the  snake  and  the  lizard  hi- 
bernate at  the  first  approach  of  cold, 
and  generally  burrow  into  such  places 
as  not  to  be  found  in  winter  by  man. 
Nature  provides  them  with  the  know- 
ledge of  how  to  take  care  of  self. 
They  lie  dormant  all  winter,  coming 
out  at  first  warm  spring  days,  appar- 
ently none  the  worse  for  their  long 
sleep. 

The  next  number  will  be  about  Ani- 
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ROTARY  PRINCIPLE  A  TEXT. 

BY  R.  S.  CLARK 

Reading  a  report  of  a  meeting  of  a  Rotary  club  I  noticed  that  the  principal 
talk  was  on  the  "Eighth  principle  of  the  Rotury  Code  of  Ethics,"  which  is; 
"To  hold  that  true  friends  demand  nothing  of  one.  another,  and  that  any  abuse 
of  the  confidence  of  friendship  for  profit  is  foreign  to  the  spirit  of  Rotary." 
I  was  especially  interested  in  the  first  clause:  "To  hold  that  true  friends 
demand  nothing  of  one  another."  That  statement  seems  a  little  extreme,  but 
taken  in  connection  with  the  latter  clause,  "abuse  of  the  confidence  of  friend- 
ship for  profit,"     I  think  it  is  an  ideal  definition  of  real  friendship. 

There  are  varying  ideas  of  friend-  way  and  not  as  an  asset  for  gain, 
ship    and    its    obligations;    and    some      "Honesty  is  the  best  policy, "  runs  the 


very  loose  ideas  of  what  constitutes 
friendship.  With  reference  to  the 
Rotary  definition  it  could  be  said  that 
true  friendship  does  demand  loyalty. 
But  it  does  not  demand  loyalty  under 
all  conditions,  if  loyalty  is  meant  that 
oud  friends  should  stand  by  us  under 
all  circumstances.  That  is  an  exag- 
gerated idea  that  is  really  foreign  to 
the  meaning  of  true  friendship.  It 
is  encouraged  by  those  who  cultivate 
friendly  relations  for  profit.  I  be- 
lieve it  is  a  duty,  as  well  as  good 
policy,  for  one  to  show  himself  friend- 
ly; to  cultivate  a  courteous  and  good 
natured  attitude  toward  those  with 
whom  he  comes  in  contact.  I  mean  of 
course  to  adopt  this  attitude  within 
reasonable  limits.  Some  folks  in 
their  efforts  to  be  friendly  slop  over. 
They  are  so  gushing  that  their  sin- 
cerity is  naturally  called  into  question. 
Life  is  made  pleasant  and  sweet- 
ened, the  rough  places  are  made 
smoother,  by  agreeable  manners.  I 
believe  this  a  duty  to  one's  fellows, 
not  a  matter  of  policy.  It  is  good 
policy,  a  splendid  asset,  if  it  is  so  evi- 
dently sincere  that  it  is  not  cause  for 
suspicion.  But  good  manners  should 
be  cultivated  as  an  obligation  we  owe 
to  our  fellow  travelers  on  life's  high- 


old  adage.  But  one  should  be  honest 
because  it  is  right,  not  simply  as  a 
matter  of  policy. 

"One  who  would  have  friends  must 
show  himself  friendly,"  says  the 
Good  Book;  and  it  is  also  recorded 
in  the  same  that  "He  that  blesseth  his 
friend  with  a  loud  voice,  rising  early 
in  the  morning,  it  shall  be  counted  a 
curse  to  him."  I  have  an  idea  that 
the  last  quotation  was  intended  for 
those  who  overdo  the  profession  of 
friendship,  seeking  gain.  Some  there 
be  who  are  honestly  ignorant  of  the 
limitations  of  friendship.  Their  idea 
of  the  loyalty  of  a  friend  is  one  who 
upholds  them,  who  goes  to  their 
rescue  under  any  and  all  conditions. 
They  may  have  outraged  publio 
decency  and  the  law,  may  have 
shamed  their  friends,  but  he  is  no> 
friend  of  theirs  who  does  not  go  his 
full  length  for  them  no  matter  what 
they  have  done.  It  seems  not  to  oc- 
cur to  such  people  that  one  can  forfeit 
friendship  by  misconduct;  that  while 
a  friend  may  sympathize  with  them 
and  seek  to  aid  them  so  long  as  his 
own  character  does  not  become  in- 
volved, he  is  not  called  on  to  become 
a  crook  or  to  have  the  appearance  of 
upholding  a  crook  simply  because  he 


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made  the  mistake  of  giving  his  confi- 
dence to  a  crook.  One  who  demands 
that  sort  of  sacrifice  on  the  altar  of 
friendship  is  to  be  avoided.  His 
idea  of  friendship  is  profit,  and  those 
w:ho  cultivate  friendships  solely  for 
profit  are  not  to  be  trusted.  But 
many  there  he.  who  do  just  that. 
They  strive  to  impose  obligations  on 
piersons  whom  they  think  may  be  use- 
ful to  them,  knowing  that  when  they 
call  for  payment,  which  is  their  pur- 
pose, the  recipient  of  their  favors 
•will  be  embarrassed  in  refusing;  and 
-sometimes  that  very  embarrassment 
causes  one  to  violate  principles,  ideals 
of  honor  and  integrity,  rather  than 
seem  ungrateful. 

The  other  day  Gov.  Morrison,  who 
has  manifested  exalted  ideals  of  the 
administration  of  the  law,  deemed 
it  necessary  to  publicly  announce  that 
applicants  for  executive  clemency 
would  not  profit  by  attempts  to  in- 
fluence him  through  personal  and  po- 
litical friends.  I  do  not  believe  that 
any  one  thing  has  contributed  so  much 
to  the  abuse  of  the  administration  of 
the  law  as  personal  and  political  in- 
fluence. Personal  friends  and  per- 
sons of  standing  and  influence,  politi- 
cal supporters,  are  often  sought  to 
plead  with  judges  to  impose  light 
punishments,  and  with  Governors  to 
commute  sentences  and  issue  pardons. 
Sometimes  this  influence  is  sold  for 
money;  more  than  often  it  is  given 
to  oblige  or  for  a  return  obligation 
that  may  be  of  profit.  Often  those 
who  exert  themselves  in  such  behalf 
have  no  concern  as  to  the  merits 
of  the  case.  They  are  using  friend- 
ship, which  should  be  sacred,  for 
what  is  in  reality  a  dishonorable  pur- 
pose. For  unless  they  concientiously 
believe    in    what    they    espouse,   they 


are  seeking,  through  friendship,  or  ap- 
peal to  the  sense  of  obligation,  to 
force  a  public  official  to  violate  the 
high  trust  imposed  in  him.  There 
arc  of  this  type  not  a  few.  They 
cultivate  public  men  to  corrupt  them; 
for  while  professing  to  be  their 
friends  their  purpose  is  to  establish 
a  "pull"  to  get  what  they  may  want 
regardless  of  the  merits  of  the  case, 
or  whether  it  is  right  or  wrong.  Gov. 
Morrison  knows  there  are  folks  who 
thus  prostitute  friendship  and  he  has 
felt  called  on  to  give  notice  that  it 
will  not  avail.  Glory  to  the  Governor! 
He  who  attempts  to  prostitute  friend- 
ship for  profit  is  a  false  friend  and 
the  sooner  one  is  quit  of  him  the  bet- 
ter. 

Goldsmith  must   have  had   in  mind 
the  kind  of  friends  mentioned  in  the 
foregoing  when  he  was  moved  to  ob- 
serve : 
"And  what  is  friendship  but  a  name, 

A  sham  that  lulls  to  sleep? 
A  shade   that  follows  wealth  and  fame 

And  leaves  the  wretch  to  weep. " 

But  Robt.  Blair  had  real  friendship 
in  mind  when  he  said;  "Friendship! 
Mysterious  cement  of  the  soul,  sweet- 
ener of  life  and  solder  of  society." 

'  "The  condition  which  high  friend- 
ship demands  is  the  ability  to  do  with- 
out it,"  Emerson  contends. 

La  Rochefoucauld  is  somewhat  cyni- 
cal in  his  view.  He  says :  ' '  Friend- 
ship is  only  a  reciprocal  conciliation 
of  interests  and  an  exchange  of  good 
offices.  It  is  a  species  of  commerce 
out  of  which  self-love  always  expects 
to  gain  something." 

But  the  best  of  all  is  from  Hovey : 
"    *  *  *  *  friendship  is  as  God, 


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Who  gives  all  aiul  asks  up  payment."      ship,  .set  out  in  the  principles  of  the 

Rotary  Club. 
That  is  no  doubt  the  idea  of  friend-  ; 


Julius  Rosenwald,  the  managing  genius  behind  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Co.,    • 
the  big  department  store  of  Chicago,  though  a  very  rich  man  and  an  ideal  - 
philanthropist,  doing  great  good  -with  his  wealth,  has  come  into  a  great  for-    - 
tune — a  prize  was  offered  by  a  Chicago  newspaper  for  the  best  motto,  and 
Rosenwald  won  it,  which  was  $5.00.    It  was  a  quotation  from  Robert  In- 
gersoll  as  follows:."!  WOULD  RATHER  BE  A  BEGGAR  AND  SPEND 
MY  MONEY  LIKE  A  KING  THAN  A  KING  AND  SPEND  MY  MONEY 
LIKE  A  BEGGAR." 


How  Gypsies  Get  Married. 

The  following  account  of  a  Gypsy  marriage,  taking  place  at  Raleigh  Fair 
Grounds  and  reported  in  the  News  &  Observer,  gives  a  vivid  picture  of  the 
customs  and  habits  of  a  peculiar  people: 


Romance  on  the  Romany  Road  be- 
gun three  years  ago  in  New  York 
culminated  yesterday  in  the  pictures- 
que wedding  festivities  of  Anna  Dor- 
cha  White  and  Mike  Demetro  which 
were  held  in  one  of  the  big  tents  of 
the  encampment  of  the  three  bands 
of  Gypsies  now  at  the  Fair  Grounds. 
The  celebration  began  early  yester- 
day morning  and  continued  at  full 
tilt  until  sunset  to  the  exhaustion 
of  the  lungs  of  the  promiscuously  re- 
cruited band,  the  general  hilarry 
of  the  participants  and  the  gaping 
interest  of  a  good  crowd  of  town- 
folks  and  college  students. 

The  romance  of  the  occasion  may 
have  been  somewhat  tempered  by 
the  fact  that  the  oDulent  .brother 
of  the  bridegroom,  who  is  chief  man 
of  his  band,  has  paid  down  a  cool 
$2,500  to  the  father  of  the  lady  cf 
his  brother's  choise  in  exchange  for 
her  hand,  and  had  thrown  a  $500 
wedding  celebration  into  the  bargin. 


MOTLEY  CROWD  MAKES  MERRY 

At  the  gate  of  the  Fair  Grounds 
the  blare  of  a  band  Wowing  out 
sprightly  dance  music  guided  spec" 
tators  to  the  tent  where  the  party 
was  being  held.  Inside,  among  the 
dingy  shadows  a  motley  crowd  was 
making  merry.  About  fifteen 
swarthy  women,  dressed  in  all  the 
colors  of  the  rainbow  thrown  to- 
gether with  heedless  bravado  were 
the  main  figures  in  a  lively  dance, 
in  which  several  greasy,  grimy  and 
less  picturesque  men  ■  joined  with 
spirit. 

In  the  middle  of  the  tent  a  little 
iron  cook  stove  was  red  hot  in  its 
efforts  to  prepare  the  wedding  feast 
to  whose  menu  emtpy  tomato  cans- 
and  a  great  tub  of  chicken  feathers- 
on  one  side  of  the  room  bore  care- 
less testimony.  About  the  stove  wei  e 
grouped  the  women,  also  in  gala  at- 
tire who  were  doing  the  cooking; 
the  men- folks  of.  the  bands  who  were-  ■ 


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either  less  sociable  or  more  rheu- 
matic and  the  crones  of  the  tribe. 
Dirty  children,  some  of  the  wedding' 
garment  and  some  in  dingy  rags, 
were  underfoot  everywhere 'taking 
occasion  to  beg  pennies  from  the  as- 
sembled spectators. 

One  old  patriarch  was  superin- 
tendending  operations.  His  whiskers 
grew  free  and  unstrained  to  a  good 
length.  He  wore  scarlet  silk  skirt 
and  stock,  corduroy  trousers  and 
bright  leather  comic-opera  boots. 
He  smoked  a  long  curved  pipe  that 
look  as  if  it  had  been  picked  up 
along  the  banks  of  the  Rhine. 

THE  GYPSY  BRIDE. 

In  this  wild  medley  where  every 
woman  present  seemed  to  be  wear- 
ing all  the  Sunday-go- to-meetin' 
clothes  in  her  wardrobe  there  was 
some  difficulty  in  picking  out  the 
bride.  But  the  veil  that  hung  down 
her  back  from  the  wreath  of  artifi- 
cial flowers  and  fruit  and  gold  coins 
around  her  black  hair  marked  her. 
-She  seemed  about  eighteen,  comely 
as  her  race  goes,  vivid  in  a  cerise 
jacket  trimmed  with  wide  white  lace 
with  bells  on  the  flowing  sleeves, 
with  a  skirt  of  red  and  a  satin  over- 
skirt  of  dark  blue  figured  with  bril- 
liant flowers.  Around  her  neck  hung 
scores  of  gold  coins,  and  several 
strings  of  colored  beads.  In  her  ears 
were  rings  of  gold  of  mammoth  pro- 
portions, and  on  her  brown  bare  arms 
exquisite  bands  of  chased  gold  al- 
most three  inches  wide.  She  trip- 
ped the  light  fantastic  in  a  pair  of 
high- heeled  patent  leather  shoes. 

THE  UNSOCIAL  BRIDEGROOM 

But  where  was  the  bridegroom? 
Not  entering  into  the  dance  but 
(hovering  uneasily  on    the    outskirts 


of  the  crowd  according  to  the  most 
approved  modern  form.  A  dark  lit- 
tle fellow  with  an  inconsequential 
growth  of  black  hair  on  his  upper 
lip, 'white  glistening-  ieoth,  a  brown 
velour  hat,  natty  belted  grey  tweed 
suit,  navy  knit  tie,  patent  leather 
shoes,  thin  gold  watch  chain  across 
his  vest  and  lots  and  lots  of  rings. 
As  he  chewed  uneasily  on  the  end  of 
his  banded  cigar  he  presented  a 
striking  contrast  in  bis  modern 
outfit  to  his  bride  her  orthodox 
Romany  regalia.  It  appeared  upon 
conversation  with  the  bridegroom 
that  he  scorned  the  more  pictures- 
que attire,  even  the  gay  silk  shirt, 
and  that  he  danced  only  American 
dances. 

The  dance  in  progress  in  that  tent 
was  not  American.  What  it  was  no 
one  knows  You  got  into  it  and 
grabbed  whoever  you  wanted  to 
and  let  your  conscience,  if  you  had 
one— be  your  guide.  Your  feet  pro- 
ceeded according  to  instinct,  not 
rote.  Every  now  and  then  a  woman 
with  a  brilliant  yellow  shawl  and 
skirt  would  brake  loose  and  lead  the 
crowd  around  the  room  in  a  yelling 
snake-dance.  The  women  who  had 
babies  and  they  seemed  in  the 
majority,  didn't  let  that  deter  them. 
With  babies  in  arms  and  cigarettes 
dangling  from  their  mouths  they 
stepped  as  lively  as  the  rest,  and  it 
was  all  one  to-  the  baby. 

WATCH  THOSE  WOMEN   SMOKE. 

Modern  women  with  ten  inch 
holders  in  which'  they  daintily  stick 
a  perfumed  "Milo  Violet"  cigarette 
should  go  learn  how  to  smoke  from 
those  Gypsies.  The  old  crones 
around  the  stove,  with  faces  as 
wrinkled  and  as  hard  as  flint,  handl- 


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ed  a  cigarette  like  a  soldier  or  a 
civil  engineer.  They  stuck  it  into 
their  faces  and  left  it  there,  exud- 
ing lungfuls  of  smoke.  And  they 
held  it  with  an  unconscious  non- 
chalance of  as  if  it  were  a  tried  and 
familiar  friend,  about  whose  acqu- 
aintance there  should  be  no  for- 
mality. Evidently  they  acquired 
the  habit  early  in  life,  as  the  two 
foot  youngster  smoking  with  the 
carelessness  of  a  veteran  testified. 

'1  he  wedding  feast  was  served 
about  two  o'clock  on  long  tables. 
Following  the  feast,  the  crowd  took 
up  the  dance  again,    and    continued 


it  at  intervals  until  the  sun  had  s;t. 
In  the  evening  there  were  tribal  in- 
cantations without  melody  or  rhythm 
and  obviously  thickened  by  too  much 
liquor. 

The  Gypsies  now  at  the  Fair 
ground  are  of  three  tribes,  the  Rus- 
sian, Hungarian  and  Biazilan.  Mike 
Demtro,  the  bridegroom  is  a  Hung- 
arian, and  his  bride  a  Russian. 
Their  marriage  represented  an  in- 
ter-tribal alliance. 

It  appears  that  only  at  this  season 
of  the  year  can  marriage  feasts  be 
celebrated  among  the  Gypsies. 


Louis  H.  Beck  is  a  Georgian  w::o  is  building  monuments  to  his  name 
while  he  lives.  He  has  established  trust  funds  to  the  amount  of  $75,000 
which  is  to  be  applied  to  the  education  of  boys  who  are  not  able  to  pay 
their  way  through  college — and  in  doing  so  he  has  set  other  prospective 
philanthropists  a  brilliant  inspiration. — Charlotte  Observer. 


The  War  Debt 

(Charity  rnd  Children.) 

Our  allies  in  the  late  war  owe  us  about  ten  billion  dollars.  A  strong 
sentiment  has  develnpel  in  certain  influential  quarters  in  favor  of  the  can- 
cellation of  that  vast  debt  and  two  reason  are  urged  in  favor  of   cancella- 


tion. One  of  them  is  that  Europe 
is  in  such  straitened  circumstances 
that  she  never  will  be  able  to  pay 
us  except  in  gocds  aid  if  the  debts 
are  paid  in  goods  it  will  mean  the 
stagnation  and  wreckage  of  Ameri- 
can business.  The  other  reason  is 
that  if  America  does  not  cancel  these 
obligations  she  will  never  be  able 
to  convince  these  friendly  nations 
that  she  bore  her  share  of  the 
load  in  the  prosecution  of  the  war. 
This  argument  was  recently  made 
by  Justice  Clarke  of  the  Supreme 
court  of  the  United  States.     We  fail 


to  see  any  particular  force  in  either 
of  the  reasons.  The  manufacturing 
business  may  be  somewhat  jarred 
by  the  importation  of  European 
goods  into  this  country  but  the  con- 
sumer would  enjoy  the  benefit  of 
the  reduction  in  price  that  would 
inevitably  follow:  and  the  consumer 
is  entitled  to  some  consideration  as 
well  as  the  manufacturer.  The  oth- 
er reason  is  about  the  veriest  non- 
sense ever  submitted  to  reasonable 
beings.  T  his  debt  was  honestly  con- 
tracted.' We  loaned  our  neighbors 
money,'  and    sold    them     material. 


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When  the  time  came  we  sent  our 
boys  across  and  turned  the  tide  of 
battle.  Now,  we  are  told,  if  we  do 
not  make  the  allies  a  present  of  ten 
billion  dollars,  besides  the  stupen- 
dous sacrifice  we  made  in  giving  our 
money  and  our  men  to  the  cause, 
these  allies  will  never  think  so  well 
of  us  again.  Perhaps  not.  That  is 
quite  human,  'I  he  man  in  debt 
never  loves  the  creditor  who  makes 
him  pay,  but  does  that  justify  the 
cancellation  of  the  debt?     If  so,   the 


debt  problem  would  easily  be  solved! 
The  process  of  collection  is  not 
pleasant,  but  it  goes  on  every  day 
just  the  same.  Time  should  be 
given  the  prostrate  nations  to  be 
sure,  but  they  ought  to  be  requir- 
ed to  meet  th  'ir  honest  obligations 
just  as  individuals  are  repaired  to 
do.  The  sentiment  that  we  should 
buy  the  favor  of  those  who  owe  us 
by  wiping  out  their  debts  is  sillv. 
But  it  will  probably  be  done. 


It  is  the  dictate  of  patriotism  to  sacrifice  yourself  if  you  think  that  that 
is  the  path  of  honor  and  duty.  Do  not  blame  others  if  they  do  not  agree 
with  you.  Do  not  die  with  bitterness  in  your  heart  because  you  did  not 
convince  the  rest  of  the  world,  but  die  happy  because  you  believe  that  you 
tried  to  serve  your  country  by  not  selling  your  soul. — "Woodrow  Wilson. 


Public  Office  Is  A  Public  Trust. 

By  John  C.  Calhom. 

So  long  as  offices  were  considered  as  public  trusts,  to  be  conferred  on 
the  honest,  the  faithful,  and  capable,  for  the  common  good,  and  not  for 
the  benefit  or  gain  of  the  incumbent  or  his  party,  and  so  long  as  it  was 
the  practice  of  the  government  to  continue  in  office  those  who  faithfully 
performed  their  duties,  its  patronage,  in  point  of  fact,  ,vas  limited,  and 
could,  of  course,  exercise  but  a  moderate  influence  either  over  the  body  of 
the  community  or  of  the  officeholders  themselves. 


But  when  this  practice  was  re- 
versed—when offices,  instead  of  be- 
ing considered  as  public  trusts  to  be 
conferred  on  the  deserving,  were  re- 
garded as  the  spoils  of  victory  to  be 
bestowed  as  rewards  for  partisan 
services,  without  respect  to  merit; 
when  it  came  to  be  understood  that 
all  who  hold  office  hold  by  the  ten- 
ure of  partisan  zeal  and  party  ser- 
vice—it is  easy  to  see  that  the  cer- 
tain, direct,  and  inevitable  tendency 
of  such  a  state  of  things  is    to    con- 


vert the  entire  body  of  those  in  of- 
fice info  corrupt  and  supple  instru- 
ments of  power,  and  to  raise  up  a 
host  of  hungry,  greedy,  and  sub- 
servient partisans  ready  for  every 
service,  however  base  and  corrupt. 

Were  a  premium  offered  for  the 
best  means  extending  to  the  utmost 
the  power  of  patronage;  to  destroy 
the  love  of  county,  and  to  substitute 
a  spirit  of  subserviency  and  man 
worship;  to  encourage  vice  and  dis- 
courage virtue;  and,  in  a    word,    to 


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prepare  for  the  subversion  of  liberty 
and  the  establishment  of  despotism, 
no  scheme  more  perfect  could  be 
devised;  and  such  must  be   the    ten- 


dency of  the  practice,  with  what- 
ever intention  adopted  or  to  what- 
ever extent  pursued. 


Pat  was  standing  on  deck  one  morning  pulling  up  the  anchor-rope: 
He  pulled  and  pulled  and  pulled,  until  he  lost  patience.  Then  he  yelled 
out:  "I  belave  someone  has  teen  down  there  and  cut  off  the  end  of  the 
rope.     I  cant  foind  it." 


An  Alligator's  Home. 

By  Sidney  Lanier. 
Some  twenty  miles  from  the  mouth  of  the  Ocklawaha  River,  at  the  right- 
hand  edge  of  the  stream,  is  the  handsomest  residence  in    America.     It    be- 
longs to  a  certain  alligator  of  my  acquaintance,  a  very  honest    and  worthy 


saurian,  of  good  repute.  A  little 
cover  of  water,  dark  green  under 
the  overhanging  leaves,  placid, 
curves  rounds  at  the  river  edge  into 
the  flags  and  lilies,  with  a  curve  just 
heart-breaking  for  the  pure  beauty 
of  the  flexure  of  it.  This  house  of  my 
saurian  is  divided  into  apartments--- 
little  bays  which  are  scalloped  out 
by  the  lily  pads  according  to  the 
fantasies  of  their  growth.  My  sau- 
rian, when  he  desires  to  sleep,  has 
but  to  lie  down  anywhere:  he  will 
find  marvelous  mosses  for  his  mat- 
tress beneath  him;  his  sheets  will  be 
white  HI/  petals;  and  the  green  disks 
of  the  lily  pads  will  straightway  em- 
broider themselves  together  above 
him  for  his  coverlet. 


He  never  quarrels  with  his  cook, 
he  is  not  the  slave  of  a  kithen,  and 
his  one  housemaid--- the  stream—for- 
ever sweeps  his  chambers  clean.  His 
conservatories  there  under  the  glass 
of  that  water  are  ever  and  without 
labor  filled  with  the  enchantments 
of  strange  underwater  growths;  his 
parks  and  his  pleasure  grounds  are 
bigger  than  any  king's.  Upon  my 
saurian's  house  the  winds  have  no- 
power,  the  rains  are  only  a  new  de- 
light to  him,  and  the  snows  he  will 
never  see.  Regarding  fire,  as  he 
does  not  employ  its  slavery,  so  he 
does  not  fear  its  tyranny.  Thus,  all' 
the  elements  are  the  friends  of  my 
saurian's  house. 


It  is  not  the  whirls  and  eddies  that  tell  the  course  of  the  river,  but  the 
steady  flow  of  its  current.  It  is  not  the  occasional  effort  that  tells  what 
our  lives  are,  but  the  trend  of  the  common  days. — Forward. 


28  THE  UPLIFT 

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It  wouldn't  be  possible  not  to  be  kind 

In  the  Land  of  Beginning  Again; 
And  the  ones  we  misjudge,  and  the  ones  we  begrudged 

Their  moments  of  victory  are  here. 
Would  find  in  the  grasp  of  our  loving  hand  clasp 

More  than  penitent  lips  could  explain. 

So  I  wish  that  there  were  some  wonderful  place 

Called  the  Land  of  Beginning  Again, 
"Where  all  our  mistakes  and  all  our  heartaches 

And  all  of  our  poor,  selfish  grief 
Could  be  dropped  like  a  shabby  old  coat  at  the  door 

And  never  put  on  again." — Selected. 


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What  Would  You  Like  To  Do? 

If  you  Want  to  know  whal  you  can  do  Well  find  what  you  life  to  do.  A  young 
woman  who  announced  her  intention  of  studying  to  he  a  trained  nurse,  happened 
io  he  with  a  camping  parly  when  a  young  man  who  was  peeling  potatoes,  cut  his 
finger.  The  candidate  for  the  training  school  caught  sight  of  the  hleeding  finger 
and  dropped  in  a  faint.  A  young  Woman  with  this  sensitivenes  would  hace  a  seri- 
ous handicap  in  fitting  herself  to  be  a  trained  nurse  and  it  is  unlikely  that  she 
would  ever  really  enjoy  that  profession. 

A  brilliant  young  man  after  graduating  from  college,  was  offered  a  place  in  a 
business  firm.  His  employer  had  a  strong  personal  interest  in  him  and  Was  ready 
10  adoance  him  in  every  way  possible.  But  this  young  man  enjoyed  teaching, 
while  the  routine  of  business  life  Was  to  him  drudgery.  After  trying  the  latter  for 
a  year  he  gave  it  up  and  entered  the  comparitively  ill-paid  occupation  of  teaching. 
"I am  positive," he  said  when  explaining  (his  action  to  his  friends,  "that  I  can  never 
make  a  real  success  of  work  I  dislike."     And  in  that  he  Was  absolutely  right. 

The  trouble  with  some  people  is  thai  they  do  not  know  what  they  do  like,  and 
they  resemble  sailors  adrijt  without  a  compass.  If  you  do  not  know  what  you  like 
to  do,  the  chances  for  doing  it  satisfactorily  are  poor  indeed.  Such  young  people 
need  more  than  any  tiling  else  to  make  a  business  of  self -discovery.  It  is  a  pity 
to  be  an  unknown  continent  to  yourself.  After  you  have  found  out  whal  you  lil(e 
to  do  you  have  something  to  go  by  but  up  to  thai  point  yon  are  utterly  in  the  dark- 
-—Selected. 


Institutional   Notes.  appetite- 

„                            _             .  Edgar  Cope  and  a    friend    of    his 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.)  visited  ug  Monday_    Cope  wag  &    boy 

Boys  have  been  cutting  wood  for  at  this  school  but  now  he  is    succed- 

the  past  week.  inS  m  his  new  life- 

A  water  pipe  leading  to  the    barn  Frank  Thomason  went  home  on  a 

has  been  completed.     This  is  a  very  visit  to  his    home  folks  and  proving 

important  job.  himself    worthy    of.  the    confidence 

placed  in  him  came  back. 

Claude    Coley    and    Keith    Hunt 

proudly    escorted    their    parents    a-  Lonnie  Walker,  who  took  part  in 

round  the  school  last  Wednesday.  the    Christmas  entertainment,    has 

gone    home  on  an    honorable  parole 

The    boys    are   sausage    hungry,  to  begin  his  new  mode  of  living, 
therefore    we    had  15G5    lbs.  of  hog 

killed  and    dressed    to    gratify    this  Mr.  R.  B.  Cloer  of  5th    Cottage 


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has  offered  a  prize  to  three  boys  in 
that  cottage  who  have  the  best  con- 
duct from  now  until  July.  1  his  is 
a  fine  proposition. 

As  a  result  of  the  opening  of  6th 
cottage  new  boys  are  arriving  at 
the  school.  New  boys  necessitate 
more  commitments  and  records. 
We  are  working  hard  in  the  print- 
ing office  to  get  out  these  jobs. 

Gradually  we  are  teaching  more 
advanced  studies.  Resulting  from 
the  opening  of  the  little  room,  more 
room  and  time  for  these  studies  is 
available.  Civil  Government  and  Be- 
ginners Study  of  Agriculture  is  now 
being  taught 

Gaston  county.because  she  believes 
that  the  Jackson  'I  raining  School 
was  worthy  of  it,  is  building  a  cot- 
tage, which  is  now  the  9th  cottage. 
It  makes  one  feel  prond  to  know 
more  people  are  beginning  to  be- 
lieve in  the  school. 

Last  Wednesday  was  a  day  mem- 
orable in  the  hearts  of  all  Guilford 
boys  for  on  this  day  the  Guilford  Cot- 
tage was  dedicated.  A  service  in 
the  Auditorium  was  held  and  the 
boys  certainly  enjoyed  the  speeches 
made.  But  this  is  spoken  of  else- 
where in  this  issue  of  The  Uplift. 

For  the  first  time  in  a  good  while 
Rev.  Rawling  of  Concord  spoke  to  the 
boys.  As  he  said,  he  didut  preach, 
because  his  topic,  "work,"  wasn't  a 
fit  subject  for  a  sermon.  Just  the 
same  the  boys  enjoyed  this  as  much 
as  if  he  had  preached.  The  boys 
hope  that  he  will  accept  their  cordial 
invitation  of  returning  soon. 

Last  Friday  brought  the  hopes  of 
all  boys — snow.     Early   that    morn- 


ing it  began  to  snow.  Flakes  as- 
big  as  a  dime  came  down.  It  snow- 
ed for  a  half -hour  more  or  less,  thea 
disappointment  reigned.  It  stopped 
altogether.  Visions  of  snow  ball- 
ing, sleigh  riding  and  skating  vanish- 
ed with  a  pop!  Now  we  live  in 
eager  anticipation  of  another  longer 
and  deeper  snow. 

Friday  afternoon,  when  the  com- 
mand "Fall  in"  was  given,  Fred  Blue 
was  reported  missing.  Investigation 
revealed  tnat  he  after  making  a  fine 
record  at  this  school  had  returned 
to  his  home  on  an  honorable  parole. 
He  did  his  full  duty  at  this  school 
and  discharged  hi.--  duties  to  such 
degree  that  he  deserved  and  receive- 
eci  the  admiration  and  respect  of 
his  companions  and  teachers.  It  is 
up  to  him. 

After  school  due  to  the  cold  weath- 
er, the  boys  run  around  the  lawn. 
Usually  in  the  summer  when  it  is  hot 
they  run  around  once,  now  after 
school  the  call  is  "twice  around." 
Immediately  eighty-some  boys  are 
running  to  see  who  wins.  Arvel 
Absher  who  is  nick-named  "Pat" 
is  always  at  the  end,  for  to  bring  in 
200  lbs.  of  weight  is  no  easy  job. 
But  he  believes  in  the  smile.  You 
never  see  him  without  the  smile  on 
his  face. 

An  interesting  debate  took  place 
in  5th  cittage  last  Friday  night. 
'1  he  society  of  this  cottage  is  doirig 
fine.  Soon  it  hopes  to  rank  abo;e 
all  other  cottages.  Creasman,  Dav- 
is, Butler,  Shipp,  Hart,  Absher  and 
Willard  helped  make  its  program  for 
that  night  better  than  it  has  ever 
been.  Judges  have  been  appoint?d 
to  keep  tally  on  the  boys  to  s;e 
who  has  the  best    essay,  debate  or 


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declamation  and  the  one  who  they 
decide  is  best,  his  name  will  be 
published  in  this  paper. 


Car  Dairy  Bain. 

Following  the  advertisement  cal- 
ling foi  bids  for  the  erection  of  a 
Dairy  Barn,  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee met  on  the  18th  and  took  up 
the  consideration  of  the  matter. 

The  contract  for  the  erection,  in- 


cluding the  installation  of  the  equip- 
ment and  two  silos,  was  let  to  Mr. 
John  R.  Query,  a  local  contractor 
who  made  a  very  satisfactory  propo- 
sition. 

This  building  will  be  the  "last 
word"  in  dairy  barn  construction  and 
equipment.  Its  capacity  will  accomo- 
date 40  milkers,  having  also  six  ma- 
ternity stalls,  feed  rooms  etc. 

Work  will  begin  at  once. 


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Of  great  things  to  do  by  and  by.  ♦ 

•>                       For  whatever  men  say  in  blindness  ,♦♦ 
\                           And  in  spite  of  the  fancies  of  youth, 

There's  nothing  so  kindly  as  kindness,  ♦ 

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Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,  at  the  Post  Office  at  Concord,  N. 
C,  under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879 

KNOW  NORTH  CAROLINA" 

Carrying  out  the  expressed  purpose  of  the  North  Carolina  Press  Associa- 
tion to  urge  upon  the  membership  to  "carry  on"  for  a  year  or  more  on 
subjects  selected  by  a  committee  to  bring  about  a  study  of  what  the  State 
has,  what  she  aims  at,  what  she  is  doing  and  hopes  yet  to  do,  The  Uplift 
here  reproduces  the  second  selection  which  that  committee  has  chosen. 
It's  Aycock's  message.  Aycock  is  dead,  but  he  still  lives,  as  good,  patriot- 
ic men,  who  seek  to  aid  their  fellow  men,  will  live  in  the  hearts  of  men 
and  on  the  pages  of  their  history. 

AYCOCK'S  DREAM:  "We  have  indeed  gone  far  in  North  Carolina.  A 
recent  writer  has    declared  that  the   progress    of    a  state    may   be  de- 
termined by     things  which  are  now   done  as  a  matter  of  course  which 
used  to  be  the  subject  of  debate.  Tested  by  this  stand?rd  North  Caro-  '"'" 
Una  has  advanced  rapidly.  fin 

The  right  of  ev^ry  child  to  a  public  school  education  is  no  longer  a 
subject  of  controversy,  but  is  acknowledged  by  everyone. 

The  duty  and  wisdom  of  adequatd,  excellent  bublic  roads  is  not 
only  acknowledged  by  everybody  but  has  recently  been  emphasized  by 
by  the  mud  through  which  we  have  slowly  dragged  ourselves  to  the 
market  of  the  state. 

The  right  of  children  to  be  safeguarded  in  the  time  of  their  growth 
and  development  against  overwork  in  factories,  is  a  right  which  no  one 
now  disputes. 

The  duty  of  carying  for  the  afflicted,  whether  due  to  age  or  infir- 
mity, has  been  translated  into  so  beautiful  an  application  and  has 
been  performed  with  such  steadiness  as  to  render  one  who  would  now 

•  9f>J  isbnu  ,br  ,noii 


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deny  it  contemptible  in  the  sight  of  all  the  people. 

And  no  more  does  anyone,  whatever  may  be  his  view  about  the  effif- 
ciecy  of  prohibition,  ever  expect  to  see  again  the  dominance  of 
the  barroom  and  whisky  still  in  the  civic  and  political  life  of  this 
great  State  of  ours. 

We  are  entering  upon  a  new  day— the  day  of  equality  of  opportu- 
nity. EQUAL!  That  is  the  word!  On  that  word  I  plant  myself  and 
my  party— the  equal  right  of  every  child  born  on  earth  to  have  the 
opportunity  'to  burgeon  out  all  there  is  within  him.'" 


WATTS  ETERNALLY  RIGHT. 

Commissioner  of  Revenue  Watts,  of  the  State  Tax  Department,  has  ruled 
tha!  all  state  officers  including  the  judges  are  liable  for  the  income  tax. 
Why  not?  It  occurs  to  a  layman  and  mosi  any  man  up  a  tree  that  it  was 
an  uns' und  privilege  taken  with  the  law  heretofore  that  the  law  has  not 
reached  thjse  on  salary  in  the  service  of  the  state. 

We  contend  for  the  equality  of  people  before  the  law.  That  sounds 
good,  and  is  good;  but  such  is  not  the  case  when  a  class  may  not  have  to 
respond  to  the  requirement  if  a  law  that  touches  others.  Watts  is  right; 
and  paying  his  own  income  for  the  first  one  of  all  of  the  thousands  of  peo- 
ple subject  to  the  law  and  who  have  the  qualification  of  being  in  such  hap- 
py environment  and  condition,  Col.  Watts  has  set  an  example  O.  K. 

•  *•***•• 

THE  STATE  GENUINELY  AMERICAN,  ALMOST. 

The  United  States  census  keeps  on  revealing  matters  in  which  North 
Carolina  is  justified  in  taking  great  pride.  The  total  population  is  2,599,- 
123,  of  which  1,783,779  are  white;  of  these  1,665,379  or  93.4  percent,  are 
natives  of  North  Carolina.  6.2  percent  of  the  whites  are  natives  of  other 
states  of  the  Union  and  only  four-tenths  of  one  percent  of  the  white  popu- 
lation are  of  foreign  birth.  No  other  state  in  the  whole  country  can  sur- 
pass this. 

Where  North  Carolina  is,  is  always  at  the  head  of  the  table. 

•  ••***»• 

PITY  THE  EFFECT. 

For  days  a  conspicuous  trial  has  been  going  on  in  which  a  man's  life  is 
being  sought  for  the  taking  of  the  life  of  another.  In  all  hard-fought 
cases,  where  able  and  astute  people  are  striving  for  their  sides  of  the  ques- 
tion, there  is  bound,  under  the  pressure  and  the  excitement  of  examination, 


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direct  and  cross,  for  statements  to  be  made  that  are  not  true  or  are  very 
much  colored. 

But  when  in  the  course  of  the  trial  things  of  off  color,  or  suggesting  the 
sordid  things  in  life  and  conduct,  are  about  to  be  touched  upon,  we  can- 
not understand  why  a  woman,  who  is  not  required  by  order  of  court  to  be 
present,  should  desire  to  sit  in  such  an  atmosphere  and  environment. 
While  this  feature  is  hard  to  understand,  it  is  infinitely  more  difficult  to 
reason  out  why  a  teacher  would  head  a  class  of  school  children  in  their  teens 
and  carry  them  into  such  a  setting. 

We  are  drifting,  and  drifting.     Back  to  your  tents! 


Pope  Benedict,  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  is  dead.  He  was  the  head 
of  the  church;  he  stood  high  among  men---beloved  by  his  followers  and 
esteemed  by]  the  masses.  Though  occupying  the  higest  ecclesiastical  place 
within  his  church  he  was  just  a  man.  There  is,  however,  something  pecu- 
liarly engaging  to  follow  up  the  pomp  and  ceremony  attending  the  death 
of  this  high  dignatary  of  the  Roman  church,  and  how  man  brings  about 
his  successor  to  the  throne.  It  is  already  figured  out  that  the  successor 
will  be  an  Italian,  beeause  the  Italians  outnumber  in  the  College  whose  busi- 
ness it  is  to  find  another  Pope. 

Their  distinguished  predecessors,  who  forced  on  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  by  virtue  of  being  in  the  majority,  a  set  of  "obsolete  school 
books,"  will,  if  the  recent  brilliant  findings  and  recommendations  of  the 
recent  Text  Book  Commission,  after  a  year's  incessant  and  expert  investig- 
ation, are  closely  followed,  have  the  satisfactory  laugh  on  the  work  of 
their  successors- -that  is,  if  the  effects  were  not  so  serious.  More  and 
more  the  child  is  being  forgotten,  to  play  homage  to  the  tyranny  of  theory 
which  changes  nearly  as  frequently  as  the  seasons. 

A  fine  insight  into  the  spirit  that  animates  their  organization,  and  into 
a  knowledge  of  the  quiet  and  steady  accomplishments  of  the  faithful  band 
of  women,  known  as  The  King's  Daughters,  may  be  gained  by  the  reading 
of  the  President's  address  and  the  Secretary's  report,  at  the  recent  meeting 
of  the  Convention.  These  interesting  papers  are  to  be  found  elsewhere  in 
this  number  of  The  Uplift. 

If  the  people  in>Watauga  about  Blowing  Rock  and  at  various    places    in 


6  THE  UPLIIFT 

the  "lost  provinces"  do  not,  when  the  time  comes  (and  may  that 
appropriate  time  be  removed  scores  of  years  hence),  rear  monuments  to 
the  memory  of  Col.  Wade  Harris,  for  the  manifestations  (  f  his  abiding  in- 
terest in  and  love  for  their  sections,  in  fine  old  summer  times  and  even  in 
the  dead  winter,  thev  are  not  the  kind  of  p  oj  le  we  take  them  to  be. 

******** 
"Inner  Mission  -  What  Is  It,"  reproduced  in  The  Uplift,  is  a  perfect 
answer  to  a  life  that  would  dedicate  itself  alone  to  its  own  and  its  immediate 
family  connections,  It  is  a  challenge  to  mankind,  which  happily,  as  the 
years  pass,  is  seeing  more  clearly  the  call  and  is  learning  how  to  heed  the 
call. 

*t*  *J**$,****J»  *J|«$»  *$•  *J*tj+*j*  ♦£""$*♦£-»«$*  *£**$•  *J*  *♦■*  *+••  •■♦■•  -^*  *$•  ^*  *$•  *5*  *5*  *$»  *$•  *$*  **••  *J*  ^»  *3*  *I**I*  **+  ^■*-*5#  -^»  *J*  ^*  »J*  *5*  *$»  ^*  >$•  *^  *5*  >J»  *$*•$•  ^  "5^ 

t  AVARICIOUS  AND  ENVIOUS.  I 

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|>  Two  Neighbors    came    before    Jupiter  and  prayed  him  to  grant     *• 

+**  *!* 

*  their  hearts'  desire.  Now  the  one  was  full  of  avarice,  and  the  ♦ 
*i+  *i* 

*  other  eaten  up  with  envy.  So  to  punish  them  both,  Juoiter  grant-  ♦ 
***  *** 
<♦  ed  that  each  might  have  whatever  he  wished  for  himself,  but  only  ♦ 
+*«  *!? 
♦>  on  condition  that  his  neighbor  had  twice  as  much.    The  Avaricious     A 

,♦,      man  prayed  to  have  a  room  full  of  gold.  No  sooner  said  than  dene;      »> 


but  all  his  joy  was    turned  to  grief  when  he  found  that  his  neigh- 


*      bor  had  two  rooms  full  of  the  precious  metal.  Then  came  the  turn      ♦:♦ 
of  the  Envious  man,  who  could  not  bear  to  think  that  his  neighbor     ♦ 


« 


had  any  joy  at  all.     So  he   prayed    that    he  might  have  one  of  his  * 

eyes  put  out  by  which  his  companion  would  become  totally  blind.  ♦ 

*  "VICES  ARE  THEIR  OWN  PUNISHMENT."  % 

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There's  Place  In  Life  For  The  Anecdote. 

NATCHITOCHES  IN  LOUISIANA:  This  is  a  State  College  town,  where 
Louisiana  maintains  a  school  for  the  education  of  its  young  women.  It  oc- 
cupies— the  city  does — a  site  along  by  the  banks  of  the  Red  River  This 
river  in  time,  when  on  a  rampage,  changed  its  channel,  taking  another  course 
through  the  loose  and  made-up  or  filled  in  soil  of  that  section.  When  I  saw 
this  spot,  there  was  a  deep,  wide  and  dry  channel,  with  a  splendid  iron  bridge 
spanning  it.     The  stream  went  oft  and  left  the  bridge.     But  thai;  bridge  ser- 


ves a  good  purpose,  connecting  the  old 
part  of  the  city  with  a  newly  develop- 
ed settlement  on  the  other  side  of  the 
deserted  Red  River  channel. 

But  this  channel  is  not  altogether 
useless.  When  during  the  early 
Spring  the  streams  of  that  very  moist 
state  become  swollen  from  the  usual 
heavy  precipitation,  water  is  backed 
up  into  the  old  channel.  Then  it  is 
that  smart  man  gets  busy.  He  has 
cargoes  of  goods,  farm  supplies  and 
other  necessities  shipped  into  Natchi- 
toches through  the  old  channel  then  a 
raging  river  with  an  enormous  depth 
of  water.  The  city  by  virtue  of  this 
secures  a  very  low  rate  of  freight. 

So  much  for  the  city  in  the  centre 
of  the  State  of  Louisiana.  I  started 
out  with  another  purpose  in  view. 
Though  under  the  head  of  "Anec- 
dote," I  want  to  tell  a  real  story 
about  a  real  occurrence.  Cleverer 
people  than  the  Louisianans  never  liv- 
ed. They  have  peculiarities,  of  course, 
that  belong  to  them;  but  this  may 
have  changed  since  I  saw  their  doings 
some  fifteen  years  ago.  It  was  dur- 
ing the  worst  snow  storm  of  the  very 
few  that  ever  visited  that  state,  when, 
one  Sunday  night,  I  blew  into  Natchi- 
toches (it  took  me  a  day  to  learn  to 
pronounce  the  city's  name.)  I  went 
to  a  hotel,  whose  first  or  lobby  floor 


was  on  a  level  with  the  pavement,  at 
what  I  afterwards  found  was  a  most 
prominent  corner.  I  registered.  Just 
one  room  left.  It  seemed  to  be  a 
busy  night,  and  the  guest  were  num- 
erous. Having  been  assigned  to  my 
room,  I  returned  to  the  office.  I  tried 
to  engage  the  clerk  in  a  conversation, 
but  his  interest  seemed-  to  be  rivetted 
on  a  corner  of  the  office  where  five  or 
six  men,  in  full  view  of  the  passers-by 
on  the  street,  with  piles  of  ' '  chips ' ' 
on  a  flannel  covered  table  were,  as  I 
afterwards  ascertained,  continuing  a 
poker  game  that  had  been  going  on 
the  entire  day. 

I  asked  the  clerk  to  let  me  have  a 
cigar.  "Can't  do  it;  the  law  does 
not  allow  us  to  sell  cigars  on  Sunday," 
the  clerk  informed  me.  "What  are 
those  men  doing  back  yonder  in  the 
corner, ' '  I  inquired.  ' '  They  are 
playing  poker,"  he  innocently  and 
freely  answered.  "Why,  this  is  in 
public,  before  people  returning  from 
church  and  Sunday,  too,  how's  that?" 
That  clerk  looked  at  me  as  if  I  was 
from  the  very  heart  of  ignorance  and 
replied:  "Don't  you  know  the  law 
does  not  forbid  poker  playing  in  Lou- 
isiana?"    I  didn't. 

To  tell  a  free-born  man  that  he  dare 
not  have  a  cigar,  but  he  may  play  pok- 
er in  public,  and  on  Sunday  night,  was 


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very  disconcerting:,  or  words  to   that 
effect. 

I  saw  a  talking  machine  on  the  show 
ease.  Aimlessly  but  possibly  fol- 
lowing- the  cravings  of  the  inner  man, 
I  picked  out  a  record,  "Home  Sweet 
Home. ' '  I  dropped  in  my  nickle  and 
started  the  thing  to  grinding,  when 
suddenly  the  clerk  rushed  angrily 
towards  me,  exclaiming:  "Don't  you 
see  that,  sign?  My  father  (he  was  the 
owner  and  proprietor  of  the  hotel) 
died  two  weeks  ago  and  mother  and  I 
decided  that  out  of  respect  to  his 
memory,  we  would  keep  the  talking 
machine  quiet  for  thirty  days. ' ' 
Beautiful  sentiment !  But  it  never 
occurred  to  that  young  man  and  his 
mammy  that  maintaining  a  gambling 
table  in  the  lobby  of  their  hotel  was 
disrespectful  to  the  memory  of  a  de- 
parted father  and  husband.  Queer 
folks ! 

Going  down  the  railroad  that  leads 
from  Lake  Providence,  which  is  some 
steen  feet  lower  than  the  bed  of  the 
Mississippi  River,  and  headed  for  a 
point  to  cross  over  the  Mississippi  to 
Xatches,  my  seat  companion  hap- 
pened to  be  a  young  Deal,  formerly  of 
the  Enochville,  Rowan  county,  set- 
tlement. I  was  telling  him  of  what 
I  saw  at  Natchitoches,  and  making 
comments  predicated  on  what  was  re- 
garded correct  custom  and  moral  be- 
havior in  North  Carolina.  An  old  gray 
whiskered  gentleman,  seated  just 
across  the  aisle,  seemed  to  be  taking 
no  little  note  of  the  drift  of  our  con- 
versation and  our  open  condemnation 
of  certain  practices  that  we  saw  in 
the  great  state  of  Louisiana.  When 
I  remarked,  "If  I  were  to  go  back 
to  North  Carolina  and  do  just,  one 
time  what  I  see  folks  do  here   fre- 


quently, I  would  be  ruled  out  of  polite 
society. ' '  This  was  too  much  for  the 
old  gentleman,  and  he-broke  in.  "I  beg- 
your  pardon,  but  may  I  join  your  con- 
versation ?  1  heard  what  you  said 
about  being  ruled  out  of  good  society 
in  North  Carolina,  and  I  wish  to  say 
that  if  you  lived  in  Louisiana  long- 
and  did  here  like  folks  in  North 
Carolina  are  accustomed  to  do,  you 
would    be    ostracised    here." 

The  old  man  said  he  was  a  Judge  of 
the  Court,  that  he  was  then  enronte 
to  hold  court,  that  he  himself  had  the 
night  before  been  in  a  social  poker 
game  at  his  own  home,  with  a  neigh- 
bor, from  whom  he  had  won  twenty 
dollars.  The  law  does  not  forbid  it, 
and  the  old  timers  regard  it  the  great 
social  game. "  "  By  the  way, ' '  having 
closed  the  poker  subject,  the  old  Judge 
asked,  "How  far  are  you  from  Da \ id- 
son  College?"  I  told  him.  Then  he 
remarked,  "I  had  a  son  to  graduate 

there  in ,  with  high  honors.  He 

became  a  doctor,  and  connected  with 
the  U.  S.  Health  department  went  to- 
the  Philippines  for  a  government  ser- 
vice. I  had  noticed  two  weeks  ago  that 
he  had  died  and  that  his  body  was 
now  enroute  home."  Just  then  I 
saw  big,  sad  tears  trickling  down  the 
old  Judge's  cheeks,  and  when  he  left 
the  train  at  the  next  station  he  bade 
me  a  cordial  goodby  with  an  urgent 
request  to  stop  over  and  spend  the 
night  with  him  on  my  return.  He 
wanted  to  talk  about  Davidson  Col- 
lege and  Charlotte,  which  he  had 
visited  and  admired. 

I  didn't  get  back  that  way,  but  I 
was  impressed  with  the  smallness  of 
this  country.  To  meet  a  Rowan  boy, 
who  had  read  my  own  paper  and 
quoted   things   from   it   years    after- 


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■wards,  either  funny  or  serious,  and  re-  ters  in  this  section  from  a  personal 
mained  with  him ;  and  to  meet  an  aged  contact,  why,  it  was  real  fascinating. 
Judge,  deeply  interested  in  local  mat- 


"When  every  farmer  in  the  South  shall  eat  bread  from  his  own  fields 
and  meat  from  his  own  pastures,  and  disturbed  by  no  creditor,  and  enslav- 
ed by  no  debt,  shall  sit  amid  his  teeming  gardens,  and  orchards  and 
vineyards,  and  daries  and  barnyards,  pitching  his  crops  in  his  own  wis- 
dom and  growing  them  in  independence,  making  cotton  his  clean  sur- 
plus, and  selling  it  in  his  own  time,  and  in  his  chosen  market,  and  not  at 
a  master's  bidding — getting  his  pay  in  cash  and  not  in  a  receipted  mortg- 
age that  discharges  his  debt,  but  does  not  restore  his  freedom — than  shall 
be  the  breaking  of  the  fullness  of  our  day. ' ' — Henry  W.  Grady. 


Reciprocal  Love  And  Interest. 

'I  here  were  many  children  in  this  home— the  house  was  filled  to  its  com- 
fortable capacity:  hut  in  the  mother's  heart  there  was  room  for  one  more. 
A  little  six-year  old  girl  left  homeless  and  motherless  had  been  taken  in  by 
this  tender-hearted  mother  as  her  own  until  other  arrangements  for  the 
•care  of  the  child  could  be  affected. 

This  mother,  like  all  well-to-do  heav?nward  as  the  stiff  winds  pres- 
rural  folks,  had  her  chickens  and  sed  back  her  brown  locks  about  her 
on  this  occasion  she  had  her  time  cherub  face,  cried  aloud:  "Oh,  God, 
pretty  well  taken  up  in  looking  aft-  p  1-e-a-s-e  don't  let  it  rain  till  my 
er  a  drove  of  young  turkeys.  One  mama  gets  her  turkeys  up  "  When 
hot,  sultry  afternoon  an  angry-look-  the  drove  of  turkeys  was  safely 
ing  cloud  formed  in  the  west.  Fork-  housed  and  the  motherly  woman  had 
ed  lightening  had  already  begun  to  reached  her  domicile,  the  downpour 
flash  across  the  heavens,  and  the  began,  and  to  this  day  the  old  folks 
wind  was  blowing  a  stiff  gale.  The  speak  of  the  terrific  rain  that  visit- 
frugal  house-wife  thought  of  her  ed  that  section.  The  kind-hearted, 
turkeys,  and  in  haste  she  sought  to  motherly  woman  stooDed  and  kissed 
get  them  to  safety  before  the  the  little  orphan  and  said:  "well, 
storm  broke  in  all  its  fury.  Annie,  I  believe   your    little    prayer 

The  little  girl  followed  her  adopt-  was  heard." 

ed  mother  to  the  door,    and,  realiz-  There  was  a  period  when    orphan 

ing  that  there    was    something    out  homes  did  not  exist,  but  there  were 

of  the  ordinary  and  that  excitement  mothers  who  did  the  part  of  aepart- 

prevailed,  she  put  her  head    out    of  ed  mothers--a  beautiful    service    of 

the  door  i  hat   stood    just    ajar    and  unselfishness  and  Lo^e. 
with    her    litcle   blue    eves     turned 


"Merely  being  rich  doesn't  get  a  man  very  far  in  North  Carolina  these 
days. ' ' — Greensboro  News. 


IO 


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B 


ermuda 

By  Mrs.  Ada  Rogers  Gorman. 

An  ocean  voyage  of  forty-eight  hours  from  New  York  brings  us  to  this 
veritable  paradise.  Within  three  miles  of  Hamilton,  the  Ocean  Liner 
transfers  her  passengers  to  a  Tender,  which. beais  us  through  the  shallow 
water  to  the  dock. 


Looking  over  the  boat  rail  into 
the  bluest  water  you  ever  dreamed 
of,  one  is  wont  to  think  of  the  wing- 
ed chariot  of  the  God  of  Day  gives 
this  wonder  blue  for  night  here;  and 
the  ship  in  casting  her  anchor  has 
bumped  against  the  moon.  The  re- 
flection of  white  sail  bespeaks  the 
poetry  of  motion;  blackened  weather 
beaten  hulls  add  tragedy  and  pathos 
to  the  song  of  the  sea. 

By  the  water's  edge,  nest'ing  on 
the  hillside,  and  in  the  valleys  are 
seen  cottage,  villa  and  mansion  dot- 
ting the  green  landscape  of  curving 
coasts,  cedar  groves  and  palmetto 
crowned  hilltops.  Among  the  tree 
tops  chimneys  and  sloping  roofs  ap- 
pear as  if  covered  with  new  fallen 
snow;  and  water  sheds  built  of  cor- 
al on  the  sides  of  the  hills,  look  like 
a  sheet  of  writing-  paper  on  a  green 
felt  cloth. 

There  three  hundred  and  fifty-five 
islands,  divided  and  broken  in  the 
blue  waters  of  the  Atlantic,  are 
built  upon  the  summit  of  a  subma- 
rine mountain. 

Bermuda  was  settled  by  the  Eng- 
lish in  the  early  part  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  immortalized  by 
Shakespeare  in  the  "Tempest"  and 
later  by  Tomas  Moore,  the  Irish  Po- 
et, who  lived  there  several  years. 

During  the  civil  war  the  harbor 
was  a  busy  center.  Supplies  for 
the  Southern  States  were  here  trans- 
ferred to  the  blockade  runners,   and 


if  not  captured,  a  return  cargo  of 
cotton  was  brought  to  Bermuda  to  be 
reshipped  to  England,  the  most  abid- 
ing visual  impression  of  Bermuda. 

The  sweet  scented  air,  delicate  tin- 
ting of  the  sky,  bewildering  shades 
and  color  of  water  of  flowers  wel- 
come the  tourist.  Hibiscus,  laden 
with  crimson  blossoms  Rubber  trees 
sixty  feet  high,  with  wide 
spreading  branches,  fill  yon  with 
wonder;  Nasturtiums,  Bougain-vil- 
led  and  Geraniums,  make  terraces 
and  stone  walls  a  riot  of  color. 

The  "Sea  Gardens"  are  visited  in 
a  glass  bottom  boat.  This  glimpse 
of  Nature's  wonderland  you  have  is 
a  fantasy  in  minature.  Coral  bran- 
ches wave,  like  grass  is  a  meadow 
blown  by  a  zephyr  wind;  sea  fern, 
brain  and  leaf  coral  from  tiny  hills 
and  vales.  The  waving  tendrills  ap- 
pears so  unreal  and  so  alluring,  that 
the  diver  at  the  request  of  many, 
secures  the  specimen  we  so  eagerly 
select.  That!  a  green  colored 
smelly  branch  of  coral  out  of  its  nat- 
ural environment,  becomes  a  with- 
ered wreath.  People-  -like  coial 
away  from  the  environment  they  love 
sicken  and  die. 

1  he  captain  ox  the  boat,  a  native 
said,  (  s  he  held  a  small  stone  in  his 
hand)  'They  are  digging  an  arte- 
sian well  on  the  Island,  at  six  hun- 
dred and  eighty  feet  they  find  this, 
it  is  not  silicate,  but  limestone. 
The  lime  that   was    thrown    up_  by 


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volcanic  action  is  so  porous  that 
fresh  warter  has  never  been  found. 
I  bcugnt  an  Italian  abandoned  ves- 
sel once,  sunkened  on  a  reef. 
Against  the  judgement  of  divers,  I 
decided  to  go  over  the  boat,  fully 
accoutred,  descended,  wandered  in 
and  out  of  her  roon  s,  when  I 
found  myself  a  prisoner.  By  sec- 
urely fastening  the  cord  that  fur- 
nished me  air,  1  kept  alive  five  hours 
and  with  signals  given  by  jerks, 
help  was  sent  me.  I  found  the  up- 
per deck  had  a  large  hole  burned  in 
her,  and  could  never  be  raised." 

These  coast  are  called  the  grave- 
yard of  the  iAtlantic.  Old  ships  de- 
cay; the  tiny  torridi  worm  boring 
in  the  wood,  each  worm  making  a 
different  path,  reduce  the  wood  to 
a  pulp  and  die;  the  decay  of  it  and 
the  insect,  are  making  the  coral 
reefs. 


The  tourist,  passing  fields  of  As- 
cension Lilies,  revels  in  their  beauty, 
and  hears  the  mighty  paen  of  the 
Resurrection  Morn  their  blossoming 
ever  sings. 

Sunny  land  of  contentment,  where 
fish  sport  in  blue  waters  and  flowers 
of  every  hue  that  bloom  on  land, 
answer  back  to  the  ages  that  Solo- 
mon was  not  arrayed  like  one  of  us. 

These  expressions  of  God's  love 
bring  the  tourist  to  Bermuda;  wel- 
come the  overworked  and  aged  with 
the  living  semblance  of  youth  and 
strength  in  the  flower  festival  of  the 
island,  caressed  by  blue  waters,  pro- 
tected by  fir  trees,  dark  and  defiant, 
kissed  by  the  sun  and  lulled  by  the 
silver  moon  in  the  world  of  silent 
revelry. 

So  does  Nature's  God  keep  open 
the  gates  of  her  everlasting  hospital- 
ity to  him  who  visits  the  island. 


Lost,  yesterday,  somewhere  between  sunrise  and  sunset,  two  golden 
hours,  each  set  with  sixty  diamond  minutes.  No  reward  offered,  for  they 
are  gone  forever. — Horace  Mann. 


PATCHED  HIS  BACK  WITH  LEG  BONE 


Running  the  risk  of  jarring  the  sense  of  professional  ethics  whose  tyranny 
•often  enslaves  and  creates  embarrassing  situations  we  are  taking  a  story  from 
the  front  page  of  the  Monroe  Enquirer,  of  last  week,  a  story  about  a  mar- 
velous surgical  operation  performed  on  the  contributor  of  that  article.  He 
names  the  hospital,  the  chief  operator,  the  doctor  that  diagnosed  his  trouble 
and  sent  him  to  the  right  place — it's  a  human  interest  story  and  every  word 
sounds  like  the  genuine  truth. 


The  hospital  can  not  announce  the 
wonderful  accomplishment —  it  would 
be  unethical;  the  surgeon  can  not 
publicly  announce  his  masterful  op- 
peration — it  would  be  unethical,  and 
to  do  so  would  cause  his  explusion 
from  the  medical  society;  the  doctor 


at  Monroe,  coming  in  for  much  praise 
for  his  judgment  and  skill,  as  he  clear- 
ly deserves,  could  not  go  about  in 
public  proclaiming  that  he  discovered 
what  was  ailing  this  man  Hinson — 
it  would  be  unethical,  and  he'd  suffer 
a   charge   of   unprofessionalism.     Oh, 


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such  tyranny.  There  may  be  hun- 
dreds of  others  in  the  state  suffering 
and  wasting  away  just  like  Hinson 
was,  but  they  don't  know  where  to  go 
or  what  to  do.  '•Out  of  the  gratitude 
he  holds  for  those  who  brought  re- 
lief to  him,  Hinson  publicly  calls 
names  out  in  open  meeting,  as  he 
ought  to  have  done. 

Speaking  of  the  tyranny  of  pro- 
fessional ethics,  a  peculiar  circum- 
stance came  to  light  recently.  An 
old  hysterical  and  poverty  stricken 
subject  was  crying  aloud  for  a  doctor. 
Charitable  folks  offered  to  go  to  her 
rescue;  the  county  health  officer  was 
sought — he '  was  away ;  then  another 
physician  was  called  but  he  declined 
even  for  pay,  because  the  case  be- 
longed to  the  county  officer;  but 
under  the  law,  as  now  written,  there 
was  no  obligation  even  upon  the  coun- 
ty officer.  So  the  suffering  case  went 
unattended,  all  because  of  the  lame- 
ness of  the  law,  on  one  hand,  and  the 
absurd  tyranny  of  man-made  ethics 
on  the  other  hand.  But  just  see  what 
Hinson  has  to  say : 

As  the  operation  that  I  have  re-, 
cently  subjected  myself  to  at  the 
Presbyterian  hospital  at  Charlotte 
seems,  to  a  great  many  people,  one 
of  the  wonders  of  the  age.  I  feel  that 
it  is  my  duty  to  humanity  and  the 
operating  surgeons  to  make  a  few 
statements  in  regard  to  my  condition 
before   and   since   the   operation : 

For  the  past  five  or  six  years  I 
have  suffered  untold  agony.  Consult- 
ed several  physicians  of  acknowledg- 
ed skill  in  diagnosis  of  human  ills. 
Took  medicine  from  same  as  well  as 
some  patent  medicines,  all  to  no  re- 
lief. I  dieted  myself  and  tried  to  get 
relief   that   way,    but   failed.     I   had 


heart,  lung  and  kidney  tests  all  made 
and  these  organs  pronounced  in  good 
shape  by  supposed  medical  experts. 
My  condition  all  the  time  grew  worse. 
Could  scarcely  get  my  coat  on  with- 
out help.  Almost  more  than  I  could 
do  to  turn  on  bed  or  get  off  the  bed. 
Was  not  able  and  could  not  do  man- 
ual labor.  My  body  all  the  time  be- 
coming more  and  more  stooped  and 
turned  to  the  left.  My  appetite  re- 
mained good  all  the  time. 

Laboring  all  the  time  under  the  de- 
lusion or  belief  that  it  was  rheuma- 
tism and  did  not  know  any  better 
until  the  17th  of  last  November  I 
went  to  the  office  of  Dr.  Edd  J.  Wil- 
liams, of  Monroe,  and  asked  him  to 
make  a  thorough  physical  examina- 
tion of  my  body.  He  diagnosed  my 
case,  located  the  trouble  and  advised 
having  some  X-ray  pictures  to  be 
taken.  The  X-rays  were  made  and 
his  diagnosis  of  my  condition  sustain- 
ed. The  next  and  only  thing  that  was 
held  out  to  me,  with  any  reasonable 
degree  of  hope  of  bettering  condition 
by  Dr.  Edd  J.  Williams  and  Dr.  W. 
M.  Scruggs,  of  Charlotte,  was  an  op- 
eration requiring  the  most  practical 
and  mechanical  skill. 

I'll  admit  that,  to  me,  it  was  a  most 
trying  dose.  It  seemed  that  it  was  a 
choice  between  an  operation  and 
something  worse.  I  chose  the  opera- 
tion. So  on  the  morning  of  the  28th 
of  last  November  at  the  Presbyterian 
hospital  at  Charlotte  I  turned  myself 
calmly  over  to  the  care  of  Dr.  W.  M. 
Scruggs.  I  was  under  the  operation, 
two  hours  and  a  half,  during  which 
time  a  piece  of  bone,  I  judged,  three- 
eighth  of  an  inch  thick,  one  inch 
wide  and  12  or  14  inches  long  from. 
the  shin  of  my  left  leg  was  taken  and 


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grafted  into  niy  backbone.  The  back- 
bone being  grooved  out,  one  inch  in 
depth  for  the  graft. 

I  revived  in  one  hour  from  the 
effects  of  the  eher,  and  was  not  sick 
from  it.  I  was  in  bed  for  thirty- 
seven  days  and  was  able  during  all 
that  time  to  turn  myself  from  one 
side  of  the  bed  to  the  other,  could 
move  my  leg  at  any  time  from  one 
place  to  another  without  pain,  and 
was  never  sick  five  minutes  while  in 
the  hospital.  Sit  propped  up  in  bed 
at  pleasure  for  six  or  eight  days  just 
before  leaving.  Began  walking  around 
in  my  room  Thursday  evening  and 
on  the  following  Saturday  made  the 
trip  to  Monroe  on  automobile  with 
Dr.  Scruggs.  Have  been  at  home  just 
a  little  over  a  week.  My  general  con- 
dition is  much  improvd. 


I  have  written  this  without  solici- 
tation on  the  part  of  any  one.  The 
object  being  to  give  my  friends  and 
the  inquiring  minded  a  concise  state- 
ment of  facts  in  regard  to  my  par- 
ticular case. 

Where  the  graft  was  taken  out  of 
my  leg  was  filled  in  full  and  complete 
in  four  weeks. 

In  closing  I  feel  that  I  would  not 
show  myself  appreciative  and  fail  to 
give  due  credit  to  Dr.  Edd  J.  Wil- 
liams if  I  did  not  give  him  a  tip  for 
his  diagnosis  of  my  case.  For  at  that 
time  I  saw-  nothing  but  a  miserable 
existence  for  me.  It  seems  to  have 
been  the  breaking  of  a  new  day  for 
me.  Thanks  to  and  for  the  skill  of 
Dr.  W.  M.  Scruggs. 

THOS.  L.  HIXSON. 


New  York's  motion  picture  commission  has  sent  out  477  scenes  during 
its  first  year,  85  as  indecent,  54  as  crime-inciting,  and  61  as  immoral.  It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  all  the  other  states  get  the  benefit  of  the  activity  of  the 
New  York  censors.     But  do  they? — News  &  Observer. 


Beware  The  Nulliiiers  0!  The  Law 

BY  R.  R.  CLARK 

Recently  one  of  our  Superior  Court  judges,  instructing  the  grand  jury 
referred  to  the  agitation  for  the  abolition  of  capital  punishment,  and  empha- 
sized the  fact  that  it  was  neither  the  duty  of  the  court  nor  of  the  jurors  to 
discuss  the  merits  of  capital  punishment,  but  that  it  is  the  duty  of  courts  and 
juries,  so  long  as  the  law  is  on  the  statute  books,  to  see  that  it  is  enforced 
and  enforced  all  the  time. 


That  judge  was  doing  no  more  thai 
his  duty,  but  under  the  conditions 
now  prevailing  he  deserves  commen- 
dation for  emphasizing  a  fact  which 
there  is  an  apparent,  determined  and 
well-organized  effort  to  becloud.     I  re- 


fer to  the  well-organized  propaganda 
in  this  State  for  the  abolition  of  capi- 
tal punishment  through  the  nullifica- 
tion of  the  law.  I  might  as  well  say 
here  that  I  favor  capital  punishment 
and  believe  that  it  is  both  just  and 


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necessary.  But  I  repeat  what  I  have 
often  said  in  discussing  this  matter, 
not  by  way  of  apology  but  simply 
out  of  regard  for  liberty  of  opinion, 
that  I  have  no  quarrel  with  those  who 
would  abolish  the  death  penalty  so 
long  as  they  would  abolish  it  by 
changing  the  statute,  in  the  regular, 
orderly  way  and  not  by  nullification. 
I  have  little  patience  with  the  extre- 
mists who  have  recently  discovered 
that  the  death  penalty  is  contrary  to 
the  law  of  God,  and  assuming  to 
speak  for  the  Almighty  brand  as  mur- 
derersthose  who  execute  the  law  and 
all  who  approve  its  excution.  But  I 
have  not  come  to  discuss  the  death 
penalty  per  se.  I  am  calling  attention 
to  the  persistent  and  insistent  at- 
tempts to  nullify  the  law  and  the 
dangerous  tendency  of  the  proceed- 
ing. 

The  agitators  will  probably,  deny 
that  their  purpose  is  nullification  and 
contend  that  they  seek  abolition  in 
the  regular  way.  That  is  of  course 
their  ultimate  purpose,  but  in  the 
meantime  all  newspaper  readers 
have  observed  the  strenuous  and  de- 
termined efforts  to  prevent  the  execu- 
tion of  the  law.  Every  execution  is 
written  up  as  a  horror  and  facts  are 
ignored  in  the  appeal  to  sentiment 
and  sympathy.  The  whole  State  wit- 
nessed the  violent  and  vicious  assault 
made  on  the  Governor  not  long  since 
when  he  refused  to  commute  a  death 
sentence.  A  powerful  and  determin- 
ed effort  was  made  to  force  the  Chief 
Executive  of  the  State  to  set  aside 
the  law,  regardless  of  his  conscientious 
conviction,  and  with  a  weaker  man 
it  would  have  succeeded.  The  stand 
of  the  Governor  against  that  fearful 
onslaught  has  given  the  nullification- 


ists  pause,  and  they  are  not  so  hope- 
ful of  success  in  that  direction  as  they 
were.  But  the  judiciary  has  received 
and  will  receive  their  attention.  Re- 
ports that  judges  on  the  Supreme 
Court  and  Superior  Court  judges  were 
weak  on  capital  punishment  or  out 
and  out  opponents  of  the  law  have 
frequently  been  reported  with  mani- 
festations of  great  pleasure  at  the 
accession  or  possible  accession  of 
such  influence  to  the  ranks  of  those 
opposing  the  death  penalty,  along 
with  high  commendation  of  the  judges 
who  come  out  against  "murder  by  the 
the  State."  On  one  occasion  at  least, 
if  not  more  than  one,  justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court  were  highly  commend- 
ed for  asking  the  Governor  to  com- 
mute sentences — to  do  what  the  justi- 
ces could  And  no  authority  in  law  for 
doing. 

If  the  Legislature  should  abolish  the 
death  penalty,  well  and  good,  no  mat- 
ter how  much  I  may  question  the 
wisdom  of  such  course.  Sometimes 
I  think  possibly  it  might  be  a  good 
idea  t.o  give  the  matter  a  trial;  and 
in  saying  that  I  am  convinced  that 
the  trial  would  hardly  last  longer 
than  another  Legislature  could 
assemble.  What  I  am  protesting  here 
and  now  is  the  apparent  and  deter- 
mined purpose  to  secure  abolition  of 
capital  punishment  through  the  nul- 
lification of  the  law,  this  to  be  done 
through  the  judges  who  are  willing 
to  set  aside  a  law  of  which  they  do 
not  personally  approve,  and  through 
the  Governor  when  he  can  be  eon- 
trolled.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to 
say  to  unprejudiced  and  unbiased  peo- 
ple that  a  judge  who  will  make  no 
effort  to  execute  a  law  he  does  not 
approve;  on  the  cohtrary  uses  his  po- 


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sition  to  nullify  it,  is  not  only  unfit  for 
judicial  position,  he  is  unworthy  and 
is  not  to  be  trusted.  That  will  be  ad- 
mitted, I  believe,  without  serious  ar- 
gument ;  for  it  must  be  admitted  by 
all  who  think  that  a  judge  who  would 
nullify  one  law  because  he  did  not 
approve  it  would  nullify  another  if  it 
suited  his  purpose  so  to  do.  If  his 
conscience  does  not  permit  him  to  im- 
pose the  death  penalty,  then  if  he  is 
the  honorable  man  he  should  be  he 
will  get  oft'  the  bench.  The  use  of  his 
position  to  set  aside  law  would  be 
dishonorable  and  the  man  who  will 
do  that  is  not  to  be  trusted. 

I  am  not  denying  to  the  judiciary 
the  privilege  of  opinion  as  to  the 
wisdom  of  the  laws.  They  not  only 
have  that  right,  but  their  opinion, 
based  on  their  experience  in  admin- 
istering the  law,  is  valuable.  Neither 
am  I  denying  the  right  of  the  judic- 
iary to  suggest  changes  in  the  law  and 
to  use  their  influence,  within  proper 
bounds,  to  have  changes  made.  The 
people  I  am  after  are  those  who  are 
so  far  gone  on  this  matter  of  capital 
punishment  that  they  feel  that  any 
effort,  any  means  that  can  be  used  to 
prevent  the  infliction  of  the  death 
penalty,  is  entirely  justified  and  that 
they  are  doing  God 's  service  in  pre- 
venting the  execution  of  the  law  by 
any  means  in  their  power.  I  don't 
want  men  who  feel  that  way  about  any 
law  on  the  bench  administering  the 
law;  and  I  don't  want  one  of  that 
type  elected  to  the  bench. 

I  am  aware  that  it  will  be  said 
that  our  judges  or  those  who  may  be 


elected  judges  are  too  honorable  to 
take  an  oath  with  a  mental  reserva- 
tion to  observe  it  only  as  it  fits  their 
preconceived  opinions.  That  would 
be  so  ordinarily,  but  we've  got  to 
recognize  conditions  as  they  are,  not 
as  they  should  be.  I  am  warning 
against  the  danger  of  having  on  the 
bench,  or  elevating  to  the  bench,  men 
who  may  be  as  extreme  in  their  op- 
position to  capital  punishment,  or  to 
any  law,  as  many  of  the  anti-capital 
punishment  agitators  are.  The  judge 
who  feels  that  the  infliction  of  the 
death  penalty  is  a  crime,  as  many  of 
agitators  are  teaching  it  is,  would 
consider  it  his  duty  to  save  from  the 
extreme  penalty  all  who  came  into  his 
court  charged  with  a  capital  felony. 
To  win  judicial  honors  one  who  holds 
such  views  could  easily  persuade  him- 
self'that  he  was  doing  God's  service  if 
he  practiced  deception  to  get  on  the 
bench  so  that  he  could  prevent  the 
execution  of  a  law  he  abhors. 

I  don't  know  of  my  own  knowledge 
that  any  of  the  judges  on  the  bench 
have  reached  the  extreme  mentioned. 
But  in  view  of  the  intensity  of  the 
agitation  and  the  extreme  views  of 
the  agitators,  it  is  the  duty  of  all 
good  citizens,  no  matter  what  their 
views  on  capital  punishment,  to  use 
their  influence  to  put  on  the  bench 
men  who  will  not  only  enforce  all  laws 
but  enforce  them  impartially.  That 
should  be  kept  in  mind  when  candi- 
dates for  judge  are  named  this  year 
and  two  years  hence.  Men  who  are 
more  just  than  God  are  hardly  fitted 
to  administer  judgments  here  below. 


Profanity  never  did  any  man  the  least  good.  No  man  is  richer,  happier, 
or  wiser  for  it.  It  recommends  no  one  to  society;  it  is  disgusting  to  re- 
fined people  and  abominable  to  the  good. 


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THINGS  I  LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 
Number  (VIII) :  Animals. 

The  Animals  we  'found  on  the  farm  were  numerous,  and  most  of  them  were 
interesting  to  study  and  follow  up  to  find  what  they  did  and  why?  Those  fit 
for  game  and  shooting  for  food  were  limited  to  three  in  number.  But  the 
smaller  tribe  of  rats  and  such  were  alwaj's  present  and  plentiful,  and  in  spite 
of  the  annual  slaughter  on  the  part  of  boys,  dogs  and  eats  they  were  still  plen- 
tiful and  always  destroying  anything  they  could  eat  and  cut  to  pieces  for  beds. 

The   animals   we  knew   and    called      A  very  peculiar  specimen  was  a  mouse 


by  name  were :  Rabbit,  squirrel,  o  'pos- 
sum, mink,  weasel,  flying-squirrel,  rats, 
mice  and  mole.  The  rat  and  mice 
family  we  divided  into  many  sections. 
The  house  rat  and  house  mouse,  both 
of  which  sometimes  strayed  to  the 
fields  and  made  homes  there.  The 
ground  or  "sloe"  rat,  with  tail  little 
longer  than  a  mole,  but  about  the  size 
of  the  barn  rat,  with  very  short  legs 
and  powerful  teeth.  Its  home  was  in 
banks  of  elevated  earth,  and  it  liked 
thick  grass,  under  which  it  cut  paths, 
so  as  to  travel  on  the  ground.  "When 
grass  fields  were  burned  Ave  found  the 
paths  going  in  most  all  directions. 
The  field  mice  we  knew  were  of  four 
distinct  species,  two  of  them  rare. 
One  a  little  different  from  the  house 
mouse,  but  very  plentiful :  A  larger 
bluish  drab  mouse  that  infested  sedge 
fields  more  than  elsewhere,  making- 
nests  mostly  of  straw,  but  having  bur- 
rows also.  Once  1  plowed  up  a  nest 
of  young ;  the  point  of  the  plow  killing 
one;  the  other  three  and  the  mother 
were  turned  up  on  the  turf  and  ex- 
posed. As  I  stopped  the  mother  rat 
made  a  peculiar  noise,  when  the  three 
young  ones  took  hold  of  her  fur  with 
the  mouths  and  she  scuttled  away 
with  the  three  dangling  to  her  hide. 
Did   any  one  ever  se,.'  such  a  thing? 


we  seldom  found,  but  did  occasionally 
find,  was  about  a  size  larger  than  a 
house  mouse,  with  a  tail  twice  the 
length  of  its  body,  a  brown  back  and 
yellow  belly.  It  was  very  swift  on 
foot,  jumping  unreasonable  distances. 
We  never  saw  its  young.  The  fourth 
was  a  mouse  between  the  size  of  a  rat 
and  a  house  mouse,  rich  brown  in  color 
on  back  and  nested  in  trees,  building 
on  the  order  of  a  squirrel,  except  in 
low  trees,  and  always  about  hedgerows. 
It  would  always  come  out  of  the  nest 
if  shaken,  but  would  not  come  down. 
Had  large  eyes  and  ears.  We  never 
found  the  young  of  this  species  eith- 
er. No  other  of  the  rat  tribe  uses 
trees. 

Of  all  the  animals  we  found  the  first 
three  named  were  game  animals,  and 
the  white  tail  rabbit  ''molly-cotton- 
tail" was  the  favorite  of  all.  This 
we  did  as  boys  do  now,  trapped,  hunt- 
ed with  gun  and  dogs.  They  are  fine 
food  and  no  animal,  then  or  now, 
furnished  more  real  life  for  boys  than 
this  rabbit.  At  this  time  all  farms 
were  fenced  and  cross-fenced  with 
rail  fences,  and  rabbits,  then  as  now, 
traveled  in  paths  across  the  thickets, 
and  where  they  crossed  a  fence  they 
gnawed  the  bottom  rail.  This  told  us 
where  to  set  the  traps,  made  of  hollow 


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logs  or  planks,  as  ns«r.  A  hollow  log 
was  the  best  trap,  anil  the  term  ' '  rab- 
bit-gum" or  "rabbit-hollow"  origi- 
nated with  this  kind  of  a  trap  (made 
from  a  hollow  gum  tree.)  They  were 
the  most  proline  of  all  animals,  raising 
from  five  to  six  litters  each  season. 
The  nests  were  always  made  in  a  hole 
in  the  ground  lined  with  their  own  fur. 
The  young  were  placed  there  and  cov- 
ered so  you  could  not  see  except  you 
stepped  on  it  or  plowed  it  up  in  the 
fields  by  a  stump.  There  were  from 
three  to  live  young  in  a  nest,  and  were 
suckled  at  night  only,  sleeping  all 
■day.  They  grow  very  fast.  Just  why 
a  rabbit  will  go  into  a  trap  is  still  a 
isputed  question.  Experience  taught 
me  that  bait  is  of  little  if  any  value, 
and  my  opinion  is  there  are  two  rea- 
sons why  a  rabbit  seeks  a  hole,  undis- 
turbed, the  first  is:  they  have  enemies 
in  the  fox  and  the  dog,  and  when 
•chased  until  it  gets  tired  will  always 
find  a  hole  to  save  itself,  and  it  is  the 
seeking  for  a  known  hiding  place  to 
go  to  when  in  danger,  that  causes  it  to 
go  in  traps.  The  other  is :  in  very  bad 
■weather  a  shelter  is  a  protection.  I 
have  found  them  in  holes  before  be- 
ing run.     I  still  trap  them. 

The  common  gray  squirrel  was  not 
plentiful  with  us.  It  is  a  high  tree 
animal,  and  valued  as  food  and  for 
shooting.  It  nests  in  hollows  and  al- 
so builds  nests  :of  twigs  outside.  It 
Taises  one  or  more  sets  of  young  each 
•season.  The  o  'possum  is  a  night  ani- 
mal and  we  had  great  sport  hunting 
them  with  hounds  at  night,  which 
track  them  until  they  take  to  a  tree; 
then  the  tree  is  cut  and  dogs  catch  the 
o 'possum.  They  belong  to  the  mar- 
supial family,  and  carry  their  young 
in  a  pouch  from     the  time  they  are 


smaller  than  new  born  mice  to  suck 
time  as  they  are  too  large.  Then  they 
hold  on  the  long  hair  of  the  mother, 
and  later  twine  their  tails  about  the 
mothers  tail  and  hold  fast  to  hair.  We 
caught  many  of  them  with  their  young, 
but  found  that  they  would  eat  each 
other  in  confinement.  Just  what  age 
the  mother  turns  them  loose,  we  nev- 
er quite  knew,  but  we  caught  the 
young  alone  when  quite  small.  They, 
when  medium  size,  pretend  to  be  dead 
when  caught,  coiling  up  and  become  as 
rigid  as  wood.  That  is  where  "play- 
ing possum"  originated.  Old  ones 
fight. 

The  mink  we  trapped  for  its  fur, 
and  did  it  with  our  rabbit  traps;  set- 
ting them  on  sand  bars  in  the  creek 
beds,  baiting  with  rabbit  heads  or  a 
shot  bird.  When  mad  they  smell  like 
a  skunk,  but  we  drowned  them  very 
easily  under  water.  The  skins  were 
then  worth  from  one  to  two  and  a  half 
dollars;  a  lot  of  money  for  a  strug- 
gling farm  boy.  No  animal  furnished 
more  fun  than  the  flying-squirrel;  it 
having  a  species  of  skin-wings  from 
the  fore  to  hind  legs  and  a  flat  tail. 
These  they  spread  and  leaped  from  a 
high  tree,  gliding  to  the  root  of  anoth- 
er tree;  climbing  this  and  repeating. 
Our  cats  learned  their  habits  and 
would  wait  at  the  root  of  a  tree  and 
take  it  in  as  it  lighted.  We  had  tame 
ones,  which  we  studied  first  hand. 
They  are  a  night  prowler,  and  nice 
pets  when  small,  but  as  soon  as  they 
came  to  maturity  wanted  to  sleep  all 
day  and  would  bite  if  disturbed.  They 
would  not  breed  in  confinement. 

The  mole  is  familiar  to  most  people. 
I  was  never  able,  then  or  now,  to  find 
any  eyes.  They  are  the  strongest  of 
all  animals  of  their  size.     Are  hard  to 


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catch   on   account   of   their     hearing.      and  often  kills  a  whole  flock  of  hens 


Our  dog  was  great  to  dig  them  out. 
The  weasel  was  the  rarest  of  all  the 
animals,  and  never  killed  our  fowls; 
thev    being    a    bloodsucking      animal, 


in  a  night,  sucking  the  blood  only. 

The  next  number  will  be    entitled 
"Many  Small  Things." 


Every  farmer  in  the  South  should  be  interested  in  Henry  Ford's  pur- 
pose in  developing  Muscle  Shoals.  Henry  Ford  proposes  to  take  the  ni- 
trates from  the  air  by  means  of  electric  current  and  make  fertilizer 
cheaper  than  anybody  else  is  now  making  it.  The  fertilizer  manufacturers 
say  he  can't  do  it,  but  they  are  spending  thousands  of  dollars  in  propaganda 
to  try  and  prejudice  the  country  against  Ford.  If  they  are  telling  the 
truth,  why  are  they  wasting  the  money? 


INSPIRING  ADDRESS,  ANNUAL  REPORT 

(At  the  recent  Convention  of  The  King's  Daughters,  held  in  the  Jackson 
Training  School  Auditorium,  there  were  delivered  several  addresses  most  in- 
spiring and  the  Annual  Report  of  the  State  Secretary  is  of  great  interest. 
These  have  just  become  available.  In  this  issue  of  THE  UPLIFT  we  are 
pleased  to  give  to  our  readers  the  "Message  of  The  President,"  and  "The 
Report  of  the  State  Secretary. ' ') 


Many  hearts  beat  happily  tonight 
that  we  are  in  Concord,  commemorat- 
ing the  32nd  Anniversary  of  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Order  of  the  King's 
Daughters  &  Sons  in  North  Carolina. 

We  are  wearing  a  crown  within 
whose  circuit  are  joy  and  thanks- 
giving, joy  in  being  here  with  our 
friends  and  associates  in  work,  and 
thanksgiving  for  the  privilege  of 
staying  at  the  School  with  the  Super- 
intendent and  his  large  family  and 
for  having  with  us  friends,  busy 
men,  who  are  here  for  the  purpose  of 
helping  us.  The  spirit  of  thanks- 
giving hovering  over  us  in  this  his- 
toric part  of  the  State  recalls  the 
great  deeds  of  our  ancestors  who  laid 
for  the  United  States  of  America 
the  foundation,  moral,  political  and 
social  upon  which  we  are  building  to- 


day. They  had  heights  to  storm  and 
lines  to  break  through  blinding  clouds 
of  doubt  and  ignorance,  and  their  mis- 
takes as  well  as  their  splendid  achieve- 
ments are  valuable  lessons  for  us. 
In  reading  an  article  sometime  ago, 
warning  against  pessimism  when  con- 
demning modern  innovations  and 
drawing  a  comparison  in  favor  of 
modern  times,  between  the  vices  and 
virtues  of  the  past  and  present,  it 
seemed  to  me  that  the  writer  lost 
sight  of  the  fact  that  our  progressive- 
ness,  upon  which  he  dwelt,  is  built  up- 
on the  conservatism  of  our  aneesters. 
They  were  blazing  a  trail  for  us  and 
showing  us  at  crossroads  which  way 
to  take. 

Being  human  they  committed  er- 
rors which  we  now  deplore.  In  like 
manner  will  not  our  descendants  blush 


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MRS.  M.  C.  D.  BURGWYN, 

Of  Raleigh,  is  serving  her  20th  year  as  president  of  The  King's  Daughters 

and  Sons. 


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at  some  of  the  practice  and  fashions  of 
which  we  indulge"? 

The  thought  that,  "Through  the  a- 
ges  one  eternal  purpose  runs,"  is  a 
blessed  one,  that  despite  the  errors 
of  each  era  of  time,  the  men  and  wo- 
men all  ages,  may,  if  they  will,  help 
to  perfect  the  divine  purpose  of  crea- 
tion. The  motto  upon  the  Seal  of 
North  Carolina  "Esse  Quam  Videri, " 
to  be  rather  than  to  seem,  teaches 
us  the  lesson  of  sincerity  and  truth, 
change  those  words  a  little,  and  we 
read  an  equally  important  lesson, 
seem  to  be  what  you  really  are,  or 
have  the  courage  of  your  convictions, 
and  live  the  truth  as  well  as  believe 
it. 

The  touching  and  familiar  story  of 
the  struggles  of  Christopher  Coliun- 
bus  before  various  sovereigns  in  Eu- 
rope to  obtain  the  means  of  vindicat- 
ing his  theory  that  the  earth  was 
round  and  that  circumnavigation  was 
possible,  affords  us  a  memorable  in- 
stance of  the  benediction  to  the  world 
of  a  man's  sincerity  and  earnestness, 
and  of  the  courage  to  abide  by  his 
convictions  of  truth. 

Queen  Isabella  of  Spain  pledged 
her  jewels  to  raise  money  for  this 
enterprise,  which  was  undertaken  for 
her  own  crown  of  Castile.  May  not 
we,  of  the  royal  family  of  The  King 
of  Kings,  lest  one  jewel  be  lost  from 
His  crown,  pledge  ourselves  and  our 
treasures  to  help  our  ' '  Brothers  Sail- 
ing o'er  life's  solemn  main,"  and 
watching  anxiously  for  a  sight  of  the 
New  World  of  peace  and  joy. 

Florence  Nightingale  through  great 
discouragement  taught  the  world  that 
in  peace  as  well  as  in  war  the  minis- 
trations of  women  are  necessary.  That 
idea  has  borne  fruit   the  world   over 


and  today  Cabarrus  County  rejoices 
in  an  all-time  health  nurse,  a  follower 
of  the  great  philanthropist  nurse  of 
Crimean  war  fame,  a  follower  proving 
herself  thoroughly  equipped  for  high 
and  important  service.  Sad  to  say, 
in  contrast  to  such  ideals  we  see  in 
this  day  wme  of  the  old  laws  of  the 
land  altered,  because  the  standard 
which  they  required  is  too  high.  In- 
stead of  uplifting-  man  and  woman  the 
standard  of  life  is  lowered  to  suit 
their  wishes.  This  is  not  done  in 
mental  or  physical  contest.  Men  and 
women  are  prepared  and  trained  for 
business  as  never  before,  and  work 
is  more  strenuous.  In  physical  races 
and  contest  every  nerve  and  muscle 
in  the  body  is  strained  to  win  the 
prize.  In  the  hurdle  race  the  bar  is 
not  lowered  to  suit  the  indifferent 
horse  and  rider,  but  horseman  and 
horse  together  practice  and  labor  un- 
til made  perfect,  and  the  hurdle  at 
maxiuru  height  is  cleared  to  the  ad- 
miration of  all  beholders. 

In  the  chariot  race  of  old,  the 
charioteer  stands  holding  in  hand  the 
reins  governing  four  horses.  From 
top  to  toe  he  is  tense  with  exertion 
and  ambition  to  reach  his  goal.  His 
faithful  steeds  catching  his  spirit, 
] 'anting  and  with  dilated  nostrils 
press  onward  until   the   race  is  won. 

Are  our  spiritual  muscles  the  only- 
ones  which  need  no  strengthening? 
Or  are  the  prizes  of  mastery  over 
self,  or  the  victory  of  the  super- 
natural over  the  natural,  not  worth 
obtaining?  Of  one  thing,  we  may  be 
sure  in  our  own  work  of  Christian 
Social  Service,  great  and  lasting  re- 
sults cannot  be  obtained,  without 
Truth,  Courage,  and  Labor;  courage 
to  differ  from  the  conventionalities  of 


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MRS.  RICHARD  WILLIAMS, 

Of  Greenville,  is  serving  her  7th  term  as  Secretary  of  The  King's  Daughters 

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the  day  and  to  preserve  in  public  de- 
meanor the  independence  of  private 
thought. 

In  a  recent  address  before  farmers 
and  farm  women,  the  assertion  was 
made  that  the  whole  face  of  the 
world  will  change,  when  we  realize 
that  it  is  just  as  much  to  be  ex- 
pected that  a  girl  should  make  her 
living,  as  that  a  man  should,  but  the 
speaker  did  not  add  that  it  was  ori- 
ginally intended  that  they  should  not 
be  made  in  the  same  manner.  Man 
was  told  that  he  was  to  earn  his  living 
by  the  sweat  of  his  brow,  women  by 
looking  after  her  household.  That 
sometimes  bedews  her  brow,  too  in 
this  day.  Life  has  become  so  com- 
plex that  now  women  often  have  to 
earn  their  living  as  man  does,  and  all 
honor  is  due  to  them  for  following 
such  a  course,  but  it  does  not  seem 
to  me  that  they  should  be  taught  that 
this  is  their  first  aim  in  life.  I  think 
the  best  way  for  a  young  woman  to 
■earn  her  living,  is  not  to  catch,  but 
to  be  caught  by  a  worthy  young  man. 
This  is  the  best  sort  of  give  and  take 
that  I  know  of.  Our  social  Service 
should  be  characterized  by  earnestness 
and  personal  contact.  The  touch 
of  the  hand  and  the  sound  of  the  voice 
prepare  the  way  for  helping  our 
brother.  Bishop  Anderson,  of  Chicago, 
ended  an  address  made  some  years 
ago  at  a  Brotherhood  meeting,  with 
a  story  containing  a  lesson  about 
personal  work  which  may  help  us. 

There  was  an  American  traveling  in 
Switzerland.  He  wished  to  ascend 
■one  of  the  mountains.  An  Omnibus 
"was  ready  for  travelers  and  there  were 
three  kinds  of  tickets — first  class — 
second  class — and  third  class.  The 
American,  being  an  American,  bought 
sl  first  class  ticket.     He  noticed  that 


the  purchasers  of  second  and  third 
class  tickets  got  in  the  omnibus  with 
himself.  He  did  not  like  that  idea, 
asked  why  a  person  who  got  a  third 
class  ticket  rides  along  side  of  me 
who  bought  a  first  class  ticket.  The 
driver  told  him  to  wait  and  see.  They 
came  to  the  foot  of  a  hill.  The  driver 
called  out — first  class  passengers  may 
keep  their  seats,  second  class  pas- 
sengers can  get  out  and  walk,  third 
class  passengers  get  out  and  shove. 

Fellow  travellers,  we  do  not  claim 
to  be  first  class  passengers,  but  we 
do  claim  to  engage  all  together  in  a 
great  work.  So,  in  the  words  of 
Bishop  Anderson,  For  God's  sake  let 
us  all  get  out  and  shove. 

REPORT  OF  STATE  SECRETARY. 
By   Mrs.   Richard  Williams. 

Madam  President,  Daughters  of  the 

King  and  Friends : 

In  noting  the  flight  of  time,  I  am 
brought  to  realize  that  another  year 
has  been  granted  to  us,  bringing  me 
to  the  great  privilege  of  again  sub- 
mitting my  Annual  Report.  It  is  with 
feelings  of  genuine  pleasure,  deep 
gratitude  and  hopeful  expectancy  that 
I  attempt  to  make  a  record  of  my 
stewardship  as  your  Recording  State 
Secretary. 

In  renewing  the  work  of  the  year, 
I  And  that  activities  all  along  the 
line  have  strengthened  and  advanced, 
all  the  Circles  have  co-operated  in  the 
great  work  given  us  to  do  and  have 
faithfully  kept  in  view  that  "In  His 
Name,''  there  is  scarce  a  limitation 
to  our  accomplishments.  I'm  sure 
we  all  consider  it  a  wonderful  privi- 
lege, that  our  Annual  Meeting  is  being 
held  at  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Train- 
ing School.  It  was  indeed  thoughtful 
of  the  Stonewall  Circle  of  Concord  to 


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2? 


invite  the  Convention  to  Concord 
and  the  Jackson  Training  School, 
around  which  cluster  our  dearest  love 
and  strongest  hopes.  Seeing  such 
tangible  results  of  our  united  efforts 
cannot  fail  to  be  an  inspiration  to 
each  one  of  us  for  further  service.  The 
dedication  of  the  handsome  Stone 
Bridge  marks  an  important  era  in  the 
history  of  our  progress  and  will  stand 
not  only,  as  a  memorial  to  our  brave 
dead,  but  serve  in  promoting  the  wel- 
fare of  the  many  thousand  noble  boys 
who  shall  cross  it  to  be  instructed  in 
God's  word  and  thereby  inspired  to 
a  higher  life  of  usefulness,  integrity 
and  honor.  The  beautiful  windows 
portraying  the  labor  of  love  and 
loyalty  of  our  departed  Sisters  is  but 
a  fitting  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
those  who  have  now  passed  into  the 
' '  Great  Beyond ' '  and  have  received 
the  welcome  words  of  "Well  done 
thou  good  and  faithful  servants." 
On  our  Roll  at  present  we  have  (26) 
twenty-six  Circles  with  a  member- 
ship of  many  more  than  a  thousand 
(am  sorry  I  cannot  give  exact  num- 
ber but  several  Circles  have  not  yet 
returned  their  Membership  Blanks.) 
There  are  still  (8)  Junior  Circles 
very  active  and  doing  splendid  work. 
These  circles  should  be  a  great  inspi- 
ration to  us.  The  largest  Circles  in  the 
State  are  the  Stonewall  Jackson, 
Concord;  'Sheltering  Home,  Durham; 
Burden  Bearers,  Chapel  Hill;  What- 
soever, Wilmington;  Relief,  Salis- 
bury; and  Whatsoever,  Henderson. 

The  Nora  C.  Dixon  Circle  in  Gas- 
tonia  lead  by  Mrs.  B.  F  .  Dixon  is  at 
present  quite  small,  she,  being  the 
only  member,  but  it  is  soon  to  be  re- 
vived and  she  hopes  that  the  interest 
may  thereby  be  increased.     She  is  to 


be  commended  for  her  loyalty  and 
earnestness  in  striving  to  raise  this 
Circle  to  a  greater  membership  and 
wider  scope  of  activities.  We  are  all 
very  proud  and  grateful  for  The 
King's  Sons  in  the  State,  all  of  whom 
are  true  and  loyal  members  of  the 
Order. 

The  Whatsoever  Circle,  Wilming- 
ton, has  six  (6)  members  on  the 
Cradle  Roll.  The  usual  number  of 
Executive  Committee  meetings  have 
been  held,  one  in  Chapel  Hill,  two  in 
Greenville  and  the  last  in  the  Audi- 
torium of  the  Sshool,  last  night, 
November  7th.  I  have  sent  (26) 
twenty-six  Convention  Calls  besides 
extra  Calls  to  the  State  Officers,  Mem- 
bers of  Executive  Committee,  Branch 
Presidents,  Silver  Cross,  New  York, 
and  many  warm  and  interested  friends 
of  the  Order.  Letters,  postals  and  etc. 
written  during  the  year,  about  Two 
Hundred  and  Twenty-five. 

Membership  blanks  were  sent  to 
each  President  asking  for  a  list  of  the 
Officers  and  Members  of  her  Circle, 
this  has  been  complied  with  by  the  ma- 
jority of  the  Circles.  I  would  kindly 
suggest  that  all  the  Circles  be  very 
prompt  in  sending  in  their  Reports  as 
it  greatly  aids  the  Secretary  in  her 
work  and  making  her  Report  for  the 
Convention.  We  deeply  regret,  that 
after  much  thought  and  investigation 
it  was  again  found  "too  expensive" 
to  have  a  Journal  printed,  giving  a 
full  account,  including  the  Officers 
and  Circle's  Reports,  of  the  most 
splendid  Convention  held  last  Septem- 
ber in  Chapel  Hill.  So  through  the 
curtesy  of  ' '  The  Silver  Cross ' '  the 
official  organ  of  the  Order,  a  con- 
densed report  of  last  year's  Conven- 
tion was  printed  in  the  January  num.- 


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ber,  about  thirty  (30)  extra  copies  forts  have  been  so  greatly  blest  in  a 
of  this  magazine  were  distributed  material  way,  let  us  not  forget  to 
^mong  the  Circles  of  the  State.  I  render  our  heartfelt  thanks  to  the 
find  from  the  reports  the  amount  of  great  Bestower  of  every  good  and  per- 
money  disbursed  by  the  Circles.  The  feet  gift.  May  this  scene  be  an  in- 
steady  increase  is  most  interesting.  spiration  to  us  to  go  forward  in  the 
From  1913  (the  year  the  Secretary's  work  and  service  of  our  King, 
book  was  turned  over  to  me)  the  In  closing,  I  wish  to  extend  to  all 
amount  disbursed,  with  the  fifty  per  my  co-workers  my  sincere  apprecia- 
cent  increase  which  has  been  the  tion  of  their  aid  and  encouragement 
average  increase  for  the  past  several  and  that  my  earnest  prayer  and  hearty 
years,  makes  the  amount  now.  .  desire  is,  that  we  may  all  press  on- 

$116,239. IS  ward   with   renewed   energy,   untiring 

The  amount  disbursed  in  1913  zeal,    ardent    hope    and   steadfastness 

$7,150.86  of  purpose  to  do  even  greater  things 

The  amount  disbursed  in  1917  '"In  His  Xame,"   believing  that   our 

$9,480.78  work   shall   be   as   a   "City   set   on  a 

The  amount  disbursed  in  1921  hill,  which  cannot  be  hid. ' '     That  our 

$14,162.98  work,    shall    be    as    a    shinning   light, 

This  is  not  the  total  amount  of  dis-  '"Which  shineth  more  and  more  unto 

bursements,  as  so  many  Circles  have  the    perfect    day. ' '     That    our    work 

not  sent  in  any  Report;  neither  is  the  shall    be    a    beacon    which    shall    cast 

Silver     Offering     included     in     this  its   radiance   over   the   visits   of   ages 

amount.  and  throughout  the  annuals  of  time, 

While  this  magnificent   showing  of  being  expanded,  perfected  and  beauti- 

figures  is  very  gratifying  that  our  ef-  tied  in  eternity. 


House  01  Dreadful  Nonsense. 

So  long  as  terrible  affliction  sta\s  away  from  us  or  our  loved  ones,  we 
are  not  brought  face  to  face  to  the  needs  of  tender  cire  being  given  to 
those  who  are  sadly  afflicted.  The  picture  which  Miss  Battle  paints,  only 
in  part,  of  what  she  saw  and  heard  on  a  visit  to  a  North  Carolina  State  in- 
stitution, ghen  over  to  the  care  of  the  mentally  dethroned,  touches  the 
human  heart  in  such  a  way  that  not  a  dollar,  which  the  state  spends  in 
this  direction,  is  begrudged. 


This  most  gloomy  picture  makes 
the  thoughtful  carefulness  of  the 
moth?r  state  in  what  she  is  doing  at 
Rileigh  and  Morganton,  under  the 
wise  guidance  of  Dr.  Anderson  and 
Dr.  McCampbell,  respectively,  stand 
•out  to  the  credit  and  glory  of  a  state 


that  has  learned  to  carry  arojnd  its 
heart  on  her  sleeve.  And  this  is 
Miss  Battle's  picture: 

On  the  outskirts  of  Raleigh,  where 
it  does  not  often  c  >me  to  the  at- 
tention of  normal  folks,  there  is  a 
house  of  dreadful  nonsense.    On  Dix 


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Hill  is  one  of  the  three  most  deeply 
pitiful  communities  in  the  State. 
Reason  has  no  rule  of  order  there. 
Discord  most  horrible  has  usurped 
its  place.  There,  the  wild  hallucin- 
ation, the  mad  frenzy,  the  distorted 
dream  inspire  only  to  destroy. 

In  all  the  wonder  of  words  that  is 
Shakespeare's,  nothing  is  finer  thin 
Ophelia's  description  of  Hamlet's 
madness,  when  she  say  that  she  sees 

"that  noble  and  most 

soveregin  reason 
Like  sweet  bells  jangled,  out  of 
tune  and  harsh; 

'J  hat   unmatched  from  and  fea- 
ture of  blown  youth 
Blasted  with  ecbtacy." 
On  Dix  Hill  such  "bells"  in  whose 
former  music  trends  and  loved  ones 
have  delighted,  now  jangle  with  dis- 
cordancy     haish    enough    to    break 
the  heart.     Mure    powerful    incite- 
ment to  grateful  prayer    from     the 
normal  than  those  wretched  ruins  at 
the  Sate  Hospital  that,  ecstasy    has 
blasted,  it  would  be  hard  to  find. 

A  girl  of  twenty-one  who  changed 
the  college  for  the  mad-house  raves 
behind  a  grated  window  that  looks 
out  up'  n  the  beautiful  park  where 
free  folk  pass  at  will.  She  is  bare- 
footed, clothed  in  a  straight,  coarse, 
canvas  gown,  with  her  hair  hanging 
disordered  in  thin  strands  about  her 
distressing  face,  across  the  broken 
youth  ot  which  wildness  and  inanity 
chase  each  other.  In  her  frenzy, 
she  tears  to  shreds  the  bed  clothing 
and  whatever  garments  yield  to  her 
fierceness. 

All  of  a  heap  by  the  wall,  a  wom- 
an crouches  crying  frantically  day 
in,  day  out,  against  the  fire  that 
she  believes  to  be  burning  her  cruel- 
ly. A  congenital  idiot  of  a  dwarf, 
mis-shapen,  terrifying,  with  a  beard 


on  her  woman's  face  like  some  hor- 
ribly grotesque  figure  in  a  troubled 
dream,  paces  up  and  down,  up  and 
down,  on  deformed  and  twisted  feet 
with  teirible  restlessness.  A  little  old 
lady,  white  haired,  with  a  good  and 
gentle  face,  moans  unceasingly  in 
her  religious  melancholia  over  her 
soul  that  she  thinks  lost  from  God 
beyond  redemption.  A  man  wrings 
his  hands  without  rest  because  of 
imagined  torment  that  will  not  be 
quenched.  An  elderly  fat  woman 
carries  a  broom  for  a  gun,  and  be- 
lives  herself  a  soldier,  a  "member  of 
the  Home  Guard"  who  has  no  busi- 
ness in  an  asylum.  An  eager-faced 
mother,  who  must  once  have  had 
charm  is  convinced  that  she  "can 
throw  her  voice  Japan,"  and  is  more 
concerned  over  the  feat  than  in  the 
fate  of  her  children  left  with  her 
stricken  husband. 

Snatches  of  meaningless  song 
came  down  the  corriders,  jabberings, 
moan,  senseless  disputes,  and  most 
heart  rendering  of  all,  the  weird, 
wild  laugh  of  madness. 

But  perhaps  even  more  pitiable 
than  the  super-active  lunatics  are 
the  creatures  of  imbecile  blankness, 
with  faces  as  hopelessly  expression- 
less as  wood,  eating,  digesting, 
sleeping  often  fattening,  but  seldom 
moving,  sitting  almost  motionless 
through  the  monotonous  unvarying 
hours  like  great  vegetables,  no  more. 

So  day  after  day  breaks,  waxes, 
wanes  and  dies  over  Dix  Hill.  So, 
day  after  day,  the  girls-maniac  tears 
her  clothes  to  shreds,  the  bearded 
dwarf  paces,  paces;  the  crouching 
woman  shinks  from  the  fire  about 
to  consume  her;  the  little  old  lady 
laments  her  soul  eternally  lost;  the 
elderly  fat  woman  marches  with  her 
broom-gun;  the      tormented       man 


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wrings  his  miserable  hands;  the 
^ager-faced  mother  throws  he  voice 
to  the  Orient. 

And,  by  the  grace  of  God,  in  a 
world  of  rational  beings,  you  go 
ab^ut  your  business  that  you  have 
the  sense  to  transact,  and  I  write 
"Incidentally."  With  all  our  mental 
vagaries,  we  still  have  wits  enongh 
to  know  that  we  should  not  tear 
our  garments  to  strips;  that  earthly 
fires  do  not  burn  without  visible 
flames;  that  unceasing  pacing  gets 
nowhere;  that  a  soul  can  never  be 
lost  beyond  redemption  from  a  God 
of  everlasting  mercy  and  love;  that, 


as  yet,  woman  have  no  place  in  the 
i  ome  Guards;  and  that  only  the 
wireless  can  instautly  transmit  mes- 
sages five  thousand  n:iles. 

It  seems  to  me  that  always  when 
my  path  looks  steep,  I  shall  remem- 
der  that  girl  in  hei  witless  violence, 
jibbering  nonsense,  rending  her 
clothes  to  express  the  turbulent  con- 
fusion of  her  mind,  running  her  use- 
less, aimless  young  hands  up  and 
down  those  dreadful  bars  that  sep- 
arate her  from  hope.  I  shall  think 
of  the  cruel  futility  of  such  a  blast- 
ed life,  and  know  than  Heaven  has 
been  kind  to  me.— Nell  Battle  Lewis- 


Backlog   Studies 

By  Charles  Dudley  Warner. 

The  fire  on  the  hearth  hns  almost  gone  out  in  New  England;  the  hearth 
has  gone  out;  the  family  has  lost  its  center;  age  ceases  to  be  respected;  sex 
is  only  distinguished  by  the  difference  between  millinery  bills    and    tailors' 

bills;  there  is  no  more  toast-and- 
cider;  the  young  are  not  allowed  to 
eat  mince  pie  at  ten  o'clock  at  night; 
half  a  cheese  is  no  longer  set  to  toast 
before  the  fire;  you  scarcely  ever 
see,  in  front  of  the  coals,  a  row  of 
roasting  apples,  which  a  bright  little 
girl,  with  many  a  dive  and  starts 
shielding  her  sunny  face  from  the 
fire  with  one  hand,  turns  from  time 
to  time;  scarce  are  the  gray-hair 
sires  who  strops  their  razors  on  the 
family  Bible,  and  doze  in  thechimn- 
ney  corner.  A  good  many  things 
have  gone  out  with  the  fire  on  the 
hearth. 

1  do  not  mean  to  say  that  public 
and  private  morality  have  vanished 
with  the  hearth.  A  good  degree  of 
puritv    and    considerable    happiness 

are  nossible  with  grates  and  blowers; 
Possible  w    a^  when  we  are    aH 


passing  through  a  fiery  furnace, 
and  very  likely  we  shall  be  purified 
as  we  are  dried  up  and  wasted  away. 
Of  course  the  family  is  gone,  as  an 
institution,  thought  there  still  are 
attempts  to  bring  up  a  family  round 
a  "register."  But  you  might 
just  as  well  try  to  bring  it  up  by 
hand,  as  without  the  rallying  point 
of  a  hearthstone.  Are  there  any 
homestead  nowadays?  Do  people 
hesitate  to  change  houses  any  more 
than  thev  do  to  change  their  clothes? 
People  hire  houses  as  they  would  a 
masquerade  costume,  liking,  some- 
times, to  appear  for  a  year  in  a  lit- 
tle fictions  stone-front  splendor  above 
their  means.  Thus  it  happens  that 
so  many  people  live  in  houses  that 
do  not  fit  them.  I  should  almost  as 
soon  think  of  wearing  another 
person's  clothes  as  his  house;  unless 


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2r 


I  could  let  it  out  and  take  it  in  until 
it  fitted,  and  somehow  expressed  my 
own  character  and  taste.  But  we 
have  fallen  into  the  days  of  con- 
formity. It  is  no  wonder  that  people 
constantly  go  into  their  neighbors' 
houses  by  mistake,  just  as,  in  spite 
of  the  Maine  law,  they  wear  away 
each  other's  hats  from  an  evening 
party.  It  has  almost  come  to  this, 
that  you  might  as  well  be  anybody 
else  as  yourself. 

Am  I  mistaken  in  supposing  that 
this  is  owing  to  the  discontinuance 
of  big  chimneys,  with  wide  fire- 
places in  them?  How  can  a  person 
be  attached  to  a  house  that  has-  no 
center  attraction,  no  soul  in  ir,  in 
the  visible  form  of  a  glowing  fire 
and  a  warm  chimney,  like  the  heart 
in  the  body?  When  you  think  of 
the  old  homestead,  if  you  ever  do, 
your  thoughts  go  straight  to  the 
wide  chimney  and  its  burning  logs. 
No  wonder  that  you  are  ready  to 
move  from  one  fireplace'ess  house 
into  another.  But  you  have  some- 
thing just  as  good,  you  say.  Yes,  I 
have  heard  of  it.  This  age,  which 
imitates  everything,  even  to  the  vir- 
tues of  our  ancesters,  has  invented 
a  fireplace,  with  artificial,  iron,  or 
composition  logs  in  it,  hacked  and 
painted,  in  which  gas  is  burned,  so 
that  it  has  the  appearance  of  a  wood 
fire.  This  seems  to  me  blasphemy. 
Do  you   think  a  cat  would  lie    down 


before  it?  Can  you  poke  it?  If  you 
cannot  poke  it,  it  is  a  fraud.  To 
poke  a  wood  fire  is  more  solid  en- 
joyment than  almost  anything  else 
in  the  world.  The  crowning  human 
virtue  in  a  man  is  to  let  his  wife  poke 
the  fire.  I  do  not  know  how  any 
virture  whatever  is  possible  over  an 
imitation  gas  log.  What  a  sense  of 
insincerity  the  family  must  have,  if 
they  indulge  in  hypocrisy  of  gather- 
ing about  it.  With  th;s  center  of 
untruthfulr.tss,  what  must  the  life  in 
the  family  be?  Perhaps  the  father 
will  be  living  at  the  rate  of  ten 
thousand  a  year  on  a  salary  of  four 
thousand;  perhaps  the  mother,  more 
beautiful  and  younger  than  her 
beautified  daughters,  will  rouge; 
perhaps  the  young  ladies  will  make 
wax  work.  A  cynic,  might  suggest 
fs  the  motto  of  modern  life  this 
simple  legend,  "Just  as  good  as  the 
real."  But  I  am  not  a  cynic,  and  I 
hope  for  ihe  rekindling  of  wood 
fires,  and  a  return  of  the  beautiful 
home  light  from  them.  If  a  wood 
fire  is  a  luxury,  it  is  cheaper  than 
many  in  which  we  indulge  without 
thought,  and  cheaper  than  the  visits 
of  a  doctor,  made  necessary  by  the 
want  of  the  ventilation  of  the 
house.  Not  that  I  have  anything 
against  doctors;  I  only  wish,  after 
they  have  been  to  see  us  in  a  way 
that  seems  so  friendly,  they  had 
nothing  against  us. 


"Well,  the  editor  of  the  Record  is  a  North  Carolinian,  reared  in  a 
stone's  throw  of  this  splendid  county  of  Chatham.  He  has  cast  his  lot 
among  some  mighty  good  folks.  He  is  interested  in  the  general  welfare 
of  Chatham  county;  the  precedent  has  been  broken,  the  unwritten  code 
violated  and,  inasmuch  as  the  pie  is  spoiled,  we  expect  to  continue  to  do 
our  durndest  to  eradicate  the  liquor  evil  from  this  section  of  our  native 
state.    Thanks." — Chatham  Record. 


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THE  UPLIFT 


The  Inner  Mission — What  It  Is 

By  Mrs  Charles  P.  Wiles. 

One  day  as  a  young  lad  was  reading  his  copy  of  "Young  Folks"  he  came 
across  the  words.  "Inner  Mission."  "What  can  that  mean?''  he  said  to 
bimself.  He  had  heard  his  pastor  and  his  Sunday-School  teacher  talk  a  good 
deal  about  Home  Missions  and  Foreign  Missions  and  he  thought  he  under- 
stood what  those  terms  meant,  but  Inner  Missions  was  new  to  him. 

Calling  his  older  brother,  he  asked 
lor  an  explanation.  Step  by  step 
the  brother  led  him.  Since  a  mis- 
sionary is  one  who  carries  a  message 
a  foreign  missionary  must  be  one 
who  carries  a  message  to  people  in 
fortign  lands.  If  we  speak  of  Home 
Missions,  we  mean  taking  the  mes- 
sage to  the  "Heathen"  in  our  own 
land.  Putting  "inner"  before  the 
word  "Missions"  means  carrying  a 
message,  just  the  same,  but  primar- 
ily, to  those  within  the  Church  who 
may  need  a  Gospel  message,  or  a 
message  in  deeds. 

The  younger  brother  was  made 
see  that  deeds  of  mercy  to  those  less 
fortunate  than  ourselves  must  be 
done  if  one  is  a  real  Christian.  If 
we  do  not  give  service  such  as  that 
then  we  are  deceiving  ourselves  and 
have  not  real  religion. 

Whi'e  home  mission  work  means 
the  gathering  in  of  those  in  our  own 
land  who  are  without  the  Church 
and  perhaps  indifferent  to  it,  looking 
also  tu  the  orgrnizing  of  churches, 
inner  mission  has  all  forms  of  charity 
work  as  a  leading  feature  Inner 
mission  should,  and  do,  carry  the 
Gospel  message,  as  do  home  missions. 
In  the  latter  the  preaching  of  the 
Gospel  is  foremost,  while  in  inner 
missions  it  is  one,  but  not  necessarily 
the  ontstanding  feature. 

ITS    ORIGIN 

We  sometimes  hear  inner  mission 


work  spoken  of  as  if  it  were  a  new 
idea.  It  is  not  a  discovery  of  our 
time.  The  early  church  is  a  model 
for  all  time  in  this  line  of  work. 
"The  world  before  Christ  came  was 
a  world  without  love."  Christ 
taught  that  the  acid  test  of  disciple- 
ship  was  having  love  for  others  in 
the  heart. 

Such  teaching  was  foreign  to 
heathenism.  Heathen  philosophers 
taught  such  things  as  this:  "He 
does  the  beggar  but  a  bad  servics 
who  gives  him  meat  and  drink;  for 
what  he  gives  is  lost,  and  the  life  of 
the  poor  is  prolonged  to  their  own 
misery."  VVhile  here  and  there 
among  heathen  writers  we  find 
noble  sentiments  express,  Plato 
taught  that  all  beggars  should  be 
driven  out;  that,  sick  people  should 
not  receive  any  consideration, 
and  that  when  a  workingman  be- 
came so  worn  out  that  he  was  not 
good  for  any  thing  any  longer  and 
became  ill,  he  should  be  used  to  ex- 
periment on. 

While  the  government  in  those 
early  days  distributed  grain  to  the 
poor,  yet  it.  was  done  in  many  cases 
to  prevent  uprising  among  the 
people  if  their  sufferings  became 
unbearable.  Is  it  any  wonder  that 
the  heathen  were  impressed  when 
they  saw  how  the  early  Christians 
loved  each  other?  The  Church,  in 
that  time,  was  like  a  big  family.    If 


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any  one  was  in  need,  be  was  helped 
from  a  common  fund,  for  "they  had 
all  things  in  common." 

There  were  no  institutions  of 
mercy  in  those  early  days,  for  none 
were  needed.  Everywhere  the  hous- 
es of  Christians  stood  open  for  the 
care  of  the  needy  breathren  or  for 
the  entertainment  of  strangers. 

"Destitute  orphans  were  reared 
by  widows  or  deaconesses  under  the 
supervision  of  a  bishop.  Often  child- 
ren that  had  been  abandoned  by  the 
the  heathen---and  there  were  many 
— were  received  and  given  a  Chris- 
tian education." 

Then,  also,  when  in  times  of  pes- 
tilence the  heathens  abandoned 
their  sick,  and  cast  the  dead  and 
dying  into  the  streets,  the  Chris- 
tians cared  tenderly  for  those  still 
living  and  buried  the  dead.  ■  Christ 
had  given  them  an  example  that 
they  should  follow  in  His  steps, 
for  everywhere  His  preaching  and 
teaching  were  accompanied  by  works 
of  mercy. 

WHAT  THE  INNER   MISSION    DOES 

1  he  work  of  the  Inner  Mission  is 
both  varied  and  far  reaching.  "Here 
we  behold  asylums  in  which  children 
are  sheltered  from  destitution,  there, 
houses  of  refuge  in  which  men  are 
helped  out  of  moral  ruin;  here 
homes  in  which  travellers  are  pre- 
served from  temptation;  there,  in- 
stitutions which  provide  a  home  for 
female  servants;  here  the  navvies  on 
our  railroads  have  the  privilege  of 
hearing  the  Gospel;  there,  the  emi- 
grants are  visited  that  they  may  take 
a  message  from  the  Word  of  God 
way  with  them;  here  oversight  is 
given  to  the  prisoners;  there,  the 
sick  and  wcunded  are  cared  for. 
And  so  the  work  goes  on." 


THE  FATHER  OF  THE  INNER  MISSION 

was  Johann  Heinrich  Wichern,  born 
in  Hamburg  April  21,  1808.  Condi- 
tions in  Germany  during  the  years 
of  nis  boyhood  were  deplorable.  As 
soon  as  his  university  life  was  closed 
he  associated  himself  with  a  Sunday- 
school  in  his  native  town,  the  first 
school  of  the  kind  in  Germany. 

In  his  work  as  a  visitor  he  became 
familiar  with  the  life  of  the  poorest 
day-laborers,  the  side  of  the  popu- 
lation that  is  the  great  feeder  of  the 
criminal  class. 

He  came  to  know  not  only  the 
spiritual  and  moral  wretchedness  of 
the  families  from  which  the  children 
in  his  school  came,  but  he  saw  the 
physical  wretchedness  of  the  poor  as 
he  had  never  seen  it  before.  It  seem- 
ed to  him  almost  idle  to  attempt  to 
change  conditions.  "If  only  the 
children  could  be  rescued,"  he 
thought.  The  evil  influences  that 
surrounded  the  child  during  the 
week  quite  over  balanced  the  in- 
struction given  on  the  Sabbath.  He 
saw  that  it  was  almost  useless  to 
try  to  influence  them  for  good  as 
long  as  they  were  exposed  to  daily 
vice.  To  train  them  at  the  Sunday- 
school  while  they  ii v  f d  in  their  old 
haunts  was  like  rolling  a  stone  up 
hill  during  the  day,  only  to  let  it  roll 
back  at  night.  It  seemed  to  hirn 
that  for  any  real  benefit  the  child- 
ren should  be  taken  out  of  their 
environment  and  kept  entirely  away 
from  former  companions. 

The  need  was  great.  The  increase 
of  juvenile  criminals  was  70  per  cent, 
above  the  increase  in  population. 
There  were  fifteen  thousand  boys  in 
London  between  the  ages  of  eight 
and  twelve  who  lived  by  theft.  Sep- 
aration was  necessary,  and  a  shelter 


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for  the  children. 

The  desire  to  relieve  the  situation 
became  his  uppermost  tl  ought. 
Accordingly,  on  October  31,  1833, 
he,  with  his  mother  and  sister,  moved 
into  a  small  house  in  a  suburb  of 
Hamburg,  and  here  a  child  saving 
institution  was  established.  It  was 
not  to  be  an  orphanage  nor  a  ragged 
school,  neither  a  beggar's  asylum 
nor  a  house  of  correction,  but  a 
Christian  household. 

Very  humble  were  the  beginnings. 
It  is  said  that  bread,  salt  and  the 
Bible  were  all  that  the  dining  table 
in  the  living  room  had  to  <  ffer.  This 
institution  became  the  pattern  for 
manv  similar  institutions  not  only  in 
Germany  but  in  other  lar.ds. 

The  "family  system"  was  charact- 
eristic in  Wichern's  child  saving- 
work.  He  would  have  no  more 
children  together  than  would  make 
oni  household.  They  would  have  a 
household    head    or    "housefather" 


and  household'  ways-- 

Possibly  the  most  important  davits 
Wichern's  life  was  the  clay  on  which 
he  made  his  fervent  speech  before 
the  Church  Congress,  September  22,. 
1848 

In  his  fervent  speech  he  called  for 
the  whole  church  to  unite  in  an  ef- 
fort to  stay  the  tide  of  evil.  The 
time  had  come  for  the  entire  church 
to  n  ake  the  Inner  Mission  her  works 
and  show  her  faith  by  her  works 
ff  love.  The  effect  of  his  earnest 
plea  was  instant  ar.d  resultvd  in  the 
organization  Jtnuary  4,  1849  of  the 
Central  Committee  fur  'he  Inner 
Mission  nf  the  German  Evangelical 
Church.  Natuial'y,  Wichern  was 
the  If  ading  spii  it. 

It.will  b  seer,  then,  that  the  Inner 
Mission  idea  is  ly  no  means  new, 
that  it  grew  out  of  the  U  aching  of 
Jesus  Chiisf,  and  that  it  is  the  con- 
tinuation (  f  the  ministry  of  Hin* 
"who  went  abcut  doing  good." 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 

Dirt  is  being  hauled  and  leveled  in 
front  of  fifth  cottage. 

Lockwood  Pickett,  of  Durham,  has 
received  an  honorable  parole  as  a  re- 
ward for  his  fine  services  and  behavior 
while  at  the  school. 

Wednesday  was  a  peculiar  and  rare 
day  in  that  it  brought  not  a  single 
visitor  from  home  to  see  the  boys 
here. 

Mr.  J.  D.  Haney,  electrician,  of 
Charlotte,  has  been  working  on  the 
big  motor  which  runs  the  machinery 
in  the  shop  building. 


Rev.  T.  W.  Smith,  of  Concord^ 
brought  to  the  boys  the  Sunday  mes- 
sage. They  all  extend  cordial  invita- 
tion for  his  early  return. 

The  President  of  the  literary  so- 
ciety of  Xo.  5,  the  Shaw  Literary 
Society,  has  written  a  letter  to  Miss 
Easdale  Shaw,  of  Rockingham,  an- 
nouncing to  her  that  the  5th  cottage 
Society  was  pleased  to  adopt  her  name 
as  theirs.  Miss  Shaw  is  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  this  schooL 

Sunday,  being  a  very  pretty  day, 
invited  all  th-a  boys  out  into  the  open, 
so  a  few  cottages  took  walks  up  and 
down  the  highway.  This  was  a  flni 
day  for  walking  and  having  just  g 
small  touch  of  Spring,  with  its  reawak- 
ening the  boys  spirits  rose  consider- 


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ably.  Laughter  bubbled  from  every 
part  of  the  ra  iks.  The  boys  came 
back  to  the  school  feeling  tired,  but 
nevertheless  very  happy. 

New  boys  are  arriving  at  the  school 
night  and  day,  and  sometimes  two  and 
three  at  a  time.  It  seems  as  though 
an  officer's  prophecy  that  live  hun- 
dred boys  are  to  be  sent  to  the  school, 
is  going  to  be  fulfilled.  It  is  to  be  hop- 
ed for  the  more  boys  started  on  the 
right  path,  means  a  feather  in  the  cap 
so  to  speak  of  the  school.  The  boys 
are  happy  to  see  new  boys  arrive  for 
each  new  boy  that  comes,  means  a  boy 
turned  to  the  straight  and  narrow 
path. 

Thanks  to  Mr.  J.  E.  Latham's  gen- 
erosity, the  band  instruments,  while 
not  in  use,  are  kept  in  the  rear  room 
of  the  pavilion,  a  living  monument  to 
his  name.  It  is  more  convenient 
more  readily  accessible,  to  Bandmas- 
ter Lawrence  and  the  boys.  The  old 
place  of  keeping  the  instruments  was 
in  a  vacant  room  of  the  school  build- 
ign.  As  Charlotte 's  motto  is : 
"Watch  Charlotte  grow,"  so  our 
motto  is:  "Watch  our  Band  grow." 

A  smile  on  every  boys'  face  last 
Friday  was  very  much  in  evidence. 
Why?  Usually  the  boys  wear  a  smile 
just  for  a  good  habit,  but  one  look  at 
the  eager  expectancy  on  the  would-be 
musician 's  face  makes  you  understand 
that  something  very  pleasing  to  them 
is  about  to  happen.  Your  deduction 
is  right.  The  band-master  is  start- 
ing on  his  new  journey  to  train  boys 
for  the  honorable  and  glorious  position 


of  musicians.  The  band  was  revived 
after  a  period  of  dormancy.  When 
the  school  section  prepared  to  go  to 
school,  Mr.  Lawrence  called  out  the 
names  of  the  lucky  new  ones.  Of 
course,  there  were  boys  who  regretted 
that  they  didn't  get  in  the  band,  but 
all  are  happy  because  we  have  a  band. 

Boys,  sometime  in  your  existence 
you  will  come  to  a  fork  in  the  Road  of 
of  Life.  Before  you  are  two  roads 
in  imagination,  let  us  follow  the  road 
to  the  left.  How  fine  and  nicely 
paved  it  seems,  as  we  travel  over  it, 
however,  after  a  few  miles,  holes 
and  bumps  bgin  to  appear  in  it.  They 
become  more  frequent.  The  road  nar- 
rows considerably.  Bumps  and  jolts 
break  in  our  reverier  of  a  "get-rich- 
quick  ' '  scheme.  The  road  becomes 
unbearable.  We  come  to  a  small 
cabin.  It  contains  but  one  room. 
We  ask  who  lives  in  this  place.  We 
are  told  that  Mr.  So  and  So,  the  for- 
ger, lives  here.  At  the  very  end  of 
this  road  we  come  to  a  dilapidated 
hovel.  Upon  asking  who  lives  here 
we  are. told  that  Mr.  So  and  So,  the 
murderer,  abides  here.  So  this  is  the 
ending  of  the  fine,  appearing  road. 
But  now  let  us  turn  to  the  other 
road.  The  first  stretch  of  it  appears 
hard  to  travel,  but  it  is  different 
with  the  other  road.  After  a  time 
it  becomes  smoother  and  smoother. 
What  is  it  that  shines  clearer  and 
clearer  just  over  the  hill"?  As  we 
near  it  glory  covers  us  and  we  find 
that  it  is  Success.  Let  us  hope  that 
Fred  Blue  is  not  deceived  by  these  two 
roads  in  the  climb  of  life. 


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There  have  been  up  to  this  time  sd  many  things  needed  to  facilitate  the 
work  of  the  Jackson  Training  School  that  we  hesitated  to  avail  ourselves 
of  the  usual  generosity  and  responsiveness  of  the  public  in  the  interest  of 
a  certain  epuipnicnt,  that  could  be  deferred  until  other  things  were  install- 
ed. 

Up  to  this  good  day,  we  have  had  the  basis  of  a  small  library,  together  with 
magazines  and  other  suitable  periodicals,  in  each  of  the  cottage  homes. 
Now,  that  we  have  suitable  Library  Space  in  our  new  School  Building  (the 
centre  of  the  plant)  and  a  number  of  friends  have  indicated  their  desire  to 
aid  in  supplying  this  room  with  a  collection  of  books  2nd  the  gift  of  mon- 
ey to  the  end  that  we  may  collect  a  Library,  which  will  not  only  contribute 
to  the  pleasure  of  the  boys  but  be  of  genuine  aid  towards  a  proper  educa- 
tion, we  have  decided  to  take  the  public  into  our  confidence. 

Mr.  VV.  J.  Swink,  a  public  spirited  and  successful  business  man  of  China 
Grove,  always  a  lover  of  books  and  who  knows  their  value,  has  sent  in  one 
hundred  dollars  as  a  starter.  We  confidently  expect  others,  who  are  in- 
terested in  carrying  to  the  less  fortunate  the  great  benefits  of  good  books, 
to  aid  in  this  benevolent  cau'-e. 

We  are  aware  that  there  are  in  all  homes,  where  culture  has  not  been  ig- 
nored, a  book  or  books,  which  no  longer  serve  a  purpose  in  said  homes  and 
in  some  instances  an  object  of  care  to  home-keepers,  that  could  be  placed  in 
pur  library  and  become  an  active    agent  for  goo.l    and  service.     We  desire 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

reference  books,  encyclopoedias,  atlases,  books  of  travel,  history,  science, 
fiction,  philosophy,  biography,  classics,  orations--all  kinds  of  books  that 
have  any  value  whatsoever,  except  the  Jesse  James  type  of  literature,  If 
out  of  the  goodness  of  your  heart  you  have  a  money  contribution,  or  a 
book  or  books,  send  along1,  simply  addressing  the  letter  or  the  package: 
LIBRARY,  Jackson  Training  School,  Concord.  It  will  find  the  right  place, 
will  be  properly  looked  after  and   will  be  acknowledged. 

This  is  an  opportunity  within  the  reach  of  most  every  one---the  good  will 
be  unending;  and  will  he  like  "bread  cast  upon  the  water,''  returning  to 
bless  you. 

as****** 

GOT  A  HEAD  AND  USES  IT. 

When  the  great  snow  of  last  week  covered  the  state,  there  was  a  man 
with  a  head  and  who  uses  it  to  the  advantage  of  the  state  and  to  the  bene- 
fit of  her  citizenship.  This  terse  telegram,  on  Friday  the  27th,  was  ser.t 
out  to  three  hundred  maintenance  gangs,  whose  business  it  is  to  look 
after  the  State's  public  roads: 

This  snow  gives  you  an  opportunity  to  prove  efficiency  of  your 
maintenance  organization.  Condition  of  your  roads  two  weeks  from 
now  will  prove  how  good  you  are,     Let's  go. 

FRANK  PAGE, 

State  Highway  Commissioner. 

Chairman  Page  will  not  have  to  wait  two  weeks  to  see  "how  good"  his 
organization  is.  Saturday  morning,  taking  just  one  road,  typical  of  others, 
it  was  snow  everywhere,  the  only  way  of  locating  the  road  was  by  the  cuts, 
fills  and  ditches  on  either  side.  Saturday  afternoon,  there  was  a  perfectly 
clear  track  the  organization  had  effected;  and  Sunday  the  road  presented 
as  good  and  dry  appearance  as  it  does  in  Summer. 

If  you  doubt  it,  Mr.  Chairman  Page,  start  your  high-powered  roadster 
on  the  Raleigh-Albemarle-ConcordCharlotte  highway---seeing    is  believing. 

WHITHER  AREcWE  DRIFTING? 

Twice  a  month  there  comes  cut  from  the  North  Carolina  College  for 
Women  an  eight-page  paper,  bearing  the  head-gear  of  "North  Carolina 
Community  Progress."  It  is  edited  by  a  foreign-born  gentleman  of  brill- 
iant attainments  and  who  entertains  very  original  notions  about  things 
heretofore  as  accepted  and  established  facts. 

In  the  latest  number  of  that  paper  is  an   article,    "Recreation    and    Tne 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

Sabbath,"  purporting  to  be  the  drift  of  a  discussion  carried  on  by  a  "small 
group"  of  ministers.  Whoever  the  ministers  may  have  been,  they  would 
have  been  accomplishing  more  good  for  humanity  and  the  cause  of  which 
they  are  the  ordained  heralds,  by  studying  the  problem  of  how  to  stop 
idle  loitering,  how  to  get  some  of  the  little  heathen  into  the  Sunday  Schools 
and  many  of  the  big  heathen  into  the  habit  of  attending  divine  worship. 
Instead  of  these  important  and  necessary  acts,  the  ministers,  it  is  alleged 
were  debating  how  to  carry  on  many  every-day  and  wordly  sports,  base- 
ball and  other  things,  during  the  "leisure"  hours  on  Sundays. 

"REMEMER  'I  HE  SABBATH  DAY  TO  KEEP  IT  HOLY"  seems  just  as 
bounded  upon  the  people  of  this  century  as  it  was  when  uttered  ages  ago. 
Probably  some  of  these  ministers  and  their  sympathisers  may  question  the 
authority  from  which  this  command  comes,  and,  like  some  others,  look  up- 
on the  Great  Book  in  wh'ch  rhe  command  to  "Remember  the  Sabbath  to 
keep  it  holy"  is  recorded  as  the  work  of  a  brilliant  writer  and  not  the  in- 
spired word.  But  here  is  the  story  of  that  .meeting  from  "Community 
Progress:" 

"Some  time  ago  a  small  group  of  ministers  gathered  for  a  day's  discus, 
sion  regarding  the  problem  of  Sunday  leisure  time.  Those  who  took  part 
in  the  discussion  were  largely  young  ministers  who  were  face  to  face  with 
one  of  the  vital  issues  of  our  day,  namt-ly  the  constructive  use  of  leisure 
hours.  The  secretary  of  the  gathering  kept  notes  on  the  discussions  and 
conclusions,  and  his  report  follows: 

1  The  Sunday  leisure  time  problem  is  unsolved.  It  challenges  the  gen- 
ius and  statesmanship  of  the  leaders  of  religious  life  in  our  communities. 

2  The  policy  of  the  church  has  been  too  largely  that  of  prohibition.  A 
constructive  progrm  is  essential. 

3  The  leadership  element  looms  so  large  in  the  problem  of  recreation 
that  the  church  must  recognize  it  as  incumbent  upon  the  religious  leaders 
to  lead  the  community  recreationally  also. 

4  Those  planning  such  a  program  must  be  governed  by  the  obvious 
needs  of  the  community  more  largely  than  by  the  prejudices  of  some  few 
persons  of  good  religious  standing  who  might  be  inclined  to  introduce  tra- 
ditional objections. 

5  The  pastor,  by  reason  of  his  leadership,  is  under  primary  responsi- 
bility for  such  a  program.  He  should  if  .-possible  work  behind  the  scenes, 
the  nominal  leadership  being  committed  to  laymen. 

Types  of  Sunday  Leisure  Time  Activity 

The  following  were  among  the  types  of  purposeful  activity  suggested  as 


6    .  THE  UPLIIFT 

valuable  for  Sunday  afternoon  when  directed  by  Christian  leader. 

1  Hikes.     Groups  for  nature  study. 
Boy  Scouts. 

Sunday  School  Classes. 

2  Lawn  gatherings  for  young  people.      Miscellaneous  programs.. 

3  Pageantry. 

4  Story  hour.     For  story  telling  and  dramatization, 

5  Hand  work.     For  boys  and  girls. 

t>  Adequate  social  life  in  jut.oir  and  senoir  B.  Y.  P.  U. 

7  Baseball.     Promoted  by  and  attended  by  Christian  leaders. 

8  Auto  trips.     Planned  with    a  view  to  making  them  educationally  and 
socially  valuable. 

9  Supervised  play  en  playground  or  in  gy.n. 

10  Public  library  open  Sunday  afternoon. 

11  Neighborhood  visitation. 

It  was  suggested  thac  ministers  should  poineer  in  this  fLdd  to  discover 
methods  that  would  conserve  che  values  of  plrty  and  recreational  life— at 
the  same  time  promoting  the  intrests  of  the  Kingdom." 


WORK  FOR  THE  DEPARTMENT. 

The  late  issue  of  Charity  &  Children,  making  note  of  certain  require- 
ments demanded  of  the  teachers  by  the  authorities  of  the  Moeksville  Public 
school,  makes  this  observation: 

"In  a  series  of  resolutions  adopted  by  the  school  board  of  the  Moeks- 
ville district  the  4th  article  reads  as  follows:  We  insist  that  our  teach- 
ers, whatever  may  be  their  private  opinions  in  regard  to  Sabbath  ob- 
servance, card  playing,  theatre  going,  dancing,  unchaperoned  auto- 
mobiling  riding,  especially  at  night,  immodest  wearing  apparel,  etc., 
shall  during  their  stay  in  Moeksville  conform  to  the  teachings  of  their 
respective  churches  on  the  subjtct  of  all  questionable  amusements. 
That  is  a  very  sensible  deliverance  and  the  request  co  the  teachers  em- 
ployed to  train  the  children  committed  to  their  care  is  entirely  rea- 
sonable." 

Controlling  absolutely  the  certification  of  their  qualification  and  the 
amount  of  the  salaries,  it  is  passing  strange  that  the  educational  autocracy 
under  which  we  are  living  in  North  Carolina  has  not  prescribed  a  code  of 
conduct  for  the  teachers,  thus  relieving  the  several  communities  of  the  task. 
Again,  this  would  tend  toward  a  uniformity  and  a  standardization,  two 
loving  twin  pets  constantly  and  affectionately  nursed. 


TT>L;  UPLIFT  7 

THE  DOUBLE  STANDARD. 

There  is  not  a  shadow  of  doubt  that  woman,  herself,  is  responsible  for 
the  existence,  prevalence  and  toleration  of  the  double  standard  about  which 
the  moralists  write  so  much  The  double  standard  is  all  wrong,  is  repre- 
hensible and  promotes  much  of  the  sin-. amongst  us. 

The  other  day,  a  man's  wife  became  involved  in  a  cloud  of  scandal--- 
the  man  put  her  away,  deserted  her.  Her  sin  was  not  condoned  for  a  mo- 
ment, and  cho  had  to  take  her  medicine,  which  included  disgrace  and  ban- 
ishment. A  little  later  a  woman  found  her  husband  in  the  toils  of  the  law- 
there  was  rife  all  manner  of  reports  about  his  conduct,  his  practices  of  a 
sporty  life.  The  climax  came  along  in  due  lime.  Did  the  wife  desert  him, 
send  him  away?  She  grew  closer  to  him;  and  the  tighter  the  outraged  law 
closed  in  around  him,  the  closer  it  drew  the  little  wife.  And  when  the 
court  was  appealed  to  for  mercy,  the  husband  gave  way  to  tears,  then  the 
little  wife  "moved  closer  to  him,  and  they  sat  shoulder  to  shoulder."  This 
is  the  way  the  woman  has  of  doing--a  way  that  the  man  never  practices. 

The  double  standard  will  cease  only  when  woman  decrees  it,  not  before. 
Will  that  time  ever  arrive? 

•  •«»»»»» 

OUR  BOYS 

Taking  note  of  the  raising  of  the  Woodrow  Wilson  Foundation  Fun,  ex 
pressed  a  desire  to  make  a  contribution  themselves  out  of  the  little  bank 
account  they  carry  with  the  institution.  Accordingly  Messrs.  Johnson  and 
Crooks  and  Miss  Greenlee,  our  teachers,  permitted  the  boys  to  have  their 
way  in  maidn  g  this  childhood  expression  of  love  and  esteem.  The  boys  fun 
thus  raised  amounted  to  six  dollars,  which  will  go  foward  to  the  State 
Chairman,  Mrs.  Josephus  Daniels,  by  way  of  the  Concord  Tribune. 


"The  President  of  the  United  States  authorized  the  writing  of  a  letter  to 
the  editor  of  the  Biblical  Recored,  explaining  that  modern  dances  are  not 
permitted  in  the  White  House  and  that  Mr.  Harding  has  not  shaken  his 
foot  but  once  in  twelve  years.  We  fancy  that  Mrs.  Harding  dictated  that 
letter  as  it  is  not  at  all  like  the  good  natured  President.''— Charity  &  Chil- 
dren. Now,  brother  Johnson,  are  we  to  understand  that  you  think  that 
the  "first  lady"  of  the  land  is  not  exactly  "good  natured?" 


The  Uplift  has  arranged  a  clubbing  arrangement  with  The    Progressive 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

Farmer,  that  great  farm  and  home  journal,  which  Dr.  Clarence  Poe  has 
made  the  leading  home  paper  in  the  country.  The  subscription  price  of 
The  Uplift  is  two  dollars  per  annum,  and  The  Progressive  Farmer  is  one 
dollar  per  annum,  but  we  have  arranged  so  that  both  may  be  had  for  just 
two  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  cash.  The  Progressive  Farmer  is  of  such  a 
character  that  it  appeals  to  all  class's  of  people  in  search  of  knowledge, 
the  professional  man  and  the  mechanic,  as  well  as  to  the  farmer. 


Though  we  had  gotten  used  to  hearing  of  the  terrible  loss  of  human  life 
during  the  world  war,  the  terrible  calamity  that,  overtook  the  theater 
party  in  the  Knickerbocker  theater  in  Washir.gtcn,  on  Saturday  evenir.g, 
when  the  roof  collapsed  killing  more  than  a  hundred  men,  women  and  child- 
ren, and  probably  fatally  injuring  hundreds  of  others  and  maiming  for 
life  scores  of  others,  strikes  awe  to  the  American  heart. 


It  is  proclaimed  that  the  recent  snow- storm  is  the  severest  within  a 
period  of  twenty-three  years.  It  is  the  first  time  that  the  Southern  Rail- 
way was  ever  unable  to  operate  a  train  out  of  Washington  for  two  days  on 
account  of  snow.  There  were  at  one  time  eleven  trains  tie  1  up  between 
Washington  and  Alexandria,  Va. 


THE  HSHER. 

A  Fisher  once  took  his  bagpipe  to  the  bank  of  a  river,  and  play- 
ed upon  them  with  the  hope  of  making  the  fish  rise;  but  never  a 
one  put  his  nose  out  of  the  water.  So  he  cast  his  net  into  the 
river  and  soon  drew  it  forth  filled  with  fish.  Then  he  took  his  bag- 
pipes again,  and,  as  he  played,  the  fish  leapt  up  in  the  net.  "Ah, 
you  dance  now  when  I  play,"  said  he.     "Yes"  said  an  old  Fish: 

"WHEN  YOU  ARE  IN  A  MAN'S  POWER  YOU  MUST  DO  AS 
HE  BIDS  YOU." 


THE  UPLFIT 


RUFUS  REIB  CLARK. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  furnishes  an  exception  to  the  Biblical  statement, 
which  we  so  often  hear,  that  a  prophet  is  not  without  honor  save  iu  his  own 
community.  ''Rufe"  Clark,  as  so  many  of  his  friends  affectionately  think 
and  speak  of  him,  is  in  reality  the  architect  of  his  own  foiitune,  and  he 
burgeoned  it  out  right  among  the  people  who  knew  him  and  his  folks  for  gen- 
erations. And  he  came  into  the  business  of  living  at  a  chaotic  period  in  the 
affairs  of  this  country,  having  been  born  January  24th,  1864,  on  a  farm  in  the 

candles  and  had  entered  into  the  en- 
joyment of  the  very  last  word,  then, 
in  the  best  lighting  thing  that  pro- 
gress and  civilization  afforded.  What- 
ever may  have  been  the  fate  of  the 
Lamp  Post,  I  know  that  Clark  re- 
turned to  the  farm  for  a  year,  but  his 
system  had  become  so  charged  with 
the  odor  of  printer's  ink  that  at  the 
end  of  a  year  he  entered  the  office  of 
The  News,  at  Darlington,  S.  C. 

Following  up  the  youthful  move- 
ments of  young  Clark,  we  find  that  a 
short  period  in  the  commonwealth 
just  to  the  south  of  us  convinced  our 
subject  that  he  could  never  become 
acclimated  and  make  a  regulation 
South  Carolinian,  so  following  his 
ta,stcs  and  judgment  he  accepted  a 
position  at  Statesville,  the  c-apitol  of 
his  native  county,  in  the  office  of 
The  Landmark,  then  a  weekly  and 
edited  and  published  by  the  late  J.  P. 
Caldwell.  It  is  here,  beginning  with 
September  1st,  18S3,  that  Rufus  Reid 
Clark  discovered  himself  and  began 
to  develop  into  the  useful,  capable, 
sterling  man  that  he  is  recognized  to 
be  by  hundreds  throughout  the  State 
and  so  held  by  his  neighbors  and 
fellow  citizens. 

In  the  landmark  office  for  nine 
years,  continuing  up  to  January  1st, 
1892,  when  Mr.  Caldwell  went  to 
Charlotte  to  take  charge  of  the  Chron- 


southern  part  of  Iredell  county,  lie 
was  the  youmj. -,t  ..*_  a  fa.  ly  of  six 
children.  His  parents  were  tt.  PI.  and 
Sarah  Hill  Clark. 

There  is  nothing  out  of  the  ordinary 
in  Clark's  youth,  other  than  he  en- 
countered, as  hundreds  of  others  did 
in  those  times,  a  stagnation  of  oppor- 
tunities; the  curses  of  a  re-construc- 
tion period  at  the  hands  of  hungry 
and  unscrupulous  foreigners,  the 
darkest  of  futures,  want,  suffering  and 
doubt.  Up  to  the  age  of  fourteen 
young  Clark  worked  on  the  farm 
and  attended  for  a  few  weeks  or 
months  each  year  such  country  schools 
as  the  times  afforded.  In  January, 
1870,  he  entered  the  office  of  the 
Moorosville  Gazette,  the  first  news- 
paper published  at  that  place,  to 
learn  the  trade  of  a  printer.  Two 
years  afterwards  the  paper  ceased  to 
exist — no  fault  of  his — (a  thing  many 
papers  had  a  habit  of  doing  in  that 
period,)  and  fur  six  months  during 
18S1  young  Clark  did  the  mechanical 
work  in  the  office  of  the  Lamp  Post, 
a  paper  published  at  Marion.  I  have 
a  fancy  for  this  unique  name  tor  a 
newspaper.  The  very  name  carries 
volumes  of  history.  In  those  days 
it  was  an  aristocratic  and  progressive 
name,  announcing  to  the  world  that 
Marion  had  passed  beyond  the  reign 
of  lights  from  pine  knots  and  tallow 


THE  UPLIFT 


RUFUS   REID   CLARK 
Statesville,  N.  C. 


THE  UPLIFT 


IX 


iclo,  which  Inter  became  The  Observer 

young  Clark  directed  the  mechanical 
end  of  making  of  that  paper,  the  then 
ablest  and  best  printed  weekly  news- 
paper in  the  whole  state.  During  this 
period,  he  gave  to  Mr.  Caldwell  valu- 
able assistance  in  news  editing,  local 
writing  and  proof-reading,  in  all  of 
which  he  became  practically  a  master. 
When  Mr.  Caldwell  removed  to  Char- 
lotte, Mr.  Clark  purchased  a  half  in- 
terest in  The  Landmark;  and  in  a 
short  time  converted  The  Landmark 
into  a  semi-weekly,  and  about  ten 
years  later  became  sole  owner  of  this 
most  excellent  and  valuable  newspaper 
and  its  equipment. 

Digressing  just  a  moment,  I  am 
constrained  to  remark  upon  the  won- 
derful influence  of  Mr.  Caldwell's 
method  of  thinking  and  analyzing  a 
subject  or  a  cause  upon  the  many 
young  men,  who  served  with  and  und- 
er him.  It  was  not  many  moons  be- 
fore the  public  was  utterly  unable  to 
locate  the  author  of  an  editorial  in 
The  Landmark,  whether  it  was  Cald- 
well or  Clark,  and  the  two  them- 
selves were  often  puzzled  unless  the 
original  copy  was  produced  in  evid- 
ence— anybody,  who  has  ever  seen 
"Rufe"  Clark's  handwrite,  would 
never  pause  in  at  once  placing  the 
credit  or  the  blame,  if  you  please. 
The  like  occurred  in  the  case  of 
Howard  Banks  in  his  editorial  work 
on  The  Charlotte  Observer.  Caldwell's 
influence  was  so  strong,  and  Hanks' 
powers  so  marked,  that  the  principals 
had  to  appeal  for  the  copy  at  times  to 
make  sure  of  the  daddyship  of  an 
article. 

Though  physically  not  robust,  Mr. 
Clark  is  endowed  with  a  wonderful 
mentality   and    no     writer    on     news- 


papers during  a  period  of  thirty  years 
in  North  Carolina  has  proved  a  more 
logical  and  forceful  writer  than  our 
subject.  And  for  his  positions  on  all 
questions  he  had  a  ready  and  strong 
,„ reason;  and  having  decided  his, course 
or  position  on  a  matter,  he  had  that 
courage  which  wins  the  admiration  of 
lovers  of  the  brave  and  the  constant. 
His  arriving  at  a  conclusion  was  the 
result  of  an  impersonal  reasoning 
Friendship,  personal  influence,  hope 
of  gain  or  reward,  were  help- 
less and  useless  agencies  in  shaping 
his  conclusions — they  came  from  de- 
liberate reasoning  and  the  high  sense 
of  justice  and  right,  these  alone  al- 
ways influnced  Clark  as  an  editor  and 
as  a  man.  Feeling  that  the  strain  of 
directing  the  fortunes  of  The  Land- 
mark was  sapping  his  strength,  he 
sold  his  entire  interest  in  The  Land- 
mark, July  1918,  to  Mr.  P.  A.  Bryant, 
who  came  into  the  most  valuable 
weekly  newspaper  property  in  the 
state. 

Clark's  fine  judgment  and  business 
qualifications  were  so  recognized, 
that  his  fellow  citizens  made  draft 
upon  him  for  his  services  as  a  member 
of  the  School  Board,  1S95-99;  mayor 
of  Statesville,  1S99-1903;  member  of 
Board  of  Aldermen  of  Statesville,  19- 
07-1011;  appointed  by  Gov.  Kitchin 
January,  1011,  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  State  Hospital  at 
Morganton,  and  Mr.  Clark  continued 
under  reappointment  in  that  capacity 
being  secretary  of  the  board  and  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee, 
for  near  ten  years,  when  he  resigned. 
It  was  fitting  that  Mr.  Clark  was 
called  to  service  in  behalf  of  this  in- 
stitution, to  which  he  gave  a  most 
loyal  and  capable  service,  just  follow- 


i2  THE  UPLIFT 

ing  up  a  distinguished  service  which  clientele    the   inspiration   for   correct 

for  years  the  late  Joe  Caldwell  eon-  living,   lienor   and   integrity,    through 

tributed  to  the  institution.  The  Landmark,  which  enjoyed  a  high 

I  am  aware  of  a  certain  fact  that  place  in  the  esteem  of  the  state  And 
Mr.Clark,  while  he  has  been  called  yet  he,  himself,  never  enjoyed  the 
often  to  positions  of  honor  and  public  benefits  of  High  School  or  College  ad- 
trust,  lias  never  been  in  the  remotest  vantages.  Though  lacking  these  ad- 
sense  a  candidate  or  an  aspirant  in  vantages,  Mr.  Clark  educated  himself 
the  slightest  manner.  The  positions  in  the  finest  school-house  in  all 
sought  him,  and  rejoiced  in  his  faith-  chrisliandom  (the  printing  office), 
fid  discharge  of  every  obligation.  Mr.  supplemented  by  careful  and  studious 
Clark  made  no  struggle  for  the  posi-  habits  and  a  wide  reading  of  the  very 
tion  of  postmaster  at  Statesville,  best  literature.  Be  it  far  from  me  to 
which  he  now  holds.  He  simply  won  minimize  the  advantages  of  collegiate 
the  appointment  under  a  eompeti-  instruction,  and  I  would  delight  to 
tive  examination,  being  appointed  by  see  all  our  colleges  strengthened  and 
President  Wilson  in  February,  1920.  more  largely  patronized  by  North 
He  took  charge  of  the  office  March  Carolinians;  but  I  make  hold  to  de- 
ist, 1920.  dare  that  any  young  man  or  woman, 

November  16,  1886,  Mr.  Clark  was  with  average  intellect,  an  honest  pur- 
married  to  Miss  Xolie  Roseman,  of  pose,  with  a  sustaining  ambition  and 
Statesville,  and  this  union  has  been  a  proper  enviromeut,  can  and  will  be- 
blessed  by  two  daughters,  talented  come  educated.  Lives  of  all,  who  trod 
and  attractive  young  ladies  who  are  this  road,  have  cast  a  peculiar  glory 
a  joy  to  their  devoted  parents  and  on  democracy  and  proclaimed  to  the 
very  popular  with  a  large  circle  of  world  the  opportunties  and  possibili- 
friends  and  acquaintances,  who  re-  ties  under  the  benign  system  of 
cogni/.e  their  sterling  worth  ami  American  government, 
attainments.  Through  on  this  good  day  an  active 

I  am  unwilling  to  leave  my  subject  servant  of  Uncle  Sam,  to  whom  he 
at  this  point  without  making  an  oh-  renders  an  efficient  and  loyal  service, 
servation  or  two.  Here  is  a  man,  in  Mr.Clarke  has  not  succeeded  in  get- 
bis  native  county,  who  built  up  an  ting  away  from  the  fascination  of 
agency  that  contributed  very  largely  newspaper  making  and  the  soul  of 
to  the  best  interest  of  his  state,  rend-  this  choice  spirit  among  us  today 
ered  a  valuable  service  to  the  cause  may  be  as  white  as  snow,  but  his 
of  society,  good  government,  indus-  lingers  show  today  and  will  ever  show 
rial  and  commercial  development,  and  how  tight  printer's  ink  cling  to 
which,  reflecting  a  rugged  honesty,  mortals,  when  once  completely  in- 
conservative  course,  marked  ability  itiated  into  the  newspaper  world— 
aud  tireless  energy,  carried  to  a  large  a  world  of  its  own. 


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Penitentiary  Inmate  Has  A  Heart. 

As  long  as  mankind  can  safely  subscribe  to  the  belief  that  none  are 
wholly  bad,  and  that  none  are  wholly  good,  we  are  safe  in  believing-  that 
there  are  people  inside  of  prison  walls  no  worse  than  many  on  the  outside 
who  have  gotten  by  with  their  devilment.  There  are  times,  too,  when 
stories  from  the  inside  get  to  the  public  ear  and  touch  one's  sense  of  inter- 
est and  appreciation. 

The  News  &  Observer  tells  of    an  am  better  off  than  these  people, 
act    by    Jack    Hall.     If  his    offense  "So,  for  humanity's  sake,  I    here- 

against  law  and  order  were  not    too  with  enclose  $5.00,    wishing    at    the 

bad,  this  writer  would,  if  he  had  the  same  time  that  you  please    place  $2. 

power,  voluntarily  issue  him  a  com-  50  of  it  with  Mr.  George  H.  Bellamy 

plete  pardon  by  special  delivery.     A  or  Hon.  Josephus  Daniels,  to  be  used 

man,  in  or  out  of  prison,    who    bar-  for  the  Near  East  Relief,  the  rcmain- 

bors  in  his  bosom  the  kindly  feelings  ing  $2.50  to  be   put    to    the    Jewish 

that  Jack   Hall's  letter   make    tPSti-  Relief  Fund. 

mony  to,  cannot,  be  wholly  bad    and  "This  money  is  not    commutation 

deserves  at  least  a  reduction  of    his  money.      It  is  some  that  I  have  earn- 

sentence.     But    here    is    the    story,  ed  since  being  here.     1  am  a    musi- 

and  kind  reader,  what  do  you   think  cian,  and,  of  course,  when  out  on    a 

of  Jack  Hall:  road  camp  I    made    a    little    money 

Jack  Hall,  seving  a    term    in    the  playing  for  visitors.  I  earned  around 

State  Prison,  has  sent  to  Lionel  Weil,  $15.00  or  §50.00  while  in  Chapel  _-.  ill. 

State  chairman  of  the  Jewish  Relief  N.  C.     But  this  will  conclude    what 

organizasion,  a  check  for  $500,  half  I  have  kept  of  it,  or    I    would    send 

of  it  to  go  to  the  Jewish  Relief  Fund  more.     However,  I    hope    this    will 

and  the  other  half  to  the  Near  East  help     a    little.     Wish     you     would 

Relief.  'phone  my  wife  and  tell    her    that  I 

The  gift  of  Hall  was  accompained  wrote  you.  instead  of    her    tonight, 

by  the  following  letter:  or  she  will  worry  about  not  hearing 

"Having  read  two  articles    in    to-  from  me.     You  can  reach    her    ask- 

day's  News  and  Observer  about    the  ing  the  clerk    of    the   court's    office 

cundition  of  the  Jews  and    also    an-  there  at   the    court    house.      Would 

other  article  of  the  Near  East  Relief,  greatly  appreciate    it  if    you    would 

although  I  am  of  neither  nationality,  notify      her     as    mentioned  above." 
I  realize  that  although  a  prisoner,    I 


A  community  is  not  rich  because  it  contains  a  few  rich  men,  it  is  not 
healthful  because  it  contains  a  few  strong  men,  it  is  not  intelligent  be- 
cause it  contains  a  few  men  of  learning,  nor  is  it  of  good  morals  becauso 
it  contains  good  women — if  the    rest  of   the    population  ■  also    be    not 
well-to-do  or  healthful,  or  intelligent,  or  of  good  morals. — Walter  H.  Page. 


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There's  Place  In  Life  For  The  Anecdote. 


CYRUS  B.  WATSON:  For  quick,  cutting  repartee,  few  men  ever  equalled 
the  late  Cyrus  B.  Watson,  of  Winston-Salem.  About  the  year  1S7S  or  1880  the 
republicans  of  that  senatorial  district  nominated  one  Geo.  B.  Everett,  a  bril- 
liant man,  with  plenty  of  brass  and  gift  o'gab;  a  graduate  of  Trinity  College,  ■ 
great  in  debate  and  had  become  an  uncompromising  republican.  He  soon  set 
a  new  pace  in  campaign  speeches. 


The  democrats  had  nominated  Dr. 
W.  A.  Lash,  now  dead,  a  wealthy 
business  man  of  Walnut  Cove,  who 
had  neither  taste  nor  talent  for  joint 
debate.  This  condition  called  for 
action.  Some  one  must  canvass  for 
Dr.  Lash  that  could  "hold  a  hand-' 
with  Geo.  Everett,  ami  Cyrus  Watson 
was  assigned  the  place.  Everett  pro- 
fessed great  umbrage  at  his  opponent 
refusing  to  meet  him  and  was  making 
capital  out  of  that  fact,  saying  "such 
pop-guns  as  Cy  'Watson"  taking  the 
place  of  Dr.  Lash." 

A  little  later  in  the  campaign  it 
was  arranged  for  a  joint  debate  in 
an  open  grove,  in  what  is  now  a  busy 
district  of  Winston-Salem.  There 
was  a  great  crowd  present.  The  coun- 
ty, then,  was  always  close,  and  when 
the  large  negro  element  was  marshall- 
ed to  the  republican  ranks  the  county 
"went  republican.  The  democrats  of 
Winston  highly  resented  this  negro 
element  in  politics  and  were  fully 
alive  at  this  time.  Everett  and  Wat- 
son were  the  main  speakers  of  the 
day,  Everett  had  the  first  speech,  mak- 


ing a  line  impression,  rubbing  it  into 
Dr.  Lash  for  having  "such  pop-guns 
as  Cy  Watson"  to  meet  him  on  the 
stump;  his  crowd  giving  him  an  ova- 
tion. 

Watson  came  to  reply  and  to  dis- 
cuss things  in  genera,!,  and  Everett's 
heelers  and  leaders  in  particular.  Mr. 
Watson  waxed  warm,  goaded  on  by 
the  cheering  democrats.  The  day  was 
hot,  ami  Mr.  Watson  had  forgotten  to 
bring  a  handkerchief  with  him.  His 
face  dripping  with  prespiration,  he 
turned  to  those  behind  him  on  the 
platform,  saying,  "will  some  one  lend 
me  a  handkerchief?" 

Everett  was  quick  to  his  feet,  say- 
ing: "Have  mine,  it  is  somewhat  wet, 
but  it  is  wet  with  true  republicanism." 
Mr.  Watson  took  it,  turned  to  his 
audience  as  he  spread  it,  saying:  "I 
see  it  is  pretty  black."  To  this  mo- 
ment it  had  been  republican  day,  but 
those  six  words,  with  the  laugh  that 
went  up  made  it  democrat  day.  But 
Everett  was  elected,  and  was  later 
appointed  collector  of  the  fifth  North 
Carolina  district. — Contributed. 


TEACHING  THE  BIBLE:  The  only  solution  of  the  problem  which 
would  be  in  keeping  with  our  religious  professions  would  be  to  adopt  a 
plan  that  is  being  tried  with  success  all  over  the  land.  Each  church  should 
arrange  to  have  its  young  people  spend  a  certain  time  in  the  study  of  the 
Bible,  under  t>e  direction  of  its  pastor,  and  then  credit  should  be  allowed 
to  these  puplis  in  their  grading  for  the  regular  examination. — Presby- 
terian Standard. 


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Complaint  Of  The  Much  Abused  Boy. 


[NOTE:  The  late  Mr.  Monroe  Melchor,  who  Was 
among  the  very  best  and  most  honorable  citizens  of  Cabarrus 
County,  had  a  sense  for  the  humorous  and  the  ludicrous. 
The  plaint  of  the  "Abused  Boy"  struck  his  fancy.  He 
carried  it  in  his  pocket  and  ttas  often  seen  to  read  it  with 
great  relish  and  a  hearty  laugh  as  no  doubt  you  will. 
Though  an  old  bachelor,  Mr.  Melchor  knew  for  more 
than  eighty  years  just  what  appealed  to  the  average  boy.] 

I'm  going  back  down  to  granpa's 

I  won't  come  back  no  mote 
To  hear  the  remarks  about  my  feet 

A  muddyin'  up  the  floor, 
They's  too  much  said  about  my  clothes, 

The  scoldin's  never  done  — 
I'm  goin'  back  to  granpa's, 

Where  a  boy  kin  hev  some  fun. 

I  dug  haf  [lis  garden 

A  gitting  worms  ter  bait; 
He  said  he  used  to  like  it 

When  I  laid  abed  so  late; 
He  said  that  pie  was  good  for  boys, 

And  candy  made  'em  grow, 
Ef  I  can't  go  to  granpa's 

I'll  turn  pirate  first  you  know. 

He  let  n  e  take  his  shotgun, 

And  loaded  it  fer  me 
The  cats  they  hid  out  in  the  barn, 

The  hens  flew  up  a  tree. 
I  had  a  circus  in  the  yard 

With  twenty  other  boys— 
I'm  goin'  back  to  granpa's 

Where  they  ain't  afraid  of  noise. 

He  didn't  make  me  comb  my  hair 

But  once  or  twice  a  week; 
He  wasn't  watchin'  out  fer  words 

I  didn't  orter  speak: 


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He  told  me  stones  'bout  the  war 
And  Injuns  shot  out  west. 

Oh,  I'm  goin'  down  to  granpa's, 
For  he  knows  wot  boys  like  best. 

He  even  run  a  race  with  me, 

But  had  to  stop  an'  cough; 
He  road  my  bicycle  and  laughed 

Because  he  tumbled  off; 
He    knew  the  early  jpple  trees 

Around  within  a  mile, 
Oh,  granpa  was  a  dandy, 

An'  was  in  it  all  the  while. 

I  bet  you  granpa's  lonesome, 

I  don't  care  what  you  say, 
I  seen  him  kinder  cryin' 

When  ycu  tcck  me  away. 
When  you  talk  to  me  of  heaven, 

Where  all  the  good  folks  go, 
I  guess  I'll  go  to  granpa's; 

And  we'll  have  good  times,  I  know 


THINGS  I  LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 

Number  IX: — Pishes  and  Eels. 

"When  I  wrote  number  nine  I  was  supposed  to  be  done  with  the  nature  stor- 
ies, but  a  seeond  thought  brings  to  mind  fishes  and  eels,  and  I  feel  that  the 
series  will  not  be  complete  until  I  tell  you  something  of  the  linny  tribe,  that 
brought  so  many  half  holidays  to  a  hard  working  farm  boy. 

In    the    snake      story    I    mentioned  streams  with  silt  aiid  muck,  there  was 

that    there    were    three    streams   run-  no  end  to  the  small  fish  in  them.  With 

ning  across  the  farm;  one  we  called  what  we  called  "fly"  hooks  just  large 

a  creek,  known  as  Cedar  creek;  the  ot-  enough    to  bold    a  very    small  bit  of 

her  two  were  what  we  called  branches  fish   worm,  we    caught    them    by  the 

heading  from  bold  springs  in  wooded  half   gallon.     Branch     minnows,     sun 

land,  and  clear  and  cool.     Fifty  years  perch,  occasionally  a  cat  fish  or  an  eel 

ago,    before    the    erosion    of    the    soil  Then  there  were  raft  and  holes,  and  it 

(gullies    across      farms)      filled    such  was    in    these     holes  we     caught  the 


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large  one  occasionally  a  "horney- 
head,"  a  small  fish  belonging  to  the 
sacker    family. 

As  we  gre"\v  larger  and  more  fear- 
less of  snakes  we  took  to  the  "dip- 
net,"  a  net  in  shape  of  a  butterfly 
net,  with  strong  handle.  With  this  we 
went  into  the  stream,  and  dipping  in- 
to the  holes  we  caught  all  there  was 
therein.  Often  we  would  go  home 
with  a  gallon  bucket  filled  with  these 
small  minnows,  which  were  cleaned, 
salted  and  fried  after  rolling  them  in 
corn  meal,  and  cooked  until  they  were 
so  brown  there  were  no  bones  to 
bother  you;  and  they  were  fit  for  a 
King. 

These  branch  minnows  were  inter- 
esting as  well  as  good  for  food  and 
sport.  One  seldom  sees  it  now,  and 
many  a  grown  man  would  not  know 
what  he  was  looking  at  if  he  saw  a 
minnow's  spawning  bed,  made  of 
stones.  When  the  weather  is  well 
warmed  up  these  minnows  come  out 
of  the  holes  and  roll  stones  from  the 
bed  of  the  scream  into  a  pile,  in  a 
shoal  like  place  where  the  water  is 
four  or  five  inches  deep,  and  fasten 
the  eggs  to  these  stones,  and  take 
care  of  them,  so  far  as  other  fish  were 
concerned,  until  the  small  ones  hatch. 
Then  it  is  live  or  die  as  best  it  can. 

A  freshet  would  wipe  out  nil  these 
fish  beds,  destroy  all  the  young  in  the 
muddy  water  if  it  came  at  the  right 
time,  but  like  other  things  in  nature 
they  went  to  work  to  rebuild  or  make 
new  nests.  That  was  the  branch  min- 
nows way  of  propagating  its  species. 
The  larger  fish  stick  their  eggs  to 
rocks  and  stumps  and  such  things  as 
"they  find  under  water.  Several  va- 
rieties that  inhabit  ponds  make  a  bed 
Jn  sand  near  the  bank,  where  the  wa- 


ter is  warm,  lay  the  eggs  there  and 
stay  with  them  until  hatched  to  keep 
the  pond  minnows  from  eating  them. 
The  fish  we  called  sun-perch  nests  this 
way,  and  one  can  have  fine  sport  fol- 
lowing the  banks,  in  May  and  fishing 
in  the  eddies  and  secluded  spots  for 
this  fish.  Always  on  the  lookout 
for  enemies,  you  only  have  to  drop  a 
baited  hook  near  a  nest,  and  the 
mother  and  father  fish  take  it  at 
once.  Not  a  proper  sport,  at  that 
season,  for  yon  kill  those  that  are 
making  more   fish. 

On  Cedar  creek  there  were  two 
mill  ponds,  well  stocked  with  many 
kinds  of  native  fish,  and  it  was  to 
these  we  went  when  seeking  larger 
"fry."  Here  we  caught  with  hooks 
the  perch  mentioned  above,  cats,  eels, 
a  mill  pond  lish  called  a  "shad- 
roach,"  named  for  its  similarity  in 
shape  to  the  shad  on  the  market  in 
spring,  for  which  the  eoast  waters 
of  North  and  South  Carolina  are 
noted  in  the  spring  of  the  year.  But 
with  us  the  fish  we  prized  most  was 
silver-perch,  very  much  like  the  sun 
perch  except  it  is  silver  bright,  a 
game  fish  that  bites  live  bait.  It  is 
still  a  favorite  in  eastern  North  Caro- 
lina. The  upper  pond  on  this  creek 
was  the  property  of  the  late  George 
Whitfield,  and  was  our  favorite  place 
to  fish  in  day  light.  In  this  pond 
were  more  sun-porch,  at  one  time, 
than  I  ever  saw  anywhere.  Sitting 
on  the  bank  with  these  fly  hooks, 
when  the  day  was  right  one  caught 
them  until  he  was  tired  of  it. 

AVhen  we  wanted  something  larger 
we  went  to  the  Norman  Long  pond, 
two  miles  or  more  down  the  creek, 
where  we  caught  large  cats  and  eels 
with   hook   after   niffht.     We   built    a 


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boa-fire    on    the    bank,    which    made  water      with      sticks.     One     of     the 

light  to  see  the  cork;  here  we  fished  branches   headed   in  a   quagmire   and: 

and  played.     Then   we   had.  what    we  swamp  covering  as  much  as  two  acres, 

called     "trot-lines,"    a    long     strong  and  we  found   many  large  eels  near 

line  with  a  hook    fastened  to  a  short  this   in   summer.     We  supposed   they 

line  about  every  Tour  feet.     These  we  went    in    that    place   to    spawn.     The 

baited  with  cut  bait  (fish  or  meat  cut  eel  is  too  snake-like  for  many  people 

up)  and  fastened  each  end  of  the  long  to   eat,   but    they   are   as   line   a   fried 

line  to  a  strung  stake  driven  into  the  (isli  as  one  could  ask. 

mud.  About  every  hour  or  two  we  A  favorite  fishing  sport  was  what  . 
fished  the  lines.  This  we  did  with  a  we  called  "going  gigging."  In  the  | 
boat,  taking  off  the  fish  and  ells  that  spring  a  fi-h  from  the  ponds  that  would 
were  buns  on  the  hooks  and  rebaiting  not  bite  "a  hook,  that  was  called  a  | 
them.  The  fish  mostly  caught  were  "mullet,"'  ran  up  the  streams  either 
cats.  Father  and  1  were  fishing  these  seeking  food  or  breeding  [daces,  that 
lines  <me  night,  when  a  large  Mack  we  killed  with  "Gigs,"  a  three  prong- 
snake  that  had  been  run  into  the  ed  iron,  like  rake  teeth,  which  was 
water  took  refuge  in  <mr  boat,  but  fastened  into  a  stall'.  Armed  with 
the  boat  was  too  small  for  three;  we  these  and  a  turn  of  fat-lightwood," 
killed  it  with  the  oar.  That  was  not  (rich  pine)  which  we  burned  for  a 
a  very  good  feeling,  in  a  small  boat,  torch  light,  we  waded  these  creeks 
in  deep  water,  with  a  big  snake.  at  night,  finding  the  mullets  on  shoals, 
The  eels  made  lots  of  fun  in  fishing,  lying  still,  no  doubt  placing  their 
both  with  the  hook  and  with  the  ''dip  eggs  on  the  stones.  They  seemed 
net"  or  seine.  I  caught  many  that  unable  to  see,  and  we  drove  the  gig 
weighed  live  pounds,  and  it  took  some  into  them.  Some  of  them  were  a 
work  to  land  one  of  these  strong  and  pound  in  weight.  Sometimes  the  eel 
slimy  fellows.  They  bit  hooks  well,  happened  to  be  out  and  it  got  the 
and  when  they  went  up  the  streams  same  dose.  Occasionally  we  had  to 
in  the  summer  we  found  many  in  the  reckon  with  a  water  snake,  but  it  had 
creeks    and    killed     them    in     shallow  a  poor  show  when  a  gig  was  handy. 


What  Is  Muscle  Shoals? 


Why  so  much  talk  about  Muscle  Shoals?  What  is  it?  Where  is  ic?  Ques- 
tions of  this  type  are  frequently  heard,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  many  persons 
have  an  accurate  conception  of  the  importance  of  this  project 

Muscle  Shoals  is  a  series  of   rap-  The  width  between    banks    var::s 

ids  or  shoals  in  the  Tennessee  River  from  1000  to  9000    feet.     The    ctr- 

near  Florence,  Alabama.  rent  is  very  rapid,    the    slope    is   as 

The  shoals  extend  a  distance  of  37  great  as  15  per  cent  in  certain  places. 

miles,  and  the  fall  in  thatdistance  is  The  U.S.  Government  construct' 

134  feet.  ed  a  nitrate  plant  at  Muscle  Shoals 


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during  the  War.     The  plant  was  op-  power-house    will   contain  IS  gener- 

•erated  with  coal  on  an  experimental  ating  units.     Each   unit    is  directly 

ba:;is;  it  required  1500  tons    of    coal  connected  with   a  turbine.  The  first 

iper  day  to  run  the  plant.  four  of  these    wheels    will  generate 

Wilson  Dam  was  begun    with    the  30,000    horsepower    each,   while  the 

•expectatation  of  utilizing  the   water  remaining    14  will    have  a  capacity 

power  instead  of  coal.     The  Tennes-  of  36,000  h  rsepower  each  giving  a 

see  River  is  652  miles  long  and  drains  total  of  624,000  horsepower. 

40,570  square  iriles  of  territory;    of  In  the    construction    work    it  was 

this  area,  30,514  square  miles  are  a-  necessary   to    construct  27    miles  of 

have   the    dam.     The    discharge    of  railroad    track.     The    rolling    stock 

water  at  Florence  varies  from  S200  comprises    23    locomotives,    79     box 

to  499,000  cubic  feet  per  second.     It  cars   and    109    flat    and  dump    cars, 

was  anticipated  that  the  nitrate  plant  The    sand    and    gravel  for  construc- 

would  use  only  a  portion  of  the  pow-  tion  is  dredged    from  the  river  nine 

er    generated    and    the      remainder  miles  below  Florence  and  brought  to 

might  be  used  in  nearby  cities  such  the  dam    <n   barges.     The  dredging 

as  Birmingham,  Memphis.  Nashville,  capacity  is  2.000  cubic  yards  daily. 

Chattanooga  and  numerous    smaller  Compared  with  other    large  dams 

cities.  of  the  world,  the  order  would  be  as 

The  earth  excavation  for  the  locks  follows:     (1)    Wilson    Dam;   (2)   As- 

is  344,437    cubic    yards.     I  he  rock  souan  Dam,  Egypt;  (3)  Kensico  Dam, 

excavation    for  the  locks  is    220,000  New  York;    (4)  New    Croton    Dam, 

cubic  yards.     The  locks  will  require  New  York;  (5)   Keokuk    Dam,  Iowa 

80,000  cubic  yards  of  concrete.     The  Illinois;  (6)  Olive  Bridge,  New  York; 

pool  above  the  dam    will    cover  14,-  (7)     lonsa   Dam,    India;     (8)  Poons 

■987  acres  of  land,  and    the  depth  of  Dam,  India;  (9)  Roosevelt  Dam,  Ari- 

tbe    water  at  the    dam   will    be  101  zona;    (10)    Barrerj  Jack  Dam,  Aus- 

feet  but    the  apron    extends  59  feet  tralia.  This  order  is   based  upon  size 

farther  down  stream  thus    giving  a  of  masonry, 
total  base  width  of   160    feet.     The 


How  Trouble  And  Fear  Affect  People. 

BY  R.  R.  CLARK 

The  newspapers  have  been  printing  a  story  coming  from  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
to  the  effect  that  a  religious  wave  is  sweeping  over  the  fishing  villages  on  the 
east  coast  of  Scotland,  the  result  of  the  failure  of  the  herring  fishing  season. 
The  failure  of  the  fishing  season,  a  very  serious  matter  to  the  fisher  folk,  the 
same  as  a  crop  failure  to  the  farmers,  is  believed  to  be  visitation  of  Divine 
displeasure  for  unrighteous  living.  Whereupon  the  fishermen,  we  are  told, 
are  parading  the  highways,  singing  hymns,  testifying,  and  in  other  ways  mani- 
festing religious  fervor. 

The  story  is  probably  true,  for  it  is  call  the  Lord  when  in  touble  and  for- 
veiy  characteristic  of  humankind  to      get  Him  in  days  of  posterity.     The 


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small  boy  expressed  it  when,  being 
asked  why  he  said  his  prayers  at 
night  and  omitted  them  in  the  morn- 
ing, replied  that  any  smart  boy  could 
take  care  of  himself  in  daylight. 
The  grown-ups,  many  of  them,  pro- 
ceed on  that  theory,  although  they 
are  not  ascandid  about  it  as  the  boy, 
illustrating  the  truth  "of  the  adage  that 
"only  fools"  and  children  tell  the 
truth." 

While  the  Scotch  are  not  different 
in  this  respect  from  other  folks,  the 
foregoing  recalls  a  story  of  two  Scotch 
fishermen  who  were  driven  out  to  sea 
in  a  small  boat  and  finally  gave  them- 
selves up  for  lost.  Then  they  agreed 
it  was  time  to  pray,  and  while  one 
continued  the  effort  to  keep  the  boat 
afloat  the  other  lifted  up  his  voice 
in  supplication.  First  he  made  con- 
fession of  sin,  and  after  telling  the 
Lord  how  wicked  he  had  been  he  was 
beginning  to  pledge  reformation  if 
only  he  and  his  companion  were  de- 
livered from  the  peril  then  encompass- 
ing them.  But  before  he  had  well 
started  in  the  enumeration  of  the  evil 
deeds  from  which  he  would  refrain  if 
spared,  his  companion,  who  was  keep- 
ing the  lookout,  called  to  him:  '•Don't 
commit  yourself  o'er  far,  Tanimas;  I 
think  I  see  land." 

That  illustrates  some  more.  If  the 
danger  is  about  to  pass  there  is  less 
desire  to  make  promises  that  would  be 
hard  to  fulfill. 

The  earthquake  that  shook  up  this 
part  of  the  country  in  ISSti  produced 
much  religious  fervor  for  the  time. 
While  the  old  earth  was  trembling, 
and  for  some  days  afterward,  while 
the  feeling  of  insecurity  lasted,  there 
•was  a  mighty  calling  on  the  Lord  for 
help  and  protection.     The  callers  wore 


very  much  in  earnest  for  the  time, 
but  it  is  probable  that  many  of  them 
left  off  praying  as  soon  as  the  ground 
felt  firm  under  their  feet.  A  meeting 
was  in  progress  at  a  church  in  Iredell 
county  when  the  shake  came.  Special 
effort  had  been  made  to  reach  one  of 
the  unconverted  in  the  congregation, 
but  he  had  resisted  all  appeals.  But 
when  the  earth  trembled,  the  building 
rocking  on  its  foundation,  and  one  of 
the  preachers  called  attention  to  it  as 
a  manifestation  of  the  power  of  the 
Almighty,  that  hardened  sinner  made 
a  rush  for  the  altar  with  such  haste 
that  thy  had  to  give  him  clear  track. 
He  needed  no  urging'  when  he  was 
terror-stricken. 

I  am  reminded  here  of  a  story  the 
late  Judge  Armfield  of  Statesville  used 
to  tell.  Some  of  the  older  people 
may  recall  that  many  years  ago  a 
mountain — Bald  Mountain  emitted 
rumblings  that  suggested  volcanic 
eruption.  And  as  in  the  case  of  the 
earthquake  in  later  years,  many  of  the 
residents  of  the  countyside  became 
alarmed  and  proceeded  to  call  on  the 
Lord  for  help.  Judge  Armfield  said 
that  an  old  minister,  a  good  man,  who 
lived  in  the  vicinity,  had  a  "hound- 
boy"  (a  boy  he  was  rearing)  who  was 
much  given  to  profanity,  much  to  the 
good  man's  distress,  and  the  boy  con- 
tinued to  swear  despite  all  efforts  of 
the  old  man  to  break,  him  of  the  habit. 
One  night  the  rumblings  from  Bald 
Mountain  were  particularly  loud  and 
terrifying.  Aroused  from  his  sleep 
by  the  noise,  and  believing  that  the 
end  was  probably  at  hand,  the  boy 
rushed  from  the  room  where  he  slept, 
screaming  infright.  Coming  into  the 
presence  of  the  preacher,  he  found  the 
latter  sitting  as  quietly  by  his  hearth- 


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stone    as    if    nothing   had    happened.  going  to  Him  only  when  we  are  in 

Quaking  with  terror  the  boy  asked  the  dire  need  and  ignoring  our  obligations 

old  man  if  he  thought  the  end  of  the  when  tilings  are  going  well  with  us, 

Tvorhl    had    come.     Quietly    the    good  can  hardly  be  commended  or  defended. 

man,   serene    in    the    faith,   answered  It. is  somewhat  like  the  practice  of  the; 

that  lie   didn't   know,  but   if   it   had  heathen,   who  make  special  effort  to 

(here  was  no  canse  for  alarm;  noth-  propitiate   their  gods   when  calamity 

ing  to  be  accomplished  by  getting  ex-  befalls,    on     the    theory    that    '.heir 

cited.    Exasperated    by    the    lack    of  troubles  are  a  sign  that  the  gods  are 

comfort  he  found   in   the  answer  the  angry.     But  many  there  be  no  doubt 

1     boy's  ruling  habit  asserted  itself  and  who   regard    the    Almighty   only   as  a 

he  cried  out:     "Yes,  blank  you,  you  help  in  time  of  trouble  and  proceed  on 

know  you   are  prepared  to  go   ami    f  the    theory    of    the    fellow    who,    im- 

ain't."  ploring  Divine   assistance   to  get   out 

It's   all   right    to   call   on   the   L>  rd  of  a   tight   place,  reminded   the  Lord 

when  we  are  in  trouble;   we  are  in-  that   he   hadn't   bothered   Him   niuf-h 


; 


vited  to  do   that   but   the  practice  of      recently. 


"More  than  sixty  years  ago  at  Tunis  on  the  northern  coast  of  Afrisa 
the  American  consul  died  and  at  that  place  was  Turned.  He  was  not  great 
as  a  statesman,  jurist  or  warrior — he  had  never  led  in  council,  court  or 
field.  Why  was  it  then,  that  the  bones  and  dust  of  John  Howard  Payne, 
that  had  lain  so  long  on  the  far  off  shore  of  the  Mediterranean  were 
brought  back  home  to  rest  in  his  native  land? 

And  why,  now,  were  these  honors  without  parallel  in  human  history 
paid  his  memory?  Ah!  How  well  you  know  the  answer!  How  quickly 
your  swelling  hearts  respond!  He  wrote  one  song  in  which  he  embodied 
and  embossed  the  most  precious  desire  and  the  most  undying  emotion  of 
the  universal  heart  of  man,  woman  and  child.  He  wrote  "Home,  Sweet 
Home."  There  are  but  fourteen  lines  to  this  blessed  song  including  the 
chorus,  but  it  will  live  as  long  as  our  blue  mountains  stand.  Home.  Home! 
Sweet,  Sweet,  Home !  Its  strains  have  visited  all  lands  and  encicled  the 
globe;  they  have  ravishd  the  ear  in  the  palaces  of  royality  and  wealth,  and 
in  the  pleasant's  lonely  hut,  John  Howard  Payne  sang  the  song  of  home. 
He  interpreted  the  human  heart.  "There  is  no  place  like  home",  the  poet 
cries,  and  the  whole  world  cried  in  unison  "be  it  ever  so  humble,  there 
is  no  place  like  home." — From  Hon.  0.  Max  Gardner's  Speech  before  the 
N,  0.  Society  of  Philadelphia. 


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Cordelia's  Adventure  With  The  Burglar 

The  dull  grey  mist  that  had  enveloped  Mount  Tom  all  day  came  sweep.; 
ing  down  in  sheets  of  rain  through  the  valley.  As  the  twilight  deepened, 
the  clouds  hung  oppressively  low  and  night  came  quickly  on.  It  was  that] 
swift  approaching  darkness  that  roused  Cordelia  from  her  story,  and  made! 
her  glance  apprehensively  out  of  the  farmhouse  window.  For  the  firs: 
time  that  day  she  fully  realized  that  she  was  alone,  and  the  sudden  sens,: 
of   isolation  filled  her  with  vague  fears. 

"Mother  and  I  will  be    home    be-      away.     Then  she  lighted  the    lamp; 


fore  dark  unless  some  accident  de- 
tains us,"  had  been  her  father's  last 
words  as  he  drove  down  the  road  to 
Springfield  that  morning.  But  the 
darkness  was  falling,  and,  strain  her 
ears  as  she  might,  Cordelia  could 
hear  no  sound  of  the  approaching 
wheels  that  must  bring  them  home. 
There  was  only  the  steady  drip,  drip 
of  the  rain  from  the  eaves.  The  sound 
oppressed  her.  What  if  there  had 
been  an  accident?  What  if  they 
should  not  return  until  morning? 
But  they  must  come.  She  pressed 
her  face  close  against  the  window 
pane,  only  to  draw  back,  frightened 
by  the  deepening  shadows  and  the 
moaning  of  the  wind  through  the 
pines.  For  one  moment,  sh ;  was 
half  determined  to  go  to  her  friend, 
Helen  Simpson,  who  lived  on  the 
nearest  farm.  The  next,  she  shrank 
away  pith  dread  from  the  thought 
cf  the  long  mile  of  lonely  road  she 
must  travel  in  the  darkness  and 
driving  rain. 

The  story  she  had  been  reading 
only  added  to  her  uneasiness.  It 
was  about  a  young  girl  made  pris- 
oner bv  a  burglar  who  had  passed 
himself  off  as  a  frbnd  in  order  to 
gain  entrance  to  the  house.  Corde- 
lia shivered.  Fear  was  taking  tight 
hold  of  her  and  she  must  shake  it 
off.     She  closed  the  book  and  put  it 


in  the  living  room  and  the  kitchen. 
That  made  things  better.  She  bus- 
ied herself  with  preparations  for 
supper,  and  as  the  occupation  re- 
stored her  courage  somewhat,  she 
sang  a  little  to  assure  herself  that 
she  was  quite  at  ease.  When  sup- 
per was  ready  to  be  placed  on  the 
table,  she  returned  to  the  living 
room  and  took  up  her  sewing.  The 
storm  was  increasing,  and  the  rush 
ana  drive  without  only  made  more 
palpable  the  silence  within.  She  tried 
desperately  to  laugh  at  the  fears 
that  settled  upon  her  once  more. 

Hark!  There  was  the  sound  of 
wheels  splashing  through  mud  and 
water- then  a  sudden  halt.  Sne 
picked  up  the  la  t.p  and  ran  to  the 
door.  A  carraige  had  driven  up  to 
the  gate,  and  a  man  stepped  out. 
Cordelia  saw  at  once  that  it  was 
not  her  father.  She  drew  back  in- 
to thp  shadow  of  the  door,  intend- 
ing to  close  and  bar  it.  But  she  was 
too  late..  The  stranger  was  coming 
rapidly  toward  her.  Ashe  advanced, 
she  saw  him  take  a  keen  survey  of 
the  house  aud  its  surroundings.  At 
the  door,  he  held  out  his  han't  to 
her  and  exclaimed,  "Why,  how  do 
you  do,  cousin?  Time  does  fl\.  I 
expected  to  see  a  little  girl,  an  I  I 
find  a  yong  lady." 

Just  then  a  driving  gust  of   wind 


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and  rain  blew  out  the  light.  She 
hasd'y  knew  how  it  happened,  but 
the  next  moment  found  her  and  the 
stranger  in  the  cheerful  living  room. 
He  noticed  her  agitation,  and  said 
reassuringly,  "It's  all  right.  I  am 
your  father's  cousin  Harry 
"from  the  West.  I  suppose  he  has 
told  you  about  me  and  my  business 
here?" 

"No,  father  never  spoke  of  any 
cousin  in  the  West,"  said  Cordelia, 
as  she  mentally  contrasted  his  dark 
hair,  black  piercing  eyes,  and  thin, 
wiry  form  with  her  very  blond  fath- 
er,   who    tipped    the    scales    at  two 

,  hundred  pounds. 

The  stranger  laughed  good-natur- 
edly, and  falling  into  talk  about  his 
home  and  his  friends,  at  last  almcst 
convinced  hei  that  he  was  her  cou- 
sin.    Rut    she    could    not    keep  her 

i  attention  from  wandering,  and  much 
that  he  said  was  wholly  lost  upon 
her.  She  wondered  if  she  ought  to 
offer  him  the  supper  fast  drying 
"n  the  kitchen  stove.  She  thought 
of  his  horse  out  there  in  the  storm, 
and  marveled  at  his  indifference. 
What  could  it  mean?  Was  he  hold- 
ing it  in  readiness  for  flight  when--? 
Would  father  and  mother  never 
come?  Conversation  laggtd,  and 
the  stranger,  falling  into  a  deep 
study,  sat  with  his  head  resting  on 
his  hand.  Cordelia  was  faacinated 
by  the  long,  slender  fingers.  Had 
they  ever---her  hand  went  unbidden 
to  her  throat;  the  thought  was  too 
horrible  to  be  finished. 

A  blast  of  wind  came  shrieking 
around  the  house.  The  shutters 
banged  back  and  fourth.  The  rain 
fell  in  a  fresh  torrent.  It  was  an 
awful  night. 

Suddenly  the  visitor  asked,  "May 
I  look  at  the  heirlooms  that  I    have 


come  to  so  far  see?" 

For  a  moment  Cordelia's  heart 
stopped  beating.  The  heirloom! 
How  did  this  strange  man  know  a- 
bout  great,  grandmother  Cordelia's 
diamond  necklace,  hidden  in  mother's 
closet?  He  had  posed  as  her  father's 
cousin  as  a  ruse  to  get  into  the  house. 
But  how  had  he  found  out  that  she 
was  alone  with  the  heirloom? 

"Oh!  we  keep  them  in  the  village 
bank.  Father  d  >esn't  consider  them 
safe  in  the  house."  She  managed 
to  reply. 

The  stranger's  eyes  narrowed 
and  he  looked  curiously  at  her  "Oh! 
he  knows!  he  knows!  "she  moaned 
aloud. 

"Well,  then,  cousin,"  said  the 
stranger,  "1  am  very  tired,  if  you 
wi  1  show  me  the  way  I'll  put  my 
horse  up  and  then  I'll  retire." 
"Cousin,  indeed!"  thought  Cordelia. 
What  could  she  do?  She  dare  not 
allow  this  strange  man  to  sleep  in 
the  house;  Yet  how  could  it  be 
avoided?  Wishing  to  retire  so 
early,  too,  and  without  waiting  for 
father  to  come  home!  And  that  pre- 
tense of  looking  after  his  hoase!  It 
w  as  all  an  excuse  to  throw  her  off  the 
scent  and  to  begin  bis  predatory 
search. 

She  took  the  light,  and  going  with 
him  to  the  door,  pointed  the  way  to 
the  stable  in  the  rear.  As  he  dis- 
appeared with  his  horse  around  the 
corner  of  the  house  she  closed  the 
door  softly,  shot  the  bolt,  and  turn- 
ed the  key  in  the  lock.  'Ihen  she 
stood  with  her  back  against  the  wall, 
panting,  trembling.  She  was  rid 
of  him  at  last.  But  not  for  long.  He 
would  return  in  a  few  minutes.  Per- 
haps he  would  breakdown  the  door. 
He  might  get  in  at  the  window. 
But    he    should    not    find   what    he- 


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sought. 

Swiftly  she  fled  up  the  stairs. 
Her  heart  was  in  her  mouth,  but 
she  was  determined  to  find  a  hiding 
place  for  the  precious  old  necklace. 
From  the  closet  in  her  mother's 
room  see  took  the  jewel  case,  and 
standing  breathless  looked  about  her 
for  some  place  of  great  security. 
The  rain  beat  against  the  pains 
faster  and  faster,  as  the  wind 
whistled  down  the  chimney.  Yet 
how  quiet  the  house  was!  And  how 
the  minutes  dragged!  The  sol- 
emn tick-tock  of  the  ancient  clock  on 
the  stairs  seemed  to  be  marking 
time  for  eternity. 

"It  must  be  nearly  midnight," 
thought  she.  Hark!  The  clock  was 
striking,  she  counted  the  strokes--- 
only  eight  O'clock. 

If  the  stranger  should  return  and 
try  to  enter  the  house  just  then, 
Cordelia  knew  that  she  shculd  shriek. 
Listen!  was  she  dreaming?  No,  that 
was  the  sound  of  wheels  coming  to 
a  halt.  Tnere  was  the  sound  of 
voices-- her  father's  voice;  yes,  and 
Mr.  Simpon's,  their  nearest  neigh- 
bor. They  were  speaking  loudly 
that  they  might  hear  each  other 
above  the  storm.  With  a  mad  rush 
Cordelia  dashed  down  the  stairs, 
threw  open  the  door,  and  tan  out  of 
the  housp. 

Past  her  mother  she  darted,  and 
reaching  her  father,  thrust  the  box 
into    his  hand.      "He's    there,"    she 


cried,  pointing  toward  the  stable. 
"After  it;  after  great  grandmother's 
diamond  necklace!" 

A  hurried  explanation  followed 
and  her  father  vehemently  declared, 
"I'll  shoot  him!" 

"Father,  father,"  protested  his 
wife,  "be  careful." 

"Father,  let  Mr.  Simpson  go  with 
you,"  cried  CordJia  frantically,  as 
her  father  started  in  pursuit  of  the 
burglar.     - 

The  neighbor  was  already  on  the 
ground,  prepared  to  lend  his  aid.  As 
the  two  men  went  toward  the  stable, 
the  stranger  came  harmlessly  enough 
around  the  corner  of  the  house. 

Face  to  face  with  the  two  men 
with  their  heavy  sticks,  he  exclaim- 
ed, "Why,  what's  all  this  row?  I 
came  halfway  across  the  continent  to 
buy  two  family  heirlooms,  a  Sherat- 
ton  sideboard  and  a  chippendale  table 
from  mv  cousin.  What  does  this 
treatmeut  mean." 

"Your  excuse  won't  keep  you 
from  jail,  although  it  did  fool  my 
daughter,"  exclamed  the  irate  farm- 
er. "You're  no  cousin  of  mine, 
you  rascal." 

A  burse  of  hearty  laughter  from 
Mr.  Simpson  interrupted  the  host- 
ilities. "Why,  it's  my  cousin  Har- 
ry from  Omaha!"  he  exclaimed. 
"You  landed  at  the  wrong  place, 
Harry;  I  live  a  mile  further  on." 
---Selected. 


A  man  rushed  clown  the  platform  just  as  a  train  was  a  puling  out.  Ee 
frantically  waved  cne  of  his  twenty-five-pound  grips  in  his  effort  to  in- 
duce the  brakeman  on  the  rear  of  the  train  to  signal  the  engineer  to  slow 
down.  For  a  hundred  yards  he  sprinted,  only  to  give  up  the  race.  A 
sympathetic  hystander  drawled  out  to  the  limp,  exhausted  figure,  "Were 
you  trying  catch  the  train?"  "Oh,  no,"  grasper  the  traveler.  "I  was 
just  chasing  it  out  of  the  yard." 


THE  UPLIFT 


25- 


Chicls 


ens 


By  Gail  Hamilton 

Mary  A.  Docile,  better  \nowh  as  "Gail  Hamilton,"  was  born  in  Hamilton, 
Mass.,  about  1 838.  She  was  a  eery  popular.  Writer.  Among  her  works  are 
"Woman's  IVorlh  and  Woman's  IVorthlessness,"  "Battle  of  the  Books,"  "Ser- 
mons to  the  Clergy,"  "Qala  Days,"  and  'Country  Lioing  and  Country  Think- 
ing." The  following  sketch  will  give  a  good  idea  of  her  style.  She  Was  a  eery 
bright  and  piquant  Writer. 

A  chicken  is  beautiful  and  round 
and  full  of  cunning  ways,  but  he  has 
no  resources  for  an  emergency,  lie 
will  lose  his  reckoning  and  be  quite 
out  at  sea,  though  only  ten  steps 
from  home.  lit  never  knows  enough 
to  torn  a  corner.  All  his  intelligence 
is  like  light,  moving  only  in  straight 
lines.  He  is  impetuous  and  timid, 
and  has  not  the  smallest  presence  of 
mind  or  sagacity  to  discern  between 
friend  and  foe.  He  has  no  confi  lence 
in  any  earthly  power  that  does  not 
reside  in  an  old  hen.  Her  cluck  will 
be  followed  to  the  last  ditch,  and  to 
nothing  else  will  he  give  heed. 

1  am  afraid  that  the  Interpreter 
was  putting  almost  too  fine  a  point 
upon  it,  when  he  had  Christiana 
and  her  children  "into  another 
room,  where  was  a  hen  and  chickens, 
and  bid  them  to  observe  awhile.  So 
one  of  the  chickens  went  to  the 
trough  to  drink,  and  every  time  she 
drank  she  lifted  up  her  head  and  her 
her  eyes  toward  heaven.  'See,' 
said  he,  'what  this  little  chick 
doth,  and  learn  of  her  to  acknow- 
ledge whence  your  mercies  come, 
by  receiving  them  with  looking  up.'  :' 

Doubtless  the  chick  lift  her  eyes 
toward  heaven,  but  a  close  acquain- 
tance with  the  race  would  put  any- 
thing but  acknowledgment  in 
the  act.  A  gratitude  that  thanks 
heaven    for    favors    received,     and 


thens  runs  into  a  hole  to  prevent 
any  other  person  from  sharing  the 
benefit  of  those  favors,  is  a  very 
questionable  kind  of  gratitude,  and 
certainly  should  be  confined  to  the 
bipeds  that  wear  feathers. 

Yet  if  you  take  selfishness  from  a 
chicken's  moral  make-up,  and  fat- 
uity from  his  intellectual,  you  have 
a  very  charming  little  creature  left. 
For,  apart  from  their  excessive 
greed,  chickens  seem  to  be  affection- 
ate.    '1  hey  have  sweet,  social  ways. 

1  hey  huddi  •  together  with  fond, 
caressing  crater,  and  chirp  soft 
lullabies,  i'heir  toilet  performances 
are  full  of  interest.  I  hey  trim  each 
other' i  bills  with  great  thoroughness 
and  dexterity,  much  better,  indeed, 
than  they  dress  their  own  heads,  for 
their  bungling,  awkward  little  claws 
make  sad  work  of  it. 

It  is  as  much  as  they  can  do  to 
stand  on  two  feet,  and  they  natur- 
ally make  several  revolutions  when 
they  attempt  to  stand  on  one.  No- 
thing can  be  more  ludicrous  than 
their  early  efforts  to  walk.  They 
do  not  rea'ly  walk.  They  sight  their 
object,  wave,  balance,  decide,  and 
then  tumble  foward,  stopping  all  in 
a  heap  as  soon  as  the  original  im- 
petus is  lost---generally  some  way 
ahead  of  the  place  to  which  they 
wished  to  go. 

It  is  delightful  to  watch  them    as 


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drowsiness  films  their  round,  bright,  silence. 

black  eyes,  and  the  dear  old   mother  And  as  I  sit  by  the    hour,    watch-,", 

croons  them  under  her  ample  wings,  ing  their  winning-  ways,  and  see   alke; 

and  they  nestle  in  perfect   harmony.  the  steps  of  .this   sleepy    subsidence, '„! 

How  they  manage  to  bestow    them-  1  can  but  remember  that  outbust  of F  j 

selves  with  such  limited    accommo-  love  and  sorrow  from  the  lips  of  Him |',e 

dations.    or    how    they    manage    to  who,  though  he  came  to  earth  from  a  r| 

breathe  in  a  room  so  close,  itisdiffi-  dwelling  place  of  ineffable  glory,  call-  |e 

cult  to  imagine    They  certainly  deal  ed  nothing  unclean    because   it    wa 


i 


a  staggering  blow  to  our  pivconceiv-  common,  rounu  no  nomeiy  uetau  coon 
ed  notions  of  the  necessity  of  oxygen  homely  or  too  trivial  to  illustrate  the^'? 
and  ventilation,   but    they    make    it      Father's  love;  but  from  the   birds  off 


easy  to  see  whence  the  Germans  de-  the  air,  the'fish  of  the  sea,  the  lilies  of 

rived  their  fashion  of  sleeping  under  the  field,  the    stones   in    the    street, 

feather  beds.   Rut  breath  and  bestow  the  foxes  in  their  holes,  the  patch  or 

themselves  they  do.    The   deepmoth-  the  coat,  the  oxen  in  the  furrow,  the 

er    heart    and    the     broad      mother  sheep  in  the    pit,    the    camel    under 

wings  take  them  all  in.  his  burden,  drew    lessons    of   divine 


They  penetrate  her  feathers,    and  pitv  and  patience,  of  heavenly  duty 

open    for    themselves    unseen    little  and  delight. 

doors  into    *  he    mysterious,    brood-  Standing  in  the  presence    of    the     ,. 

ing,  beckoning  darkness.      But  it  is  great  congregation,  seeing,  as  never   ' : 

long  before  they  can  arrange   them-  man  saw,  the  hypocrisy  and  the    in- 

selves    satisfactorily.     They     chirp,  iquity  gathered  before    him-  -seeing 

and  stir,  and  snuggle,  trying  to  find  too,  alas,  the  calamities  and  the  woe 

the  softest  and  warmest  nook.  Now  that  awaited  this  doomed  people,   a 

an  uneasy  head  is    thrust    out,    and  godlike  pity  overbears  his  righteous 

now  a    whole  tiny  body;  but  it  soon  indignation,  and  cries  out  in  passion- 

reenters  in  another  quarter,  and    at  ate  appeal'    "0   Jerusalem,   Jerusa- 

length  the  stir  and  chirp  grow  still.  lem,  thou  that  killest  the    prophets, 

You  see  only   a    collection    of    little  and  stonest    them    which    are    sent 

legs,  as  if  the  hen    were    a    banyan  unto  thee,  how  often  would   I    have 

tree,  and  presently  even  they  disap-  gathered  thy  children  together,  even 

pear.  She  settles  down  comfortably,  as  a  hen  gathered  her  chickens    un- 

and  all  are  wrapped  in  a  slumberous  der  her  wings,  and  ye  would  not! 


I 


AN  ABIDING  INFLUENCE.  * 

In  making  a  long  journey,  for  pleasure  or  otherwise,  we  usually  pass  many 
mile  posts  before  we  begin  to  grow  retrospective  and  think  over  the  tlrngs  f 
seen  and  the  miles  traveled  and  the  time  taken  to  make  the  trip. 

Of  course,  you  have  observed  that  tie  journey  of  life  may  have  been  all  ' 

old   people   after  passing  many  mile  pleasure,  without  an  incident  to  sha-  ' 

posts  in  the  journey  of  life  begin  to  dow   it;   or  it   may  have  been  inter-  e 

live  and  think  in  the  past.     This  lit-  rupted   and   annoyed  with   jolts  and 


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trembles;   but   let   that   be  as  it  may,  birthday,    remarked,   ''do   you    know 

there  is  one  outstanding  thing  in  every  my  father  always  made  me  look  him 

life  that  in  a  subconscious  manner  be-  squarely  in  the  face  when  addressing' 

comes   a   part   of   ns   and   is   carried  him  for  he  said,  'a  liar  or  dishonest 

through   life   and,   at    times   least   ex-  fellow   would   drop  his  eyes'  "     Thi3 

peeted,  lias  its  influence.  man  is  obsessed  with  this  belief  of  his 

Despite  the  fact  there  are  disap-  now  sainted  father, 
pointinents  for  us  all  we  endeavor  to  A  woman  of  mature  years,  with  a. 
choose  the  road  of  least  insistence  varied  experience  in  the  activities  of 
and  the  one  that  pleases  the  most.  life,  in  a  retrospective  mood  said,  "as- 
Can  you,  gentle  reader,  who  have  a  young  lady  out  in  the  world  making 
passed  many  mile  post's  in  life's  my  own  way  1  never  received  gentle- 
journey  recall  one  impressive  incident  men  callers  in  the  evening  that  I  did 
while  under  parental  training  that  not  hear,  as  1  did  when  at  home, 
served  you  well  when  far  removed  the  voice  of  mother  say,  '10:30, 
from  the  home  fireside  and  protection  daughter.'  "  'Yes,  10:30,  daughter' 
and  guidance  of  parental  love  .'  Sure-  was  the  still  small  voice  of  a  loving 
Iv  so,  for  I  believe  all  children,  girls  and  tender  mother,  and  this  mother 
or  lioys,  let  the  home  be  as  it  may,  left  her  imprint  and  continued  to 
will  reflect  the  character  of  the  home,  wield  an  influence  over  her  girl  several 

A    man.    then    passed    his    fiftieth  hundred  miles  away." 


About  The  Raven 

By  Harriett  Wilbur. 

"Raven'  dreamy  flake  of  night. 
Drifting  in  the  :ye  of  day." 

—  William  Morris. 

They  say  that  when  a  French  modiste  has  created  what  she  calls  a  "work 
of  art"  she  always  adds  a  finishing  touch  of  black  to  "make  it  perfect." 
Nature  has  done  the  same  thing,  and  a  bright  sunny  landscape,  whether 
in  simmer  green  or  winter  white,  touched  it  up  wonderfully  with  the  intro- 
duction of  a  raven  perched  conspicuously  in  the  foreground,  or  winging  his 
way  slowly  accross  midway  between  the  blue  above  and  the  earth  beneath. 

The  raven  seems  to  be    the    same  ties  pass  for  geographic  races, 

bird  wherever  he  is  found;  this  was  This  glossy  black  member   of    the 

the  opinion  of  Audubon,  and  though  crow  family  is  a  native  of    northern 

son, e  bird-students  have  t>'ipd  to  find  Europe,  Asia  and  America,    though 

enough  differences  between  the  Old  it  is  now  practically  exterminated  in 

World  and  the  New  World  birds  to  the  eastern  slates. 

class    them    as     separate      species,  Probably  many   observers  do    not 

modern  naturalists  agree  with  Aud-  distinguish  between  the  raven  and  "a 

ubon,  and  let  the    slight  dissimilari-  large  crow."     Raven  is   about    two 


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feet  long  and  similar  in  build  to  the 
-crow;  the  plumage  is  compact,  glossy 
black,  with  viclet  and  greenish  re- 
flections, the  feathers  of  the  chin 
and  thoats  in  particular  are  unique 
to  the  species,  being  long,  stiff,  nar- 
row, even  bristly,  and  with  very  dis- 
tinct outlines.  '1  he  female  is  slightly 
smaller  than  the  male,  hut  in  other 
respects  is  his  double. 

Once  found  over  the  entire  conti- 
nent of  North  America,  from  Labra- 
dor to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  the  raven 
is  now  seen  but  occasionally  in  many 
of  its  former  haunts.  In  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  where  men  are  scarce,  it 
is  holding  its  own  fairly  well,  but 
from  the  more  accessible  and  move 
thickly  populated  regions  it  is  slowly 
passing  away.  The  same  story  is  true 
in  Europe;  it  has  almost  entirely  dis- 
appeared from  the  British  Island. 
One  wriier  comments  on  this  loss  as 
follows: 

"The  American  Raven  probably 
will  be  safe  in  his  Rocky  Mountain 
haunts  for  years  to  come,  but  he  is 
so  far  removed  from  man's  habita- 
tions that  his  picturesquenes,  his 
oddieties,  his  gravities  and  his  croak- 
ings  virtually  are  lost  to  the  world. 
It  is  a  hard  state  of  affairs  when  in- 
dividuality in  animal  l;fe  brings  per- 
secution and  death." 

The  individuality  of  the  raven  is 
by  no  means  abhorrent.  The  bird 
is  generally  seen  singly,  or  in  pairs, 
except  perhaps  in  small  family  flocks 
after  the  breeding  season  Though 
naturally  aloof  and  lonely  it  is  easily 
domesticated  by  kindness,  and  be- 
comes much  attached  to  its  master, 
following  him  like  a  dog;  it  can  be 
taught  to  imitate  the  human  voice 
and  to  pronounce  a  few  words  with 
great  distinctness.  In  short,  it  is  a 
very     sagacious,     courageous     and 


.: 


powerful  bird,  yet  though  wary  and 
distrustful  by  nature,  it  is  docile 
and  affectionate  when  domesticated. 
"'J he  bird  is  not  altogether  bad," 
runs  one  comment.  "It  does  rob  the 
nests  of  other  birds,  and  it  is  this  trait 
of  character  which  has  lost  it  life 
and  caste  in  England.  The  game- 
keeper there  shoots  it  on  sight,  and 
in  recent  years,  because  of  the  "ro- 
wing scarcity,  the  museum  collec- 
tors have  been  hunting  the  raven  in 
all  places  where  it  is  reported  to 
have  dared  to  show  its  head.  The 
probabilities  are  that  the  raven  does 
more  good  than  it  does  harm.  It 
kills  thousands  of  young  rodents 
that  would  grow  up  to  become 
pests  fjf  the  field;  voracious  to  the 
point  of  eating  anything  and 
everything  that  can  be  called  food, 
it  is  particularly  fond  of  carrion, 
whether  of  flesh,  fish  or  fowl,  dead 
from  disease  or  from  accident,  so 
it  is  also  valuable  as  a  scavenger.  It 
will  ev'en  attack  an  animal  the  size 
of  a  sheep  that  is  helpless  or  dying" 
The  habit  is  referred  to  by  the 
poet: 

"And  vast  confusion  waits, 
As  doeth  a    raven    on    a    sick-fallen 
beast." 

---King  John 
"And  there  between  me    and  the 

sun, 
I  saw  the  expecting  raven  fly. 
Who  scarce    would    wait    'till    both 

should  die, 
Ere  his  repast  begun; 
He  flew,    and    perch 'd,      then    flew 

once  more, 
And  each   time  nearer    than  before; 
I  saw  his  wing  through  twilight  flit, 
And  once  so  near  me  he  alit 

I  could  have  smote,  butlack'd  the 

strength." 

—Lord  Byron. 


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29 


800  Skeletons. 


Bristol,  Va.-Tenn.,  Jan.  25. ---Discovery  of  approximately  800  human 
skeletons  in  a  cave  in  the  mountains  about  15  miles  from  Bristol  was  made 
today  by  Professor  Henry  Woodman  of  this  city,  who  made  an  inspection 
of  the  cave  at  the  invitation  of  mountaineers. 

An    opening    which    runs  40  feet      earth.     '!  he  bones  were  partly"  cov- 


stn.ight  down  in  the  earth  was 
found  several  days  ago  by  people  liv- 
ing in  that  section.  I  pon  making 
investigation  they  found  several  hu- 
man skulls.  The  skulls, were  brought 
to  Bristol  and  newspapapermen  and 
college  professors  were  asked  to  en- 
ter and  inspect  the  interior  of  the 
Aliening. 

Upon  descending  the  tunnel  by 
means  of  a  rope  Professor  Woodman 
found  a  heap  of  human  bones  30  feet 
high  and  about  SO  feet  wide.  Indian 
hatchets  and  beads  were  also  found 
found,  'i  he  cave  has  several  tunnels 
reaching  off  on  the  sides  and  is  in 
the    shape  cf  a  huge   crevice  in    the 


Institutional    No 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 


tes. 


Johny  Wright  received  a  visit 
from  his  home  folks  last  Wednesday. 

The  boys,  whose  business  it  was 
tc  bottom  chairs,  have  had  an  idle- 
period.  Now,  they  are  resuming 
their  work. 

Rev.  Mr.  Osborn,  of  Concord,  who 
preached  for  us  Sunday  filled  the 
boys  with  admiration  and  nice  resol- 
utions by  his  fine  seimon  on  the  trial 
of  Christ. 

The  total  of  200  boys  has  at  last 
been  reached,     This  is  the  result  of 


ered  over  by  earth  which  is  thought 
to  have  fallen  in  from  the  opening 
above.  The  peak  of  the  heap  is 
directly  under  the  entrance  and  this 
leads  t(  the  belief  that  the  Indians 
thew  their  dead  into  the  cavity. 

The  heap  is  cone  shaped  and  con- 
tains an  assortment  of  every  bone  in 
the  human  body.  Professor  Wood- 
man declares  experiments  show  that 
some  of  the  bones  have  been  in  the 
cave  for  about  1,000  years.  A  num- 
ber of  experts  and  archalologists  are 
planning  to  spend  a  night  in  the  cave 
to  continue  the  investigation.  The 
cave  is  located  in  a  spot  in  the  moun- 
tains almost  inaccessible. 


the  opening  of  sixth  Cottage.  Soon 
we  hope  the  seventh  Cottage's  doors 
will  be  thrown  open. 

Because  of  some  possibly  overlook- 
ed precaution,  the  pipes  of  cottage 
No.  3  froze  Friday  night  and 
bursted.  The  result  of  this  was  to 
flood  the  boys  sitting  room.  Every- 
thing is  now  all  O.   K. 

In  a  combat  of  physical  prowress, 
the  printers  overcame  the  shop  boys 
in  a  short  but  hot  contested  match 
of  strength.  Mr,  Goer's  offer  to 
give  kindling  to  start  fires  was  the 
great  incentive  in  the  contest. 

Saturday,  a  day  which  all  the  boys 
look  forward  to  is  the  day  of  all 
matches,  such  as  spelling,  buzz    and 


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THE  UPLIFT 


multiplication  matches  etc.  In  the 
big  room,  as  this  is  the  name  the 
boys  have  given  it,  not  because  of 
its  size  but  for  its  most  advanced 
books,  had  a  spelling  and  buzz  match 
to  take  up  the  2  hours  of  school 
time. 

Mr.  Cloer,  of  No.  5,  is  making 
book  cases  for  the  new  school  room 
presided  ov<:r  by  Miss  Greenlee, 
and  for  Cottages  No,  5  and  6.  The 
boys  are  grateful  for  this  because 
book  shelves  have  been  a  much  need 
ed  convenience.  Thanks  are  ex- 
tended the  Mr.  Cloer. 

In  talking  of  a  debate  they  heard 
in  No.  5,  Miss  Teague  and  several 
other  matrons  requested  that  this 
question  be  debated,  Resolved:  that 
women  should  have  the  right  to 
enter  into  all  political  business.  They 
will  attend  this  debate  when  it  comes 
off  next  Friday,  and  will  doubtless 
be  highly  entertained. 

Well,  folks,  it's  arrived  at  last. 
Doubtless  you  know  that  of  which 
I  am  speaking  of—snow,  ''It  never 
rains,  but  what  it  pours,"  is  a  faith- 
ful and  true  saying.  This  snow 
wasn't  hard  enough,  consequently 
the  toys,  although  they  snowballed 
to  a  great  extent,  did  not  have  a 
holiday. 

When  a  position  of  importance  is 
vacant,  usually  it  has  to  be  filled  sat- 
isfactorily and  quickly.  The  other 
night,  due  to  sickness,  Mr.  D.  A. 
Corizine  was  off  his  duty  as  night- 
watchman.  Some  one  had  to  take 
his  place,  no  officers  was  available 
at  this  time,  therefore  it  was  dicid- 
ed  to  use  a  boy  at  the  school.  Rich- 
ard Johnson  was  chosen.  He  filled 
this  responsible    position    creditably 


to  himself    and 
institution. 


satisfactorily    to  the 


The  boys  of  the  Guilford  Cottage 
organized  a  Literary  Society  some 
weeks  ago,  and  when  searching  for 
a  name  they  decided  to  name  it  af- 
ter some  great  friend  and  benefac- 
tor of  the  school;  so  they  named  it 
in  honor  of  Mr.  E.  P.  Wharton,  of 
Greensboro.  This  fine  man  is  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
and  they  "could  nsme  their  society 
after  no  better  man.  The  boys  of 
this  cottage  are  proud  of  their  so- 
ciety. 


InevitaLla. 

"Re  sure  your  sin  will  find  you 
out."  the  Buffalo  Evening  Times 
says: 

A  policeman  was  standing  on  a 
corner  in  New  Orleans.  Up  stepped 
a  man  and  asked  why  the  street  car 
didn't  stop  when  he  signaled  them. 
He  didn't  get  the  kind  of  answer  he 
expected,  for  the  policeman  recog- 
nized him  as  "one  of  the  cleverest 
passers  of  bad  checks  ever  known, 
wanted  in  many  cities."  The  law 
gets  nearly  all  of  them,  in  the  long 
run.  Master  minds,  among  crimi- 
nals, exist  only  in  detective-story  fic- 
tion. 

We  hear  much  eiiticism  of  the 
agents  of  justice,  for  failure  to  :.p- 
prehend  criminals.  Yet  instances 
are  numerous  :>f  men  committing 
crimes  and  indefinitely  escaping  pi  n- 
ishment.  One  would  have  thought 
that  Matthew  Bullock,  wanted  in 
Warren  on  the  charge  of  inciting  to 
riot,  was  tolerably  safe  in  Cana'.a. 
Rut  not  so.  A  letter  to  his  relati  es 
in  Warren  couuty  revealed  to  watch- 
ful Warren  officers    his  whereabouts 


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and  when  tne  Canadian  officials  rea-  the  chariots  of  fire  never  appear. 
lizd  that  they  cannot  refuse  to  turn  The  golden  lands  that  l.e  at  the 
over  to  North  Carolina  authorities  a  end  of  the  rainbow  are  never  reach- 
person  charged  with  crime  in  this  ed.  Acres,  their  firmament  the 
State,  he  will  bo  sent  on  here  to  meteors  of  great  success  never  flash, 
stand  his  trial.  It's  the    steady    grind   day    after 

Men  need  not  commit  crime  think-  day  in  th  2  face  of   ups    and    downs 

inc.'  that    they  can    get  away  with  it  that  makes  a  fellow's  dreams    coma 

easily.  true.  Constant  application,  persisten- 

— ly  and  dogged  determination  are  the 

Tne  Steady  Grind  qualities  that  win  at  last. 

The  fellow  who  knows  how  to  grind  Shaking  dice  with  fate  is   a    fool's 

gets  there  in  the  end.  ^ame.      History  records  the  victories 

Some  people    are  always   looking  ?f  no  man  who  was  not  a  day  laborer 


for  sky  rockets.    They  believe  human 


in  life's  harvest  field. 

Good    luck    is    the    rarest    flower 
TherbeiieVin7santaClauS      that  blooms  and  it   blossoms    mostly 
for  adults.     They  expect  to  wake  up      ln  *he  gardens  of  imagination. 
some  morning  and    find    themselves      ,    1/ your  rival  is  a  steady    grinder, 
wealthy,  famous  and  powerful.    But      look  out  for  hira.-Selected. 


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lived  as  a  child.  Passing  a  fina  big  house  she  read  a 
name  on  the  brass  plate  upon  the  door. 

"Who  is  Dr.  Joseph  Walker?"   she  asked 

"Why,  don't  you  remember?  He  lived  in  a  little  house 
close  to  yours." 

What!  Joe  Walker  who  used  to  pick  berries  for  us  in 
the  summer?" 

"Do  you  remember  anything  about  him?" 

"No,  except  that  my  father  said  the  berries  Joe  picked 
never  had  to  be  gone  over  a  second  time,  and  he  never 
wasted  a  moment." 

"Well,  that's  just  what  they  say  about  him  now.  That's 
how  he  has  got  on. "  —  The  Evangelical. 


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A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 


PUBLISHED    BY 


Tha  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.      Type-setting   by  the   Eoy's   Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 


JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor, 


J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered   as   second-class   matter  Dec.  4,  1920,    at  the   Post  Office    at    Concord, 
X.  C.  under  Ast  of  March  3,  1879. 


SOUNDING  THE  BOYS. 

Col.  Al  Fairbrotber,  of  Greensboro,  has  always  been  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  growth  and  development  of  the  Jackson  Training  School. 
More  than  that  he  has  always  manifested  a  brotherly  love  and  concern 
for  the  "under  dog'."  He  has  always  fought  for  consistency,  for  a  chance 
and  an  opportunity  for  all  men,  who  are  struggling  for  existence,  life,  hap- 
piness and  an  equal  chance. 
Quoting  from  a  letter  of  Feb.  4th  Col.  P'airbrother  has  this  to  say: 

'"I  have  just  finished  reading  copy  of  THE  Uplift  bearing  this  date, 
and  the  same  mail  brought  me  a  copy  of  'North  Carolina's  Child  Wel- 
fare Programme'—issued  by  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Public 
Welfare.  In  this  pamphlet  is  a  picture  concerning  the  wealth  of  North 
Carolina  in  a  bunch  of  bright  boys  at  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Train- 
ing School. 

"This  thought  has  occurred  to  me:  each  one  of  those  boys  must  be 
doing  some  thinking—must  be  wondering  about  the  great  big  world 
svhich  is  before  him  when  quitting  your  institution.  Wonder  what  he 
tbinks  about?  Is  his  mind  in  the  right  channel?  Is  he  seeing  ideals 
worthwhile— or  is  he  just  moving  on? 

"I  want  to  give  a  little  inspiration  to  the  boys,  and  want  to  offer 
$5.00  for  the  best, 
4.00  for  the  second  best, 
3.00  for  the  third  best, 
2.00  for  the  fourth  best,  and 
1.00  for  the  fifth  best 
Three  or  four  hundred  word  story  on    the    subject,     "WHAT    I'D 
LIKE  TO  DO,  and  WHY  I'D  LIKE  TO  DO  IT,  When  I  Finish  At  The 


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Jackson  Training  School." 

"Of  course,  I  take  it  that  you  would  print  the  letters  in  The  Uplift. 
The  judges  of  the  merit  of  the  letters  would  be  selected    by   you,    and 
each   one   submitted   should  receive  attention  and  to  those  who  didn't 
get  into  either  one  of  the  above  classes  it  should  be  pointed  out  WHY." 
Col.  Fairbrother  will  please  accept  this  as  an  answer  to  his  letter   and 
an  acceptance  of  his  appreciated  proposition.     He  may   re^t    assured    that 
the  boys  will  go  about  this  little-business,  search  their  hearts  and  their  minds, 
in  an  enthusiastic  and  honest  spirit.     The  policy  of   the    management   and 
the    inclination    of    all    the   otficers  have  all  the  while  been  one  of  the  Big 
Brother  manner  of  dealing  with  the  youngsters.     It  is  rare  that  a  day  pas- 
ses that  a  bulk  of  the  boys  are  not  confronted  with  a  suggestion  of  a  study 
of  themselves,  what  they  aspire  to  and  why.    But  we  have  not  gone  so  far 
as  to  ask  them  to  submit  their  aspirations  and  the    reasons     for    such    as- 
pirtiuns  to  black  and  white.     The  idea  of  Col.  Fairbrother  is  most  capital, 
and   we    send    word  to  him  by  these  presents  that  the  word    has  been  sent 
down  throughout  the  cjttage  homes  to    200    boys,    telling    them    what    a 
friend,  though  absent  in  person  but  always  with  them  in  spirit,   desires  of 
them. 

And  thisis  the  way  CjI.  Fairbrother  had  of  getting  into  The  Uplift 
some  real  good  and  choice  reading  matter.     We  know  his  game. 

•    •••»•»• 

STRIVING  FOU  CONSISTENCY. 

A  grand  jury  in  a  certain  county  of  Georgia,  manifesting  just  as  good  a 
spirit  as  a  rattlesnake,  has  served  official  notice  on  the  ladies  of  the  county 
that  games  cf  chance  shall  stop,  that  playing  for  prizes  is  just  as  much 
gambling  as  the  negro's  sport  in  shooting  dice,  and  must  stop  or  else  an 
indictment  will  be  forthwith  against  them. 

It  is  a  strain  of  the  idea  of  consistency  to  deny  a  crowd  of  idle  men  the 
privilege  of  sitting  around  a  covered  table  and  play  for  "chips,"  which 
represent  a  money  value,  and  then  applaud  and  publish  in  the  Society  Col- 
umn of  the  Sunday  paper  that  Mrs.  So  and  So  gave  a  swell  whist  party 
(ever  so  many  tables)  and  that  the  beautiful,  charming  Miss  Sallie  Jones 
received  the  capital  prize,  which  was  a  pair  of  fine  silk  "pick-a-boo"  hose, 
and  that  Miss  Virginia  Snobbins  received  the  consolation  prize,  which  was 
a  "lip-stick."  In  this  case  the  stockings  and  the  lip-stick  represent  noth- 
ing in  the  world  but  the  "chips"  and  "chips"  represent  money. 

We  are  not  so  extreme  as  to  believe  that  such  practices  will  lead  to  per- 
dition, disgrace  or  cause  one  to  become  a  social  outcast;  but  the  very  char- 


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attpr  and  reputation  of  the  women,  who  pull  off  these  prize  contests,  give 
to  a  game  of  chance  a  certain  dignity  that  the  average  youth  is  easily  per. 
suaded  that  there  is  no  harm  whatever  in  it.  And  yet  there  is,  and  here  is 
where  the  women  are  setting  a  bad  example  to  the  young. 

Gambling,  and  all  games  of  chance  are  gambling,  is  just  as  much  harm 
in  the  parlors  of  an  elegant  home,  brilliant  with  the  presence  of  finely  dress- 
ed women  and  gaudy  decorations,  as  urchins  sprawling  on  the  ground  "shoot- 
ing craps,"  and  even  worse  because  of  the  publicity  and  the  high  standing 
of  the  participants. 


When  our  friends  come  to  see  us,  there  is  one  feature  they  must  not 
overlook  seeing.  In  full  blast  is  our  new  modern  Bakery.  Clean  as  a  pin, 
orderly  as  a  clock,  and  turning  out  some  of  the  most  splendid  bread  in  all 
creation.  The  pies  that  come  from  that  charming  little  bakery  as  Mr. 
Hilton  and  the  boys  direct  and  manage  it,  would  make  most  any  one  feel 
somewhat  pious.  Stop  for  a  thought.  The  business  of  a  community  bak- 
ery has  become  a  live  one.  Nearly  every  town  of  any  size  needs  and 
wants  a  bakery,  but  the  question  of  securing  an  expert  to  manage  it  has 
been  a  most  difficult  proposition.  In  our  case  we  are  serving  a  fine  pur- 
pose, making  bread  for  ourselves,  and  training  boys  into  a  live,  worth- 
while business. 


Can't  "Know  North  Carolina"  this  week.  The  committee,  which  was 
going  to  lead  the  campaign  and  keep  ahead,  week  by  week,  through  the 
Chapel  Hill  News  Letter,  comes  up  missing  the  third  week.  At  any  rate 
nothing  has  come  this  way  to  indicate  any  activity  on  the  part  of  this  hon- 
ored committee.  We  started  with  a  toast  by  the  late  Gov.  Bickett,  and 
followed  it  with  a  prophecy  by  the  late  Gov.  Aycock,  and  there  it  hangs.. 


»  »  »  • 


The  record  of  Mr.  Taylor,  whose  picture  we  carry  in  another  part  of  this 
issue,  is  an  object  lesson.  When  a  mar.  with  his  uneven  chance,  from  a 
natural  lacking,  can  accomplish  what  he  does,  issue  weekly  a  live,  credi- 
table paper  for  his  county,  get  out  an  industrial  issue  of  fifty-six  pages, 
splendidly  illustrated,  keep  his  family  going  and  his  head  above  the    water 


—why,  that's  a  man. 


Governor  Morrison  is  insistent  on  his  campaign  for  better  and  more  gar- 
dens, pig  and  cow.     He  is  eternlly  right.     We  have  come  in  possession    of 


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wo  pigs,  one  cow  and  have  a  place  for  the  garden— but  who,  in  this  ficklo 
world,  is  going  to  make  that  place  look  like  a  garden? 


BELLING  THE  CAT. 

Long  ago,  the  mice  had  a  general  council  to  consider  what  meas- 
ures they  could  take  to  outwit  their  common  enemy,  the  Cat.  Some 
said  this,  and  some  said  that;  hut  at  last  a  young  mouse  got  up 
and  said  he  tad  a  proposal  to  make,  which  he  thought  would  meet 
the  case.  "You  will  all  agree,"  said  he,  ''that  our  chief  danger 
consist  in  the  sly  and  treacherous  manner  in  which  the  enemy  ap- 
proach us.  Now,  if  we  conceive  some  signal  of  her  approach,  we 
could  easily  escape  from  her.  I  venture,  therefore,  to  propose 
that  a  small  bell  be  procured,  and  attached  by  a  ribbon  round  the 
neck  of  the  Cat.  By  this  means  we  should  always  know  when 
she  was  about  and  could  easily  retire  while  she  was  in  the  neigh- 
borhood." 

This  proposal  met  with  general  applause,  until  an  old  mouse  got 
up  and  said:  "that  is  all  very  well,  but  who  is  to  bell  the  Cat?" 
The  mice  looked  at  one  another  and  nobody  spoke.  Ihe  old  mouse 
said: 

"IT  IS  EASY  TO  PROPOSE  IMPOSSIBLE  REMEDIES." 


THIi  UPLIFT 


""ROBERT    S.    TAYLOR 

There  is  no  end  of  examples  where  men  and  women,  inheriting  some  physi- 
cal misfortune,  or,  in  the  course  of  time,  becoming  the  victim  of  an  accident 
leaving'  them  somewhat  maimed,  have  made  such  achievements  in  the  affairs 
of  life  as  to  merit  the  praise  and  applause  of  the  public. 


f  recall  a  friend  of  my  youth,  re- 
hiring from  a  faithful  service  in  the 
Wav  Between  the  States,  having  lost 
one  leg.  The  limb  was  shot  off  just 
as  close  to  his  body  as  was  possible 
tii  do.  He  carried  around  with  him  a 
bright  and  cheerful  spirit  at  what- 
ever he  was  called  to  do.  Return- 
ing after  the  surrender,  with  nothing 
in  the  wide  world  except  his  honor 
and  his  indomitable  will,  he  went 
about  the  business  of  cheating  star- 
vation. To  cut  a  long  story  short, 
this  one-legged  Confederate  veteran 
married  himself  a  wife,  reared  tine 
children,  owned  his  own  home,  stood 
high  in  his  community,  lived  an  honor- 
able and  correct  life,  dying  a  few 
years  ago  with  not  a  single  enemy  on 
earth  but  with  the  esteem  and  res- 
pect of  all  who  knew  him.  This  in 
itself  is  not  so  remarkable,  for  hund- 
reds and  thousands,  maimed  equally 
as  bad,  made  good  and  successful 
lights  but  this  Confederate  hero  to 
whom  we  refer  had  a  brother-in-law. 
That  kinsman  never  fought  for  his 
country,  rendered  no  service  whatever, 
hail  perfect  limbs,  a  tireless  tongue, 
a  busy-bodied  nature,  and  couldn't 
or  didn't  make  a  living,  trusted  by 
none — he  was  simply  a  nobody. 

But  the  other  day  there  came  to  my 
desk  a  Special  Edition  of  the  Duplin 


and  the  ambitions  of  the  people  of 
Duplin  county.  A  little  further  on 
we  discovered  the  reason  for  this 
really  brilliant  piece  of  work.  At  the 
head  of  that  paper  is  a  man,  whom 
nature  started  off  in  life  under  a 
handicap,  a  very  serious  and  a  life- 
time disadvantage.  But  while  nature 
does  some  peculiar  stunts  in  the  dis- 
tribution of  powers  among  her  child- 
ren, she  makes  compensation  in  a 
majority  of  cases  in  abundantly  hand- 
ing out  blessings  in   another  way. 

Mr.  Robert  S.  T;;ylor,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  and  the  editor  and  publ- 
isher of  the  Duplin  Record  since  Nov- 
ember, 1915,  was  denied  from  birth 
the  faculty  of  hearing.  Is  this  handi- 
cap? To  most  men  it  would  be;  but 
not  to  Taylor.  Evening  up  this  mis- 
fortune, there  was  given  an  unusual 
intellect,  a  fine  vision,  a  superb  will 
and  a  tota,l  ignorance  of  what  lazi- 
ness is.  Mr.  Taylor  was  born  in  Dup- 
lin county.  He  is  a  B.  A.  graduate 
of  Gallaudet  College,  the  National 
College  for  the  deaf,  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  is  also  honored  by  that  in- 
stitution with  the  degree  M.  A.,  in 
recognition  of  certain  post-graduate 
work  and  achievements.  He  has  been 
at  different  times  president  and  secre- 
tary of  the  North  Carolina  Associa- 
tion of  the  Deaf,  and  member  of  the 


Record,  published  in  the     small  town  executive  committee  of  the  National 

of  Warsaw.  It  contained  56  pages  well  Association  of  the  Deaf.     It   is  said 

prepared  reading  matter  that  told  in  that  his  activity  and  enthusiasm  for 

a  fine  way    of    the    accomplishments  the   advancement   of   the   educational 


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ROBERT  S.  TAYLOR 
Warsaw,  N.   0. 


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interests  of  the  Deaf  has  given  him 
an  acquaintance  and  high  standing 
throughout  the  country. 

It  is  pleasing  to  the  craft,  it  goes 
without  saying,  that  Mr.  Taylor's  suc- 
cess in  a  difficult  field  of  activity,  such 
as  liewspnperdom  offers,  is  regarded 
no  small  achievement;  and  a,ll  will  re- 
joice in  knowing  that  this  admirably 
supported  Special  Edition  of  The  Rec- 
ord gives  unmistakable  evidence  that 
his  neighbors,  his  fellow  citizens 
throughout   the  good  county  of  Dup- 


lin, hold  him  in  high  esteem  and  liber- 
ally sustain  him  in  his  splendid  efforts 
to  weekly  sing  the  praises  of  Old 
Duplin. 

How  do  the  aimless  amd  the  bunch 
that  are  looking  for  "something  to 
turn  up"  feel  in  the  presence  of  the 
records  made  all  around  them  by 
such  line  spirits  as  our  old  one-legged 
Confederate  soldier  and  this  man, 
Robert  S.  Taylor,  and  their  innumer- 
able class  ? 


Abraham  Lincoln 

To-morrow  is  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  was 
born  February  12,  1S09  in  a  log  cabin  of  the  rudest  sort  in  Kentucky.  He 
had  the  elements  of  so  much  greatness,  overcome  so  many  obstacles  that 
would  have  defeated  the  average  youth,  rose  to  such  eminence,  and  placed 
his  name  so  high  in  American  annals,  that  it  is  worth  our  while,  annually 
to  review  the  lite  and  course  of  Lincoln. 


LINCOLN    IN    CONGRESS 

\\  bile  the  Mexican  War  was  go- 
ing on  a  tall,  lean  awkward  man 
was  offering  himself  to  the  voters 
of  the  Springfield  district  in  Illinois 
as  a  candidate  for  Congress.  Just 
as  the  war  closed,  he  took  his  seat 
in  the  House  of  Representives  at 
Washington.  Day  after  day  he  sat 
in  the  House,  and  had  little  to  say, 
but  his  voting  always  showed  that 
he  was  not  pleased  with  the  war 
against  the  Mexicans.  His  name 
was  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  this  was 
the  only  term  that  he  ever  spent  in 
■Congress.  During  this  same  period 
Jefferson  Davis,  who  was  afterwards 
opposed  to  Lincoln  in  war,  sat  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  nursing  the 
wound  which    he    bad    received      in 


the  hills  of  Mexico. 

THt  BOYHOOD  OF  LINCOLN 

When  Lincnln  was  seven  years  old 
his  father  moved-  to  Indiana  and 
male  a  rough  "camp"  in  the  woods 
for  his  family  to  live  in.  This  home 
was  a  mere  shed  of  poles  open  to  one 
side,  and  covered  with  leaves  and 
branches.  A  year  later  a  new  log: 
cabin  was  built  with  four  sides  and 
a  door  and  windows.  A  floor 
made  of  split  loss  kept  the  family 
off  the  ground.  Abe  slept  in  the  loft 
on  a  bed  of  leaves. 

aue's  schooling 

Young  Lincoln  went  to  a  log  school 
in  the  woods  just  long  enough  to 
learn  a  little  reading,  writing  and 
ciphering.  He  managed  to  get  a   few 


fighting  his  country's  battles  among      books,  however,  such  as    "Robinson 


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Crusoe,"  and  "Aesop's  Fables,"  and  office  of    president    of    the    United 

these  he  read  over  and    over    again.  States.      It  was  a  great  step  upward 

At  night  he  sat  in  front  of  the    tire,  for  the  railsplitter  and  flatboat  man. 

and  by  the  light    from    the    blazing  His  triumph  over  the   difficulties    of 

logs  he  worked   out  sums    in    arith-  early  life  was  one  of  the  most    mar- 

metic  on  the  Hat  wooden  fire-shovel.  velous  accomplishments  of  all    ages. 

His  pencil  was  a  piece  of  char-coal.  It  shows  ihat  he  had  great  strength 

When  the  shovel  was    covered    with  of  mind   and    wonderful    knowledge 

figures,  he  would  take  a    knife    and  of  men. 

shave  it    off    clean,    and    begin    his  Many  stories  have  been  told  about 

ciphering  again.  him  and  his  family;  and  no    end    of 

LINCOLN  SPLITS  RAILS.  anecdotes  and  feats  have  been  cred- 

T.  ,  ited    to    this    wonderful    man,    but 

When  Lincoln    grew    up    to    be  a  ^  Linco,n        bab,    never 

man,  he  was  six  feet    tour  .nches  in  m.   (lreamed  of      How    he 

height,  and  as  strong  in  his  arms  as  fu]]  rf  ,.        and  ^^ 

a  giant.     On  his  first  journey  away  ™  became  friendg  jg  a  samp]e     [t 

from  home,  he  helped  to  take  a  b,R  .     probably    manufactured,    but    it 
flatboat  down  the  Mississ.ppi   River       J    have    been   trufi    &nd   fitg  tfce 

to  New  Orleans     When  he  returned        ,  ,,     ,     .  . 

....  .,      c      .,     .   .  character  so  well    that  we   here   re- 

ins father  put  the  family  into  an  ox-  . 

wagon  and  took  them  to  Illinois      A  ^ESte  showing  goods   to    two   or 
new  log  cabin  was  built  thereon  the  en   }n    Qffut,g    ^    Qm 

Sangamon    river      Abe     helped    to  ^       ^    b  tQ 

split  rails  for  building  a  fence  around  J       an  *  maM         us{ 

a    large  cornfield.     After    that    he  profanitVi  and  evidently  wish- 

worked  in  a  store;  then  he  was  chos-  K  ,-'  .       T  .       .„ 

t  .       .         '  f      l  j-  ing  to   provoke  a   quarrel.     Lincoln 

en  captain  of  a  companv  of  soldiers  ,  ,  ,,  t  j   i, „j 

,      '        ,     ,  t     A   ,  f   ,    ,-  „         eaned  over  the  counter  and  begged 

who  marched  away   to  fight  Indians  ,  .  ...  .       °Z  . 

.     .,       t>,     ,     tt      ,     -n,         i     .  him,   as  ladies  wee    present,  not  to 

in  the    Black    Hawk    War,    but,    as  .       '        .  .     '    T,      .'  ,, 

r  ;„„.,!„  „„i^    fi,„„  AiA    „„♦  fi„,i  1„„.  indulge  in  such  talk.     The  bully  re- 


Lincoln  said,  they  d>d    not  find-any- 


torted  that  the  opportunity  had  come 


thing  to  light  except    mosquitoes.  „     '    ,  -  ,   ,     ,      ,  ,  ■  t      „ A  .  „ 

-  for  which  he  had  long  sought,  and  he 

AN  ILLINOIS  LAWYER.  WQu]d   ,jke  tQ  s?e  the  man  who    cou!d 

Lincoln   read    a   number    of   law  hindt  r   him  from  saying  ai  yvhing  he 

books  at  home,  and  at  last  he  became  might   choose    to  say.     Lincoln,  still 

a  lawyer.      He  told     a  great  many  cool,  told  him  that  if  he  would  wait 

stories  that  made  people  laugh,  and  until  the  ladies  retired  he  would  hear 

everybody  liked    him.     Four    times  what  he  had  to  say,    and   give    bim 

he  was  sent  to  the  legislature  of  II-  any  satisfaction  he  desired, 
linois.     lhen  he  went    to  the    town  As  soon  as  the  women  were  gone, 

of  Springfield,  arid  the  people  of  that  the  man    became    furious.      Line  in 

district  elected  him  to  Congress.  heard     his     boasts     and    his    abuse 

For  more    than    ten    years    after  for  a  time,  and  finding  that  he    was 

his  term  as  a  lawmaker  at  Washing-  not  to  be  put   off   without    a    fig;  t, 

ton,  Lincoln  kept  at    his    work    as  a  said:    "Well  if  you  must  be  whipped, 

lawyer  in  Springfield.     Then  in    the  I  suppose  I  may  as  well  whip  you  as 

year  1860  he  was  elected  to  the  high  any  man."      This  was  just  what  the 


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bully  had  been  seeking,  lie  said,  so 
out  of  doors  they  went,  and  Lincoln 
made  short  work  with  him.  He 
threw  him  upon  the  ground,  held 
him  as  if  he  had  been  a  child,  and 
gathering  some  "smart  weed'' which 
grew  upon  the  spot,  rubbed  it  into 
his  face  and  eyes,  until  the  fellow 
bellowed  with  pain.  Lincoln  did  all 
this  without  a  particle  of  danger,  and 


when  the  job  was  finished,  went  im- 
mediately for  water,  washed  his 
victim's  face,  and  did  everything  he 
could  to  alleviate  his  distress.  The 
upshot  of  the  matter  was  that  the 
man  hecame  his  fast  and  life-long 
friend,  and  was  a  better  man  from 
that  day.  It  was  impossible  then, 
and  it  always  remained  for  Lincoln 
to  cherish  resentment  or  revenge. 


Vigilance  in  watching  opportunity;  tact  and  daring  in  seizing  upon 
opportunity;  force  and  persistence  in  crowding  opportunity  to  its  utmost 
of  possible  achievement — these  are  the  martial  virtues  which  must  com- 
mand success. — Austin  Phelps. 


Living  Under  Christian,    Not    Mosaic    Dispensation. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 

(Writer's  Note — For  fear  that  some  one  will  say  that  I  am  criticising  the 
Governor,  let  me  say  here  before  you  read  a  line,  that  not  a  word  is  to  be  so 
construed,  and  he  is  mentioned  here  solely  for  the  purpose  of  getting  my  facts 
in  shape.) 


My  friend  Mr.  R.  E.  Clark,  dis- 
cussing the  matter  of  an  effort 
being  made  to  do  away  with  capital 
punishment  and  the  nullification  of 
the  law  through  influence  or  the 
Governor  of  the  state  is  a  timely 
matter.  AVe  need  to  read  such  timely 
topics,  and  without  crossliring  Mr. 
Clark  in  any  way,  I  want  to  discuss 
tins  matter  from  the  standpoint  of 
one  who  occupies  a  middle  ground,  if 
such  can  he. 

Little,  if  anything  was  doing  to- 
ward abolishment  of  capital  punish- 
ment, in  the  open,  as  I  saw  it,  until 
the  matter  of  J.  T.  Harris'  life  or 
depth  was  brought  to  the  public  view, 
as  it  was  by  ex-Judge  Frank  Carter  of 
Asheville;  a  bright  man  whose  weak- 
est point  is  going  to  an  extreme.  I  do 


not  quite  know  if  I  am  utterly  op- 
posed to  capital  punishment;  for  there 
conies  up  ever  and  anon  cases  that 
are  not  entitled  to  even  a  trial,  when 
we  consider  the  grade  of  the  crime, 
wrong  though  such  a  thought  is:  I 
thought  I  read  unprejudiced  and 
fairly  all  that  passed  in  those  days 
before  Harris  was  executed,  and  all 
the  leading  papers  of  the  state  to  the 
contrary,  I  never  saw  or  felt,  that  the 
Governor  had  been  unduly  "assault- 
ed," and  to  call  the  hundreds  and 
hundreds  of  good  people  who  went  to 
the  trouble  and  expense  to  write  the 
Governor  a  "Mob,"  was,  I  thought, 
unfair.  I  was  not  one  of  them,  but 
would  have  been  hqfd  I  had  made  any 
move  at  all.  This  is  what  I  understood 
made  ex-Judge   Carter  appeal   to   the 


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people;   he  thought   Governor,  Morri-  us  a   rule  than   any  others,  saying  so 

son  had  made  up  his  mind  before  he  many  of  them  had  killed  a  follow  man 

heard  Carters  ease.  -My  appeal  to  the  in  passion,,  prior  to  which  time  they 

Governor,   had    it   been   made,    would  were  respected  citizens,  still  possess- 

liave  been  based  on  just   two  things;  in;,',  many  of     them,  the     instincts  of 

insanity   in    Harris'   family,   and   the  gentlemen.    Does  any  one  claim  that 

division  in  the  supreme  court,  where  carrying  out   the  old   .Mosaic  law  and 

two   wise   and  good   men   as   the   three  slaying   these    men    would    have    mad.; 

sa.id   Harris  had  not  had  a  fair  (rial.  the  world  or  society  any  better? 
I   believe   in   trying  cases   on   the   ev-  The  question  that  would  weigh  most 

idence  as     brought  out,   and      not   on  with   me.   in   making   a   decision   as  to 

sentiment;  and  there  being  two  causes  whether  Tarn  ready  to  repeal  the  law 

for   doubt   would   have   made  me   ask  is:    has    there    been    an    increase    in 

leniency  from  the  Governor:   further  murderers  in     states  that     have  done 

I  feel  sure  that  75  per  cent  of  those  away     with  the     death  penalty?       If 


who  asked  leniency  were  actuated  by 
what  I  have  stated  here.     I  am  in  no 


there  has   not   it    is   more   than  North 
Carolina   can  sav. 


wav  trying  to  excuse  Harris,  but  dis-  Unfortunately  have  not  the  figures 

cussing  a  case  that   provoked  a  state  1)eforc  me  at   t,ILS  time-      l    have    llot 

vide     discussion.     Harris     is     dead,  s:"d  h"lf  thele  ls  to  be  sa,d  here'  but 

right  or  wrong.     And,   to.),   I  do   not  tllIS  ls  lonS  already, 

feel    that    the    men    and    women    who  ^U>  ,u'°  llvm=   under  the  Christian 

asked   leniency    here   represent    those  dispensation,      not      under      the     old 


who  may  be  working  hard  to  do  away       M°.a"''   rtnd     Chri.s.'   did.    not      ^ach 
with  legal  killing;   nor  do  I  see  what 


they  could  possibly  gain  by  trying  to 
elevate  to  the  judgeship  a  man  opposed 
to  legal  execution,  especially  while 
the  law  ,  as  it  is.  stands. 


taking  of  human  life  by  law  or  other- 
wise. 

I  may  be  a  long  way  oft'  the  right 
line  of  thought,  but  the  very  fact  that 
a  lawyer  appealing  to  the  people  to 
use  influence  to  save  the  life  of  one 
What  is  punishment  for?  To  deter  wno  shot  down  a  valuable  man,  when 
men  from  violating  law,  of  course.  Ile  Was  nothing  to  them,  save  a  weak 
But  a  very  large  majority  of  the  kill-  human  being,  shows  one  of  two  things; 
ings  are  done  in  passion,  a  time  when  these  people  thought  this  man  needed 
there  is  no  time  to  contemplate  further  attention' before  electrocuting 
punishment  and  its  consequences.  This  him  or  the  feeling  that  none  should  be 
reminds  me  of  a  conversation  I  killed,  by  law,  has  grown  beyond  the 
had  many  years  ago  with  the  late  knowledge  of  the  general  public. 
Augustus     Leazer,     on   a   train   from  Several  years  ago  there  was  :>  man 

Charlotte  to  Greensboro,  when  he  was  shot  on  the  streets  of  Charlotte, 
snperintendnt  of  the  peniten-  The  jury  found  the  man  who  did  it 
tiary  at  Raleigh.  I  asked  the  question,  was  insane  at  the  time,  and  he  eseap- 
as  to  how  amd  what  cdass  of  prisoners  ed  death,  1  often  see  that  man,  and 
were  those  there  for  killing?  And  have  talked  with  him  about  this,  and 
was  told   that   they  gave   less   trouble       1  find  that  be  is  striving  harder  than 


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any  one  I   ever  saw   to   live   exactly  to  atone     and  get     forgiveness     for 

right.      To      use      his      own      wordsj  what  I  have  done."     None  will  say 

practically:     "I  have  committed  such  lie  is  not  an  exemplary  citizen;  yet 

a  horrible  crime,  I  feel  that  I  must  do  even  the  newspapers  cried  aloud  for 

all   the  good,    in   living,   I   can,  so   as  his  life. 


"When  the  farmer  can't  buy,  the  manufacturer  can't  sell  and  if  the 
manufacturer  can't  sell,  labor  can't  find  employment,  and  if  the  fanner 
can't  buy  the  manufacturer  can't  sell,  the  railroads  can't  make  much 
hauling  nothing  both  wajys!" — William  Jennings  Bryan. 


DISCUSSING  WEATHER   SIGNS. 

BY  E.  E.  CLAEK 

I 

The  2d  of  February  continues  to  attract  notice  as  Ground  Hog  Day,  al- 
though it  is  probable  that  very  few  people  really  believe  that  the  character  or! 
the  weather  on  that  day  is  a  forecast  for  the  next  40  days.  Even  if  the  sign 
was  dependable  we  are  often  at  a  loss  to  classify  the  day — whether  foul  or 
fair —  for  the  reason  that  the  weather  is  so  often  a  mixture  of  sunshine  and 
shadow  on  that  day  as  on  other  days,  and  as  nobody  can  say  positively  as  to  tho 
time  of  the  ground  hog's  appearing  we  may  not  know  whether  he  saw  his 
shadow  or  not. 

The  2d  of  February,  as  most  people  when  the  child  Jesus  was  presented  in 
know,  is  Candlemas  Day  in  the  Church  the  Temple.  When  Simeon,  whose  lifo 
calendar.  Originally  it  is  ascribed  to  was  spared  until  he  had  "seen  the 
heathen  origin.  The  Romans,  it  is  said.  Lord's  Christ/'  took  the  child  in  his 
were  in  the  habit  of  burning  candles  arms  and  blessed  Him,  he  announced 
on  that  day  to  the  goddess  Februa.  his  readiness  to  depart,  "For  mine 
the  mother  of  Mars.  The  lighted  eyes  have  seen  thy  salvation,  which 
candles  were  supposed  to  have  the  ef-  thou  hast  prepared  before  the  lace  of 
feet  of  frightening  the  devil  and  all  all  thy  people;  a  light  t>  lighten  the 
all  evil  spirits  away  from  those  who  Gentiles,  and  the  glory  of  thy  people* 
carried  them  and  from  the  houses  in  Israel."  "A  light  to  lighten  the 
which  they  were  burned.  Pope  Ser-  Gentiles"  is  believed  to  have  given 
gins,  so  the  story  runs,  feeling  (hit  it  rise  to  the  Church  festival,  which  is 
would  be  impossible  to  break  up  a  celebrated  in  the  Roman  Catholic 
practice  of  such  long  standing,  1  nriied  Church  with  many  lighted  candles, 
to  the  use  of  the  Church  by  enjoining  which  are  blessed  for  the  service, 
a  similar  offering  of  cand'es  to  the  [n  Scotland  Candlemas  dnv  is  one  o£ 
virgin  Mary.  Therefore  in  the  Church  four  term  days  appointed  fo>*  the  pay- 
calendar  Candlemas  Day  is  th  •  feast  merit  of  interest,  taxes,  etc.,  the  other 
of  the  purification  of  the  Virgin  Msirv,  three   term    days    being    Whitsunday, 


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Lammas  and  Martinmas.  There  is  a 
tradition  in  most  parts  of  Europe  to 
the  effect  that  the  weather  on  Candle- 
mas day  forecasts  the  weather  for  the 
ensuing  forty  days.  In  Scotland  the 
prognostication  is  expressed  this  way: 

"If  Candlemas  is  fair  and  clear, 

There'll   be   two    winters    in   the 
year. ' ' 

Which  means  that  winter  will  con- 
tinue for  a  season.  Another  couplet 
has  it  that  if  Candlemas  day  be  foul 
half  the  winter  is  gone  at  Yule;  which 
means  that  the  winter  was  half  done 
at  Christmas  and  the  other  half  being 
finished  at  Candlemas,  there  will  lie 
but  one  winter  instead  of  two  sup- 
posed to  be  forecast  by  a  fair  Candle- 
mas day. 

Just  where  and  when  the  ground 
hog,  or  woodehuek,  got  so  mixed  in 
with  the  Candlemas  day  weather  fore- 
cast as  to  effectually  obliterate  the 
origin  of  theday,  its  purpose  and  even 
its  name,  Idon't  know,  but  the  ground 
hog  sign  is  peculiar  to  some  sections  of 
the  United  States  only.  In  Europe, 
where  the  observance  of  Candlemas 
day  runs  far  back,  they  wouldn't 
know  what  meant  by  the  ground  hog 
sign  and  would  probably  resent  it  as 
irreverence  toward  sacred  things. 
The  theory  of  the  groundhog  sign  is 
that  the  animal,  having  spent  the 
winter  in  his  den,  comes  out  on  this 
particular  day,  February  2nd,  to  see 
if  the  winter  has  passed;  and  that 
animal  instinct  tells  him  by  the  con- 
dition of  the  weather  if  the  winter  is 
or  is  not  ended.  If  he  sees  his  shadow 
in  the  sunshine  he  returns  to  his  den 
and  remains  six  weeks;  if  he  doesn't 
see  his  shadow  he  stays  out  in  the 
open,  which  signifies  an  early  spring. 
Authorities  say  the  groundhog  hiber- 


nates, passing  the  winter  in  its  bur- 
row in  a  lethargic  state;  "going  to 
its  hibernation  in  late  September  and 
often  coming  out  in  March,  before  the 
cold  and  snow  have  ceased,  when 
many  starve  or  freeze  to  death."  If 
that  authority  is  correct  it  destroys 
the  ground  hog's  reputation  as  a 
weather  forecaster.  It  is  noticed  that 
he  is  said  to  come  out  in  March  in- 
stead ot'February  2,  as  popularly  sup- 
posed,  and  that  if  he  gets  out  before 
the  cold  weather  passes  he  may  freeze 
enough  to  go  back  to  his  winter  home 
and   stay    until    warm    weather  comes. 

Ground  hogs  are  common  in  the 
North  Carolina  mountain  region  and 
there  be  those  familiar  with  their  hab- 
its who  say  that  they  do  not  hiber- 
nate at  all  but  come  out  frequently 
during  the  winter,  especially  on  pleas- 
ant days.  And  as  Mr.  Dooley  would 
say,  ''There  ye  are."  I  do  not  under- 
take to  settle  the  dispute,  but  I  make 
bold  to  suggest  that  the  ground  hog's 
habits  may  be  governed  by  the  cli- 
mate in  which  he  lives  and  moves. 
In  the  colder  climates  he  may  hiber- 
nate from  late  September  until  March; 
in  the  milder  climates  he  may  come  out 
frequently  during  the  winter. 

But  however  that  may  be,  there  is 
nothing,  so  far  as  I  know,  to  sustain 
the  theory  that  he  comes  out  on  the 
2nd  of  February  and  stays  out  or  re- 
turns to  his  home  as  the  condition  of 
the  weather  may  indicate.  The  ground 
hog  sign,  therefore,  can't  be  recom- 
mended as  a  reliable  weather  forec;  st; 
but  the  idea  that  the  weather  on  Can- 
dlemas day  indicates  whether  winter  is 
or  is  not  over  is  probably  as  depen- 
dable as  many  other  weather  signs, 
which  are  not  dependable  at  all  in  all 
seasons,     for  "all  signs   fail     in  dry 


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weather,"  you  know.  It  can  be  said,  lish  it  abroad,  than  many  of  the  signs 

however,   that   the   wild   creatures,   or  of  the  weather  prophets.     But  some- 

niany   of   them,  know  by   instinct,   in  times  the  wild  creatures  may  miss  it 

many  eases  at  least,  as  to  the  veath-  and  in  our  urban  settlements,  where 

ei'  and  prepare  for  it  accordingly.  The  we   can't   observe   their  habits,  it   is 

instinct   of   the   wild   creature   would  safest   to   depend   on  weather  bureau 

lie  more  dependable,  if  he  could  pub-  forecasts. 


There  are  few  people  who  'would  have  attained  a  higher  greatness  imder 
the  handicaps  which  Lincoln  experienced.     He  did  not  complain  of  his  lot. 


LEARNED  WHEN  A  FARM  BOY. 

BY  C.  W.  HUNT. 

Number  X — Many  Small  Things. 

Having  finished  the  subjects  I  promised  to  write  about  there  has  appeared, 
as  I  wrote,  a  number  of  interesting  small  things;  not  large  enough  for  a  chap- 
ter, yet,  many  of  them,  as  interesting  as  anything  that  has  been  mentioned. 
Such  being  true,  I  am  about  to  write  a  number  composed  of  a  great  variety, 
making  almost,  if  not  quite  as  interesting  a.  chapter  as  any  that  have  gono 
before. 

RED-AXTS: — On  the  sunny  pas-  bug  down  the  hole,  which  would  soon 
tare  bill  side  we  located  a-  Red-Ant  come  back  dragging  all  the  ants  that 
hill,  that  was  not  for  a  year,  but  for  could  get  hold.  But  if  unable  to  drag 
many  years,  in  mid  summer,,  an  inter-  them  out  it  stayed  in.  It  was  hard 
esting  place,  as  we  watched  these  red  on  the  frog,  but  we  often  held  a  toad 
ants  bring  all  manner  of  insects  they  on  the  ant  hill  until  covered  with  bit- 
had  captured  far  from  the  ant  hole.  ing  ants;  then  free  it,  and  with  about 
Sometimes  singly,  sometimes  as  many  two  swipes  of  its  hind  legs  there  would 
as  six  pulling  and  tugging  at  the  same  not  be  an  ant  on  it.  If  we  caught  a  tor- 
worm  or  bug  they  had  found,  and  all  rapin  and  wanted  to  save  its  pretty 
went  the  same  way,  down  that  hole.  shell  we  only  had.  to  kill  it  and  placo 
We  wanted  mighty  bad  to  see  inside,  it  by  the  ant  hill,  and  in  a  few  days 
but  had  gumption  enough  to  know  wo  then1  would  not  be  a  particle  of  the 
would  not  be  able  to  restore  the  house  meat  there,  the  shell  clean  and  white 
as  they  had  made,  had  we  dug  in.      For  inside. 

hours  at  a  time  we  have  searched  for  COW-KILLER: — This    belongs      to 

bags  of  all  kinds,  grass-hoppers   and  the  stinging  ant   family,  in  fact  in  an 

such,    which    we    placed    in    reach    of  ant    almost   8|S  large   as  a   cricket,   as 

the  ant   bill   and  saw   the  ants   tackle  bard  as  soft   wood;  grows  to  an  inch 

anything  from  a   toad   down.     If   too  in  length,  is  red  ami  brown  and  has  a 

str<  ug  for  them,  then  we  turned  the  stinger  as  long  as  it  is,  in  fact  a  three 


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pronged  stinger.  What  named  it  "cow- 
killer''  we  never  knew,  we  got  the 
name  from  tradition.  We  had  a  de- 
sire to  make  them  sting  something 
to  see  if  the  thing  lived,  but  we  never 
"were  able  to  get  a  subject  when  we 
had  the  cow-killer.  We  were  told  its 
sting  would  kill  a  cow,  and  while  Ave 
took  chances  on  being  stung,  handling 
it  with  sticks  and  such,  we  never  al- 
lowed one  to  escape. 

TICKS:— As  far  back  as  I  can  re- 
member there  were  ticks  to  bite  every- 
thing that  walked  the  earth.  All  cat- 
tle ran  on  the  "commons,"  that  is 
you  had  to  fence  your  fields  and  ev- 
ery body's  cow  went  where  they  de- 
sired, even  breaking  down  your  fen- 
ces. And  it  was  a  common  thing  to 
find  cattle  running  at  large  covered 
with  ticks  so  you  could  take  a(  knife 
and  scrape  them  off  by  the  thousand  ? 
They  stunted  young  cows  and  made 
old  ones  poor.  As  they  tilled  with 
blood  and  become  the  size  of  a  grain 
of  corn,  they  fell  off  and  from  them 
came  the  "seed-tick",  an  infantisnml 
tick,  the,t  crawled  up  on  the  grass  and 
got  on  to  any  thing  it  could.  Nothing 
"was  more,  irritating  to  the  flesh  than 
a  lot  of  seed  ticks;  and  if  you  got 
one  you  would  likely  get  fifty.  They 
Were  worse  than  chiggers. 

KING-HORNET :— There  was  a 
stinging  insect  we  called  the  king-hor- 
net, though  it  was  as  large  r,s  ten  hor- 
nets; propagated  itself  on  the  order 
of  the  ground  dirt-dauber  by  catch- 
ing the  "jar-fly",  killing  it  by  the 
sting  then  leaving  it  alone.  No  doubt 
it  put  the  egg  in  at  time  it  stung  the 
fly.  We  handled  a  few  of  them,  a,nd 
they  had  a  sting  about  equal  to  the 
"cow-killer". 

HORNETS:— The  hornet  furnished 


many  lively  tilts  with  the  boys. 
Most  of  my  readers  know  a  hornet's 
nest,  built  somewhat  in  shape  of  an  a, 
corn,  and  in  size  up  to  a  foot  in  di- 
ameter, made  from  wood  fibre  like 
the  wasp  and  yellow  jacket  use.  They 
are  useful  in  catching  house  flies, but 
'sill  ^Iways  sting  if  troubled  at  the 
nest  or  if  they  happen  to  hit  you  about 
the  face  when  chasing  flies.  We  al- 
ways broke  them  up  if  we  had  to  barn 
them  at  night. 

YELLOW-JACKET  :— is  in  same 
class  as  the  hornet,  builds  in  the 
ground,  makes  a,  nest  like  the  wasp 
for  rearing  the  young,  and  are  the 
worst  of  all  the  small  stingers;  ami 
fight  till  all  are  killed.  We  so  often 
found  them  where  we  wanted  to  plow. 
They  would  sting  the  horses,  making 
them  umnauagable.  As  small  boys 
we  have  fought  a  large  yellow-jack- 
et nest  a  whole  summer.  They  were 
fond  of  fruit  and  would  come  to  a  cid- 
er mill  from  all  directions.  Not  sat- 
isfied with  one  sting,  they  keep  ou 
stinging  as  long  as  in  contact. 

BUMBLE-BEE:— Most  boys  who 
read  this  will  need  no  introduction  to 
this  insect ;  for  most  of  them  are  al- 
ready acquainted  with  it.  They  were 
as  mean  a  thing  as  we  ever  came  up- 
on in  a  nest;  and  they,  too,  we  always 
found  where  work  had  to  be.  done, 
and  could  not  be  done  until  we  killed 
them.  After  all  at  home  were  fixed, 
then  we  had  to  fight  those  away  from 
home  as  they  returned,  and  found  us 
about  the  place  we  had  robbed  them 
of.  They  lay  up  a  little  honey  for 
winter. 

TADPOLES:— They  are  an  embryo 
frog.  They  are  an  amusing  thing. 
The  small  black  tadpoles  are  the  off- 
spring of  the  toad  which,  while  a  dry 


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land  reptile  cannot  raise  its  young  ex- 
cept in  water,  and  they  hatch  into 
small  black  tadpoles  by  the  thousands, 
in  stagnant  water,  preferably,  and  will 
turn  to  a  small  frog  the  first  season. 
A  single  heavy  rain  will  destroy  all 
the  hatch  by  washing  them  away  as 
trash.  The  large  gray  tadpole  of 
running  water  is  the  offspring  of  the 
bull-frog  of  the  mill  ponds  and 
swamps.  We  never  quite  knew  how 
long  they  are  in  the  transformation, 
but  they  get  quite  large  and  have 
both  four  legs  and  ;%  tail;  but  some- 
time they  drop  the  tail  and  learn  to 
swim  with  legs  instead  of  tail  as  does 
the  fish,  and  then  to  jump. 

SXAPPIXG-TURTLE :— This  was 
a  water  reptile  that  was  prized  In- 
most old  people  as  food,  r,nd  is  said  to 
have  flesh  like  pork,  beef,  chicken. 
They  grew  to  12  inches  across  the  shell 
and  were  found  in  ponds  and  creeks. 
They  come  on  land  to  lay  eggs,  making 
a  small  hole  in  the  ground  with  a 
hind  foot  then  tunneling  a  large  open- 
ing slightly  under  the  small  hole 
where  the  foot  is  inserted  a,nd  the  dirt 
scraped  out.     In  this  they  lay  an  egg 


without  shell,  in  number  according  to 
size  of  the  layer,  placing  theui  in  a 
circle  or  circles  until  the  nest  is  full. 
This  is  covered  and  the  sun  does  the 
rest.  Once  I  found  a  nest  that  had 
hatched,  and  tracked  the  young  ones 
in  the  sand  to  where  they  went  into 
the  water,  and  found  a  number  about 
the  size  of  a  man's  thumb  nail.  Later 
I  found  one  in  the  act  of  making  a 
nest  a,iid  laying. 

TERRAPINS:— These  are  both 
land  and  water  reptiles.  The  water 
terrapin  resembles  the  snapping  tur- 
tle, but  will  not  tight  like  the  turtle, 
which  is  dangerous.  They  have  hab- 
its like  the  turtle,  and  raise  the  same 
way.  The  highland  terrapin  is  strict- 
ly a  dry  land  reptile  and  like  its  half 
brothers  the  turtle  and  the  water  ter- 
rapin lays  eggs  and  hatches  them  in 
the  sun.  They  are  one  of  the  few 
things  that  has  a  shell  that  opens  and 
closes  so  no  ordinary  enemy  can  hurt 
it.  They  are  everywhere,  and  have 
been  known  to  live  lifty  years,  by 
marking  them.  I  once  saw  one  dig- 
ging a  hole  for  a  nest  with  a  hind 
leg,   but   quit   on   being   discovered. 


Tilings  don't  turn  up  in  this  world  until  somebody  turns  them  up. — G3ff- 
iield.  } 


1 8  THE  UPLIFT 

"    •        IN  MICA  PRODUCTION  -    . 

(B.  G.  Leiper  in  the  Asheville  Citizen) 

Whether  yon  operate  your  automobile  or  your  electric  iron,  stove  or  heater 
play  your  phonograph  or  stoke  your  parlor  stove,  decorate  your  Christmas  tree 
with  imitation  snow  or  put  down  a  composition  roof  upon  your  home,  you  arr> 
using  things  in  the  making  of  which  some  form  of  mica  was  likely  used. 


And  when  it  is  realized  that  in 
the  mining  of  mica  throughout  the 
Uuited  States,  North  Carolina  has 
long  taken  the  lead,  producing  in 
the  western  section  foui'-lifths  of 
the  entire  domestic  output,  one  be- 
gins to  realize  how  important  a 
home  industry  is  that  which  collects 
from  upward  of  500  scattered  mines 
this    vajueble,   glittering   mineral. 

The  story  of  the  mica  industry 
in  this  territory,  while  it  begins 
principally  in  the  counties  of  Avery, 
Mitchell,  Yancey,  Haywood,  Jackson 
and  Macon,  is  linked  especially  to 
Asheville  because  of  the  loeetion  in 
this  section  of  the  Asheville  Mica 
Company,  handling  such  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  valuable  mica  crop  of 
Appalachia.  There  are  also  manu- 
facturing plants  of  smaller  size  in 
Avery  and  Mitchell  counties.  While 
mica  deposits  are  said  to  lie  fairly 
deep  in  Buncombe  and  are  there- 
fore commercially  less  favorable, 
there  are  now  mining  operations  get- 
ting out  mica  near  Candler  and 
Swannanoa. 
Vast   Mica   Desposits   in   Mountains. 

The  mica  deposits  of  this  section 
extend  in  a  belt  75  miles  wide,  ap- 
proximately, and  150  miles  long. 
Sheet  mica  of  commercial  value  is 
found  only  in  certain  dike  rocks, 
known  technically  lis  pegmatites. 
The     predominating    commercial     va- 


riety of  western  North  Carolina,  and 
of  the  entire  United  States  in  fact, 
is  museovite,  obtained  only  from 
the  quartz-feldspar  pegmatite  dikes. 
And  while  mica  is  one  of  the  com- 
monest minerals,  there  are  only  a 
few  regions  where  the  earth's  crust 
seems  to  have  been  specially  stable, 
geologists  point  out,  so  as  to  with- 
stand the  folding  and  faulting  earth 
movements  for  long  periods  of  geo- 
logic time.  Among  the  few  places 
where  such  resisting  formations  oc- 
curred in  the  American  piedmont, 
abutting  against  the  Appalachian 
mountains. 

Since  money  talks,  a  definite  idea 
of  what  the  vast  mica  desposits  mean 
to  the  mountains  dwellers  of  Ap- 
palachia may  be  gained  when  it  is 
learned  that  productions  grew  from  a 
value  of  !?256,549  in  1912  to  ft  73,- 
3S0  in  1918,  at  which  time  the  nearest 
competitor,  the  State  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, produced  mica  valued  at  *113,- 
240,  or  less  than  one-fourth  the 
North  Carolina  output. 
Notable  Increase  in  Production 
Of  the  Old  North  State  output  he 
latest  compiled  U.  S.  geological  re- 
port asserts:  "North  Carolina  pro- 
duced in  lfllS  the  largest  quantity 
of  sheet  mica  since  1913.  Altho  <gh 
the  quantity  was  40  per  cent  greater 
than  in  1017,  its  value  was  somewhat 
less  owing  in  part  to  the  large  qi;  in- 


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tity  of  punch  mica  mined  in  101S. 
The  increase  in  production  for  the 
Shite  is  a  notable  one."  The  same 
report  shows  in  that  year  a  falling 
off  for  New  Hampshire,  but  a  de- 
cided gain  for  Georgia.  Other  States 
producing  commercial  mica  are  listed 
in  order  of  output  as  Virginia,  South 
Dakota  ami  Alabama,  all  other 
States  of  the  Union  combined  pro- 
ducing "out  G  per  cent  of  the  do- 
mestic output. 

Although  the  1920  report  of  the 
geological  bureau  has  not  yet  been 
compiled,  local  authorities  upon  the 
mica  industry  estimate  the  total 
western  North  Carolina  output  for 
that  year  at  540  tons  of  sheet,  valued 
at  $410,000,  and  3.000  ions  of  scrap, 
valued  at  sOO.000,  or  a  total  value  of 
$500,000,  which  is  a  decided  gain 
even  over  the  1918  totals.  This  is 
regarded  with  particular  favor,  since 
the  1018  figures  take  into  consider- 
ation the  abnormal  demand  for  mica 
products  brought  about  by  the  war 
industries  for  various  types. 
Foreign  Competition  Is  Enormous. 

The  total  production  of  the  United 
States  for  10'J0  is  estimated  as  worth 
$(14  000,  against  the  foreign  pro- 
duction of  #3,574,000  imported  with- 
in that  year,  giviug  a,  total  consump- 
tion in  Ibis  country  of  mica  valued 
at  over  $4,000,000,  of  which  domestic 
niir.es  supplied  but   1G.1  per  cent. 

But  while  a  preference  was  for- 
merly expressed  by  the  trade  for' 
much  of  the  foregin  mica,  by  rea- 
son of  the  extra  trimming  given  it 
at  the  hands  of  cheap  labor,  it  is 
interesting  to  note  how  mure  and 
more  the  fact  is  coming  to  be  reeog- 
aki'd  that  the  North  Carolina  mica, 
as     ell  is    some    produced  in    other 


States     of  the     Union,     is  of  similar 
high  quality. 

While  75  per  cent  of  the  sheet 
-mica  produced  here  is  of  relatively 
small  sizes,  it  is  equally  true  that 
75  per  cent  of  the  consumption  runs 
that  way  and  that  the  same  per- 
centage in  small  sizes  holds  true  of 
production  the  world  over.  India 
and  Smith  America  are  the  great  pro- 
ducers of  mica,  being  able  to  put 
their  produce  upon  the  American 
market  in  a  large  assortment  of 
classifications  and  grades,  carefully 
knife-trimmed,  by  reason  of  the 
cheap  labor  obtained  in  those  coun- 
tries. 

Principal  Use  For  Insulation. 
The  uses  to  which  mica  is  put  in 
the  sheet  form  are  many  and  varied, 
but  the  principal  demand  for  sheet 
mi'.-a  comes  from  the  makers  of  elec- 
trical supplies  in  which  insulation 
is  required.  This  accounts  for  fully 
S6  per  cent  of  the  entire  output 
of  the  world,  and  since  no  satis- 
factory substitutes  have  ever  been 
found  for  such  insulation,  and  since 
high  voltage  equipment  is  being  in- 
stalled with  ever  increasing  demand 
for  such  insulation,  the  geological 
survey  of  the  nation  holds  the  belief 
that  no  producer  of  sheet  mica  need 
fear  a  lessening  in  the  market  for 
his  wares. 

The  history  of  the  uses  of  mica 
runs  well  back  into  antiquity.  The 
name  comes  from  the  Latin  word 
for  "particle"  or  "crumb,"  pro- 
ably  influenced  also  by  the  verb 
"micare,"  meaning  to  gleam  or 
shimmer,  a  property  for  which  mica 
is  well  known,  as  all  who  walk  upon 
the  face  of  Appalachia  can  testify. 
The  Romans     used     sheets  of     mica 


.   ! 


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for  mirrors.    The  Indians    have  long  ing   of   mementoes    upon   silk,    orna- 

used  it  for    decorative    purposes  and  mented  with  fancy  2ieedlework  about 

for     a  fancied     medicinal     property.  the  edges. 

The  mound  builders  in  Ohio  have  left  In  a  comparison  of  properties,  the 
behind  in  their  unusual  works  sain-  Xovth  Carolina  green  mica,  as  it  is 
pies  of  mica  used  for  decorations.  often  called,  is  considered  the  hard- 
Throughout  the  mountains,  too,  est  produced  in  (lie  world,  while  the 
mica  has  had  various  local  uses,  ambler  or  phologopite  mica  of  Can- 
ranging  from  window  lights  in  days  ada  takes  rank  as  the  softest  found, 
when  the  commercial  value  was  not  Hence,  the  manufacturer  of  stove 
so  well  known  to  the  adonnent  of  ''isinglass,''  as  many  term  it,  finds 
picture  frames  with  rounded  scallops  the  local  variety  particularly  adapted 
in  dust-catching  patterns    and  cover-  to  this  commercial  use. 


I  feel  about  a  nation  as  we  feel  about  a  man;  let  him  not  say  anything 
he  cannot  make  good,  and  having  said  it,  let  him  make  it  good. — Teddy 
Roosevelt. 


WHAT    IS    YOUR    INVESTMENT? 

(Contributed) 
<:Save,  save,  save,"  sometime  becomes  a  family  slogan,  and  at  times  the 
word  and  its  every  synonym  are  overworked,  because  the  idea  of  economy 
is  studied  and  practiced  until  the  victims  become  penurious  and  reach  that 
frame  of  mind  that  wherein  a,  dollar  is  saved  to  the  detriment  of  a  human  souL 
This  is  a  ra,ther  hard  theme  because  it  is  difficult  to  maintain  a  happy  medium, 
and  to  understand  the  essential  expenditures  as  well  as  the  necessity  of  teach- 
ing frugality. 

Recently  I  was  in  a  country  church  ■  eloquent  in  his  earnestness  and  siu- 
— in  a  community  where  first-class  cerity,  and  if  I  had  been  in  a  Metli- 
schools  for  generations  had  been  en-  odist  church  possibly  I  would  have 
joyed — and  the  preacher's  theme  on  heard  numerous  "a,mens"  for  the 
that  special  occasion  was  "Educa-  congregation  was  deeply  interested 
tion".  In  his  own  peculiar  and  rather  It  is  true  that  the  best  manner  of  in- 
pleasing  nasal  tone,  he  earnestly  ex-  vestment  of  God's  talents  given  us  is 
claimed,  "brethern  and  sisters,  don't  to  spend  them  for  the  training  of  those 
hold  your  dollars  until  they  become  made  in  His  image— for  the  duties 
rusty  with  age  but  use  them  ingiving  and  privileges  of  this  life  and  for  the 
your  children  the  best  .yl vantages;  glory  of  the  hereafter, 
and  if  you  have  no  child  of  your  own,  Xol withstanding  the  outstanding 
help  some  worthy  boy  or  girl,  who  is  educational  advantages  enjoyed  by 
hungering  and  craving  for  an  educa-  this  community,  there  were  some  who 
tion."        This     preacher    was     most  refused  the  blessing.     I  have  heard  of 


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23 


one  family  in  particular,  a  family 
that  had  a  good  birth  behind  it,  with 
good  property  and  a  fair  income;  but 
(iii'v  say  there  was  something  lopsided 
in  the  management  of  the  home.  The 
boys,  fine  specimen  physically,  were 
made  to  work  like  beasts  with  the 
hope  of  gaining  more,  leaving  no  time 
forself  and  mental  improvements  and 
thought  that  lead  on  to  the  inspira- 
tion for  purer  and  better  lives.  These 
boys,  now  men,  have  become  (to  use 
us  gentle  language  as  possilbe  in  a 
description)  a  brazen  offense  to 
decent  society,  and,  instea,d  of  occupy- 
ing the  social  position  their  blood 
would  warrant,  they  are  classified 
with  lawless  element  and  are  indeed 
social  outcasts.  This  is  a  sin  and  a 
crime  against  humanity — perverting 
the  human  soul  for  gain  rather  than 
for  the  glory  of  Him  in  whose  image 
creation  was  made. 

I  know  of  a  ease  that  is  out  of  the 
ordinary.  It  is  an  oasis  in  the  des- 
ert of  ignorance  and  stinginess — it  is 
the  overcoming  of  a  handicap  and  in 
spite  of  it.  There  was  a  young  girl 
with  an  ambition  to  dedicate  her  life 
to  a  service  of  mankind.        She   had 


finished  with  credit  to  herself  the 
local  schools  and  simply  made  appeal 
for  assistance  for  just  one  year  in 
college.  Her  wish  was  denied  for  the- 
money  on  hand  to  be  used  for  "busi- 
tion  in  this  instance  was  sacrificed 
ness,"  and  thus  the  most  vital  ques- 
for  business  aggrandizement.  The 
goal  of  this  young  woman's  ambition 
was  for  a  finished  education,  perfer- 
able  to  the  flippant  finery.  Th  aid 
could  have  been  given,,  for  a  small 
estate  remains  today  in  tact  and  so  far 
no  one  has  been  the  beneficiary  of  a 
single  return.  But  it  is  pleasing  to 
know  that  this  girl,  undaunted  in  her 
heroic  purposes,  went  boldly  to  her 
mission  to  blaze  her  own  way — in  the 
wake  of  her  travels  and  her  efforts 
she  has  given  inspiration,  a  hope  and 
an  ideal  to  many  a  blighted  youth. 

Economy  for  the  sake  of  saying 
"I  OWN"'  is  the  very  worst  form  of 
penurinousness — it  is  hoarding — it  is 
sin — it  is  crime.  If  you  yourself  can- 
not make  up  your  mind  to  give  a  life 
of  service,  then  give  of  your  worldly 
goods  so  that  someone  can  be  your 
PROXY. 


Live  and  feel  that  you  may  assist  some  one  with  their  troubles;  hope 
and  believe  you  can  and  you  wilL 


NIGGER  AND  NEGRO 


Heywood  Broun,  literary  critic  of  the  New  York  World,  in  his  daily  column 
of  that  recently  had  the  following  paragraphs: 

Carl  Sandburg  expressed  himself  about  something  yesterday  which  we  had 
been  turning  over  in  our  mind.  He  thinks  that  one  of  the  necessary  steps  in  t he- 
progress  of  the  American  negro  is  for  him  to  accept  the  word  "nigger"  and 
tiake  it  his  own. 

To  be  sure,  the  word  had  its  origin  would  serve  to  rob  "nigger"  of  all 
m    contempt,    but    acceptance    itself      sting.     Some   such   process   has  gone 


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on  in  connection  with  "Yankee"  and  panic  "negro."     According  to  Web- 
no  Confederate  soldier  minded  being  ster,   it   is    the    English    adaptation] 
called  a  "Rob"  after  he  himself  had  of  the  French  "negro"  (with  a  grave 
began  to  use  it.  accent    over    the    first     "e",)    which 

From    the    standpoint    of   language  itself    came     from  the     Spanish-Pov- 

there  is  much  to  be  said  for" nigger."  tuguese     "negro,"   which     in     turn, 

"Colored  man"   is    hoplessly    ornate  was  derived  from  the  Latin  "niger." 

and  "negro"  is  tainted  with  ethnol-  Thus  while  "nigger"  has  been  taken 

ogy.     More  than  that,  it  is  a  literary  into    English    embodied    in    English 

word.  "Nigger"  is  a  live  word.  There  by  having  its     spelling     and     pronun- 

is  a    ring   to   it  like    that   of    a   true  ciation     changed  to  conform  to     Eng- 

coin  upon  a  payment.        Nor    are    all  lish   rules,   "negro"   is   still  no   more 

the  connotations  of  the  word  shame-  than   a   loan-word   from   the   Spanish, 

ful   tn   the   negro  race.   Something   of  Incidentally,  it   is  much  closer  to  tin? 

the   terrific   contribution    of   physical  original    Latin    "niger"    than    is   the 

energy  which  the  negro  has  made  to  Spnnish  "negro." 

America  is  inherent  in  the  word  "nig-  English    writers    of  the    best     class 

ger. "    To    our   mind    it    brings   up    a  used   the  word   long  before  they  bud 

vision  of  a  man  wrestling  with  great.  ever    heard    of    "negro;"    and    l'jig- 

burclerns  and  conquering  them.  Blood  lish' writers  use  it   to   this  day  much 

and    sweat    and    tears    have    all    com-  more  frequently  than  Americans.     In 

bined   to   make   "nigger"   stark   and,  this    country     the     violent    prejudice 

.simple.    Among    namby-pamby    words  of  the   blocks   against    the   word   has 

it  looms  like  a  great  rock.  It  is  basic  relegated  it  to  the  category  of  it-rms 

but  not  base.  of  contempt;   but    it    is   their  balrc-d 

Mr.    Broun   errs    in   one    important  of  it — an  ill-founded  hatred,  it  bi-i'ins 

particular.  The    word    "nigger"    did  to    us — that    has    made    it    contempt- 

not  have  its  origin  in  contempt'.     On  ible.     It  was  not  so  in  the  beginning. 

the    contrary,    it    is    perfectly    good  — Greensboro  Xews. 
English,   much   better   than   the    His- 


Life  At  Central  Hospital 


Fred  A.  Old,  in  The  Friend 

The  writer  has  had  quite  an  intimate  accpusintance  with  the  Central 
Hospital  for  insane  and  Epileptics  for  the  past  50  years.  When  a  young- 
ster he  used  to  go  there  with  legislative  committees  and  perhaps  knows 
the  institution  better  than  any  other  outsider.  It.  has  grown  wonderfully. 
It  was  built  for  300  patience,  and  now  has  over  1,400.  It  was  for  many 
years  after  its  completion  in  1856  the  "North    Carolina    Insane    Asylum." 

It  is  now  beirg  enlarged  so  it  can  leptics.  It  receives  the  latter  from 
accommodate  many  more  patients,  all  over  the  state;  the  ir.sane  from 
There  are  1,150  insane  and  200  epi-      the  eastern  half  of  the  state. 


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23 


Many  stories  have  been  written 
about  its  farm,  industrial  plants, 
gardens,  arts  and  crafts  department, 
and  various  other  features,  but  this 
one  is  to  be  about  its  church  and 
Sunday  school.  Church  ssrvices  are 
regularly  conducted  every  Sunday 
morning,  in  the  assembly  hall.  Many 
people  express  surprise  when  they 
here  of  church  services  at  such  a  hos- 
pital, but  a  fourth  of  the  1,150  insane 
patients  are  quite  normal  at  times. 
These  are  the  ones  who  attend  the 
services.  They  manifest  much  in- 
trest,  sing  well  and  enjoy  the  music 
and  take  an  active  and  alert  part  in 
the  services.  Many  of  the  patients 
are  very  familiar  with  the  Bible  and 
have  memorized  hymns- 

It  is  interesting  to  know  that  men 
and  women  of  all  the  walks  in  life 
among  the  patients  attend  these 
church  services,  which  are  con- 
ducted by  the  chaplin,  or  preacher 
in  charge.  Rev.  Philip  Schwartz, 
who  is  a  young  man  of  attractive 
personality  and  well  read.  He  was 
until  a  few  month  ago  assitant  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  Canton  Ohio,  and  before 
that  time  was  connected  with  the 
Methodist  church  in  Western  North 
Carolina  in  the  Centenary  movement. 
He  has  had  even  four  year's  ex- 
perience in  Epworth  League  work  in 
the  western  part  of  this  state  and  is 
now  the  secretary  of  the  Raleigh 
district  of  the  Epworth  League, 
being  a  memqer  of  Eder.ton  Street 
church,  Raleigh. 

Many  of  the  physicans,  nurses 
and  attendants  are  at  these  services; 
the&e  of  course  being  of  greac  value 
in  the  work.  Mrs.  Kate  Hays 
Fleming  directs  the  music  and  the 
regular  choir  is  composed  of  nurses. 


Mrs.  Fleming  is  an  accomplished! 
pianist  and  conductor  and  the  pa- 
tients are  very  fond  of  her.  The  sing- 
ing is  hearty  and  among  the  patients 
there  ate  some  good  voices.  Among 
the  patients  who  regularly  attend 
these  services  are  a  former  Metho- 
dist presiding  elder  and  ex-captain  of 
the  United  States  Army.  It  is  really 
a  splendid  congregation  and  demands 
the  best  thought  and  expression  a 
preacher  can  give. 

Every  Sunday  afternoon  there  is 
Sunday  school  for  the  inmates.  This 
is  not  only  attended  by  the  patients 
but  by  a  number  of  nurses  and  at- 
tendants. It  :s  conducted  by  Dr. 
Thomas  M.  Jordan,  of  the  hospital 
staff,  who  is  now  in  charge  of  the 
epileptic  colonies.  Dr.  Jordan  makes 
the  Sunday  school  work  very  inter- 
esting and  gives  a  concise  exposi- 
tion of  the  leading  features  of  the 
lesson  for  the  day.  The  singing  is 
a  feature  aiso.  The  service  does  not 
differ  from  that  in  the  ordinary  Sun- 
day school.  Neither  at  this  or  at  the 
church  services  is  there  anything  to 
dflierentiate  the  audier.es  firm  those 
in  the  ordinary  world.  Excellent 
manners,  close  attendance  an  par- 
ticipation in  the  work  are  all  illus- 
trated. 

On  a  recent  Sur.day  afieinconDr 
Jordan  invited  the  Sunday  school  to 
march  to  the  front  of  the  main  build- 
ing, near  the  great  portico  of  the 
entrance,  and  there  the  members 
were  photographed  on  a  terrace. 
One  of  the  inmates,  a  Confederate 
veteran,  widely  known  and  pcpular, 
who  has  been  in  this  hospital  over 
c.0  years,  is  in  the  group  thus  pictur- 
ed. He  is  found  of  the  Sunday  school 
and  has  a  perfect  score  in  point  of 
attendance. 


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The  Boy  Who  Couldn't  Help  It 

By  Emma  Mauritz  Larson 

He  was  an  American  lad,  born  in  New  Orleans  this  Johnny  Audubon 
though  his  father  was  from  France  and  took  his  son  to  that  country  earls 
in  his  life.  Father  Audubon  had  made  his  fortune  in  America,  but  became  in 
France  a  naval  man,  and  he  had  a  fine  idea  in  his  head  for  his  son.  "Johnny 
must  study  hard  at  Mathematics  and  such  studies  and  be  a  soldier  or  sailor. 
Perhaps  his  name  may  even  become  famous,"  he  said. 

So  when  he  returned  home  from  drawing  on  his  sheet  was  as  likely 
a  voyage  and  asked  Johnny  what  he  as  not  to  turn  ont  a  bird  instead, 
had  been  at,  he  wasn't  much  pleased 
that  the  boy  had  been  wandering  a- 
round  the  country,  collecting  eggs 
and  nests  of  every  sort  of  bird  and 
filling  the  house  with  plants  and 
mosses  and  stones.  "It  is  rather  a 
good  collection  for  a  hoy,"  he  had 
to  admit,  "but    we    shall  see---." 

"I'm  afraid  Johnnv  conldn't  help 
it,"  said  his  stepmother.  "It  seems 
just  born  in  him." 

But  the  old  seaman  carried  his  son 
away  from  home  the  next  dayt  tak- 
ing him  to  Nantes,  where  he  had  his 
own  headquarters,  a  four  days' 
journey,  arid  during  all  that  time  he 
said  hardly  a  word  to  Johnny. 
When  they  reached  the  town  he 
turned  the  boy  over  to  strict  masters, 
and  he  had  a  hard  year  indeed  at 
difficult  military  subjects.  But 
somehow  or  other,  Johnny  Audubon 
escaped  for  a  few  minutes  each  day 
to  the  woods  or  fields  and  found  his 
friends  the  birds  as  thick  as  they 
had  been  around  his  home  town.  He 
began  to  draw  their  pictures,  and 
before  long  he  had  two  hundred 
drawings  made.  He  couldn't  seem 
to  help  it.  He  thought  of  birds  by 
■day,  and  dreamed  of  them  by  night, 
and  when  his  drawing  master  set 
plaster  ~cats    for  him    to    copy    the 


When  his  father  appeared  again, 
he  said,  "you  seem  to  be  hopeless 
for  a  soldier.  You  will  never  make 
our  name  famous.  Perhaps  you  can 
manage  my  farm  and  mi  1  in  Amer- 
ica." So  the  young  man  came  to 
Pennsylvania  and  found  Mill  Grove 
a  "blessed  spot,"  where  he  could 
hunt  and  fish  and  draw  beasts  and 
birds  all  day  long.  I  he  place  yield- 
ed enough  for  him  to  live  on  and 
there  seemed  no  reason  why  he 
shouldn't  be  happy  with  so  much 
leisure  for  the  things  he  couldn't 
help  doing.  He  filled  this  country 
house  with  a  collection  of  wild  life, 
and  though  he  was  so  new  to  Amer- 
ica he  got  a  great  idea  in  his  head. 
"I  will  be  the  first  great  naturalist 
of  America,  and  draw  and  paint  all 
the  birds  of  America." 

It  was  a  big  idea,  and  he  had  a 
real  start  when  he  came  to  know 
his  nearest  neighbors  and  to  love 
their  daughter.  He  was  living  sim- 
ply as  to  diet,  as  he  tells  us  in  his 
diary,  on  fruit  and  vegetables  and 
fish,  and  though  he  loved  handsome 
clothes  his  income  was  enough  for 
him  to  get  what  he  needed.  But 
when  he  wanted  to  marry  I.ucy 
Bakewell  her  father  suggested  that 
a  business-man  son-in-law  would  suit 


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25. 


him  butter  than  one  who   just  stud- 
ied and  drew  birds. 

So  John  Au  iubon  tried  again  to 
he  like  other  lads  and  went  to  New 
York  to  work  in  a  counting  house. 
In  bis  extra  time  he  couldn't  help 
hunting  in  this  new  state  for  bird 
life  and  his  room  was  filled  with 
bird  skins  drying  for  his  stuffing. 
The  neighbors  objected  to  the  odor 
and  sent  a  pliceman  in  to  complain. 
So  John  Audubon  left  his  irksome 
job  at  the  counting  house,  and  went 
hack  to  Mill  Grove,  where  "a  man 
could  do  simple  natural  things  like 
stuffing  a  hundred  birds  without 
the  neighbors  objecting." 

"He  couldn't  help  it,"  l"yal  Lucy 
Bakewell  said,  and  persuaded  her 
father  to  let  her  marry  the  young 
naturalist.  In  return  for  her  faith 
in  him  John  Audubon  sold  Will 
Grove  farm  and  invested  all  the 
money  in  goods,  moving  west  to  the 
new  country  of  Kentucky.  "I  will 
be  a  storekeeeer  and  make  plenty 
of  money  for  my  family--  and  once 
in  a  while  1  will  go  hunting  birds 
and  draw  them  and  paint  them,"  he 
said. 

They  travelled  down  the  Ohio  in  a 
flat-bottomed  boat  that  they  called 
an  ark.  It  moved  so  slowly  that  ic 
took  twelve  cay;  to  get  to  Louisville, 
but  they  were  wonderful  days  for 
the  young  man.  The  boat  travlled 
slowly  enough  to  let  him  see  bright- 
colored  birds  on  the  shore,  and  he 
was  eager  to  draw  each  new  one. 
In  the  city  of  Louisville  too,  he  was 
very  hnppy,  for  he  could  sometimes 
leave  his  store  with  a  partner  and 
go  far  and  wide  on  hunting  and  fish- 
ing trips. 

One  day  an  odd  thing  happened. 
The  naturalist  Wilson  came  into  the 
shop  trying  to  sell  a  copy  of  his  own 


book  of  bird  drawings.  When  he- 
h^d  showed  the  to  Audubon  that 
young  man  mentioned  that  he  had 
done  a  thing  or  two  along  that  line 
himself  and  the  older  bird  man  was 
greatly  astonished  at  the  drawings 
the  young  man  from  France  had 
made.  It  came  as  a  surprise  too  to 
Audubon  that  his  great  idea  of  draw- 
ing all  the  biids  of  America  was 
shared  by  another  man. 

But  he  decided  that  there  was 
room  for  two  bird-lovers  and  paint- 
ers in  the  big  country  of  Ameiica, 
and  his  wife  encouraged  him  con- 
stantly. When  the  business  went 
badly  on  account  of  war  she  offered 
to  go  back  to  her  father's  for  a  year 
with  her  baby  son  and  leave 
Audubon  free  to  find  a  better  loca- 
tion to  sell  his  goods  and  to  go  on 
with  his  bird  work. 

Strange  times  followed,  nu.ney 
losses,  hard  journeys  through  all 
spasi.ns  to  the  edge  of  the  wilderness, 
but  Audubon  met  every  new  hard- 
ship with  zest  and  interest  because 
it  gave  him  a  new  chance  to  know 
the  out  of-doors.  He  camped  with 
the  Indians,  and  traveled  by  canoe 
or  foot  up  and  down  the  Mississippi, 
alwav  with  his  notebook  in  his  pock- 
et of  his  rough  clothes  and  a  scrap 
of  paper  to  draw  birds  on. 

His  shoes  wore  out,  and  taking  a 
mate  whose  boots  were  almost  gone 
too.  he  found  the  shoemaker  of  a 
little  town.  "I  will  draw  a  portrait 
of  you  if  you  will  make  boots  for 
my  friend  and  me,''  he  offered  and 
the  shoemaker  accepted  the  offer. 
The  old  drawing  master  in  France 
had  done  something  for  the  boy 
Johnny  in  teaching  him  to  draw  well. 
After  that  there  were  many  times 
when  hi  got  his  next  meal  through 
drawing  of  faces.     In  New  Orleans 


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Vie  really  set  up  as  apoitrain  painter 
and  made  something  of  a  success  of 
it,  so  that  he  was  able  to  bring  his 
wife  back  to  the  south  to  live. 

She  helped  valiantly,  through 
many  hard  years,  when  Audubon 
tried  to  go  on  with  his  great  work 
cf  drawing  American  birds,  by  teach- 
ing and  tutoring. 

The  old  father  in  France  died,  and 
even  though  his  son  had  not  followed 
his  wish  and  there  seemed  little 
chance  that  the  name  of  Audubon 
should  ever  be  famous,  he  left  John 
§17,000.  But  he  arranged  that  his 
son  must  collect  it  personally  from 
a  merchant  in  Virginia,  proving  his 
identity  first.  The  word  travelled 
so  slowly  out  to  John  in  his  wilder- 
ness travels  that  a  year  had  elapsed 
before  he  knew  of  it  and  could  start 
east.  And  just  before  he  reached 
the  merchant's  town  to  claim  his  in- 
heritance that  gentleman  died  and 
bis  business  partners  claimed  to  have 
no  knowledge  of  the  sevnteen  thous- 
and dollars  that  would  have  enabled 
the  young  naturalist  to  go  on  with 
his  work  and  be  sure  that  his  wife 
and  two  sons  would  not  suffer  want. 

It  was  a  piece  of  bad  luck  indeed, 
but  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Audubon  turned 
back  with  the  same  old  courage  to 
their  western  home  and  travelled 
around  on  rude  iittle  arks  gathern 
more  information  and  drawings  of 
Kentucky  birds  and  coming  to 
know  all  the  other  wild  beasts  like 
neighbors.  Audubon  drew  them  too, 
otters  and  racoons  and  deer,  and 
later  when  he  was  in  London  trying 
to  get  his    bird    drawing    published 


he  drew  many  natural  life  picture 
of  the  wild  animals  of  America  and 
sold  them  to  pay  his  way  along. 

He  met  Daniel  Boone,  the  studry 
woodsman,  saw  him  drive  nailes  in 
with  bullet  shots  and  snuff  candles 
in  the  same  way.  And  the  bird 
artist  proved  to  be  no  mean  second 
to  most  of  the  shooters.  If  Mrs. 
Aubudon  had  little  money  to  man- 
age with  she  could  always  be  sure 
that  John  would  bring  home  a  wild 
turkey  :>r  a  duck  or  even  a  bear  for 
their  table.  So  the  years  of  strnggle 
went  on  until  the  Audubons  had 
gatherd  enough  money  to  take  John 
to  England.  Here  his  onthusiam 
over  his  book  was  so  great  that  he 
made  friends  who  could  help  hirn 
raise  the  one  hunderd  thousand 
dollars  necessary  to  pulish  it. 

The  Royal  Society  recognized  his 
work  and  before  long  "Birds  of 
America"  had  made  Johnny  Audu- 
bon known  over  all  the  world.  It 
wasn't  in  the  way  his  father  had 
dreamed  of,  but  no  military  fame 
could  be  more  enduring  and  no  tash 
could  be  more  worthwhile  than  this 
one  of  recording  with  drawing  and 
biography  the  story  of  American 
bird  life.  He  came  back  to  America 
to  wander  from  Main  to  Florida, 
up  and  down  the  whole  land,  finding 
in  the  woods  the  wild  life  too  shy  for 
most  men  to  see,  and  putting  it  dov,  n 
on  paper  for  all  to  see.  And  America 
is  proud  of  the  boy  who  "couldn't 
help  doing  it,"  who  didn't  abandon 
his  big  idea  of  drawing  all  the  biids 
of  America  through  years  of  opposi- 
tion and  learn  years  of  little  income. 


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High  Sounding  Words. 

Mistakes  in  using  words  are  often  ludicrous.  No  misuse  of  them  is  so- 
dangerous  as  that  arising  from  a  knowledge  of  the  form  r.f  the  word  with- 
out a  realization  of  its  moaning.  In  the  play  called  The  Ricals,  Sheridan 
has  created  a  character  whom  he  names  Mrs.  Malaprop.     Here    is    one   of 

her  speeches; 

Observe  me,  Sir  Anthony.  I  Then,  sir,  she  should  have  a  super- 
would  by  no  means  wish  a  daughter  cilious  knowledge  in  accounts:-- and 
of  mine  to  become  a  progeny  of  learn-  as  she  grew  up,  [  would  have  her 
ing;  I  don't  think  so  much  learning  instructed  in  geometry,  that  she 
become:  a  young  woman;  for  in-  might  know  something  of  the  con- 
stance,  I  would  never  let.  her  meddle  tagious  countries; --but  above  all, 
with  Greek,  or  Hebrew,  or  algebra.  Sir  Anthony,  *he  should  be  mistress 
or  simony,  or  fluxions,  or  paradoxes  of  orthodoxy,  that  she  might  not 
01  such  inflammatory  branches  of  misspell,  and  mispronounce  words 
learning— neither  would  it  be  neces-  so  shamefully  as  girls  usually  do; 
sary  for  her  to  handle  any  of  your  and  likewise  that  she  might  repre- 
mathematical,  astronomical,  diaboli-  hend  the  true  meaning  of  what  she 
c-al  instruments.  ---But,  Sir  Antho-  is  saying.  This,  Sir  Anthony,  is 
ny,  I  would  send  her,  at  nine  years  what  I  would  have  a  woman  know; 
old,  to  a  boarding  school,  in  order  to  ---and  I  don't  think  there  is  a  super- 
learn  a  little  ingenuity    and  artifice,  stitious  article  in  it. 


Measuring  Time 

The  sun-dial  was  doubtless  the  earliest  device  for  keeping  time.  The- 
clepsydra  was  afterward  employed.  This  consisted  of  a  vessel  containing 
water,  which  slowly  f  scaped  into  a  dish  below,  in  which  was  a  float  that  by- 
its  height  indicated  the  lapse  of  time.  King  Alfred  used  candles  of'  a  uuf- 
form  size,  six  of  which  lasted  a  day.  The  first  clock  erected  in  England, 
about  1288,  was  considered  of  such  importance  that  a  high  official  vas  ap- 
pointed to  take  charge  of  it.  The  clocks  of  the  middle  ages  were  extreme. 
ly  elaborate.  They  indicated  the  motion  of  the  heavenly  bodies;  birds 
came  out  and  sang  songs,  cocks  crowed,  and  trumpeters  blew  their  horns; 
chimes  of  bells  were  sonuded,  and  processions  of  dignitaries  and  military 
officers,  in  fantastic  dress,  marched  in  front  of  the  dial  and  gravely  announ- 
ced the  time  of  day.  Watches  were  made  in  Nuremburg  in  the  fifteenth 
century.  They  were  styled  Nuremburg  eggs.  Many  were  as  small  as  the 
watches  of  the  present  day,    while  others  were  as  large  as  a    dessert   plate. 


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They  had  no  minute  or  second  hand,  and  required  winding-  twice  per 
day.  How  different  they  were  from  the  present-day  luxuriant  time 
keeper! 


THE    OTHER   FELLOW 


By  "William  Hawley  Smith. 

Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  says  that  in  every  one  of  us  there  are  two  per- 
sons. First,  there  is  yourself,  and  then  there  is  the  Other  Fellow!  Now, 
one  of  tlise  is  all  the  time  doing  thing's,  and  the  other  sits  inside  and  tells  what 
he  thinks  about  the  performance.  Thus,  I  do  so-and-so;  but  the  Other  Fellow 
sits  in  judgment  on  mc  all  the  time. 


I  may  tell  a  lie,  and  do  it  so  clever- 
ly that  the  people  may  think  that  I 
have  dune  or  said  a  great  or  good 
thing;  and  they  may  shout  my  praises 
far  and  wide. "  But  the  Other  Fellow 
sits  inside,  and  says,  "  You  lie!  you 
lie!  you're  a  sneak,  and  you  know  it  !" 
I  tell  him  to  shut  up,  to  hear  what  the 
people  say  ahout  me;  but  he  only  con- 
tinues to  repeat  over  and  over  again' 
■"You  lie!  you  lie!  You're  a  sneak,  and 
you  know  it ! '' 

Or,  again,  I  may  do  a  really  noble 
deed,  but  perhaps  be  misunderstood  by 


the  public,  who  may  persecute  me  and 

say  all  manner  of  evil  against  me, 
falsely;  but  the  Other  Fellow  will  sit 
inside  and  say,  ''Never  mind,  old  boy  I 
It's  all   right!   stand  by!" 

Ami  I  would  rather  hear  the  "well 
done"  of  the  Other  Fellow  than  the 
shouts  of  praise  of  the  whole  world; 
while  T  would  a  thousand  times  rather 
that  the  people  should  shout  and  hiss 
themselves  hoarse  with  rage  and  envy, 
than  that  the  Other  Fellow  should 
sit  inside  and  sav,  "You  lie!  you  lie! 


You're  a  s 


neali 


and  vou  know  it !  " 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 


Instead  of  going  to  school,  Mr. 
-Johnson's  room  cleaned  and  oiled  up 
the  floors,  woodwork  etc.,  of  the 
school  last  Saturday. 

The  boys  are  glad  to  see  new  boys 
arrive  at  the  school  fast,  as  they  are 
now.  It  means  more  boys  to  the 
right  path  transformed. 

Mr.  Fisher  is  planning  to  have  a 
printers  ^apron    made    for    each  of 


the    biys  so  as  to  keep  their  clothes 
clean  of  the  ink,  dirt  etc. 

Every  Wednesday,  parents  and 
relatives  visit  the  boys.  Wednes'lay 
brought  visits  to  the  following  boys: 
Marion  Butler,  Hubert  Orr  and 
Thomas  Moore. 

After  several  weeks  suspension  of 
work  on  the  well,  Mr.  J.  T.  Ankers 
has  returned  from  a  visit  home  .ind 
has  resumed  work  en  the  well.  The 
depth  of  232  feet  has  been  reached. 
This  is  a  fine  report. 

Rev.     Mr.    Myers,     keeping    his 


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promise  of  bringing:  a  message  to  the 
boys  every  first  Sunday,  came  out 
Sunday  and  preached  an  inspiring 
sermon,  which  ihe  boys  enjoyed  very 
much. 

A  long  felt  med  in  the  Printing 
Office  has  materialized—a  file  cab- 
inet. All  The  Uplifts  that  are  left 
are  stored  away  in  this  cabinet 
over.  When  an  UPLIFT  is  wanted, 
all  of  them  won't  have  to  be  torn  up. 
This  cabinet  will  be  a  convenience 
to  the  Printing  Office. 

The  Uplift  Printers  are  now  get- 
ting out  two  jobs  --one  for  Mr.  W. 
J.  Swink,  of  China  Grove  and  the 
other  is  the  rules  and  regulations 
for  the  Jackson  Training  School.  Mr. 
Swinks  job  is  "The  Much  Abused 
Boy,"  which  was  in  the  last  week's 
issue  of  The  Uplift.  The  boys  at 
the  school  derived  much  pleasure 
from  reading  this  selection. 

Monday  night  when  the  seventh 
cottage  was  opened,  the  bakery  was 
also  opened.  On  this  day  it  baked 
one  thousand  rolls.  These  were  dis- 
tributed to  the  various  cottages. 
Visitors  at  this  school  remark  upon 
the  beauty  and  the  magnificent  view 
of  the  school.  Such  meals  as  these 
make  the  bulk  of  Arvil  Absher 
and  when  they  see  him  the;r  re- 
marks are  changed  to:  "What  a 
healthy  place  this  must  be." 

Supt.  Boger  was  hailed  Monday 
with  a  happy  cheer  by  the  boys 
when  marching  to  the  tree---A  place 
where  the  lines  meet  and  change 
sections.  They  knew  on  this  day 
that  the  7th  cottage  doors  would  be 
thrown  open,  and  that  thirty  more 
boys  would  change  their  way  of  liv- 
ing. Four  boys  were  taken  out  of 
each  cottage,  making  the  total  of  24. 


They  are  taken  there  to  show  the 
new  boys  how  to  act,  live  and  pros- 
per. 

It  seems  as  if  prosperity  is  hard  to 
be  kept  away  from  the  Training 
School.  Not  as  if  we  wanted  it  a- 
way  from  the  school,  but  if  we  didn't 
desire  it,  it  would  be  hard  to  keep 
down.  We  have  opened  seven  cot- 
tages (the  seventh  having  been  open- 
ed this  week)  and  have  a  backery  in 
operation,  it  having  been  opened  this 
week,  also.  As  a  celebration  of  its 
opening  it  baked  one  thousand  rolls, 
an  I  each  boy  received  five  of  them 
at  supper  Monday  night. 


HONOR  ROLL. 

"A" 

Harry  Ward,  James  Honey futt, 
Henry  Faucett,  Fred  Blue.  John 
Moose,  Vass  Fields,  Lonnie  Walker, 
Frvin  Cumbo,  Jake  Willard.  Syl- 
vester Sims,  James  Watts,  Harry 
Reece,  Jack  Frazier,  Thomas  Ogles- 
by.  Luther  Grant,  Murphy  Jones, 
Walter  Taylor,  Raymond  Scott, 
Carlton  H agger,  Paul  Kimmery, 
Thomas  Moore,  Jack  O'Neil,  Alvin 
Cook,  Lee  Bradley,  Moses  Fasnacht, 
Crawford  Poplin,  Nomie  Williams, 
Chester  Shepherd,  Robert  Holland, 
E.  Carlton,  Eunice  Byers,  Walter 
Mills,  Ernest  Carver,  Charlie  Stone, 
George  McMahan  GroverCook,  Aw* 
try  Wilkerson,  Dick  Johnson,  Johnie 
Branch,  Charlie  Jackson,  Clebourne 
Hale,  N.  McNeil,  Avery  Roberts,  Roy 
Cudill, 

"B" 

Sam  Dixon,  John  Hill,  Sanford 
Hedrick,   Connie     Loman,    William 


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Wilson,  Elvvard  Clever,  Robert  Tlie  secular  press ''s  full  of  question- 
Watson,  John  Hughs,  Malcolm  able  stories  and  of  sensational  ae- 
Hollman,  Bertram  Hart,  Floyd  counts  of  divorces  and  domestic 
Huggins,  Swift  Davis,  Doyle  Jack-  scandals.  The  youth  of  this  age  are 
son,  VVilliam  Evans,  Allie  Williams.  thus  led  to  look  slightingly  on  the 
William  Gregory,  John  Wright,  sacreclness  of  the  marriage  vow  and 
Anderson  Hart,  Ernest  Jordan.  Ru-  to  assume  an  indifferent  altitude  to- 
fus  Wrenn,  Charlie  Bishop,  Dohme  ward  ihe  daily  evidences  of  loose 
Manning,  and  Steve  Mercer.  moralsand  the  growth  of  social  vices. 
Thtre  is    reason    for    all,    especially 

„       ,  ,     .    .   ,         ..  the  young,  to  watch    and    prav  lest 

Guard  Aga.nst  Impurity  they    entt?r    int„     temptation.     The 

It  these  days  when    a    large    per-  spirit    is    willing:,    but  the    flesh     is 

centage  of  the  moving   pictures   are  weak.     Avoid  evil  company,  obscene 

suggestive  of  immorality    and    even  books,  pass  the  door  of  the    moving 

make  heroes  and  heroines    of    those  picture  show  which  makes  a    moek- 

who  lack  in  virture,  we  need  to    lay  ery  of  marriage  and  encourage    the 

much  emphasis    on    the    instruction  the  moral  lpxness  of  the     age.— Se- 

concerning  purity  of  tody  and  soul.  lected. 


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quired. 1  believe  with  a  determination  to  think 
good  things  about  your  neighbors  and  acquain- 
tances and  friends,  you  will  find  yourself  saying 
clever  things  — "for  of  the  abundance  of  the  heart 
his  mouth  speaketh."  When  you  find  yourself 
searching  out  for  defects  in  your  friends  and  cc- 
quaintances  simply  "presto  change"  and  look  for 
some  outstanding  good  charactsristic  orvirtueand 
comment  about  those.  You  will  feel  better,  for 
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Promote  then,  as  an  object  of  primary  importance,  institutions  for  the 
general  diffusion  of  knowledge.  In  proportion  as  the  structure  of  a  gov- 
ernment gives  force  to  public  opinion,  it  is  essential  that  public  opinion 
should  be  enlightened. — George  Washington,  Sept.  17,  1796. 


WHAT  THINK  YOU? 


The  boys  of  the  Printing:  Class  join  the  management  and  the  editor  in 
the  belief  that  this  nu.v.ber  of  'Ihe  Uplift  will  prove  of  unusual  interest 
to  our  readers,  who  are  gratifyingly  increasing  every  week.  No  little  care 
and  effort  are  exercised  in  the  planning  of  each  number,  ta  ihe  end  that 
choice  literature,  pieces  pointing  to  a  moral,  and  others  calculated  to  in- 
spire hope  and  aspiration,  ever  eschewing  that  which  smacks  of  immoral 
deeds,  the  back  alleys  and  murder,  may  fill  its  columns. 

This  number  is  almost  entirely  George  Wrshington,  the  anniversary  of 
whose  birth  will  be  observed  on  the  22ond  by  all,  in  their  own  individual 
ways.  If  anything  is  eternally  fixed  in  history--that  which  is  mortal— it 
is  the  fact  that  Geoige  Washington  is  the  truly  outstanding  figure  in  Amer- 
ican annals.  We  are  proud,  therefore,  to  have  in  addition  to  our  own  mat- 
ter, including  the  pictorial  part,  contributions  from  well-posted  and  patriot- 
ic individuals,  who  give  pleasing  touches  to  the  local  history  concerning 
Washington. 

After  all,  the  history  of  a  town,  a  section,  a  state  and  a  nation—that 
which  we  best  remember  and  find  most  engaging— is  the  history,  personal 
and  collective,  of  men  and    women,    who    accomplish    things,    establish  a 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

truth,  render  worthwile  service  and  make  the  world  better  by  having  lived 
in  it.  If  this  be  so,  the  more  we  hold  up  the  example  of  brave,  coura- 
geous men  and  women  with  light  ideals,  the  greater  will  be  the  incentive 
to  right  action  and  right  living. 

It  is  hoped  that  our  readers  will  enjoy  this  number  in  that  measure  that 
characterized  its  making.  Fortunate  is  that  people  that  have  so  many 
subjects  to  whom  it  may  point  with  pride,  and  keep  green  their  memories 
and   their  worthy  deeds. 

INTELLIGENCE  IN  SPOTS. 

The  acceptance  by  Mrs.  T.  W.  Bickett  of  the  position  of  Head  of  the 
Educational  Section  of  the  New  Maternity  Bureau,  made  possible  by  the 
passage  of  the  Sheppard-Towner  bill  will  carry  delight  to  the  hearts  of 
North  Carolinians.  The  selection  cf  Mrs.  Bickett,  a  godly  and  unselfish  wo- 
man, of  superb  ability  and  engaging  personality,  is  a  most  happy  one. 

Ten  thousand  babies  died  last  year  in  North  Carolina  before  they  were  a 
year  old,  because  of  lack  of  intelligent  care  of  the  mothers  before  they 
were  born,  and  to  neglect  at  the  time  of  birth.  Special  effort  will  be  made 
to  teach  that  class  of  mothers  who  pass  through  the  twilight  zone  without 
medical  advice.  It  is  largely  in  this  class  of  mothers  that  the  infant  mor- 
tality rates  in  North  Carolina  mount  to  such  staggering  totals. 

The  battle  against  this  ignorance  has  been  going  on  in  a  number  of  coun- 
ties with  splendid  results.  In  Cabarrus  a  fine  field  and  a  most  capable  ar.d 
efficient  nurse  have  met.  Arrangements  for  the  continuance  of  this  noble 
work  in  the  county  are  making.  'J  he  broad-minded  forward-looking  county 
commissioners  have  appropriated  five  hundred,  and  the  equally  progressive 
Board  of  Aldermen  of  Concord  have  appropriated  five  hundred  dollars  to 
the  fund;  and  the  County  Board  of  Education  whose  schools  today  and  in  the 
future  will  largely  profit  by  the  wise  influence  and  intelligent  services  of 
the  county  nurse,  have  been  requested  to  make  a  similar  appropriation. 
What  will  this  board  do?    Their  treatment  of  the  cause  will  decide  its  fate. 

They  have  the  broad  powers  to  do  so,  and  a  moral  obligation  makes  it  a 
duty.  No  law  specifically  authorizes  the  purchase  of  stamps,  little  oifice 
appliances,  and  personal  services  by  name,  yet  these  be  necessary;  and  wise 
men  always  exercise  their  rights  in  such  matters  without  hesitation.  Then, 
why  expect  a  law  already  flexible  enough  for  wise  and  progressive  act-,  to 
specifically  mention  this  particular  cause,  which  must  prove  as  service tble 
to  the  cause  of  education  today  and  in  the  future  as  any  one  individual  act. 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

Will  the  Board  of  Education,  exercising  a  prerogative  that  certainly  lies 
-with  it,  give  the  people  a  stone  when  it  is  crying  for  bread?  This,  in  the 
light  that  is  breaking  all  about  us,  is  no  time  for  any  "passing  of  the  buck." 

»**     Eft     *     *     ft     • 

"PASSING  THE  BUCK." 

House  on  fire--no  sensible  man  will  stand  back  for  orders  before  he 
throws  a  bucket  of  water;  a  person  is  drowning  in  a  mill  pond---refuse  ef- 
fort of  rescue  until  the  permission  of  the  owner  of  the  mill-pond  is  had  to 
enter  on  the  premises;  death  and  ignorance  stalking  all  about,  and  even 
weaving  a  coil  around  those  yet  unborn---an  organized  authority  with 
ample  power  and  unquestionable  reasons  to  lend  a  helping  hand,  even  if 
unmindful  of  a  reciprocal  service,  "passes  the  buck"  to  a  stranger  and 
an  outsider,  who  is  lacking  in  every  qualification  to  see  the  local  setting. 
But  life  is  made  up  of  just  such  akward  kinks,  shadows  and  indecisions. 


The  Washington  Conference  is  over.  One  has  to  be  obsessed  with  an  a- 
bundance  of  optimism  to  see  any  permanent  good  growing  out  of  it.  It  puts 
out  of  business  thousands  of  workman  in  the  navy  yards,  stops  construction 
on  war  vessels.  But  when  the  war-like  nations  that  go  about  with  a  chip  on 
the  shoulder  have  had  time  to  catch  their  breath,  the  accomplishments  of 
the  Washington  Conference  will  not  amount  to  a  last  year's  bird  nest  in 
preventing  war.  What  is  to  prevent  the  scores  of  other  nations  not  in  this 
conference  from  a  little  secret  conference  of  their  own?  Some  of  these 
days  the  necessity  of  the  League  of  Nations  will  appeal  even  to  the  doubt- 
ing Thomases. 


Dr.  Henry  A.  Cotton,  a  former  North  Carolinian,  now  superintendent  of 
the  New  Jersey  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  made  an  address  at  Dix  H>11,  in 
Raleigh,  in  which  he  declares  that  "surgery  is  a  cure  for  most  insane.'' 
Dr.  Cotton  startled  the  physicians  present  with  the  statement  that  the  rec- 
ord in  his  institution  showed  a  cure  of  ninety  out  of  a  hundred  during  the 
first  year  after  the  introduction  of  his  methods.  Insanity,  he  claims,  is  not 
hereditary,  but  due  to  some  physical  defect  at  some  point  in  the  body, 
must  often  in  the  teeth,  less  often  in  the  tonsils  and  sometimes  in  the  in- 
testines.    We  have  just  begun  to  find  out  things. 

Recently  several  prominent  and  reputable  physicians  have  been  hailed  in- 


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to  the  Federal  Court  for  an  alleged  violation  of  the  narcotic  law.  The 
testirmny  against  them  was  so  miserably  (liirisy,  that  the  presiding  judge 
took  the  occasion  to  say  some  very  pointed  things  to  the  officers  who  com- 
passed the  arrests.  There  is  enough  to  do  in  running  down  the  old  gray 
rats  that  are  making  a  foot- pad  of  the  prohibition  law  and  those  who  are 
ignoring  out-and-out  the  narcotic  law.  without  offering  insults  to  reputable 
men  and  upright  physicians.  Judge  Connor's  remarks  may  tame  the  wild 
asses. 


News  came  out  from  Raleigh  last  week  that  State  Treasurer  Ben  Lacy 
was  critically  '11.  It  disturbed  the  people.  Happily  fur  the  great  rervice 
he  is  performing  for  the  state  and  for  bis  friends,  Mr.  Lacy  rallied  and 
is  recovering.  There  is  possibly  no  greater  sufferer,  and  yet  always  stren- 
uously engaged,  than  the  earnest  little  man  that  tills   this  important    office. 


"Half  the  human  race  is  without  physicians  ami  rotting  with  disease. 
There  are  3,000,000  people  ill  all  the  time  in  the  United  States,  half  of  whom 
don't  need  to  be."  This  is  the  comment  of  the  Commissioner  of  Labor 
and  Industry  of  Pennsylvania,  and  he's  a  phyiscian.  The  old  villian,  ig- 
norance, collects  annually  a  fearful   toll. 


1  HE  OLD  MAN  AND  DEATH 

An  old  laborer,  bent  double  with  age  and  toil,  was  gathering 
sticks  in  a  forest.  At  last  he  grew  so  tired  and  hopeless  that  he 
threw  d  )wn  the  bundle  of  sticks,  and  cried  out:  "I  cannot  bear 
this  life  any  longer.  Ah,  I  wish  Death  would  only  come  and  take 
me." 

As  he  spoke,  Death,  a  grisly  skeleton,  appeared  and  said  to  him: 
"What  wouldest  thou,  Mortal?  I  heard  thee  call  me."  "Please 
sir,"  replied  the  woodcutter,  "would  you  kindly  help  me  to  lift 
this  faggot  of  sticks  on  to  my  shoulder?'' 

'WE  WOULD  OFTEN    BE    SORRY    IF    OUR    WISHES    WERE 
GRATIFIED." 


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THIi  UPLIFT  7' 

Tlieres  Place  In  Life  For  The  Anecdote. 

.  JOE  IT.  FREELAND:  For  thirty  or  forty  years  prior  to  1005  or  1907,  Joe 
Freehand  was  a  well  known  and  respected  citizen  of  Charlotte,  lie  was  a 
native  of  Alamance  county,  and  wont  through  four  years  of  the  war  of  secess- 
ion with  barely  a  scratch.  With  him,  as  mess  mates,  were  G.  W.  Anthony  arid 
ex-sheriff  J.  li.  Hamilton  of  Burlington  and  the  late  Armstrong  Tate  of  Gra- 
ham, who  always  said  they  belonged  to  "Jackson's  foot  calvary.' 

These    four     were     baon     ompan-  would  allow,  even  to  a  mud  and  stick 

ions.  The  writer  has  heard  all  of  them  chimney,  a  little  higher  than  a  man's 

talk  separately  and  together  of  tilings  head.      Erceland    we,s   at    many   places 

that   happened  in   those  terrible  days.  he   was    never    supposed    to    be,    and 

Frceland  developed  the  nack   For  get-  knew  full  well  many  of  the  habits  of 

tin.;  something  to  eat  it'  anything  was  the  captain.      On  a  bitter  cold  winter 

''going-'  that  resembled  eatables,  and  night,  soon  after  being  robbed  of  the 

no  doubt  his  mates  depended  upon  his  ham,  Frceland  decided  that  it   would 

resourcefulness    when    rations     were  be  a  good  time  to  "even  up"  with  the 

slow,  ajid  that  was  often  in  the  Con-  captain.     After  all    was    still  in    the 

federate  army.     Aside  from  the  afore  camp,  the  men  doing  as  best  they  could 

mentioned  ability  to  provide,  Frceland  to   keep    warm,   Frceland   crept   forth 

was  full  of  jokes,  practical  jokes,  great  to   the  ca.ptain's  house-tent:  peering 

on  a  tussle  and  playing  pranks.  in,  he  saw  the  captain  in  bed,  his  feet 

This  being  so  he  early  won  the  di.s-  from   under  the  cover,  toasting  them 

like  of  his  captain,  who  developed  the  by   a  bright    tire,   burning  low.     Like 

habit  of  charging  Joe  with  any  devil-  a  cat  after  its  prey,  Freehold  got  him 

meat  that  might  be  done  in  the  camp,  a  stone  about  the  size  of  a  man's  head 

Once  it    leaked    out  and    reached  the  syad    carefully    dropped    it    down    the 

captain's  ears  that  Freeland  and  his  chimney  on   the  bed   of   coals,   which 

pals   were   living   high   on    a    country  (lew  all  over  the  captain's  naked  feet 

ham  that  had  by  some  crook  found  its  and  was  gone  like  a  flash, 

way  into  the  tent  of  this  quartet.  To  He  had  barely  time  to  get  into  his 

make  sure    that    it  was    well    hidden,  bunk  and  cover  up  before  the  captain 

they  had  kept  it  buried  in  the  ground  was   there,   calling  for  Joe   Frceland, 

of  the  tent,  and    felt   sure    that    if  a  who  by  this  time  was  fast  asleep  ( ?) 

search    was    made    it    would    not    be  and  proved  by  all  three  of  his  mates 

found.  that  lie    had    not  left    the  tent    that 

But  when  the  captain  came  he  was  night  (?)     He    had  a    great    store  of 

prepared  for  most  anything,  and  soon  tales  of  those  four  years,  but  this  was 

dug  up  the  remains  of  the  ham  and  perhaps  as  .often    told  as  any    other 

carried  it  into  his  own  tent,  which  had  story  of  his  long  and  useful  life.— C. 

been  made  as  comfortable  a-s  material  \Y.  H. 


_  The  D.  A.  R's  will  find  a  very  engaging  story,  in  which  their  organiza- 
tion plays  a  part,  in  "The  Jumel  House"  appearing  elsewhere  in  this  num- 
ber,    Much  history  radiates  from  this  house. 


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GEORGE  WASHINTGON 

One  hundred  and  ninety  years  ago,  on  next  Wednesday,  occurred  the 
birth  of  George  Washington,  whose  life  and  services  in  the  affairs  of  this 
■continent  make  of  him  the  greatest  outstanding  figure  in  American  history. 


It  is  fitting  that  each  recurring 
anniversary  of  the  "Father  of  his 
country"  should  be  appropriately  ob 
served  that  the  children  of  men,  who 
are  striving  for  wealth,  social  posi- 
tion and  ascendancy,  l.iay  know 
the  true  reasons  why  George  Wash- 
ington became  ihe  man  he  was,  the 
leader  he  was,  the  statesman  he  be- 
came, and  why  he  yet,  ages  after- 
ward, is  revered. 

WASHINGTON  CHRONOLOGY: 

Bom  in  Virginia  February  22. 
1732;  on  first  surveying  expedi- 
tion March  17  IS;  commissioned 
adjutant-general,  with  rank  of  major 
1751;  sails  fo»  the  West  Indies  with 
his  brother  Lawrerce  Sept.  1751; 
commissioned  'ieutenant  -  colonel 
1754;  appointed  aid  de-camp  to 
General  Bradduck  1755;  Braddoek's 
defeat  July  9,  1755;  elected  to  the 
House  of  Burgesses  1758;  marries 
Mrs  Martha  CusMs  January 
6,  1759;  member  of  the  first  Con- 
tinental Congress  1774;  member  of 
the  second  Continental  Congress 
1775;  appointed  commander  in-chief 
cf  the  American  armies  June  i5.  17- 
75;  takes  command  at  Cambridge, 
•July  3, 1775;  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence July  4,  1776;  battle  of  Long 
Island  August  22.  1776;  battle  of 
Trenton  Nov.  16.  1776;  Flag  adopt- 
ed by  Congress  June.  14.  1777;  bat- 
tle -  f  Brandy  wine  Sept.  10, 1777;  bat- 
tle of  Germantown  Oct.  4,  1777;  Rat- 
ification of  Treaty  with  France  May 
2,  1 77S;  battle  of  Monmouth  Court 
House  June    28,     1778;    arrival     of 


French  fleet  July  1778;  Cornwallis' 
surrender  at  Yorktown  October  19, 
1781;  takes  leave  of  army  Nov.  2, 
17S3;  resigns  his  commission  Dec.  23, 
1783;  presides  at  the  Constitutional 
Convention  1787;  Chosen  first  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  178a,  in- 
augurated April  30,  1789;  chosen 
for  second  term  1793;  issues  Fare- 
well Address  to  the  people  of  the 
United  States  Sept.  15,  1796;  retires 
from  presidency  March  4,  1797;  nom- 
inated Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
armies  of  the  United  States  July  2, 
1798,  Dies  Dec.  18,  1799. 

MOUNT  Vr.RNON. 

It  is  memorable  as  the  residence 
and  the  burial  place  of  George 
Wa=hington.  It  is  on  the  right 
bark  of  the  Potomac  river,  in  Vir- 
ginia, fifteen  miles  below  Washing- 
ton, and  reached  by  boat  or  trolley. 
In  1858  the  mansion  and  the  sur- 
rounding-property  were  saved  from 
the  auctioneer's  hammer,  and  se- 
cured as  a  national  possession.  It 
is  a  beautiful  spot,  and  perfectly 
kept. 

A  visit  to  Mt.  Vernon,  while  an 
evidence  of  one's  patriotic  regard, 
provides  in  fact  a  great  history  in  a 
nut-shell.  'I  here  are  many  things 
there  that  Washington  used  and  are 
preserved  as  he  fixed  them  to  suit 
his  ideals  of  living  in  his  day. 

Ihe  tomb  is  guarded,  l'he  ebony 
black  negro,  whom  we  met  there  as 
the  guard,  lacks  the  politeness  and 
the  affability  one  is  accustomed  to 
find    in    the    old-time    negro.     The 


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way  he  orders  folks  to 
take  off  their  hats  as 
they  approach  the 
tomb  of  Washington 
--•a  very  proper  thing 
to  do~-smacks  of  the 
authority  of  a  mon- 
arch anil  makes  the 
old  negro  appear  rath- 
er contemptible,  jar- 
ring the  solemnity  of 
the  occasion. 


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CAPITAL  BUILDING 

Began  to  take  shape 
during     Washington's 
first  term  as  president. 
The  design  of  this  most 
magnificent  building  is  said  to  have 
been  the  suggestion  of  John  Quiney 
Adams.     The  corner  stone   was  laid 
1793    during    Washington's   second 
term  as  president. 

WASHINGTON  MONUMENT. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
the  plan  of  a  monument  to  General 
Washington  was  approved    by    Con 


Mount  Vernon. 


The 


npilal. 


gre?s  in  tiie  latter  part  of  Decem- 
ber. 1799,  nothing  was  done  in  the 
matter  until  1833.  when  an  associa- 
tion of  prominent  persons  undertook 
the  raising  or  the  needed  funds  by 
subscription,  and  '>n  July  4th.  1S-1S, 
had  s>  far  succeeded  in  their  under- 
taking that  the  corner  stone  of  a 
monument  was  laid,  and  during  th? 
succeeding  eight  years  the  shaft  was 
carried  to    the    height 

.      of  156  feet. 

Work  at  this  period 
ceased,  because  of  the 
W  a  r  Between  t  h  e 
Staies  an  i  for  other 
reasons.  In  1876  Con- 
gress undertook  the 
completion  of  the  mon- 
ument. It  was  com- 
pleted Augusc  9.  ItS-J. 
The  time  consumed  in 
cam  ing  out  this  I  re- 
ject of  a  memora'  to 
the  first  president  of 
the  United  States  cov- 
ered a  period  more 
than  a  long  life. 


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The  shaft  is  555  feet  high; 
including:  the  fouudation  it  is 
592  feet,  and  at  the  base  is  55 
feet,  112  inches  square.  The 
monument  was  dedicated  with 
imposing  ceremonies  on  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1SS5,  just  eighty-six 
years  after  the  project  was  au- 
thorized. Its  cost  was  about 
$1,500,000.  Adminstrations  go 
and  administrations  come,  but 
this  monument  remains  an 
eternal  testimony  of  love  and 
gratefulness  of  a  great  people 
to  the  "Father  of  his  country." 

Built  of  white  marble,  and 
standing  in  the  cluster  of 
a  beautifuly  kept- park,  this 
monument  is  an  object  of  won- 
der and  delight  to  the  thou- 
sands, who  annually  visit  it  and 
go  up  to  it's  supremest  height, 
either  by  the  stairway  or  the 
elevators 

Approaching  Washington 
this  monument  is  the  first  of 
this  giand  city  to  greet  the  eye. 


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When  one  thinks  of  the  unsullied  career  of  George  Washington  as  a  sol- 
dier, a  statesman,  a  patriot;  when  one  reflects  upon  the  antique  virtues 
of  the  man,  causing  him  to  fall  easily,  as  of  right,  into  the  company  of 
the  Alfreds  and  Godfreys  and  Leonidases,  one  is  more  inclined  to  cling 
to  the  ancient  faith  of  an  overruling  Providence  guiding  the  affairs  of  na- 
tions.—Dr..  E.  A.  Alderman. 


T2  THE  UPLIFT 

THE  HOME  OF  GEORGE  WASHINGTON 

GUSSIE  PACKARD  DuBOIS 

The  home  life  of  George  Washington  is  one  of  the  most  pleasant  aspects  of 
this  great  man's  career.  When  lie  married  Mrs.  Mnrth^  Custis,  hev  little  sun 
and  daughter  went  with  her  to  live  at  Mount  Vernon.  Washington  was  like 
a  father  to  them,  loving  them  dearly,  sharing  their  (roubles  and  joys,  their 

study  and  play. 


John  Custis  was  six  years  old,  and 
Washington  soon  taught  him  to  love 
outdoor  life.  They  rode'  miles  to- 
gether on  horseback  over  theVirginia 
hills.  The  little  boy  learned  to  sit  his 
horse  well,  for  his  stepfather  was  a 
splendid  horseman.  There  were  long 
canters  or  gallops,  when  they  rode 
away  to  attend  to  some  important 
business.  Then  there  were  the  duties 
of  a  soldier  to  lie  learned,  how  to  rida 
in  line,  wheel  his  horse  and  keep  in 
place,  ride  erect,  and  halt  or  advance 
instantly  at  a  word,  as  if  horse  and 
rider   were  one. 


All  this  John  enjoyed,  but  he  liked 
best  the  long  hunting  trips,  when  the 
stately  General  was  as  good  company 
as  another  boy  would  have  been. 
General  Washington  taught  his  young 
companion  how  to  set  traps  and 
snares,  how  to  come  up  to  the  game 
softly  that  he  might  not  frighten  it 
away,  and  many  other  things  [hat 
are  of  real  interest  to  a  boy. 

In  his  pictures,  the  Farther  of  our 
Country  always  seems  to  us  ery 
grand  and  solemn;  and  so  we  love  to 
think  of  him  enjoying  the  company  of 
this  little  buy.     \Ve      feel   better  ac- 


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quaint  oil  villi  hiin  than  we  do  when  sboe-bui'kles  ami  a  colored  coat,  and 

1,0  road  only     of  his  groat     deeds  as  hi*  hair  was  tied  with  a  ribbon.     On 

General  or  as  President.  Sundays   when  they   went   to   church, 

Wasshington  ifhvays  kept   a   dairy,  as*- they   always   did,   they  rode  in   a 

and  one  day  ho  wrote  in  it:    "Went  a  chaise.     In  those  old  days  the  sexton 

hunting     with     Jaokcy     Curtis,     and  showed    people    to    their    scats,    and 

catehed  a  fox  after  three  hours,  chase,  locked  them  in,  for  there  were  doors 

Found  it    in  the  creek*'.  to  the  pews.     During  the  services  he 

Martha   Curtis  was  only  four  years  walked  up  and  down  the  aisle  to  see 

old  wliea  her  mother  married  General  that  the  children  s-nt  quietly  and  that 

Washington.     She  was  a    very    quiet,  their   elders   kept    awake, 

ladylike   child,    dressed    like    a    'irtle  Martha  died  when  she  was  sixteen, 

wo;   an.  her  hair  done  up  in  rolls  and.  and  not  only  her  family  mourned  for 

trimmed   with   ornaments   and  loath-  her,     but  all     the.    servants     on     the 

ers  or  ribbons.     At  that  time,  all  the  plantation  used  to  .  weep  when    they 

nnc  clothes  had  to  be  brought   from  spoke  of  her,  for  she  was  loved  by  all. 

F.i  rlar.d,  and     in  a  long  list     which  John  was  sent  to    Annapolis  to    be 

General      Washington      ordered      for  educated,   and   afterwards   to    King's 

V   rtha  when  site  was  six  years  old.  College — now  Columbia.     He  reiaain- 

ive  find     frocks  of  lawn  and     of  tine  ed  in  college  01:';    thr<  •  itn  tilhs,  Ihen 

brie,  satin  shoes,  silver  shoe-buck-  he  came  home  and  was  married.     He 

lis,  and   a    coat    made   of   fashionable  still     spent     much     time     at     Mount 

silk.  We  are  glad  to  know  that  in  the  Vernon   with   his   wife   end   the   little 

same  list  are  two  dolls,  and  a  b  x  ..£  children  who  came  to  them.     lie  be- 

gingerbread,   toys   and   sugar  images,  came  of  great  use  to  Washington  as 

In  those   days  little  girls  were  not  aid-de-eamp,  and  died  of  a  lever  just 

given   much      education;    so     "Martha  as   the  news  of  the  victory  of  York- 

never  went  to  school,  but  studied  with  town   was   being   carried   through   the 

her    mother,  worked  on  her    sampler,  country.    His   step   father   was   heart- 

and  practiced   on   the   harpsichord.  broken  at  his  loss,  and  when  he  saw 

Mount   Vernon     was   a   grand     old  his  ''dear  Jackey"   breathe  his   last, 

plantation.     There  were  wide  grounds  he  threw  himself     on  a     couch     and 

like  great   parks,  planted   with  fruit  wept  like  •<  child. 

trees    and    flowers.     The    house    was  Mount  Vernon  was  very  lonely  now, 

filled  with  tine  furniture  and  euriosi-  and  General  Washington  begged  Mrs. 

ties  new  to  the  ehildren/Phere  was  a  John  Custis     for     two  of     her     four 

long  gallery  to  play  in  on  rainy  days,  children   to   bring     up   as     his     own. 

and  a  high  hill  running  down  to  the  She  finally   consented,   and   two  more 

river,  where  they  could  race  and  run,  children,   a   girl   and    a   boy,   came   to 

or  play  in  the  water.  Mount    Vernon   to   live.     Those   were 

WLen      the      Washington      family  Eleanor     Parke   Custis   and     George 

traveled,  they  went  in  a  huge  chariot  Washington      Parke      Custis.        Tho 

drawn  by  four  horses,  and  with  posti-  latter  was  familiarly  called  Washing- 

lio::s    in    livery.     Little    Martha    was  ton. 

dr'     ed  5n  satins,  and  John  wore  silver  Eleanor  was  two  and  a  half  years 


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THE  UPLIFT 


old,  and  not  at  all  like  the  quite  little 
girl  Martha  had  been.  She  did  not 
like  to  have  her  hair  dressed  with 
ribbons  a,nd  feathers.  She  did  not  like 
to  sew  or  practice,  though  her  grand- 
farther,  as  she  called  him,  bought 
her  a  new  harpsichord,  costing,  a 
thousand  dollars.  She  was  General 
Washington's  favorite  companion  and 
loved  to  go  with  him  on  long  rides  and 
walks.  Little  Washington  came  in  for 
his  share  of  lessons,  but  his  grand- 
mother tried  to  make  them  as  light 
as  possible.  And  so  between  study 
iynd   play,   these   two   children    whom 


Washington  loved  grew  up  strong  and 
happy  and  each  lived  to  be  more  than 
three  score  and  ten. 

We  often  read  of  the  first  President 
of  the  United  States  as  the  busy 
planter,  looking  after  his  plantation, 
as  the  grave  general,  the  wise  states- 
man, or  the  man  of  society;  but  we 
love  sometimes  to  remember  what  a 
kind,  loving  father  lie  was  to  those 
four  children  who  knew  no  other 
father,  and  how  he  loved  them,  and 
cared  for  them,  sharing  their  troubles 
and  their  joys. 


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The  Call  in  Washington's  Time. 

This  is  a  picture  of  probably    the  t-enth  century  was  The  Minuet,  and 

last  dance  Washington    engaged   in.  the  music  was  martial,    smooth    and 

The    court    dance    of    the    Colonial  the  time  was    marked    by    the    -jre- 

period  and  extending  into  the    nine-  cision  of  a  metronome.  It  required  no 


THE  UPLIFT  15 

ordinary  grace  on  the  part  of  men  these  graceful  and  orderly  gather- 
ami  women  of  that  day  to  tip-toe  to  ings  if  one  of  the  modern-day 
the  minuet  and  make  the  courtesies  couples  of  jazz  dancers  would  have 
in  perfect  unison  to  the  music.  appeared,  coatless  and  the  young 
Dancing  in  those  days  was  an  ac-  dame  with  her  short  skirt,  and  pull- 
cnmplishment  in  grace  and  demean-  ed  oil"  the  "bunny-hug,''  "turkey- 
or  in  those  days  and  the  music  ap-  trot,"  and  a  few  other  modern 
pealed  to  the  finer  impulses---rythm,  stunts  that  had  their  origin- 
courtly  bearing,  grace  and  precision.  WHERE? 
Imagine  the  consternation  in  one  of 


On  the  30th  of  April,  1780,  in  the  little  balcony  of  Federal  Hall,  over- 
looking the  present  Wall  Street,  in  New  York,  Washington  took  the  oath  of 
office,  becoming  the  first  President  of  the  United  States.  All  of  the  streets 
as  far  as  the  eye  could  reach  were  packed  with  spectators.  Waclungton 
was  a  fine-looking  man  as  he  stood  there  erect,  more  than  six  feet  in 
height.  He  was  dressed  in  a  suit  of  brown  cloth,  with  metajl  buttons  that 
had  an  eagle  on  them.  He  wore  white  stockings  and  silver  knee  and  shoe 
buckles,  his  hair  was  gathered  behind  in  a  large  silk  bag,  and  a  sword 
hung  at  his  side. 


Washington  s  Visits  In  1791 

Some  years  ago  the  writer  was  at  Gatesville.  at  the  United  States  Ho- 
tel, and  was  very  gravely  assured  that  George  Washington  had  spent  a 
night  there,  in  the  tour  of  the  State  he  made  in  1791;  in  fact  "Washing- 
ton's Room'' was  shown,  on  the  second  floor;  at  the  moment  occupied  by 
the  county  superintendent  of  public  instruction.  At  three  or  four  other 
places  the  writer  has  been  shown  places  "where  Washington  had  slept," 
some  "where  he  ate"  and  at  least  two  "chairs  he  sat  in,"  writes  Ccl.  Fred 
A.  Olds.*  £?ff-  .: 

Now  where  did  Washington  stop  Shrin's  hotel;  on  the  23rd  dined 
on  that  journey  from  his  home,  Mt.  at  Foy's  hotel  and  slept  at  Sages  ho- 
Vernon,  near  Alexandria,  Virginia,  tel;  on  the  24th  arived  at  Wilming- 
to  Georgia?  At  Halifax,  where  he  ton  at  2  o'clock  and  remaining  there 
spent  Saturday  night.  April  16  the  until]  the  morning  of  ihe  26th, 
following  day  and  night;  on  the  breakfasting  at  Ben  Smith's  hotel 
18th  dined  at  Slaughter's  hotel,  and  and  spending  the  night  at  Russ'  ho- 
spent  at  Tarboro;  on  the  19ih  dined  tel;  on  the  27th  breakfasted  at  Wil- 
at  Greenville  and  slept  at  Allen's;  on  Ham  Cause's  hotel,  and  crossed  the 
the  20th  breakfasted  at  Col.  Allen's  line  into  South  Carolina  at  12:30 
and  dined  at  New    Bern;    there    he      o'clock. 

stayed  until   the  22nd;  on   the    22nd  General  Washington  went  to  South 

dined    at     'Jrenton      and      slept  at      Carolina   and  came  ba:k  into  North 


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THE  UPLIFT 


Carolina  in  the  piedmont  region,  his 
trip  southward  being  through  the 
costal  plain.  May  2Sth  he  reached 
Charlotte  at  3  o'clock,  dined  there 
and  spent  the  night;  on  the  29th  he 
dined  at  Col.  Smith's  inn  and  slept 
at  Maj.  Phifer's  inn;  on  the  30th 
reached  Salisbury  for  breakfast, 
dined  and  slept  there;  on  the  olst 
breakfasted  at  Young's  hotel  on  the 
Yadkin  and  at  3  o'clock  reached 
Salem,  where  he  remained  until 
June  2nd,  when  he  and  Gov.  Martin 
went  to  Guilford  Court  House  battle- 
field and  dined  there;  on  the  3rd  of 
June  breakfasted  at  Troublesome 
Iron  Works  and  slept  at  Gatewood's 
hotel,  on  the  Dan  river;  on  the  4th 
crossed  the  line  into  Virginia. 

The  great  Washington  was  an  ear- 
ly riser,  a  thorough  farmer,  in  fact 
the  best  one  in  the  United  States 
and  by  far  the  most  advanced.  So 
he  often  on  this  notable  journey  was 
up  and  away  as  early  as  4  o'clock  in 
the  morning.  "Early  to  bed  and 
early  to  rise"  certainly  made  that 
greatest  of  Americans  "healthy  and 
wealthy  and  uise." 

IN  SOUTH    CAROLINA 

When  leaving  Georgetown,  3  C, 
on  his  Southern  trip  in  1791,  Wash- 
ington's heavy  coach  was  drawn  by 
four  horses.  The  roadway  led  him 
through  the  rice  fields  of  the  Santee 
county.  On  and  on  at  a  rapi  1  pace 
he  dashed,  crossing  the  three  branch- 
es of  the  Santee.  At  il  o'clock  in 
the  morning  he  came  to  a  handsome 
county  house  whose  portoeo  was  up- 
lifted on  tall  pillars.  Beneath  the 
portoeo  stood  Mrs.  Pieknty,  mother 
of  Charles  Cotesworth  Mekney.  By 
her  side  was  her  daughter,  the  wi- 
dow of  Daniel  Horry,  one  of  Marion's 
brave  men.    Around  these  two  were 


assembled  other  fair  women  to  wel- 
come the  President.  Their  sashes 
had  Washington's  portrait  painted 
upon  them. 

The  President  came  down  from 
the  great  carriage  and  met  the  greet- 
ings of  his  friends  with  a  stately 
bow:  The  entire  party  entered  the 
large  room  which  was  called  the 
ballroom  and  took  their  seats  at  a 
bn.i>  table.  A  little  army  of  colored 
waiters  came  trooping  in  from  the 
kitchen  with  heavy  covered  dishes. 
A  long  time  was  spent  by  the  Pres- 
ident at  the  breakfast  table.  Then 
he  bowed  farewell  to  his  hostess,  the 
driver  cracked  his  whip,  and  the 
great  carriage  rolled  away  towards 
Charleston. 

WASHINGTON  IN  CHARLOTTE. 
BY  WADE  II.  HARRIS 

George  Washington  got  into  '"the 
trifling  town  of  Charlotte"  at  3 
o'clock  on  the  afternoon  of  May  2Sth, 
1791.  He  was  on  the  homeward  leg 
of  a  journey  on  which  he  had  set 
forth  from  Philadelphia  in  March  of 
that  year,  and  which  led  through 
Newbern  to  Wilmington,  into  lower 
Georgia  and  back  through  South 
Carolina  by  way  of  Columbia  and 
Camden.  He  spent  but  one  da\  at 
Charlotte,  and  found  nothing  to  make 
note  of  except  a  dining  wit li  "General 
Thomas  Folk  ami  a  small  party  in- 
vited by  him,  at  a  table  prepared  for 
the  purpose,"  and  of  "a  school  (rail- 
ed a  college)  in  it  at  which,  at  times, 
there  has  been  50  or  CO  boys."  Leav- 
ing Charlotte  for  Salisbury,  he  "oined 
at  Colonel  Smith's  15  miles  off,  and 
lodged  at  Major  Phifer's,  7  miles  far- 
ther." This  .Major  Phifer  was  a  son 
of  John  Phifer,  one  of  the  lending 
patriots     of     Mecklenburg     County, 


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whose  body  rests  at  "Red  Hills." 
This  is  the  old  Revolutionary  grave- 
yard on  the  road  hill  near  Dodson's 
mill,  on  the  land  of  Mr.  John  P.  Alli- 
son, and  not  far  from  the  scene  of  the 
blowing  up  of  the  British  powder 
wagons  by  the  celebrated  Cabarrus 
Blade  Boys.  This  information  about 
John  Phifer  is  added  by  the  writer 
to  the  notes  from  Washington's 
journal  of  his  visit,  that  given  in 
quotations  being  all  he  had  to  say 
about   this  locality. 

But  in  the  library  of  the  late  Gene- 
ral Rufus  Barringer  is  a  biography  of 
CharlesCatdwell,  M.  !>.,  in  which  there 
are  given  a  few  personal  reminis- 
cences. Doctor  Caldwell  was  one  of 
the  party  that  went  out  to  meet 
Washington  as  he  was  coming  to 
Charlotte.  lie  notes  that  the  General 
rode  "a  milk  white  charger,  a  pres- 
ent to  him  by  Frederick  of  Prussia 
near  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
war,"  and  the  stepping  of  the  horse 
was  '"measured  and  proud,  as  if  the 
noble  animal  was  conscious  of  the 
character  and  standing  of  his  rider." 
Doctor  Caldwell  "posted''  Washing- 
ton as  to  what  to  expect  in  "a  small 
town  through  which  we  shall  pass, 
where  Lord  Cornwallis  lay  encamped 
when  he  swore  that  lie  had  never  be- 
fore been  in  such  a  d n d  nest 

of  Whigs,  for  he  could  get  neither 
chicken  nor  bread  for  his  table  nor 
oats  for  his  horse."  "Pray,  what  is 
the  name  of  that  town?"  asked  the 
General. 

"Charlotte,  sir,"  replied  Doctor 
Caldwell  "the  county  seat  of  Meck- 
lenburg and  the  place  where  Inde- 
pendence was  declared  about  a  year 
before  its  declaration  by  Congress." 
Doctor   Caldwell   proceeded   with    the 


further  information  that  Washington 
might  bo  prepared  for  a  great  re- 
ception there,  as  large  numbers  were 
already  assembled  "and  the  crowd 
was  increasing  rapidly."  The  people 
had  come  "in  large,  well-covered  farm 
wagons,  for  their  bed  chambers,  and 
enough  of  substantial  food  already 
cooked  to  last  a  week.  Others  had  put 
up  tents  in  the  midst  of  a  beautiful 
and  celebrated  grove,  where  a  victory 
had  been  won  by  a  company  of  militia 
over  a  party  of  Tarleton's  dragoons." 

Washington  expressed  a  desire  to 
meet  at  Charlotte  some  of  the  signers 
of  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration  of 
Independence,  but  Doctor  Caldwell  in- 
formed him  that  his  father,  one  of  the 
signers  was  dead,  that  Doctor  Bre- 
vard, the  author  of  the  Declaration 
\va,s  also  dead,  that  of  the  members 
of  the  convention  still  living  he  knew 
personally  only  two — John  McKnitt 
Alexander,  who  was  the  president 
of  the  body,  ami  Adam  Alexander,  his 
brother,  who  had  been  its  secretary. 
These  two,  he  told  Washington,  "are 
far  advanced  in  life  r,nd  lived  some 
distance  from  Charlotte,"  but  Doe- 
tor  Caldwell  assured  the  president 
that  "their  evergreen  spirit  of  patrio- 
tism, united  to  their  strong  desire  to 
see  him,  would  bring  them  there, 
should  they  be  able  to  travel."  It 
is  not  related  whether  the  desire  of 
Washington  to  meet  these  signers 
was  realized. 

It  was  between  Charlotte  and  Salis- 
bury that  Washington  made  note  of 
the  best  land  he  had  yet  seen,  "very 
fine,  of  reddish  cast  and  well-timber- 
ed, with  but  little  underwood"  and  the 
first  meadows  he  had  seen  since  start- 
ing out  from  Virginia.  He  had  pass- 
ed through  what  is  now  known  as  the 


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sandhills  of  North  Carolina,  and  found  who  blacked  themselves    to    conceal 

it  "the  most  barren  country  I  ever  bo-  their    identity,     thus    Riving-    them 

held,   no   other    than   a    bed   of   white  the  name  of  "Black  Boys,"  and  with 

sand."    He    believed    if    "the    ideas  a  determination  to  destroy  this  wag. 

of  poverty    conld   be   separated   from  on  train    journeying    from    Charles- 

the  sand,'    the   appearance   of  -it    is  ton,  S.  C,  to  Hillsboro,   loaded  with 

agreeable."     Wonder  what  "Washing-  powder,  for  the  purpose    of    killing 

ton  would   exclaim   now   if  he  could  "traitors."     The  most    daring    and 

once  more  traverse  the  sandhills  and  patriotic  deed  is  too   well  known    at 

take   in   the  sights  around   I'inehurst  this  day  to  be  repeated  here, 
and   Southern   Pines,    with    the   great  CoL    Martin    Phifer  who  lived    at 

tobacco   fields   and     peach     orchards  Red  Hill  Farm  atihis  time,  had  wrv. 

,,  ,    ..  i  •  i,     •  ed  in  the  Continental     army,    under 

covering    the    sand    trom    whieh.    m-  -,„,,.  ,  f       . 

,     ,     .,        ,.,  „  .    ,,   ,  ben.  Washington,  and  saw  hard  ser- 

deed,   the   "ideas   ot   poverty"   have        .         -,,    ,  •  \  ■   ,,      ■      tU 

vice  with  him,  and  especially  in  the 


been  effectively  separated! 


Valley  Force  campaign,'  recorded  as 


WASHINGTON  IN  CABARRUS,  1791.  the  severest  in  th*>  seven  years'  war 

of  the  Revolution.     Col.  Phifer    was 

By  J.  P.  Allison  promoted  to  Colonel  toward  the  end 

General         Washington's          trip  of  the  war,. but  he    was    Known    by 

through  this  section,    in    1791,    was  his  friends  and  neighbors   as    Major 

before  the  county  of    Cabarrus    was  Phifer,  as  he  served  longer  as  Major 

taken  from  Mecklsnburg,  two  years  than  Colonel,  but    the    latter  is    his 

later.     At  that  period,  there  was  no  official  title  in  the  war  records, 

town,  or  even  village,  in  what  is  now  The    anticipated     visit     of    Gen. 

Cabarrus  county.     It  was  a  wooded  Washington  to  one  of  his    esteemed 

country,  with      clearings    here    and  fellow  soldiers.  Maj.   Phifer,    was  a 

there,  called  farms.  great  event  to  the  latter.     There  is 

One  of  the  best  of  these  was  call-  no  record,  however,  of  how  the  great 

ed    "Red   Hill    Farm,"    (Around    it  general  was  entertained,    but    it  is 

centres      much    interesting    history  sufficient     to    say     that     he     fared 

of     the     affairs      of    upper    Meek-  sumptiously,     as      the     Major    had 

lenburg  and     particularly     of  some  large  possessions  and  was  proverbial 

notable     early     settlers,    who    con-  far  and  wide  for  being  a  "bountiful 

tributed     of    their    patrotism     and  provider"— his  a  private  home    not- 

valor  to  the  cause  of  American  free-  ed  throughout  the  whole  section  for 

dom.     Of  this  The  Uplift  hopes  at  its  hospitality. 

an  early  day  to  have  a  full  account.  The  coming  of  this  distinguished 
-Editor)  three  miles  west  of  Con-  visitor  was  heralded  by  bis  best, 
cord,  and  was  owned  by  the  Phifers.  throughout  the  country,  inviting  the 
On  this  farm  .vas  a  general  muster-  people  to  come  to  the  muster- ground 
ground,  and  the  famous  "Black  to  meet  the  great  soldier  general; 
Boys"  spring.  This  spring  was  a  but  it  was  a  tremendous  disappoint- 
popular  camping  ground  for  travel-  ment  to  them,  as  they  gathered  in 
ers;  and  it  was  at  this  place  that  the  great  numbers,  at  the  muster- 
British  powder  was  blown  up  by  a  ground,  expecting  to  give  him  an 
number  of  patriotic    men,    in    1771,  ovation,  to  learn  that  Gen.  Washing- 


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19 


ton  was  gone.  He  announced  on  his 
arrival  that  his'time  was  so  limited 
it  would  be l  impossible-'  to  remain 
longer  than  the',  night.  (Here  we 
-vividly  •see  the  lack  of  facilities  of 
communication  of  that  period.  Such 
an  occurrence  could  not  happen  in 
this  day,  for  the  whole  countryside 
could  be  informed  in.  few  minutes, 
and  they  would  swarm  about 
Major  Phifer's  premises  in  the  night- 
time rather  than  miss  such  a  pleasure 
and  privilege. -■•Editor).  He  was 
scheduled  to  breakfast  in  Salisbury, 
twenty  miles  away. 

On  his  way,  May  30th,  to  Rowan's 
capitol,  she  topped  at  a  farm-house 
about  two  miles  above  China  Grove, 
and  was  met  at  the  door  by  a  little 
girl  who  informed  him  that  none  of 
the  family  was  at  home  excepting 
herself---that  they  had  all  gone  to 
Salisbury  to  see  General  Wash- 
ington. He  asked  her  if  she  did  not 
want  to  see  him,  too.  She  replied 
that  she  did,  e\er  so  much,  but 
there  was  not  room  for  her,  so  she 
was  left  with  the  servants.  The 
General  told  her  he  was  hungry 
and  if  she  would  give  him  a  glass 
of  milk  and  a  piece  of  corn-bread, 
she  should  see  General  Washington 
first;  and  she  soon  brought  the  de- 
sired refreshment,  whereupon  he 
said.  "I  am  Gen.  Washington." 
The  name  of  the  little  girl  was 
Betsy  Brandon.  The  old  house  still 
stands  in  the  most  dilapidated  condi- 
tion, and  will  soon  be  a  pile  of  debris 
unless  sentiment  and  patriotism  as- 
sert themselves  towards  it  rescue. 
This  house  was  the  home  for 
many  years  of  the  late  Montford 
McKenzie. 

Washington  In-  Salem. 
T'JE     Uplift    requested    of    Dr. 


Howard  E.  Rondthaler,  president  of 
Salem  Academy  and  College,  at  Win- 
ston's Salem,  N.  C,  to  briefly  teil  of 
Washington's  stay  and  entertain- 
ment in  Salem.  Dr.  Rondthaler's  in- 
ter esting  story  follows: 

George  Washington's  visit  to  Old 
Salem  has  always  been  cherished  as 
one  of  the  most  interesting  events 
in  the  history  of  this  ancient  town. 

For  many  years  verbal  tradition 
retained  a  lively  interest  in  his  visit, 
and  recently  the  tavern  at  which  he 
was  entertained  has  been  perman- 
ently memoralized  with  a  handsome 
bronze  tablet.  President  Washing- 
ton was  entertained  at  the  old  Salem 
Hotel,  still  standing  and  occupied, 
and  the  room  which  he  made  his 
headquarters  is  still  designated  as 
the  Washington  room  and  has  un- 
dergone but  little  change  since  his 
visit. 

He  was  met  by  the  offeers  of  the 
Church  and  Town  and  in  a  carefully 
prepared  address  which  is  still  pre- 
served in  the  Archives,  hewaswel- 
ed  most  heartily  to  the  Communi- 
ty. He  responded  formally  in  a 
written  address,  the  original  being 
preserved  also  in  the  Archives  where 
it  is  held  amongst  the  most'cherished 
papers. 

While  here  he  visited  with  great 
care  the  busy  and  thriving  Com- 
munity which  then  numbered  more 
than  a  thousand  people  and  he  ex- 
pressed his  amazement  and  delight 
at  the  substantial  character  of  the 
Community,  commenting  on  its  large 
practical  buildings  which  surpassed 
anything  in  vVestern  Carolina  at 
that  time,  and  being  particularly 
impressed  with  the  fact  that  the 
Town,  though  not  a  generation  old 
was  supplied  with  water  in  all  parts, 
this  being  carried  in  conduits  under- 


2o  THE  UPLIFT 

ground  constructed  in  part  of  terra  which  was  already  in  its  20th  year, 
cotta  and  in  part  of  logs  bored  having  been  founded  in  1771. 
through.  During  the  later  hour  in  the  even- 
Mr.  Washington  attended  divine  ing  he  was  further  enertained  at 
service  in  the  Moravian  Church  and  the  Hotel  by  a  musical  program  in- 
expressed  his  pleasure  and  edifica-  eluding  piano  music  on  a  harpsi- 
tion.  In  the  evening  he  was  serenad-  chord  which  is  likewise  preserved 
ed  by  the  Church  Band  and  the  mu-  in  the  historical  collection  of  the 
sic  prepared  for  this  occasion  is  >till  Salem  Museum.  Mr.  Washington 
preserved  in  the  Historical  Museum  was  deeply  impressed  throughout 
at  Salem.  With  great  heartiness,  his  visit  and  gave  frequent  expres- 
aceompanied  by  the-  Band,  the  eiti-  'sion  to  his  delight  in  the  Community 
zens  sang,  "God  Save  Good  Wash-  life  here  and  to  his  interest  adn  eon- 
ington"  to  the  tune  "America."  fidenee  in  the  future  of  Salem. 
He    visited    the    Salem    Academy 


When  President  Washington  went  out  of  his  house  he  rode  in  a  largo 
cream-colcred  carriage,  drawn  by  four  horses  and  sometimes  by  si:c.  Every 
Tuesday  afternoon  lie  held  a  reception  called  a  levee.  At  three  o'clock 
the  doors  were  opened  and  the  guest  entered.  There  stood  the  President  iu 
front  of  the  fireplace.  He  was  dressed  in  black  velvet,  had  yellow  gloves 
on  his  hands,  and  was  holding  a  three-cornered  hat  under  his  left  arm. 
The  hilt  of  a  sword  was  sticking  out  from  beneath  his  coat.  With  his 
right  hand  behind  his  back  he  made  a  bow  to  the  company  in  a  dignified 
but  rather  stiff  way.  Then  he  walked  around  the  room  and  said  something 
to  each  visitor.     He  did  not  shake  any  one's  hand. 


Ths  Famous  Jumel  Mansion 

By  JulL    W.  Wolfe. 

Every  young  person  coming  tn  New  York  City  should  visit  the  Jumel 
Mansion. 

This  old  house  was  purchased  by  the  city  of  New  York  in  1903  for  §235,- 
000  and  is  now  maintained  as  a  museum  of  relics  of  the  Revolutionary  pe- 
riod by  the  Daughters  of  American  Revolution  and  this  house   is    the    sule 

survivor  of  the  many  historic  ones  and  river  and  the  varied  Wincb-3- 
that  once  graced  Manhattan  Island.  tor  plains.  It  vas  built  for  Miss 
It  stands  at  160th  street  and  Edge-  Mary  Phillipse  by  her  father,  Fred- 
combe  Avenue,  near  High  Bridge,  erick  Phillipse,  lord  of  the  manor 
at  the  northern  limit  of  Manhat-  of  Phillipseburg— now  Yonkers— 
tan  Island,  in  the  midst  of  the  scan-  who  gave  it  to  her,  together  with 
ty  rerrains  of  a  once  fine  park  of  500  acres  of  land  on  Manhattan  as 
130  odd  acres,  overlooking  the    city  her  dowry. 


THE  UPLIFT 


Mary  Philiipse  was  a  much  cour- 
ted belle  of  New  York  society  of 
1756.  It  has  even  been  asserted 
that  George  Washington,  who  had 
met  her  at  the  home  of  his  friend 
Sevarly  Robison  during  one  of  his 
freqr.ent  visits  to  New  York,  was  so 
taken  with  her  charm  that,  he  became 
a  suitor  for  her  h?nd.   He  had  a  rival 


marriage  soon  followed. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolu- 
tion the  two  former  rivals  found 
themselves  in  opposing  armies,  Rog- 
er Morris,  being  a  Colonei  with  the 
British  forces  and  George  Washing- 
ton commander-in  chief  of  the  col- 
onists. Mrs.  Morris  occupied  her 
home    until  the     British    attaet    on 


1 

A    ■' 


The  Famous  Jumel  House. 


in  the  person  of  Ruger  Morris,  a 
Captain  in  the  British  Army,  which, 
was  then  garrisoning  New  York 
and  Washington  was  soon  call- 
ed to  the  frontier  by  the  Indian 
Wars.  Some  months  later  a  friend 
wrote  him  "Morris  is  laying  siege 
•  to  Miss  Philiipse,"  and  that  if  he 
had  any  interest  in  that  quarter 
he  had  best  visit  New  York  at  once, 
ad.ice  wriich  Washington  did  not 
accept.  Not  long  afterward  the  be 
trothal  of  Captain  Morris  to  Miss- 
Phillipse    was  announced    and    their 


the  city  in  August  1776,  when  she 
hastily  left  it,  never  again  to  re- 
turn, and  found  a  refuge  with  the 
Tory  people  among  the  highlands. 

A  few  days  later  General  Washing- 
ton arrived  and  made  the  house  his 
headquarters  during  his  operation 
on  the  island.  His  occupation  last- 
ed only  a  short  time,  however,  and 
during  the  summer  of  1777  Lieut.- 
Gcneral  Sir  Henry  Clintor  used  it  as 
the  British  Headquarters.  In  the 
summer  of  1773  Lieut. -Gen.  Baron 
von    Puyphausen    and    his    German. 


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staff  occupied  the  manor,  and  in  the 
5ast  year  of  the  Revolution  Lieut- 
Gen,  von  Losberg  lived  in  it. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Mrs.  Mor- 
ris's estates,  together  with  those  of 
other  Tories,  were  confiscated,  and 
she  went  with  her  husband  to  Eng- 
land. 

In  July,  1790,  Washington,  who 
was  then  President,  visited  the  house 
for  a  second  time.  He  writes  of  the 
visit:  "Having  formed  a  party  con- 
sisting of  the  Vice-President,  his 
lady,  son  and  Miss  Smith,  the  Secre- 
taries of  State,  Navy  and  War  and 
the  ladies  of  the  two  latter,  with  all 
the  gentlemen  of  my  family,  Mrs. 
Lear  and  the  two  children,  we  visit- 
ed the  old  position  of  Fort  Washing- 
ton and  afterward  dined  at  the 
house  lately  Col.  Roger  Morris's,  but 
•confiscated  and  now  in  the  posses- 
sion of  a  common  farmer." 

Captain  Mariner,  incidentally,  was 
a  noted  character  of  the  Revolution, 
in  the  course  of  which  he  had  en- 
gaged in  "whale-boat  warfare," 
which  consisted  chiefly  in  making 
night  descents  en  the  enemy's  coast 
and  making  prisoners  of  such  prom- 
inent persons  as  came  in  their  way. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  war  he  be- 
came a  famous  caterer,  and  it  was 
in  this  capacity  that  he  prepared  the 
dinner  to  which  Washington  alludes. 

The  housp  was  much  too  fine  to 
continue  long  in  the  possession  of  a 
"common  farmer,"  and  in  1803  it 
came  onto  the  market.  Among  the 
most  famous  of  prospective  pur- 
chasers was  Col.  Aaron  Burr,  who 
was  then  living  in  the  splendid  way 
he  affected  at  Richmond  Hill,  on 
Long  Island.  A  letter  from  his 
daughter  Theodosia  in  regard  to  his 
possible  acquisition  of  the  house  is  of 
interest  both  as  shedding  light  upon 


Burr  and  his  ambitions  and  as  show, 
ing  what  one  of  the  "most  charming 
and  accomplished  women  of  her  day" 
thought  of  the  home,  she  writes: 

"The  exchange  has  employed  my 
thoughts  ever  since.  Richmond 
Hill  will  for  a  few  years  to  come  be 
more  valuable  than  Morris's  and  to 
you,  who  are  so  fond  of  town,  a 
place  so  far  from  it  would  be  useless; 
so  much,  for  my  reasons  on  one  side 
and  now  for  the  other.  Richmond 
Hill  has  lost,  many  of  its  beauties 
and  is  daily  losing  more.  If  you 
mean  it.  for  a  residence,  what  avails 
its  intrinsic  value?  If  you  sell  part 
you  deprive  it  of  every  beauty  save 
the  mere  view.  Morris's  has  the 
most  commanding  view  on  the 
island;  it  is  reported  to  be  indiscir 
bably  beautiful.  The  grounds,  too, 
are  pretty.  How  many  delightful 
walks  can  be  made  on  the  hundred 
and  thirty  acres;  how  much  of  your 
good  taste  displayed!  In  ten  or 
twenty  years  hence  one  hundred  and 
and  thirty  acres  of  New  York  Island 
will  be  a  principality,  and  there  is  to 
me  something  stylish,  elegant,  res- 
pectable and  suitable  to  your  having 
a  handsome  country  seat.  So  that 
on  the  whole,  I  vole  for  Morris's." 

Nevertheless,  Col.  Burr  did  not 
buy  the  property  at  the  time,  though 
he  subsequently-married  the  owner 
of  it  and  lived  th?re,  meeting  a  class 
of  law  students  in  the  room  formerly 
occupied  by  Washington  as  his  bed 
room. 

Stephen  Jumel  bought  the  place  in 
1810,  and  left  it  for  a  time  in  1815 
to  go  to  France,  with  the  purpose 
of  pursuading  Napoleon  to  come  to 
America.  After  Jumel's  death,  in 
1832,  Mme.  Jumel  married  Aaron 
Burr,  but  the  union  was  of  short 
dutation.     Among  the  distinguished 


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visitors  during  the  Juinel  reign  were  fifty  years  after  her  death. 

Louis,  Jerome  and  Joseph  Boneparte,  The    home  is  filled  with    relies,  of" 

Mine,  Jumel  died  in  1S65.  Revolutionary  days  and  is  an , in teres- 

A    niece  of  hers  by   the    name    of  ting  place  to  visit. 
Chase    lived  in    the  mansion    nearly 


One  clay  when  the  French  and  Indian  War  was  over  "Washington  was 
riding  towards  Williamsburg.  Near  the  Pamunkey  Elver  he  stopped  at 
noon  to  dine  in  the  house  of  a  friend.  He  hade  Bishop,  his  servant,  have 
the  horses  ready  for  the  afternoon  ride,  because  his  business  at  Williams- 
burg was  pressing.  When  Washington  entered  the  house  he  met  another 
guest,  Mrs.  Custis,  a  young  widow.  After  dinner  he  lingered  by  her  side, 
for  she  had  won  the  young  soldier's  heart.  Bishop  led  the  horses  to  the 
gate  and  made  them  walk  back  and  forth  in  front  of  the  house  until  sun- 
set. Then  Washington  arose  to  go,  but  his  friend,  the  master  of  the  house, 
declared  that  no  guest  should  leave  at  an  hour  so  late,  so  he  spent  the  night 
with  his  friend.  Very  early  next  morning  Bishop  led  the  horses  to  the 
gate,  but  several  hours  parsed  away  bfore  Washington  set  forth  again  on 
the  journey  to  Williamsburg  to  look  after  "pressing  business."  Just  a 
few  months  afterwards  a  large  company  was  assembled  in  an  old  country 
church  named  St.  Peter's.  George  Washington  and  Martha  Dandridge 
Custis  entered  the  church  and  stood  together  in  front  of  the  chancel. 
There  they  were  pronounced  man  and  wife  by  the  Episcopal  minister  in 
that  parish.  The  bride  and  her  attendants  then  entered  a  large,  hand- 
some coach,  and  six  beautiful  horses  drew  them  homeward.  Washington 
and  his  friends  rode  beside  the  carriage  on  horseback.  They  went  to  live 
at  Mount  Vernon  on  the  Potomac,  which  became  his  property  after  the 
death  of  his  brother  Lawrence. 


LET  THERE    BE    PUBLICITY 

BY  P..  E.  CLARK 

A  "Tax  Inquiry  Meeting"  was  held  in  Charlotte  a  few  days  ago,  at  which 
certain  Mecklenburg  citizens,  disturbed  by  the  size  of  their  tax  bills,  made  in- 
quiry ^s  to  "how  come"  taxes  so  high.  Fortunately  for  those  who  desired 
light.,  Mecklenburg  has  a  county  auditor,  who  was  on  hand  with  the  facts  and 
figures.  The  auditor  could  tell  them  to  a  cent  the  amount  of  the  county's  in- 
debtedness, what  the  bonds  were  issued  for,  the  interest  rate  and  about  the 

otfc-?r  affairs  of  the  county  which  re-  official    who   could   furnish   the   exact 

quire  money,  and   a   big  buneh  of   it,  facts  from  the  books  as  to  the  coun- 

to  carry  on.     This  information  doubt-  ty's    standing      financially.     In      the 

It''    .!:<]  not  satisfy  all  the  inquirers,  great     majority   of   the     counties,   so- 

but  it  was  fortunate  for  them  and  the  loosely  is  the  county's  business   eon- 

eounfy  government  that  there  was  one  ducted,   it   is  doubtful   if  any  official 


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could  be  foil  nil  who,  on  short  notice, 
could  give  a  .statement  of  the  county's 
financial  condition.  In  many  cases  it 
"would  take  days  lo  get  the  facts  and 
figures  together  and  then  there  would 
be  no  assurance  that  they  were  cor- 
rect. This  isn't  mere  assertion;  re- 
cent official  examination  in  many 
counties  has  disclosed  that  state  oC 
facts. 

But  this  isn't  to  be  a  discussion  of 
county  government.  It  is  simply  to 
call  attention  to  the  complaints  about 
high  taxes  which  are  becoming  vocal, 
•of  which  more  is  due  to  be  heard 
when  the  orators  get  on  the  stump 
next  summer  and  tell  the  sovereigns 
just  how  down-trodden  and  oppressed 
they  are.  The  meet  of  the  "Son  of  the 
Signers''  in  Mecklenburg,  which  did 
not  announce  a  new  declaration  of 
independence,  was  a  symptom,  or  a 
symbol,  whichever  you  may  call  it. 
The  average  sovereign  (and  by  that 
term  I  mean  voter  and  taxpayer)  in 
this  land  of  the  free  and  home  of  the 
brave,  is  a  rather  curious  mixture.  He 
gives  little  or  no  thought  or  study  to 
public  affairs.  "When  public  im- 
provements  are  proposed,  if  he  is  in- 
clined to  be  progressive  he  is  for  'em; 
or  he  has  doubts  about  the  cost  and 
the  ability  to  pay  he  will  usually  be 
carried  along  with  the  tide  of  pop- 
ular enthusiasm,  fomented  by  the  ul- 
tra-progressives, who  convince  them- 
selves and  all  others  who  listen  to 
them  without  stopping  to  think,  that 
we  can  have  what  we  want  without 
its  costing  anybody  anything  to  speak 
of,  so  long  as  we  cr,n  borrow  the  mon- 
ey by  issuing  bonds.  So  long  as  mon- 
ey can  be  borrowed,  something  bought 
■on  credit,  an  astonishingly  large  num- 
ber of  the  sovereigns  will  cheerfully  go 


the  limit  and  put  the  thought  of  pay 
day   behind    them.     That,   they   think, 
is  a  matter  for  others  to  worry  about. 
But  presently  a  large  amout  of  debt 
is  accumulated  and  the  interest  eharg- 
es  require  a  large  sum  of  money  annu- 
ally.    There   is  but   one  place   to  got 
the  money  for  the  interest  and  for  all 
other  public  purposes  and  that  is  out 
of  the  pocket  of  the  sovereign.     Then 
when  the  tax  bill  comes  in  there  is  a 
yell  that  is  heard  from  Ban  to  Beer- 
sheba.     The  sovereigns  are  sure  they 
are   being  robbed   and   they   denounce 
without    limit    the      high    taxes    and 
those    who    impose    them    (calmly   ig- 
noring the   fact   that   they  advocated, 
demanded,  or  assented  to   the  things 
that  made  the  high  taxes  necessary). 
They  can't  understand,  they  say,  win- 
taxes   are   so   high    and   they    want    to 
know  about   it.     They   are  very  much 
like  not   a   few  people  who   will   buy 
everything  in  sight  so  long  as  it  is  sold 
to  them  on  credit   and  go  cheerily  on 
until  payment  is  demanded;  then  they 
declare'  that   the  bill   is  too  big;   that 
they   didn't   get    the   stutT,  or   that   it 
wasn't   as   represented;   in  fact  make 
themselves  believe  that  they  have  been 
badly  imposed  on  and  that   they   will 
be  justified  in  repudiating  the  aecount 
if  that  can  be  done 

Tt  is  my  private  opinion,  publicly 
expressed,  that  some  blame  attachesa 
to  all  concerned  in  this  matter  of 
complaints  of  taxes.  Some  of  the 
complaints  are  unworthey  of  no;  ice, 
for  many  there  be  who  will  complain 
at  any  taxes  at  all.  What  they  want 
is  to  get  everything  and  pay  for 
nothing.  But  while  the  mass  of  the 
people  generally  are  to  blame  for  not 
studying  public  affairs,  keeping  j  ost- 
ed    and    exercising    a    directing   iaftu- 


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enee,  public    authorities   are   more   to 
blame  for  not     keeping     the     people 
fullv     advised     as  to     their     affairs. 
The  people   are    frequently   misled   by 
not  being  told  the  whole  truth:   and 
then   when    the   facts   dawn   on    them 
through  the  size  of  their  tax  bills  they 
ore  ready  to  declare  they  have  been 
deceived.     As  a  matter  of  fact   there 
has  been,     as   a   rule,   no     deception. 
They  didn't  take  the  pains  to  get  the 
facts,  which  they  might  have  had  for 
the  asking.     The  point    I   am   making 
is,  that    to   avoid   this    recurrent    dis- 
satisfaction, to  prevent  any  possibility 
of  misunderstanding,  the  people  should 
be  told   the  whole   truth   at   all   times. 
When  a  bond  issue     is  proposed     for 
streets,  or  roads  or     schools  or     any 
public  improvement,  instead  of  making 
pretense   that      the   cost   to   the     tax- 
payer  will    he    negligible,    the    public 
o!lieials,on    whom    the   people    depend 
for  leadership   and   guidance,   should 
make  a  clear  statement   of  the  exact 
facts;  the  people  should  be  told  what 
they  owe,   the   cost    of   operating   the 
government   and   what   the   additional 
expenditure  will  add  to  their  taxes — 
told  so  plainly  that  the  wayfaring  man 
can  understand  and  none  may  find  ex- 
cuse to  say  they  were  misled;  and  not 
only  should  statement  be  issued  when 
additional    expenditure    is    proposed, 
but  be  kept  on  hand  at  all  times,  fully 
up  to  date,  so  that  even-  taxpayer  can 
have,  by  request,  the   exact   informa- 
tion as  to  what  the  tax  is  levied  for 
and   how   it    is    expended.     There    is 
and   always   has   been   too   much   dis- 
position  to   avoid     publicity    in      the 
transaction  of  public  business.  Public 
officials  proceed  on  the  theory  that  it 
isn't  best   to   let    the   people      know 
everything;  that  if  they  are  told  all 


about  matters  there  would  be  a  lot 
of  unwarranted  objection.  Xot  only 
do  the  taxpayers  have  a  right  to- 
know  all  that  is  done  and  all  about  itr 
but  I  contend  that  it  is  good  policy 
to  tell  them.  Publicity  allays  suspic- 
ion. If  there  is  something  they 
haven't  heard  about  the  people 
naturally  think  something  is  being 
put  over  on  them. 

I  contend  then  that  the  people  are 
first  to  blame  in  not  informing  them- 
selves and  demanding  that  they  be  in- 
formed;   and   their     public      servants 
are   more   blameworthy  in   not   seeing 
to   it   that   all   the  people  are  told  all 
about  their  affairs,  in  form  and  lan- 
guage easily  comprehended.  The  aver- 
age statement  issued  by  public  officials, 
when  one  is  issued,  tells  little;  it  does 
not    explain    to    the    masses.     I    am 
aware    that      if    the     people      always 
clearly  understood  what  the  cost  would 
be  to  them  many  measures  for  public 
improvements    that   have     been     put 
over  would  have  been  defeated  for  the 
time.  But  better  that  than  a  dissatis- 
fied citizenship  feeling  that  they  have 
been  deceived  and  are  unduly  burden- 
ed.    There   are  potentialities   in  such 
dissatisfaction    to    which    it    is    high 
time   somebody   should   give    thought. 
To  keep  the  record  straight,  let  it  be 
said  that     I  have     supported     about 
every  bond  issue  proposed.  But  along 
with  that  support  I  hqve  not  only  in- 
sisted on  publicity  as  to  all  the  facts 
but  I  have  insisted  that  the  time  has 
come  to  stop  the  issue  of  bonds  that 
do  not  carry  with  their  issue  a  pro- 
vision for  their  retirement.  Anybody 
who  knows  enough  to  shut  the  door 
must  know  that  to  go  on  issuing  bonds 
with   no     provision     for     retirement, 
with  the  expectation  of  renewing  the 


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2iote   will   nut   only  mean  paying  the      charges  so  heavy  that  n  revolt  of  tax- 
principal   over   and   over   in    interest,      payers  will  be  inevitable. 
but   will    soon      accumulate     interest 


To  these  modern  ages  George  Washington  has  become,  in  all  lands,  the 
apostle  of  noble  character  preaching  in  his  life  and  his  grave  utterances 
the  high  doctrine  that  Immortal  fame  and  immeasurable  service  may  be 
rendered  more  enduringly  by  integrity,  honor,  and  the  quiet  virtues,  than 
by  eloquence,  or  logic,  or  superhuman  gifts. — Alderman. 


OBERAMMERGAU   PASSION   PLAY 

By  Milton  Bronner 

LONDON',  Feb.  0. —  Five  hundred  thousand  dollars  runs  into  many  millions 
of  marks  at  present  rates  of  exchange. 

But  an  offer  of  that  amount  by  American  movie  producers  has  been  spurned 
by  the  God-fearing  villagers  of  Oberammergau,  Bavaria,  though  they  are  all 
but  ruined  by  the  war,  the  revolution  and  post-war  economic  troubles. 

The 


American  movie  producers 
wanted  exclusive  rights  to  film  the 
famous  Oberammergau  Passion  Play. 
The  villagers  thought  acceptance  of 
the  offer  would'  be  commercializing 
their   holy  drama. 

The  Passion  Play  will  be  enacted 
•on  the  huge  stage  at  Oberammergau 
next  May,  just  as  it  has  been  per- 
formed every   10  years  since  1863. 

This  information  comes  to  me  di- 
rect from  Oberammergau  and  should 
set  a  rest  the  wild  rumors  that  have 
been  current  to  the  effect  that  no 
Passion  Play  would  be  given. 

These  rumors  were  based  on  the 
supposition  that  the  villagers  feared 
a  boycott  of  the  play  by  nationals  of 
the  countries  formerly  at  ivar  with 
Germany  and  that  the  old  players 
could  not  perform. 

It  is  true  that  if  spectators  remain- 
ed' away  from  the  Passion  Play,  it 
would  spell  ruin  for  almost  every 
family    in    Oberammergau.     For    the 


savings     of    the    whole      villages    are 
thrown  into  the  production. 

But  there's  no  danger  of  such  mis- 
fortune this  year.  Already  more 
than  00,000  applications  for  seats 
have  been  received  from  Americans 
and  Englishmen. 

Lc  Cri  de  Paris,  a  flippant  French 
anti-German     weekly,     recently  said: 

"The  'Holy  Virgin'  has  married; 
the  'Christ'  married  far  from  Ober- 
ammergau; 'Judas,'  q  private  sol- 
dier, fell  before  Verdun,  and  'Joseph' 
a  fervent  communist,  was  killed  at. 
Rosenheim  by  the  white  guards. 

There's  only  one  element  of  truth 
in  all  that. 

Ottilit  Zwink,  who  played  Mary  in 
1010,  was  married  the  following  year. 
Hence  she's  ineligible  for  that  part 
this  year. 

But  "Judas" — Johann  Zwink— was 
not  killed  in  the  war.  And  Anton 
Lang,  Christ  of  1910  and  1000,  will 
play  in  the  same  role  again  this  year. 


THE  UPLIFT 


27 


Here   is  the     cast,   as  is     officially  Mary  Magdalene Paula  Rendi 

announced.  .  Geoi'ge   Lang,    a   scul])tor,    will   act 

Christ   \nton   Lang  as  director.   Nearly  700  will  take  part. 

Potcu'    Andreas   Lang  One  hundred  and  twenty-two  will  have 

Judas    Guido   Mayr  speaking    parts.       There    will    ho    58- 

Annas     Sebastian     Lang  musicians,  41  singers,  25  scene  shift- 
Herod    Gregor    Brcitsamter  ers,  60  ushers  and  50  carpenters. 

John Melehoir  lW'eitsaruter  Most    of    the    players    in    everyday 

Caiaphas   Hugo  Rtitz  life  are  farmers  or  woodcarvers.  An- 

Pilate Hans  Mayr  ton   Lang   impersonator  of   Christ,   is 

Hary    Martha    Veit  a    potter. 

One  cannot  read  the  Farewell  Address  (of  Washington),  for  instance, 
in  a  thoughtful  mood,  without  genuine  and  lofty  emotion.  The  words  of 
this  writer  are  the  words  of  the  creator  of  a  new  nation  now  grown  into 
the  colossal  Republic  of  the  West.  We  do  not  discern  in  it  the  classic 
simplicity  of  Caesar,  or  the  fiery  eloquence  of  Napoleon,  or  the  meditative 
philosophy  of  Marcus  Aurelius.  His  style,  like  his  character,  is  high, 
serious,  balanced,  purposeful;  but  back  of  the  style  always  is  the  man. — 
Dr.  Edwin  A.  Alderman. 


PENNILESS  GJRL  STARTS  A  HOME 

From  a  penniless  little  country  girl  to  the  owner,  at  thirty  years  of  age,  of  a 

home  for  elderly  ladies  in  the  largest  city  in  North  Carolina  is  the  story  of 
Miss  Gladys  Posey,  who  has  done  all  this  without  financial  aid  from  anyone, 
says  the  Winston-Salem  Journal. 

At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  a  home  for  ladies  of  culture  and  re- 
of  the  Woman's  Club  this  week  Miss  finement,  and  the  four  ladies  who> 
Posey  presented  her  work  for  the  now  board  there  seem  to  be  exceed- 
first  time  publicly,  not  asking  for  ingly  happy.  The  residence  can  ac- 
finaneial  aid  which  she  decidedly  commodate  25  people  and  Miss  Po- 
does  not  desire  as  long  as  she  is  in  sey  is  anxious  that  it  be  full,  so> 
good  health,  but  she  appealed  to  she  appealed  to  the  club  yesterday 
the  ladies  that  they  help  spread  to  spread  abroad  the  news  of  her 
abroad  the  news  of  her  home.  She  home  which  is  under  a  Xorth  Caro- 
ls sole   owner,     manager,    housekeep-  lina  charter. 


Born  in  Pfafftown 


er,     ana     nurse  at     the     "Invalids' 
Homo,"     formerly  the  residence     of 

•\-    ''.    Holton    in    Waughtown.     This  Miss     Posey  was     born   in     Pfaff- 

is  a  home  for  elderly  ladies — a  home  town   and   is   a   daughter   of  the   late- 

which  breathes     forth  the     very     at-  Charles    Posey    and    Mrs.    Mary    Po- 

mospheie  of  the  word  "home"  and  a  sey.     She  lived  with  her  parents  and 

place  where  elderly  ladies  can  board  five  little     brothers  and     five  sisters 

for  life     if  they     so     desire.     It     is  until    she     was   thirteen     years    old. 


38 


THE  UPLIFT 


■then  she  found  friends;  in  this  city 
who  took  her  into  their  home,  let- 
tiny  her  help  with  housework  after 
school  hours.  There  she  stayed  for 
live  years  when  she  returned  to  her 
home  full  of  the  desire  of  becom- 
ing a  trained  nurse. 

The  idea  of  entering  the  hospital 
for  training  met  with  the  bitterest 
opposition  from  her  parents.  Re- 
maining for  a  year  at  home  she 
was  unable  to  gain  their  consent 
so  she  came  to  this  oily  and  re- 
mained for  a  few  weeks  with  a 
friend  who  helped  her  (not  finan- 
cially) to  get  ready  and  enter  the 
hospital  at  the  first  vacancy  that 
arose.  She  remained  there  until  the 
death  of  her  farther  then  gave  up 
her  training  and  retimed  home  for 
a  while. 

A  e~!l  ea"ne  to  nurse  a  dear  little 
old  lady  who  was  then  in  her  de- 
clining years.  Miss  Posey  could 
not  refuse  to  nurse  this  lady  of  cul- 
ture and  friendly  understanding  so 
she  accepted  the  case.  Her  patient 
was  a  great  inspiration  to  her  and 
it  was  while  they  were  together  in 
the  Tennesse?  mountains-  one  sum- 
mer that  she  discussed  freely  with 
her  patient  her  plans  of  a  home  for 
elderly  ladies.  And  the"  remarkable 
thing  about  it  was  that  she  did  not 
want  and  would  not  accept  any 
financial  aid  from  iv'nyone. 

AYith  the  money  Miss  Pos?y  saved 
that  summer  from  nursing  in  Ten- 
nessee, she  purchased  a  place  in 
Pfafftown.  She  bought  this  little 
house  and  grounds  from  a  second 
cousin  thereby  securing  same  at  a 
smaller  price  than  she  would  other- 
wise have  had  to  pay.  Xo  furni- 
ture, no     curtains,   no  money     to  do 


over  the  inside  of  the  house  she 
realized  the  impossibilty  of  makiii" 
elderly  ladies  comfortable  so  Miss 
Pos.'y  decided  to  lake  children  .  Mi.-> 
Annie  Grogan,  head  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities,  was  consulted,  and 
was  happy  to  find  a  place  for  some 
of  the  little  youngsters  of  tin1  city 
who  needed  just  such  a  home.  Those 
were  the  days  before  the  law  had 
been  passed  that  a  child  could  not 
!>•■  si'c.a.'aied  f.'oin  its  mother  in  less 
than  two  weeks,  so  Miss  Posey  took 
one  child  as  young  as  nine  days  old, 
and  another  at  live  weeks  doing 
everything  for  them.  Her  home 
continued  to  grow  and  at  one  time 
she  had  forty-live  children  there 
ranging  in  age  from  the  above  men- 
tioned weeks  to  eight  years  old.  She 
took  entire  charge  of  these  children, 
doing  all  tli e  nursing,  cooking,  house- 
work and  with  no  assistance  from 
anyone. 

Miss  Posey  kept  up  the  home  fur 
the  children  until  the  opportunity 
came  that  she  could  purchase  the 
Holton  residence.  She  then  sold  her 
country  place  paying  the  money  on 
this  new  home  and  opened  the  pres- 
ent "Invajid's  Home."  She  brought 
with  her  two  of  the  children — the 
ones  she  took  at  nine  days  and  five 
weeks  old,  respectively  and  will 
keep  them  as  long  as  she  is  finan- 
cially able.  Today  she  has  four 
boarders  and  does  all  the  work  her- 
self with  the  assistance  of  one  col- 
ored girl.  Miss  Posey  is  business 
manager,  housekeeper,  companion, 
trained  nurse,  and  is  able  to  meet 
every  payment  on  the  home  when 
due.  Her  heart  and  home  are  both 
open  to  other  ladies  who  wish  to  join 
the  happy  home  circle. 


THE  UPLIFT 


29 


MUSIC  CHARMS  THE  COWS 


Kinston.  Feb.  8. ---"Don't  curse  the  cow."  This  was  the  advice  given 
here  by  Dr.  C.  Banks  McNairy,  superintendent  of  the  Caswell  Training 
School,  who  today  planned  to  introduce  a  phonograph  in  the  school's  dairy 
building  at  milking  time  to  see  what  the  effect  of  music  would  be  upon  the 
herd  there. 


Dr.  McNairy  is  expected  to  make 
exhaustive  experiments  in  connection 
with  "music  and  milk."  He  told  a 
gathering  of  professional  dairymen 
and  officials  here  last  Saturday  that 
a  cow,  being  a  naturally  sensitive 
creature,  could  not  give  good  results 
when  cuffed,  kicked,  sworn  at  and 
otherwise  abused.  Dr.  McNairy, 
who  is  the  State's  best  known  eugen- 
ist  as  well  as  a  skilled  dairyman,  be- 
lieves "Just  Break  the  News  to  Moth- 
er," "Last  Ruse  of  Summer"  and 
"Hark.  Hark,  the  Lark!"  and  other 
soothing  or  gently  stiring  tunes  will 
increase  the  supply  from  the  scores 
of  handsume  HoLteins  at  the  Caswell 
school.  At  any  rate,  he's  going  to 
try  it. 

(Note:  If  Dr.  McNairy  is  not  pleas- 
ed with  the  results  obtained  by  the 


institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 


The  ground  is  being  leveled,  pre- 
paratory to  the  cementing  the  floor 
of  the  new  pump  room. 

Mr.  Riser  and  Mr.  Hayden  Talbert 
are  aiding  the  boys  to  bring  our 
silo  material  from  town. 

Because  tidyriess  is  an  essential 
here,  Mr.  Boger  authorized  the  giv- 
ing of  three  boxes  of  brushes  to  each 
cottage. 


performance  of  the  victrola  on  his 
cows,  something  with  more  volume 
might  bring  the  desired  results.  If 
he  is  determined  to  fuliy  test  out  his 
theory  and,  finding  the  victrola  is  too 
feeblp,  we  will  gladly  lend,  upon  free 
transportation,  the  services  of  our 
band.  If  music  has  any  charms  on 
milk  cows,  we  entertain  no  doubt 
that  Bandroast°r  Lawrence  can  take 
his  bunch  of  young  musicians  down 
to  the  Caswell  School  and  make  every 
milk-can  in  the  institution  overflow. 
This  prophecy  is  predicated  on  the 
abundance  of  milk  enjoyed  at  this 
institution,  and  when  the  daily  band 
practices  are  going  on  it  is  noted  that 
the  herd  slowly  but  surely  approaches 
just  as  close  to  the  music  centre  as 
the  enclosure  will  permit.) 


New  boys  are  arriving  at  the 
school  on  nearly  every  train'  The 
latest  arrival  is  Paul  Green  from 
Rocky  Mount. 

Samuel  Burnett,  of  Charlotte,  paid 
us  a  visit  last  Friday  week.  His 
purpose  in  coming  back  was  to  get 
a  statement  from  Mr.  Boger,  to  be 
used  in  joining  the  army. 

Because  of  warm  spring  weather 
the  boys  play  ball  after  school. 
They  are  practicing  for  a  good  team 
this  year.  They  will  meet  all  comers 
who  would    like  a    good  hot  match. 


3° 


THE  UPLIFT 


Because  of  the  muddy  walk  down 
to  the  6th  and  7th  Cottages,  the  boys 
have  b;en  digging  gravel  to  make 
clean  sidewalks  for  the  matrons  and 
officers  to  traverse. 

The  boys  who  bottom  chairs  are 
paid  for  their  work.  Two  cents  on 
every  chair  bottom  goes  to  them. 
Those  who  have  no  money  in  the 
treasury  can  thus  earn  a  little" 

The  signing  of  the  contract  to 
build  the  dairy,  has  been  noted  in  a 
recent  issue  of  THE  UPLIFT.  Work 
has  now  begun.  Soon  butter  and 
cheese  will  daily  supplement  the  fare 
of  the  boy's  menu. 

The  new  school  room  opposite  Mr. 
Johi. son's  is  still  unoccupied.  Band- 
master Lawrence,  when  he  teaches 
the  whole  band,  uses  this  room,  be- 
cause of  the  blackboards  where  he 
can  illustrate  his  meaning. 

Not  wanting  to  disappoint  the 
boys,  Mr.  Boger  opened  the  7th 
cottage  on  Monday  as  it  had  been 
rumored.  Nevertheless  the  spigots 
in  7th  Cottage  still  remained  to  be 
placed  therein.  They  were  put  in 
Saturday. 

The  boys  of  No.  5  are  raising 
money  to  buy  a  Victrola,  one  of 
which  all  the  other  cottages  own. 
Many  donations  to  the  school  have 
been  recorded,  and  they  would  ap- 
preciate any  other  donation  toward 
the  buying  of  this  machine. 

Another  fine  trade  which  is  being 
taught  here  is  that  of  the  barber. 
These  three  boys  cut,  and  cut  very 
creditably,  the  hair  of  our  200  boys 
at  the  school:  Burtram  Hart,  Will- 
iam Chalk  and  Harry  Lamb.  The 
boys  are  proud  of  them. 


New  ball  goods  are  in  our  carrying 
apparatus  to  withstand  the  bufTlets, 
of  the  oncoming  season. 

Macolm  Holmtn,  Claude  Coley 
and  Keenon  all  were  made  happy  by 
pleasant  visits  fiom  their  parents. 
last  Wednesday  week.  Always  be- 
cause of  the  fact  that  The  Uplift 
is  made  up  on  Wednesday,  the  no- 
tice of  the  boys  who  received  visits 
from  parents  and  reatives  is  a  week 
behind. 

Mr.  R.  B.  Cloer  is  making  kitchen 
tables  for  cottages  No.  2  and  3  and 
for  the  new  cottages  No.  t>  and  7. 
His  services  at  this  school  are  in- 
valuable. In  the  past,  when  the 
school  needed  axe  handles,  they  had 
to  be  purchased  from  town.  Now, 
he  taves  that  expense  his  chief  as- 
sistance, as  the  assistant  claims,  is 
Mr.  Joseph  Kennon. 

There  is  one  thing  which  has  long 
been  reglected  to  mention.  This  is 
the  behavior  in  the  school-room.  Mr. 
Johnson  who  is  endeavering  to  learn 
to  play  cornet,  frequently  leaves  his 
room  to  practise  on  his  horn.  When 
he  thus  leaves  the  room  unattended^ 
there  is  no  boxing,  throwing  of  chalk 
or  other  forms  of  rowdyism.  On 
the  contrary,  quiet  and  order  rules 
supreme. 

Usually,  the  new  boys  who  arrive 
at  the  school,  are  "green,"  so  to- 
speak,  in  military  drilling.  Because 
of  this  fact,  Mr.  Johnson,  who  drills 
the  boys  before  going  to  school  in 
the  morning,  and  after  school  in  the 
afternoon,  has  formed  a  new  con- 
pany  of  boys,  comprising  mostly  of 
new  boys.  They  are  quick  to  learn,, 
and  soon  leave  the  "awkward  squa<;," 
but  other  new  boys  arrive  to  take 
their  places. 


THE  UPLIFT  31 

Saturbay  and  Sunday!  Thest1  the  rapid  growth  of  this  School.  Its 
•days  will  remain  fresh  in  the  hearts  fame  is  being  spread  not  only  over 
of  the  boys.  Why?  Though  not  all  North  Carolina  but  over  the 
late  enough,  still  it  is  the  first  of  *  whole  United  States.  Once  our  plant 
spring  in  weather.  How  the  neededonly  one  nightwatchman;  now 
cidm  weather  of  Spring  inspires  we  have  on  duty  every  night  two 
boys  to  make  new  resolutions!  Soon  watchmen.  If  the  growth  of  the 
time  to  hear  the  warbles  of  beauti-  school  keeps  its  present  pace  before 
ful  birds  which  abound  here!  We  long  we  will  need  three  or  more  de- 
try  to  kill  out  all  of  the  pests—  pendablc  nightwatchmen.  The  boys 
sparrows.  Soon  trees  will  be  green  are  really  interested  and  pleased  by 
again  and  oh,  how  comfortable  it  is  the  school's  growth  and  when  they 
to  be  under  the  shade  of  a  tree— and  leave  they  wish  it  all  sorts  of  suc- 
thiiik!  To  direct  your  thoughts  sky-  cess.  Some,  who  work  in  the  Print- 
ward!  Spring  is  in  the.boy's  hearts,  ing  Office,  predict  that  this  will  be 
blood,  flesh  and  soul.  Soon  it  will  the  most  important  factor  in  the 
be  with  us.  Why  does  spring  make  school's  life.  Some  predict  high  suc- 
your  blood  tingle  and  give  you  thrill  cess  for  the  sewing-room,  carpenter 
over  just  the  thought  of  it?  building,  bakery,  laundry,  barn  and 

...           .         ,.    .  ,         ...  all  other  special  working  forces. 
It  is  almost  increditable  to  believe 


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Lead— Don't  Drive 

The  deepest  pain  is  a  parent's  sorrow  when  the  full 
fruition  of  his  hopes  is  not  realized  in  the  plans  and  po- 
sitions selected  for  the  child.  It  is  said  that  there  is  a 
destiny  that  shapes  our  onds,  and  it  could  hardly  be 
expected  that  we  can  change  all  that  nature  has  out- 
lined. Inheritance  and  environment  must  be  reckoned 
with.  You  too  will  be  more  patient  and  charitable  if 
you  stop  and  ask  yourself  the  simple  question,  "Did  I 
ever  disappoint  my  parents?" 

There  is  great  danger  of  wrecking  a  young  life  by  en- 
deavoring to  force  the  child  into  a  channel  and  a  course, 
for  which  nature  long  ago  made  no  provisions,  mentally, 
physically  and  in  taste.  Lead— don't  drive,  whatever 
you  do. 


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A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.      Type-setting   by   the   Boy's   Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JA^IES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dee.  -1,  1920,   at  the   Post  Office   at   Concord, 
X.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

VITAL  MATTERS. 

That  a  people  may  reap  the  greatest  benefits  of  a  growing  civilization 
there  are  three  outstanding  fields  of  endeavor  into  which  they  must  throw 
their  greatest  effort  and  with  a  consent  concern.  These  agencies  are,  in 
the  order  of  their  effect  upon  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  any  people, 
religious  training,  care  of  the  public  health  and  the  education  of  the  masses. 

In  our  own  state  less  than  fifty  per  cent  of  the  population  is  churched, 
and  less  than  fifty-five  per  cent  is  making  any  effortjto  get  into  touch  with 
anv  kind  of  religious  training;  but  even  with  this  condition  there  is  an  in- 
spiring awakening  to  the  necessity  of  larger  efforts  towards  a  more  gener- 
al religious  training  of  the  people.     This  is  encouraging. 

In  the  cause  of  the  education  of  the  masses,  speaking  entirely  of  the  ru- 
ral section,  the  condition  is  no  better  than  that  of  twenty  years  ago,  ex. 
cepting  a  few  spots  in  a  few  counties.  This  situation  confronts  the  state 
even  after  an  enormous  enlargement  of  the  school  fund.  There  seems  no 
necessity  for  going  far  for  a  reason.  The  overhead  has  been  scrambled 
with  too  many  expert  doctors,  each  having  a  spool  of  red  tape  to  unwind  in 
the  diverting  of  the  funds  towards  handsome  salaries  and  the  confusing 
and  the  confounding  of  the  men  and  women  down  in  the  sticks.  This  situa- 
tion was  clearly  recognized  by  the  recent  General  Assembly,  which  very 
wisely  appointed  a  commission  to  diagnose  the  malady  that  afflicts  the 
operations  of  the  schools  and  to  suggest  a  remedy.  Let  it  be  hoped  that 
that  commission,  whatever  it  may  do,  will  discover  as  the  people,  who  bear 
the  burdens,  have  already  discovered  that  one  remedy  is  to  wipe  out  the  au- 
tocratic centralization  that  has  practically  paralyzed  all  local  initiative,  effort 
and  local  enthusiasm.     The  centralization  has  gone  so  far  that  a  prominent 


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gentlman,  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  a  very  important  City  Graded 
School,  observes  that,  "the  only  thing  left  to  our  discretion  and  wisdom 
is  the  selection  of  the  negro  janitor  of  the  school  building." 

The  state,  however,  may  well  feel  proud  over  what  has  been  accomplished 
along  health  lines.  Recent  published  statistics  war; ant  a  feeling  of  enthusi- 
asm and  hopes  for  larger  results  in  the  near  future.  Having  no  other 
close  competitor  North  Carolina  in  1921  had  to  be  satisfied  in  simply  run- 
ning against  and  beating  its  own  record  of  1920.  The  total  birth  registra- 
tion for  the  past  year  in  North  Carolina  reached  the  handsome  figure  of 
89,623,  the  largest  birth  rate  of  all  the  states  in  the  union,  against  which 
was  a  total  death  number  of  2^,96-1,  which  is  lowering  th?  death  rate  in 
North  Carolina  over  the  year  1920. 

The  net  increase  in  the  total  population  of  the  state  for  the  past  year, 
that  is  the  excess  of  births  over  deaths,  is  59,059,  or  a  rate  of  increase  of 
2.3  per  cent.  If  these  proportions  continue,  the  population  of  North  Caro- 
lina at  the  next  decennial  census  will  have  passed  far  beyond  the  three 
•miilion  mark. 

The  foregoing  showing  does  not  just  happen  so.      It  is  the  direct  answer 
to  a  sound  and  sane  organization  of  the  Health  Department  of    the    State, 
that  takes  the  general  public  into  its  confidence,  that  treats  the    public   as     j  . 
a  part  of  the  game,  wins  its  respect,  its  interest   and    its   sympathetic   co- 
operation.     Dr.    Rankin  is  a  genius,  a  leader  and  above  all  is  not  stuck  up     I  [j 
and  does  not  consider  himself  as  possessed  of  infallible  powers. 

The  great  work  of  health  activity  should  go  hand-in-hand  with  the  busi-  j 
ness  of  education.  It  would  be  tp  the  advantage  and  glory  of  the  the  child- 
ren  of  the  public  schools  if  the  controlling  powers  would  extend  a  'naif-  : 
way  welcome  and  sympathetic  support  to  health  activities.  The  death  of 
ten  thousand  children  under  the  the  age  of  one  year  in  North  Carolina 
is  inexcusable;  the  defective  physical  condition  of  many  now  in  the  schools 
is  the  result  of  criminal  unconcern,  and  the  sin  of  it  all  will  lie  at  the 
doors  of  all  who  make  no  effort  to  remedy  or  prevent  the  annual  recur- 
rence of  such  handicaps  and  suffering. 

But  the  light  is  breaking  around  us.   May  old  grannyism  and   old  conceit    j 
supinely  satisfied  with  a  fat  salary  and  ease  and  comfort,  catch  a  glimpse  of 
this  light  of  hope,  a  sane,  serious  interest  in  advantages  for  childhood. 

A  PR1DEFUL  RECORD. 

Coming  out  from  the  office  of  Mr.  Henry  W.  Miller,  Vice  President  of  the 


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Southern  Railway,  in  charge  of  operation,  is  a  very  interesting  announce- 
ment. During  the  year  1921,  the  Southern  Railway  System  operated 
179,835  passenger  trains,  many  ot  them  being  through  trains,  operated  in 
connection  with  other  lines  and  covering  distances  of  from  1,000  to  1,500 
miles.  ( 

Of  this  large  number  of  trains  172,182,  or  mjre  than  05  per  cent,  ran  on 
schedule  or  made  up  time  while  on  the  Southern  tracks;  and  166,277,  or 
more  than  92  per  cent,  reached  final  terminal  on  time. 

This  is  a  proud  record  in  railrnaJing.  It  speaks  volumes  not  only  for  the 
Southern's  maintenance  of  its  trackage  and  rolling  equipment,  but  for  the 
genius  of  the  management  and  the  operating  crews.  The  Southern  is 
exceeded  by  the  great  Pennsylvania  only  in  milage  and  number  of  trains; 
and  the  service  lacks  lots  of  surpassing  that  which  the  Southern  hands  out 
to  its  customers.  The  people  of  the  South  have  just  reasons  in  being  proud 
of  this  Southern  institution,  and  North  Carolinians  are,  of  course,  very  proud 
of  the  astute,  tireless  and  capable  Henry  W.  Miller,  a  i'ar  Heel 
product. 

ISSUED  A  CORDIAL  INVITATION. 

Prof.  C.  C.  Wright,  county  suberintendent  of  Wilkes  county,  issues 
monthly  a  fou'-  column,  four  page  paper,  under  the  title  of  "Wilkes  County 
School  News."  The  little  paper  is  full  of  instructive  articles  that  will  lead 
the  people  to  an  enlarged  thought,  for  the  schools,  think  along  health  lines 
and  encourage  a  co-operation. 

In  the  February  number  is  one  article  in  particular  that  is  most  attrac- 
tive.    It  indicates  so  much  life  and  interest  that  we  reproduce  it: 

"Have  you  as  a  school  committeeman  or  teacher  thought  seriously 
of  the  matter  of  consolidation  and  consequent  transportation  of  pupils? 
If  so  it  will  be  well  for  you  to  attend  some  monthly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  E  lucation  and  let  us  talk  over  the  situation  in  your  commun- 
ity. Oar  board  contemplates  putting  on  a  campaign  for  consolidation 
in  the  spring  and  summer.  Only  a  limited  number  can  be  taken  care 
of  each  year,  and  it  is  best  not  to  delay  action  in  the  matter. 

Consolidation,  transportation,  better  buildings  and  better  equipment 
are  the  order  of  the  day  and  we  can  not  afford  to  lag  behind  in  the 
procession.  Let  us  hear  from  yon  if  you  are  interested  in  this  work." 


It  would  be  a  gay  old  time  were  it  permissable  to  say  to  our  good  friends, 
the  veteran  newspaper  men,  Messrs  Clark  and  Hunt,  "go  to  it."  Mr.  Hunt 
took  mild  issue  with  Mr,  Clark  in  his  position  as  to  checkmating  those  who 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

would  "nullify"  the  law.  carrying  the  death  penalty.  Mr.  Clark  makes  re 
ply  in  this  issue.  Both  are  sincere,  and  inasmuch  as  The  Uplift,  knowing 
the  high  character  and  powers  and  courageousness  of  each,  is  aware  that 
neither  could  convert  the  other,  it  might  not  be  well  to  carry  the  discuss- 
ion further. 

Prof.  B.  B.  Dougherty,  the  head  of  the  Appelachian  Training  School, 
which  has  done  s")  much  for  the  people  of  the  "Lost  Provinces"  by  the 
splendid  work  of  his  institution,  and  destined  to  do  vastly  more,  tells  on 
Col.  Wade  Harris  in  this  issue.  Blowing  Rock  is  the  only  important  spot  in 
all  of  North  Carolina  this  writer  has  never  had  the  pleasure  of  visiting, 
though  several  starts  up  the  mountain  have  been  made  years  ago,  but  if 
they  set  a  day  for  that  threatened  banquet,  hitch  Harris  up  to  a  subject 
for  a  speech,  this  writer,  with  or  without  an  invitation,  intends  to  be  on 
hand,  if  the  trip  has  to  be  made  on  foot. 

The  admirers  of  Judge  B.  F.  Long,  beneficiary  of  the  confidences  and 
the  honors  of  a  sovereign  people  for  twenty  years,  regret  exceedingly  that  \ 
he  has  gone  about  ihe  small  business  of  getting  out  from  under  the  oper- 
ation of  the  income  law.  The  People  abhor  the  idea  of  privileged  classes. 
Here's  hoping  that  Revenue  Commissioner  Watts  will  defeat  and  route  :' 
his  fellow  townsman  in  this  cause  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  North  Caro- 
lina. 


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Up  to  date  seven  theaters  in  Washington  have  been  ordered  by  the  author-   ; 
ities    closed  because  of  faulty  construction.     This    order    grows    out   of  a 
detailed  examination  occasioned  by  the  frightful  accident    at    the  Knicker-  [ 
bocker.     A  wag  will  say,  "Locked  the    door    after    the    horse    is    stolen."   j 
Not  so;  it  is  wisdom.     It  shows  an  interested  concern    on    the    part  of  the 
officials,  who  have  the  nerve    and  the  courage  to  do  their  duty. 


The  State  Board  of  Education  has  finally  made  the  adoption  of  textbooks 
for  the  public  schools  for  the  next  five  years.  It  reveals  a  clean  sweep. 
The  announcement  is  accompained  by  a  defensive  statement  by  the  State 
Superintendent  that  the  cost  upon  the  people  will  be  negligible.  If  this 
prophecy  proves  true,  it  will  also  prove  to  be  a  miracle. 


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It    was  not  to  be   expected  that  Governor  Morrison  would  lightly  pass 


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over  the  declination  of  the  Canadian  authorities  to  surrender  Matthew  Bul- 
lock, in  order  to  bring:  him  back  to  North  Carolina  to  answer  a  criminal 
charge.  The  Governor  doesn't  turn  loose  so  easily.  He  has  put  the  mat- 
ter up  to  the  officials,  good  and  strong,  at  Washington. 

Irrespective  of  one's  political  leanings  or  views,  there  is  a  choice  pleas- 
ure for  him  in  the  reading  of  the  most  splendid  article,  "The  Man  They 
Cannot  Forget,"  taken  from  Collier's  and  appearing  in  this  number  of  The 
Uplift. 


|                      THE  FOX  AND  T  HE  GRAPES  * 

&         A  fox,  wandering  about  in  search  of  something  to  eat,    came  to  % 

£  a  vine  that  trailed  out  upon  the  branches  of  a  tree  and    bore    rich  % 

*  clusters  of  luscious  grapes.  In  his  eagerness,  he  jumped  up  to  bite  1> 

*  off  the  bunches  of  grapes,  but  failed  to  reach  them.  He  began  to  »> 
£  jump  and  jump  again,  but  all  in  vain,  for  he  could  not  reach  the  % 
>•.  delicious  prize.     After  all  his  greatest  efforts  had  failed,  he  walked  >:• 

*  away  and  said,  "Those  grapes  are  sour,  I  would  not  eat  them,  even  •:• 
|  if  I  had  them."  % 

|               IT  IS  EASY  TO  DESPISE  WHAT  ONE  CANNOT  GET.  % 

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ARCH  TIUNEYCUTT 


Over  in  Western  Stanly,  near  the  little  village  of  Stanfield  on  what  he 
loves  to  call  "Lick  Skillet  Farm"  dwells  in  total  seclusion  one  of  the 
Old  North  State's  sweetest  singers,  Arch  Honeycutt.  This  "mysterious 
poet"  of  the  backwoods  is  a  writer  who  is  not  only  getting  out  some  fine 
poetry  which  will  live,  but  he  is  a  poet  in  the  true  sense  in  that  he 
writes  for  the  very  love'cf   writing.      He  loves  nature  and  the  finer  things 


of  life,  but  hates  shams  with  all  his 
soul  and  almost  frantically  avoids 
publicity  or  any  effort  to  get  him 
out  from  his  native  lair.  He  was 
once  a  teacher  and  a  minister,  but 
on  account  of  his  delicate  makeup, 
both  from  a  standpoint  of  body,  soul 
and  sensibilities  he  seems  to  havi 
made  up  his  mind  that  he  has  seen 
enough  of  the  world  and  to  have  re- 
tired to  the  life  of  an  absolute  re- 
cluse to  the  extent  that  many  who 
live  within  a  mile  or  two  of  him 
have  not  seen  him  in  years.  He  is 
not  >et  an  old  man,  either---just  a 
little  over  forty,  but  dame  fortune 
lias  apparently  dealt  him  many  hard 
Wows,  for  all  the  troubles  which 
have  ever  come  th?  way  of  a  pcet 
have  already  passed  over  hiir.  crush- 
ln£  out  all  egotism,  self-pride  and 
worldly  ambitions.  With  his  delic- 
ate    sensitiveness,       the     repeated 


crushings  and  humiliation.!  have  ap- 
parently made  him  sing  the  sweeter. 
He  writes  without  eff  :rt,  frequently 
slinging  off  a  number  of  his  best 
productions  within  a  few  hours. 
After  he  has  written  his  best  he  is 
already  paid,  he  gets  his  pay  out  of 
the  writing  itself,  and  generally  cares 
little  whether  his  poems  are  ever 
published  or  even  read  by  any  one 
else.  He  doesn't  write  for  money, 
he  doesn't  write  for  glory  but  simply 
becaus"  he  loves  to  wiite.  It  makes 
very  little  difference  with  him  whet- 
her others  admire  his  productions  or 
not.  Upon  reading  the  news  of  the 
signing  of  the  armistice  his  heart 
went  out  to  the  Gold  Star  Mother 
whose  boy  lay  buried  in  Flander's 
fields  and  within  ten  minutes  he 
dashed  off  the  following  heart  senti- 
ment, entitled  "A  Mother's  Heart:" 


"He  sleeps  beneath  the  shell-torn  fields 

Some  where  in   France, 
What  though  the  awful  war  god  yields 

His  bloody  lance 
To  smiling  peace,  to  my  sad  heart 
There  is  no  peace,  the  burning  dart 
Still  pierces  through  with  fiery  sting. 
No  time,  nor  age,  nor  peace  can  bring 
My  hope  back  from  the  lonely  grave 
On  shell-torn  field  where  poppies  wave 
Some  where  in  France. 


Time  may  deface  the  rugged  scar3 


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And  years  advance 

Eliminating  all  that  mars, 

Age  may  enhance 

And  sanctify  my  awful  grief; 

Bat  only  death  can  bring  relief: 

What  though  in  pride  I  r?alize 

The  glory  of  the  sacrifice; 

He  was  my  all-— who  went  to  brave 

The  shell,  the  gas,  and  find  a  grave 

Some  where  in  France. 

Who  would  repay  a  mother's  loss    , 
With  empty  praise? 

That  but  reflects  a  moulded  cross 

There  in  the  haze 

Of  mental  vision  where  he  lies 

Asleep  beneath  the  foriegn  skies, 
On  fields  where  I  can  never  go 
And  teach  the  golden-rod  to  grow 
O'er  his  lone  conch,  his  humble  grave, 
On  shell-torn  field  where  popp;es  wave, 
Somewhere  in  Fiance. 

Oh  offer  not  a  mock  relief 

Leave  all  alone; 
Mock  not  a  mother's  bitter  grief 

A  bleaching  bone 
i\l ay  quicker  take  on  life  again 
Than  praise  relieve  the  racking  pain 
That  must  be  mine; . I  gave  him   up, 
Mock  not  the  near  too  bitter  cup 
Of  one  who  wavered  not,  but  gave 
Her  only  child  to  find  a  grave 
Somewhere  in  France. 

But  his  writings  are  not  all  confin-  will  see  from  his  "Down  South" 
ed  to  gloom.  He  writes  at  times  iike  which  portrays  the  secret  soul  of 
the  love-sick  swain    as    our    readers      the  love  mad  vouth  as  follows: 

Down  South 

Down  South  where  the  bluebird  is  singing 
His  love  to  the  blossoms  of  Spring, 
My  heart  sends  a  love-message  winging 
Away  where  the  dream---carols  ring, 
Where  silvery  moonbeams  are  stealing 
A  kiss  from  the  gold  of  her  hair 
While  here  in  my  heart  throbs  a  feeling 


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Of  tenderness  but  to  be  there. 

She's  waiting  I  know 

Where  wild  roses  grow 

Profuse  by  the  meadow  land  fair, 

And  dreaming  of  me 

While  I  long  be 

The  moon  light  that's  kissing  her  hair 

Oh  heaven  of  bliss 

Summed  up  in  such  kiss, 

'Twere  heaven  to  only  be  there. 

Down  South  where  the  Rocky  is  flowing 

And  flooding  the  night  with  it's  rune, 

Down  South  where  the  peach  bloom  is  blowing 

She  waits  in  the  light  of  the  moon, 

Oh  had  I  the  wings  of  a  swallow 

To  soar  on  the  dew-laden  air 

The  flight  of  my  vision  I'd  follow 

.Twere  heaven  to  only  be  there. 


Mr.  Huneycutt  can  also  portray 
the  real  sonthorn  negro  as  vividly 
as  could  Joel  Chandler  Harris  or  John 
Charles  McNeil,  and  many  of  his 
productions  show  almost  perfect 
negro  dialect. 

This  strange  personage  who  re- 
fuses to  touch  elbows  with  the  great 
outside  world  was  born  in  Stanly 
County  in  September,  1S81.  From 
his  early  boyhood  he  showed  traits  of 
character  unlike  other  boys  with 
whom  he  associated.  The  flight  of 
the  birds,  the  fleecy  clouds  as  they 
float  overhead,  the  thunder  storm 
and  all  nature  with  its  myriads  of 
wonders  and  attractions  were  his 
daily  sources  of  attention  and  inter- 
est. This  trait  of  character  has  re- 
mained with  him  until  this  day,  hence 
his  reputation  as  "The  nature  poet." 

He  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Huneycutt,  of  Stanfield  Route  l.and 
coKes  from  a  family  of  people  phys- 
ically and  mentally  sound  and  strong. 
He  is  the  second  of  a  family  of  sev- 


en brothers,  one  of  these  being  an 
attorney  and  newspaper  man  of  Al- 
bemarle, two  others  being  promising 
young  Presbyterian  preachers,  one  a 
minister  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
denomination  while  the  others  are 
teachers  and  farmers.  He  is  posses- 
sed of  an  extraordinarily  keen  mind 
and  is  possibly  one  of  the  best  read 
men  in  his  section  of  the  state.  He 
can  quote  from  memory  page  af- 
ter page  from  Shakespear,  rJyron, 
Burns,  Longfellow  and  other  mas- 
ters. Burns  being  his  favorite.  He 
thinks  James  Whitcomb  Riley  de- 
cidedly the  greatest  of  America's  po- 
ets. He  believes  that  any  one  can  do 
whatever  he  believes  he  can  do  and 
wants  to  do. 

Will  Mr.  Huneycutt  be  able  to 
keep  himself  perminently  secluded 
from  the  reach  of  the  outside  world, 
and  can  he  continue  to  turn  out  such 
excellent  productions  and  still  avoid 
publicity?  I'o  The  uplift  that  seems 
an  impossibility. 


12  THE  UPLIFT 

HE    STANDS   BY   HIS   GUNS. 

BY  B.  R.  CLARK 

I  have  "hunch"  that  the  editor  of  The  Uplift  does  not  eare  to  have  a  joint 
discussion  staged  in  the  pages  of  this  publication,  which  can  be  devoted  to  a 
more  useful  purpose.  But  I  am  tempted  to  risk  a  few  observations  on  the  article 
of  my  good  friend,  Mr.  C.  W.  Hunt,  appearing  in  the  issue  of  the  11th.  in  which 
I  was  given  a  few  gentle1  taps  on  the  wrist,  notwithstanding  it  was  stated  at 
the  outset  that  there  was  no  such  purpose. 

Mr.  Hunt  cannot  see  any  ''assault"  mutation,  simply  by  pressure  of  force 
on  the  Governor  in  the  efforts  made  of  numbers.  If  that  doesn't  constitute 
to  save  the  life  of  Harris,  the  Ridge-  assault  then  I  confess  inability  to  rec- 
crest  murderer.  I  am  filing  now  an  ognize  the  meaning  of  the  word.  I 
objection  to  Mr.  Hunt  as  referee  in  have  said  that  with  a  weaker  man 
ease  I  should  lie  attacked.  I  am  afraid  the  pressure — the  assault — would  have 
he  would  allow  me  to  be  killed  before  succeeded.  Not  so  long  ago  a  Gov- 
he  could  he  convinced  that  an  assault  ernor  refused  to  commute  a  death 
was  really  being  committed.  Gov.  sentence  and  later  yielded.  In  an- 
Morrison's  motives  were  impugned,  nouncing  the  commutation  he  distinct- 
He  was  charged  with  allowing  a  man  ly  stated  that  he  had  not  changed  his 
to  go  to  his  death  for  personal  gain,  mind  but  that  lie  was  forced  to  yield 
Moreover  he  was  bombarded  witli  let-  to  pressure  because  he  was  allowed 
ters,  telegrams  and  petitions  from  no  peace  day  or  night.  Maybe  that 
numerous  people  who  had  no  actual  isn't  assault,  but  I  call  it  that.  In 
knowledge  of  the  facts  in  the  case —  the  case  of  Governor  Morrison  the  de- 
not  all  of  them  at  least;  but  who  were  terniined  assault  provoked  more  de- 
induced  to  appeal  to  the  Governor  eith-  terniined  resistance  and  failed, 
er  by  lodge  brethren  of  the  condemned  [  do  not  recall  that  I  applied  the 
man,  who  desired  to  save  him  solely  word  ''mob"  to  those  who  were  so  j 
because  he  was  a  member  of  their  persistent  in  their  determination  to 
lodge;  or  by  those  personally  inter-  force  the  Governor  to  yield  to  their 
ested,  friends,  kindred  and  attorneys  will.  But  I  don't  mind  saying  here 
(these  are  excused  so  long  as  they  that  the  desperate. attempt  to  force  the 
keep  within  reasonable  grounds,  for  Governor  was  essentilly  the  same  spir- 
their  effort  was  natural  and  a  duty;)  it  that  results  in  overriding  the  law— 
and  the  greatest  force  of  all  was  the  to  work  one's  will  at  all  hazards. 
opposition  to  capital  punishment,  There  is  no  essential  difference  in  ov- 
which  promoted  most  of  the  bombard-  erriding  the  law  and  refusing  the  ac- 
ment  of  the  Governor.  The  assault  cused  a  trial,  and  in  attempting  to 
was  in  the  personal  attack  on  the  prevent  the  execution  of  the  law  by  ev- 
Governor,  the  impugning  of  his  mo-  ery  means  short  of  physical  violence, 
fives,  and  in.  the  very  apparent  de-  The  spirit  is  the  same.  The  Governor, 
termination  to  force  him  to  yield  his  being  a  mere  man,  is  not  infallible  arid 
convictions,  after  he  had  refused  com-  may    make    errors    in    deciding    these 


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13 


cases.  But  his  is  the  responsibility 
ami  any  attempt  to  force  him  from  his 
honest  judgment  by  undue  pressure 
of  any  character  is  as  reprehensible  as 
would  be  an  attempt  to  compel  him  to 
put  to  death  one  whom  he  had  decided 
should  be  spared.  The  attitude  of  the 
populace  is  not  a  safe  guide,  for  not 
infrequently  the  clamor  of  the  multi- 
tude is  due  to  sentiment,  passion  or 
prejudice,  or  is  promoted  by  well  di- 
rected propaganda.  One  judge  al- 
lowed the  populace  to  make  the  de- 
cision for  him  and  his  memory  has 
been  execrated  for  near  2,000  years. 

Mr.  Hunt  can  see  no  danger  in  ele- 
vating to  the  bench  one  who  opposes 
capital  punishment  so  long  as  the  law- 
is  on  the  statute  book.  There  would 
be  no  danger  if  the  occupant  of  the 
bench  had  the  proper  conception  of 
his  duty — that  it  was  his  business  to 
execute  the  law  as  be  found  it,  regard- 
less of  his  personal  opinion.  The  class 
I  warned  against — and  I  know  some  of 
them — are  those  who  hold  that  legal 
executions  are  murder,  that  the  taking 
of  human  life,  even  though  the  law- 
directs  it,  is  forbidden  by  God.  Think 
you  that  i  man  who  held  those  views 
would  allow-  a  conviction  for  first 
degree  murder  in  his  court  if  lie  could 
help  it  ?  And  any  well  informed  lawyer 
will  tell  you  that  the  presiding  judge 
can  have  cases  go  pretty  much  as  he 
wills  if  he  is  amind — not  in  every 
case  but  in  most.     One  who  felt  that 


way  about  capital  punishment  would 
feel  that  he  was  called  of  God  to  pre- 
vent executions — put  on  the  bench 
for  that  purpose;  and  if  hard  headed 
jury  went  against  him  the  judge's  re- 
quest to  the  Governor  for  commuta- 
tion would  have  great  weight.  Mr. 
Hunt  may  not  know  such  folks,  may 
not  believe  it  possible  for  what  I  have 
described  to  come  to  pass.  I  know 
such  folks  and  1  not  only  believe  it 
possible  but  probable. 

If  the  opponents  of  capital  pun- 
ishment can  muster  the  strength  in  tho 
Legislature  to  repeal  the  law,  so  be  it. 
I  have  nO  quarrel  with  them  for  op- 
posing the  death  penalty,  notwith- 
standing I  do  not  agree  with  them. 
My  objection  and  my  protest  is 
against  that  holier-than-thou  spirit 
which  proclaims  itself  the  mouth- 
piece of  God  and  brands  all  as 
murderers  who  do  not  accept  the  spe- 
cial revelation  they  claim  to  have  of 
the  will  of  the  Almighty;  and  I  have 
no  more  patience  with  that  spirit 
which  would  nullify  the  law  while  it  is 
yet  on  the  statute  books  than  I  have 
for  the  mob  which  seizes  and  kills 
the  helpless  victim  without  giving 
him  an  opportunity  to  be  heard.  The 
spirit  is  the  same.  One  is  as  lawless 
;vs  the  other.  The  former  is  more 
dangerous  because  it  proceeds  in  the 
open  and  claims  to  be  directed  by  the 
Most  High. 


'He's  lost  all  his  money,  but  he's  just  as  good  as  ever!"  was  said  of  a 
man  whose  riches  were  in  God.  Another  nia,n  in  the  same  town,  losing 
his  fortune,  killed  himself,  for  he  had  nothing  but  his  money.  Who  wants 
to  be  as  poor  as  that? — Young  People. 


14  THE  UPLIFT 

There's  Place  In  Life  For  The  Anecdote. 

THE  COLONEL  LIKED  MUTTON:  A  story  is  told  of  a  certain  colonel 
in  the  Federal  army  in  the  GO's,  who  had  in  one  of  the  companies  of  his  regi- 
ment one  Silas  Green,  who  early  in  the  days  of  camp  life  developed  a  fond- 
ness for  foraging.  Either  by  stealth  or  connivance  he  had  little  trouble  getting 
through  the  lines,  and  bringing  in  something  fresh  from  the  Michigan  farms. 
Ilis  ease  had  been  before  the  colonel  several  times,  but  he  was  a  diplomat  and 

Silas  had  a  way  of  worming  out   with  "What    have    you    got     there    now, 

little    punishment.     One    day    it    was  Green?"    said    the    colonel    advanc- 

reportcd  that  Silas  was  absent  without  ing;"    been    killing   some   ones   sheep 

leave,    and    the   colonel    laid    for    him,  again,    eh.'    'Well,    I'll    just    take    it, 

knowing    pretty    well    which      direc-  and    you    can    go    to    the    guardhouse 

tion    Silas    would    come    in.     lie    was  again  for  your  trouble."     "Colonel," 

soon  rewarded,   for  Green  heaved   in  said  Green,  please  do  not   take  this; 

sight    with  a   nice  quarter  of  mutton  1  jest  felt  like  I  wanted  a  little  fresh 

stowed  away  in  his  haversack.  meat,  let  me  have  it    for  the  mess?" 

•'What    have    you    in     that     sa^k,  "None   of   your   talk,    move   on,   I 

Green?"  said 'the  colonel.     "Nothing  will    teach    you    that    you    must    stay 

much,  just   some  fruit   I  picked  up,"  in   the  camp,"  the  colonel  said, 

saiil  Green.  Green    moved    on    to    his    mess    and 

"Let  me  see,"  said  the  colonel,  and  reported    that    the    colonel   had    taken 

opening  the  haversack  pulled  out  the  his  meat   again.     When  his  time  was 

mutton,    and    sent    Green    cm    to    his  out,    in    prison,    Green    sauntered   up 

captain  for  punishment   in  the  guard-  toward   the  colonel's   tent,   wearing  a 

house.  broad    grin,    and    was    greeted    with: 

Green  said  he  would  not  have  mind-  "What  are  you  looking  for  now  Si- 
ed  the  loss  of  the  mutton  so  much,  had  las?"  "Well  nothing  in  perticler, 
he  not  known  the  colonel  would  eat  colonel,"  said  Silas,  "I  wus  just  a  go- 
it  himself.  However  lie  took  his  ing  to  ask  how  you  enjoyed  that  dog 
punishment  good  naturedly,  and  meat  you  took  away  from  me  last 
waited    some    days    after    being    freed  week?" 

before    going    out     again.     The     next  Grabbing  a  rifle  with  bayonet  fixed, 

time    he    went    he    did    not    seek    for  the    colonel    made    a    drive    for    Silas, 

sheep,    but    rather   for    a    dog,    which  who    was    making    tracks    toward   his 

he  found,  a  good   fat   one,  killed   and  tent,  roaring  with  laughter, 

'dressed    it,    put    a    nice    hind    quarter  It  was  said  that  Silas  killed  all  the 

in    his    haversack,    and     walked     into  sheep   he   wanted   ijfter  that   and  was 

camp,    going    right    by    the    colonel's  never  punished  or  robbed  by  his  col- 

tent,  on  purpose.  onel.— C.  W.   If. 


"It  takes  both  grace  and  grit  to  get  along  pleasantly  with  who  'never 
make  mistakes.'  " 


THE  UPLIFT  15 

HOW  MOUNTAINEERS  CAN  LOVE 

By  B.  B.  Dougherty 

We  Lave  read  with  rmicli  pleasure  your  comments  as  to  Watauga  building  a 
monument  to  Wade  Harris,  the  distinguished  editor  of  the  Charlotte  Observer. 
That  very  thing  has  been  discussed  here,  but  our  people  are  more  interested 
just  now  about  the  health,  happiness  and  long  life  of  Mr.  Harris.  However, 
the  monument  will  be  built  in  due  time.     On  it  will  be  these  words: 

'Wade    Harris. 

(Editor) 

"The  Friend  of  the  Mountaineers" 

His  memory  will  rnrry  the  everlasting  gratitude 

of  a  thoughtful  and  appreciative  people. 

We  may  have  been  derelict  in  ex-  surpassed.  On  the  left  is  the  modern 
pressing  our  appreciation  of  our  dis-  church,  with  beauties  all  around,  built 
tinguished  friend.  Doubtless  we  have  for  the  town  in  memory  of  his  he- 
talked  it  more  among  ourselves,  how-  loved  wife,  by  Mr.  W.  W.  String- 
ever,  than  the  public  generally  know,  fellow  of  Anderson,  Alabama.  On  tho 
but  Mr.  Harris  is  fully  conscious  of  opposite  side  of  the  street,  is  the  road, 
the  fact  that  he  is  held  in  high  esteem  at  right  angles,  with  30  per  cent  grade 
by  the  Wataugans.  leading    far    down     into     the     Globe 

Suppose  yon  are  at  Blowing  Hock,  Valley,  from  whence  came  so  many 
sight-seeing.  Likely  you  would  have  distinguished  men.  The  automobile 
this  experience:  You  are  coming  in-  is  stopped.  The  guide  says:  ''Do 
to  town  on  the  Yonnolossee;  you  are  you  see  that  cottage .'  Wade  Harris 
opposite  the  Cone  Estate,  the  finest,  lives  there.  See  the  table  in  tho 
except  one,   in   all  of  North  Carolina,      front     room,    many    of    his    brilliant 

the    mansion,    the    lake,    the    or-      editorials      have      been      written      on 

chords,  the  roads,  the  lawns,  and  the  that  table.  Especially  is  he  gifted  in 
ornamental  trees*"**.  This  is  the  description  when  writing  at  that  very 
home  of  Dr.  Vance,  the  great  preach-  table  the  stories  about  Blowing  Rock, 
er,  of  national  reputation.  That  is  her  traditions,  and  her  futher  develop- 
■Juilge  Cage's  place,  the  former  chief  ments.  Tile  people  here  love  that 
justice  of  South  Carolina.  Here  is  man.  He  is  a  Str,te  and  Nation- 
the  studio  of  Dangertiehl,  the  great  al  figure  We  till  feel  better  and  safer 
Xew  York  artist.  Now  you  detour  by  when  he  is  around." 
Holt's, — "A  thing  of  beauty  and  joy  Had  you   been   in   Boone,  last  sum- 

forever".  On  the  way  through  town,  mer,  you  would  have  seen  on  the  bul- 
J'On  observe  the  old  Baptist  church,  letin  board  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
the  stores,  the  local  bank,  the  garage,  this  notice:  "Big  Banquet  next  Wed- 
fom  Coffey's  Hotel,  and  now  you  nesday  Night,  in  Honor  of  Governor 
pass  the  entrance  to  Mayview  Park,  Morrison  and  Hon.  Wr.de  Harris", 
with  her  many  elegant  cottages,  her  The  men  are  all  talking;  the  house- 
beiuitifully  graded  roads  through  zig-  wives  are  all  astir,  and  the  child- 
zag  windings  of  mountain  scenery  un-      ren  on  the  streets  are  saying  did  you. 


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loiow  Governor  Morrison  and  Mr. 
Harris  are  coming  to  Booine?  One  boy 
says:  "My  Papa,  thinks  a  lot  of  Mr. 
Harris  because  he  writes  so  many 
good  things  about  Watauga".  Anoth- 
er: ".Mine  does  too,  and  he  wants  me 
to  make  a  big  editor  like  him."  But 
think  of  the  keen  disappointment, 
when  a  telegram  reads:  "Can't 
come.  Letter  follows."  Though  some- 
what, depressed,  but  accepting  the 
fates,  the  managers  announce  that 
the    meeting    is   postpone    until    LO'22, 


when     bigger    preparations    will     ha 
made. 

The  toast  master  had  already  given 
the  local  paper  his  speeches  of  iutro- 
duction.  Here  they  are:1  "Ladies 
and  Gentlemen  I  take  pleasure  in 
presenting  our  distinguished  and  pro- 
gressive Governor  Morrison  "  "  * 
And  it  affords  me  genuine  pleasure 
td  introduce  to  you  the  man  that  made 
Camei'on  Morrison  Governor  of  our 
great    stale, — Wade    Harris. 


The  hoy  as  he  is  today  will  be  the  young  man  of  the  next  decade;  the 
young  man  of  the  present  will  be  the  mature  man  of  the  next  decade. 
There  are  none  other  to  make  the  young  men  and  the  mature  men  of  than 
the  boys  with  us  now.  That  being  true  in  every  sense,  the  future 
citizenship  of  this  world  depends  upon  what  kind  of  boys  we  are  raising 
now.  That  is  a  fact  that  even  a  small  boy  can  see  and  understand,  and 
every  boy  wants  to  be  a  man,  and  if  he  is  a  good  citizen,  when  a  man,  he 
needs  to  be  a  boy  with  an  aim  in  life. — C.  W.  H. 


"AND  WHIN  I  SAW  YER  FACE." 

By.  C.  W.  Hunt 
The  announcement  ,  in  the  daily  papers  that  Judge  Oliver  II.  Allen  would  re- 
tire at  the  end  of  his  present  term,  made  me  think  reminiseently.  I  had  known 
the  man  in  general  as  a  judge,  for  some  years  hut  I  think  it  was  in  the  winter 
of  1905  that  I  met  him  at  Albemarle,  where  he  was  holding  court.  I  was  for 
a  few  weeks,  looking  after  the  interest,  of  the  Charlotte  Observer,  and  we  and 
several  others,  brought  there  on  business,  were  around  a  family  like  fire  at  the 
hotel.  At  this  time  there  was  a  small  amount  of  feeling  existing  between  the  ul- 
tras, following  Josephus  Daniels  and  enough  to  interest  the  listeners.  Some 
the  News  and  Observer  at  Raleigh,  of  these  were  surprised  at  the  extreme 
and    The    Charlotte    Observer,    under      view  the  Judge  expressed  that  r.ight, 


the  late  J.  P.  Caldwe 

I  never  knew  why,  but  for  some 
reason,  Judge  Allen  tackled  the  Char- 
lotte   Observer's    policy    in    politics. 


and  I  must  confess  that  I  was  a  little 
nettled.  When  the  argument  ended, 
the  Judge,  all  the  while  enjoying  his 
faithful  pipe,  turned  the  conversation 


knowing  I  represented  it  there,  and  I  to  other  things,  showing  a  much  finer 

naturally  had  to  defend  it,  which  I  did  spirit   than  many  of  us   had  thought 

with    no    appologies;    and     for   quite  was  in  him.     I  met  him  the  next  night 

awhile,   that   night,   we  had   it    warm  at  the  same  place,  and  at  one  or  more 


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17 


other  courts,  and  easily  learned  to 
love  tlio  man.  He  was  liberal  in  all 
liis  dealings  with  offenders  against 
the  law,  and  companionable. 

He  told  me  this  incident  that  came 
into  his  court  at  Greensboro,  perhaps 
the  year  before.  The  officers,  at  Greens- 
boro, had  a  way  of  pulling  every  fel- 
low they  found  heating  the  railroads 
out  of  a  ride,  and  quite  a  number  had 
been  placed  on  the  roads,  as  'convicts, 
for  no  worse  offense  than  heating  a 
ride.  They  were  brought  before  the 
Judge,  to  be  tried  for  beating  a  train, 
a  young  man,  a  pure  Irishman,  who 
had  been  in  jail  some  days.  When 
the  case  was  called,  Judge  Allen  ask- 


ed what  he  was  being  tried  for,  and 
being  told  for  beating  a  ride,  ordered 
that  he  be  turned  loose,  aaid  gave 
the  authorities  a  sound  lecture  for 
treating  decent  men  in  such  a  manner. 
TJie  young  Irishman  was  delighted  of 
course,  and  made  it  convenient  to 
reach  the  Judge  and  thank  him;  which 
Judge  Allen  received  cordially,  when 
the  young  man  remarked: 

"Ycr  honor,  r.nd  whin  I  saw  yer 
face,  I  said  he  will  send  me  to  the 
gang,  but  yer  didn't,  and  I  thank  yer 
honor." 

MORAL:  A  soft  and  tender  heart 
may  he  hiding  behind  a  stern  face. 
You  cannot  always  tell. 


Scientist,  glancing  toward  the  sky — Meteorological  observations,  I  infer 
from  those  aggregations  of  eumulus,  betoken  precipitation! 

"Does  you  mean,  boss,  it's  going  to  rain?" — Farm  and  Home. 


EULOGY  OF  THE  DOG. 

George  Graham  Vest,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  December  20,  1S30,  and 
died  August  9,  1904,  was  once  a  United  States  Senator,  representing  the  state  of 
Missouri.  No  more  eloquent  orator  ever  occupied  a  seat  in  that  distinguished 
body. 

His  eulogy  on  the  dog,  one  of  the  finest  classics  in  our  literature,  is  recalled 
by  another  contribution  on  the  traits  and  loyalty  of  the  dog,  recently  appearing 

in    the    One-Minute    Column    of    the      faith.     The  money  that   a   man  may 


Charlotte  Observer.  We  here  repro- 
duce it,  because  of  its  fine  understand- 
ing of  that  devoted  animal  which  man 
is  pruned  to  think  his  very-most  loyal 
friend: 

"The  best  friend  a  main  may  have 
in  the  world  is  a  dog.  The  world 
may  turn  against  him  and  become 
his  enemy,  the  son  or  daughter  that 
he  has  raised  with  all  loving  who  are 
nearest  and  dearest,  those  whom  we 
trust  our  good  name  and  happiness 
with,   may   become    traitors   to    their 


have,  he  may  lose,  it  flys  a^vay  from. 
him  when  he  needs  it  most.  A  man's 
reputation  may  be  sacrificed  in  a  mo- 
ment by  ill-considered  action — the  peo- 
ple who  are  prone  to  fall  on  their 
knees,  to  do  honor  be  the  first  to  throw 
the  stone  of  malice  when  failure  set- 
tles its  clouds  on  our  heads.  The  one 
absolutely  unselfish  friend  that  man 
can  have  in  this  selfish  world — the  one 
that  never  proves  ungrateful  or 
treacherous  is  his  dog.  A  man's  dog 
stands  by  him  in  prosperity  and  in 


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poverty,  in  health  and  in  sickness.  He  east    in    the    world    the    dog   asks    no 

will   sleep  on   the   cold  ground   when  higher  privilege  thtiu  that  of  accoiu- 

the  wintery  winds  blow  and  the  snow  pauying    him    to   guard    him    against 

drives  fiercely  in  his  face — if  only  he  danger,   and   if  need   he  light   against 

can  be  by  his  master's  side.     He  will  his   enemies,    and    when    the   last    call 

liek  the  wounds  the  master  may  have  comes  and  death  takes  the  master  in 

encountered    with   the   ugliness  of   the  his  embrace  ajid  his  body  is  laid  away 

world.     He   guards    the   sleep   of   his  in  the  cold  ground,  no   matter  it'  all 

master  as  if  he  were  a  king,  or  even  a  the  friends  pass  carelessly  by  on  their 

pauper.     When   all   oilier   friends   de-  way  there,  by  the  master's  graveside 

sort,   he   remains.     When   riches   take  the  noble  dog  will  be  found,  his  head 

wines  and  tly  or  reputation  falls,  the  between  his  paws,  eyes  sad,  but  open 

dog  is  as  constant  in  his  love  as  the  in    alert    watchfulness,    faithful    and 

sun  in  its  journey  through  the  heavens.  true  even  unto  death." 
If  fortune  drives  the  master  an  out- 


"You  can't  tell  'bout  a  display  of  authority,"  said  Uncle  Ebcn.  "Many 
a  man  thinks  he's  doin'  a  fine  job  o'mule  drivin'  v/hen  de  mule  is  jes' 
hurry  in'  to  get  homo  on  his  own  account." 


Unmentioned  In  Law  But  Mighty  Wise. 

The  spirit  of  the  age  is  to  give  every  child  the  opportunity  and  the  priv- 
ilege of  an  education.  All  will  not  take  it,  to  the  same  degree  but  that 
excuses  no  power  for  not  making  available  the  opportunity,  Some  woods 
will  take  a  polish,  others  will  rot;  so  it  is  with  some  children. 

There  have  arisen  in  a  number  ing  outside  of  the  limits  of  a  specially 
cases  difficulties  in  providing  for  chartered  school  but  attending  school 
suitable  advantages  to  some  child-  within  the  district  for  a  period  of 
ren  peculiarly  located.  This  trouble  six  months  in  each  school  term,  and 
has  been  a  live  on?  for  twenty-five  for  the  remainder  of  term,  the  par- 
years.  And  now  Supt.  Brooks,  of  ent  of  such  children  shall  pay  tuition 
the  Educational  Department,  with-  on  the  same  basis, 
out  the  specific  warrant  of  law.  but  Such  is  the  rule  announced  by  the 

with  the  consciousness  of  unlimited  State  Board  of  Education  yesterday, 
power  vested  in  his  department,  ris-  bringing  to  an  end  a  source  of  tric- 
es to  thr>  demand  of  the  occasion  tion  that  has  existed  between  city 
and  makes  a  very  wise  and  sensible  school  authorities  and  county  school 
solution  of  a  trouble  that  has  been  authorities  for  years  past.  The  mat- 
very  perplexing  Dr.  Brooks  deliv-  ter  has  been  discussed  privately  with 
eis  himself  as  follows:  the  State    Superintendent,    brought 

tuition  calculated  on  a  basis  of  per  on  to  the  floor  in  assemblies  of  teach- 
capitacostof  instruction  shall  be  ers  and  school  authorities,  and  has 
paid  by  the  county  for  children  liv-      given  rise  at   times    to  serious  disa- 


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greeuient. 

In  almost  every  county  in  the  State 
there  are  one  or  more  specially  char- 
tered schools,  having  eight  or  nine 
months  school  term,  with  the  terri- 
tory of  their  districts  fixed  by  law. 
On  the  fringe  of  such  districts  are 
families  with  children  who  live  too 
far  from  country  schools  to  attend 
them.  City  schools  have  contended 
that  they  ought  to  pay  tuition  when 
Ihey  attend  the  city  school. 

Under  the  regulation  established, 
the  county  will  pay  to  the  city  school 
tuition  charges  for  the  constitutional 
six  months  term.  For  the  remaind- 
er of  the  term  the  parents  of  such 
children  will  pay  tuition  in  like 
amount  into  the  treasury  of  the  spec- 
ially chartered  school.  The  text  of 
the  regulations  issued  yesterday  fol- 
lows: 

"1.  That  the  county  board  of  edu- 
cation and  the  boards  of  trustees  of 
the  special  chartered  schools  should 
co-operate  in  providing  a  six  months 
school  term  for  all  the  children,  as 
required  by  the  Constitution. 

"2.  That  the  boards  of  trustees  of 
the  special  chartered  schools  should 
admit  pupils  living  outside  the  bound- 
aries of  their  districts  only  upon 
written  order  from  the  county  board 
of  education. 

"3.  That  the  county  boards  of 
education  should  give  an  order  for 
the  admission  to  the  city  schools  of 
children  from  rural  territory  only  in 
cases  where  the  children  affected 
live  nearer  a  school  within  the  city 
district  than  any  school  outside  the 
city  district  offering  instrution  in 
the  required  grade,  or  where,  on  ac- 
count of  the  location  of  roads  or 
natural  barriers,  it  is  clear  that  the 
conveniences  of  such  children  would 
be  served  thereby. 


"4.  That  the  parents  of  children 
who  are  admitted  to  the  city  schools, 
as  provided  in  the  foregoing  rec- 
ommendations, no  tuition  charge 
shall  be  made  by  the  city  school 
-board  for  six  months  school  term 
but  that  the  county  board  of  edu- 
cation shall  pay  to  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  special  chartered 
school  tuition  for  such  children  for 
the  six  months  term.  The  amount 
of  such  tuiiion  shall  be  determined 
in  the  following  manner:  The  per 
capita  cr.st  of  maintaining  the  city 
schools  for  the  previous  year  shall 
be  ascertained  by  dividing  the  sum 
of  the  amount  spent  for  salaries  and 
all  operating  expenses  and  the  pro- 
ceeds from  bond  taxes  for  building 
and  equipment,  by  the  average 
daily  attendance  of  pupds  as  shown 
on  the  official  reports  of  the  treas- 
urer and  superintendent  of  the  spe- 
cial charted  school.  On  the  basis  of 
this  per  capita  cost  for  the  year 
shall  be  determined  the  per  capita 
for  the  six  months  school  term. 
From  the  six  months  per  capita  cost 
thus  derived,  shall  be  subtracted 
the  per  capita  county  apportioment 
for  teachers'  salaries,  building  and 
incidentals.  The  remainder  shall  be 
the  tuition  charge  which  the  county 
board  of  education  shall  be  required 
to  pay  to  the  city  school  on  or  be- 
fore March  1st  of  the  current  year. 
This  per  capita  may  be  calculated 
for  the  elementary  and  high  school 
departments  separately. 

"5.  That  the  boards  of  trustees  of 
the  special  chartered  schools  shall 
charge  the  parents  of  children  ad- 
mitted to  the  city  schools,  upon  or- 
der of  the  couuty  board  of  educa- 
tion, tuition  for  the  time  such  chil- 
dren attend  beyond  the  constitu- 
tional six  months  term.  Such  tuition 


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shall  be  payable  in  advance.  The 
amount  of  such  tuition  per  month 
L  uuldbe  appoximately  the  month- 
1  /  per  capita  cost  of  maintaining  the 
city  schools.  Provided  nothing-  in 
this  section  shall  prevent  compli- 
ance with  Section  5177  of  the  School 


Law. 

"(5.  That  children  admitted  to  the 
city  schools  frcm  rural  territory 
shall  be  subject  to  the  same  rules 
and  regulations  which  govern  chil- 
dren living  within  the  special  char- 
tered district. "---News  &  Observer. 


"There  is  a  story  in  this  paper  of  a  woman  that  used  a  telephone  for 
the  first  time  in  eighty-three  years."     She  must  be  on  a  party  line." 


THE    FUNERAL    SERMON 

By  Morrison  Caldwell,  in  Presbyterian  Standard 
This  article  has  been  suggested  by  attendance  upon  funeral  services  in 
recent  years,  and  by  the  fact  that  the  sermons  whicli  most  deeply  affected 
my  life  were  the  old-fashioned  funeral  sermons  of  my  boyhood.  J  am 
profoundly  convinced  that  our  ministers  are  missing  a  golden  opportnity 
and  making  a  fatal  mistake  when  they  so    universally    use    the    regulation 

furneal   service    which  is  practically  Far  be  it  from  me  to  urge    a  re- 

the  same  for  an  infant  or    an   elder      turn  to  the  tedious  biographie=,  the 


in  Israel,  for  a  saint  or  a  criminal. 
We  see  the  coffin  and  hear  never  a 
word  to  tell  us  as  to  age,  sex,  identity 
or  character  of  the  deceased.  This 
may  be  "good  form"  in  some  con- 
gregations, but  I  am  persuaded  that 
there  is  a  better  way,  because  I  have 
seen  it  tried  by  one  of  our  Presby- 
terian ministers.  He  was  called 
from  camp  to  the  grave  of  one  of 
his  elders.  The  man  was  only  a  car- 
penter, but  he  builded  better  than 
he  knew  in  the  lives  of  hundreds 
of  his  fellows  who  stood  about  his 
grave  while  the  minister  talked  to 
them  about  "Uncle  Jimmie."  I  saw 
strong  men  weep  who  were  not 
church-goers.  His  message  called 
upon  them  to  be  ready  to  meet  death, 
even  should  it  come  suddenly,  it 
was  the  best  sermon  I  have  heard 
him  preach  in  that  he  reached  his 
hearers  at  the  right  moment. 


fulsome  eulogies  of  the  past.  Jly 
appeal  is  to  avoid  the  formal  scrip- 
tural service  exclusively,  as  at  pre- 
sent, and  to  stress  that  the  only 
thing  that  counts  is  our  attitude 
toward  God.  If  we  believe  that 
our  chief  end  is  to  glorify  God  or  to- 
tnjoy  Him  forever,  surely  we  should 
not  neglect  to  sow  the  seed  of  truth 
when  we  have  such  a  favorable  op- 
portunity. Men  come  to  funerals 
who  never  darken  church  doors;  why 
should  they  not  be  warned  in  the 
presence  of  death  to  prepare  to 
meet  their  God?"  Never  will  hard 
hearts  be  so  willing  to  hear  the 
truth,  as  when  they  are  face  to  face 
with  the  reality  that  life  is  uncertain 
but  death  awaits  them'.  If  thii  little 
article  shall  cause  some  of  our 
ministers  to  appreciate  the  respon- 
sibilty  of  seizing  their  opportunities 
I  shall  be  gratified. 


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WOMEN  AND  HUMOR 

(Christian  Advocate) 

The  editor  of  the  Advocate  a  little  while  ago  let  the  following  apparant- 
ly  harmless  little  sentences  slip  into  an  editorial:  "Women  do  not  appreciate 
humor  to  the  same  extent  that  men  do.  Frequently  politeness  prompts  the 
female  of  the  specie  to  laugh  at  what  is  really  a  good  joke." 

A  good  friend  of  the  Advocate  Dr.  Burton  explains  this  fact  by  say- 
and  of  its  editor  seems  to  think  that 
such  an  assertion  should  be  taken 
with  a  grain  of  salt.  She  writes  the 
editor  and  refers  him  to  what  Dr. 
Burton,  president  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  says  in  a  recent  article 
of  his  about  women  and  their  sense 
of  humor.     Dr.  Burton  writes: 

"In  the  course  of  my  work  I  have 
had  to  address  scoies  of  audiences. 
Many  of  them  were  mixed  audiences; 
but  some  were  composed  entirely  of 
women,  and  some  when  made 
np  exclusively  of  men.  I  have 
found  the  women  are  as  quick  in  re- 
sponding to  anything  humorous;  in 
fact,  they  are  sometimes  too  quick! 
I  have  to  be  on  my  guard,  or  they 
will  catch  the  point  before  I  want 
them  to. 

"It  is  perfectly  true  that  men 
will  laugh  uproarousiy  at  some  thing, 
which  wont  get  a  smile  from  womens 
But  it  is  generally  because  the  joke 
offends  the  woman's  sense  of  the 
fitness  of  things." 

It  will  be  noted  that  the  learned 
president  of  a  great  university  ad- 
mits the  very  thing  the  Advocate 
had  asserted,  namely,  that  women 
will  not  laugh  at  some  things 
that  to  men  are  uproarousiy  funny. 


ing   "the   joke  olt'onds  the  woman's 
sense  of  the  fitness  of  things." 

If  inclined  to  argue  the  question, 
we  should  contend  that  an  unexpect- 
ed jolt  to  the  fitness  of  things  is  one 
of  the  prime -elements  of  humor  and 
that  the  explanation  nfFered  by  Dr. 
Bruton  is  really  a  begging  of  the 
question.  But  we  are  not  going  to 
debate  the  question,  or  contend  for 
the  accuracy  of  any  statement  that 
has  been  made  upon  the  subject  of 
woman's  relative  capacity  for  humor. 

We  have  at  all  times  admitted  that 
woman  is  more  beautiful  than  man, 
that  her  intuitions  are  quicker  and 
more  accurate  than  man's  reason, 
that  she  has  greater  intellectual  capa- 
city than  man,  that  sheis  more  refin- 
ed in  her  sensibilities,  has  a  greater 
capacity  to  endure  suffering  and 
without  bit  or  bridle  can  turn  man 
whithersoever  she  will.  And  now, 
since  to  her  has  been  committed  the 
ballot,  which  ought  to  have  been 
done  long  ago,  and  since  all  state 
and  county  officers  and  members  of 
congress  are  to  be  elected  next  fall, 
we  politely  and  as  graceful  as  possi- 
ble withdraw  any  and  every  intima- 
tion that  woman  cannot  appreciate  a. 
joke  just  as  much  as  a  man  does. 


A  country  is  not  made  great  by  the  number  of  square  miles  it  contains,, 
but  by  the  number  of  square  people  it  contains.— Selected. 


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THE  MOVIES  UNDER  FIRE. 


One  of  the  severest  and  most  pointed  analyses  of  the  influence  and  mot- 
tives  of  the  average  movie  genius  is  thus  made  by  a  Methodist  minister,  of 
California,  where  recently  the  public  conscience  of  even  the  Californians 
has  been  aroused.  This  is  the  way  the  preacher,  in  a  recent  sermon,  talk- 
ed about  the  matter: 


The  attitude  of  the  movie  lumina- 
ries toward  the  marriage  relation; 
their  continuous  "souse"  in  divorce 
and  scandal;  their  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury of  screened  sex  appeal,  itself  a 
diagnosis  of  the  condition  back  of 
the  film;  their  attitude  to  those  of 
their  number  who,  like  "Fatty'' 
Arbuckle,  have  insulted  and  outrag- 
ed every  decent  sentiment  of  virt- 
uous idealism,  their  insistent  demand 
that  they  be  left  unrestricted  by  the 
American  public  to  practice  their 
"personal  liberty"doctrine  in  depot- 1 
ment  as  well  as  in  the  product  of 
their  art;  the  evident  looseness  that 
has  sprung  up  among  them;  their 
booze  parties;  their  cigarette-smok- 
ing beauties;  their  behavior  as  re- 
ported by  scores  who  live  neighbor 
to  their  studios;  their  refusal  to 
brand  such  men  as  Arbuckle  and 
kick  them  out;  their  disposition  to 
pass  over  without  criticism  such  a 
crime  as  the  San  Francisco  crime; 
especially  their  willingness  to  defend 


the    criminal  with  their    money— ail 

has  forced  me  against  my  will  and 
over  my  protest  to  believe  that  a 
majority  of  the  movie  crovvd  are  of 
the  same  stripe  as  this  comedian  and 
that  they  see  the  necessity  of  saving 
his  hide  in  order  to  save  their  own, 
The  loaf  of  bread  is  censored. 
The  bottle  of  milk  is  censored.  The 
factory  must  face  a  commission  for 
the  protection  of  public  interests. 
The  bank  must  account  to  a  like 
commission.  We  elect  a  board  of 
education---a  censor  in  our  schools. 
The  movie  business  stands  alone  to- 
day with  the  unbridled  privilege  of 
exploiting  for  the  receipts.  The 
reason  is,  all  they  threaten  is  charac- 
ter, idealism,  manhood,  womanhood, 
and  here  there  is  no  cash  value. 
Money  has  talked  in  the  censoiship 
light.  Money  is  talking  in  the  Ar- 
buckle trial.  Unfortnnaitely,  the 
movie  industry  is  run  on  strictly 
commercial  basis.  It  has  no  charac- 
ter.    It  has  only  a  purse. 


THINKING  ABOUT  DOING  SOMETHING. 

The  Concord  Tribune,  noting  the  presence  in  the  city  of  Prof.  Blair, 
for  more  than  twenty  years  the  successful  superintendent  of  the  Wilming- 
ton Public  Schools,  now  connected  with  the  State  Educational  Department 
in  the  Bureau  of  Improvement  of  School  Houses  and  Grounds,  makes  pub- 
lication of  some  very  decidedly  welcome  news  as  follows: 

"Mr.  J.  J.  Blair,  of  the  State  Ed-  Tuesday  here  with  Prof.  J.B.  Rob- 
ucational   Department,     who    spent     ertson  making  an  inspection  of  =ever- 


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23 


a|  of  the  county  schools  with  the 
view  of  making  improvements  at  the 
schools,  left  Tuesday  night  for  Salis- 
bury. Mr.  Blair  specializes  in  school 
buildings  and  grounds,  and  is  an  ex- 
port in  this    work.     Several   schools 


in  the  county  will  be  changed  and 
improved  in  all  probability.  Prof. 
Robertson  stated  but  no  announce- 
ment relative  to  this  work  will  be 
made  at  this  time." 


"The  men  who  have  made  world  records  have  done  it  Toy  breaking  their 
own  records," 


HOW  TO  FIND  EASTER 


Even  the  youngest  knows  by  this  ti 
the  same  day  of  the  month  year  after 
for  finding  when  it  will  come: 

"Thirty  days  hath  September," 

Ecery  person  can  remember; 

iFjid  to  l(now  when  Easlers  come, 

Puzzles  even  scholars  some. 

When  March  the  twenty-first  is  past, 
Just  watch  the  silvery  moon', 

And  when  you  sec  it  full  and  round, 
Easter  will  be  here  soon. 


me  that    Easter    does    not    come    on 
year,  like  Christmas.   Here  is  a  rule 

After  the  moon  has  reached  its  full, 
Then  Easier  will  be  here, 

The  very  Sabbath  after, 
In  each  and  ever};  \;ear. 


And  if  it  hap  on  Sabbath 
The  moon  should  reach  its 

The   Sabbath  following  this  event 
Will  he  the  Easier  bright. 


height, 


The  Man  They  Cannot  Forget 

(Collier's.) 

One  of  the  permanent,  posessions  of  a  human  heart  is  the  memory  of  its 
great  enthusiasms.  You  may  have  come  to  disdain  and  even  despise  them, 
but  they  are  never  uprooted.  Then  you  reached  your  highest—and  you 
know  it. 


When  a  noble  ideal  kindness  such 
enthusiasms,  that  ideal  becomes  one 
of  those  things  that  without  warn- 
ing, at  rare  intervals,  flare  up.  And 
you  sit  in  the  light  of  the  flare  and 
ponder.  Why  did  it  fail?  Not  be- 
cause it  was  not  beautiful— right- 
desirable.  Was  it  because  you  were 
not  fit  for  beauty,  righteousness, 
desirability? 

Peoples  are  like   men.  They   may 


lay  aside  their  great  hopes,  but  to 
the  end  there  are  hours  when  they 
sit  with  them  and  ponder. 

Perhaps  that  is  the  explanation  of 
the  persistent,  mysterious,  uncon- 
scious way  in  which  men  today 
dra.v  together  around  Woodrow 
Wilson.  It  requires  explanation. 
Why,  in  Washington  for  months 
now,  has  the  sightseeing  wagon 
followed  his  car?    Why  do  the  chat- 


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tering  tourists  inside  grow  silent  as 
they  pass  it?  Ihey  don't  peer.  They 
lift  their  hats  and  sigh,  and  it  some- 
times takes  minutes  and  striking 
sights  to  break  the  mood  the  fleet- 
ing glimpse  of  that  drawn,  long 
white  face  has  stirred. 

Why  is  it  that  on  Sundays  and 
holidays  men  and  women  and  child- 
ren—most of  them  busy  through 
the  week- --walk  to  his  house  and 
stand  there  in  groups,  speak  to- 
gether in  hushed  tones  as  if  some- 
thing solemn  and  ennobling  moved 
in  them?  Curiosity?  Men  chatter 
anil  gibe  and  jostle  in  curiosity. 
These  people  are  silent,  gentle  and 
orderly.  You  will  see  their,  before 
the  theatre  on  nights  when  it  is 
known  that  Mr.  Wilson  is  within, 
quietly  ua'.tingfor  him  to  eorne  out. 
There  will  be  fifty,  a  hundred,  even 
sometimes  a  thousand. 

They  cheer  him  as  he  passes,  and 
there  are  often  chokes  in  the  cheers, 
and  always  tenderness,  Why  do 
they  do  it?  Nothing  more  instinc- 
tive more  uplanned,  goes  on  in 
Washington.  Let  it  be  known  that 
he  is  in  his  seat  in  a  theatre,  and 
the  whole  house  will  rise  in  homage. 
Let  his  face  be  thrown  on  the 
screene  and  it  will  dray  a  greeting 
that  the  face  of  no  other  living 
American  receives.  And  that  is  not 
true  in  Washington  alone. 

Why  should  the  vast  throng  that 
packed  Pennsylvania  avenue  from 
end  to  end  on  Armistice  Day  have 
stood  reverently,  with  heads  bared 
in  silence  as  the  bier  of  the  Unknown 
Soldier  passed,  attended  by  all  the 
official  greatness  of  the  moment-— 
the  President,  his  Cabinet,  the  Sup- 
reme Court,  the  House,  the  Senate, 
the  Diplomatic  Corps,  Pershing,  Foch 
- — why    should     this    great    crowd 


have  watched  in  silence  until,  quite 
unexpectly,  a  carraige  far  down  the 
line  came  into  view?  Why  should 
this  crowd,  unconscious  of  what 
it  was  doing,  have  broken  into  a  low 
outburst. 

Woodrow  Wilson  means  some- 
thing to  the  people  of  the  United 
States:  something  piofound,  some- 
thing they  cannot  forget.  People 
think  of  him  now  as  the  man  who 
was  behind  the  inspiration  of  their 
great  moment.-;  who  stirred  Ihem 
to  afresh  understanding  of  the  mean- 
ing of  words  that  had  become  mere 
patter  of  many  tongues--- "demo- 
cracy," nuion."  He  made  them  re- 
alities, personal,  deep---showed  them 
as  the  reason  of  all  that  is  good  in 
our  present,  all  that  is  hopeful  in 
onr  future,  the  working  basis  on 
cry  of  sympathy  and  grief:  "There's 
Wilson!''  The  cry  flew  down  the 
longavenue. 

They  saw  him  as  the  man  who 
had  called  into  service  the  boy 
they  honored,  who  had  put  the  won- 
derful light  in  his  eye,  that  light  of 
which  a  great  French  surgeon  said: 
"The  American  soldier  is  different 
from  all  others.  I  don't  know  what  it 
is,  whether  it  is  God,  the  Monroe 
Doctrine,  or  President  Wilson;  but 
he,  has  something  in  his  eye."  Yes, 
Wilson's  place  was  by  the  dead  sol- 
dier, and  the  people  knew  it  and 
told  him  so  by  their  unconscious 
which  men  may  strive  to  liberty  of 
soul  and  peaceful  achievement.  He 
made  them  literally  thiugs  to  die  for, 
lifting  all  of  our  plain,  humble  thous- 
ands who  never  knew  applause  or 
wealth  or  the  honor  of  office  into  the 
ranks  of  those  who  are  willing  to  die 
for  an  ibeal— the  highest  plane  that 
humans  reach. 

People  are  thinking,  also,   of  his 


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woi'k  in  that  after-war  period  when 
the  hate,  revenge  and  bitterness 
that  war  has  loosed  have  none  of  the 
restraints  that  war  compels,  and  we 
mnst,  by  reason  and  good  will  and 
patience,  restore  our  controls---that 
terrible  period  we  speak  of  as  re- 
construction. There  too  he  kindled 
enthusiasms.  "Now,"  he  said,  "let 
us  do  what  men  have  long  dreamed 
•••give  to  each  people  its  chance,  cut 
clown  the  foolish  barriers  of  trade, 
limit  our  armaments,  enter  into  a 
union  of  all  nations  pledged  to  co- 
operation and  peace." 

The  people  of  the  earth  rallied  to 
his  plan,  pledged  themselves.  And 
then  the  loosed  passions  began  their 
war  on  him.  'I  hose  who  wanted 
peace  and  believed  it  easy;  those  who 
hated  peace  and  believed  it  impossi- 
ble; those  who  envied  his  place,  dif- 
fered with  his  judgments,  failed  of 
his  favor--these  and  many  more 
joined  in  an  attack  such  as  few  men 
have  ever  faced  in  the  history  of 
this  earth.  He  fought  to  a  finish, 
that  he  might  secure  the  pledge  of 
the  nations  to  th>>  ideal  of  world  co- 
operation. 

He  \\on---won  with  the  peoples  of 
the  world,  if  not  with  all  of  their 
governments.  They  look  to  him  as 
the  man  who  drove  that  ideal  so  deep 
into  the  soul  of  the  nations  that  no 
man  or  men  can  ever  destroy  it.  It 
has  become  an  asset  of  tormented 
humanity,  a  possible  way  out  of 
slaughter  and  hate.  Through  all  the 
future  mc-n  will  be  building  upon  it, 
adapting,  expanding,  as  men  have 
built  on  Washington's  wotk,  on  Lin- 
win's  work,  knowing  that  their  ef- 
forts rest  on'  something  essentially 
sound  arid  secure. 

They  are  simple  people,  remember, 


those  thousands  whose  hearts  he  had 
enkindled.  They  are  the  people  who 
do  the  work  of  the  world,  and  their 
minds  are  easily  bewildered.  "Ha 
has  deceived  you,"  they  were  told. 
'He  has  given  you  dreams.  Dreams 
are  not  for  men.  You  live  by  real- 
ities, not  ideals.  Out  with  him! 
Down  with  him!  As  a  great  nation, 
you  have  strength,  you  have  gold, 
keep  them.  Stand  alone.  Do  not 
forget  that  you  do  not  live  by  ideals." 

And  the  people  withdrew--be 
wildered.  But  the  shouting  over, 
they  remembered  th^lr  long  days  of 
exaltation,  of  sacrafice.  of  freedom 
and  boldness,  of  worthwhileness. 
Was  it  only  a  deception?  Was  all 
they  had  felt  a  mere  magic  of  words 
on  their  untrained  minds,  the  stir  of 
a  fleeting  passion  in  theii  lives? 
Was  there  no  sense,  no  reality,  in  it 
all? 

That  is  what  thousands  upon  thous- 
ands have  been  asked  in  these  past 
days.  And  slowly  they  are  turning 
to  him  who  led  them.  His  suffering 
face  and  palsied  side  are  a  symbol 
of  thei>-  cripple  hopes.  "How  is  it 
with  him,"  they  ask,  "a  living  sac- 
rifice to  that  faith  and  that  vision? 
Does  he  still  believe?  Has  he  lost 
faith  as  well  as  strength?" 

And  so  they  seek  him.  He  m^ans 
something  to  them;  they  don't  quite 
know  what.  He  is  a  living  link  with 
their  noblest  phase.  Those  who  de- 
stroyed that  phase  are  giving  them 
nothing  in  its  place.  What  does  it 
all  mean?  And  so  they  follow  his 
carriage,  gather  before  his  house, 
stand  in  rain  and  snow  and  cold  be- 
fora  the  theatre  to  get  even  the 
most  fleeting'  glimpse,  something 
that  will  bid  them  live  again  as  they 
did  in  those  great  moments. 


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for 


Looking  Like  a  Million  Dollars 

By  Beth  Bernard 

For  the  last  hour  Miss  Mason  had  been  interviewing1  girls  who  had  come 
to  the  office  to  applv  for  an  excellent  stenographic  position  that  was  open. 
As  girl  after  girl  proved  to  be  unsatisfactory  for  the  position,  the  look  ot 
gloom  on  her  face  deepened.  I  listened  and  watched  as  the  girls  passed  in 
review. 

out  lunch  for  weeks,  to  help  pay 
for  it,  and  [  doubt  if  it  is  entirely 
paid  fornow.  The  cost  of  the  coat  ap- 
parently has  been  such  a  drain  on  her 
pocket  book  that  she  cannot  afford 
suitable  clothes  to  wear  with  it. 
Di^  you  notice  her  dress  and  shoes! 
Well,  I  did.  They  were  positively- 
unsuitable  to  wear  with  such  a 
coat."  Miss  Mason  banged  adrawer 
in  impatience. 

"And  the  worst  of  it  is,  there  are 
hundreds  of  girls  in  town  who  are 
just  as  foolish.  They  try  to  look  like 
a  million  dollars  and  end  by  making 
themsel  ves  ridiculous.  Take  that  last 
girl  for  instance.  If  she  had  saved 
her  money  for  a  few  months,  being 
content  to  remain  more  or  less  shab- 
by for  that  length  of  time,  she 
would  have  had  cash  to  pay  for  her 
clothes.  Then,  if  she  had  been  sensi- 
ble, she  would  have  watched  from 
day  to  day  for  sales  at  the  stores  and 
would  have  bought  her  outfit  a  piece 
at  a  time,  for  cash.  For  the  price  of 
that  coat  she  should  have  been  able  to 
purchase  splendid  shoes,  good  stock- 
ings and  gloves,  a  hat,  and  a  tailor- 
ed suit  of  good  material,  all  of  which 
would  have  given  her  a  well-groom- 
ed appearance.  As  it  is,  she  has  shab- 
by shoes,  no  gloves,  a  shoddy  dnss, 
and  —a  fur  coat!" 

As  we  descended  in  the  elevator, 
I  thought  over  what  my  friend  had 
said.  It  was  all  true.       But  she  had 


I    heard    one    girl    respond 
question  in  this  manner: 

"I    haven't    had    no    position 
several  weeks." 

Another  girl  could  not  enunciate 
plainly  because  of  the  big  piece  of 
chewing  gum  which  she  had  in  her 
mouth. 

A  third  girl  spoke  clearly  and 
-correctly;  but,  oh,  her  appearance! 
I  was  almost  ashamed  that  I  belong- 
ed to  the  same  sex.  Her  hair  was  all 
frowzy  and  her  hands  were  not 
clean.  And  yet  she  expected  to  handle 
expensive  stationery! 

In  the  group  of  eight  or  ten  girls 
who  applied  for  the  position,  Miss 
Mason  did  not  find  one  who  proved 
qualified  for  the  opening.  When  she 
regretfully  dismissed  the  last  appli- 
cant, she  turned  to  me  with  a  mourn- 
ful look. 

"What's  the  trouble?"  I  inquired. 
"Oh,  gracious!  Don't  ask  me.  I'm 
utterly  discouraged. 

After  a  little  urging  she  unbur- 
dened her  mind.  "I'll  tell  you  what," 
she  said,  "for  you  maybe  a  girl  who 
intends  to  seek  an  office  position  at 
some  time  in  the  future." 

"Did  you  notice  the  last  girl?" 
inquired  Miss  Mason  as  she  put  her 
desk  in  order  for  the  night.  I  nod- 
ded. 

"That  coat  must  have  cost  close  to 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  I'll 
wage   that  she  has  been  going  with- 


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not  finished. 

"Girls  like  nice  clothes,"  continu- 
ed Miss  Mason  when  we  reached  the 
street.  "I  don't  blame  them.  I  like 
flouncy  garments,  filmy  lace,  and 
pretty  ribbons  as  well  as  the  rest  of 
them.  But  they  should  remember 
that  such  things  are  not  for  office 
wear.  Why,  if  I  should  send  some 
of  those  girls  you  saw,  into  Mr, 
Thayer's  office,  he'd — he'd  simply 
throw  a  lit!  He'd  ask  me  where 
I  picked  up1  the  movie  queen." 

We  laughed  at  the  remark,  but 
we  both  realized  the  seriousness  of 
the  matter. 

"Girls  go  to  the  movies  and  see 
the  actresses  dressed  in  the  height 
of  fashion;  then  they  come  out  and 
on  their  meagre  salaries  try  to  dress 
in  the  same  way.  They  do  not  stop 
to  think  how  impossible  it  is  for 
them  to  even  approximate  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  screen  stars.  Yet 
they  try!  If  only  they  would  be 
satisfied  with  good  clothes  of  a  con- 
servative cut  instead  of  an  extreme 
style  in  a  pcor  material.  Oh,  dear! 
I'm  going  to  shut  up." 

She  did  remain  quiet  for  a  minute 
or  two;  and  then  she  broke  out 
again. 

"Just  look  at  that  foolish  girl 
ahead  of  us." 

I  obeyed.  The  girl  had  on  low 
cut  shoes  with  the  highest  heels  I 
had  ever  seen,  and  stockings  as  thin 
as  air,  almost.  And  she  wore  a  fur 
coat  bundled  up  around  her  neck  to 
keep  out  the  damp  chill  of  the  win- 
ter evening. 

"She  has  seen  a  picture  of  some 
millionairess  who  was  dressed  in  that 
manner,  I  suppose,"  said  Miss  Mason. 
And  she  has  wanted  to  look  like  a 
million  dollars,  like  the  rest  of 
them.    She  did    not   stop    to    think 


that  Miss  Millionairess  probably 
never  walked  .farther  than  across- 
the  sidewalk  in  such  an  outfit,  but 
always  rode  around  in  a  warm  lim- 
ousine?" 

'''Leaving  the  question  of  clothes 
aside,"  1  said,  "what  other  things  do 
you  object  to  in  the  girls  seeking 
positions'.'  Or,  rather,  what  things 
would  help  them  in  securing  good 
positions?" 

"Wei  I,"  said  Miss  Mason  thought- 
fully, "the  dress  is  a  great  obstacle 
in  our  particular  orginization,  al- 
though in  some  offices  it  dots  not 
seem  to  make  any  difference.  But 
in  all  offices  there  is  one  great  draw- 
back to  the  success  of  the  modern- 
girl.  She  doesn't  seem  to  care  wheth- 
er she  maKes  good  or  not.  She  does 
not  take  pains  to  help  the  man  she 
works  for  and  with.  The  girl  who 
was  just  dismissed  from  Mr.  Thayer's 
office  is  a  good---or  rather,  poor — 
example.  If  her  letters  looked  nice, 
she  didn't  care  whether  they  were 
right  or  not.  It  was  too  much 
trouble  for  her  to  refer  to  the 
dictionary  for  correct  spelling  of  un- 
usual words;  and  if  she  ever  had 
any  knowledge  of  punctuation  and 
grammatical  construction,  she  had 
forgotten  it.  Nearly  every  letter 
she  wrote  had  to  be  rewritten  be- 
fore it  could  be  sent  out.  Spelling 
and  punctuation  seem  like  little 
things,  perhaps;  but  in  a  business 
organization,  they  are  important. 
Then,  there  is.  shorthand.  Ninety 
per  cent,  of  the  girls  who  leave  the 
business  colleges  are  not  ready  for 
positions.  Possibly  they  can  secure 
and  hold  jobs,  but  not  positions  that 
pay  real  salaries.  It  would  profit 
any  girl  to  spend  several  more 
months  in  the  class,  room,  fitting 
herself  to  take  rapid  dictation  accu- 


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vately,  for  by  doing  that  she  could  as  an  extra.  She  was  not  an  extra 
take  up  secretarial  work  instead  of  very  long.  Now,  she  is  private  sec- 
being  shunted  off  into  a  corner  to  rotary  10  the  president.  And  it 
write  form  letters."  would  hive  ended  exactly  the    same 

"But  really,  now,  are  there  secre-  if  she  had  prepared  herself   for  any 

tarial  positions  for  girls."  ether    business.      Men    are    anxious 

"Are  there?     There's  .Mrs.    Hurl-  to  get  stenographers  who  can    work 

hurt,  in    the  president's  office.     She  with  them  and  realize  the  trials  and 

knew  what  she    wanted     when     she  romances  of  business,  and  you    may 

entered  the  business    college  a  few  believe  me,  it  pays  the  stenographers 

years  ago,  and  she  deliberately  fitted  well." 

herself    fur  it.     She  knew  that   our  We   had  reached  our  destination, 

r.  usiness  was  a  growing  one,  liked  the  Miss  Mason  stopped  on  the  threshold 

thoughts  of  engaging  in  it    and  had  for  a  moment. 

a  vision  of  what  she  might  do  in  our  "1  have  unburdened  myself  quite 
offices.  When  she  began  on  short-  freely,  haven't  I?"  She  laughed, 
band  shv.  was  thorough  She  did  net  "However,  I  feel  better.  Now,  if 
pass  a  lesson  until  she  knew  it.  In  you  can  remember  what  I  have  said, 
her  spare  time  she  read  over  our  just  write  it  out  for  one  of  those  I 
catalogs  and  other  literature  to  fam-  Sunday  School  publications  yon  like 
ilia rizo  herself  with  our  vocabulary.  to  write  for,  and  tell  its  girl  readers. 
She  madeit  a  point  to  get  acquaint-  Tell  'em  that  when  they  are  ready, 
ed  with  some  of  our  people  and  to  enter  the  commercial  field  as  full- 
learned  about  our  foreign  trade.  fledged  business  women,  they  should 
When  she  was  through  at  college,  remember  to  dress  as  a  business  wo- 
she  came  to  me  and  told  me  what  man  should  and  not  try  to  dazzle 
she  had  done  and  asked  me  for  a  their  prospective  employers  by  try- 
chance  in  our  force.  I  told  the  man-  ing  to  look  like  a  million  dollars." 
ager,  and  he  took  her  into  his   office 


SIX  MONTHS   IN  JAII 

"I  didn't  even  know  (he  still  was  in  there  until  one  day  my  wife  asked 
me  about  the  noise  down  the  branch,"  declares  Ervin  Hardin,  about  C"2  years 
old,  who  has  completed  the  large  part  of  a  six  months  prison  sentence  for 
adlowing  a  still  to  be  operated  on  his  land.  He  was  convicted  by  the  Federal 
court  sitting  at  Salisbury,  and  was  sent  to  the  Iredell  jail  to  serve  his  sen- 
tence, says  the  Statesville  Sentinel,  when  a  newspapr  man  asked  him 
His  home  is  in  Wilkes  county  near  about  that  he  laughed  heartily,  and 
the  forks  of  the  Hunting  creek,  Sum-  said,  "Let's  let  that  pass." 
mer's  township.  Mr.    Harding    is      typical    of   the 

Friends  of  the  old  man  say  that  Brushy  mountain  foothill  native.  He 
he  is  serving  the  sentence  rather  is  stocky,  muscular  as  a  wrestler, 
than  "squeal"  on  his  friends  whom  and  has  a  wildcat  gleam  in  his  eye?, 
he  knew  were  operating  the  still,  but     He  has   iron  grey  hair,  glossy  as  a 


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29 


Ubruuin,  rmd  a  face  as  clear  of 
liarili'iiod  lines  as  a  Salvation  army 
leader. 

'■Yon  didn't  even  know  the  still 
was  [here  until  it  hud  been  there 
several  days?"     lie  was  asked. 

"Nut  a  word,"  the  old  man  said. 
"One  day  I  eajne  in  from  the  fields, 
and  the  old  woman  asked  me  what 
thai  noise  down  the  branch  was 
about.  1  told  her  1  didn't  know,  but 
I'd  i;o  down,  and  see.  When  1  went 
I  found  out  what  was  being  done. 
The  still  had  been  there  i^bout  three 
or  four  days,' '  lie  said. 

"  Did  you  know  the  men  ?" 

"I  ain't  telling  that,  lie  replied. 
"Were  they  your  hoys?"  he  was 
asked. 

"I  ain't  atelling  that  either,"  he 
said. 

"Well,  how  did  they  connect  you 
with  the  still?" 

"Well,  the  officers  found  it  on  my 
land,  it  was  within  :i<  few  hundred 
yards  of  my  home,  and  they  found 
some  whiskey-making  stuff  at  my 
barn.  They  concluded  that  I  must 
be  the  guilty  one,  arrested  me,  and 
here  I  am  in  jail." 

The  old  man  did  not  know  how  old 
he  was,  but  remembered  how  old  he 
was  when  he  was  married,  and  how 
long  it  had  been  since  he  wa.s  married; 
so  placing  the  two  together,  it  was 
found  that  he  was  about  G2  years  old. 


"I  can't  read  a  word  or  write  a 
word,"  he  explained.  "That's  why  I 
don't  know  exactly  how  old  I  am. 
We  have  a  record,  which  is  kept  by 
my  daughter,  in  the  family  Bible  at 
home. 

"There  were  no  such  things  as 
schools  when  I  was  growing  up,"  he 
.said  using  words  almost  as  well 
chosen  as  (he  ones  the  writer  has 
chosen  for  him.  ''1  never  saw  inside 
a  school  house,  never  learned  a 
single  one  of  the  letters  of  the  al- 
phabet, and  never  learned  to  write  a 
word.  " 

This  old  man  has  not  l;Tid  down  his 
life  for  a  friend  but  he  certainly  has 
laid  out  six  months  of  it  for  a  group 
of  friends,  those  who  know  him  say, 

"Yes,  we  know  it  is  a  violation  of 
the  law  to  make  whiskey,"  he  said, 
"but  you  know  a,  feller  gets  in  the 
habit  of  doing  a  thing  and  he  doesn't 
like  to  be  pestered  about  it.  I'm 
through  with  this  business  of  making 
whiskey,  though,"  he  declared,  "and 
when  I  get  out  of  this  I'm  going 
home  to  the  old  woman,  and  we  are 
going  to  dig  a  living  out  of  that  lit- 
tle farm,  and  we  are  going  to  be  hap- 
py, and  the  next  time  we  hear 
'noises  down  the  branch'  we  are  going 
to  send  the  dogs  after  them,  and  if 
they  don't  move,  Uncle  Sam  has  a 
pack  that  will  make  them  skee- 
daddle. ' '— Statesville   Sentinel. 


Institutional   notes 

(Henry  B.  Faucelte,  Reporter.) 


Mr.  R.  C.  Shaw,  of  Troy,  has  ac- 
cepted a  position  here  in  the  print- 
ing office.    He  is  stationed  at  no.  7. 


Doyle  Jackson,  Harvey  Wren  and 
Harry  Lamb  composed  the  "happy 
squad"  Wednesday. 

The  interior  beaver  board  work 
of  cottage  No.  3  has  been  painted. 
This  makes  a  big  improvement. 

The    Administration    Building    is 


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being  repainted  on  the  inside.     This  Sunday  afternoon,   being   such  a 

will  not    only    give   a    brighter    ap-  nice,  pretty  day,    the    boys  tin's  a 

pea ranee  but  will  be    a  pleasure    to  stroll    down    to    the    rock     quarry. 

those  who  occupy  it.  They    sat  on    the    rocks    and  talked 

and  were  pleased    to    have    the  sun 

Last  Summer,     scarcely    enough  shine   atter  tnP    absence  of  six  days 

water  could  be    had    to    supply    the  ancl  rajny  weather, 
needs  of  the  school.      Now,  we  keep 

a  tank  full  and  enough  is  in  the  wells  Mr.  J.  D.  Haney,  expert  electric-  j 

to  last  for  a  lone,-  while.  ian  of  Charlott?,  came  over  Monday 

to  test  the  transformers  and  switch-  I 

Mr.    John  Russel,  officer  at  No.  3  es  at  the    school.     Mr.    Haney   has 

and    twirling    ace    of  the  local  base-  been  nore  before    looking    over  the 

ball     team,    is    preparing  to  have  a  lines  and  switches  to  see  if  they  were 

strong    team    and   win  many  games  ;n  g00j  sr,ape. 
in  the  coming  season. 

The    barn    force    is    now  getting 

Friday  at  noon,  when  the  boys  as-  (lmvn    t„    work      Under   the  super- 

sembled    at    the    tree,    every  boy  at  vision  of  Mr.  J.  Lee  White,  they  are 

the  school  was  weighed.    Those  who  getting  ready  for  planting.      Extra 

had    been    at  the    school  over  tnree  land     wi|]     be    cultivated.      Almost 

months  had  gained  several  pounds.  evcrv    vear    more    |an(i    js  a(]dt?(j  to 


From  a  recent  visit   to    the    wel 


cultivation.     Not    only  is  the  school 


digger,  this  reporter  found  that  the  growing    larger    with  boys,  but  the 

depth  of  290  ft.    had    been  reached.  farm  ,s  growing  larger. 

This  is  a  fine  report.     Here's  hoping  B]ue  ^^       .g  b]ue  ;ndeed  Rt  fc 

Mr.  Ankers  w.ll  soon  stnke  water.  School>  but  thg  b,ueness  wi„  all  di, 

On  account  of  so  much  tramping  appear  when  the  laundry  is  opened. 
in  and  out  of  the  school  rooms,  Prof.  Since  more  cottages  have  been  open- 
Johnson  and  Crooks  had  the  floors  ed  and  the  school  growing  larger, 
oiled.  It  is  more  pleasant  now,  it  Monday,  Tuesday  and  sometimes 
isn't  dusty,  the  boys  can  study  at  part  of  Wednesday  are  the  blue  day's 
ease.  for  the  boys   on    that  force.     After 

The  boys  are  organizing  a  basket-  these  davs>  everv  bov  wear:5  a  s™le 

ball    team.      Several     boys    already  and  is  cheery;  they  are   looking  for 

krow  how  to  play  the  game.    Other  ward  to  the  day  when  the  laundry  is 

boys    are    eager    to     learn.      They  opened. 

are    putting    all    of    the  enthusiasm  t-u     n      i         \  ■  i                        j  .• 

,          ..      ..              -     ■,.  Ihe  Band,    which    is  composed  ot 

and  practice  they  can  in  it.  ,,              ,                             . 

1  mostly  new  boys,  is  progressing  rap- 
Work  on  the  Sth  and  9th  cottages  idly.  It  was  reorganized  the  first 
is  being  carried  on  rapidly.  These  of  February  and  in  such  a  short  time, 
cottages  are  being  built  by  Rocking-  they  play  remarkably  well.  vSome 
ham  and  Gaston  counties.  The  way  say  it  is  because  the  boys  are  easy 
the  counties  are  building  up  this  to  catch  on,  but  I  say  it  is  because 
school  shows  that  they  appreciate  Bandmaster  Lawrence  is  such  a  good 
the  work  being  done  here.  teacher.  He  explains  everything  dis- 


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31 


tinotly  and  thoroughly,  so  as  to  let 
the  "Little  Musicians"  get  every 
little  detail. 

[iev.    Mr.    Carson,    of  Charlotte, 

was  the  chosen  one  to  bring  a  mes- 
sage from  God  to  us  Sunday.  He  is 
an  excellent  talker,  and  the  boys  like 
Co    hear    a    preacher    like  him  talk. 


He  spoke  from  the  subject:  "A 
friend  sticks  closer  than  a  brother." 
He  and  his  wife  sang  a  solo  which 
was  enjoyed  very  much  by  the  boys. 
He  also  announced  that  a  minister 
from  Charlotte  will  preach  to  us 
every  third  Sunday.  The  boys  are 
looking  forward  to  their  n;xt  return. 


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[ave  Forgotten  the  Glory 

i  French  naturalist  writes:  "I  saw  the  other  day 
ime  eagle  in  a  butcher's  shop.  Growing  fat, 
cares  no  longer  for  the  plains  of  heaven.  His 
s,  no  longer  fixed  on  the  sun,  watch  the  fire 
the  hearth.  The  golden  plumes,  once  streach- 
above  the  clouds  are  dragged  in  the  ashes, 
it  royal  bird  in  the  shambles,  forgetful    of    sun, 

and  sky,  is  a  close  image  of  thousands  of  men 
o,  debauched  by  the  grosser  pleasures  of  the 
rer  life,  have  forgotten  the  glory  of  the  upper 
verse.     They  content  themselves    with     picking 

iily  morsels  out  of  the  ashes. 


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X.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

GREAT  FUNCTION. 

Labor  is  a  man's  great  function.     He  is  nothing:,  he  can  be  nothing',    he 
can  achieve  nothing,  he  can  fulfill  nothing-,  without  labor. ---Dewey. 


"THE  BRIDE  AND  GROOM." 

In  a  two  column  space  The  Charlotte  Observer  on  its  front  page  prints 
a  picture  of  a  woman  and  man,  which  it  names  "The  Brid?  and  Groom." 
Under  the  same  picture  we  note  this:  Princess  Mary  and  Viscount  Lascelles." 
This  has  reference  to  the  marriage  of  the  daughter  of  the  King  of  England 
to  Mr.  Lascelles,  charged  with  being  the  groom  in  the  case.  Miss  Nell 
Battle  Lewis,  the  editress  of  "Incidentally"  of  the  Raleigh  News  and  Ob- 
server, declares  that  a  "groom  is  a  man  that  tends  horses,"  but  if  this  be 
true  there  is  no  reason  in  the  world  why  the  Viscount  could  not  become  a 
bridegroom  with  some  assistance. 

Taking  the  picture  in  the  Observer  as  our  only  means  of  acquaintance 
with  the  "groom"  we  cannot  understand  why  such  a  looking  fellow  could 
make  a  hit  with  such  an  attractive  looking  princess.  Little  Edward,  the 
youthful  linotype  operator  in  this  shop,  seriously  thinks  "that  Mr.  Lascelles 
should  have  wiped  his  upper  lip  before  he  had  his  picture  taken  for  The 
Observer." 

It  i>  claimed  that  Mary's  wedding  has  already  "given  business  a  boost  in 
London."  This  justifies  the  infallibility  of  the  claim  that  advertising  pays, 
for  in  a  number  of  the  London  papers  tons  suitable  for  a  presence  at  that 
marriage  were  numerous,  and  it  would  be  interesting-  in  this  period  "of 
democracy"  for  which  England  put    up    such    a    stitY    contest,    aided    and 


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abetted  by  numerous  sympathizers,  to  know  just  how  many  of  those  in  at- 
tendance at  this  royal  snobbery  wore  their  own  clothes  or  hired  ones. 

But  one  thing  connected  with  this  marriage  that  has  set  society,  the 
worldaround,  on  its  ears,  that,  brings  a  ray  of  pleasure  to  these  parts,  is 
the  fact  that  King  George  before  the  nuptials  actually  took  place  appointed 
the  "groom"-to-be  a  "knight  of  the  Order  of  the  Gaiter."  It  appears  that 
in  England  they  use  large  quantities  of  cotton  in  I  he  manufacture  of  gar- 
ters, and  this  act  of  the  King  of  England  seems  to  have  helped  the  South's 
King,  fin-  in  the  past  day  the  pi  ice  of  that  staple  went  up  one- fourth  of  a 
cent.  Let  us  hope  that  the  Knight  of  the  Garter  will  double  the  capacity  of 
his  garter  factories. 


UNACCOUNTABLE  TASTE. 

In  n  iting  the  shameless  character  of  a  show  that  was  permitted  to  go  on 
unmolested  in  the  municipal  theater,  at  Greensboro,  when  the  women 
scarcely  dressed  entertained  an  enraptured  audience  with  their  performance, 
The  Greensboro  News  follows  up  wich  a  reference  to  another  show  that 
was  going  on  in  the  county  court  house  in  this  language: 

'It  grossly  outaged  the  stage  proprieties  of  half  a  dozen  years  ago; 
but  anybody  could  see  half  a  dozen  years  ago  that  the  proprieties 
were  in  process  of  evolution. 

The  successive  steps  of  that  evolution  lind  numbers  of  people,  who 
freely  confess  to  old-fashioned  ideas  about  decency,  unprepared  for 
their  reception.  At  present,  however,  our  town  finds  itself  under  the 
necessity  of  making  comparisons.  Right  in  the  midst  of  it  there  lias 
been  in  progress  amthar  dramatic  event,  which  has  been  for  many 
people  a  magnet  of  strong  attraction,  and  it  is  a  rotten  show.  Little 
aboutit  could  by  any  stretch  of  imagination  be  called  beautiful.  And 
it  is  hard  to  imagine  how  any  person,  youth  or  adult,  can  derive  m«ny 
lessons  of  profit  from  it.  while  the  possibility  of  immensa  evil  influ- 
ence  is  plainly  discerned.  It  is  a  free  spectacle,  conducted  on  the  prem- 
ises of  the  county,    by  the  legal  authorities." 

Without  saying  so,  it  is  known  that  women  and  youths  attended  tins  sor- 
did exhibit  that  was  pulled  off  by  the  court  authorities  of  the  state,  in  the 
name  of  justice,  order  and  the  preservation  of  peace.  Five  years  ago  the 
average  woman  would  have  regarded  it  a  calamity  were  her  attendance  at  the 
sitting  of  a  criminal  court  made  necessary.  Not  so  today.  Real  nice,  el- 
:gant  ladies,  forgetting  the  high  aloolfness  of  the  glorious  past,  rush  i  «to  the 
very  midst  of  scenes  of  unhappiness,  sordiness  and  viciousness.  Recently 
when  a  trial  was  going  on  near  our  doors,  in  which  the    suggestiveness  of 


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immorality  oozed  out  at  every  turn,  splendid  women  spent  the  day  in  the 
midst  of  that  court,  and,  to  make  secure  of  their  seats,  some  even  carried 
their  lunch. 

Something  has  happened  in  the  heart  dt  society  that  permits  our  women, 
many  of  them,  to  stand  forthin.es  that  just  a  few  years  ago  would  not  be 
toleiated.     What  is  that  something? 

BETTER  LOCAL  GOVERNMENT 

A  general  revision  of  county  government  in  North  Carolina  is  contem- 
plated in  steps  which  Governor  Can:e."on  Morrison  is  now  taking  with  the 
approval  of  the  Council  of  State,  for  the  preparation  of  legislation  to  be 
submitted  to  the  1923  General  Assembly.  Governor  Morrison  is  in  process 
of  appointing  a  commission  of  a  score  or  more  of  distinguished  men  in  the 
state  to  undertake  the  drafting  of  a  reform  measure  which  will  be  submit- 
ted to  the  Legislature  as  a  basis  for  its  consideration. 

The  governor  is  satisfied  that  great  improvement  can  be  made  in  the 
county  governments  in  North  Carolina.  The  present  law  under  which  the 
counties  of  the  state  are  governed,  savs  the  Governor,  is  out  of  date,  It 
has  been  handed  down,  in  its  main  principles,  from  the  first  county  govern- 
ment act  adopted  after  the  War  Between  the  States. 

The  only  thing  in  the  world  that  insures  good  and  efficient  government 
in  the  counties  of  the  state  is  the  men  who  are  elected  to  fill  the  offices, 
said  the  Governor  yesterday.  The  law  as  it  now  stands,  the  Governor  went 
on,  is  submerged  in  a  mass  of  amendments  and  special  legislation  to  the 
extent  that  even  the  lawyers  in  many  cases  are  puzzled.  A  complete 
reorganization  of  the  county  government  and  the  accounting  systems  in 
operation  in  them  is  the  Governor's  aim. 

While  Governor  Morrison  was  not  yet  ready  to  make  any  announcement 
of  definite  plans  yesterday,  he  stated  that  he  was  selecting  a  commission  for 
the  purpose  of  taking  the  whole  matter  into  consideration  and  of  aiding  him 
in  the  drafting  of  a  new  law  for  submission  to  the  next  General  Assebling- 
—Editorial  in  News  and  Observer. 


COLONEL  LAMB. 


Col.  Wilson  G.  Lamb,  of  Martin  county,  whose  life  with  its  high  dignity 
and  full  of  faithful  service  has  enriched  the  generation  in  which  he  moved, 
tas  passed  away.     His  death  occurred  in  a  hospital  in  Rocky  Mount.     Col. 


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Lamb  belonged  to  the  old  school,  the  old  type  gentleman— who  knows  what 
that  is,  who  can  describe  it?  Can't  be  done;  they  must  be  just  pointed 
out.  Look  at  Col  Penn  Wood,  of  Ashboro;  Col.  Boyd'en,  of  Salisbury; 
Col.  Frank  Robbins,  of  Lexington;  Mr.  J.  P.  Alllison,  of  Concord;  Col. 
Brevard  Me  Dowell,  of  Charlotte;  Major  Franklin  McNeill,  of  Raleigh; 
Judge  H.  C.  Connor,  of  Wilson;  Hon.  Rur'us  Daughton,  of  All  gbany;— in 
fact,  every  county  of  the  good  old  state  may  boast  of  the  presence  in  num- 
bers of  the  old-time  gentleman,  and  what  a  blessing  and  a  legacy  from  the 
past  are  these  fine  men,  who  seem  to  grow  stronger  and  more  numerous 
in  this  fine  atmosphere  which  ;s  distinctively  North  Carolina. 

Col.  Lamb  was  a  brave  and  courageous  Confederate  soldier;  he  was  a 
successful  business  man;  he  numbered  his  friends  by  his  acquaintances;  he 
aspired  to  no  office,  but  he  took  a  lively  interest  in  matters  political;  he 
was,  however,  chairman  for  years  of  the  State  Board  of  Elections.  Noth- 
ing more  or  higher  in  office  ever  interested  him.  He  leaves  an  untarnish- 
ed name  and  a  service  in  life  worthy  of  being  cherished  as  an  incentive  to 
noble  living  and  doing. 


Using  the  wild  story  started  about  the  condition  of  the  airship  Roma, 
which  went  to  the  bad  costing  the  lives  of  thirty-four  men,  as  a  subject, 
Mr.  Clark  in  this  number  contributes  a  very  sensible  article  about  the  right 
function  of  a  newspaper  and  news-writers.  He  observes,  as  many  others 
have,  that  many  writers  believe  to  make  their  stories  readable  they  must 
weave  into  them  the  sensational  spirit,  even  at  the  expense  of  accuracy  or 
the  truth.  There  is  no  story  ever  written  that  outshines  oris  more  inter- 
esting than  that  story  of  events,  deeds  and  occurrences  which  takes  into  ar 
count  the  truthful  human  side  involved— a  farfetched  embelishment, a 
yellowish  treatment,  always  leaves  in  the  mind  of  the  reader  a  ?  mark. 
When  actively  in  the  newspaper  harness,  no  man  ever  lived  up  to  his 
preachments  more  faithfully  than  did  Clark  in  h's  work  on  The  Landnirak. 


It  is  announced  from  the  oliice  of  General  Passenger  Agent  Cary.of  the 
Southern  Railway  that  the  Southern  will  put  in  round-trip  touris'  rates 
to  mountain  and  seashore  resorts  for  the  coming  summer  season  at  SO  per 
cent  of  the  double  one-way  fares.  This  is  a  substantial  reduction  from 
the  rates  that  prevailed  last  year.  For  example,  vhere  one-way  fare  is 
$10.00,  the  round-trip  rate  this  coming  summer  will  be  $16.00.  L  ;t  year 
the    round-trip    rate  was  $18.00  plus  Si. 44  war  tax,  making    the   trip  cost 


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$19.44.     This  reduction  of  rates  is  calculated  to  fill  the  mountains  and  the 
seacoast  to  overflowing. 


A  vicious  woman  of  High  Po:.nt,  res-mting  the  persuasive  call  of  Mrs. 
Care,  the  Guilford  Cmnty  Welfare  officer,  urging  her  to  send  her  children 
to  school  as  the  law  requires,  made  an  ugly  physical  attack.  The  gentle, 
kindly  Mrs.  Carr,  regretting  the  angry  and  mean  outbreak  of  this  ignor- 
ant woman,  was  disposed  to  let  the  matter  drop  [here;  but  the  judge  of 
the  Juvenile  Court  insisted  that  the  woman  be  prosecuted.  The  Judge  is 
right.  Who.  in  the  wide  world,  c  mid  expect  children  with  such  maternal 
viciousness,  appalling  ignoranc  anJ  criminal  neglect,  directing  their  course 
to  reach  a  respectable  citizenship  without  the  state  in  some  form  or  other 
stepping  in  and  taking  charge? 


The  p.ist  Tuesday,  February  28th,  was  "Shrove  Tuesday."  This  special- 
ly named  day  occurs  just  before  Asn  Wednesday,  and  its  significance  lies 
in  the  fact  that  it  was  formerly  customary  in  England,  on  this  day,  for 
the  people  to  confess  their  sins  to  the  priest,  and  afterwards  to  dine  on 
pancakes  and  make  merry.  The  customs  of  eating  pancakes  and  ringing  a 
boll  are  still  kept  up  in  parts  of  England.  The  day  is  sometimes  referred 
to  as  "Pancake  Bell"  or  "Pancake  Day."  It  is  a  legal  holiday  through- 
out the  state  of  Louisiana,  and  in  the  cities  of  Mobile,  Montgomery  and 
Selma,  in  the  state  of  Alabama. 


To  the  very  uttermost  corners  of  the  state  went  the  disturbing  news  that 
General  Julian  S.  Carr  was  critically  ill  at  his  home  in  Durham.  Anxious- 
ly they  awaited  the  news  from  bis  bed-side.  The  latest  is  that  Gen.  Carr 
is  improving,  and  there  is  lively  hope  that  the  State  wiil  continue  to  enjoy 
and  profit  by  the  presence  and  activity  of  this  genial  gentleman,  patriotic 
citizen  and  captain  of  industry. 

The  Uplift  rather  appreciates  and  enjoys  the  sharp  comment  of  Gover- 
nor Morrison  in  his  resentment  of  the  request  a  little  2  x  4  magistrate,  who 
sits  over  a  court  in  the  land  of  Canada,  makes  pending  the  disposition  of  a 
fleeing  criminal  that  is  nestling  in  the  bosom  of  the  Canadian  authorities. 

Seeing  the  accounts  of  daily  accidents  and  deaths,  we    are   convinced  of 


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the  wisdom  of  this  which  the  Baltimore  Sun  hands  out:  -'Horsepower  has 
been  sufficiently  developed  in  the  motor.  What  we  need  now  is  the  devel- 
opment  of  a  little  horse-ser.se  in  the  driver." 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  The  Uiu.n-'T  is  publishing  an  intensely  interesting 
story  about  ancient  old  Hillsboro  in  this  state.  It  is  a  story  prepared  by 
Mr.  Fred  Olds  for  the  Oxford  Friend. 


THE  FOX  AND  THE  LION 

When  first  the  Fox  saw  the  Lion  he  was  terribly  frightened,  and 
ran  away  and  hid  himself  in  the  woods.  Next  time  however  he 
came  near  the  King  of  Eeasts  he  stopped  at  a  safe  distance  and 
watched  him  pass  by.  The  third  time  they  came  near  one  another 
the  Fox  went  straight  up  to  the  Lion  and  passed  the  time  of  day 
with  him.  asking  him  how  his  family  were,  and  when  he  should 
have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  him  again;  then  turning  bis  tail,  he 
parted  from  the  Lion  without  much  ceremony. 

"FAMILIARITY  BREEDS    CONTEMPT." 


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There  s  Place  In  Life  For  Trie  Anecdote 

REV.  B.  R.  HALL:  The  North  Carolina  Methodist  conference  once  had 
two  Halls,  Ben  and  John,  brothers,  both  "able  preachers  and  hard  workers. 
Ben  was  once  pastor  of  the  Haw  River  circuit,  ^charge  in  Chatham  county. 
At  this  time  Rev.  W.  M.  Moore,  (both  men  now  gone  to  their  reward  )was 
presiding  elder  of  the  district.  It  was  generally  acknowledged  that  Moore 
■was  as  great  a  preacher  of  a  true  gospel  as  Xorth  Carolina  ever  had.     Travel 


then  was  by  horse  and  buggy,  and  it 
took  good  horses  to  stand  what  was 
required  of  them.  Brother  Moore 
had  a  very  spirited  animal,  that  when 
once  out  of  the  stall  was  bent  on  play, 
and  hard  to  get  back.  On  a  certain 
Sunday  evening  sometime  before  this 
incident  ,  this  animal  escaped,  got  in- 
to acorn  field,  and  work  and  coax  all 
lie  would  brother  Moore  was  unable 
to  get  it  back,  and  the  more  he  work- 
ed the  more  corn  the  animal  tore 
down.  Finally  the  good  man  lost  his 
temper,  got  his  shot  gun  and  pulled 
down  on  the  horse,  stinging  it 
severly  with  bird  shot,  but  landed  it 
in  the  stall. 

While  Ben  Hall  was  pastor  as  above 
lie  had  a  wild  unruly  animal,  that  was 
a  fool  about  being  hitched.  On  this 
Sunday,  after  service,  the  mare  re- 
fused to  come  under  the  shafts,  and 
after  several  attempts,  Hall  lost  hi., 
head  and  frailed  the  horse  unmerci- 
fully, right  before  the  onlooking  con- 
gregation. So  incensed  were  some  at 


his  conduct,  it  was  reported  to  the 
presiding  elder.  A  short  time  there- 
after Hall  and  Moore  happened  to 
meet  in  the  road,  brother  Moore  hav- 
ing stopped  to  water  his  horse  at  a 
branch,  and  Hall  was  slowing  down 
for  the  same  purpose.  After  passing 
the  "time  o'  day,"  brother  Moore 
,-aid:  "Well,  brother  Ben,  I  am 
mighty  sorry  tq  hear  that  you  lost 
your  temper  and  whipped  your  horse 
as  you  did  at  Bynum's  a  few  Sundays 

ago "     Rail    knowing    a 

lecture  was  coining  and  not  being  in 
any  good  mood  for  such,  shot  back: 
"Yes,  Doctor  Moore,  I  did  lose  my 
temper,  but  the  mare  was  so  unruly;  I 
think  if  I  had  had  my  shot  gun  I 
would  have  shot  her." 

"Get  up — go  long  Charlie,  go  long 
— golong"s;*id  Dr.  Moore,  as  he  pull- 
ed the  lines,  while  Hall  was  doing  the 
sam  thing,  both  going  a  different 
direction  without  another  word. 
— C.  W.  H. 


Love  is  not  getting,  but  giving;  not  a  wild  dream  of  pleasure  and  a 
ma|dneps  of  desire — oh,  no — love  is  not  that!  It  is  goodness  and  honor, 
and  peace  and  pure  living — yes,  love  is  that,  and  is  the  best  thing  in  the 
^orld,  and  the  thing  that  lives  longest.— Van  Dyke. 


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THE  UPLIFT 


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CHARLES    WESTBROOK    HUNT 

Charles  Westbrook  Hunt  was  born  September  26th,  1S39,  four  miles 
west  of  Greensboro,  near  "West-Green"  tbe  then  famous  home  of  the  late 
Samuel  Westbrook.  His  father,  the  late  Rev.  Moses  J.  Hunt  then  being 
pastor  of  the  Guilford  circuit;  that  is  how  he  came  to  be  born  there,  and 
was  named  for  a  son  of  Mr.  Westbrook,  the  late  Rev.  C.  W.  Westbrook. 
From  the  time  he  was  one  year  old  he  was  on  his  father's  farms  in  Gran- 
ville and  later  Franklin  county,  where  he  spent  17  years,  and  where  he 
imbibed  the  matter  that  makes  the  interesting-  nature  stories,  which  The 
Uplift  has  just  concluded. 


To  get  to  a  school  for  the  family 
of  children,  his  father  moved  to 
Kernersville  where  he  had  two  years 
at  Kernersville  Academy  under  the 
tutorship  of  the  late  Rev.  S.  R. 
Traywick;  his  earlier  education  be- 
ing in  the  "old-field"  and  subscrip- 
tion schools  of  the  neighborhood. 
At  the  end  of  two  years  he  refused 
a  college  education  at  Trinity  Col- 
lege for  the  reason  that  he  did  not 
fed  that  his  father  could  afford  it. 
with  nine  other  younger  children; 
and  he  took  a  place  with  Beard,  Rob- 
erts &  Co.,  learning  the  Tobacco 
business.  He  always  had  liked  news- 
papers, Cnis  father  took  many)  and 
it  was  here,  with  Jas  H.  Lindsay 
and  T.  A.  Lyon  that  he  had  his  first 
taste  of  the  work,  writing  locals  as 
an  amusement.  It  was  not  long  be- 
fore he  was  getting  out  the  paper 
when  editors  wanted  to  be  away. 

Just  about  this  time,  Dec.  18.  1S- 
83,  he  married  Miss  Mina  C.  Kern- 
er,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late 
Israel  Kerner.  Five  years  later  he 
suffered  a  complete  physical  break- 
down, having  to  give  up  the  work 
he  wai  doing,  or  anyother  physical 
effort.  His  like  and  talent  for  news- 
Papers  s..vpd  him  a  good  turn,  and 
with  less  than  $100  borrowed  money 
he  secured  the  Burlington  News. 
Here  he   spent  eight  years;  all  the 


while  a  semi- physical  wreck,  but 
made  a  paper  worth  while,  and  never 
missed  an  issue.  Feeling  that  it  was 
unsafe  to  longer  tax  the  mind  and 
body  with  the  "grind,"  he  sold  the 
plant,  at  a  sacrifice,  and  in  January 
1S97,  moved  to  Charlotte.  A  year 
later  he  took  a  place  with  The  South- 
ern Newspaper  Union,  as  a  travel- 
ing man,  and  for  two  years  went 
into  five  states  in  the  interest  of 
that  plant.  This  work  he  did  so 
well  the  manager  tried  often  to 
get  him  at  it  again. 

Resigning  this  job,  and  all  news- 
paper connection,  he  has  ever  and 
anon  contributed  to  the  press  of  his 
writings.  The  old  saying  that: 
"You  can  get  a  man  out  of  the 
country,  but  you  cannot  get  the 
country  out  of  the  man,"  has  been 
strongly  proven  in  the  case  before  us. 
He  always  dreamed  of  a  place  in  the 
country,  where  he  could  associate 
with  such  things  as  were  written 
about  in  the  series  of  articles  which 
he  furnished  The  Uplift.  The  very 
first  line  he  had  a  chance  to  go  back, 
he  bought  his  present  home, 
"Swastika  Farm"  (Egyptian,  means: 
rest,  peace,  contentment)  and  stock- 
ed it  with  white  leghorn  hens.  Here 
he  has  found  health,  after  20  years 
a  semi-invalidism.  He  has  often 
been  heard  to    say    that    he  has  the 


12  XHE  UPLIFT 

appetite  of  a  ten   year  old  buy;  and  ty,  his  experince  with  men  and   ser- 
the    food    tastes  as  Rood    as   it   did  ious  things  of  this  life,  that  he  could 
when  wading  the  creeks  or  roaming  play  the  city  man  quite   easily,    but 
the  woods    ami    Melds    of    Franklin  he  does'nt  want  to. 
County.       He  and  his  wife,  to  whom  Upon  the  request  of  the  editor  of 
he  owes,  he  freely  admits  a   greater  The  I'ri.iiT,  Mr  Hunt  has  just  finish- 
part  of  what  success  has  come  to  him,  ed  a  series  of  nature  studies    which 
live  alone.     They  have  three  grand-  he  kindly  consented   to  write  for  the 
children  and  an  only  daughter,  Mrs.  pleasure    and     information    of    our 
Frank  F.  Jones,  in  Charlotte.  beys.     They    have     richly    enjoyed 
There    are     men,    and    I    among  them;  in  fact,  we    have    had    assur- 
them,  who  wonder  why  one    so    tab  ancv.s  from  many  sources  that    they 
ented   in    writing  engaging    stories,  have  been  keenly  read   by    many   of 
who  sees  so  much  gcod  in  his  fellow-  our  subscribers  with    entertainment 
men  and  tries  to  be    blind    to    their  and  profit.     Early    after    beginning 
faults,   would    not  rig    up    a    news-  the  publication  of     the  stories,  the 
paper  plant  and  start  himself    again  request    came    to    us    from  various 
in  the  active  set  vice    of    running    a  sources    to    preserve    them  in  order 
paper.     But  unlike  the  cither    men.  and    issue  them   in  a  booklet.     This 
who  have  noted  Mr.  Hunt's    clever-  is  being  done  in  our  office,  and  they 
ness  with  the  pen,  I  happen  to  know  will  go  out  to  every  county,  to  schools 
that  he  likes  something    far    better  and  to  all  public  libraries.     All  this 
an  la  normal    man    usually    follows  labor  by  Mr.  Hunt  was   one  of  love, 
his  choice.     Hunt    is  essentia'Iv     a  and  a  deep  interest  in  the  great  work 
countryman,  loves  to  com. mine  with  in  which  the  Jackson  Training  School 
nature,  to  study  the  ways  and    hab-  is  engaged. 

its  of  living  things  that    abound    in  This    man    Hunt  is  a  choice  spirit 

the  rural  section,  and  this  love   can-  among  us,  is    living  a  life  of  unself- 

not    be   gratified    when    tied  up    to  ishoess  and  of  great    service,  alive 

the  fortunes  of  a  newspaper.  I    said  wire,    straight    and    upright,   and  a 

our  subject  is  a  countryman.      I  am  loyal,  sincere  friend    without   guile 

aware  that  through  his  native   abili-  ---in  this  day,  that  is  much  of  a  man. 


Much  of  the  meanness  that  men  do  is  the  result  of  impulse,  haste,  im- 
mature deliberation.  If  they  had  waited  a  little,  those  things  that  brought 
hurt  and  untold  regrets  would  never  have  been  done  at  all.  Proci-istina- 
tion  is  at  times  a  virtue.  Do  not  strive  to  do  today  everything  that  can 
possibly  be  done,  but  r.qther  content  yourself  with  those  things  that  you 
are  fully  persuaded  in  your  mind  and  conscience  ought  to  be  done.  Leave 
all  the  rest  over  as  unfinished  business.  Time  has  a  way  of  settling  most  of 
the  problems  of  life.  It  is  always  wise  to  allow  the  old  Father  with  the 
hour-glass  a  chance  to  give  one  the  benefit  of  his  widsoni. — Methodist 
Advocate. 


THE  UPLIFT  13 

An   Echo  Ci  The  Past. 

In  my  school  days,  forty-five  years  ago.,  this  copy,  "Procrastination  is  the 
thief  of  time,"  was  often  set  up  as  a  copy  for  the  whole  school.  I  admired 
immensely  the  symmetry  of  the  penmanship,  also  the  deliberation  of  the 
old  maid  school  teacher  as  she,  with  measured  step,  took  her  position  before 
the  blackboard  that  cov<  red  one  end  of  the  school-room  and  wrote  the  copy- 
so  it  might  be  seen  by  every  pupil. 

I  had  no  idea  in  the  world  what  up  to  the  standard,  there  was  an 
"Procrastination"  meant.  I  didn't  adjustmant  of  matters  after  school 
know  whether  it  was  something  to  hours,  no  questions  were  in  order. 
eat  or  to  wear:  but  I  knew  that  it  Now,  that  the  light  is  broken  and 
was  a  mighty  high-sounding  word,  we  have  come  to  fully  understand 
but  never  thought  it  would  play  the  gravity  and  greatness  of  that 
any  part  in  my  life;  but,  "believe  copy  that  graced  every  school-room 
me,"  I  lest  no  time  in  trying  to  re-  of  the  years  past,  we  know  that 
produce  the  copy  just  as  written  Procrastination  is  a  habit  arid  a  bad 
with  precision  and  neatness  in  the  one;  and  a  person  who  indulges 
period  set  aside  for  that  work.  will  find  life  so  crowded  with  odds. 
Little  did  I  then  realize  that  I  was,  and  ends  of  unfinished  work  until  a 
by  this  activity  and  deep  interest  in  mental  pandemonium  reigns  and  a 
following  the  copy  avoiding  the  starting-point  seems  impossible  to 
penalty  of  the  very  meaning  of  the  find.  For  instance,  take  the  black- 
word,  board  in  a  busy  school-room.     Don't 

This  teach  .>r,  as  I  remember  her  you  erase  all  writing  and  figuring  at 
appearance  now,  I'm  sure  wore  the  end  of  the  day's  work  and  start 
hoop-skirts  for  there'  was  a  certain  out  anew  the  next  morning?  Order 
smooth  whirl  to  her  skirts  as  she  mid  system  in  the  school-room,  and 
walked  that  gave  her  dignity  and  why  not  mentally  be  in  the  same 
made  her  appear  very  wise.  In  fact  shape.  How  refreshing! 
she  must  have  been  a  twin  sister,  or  You- not  only  lose  time  by  pro- 
close  kin,  of  "Iluck's"  teacher,  for  crastination,  but  it  sometimes  makes 
as  I  recall,  the  resemblance  was  you  lose  your  temper  by  being  over- 
marked.  She  also  kept  a  rule  on  her  crowded  with  unfinished  or  put-on? 
desk  that  warranted  a  profound  re-  work.  Moral:  DON'T  PUT  OFF  UN- 
specr,  punctuality,  perfect  recita-  TIL  lO-.MORROW  WHAT  YOU" 
tions,  and,  if  in  either  you  were  not  CAN  DO  TODAY.  •— M.  N.  C. 


The  teacher  had  told  her  pupils  to  write  a  short  essr.y  about  Lincoln,, 
and  ore  boy  handed  in  the  following: 

"Abraham  Lincoln  was  born  on  a  bright  summer  day,  the  twelfth  of 
February,  1809.  He  was  horn  in  a  log  cabin  he  had  helped  his  father 
to  build."— Republic  Item. 


14  THE  UPLIFT 

A  Good  North  Carolina  Girl  In  Texas 

By  Jim  Riddick 

She  grew  up  in    a  North  Carolina  home,   where  tragedy  held  sway  over 
the  parents  and  their  fortunes  for  too   many   years    now    to    account    for. 
Nearly  every  sadness  known  to   mankind  seemed  gleefully    to  in\ade    that 
home  to  do  mischief— all  leaving  an  imprint  that  stuck  closer  than   a    hro-    i 
ther. 


The  little  girl,  attractive,  of  fine 
spirit  and  unusual  poise,  one  of  the 
only  two  of  a  large  family  of  child- 
ren that  escaped  the  baneful  influ- 
ence of  that  most  mysterious  tragedy 
that  cruelly  followed  in  the  wake  of 
that  family.  She  was  the  friend  of 
everbody,  and  everybody  was  her 
friend.  If  there  were  a  kindly  word 
to  be  said,  or  a  graceous  act  to  be 
done,  or  a  relief  to  be  rendered,  the 
opportunity  was  immediately  gras- 
ped by  this  charming  little  miss. 
And  this  is  how  she  grew  up,  gain- 
ing strength  of  purpose  and  will 
and  habit  as  the  days  went  by. 

In  all  her  set.  in  which  she  was 
thoroughly  at  home,  none  was  more 
eagerly  sought.  Wealth  did  not 
blind  her;  immediate  advantage  of 
a  situation  concerned  her  not.  She 
cooly  considered  everything  from  a 
sense  of  right  and  justice;  she 
thought  liKe  a  man- -temporarily  ad- 
vantageous results  weighed  nothing 
with  her.  She  was  looking  towards 
the  future.  It  is  no  wonder  that 
such  a  girl,  even  in  those  blessed 
days  of  other  years,  was  sought  for. 
Suitor  after  suitor  played  a  losing 
court.  Something  higher,  deeper 
and  more  enduring  controlled  the 
heart  of  this  wonderful  girl.  "Oh," 
said  she,  "it  must  be  glorious  to  fig- 
ure as  the  sweet  and  attractive  bride 
inabrilliant  maniage,  but,"  and  she 
continued,  "I  must  be  conscious    of 


the  presence  of  a  sterling  character, 
a  manly  cleanliness  and  a  depend- 
able love,  before  I  take  a  step  that 
mars  or  makes  a  life  forever."  She 
had  seen  the  evil  effects  where  these 
virtues  were  lacking,  and  she  lived 
up  to  her  ideals  that  promise  for  life 
the  joys,  the  happiness  and  the  suc- 
cesses of  a  sensible  and  well-guard- 
ed matrimonial  alliancp. 

Our  little  North  Carolina  girl  and 
the  man  that  fitted  her  ideals  met; 
they  plighted  and  were  married  in 
a  simple,  matter-of-fact  marriage 
ceremony.  And  off  to  Texas,  tak- 
ing up  their  abode  in  one  of  the  larg- 
est cities  of  the  Lone  Star  state. 

Without  much  wordly  goods,  with- 
out substantial  and  influenetial 
friends,  they  began  life  together, 
far  removed  from  their  families  or 
former  friends.  Big  business,  this 
beginning  without  appreciable  capi- 
tal, to  lay  the  foundation  for  a  suc- 
cessful career  in  a  bustling  city, 
where  every  avenue  seemed  well- 
nijrh  filled.  But  this  is  a  story  of 
will  and  a\  termination,  of  fa!;h  and 
energy,  but  above  all  with  brains 
and  a  high  sense  of  intergrity.  And, 
too,  this  is  a  story  of  a  judicous  and 
sensible  advertising  scheme.  To 
make  the  story  complete  I  will  just 
say  that  it  was  a  grocery  business 
these  young  people  started  up,  hut 
it  wasn't.  I'd  tell  just  whatitwas, 
but  I  do  not  care  to  furnish  anyevi- 


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dence  that  would  lead  to  the  identity 
of  this  interesting1,  prominent  and 
very  successful  family,  who  stand 
high  in  their  community  and  want 
for  nothing— they  have  whipped  the 
fight 

A  st  ire-room,  small  but  sufficiently 
large,  was  selected  in  a  certain 
neighborhood  of  this  large  city 
where  no  other  store  existed  that 
handle  the  same  class  of  wares.  The 
little  woman  "did  all  her  house- 
work" and  whatever  else  needed  im- 
mediate attention.  Finishing  her 
home  duties,  this  North  Carolina 
girl-wife  started  out  on  the  street,  to 
purchase  such  things  as  she  was 
compelled  to  have.  That's  nothing 
out  of  the  ordinary,  for  hundreds  of 
women,  who  are  not  ashamed  of 
their  rearing  and  are  net  too  proud 
to  work  when  the  call  c«mes,  go  out 
to  marketing.  But  here  is  where 
genius  asserted  itself,  where  North 
Carolina  initiative  performed  in  high 
gear.  She  needed  some  gingham--- 
the  little  woman  made  the  order, 
requested  the  package  sent  to  her 
husband's  store  with  the  bill.  Seven 
or  eight  blocks  away  she  went  to 
place  an  order  for  some  vegetables 
—the  package  and  the  bill  were  to 
be  carried  to  her  husband.  Now  the 
little  woman,  recalling  that  a  win- 
dow curtain  was  needed--she  went 
to  another  part  of  the  city  to    make 


the  purchase---and  the  same  order 
about  delivery  and  payment  follow- 
ed. The  next  day,  she  dropped  into 
another  section  of  the  business  hous- 
es. 

For  months  this  smart  North  Caro- 
lina woman  kept  np  this  method  of 
supplying  her  needs  until  she  had 
just  about  given  a  small  patronage 
to  nearly  every  worthy  store  in  the 
city.  When  her  purchase  and  the  ac- 
companying bill  arrived  at  her  hus- 
band's place  of  business,  he  politely 
and  courteously  completed  the  piece 
of  business.  In  a  short  time  these 
two  people  ceased  to  be  strangers  in 
that  big  city;  and  finding  the  new 
comer  a  very  agreeabl?  gentlemen, 
his  place  nicely  kept  and  bis  methods 
of  doing  business  entirely  on  the 
square,  folks  from. every  part  of  the 
city  began  to  drop  into  his  place  and 
make  purchases.  Month  after  month 
this  recipiocity  was  kept,  up  until 
this  man  with  a  smart  North  Caro- 
lina wife,  whom  everybody  admired 
and  loved  during  her  childhood,  be- 
came well  known,  won  a  place  for 
himself  and  his  business  in  the  city 
---and  to-day  he  is  rich  in  worldly 
goods  and  says  it  is  all  due  to  his 
wife,  herself  to-dav  a  consoicious 
social  figure  and  active  in  welfare 
and  church  affairs.  It  takes  a  man 
to  make  such  an  ackowledgement  in 
the  presence  of  his  wife. 


Trust  not  thy  secret  to  a  confidant,  for  he,  too,  will  have  his  associates 
and  friends;  and  it  will  spread  aboard  through  the  whole  city,  and  men    ■ 
will  call  thee  weak-headed. — Firdausi.  i 


16  THE  UPLIFT 

ACCURACY  AND    TRUTH    IN    WRITING 

(By  R.  R.  Clark.) 

Following;  the  dreadful  disaster  to  the  airship  Roma  a  few  day  ago,  in  which 
34  lives  were  lost,  came  a  story  from  Chicago  in  which  it  was  stated  without 
reservation  that  Lieut.  Sniythc,  one  of  the  victims,  had  following  the  flight  of 
the  Roma  to  Washington  some  time  previous,  written  his  father  in  Chicago 
that  the  airship  was  dangerous  and  that  it  would  lie  criminal  negligence  to 
fly  the  machine  again  until  the  defects  were  remedied.  The  Chicago  story 
gave  such  detail  of  the  alleged  letter  that  on  its  face  there  were  indications  of 
truth;  and  many  people  who  read  that  were  not  paragons  of  virture  in  all  re- 
statement began  to  berate  the  officials  spects.  They  had  their  faults  and 
in  charge  of  the  Roma  as  guilty  of  failings,  their  short-comings.  But  the 
criminal  negligence.  Lieut  Smythe's  modern  craving  for  excitement,  for 
army  associates  questioned  the  truth  sensation,  has  created  a  lot  of  news- 
of  the  story  ,  saying  that  the  dead  paper  men  who  seem  to  feel  that  they 
officer  was  not  the  kind  of  man  to  must  satisfy  the  demand  for  sensa- 
tvrite  a  serious  charge  like  that  with-  tion  even  if  it  be  necessary  to  sacri- 
out  making  some  report  of  his  suspi-      fiee  accuracy. 

cions    to    his    superior    officers,    as    it  I   am   not   discussing  of  course  the 

would  have  been  his  duty  to  do.  errors   that   can't   be  guarded  against 

Now  comes  the  father  of  Lieut.  with  the  best  effort  that  can  be  made. 
Smythe,  to  whom  the  letter  was  al-  As  the  newsgathercr  must  nearly  al- 
leged to  have  been  written,  and  says  ways  take  his  information  second 
the  story  is  absolutely  fylse,  without  hand  and  work  under  pressure,  there 
any  foundation  in  fact.  It  had  its  are  always  errors  enough  which  in  the 
origin  only  in  the  fertile  brain  of  nature  of  things  can't  be  avoided.But 
some  newspaper  writer  who  wanted  [  am  talking  about  newgatherers  who 
to  make  a  sensation;  one  of  the  sort  will  not  take  the  pains  to  verify  re- 
who  make  up  a  story  out  of  a  mini-  ports, who  do  not  use  their  common 
mum  of  truth  and  a,  maximum  of  sense  to  analyze  a  story  told  them 
imagination;  or  who  make  the  ami  use  their  judgment  in  deterrain- 
whole  story  without  a  scintilla  of  fact  ing  its  truth;  but  who  on  the  contrary 
on  which  to   found  it.  are   glad    to    have    it    in    exaggerated 

I  don't  know  whether  this  sort  of  form  if  the  simple  truth  eliminates 
newspaper  writing- is  on  the  increase,  the  sensational  features;  and  w  ho  are 
but  sometimes  I  am  inclined  to  think  not  averse  to  dressing  it  up  so  that  it 
that  it  is.  The  newspapers  have  made  will  be  readable,  if  not  sensational, 
wonderful  advances  in  some  respects  without  special  regard  for  accuracy  of 
in  the  last  25  years,  but  I  sometimes  in-  statement.  Some  of  the  speciul  writ- 
cline  to  the  belief  that  the  zeal  for  ac-  ers  make  a  specialty  of  rumors  and 
curacy  hasn't  kept  pa,ce  with  some  of  speculation.  One  can  make  up  a  very 
the  other  advances  in  newspaperdom.  interesting  story  from  rumors  aud 
This  may  be  more  apparent  thiui  real;  suggestions  as  to  certain  possibilities 
I  hope  it  is.     The     old-time     editors      under  certain  conditions.       But  pres- 


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■  entlv  it  falls  out  that  there  was  no 
truth  whatever  in  the  rumor,  and  that 
speculations  founded  on  the  rumor 
annoyed  if  not  positively  harmed 
somebody  or  some  cause.  There  are 
harmless  rumors  and  harmless  specu- 
lation; but  this  sort  of  thing-,  when 
handled,  should  be  sent  out  for  what 
it  is  distinctly,  and  if  there  is  any- 
thing in  connection  with  it  that  will 
do  anybody  injustice,  leave  it  alone. 
I  know  all  about  the  consuming  desire 
to  print  something  that  will  attract 
attention;  that  will  astonish  the  read- 
er; and  how  difficult  it  is  to  leave 
rumor  alone  through  fear  that  it  may 
prove  to  lie  fact  and  the  other  fellow 
will  get  it  first.  But  better  far  to  go 
without  the  sensations  and  better  far 
let  the  other  fellow  have  a  scoop 
occasionally  than  undergo  the  humilia- 
tion of  finding  you  have  circulated  a 
fake  and  may  be  one  that  will  annoy 
or  injure  innocent  people.  Better  far 
print  the  ordinary  news  of  the  day 
(and  there  is  now  no  lack  of  sensa- 
tion in  the  ordinary  news)  and  have  a 
reputation  for  accuracy,  for  printing 
reliable  information,  only  that  which 
can  be  depended  upon,  than  to  print 
a  paper  that  has  a  sensation  in  every 
issue  but  which  nobody  trusts. 

I  have  met  some  newspaper  writers 
in  my  time  who  considered  it  a  part 
of  the  profession  to  dress  up  a  story, 
make  it  interesting  and  readable  if 
not  sensational,  without  being  parti- 
cular as  to  accuracy.  Somehow  they 
hail  the  idea  of  fiction  stories  mixed 
with  real  news  writing.  This  sort 
brul  a  poor  conception  of  their  duty 
to  the  public  and  very  poor  training 
in  the  profession.  Every  individual 
who  engages  in  newspaper  work  should 
get  the  idea   firmlv   fixed   that   accu- 


racy is  the  first  consideration;  that 
a  newspaper's  character  is  just  like 
an  individual's  character.  If  you 
have  an  acquaintance  who  constantly 
exaggerates,  who  is  always  loaded 
with  gossip,  sensationad  rumors  which 
he  takes  pleasure  in  circulating  with- 
out regard  to  their  truth  or  the  harm 
to  innocent  people,  you  may  or  may 
not  cut  his  acquaintance  altogether — • 
sometimes  there  are  very  entertain- 
ing liars — but  you  will  lose  respect  for 
him  and  will  discount  anything  he 
says;  and  even  when  he  tells  you  the 
truth  you  won't  believe  him  unless  the 
story  is  verified  from  some  other 
source.  And  that  is  just  exactly  the 
way  with  the  unreliable  newspaper 
or  the  newspaper  writer  who  handles 
the  truth  carefully  or  uses  it  sparing- 
ly; who  get  the  reputation  of  being 
unreliable. 

If  I  were  giving  advice  to  the  young- 
er generation  of  editors  and  news- 
writer  (which  I  am  not;  I  am  simply 
making  these  observations  for  what- 
ever they  may  be  worth),  I  would 
stress  accuracy  all  the  time.  Verify 
the  facts  as  nearly  as  possible,  make 
prompt  correction  of  material  errors 
(never  correct  anything  unless  a  libel 
suit  threatens  seems  to  be  the  motto 
of  some  of  the  modern  newspaper- 
makers),  strive  above  all  to  make  a 
reputation  for  reliability  so  that  your 
readers  can  depend  on  what  you  tell 
them.  Telling  the  facts  as  they  are, 
naught  extenuate  and  naught  set 
down  in  mah'ce,  isn't  inconsistent 
with  writing  an  entertaining  story  or 
making  the  story  readable.  Often  the 
truth  is  more  entertianing  than  an 
exaggeraton.  Aside  from  the  desire 
to  be  accurate  for  truth's  sake  is 
the  matter  of  injustice.     A  story  can 


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be  so  colored  that  it  will  do  a  great  tunity  olfers.  He  who  isn't  big 
injustice  and  leave  the  wronged  with-  enough  to  rise  above  prejudices,  bh 
out  an  adequate  remedy  without  tell-  personal  feelings  and  be  fair,  is  unfit 
ing  a  downright  falsehood.  Many  for  newspaper  work  and  should  be  ox- 
news  paper-writers  do  great  injustice  eluded  from  the  profesion  which  he 
to  folks  they  don't  like  by  putting  dishonors, 
them  in  a  false  light  whenever  oppor- 


The  job  ahead  of  us  may  be  like  a  bitter  pill  in  the  mouth;  the  longer  we 
put  it  off,  the  harder  it  becomes  to  swallow. — Kings'  Treasuries. 


HILLSBORO   RICH    IN   HISTORY 

By  Fred  A.  Olds 
There  are  plenty  of  bigger  towns  in  Xorth  Carolina  than  old  Hillsboro,  and 
there  are  older  ones,  like  Bath,  Edenton  and  Hertford,  for  example,  not  to 
speak  of  others,  but  certainly  Hillsboro  has  made  a  remarkable  record  because 
of  the  fact  that  it  has  turned  out  so  mapy  noted  men,  exercising  in  many  cases 
not  only  a  state-wide  but  a  national  influence.  What  other  town  or  really 
village,  for  it  has  only  1,180  people,  ever  furnished  two  United  States  Senators 
and  that  for  a  number  of  years,  at  the      have    all    their    pristine    charm. 


The  Occoneechee  Mountain 


same    time .'     Hillsboro    did    this,    in 

the   persons   of    William    A.   Graham 

and  Willie  P.  Mangum,  men  who  cer-  Hillsboro    used   to    be,    "before  the 

tainly  made  their  mark.  w:lr>    sir>"  a    mountain    resort,    for 

-..—....          „  look    you,    it   has   a    trinity   of   lnotin- 

Old  Hillsboro  Town  t  •      '  ,,        ,-,              ,         '  ,  ■  , 

tains,   the     Occoneechee,   which     rise 

Hillsboro   is      only   40   miles      from  .  900  feet  above  sea  level  and  3011  feet 

Raleigh,    and    the    casual    traveler   by  above  the  level  of  the  little  Eiio  riv- 

train  only   gets     a    view   of     a   little  er,    which   makes    its    muddy    way  at 

of   it,   including   the   pretty   tower  of  their   feet;      that     stream   in     v/hicb 

the    court    house,      the   old    mill      and  Eno    Will,      the    Tndian      guide      who 

the   ungainly     yard  around     the  sta-  showed  John  La.wson  the  way  through 

tion,    the   latter   giving   about    as    mi-  Xorth  Carolina  to  the  coa.it,  no  doubt 

prepossessing    an      entrance    to      the  fished   many   a   lime,   his   tribe   living 

place  as  well  can  be  conceived.  Now  in   that   vicinity  for  some   time  after 

that    the    a.utomobile    has    come    into  the  early   white  settlers  came  on  the 

being  such  delightful  old  towns  ought  scene.   It   was  in   1708  that   Eno   Will 

to  be  places  of  pilgrimage.     The  auto  acted  as  pilot  and  his  route  led  only 

has    made    rural    England    and    rural  a    few     miles   north   of     Raleu/h.    In 

Europe.     In    England    many    charm-  those  days  there  was  no  Wake  coun- 

ing  places   not    touched   by   railways  ty  or  Raleigh,  except  Old  Fori  Ral- 

were  forgotten  after  the  stage  coach  eigh  on  Roanoke  Island,  which  T,aw- 

days  until   recent   years,   but   the   au-  son  visited  and  where  there  remained 

tomobile   has   revived   them   and   they  plenty  of  relics  of  the  "Lost  Colon" 


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of  1537  when  he  saw  ib. 

Memories   of   Royal   Days 

la  Hillsboro  the  main  street 
bears  the  name  of  Cburton  and  thei-e 

an;  Tryon  and  Wake  streets,  for  this 
was  one  of  the  places  which  Gov. 
Trvon  greatly  liked  and  he  made  it 
a  point  to  go  there  often.  He  eame 
to  this  state  expecting  to  be  governor 
immediately,  hut  the  then  governor 
held  on  several  months  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Tryon  and  their  daughter  Mar- 
garet, (and  shall  we  say  the  beauti- 
ful Esther  Wake  too)  made  a  horse- 
bark  journey  from  the  eoast  to  Hills- 
boro. For  Margaret,  one  of  the 
quaint  lanes  is  named  and  to  this 
hour  it  is  "Margaret's  Lane,"  per- 
haps 20  feet  wide,  running  east  and 
west  directly  in  front  of  the  quaint 
old  Nash  mansion  and  by  one  end 
of  the  stately  avenue  of  cedars  which 
extends  at  its  other  end  to  Tryon 
street,  which  leads  by  the  front  of 
the  courthouse.  This  letter  end  is 
close  to  the  Corbinton  Inn,  not  nam- 
ed for  "Ffrancis"  Corbin,  who  built 
the  beautiful  "House  with  the  Cupo- 
la" at  F.denton,  (which  yet  stands,  as 
the  home  of  his  bride)  in  1758.  Xo, 
the  hotel  is  named  for  Mr.  Corbin  of 
the  Orange  county  section  and  not 
for  the  fascinating  "Ffrancis,"  as  it 
"was  spelled. 

A  Lottery-Built   Church 

There  are  plenty  of  odd  things  at 
Hillsboro  and  the  writer  made  it 
a  point  to  attend  a  service  in  the  lit- 
tle Presbyterian  church,  in  one  re- 
spect easily  the  most  curious  in  this 
state,  for  it  was  built  by  the  town 
and  for  everybody,  and  by  the  pro- 
ceeds of  a  lottery.  The  'legislature 
authorized  the  commissioners  of  the 


town,  then  a  borough  which  elected 
its  own  members  of  the  legislature, 
to  have  a  lottery  to  raise  funds  to 
the  amount  of  $5,000  with  which  to 
pay  for  this  church.  The  lottery  was 
conducted  in  the  style  of  those  days, 
the  money  raised,  the  church  built 
and  so  it  stands  to  this  good  hour. 
A  block  .south  of  it  is  a  two-story 
brick  building  which  is  the  home  of 
Fagle  Lodge  of  Masons.  This  was 
built  in  1820,  also  out  of  the  pro- 
ceeds of  a  lottery  which  the  state 
authorized  to  be  heid.  It  raised,  $3,- 
000  and  Capt.  John  Berry  erected  the 
lodge  building. 

In  this  connection  it  mr^y  be  said 
of  this  Capt.  Berry  that  be  was  truly 
a  remarkable  man,  for  so  well  did  he 
do  his  work  on  the  present  court- 
house, which  he  had  contracted  to 
build  for  $10,000,  that  the  county 
court  in  accepting  it,  formally  thank- 
ed him  and  actually  gave  him  a  bonus 
of  $500.  The  courthouse  is  small 
but  beautiful  in  its  simplicity  and 
graceful  lines  and  in  its  belfry, 
equally  graceful,  are  the  clock  and 
the  hell  given  by  His  Majesty  King 
George  the  Second  to  the  "trusty  and 
well-beloved"  people  of  his  goodly 
town  of  Hillsboro,  named  for  the  Earl 
of  Hillsborough  the  county  seat  of 
his  equally  trusty  and  well-beloved 
county  of  Orange,  named  for  King 
TVilliap  of  Orange,  the  head  of  the 
then  reigning  house. 

Graves  Of  The  Great 
The  little  church,  which  will  ac- 
commodate perhaps  150  people, 
stands  on  a  lot  with  its  rear  towards 
and  quite  a  distance  from  Cburton 
street.  The  graveyard  is  a.  fea- 
ture of  the  place.  It  is  not  a  Pres- 
byterian church-yard,  for  it  was  the 


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town  burial-place,  It  carries  out  the 
old  English  idea,  but  lacks  the  Eng- 
lish tidiness.  Directly  in  front  of 
the  entrance  of  the  church  is  the 
monument  erected  20  years  ago  by 
Judge  Aiken  of  Danville  Y.i.,  in 
memory  of  his  ancestor,  A'.Thihald 
DeBow  Murphey,  who  was  born  in 
1779  and  died  in  IS3'2,  and  who  had 
the  honor  of  being  the  lather  of  pub- 
lic education  in  North  Carolina.  In 
his  honor  one  of  tlie  most  promi- 
nent of  Raleigh's  puolic  schools  is 
mvmed  and  the  pe-.)p'e  ol  Cherokee 
county  intended  to  inline  their  trou  i- 
ty  seat  after  him  also,  Iiik  fell  I  mn 
on  the  proposition  because  they  !rft 
out  the  "e"  in  lb.;  name  and  never 
had  the  nerve  to  set  matters  straight. 

A  Noted  North  Carolinian 
A  few  feet  away  from  this  tall 
shaft  over  Murphey 's  grave  is  one 
over  that  of  William  A.  Graham.  This 
monument  carries  the  roll  of  his  pub- 
lie  services  and  tells  that  he  was 
Speaker  of  the  North  Carolina  House 
of  Commons,  Senator  of  the  United 
States,  Governor  of  North  Carolina, 
Secretary  of  the  United  States  Navy, 
member  of  the  State  Convention  of 
1861,  Senator  of  the  Confederate 
States,  arbitrator  of  the  dividing  line 
between  Maryland  and  Virginia.  He 
was  born  in  1804  and  died  in  August, 
1S75,  his  body  lying  in  state  at  Ral- 
eigh and  being  given  a  national  and 
State  burial. 

This  cemetery  was  laid  off  in  1754. 
On  its  west  side  there  are  private 
burial  places,  some  with  stone  fences 
like  the  one  around  the  church-yard, 
but  only  two  or  three  of  these  private 
plots  are  well  kept.  In  one  is  a  flat 
slab  over  the  grave  of  James  Hogg, 
who  went  to  Hillsboro  in  1774,  beside 


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him  lying  is  his  wife,  Mrs.  McDowell 
Hogg,   who  was  a  cousin  of  the  fam- 
ous     Scotch    poet    Hogg,      commonly 
known   as   the   "Ettrick   Shepherd." 
Hooper   The    Signer 
Another      !la.t    slab,      with      its   in- 
scription   almost    obliterated    by   time 
ami  neglect  is  that  of  William  Hoop- 
er,  erne   of   the   three   North    Carolina 
signers    of    the    Declaration    of    Inde- 
pendence     at    Philadelphia,     July  4, 
177ii.     The    inscription    sets   out    that 
the  grave  is  thai  of  William  Hooper, 
eldest    sun   of    Rev.    Willi;ym    Hooper 
late    rector   of    Trinity    Church,   Bos- 
ton,   New    England;      born    June   28, 
1742;  educated  at  Cambridge  College; 
died  October  16th,  171)0,  in  the  49th 
year  of   his   age.     The   latter  part  of 
the  inscription  is  these  words,  "Sign- 
er   of    the    Declaration    of    Indepen- 
dence,'' this  part  having  been  deeply 
cut  in  recent  years,  so  thr,t  it  alone 
stands  out  clearly. 

Saving  A  Grave-Stone 

There  is  quite  a  bit  of  a  story 
about  this  Hooper  grave.  Some  thir- 
ty-five years  ago  the  late  Judge 
Schenck,  the  developer  of  the  move- 
ment to  preserve  and  mark  the  bat- 
tlefield of  Guilford  Courthouse,  ob- 
tained permission  to  remove  rhe  re- 
mains from  this  churchyard  to  the 
battle-ground.  The  slab  was  moved 
aside  the  grave  opened  and  a  small 
box  full  of  remains  secured  a/id  tak- 
en to  the  battle-ground.  The  slab 
was  hauled  to  the  depot,  but  the 
wrath  of  Josiah  Turner  of  Hillsboro 
was  aroused  and  he  went  to  the  de- 
pot, got  the  slali  and  hauled  it  back 
to  the  graveyard,  so  there  it  :■-  today. 


Noble    Cypresses 


A  number   of  visitors   to  Hillsboro    i 


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would  probably  term  it  a  "runny  old 
dead  town  in  the  poor  county  of  Or- 
ange," but  tlicre  are  good  tilings  in 
I lu'  place,  and  in  the  county,  too,  it: 
one  knows  first  how  to  look  for  them, 
ami  secondly,  appreciate  them.  At 
the  Ronlhae  home  are  a  p.,-,ir  of  lofty 
ami  large  cypress  trees,  which  were 
taken  there  much  over  one  hundred 
years  ago  from  Edenton,  and  seem 
quite  out  of  place  in  that  high  re- 
gion, for  Raleigh  is  past  the  west- 
ern limit  of  this  tree.  Two  other 
tine  cypresses  are  at  Hillsbpro,  on  the 
Paul  Cameron  estate,  where  there  are 
in  all  158  kinds  of  trees  and  the 
larger  shrubs. 

A  Convention  Church 

At  the  southeast  corner  of  this 
churchyard  is  a  little  wooden  build- 
ing which  is  the  public  library,  and 
it  is  to  be  replaced  by  one  of  the 
rich-colored  stone  found  there,  set  in 
cement.  On  this  site  stood  St.  Mat- 
thew's church,  in  which  the  state 
conventions  of  1775  and  17S8  were 
held.  It  was  the  latter  convention 
was  declined  to  ratify  the  constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States.  Ratifica- 
tion was  effected  at  Fayetteville  the 
next  year. 

The  Stately  Cedars 

Certainly  one  of  the  finest  things 
Hillsboro  has  to  offer  is  the  avenue 
from  Tryon  street  to  the  old  Xash 
mansion,  known  as  ''Cedar  Lane."  It 
was  in  1817  that  Mrs.  Nash  planted 
these  cedars,  which  are  now  sixty  feet 
high  ami  have  lived  over  one  hun- 
dred years,  though  live  are  gone,  one 
but  lately.  The  Nash  mansion  has  a 
sidewalk  laid  in  Revolutionary  days 
of  slab,  of  Various  sizes  of  the  slate- 
like ro!k   peculiar    to    Hillsboro,    laid 


here  and  there  and  giving  a  speckled 
effect.  Governor  Tryon  spent  a  cou- 
ple of  months  in  this  house  in  1768. 
From  the  place  is  a  fine  view  of  the- 
courthouse,  under  the  branches  of  the 
biggest  osage  or  mock  orange  tree  in. 
the  state. 

The  Nash   House 

This  Xash  house  itself  is  in  two 
parts,  the  older  one  Inning  Hush 
weatherboarding  18  inches  wide,  all 
the  nails  having  been  made  in  a. 
blacksmith  shop,  and  the  keys  turn- 
ing twice  to  lock  and  unlock  the  mas- 
sive locks.  The  sills,  of  great  size 
were  hewed  in  the  forest  and  hauled 
there.  Little  or  no  changes  have  been 
made  in  the  house,  the  two  parts  off 
which  are  joined  without  a  break  or 
division,  except  in  floor  levels.  The 
interior,  with  its  dining-room  some 
30  by  18  feet  in  dimension,  is  cer- 
tainly worth  seeing.  This  particular 
room  was  the  study  room  of  the  once 
noted  girls'' school  of  the  Misses  Nash 
and  Kolloek. 

The  Dark  Walk 

Under  the  shades  of  the  tall  cedars 
is  a  smart  little  club  house,  which 
Mr.  Xash  built  some  years  ago,  and- 
is  quite  up-to-date.  The  town  spent 
$30,000  and  spent  it  well  in  macad- 
amizing its  leading  streets  and  put- 
ting down  concrete  sidewalks  in  all 
directions.  There  are  some  effective 
street  views,  notably  on  Cburton 
street.  One  end  of  this  street  is- 
at  the  bridge  across  the  Eno  river. 
At  this  and  is  what  has  for  175  years 
been  known  as  the  "Dark  Walk." 
This  is  a  delightful  walkway  along- 
tbe  river  bank,  with  a  cliff  on  the 
other  hand  and-  with  original  forest 
trees  forming  a  gigantic  umbrella  ov- 


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•erhca.d.  It  belongs  to  Gen.  Julian  S. 
Carr,  having  been  always  a  part  of 
the  Norwood  estate  and  so  bought 
by  him,  and  is  as  picturesque  and  as 
charming  as  when  Governor  Tryon 
and  Miss  Margaret  promenaded  there 
and  when  Lord  Cornwallis  enjoyed 
its  attractions,  while  his  head  was 
busy  with  schemes  to  overcome  His 
Majesty's  most     rebellious     subjects. 

Around  The  Court  House 

The  court  house  yard  is  charming. 
To  the  eastward  is  an  ungaily  flour- 
ing mill  only  a  few  yards  away,  and 
this  is  built  of  brick  which  came  from 
the  once  noted  Caldwell  Institute,  in 
the  northwest  corner  of  the  town. 
Near  this  mill  is  aj  little  stuccoed 
building,  one-story  high,  a  liny  af- 
fair with  of  columned  portico  in  the 
style  of  a  Greek  temme.  This  w-is 
the  law  office  in  Hillsboro 's  great  days 
of  John  W.  Norwood. 

The  Old  Academies 

In  the  century  before  the  last 
Hillsboro  got  authority  from  the  leg- 
islature to  build  two  academics,  one 
for  each  sex.  The  on"  for  females 
was  torn  down  and  the  materials 
put  in  a  dwelling  now  standing.  'I  he 
imVe  academy  building,  of  brick,  yet 
stands  a  little  west  if  the  Cameron 
estate,  which  now  owns  i',  and  in  it 
negroes  live. 

An  Ancient  Court  House 

The  first  court  house  was  built  in 
1755.  It  was  burned  in  1790.  but  as 
stated,  the  king's  bell  and  clock 
were  saved.  In  1791  the  second 
court  house  was  constructed  and  this 
was  moved  in  order  to  be  replaced 
by  the  present  one  in  184.3.  The 
building    thus    removed    was    lirst    a 


carriage  shop,  next  the  white  Bap- 
tist  church  and  now  is  the  negro 
Methodist  church.  It  is  only  two 
blocks  from  the  present  court  house. 

A  "Worthy  Monument 
Instead  of  a  monument  to  the  Con- 
federate  and  the  World  War  dead 
the  people  of  Hillsboro  have  wisely 
decide  to  build  their  new  public 
library  of  stone,  as  already  stated, 
and  they  will  earn  the  thanks  of  a 
good  many  people  for  this  innova- 
tion, some  of  the  Confederate  mon- 
uments iu  North  Carolina  being  quite 
the  reverse  of  artistic  and  well  cal- 
culated to  make  a  veteran  run  wiieu 
he  looks  at  them. 

A    Church    Romance 

The  Episcopal  church  stands  in  the 
most  commanding  position  in  the 
town,  and  in  its  churchyard  one  can 
see  majiy  a  monument  over  the  graves 
of  great  men.  The  location  of  this 
church  and  its  admirably  kept  church- 
yard is  due  to  a  romance.  Judge 
Thomas  Ruflin  on  one  occasion  walked 
from  the  little  town  with  the  beautiful 
Miss  Anne  Kirkland,  to  escort  her  to 
her  home,  Ayriuount,  which  is  in  full 
sight  to  the  eastward.  In  those  days 
the  way  between  her  home  ami  the 
town  was  by  a  foot  path,  which  surely 
must  have  been  delightful.  Be-ide  it 
was  a  fallen  tree  on  which  the  two  sat 
down,  then  and  there  he  said  words 
to  which  she,  responsive,  listened  ami 
which  brought  about  a  wedding  by  and 
bye.  As  a  memorial  of  that  delight- 
ful incident  he  gave  the  land  .or  the 
church  and  churchyard. 

Memorials  Of  Dead 
In  this  churchyard  are  moi: merits, 
worth  seeing,  over  the  graves  of  mem- 
bers of  the  families  of  Nash,  Eoulhac, 


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Webb,  Cameron,  Collins,  Ruff  in,  Jones  the  loaders  of  the  "Regulators"  were 

and  others.     Only  a  brick  wall  sepa-  hanged   after  having  been   sentenced 

v;ites    this    cemetery    from    the    once  in    court.      From    a    point    near    this 

beautiful  grounds  of  t he  Cameron  es-  church  there  is  perhaps  the  finest  view 

tate,  now   unkempt   though   charming  of  the  little  town  except  that  from  the 

in  their  decay.     Xot  many  yards  away  mountains    which   lie   across    the   riv- 

is  a  marble  slab  placed  there  by  Mr.  er.     The   town   is     set   in     a   sort    of 

Cameron  to  mark  the  spot  where  the  basin   and    is   dominated  by   Kills   all 

.'allows  stood  on  which  in  1771  six  of  around. 


"The  closer  we  keep    to  people  ■who  are  really    doing  the  worth  while 
things  of  life  the  more  quickly  do  we  begin  doing  them  ourselves." 


The  Orign  Of  Roast  Pig 


Charles  Lamb 
(Charles  Lamh  Was  born  in  London  1 775.  He  Was  a  nercous,  timid  bov  and 
had  an  impediment  in  his  speech.  He  devoted  his  life  to  an  older  sister,  who  dnr~ 
ing  temporary  insanity  filled  lier  mother.  He  Was  both  poet  and  essayist,  but 
noted  chief ly  for  his  prose  writing.  Among  the  more  noted  of  his  essays  are. 
"Dream  Children,"  and  "Roast  Pig."     He  died  in  1834.) 

Mankind,  says  a  Chinese  nianu-  tage  in  the  care  of  his  eldest  son,, 
script,  which  my  friend  M.  was  Bo'oo  a  great  lubberly  boy,  who 
obliging  enough  to  read  and  ex-  being  fond  of  playing  with  fire,  as 
plain  to  me,  for  the  first  seventy  youngsers  of  his  age  commonly  are, 
thousand  ages  ate  their  meat  raw,  let  some  sparks  escape  into  a  bun- 
clawing  or  biting  it  from  the  ani-  die  of  straw,  which  kindling  quick- 
mal,  just  as  they  do  in  Abyssinia  to  ly,  spread  the  conflagration  over 
this  day.  This  period  is  not  ob-  every  part  of  their  poor  mansion, 
scurely  hinted  at  by  their  great  till  it  was  reduced  to  ashes.  To- 
Confucius  in  the  second  chapter  of  gether  with  a  cottage  (a  sorry  an- 
his  Mundane  Mutations,  where  he  tediluvian  makeshift  of  a  building, 
designates  a  kind  of  golden  age  by  you  may  think  it,)  which  was  of 
the  term  Cho-fang,  literally  the  much  more  importance,  a  fine  lit- 
Cook's  Holiday.  The  manuscript  ter  of  newborn  pigs,  no  less  than 
goes  on  to  say  that  the  art  of  roast-  nine  in  number  perished.  China 
hig,  or  rather  broiling  (which  I  take  pigs  have  been  esteemed  a  luxury 
to  be  the  elder  brother,)  was  ac-  all  over  the  East,  from  the  remotest 
cidentaily  discovered  in  the  manner  period  that  we  read  of.  Ro-bo  was. 
following.  The  swineherd,  Ho  ti,  in  the  utmost  consternation,  as  you 
having  gone  out  into  the  woods  one  may  think,  not  so  much  for  the  sake- 
morning,  as  his  manner  was,  to  col-  of  the  tenement,  which  his  father 
lect  mast  for  his  hogs,  left    his    cot-  and  he  could  easily  build  up    again. 


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with  a  few  dry  branches,  and  the 
labor  of  an  hour  or  two,  at  any 
time,  as  for  the  loss  of  the  pigs. 

While  he  was  thinking  what  he 
should  say  to  his  father  and  wring- 
ing his  hands  over  the  smoking 
remnants  of  one  of  those  untimely 
sufferers,  an  odor  assailed  his  nos- 
trils, unlike  any  scent  which  he  had 
before  experienced.  What  could  it 
proceed  from?  —Not  from  the  burn- 
ed cottage — he  had  smelt  that  smell 
before;  indeed,  this  was  by  no 
means  the  first  accident  of  the.  kind 
which  had  occured  through  the  neg- 
ligence of  this  unlucky  young  fire- 
brand. Much  less  did  it  resemble 
that  of  any  known  herb,  weed  or 
flower.  A  premonitory  moistening 
at  the  same  time  overflowed  his 
nether  lip.  He  knew  not  what  to 
think.  He  next  stooped  down  to 
feel  the  pig,  if  there  were  any  signs 
of  life  in  it.  He  burned  his  fingers, 
and  to  cool  them  he  applied  them  in 
his  booby  fashion  to  his  mouth. 
Some  of  the  crumbs  of  the  scorched 
skin  had  come  away  with  his  fingers, 
and  for  the  first  time  in  his  life  (in 
the  world's  life,  indeed,  for  before 
him  no  man  had  known  it)  he  tast- 
ed—cracklings. Again  he  felt  and 
fumbled  at  the  pig.  It  did  not  burn 
him  so  much  now;  still  he  licked  his 
fingers  from  a  sort  of  habit,  The 
truth  at  length  broke  into  his  slow 
understanding  that  it  was  the  pig 
that  smelled  so,  and  the  pig  that 
tasted  so  delicious;  and  surrender- 
ing •  himself  up  to  the  newborn 
pleasure,  he  fell  to  tearing  up  whole 
handfuls  of  the  scorched  skin  with 
the  flesh  next  it,  and  was  cramming 
it  down  his  throat  in  his  beastly 
fashion,  when  his  sire  entered  amid 
the  smoking  rafters,  armed  with  re- 
tributory  cudgel,    and    finding   how 


affairs  stood,  began  to  rain  bbwa 
upon  the  young  rogue's  shoulders, 
as  thick  as  hailstones,  wheh  Bo-bo 
heeded  not  any  more  than  if  they 
had  been  flies.  The  tickling  pleas- 
ure which  he  experienced  in  his  low- 
er regions  had  icnderd  him  quite 
callous  to  any  incoveniences  he  might 
feel  in  those  remote  quarters.  His 
father  might  lay  on,  but  he  could 
not  beat  him  from  his  pig,  till  he  had 
fairly  made  an  end  of  it,  when,  bec- 
oming a  little  sensible  of  his  situa- 
tion, something  like  following  dia- 
logue ensued. 

"'You  graceless  whelp,  what  have 
you  got  there  devouring?  Is  it  not 
enough  that  you  have  houses  with 
your  dog's  tricks,  and  be  hanged  to 
you!  but  you  must  be  eating  fire, 
and  I  know  not  what---what  have  you 
gat  there,  I  say?" 

"0  father,  the  pig,  the  pig!  Do 
come  and  see  how  nice  the  burned 
pig  eats. 

The  ears  of  Ho-ti  tingled  whith 
horror.  He  cursed  his  son,  and  he 
cursed  himself  that  ever  hp  should 
beget  a  son  that  should  eat  burned 
Pig- 

Bo-bo,  whose  scent  was  wonder- 
fully sharpen^  since  morning,  soon 
raked  out  another  pig,  and  fairly 
rending  it  asunder;  tirust  the  lesser 
half  by  main  force  into  the  fist  of 
Ho-ti,  still  shouting  out,  "Eat,  eat, 
eat,  the  burned  pig  father,  only 
taste— 0  Lord?"— with  such  like  bar- 
barous ejaculations,  cramming  all 
the  while  as  if  he  would  choke. 

Ho-ti  trembled  in  every  joint  while 
he  grasped  the  abominable  thing,  wa- 
vering whether  he  shonld  put  h<sson 
to  death'  for  an  unnatural  ..  oting 
monster,  when  the  crackling  scorch- 
ing his  fingers,  as  it  had  done  his 
son's,  and  applying  the  same  remedy 


:  !■ 


' 


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to  them,  he  in  his  turn  tasted  some 
of  its  flavor,  which,  make  what  sour 
mouths  he  would  for  pretense, 
proved  not  altogether  displeasing  to 
him.  In  conclusion  (for  the  manu- 
script here  is  a  little  tedious)  both 
father  and  son  fairly  sat  down  to  the 
mess,  and  never  left  off  till  they  had 
dispatched  all  that  remained  of  the 
litter. 

Bo-bo  was  strictly  enjoined  not  to 
let  the  secret  escape,  for  the  neigh- 
bors would  certainly  have  stoned 
them  for  a  couple  of  abominable 
wretches,  who  could  think  of  im- 
proving upon  the  good  meat  which 
God  had  sent  them.  Nevertheless, 
strange  stories  got  about.  It  was 
observed  that  Ho-ti's  cottage  was 
burned  down  more  frequently  than 
ever.  Nothing  but  fires  from  this 
time  foward.  Some  would  break 
out  in  broad  day,  others  in  the 
nighttime.  So  often  as  the  sow  had 
young  pigs,  so  sure  was  the  house 
of  Ho-ti  to  be  in  a  blaze;  Ho-ti  him- 
self, which  was  the  more  remark- 
able, instead  of  chastising  his  son, 
seemed  to  grow  more  indulgent  to 
him  than  ever.  At  length  they 
were  watched,  the  terrible  mystery 
discovered,  and  the  father  and  son 
summoned  to  take  their  trial  at 
Pekin,  then  an  inconsiderable  as- 
size town.  Evidence  was  given,  the 
obnoxious  food  itself  produced  in 
court,  and  verdict  about  to  be  pro- 
nounced, when  the  foreman  of  the 
jury  begged  that  some  of  the  burn- 
ed pig,  of  which  the  culprit  stood 
accused,  might  be  handed  into  the 
box.  He  handled  it,  and  they  all 
handled  it;  and  burning  their  fin- 
gers as  Eo  bo  and  his  father  had 
done  before  them,  and  nature 
prompting  to  each  of  them  the  same 
remedy,   against.the   face  of  all  the 


facts,  and  the  clearest  charge  which 
judge  had  ever  given,---  to  the  sur- 
prise of  the  whole  court,  townsfolk, 
strangers,  reporters,  and  all  pres- 
ent,--without  leavmg  the  bcx,  or 
any  manner  of  consultation  what- 
ever, they  brought  in  a  simulta- 
neous verdict,  of  Not  Guilty. 

The  judge,  who  was  a  shrewd  fel- 
low winked  at  the  manifest  iniqui- 
ty of  the  decision;  and  when  the  court 
was  dismissed,  went  privily,  and 
bought  up  all  the  pigs  that  could  be 
had  for  love  or  money.  In  a  few 
days  his  lordship's  town  house 
was  observed  to  be  on  fire.  The 
thing  took  wing,  and  now  there  was 
nothing  to  be  seen  but  fires  in  every 
direction.  Fuel  and  pigs  grew 
enormously  dear  all  over  the 
district.  The  insurence  offices  one 
and  all  shut  up  shop.  People  built 
slighter  and  slighter  every  day,  un- 
til it  was  feared  that  the  very  science 
of  architecture  would  in  no  long  time 
b?  lost  to  the  world.  Thus  this 
custom  of  firing  houses  continued, 
till  in  process  of  time,  says  my 
manuscript,  a  sage  arose,  like,  our 
lock  who  made  a  discovery,  that  the 
flesh  of  swine,  or  indeed  of  any  other 
animal,  might  be  cooked  (burned,  as 
they  call  it)  without  the  necessity 
of  consuming  a  whole  house  to 
dress  it.  Then  first  began  the  rude 
form  of  gridiron.  Roasting  by  the 
string  or  spit  came  in  a  century  or 
two  later,  I  forget  in  whose  dynas- 
ty. By  such  slow  degrees,  concludes 
the  manuscript,  do  the  most  useful 
and  seemingly  the  most  obvious  arts 
make  their  way  among  mankind. 

Without  placing  too  implict  faith 
in  the  account  above  given,  it  must 
be  agreed,  that  if  a  worthy  pretext 
for  so  dangerons  an  experiment  as 
setting   houses     on  fire    (especially 


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in  these  days)  could  be    assigned    in 
favor  of  any    culinary    object,    that 


pretext  an  excuse  might    be    found 
in  Roast  Pig. 


Before  you  start  after  something  you  want  to  find  out  whether  it  is 
greed  or  need  that  is  sending  you  after  it.— Exchange. 


Backlog    Studies 

By  Gins.  Dudley    V/arner 

I  should  like  to  know  what  heroism  a  boy  in  an  old  New  England  farm- 
house—rough—nursed  by  nature,  and  fed  on  the  traditions  of  the  old  wars 
—did  not  aspire  to.  "John,"  says  the  mother,  "you'll  burn  your  head  to 
a  crisp  in  that  heat."  But  John  does  nut  hear;  he  is  storming  the  Plains 
of  Abraham  just  now.     "Johnny,  dear,  bring  in  a  stick    of    wood."     How 

can  Johnny  bring  in  wood  when  he 
is  in  that  defile  with  Braddock,  and 
the  Indians  are  popping  at  him  from 
behind  every  tree?  There  is  some- 
thing about  a  boy  that  I  like,  after 
all. 

The  fire  rests  upon  the  broad 
hearth;  the  hearth  rests  upon  a  great 
substruction  of  stone,  and  the  sub- 
struction rests  upon  the  cellar.  What 
supports  the  cellar  I  never  knew,  but 
the  cellar  supports  the  family.  The 
cellar  is  the  foundation  of  domestic 
comfort.  Into  its  dark,  cavernous 
recesses  the  child's  imagination  fear- 
fully goes.  Bogies  guard  the  bins 
of  choicest  apples  I  know  not  what 
comical  spirites  sit  astride  the  cider 
barrels  ranged  along  the  walls.  The 
feeble  flicker  of  the  tallow  candle 
does  not  at  all  dispel,  but  creates 
illusions  and  magnifies  all  the  rich 
possibilities  of  this  underground 
treasure  house.  When  the  cellar 
door  is  open,  and  the  boy  begins  to 
descend  into  the  darkness,  it  is  always 
with  a  heart  beat  as  of  one  started 
upon  some  adventure.  Who  can 
forget  the  smell  that  comes  hrough 
the  open  door,— a  mingling  tof  fresh 


earth,  fruit,  exhaling  delicious 
aroma,  kitchen  vegetables,  the  moldy 
odor  of  barrel,  a  sort  of  ancestral 
air, ---as  if  a  door  had  been  opened 
into  an  old  romance. 

It  is  a  temptation  to  a  temperate 
man  to  become  a  sot,  to  hear  what 
talent,  what  versatility,  what  genius 
is  almost  always  attributed  to  a 
moderately  bright  man  who  !s  habit- 
ully  drunk.  Such  a  mechanic,  such 
a  mathematician,  such  a  poet,  he 
would  be  if  he  were  only  sober;  and 
then  he  is  sure  to  be  the  most 
generous,  magnanimous,  friendly 
soul,  conscientiously  honorable,  if 
he  were  not  so  conscientiously  drunk. 
I  suppose  it  is  now  notorious  that  the 
most  brilliant  and  promising  men 
have  been  lost  to  the  world  in  this 
way.  It  is  sometimes  almost  pain- 
ful to  think  what  a  surplus  "f  talent 
and  genius  there  would  be  in  the 
world  if  the  habit  of  intoxication 
should  suddenly  cease;  and  what  a 
slim  chance  there  would  be  for  the 
plodding  people  who  have  always 
had  tolerably  good  habits.  The  fear 
is  only  mitigated  by  the  observation 
that  the  reputation  of  a    person  for 


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great  talent  sometimes   ceases    with 
his  reformation. 

It  is  believed  by  some  that  the 
maidens  who  would  make  the  best 
wives  never  marry,  but  remain  free 
to  bless  the  world  with  their  impartial 
sweetness,  and  make  it  generally 
habitable.  This  is  one  of  the  mys- 
teries of  Providence  and  New  Eng- 
land life.  It  seems  a  pitv,  at  first 
sight,  that  all  those  who  become 
poor  wives  have  the  matrimonial 
chance,  ami  that  they  are    deprived 


of  the  reputation  of  those  who 
would  be  good  wives  were  they  not 
set  apart  for  the  high  and  perpet- 
ual oifice  of  priestesses  of  society. 
There  is  no  beauty  like  that  which- 
was  spoiled  by  an  accident,  no  ac- . 
complishments  and  graces  are  so  to 
be  envied  asthose  that  circumstances- 
rudely  hindered  the  developement 
of.  All  of  which  shows  what  a 
charitable  and  good  tempered  world 
it  is,  notwithstanding  its  reputation 
for  cynicism  and  detraction. 


The   Turpentine    Orchard 

When  we  think  of  an  orchard,  it  is  usually  as  an  orchard  of  fruit  trees;: 
or,  if  in  the  forest,  as  a  grove  of  sugar  maples  producing  =>ap  and  sugar. 
The  turpentine  orchard  is  just  as  much  of  an  orchard,  though  of  a  very 
different  kind.  The  turpentine  orchard  is  an  orchard  of  Southern  pines; 
and  "turpentining"  is  an  industry  of  much  importance  in   South    Carolina, 

Both  these  surfaces  combined  are   a 


Georgia,  Florida,  and  some  of  the 
Gulf  States  farther  west.  The  pro- 
duets  of  this  orchard  are  what  is 
known  as  "naval  stores"---tar,  pitch, 
rosin,  and  turpentine 

There  are  many  methods  of  get- 
ting these  valuable  stores  from  the 
long-leaf  pines  which  are  the  trees 
most  used.  One  of  the  best  methods 
now  in  use  in  the  turpentine  orchard 
is  the  "cup  and  gutter"  system. 
In  common  with  other  methods, 
this  is  carried  on  in  January  and 
February. 

Two  men,  one  right-banded,  the 
other  left-handed,  go  into  the  or- 
chard. They  carry  with  them  tvvo 
cornering  axes,  and  together  cut 
the  bark  on  the  tree.  A  few 
inches  above  the  ground  two 
flat  surfaces  are  cut.  The  right- 
handed  man  cuts  one,  his  partner 
the  other,  and  the  two  men  cut  sev- 
eral hundred  such  surfaces  in  a  day. 


little  more  than  a  foat    wide. 

The  next  workman  has  a  broadax 
for  his  tool.  With  it  he  makes  two 
slanting  cuts,  one  in  each  surface  on 
the  tree.  One  cut  is  a  little  lower 
than  the  other,  and  he  places  a  gut- 
ter in  each  of  them.  The  gutter  is- 
of  sheet  iron,  two  inenes  wide  and 
nearly  a  foot  in  length.  It  is  bent 
into  the  proper  shape,  two  of  them 
forming  a  spout,  below  which  an 
earthenware   cup  is  hung. 

Beginning  in  March,  the  surfaces 
over  each  cup  are  chipped  once  a 
week  with  a  sharp  tool  called  a 
"hack''  to  keep  up  a  good  How  of 
resin.  The  hack  is  drawn  across  the 
two  surfaces  in  a  slanting  direction, 
cutting  one  V-shaped  groove  above 
another  in  the  wood  of  the  tree. 
From  time  to  time  the  cups  are  emp- 
tied of  their  "dip."  In  the  early 
autumn  the  resin  which  has  harden- 


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ed  on  the  tree    is    also    scraped    off  soon  cooled  by  flowing    water,    and 

and  collected.  becomes  a  liquid.     When  these  spi- 

The  next  season  the  cup  and  gut-  rits  of  turpentine  have    been    distil- 

ters  are  moved  to  the  upper  end    of  led,  the  malted  rosin  is  run   through 

last  year's  cut,    and    above    it   new  a  trough,  then    turned    into  barrels, 

surfaces  are  made.      When  the  third  where  it  quickly  cools  and    hardens. 

or  fourth  season  is  reached,  the  gut-  An  acre  of  orchard,    in  three  years' 

ters  are  removed  from    the    cupped  bleeding,  will  yield  as  much  as  eight 

trees.    I  hey  are  placed  on  new  trees,  hundred  pounds  of  rosin  and    twen- 

-or  perhaps  the  old  tree  maybe  "'bled'  ty-fivo  gallons  of  turpentine, 

■again  on  another  side.     This  goes  on  The  pitch   and    tar    produced    by 

until  tnere-is  very  little  bark  left  on  this  industry  found  early  use  in  the 

the  lower  part  of  the  trunk.     From  Southern  Colonies,  and  to-day  these 

the  tree,  the  crude  product  is  taken  naval  stores  are  still  of  much  imrjor- 

to    the  'turpentine     "still."     Here  tance.     The  rosin  is  used  in  making 

the  crude  rosin  is  boiled  with  water,  soap,  paper,    oilcloth,    printing    ink, 

and  the  turpentine  leaves  it  as  a  va-  and  medicines;   the    turpentine,    for 

por.     The  vapor  is  caught  in  a    coil  paints  and  varnishes, 
•of  tubes,  or    "worm"    where     it   is 


ison  Answers  Questions  On  His  Biitnday 

On  February  11  Thomas  Alva  Edison  celebrated  the  seventy-fifth  anni- 
versary of  his  birthday  by  working  in  sh  ip,  by  reading  messages  of  con- 
gratulations from  such  men  as  President  Harding,  Charles  M.  Schwab,  Sir 
Thomas  Lipton,  Henry  Ford  and  other  notables,  and  by  answering  a  series 
of  questions  propounded  in  interview  by  certain  newspaper  reporters. 

Some  of  these  answers  are  of  un-  beer  and  light  wines  and  the  placing 

usual  popular  interest.     In    answer  upon  these  a  tax  to    pay   the  bonus, 

to  the  question,  Who  is  the  greatest  Edison      with       emphasis      replied, 

man    in    the  world?  Mr.    Edison  re-  "Every  man    with  brains    ought   to 

plied:  "I  haven't  met    many    men  --  take     a    pledge    to    vote     to    make 

I  don'c  go  to    dinners  and  things     I  liquor  impossiple.'' 
am    always     in    the    laboratory.      I  Ih  the  field  of  science  Mr.  Edison 

never  saw  him  but  once    in  my  lite,  says  that  the  greatest  developments 

but  I  liked  L'eddy  Roosevelt."  within  the  last  twelve  months  have 

When  asked    about   Henry   Ford,  taken  place  in  connection  with  radio- 

the  great  wizard  answered:     "He  is  activitv---especially      the      wireless 

a  remarkable  man    in  one  sense  and  phone. 

in  another  he  is  not.     I   would    not         "The  radio  amplifier  will  continue 

vote  for  him  for  President,  but  as  a  to  develope  until  we  will  be  able  to 

director  of  manufacturing  or  indus-  hear  ants  talk,  if  they  really  do  talk, 

trial  enterprises   I    would   vote  for  There  is  no   limit   to    the  possibili- 

him— twice."  ties,"  he  said. 

When  asked  about   the  return  of  "Great    steps    forward  are  being 


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taken  in  the  field  of  color  photo- 
graphy. The  time  will  come  when 
the  piate  will  be  developed  with  the 
natural  colors  intact  without  the 
tinting,  as  is  clone  now,"  is  a  pro- 
phecy of  Mr.  Edison. 

Among  the  wireless  messages 
received  was  one  from  the  Westing- 
house  plant  which  among  other 
things  contained  the  following  sup- 
erb tribute  to  the  great  genius: 

"You  have  lighted  our  path  in 
life;  you  have  made  it  possible  for 
us  to  communicate  orally  with  our 
distant  friends    intantly;    you    have 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Henry  B.  Faucette,  Reporter.) 

Miss  Z  ill  Fitzgerald,  the  daughter 
of  Airs.  Fitzgerald,  house-keeper  at 
No.  7,  is  spending  a  few  days  here. 

Messrs.  W.  M.  Crooks  f,nd  G.  H. 
Lawrence,  accompainied  by  Henry 
Faucette,  motored  to  Charlotte  Sat- 
urday night  to  hear  Sousa'sBand. 

The  pumps  have  been  running 
eantinnously  for  the  past  few  days. 
On  account  of  so  much  water  being 
used,  it  is  hard  to  kn.>p  a  tank  full, 
although  there  is  enough  in  ■  the 
wells. 

From  a  recent  Visit  to  the  well- 
digger,  th's  reporter  found  that  the 
depth  ef  325  feet  had  been  reached 
and  some  water  had  been  struck. 
This  is  a  line  report. 

The  new  pump  room,  which  is 
near  the  wash  place,  is  now  in  a 
better  condition.  The  concrete  floor 
has  been  laid,  the  windows  and  doors 
are  ready  t>  be  put  in  and  then  it 
will  be  finished. 


put  beautiful  music  in  permissible 
form  to  soothe  us  in  our  troubles 
and  cheer  us  in  our  joys;  you  have 
created  the  p^or  man's  theatre, 
which  has  afforded  instruction, 
pleasure  and  enjoyment  to  untold 
millions  of  young  and  old;  your  in- 
ventions have  helped  to  lighten  the 
burdens  of  women  in  the  drudgery 
of  housework.  Your  work  and  in- 
ventions have  brought  incalculable 
comfort  and  happiness  to  mankind, 
and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that 
you  are  a  benefactor  to  the  human 
race."--- Advocate. 


Capt.  Grier  is  organizing  a  base- 
hall  team.  A  first  and  second  nine 
have  been  organized.  Last  season 
our  team  made  a  fine  showing.  It  is 
hope  that  they  will  break  all  of  their 
previous  records. 

The  following  boys  received  visits 
from  home  folks  Wednesday:  Homer 
Covington,  Arthur  Montgomery, 
James  Suther  and  William  Hatch. 
All  were  glad  to  see  home  foiks  and 
talk  with  them;  they  enjoyed  the 
day  very  much. 

Mr.  R.  B.  Goer,  foreman  in  the 
workshop,  has  been  making  flour  and 
meal  cabinets  for  cottages  G  and  7. 
Already  one  has  been  delivered  to 
7th  cottage.  Malcolm  Holman  and 
Marion  Butler  are  working  on  the 
cabinet  that  goes  to  6th  cottage. 

The  printiug  00101-  is  gettmg  out 
a  job  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Con- 
cord. A  little  pamphlet  to  let  the 
people  know  what  the  "Y"  is  doing. 
The  printers  have  to  hustle  to  get 
it  out  and  The  Uplift  too,  but  the 
job  won't  have  to  be  printed  every 
week   and  that  will  give  them    time 


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to  catch  up.  Rev.    J.    F.    Armstrong,    of     the 

Forest    Hill    Methodist     Church  of 

The  morning  school  section  is  now  Concord  cnme  out  out  and  hd(1    ser 

too  big  to  be  drilled  under  one  per-  vice  f,,r  us  Sunday    afternoon.     Be- 

son.     Owing  to  this    fact,  Mr.  John-  fore  announcing    his   text,    he    told 

son  had  the  boys  assemble  according  the  bnvs  of  thp  condltjon  of  t)lL>  h[ 

to  their  school  rooms  and  out  a  boy  east_     They    Ww    that   they 

from  each  of  these  rooms  in  charge.  jn  nw<j.  but    not   as    much    as    Mr 

When    you    see  these    boys  drill     it  Armstrong  told  tht,ni.      Eeve,y  b  ' 

does  you  good.     In  step,  every  foot  at  the  schoo]    wisnes    to    contribute 

is    carried  to  the  front  at  the    same  somethingi  no  matts?r  how  small,  to 

tlme-  these    Suffering    little    on^s.     After 

Ever  body  connected  with  the  insti-  a  short  talk  of  the  far  east  he  spoke 

tution  is  rejoiced  over  the  fact  that  from  the  subject:  "And  he  rose   up, 

Mr.  D.   B.  Coltrane.  a  member  of  the  left  all  and  followed   Him."     Every 

governing     board  and  the  treasurer  body  enjoyed  the  sermon. 

has  come  out  from  a    very    painful,  ■ ■ ■-- 

if.  not  serious    operation,    both    sue-  HONOR    ROLL. 
cesstully  and  in  fine   shape.     At  one 

time  the  reports    from    his    bedside  "^" 
were  very  alarming,  but    he'll    soon 

be  himself  again.  Victor  Hio-h,     Robert  Pool,  Chas. 

Mavo,  James   Honeycutt,     Bertram 

.     The  Seventh  Cottage,    which   was  Hartl  Floyd    Huggins,  James  Shipo 

opened  several  weeks  ago,  has  orga-  Jack  MeLclland,  Swift   Davis,  Frank 

nized  a  literary    society.     The  mem-  Xhomason,    Fitzhugh   Miller,    Doyle 

hers  of  this  society  decided  to  name  jacksorii    Hovle    Faulkner,    Murray 

it  in  honor  of  Supt.   Bog»r,   for    his  Evans>  Allie    Williams,    Roy   Baker, 

goodness  and  service  to  the  Jackson  William     Gregory.      John     Wright, 

Training  School.     They  have  started  yVilliam    Cook,      William     Hancock, 

out  to  make  ever  boy  in  that  cottage  Marshal]    Williams,    Steve    Mercer, 

a  speaker.     Success  is  wished  by  all  L(?e  RogcrSi     Hazen   Ward,    James 

the  other  Literary  Societies    of    the  Ford,  Millard  Gilbert,   George  Ever 

SchooL  heart,  Alvin  Cook,  Roy  Caudill,  Cle- 

The  lawn  in  front  of  1st,  2nd  and  burn  Hale,  Raymond  Scott  and  Paul 

3rd    were    being    worn  down  by  the  Green,  Carlye  Hardy, 

boys   plajing    foot    ball,  basket  ball  ,,R„ 
and    such    games.     Therefore    Mr. 

Boger  had  announced  at  the  tree  Magnus  Wheeler,  John  Hughs, 
that  the  cottage  lines  preparatory  Claude  Coley,  David  Unrierwoud, 
to  going  into  the  cottages  would  be  Walter  Brockwell,  Robt.  F-  rgnson, 
formed  in  front  of  the  school  build-  Ralph  Freeland,  Lambert  Cave- 
ing.  It  is  a  more  central  part  of  naugh,  Albert  Hill  Arvel  Absher, 
the  school  grounds.  The  lines  in  Elbert  Perdue  Marion  But!  r,  Dud- 
going  out  to  get  in  their  proper  ley  Pangle,  Vass  Fields,  Homer  Co?- 
sections,  however,  still  go  to  the  ington,  Aubiey  Weaver,  Loyd  Win- 
tree,  ner,    Henry    Reece,    James    Watts, 


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Chas.  Bishop,    Sylvester    Sims,  Gar-  pendents.     He     reasoned   that     the 

land    Banks,    Albert    Keever,  Jake  people  had  looked  unmoved  while  the 

Willatd,  Dohme  Manning,  John  Hill,  kmg,  the  nobles  and  the  priest    had 

Thomas     Oglesby,     Forrest    Byers,  teen  led  to  the  guillotine,  and    they 

Murphy  Jones,  John  Morrison.  John  were  not  likely  to  object  if  cats  and 

Kemp,   Herbert  Orr,   Joseph    Pope,  dog  were  included    in    the    general 

Edger  Sperling,  Jack    O'neil,  Craw-  slaughter. 

ford  Poplin,    Robert  Holland,    John  But  he  had  guessed  wrong.  Their 

Branch.jGharlie  Jackson,  waiter  Mc-  affection  was  deep  and  warm  for  the 

Neil,    G.  Mercer.     Avery    Roberts,  animals  who  had  shared   their    rnea- 

Herbert    Apple,    Connie    Lowman,  ger  fare  and  who  had    repaid     them 

Charlie  Lisk,  Walter     Taylor,    Chas.  with  faithful    atFection.   A    murmur 

Rothrock.and  Rufus    Wivnn.  of    resentment  at    Santerre's    edict 

sweep  like  a    wave     over    the  land, 
gathering     force    as  it     went.     The 

They  Stayed  people  were  in  an  ugly  mood.     The 

jj7[n  the  troubled  days  that  followed  newspapers  took  up  their  cause    and 

che  French  Revolution,   M.  Santerre  heaped  scorching  ridicule  upon    the 

was  Commandant    cf    the  National  commandant.  Santerre    found    him- 

Guard.     He    was  a  cold,  stern  man,  self  beaten;  he  withdrew  the  obnox- 

and    looked    on    all    household    pets  ious  decree,  and  the  French  peasant 

with  positive  aversion.   He  felt  that  was  left  in  undisturbed  possession  of 

the  time  had  come  to  rid  the  country  the  cat  or  dog  that  looked  to  him  for 

of  these  useless    and    expensive    de-  its  supoorc— Exchange. 


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The  Congregationalist  gives  the  following  inci- 
dent: "One  day  last  winter  (1907)  a  wealthy  wo- 
man spent  forty  thousand  dollars  on  a  dinner  in 
one  of  the  swell  hotels  up  town.  While  the  do- 
ings were  going  on  inside,  a  policeman  outside 
was  approached  by  a  thinly  clad  woman  with  a 
baby  in  her  arms,  who  asked  him  for  help.  The 
big  cop  looked  at  her  baby  and  said  in  his  gruff 
voice:  'Why,  your  baby  is  dead.'  With  a  shriek 
the  woman  collapsed.  The  policeman  sent  her  and 
her  dead  baby  to  the  station  house  in  the  patrol 
wagon.  The  baby  had  starved  to  death."  The 
selfish  and  extravagant  use  of  money  is  causing 
that  picture  to  be  repeated  in  many  places.  Men 
and  women  spend  their  money  extravagantly  for 
pleasuse  while,  not  far  from  them,  are  families  in 
destitute  circumstances.  Plenty  of  money  for  auto- 
mobiles, fine  clothing,  travel,  and  pleasure;  but 
only  a  pitlance  for  those  great  general  causes  that 
seek  to  relieve  suffering  and  starvation;  for  the 
advancement  of  agencies  for  the  betterment  of 
conditions  and  manking;  and  for  making  the  world 
really  better  by  having  lived  in  it. 


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GOVERNOR  MORRISON'S  NEW  CAMPAIGN. 

Here  and  therein  different  quarters  uf  the  state  fun,  and  even  criticism, 
has  been  offered  for  Govenor  Morrison's  new  campaign  in  which  he  seeks 
to  arouse  the  farmers  to  a  greater  production  of  food  stuffs,  by  way  of 
more  gardening,  keeping  cows  and  hogs.  It  is  claimed  that  this  is  not  a 
new  idea,  that  it  has  been  exploited  more  than  fifty  years  ago. 

I,et  us  be  sensible  about  this  matter.  All  these  claims  may  be  true,  and 
are  true;  but  the  fact  unquestionably  exists  that  the  people  are  not  doing 
as  much  of  this  home-providing  as  they  should  and  would  find  reasonably 
profitable.  This  writer  is  not  commissioned  to  lefend  Gov.  Morrison,  but 
it  does  recognize  in  him  a  man  of  great  ability  and  one  with  a  courage  to 
tackle  any  job  in  which  he  believes  and  by  which  he  feels  that  he  can  ac- 
complish something.  Tint  we  have  had  a  Board  of  Agriculture  arid  local 
and  county  organizations  whose  efforts  have  been  devoted  to  this  very  thing, 
is  no  reason  why  Governor  Morrison,  recognizing  the  need  for  a  great  im- 
provement and  increased  licks,  should  not  throw  his  power  and  that  of  his 
great  office  behind  this  campaign. 

In  charge  of  this  campaign  he  has  placed  John  Paul  Lucas,  an  expert 
advertising  man.     Strength  and  success  to  him. 

Fifty  years  ago  this  writer  saw  coming  into  a  village  daily,  in  the  midst 
of  what  may  have  been  regarded  a  thrifty  neighborhood,  with  good  lands 
and  a  good  citizenship,  on  the  average  one  big  box  of  western  side-meat. 
Nearly  every  countryman,  in  coming  from  a  store,  had  a  strip  of  that  aw- 
ful stuff  the  West  was  cramming  down  the  throats  of  our  people.  About 
this  time  the  Grange  began  to  advocate  keeping  the  corn-crib  and  the 
"smo'.ehouse"  at  home;  and    in  less  than  four  years    the  people  were  rais- 


THE  UPLIFT 


ing-  their  own  corn  and  meat,  and  had  some  of  each  to  "spare;  and  they  are 
■doing  that  very  thing  to  this  very  day.  Tnat  was  the  direct  result  of  agi- 
tation, propaganda,  reason.  And  those  people  came  into  their  own;  and 
to-day  precious  little  of  this  highly  impregnated  chemically  seasoned  stuff 
finds  its  way  into  that  section.     Glory  be! 

Go  to  it,  Governor  Morrison,  you  are  on  the  right  track.  And  if  you  can 
devise  some  means  by  which  the  management  of  the  public  schools  may  he 
restored  to  the  people  at  home,  the  rural  folks  will  rise  U|j  to  bless  you. 


in 


ENCOURAGEMENTS. 

The  UPLIFT  is  beholden  to  Airs.  1).  A.  Garrison,  of  Gastonia,  Cols. 
Wood,  of  Asheboro,  and  Boyden,  of  Salisbury,  and  a  sccre  of  others  for 
very  encouraging  endorsements  during  the  past  week.  Out  of  these  many 
fine  expressions  of  appreciation  of  the  make-up  and  contents  of  THE  Uplift, 
there  was  just  one  slight  discordant  note  and  that 'came  from  a  delightful 
gentleman,  who  felt  that  his  chief  is  misunderstood.  Oh,  no;  when  great 
causes  that  affect  very  vita'ly  the  interests  of  the  people  are  being  unwisely 
handled  or  not  handled  at  all,  the  great  thing  itself  and  not  the  vanity  of 
or  pride  of  opinion  of  the  individual  is  the  object  and  subject  of  the  con- 
sideration. There  are  some  folks  so  self-centered  that  their  purpose  is  to 
magnify  themselves  rather  than  their  jobs  --but  it  has  always  been  thus, 
-and  will  continue  so  as  long  as  man  is  human. 


DR.  C.  H.  WILEY  IN  1855 

Dr.  C.  H.  Wiley,  the  first  superintendent  of  the  Common  Schools  of  this 
state,  said  in,  1855,  what  has  been  said  w;th  more  or  less  truth  every  de- 
•cade  since,  that  "the  progress  of  general  education  in  North  Carolina,  for 
■the  last  few  years,  every  thing  considered,  has  been  very  remarkable,  and 
almost  without  a  parallel." 

This  is  taken  from  the  "preliminary  remarks"  in  the  Third  North  Caro- 
lina Reader.  And  it  continues:  According  to  the  Census  of  1840,  there 
were  then  in  the  state  2  colleges,  141  accademies  and  grammar-schools,  and 
■632  primary  schools  of  all  kinds.  There  were  at  school  in  colleges,  158 
.scholars;  in  academies  4,398;  in  primary  schools,  14,937;  in  all  19,493 
.scholars." 

Making  reference  to  the  statistics  of  a  period  fifteen  years  later  Dr. 
A\iley  says:     "About  this  time  the  common-schools  ystem  went  into  opera- 


HIE  UPLIFT  5 

lion  liiicl  now,  while  the  population  has  increased  but  little,  our  education- 
al statistics  are  as  follows:  We  have  five  colleges",  and  one  other  in  progress; 
7  female  colleges,  and  several  others  in  progress;  at  least  200  academies 
and  grammer-schools,  and  about  3,000  primary  scho  >ls."  This  in  itself, 
is  a  wonderful  growth  at  a  period  when  the  so-called  average  citizen 
was  nor  a  friend  of  public  education,  feeling  that  this  thin?  we  call  educa- 
tion belongs  to  a  special  and  favored  class. 

From  the  same  source,  Dr.  Wiley,  in  1855,  writes  "the  common  schools 
are  becoming  more  an  1  m  ire  effi  :i  vat  --the  c  >urse  of  stu  lies  in  them  is  be- 
coming more  thorough,  and  the  standard  (if  teachers  is-  being  elevated, 
while  the  public  are  learning  more  and  more  to  respect  and  appreciate 
this  great  system."  That  was  written  sixty-seven  yeais  ago,  an  1  sounds  very 
much  like  whac  we  lead  in  a  private  litter.a  fe.v  days  ago'in  speaking  of 
the  present  day  schools. 


THEGORGAS  MEMORIAL 

The  North  Carolina  schools  are  reciuested  by  State  Supt.  Brooks  to  ob- 
serve March  17th  as  the  Gorgas  Memorial  Day.  Dr.  Gorgas  is  remember- 
ed as  "Physician  to  the  World,"  for  through  him  and  his  superb  direction 
yellow  fever  and  malaria  were  eliminated  in  Panama  and  Cuba.  At  Tus- 
caloosa, Alabama,  there  is  to  be  fostered  a  school  as  a  memorial  to  Dr. 
Gorgas  and  specially  for  the  training  of  sanitary  engineers  and  public 
nurses  to  assist  county  health  organizations.  Dr.  Brooks  in  his  statement 
recognizes  the  importance  of  the  county  health  organizations  and  their 
work,  and  he  very  easily  and  wisely  could  have  advised  his  county  boards 
to  lend  financial  aid  to  heroic  efforts  of  maintaining  the  all-time  Health 
nurses,  as  is  being  done  in  Wake  and  other  counties  in  accordance  with  his 
printed  instructions  in  the  School-law  of  1919,  page  117,  paragraph  11. 

In  his  requests  to  the  school  supcrintendts  to  honor  the  memory  of  the 
late  General  William  Crawford  Gorgas,  Dr.  Brooks  further  says: 

"A  program  consisting  of  articles  by  students  of  the  schools  on  Gen- 
eral Gorgas'  work  in  eliminating  yellow  fever  and  malaria  in  Cuba  and 
Panama,  the  growth  of  preventive  medicine,  health  and  sanitation  in 
the  State  of  North  Carolina,  emphasising  the  great  saving  in  lives  ef- 
fected by  the  State  Health  Depertment;  the  plan  of  the  Gorgas  memori- 
al institute,  both  in  the  field  of  research  at  Panama  and  the  School  of 
Sanitation  at  Tuscaloosa,  and  the  benefits  which  will  accrue  by  train- 
ing men  and  women  to  become  health  officers,  sanitary  engineers  and 
inspectors,    and   public    health  nurses  for  tne  county  health   organiza- 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

tions.     This  will  be  the    particular  function    of  the    Gorgas    School  of 
Sanitation— will  be  presented  on  Gorgas  Memorial  Day. 

The  contest  which  Dr.  Campbell,  of  Norwood,  made  against  Congress, 
man  Dough  ton  for  his  seat  in  Congress,  has  been  decided  unanimously  by 
the  committee  in  favor  of  Mr.  Doughton.     Thus  ends  a  little  excitement  in 

which  the  people  of  the  8th  district  did  not  take  on  their  usually    interest    I 

1 1 

The  exhibition  of  a  leadership  that  brings  about  such  educational  results' 
as   that    coming  out  from  a  rural  section    of   Person    County,    told  of  on 
another  pnge,  ought  to  be  an  inspiration  to  other  to  make  a  move,  a  trial- 
it  should  be  at  least  somewhat  awakening. 

****** 

That's  mighty  interesting  and  instructive  reading  that  Mr.  Clark  places! 
before  us  this  week  under  the  title,  "Fitness  for  jury  service." 


THE  DOG  AND  1  HE  SHADOW. 

It  happened  that  a  Dog  had  got  a  piece  of  meat  and  was  carry- 
ing it  home  in  his  mouth  to  eat  in  peace.  Now  on  his  way  home 
he  had  to  cross  a  plank  lving  across  a  running  brook.  As  he  cross- 
ed, he  looked  down  and  saw  his  own  shadow  reflected  in  the  water 
beneath.  Thinking  it  was  another  dog  with  another  piece  of  meat, 
he  made  up  his  mind  to  have  that  also.  So  he  made  a  snap  at  the 
shadow  in  the  water,  but  as  he  opened  his  mouth  the  piece  of  meat 
fell  out,  dropped  into  the  water  and  was  never  seen  more. 

"BEWARE  LUST  YOU  LOOSE  THE  SUBSTANCE  BY  GRASPING 
AT  THE  SHADOW." 


h 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

Losing  Self  In  Service 

It  is  a  good  sign  when  we  become  so  absorbed  in  what  we  are  trying  to 
do  to  help  others  that  we  forget  all  about  our  own  petty  desires.  A  rich  bank- 
er discovered  that  other  men  were  getting  a  lot  of  pleasure  out  of  giving  real 
money  to  help  people  less  fortunate  than  themselves.     He  could  not  fathom 

the  mystery  of  it  for  he  had  always  he  was  giving  his  money  to  assise 
looked  on  keeping  money  and  watch-  where  there  was  real  need,  his  own 
ingitgrow  as  the  highest  type  of  joy-  wealth  was  not  decreasing.  Besides 
getting.  But,  as  the  others  persisted  there  came  to  him  a  rich  discovery 
and  thrived  under  their  generous  that  after  all  the  real  pleasures  for 
giving,  he  decided  to  put  it  to  the  life  are  not  in  the  abundance  of  the 
test.  He  helped  a  struggling  mission  things  which  he  possessed,  but  in  the 
pay  off  its  mortgage  and  then  he  ar-  lives  he  had  touched  with  brightness 
ranged  to  have  a -crippled  newsboy  and  uplift.  In  losing  his  life  for  the 
sent  to  a  specialist  to  be  cured.  The  service  of  others  he  was  truly  finding 
banker  forgot  about  his  selfish  de-  it,  and  when  he  realized  the  richness 
signson  making  money  when  he  sunk  of  his  find  he  saw  that  what  his  old 
himself  into  the  service  of  a  needy  life  had  hugged  as  a  source  of  corn- 
church  and  a  needy  boy.  That  fort  could  not  be  compared  with  the 
was  losing  self  in  the  right  way.  happinessof  his  new  life  of  service. 
While  he  was  doing  for  others  his  To  lose  self  in  service  is  not  a  hard- 
own  work  was  not  neglected.     While  ship;  it  is  a  privilege.— Selected 


"The  friends  we  gain  by  currying  favor  we  have  to  hold  by  the  same 
uethod." 


Unmeasured  Compensations 

(Forward) 

A  young  man  who,  upon  graduating  from  the  university,  had  taken  a 
professorship  in  a  small  Christian  college,  was  twitted  by  his  brother,  a 
prosperous  business  man,  upon    the  meager  salary  he  was  receiving. 

"It  is  a  shame,  Jim,"  he  declared,  "here    you    are  with    your    university 

and  poastgraduate  degrees,  working  life  values  in  dollars  and  cents.  But 

at  a  starvation  salary,  hardly  able  to  I    know  that  there    are    some    that 

make  ends  meet,  while  I,  who   have  can't  be  measured  that  way."  Then 

nothing  but  a  highschool   education  he  added  enthusiasically:     "I  would 

and  a  course  in  a  business   college,  not  give  up  my  job  for  all  the  bank 

could  buy    and   sell    you   a   dozen  accounts  in    the  world!     You   know 

times  over.     It  dosen't  look  right."  how  devoted  I  have  bean  to   astron- 

"It  doesn't,    Charley,"    affirmed  omy  ever  since  we  were  boys  in  high 

the  professor,  "if  you    measure   all  school    together.     Now,  when  I    sit 


8 


THE  UPLIFT 


with  my  eye  to  the  telescope,  as  I 
do  hour  af cer  hour,  and  look  into 
the  awful  sky  gulfs  that  yawn  ab  ut 
me,  or  catch  a  silver  fragment  of 
some  far-off  planet  within  its  field, 
I  really  live.  I  couldn't  be  happy 
anywhere  else.  There  are  compen- 
sations in  the  work  1  care  for  that 
no  money  could  buy." 

The  world  is  so  accustomed  to 
measuring  values  by  monetary 
standards  or  in  terms  of  dollar?  and 
cents  that  it  finds  itself  incapable  of 
arriving  at  a  proper  conception  of 
values  in  any  other  way. 

But  there  are  values  of  this  kind. 
The  scientific  man,  busy  in  h's  labor- 
atory, watching  with  bated  breath 
the  outcome  of  his  latest  experiment, 
knows  it.  The  artist,  working  with 
feverish  enthusiam  at  the  picture 
before  him  till  his  whole  soul  is  car- 
ried away  with  the  beauty  of  the 
dream  he  sees  dawning  upon  the 
canvas,  knows  it.  There  are  men  in 
every  community  who  have  learned 
to  appraise  life  values  in  some  other 
way  than  in  terms  of  dollars  and 
cents.  Moreover,  they  enrich  their 
communities  in  their  own  way,  quite 
as  match  as  does  he  whose  standard 
is  purely  monetary. 

There  are  Christians  who  need  to 
take    this  lesson  to  heart.     What  if 


some  of  us  have  sacrificed  our  liopj 
of  more  material  gain  for  some. 
thin.tr  less  material,  and  therefore 
something  considered  by  the  world 
less  practical?  We  know  better! 
We  know  that  he  who  lives  to  teach 
others  how  to  live  is  not  throwing 
his  own  life  away.  We  know 
that  luve  and  truth  and  gen- 
erosity and  sympathy  anil  for- 
giveness  are  real  things,  just  as  real 
as  are  bank  accounts  and  stocks  and 
bonds  and  fine  houses  and  rich  ap- 
parel. Indeed,  they  will  endure 
after  bank  accounts  and  line  homes 
have  crumbled  and  disappeared  for- 
ever. 

It  must  have  been  these  peculiar 
rewards  and  compensations  that  (he 
apostle  Paul  had  in  mind  when  he 
wrote  of  "Things  eye  saw  nor,  ar.d 
ear  heard  not. 

And  which  entered  not  into  the 
heart  of  man. 

Whatsoever  things  God  prepared 
for  them  that  love  him." 

He  was  not  speaking  of  the  re- 
wards of  Heaven,  as  many  imagine, 
when  he  said  this;  he  was  speaking 
of  the  blessings  that  may  be  found 
right  here  and  now  by  all  who  will 
take  Christ  at  His  word  and  enter 
fully  and  deeply  into  that  life  He 
offers  to  us. 


The  teacher  was  talking  of  Niagara  Falls.  "The  falls  are  slowly  wear- 
ing back  toward  Buffalo,  and  in  the  course  of  some  two  hundred  thousand 
years  they  will  wash  away  Erie." 

One  of  the  girls  in  the  classroom  began  to  cry  and  the  teacher  askei 
what  the  trouble  was. 

"Oh,"  wa.iled  the  girl,  "my  sister  lives  in  Erie!" 


' 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

Losing  Self  In  Service 

It  is  a  good  sign  when  we  become  so  absorbed  in  what  we  are  trying  to 
do  to  help  others  that  we  forget  all  about  uur  own  petty  desires.  A  rich  bank- 
er discovered  that  other  men  were  getting  a  lot  of  pleasure  out  of  giving  real 
money  to  help  people  less  fortunate  than  themselves.     He  could  not  fathom 

the  mystery  of  it  for  he  had  always  he  was  giving  his  money  to  assist 
looked  on  keeping  money  and  watch-  where  there  was  real  need,  his  own 
ing  it  grow  as  the  highest  type  of  joy-  wealth  was  not  decreasing.  Besides 
getting.  But,  as  the  others  persisted  there  came  to  him  a  rich  discovery 
and  thrived  und^r  their  generous  that  after  all  the  real  pleasures  for 
giving,  he  decided  to  put  it  to  the  life  are  not  in  the  abundance  of  the 
test.  He  helped  a  struggling  mission  things  which  he  possessed,  but  in  the 
pay  off  its  mortgage  and  then  he  ar-  lives  he  had  touched  with  brightness 
ranged  to  have  a  crippled  newsboy  and  uplift.  In  losing  his  life  for  the 
sent  to  a  specialist  to  be  cured.  The  service  of  others  he  was  truly  finding 
banker  forgot  about  his  selfish  de-  it.  and  when  he  realized  the  richness 
signson  making  money  when  he  sunk  of  his  find  he  saw  that  what  his  old 
himself  into  the  service  of  a  needy  life  had  hugged  as  a  source  of  com- 
church  and  a  needy  boy.  That  fort  could  not  be  compared  with  the 
was  losing  self  in  the  right  way.  happinessof  hisnewlife  of  service. 
While  he  was  doing  for  others  his  To  lose  self  in  service  is  not  a  hard- 
own  work  was  not  neglected.     While  ship;  it  is  a  privilege.— Selected 


"The  friends  we  gain  by  currying  favor  we  have  to  hold  by  the  same 
method." 


Unmeasured  Compensations 

(Forward) 

A.  young  man  who,  upon  graduating  from  the  university,  had  taken  a 
professorship  in  a  small  Christian  college,  was  twitted  by  his  brother,  a 
prosperous  business  man,  upon    the  meager  salary  he  was  receiving. 

"It  is  a  shame,  Jim,"  he  declared,  "here   you    are  with    your    university 

and  poastgraduate  degrees,  working  life  values  in  dollars  and  cents.  But 

at  a  starvation  salary,  hardly  able  to  I    know  that  there    are    some    that 

make  ends  meet,  while  I,  who   have  can't  be  measured  that  way."  Then 

nothing  but  a  highschool   education  he  added  enthusiasically:     "I  would 

and  a  course  in  a  business   college,  not  give  up  my  job  for  all  the  bank 

could  buy    and    sell    you   a   dozen  accounts  in   the  world!     You   know 

times  over.     It  dosen't  look  right."  how  devoted  I  have  bean  to   astron- 

'It  doesn't,    Charley,"    affirmed  omy  ever  since  we  were  boys  in  high 

the  professor,  "if  you    measure    all  school    together.     Now,  when  I    sit 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

with    my  eye  to  the   telescope,  as    I  some  of  us  have  sacrificed  our  hope 

do    hour    after  hour,  and  look    into  of    more     material  gain    for   some. 

the  awful  sky  gulfs  that  yawn  abjut  thing  less   material,    and    therefore  | 

me,    or  catch    a  silver  fragment    of  something  considered  by   the    world 

some   far-off  planet  within  its    field,  less    practical?     We    know     better!  | 

I    really  live.     I  couldn't  be    happy  We    know  that  he  who  lives  to  teach 

anywhere  else.     There  are   compen-  others  how  to  live    is  not    throwing 

sations    in  the  work  1  care  for    that  his     own    life     away.       We     know 

no  money  could  buy."  that      love     and      truth    ami      gen- 

The    world   is    so    accustomed    to  erosity      and     sympathy     and     for. 

measuring     values     by       monetary  giveness  are  real  things,  just  as  real 

standards  or  in  terms  of  dollar?  and  as  are  bank  accounts  and  stocks  and 

cents  ttiat  ir  finds  itself  incapable  of  bonds    and  tine  houses  and  rich   an- 

arriving    at  a  proper  conception    of  pare).      Indeed,     they    will     endure 

values  in  any  other  way.  after  bank  accounts  and  fine    homes 

But  there  are  values  of  this  kind,  have  crumbled  and  disappeared  for- 

The  scientific  man,  husy  in  h's  labor-  ever. 

atory,    watching  with  bated    breath  It  must  have  been  these    peculiar 

the  outcome  of  his  latest  experiment,  rewards  and  compensations  that  the 

knows  it.     The  artist,  working  with  apostle    Paul  had  in  mind    when  he 

feverish    enthusiam    at  the    picture  wrote  of  "Things  eye  saw  nor,   and 

before  him  till  his  whole  soul  is  car-  ear  heard  not. 

ried    away    with  the    beauty  of    the  And    which    entered  not  into   the  I 

dream    he    sees    dawning  upon    the  heart  of  man. 

canvas,  knows  it.  There  are  men  in  Whatsoever  things  God  prepared  ' 
every  community  who  have  learned  for  them  that  love  him." 
to  appraise  life  values  in  some  other  He  was  not  speaking  of  the  re- 
way  than  in  terms  of  dollars  and  wards  of  Heaven,  as  many  imagine, 
cents.  Moreover,  they  enrich  their  when  he  said  this;  he  was  speaking 
communities  in  their  own  vray,  quite  of  the  blessings  that  may  be  four.d 
as  irwuch  as  does  he  whose  standard  right  here  and  now  by  all  who  will 
is  purely  monetary.  take    Christ  at  His  word  and   enter 

There  are  Christians  who  need   to  fully    and  deeply    into  that  life  He 

take    this  lesson  to  heart.     What  if  offers  to  us. 


t  i 


The  teacher  was  talking  of  Niagara  Falls.  "The  falls  are  slowly  wear- 
ing hack  toward  Buffalo,  and  in  the  course  of  some  two  hundred  thousand 
years  they  will  wash  away  Erie." 

One  of  the  girls  in  the  classroom  hegan  to  cry  and  the  teacher  asked 
what  the  trouble  was. 

"Oh,"  wailed  the  girl,  "my  sister  lives  in  Erie!" 


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North  Carolina  History  And  Romance. 

Recently  an  hour  was  spent  in  glancing  through  the  old  North  Carolina 
Header,  III,  prepared  by  Dr.  Wiley,  the  father  of  the  Common  Schools  in 
North  Carolina,  the  said  readers  having  been  issued  in  1851.  A  copy  of 
this   must    interesting  reader  was    handed    us  by  Mr.  Watt    Barringer,    a 


unique  and  at  the  same  time  a  most 
excellent  citizen  of  Cabarrus  county. 
That  was  a  delightful  hour,  and  the 
belief  could  not  be  overcome  that 
were  our  children  given  more  read- 
ing matter  pitched  on  subjects  which 
this  North  Carolina  Reader  re- 
cognizes and  honors  they  would  be- 
come not  only  better  citizens  but 
decitlely  mure  patriotic  North  Caro- 
linians. 

Our  readers  will  recall  that  Will- 
iam Dtummond  was  the  first  Gover- 
nor of  North  Carolina,  or  to  be  ex- 
act "the  governor  of  the  county  of 
Albemarle  in  th2  provience  of  Caro- 
lina." If  we  read  aright  the  little 
that  is  known  of  Governor  Drum- 
nrjnd,  he  had  much  of  the  spirit  of 
Patrick  Henry  and  as  such  could 
not  long  fellowship  with  Sir  Will- 
iam Berkely,  who  appointed  him 
governor  in  April  1G63. 

Gov.  Drummond's  life  had  a 
tragic  closing.  He  had  much  to  do 
with  what  is  termed  in  history  as 
"Bacon's  Rebellion."  After  the 
close  of  that  rebellion,  Gov.  Drum- 
mond  was  apprehended  and  brought' 
before  Berkely,  "who,  in  the  lan- 
guage of  lacerated  pride,  insultingly 
bade  him  weicome  death."  Dium- 
mond  proudly  avowed  the  part  he 
Played  in  that  rebellion;  and  he  was 
tried  at  one  o'clock  on  the  twentieth 
of  May,  1679  (one  hundred  and  four 
years  prior  to  that  other  important 
-Qth)  and  hang  at  four  o'clock  on 
the  same  day.  "J'hus,  this  brave 
Rnd  extraordinary  man  breathed  his 


last  in  mid-air  suspended." 

But  his  name  is  perpetuated  by  a 
beautiful  lake  in  the  Dismal  Swamp, 
Its  wild  beauty  makts  it  a  place  of 
intense  interest,  this  Drummond 
Lake.  There  is  no  more  exciting 
trip  to  be  taken  than  through  this 
Lake  in  the  springtime.  It  is  said 
that  tc  pass  through  this  lake  one 
must  be  ever  on  the  alert  to  dodge 
limbs  encircled  with  all  kinds  of 
snakes,  which,  relied  up  and  wound 
about  in  coils,  in  affection  or  in  dead- 
ly combat,  often  drop  down  into  a 
passing  boat.  'I  he  lake  used  to  be 
a  great  courting  resort  but  since 
the  snakes  and  other  man  despising 
creatures  have  so  largely  increased 
the  courting  couples  have  changed 
t:>  other  resorts  and  to  other  means. 
But  Lake  Drummond  remains,  for 
all  time,  the  reminder  of  the  first 
governor  of  Carolina. 

Quoting  from  this  old  North  Caro- 
lina Reader,  "it  is  the  same  roman- 
tic lakelet  which  forms  the  theme 
of  one  of  Moore's  most  chaste  and 
affecting  poems,  which  we  subjoin. 
The  subject  of  the  poem  is  as  follow- 
ers: 1  hoy  tell  of  a  young  man  who 
lost  his  mind  on  the  death  of  a  girl 
he  loved,  and  who,  suddenly  disap- 
pearing from  his  friends,  was  never 
heard  of  afterwards.  As  he  had 
frequently  said,  in  his  ravings,  that 
she  was  not  dead,  but  going  to  the 
Dismal  Swamp,  it  is  supposed  he 
had  wandered  into  that  dreary  wil- 
derness, and  had  died  of  hunger,1  or 
been  lost  in    seme    of   its   dreadful 


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morasses.                   .  "Oh!    when    shall    I  see    the    dusky,. 

They  marie  her  a  grave  too  cold  and  AJ  ^  wh;tu  canoe  Qf  my  ^^  r, 

damp                                        o  '   i 

For  a  soul  so  warm  and  true;  He  saw  the  lake,  a  meteor  bright     r 

And  she's   gone    to  the  Lake  of  the  Quick  over  its  surface  play 'd-     -,. 

Dismal  Swamp,  "Welcome/'  he  said,  "my  dear  one's  s 

Where    all  night  long,  by  a    fire-fly  light!"                                          pj 

1  ain p,  ^-t,c'  the  dim  shore  echoed,  for  many  | 


She  paddled  her  white  canoe.  a  night, 

The  name  of  the  death- cold  maid!  '• 


And    her  fire- fly    lamp  I   soon    sha 
see, 


Till  he  hollowe'd  a  boat  of  the  birch- 


And  her  paddle  I  soon  shall  hear;  en-bark. 

Long  and  loving  our  life  shall  be,  Which  carried  him  off  from  shore; 

And  I'll  hide  the  maid  in  a  cypress-  For  he  followed  the  meteor  spark: 

tree,  The    wind   was  high    and  the  cloud.; 

When    the    footstep   of    death    is  were  darn, 

near.  And  the  boat  return'd  no  more. 

Away    to     the     Dismal    Swamp   he  But    oft,    from    the  Indian  hunter's 

speeds—  camp. 

His  path  was  rugged  and  sore,  This  lover  and  maid  so  true 

Through    tangled    juniper,  beds    of  Are    seen,    at   the  hour  of  midnight 

reeds,  damp 

Through  many  a  fen,  where  the  scr-  To  cross  the  'ake  with  a  fire-fly  lamp, 

pent  feeds,  And  paddle  their  white  canoe! 

And  man  never  trod  before. 

,     .      ,               ,              ,     ,            ,  Continuing,     this   interesting  o!d 

And  when  on  the  earth    he   sank   to  Raadpr  records  ^  ■•Ce]ebratedai 

,,    ,    p;       ,.          ,.,-,  is  this  clear  lake  by  this  heart-affect- 

If  slumber  his  eyelids  knew,  .       association,  it  is  soubly  so  in  re- 

He  lay  where  the  deadly    vine    doth  {aining    {he  honor(?d  nam?  rf  ^ 

,.       v                            ,-ii  Carolina's  first  governor.   A  polished 

Its  venomous  tear,  and  night  v  steep  ■            ...      •,,               ,,     ,  .;„  f„_. 

rr,     a    .       ...   ...  .     .        ,  mirror,    it  will  ever  reflect  his  fame 

the  flesh  with  blistering  dew.  •                       ,    •   ,  .        ..      ,     ,  ,„„„, 

fe  in    rays  as    bright  as  the  dew-drops 

And  neai  him   the    she-walf    stirr'd  that  weep  on  its  own  crystal  bosom; 

the  brake,  and  long  after,  quarto  and  folio  shall 

And  the  copper-snake  breated    in  have    been  cankered  by  the  consura- 

his  ear,  ing  woim,  will  that  still  water  mur- 

Till  he  starting  cried,  from  his  dream  mur    gentle    cadence  in  echo  to  the 

awake,  association  of  the  past." 


Take  care  that  the  face  which  looks  out  from  your  mirror  in  the  morning 
is  a  pleasant  face.  You  may  not  see  it  again  all  day,  hut  others  will.'— Fire- 
light. 


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11 


Technically  Trained  vs  Nondescript. 

BY  C.  W.  HtJNT 

Jfondcseript  means  a,  thing  that  no  name  quite  describes.  We  find  nonde- 
script fruit,  vegetables,  grain  and  many  other  things,  and  in  each  easo  it  means 
it  is  away  below  the  standard.  This  definition  we  finally  apply  it  to  men, 
and  occasionally  to  boys — nondescripts  able  to  do  several  things,  but  do 
none  very  well,  and  excel  nowhere.  These  conditions  come  about,  in  the  human 
family,  most  generally,  from  two  main  causes,  namely:  lack  of  ability  of  par- 
ents to  provide  an  occupation  for  a  boy,  either  by  carelessness  or  by  making 

the  ability  to  specify  and  know  why; 
and  be  able  to  tell  why  this  or  that 
piece  of  timber  must  be  of  a  given 
size  to  hold  a  given  load.  ,  How  much 
a  given  structure  will  hold  up.  The 
ability  to  take  down  and  put  up  a 
machine  and  tell  what  each  part  is 
for,  how  it  acts  and  why.  And  what 
applies   to   the   mechanical   world   ap- 


him  a   " Jaek-at-all-trades,   good-at— 

none."  A  few  boys  are  bom  delin- 
quents, sorry  by  nature,  but  they  are 
rare,  and  most  of  them  can  be  made 
men  if  properly  treated,  and  made  in- 
terested in  something  real.  In  fact 
most  boys  of  sound  mind  at  some  time, 
want  an  occupation.  Boys  dream  as 
veil  as  men,  and  if  allowed  to  choose 
what  they  like  to  do,  with  proper  help      plies  to  the  natural.  If  a  boy  expects 


and  encouragement  will  become  pro- 
ficient. 

The  writer  recalls  two  boys  that 
have  come  near  to  maturity  that  are 
full  second  class  nondescripts.  They 
do  nothing  well,  but  can  work  some  at 
many  things;  and  I  would  lay  this 
to  the  lack  of  care  and  interest  on  the 
part  of  father  and  mother. They  have 
been  allowed  to  quit  any  work  'under- 
taken at  will,  and  one  of  their  happi- 
est times  is  when  tied  up  with  a 
"Wild  Bill"  novel.  Nondescripts— 
we  find  them  all  too  often. 

Aside  from  character  that  can 
stand  the  pitfalls  that  are  gaping 
wide  for  every  boy  who  reaches  his 
teens,  there  is  nothing  equal  to 
technical  training  to  cause  him  to 
stand  up  strong.  Do  you  understand 
the  real  meaning  of  that  term  ?  Tech- 
nical training  means  the  ability  to 
draw  a  plan  of  r*  house,  a  mill,  a 
bridge  and  build  one  by  that  drawing; 


to  till  the  soil  it  is  equally  important 
that  he  have  the  ability  to  know  soil 
and  what  makes  it  produce.  The 
action  of  moisture  and  heat,  ami 
many  other  important  technical  things 
if  lie  would  he  proficient  and  come 
to  the  front. 

Many  and  many  a  man  has  failed 
to  score  distinction  for  the  lack  of 
technical  training.  He  is  a  good 
fellow,  he  knows  much,  but  he  never 
puts  all  his  power  in  any  one  thing, 
hence  he  lacks  something  and  never 
makes  what  the  world  calls  a  success. 

The  time  at  which  we  should  take 
up  the  work  of  a  life  depends  upon 
just  two  tilings:  If  we  are  able  to 
get  a  college  education,  the  selection 
can  safely  he  deferred.  It  is  educa- 
tion that  makes  leaders.  One  can 
select  his  life  work  as  he  goes 
through  college  and  study  to  it,  or  he 
may  wait;  for  education  broadens 
ones  scope  so  much     that   an     early 


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selection     might  seem     small  to     the  that   is  they  went   to  ashop  or  a  h,:. 

ambition  that  comes   with  knowledge.  tory  to  learn  that   work-  for  his  keep, 

If   on   the   other   hand    we   know    that  and    for    a    term    of    years.      Most  of 

we   cannot    have   the   college   training  them    made    men.     When    this   writer 

(1  wish  all   boys  could)    as  a  founda-  first  knew  Salem,   the  twin  of  Wins- 

tion,   then   the   sooner,   in   reason,   we  ton,   which    was   settled   by   what  was 

select      our      vocation      the      better.  called    Dutch,   most   of  the  boys  were 

Fortuntely     those  who     know     have  apprentices  or     sons  of     apprentices, 

written    books,    from    which    we    may  and   a    finer   citizenship      few     towns 

know  much  of  whr.t   the  college  man  ever    had.     These    boys    were    happy; 

gets,  ami  one  may,   at   least,   become  their  surroundings  were  pure,  and  they  j 

highly  proficient  in  his  work  without  studied   as  well   as   worked.     In  short 

the    training     that   he   would     get    at  made  men,  real  men  whom  the  cheap 

college,   and   be   a   reivl   expert    in   his  "passing  show''  did  not  appeal  to.    j 

line.  If  I  had  to  select  just  one  thin;;,  and 

There  is  little  reason  for  a  boy's  not  only  one  thing  I  could  do  for  Mic  few 

having  a   trained  vocation   it  he   will  years    yet    allotted    me    here,   for  lb 

only  try.      In  fact  the  boy  who  wants  good  of  humanity,  I  feel  that  I  would 

it    bad    enough    can     work    his      way  put   in    the   balance   my    time  lielpicgj 

through  college,  and  be  all  the  better  boys  to  get  an  education;  and  placing 

for   it   .  Many   leaders   of   the   nation  them    in    possessor!   of    an   occupation 

have  done  that.  The  world  will  bow  to  that    would    support     them     in    good 

ability  in   all  places.  citizenship,   and   teaeh   them  that  the 

For  hundreds  of  years   before   our  man   who  works  is  happy,  is  content, 

modern    times,    all    the    middle    class  and    that   "contenment   is   a  pearl  of 

boys,  not  rural,  were  apprenticed,  that  great   price.'' 


A  teacher  in  the  fourth  grade  recently  asked  the  class  in  geography, 
"It'hat  is  the  use  of  the  sun?"  A  little  hoy  whose  mother  was  a  washer- 
woman impatiently  waved  his  little  arm.  The  teacher,  noting  his  anxiety 
to  answer,  said,  "George,  what  is  it?"     "To  dry  clothes,"  was  the  reply. 


How  Two  North  Carolina  Boys  Prospered  in  Texas, 

Except  for  the  tine  authority  behind  this  story,  how  two  Person  county  hoys 
went  west  fifteen  years  ago  and  established  'hemsclvcs  it  would  be  askir?tM 
much  of  a  fellow  from  Missouri  to  nut  credence  in  it 

This  stoi-y  that  comes  out  from  Temple,  a  Texas  town  with  less  than  one  t lion- 
sand  inhabitants,  concerns  two  brothers  Bob  and  Otho  Mooney,  who  were  bora 

and  reared   in   Person   c  unity,   North  of    Roxborb ,   passes     the    interesting 

Carolina.     It  is  a  story  of  pluck,  en-  story  along,  manifesting  a  commend- 

ergy,  faith  in  themselves  and  faith  in  able  pride   in   the  stuff   they  used  is 

the  possibilities  that  the  world  offers  his    "diggins"    in    making   successfal 

to  industry  and  honesty.     Mr.   Xoell,  men. 


THE  UPLIFT 


13 


]!ul  rend  what  conies  out  from  tee 
present  home-place  of  the  Jfoonev 
hoys : 

"Yon  can  buy  a  spool  of  thread,  ;> 
suit  of  clothes,  lumber  to  build  a 
house — or  a  carload  of  jackrabbits — 
at  the  biggest  small  town  store  in 
America.  The  store  is  the  B.  &  0. 
Casb  Store,  owned  by  Bob  and  Otlio 
Jlooney  of  Temple,  who  took  in  over 
their  counters  here'  in  1021  the  neat 
sum  of  $1,500,000.00. 

And  this  week,  to  celebrate  the  cli- 
max of  one  of  tlie  most  believable 
merchandising  romances  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  southwest,  the.  Jlooney 
brothers  are  to  open  as  up-to-date 
store  as  any  to  be  found  in  Oklahoma 
City,  Dallas,  Kansas  City  or  other 
large  city. 

New  Building  Large. 

The  new  building'  has  a  frontage  of 
ll(j  feet.  It  is  constructed  of  rein- 
forced concrete,  and  is  furnished  with 
specially-built  showcases  a,nd  equip- 
ment. It  also  boasts  of  a  pneumatic 
cash-carrying  system,  which  the  manu- 
facturer declares  is  equal  to  any  sys- 
tem to  be  found  in  the  United  States. 
The  building  and  fixtures  cost  ap- 
proximately $250,000. 

The  latest  addition  to  the  B.  &  O. 
store  makes  the  establishment  now 
the  occupant  of  an  entire  city  block. 
It  is  said  to  cover  more  ground  than 
any  other  mercantile  establishment  in 
the  southwest. 

There  is  inspiration  a  plenty  in  the 
story  how  the  two  Jlooney  brothers 
have  built  this  huge  establishment  in 
the  short  space  of  fifteen  years.  It 
was  in  1007  that  the  Jlooney  brothers 
came  to  Temple,  looking  for  an  op- 
portunity to  go  into  business.  They 
became  acquainted  with  the  owner  of  a 


small  grocery  store,  who  offered  to 'sell 
to  them.  The  brothers,  however,  had 
no  money,  but  eventually  they  per- 
suaded the  owner  to  sell  to  them  on 
credit.  The  former  owner  go;  his- 
money  out  of  the  business  by  adopting; 
the  simple  expedient  of  taking  the  con- 
tents of  the  cash  register  every  night 
until  he  had  received  the  purchase 
price  of  $1,300.     Then  he  disappeared. 

Business   is    Varied. 

At  this  time  Temple  had  only  about 
500  inhabitants.  Today  it  has  slightly 
less  than  1,000,  yet  from  the  humble 
start  of  fifteen  years  ago,  the  Jlooneys 
have  developed  a  business  which  ha3 
brought  them  nation-wide  advertising. 
And  75  percent  of  this  business  is 
drawn  from  a  radius  of  less  than  100> 
miles.  The  remaining  25  percent  rep- 
resents mail  orders  for  the  B.  &  O. 
Cash  store  has  regular  customers  in 
almost  every  state  in  the  Union  and 
in  Alaska,  Cuba  ami  other  far-away 
lands  as  well. 

To  give  an  idea  of  the  scope  of 
the  institution,  it  may  be  cited  that 
the  B.  &  O.  store  had  sold  complete 
furnishings  for  more  tha.n  100  hotels 
in  the  last  year — beds,  rugs,  china, 
cutlery,  linen  furniture  and  every- 
thing. One  of  the  largest  hotels  in' 
Oklahoma  City  bought  its  entire  equip- 
ment in  Temple. 

Jackrabbits  Ordered. 
Only  a  short  time  ago  an  order  was 
received  from  Pennsylvania  for  a  car- 
load of  jackrabbits.  The  order  speci- 
fied that  each  rr«bbit  must  be  shot 
neatly  through  the  head,  frozen  and 
placed  in  a  refrigerator  car.  The  next 
day  saw  hunters  armed  with  rifles 
out  on  the  prairies  near  Temple  on 
the  lookout  for  "lack."     The  B.  &  0. 


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stores,  like  the  Royal  Northwest  item  of  its  purchases  from  neighbor- 
Mounted  Police,  "always  makes  ing  farmers.  Tt  buys  and  has  ware- 
'  good."  houses  to  store  produce,  hides,  wool 
NTot  only  dues  the  store  sell  sup-  and  fur,  as  well  as  other  kinds  of 
plies  in  immense  quantities,  but  it  is  a  farm  products.  And  it  has  sold  as 
large  buyer  as  well.  During  the  last  many  as  four  carloads  of  furniture  in 
year  the  Moouey  brothers  bought  lit-  one  week, 
teen  carloads  of  pecans  as  one  small 


Mark  Twain,  whose  real  name,  as  you  all  know,  was  Samuel  Clemens, 
<,  when  a  hoy  went  to  school  in  Hannibal,  Mo.  "The  schoolmaster  once  set 
the  class  to  writing  a.  composition  on  'The  result  of  laziness.'  At  the  end 
of  the  hour  young  Clemens  handed  in  as  his  composition  a  blank  slate." 


m- 
con- 


"It's  easy  enough  to  go  running  smooth,  but  a  smile  in  the  time  of 
trouble  is  hke  sunshine  after  rain:  always  welcome  and  helpful." 


GOVERNOR   BEGINS   HIS    CAMPAIGN 

A  definite  start  is  being  made  this  week  in  the  work  of  putting  over  Gover- 
nor Cameron  Morrison's  "Live  at  Home"  campaign,  John  Paul  Lucas  of  Char- 
lotte, who  has  been  secured  to  organize  and  direct  the  Campaign,  has  opened 
an  office  in  the  State  Department  Annex,  and  the  preliminary  work  is  already 
under  way.  The  work  in  prospect  is  not  new  to  Mr.  Lucas,  who  had  active 
direction  of  the  Food  Production  and  Conservation  Campaign  in  Xorth  Caro- 
lina during  the  war,  first  with  the  year  supply  of  pork  will  be  advocated. 
State  Food  Commission,  and  later  The  new  movement  has  the  whole 
with  the  United  States  Fund  Adminis-  hearted  hacking  not  only  of  the  de- 
tration,  e,nd  who  is  "loaned"  to' the  partment  of  Agriculture  and  the  State 
state  for  this  particular  work  by  the  College  of  Agriculture  and  Engineer- 
Southern  Public  Utilities  Company  for  ing,  but  also  of  the  Department  of 
which  lie  is  advertising  and  publicity  Education,  the  State  Hoard  of  Health 
manager.  an,l  other  agencies  of  the  state  govern- 

Duriiig  (lie  Campaign  emphasis  will     .  ment. 
be    laid    not    upon    the   production    of  The    campaign    which    is    beii 

food  supplies  for  the  market,  but  auguratod  will  lie  intensively 
upon  the  production  by  every  fa.mily  dinted  and  will  cover  a  period  of 
of  food  and  feed  supplies  sufficient  eight  to  ten  weeks.  The  organiza- 
to  supply  its  own  establishment,  tion  to  be  built  up  will  reach  into 
More  and  better  gardens,  more  pool-  every  township  of  every  count',  in  the 
try,  one  or  more  cows  for  each  family,  state, 
and  sufficient  hogs  to  furnish  an  all 


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Nol  Satisfied  With  Simply  Drawing  Salary  And  Breath 

B/  way  of  brother  Noel!  and  his  valuable  paper,  The  Roxboro  Courier, 
there  comes  to  The  Uplift  the  story  of  real  leadership  by  a  man,  appreci- 
ating' the  great  task  of  giving  a  square  deal  to  the  rural  people  who  most 
need  it,  and  who  sincerely  desires  to  be  worthy  of  his  salary  and  the  con- 
fidence of  those  ivho  employ  him,  is  not  satisfied,  after  securing  the  posi- 
tion of  honor,  trust  and  far-reaching  importance,  to  merely  draw  his  sal- 
ary and  his  breath.  Beam  has  done,  is  that  it  acts  like  a 

Way  up  in  the  Northern    part    of  seed-corn.     It    multiplies.      By    and 

the  state,  out  in  the  county  of    Ber-  by    other    sections    will    awaken  to 

son,  far  away  from  the  countv-seat,  their  possibilities  and    abilities    and 

Roxboro,    comes    a    glorious     story  proceed    to    accept    the     challenge, 

where  a  wide-awake  man  and  an  im-  But  this  requires  a  leader,  a  man  of 

portant  job  met    and    accomplished  earnest  conviction  who  holds  a  posi- 

something  worthwhile  for  the    pres-  tion  clad  with  some  authority.  That 

ent  generation    and    many   yet   un-  puts  pep  in  it. 

born.  Rev.  J.  A.  Beam,  the  county  Some  weeks  ago  meeting  a  man  of 
superintendent,  having  refused  to  be  authority,  lounging  on  a  street  cor- 
hobbled  by  an  unnatural,  crazy-kind  ner  and.  recognizing  that  he  headed 
of  concoction  of  a  school-law  that  a  school  system  of  a  county  that  had 
has  been  saddled  upon  the  state  (and  made  absolutely  no  progress  in  eight 
for  which  a  commission  by  the  late  years  and  which  had  made -no  con- 
Gen2ral  Assembly  has  been  appointed  certed  action  to  attempt  improve- 
to  investigate  and  propose  a  re-  ment,  but  just  simply  mechanically 
lief  and  a  remedy)  having  declined  and  clerically  to  function,  what  ho 
to  sit  practically  idly  by  the  schools  thought  of  the  great  work  Brof. 
that  were  not  functioning  as  they  Coon  had  done  in  Wilson  county  in 
should,  started  out  to  do  something  reducing  more  than  fifty  districts  to 
inspite  of  the  hanriicaps.  sixteen,  had  built  attractive  and  sub- 

What  the  Rev.  Beam  accomplish-  stantiai  buildings  with  modern  con- 
ed in  a  rural  seetbn  of  Benson  coun-  veniences,  each  school  provided  with 
ty  can  be  accomplished  in  a  section  from  five  to  ten  teachers  to  suit  the 
or  two  in  every  county  of  North  grades,  conveyed  the  children  to  and 
Carolina  if  men,  charged  with  the  fro,  had  increased  the  average  at- 
sacred  duties  of  providing  adequate  tendance  until  the  smallest  possible 
educational  facilities  for  the  children,  number  was  absent  from  school,  and 
have  a  heart  and  a  real  desire  to  go  had  put  hope  into  the  hearts  of  the 
to  it.  The  cry  that  there  "is  no  rural  folks.  This  is  the  answer  of 
money'-  is  a  frazzled  excuse  and  has  that  high  school  official:  "I  haven't 
teen  not  only  overworked  but  is  yet  made  up  my  mind  as  to  the 
oftentimes  used  as  an  explanation  practicability  of  that  programme?-' 
for  a  failure  to  attempt  to  do  any-  In  thii  day  when  people  are  cry- 
thing  because  of  the  lack  of  a  vital  ing  for  an  equal  chance,  for  a  square 
interest  in  and  knowledge  of  the  deal,  for  leadership,  for  justice,  for 
cause.    The  beauty  about  what  Supt.  their  rights,  the  high  official  charged 


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with  leadership  and  paid  a  salary 
and  perquisites  reaching  beyond 
three  thousand  dollars,  when  eight 
years  ago.  his  superior  without  as- 
sistance, did  twice  as  much  work  and 
did  it  promptly  and  efficiently  tot- 
half  of  the  present  salary  and  never 
"went  to  sleep"  on  his  job,  to  confess 
that  he  "had  not  made  up  his  mind" 
as  to  the  practicability  of  a  pro- 
gramme that  contemplated  and  as- 
sured a  great  stride  in  the  educa- 
tional cause  of  a  county  (hat  is 
horribly  behind  similar  counties  in 
area,  population  and  wealth,  was  not 
only  stunning  but  fully  explained 
the  do-nothing  and  wastful  admini- 
stration of  the  most  vital  agency  in 
behalf  of  any  rural  people--- the 
means  of  adequate  educational  ad- 
vantages. 

But  Superintendent  Beam,  of  Per- 
son county,  "had  made  up  his  mind." 
Out  there  from  Roxboro  was  a  ter- 
ritory of  sixty  square  miles  without 
sufficient  and  adequate  educational 
facilities,  being  inflicted  with  little 
make-shifts  of  one-room  houses, 
directed  by  "certified"  teachers  us- 
ing them  as  a  stepping  stone  for 
some-thing  else  or  marrying.  The 
condition  was  intolerable.  The 
leadership  of  this  wide-awake  super- 
intendent went  among  the  people, 
mapped  out  a  programme,  worked 
up  the  interest  of  local  influences 
and  the  endorsement  of  his  ambiti- 
ous plans.  Here  is  the  story  of  that 
beautiful  school  building  shown  in 
this  issue,  which  answers  to  the  name 
of  "Bethel  Hill  Graded  School,"  lo- 
cated in  Person  county,  considerable 
distance  from  Roxboro  and  some 
distance  fron  a  small  village:  "Mr. 
Moses  S.  Jones,  now  gone  to  his  re- 
ward, was   the  largest    contributor, 


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giving  about  $18,000  and  the  other  wisely,  but  Editor  Noel  writing1,  says: 
citizens  contributing  fifteen  thous-  "Our  efficient  County  Superinten- 
and  dollars.  They  borrowed  $17,000,  dent,  Rev.  J.  A.  Bean,  was  hugely 
note  endorsed  by  the  citizens.  The  instrumental  in  securing  the  build- 
building  cost  $50,000.  The  land  inir,  for  it  was  largely  due  to  his  un- 
was  given."  A  friend  writes  tint  tiring  efforts  and  influence  over  the 
"the  building  is  stucco,  and  is  one  late  Moses  S.  Jones,  that  the  build- 
of  the  best  high  school  buildings  I  ing  has  its  existence.-'  And  every 
know  of  situated  in  the  country.  It  county  that  has  a  broad-minded, 
has  all  modern  conveniences  --water,  alert  and  active  superintendent  like 
light  and  sanitary  closets."  Person,  is  making  substantial  pro- 
Prof.  A.  C.  Gentry  is  principal,  gress  educationally,  in  spite  of  the 
and  is  assisted  by  six  other  teachers  handicaps,  real  and  imaginary, 
in  the  conduct  of  the  school.  The  And  Bethel  Hill  is  not  the  only 
Building  Committee  vas  composed  school  problem  solved  to  the  pleasure 
of  C.  T.  Hall,  C.  A.  Hall  and  Dr.  and  happiness  of  a  rural  beople,  in 
J.  H.  Merrit.  The  trustees  are:  R.  in  Person  county,  but  in  the  very 
D.  Baily,  S  P.  Gentry  and  C.  T.  same  county  other  sensible  solutions 
Hall.     All  these  men    have    builded  are  going  on. 


"What  do  you  think!     Dey  got  cherries  an*  strawberries  an'  all  kinds  of 
fruit  covered  wicl  candy.    What  kind  shall  I  get,  Rastus?" 
"G-et  me  a  chocolate-coated  watennellon. " — Ladies'  Home  JournaL 


Romance  Lives  Again 

(Greensboro  News) 

It  dosen't  matter  that  their  names  are  not  John  Smith  and  his  young  wife, 
Mary  Smith.  You  wouldn't  want  to  know  their  names.  The  only  thing 
that  matters  is  that  they  are  together  again  and  that  out  of  the  wreck  of 
their  married  life  there  now  rises  the  promise  of  a  new  structure. 

The    story    belongs    to    Adjutant  The  beginning  was   different.     It 

Henderson,  of  the  Salvation  army,  was  in  Baltimore.  Maybe  he  was  at 
and  to  Mrs.  Henderson,  because  the  fault.  Maybe  it  was  she.  It  is  pos- 
gods  of  romance,  looking  over  all  sible  that  both  were  to  blame 
the  world,  picked  these  two  on  whom  (there's  no  blame  left  in  either  now), 
to  shower  the  golden  prize.  Many  They  were  young;  they  had  not  been 
things  come  to  a  Salvation  srmy  married  more  than  five  months. 
adjutant  and  his  wife,  and  the  things  There  was  some  financial  difficulty, 
that  lies  behind  their  patient  eyes  'limes  were  hard  and  work  was 
would  sometimes  make  other  p;o-  scarce  and  the  pay  was  none  to 
pie's  eyes  almost  pop  out  of  their  good.  It  uas  a  difficult  situation 
heads.  and  it  led  naturally  to  discontent. 

"It  happened  right  in  our  home."  Mary  Smith,  bride  of  five  months, 

the  adjutant  said.  "I'm  glad  of  thought  she  could  solve  it  by  goin? 
that."  to  work  heiself.     John    entered   no 


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■abjection.  So  she  went  to  work, 
made  a  little  money,  felt  the  confi- 
dence of  earned  money  in  her  pock- 
et, grew  more  sure-  -and  then  one 
day  John  came  home  to  find  her 
gone— cleared  out,  left,  deserted,  the 
home  a  blank,  the  whole  world  a 
blank. 

What  he  went  through  it  is  not 
necessary  here  to  record.  It  was 
not  pleasant.  He  searched  Balti- 
more, Washington,  Philadelphia,  and 
New  York.  He  went  through  it  all 
for  weeks;  and  he  ended,  where 
many  things  end  and  many  more  be- 
gin, at  the  Salvation  army. 

Neither  is  it  necessary  to  dig  into 
the  record  of  her  wanderings,  nor  to 
question  too  closely.  If  it  was  hard 
for  him,  it  was  hard  for  her.  Life 
jumped  up  and  grabbed  her  and 
shock  her.  But  life  didn't  shake 
anything  essential  out  of  her,  it  was 
too  deeply  rooted. 

Through  this  and  that,  through 
many  things,  she  came  at  last  to 
Greensboro,  a  far  cry  from  Haiti- 
more,  a  far  cry  from  New  York, 
where  she  had  been.  To  Mrs.  Hen- 
derson she  came  at  the  Salvation 
army  headquarters,  and  here  at  last 
a  tie  was  knit  between  Mary  Smith, 
wife,  and  John  Snith,  husband. 
Alary  was  with  the  Salvation  army 
in  Greensboro;  John  with  the  Salva- 
tion army  in  New  York 

'What  I  want  is  away  to  make 
$20  quick,"  she  told  Mrs.  Henderson. 
Why'.'  Because  I  want  railroad  fare 
t^ get  back  to  my  husband  and  to 
get.  to  him  quick.  I'm  through  with 
being  away  from  him." 

it's  a  long  way  from  Greensboro 
to  New  York,  but  the  eyes  of  the 
Salvation  army  laugh  at  miles.  The 
Missing  Persons'  department  listen- 
ed to  John  Smith  in  New  York,  and 


presently  the  word  was  dancing  back 
and  forth  that  if  John  Smith  came 
to  Greensboro  he  might  find  his  wife 
again. 

If  he  would  come!  He  came  with 
a  rush,  he  shot  down  out  of  the 
north  as  fast  as  trains  could  carry 
him,  and  Tuesday  afternoon  when 
Southern  train  No.  35  reached 
Greensbcro,  John  Sm<th  jumped  off 
and  asked  the  nearest  man  how  to 
get  to  the  Salvation  army. 

Adjutant  and  Mrs.  Henderson  and 
Mary  Smith  were  eating  supper. 
The  doorbell  rang  and  the  adjutant 
went  to  answer  it.  "I'm  looking 
for  Mrs.  Mary  Smith,"  said  the 
young  man.     "Is  she  here?" 

The  adjutant  took  him  by  the 
arm,  led  him  into  a  room,  talked  to 
him  quietly  for  a  while,  and  left  him 
there.  Walking  back  into  the  din- 
ing room,  he  said  to  Mrs.  Mary 
Smith: 

"There's  a  young  man  in  the  other 
room.     It's— it's  your    husband." 

Mary  Smith  almost  knocked  over 
the  supper  table  getting  out  of  her 
chair-  She  raced  out  of  the  room, 
down  the  hall,  into  the  other  room, 
and  swept  up  to  her  husband  with 
her  love  written  all  over  her  fa^a 
triumphant  once  more. 

"I  saw  them  get  together  and  then 
I  left,"  the  adjutant  said.  "That's 
the  story.  Think  you  can  write 
something  about  it? 

"And  you  might  say  something 
about  this,  too,  because  I  think  it's 
interesting.  John  Smith  was  con- 
verted in  New  York  last  Sunday  at 
a  Salvation  army  meeting,  and  that 
same  day  in  Greensboro  at  another 
Salvation  army  meeting  his  wife  was 
converted  too.  It  looks  as  though 
Somebody  was  running  things, 
dosen't  it?" 


■20  THE  UPLIFT 

Miss  Wallace  on  "Decoration." 

Yesterday  morning  at  the  court  bouse,  says  the  Greensboro  News  the 
home  economics  department  of  the  Women's  club  had  the  rare  privilege u{ 
listening  to  Miss  Maud  Wallace,  assistant  home  demonstration  agent,  give 
a  most  interesting  and  instructive  talk  on  "Interior  Decoiation. 

Miss  Wallace  began  by  saying  that  warned  the  women  against  the  high. 

the  ideal    home  is  a  background  for  ly  decorated    wall  papers    and  rugs, 

culture,  a  refinement  and  education,  advising  them  to  g^t  the  high  lights 

and  that  there  are  three  things  that  in  the  room  by  the  use  of  draperies, 

must  be  taken  into   consideration  at  bright    lamp  shades,    pillows,  vases, 

the  outset.     Mrst,  physical  comfort;  etc. 

second,    cleanliness    and    sanitation;  Above  everything,  she  urged  that 

and,  third  expense.  The  home  should,  cheap    imitations    be   avoided.    "If 

after  these  tilings  have  b?en  observ-  you  can't    buy  a  real    Wilton  velvet 

ed,    express    the    personality  of  the  rug,  then    get  a  rag    or  fibre  rug." 

owner.     Dr.    Parsons,    an  anthority  Miss  Wallace  insisted,  the  same prin- 

on    interior    decoration.    say»     that  ciple  applying  throughout  the  house. 
"a  room    or  house   more  impressive  One    of  the  principles  of  interior 

than  the  hostess  is  impertinent,"  and  decoration  most    often    abused  is  in 

Miss  Wallace    urged  that  the  entire  keeping  a    room  balanced    and  .Miss 

house  should  subservient  to  the  home  Wallace    mad    it    very  clear  to  her 

maker,    and  should    be  treated  'as  a  listeners  that  there  is  a  difference  in 

unit,  not  each  room  separately.  real  balance  and  hidden  balance,  but 

She  then  took  up  the  ideal  house,  that  both  serve  their,  purpose  in  the 

room    by    room,    telling   the  funda-  fitting  out  of  a    room.     She  showed 

mental    uses  of    the  rooms,  and  the  pictures  illustrating  her  meaning, 
manner  in  which  they  should  be  fur-  She  closed  h^r  talk  with  the  state- 

nished.   For  instance,  the  living  room  ment  that    there  are    just   as   many 

being  the  place  where  the  most  time  expensive    things    that    are    in  bad 

is  spent,  should  above  everything  be  taste  as  theie   are  cheap    things,  and 

comfortable,    with    ea-y    chairs  and  just  as    many    cheap   things  in  good 

shaded  lights  for  reading.  taste  as    expensive  ones,   and  urged 

In  taking  up  walls,  she  told  of  the  that  much  care  and   thought  be  giv- 

various  effects   of  colors,  and  stated  en  to  the  furnishing  of  the  home,  for 

that  when  a  large  area  is  to  be  treat-  it  is  ther?  that  the  fu'ure  citizenship 

ed   the  neutral   tints  are    best.     She  of  the  world  is  molded. 


"There  is  this  about  the  tax  burdens:  a  man  can  go  staggering  through 
life  now  without  being  accused  of  being  drunk." — Asheville  Citizen. 


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FITNESS    FOR    JURY    SERVICE 

BY  R.  R.  CLARK 

Everybody  -who  has  ever  witnessed  the  selection  of  a  jury  for  a  inurcler  trial 
or  other  important  trial  in  our  Superior  courts  has  noticed  that  in  questioning- 
prospective  jurors  to  determine  their  fitness  they  are  sometimes  asked:  "Are 
you  a  freeholder  ?"  which  being  interpreted  means,  Do  you  own  hind?  "Have 
you  served  on  a  jury  within  the  past  two  years?"'     Have  you  paid  your  taxes 


fur  the  past  year.'"'  Those  who  are 
accustomed  to  hear  these  questions 
probably  give  them  lit le  thought;  only 
a  few  may  wonder  why  the  ownership 
of  land,  or  having  served  on  a  jury 
within  he  past  two  years,  or  having 
paid  taxes  for  the  past  year,  could 
have  reasonable  bearing  on  one's 
fitness  to  sit  on  a  jury,  hear  the  evid- 
ence and  render  a  verdict  accordingly 
Recently  one  of  our  Superior  Court 
judges  remarked  that  he  always  re- 
sented hearing  the  first  two  questions 
asked.  The  second  question,  with  ref- 
erence to  former  jury  service,  is 
designed  to  keep  the  professional 
juror  out  of  the  box.  While  many 
men  avoid  jury  service  (which  is 
wrong  because  jury  service  is  a  most 
important  and  necessary  public  service 
which  all  good  citizens  should  rend- 
er when  called,  there  are  those  who 
like  to  sit  on  juries  and  who  make 
it  convenient  to  be  present  when 
jurors  are  to  be  called  into  the  box, 
in  tlie  hope  that  the  sheriff's  eye  will 
fall  on  them.  The  board  and  lodging, 
the  per  diem,  listening  to  the  pro- 
ceedings and  the  importance  attach- 
ed to  the  service  all  appeal  to  this 
class.  But  the  professional  juror  is 
nut  in  high  favor  and  while  he  is 
called  into  service  when  available 
jurors  are  scarce  and  allowed  to  serve 
if  nobody  objects,  the  provision  ex- 
cluding, in  certain  eases,  those  who 
have  served     on   a  jury     within   two 


years  is  designed  to  exclude  those 
persons  too  anxious  to  serve  and 
should  be  retained. 

But  what  has  land-holding  got  to 
do  with  jury  service  .'  Xothing.  It  is 
one  of  the  provisions  of  an  ancient 
time,  which  the  fathers  thought  desir- 
able, and  nobody  has  taken  the  pains 
to  make  an  issue  of  it  and  have  it 
changed.  It  should  lie  explained 
here  that  the  objections  mentioned  do- 
not  necessarily  exclude  one  from  jury 
service.  They  do  not  apply  to  jurors 
"drawn  from  the  box'' — to  the  regu- 
lar jurors  drawn  for  service  in  the  re- 
gular way.  They  apply  only  to  what 
are  called  tales  jurors  (tales  is  pro- 
nounced as  if  spelled  tal-is,  with  the 
accent  on  the  first  syllable,  and  is. 
applied  to  those  jurors  summoned 
from  the  bystanders,  called  in  by  the 
sheriff,  as  in  the  summoning  of  a 
special  venire  from  which  to  select 
jurors  if  the  regular  panel  is  ex- 
hausted). Selecting  jurors  from  tales- 
men, especially  for  an  important  and 
hard-fought  trail,  is  very  important 
to  those  concerned  and  all  the  ques- 
tions permitted  are  sometimes  asked  to 
exclude  one  who  is  objectionable  to 
one  side  or  the  other.  One  con- 
sidered desirable  may  be  passed  re- 
gardless of  whether  he  ever  owned  a 
foot  of  hind,  paid  a  cent  of  tax  and 
even  if  he  served  on  the  jury  at  the 
previous  term.  But  if  he  is  consid- 
ered  undesirable   for   service   in   that 


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,iou  oq  auki  ot[  luaSijppii  avoi{  .tojjiuu 

•OU   'pD'JSMOJUI  3SOIJ4   Aq  3SB0  .Ii:[lli 1 4.1  U' 1 

how  high  his  standing,  lie  is  stood 
aside  it'  lie  is  unable  to  answer  the 
questions  mentioned,  and  others,  sat- 
isfactrily;  and  he  can  he  stood  aside 
even  then  if  the  challenges  haven't 
been    exhausted. 

Back  in  the  dim  distant  past  land- 
holding'    was    considered    essential    to 
good   citizenship    in    this   part    id'   the 
■country.      The  idea  of  course  had   its 
origin  in  the  customs  of  the  "Moth- 
er Country'*  (England),  ami  the  man 
who   didn't   own   land   wasn't   consid- 
ered   lit    to   exercise   certain   preroga- 
tives.    In    North    Carolina,    for    inst- 
ance, one  couldn't  he  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate  and  couldn't  vote  for  a 
State  Senator  unless  he  owned  land. 
The  non-land-holder  could  vote  for  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Commons,  as 
a  Representative    in    the    Legislative 
was  called   in   that   day,   but   the   idea 
■WTqS   to    have    an     upper    house     that 
would  be  a  check  on  the  common  herd, 
and  so  the  State  Senate  was  elected 
by  the  land-holders.     It  is  a  matter*'  of 
history  that  a  young  lawyer  in  States- 
ville,  member  of  a  prominent   family, 
whose   father   was   a    land  lioidet'    but 
who  owned  no  land  in  his  own  right, 
was    desired    as    a    candidate    for    the 
State   Senate.   To  make     him    eligible 
friends    ami    admirers    deeded    him    a 
few  acres  of  land  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  county  (land  was  plentiful  and 
the    tract    donated    was    small    value 
then.)-  The  young  man  was  elected  to 
the  Senate  and  later  to  Congress.  Hut 
this    land-holding    qualifications    was 
too  aristocratic  for  plain  North  Caro- 
lina citizenship  and  its  unpopularity 
grew  with  the  years  until  it  became  a 
burning     political     issue.     David     S. 
Beid  of  Rockingham  county  espoused 


the  cause  of  free  suffrage  and  was 
elected  Governor,  and  with  his  elec- 
tion the  land-holding  qualification  for 
voters  passed.  But  the  restrictions  lias 
not  been  removed  from  jury  service 
and  the  tales  juror  who  is  not  a  free- 
holder may  be  excluded  from  the  box 
if  the  point  is  made.  That  restriction 
is  out  of  date  and  should  be  removed. 
In  fact  our  jury  system  could  be  re- 
vised in  several  particulars  in  the  in- 
terest of  justice  and  common  sense- 
but  the  legal  fraternity  are  great 
sticklers  for  precedents.  It  any- 
thing has  been  done  a  certain  way 
it  should  continue  to  be  done  that 
way  simply  because  it  has  been  done 
that  way,  no  matter  how  contrary  to 
common  sense  and  how  far  out  of  line 
with  present  day  conditions  the 
practice  may   be. 

But  while  land-holding  as  a  suff- 
rage qualification  was  repealed  more 
than  half  "century  ago  and  should  be 
repealed  as  it  applies  to  jury  services, 
it  must  be  admitted  that  the"  idea  of 
the  fathers  that  one  who  owned  land 
was  ;x  more  solid  and  stable  citizen, 
generally  speaking,  than  the  non- 
land-holder,  is  not  without  some 
foundation  in  fact.  It  is  generally 
admitted  in  this  day  that  home  owner- 
ship tends  to  good  citizenship;  that 
the  man  who  owns  his  home,  owns  a 
piece  of  ground,  who  lias  a  stake  in  the 
community,  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
enterprise,  is  more  concerned  in  good 
government,  is  more  conservative 
citizen  and  is  less  likely  to  break  out 
as  a  radical  revolutionist  then  one 
who  doesn't  own  a  home  and  has  loss 
at  stake  in  the  community.  In  other 
words,  the  home  owner,  the  property 
owner,  realizes  that  he  is  vitally  con- 
cerned in  matters  of  public  welfare; 
one   wdio  owns   little   or   nothing  'ias 


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little  or  nothing  to  lose  and  some  hope  exclusion  from  jury  service  of  those 
of  'T;;in  in  an  upheaval.  The  owner-  who  fail  to  pay  taxes  due.  One  who- 
ship  of  land  confined  to  a  few  is  ivilfully  and  negligently  fails  and  re- 
dangerous  to  the  stability  of  public  in-  fuses  to  pay  taxes  should  be  denied 
stitntions.  It  lias  'been  a  fruitful  rile  privilege  of  voting.  If  he  re- 
cause  of  trouble  in  the  old  country.  fuses  to  bear  his  share  of  the  cost  of 
P.  S,  I  neglected  to  say  at  the  pro-  government  he  should  have  no  voice 
per  phue  that  I  am  in  accord  with  the  in  public  affairs. 


A   VISION   OF  SONG   SERVICE 

BY  JEANNETTE  ELLIOTT  BIGGS 

So  many  persons  fail  to  recognize  the  peculiar  and  arduous  responsibili- 
ties facing  them  as  they  labor  in  the  teaching  force  for  >oung  peopie. 
Doubtless  each  teacher  that  puts  forth  strenuous  efforts  from  day  to  day 
to  train  the  young  lives,  given  into  their  care  for  several  hours  of  each  day,, 
is  sincere  in  proclaiming  to  the  listening  world  that  they  are  bearing  the 
greater  load  of  the  burden,  in  form-  mother  went  on  with  her  work,  pre- 
ing  the  character  of  those  young  paratory  to  fixing  lunch  for  the 
lives.  After  being  permitted  to  be-  children.  As  I  passed  far  down  the 
hold  the  wonderful  revelation  which  the  street,  those  humbly  uttered  but 
has  come  to  me,  I  am  honest  in  con-  triumphantly  happy  notes  resounded 
fessing  that  for  seventeen  years  1  in  my  ears.  Suddenly  the  vision 
labored  under  the  same  mistaken  came  to  me:  the  daily  toil  and  effort 
idea.  This  little  vision  I  want  to  to  get  her  little  folks  ready  for  school 
give  to  you,  hoping  it  may  reach  and  yet,  the  happy  armosphere  in 
your  heart  and  in  some  way  influence  which  they  began  the  day's  work, 
your  attitude  to  your  God-given  and  the  possibility  of  a  day  spent  at 
calling,  that  of  helping  parents  di-  school  under  direction  of  a  teacher 
rect  the  precious  little  souls  in  char-  who  would  not  radiate  the  same  hap- 
acter  building.  piness  in  her  work.  So  seldom  does- 
One  hot  summer  morning,  just  as  a  little  face  of  sadness  greet  you  in 
the  school  bells  were  summoning  the  the  early  morning---instead  each 
little  folks  to  work,  I  had  occasion  countenance  fairly  beams  with  ex- 
to  go  into  the  home  of  a  fami'y  pectant  happiness;  to  me  a  reflection 
where  six  children  had  just  been  of  the  mother's  smila  as  the  goodbye 
sent  off  to  school.  1  was  met  at  the  kiss  was  given.  How  many  teachers 
doer  by  the  smiling  mother,  dripping  send  those  little  folks  home  ashappy 
with  perspiration,  making  apologies  as  they  were  when  they  left  home 
for  her  neglected  toilet,  who  cheer-  that  morning?  How  long  will  it  tak-i- 
fully  gave  me  the  information  for  that  tired  mother  to  wipe  out  the 
which  I  had  come.  Ere  I  had  passed  discouragments  unconsciously  re- 
out  of  the  yard,  the  strains  of  the  ceived  from  you?  Possibly  her  little- 
old  familiar  hymn,  "Children  of  the  boy  did  not  have  as  brilliantly  pre- 
Heavenly  King,  As  We  Journey  pared  lessons  as  you  had  wished  for. 
Sweet  Sing,"    were    heard    as    this  or  her  little  daughter  had    nelected 


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-some  task  you  had  exacted.  Still 
could     not    you    have    guided     and 

•directed  that  work  with  more  tact 
and  cheerful  reproof?  Why  was 
that  mother  singing?  Doubtless  the 
passed-down  pants  with  many  a 
patch  or  the  faded  piece  of  hair 
ribbon  often  caused  a  tear  to  dim 
those  eyes;  yet  there  was  a  song  of 
sincere  gratitude  that  came  uncon- 
sciously to  those  lips,  praise  and 
prayer  to  God  that  she  might  meet 
the  opportunities  bravely,  trusting 
you  to  help  her.      And  you  teachers 

•can  sing,  too,  applying  the  lesson 
found  in  His  word  "Teaching  and 
admonishing  one  another  in  psalms 
and  hymns  and  spiritual  songs,  sing- 
ing with  grace  in  your  hearts  to  the 
Lord."  Mow  many  teachers  have 
the  privilege  of  having  under  their 
care  some  little  child  whose  mother 
is  in  heaven?  Had  you  been  per- 
mitted to  catch  the  strains  in  my 
vision,  of  that  earthly  song  which 
was  but  an  echo  of  the  happy  songs 
of  the  angel-mothers,  never  again 
would  any  service  rendered  that 
child  be  hut  a  labor  of  love. 

Your  service  is  arduous,  the  most 
arduous  of  any  assumed  vocation  in 
life,  but  it  should   only    supplement 


the  beauty   and    brightness    of    the 
home    life.     Where    there    is    little 
brightness  in  the   home,    you    could 
create  such  an    atmosphere  of    love 
and  brightness  in  your    class    room 
that  its  beauty  would    radiate    into 
the  home  and  overlap  the  loss  there 
Many,    many    teachers    who    are 
reaping    happy    results   with      their 
pupils  helping    to    form    characters 
worthy  of  the  parents'  fondest    am- 
bitions, have  in  some  form  or   other 
caught  this  vision;  had  I  the  artist's 
touch  or  the  musican's  gift,  I  would 
put  on  canvas  this  vision  or  I  would 
sing  to  each  of  you  the  strains,  that 
the    echoes    of    that    mother's  song 
with  faith    in  God  and  trust    in  you 
might  inspire  you  teachers  who  have 
not    been    touched    by    it   to  nobler 
ideas  of  service.     Never  will  you  be 
so  near    the    presence    of  the  great 
Teacher    as    when  you  are   striving 
in  joyful,    happy  service  to  join  this 
"choir    invisible,"    composed  of  the 
mothers    in  heaven,    the  mothers  on 
earth  and    the  little    people  of  God, 
all  blending  one  triumphant  song  of 
service    with    the    great    throng  of 
the    white-robed    angels   around  the 
throne    of    God.  — News  And  Obser- 
ver. 


MY  NICKNAME 

By  W.  E.  Hutchinson 

"Say  Bulger,"  said  .John  Marsden,  to  his  brother  Will,  •'loan  me  your 
knife,  mine's  o,s  dull  as  a  hoe." 

"Bulger,"  said  Will,  in  a  most  eontemptious  tone,  "if  you  don't  stop  call- 
ing me  by  that  name  I'll  not  loan  you  anything,  hut  give  you  a  sound  thrash- 
ing instead;  I'm  sick  and  tired  of  being  called  Bulger." 

Grandpa   Marsden,   who   was   listen-  worse  names  than  Bulgar,  and  it  docs 

ing  to  the  hoys  sparring,  said,  "Now  not  mean  anything  anyway.    I  never 

boys,  you  are  making  a,  good  deal  of  hear  John  call  you  Bulger  that  I  don't 

fuss  over  a  nickname;  there  are  lots  think  of  the  nickname  the  boys  save 


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me  when  I  was  .^  youngster,  and  they 
had  good  reason  to  do  it  too.  In- 
stead of  Bulger,  how  would  you  like 
to  be  called  Tubby?  Xot  a  very  nice 
name  is  it  .'  But  that's  what  the  boys 
called  me." 

"It'  you  could  have  seen  me  when 
I  was  your  age,  you  would  have  won- 
dered why  1  received  that  inappro- 
priate title,  for  [  was  just  the  opposite 
of  a  tub,  and  a  more  spindling,  awk- 
ward, bean-pole  of  a  boy  it  would  be 
hard  to  find." 

"Why,  grandpa!"  exclaimed  both 
bovs,  "To  think  that  you  ever  had  a 
nickname;  how  did  you  come  by  it, 
and  who  gave  it  to  you?  Please  tell 
us  about  it." 

"Well,"  said  Grandpa,  "It  hap- 
pened some  many  years  ago  that  [  had 
almost  forgotten  it,  but  now  to  look 
back  it  seems  but  yesterday.  Dear 
me,  how  the  time  (lies;  the  years  come 
and  go  and  leave  only  memories  in 
passing;  an  old  man  like  me  is  simply 
a  boy  grown  old,  and  trivial  things 
that  happened  when  I  was  a  youngster 
stand  out  prominently  in  my  memory. 
I  suppose  it  is  a  sure  sign  that  I  am 
in  my  dotage  when  an  old  codger  like 
me  lets  his  mind  run  back  sixty  years 
to  such  a  silly  thing  as  a  nickname. 

'"My  father  and  mother  came  from 
Xew  York  in  the  early  forties,-  and 
settled  in  what  was  then  the  wilder- 
ness of  Indiana.  Our  house  of  two 
rooms  was  built  of  logs  in  the  clear- 
ing with  woods  all  around  us;  the 
trees  close  at  hand  were  felled  in  or- 
der to  secure  the  logs  for  its  erection, 
and  many  of  the  stumps  were  left 
standing  until  such  time  as  they 
could  be  grubbed  out  anil  thus  give 
more  land  for  cultivation. 

'Our   nearest    neighbor,    the    Stan- 


ley's lived  about  two  miles  from  us,, 
and  most  of  the  way  to  the  home  lay 
through  a  thick  forest  of  beech  and 
■maple.  Between  our  place  and  the- 
Stanleys,  father  had  marked  out  a 
trail  by  blazing  the  trees,  that  is, 
ou'tini  a  e  •■  out  of  each  one  along 
the  way;  and  while  there  was  no  road. 
to  speak  of,  this  blazed  trail  answer- 
ed every  purpose  as  a  thorough-fare, 
for  we  seldom  visited  each  other  ex- 
cept on  foot. 

"At  one  pla.ee  a  brook  crossed  the 
trail  which  in  the  Spring  and  early 
Fall  became  quite  a  sizeable  stream; 
so  much  that  father  used  to  paddle 
for  some  distance  up  or  down  stream 
in  a  dug-out  canoe  that  he  fashioned 
by  hollowing  out  an  elm  log  by  the 
use  of  an  ax  and  hatchet  aided  by 
building  a  tire  along  the  trunk  and 
burning  away  the  wood.  Then  shap- 
ing the  ends  in  an  upward  curve.  As 
the  creek  ran  within  two  or  three 
rods  of  our  house  and  spread  out  in- 
to a  swamp  farther  on,  the  wild  grass 
in  this  damp  spot  grew  in  abundance, 
and  by  putting  a  platform  on  the  ca- 
noe father  was  able  to  gather  quite  a 
crop  without  much  trouble.  In  the 
summer  the  water  was  rather  low,  so 
much  so,  that  by  rolling  up  my  trous- 
ers I  had  no  trouble  in  wading  across, 
and  many  a  pickeral  have  I  taken 
from  the  stream. 

"Deer  were  plentiful  and  bear 
were  quite  often  met  with  in  the  for- 
est, in  fact,  almost  all  our  supply  of 
meat  consisted  of  vension  brought 
down  by  father's  old  flint  lock  rifle; 
but  an  occasional  partridge  or  quail 
that  I  caught  in  my  twitchups  and 
snares,  made  an  agreeable  change 
from  jerked  vension.  Occasionally 
Mr,     Stanley  brought  us  a     piece  of' 


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bear  went  that  he  had  shot,  for  he 
was  more  of  a  hunter  of  big  gaine 
than  father,  and  quite  often  spent  a 
•day  in  hunting  for  the  love  of  the 
sport,  when  he  might  have  been  bet- 
ter employed  about  his  clearing. 

"Everything  was  primitive  in  the 
•extreme,  for  it  was  a  new  country, 
and  the  nearest  settlement  was  some 
ten  miles  away;  but  1  loved  it,  not 
only  because  it  was  home,  but  for  the 
wild  free  life  that  appeals  to  all  boys. 

''I  can  look  hack  over  all  those 
years  and  see  myself  a,  red-headed, 
freckled-faced  boy.  with  but  one  sus- 
pender to  hold  up  my  dilapidated 
trousers;  a  hickory  shirt  on  my  back, 
and  with  my  head  covered  with  a  coon 
skin  cap  with  the  tail  dangling  over 
my  shoulder. 

"Those  were  happy  days;  I  was  too 
young  to  realize  what  a  vast  amount 
of  work  father  and  mother  had  to  do 
in  clearing  the  wild  land  and  raising 
a  scanty  crop,  but  with  no  cares  ex- 
cept the  few  chores  allotted  to  me,  I 
was  as  free  as  the  birds,  and  found 
my  greatest  pleasure  when  permitted 
to  visit  the  Stanleys'  by  way  of  the 
blazed  trail,  and  spend  a  couple  of 
hours  playing  with  Peter  Stanley  and 
bis  sister  Kate. 

"Peter  was  sixteen  years  of  age, 
three  years  my  senior,  and  Kate  was 
about  my  own  age.  Peter  was  my 
ideal;  large  for  his  age,  and  an  adept 
at  setting  trails,  and  many  a  musk- 
rat,  coon  and  mink  were  taken  there- 
in; and  once  to  the  joy  of  both  of  us, 
a  wild  cat  was  added  to  the  score,  and 
the  money  derived  from  their  pelts 
sold  in  the  settlement  helped  out  his 
scanty  purse. 

"All  our  clothing  was  of  homespun 
made   by   mother's   deft   fingers,   and 


the.  sound  of  the  spinning  wheel,  ami 
thump  of  the  loom  were  common 
sounds.  Dyeing  was  a  matter  of  some 
moment;  father's  clothing  as  well  as 
my  own  were  of  little  matter,  and  were 
invariably  of  butternut  brown;  but 
with  mother  the  case  was  different; 
she  longed  for  bright  colors,  and  poke 
berries  were  therefore  resorted  to  in 
order  to  supply  her  feminine  taste  fur 
variety. 

"The  process  of  dyeing  was  dune 
in  a  small  tub  known  as  Keeler  till), 
about  one  half  the  size  of  an  ordinary 
wash  tul),  one  stave  on  each  side  pro- 
jected above  the  rim  with  holes  bored 
through  therein  to  act  as  handles; 
the  only  tub  of  this  kind  in  our  locali- 
ty outside  of  the  settlement  was  own- 
ed by  the  Stanleys,  which  we  as  well 
as  the  other  neighbors  borrowed  as 
occasion  required. 

"One  morning  mother  started  me 
bright  and  early  to  Mrs.  Stanley's  to 
borrow  the  tub,  and  cautioned  me  not 
to  linger,  but  hurry  back  as  she  want- 
ed to  dye  the  goods  already  prepared, 
but  I  begged  so  hard  so  hard  to  be 
be  allowed  to  remain  a  little  while 
and  play  with  Peter,  that  she  relent- 
ed, and  said  I  might  stay  just  one 
hour  and  then  hurry  home. 

"Away  I  trudged  as  happy  as  a 
lark  to  think  I  could  lie  with  my  chum 
even  for  so  short  a  time.  I  suppose! 
did  not  hurry  as  I  might,  for  there 
was  so  much  to  attract  my  attention 
along  the  trail,  squirrels  barked  at  me 
from  the  trees,  bluejays  scolded,  cat- 
birds mewed  from  the  thicket,  ami 
cotton-tails  darted  across  the  road  in 
front  of  me,  and  boy-like  I  must  stop 
to  investigate,  and  who  could  blame 
me  for  loitering  by  the  way  with  so 
much  to  interest  me  on  every  band; 


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ore  it  was  nearly  noon  when  I      loot 


then 
arrived. 

''After  playing  with  Peter  for  an 
hour,  anil  yon  may  be  sure  I  made  the 
most  of  it,  Istarted  for  home  with  the 
Keeler  tub  turned  bottom  up  on  my 
head,  and  a  small  wooden  bucket  in 
either  hand  that  mother  bad  loaned 
Mrs.  Stanley. 

"I  was  two  thirds  of  the  way  home 
ami  had  just  crossed  the  creek  when 
I  saw  a  little  black  bear  cub  playing 
in  the  trail  ahead.  I  had  long  want- 
ed a  cub  for  a  playfellow,  and  here 
was  my  chance  to  secure  a  prize. 
doing  closer  I  whistled,  and  it  at  once 
sat  up  on  its  haunches  swinging  its 
head  from  side  to  side  in  a  most 
comical  manner,  and  I  thought  it 
the  cutest  animal  I  had  ever  seen  It 
made  no  effort  to  come  at  my  call,  al- 
though I  used  all  the  arts  known  to  a 
hoy  to  entice  him  to  my  side  by  pat- 
ting ray  leg  and  calling  him  nice 
cubby,  and  good  little  bear,  much  the 
same  as  one  calls  a,  dog,  but  all  to  no 
impose.  It  did  not  seem  to  fear  me, 
hut  ga/.ed  at  me  with  its  round  little 
eyes  as  if  I  were  a  curiosity.  Finally 
I  picked  it  up  and  tucking  it  under 
my  arm  started  on  much  pleased 
with  my  good  luck;  but  he  wiggled 
and  twisted  so  much,  and  ma.de  such 
queer  little  squeals  and  grunts,  en- 
tirely different  from  what  I  had  sup- 
posed a  bear  to  make,  that  I  was  sure 
I  had  come  into  possession  of  a  pecu- 
liar breed. 

"I  had  proceeded  this  way  for  some 
rods  and  was  geeting  rather  tired  with 
my  heavy  burden  and  stopped  for  a 
few  minutes  for  a  rest  putting  the  tub 
on  tlie  ground  and  sitting  down  to 
gloat  over  my  prize,  when  I  heard  a 
snapping  of  twigs     behind   me,     and 


ooKnig  over  my  shoulder  I  saw  as- 
large  black  bear  coining  towards  me,, 
and  growling  at   every  step. 

"I  was  frightened  nearly  out  of  my 
sehses,  but  slinging  the  tub  on  my 
head,  I  thrust  the  cub  into  one  of  the 
buckets,  and  started  on  the  run  for 
home,  his  little  black  nose  peeped  over' 
the  edge  of  the  bucket,  but  he  made 
no  outcry,  and  finally  settled  down 
and  seemed  to  enjoy   the  ride. 

"When  the  old  bear  came  too  close? 
I  faced  around  and  rattled  the  buckets 
in  her  face  which  served  to  stop  her 
for  a  minute,  and  then  hurried  on. 
This  I  did  a  number  of  times  until  I 
came  in  sight  of  the  house,  then  I  let 
out  a  yell  for  mother  which  brought 
her  to  the  door.  When  she  saw  me 
ajul  what  I  carried  in  the  bucket,  she 
called  out,  'Drop  that  cub  you  ninny, 
or  the  old  bear  will  eat  you  up.' 

'•  I  won't  said  i,  'it's  my  bear  and 
I  rattled  the  buckets  in  the  old  bear's 
face.  Mother  was  thoroughly  fright- 
end,  anil  fully  expected  to  sec  me  torn 
in  pieces,  and  redoubled  her  cries  for 
me  to  drop  the  cub,  which  I  flatly  re- 
fused  to   do. 

"By  this  time  I  had  reached  the 
house  and  hurried  through  the  door 
with  my  cub,  the  old  bear  close  at 
my  heels,  ami  determind  to  follow  me 
into  the  room,  but  mother  had  been 
making  corn  meal  mush  and  the  kettle 
full  of  tlie  yellow  meal  was  bubbling 
on  the  crane  in  the  fireplace,  and 
grabbing  this  off  the  hook  she  set  it  in 
the  doorway,  and  with  a  wooden 
paddle  used  in  stirring  tlie  meal,  she 
ladeled  the  hot  mush  on  the  old  bear's 
nose.  Time  after  time  she  slapped 
it  on,  tlie  bear  pawing  her  face  and 
nose,  and  howling  with  pain,  but  her 
severe  treatment  kept  the  bear  at  bay, 


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«,nd   between    each    ladleful    she   sent 
out  a  cry  Cor  father. 

"  Fortunately,  he  was  chopping 
"wood  nearby,  and  came  on  the  run, 
and,  watching  his  chance  with  a 
stroke  of  his  sharp  ax,  finished  the 
bear. 

"I  received  a  severe  scolding,  and 
but  for  tlie  fact  of  my  escaping  with 
a  whole  skin,  would  in  all  probability 
have  received  a  sound  thrasing. 

"Why  the  old  bear  did  not  attack 
me  has  always  been  mystery;  but  an 
old  hunter  who  stopped  with  us  over 
night  said  : 

'"You  can't  tell  uothin'  erbout 
bars;  they're  queer  critters;  at  an- 
other time  she  might  have  torn  ye  in 
pieces,  or  if  you  had  abused  the  cub. 
an't  it  had  given  a  cry  of  distress, 
there  wouldn't  have  been  nothin'  left 
but  your  jacket.'  This  was  in  all 
probability  the  (rue  solution,  but  1 
as  well  as  my  parents  were  glc.d  that 
I  escaped  with  my  life. 

"I  kept  that  cub  for  two  years, 
and  it  became  as  tame  as  a  dog, 
following  me  ajl  about  the  place,  dint 
it  became  a  boisterous  playfellow  and 
as  father  had  purchased  two  little 
pigs,  and  one  of  them  disppeared  one 
night,  and  the  theft  w:^s  traced  to 
the  bear,  father  took  him  to  the 
settlement,  and  sold  him;  but  for 
years  afterward  in  our  neighborhood 
I  was  nicknamed  Tubby;  and  when 
the  boys  in  the  settlement  wished  to 
be  especially  mean  thev  called  me, 
Tubbv  the  Bear." 


T/herein  There  Is  To  Be  No  Extinction. 

The  Uplift  makes  reference  to 
the  death  of  Col.  Wilson  G.  Lamb 
as  that  of  a    representative  of  "the 


man,"  definition  of  which  it   admits 
is    difficult     of    undertaking.     This 
old  school,"  of  the  "old  type  gentle- 
type  must'be  of  personal  assizement, 
and  The  Uplift  submits  in  example, 
"Col.  Penn  Wood,  of  Aaheboro;  Col. 
Baldy    Boyden,     of    Salisbury;    Col,' 
Frank    Robbins,    of  Lexington;  Mr. 
J.     P.     Allison,     of   Concord;     Col. 
Brevard      McDowell,    of    Charlotte; 
Major  Franklin  McNeill,  of  Raleigh; 
Judge    H.    G.    Connor,    of    Wilson; 
Hon.      Rufus     Doughton,    ot     Alle- 
ghany."   The  Uplift  advisedly  adds 
the  saving    clauses    that    "in    fact, 
every  county  of   the    good  old  State 
may  boast  the  presence    in  numbeis 
of  the  old-time  gentleman."     To  be 
sure,  while  this    type    of   citizen   is 
progressively      disappearing     it     is 
never    to    become   extinct  in  North 
Carolina,    for    they  raise   sons    like 
themselves— sons    who  regard  it  the 
highest  honor    in    life  to  be    able  to 
"till  their  shoes."    This  circumstance 
has  ^notable   demonstration    in  Wil- 
mington  whose    history    establishes 
colonization    of  the  largest    number 
of   the  "old  type  gentleman"    with- 
in the  bounds  of  the  State,  and  while 
the    personnel    there    has    changed, 
the  conditions  remain  the  same.  The 
men    of  the  present  generation    are 
the  true  copies  of 'the  men  who  have 
gone  before  them.     They    are  actu- 
ated   by  the    same  lofty  ideals,   the 
same    sense  of  honor  and   they  lay 
claim     to    chivalry     as  one    of    the 
greatest  virtues. 

The  "old  type"  will  always  exist 
in  North  Carolina.  It's  in  the  blood; 
it's  an  inheritance—it  is  the  State's 
proudest  asset  in  heredity.  We 
mourn  the  old  fellows  as  they  pass 
away,  but  there  are  living  all  around 
us  men  who,  attaining  equality  in 
age,    will  likewise  attain  the    finest 


THE  UPLIFT 


29 


characteristics    and    virtues  of    the 
forefathers. 


i 


COMMENT  ON  MISS  MARY'S 
WEDDING. 

Princess  Mary,  the  only  daughter  of 
llio  king  and  queen  of  England,  wed- 
ded Viscount  Lascelles  amid  cere- 
monials that  measured  up  to  the  best 
traditions  of  royalty.  Eight  queens 
according  to  newspaper  reports  at- 
tended the  marriage. 

"The  world  is  tired  of  kings,"  rang 
from  one  end  of  the  earth  to  the  other 
during  the  world  war.  Thai  may  be 
true.  But  the  queens  are  still  able 
to  males  a  very  creditable  showing, 
with  eight  at  an  English  wedding. 

The  nations  of  the  earth  spent  sev- 
eral hundred  billion  dollars  "to  make 
tin'  world  safe  for  democracy,"  to 
useWoodrow  Wilson's  famous  phrase. 
But  there  does  not  seem  to  be  quite 
so  much  democracy  abroad  in  the 
world  as  one  might  have  supposed. 
The  wide  interest  in  the  functions  of 
royalty  indicate  that  England  lacks  a 
great  deal  of  being  a  republic,  The 
Englishman  \\  ill  not  allow  his  king  any 
])0\ver,  but  deep  down  in  his  heart  is 
on  abiding  reverence  for  royalty.  Vet- 
he  should  not  be  censored  too  severely 
fur  it.  This  conservatism  and  loyalty 
to  the  ancient  landmarks  have  served 
him  well  through  the  long  trouble- 
some centuries  of  his  history. 

With  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury 
assisted  by  the  bishop  of  London,  of- 
ficiating at  the  marriage  of  the  king's 
daughter,  -omuls  good  to  the  ears  of 
an  Englishman  and  even  better  to  an 
English  woman.— Greensboro  Advo- 
cate. 


Sec  by  tile  papers  that  a  noisy  wed- 


ding took  place  in  old  London  town 
Tuesday  when  Miss  Mary  of  Windsor 
became  the  bride  of  a  man  whose 
naine  was  mentioned  as  among'  those 
present,  part  of  the  joy  over  the  event 
being  due  to  the  fact  that  Miss  Mary 
picked  out  a  British  gentleman  instead 
of  a  foreign  prince.  From  all  ac- 
counts Miss  Mary  had  the  dress- 
makers visit  her  before  the  glad  event 
and  she  was  goriously  arrayed  for  the 
occasion,  with  an  extra  frock  or  two 
for  another  day.  She  and  the  groom, 
said  to  be  the  most  bejeweled  man  in 
England,  looked  line — they  looked  like 
a  horse  and  buggy.  Which  one  couldn't 
say  more.  They  heal  a  wedding  'cake 
which  weighed  live  thousand  pounds; 
so  no  doubt  they  had  some  cake  left 
over  to  start  house-keeping  on. — The 
Robesohian. 

"HARBXNGEES  OP  SPRING." 

I  had  a  bunch  of  most  pleasant  vis- 
itors one  day  last  week,  a  Hock  of  per- 
haps ;ts  many  as  150  red  breast  robins. 
When  1  came  home  from  the  city  a 
little  after  noon  I  found  them  in  my 
woods;  having  scratched  it  all  over, 
digging  small  holes  with  the  bills,  evi- 
dently fishing  out  a  choice  worm. 
Later  in  the  day  they  joined  a,  drove  of 
Held  larks  in  the  front  of  the  house, 
and  all  the  afternoon  the  lawn  was 
dotted  with  red  breasts  and  larks 
digging  worms  out  of  the  grass.  At 
nightfall  the  robins  Hew  back  into  the 
pines  to  roost. 

These  visitors  were  doubly  welcome, 
as  they  were  mates  of  my  boyhood, 
when  they  followed  the  plow  in  spring, 
getting  the  grubs  I  turned  up.  Then 
they  stayed  with  us  all  the  year,  ate 
all  the  cherries  they  could,  raised  their 
voung,  and  made  lots  of  noise  doing 


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THE  UPLIFT 


it.  The  young  were  a  venturesome 
small  set,  prone  to  try  their  wings  all 
too  soon,  falling  the  easy  prey  of  a  eat. 
I  do  not  know  why  they  refuse  to 
nest  with  me  now  unless  there  are  too 
many  other  birds  on  the  place  to  di- 
vide a  living  with. — C.  W.  H. 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

Supt.  Boger  has  been  in  Raleigh 
for  a  few  days  on  a  business  trip. 

We  are  happy  to  report  that  Mr. 
T.  V.  Talbert's  mother,  of  Concord, 
is  very  much  improved. 

Saturday  was  a  day  of  unusual 
enjoyment  to  the  boys.  Games  of 
all  sorts  were  on  the  programme. 

From  Sunday,  our  weather  has 
bpen  very  favorable  toward  base  ball. 
The  team  intends  to  make  a  record 
worth  recording  this  season. 

Mrs.  Steavens,  of  Newborn,  came 
to  the  school  Sunday,  and  brought 
with  her  a  new  arrival  for  the  school. 
He  is  doing  fine,  from  last    reports. 

Mr.  Dickey  of  Chapel  Hill,  brought 
a  new  arrival  Monday.  He  has  been 
assigned  to  seventh  cottage,  and  al- 
so Mr.  Taylor,  of  Fayetteville, 
brought  a  boy  in  the  person  of 
James  Fisher. 

The  Printing  Office  has  ordered 
some  new  type.  This  will  greatly 
improve  the  appearance  of  ')  he 
Uplift  as  the  worn  type  in  use 
was  greatly  in  need  of  changing. 

Sunday,  while  on  pump  duty, 
Vass  Fields  was  the  recepient  of 
some  very  heartily  welcomed  visitors. 
These  were:  Messrs.  C.  I.  Miller," 
Ralph     Andrews,  Palmer  and    Har- 


waid. 

The  pavilion  being  the  plae?  for 
congregating,  the  boys  must  have 
some  means  of  rest  for  the  officers 
in  charge.  Realizing  this,  the  wort 
shop  made  a  long  and  large  com- 
modious bench  for  them. 

Once  more,  the  boys  shoes  are  hs- 
ing  mended.  This  work  is  being 
done  by  Mr.  Horton.  This  may  be 
the  last-  mending  to  be  done  for 
seven  or  eight  months  now,  as 
spring  weather  is  with  as  and  the 
boys  will  soon  discard  their  shoes. 

Last  Tuesday  evening  Band' 
master  Lawrence  was  industriously 
training  his  band  for  its  first  public 
appearance  to  be  held  in  the  Aud- 
itorium that  night.  The  band  was 
to  play  in  honor  of  Mr.  Whitehead 
Klutz,  of  Salisbury,  who  was  the 
speaker  for  the  night.  He  was  in. 
troduced  by  Mr.  Charlie  Ritc-he.  His 
very  eloquent  speech  was  enjoyed  kj 
the  boys  as  wa?  evidenced  by  Iheir 
prolonged  applause. 

Fifth  Cottage's  Society,  the  Shain 
Literary  Society  elected  it's  officers' 
last  Friday.  It  held  it's  weekly  de- ! 
bate  on  that  date  also.  Some  time! 
previous  the  President  wrote  a  letter  | 
to  Miss  Easdale  Shaw,  of  Rocking- i 
ham,  for  whom  it  was  named.  She  • 
stated  that  she  had  been  away  from 
home  for  a  long  time  and  that  was: 
the  cause  of  her  delay  in  answering! 
the  lettei;she  states  that  ifjthe  Soci- 
ety names  it's  date,  she  will  be  aj 
visitor  at  that  time. 

Rev.     Mr.      Myers,    of   Concord, 
spoke  from  the  Auditorium  plaforra  j 
Sunday.      His  subject  was  the  Bible  | 
"Be's."     He  took    our    black  board  j 
and  first  drew  a  bee  hive.     Then  he 
placed  the  bees  in  it.  All  hives  must  \ 


THE  UPLIFT 


31 


have  a  queen  bee.  The  queen  Bee 
was  "Be  Born  Again,"  Others  were: 
Be  Thankful,  Kind,  Cheerful,  Dili- 
gent, Strong  and  Honest.  An  in- 
stance of  bis  Be  Thankful  was:  Once 
a  painter  who  had  been  a  sinner  was 
conveited.  Soon  after  his  conver- 
sion, he  acquired  the  habit  of  saying, 
"Thank  the  Lord  for  that,''  on  any 
and  every  occasion.  A  day  came 
when  he  was  called  to  work  three 
stories  high  on  a  bank  building-.  Due 
to  some  unknown  decission  of  Fate, 
he  fell  the  height  of  the  three  stories 
and  broke  his  arm.  A  friend  of  his 
came  to  his  bedside  and  said  "Well, 
I  don't  guess  you'll  say  thank  the 
Lord  for  thac?  But  the  painter 
answered,  "Yes,  thank  the  Lord  it 
wasn't  my  neck." 


What  Church  Is  That? 

Did  you  ever  hear  such  a  question? 
Did  anyone  ever  ask  it  of  you?  Did 
you  ever  in  traveling  along  a  strange 
road,  pass  a  church,  and  want  to 
know  its  local  name  and  denomina- 


tional connection?  Of  course  you 
have---all  of  us  have  had  such  as  ex- 
perience. 

The  cross  roads  store  is  marked- 
owner's  name  and  what  line  is  car- 
ried. Postoffice*  are  marked,  rail- 
road station,  manufacturing  plants, 
hotels,  theaters  and  so  on.  But  the 
little  church  is  silent.  She  tells  no 
stranger  who  she  is,  what  she  is, 
when  built,  when  and  how  often  ser- 
vices held,  or  who  is  her  pastor.  She 
does  not  talk.     Strange,  isn't  it? 

Many,  city  churches  are  marked, 
but  few,  if  any,  rural  churches  are 
marked.  Would  it  be  worth  while? 
The  tourist  would  possibly  take  pride 
in  knowing  that  "the  church  by  the 
side  of  the  road"  is  of  his  denomina- 
tion. One  church  might  be  the  means 
of  carrying  the  name  and  work  of  its 
denomintaion  thousands  of  miles. 

Now,  we  do  not  mean  a  flashy  sign, 
a  regular  billboard,  but  a  simple 
marker  in  the  form  of  a  shield,  say, 
or  something  of  that  kind. 

Is  it  worth  while?  Study  about  it 
the  next  church  you  pass  and  do  not 
know  its  name.— Christian  Sun. 


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BOTTOM. 

Without  God  man  is  merely  a  machine.  He 
has  a  body  which  can  do  certain  physical  work 
for  society;  hut  a  man's  body  is  as  useless  as 
a  brute's  body  except  when  under  intelligent 
direction  Man  can  be  more  destructive  than 
a  brute  if  he  hc;s  no  conscience  to  restrain  him. 
The  mind  can  direct  the  body  so  that  its 
energies  will  be  employed  along  useful  ones, 
provided  the  mind  itself  is  under  spiritual  con- 
trol, and  that  brings  us  back  to  faith  in  God. 

Upon  belief  in  God  rest  all  the  uplifting  in- 
fluences in  life — consciousness  of  responsi- 
bility; comfort  in  the  assurance  of  God's 
presence;  prayer,  through  which  the  heart  is 
opened  to  divine  suggestions;  and  the  future 
life  with  its  rewards  and  punishments.  When 
man's  hold  upon  God  is  loosened  he  falls,  and 
there  is  no  bottom  to  the  pit  into  which  he 
plunges. — Bryan. 


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WHY  NOT? 

Dr.  Brocks,  of  the  North  Carolina  E  lucational  Department,  lias  very  wise- 
ly taken  the  bit  in  his  mouth  and  rule!  that  children  living  in  the  outlying 
territory  surrounding  a  town  or  city  school  may  attend  the  central  school 
for  the  public  school  term,  provided  the  Board  of  Education  appropriates 
what  funds  may  be  due  for  that  period  and  the  patron  agrees  and  does  pay 
for  the  additir.al  term  of  school  extending  beyond  the  usual  free-term. 

The  School  Board  of  Concord  is  asking  for  a  bond  issue  of  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars  for  the  enlargement  of  school  facilities.  If  th?  money  is 
wisely  spent— the  public  getting  a  dollar's  worth  for  every  dollar  appro- 
priated—it is  a  fine,  progessive  step  for  the  community.  But  the  thing  on 
which  the  city  and  the  county  boards  should  get  to-gethcr,  and  this  is  the 
occassion  for  this'  suggestion,  is  the  business  of  caring  for  the  several  hun- 
dred children  living  outside  and  surrounding  Concord,  who  have  practically 
no  educational  advantages.  An  imaginary  line,  separating  town  from 
country,  is  no  excuse  for  children  on  one  side  of  said  line  getting  fine  pri- 
vileges and  the  children  on  the  other  side  getting  the  sorriest  kind  of  adv- 
antages. No  chain  is  stronger  than  the  weakest  link,  applies  to  the  cause 
of  schools  if  we  ate  to  believe  all  that  is  said  about  the  refining  and  elevat- 
ing influences  of  education  upon  a  community  and  section. 

Concord  has  her  troubles  and  is  not  expected  to  invite  others,  but  from 
a  selfish  stand-point,  if  not  on  larger  and  mere  patriotic  grounds,  the  town 
of  Concord  profits  much  by  the  advancement  and  contentment  of  the  rural 
people  of  the  entire  county.  There  is  a  rojm  for  a  brotherhood  business 
in  this  thing.  Some  of  these  days,  a  merchant  will  want  a  clerk  who  does 
not  always  watch  the  clock--he  sometimes  turns  to  the  country  to  find  him. 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

It  is  to  the  interest  of  both  that  the  country  fellow  has  had  favorable  ed- 
ucational advantages.  The  mills  send  out  inducements  for  rural  families 
to  take  employment.  Would  they  mt  welcome  the  fact  that  that  family 
had  had  good  educational  advantages  and  had  not  grown  up  in  ignorance? 
If  tnese  things  are  not  true,  then  education  does  not  do  what  is  claimed 
for  it,  and  business  men  and  manufacturing  corporations  prefer  to  use  and 
work  those  who  have  been  strangers  to  the  refining  and  hopeful  influences 
of  adequate  educational  advantages. 


"We  haven't  our  exhibit  ready,  in  fact  the  seed  are  not  yet  in  the  ground 
but  it  is  announced  that  the  State  Fair  will  be  held  at  Raleigh  on  October 
1G,  17,  IS,  19  and  20.  Tha  management  is  busy.  New  letter-heads  have  | 
been  put  in  use.  They  are  printed  in  blue  and  red,  or  to  be  exact  the  whole 
thing  is  engraved.  They  have  a  manager,  a  typical  Westerner,  who  is  an  - 
expert,  to  direct  the  publicity.  He  announces  to  the  North  Carolina  public, 
not  as  an  advertisement  but  as  a  chance  to  make  ten  dollars— just  as  easy. 
If  you  will  semi  in  to  the  "Manager  of  the  State  Fair,  Raleigh,  N.  C.."a 
suitable  SLOGAN  by  the  25th  of  March,  and  it  is  accepted,  you  are  sure  to 
•receive  ten  dollars.  It  must  not  be  over  six  words,  short  somewhat  iike  | 
this:  "Let's  go." 


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The  legislative  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the  educational  busi- 
ness of  the  state,  diagnose  the  troubles  in  school  law  and  propose  a  remedy 
for  the  thing,  held  its  initial  meeting  in  Raleigh  on  Thursday  of  last  week. 
This  commission  is  composed  of  lions.  H.  G.  Connor,  Jr.,  of  Wilson,  W.  C. 
Dowd,  of  Charlotte,  D.  F.  Giles,  of  Marion,  and  T.  D.  Warren,  of  New 
Bern.     Their  work  is  not  only  important  but  vital. 


Our  readers  do  not  want  to  miss  reading  and  thinking  about  Iredell's 
community  and  betterment  programme,  which  a  live  and  industrious  wo- 
man has  prepared  for  the  advancement  of  the  whole  county  in  all  lines.  It  i 
will  be  worth  a  trip  to  merely  hear  the  singing,  a  thing  that  is  a  rarity  in 
many  of  our  public  schools  largely  because  the  teacher  herself  has  no  music 
in  her  soul. 

Hon.  C.  A.  Reynolds,  the  State  Chairman  of  the  Republican  organization, 
having  reached  the  age  of  74,  indicates   that  he    will  retire  from  the  head 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

of  the  party  at  the  coming'  convention,  in  order  that  a  younger  man  may 
tike  the  resp ^risibilities.  Mr.  Reynolds  for  many  years  has  been  active  in 
political  matters,  is  a  man  of  wonderful  powers,  and  was  for  four  years 
Lieutenant  Governor  of  the  state. 

That  was  a  beautiful  tribute  paid  to  the  maimry  of  Col.  Wilson  Lamb, 
by  the  Democratic  Executive  Committee  in  Raleigh  last  week.  Indeed,  were 
the  words  of  Governor  Morrison  on  that  occasion  most  tender,  sincere  and 
touching.  Death  has  but  little  sting  if  such  a  record  may  be  left  behind". 

Congressman  Edward  Pou,  one  of  the  most  brilliant  men  of  the  state, 
has  been  selected  by  Chairman  J.  D.  Norwood,  to  deliver  the  key-note 
speech  at  the  State  Democratic  convention,  which  meets  in  Raleigh  on 
April  20th. 


THE  LION  AND  THE  S  I'M  UE 

A  Man  and  a  Lion  were  discussing  the  relative  strength  of  men 
and  lions  in  general.  The  Man  contended  that  he  and  his  fellows 
were  stronger  than  lions  by  reason  of  their  greater  intelligence. 
"Come  now  with  me,"  he  cried,  "  and  I  will  prove  that  I  am 
right."  So  he  took  him  into  the  public  gardens  and  showed  him  a 
statue,  of  Hercules  evercoming  the  Lion  and  tearing  his  mouth 
in  two. 

"That  is  all  very  well,"  said  the  Lion,  "but  proves  nothing,  for  it 
was  a  man  who  made  the  statue." 

"WE  CAN  EASILY  REPRESENT  THINGS  AS  WE  WISH  THEM 

TO    BE. 


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MISS  CATHERINE  WILSON 
Home  Demonstrator  of  Cabarrus  County 


THE  UPLIFT 


A  Worthwhile  Agency 

On  another  page  The  Uplift  carries  the  picture  of  Miss  Catherine  Wilson, 
the  Cabarrus  county  Home  Demonstrator,  who  has  been  in  the  midst  of  our 
people  for  little  more  than  a  year.  As  a  text  for  this  article  the  writer 
merely  wants  to  say,  aside  from  a  few  pers  >nal  remarks  with  reference  to 
this  very  superior  woman  and  her  identi location  with  the  important  work 
that  engages  her  time  and  best  thought,  that  Miss  Wilson  has  made  good. 


I  know  that  is  the  very  highest 
compliment  that  one  could  pay  to 
the  work  and  accomplishment  of  any 
officer.  There  are  occasions  when 
such  a  statement  would  be  not  only 
ridiculous  but  real  comedy.  The 
fact  that  men  and  women  of  tine 
parts  sometimes  make  blunders  and 
failures,  may  not  be  the  result  of 
carelessness  or  indifference  but  are 
occasioned  by  lack  of  adaptability, 
by  unfitness  for  the  work  and  often- 
times by  the  absence  of  vision.  Fail- 
ures have  occurred  just  this  way 
among  home  demonstrators,  teach- 
ers, school  superintendents  and,  in 
fact,  in  every  walk  of  life. 

It  has  been  my  fortune,  privilege 
and  very  great  pleasure  to  mingle 
pretty  freely  with  the  rural  people 
of  the  county.  I  have  come  to 
know  very  intimately  the  hardships 
and  the  drawbacks,  real  and  imagi- 
nary (together  with  the  unalloyed 
joys  of  the  country)  that  can  be  in 
a  large  measure,  if  not  wholly,  wip- 
ed out  by  the  creation  of  a  commu- 
nity spirit,  by  co-operation  and  by 
the  development  and  activity  of 
those  agencies  which  forward  think- 
ing legislators  have  made  possible. 
The  rural  schools  could  be  made, 
with  a  broad  policy  in  vogue  and 
directed  by  an  unselfish  man  that  is 
not  so  obsessed  with  his  superior 
knowledge  and  could  be  aroused 
from  a  blinding  laziness,  to  serve    a 


mighty  purpose;  but  wherever  this  is 
lacking,  that  agency  that  inspires  a 
coummunity  spirit  and  encourages 
the  hope  and  ambition  of  self-help 
will,  in  time,  force  the  coming  of 
the  improvements  so  much  needed 
and  hasten  the  day  when  rural  folks 
may  come  into  their  own. 

Miss  Wilson,  whose  presence  in 
our  midst  is  the  main  occasion  for 
the  foregoing  observations,  is  a  na- 
tive of  Chester  county,  South  Caro- 
lina, a  typical  representative  of  a 
fine  family  that  has  rendered  a  fine 
service  in  the  Palmetto  state.  Edu- 
cated at  elrskin  and  Winlhrop  col- 
leges, she  took  a  special  training 
for  the  work  to  which  she  is  devot- 
ing her  talents  and  energies  at  a 
Baltimore  institution.  Added  to  her 
natural  abilities,  her  educational  at- 
tainments and  her  tact  and  love  for 
her  work,  is  a  successful  experience 
in  teaching  in  rural  schools.  No 
wonder  a  lady  with  these  accomplish- 
ments, these  experiences  and  this 
consuming  pas;ion  and  energy  to 
make  her  work  a  go,  has  won  the 
confidence  and  the  esteem  of  those 
who  have  seen  the  direct  benefits  of 
her  efforts. 

Though  only  in  the  county  for  a 
period  of  a  year,  she  has  made  a 
choice  acquaintance  that  covers  the 
county.  She  knows  the  county  to- 
day and  understands  the  people  and 
their  tastes  better  than  many   men. 


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THE  UPLIFT 


who  have  been  born  and  reared  in 
the  county.  She  has  organized  six 
Coommunity  Clubs,  now  strong  and 
vigorous  agencies  for  good  in  their 
several  sections.  In  co-operation 
with  the  Farm  Demonstrator  in  this 
community  work  she  has  encourag- 
ed the  culture  of  flowers,  tree-plant- 
ing, made  inspirational  talks  on  bet- 
ter schools,  importance  of  telephone 
connection  and  the  reading  of  choice 
literature  and  magazines  that  deal 
with  the  problems  of  rural  life. 

In  the  Girl's  Clubs,  which  she  has 
organized,  she  treats  on  those  sub- 
jects that  please  the  tastes  and  con- 
cerns the  affairs  of  the  y  jung  people. 
Some.prefer  gardening,  others  poul- 
try raising;  but  great  stress  is  placed 
on  the  mission  of  the  sewing  clubs, 
such  as  making  hats  and  dresses. 
And  what  could  be  more  serviceable 
and  valuable  to  the  average  country 
girl,  as  well  as  to  the  town  girl,  than 
a  proficient  knowledge  of  needle- 
craft,  thus  becoming  independent 
of  impossible  prices  and  the  learning 
how  to  take  left-overs  and  convert 
them  into  something  that  appears 
new  and  is  as  serviceable  and  often- 
times more  attractive  than  some- 
thing bought  anew.  The  power  of 
making  much  out  of  the  little,  is  an 
accomplishment  well  within  possi- 
bility and  is  the  first  lesson  in  suc- 
cessful home  making  and  house- 
keeping. 

In  the  Women's  Clubs  different 
phases  of  the  home  are  discussed, 
such  as  interior  decoration,  canning, 
the  economical  solution  of  problems 
that  confront  every  house-keeper 
and  the  possibilities  of  making  the 
kitchen  and  dining  room  function  to 
the  best  advantage  under  varying 
conditions.:  Nine  of  these  clubs  have 
been  formed:  ■  .        ;  .' 


Among  the  big  things  Miss 
Wilson  hopes  to  stress  throughout 
the  coming  year  is  the  Year-round 
garden,  better  quality  of  poultry, 
better  breed  of  pigs  and  a  greater 
care  of  the  family  cow— in  this  she 
has  anticipateil  Gov.  Morrison's 
campaign.  She  hopes  to  see,  also,  the 
time  soon  come  when  the  various 
clubs  in  the  several  sections  of  the 
county  may  federate  to  the  end 
of  making  the  entire  county  a  unit 
in  sympathy  and  ambition  to  bring 
rural  life  in  Cabarrus  to  the  highest 
possible  development.  This  is  a 
noble  purpose,  in  which,  much  valu- 
able material  now  going  to  waste  or 
missing  much  of  the  advantages  of 
country  life  may  be  turned  to  a  larg- 
er and  better  service  by  encourage- 
ment and  direction. 

That's  a  very  fine  slogan  Miss 
Wilson  carries  with  her  wherever  she 
goes  in  her  faithful  old  Ford,  which 
she  drives  like  a  past-master, 
"MAKE  THE  BEST  BETTER." 
What  a  glorious  accomplishment 
would  follow  if  all  men  and  all  wo- 
men, in  all  the  activities  of  this  life, 
should  live  up  to  the  ambition  of 
that  slogan!  It's  a  happy  combina- 
tion— Miss  Wilson  likes  the  Cabar- 
rus people  and  the  Cabarrus  people 
like  Miss  Wilson;  and  may  the  frood 
work  continue  to  grow  and  prosper. 
Just  what  th's  splendid  woman  is 
doing,  is  being:  duplicated  in  other 
counties  of  the  state  where  wise  se- 
lections have  been  made.  Ths  value 
of  the  work,  in  the  aggregate,  is  in- 
estimable. Early  in  the  life  of  this 
work  there  were  some  misgivings, 
fearing  that  the  people  would  not 
take  kindly  to  the  innovation.  But 
these  misgivings  soon  vanished;  and 
now  every  observing  citizen  gives  it 
a  hearty  endorsement. 


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THERE    WILL  BE   NO    "MIRACLE" 

F  The  recent  adoption  of  text-books  for  the  public  schools  of  the  state  was 
made  under  the  provisions  of  a  law,  the  bill  for  which  was  prepared  by  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Education.  It  gave  enormous  latitude  and  power 
to  the  Text-Book  Commission.  It  is  said  that  this  Commission  prepared  an 
outline  of  study  before  ever  considering  books.  Probably  there  is  not  a  doz- 
en intelligent  people  in  North  Carolina  who  could  not  pick  the  real  author 
of  the  allege  I  "course  of  study.''  Practically  a  elesn  s\veep  of  the  books 
now  in  the  hands  of  the  public  school  children  of  North  Carolina  was  ordered 
by  the  Commission,  which,  in  a  great  degree,  tied  the  hands  of  the  state  Board 
of  Education.  On  the  ISth  of  February  Dr.  Brooks,  in  making  the  announce- 
ment of  the  final  result,  accompanied  it  with  a  defensive  statement. 

This  prophecy  of  the  results  was  so  unusual  and  so  unlike  what  had  oc- 
curred thiough  other  and  former  adoptions,  school  men  and  school  officers, 
who  have  been  long  in  the  service,  felt  that  a  "miracle''  had  been  performed. 


Dr.  Brooks  Said  Feb.  18:  "In 
completing  this  adoption,  therefore, 
the  State  Board  of  Education  has  had 
due  regard  first,  for  the  needs  of  the 
children,  and  second,  for  the  cost  of 
hooks  to  the  puplis.  And  in  provid- 
ing for  the  needs  the  Board  has  made 
it  possible  for  the  schools  to  meet  the 
needs  of  the  chlidren  in  a  large  way 
without  placing  r,ny  financial  burden 
upon  the  patrons." 


Admissions  on  March  8  in  the 
Raleigh  News  &  Observer  in  an  in- 
terview with  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  point  out  that 
the  new  adoption  made  on  the  basis  of 
the  recommendation  and  the  work  of 
the  Text-Book  Commission  will  cost 
the  children  of  the  public  schools  a 
net  increase  over  the  former  adoption 
of  the  sum  of  $085,194.00.  Dr.  Brooks 
does  not  think  that  this  will  prove  a 
"financial  burden  upon  the  patrons." 


Closing  the  interview,  Dr.  Brooks  is  quoted  assaying:  "By  delaying 
adoption  of  books  until  February  we  have  been  able  to  secure  better  con- 
tracts. States  that  adopted  a  year  ago  have  been  paying  from  ten  to  twen- 
ty-five per  cent  higher  for  the  same  text  bouks  than  we  are  required  to 
pay," 

All  this  is  probably  correct,  but  Dr.  Brooks  will  probably  find,  upon  a 
careful  reading  of  the  contract  he  signed  for  books  for  the  public  school 
children  which  will  cost  their  parents  nearly  a  three-quarters  of  a  million 
increase,  that  there  is  also  a  clause  pledging  that  should  the  prices  of  these 
books  be  lowered  to  any  other  state  or  authority  during  the  life  of  this 
contract  that  North  Carolina  should  have  the  benefit  of  such  reduction.  It 
goes  without  saying  that  if  North  Carolina  today  is  getting  a  certain  book 
at  a  lower  price,  that  similar  reduction  in  price  will  obtain  in  other  states  for 
said  bock  under  the  very  same  identical  contract  clause.  What  benefits  in 
prices,  if  any,  have  come  by  a  delay  is  due  entirely  to  the  decreased  cost 
of  material  and  production  and  not  to  any  foresight  or  special  wisdom  dis- 


10  THE  UPLIFT 

played  by  the  North  Carolina  authorities. 

Impractical  theories  that  have  crept  into  the  public  school  law,  by  the 
persistency  of  the  Educational  Department,  within  the  past  twelvemonths 
cost  the  state  8710,000.00,  and  now  followed  by  another,  due  entirely  to 
another  half-baked  theory,  adds$6S5, 194.00,  or  a  grand  total  of  one  million, 
three  hundred  ninety-five  thousand,  one  hundred  ninety-four  dollars.  And 
the  benefits  received  by  the  rural  children  are  no  more  enhanced,  if  as  good 
except  in  spots  where  a  large  degree  of  independence  existed,  than  before 
these  various  theories  were  imported  from  Massachusetts. 


"Yes,  my  son's  pretty  handy  about  the  house.  He  mended  our  cuckoo 
clock  the  other  day.  It's  fine  now,  except  that  it  says  'Oo'  afore  it 
'Clicks.'  " 


I  NORTH  CAROLINA  IN  I 

I  THE  WORLD  WAR ! 

•>  •:• 

!>  Based   (1)   on  Defects  Found  in  Drafted  Men,  reported  by  Surgeon-  % 

%  General  M.  W.  Ireland,  to  the  00th  Congress,  1st  session — Senate  Com-  * 

*  mittee  Print,  1910;  and  (2)  on  the  Associated  Press  item,  The  Victory  * 
*>  Memorial  Building,  Feb.  10,  1022.                                                                      '    f 

*:•        North  Carolinaians  serving,  02,510  or  10  in  the  1,000  of  all  who  served  •> 
',(,   in  the  army  and  navy;  North  Carolinaians  who  lost  their  lives  in  service,  ''•, 

*  2,01.3  or  20  in  the  1,000  of  the  national  war  death  roll. 

*>        Department  Rural  Social  Economics,  University  of  North  Carolina      * 
***  "  *»* 

*  Rank  Unfit  to  Serve  Rate  per  1,000      * 
♦*♦  •> 

*:*  19th  Defective  in  bod}-  or  mind  or  both 546  £ 

*  30th  Rejected   as   unfit 213  ♦ 

•:•  37th  Tuberculosis    victims 30  ••. 

£  37th  Venereal     diseases    70  £ 

*•*  39th  Apoplexy,    paralysis,   etc 3  * 

•:•  42nd  Epilepsy 7  * 

-:•  40th  Instable  nerves,  neurasthenia,  neuroses,  hysteria,  etc.  1  * 

*:*  45th  Mental    deficiency    22  % 

f  45th  Mentally    diseased 24  * 

*>  24th  Heart  disease,  organic    ," 27  * 

*  35th  Joint    diseases    11  * 

£  29th  Defective   physical   development    33  j 

*  15th  Mechanical    physical    defects     104  * 

•>  47th  Malnutrition — under-nourished   or  badly   nourished  * 

*  disordered  disgestion,  assimilation,-  etc -  1      $ 


Till':  UPLIFT  11 

iat  Our  Loys  Are  Doing 

No  1     By  Robert  Willard 
Lawrence  Worth  Match 

(One  of  our  former  buys,  who  worked  in  the  printing  office,  developed  a 
taste  for  writing-.  He  has  voluntarily  offered  to  get  a  line  on  various  boys, 
who  have  gone  out  from  the  institution  and  taken  their  positions  in  orderly 
society  and  are  contributing  to  the  affairs  of  the  times.  This  young  man, 
himself  holding  a  responsible  job  in  Washington,  for  reasons  of  modesty 
alone  is  writing  under  an  assumed  name.  We  publish  to-day  his  first,  and 
it  is  about  the  first  boy  to  enroll  at  the  school  when  it  threw  open  its  doors 
January  12th,  ly09.— Editor's  Note). 

The  subject  of   this   short    article  the  way  of  right    living  and  taught 

was  the  first  boy  to  enter  the  Jack-  the    truths   of    life    he    was    better 

son  Training  School,  arriving  at  the  equipped  to  go   forward   than  when 

institution  the  12th  day  of  January,  he  entered  the  school. 

1909.  This  young    man  saw   thre?  year3 

Born  in  Burlington,  North  Caro-  service  in  the  army  after  leaving 
Una,  twenty-five  years  ago  this  com-  the  school,  serving  on  the  Mexican 
ing  October,  the  early  life  of  Worth,  border  with  the  North  Carolina 
as  he  was  known  at  the  school,  was  guardsmen  and  in  France  with  the 
similar  to  that  of  hundreds  of  other  120th  Infantry  of  the  30th  Division, 
North  Carolina  boys  who  have  drift-  receiving  a  shrapnel  wound  on  the 
ed  away  from  paths  they  had  been  morning  that  this  division  success- 
told  to  follow.  It  was  just  one  piece  fully  assaulted  the  Hindenburg  line, 
of  devilment  after  another  until  he  Now  seiving  as  an  electrician  in 
was  sent  to  the  school.  the  naval  torpedo  station  at  Alexan- 

Worth  remained    at.    the  Jackson  dria,  Va.,  Worth  looks  forward  with 

Training  School    a    little  over  three  great  confidence  in  the  future, 

years  and,  when  in   March,  1912,  he  The  first  boy  to  enter  the  Jackson 

again  set  out  on  the  pathway  of  life,  Training  School  is  making  good, 
he  was  a  different  boy.     Trained  in 


When  Spartan  mothers  could  say,  "Son  come  home  with  your  shield, 
or  come  home  on  it,"  the  breasts  of  Spartan  men  were  the  wall  of  defense 
for  that  country.  When  Roman  matrons  were  like  Caesar's  wife,  above  sus- 
picion. Rome  ruled  the  world.  But  when  virtue  and  chastity  became  exiles 
from  Roman  households,  the  Barbarian  not  only  thundered  at  the  gates  but 
marched  in  triumph  through  the  streets  of  the  imperial  city.  The  char- 
acter of  woman  has  at  all  times  and  will  ever  continue  to  determine  the 
character  of  civilization. — Christian  Advocate. 


12  THE  UPLIFT 

I  FAREWELL!  A  LONG  FAREWELL  TO  | 
I  ALL  MY  GREATNESS  I 

*  * 

%  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE                                         * 

*:*  f 

*•*  ':* 

*  Farewell!  A  long  farewell,  to  all  my  greatness!  * 
•:•  * 
*;*  Tins  is  the  state  of  man:  to-day  he  puts  forth                                   ?, 

*  t 

•:•  The  tender  leaves  of  hopes,  to-morrow  blossoms,                                y 

*•*  *** 

.;•  •:• 

•:•  And  bears  his  blushing  honors  thick  upon  him;                                * 

£  The  third  day  conies  a  frost,  a  killing  frost,  * 

1*  t 

*:*  And,  when  he  thinks,  good  easy  man,  full  surely  £ 

*  His  greatness  is  a-ripening,  nips  his  root,  * 

♦>  • 

:  And  then  he  falls,  as  I  do.     I  have  ventured,  * 

*  *»* 

*  Like  little  wanton  boys  that  swim  on  bladders, 
•>  This  many  summers  in  a  sea  of  glory, 
£  But  far  beyond  my  depth.     My  high-blown  pride 
*:*  At  length  broke  under  me,  and  now  has  left  me, 

*  Weary  and  old  with  service,  to  the  mercy 

♦>  Of  a  rude  stream,  that  must  forever  hide  me. 

•>  .     Vain  pomp  and  glory  of  this  world  I  hste  ye! 

♦ 

x  I  feel  my  heart  new  open'd.     0,  how  wretched 

*  Is  that  poor  man  that  hangs  on  princes'  favors! 
♦>  There  is,  betwixt  that  smile  we  would  aspire  to, 

X  That  sweet  aspect  of  princes,  and  their  ruin, 

* 

*  More  pangs  njnd  fears  than  wars  or  women  have, 
•> 

*  And  when  he  falls,  he  faUs  like  Lucifer, 

»:♦  Never  to  hope  again. 


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13 


North 


Car 


olina  Under  the  Draft  Act 

By  J.  Will  Bailey 


of  the  articles  under  the  scheme  of>"Knowing  North  Carolina"  is  by 
iam  Bailev,  of  Raleigh,  and  the  late  holder  of  the  office  of  Collector 

He  writes  about  "What    the    Draft 
It  is  always  the  truth  that  hurts  and 


On 
J.  Wi 

in  the  United  States  Revenue  service. 
Act  Showed  About  North  Carolina." 
at  the  same  time  makes  us  free. 

This  clearly  written  review  of  the 
statistics  as  revealed  by  the  officers 
of  the  government  gives  one  em- 
phatic reasons  for  pausing  and  seri- 
ous consideration.  One  can  not  read 
this  article  without  down  in  his  heart 
feeling  and  knowing  that  every 
agency  that  looks  to  the  enlightment, 
the  education,  the  care  of  the  body 
and  familiarity  of  preventive  meas- 
ures among  our  people,  should  not 
only  be  heartily  encouraged  but  that 
effort  along  these  lines  should  be 
doubled,  to  the  end  that  the  coming 
generation  may  avoid  the  handicaps 
of  the  past.  Mr.  Bailey's  contribu- 
tion is  as  follows: 

Undor  the  Draft  Act  all  the  young 
men  from  eighteen  to  thirty  years 
of  age  ir.  the  United  States  were 
subject  to  military  services  in  the 
Woild  War.  Of  those  called,  two 
million,  or  about  four-fifths  of  the 
total,  were  physically  examined  at 
the  mobilization  camps.  The  results 
cf  these  examinations  have  teen  pub- 
lished by  the  War  Department  in  a 
volume  entitled  Defects  Found  in 
Diafted  Men.  'I  he  classification  was 
by  states;  but  unfortunately  the  data 
do  not  disclose  the  relation  of  defects 
to  color,  nativity,  or  occupatknin 
the  different  states. 

With  respect  to  rejections  for  al- 
coholism, North  Carolina  made  a 
roost  gratifying  showing,  her  number 
Per  thousand  being    nine,   while  the 


national  average  was  more  than  three 
times  as  high,  or  thirty-one.  We 
made  erjually  as  good  a  record  with 
respect  to  drug     addiction. 

With  respect  to  tuberculosis,  we 
made  a  bad  showing;  our  number  of 
rejections  per  thousand  being  30.47 
against  the  national  average  of  24.6 
-•-an  excess  of  nearly  six  young  men 
per  thousand.  We  made  a  much 
worse  record  than  some  other  states 
having  a  large  negro  populations,  as 
for  example,  Georgia,  24.46,  Missis- 
sippi 24.12,  Louisiana  27.61.  As  a 
matter  of  fact  only  three  Southern 
states  made  as  bad  a  showing  as  did 
North  Carolina.  So  our  excess  is 
not  due  to  the  negroes. 

For  defective  physical  develop- 
ment we  had  33  41  rejections  as  com- 
pared with  a  national  average  of  32. 
93.  In  total  menial  disorders  we 
rank  near  the  bottom  with  24.48 
per  thousand  against  a  national  ave- 
rage of  15.08.  In  respect  of  mental 
deficiency  our  record  is  bad,  the 
state  having  had  21.06.  Who  can 
account  for  this,  and  how? 

There  are  a  great  many  defects 
in  respect  of  which  North  Carolina 
made  comparatively  a  pleasing 
showing,  as  for  example,  the  condi- 
tion of  teeth  and  eyes.  We  do  not 
show  up  so  well  in  respect  of  noses 
and  ears.  And  as  a  rule  the  ratio 
of  defectives  in  North  Carolina  is 
upon    an    average  with  that  of    the 


14                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

United    States,  our  rejection    being  I  ([into  agree  that  there  is  nothing 

213  per  thousand,  as  compared  with  the    matter  with  North    Carolina— 

a    national    average    of    212.     Less  that  is,  that  there  is  no  reason  why 

than    four    out  of  each    five    young'  within  our  bounds  there    should  not 

men  were  found  fit  for  war  duty.  dwell  the    happiest    people    on    (ho 

What    should  concern   us  is    this:  globe.     But  Heaven  helps  those  who 

To  find  and  eradicate  the  causes    of  help      themselves.     Our     Common- 

our  excess  of  tuberculosis,  low  phy-  wealth  must  be  what  we  make  of  it. 

sical  development,  excess  of   mental  And  it  becomes  each  of  us  to    stand 

disorders,     and     excess    of    mental  in  his  lot  and  do  his    best    to    serve 

deficiency.     For  these  aspects  of  the  his  day    and    generation.     This    is 

matter    are  of  the    greatest    impor-  citizenship;  this  is  patriotism;  this  is 

tance.  true  service  of  humanity. 


Pennsylvania's  sixty-third  county  lias  employed  a  farm  agent.  It  is  a 
mighty  poor  farm  agent  who  is  not  worth  to  his  county  several  times  Ms 
salary. 


ACTUAL  EXPERIENCE  A  MIGHTY  FORCE 

(BY  E.  R  CLARK) 
A  distinguished  editor,  talking  before  the  students  of  the  School  of  Journal- 
ism  in  one  of  our  educational  institutions,  expressed  the  opinion  that  young 
men  preparing  for  newspaper  work  should  take  at  least  a  year  in  law  school. 
His  idea  was  that  an  editor  should  have  some  knowledge  of  law  and  should 
prepare  himself  by  giving  at  least  one  year  to  the  study  of  law.  That  set  me 
to  thinking  about  how  many  things  there  are  of  which  the  well  rounded  editor 

should  have  some  knowledge,  and  the  are  many  other  things  of  which  he 
conclusion  was  that  if  a  young  man  should  have  a  working  knowledge.  Xot 
training  for  newspaper  work  should  only  should  he  know  how  to  write 
give_a  year's  study  to  all  the  things  about  court  cases  without  exposing 
he  should  know  about  he  would  he  too  his  ignorance  of  common  legal  term- 
old  for  active  duty  before  he  was  inology,  and  a  clear  conception  of 
ready  to  begin.  what  does  and  what  does  not  ronsti- 
Be  it  understood  here  that  I  am  tute  libel  but  he  should  know  some- 
not  controverting  the  statement  of  the  thing  about  the  different  religious 
editor  with  a  view  to  starting  some-  denominations  and  their  forms  of 
thing.  It  is  important  that  any  news-  government,  so  that  he  would  not 
paper  writer,  certuinly  a  managing  make  himself  ridiculous  and  offend 
editor  or  an  editorial  writer,  should  the  adherents  of  the  different  faiths 
have  some  knowledge  of  la,w.  It  is  by  talking  about  Presbyterian  stew- 
highly  important,  if  he  is  to  keep  out  ards,  .Methodist  deacons,"  Bap  ;>t  con- 
of  trouble,  that  he  have  a  clear  con-  ferences,  etc.,  and  to  be  sure  he 
ception  of  the  law  of  libel.  But  there  couldn't     give  a  year  to  this     study. 


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If  his  paper  circulates  in  an  ngricnl-  or,  it  is  highly  important  that  he 
tnral  community  lie  should  know  should  know  something  about  them, 
something  about  farming  so  as  to  This  General  Information  to  which  I 
write  about  it  intelligently,  and  he  have,  reference  isn't  found  in  any 
nii<*ht  not  care  to  spend  a  year  in  farm  particular- course.  Tt  isn't  taught  in  the 
work.  Bat  come  to  think  of  it,  most  colleges,  while  it  is  important  especial- 
editors  know  more  about  farming  than  ly  in  this  enlightened  aye,  for  the  news- 
the  farmers  who  spend  their  lives  on  paper  man  to  have  a  college  education, 
the  job — or  they  at  least  assume  to  give  that  isn't  absolutely  essential  nor  is  it 
them  advice — so  the  farm  knowledge  alone  equipment  for  newspaper  work, 
mav  be  assumed,  whether  the  editor  While  I  have  little  knowledge  of  the 
knows  corn  from  cotton.  It  is  im-  practical  work  of  Schools  of  Jour- 
portant,  too,  to  know  something  about  nalism  I  think  well  of  them  provided 
disease  and  sanitation  and  health  they  are  taught  by  experienced  news- 
measures,  but  it  would  be  imprai  tic-  paper  men  and  not  by  theorists.  For- 
cible to  study  medicine  for  a  season,  merly  it  was  thought  that  the  man 
Then  there  is  knowledge  of  the  laws  who  had  not  come  up  through  the 
and  customs  of  commerce,  of  manu-  mechanical  end  of  a  printing  office — 
factoring  industry,  of  transportation,  slept  on  newspapers  and  eaten  ink,  as 
of  the  science  of  government,  of  taxa-  Horace  Greely  expressed  it — wasn't 
tion,  of  music,  art,  and  all  the  other  fit  to  be  an  editor,  just  as  we  used  to 
things  that  the  newspaper  writer  think  that  all  trades  and  professions 
must  discuss  at  times.  and  business  must  be  learned  by 
Sly  experience  and  observation  have  actual  experience  rather  than  by  going 
convinced  me,  us  experience  con-  to  school.  "We  have  gotten  ahead  of 
vinces  all  newspaper  men,  that  the  that.  It  is  true  that  experience  is  yet 
supreme  need  is  General  Information  and  always  will  be  the  perfecting 
on  all  sorts  of  subjects.  The  news-  school  in  anything.  The  young  man 
paper  man  who  has  worked  on  a  farm,  who  finishes  at  aeollege  and  goes 
sold  goods,  worked  in  a  mill,  practiced  through  a  School  of  Journalism  is  well 
law  or  who  has  bed  experience  in  any  equipped  to  enter  newspaper  work, 
of  the  lilies  of  human  activity,  will  if  be  doesn't  make  the  mistake  of 
find  that  experience  of  value  in  a  thinking  that  he  knows  the  job  at  the 
newspapeer  career.  Rut  as  it  isniani-  start.  Nothing  but  actual  experience 
festly  impossible  to  have  practical  can  teach  him  the  job,  but  the  train- 
experience  in  many  lines,  or  even  to  ing  of  the  schools  gives  him  a  good 
take  special  courses  in  .many,  it  all  start  if  he  lias  the  capacity  to  apply 
comes  back  to  gathering  and  absorbing  his  knowledge. 

General  Information,  so  as  to  be  able  But  to  come  back  to  General  Infor- 
to  write  intelligently  about  many  motion.  1  hope  the  schools  that  are 
things.  training  men  for  newspaper  work  em- 
it is  impossible  for  any  one  man  pbasize  that.  I  know  of  no  means  of 
to  know  all  about  a  large  number  of  acquiring  this  General  Information 
things,  but  if  he  is  to  write  about  except  by  reading— reading  news- 
them,  even  in  the  capacity  of  a  report-  papers    of    all    kinds    constantly    and 


knowledge  of  tilings  they  could  learn      Alexander      county       man,      "vastly 
simply  by   reading     the     newspaper,      ignorant. 
Once   he   said   to   me,   discussing   this 


"Manners  are  only  a  kind  of  varnish,  of  course;  yet  who  want:;  even 
a  durable  chair  or  table  that  isn't  properly  finished?" 


16  THE  UPLIFT 

closely;  reading  the  magazines  and  matter:  "Idon't  believe  they  read  a  >" 
periodicals  of  the  better  class,  and  newspaper;  I  know  they  don't  read 
reading  books.  Chas.  A.  Dana,  one  of  the  Observer."  One  illustration  Trill  "' 
the  ablest  and  most  scholarly  of  the  suffice.  One  of  his  young  men,  a  col-  ' 
editors  of  an  older  day,  addressing  a  lege  man,  graduate  of  a  law  school  , 
group  of  newspaper  men  on  one  occa-  and  one  who  produced  literature  that 
sion,  urged  them  to  study  the  Bible,  will  live,  was  sent  to  report  a  meetiu", 
not  as  a  religious  book  but  as  litera-  On  the  programme  was  a  musical 
ture — for  history,  poetry,  for  literary  number  by  Dudley  Buck,  the  noted 
style.  The  King  James  version,  de-  musical  composer.  The  reporter 
clared  Mr.  Dana,  is  awell  of  English  glanced  at  the  programme  and  saw 
undefiled;  and  for  style  of  narrative,  the  name  of  Dudley  Buck,  lie  didn't 
for  examples  in  reporting  that  are  know  anything  about  Dudley  Buck  and 
models  for  newspaper  work  in  all  the  as  the  master  of  ceremonies  at  the 
ages,  some  of  the  Biblical  writers  were  event  was  a  stranger  to  him  he 
unsurpassed.  It  is  absolutely  essen-  assumed  that  he  was  Dudley  Buck, 
tial  for  a  newspaper  man — if  he  is  to  lie  wrote  his  story  accordingly,  featur- 
make  a  success  that  counts — to  be  ing  Dudley  Buck  as  the  presiding 
well  posted,  to  have  his  mind  well  officer  at  a  meeting  in  Charlotte;  and 
stored  with  General  Information;  and  the  story  got  by  and  appeared  in  the 
I  have  never  heard  of  any  place  he  Observer  next  day.  When  the  Old 
can  get  that  except  by  reading  about  Man,  as  the  boys  on  the  Observer 
all  sorts  of  things.  Seasoned  news-  called  Mr.  Caldwell,  read  it  next  day 
paper  men  have  seen  young  men  come  he  was  humiliated  and  said  things; 
out  of  college  and  begin  newspaper  and  the  brilliant  and  well  beloved 
work  who  exhibited  the  most  astound-  young  ma,n  who  wrote  the  story  was 
ing  ignorance  of  everyday  affairs  in  of  course  humiliated.  He  suffered  for 
some  particulars  and  who  lacked  com-  lack  of  General  Information  that  is 
mon  information  that  they  could  have  gained  only  by  wide  and  varied  read- 
gained    by    reading    the    newspapers.  ing. 

The  late  I.  P.   Caldwell,  the  greatest  Let  me  say  in  conclusion  that  I  am 

newspaper   man    the     State   has    pro-  not     attempting     to     instruct     as    a 

dueed,  who  gathered  about  him  on  the  graduate   in   the     course  of     General 

Charlotte      Observer     some     of     the  Information     or  any     other.       In  an 

brighest  young  men  in  the  State,  men  active  newspaper  experience  of  more 

whom    he    loved    and    admired,    com-  than  25  years  it  was  constantly  borne 

plained    sometimes    of    their    lack    of  in  on  me  that   I  was,  to     quote    the 


I    < 


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17 


IREDELL    COUNTY  ACTIVITY 

Elsewhere  in  this  number  of  The  Uplift  will  be  found  reproduced  in  its  en- 
tirety a  circular  issued  by  Miss  Celeste  Henkel,  giving  details  about  the 
contests,  exhibits  and  contributions  that  are  to  figure  in  the  County  Public 
School  Commencement.  The  preparation,  the  work  involved  in  said  prepara- 
tion and  the  generous  responses  of  the  people,  speak  volumes  for  the  power 
and  influence  of  Miss  Henkel. 


It  covers  the  whole  scope  of  what 
the  rural  people  most  need,  by  way 
of  acquisition  and  knowledge,  in  mak- 
ingcountry  life  most  agreeable  and  in 
furnishing  inspiring  opportunities  to 
the  young.  Can  any  one  think  of  an- 
other thing  which  could  be  added  to 
make  the  interest  and  benefit  of  this 
sure-to-be-well  executed  programme 
larger  and  better? 

The  only  reason — and  there  needs 
to  be  no  apology  for  doing  so — The 
Uplift  is  bodily  inserting  this  pro- 
gramme with  all  the  details,  is  the  hope 
of  rendering  a  worthwhile  service  to 
other  counties,  whose  chief  school 
officers,  seeing  this  great  effort 
making  in  Iredell  county  to  aid  the 
rural  folks  to  come  into  their  own, 
may  find  some  inspiration  and  help- 
ful points  in  working  out  a  similar 
campaign   in   the   several   counties. 

This  peculiar  and  novel  campaign, 
which  must  result  in  inestimable  good 
in  Iredell  county,  is  the  conception  of 
Miss  Henkel  and  she  has  fixed  the 
22ml,  day  of  April  as  the  date  of 
the  event. 

County-Wide  Debate 

"Query,  resolved  that,  with  Ade- 
quate School  Facilities,  Country  Life 
can  be  made  as  Attractive  as  City- 
life."  A  gold  medal  offered  by  Mr. 
£.  W.  Bosliamer  will  be  given  to  the 
iest  debater  in  the  final  debating 
contest. 


County-Wide    Singing    Contest 

To  be  conducted  in  all  schools  of 
the  county — A  prize  of  •'?10  will  be 
given  by  The  Merchants  and  Farmers 
Bank  to  the  school  in  the  county 
having  the  best  chorus. 

Community  Lirprovements 

To  the  community  that  makes  the 
most  improvements  in  their  schools 
homes  and  grounds — $100 — Johnston 
Belk  Co. 

To  the  community  that  installs  the 
most  electrical  appliances — Hand- 
some picture — Covington  Electric 
Service  Co.  and  Mills  Electric  &  Bat- 
tery Service  Co. 

To  the  community  having  the  larg- 
est number  of  farms  named  and 
marked  and  having  the  most  attrac- 
tive  names—  $10— W.   A.   Bristol. 

To  the  community  painting  the 
greatest  number  of  homes  and  barns 
since  May  1,  1921 — Set  of  maps — 
Carolina  School  Supply  Co.,  Char- 
lotte, X.  C. 

To  the  community  club  doing  the 
most  constructive  work — -Large  Uni- 
versal school  dictionary  Globe  Book 
Co.  Morristown  Term. 

To  the  community  securing  the 
most  traveling  libraries — Set  of 
books, — Miss    Celeste    Henkel. 

To  the  community  subscribing  to 
the  most  magazines — Canning  out- 
tit — Thomas   Hardware   Co. 


13  THE  UPLIFT 

School   Improvements  greatest    number   of  patrons   to  read! 


For   the   most    improvements   in   a 


■'Better      Rural     Schools,"      signed 


i             1,1     Q,.f     ,,f     cnnnlo  statement  to  bo  brought  in  bvtlus™.. 

one-teacher    school — bet    ot     supple-  »              ■    ,    1Jt 

i           ir-       ,-. .i  , .,  ,    ii,.„  trons — Porcelain      kitchen     sink     m\ 

mentarv    readers — Anss    Celeste   ilea-  .     _               _            ,        ,     ■                     t 

,    .        *  equivalent    m    cash — Covington   Etcc-i 

,   ■     o       ■       ,-. 

For    file    most     improvement     in    a  eric  ou\  ice  uo. 

,  ,  ,,     rn„.„    ,  ■„i,,,0„ lo  the  teacher  holding  an  e  emeu. 

two-teacher    school--!  wo     p'-cuiies  o  u- 

Crawford  Bunch  Furniture  Co.  ^ary    cert>ticate_  doing   the   most  con- 

For    the    most    improvement    in    a      struetive  work  m  her  school  and  com. 

,,  ,  ,      .     o   t   n?  1,,-,,,1-c  munitv  and  sending  in   a  written  re- 

three-teacher   school — bet  ot    books —  -'  ,        -,■  ,      ,■ 

Lend  a  Hand  Book  Mission,  Boston.  P«f    °t    how  .  she    dld,  «f    w«k- 

For     the     most     improvement     in  Scholarship   of  six  weeks  to  summer 

high    school-One    12    in.    globe    and  school,^  valued-Board   of   Educa- 

two  S  inch  globes — Southern  Desk  Co. 

Hickory,  X.   C. 

To    the    school    having    the    largest  flcate    other    than    elementary,    do, 

number  of  children  under  18  years  of  thf    most    constructive    work    in   her 

i      i  •„  i;„;  i„„i  K„„ir  „„       school  and  community  and  sending  in 

age  who  have  an  individual   bank  ae-  .  •  ,.,°, 

t     c!„*     ,-p    inn     --,,•„*    ],nn!-a R       a   written   report   ot   how  she  did  the 

count — Set    ot     101)    song     books — i'-.  » 

work — -?2o — Chamber    ot    Commerce, 

Statesville. 

To  the  teacher  who  carries  out  the 

best  program  on  "Better  Schools  for 


tion  of  Iredell  County. 

To   the   teacher  bidding  any  certi- 


m  i 


G.  Gaither. 

To  the  school  having  the  best 
equipped  playground — $5 — F.  L. 
Johnson.  , 

To    the    best    school    correspondent  I™dell  County  Day      and  send: 

to    the    Statesville    Sentinel.     Letters  written  report  of  hov  she  accomp  ah, 

will    be    judged    on    these    points.     1  ed^his   work-Set  of  Pyrex  Cootang 

Regularity    of    arrival    that    is,    they  Ware-Corning    Glass    Works,  Cora- 

should  come  once  a  week  and. to  fol-  ln">  "  '      • 

,                   v   .  ,         f.                   i,i    ,  Home    Improvements 

low    immediately    after    news    takes 

place.     2.   Legibility    of    pennanship,  For   the   most    attractive   bed  room 

composition  and  comprehensiveness —  using   old   furniture — 1st    prize — Ha- 

One  year's  subscription  to  The  States-  hogany       table — Johnson       Furniture 

ville  Sentinel.  Co.     '2nd     prize — Merchandise— Polk 

To  the  best  school  correspondent  to  Gray  Drug  Co. 

the  Statesville  Landmark.     The  same  For  the  most   convenient  kitchen — 

points  will  be  used  in  judging  these  1st    prize,   $25    in    cash — Commercial 

letters   that   are   used    in   judging   the  National    Bank — 2nd   prize,    Linoleum    ] 

letters   to    the    Sentinel.   — One   years  Drugget — Tharpes  5  &  10  cent  store.    !| 

subscription  to  The  Statesville  Daily.  For   the  most   comfortable  and  at-    | 

To  the  primary  teacher  having  the  tractive     living     room — $25    in    mer- 

most  modern  equipment  for  teaching  chandise,        Ramsey-Bowl es-Morrison    | 

reading    and    phonics    and    seatwork  Co. 

material — Silver    mesh    bag — States-  For     the     most     attractive    dining 

ville  Drug  Co.  room— Set  of  English  china— States- 

To    the     teacher     influencing     the  ville  Housefurnishing  Co. 


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19 


-Domestic    Science    Fireless 
-Lazenbv-Montogoinerv   Hdw. 


For  the  liume  allowing  the  most  im- 
provement   in    beautifying    the    homo 
grounds- 
Cooker- 
Co. 

To  the  girl  in  the  county  12  to'2'2 
years  of  age,  arranging  the  most  at- 
tractive bed  room — Rocking  Chair — 
Cooper  Furniture  Co.  Also  a  second 
prize  will  be  offered. 

To  the  home  making  the  most  all- 
round  improvement — Mahogany  clock 
-R,  F.  Henry  &  Son. 

To  the  housekeeper  reporting  the 
greatest  number  of  inexpensive  labor 
saving  devices  for  her  home,  instal- 
led since  May,  1921 — Aluminum  ket- 
tle—J.  B.  Fraley. 

To  the  home  installing  the  most 
modern  Fairbanks-Morse  Water  and 
Lighting  System.  Equipment  to  be 
bought  from  W.  E.  Munday— Solid 
brass  round  oak  stove — W.  E.  Munday 
Compositions   and  Essays 

To  the  high  school  pupil  in  the 
county  writing  the  best  essay  on 
"How  could  Iredell  County  have  the 
best  system  of  schools  in  North  Caro- 
lina." Electric  iron  or  its  equiva- 
lent in  cash: — Mills  Electric  &  Bat- 
tery Service  Co. 

To  the  sixth  or  seventh  grade  pu- 
pil in  the  county  writing  the  best 
composition  on  "The  Most  Interest- 
ing Book  I  have  read  this  year  and 
what  it  meant  to  me."  Silver  Ever- 
sharp  pencil— Statesville  Printing  Co. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
writing  the  best  essay  on  "One  of 
Iredell  county's  Distinguished  Men." 
$25  in  cash:  name  of  donor  withheld. 
This  to  include  men  who  were  born  in 
Iredell  county  or  men  who  have  done 
'heir  life  work  in  Iredell  county. 

To  the  high  school  boy  or  girl  in  the 


county  writing  the  best  essay  on  "One 
of  Iredell  County's  Distinguished 
Men."  $10  in  cash— Mayor  L.  B. 
Bristol,  R.  F.  Rives. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  Statesville 
or  Mooresville  writing  the  best  es- 
say on  "One  of  Iredell  County's  Dis- 
tinguished Men."  $25  in  cash.  Name 
of  donor  withheld. 

To  the  high  school  pupil  writing 
the  best  essay  on  "A  History  of  Ire- 
dell County."  Gold  medal  given  by 
the   D.   A.   K.'s. 

To  the  high  school  pupil  writing  the 
best  essay  on  the  life  of  Robert  E. 
Lee,  $5  given  by  the  U.  D.  C's. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
who  writes  the  best  composition  on 
"Can  Rural  Education  in  General 
Equal  Town  or  City  Education?"  If 
not,  explain  the  final  effect  on  the 
farming  industry — Pair  of  blankets 
— Wallace  Bros. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
who  writes  the  best  essay  on  "What 
can  be  done  by  the  average  farm  fami- 
ly to  improve  the  home  grounds?" — 
$5  in  cash,  Statesville  Oil  Co. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
sending  in  the  best  detailed  plan  and 
instructions  for  an  all-year-round 
garden  possible  for  the  average  farm 
family  in  Iredell  county — -flO  in  cash 
—Sheriff  M.  P.  Alexander,  J.  A. 
Brady. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
writing  the  best  composition  on, 
"What  the  Campaign  has  meant  to 
my  Community" — 7:50  in  merchan- 
dise— Joe  Harrison  Clothing  Co. 

To  the  man  or  woman  in  the  county 
writing  the  best  composition  on 
"What  the  campaign  has  meant  to 
me" — Merchandise — Stimson     China 


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Store.  vite  the  patrons  of  the  schools.     Tln> 

To  the  woman  in  the  county  writing  club    women    and    school    committee, 

tlie  best  composition  on  "How  I  im-  men  arc  especially  urged  to  assist  in 

proved   my   home   at   a   Minimum  Ex-  making    this    day    a    success.      If  de- 

pense" — Prize.  sired,  speakers   can   be   secured   from 

All    compositions   must    be   written  town, 

with  pen  and  ink,  with  subject,  name  Directions 
and  address  on  each  paper.      Further 

directions   will   be   given   at    teacehrs  Teachers    competing    for   the   most 

meetings  and  by  circular  letters.     All  impovements     in     schools     and    com- 

essavs  and  compositions  must  be  sent  munities  please    send    in    reports  of 

in    to    Miss    Celeste    Henkcl    not    later  work  done  not  later  than  April  12.  All 

than  April  14.  schools    and    homes     competing    will 

please   notify    me   at     an   early  date. 

Certificates  U1   jTOp0veinents  should   be  made  by 

Certificates  of  merit  will  be  given  the   first   of   April  as  judges  will  be 

to    those   schools   raising   a.s   much    as  out    judging   later. 

$10  for  pictures  or  books.  In  each  home  where  improvements 

Cert ilieates   of   merit   will   be  given  are     being     made,    a.     written    report 

to  every  child   ill  the  county   reading  should  be  sent   to  the  teacher  of  the 

six    books    from    the    school    library  improvements  made,   and   the  teacher 

or  other  source  selected  by  the  teach-  will  send  in  reports  to  me. 

er   and    giving    satisfactory    proof    to  All    improvements    made    in    Iiome3 

the   teacher   that    the   work   has   been  or  communities  to  date   from  May  1, 

done.  1921. 


Certificates  of  merit  will  be  given 
to  every  pupil  in  the  county  who  has 
a.  perfect  attendance  record 


Rules  for  Singing  Contest 
The  following  rules  will  be  ubserv- 


Certificates  of  merit   will  be  given  ed  in  the  county  singing  contest  to  be 

to    the   pupil    in   each    school    making  conducted  in  all  schools  of  the  county. 
th»  highest   average   scholarship.  *•   Each  school  in  the  county  shall 

be    entitled    to    representation   in  the 

Special  Days  contest.     The  number  of  pupils  in. the 

Friday,  March  17,  has  been  ap-  chorus  from  each  school  shall  he  de- 
pointed  as  "Clean  up  Day"  in  the  termined  by  the  teacher  but  shall  not 
schools.     This   day    may   be   observed  exceed  15. 

before  or  after  but  it  is  expected  that  2.   Two  songs  will  be  used,  to  lie  se- 

each  teacher  will  make  this  "Clean  up  lected     from    the    following:    "Star 

Day"  in  his  or  her  school.     It  is  hop-  Spangled  Banner,"  "Juanita,"  "Old 

ed  many     teachers  will     make     this  Folks  at  Home."  "Auld  Lang  Syne." 

"Clean  up  Day"  for  each  community.  The  songs  will  be  sung  without  boots 

Friday,  March  24,  will  be  observed  and  only  two  verses  in  each  song. 
as  "Better  Schools  for  Iredell  county  3.  The    first    contest    for    elimina- 

Day."     It  is  expected  that  each  teach-  tioM    will    be    held    at    the    following 

er  will  arrange  a  program  on  "Better  group  centers  on  March  31,  and  will 

Schools  for  Iredell  County"  and  in-  be  conducted  by  the  principal  of  the 


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chool.     Each  school  in  the  township 

5fjll  go  to  the  township  center. 

Barriuger  township,  Pino  Valley 
school.  Miss  Madge  Deaton;  Bethany 
township.  Duffy  school,  J.  I..  Holmes; 
Cliiiuibershurg  township  W'avside 
school.  L.  0.  White;  Coddle  Crock 
township,  Oak  Ridge  school,  Paul  C. 
ikiirv;  Concord  township,  Scotts 
Iligll  school,  W.  E.  McDonald;  Cool 
Springs  township,  Cool  Springs  high 
school.  G.  II.  Ellmore ;  Davidson  town- 
ship. Jit.  Monrne  school,  if.  M.  Long; 
E;l"le  Mills  township,  Joyner  school, 
J.  K.  Critz;  Fallstown  township 
Troutman  High  school.  J.  0.  Rogers; 
Xew  Hope  township,  Taylor  Springs 
school,  T.  B.  Lankford;  Olin  township 
Olin  school,  C.  C.  Holmes;  Shrpes- 
biivg  township,  Central  school,  C.  B. 
Briran;  Shiloh  township,  Bethlehem 
school,  E.  E.  Harrington;  Statesville 
township,  Oak  Grove  school,  Mrs.  A. 
L.  Lowrance;  Turneshurg  township, 
Harmony  high  school,  R.  II.  Lank- 
ford,  Union  Grove  township,  Hender- 
son school,  H.  P.  Vanlloy. 

4.  Judges  for  the  township  con- 
tests shall  be  chosen,  one  representa- 
tive from  each  district.  This  repre- 
sentative to  be  chosen,  by  the  principal 
of  the  school  in  each  district. 

5.  The  winners  of  the  township  con- 
tests will  be  grouped  for  a  second 
elimination  contest. 

6  The  winners  in  the  second  elim- 
uitioii  contest  will  participate  in 
the  singing  contest  to  be  held  in 
Statesville,'  April  22,  1922.  In  this 
final  contest  the  schools  will  sing 
Star  Spangled  Banner  and  Auld  Lang 
Syne. 

Rules  for   County-Wide 
Debate 
The  following  rules  will  be  observ- 


ed in  the  county-wide  debate  to  he- 
conducted  in  all  schools  of  the  county. 
This  debate  will  be  in  charge  of  Mr. 
S.  II.  Stevenson  and  Miss  Edna 
Sherrill. 

1.  Query  "Resolved  that  with  ade 
quate  school  facilities  country  life 
can  be  made  as  attractive  as  city 
life." 

2.  Each  school  in  the  county  shall 
be  entitled  to  representation  in  the 
contest. 

3.  Each  scliool  entering  the  contest 
shall  furnish  four  debaters;  two  on 
the  negative  and  two  on  the  affirma- 
tive side. 

4.  Schools  entering  the  contest  shall 
be  arranged  in  groups  of  three 
schools  each.  The  affirmative  of 
each  group  shall  debate  at  home 
while  the  negative  shall  debate 
against  the  affirmative  of  another 
school. 

5.  In  arranging  the  groups,  the 
standard  of  the  school  and  continuity 
of  territory  shall  be  taken  into  consid- 
eration so  that  schools  of  similar 
standards  in  thesame  section  of  the 
county  shall  be  grouped  together. 

G.  Any  school  winning  both  the  af- 
firmative and  negative  shall  be  count- 
ed winner  for  its  group. 

7.  The  following  schools  may  he 
grouped  for  other  contests  and  a  pro- 
cess of  elimination  kept  up  until  the 
school  having  the  best  negative  and 
the  school  having  the  best  affirma- 
tive shall  be  thrown  in  final  competi- 
tion for  the  debaters  medal  at  county 
commencement. 

S.  The  final  contests  shall  be  held 
on  Friday  afternoon  March  24,  at  2 
o'clock  and  contest  for  further  elim- 
nation  on  such  dates  as  the  debating 
committee     shall   decide. 


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9.  The  schools  in  the  various  groups  shall  not  bar  the  teachers  from  iu;l'K, . 
shall  decide  where  each  negative  shall  ins;  suggestions  as  to  structure  aa.)* 
go  for  the  debate,  select  the  judges,  phraseology. 

and    make    such    other    local    regula-  13.   Each   speaker  shall      have    ],;m 

tions  as  they  may  see  fit.  minutes   at   his   disposal.     Twelve  i.,:::- 

10.  The  judges  for  the  final  con-  his  first  speech  and  three  for  his  re- K 
test  at  county  commencement  shall  be  joinder. 

selected   by    the   debating   committee.  14.  If,  in  the  preliminary  contest  I 

It  shall  be  theor  duty  to  select   the  the  same  school  should  win  out  both  Is 

winning  team  and  the  best  debaters,  on  the  affirmative  and  the  negative  f 

11.  Schools  desiring  to  enter  the  the  school  having  the  best  affirmative 
contest  shall  notify  Miss  Edna  fiber-  and  the. school  having  the  second  best 
rill  at  once.  negative  will  be  chosen  for  the  final 

12.  It  shall  be     legitimate  for     de-  debate. 
baters    to   get    information    and   sug-  Bulletins    and    information   on  the 
gestions    from    any    available    source,  debate   may    be    had    by    applying  to 
but  the  composition  of  the  debate  in  the  County  Superintendent's  office, 
each  case  must  be  the  debater's.  This 


One  Officer  That's  Not  Asleep 

It  is  so  refreshing  to  find  an  officer  and  a  job  that  get  married  to  each 
other.  So  often  after  the  ceremony  of  connection  with  a  job,  the  principal  ! 
in  it  thinks,  or  acts  that  way,  that  the  highest  duty  is  simply  drawing  the  I 
salary  and  a  sorry  and  do-nothing  record  follows  to  the  disgust  of  law-  j 
abiding  psople,  who  crave  progress  and  the  betterment  of  conditions. 

There  is  a  wiry,  active  and  en-  made  since  September  21st,  1921, 
thusiatic  man  in  North  Carolina,  one  of  the  most  efficient  and 
having  connection  with  a  hard  job  thorough  officers  in  the  enforce- 
that  comes  in  contact  wiih  lawless-  ment  of  the  Prohibition  law.  In  the  | 
ness,  meaness,  if  not  degeneration,  administration  of  his  office  he  has 
that  takes  his  duties  seriously;  and  no  friends  and  no  enemies---anybody 
this  fellow  is  winning  by  his  activity  that  monkeys  with  whiskey,  or  so- 
the  applause  of  the  good  people  of  called  whiskey,  is  the  constant  pas' 
the  communities  in  which  he  has  sion  of  his  life.  Since  he  began 
operated.  This  efficient  officer,  to  operations,  the  boldness  of  the  law- 
which  we  make  reference  and  whose  less  element  has  greatly  diminished 
picture  is  here  printed,  is  none  —they  have  moved  "farther  back 
other  than  Daniel  Franklin  Wid-  from  the  road,"  as  read  the  famous 
enhouse,  who  first  saw  the  light  of  message  sent  out  by  the  late  Dr- 
this  world  near  Georgeville,  Cabar-  Blacknall,  of  Raleigh.  One  of  the 
rus  county,  on  the  22nd  of  June,  most  notorious  violators  of  nearly 
1874.  every  law.  that  gets  in  his  way,  has 

"Dan"    Widenhouse,    as  he  is  fa-  moved    off  the    road;  but  ;:<  sure  as 

vorably    and  familiarly  known,    has  time  lasts  Dan  Widenhouse  will  get     j 


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23 


|  him  and  the    public  and    those   who 
;   an?  offended  by  his  indecency  will  re- 


••DAN"   WIDENHOUSE 

jolce  without  ending:.  Mr.  Widen- 
house  has  put  so  many  of  the  lawless 
out  of  business,  destroyed  their  dirty 
business  and  caused  others  to  move 


back  among-  the  sticks,  and  he  has 
won  so  much  fame  that  the  wouid-be 
poets  are  wiitihg  poetry  about  him 
and  his  accomplishments. 

Officer  Widenhouse  operates  in  five 
counties  and  during  his  short  period 
of  service  he  has  made  71  seizures, 
captured  30  complete  stills,  destroy- 
ed 8,000  gallons  of  beer  and  captur- 
ed 103  gallons  of  real  whiskey, 
which  at  the  prevailing  prices  rep- 
resents a  value  of  $4,400,00. 

If  every  five  counties  in  the  state 
had  such  an  earnest  and  active  of- 
ficer, who  would  respect  his  oath 
and  grasp  the  significance  of  his  im- 
portant job  as  does  Officer  Widen- 
house, the  ditty  business  of  moon- 
shining  and  illicit  sale  of  intoxicants 
would  beccme  quickly  a  lost  art. 
Dan  Widenhouse  is  a  regulation 
Republican,  stands  with  the  leaders, 
but  with  him  in  his  sturdy  honesty 
and  courageous  manhood  a  Republi- 
can bootlegger  and  moonshiner  are 
just  as  mean  and  as  sorry  as  a  Dem- 
ocratic violator  of  the  law-  -and 
here's  where  Dan  Widenhouse  com- 
mands the  respect  and  confidence  of 
the  law  abiding  element  in  every 
community  where  he  operates. 


WHAT    IS    A  MINORITY? 

JOHN  B.  GOUGH 

John  B.  Gough  was  born  in  Kent,  England,  in  1S17.  He  came  to  Ameri- 
ca in  1829,  and  while  learning  the  trade  of  bookbinder  in  New  York  formed 
intemperate  habits,  and  sank  to  the  lowest  depths  of  poverty  and  wretched- 
ness. About  1S40  he  was  induced  to  sign  the  pledge.  He  became  greatly- 
interested  in  temperance  reform,  and  soon  distinguished  himself  as  the 
most  eloquent  advocate  of  the  cause.  He  was  the  most  popular  lecturer  of 
his  time.  He  spoke  nearly  one  hundred  times  on  temperance  in  Exter  Hall, 
London.     He  died  in  1886" 

What  is  a  minority?  The  chosen  been  in  the  minority.  There  is  net 
heroes      of       this      earth       have      a  socia',  political,  or  religious  privi- 


24                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

lege  that  you  enjoy  to-day  that  was  the  lives  of  her  friends  were  in  I:' 

not  bought  for  you  by  the  blood  and  hands.     "Let  me  aro!"  she  said.  '. 

tears  and  patient  sufferings    of  the  am  going  to  my  father's  house.  & 

minority.     It  is    the    minority    that  elder  brother  is  dead  and  he  has  lei,' 

have  vindicated   humanity    in  every  a  will,  and  I  am  in  it;  and  it  is  tot. 

struggle.     It    is  the    minority    that  read  to  day."     "Go,  my  girl,"  sai; 

have  come  out  as  iconoclasts  to  beat  he;  "and  I  hope  you  will  have  son;;! 

down  the  Dagons  their   fathers  have  thing  handsome."     These  were  th; 

worshiped,— the   old    abuses  ofsoci-  minority   that,    through    blood  ac: 

ety.     It  is  the    minority    that    have  tears    and    scourgings,— dyeing  flu 

stood    in    the    van    of  every    moral  waters  with  their  blood,  and  stainta 

conflict,    and   achieved    all    that    is  the  heather  with  their  gore,— fought 

noble    in    the    history  of  the  world,  the  glorious  battle  of  religious  free- 

You    will    find  that  each  generation  dom. 

has    been    always  busy  in  gathering  Minority!     If  s  man  stand  up  for 

up  the  scattered  ashes  of  the  marty-  the  right,  though  the  right  be  on  the 

red    heroes    of    the  past,  to  deposit  scaffold,  while  the  wrong  sits  in  Ik 

them  in  the  golden  urn  of  a  nation's  seat  of  goverment;  if  he  stands  for 

history.  the  right,  though  he  eat,    with  the 

Look  at  Scotland,  where  they    are  right  and  truth,  a  wretched  crust; it' 

erecting  monuments---to  whom?  To  he  walk  with  obloquy  and    scorn  in 

the    Covenanters.     Ah,    they    were  the  by-lanes  and  streets,  while"falst- 1 

in  a  minority!     Read  their    history,  hood    and  wrong    ruffle  it   in  silken  | 

if  you  can,  without  the    blood    ting-  attire, ---let    him      remember     tta: 

ling    in    the    tips    of   your    fingers!  wherever  the  right  and    truth  are, 

Look  at  that    girl,    of    whose  inno-  there  are  always  "troops  of  beauu- 

cent  stratagem  the  legend  has  come  ful,  tall  angels"    gathering   aroud 

■down  to  us.  and    see    how    persecu-  him,   and  God  himself  stands  within 

tion    sharpens  the    intellect   as  well  the  dim  future,  and  keeps  watch  over 

as  gives    power    to  faith!     She  was  his  own.     If  a  man   stands  for  the 

going  to  the  conventicle.     She  knew  right    and    the  truth,  though  evert 

the  penalty  of  that  d:ed  was  death,  man's    finger    be    pointed    at  hin, 

She    met    a    company    of    troopers,  though  every  woman's  lips  be  curlei 

"My   girl,    where  are    you  going?"  at  him  in  scorn,  he  stands  in  a  Dfr 

She    could    not   tell   them  a  lie;  she  jority;   for  God  and  good  angles  are 

must    tell  the  truth.     It  was  death  with  him,  and'greater  are  they  tha: 

to  go  to    that    conventicle.     To  tell  are  for    him    than    all    they  that  be 

that  she  was   going  there  was  to  re-  against  him! 
veal  its   place  to  these  soldiers,  and 


There  s  Place  In  Life  For  Trie  Anecdote 

CYRUS  B  WATSON:  Able  lawyer  and  fine  citizen,  practiced  law  in  For-  ; 
sythe,  Davie,  Davidson,  Yadkin,  Sarry  and  Stokes,  and  was  the  pear  ofay 
man  that  appeared  at  any  of  these    courts.     It  was  at    Danbury.  in  Stakes 


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fcounty,  that  he  was  retained  to  defend  a  man  indicted  for  stealing  blockade 

liquor  from  the  men  vho  made  it,  hiding  it  in  a  tree-lap  near  bv.  The 
'  owners  making  a  search,  found  it,  and  instead  of  taking  it  away,  watched 
'  ;;)  £ee  who  came  for  it. 

The  evidence  was  that  a  man  came  Mr.  Watson    said:    "Bill,    they  have 

for  it,  they  were  sure    it    was    Bill,  got  yo-j,  unless  you  can  show  a  clean 

•   j[r,  Watson's  client;  when  halted  he  back.     If    there  aie    no  shot-marks 

,sn  and  was    fired  on  with  a  load  of  on  your    back  I   propose    to  remove 

small   bird     shot,    at     pretty    close  your  shirt    and  show    your    back  to 

!  range;  that  at  the  crack  of  the  gun  the  jury,  in  which  case  you  will  be 
;he  man  fell  "like  a  beef."  but  re-  acquitted;  that  is  your  only  hope; 
gained  his  footing  and  escaped;  that  off  with  your  clothes.'' 
Bill  laid  up  sick  for  a  long  time  and  Bill  rising  and  removing  his  coat, 
it  was  not  known  what  ailed  him.  looked  at  Mr.  Watson,  with  a  guilty, 
And  the  witnesses  were  sure  the  sickly  grin,  and  said:  "I  always  did 
man  they  shot  carried  a  load  in  his  have  a  bumpy  beick."  Removing 
back.  Mr.  Watson  was  unable  to  his  shirt  Mr.  Watson  said  Bill  car- 
break  down  the  evidence  by  cross  ried  the  whole  load  just  under  the 
examination,  and  court  recessed  for  hide,  and  you  could  not  lay  a  finger 
dinner.  down  without  feeling  a  shot  under 
Mr.  Watson  called  the  Sheriff,  the  skin.  When  court  opened  after 
telling  him  to  bring  his  client  to  his,  dinner  Mr.  Watson  refused  to  put 
Watson's,  office  before  the  reconven-  Bill  on  the  stand  and  he  was  duly 
ir.g  of  court  for  consultation,  which  convicted  as  charged  in  the  bill, 
wasdone.     When  they    were  alone,  (Contributed). 


WHAT   DR.    WILEY   SAW   IN   1851 

(NORTH  CAROLINA  READER  III) 

Spending  another  hour  with  the  North  Carolina  Reader,  which  Dr.  C.  H. 
Wiley,  then  State  Superintendent  of  the  Common  Schools,  prepared  for 
use  by  North  Carolina  children,  the  chapter  under  the  title  of  "The  Yad- 
kin River"  affords  much  interest.  It  was  for  those  days  a  fine  description 
of  the  country  and  the  people,  but  it  displayed  no  little  prophetic  power, 
which  in  a  measure  has  in  later  years  come  true.     It  is: 

We  have  crossed  two  rivers  since  and  we  observe  that]  it  has  some 
we  left  Goldsboro;  and  now  we  have  characteristics  different  from  anyvre 
arrived   at    a    third,    and    the    Ion-      have  passed. 

gestof  the  three.     The  Yadkin  is  a  It  has  a  clear,  rapid  current;  and 

fame  of  Indian  origin;  and  the  it  Is  evident  that  it  rolls  along  a  vast 
stream  which  bears  it  rises  in  the  volume  of  water.  From  it  s-ouree, 
mountains.  This  is  the  first  river  near  the  Blue  Ridge,  it  receives,  on 
we  have  yet  seen,  in  our  journey,  both  sides,  a  great  number  of  creeks; 
that  rises  In  a   region   so    elevated,      and  thus  on  its  banks  for  a  consider- 


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able  distance  is  one  of  the  best  water- 
ed countries  in  the  world.  'J  lie 
whole  region  is  fertile;  indeed,  only 
those  who  have  seen  it,  and  have 
traveled  over  other  countries,  can 
properly  estimate  its  advantages. 
Towards  the  South  Carolina  line, 
cotton  grows  luxuriantly;  and  as  we 
go  higher  up,  corn,  wheat,  tobacco, 
grass,  and  fruits  of  the  finest  quali- 
ties, can  be  produced  in  the  great- 
est abundance. 

The  water  power  is  immense, 
both  on  the  Yadkin  and  its  numerous 
tributaries;  and  it  is  impossible  to 
estimate  the  amount  of  wealth  and 
•energy  and  happiness  that  will  be 
some  day  seated  through  this  coun- 
try. 

(this  item  from  the  story  will  be 
of  special  interest  to  those  of  us  that 
-did  not  live  near  those  days)  It  is 
in  contemplation  to  make  the  Yadkin 
navigable;  and  there  is  every  pros- 
pect that  the  object  will  be  accom- 
plished, and  that  at  no  distant  day. 
(Dr.  Wiley's  prophecy  as  to  the 
development  of  the  water-power 
has  com-?  true  and  in  years  to  follow 
will  be  much  larger;  but  making  the 
"Yadkin  navigable  is  an  unrealized 
dream;  and  Commissioner  Frank 
Page  with  a  great  concrete  bridge 
and  the  developed  water  powers 
have  made  this  part  of  the  dreamer's 
prophetic  statement  an  impossibility 


for     ail     time     to    come.  -  Editor's, 
note) 

The  enterprising  population  \v h i ch 
will  fill  this  favored  section,  must 
and  will  have  an  outlet  for  the  vast 
and-  valuable  surplus  productions 
of  its  labour;  and  the  construction  of  1 
the  Central  Railroad  (the  Old  North 
Carolina  railroad)  will  but  increase 
the  necessky  of  making  the  river 
also  a  highway  for  commerce.  It  is 
said  that  it  can  be  rendered  navigable 
as  high' as  Wilkesboro,  in  the  county 
of  Wilkes;  and  when  that  is  done  and 
the  road  finished,  our  Eastern  friends 
can  make  very  delightful  summer 
excursions  to  the  mountains.  The 
cars  will  bring  them  to  the  ri yer; 
and  there  they  will  enter  a  tine  steam- 
boat, and  pass  up  through  banks 
that  become  steeper  and  higher, 
till  the  occasional  cliff  and  pro- 
monotory  are  merged  in  a  compact 
series  of  stupendous  hills  and  craggy 
precipices. 

Lower  down  it  is  contemplated  to 
connect  the  Yadkin  with  'he  deep 
river  improvement,  by  means  of 
what  is  called  a  portage  railroad;  that 
is,  a  road  ever  which  thi  freight 
boats  taken  from  one  river  will  be 
transported  to  the  other.  These 
improvements  are  sure  to  be  made 
in  the  course  of  time;  and  just  glance 
your  eye  over  the  country,  and  s^e 
what  a  land  of  promise  it  is! 


If  we  camp  beside  our  money  bags,  unmoved  by  the  distress  we  easily 
could  help  to  relieve,  there  will  descend  upon  us  the  accumulated  hate  of 
generations. 


*fc 


S'ilf 


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!  THE    WORLD    FOR    SALE 

RALPH   HOYT 

Ralph  Hoyt,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1810. 
He  has  written  a  few  poems,  the  following  being  most  frequently  met 
■vith.     He  died  in  1878. 

HE  World  for  sale!---Hang  out  the  sign; 
C  all  every  traveler  here  to   me; 
Who'll  buy  this  brave  estate  of  wine. 
And  set  me  from  earth's  bondage  free? 
'Tis  going! ---Yes,  I  mean  to  fling 
The  hauble  from  mv  soul  away; 

I'll  sell  it,  whatsoe'er  it  bring; 

7 he  world  at  auction  here  ic-day! 

It  ts  a  glorious  thing  to  see,-  — 

Ah,  it  has  cheated  me  sore! 
It  is  not  what  it  seems  to  be: 

For  sale!  It  shall  be  mine  no  more. 
Come,  turn  it  o'er  and  view  it  Well; 

I  would  not  have  you  purchase  dear; 
'Tis  going! ---Going!     I  must  sell! 

Who   bids?      Who'll  buy  this  splendid  tear? 

Here's  Wealth  in  glittering  heaps  oj  gold:-  — 

Who  bids?---But  lei  me  tell  you  j air, 
A  baser  lot  was  never  sold; 

Who'll  buy  the  heavy  heaps  of  care? 
A  nd  here,  spread  out  in  hroad  domain, 

A  goodly  landscape  all  may  trace; 
Hall,  cottage,  tree,  field,  hill,  and,  plain;— 

Who'll  buy  himself  a  burial  place? 

Here's  Love,    the  dreary  potent  spell 

That  beauty  fling  around  the  heart; 
I  \now  its  power,  alas,  too  well! 

'Tis  going!--Love  and  I  must  part! 
Must  part!— What  can  I  more  with  love? 

All  over  (he  enchanter's  reign; 


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Who'll  buy  the  plumeless,  dying  dove,--- 
An  hour  of  bliss, —an  age  of  pain? 

And  Friendship,-- -rarest  gem  of  earth, 

(Whoe'er  hath  found  the  jcrvel  his?) 
Frail,  fickle,  false,  and  little  Worth,— 

Who  bids  for  friendship  -as  it  is? 
'lis  going!     Qoing!---Hear  the  call: 

One,  t.cice,  and  thrice!---  lis   very  loul! 
'Tu'as  once  my  hope,  my  stay,  my  all,— 

But  now  the  broken  staff  must  go! 

Fame!     Hold  the  brilliant  meteor  high; 

I  low  dazzling  every  gilded  name! 
Ye  millions,  now's  the  time  to  huy! 

How  much  for  fame?     How  much  for  fame? 
Hear  how  it  thunders! ■■■  Would  you  stand 

On  high  Olympus  far  renowned?--- 
Now  purchase,  and  a  world  command! 

And  be  with  a  world's  curses  crowned! 

Sweet  star  of  hi  ope!      With  ray  to  shine 

In  every  sad  foreboding  breast, 
Save  this  desponding  one  of  mine,--- 

Who  bids  for  man  s  last  friend  and  best? 
Ah!      Were'nol  mine_a  bankrupt  life, 

This  treasure  Would  my  son!  sustain; 
■  ITjut  hope  and  I  are  now  at  strife, 

Nor^ever  may  unite  again. 

And  Song!     For  sale  my  tuneless  lute; 

Sweet  solace,  mine  no  more  to  held; 
The  chords  that  charmed  my,soul  are  mule; 

I  cannot  Waf^e  the  notes  of  old! 
Or  e'en  Were  mine  a  wizard  shell, 

Could  chain  a  World  in  rapture  high; 
Yet  now  a  sad  farewell,  farewell, 

Must  on  its  last  faint  echoes  die. 

Ambition,  Fashion,  Show,   and  Pride, ■■• 
I  part  from  all  forever  now; 
Grief,  in  an  overwhelming  tide, 


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Has  taught  my  liaugJiiy  heart  to  bow. 
Poor  heart!     Distracted,  ah,  so  long,--- 

And  still  its  aching  throh  to  hear;--- 
Hoitf  broken,  that  Was  once  so-  slorng! 

How  heavy,  once  so  free  from  rare/ 

No  more  for  me  life's  fitful  dream;--- 

Bright  vision  vanishing  aw  a])! 
My  harfc  requires  a  deeper  stream; 

My  sinking  soul  a  surer  slay. 
By  Death,  stern  sheriff,  all  bereft! 

I  Weep,  yet  humbly  l^iss  the  rod; 
The  best  of  all  I  still  have  left,— 

My  Faith,  my  ffible,  and  my  God. 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

Mr.  J.  Lee  White,  barn  force 
manager,  is  getting  ready  to  plant 
the  Spring  and  Summer  crops.  The 
boys  have  already  planted    a    little. 

Weather  b°.ing  so  favorable.  Mr. 
Johnson,  during  the  time  the  boys 
play  ball,  places  up  his  net  and  has 
a  very  pleasant  game  of  tennis  with 
his  boy-opponents,  Victor  High  and 
Willie'Cook. 

Avery  Roberts,  Murray  Evans, 
and  Loxely  Sanders  were  visited  by 
"home-folks"  last  Wednesday.  All 
of  the  participants  were  very  much 
pleased  and  made  happy  by  the  fami- 
ly reunions. 

Mrs.  Talbert,  of  Concord,  who 
has  been  sick  for  some  time,  but  is 
now  quite  well,  has  arrived  at  the 
home  of  her  son,  Mr.  T.  V.  Talbert, 
who  has  a  farm  down  the  highway 
just  below  the  school. 

Mr.  Cloor's  new  assistant    in  the 


shop  building  is  Arvel  Absher.  This 
statement  is  only  made  by  that  of  the 
assistant  and  is  not  guaranteed. 
Other  assurances  must  be  had  by 
confronting  Mr.  Cloer. 

Again  the  time  for  cutting  hair 
has  arrived.  After  a  month  or  so  of 
free  growing,  this  work  makes  a  de- 
cided improvement  in  appearance. 
If  they  have  no  better  trade  when 
they  leave  hero,  Lamb,  Huggins  and 
Bertram  Hart  will  make  very  excel- 
lent barbers. 

Rev.  Mr.  Lawrence,  of  Concord, 
delivered  afar-reaching  sermon  to 
the  boys  Sunday.  He  spoke  from 
the  topic  "Persistence"  and  took 
for  his  text  the  verse:  "Re  not  weary 
in  well  doing,  for  in  due  season  we 
shall  reap  if  we  faint  not,"  which 
suggested  to  him  the  topic  "Persis- 
tence." 

One  day  last  week,  to  be  exact, 
Tuesday,  Howard  Gilbert,  who  is  in 
the  fifth  cottage,  received  a  crate  of 
oranges  from  his  brother,  Mr.  Mack 
Gilbert,  of  Florida.     Very  generous- 


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ly  indeed,  he  divided  a  portion  of  his 
oranges  among  the  boys  of  his  cot- 
tage. The  boys  take  this  means  of 
thanking  him. 

Last  Saturday,  Sanford  Hedrick 
left  our  midst  to  obey  a  court  sum- 
mons in  Lexington.  His  duty  was 
that  of  a  witness.  Wednesday,  he 
came  back,  accompanied  by  his  fath- 
er, Mr.  T.  L.  Hedrick,  of  Lexington. 
Mr.  Hedrick  was  shown  over  the 
school,  and  was  very  pleased  and 
satisfied  by  his  survey. 

Because  of  the  fact  that  the  new 
boys  who  arrive  here  are  not 
able  to  get  the  exercises  in  drill  cor- 
rectly so  soon,  several  boys  in  each 
cottage  are  detailed  to  teach  the 
regular  exercises  to  the  "new  'ens" 
in  the  cottage  basement.  As  a  re- 
sult of  this  previous  practice,  the 
.squad  which  is  drilling  takes  on 
a  more  uniform  movement  and  it  is, 
indeed,  a  pleasure  to  see  the  perhaps 
future  soldiers  going  through  their 
exercise  so  perfect. 

Quite  a  few  of  the  boys  went  for  a 
walk  Sunday  afternoon  in  a  response 
t,o  its  call  to  the  awakening  of 
spring.  The  twenty-first  of  this 
month  is  the  date  for  the  true  ar- 
rival of  Spring  and  for  that  day  and 
many  afterward,  eyes  are  eagerly 
watching.  Spring  means  birds;  birds 
mean  song  ang  music;  music  means 
and  brings  charm  to  the  soul;  charm 
means  happiness;  happiness  means 
joy  in  the  belief  of  Christ  and  Christ 
means  every-thing,  all. 

Not  being  satisfied  with  the  eight 
or  ten  hymns  sung  in  Sunday  School 
and  Church,  Sunday,  the  boys  want- 
ed to  sing  that  night.  So,  per- 
mission being  granted  by  the  officers, 
they  sang  a  few  songs  such  as  Near- 


er My  G<  d  to  Thee,  Jesus  Savior 
Pilot  Me,  Let  The  Lower  Lights  Be 
Burning,  Softly  and  Tenderly,  Bles- 
ed  Assurance.  'I  hese  and  a  few 
others  are  their  favorites  and  they 
are  sung  with  u'reat  ethusiasni 
fervor,  spirit  and  feelings. 

Originality  of  the  boys  expresses 
itself  in  quite  frequent  outbursts  at 
the  school.  Water  wheels,  wind 
mills,  kites,  weighing  machines,  pic- 
ture  machines,  cash  registois- 
though  whence  the  cash  I  know  not 
--•and  air  gliders.  Many  more  eon- 
prise  the  stock  but  space  does  not 
permit  of  naming  them.  Having 
named  the  inventions,  I  will  name 
some  of  their  inventors:  William 
Wilson.  Jerome  Bruton,  Jo.  Kennon 
Alvin  Cook  and  many  others.  Though 
these  have  already  been  invented  ly 
men,  they  are  home  made  and  de- 
serve credit  and  mention. 

Frequently,  something  worthy  of 
notice  happens  in  the  "big"  room— 
the  one  of  highest  grades.  For  their 
programme  on  Saturday  afternoon, 
the  boys  had  to  memorize  the  twelfth 
chapter  of  Romans.  Even  reading 
this  chapter,  improves  a  person 
mentally,  and  morally,  and,  if  wego 
to  extremes,  we  may  say  physically. 
But  knowing  the  chapter  "off  by 
heart"  aids  one  more  than  just  mere- 
ly reading  it.  Who  knowsbut  what 
in  the  throes  of  some  future  pussible 
temptation,  one  of  these  boys  may  re- 
member a  clause  in  this  chapter  and 
by  this  substantial  aid  fight    it  off? 

In  the  big  room  a  picture  was  be- 
ing placed.  Mr.  Johnson,  using  his 
judgment,  placed  it  on  :»  south 
wall,  a  side  wall.  Mr.  Fisher  hap- 
pening along  at  this  time,  said  ia 
his  opinion  it  should,  be    placed  on. 


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31 


the  rear  wall.  Quite  a  friendly  ar- 
gument issued  thereby.  Mr.  Fisher 
(knowing  women)  said  he  would 
leave  it  to  Miss  Greenlee,  who  also 
teaches  a  room.  Therefore  Miss 
Greenlee  was  appealed  to.  She 
came  and  when  she  saw  "how  the 
land  lay,"  she  verified  Mr.  Fisher's 
judgment.  Then,  capping-  the  cli- 
max, she  stated  that  both  pictures 
should  be  placed  on  the  rear  wall. 
Mr.  Johnson  does  not  know  what  to 
do. 

Saturday  evenings  are  always 
eagerly  awaited  by  the  boys,  for  on 
this  day  they  are  the  recipients  of  a 
half  holiday,  A  half-holiday  mears 
atrip  to  the  ball-grounds  where  all 
sorts  of  games  to  arouse  the  boy's 
interest  await  them.  Wrestling, 
foot-ball,  marbles  and  many  others 
constitute  their  program.  But  there 
is  one  in  which  they  take  especial 
pride,  base-ball.  Saturday,  in  the 
summer,  is  the  usual  day  for  our 
games  with  other  visitors.  Soon  as 
the  b:-"se-ball  season  sets  fairly  in, 
we  expect  and  desire  to  have  many 
rivals.  As  they  do  well  in  most 
things,  so  the  boys  do  well  in  base- 
ball. Watch  how  the  short-stop 
scoups  up  a  hot-liner  and  shoots  it  to 
first,  the  sensational  successful  long 
tun  catch  made  by  the  fielder,  the 
adroit  work  of  the  baseman  as  they 
pull  off  double  and  triple  plays  these 
are  all  remarkable  for  a  juvenile 
team,  but  the  teamwork  which  ex- 
ists between  the  pitcher  and  catcher 
is  what  wins  the  game.  A  real  and 
unusual  record  is  hereby  predicted 
by  the  writer. 


missioners  held  at  noon  today  J.  P. 
Cook,  founder  of  the  Stonewall  Jack- 
son Training  school  for  delinquent 
boys,  returned  to  that  body  a  large 
sum  of  money  appropriated  to  con- 
struct a  Durham  cottage  at  the 
school.  The  sum  appropriated  was 
$24,000,  with  several  thousand  being 
returned  to  the  county. 

This  is  made  possible  through  the 
fact  that  the  amount  appropriated 
was  more  than  enough  to  build  the 
cottage. --Durham  Sun  10th. 


NORTH  CAROLINA'S  GREATEST 
NEED. 

If  one  hundred  persons  were  se- 
lected from  each  of  the  one  hundred 
counties  in  North  Carolina  and  each 
one  asked  to  give  what  he  or  she 
regarded  as  the  greatest  reed  of  the 
State---perhaps  there  would  be  a 
variety  of  answers. 

But  after  observation  of  years  and 
after  seeing  all  of  North  Carolina  as 
we  have  seen  it,  we  are  of  the  opin- 
ion that  the  jrreatest  need  of  this 
State  is  fathers  and  mothers  who 
will  take  charge  of  their  children, 
control  and  govern  them  until  they 
are  12  or  15  years  of  age  at  least. 

Only  a  few  weeks  ago  a  great  big 
strong  father  told  this  writer  that 
he  could  not  control  bis  boy  who  is 
just  in  the  ''teens." 

In  the  name  of  common  sense 
ought  not  such  a  man  to  go  home 
and  put  on  a  dress,  quit  calling  him- 
self a  man,  and  turn  his  houshold 
over  to  the  management  of  his  wife 
— Catawba  News  Enterprize. 


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CHILDREN  IN?" 


Mother  Church  is  most  holy  when  she  is 
most  a  mother.  An  old  lady  lay  dying.  Her 
youngest  child  had  been  dead  twenty  years. 
She  aroused  from  a  long  stupor  and  asked,  "Is 
it  night?"  "Yes,"  was  the  answer,  "it  is  mid- 
night." "Are  all  the  children  in?"  was  the 
next  anxious  query.  Then  she  closed  her  eyes 
and  died.  When  on,  the  verge  of  eternity  she 
drifted  back  to  the  days  when  her  children 
were  young  and  her  mother  instinct  asserted 
itself  in  the  only  question  she  cared  to  ask. 
When  that  solicitude  was  satisfied  she  was 
ready  to  bid  farewell  to  e.lrth.  There  is  no 
question  more  urgent  upon  the  church  to-day 
than  this:  Are  all  our  children  in? — Parents 
ought  to  lose  more  sleep  over  this  question  than 
many  of  them  do.  When  we  see  so  many  boys 
and  girls  on  the  streets  at  night,  and  in  the 
c^eap  shows,  ^nd  hurrying  to  dance  halls  and 
all  sorts  of  dangerous  places,  we  feel  like  cry- 
ing out  for  the  quickening  of  the  mother  in- 
stinct and  the  father  instinct  everywhere. — 
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The  Uplift 

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's  Printing    Class.      Suhscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1020,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1870. 


BE  HOPEFUL. 

Be  hopeful,  friend,  when  clouds  are  dark 

And  days  are  gloomy,  dreary; 
Be  hopeful  even  when  (he  heart 

Is  sick  and  sad  and  weary. 
Be  hopeful  when  it  seems  your  plans 

Are  all  opposed  and  thwarted; 
Go  not.  upon  life's  battlefield 

Despondent  and  faint-hearted. 
And,  friend,  be  hopeful  of  yourself. 

Do  by-gone  follies  haunt  you? 
Forget  them  and  begin  afresh, 

And  let  no  interest  daunt  you. 
Though  unimportant  your  career 

May  seem  as  you  begin  it, 
Press  on,  for  victory's  ahead; 

Be  hopeful,  friend,  and  win  it. 

'  ;  -••  Exchange. 


ANNOUNCING  THE  ARRIVAL  OF  SPRING 

The  astronomical  reporter  of  the  Charlotte  Observer,  in  Monday's  issue, 
introduces  Spring  with  a  rain,  lightening  and  thunder  btorm,  callinginasa 
reinforcement  the  favorite  Latin  of  the  geometrician.  .  It  is  a  iolly  wel- 
come to  Spring,  for  which  we  are  all  looking  and  standing  ready  to  meet. 
But  during  the  course  of  explanation  as  to  how  the  seasons  have  a  way  of 
coming  and  going,  the  said  astronomical  reporter  makes  this  statement: 
This  is  a  spring  month,  but  tomorrow,  it    is    recorded,    is    equinox 

when  the  sun,    after  spending  approximately  six  months  in     northern 


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skies,  is  so  far  returned  toward  the  south  as  to  be  at  the  middle  point 

of  its  journey,  after  which  it  continues  on  its  southerly  march  until  the 

long  and  hot  days  of  summer  are  reached. 

This  jars  one  of  our  youngsters,  Master  Edwin,  the  smallest,  and  young- 
est linotype  operator  in  the  whole  state,  if  not  in  the  United  States.  Ed- 
win is  siime  authority  on  what  geography  teaches  about  the  moving: stunts 
of  the  sun  and  the  earth,  the  latter  interesting  him  considerably  more  than 
the  former.  He  thinks  the  Obsever's  astronomer  is  all  wrong,  having  git- 
ten  the  sun  headed  the  wrong  way  at  this  period.  Edwin  declares  that  if 
the  "sun  keeps  on  going  as  the  reporter  claims,  we  will  have  winter  for  an- 
other six  months;  and  this  will  break  all  weather  records  of  the  ages  and 
put  the  ground  hog  out  of  commission." 

This  same  youngster  draws  what  Maury's  geography  (  a  truly  line  work 
on  geography  that  suited  the  needs  of  the  public  schools  and  was  kicked 
out  of  them  by  a  crowd  of  theory  doctors  for  one  that  did  not  give  even 
a  dozen  words  about  North  Carolina)  has  to  say  about  the  doings  of  this 
season  business:  "In  passing  northward,  the  sun  crosses  the  equator.  This 
bappens  on  the  21st  of  March  every  year.  On  that  day  the  sun  sets  at  the 
south  pole  and  rises  at  the  north  pole.  At  all  others  places  it  rises  and 
setsat  6  o'clock;  consequently  the  day  and  night  are  then  equal:  this  is  the 
Vernal  or  Spring  Equinox.  Six  months  afterward—on  the  22ond  of  Sep- 
tember—as the  sun  returns  from  the  northern  skies,  he  again  crosses  the 
equator,"  and  Autumn  is  supposed  to  begin. 

Master  Edwin,  holding  fast  to  his  geographical  knowledge,  proceeded  to 
add,  "when  the  sun  in  its  northern  course  reaches  the  end  of  his  course  it 
is  Jtine  21st,  the  longest  day,  and  this  is  called  the  Summer  Solstice;  and 
on  the  22ond  day  of  December  when  the  sun  has  reached  the  furtherest 
point  south,  it  is  the  shortest  day  and  is  called  the  Winter  Solstice." 

Edwin  insists  that  he  is  right  and  that  the  Observer  had  the  sun  travel- 
ing m  the  wrong  direction.    At  any  rate,  both  agree  that  "the  sun  do  move." 


JULIAN  SHAKESPEARE  CARR,  JR. 

,Mr.  Julian  S.  Carr,  Jr.,  of  Durham,  who  died  at  the  Pennsylvania  hotel, 
New  York,  Friday  morning,  was  one  of  the  outstanding  captains  of  indus- 
try among  the  young  men  of  North  Carolina.  His  energies  and  develop- 
ing powers  were  directed  along  the  establishment  of  Hosiery  Mills, 

Clean  of  life,  with  high  and  ennobling  impulses,  superb  executive  ability, 
firm  as  a  rock  for  equal  justice  among  men,  and  a  stranger  to   arrogance, 


! 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

are  life  things  that  helped  to  make  young:  Carr  a  choice  spirit  in  the  state. 
Side  by  side  with  him  through  his  married  life  followed  the  fine  spirit  and 
helpfulness  of  a  noble  little  woman,  of  attractive  personality  and  a  pleas- 
ing and  unaffected  manner.  She  in  her.  maiden  name  was  Miss  Margaret 
Cannon,  of  Concord,  and  when  her  husband  come  to  cross  over  the  river 
this  devuted  wife  and  splendid  little  mother  followed  him  to  the  very  brink. 
Young  Julian  Carr,  as  his  numerous  friends  fondly  spoke  of  him,  dis- 
tinguishing between  him  and  his  honored  father,  General  Julian  S.  Carr, 
was  among  the  first,  if  not  the  very  first,  of  North  Carolina's  industrial 
leaders  that  inaugurated  what  we  are  pleased  to  term  "an  industrial  de- 
mocracy.''  It  started  off  well;  it  was  succeeding  admirably;  and,  expect 
for  the  effects  of  the  war  which  has  upset  nearly  every  phase  of  industrial 
activity,  to-day  would  have  been  satisfactorily  demonstrated  and  firmly  es- 
tablished. Young  Carr  practiced,  even  to  his  hurt  at  times,  what  he  believed 
in  and  preached— insincerity  for  gain  or  for  notoriety  had  no  acquaintance 

with  him. 

This  sudden  and  untimely  death  of  a  most  useful  and  forwardlooking 
citizen  is  a  severe  loss  to  the  state;  but  coming  when  it  did.  caused  deep 
anxiety  throughout  the  state,  for  his  own  father,  General  Carr,  one  of  the 
state's  most  beloved,  was  struggling  to  survive  the  attack  of  serious  illness 
and  it  was  feared  that  this  shock  would  prove  too  much  for  the  brave  sol- 
dier that  he  is.  The  latest  is.  to  the  joy  of  the  state,  that  Gereral  Carr 
resigned  to  the  will  of  the  Lord  bravely  stood  the  terrible  shock. 


"THE  SLAUGHTER  OF  THE  INNOCENTS." 

Dr.  Clarence  Poe,  on  his  page  in  the  Progressive  Farmer,  makes  vig- 
orous reference  to  the  ignorance  and  carelessness  that  prevail  in  the  proper 
course  to  pursue  with  infants.     He  says: 

"First  of  all,  lam  glad  that  Mrs.  Hutt  laid  so  much  emphasis  on 
health  subjects,  especially  in  the  care  of  children.  The  death  tate 
among  infants  in  America  is  a  disgrace  to  our  civilization.  Fittingly 
has  it  been  called  "The  Slaught=r  of  the  Innocents."  And  a  very  large 
proportion  of  the  deaths  among  children  is  due  to  the  lack  of  informa- 
tion. The  mothers  are  willing  to  do  the  right  thing  if  they  only  knew 
what  that  right  thing  is.     But  so  many  of  them  do  not  know. 

Not  long  ago  I  was  at  the  funeral  of  a  tenant  farmer's  child  not  yet 
a  year  old  who  had  been  fed  such  things  as  cabbage,  pork,  bananas,  and 
sweet  potatoes— and  probably  coffee!  The  child  had  seemed  to  flourish 
on  these  things  for  awhile,  and  a  more  careful  mother  had  exclaimed. 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

"Well,  it  looks  like  that  child  that  just  eats  anything-  is  just  as  healthy 
as  mine  are,  after  all  the  care  I  give  them!"  But  the  change  came— 
and  I  heard  the  weeping  of  the  less  careful  mother  as  she  followed  the 
little  white  casket  to  the  graveyard." 

Taking- an  accurate  stock  of  the  actual  results,  it  is  far  more  important 
to  see  that  the  infant  is  properly  cared  for,  to  avoid  death  or  an  aggravating 
annoyance  throughout  life,  than  to  teach  that  child  its  letters.  That  agency 
that  treats  how  to  avoid  death,  or  illness,  or  maimness,  or  suffering-  and 
sorrowjn'motherhood,  is  the  very  highest  type  of  promoting  education. 
Such  things  ought  to  and  do  appeal  to  all  Boards  that  function  aright  in 
getting-  most  out  of  the  maintenance  of  their'  agencies  for  the  common 
welfare  of  the  people.    . 

THE  BONUS 

There  seems  no  doubt  that  a  majority  of  the  people  of  the  United  States 
oppose  the  idea  of  paying  the  soldiers  of  the  World  War  the  proposed 
bonus;'at"any  rate,  at  this  time,  because  of  the  burden  of  taxation  and  the 
unsettled  condition  of  all  businesses.  There  are  many,  who  oppose  most 
vehemently  the  paying  of  a  bonus  to  that  part  of  the  war  equipment  that 
did  not^see  service  beyoud  the  seas. 

'lhe  fact  remains,  however,  that  just  because  some  or  even  a  great  part 
of  theipeople  think  little  of  the  bonus  payment,  does  not  make  a  refusal 
to  grant  it  the  right  thing  to  do.  Mr.  Clark  elsewhere  in  this  number 
feasons  most  soundly  and  clearly  the  proposition.  He  regrets  that  it  has 
been  asked;  but  since  the  demand  has  been  made  and  a  feeling  is  certainly 
manifest  that  the  soldiers  feel  that  they  have  not  been  handed  a  square 
deal  in  comparison  with  the  stay-at-homes  the  proper  thing  to  do  is,  to  jump 
in  and  pay  it  by  direct  taxes. 

Very  wisely  Mr.  Clark  suggests  "keeping  in  mind  the  eternal  principle 
that  should  govern  all  tax  levies— that  all  should  pay  in  accordance  with 
what  they  have.'' 


A  PICTURE  OF  THE  PAST. 

In  the  communication  of  Lawyer  Caldwell  there  is  evidence  of  an  abiding 
joy  in  the  remembrance  of  scenes  and  experiences  in  those  days  when  log- 
houses  constituted  the  average  seat  of  learning.  Many  of  our  readers,  wh» 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

graduated  at  these  mighty  educational  agencies,  and  who  since  constitute 
the  large  majority  of  the  worthwhile  men  and  women  in  the  affairs  of  the 
times,  will  enjoy  the  fine  description  of  how  they  endeavored  to  lead  pupils 
to  think,  and  how  they  entertained  theniselves  in  working  off  an  overabun" 
dance  of  ;  outhful  physical  energy. 

A  vast  improvement  in  the  physical  equipment  of  the  schools  has  been 
made,  children  enjoying  certain  comforts  that  did  not  obtain  in  the  clays 
of  which  Mr.  Caldwell  so  entertaingly  writes.  But  one  thing  is  equally 
Certain-- -and  those  of  us  who  can  touch  both  periods  too  well  know---the 
drill  master  of  those  days,  the  practical  teachers,  born  to  the  art,  and  not 
hand-made  by  an  autocratic  ruling,  are  not  as  numerous  to-day.  The  tea- 
chers of  those  days  earned  their  reputations  as  school  mpsters  in  the  school 
of  experience  and  by  successful  accomplishments-  they  had  never  heard  of 
the  "units"  that  play  such  a  high  roll  with  the  teacher  factories  of  the 
present:  times---and  they  did  their  work  so  effectively  and  secured  such 
practical  results  that  their  services  were  sought  far  and  wide. 

By  an  arbitrary,  hand-made  rule  in  vogue  to-day,  when  a  certain  course 
is  completed  in  certain  designated  schools  that  pass  muster  with  the  theory 
doctors  on  the  point  of  "units"  they  are  s'arted  off  as  teachers  at  hand- 
some salaries,  even  though  they  had  not  enjoyed  a  day's  experience,  lack  a 
teacher's  temperament  and  have  but  little  vision  except  that  secured  in  a 
six-weeks  summer  school  loaded  down  with  theory  upon  theory,  many  of 
which  change  year  after  year  with  a  change  of  faculty,  or  when  the  theory 
becomes  frazzled. 

Teachers,  real  teachers  that  lead  pupils  to  think  for  themselves  and  to 
know  thoroughly  what  they  know,  are  born,  not  made;  and  no  man-made 
device  or  thecry  or  mechanical  arrangement  can  change  this  law. 


Hon.  Josephus  Daniels  some  days  ago  delivered  in  Pitt  county,  N.  C.  an 
address  of  wonderful  force  and  good  sense.  The  occasion  was  the  opening 
of  the  "live-at-home  campaign."  which  Governor  Morrison  has  fathered. 
Instead  of  confining  himself  to  telling  the  farmers  what  to  do,  Mr.  Daniels 
analyzed  most  clearly  the  causes  that  have  led  up  to  the  predicament  and 
condition  in  which  the  average  farmer  now  finds  himself.  The  reasoning 
of  that  address  can  not  be  overcome,  and  it  would  mean  much  to  the  in- 
telligence and  benefit  of  the  state  if  Mr.  Daniels  could  be  induced  to  deliver 
that  very  strong  address  in  every  county  of  North  Carolina.  In  view  of  the 
impracticability  of  doing  that  in  a  reasonable  time,  it  should  be  printed  in 


g  '   THE  UPLIFT 

pamphlet  form  and  freely  circulated  throughout  the  state. 


o    o    n     a     o 


Besides  the  inestimable  benefits  direct  to  the  children  through  the  opera- 
tion and  talks  of  health  officers,  the  important  subject  of  the  care  of  the 
body  and  its  healthful  condition  is  dignified  and  is  made  a  worthwhile  con- 
cern  of  the  children.  It  is  a  known  fact  that  oftentimes  school  children, 
becoming  interested  in  the  subjects  pertaining  to  the  care  of  the  body 
through  these  visiting  health  officers,  become  real  missionaries  in  their 
own  homes.  It  has  been  demonstrated  time  and  time  again  during  the  past 
year  that  where  a  schiol  child  has  been  lead  to  care  for  its  teeth,  the  object 
lesson  has  induced  the  parents  to  feel  a  keener  interest  in  the  condition  of 
their  own  mouths. 


"It  is  hard  to  teach  an  old  dog  new  tricks."  That  is  true  also  in  the 
the  realm  of  the  kingdom  of  higher  animals.  '1  he  missionary  has  but  lit- 
tle chance  with  the  adult  heathen--he  seeks  the  child  the  child,  becomes  the 
man-- the  child  leads  the  world.  Many  a  father  and  mother,  steeped  in  ap- 
palling ignorance,  have  been  brought  to  see  the  light  through  their  child, 
who  chanced  to  fall  under  the  influence  of  an  agent  teaching  the  proper  care 
of  the  body  and  the  irr  portance  of  the  observance  of  the  primary  laws 
governing  health.  This  is  practical  education,  that  counts,  even  in  ages 
to  come.     Let  such  agencies  be  not  thwarted. 


Down  in  Pitt  County  the  Prohibition  officers  are  in  action.  Five  stills 
were  destroyed  in  one  week,  10,000  gallons  of  beer  poured  out,  one  preach- 
er and  a  constable  were  arrested.  This  sounds  like  "Dan"  Widenhouse's 
doings,  though  in  his  rounding-up  he  has  never  encountered  a  preacher 
presiding  over  a  still.  The  foolish  scoffers  will  in  their,  wicked  souls  charge 
this  preacher's  unworthy  and  despicable  conduct  against  the  church.  The 
church,  however,  is  decidedly  the  gainer  to  have  the  hypocrite  jugged. 


•  •  • 


Sister  Ellen  D.  Davis,  a  great  grand-daughter  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  has 
announced  her  candidacy  for  the  Democratic  nomination  for  Congress  in  the 
Second  Pennsylvania  district.  Mrs.  Davis  had  first  decided  to  offer  for  the 
United  States  Senate,  but  brother  Davis,  her  hubby,  thought  a  state-wiite 
canvass  would  tax  her  physical  strength  too  much.    Such  a  considerate hus- 


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band  and  such  an  obedient  wife!  Such  things  as  these  convinc-2  us  that   the 
world  is  pretty  good  in  spots. 


» A  »*,  A  A  .♦-  *♦*  A  A  .♦*  A  i! 


THE  HART  IN  THE  OX-STALL 

A  Hart  hotly  pursued  by  the  hounds  fled  for  refuge  into  an  ox- 
stall,  and  buried  itself  in  a  truss  of  hay,  leaving  nothing  to  be 
seen  but  the  tips  of  his  horns.  Soon  after  the  Hunters  came  up 
and  asked  if  any  one  had  seen  the  Hart.  The  stable  boys,  who 
had  been  resting  after  their  dinner,  looked  round,  but  could  see 
nothing,  and  the  Hunters  went  away.  Shortly  afterwards  the 
master  came  in,  and  looking  round,  saw  sometning  unusual  had 
taken  place.  Pie  pointed  to  the  truss  of  hay  and  said:  "What 
are  those  curious  things  sticking  out  of  the  hay?"  And  when  the 
stable  boys  came  to  look  they  discovered  the  Hart,  and  soon  made 
an  end  of  him.     He  thus  learned  that 

"NOTHING  ESCAPES  THE  MASTER'S  EYE." 


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EDWARD   PAYSON  WHARTON 
Greensboro,  N.  C. 


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EDWARD 


PA.^ 


WHARTON 


Edward  Payson  Wharton',  of  Greensboro,  is  a  cotmtry-born  and  country- 
reared  gentleman,  having-  been  born  two  and  one-half  miles  north-east  of 
Greensboro,  July  18,  1859,  on  what  was  regarded  a  poor  farm.  There  are 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  good  people  of  whom  the  foregoing  can  be  truth- 
fully said;  but  all  these  thousands  of  good  people  have  not  tackled  similar 
propositions,    have    not    waged  pro-      self  that  the    finest  solution  was  by 


longed  and  successful  battles  and 
have  not  set  in  motion  and  in  action 
the  great  agencies,  which  belong  to 
the  record  of  our  subject. 

The    record    and    the  accomplish- 
ments   of     this    man     Wharton,    at 
whatever  angle  you  view   them,  are 
little  short  of  marvelous  and  all  but 
romantic.  Born  in  the  country,  con- 
fronted by   country   difficulties  and 
handicaps,  having  access  to  only  the 
average    rural   school   facilities,  ex- 
cepting a  short   period  in  the  school 
conducted   in     Greensboro    by    Dr. 
Alexander    Mclver,  at  an   early  age 
it  fell  to  his  lot  to  direct   the  opera- 
tions of  the  farm.      Here   is  where 
our  subject  discovered  himself.     He 
used  his    head,  and   energy  and  am- 
bition   were     greatly    in    evidence. 
He  set  up  for    himself  an  ideal    and 
worked    towards    it.     Anybody,    he 
knew,  could  work  an   average  farm 
and  by  industry  and  economy  make 
a  bare    living,     but    this    did    not 
satisfy  the  ambitious  youth.     Taking 
charge  of    the    farm   at  the    age  of 
thirteen,  he    reasoned    out  that  the 
finest  method    for  making  the  farm 
pay  was   by   improving  its    fertility 
and  at  the    same    time    earn  a  divi- 
dend; so  he  started    a  dairy,  and  he 
it  was   that    started    the    first  milk 
delivery  in  the  city  of  Greensboro. 

Though  just  nineteen  years  of  age. 
he  tackled  the  proposition  of  how 
best  and  most  economically  to  meet 
the  feed  proposition  with  his  herd 
°l  cows.     Soon    he    convinced  him- 


using  silage,  and  forthwith  he  pro- 
ceeded to  erect  for  his  own  use  a  silo 
--this  was  the  first  silo  erected  in 
Guilford  county,  and  probably  the 
first  in  North  Carolina.  This  oc- 
curred way  back  in  1879.  From  this 
beginning  and  this  showing  of  the 
way,  the  use  of  silos  has  covered  the 
state. 

That  his  mother  might  enjoy 
more  comfortable  surroundings  and 
take  life  easier,  and  to  give  his 
energies  a  wider  field  and  larger  op- 
portunities, he  moved  to  Greensboro 
January,  1887.  Here  under  the  firm 
name  of  Wharton,  Hunt  &  Co.,  he 
started  a  lumber  business.  The  log3 
were  shipped  from  Moore  county, 
using  the  old  C.  V.  &  Y.V.  railroad; 
but  when  they  changed  the  freight 
rates  to  the  prohibitive  point,  he 
immediately  moved  a  saw-mill  to  the 
woofs  and  prepared  his  stock  on  the 
ground.  This  Company  finally  grew 
into  what  is  now  known  as  the 
Guilford  Lumber  Co.,  in  1888,  in 
which  he  is  now  largely  interested. 
The  first  Fire  Insurance  Company 
organized  in  Greensboro  (1895)  was 
the  product  of  his  brain  and  vision; 
and  since  that  day  a  number  of  com- 
panies have  engaged  in  fire  insurance 
business  at  Greensboro  until  the 
companies  of  that  city  to-day  have 
the  distincion  of  writing  more  fire 
insurance  than  any  place  South  of 
Philadelphia. 

Having  stai  ted  a  real    estate    in- 
surance business,  in  1888,  under  the 


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firm  name  of  E.  P.  Wharton  &  Co.,  holders  and  a  director.  This  com- 
his  father  being  the  silent  partner,  pan.v  does  an  immense  business  in 
the  business  prospered  and  was  re-  more  than  twenty  states.  _  I  incident- 
organized  as  the  Wharton  Real  Estate  ally  asked  a  mutual  friend  how  many 
&  Investment  Company,  of  which  companies  and  corporations  he  sup- 
Mr  Wharton  was  the  first  secretary  posed  Mr.  Wharton  was  financially 
&  treasurer  and  afterwards  its  presi-  interested  in  and  had  much  to  do 
dent  This  company  later  became  with  their  direction.  He  answered, 
the  Southern  Life  and  Trust  Com-  "the  Lord,  only,  knows;  but  1  know 
pany  its  $25  000  capital  becoming  that  there  are  but  few  industrial 
later'a  million  dollars,  all  earned,  corporations  in  which  he  is  not  vit- 
and  the  stock  to-day  is  marketable  ally  interested;  he  has  been  a  most 
at  $200.00  per  share.  Of  this  com-  successful  promoter  and  made  things 
pany  Mr.  Wharton  was  president  un-  move." 

til  1912      A  short    time    after    this  I     myself    know    of    many   other 
Mr    Warton  organized  the  American  businesses    in  which    our  subject  is 
Exchange  Bank,  now  the    American  financially   concerned,  but  the   fore- 
Exchange    National     Bank,     which  going  brief  outline  suffices  to  identi- 
owns  Greensboro's  first  sky-scraper,  fy  him  as  a  real  captain  of  industry, 
and  which    is  one    of  the    strongest  and    clearly    reveals  what    seems  a 
banks  in  Piedmont  North    Carolina,  tireless    energy    and    shows   a   fine 
For  several  vears  he  was    the  presi"  vision.     It  mu't  not  be  thought  that 
dent  of  the  bank,  and  is  now  a  direc-  Mr.    Wharton    is  only  interestsd  in 
tor  that    proposition  which   leads  up  to 
Five  years  ago  the  subject  of  our  and  grasps  the  almighty  dollar.    Ha 
sketch  became  the    president  of  the  is   public  spirited;  he  is  right   much 
Greensboro    National    Bank,    which  of  a  joiner  of  the  organizations  and 
materially  grew  under    his  direction  associations  that  have  in  view  alone 
and  considerably  widened  its  service,  the    betterment  of    community  life 
Jnst  a  month  ago,  Mr.  Wharton.de-  and    increasing    the  growth    of  his 
spiring  to  get  released  from  some  of  favorite    city.     He    is  chairman  of 
his    strenuous   duties     and   availing  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Greens- 
himself  of  the  joys  of    outside    life,  boro    Public    Library,    member    of 
effected  a  favorable  consolidation  of  the  Manufacturers  Club,  the  Rotary 
the  Greensboro  National  Bank    with  Club,  a  director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
the    American    Exchange    National  president  of  the  Board  of   Trustees 
Bank,  in  which  he  is  interested  in  a  of   the  Palmer   Memorial    Industrial 
large  way  and  of  which  he  is  a  di-  Institute  for  colored    people,  trustee 
rector.  of  the  Jackson  Training  School  and 
Mr.    Wharton  was  also  one  of   the  the    State    Hospital  at    Morgranton, 
organizers     of    the    Carolina     Steel  in  all  of  which  positions  he  showsat 
Bridge  &  Construction  Company,  at  all    times  a  deep  interest,    as  if  he 
Burlington,   ami    was  its  first  presi-  had  a  personal   return  for  the  noble 
dent.     This   business  has  been  con-  and  ennobling  service  he  most  cheer- 


solidated  with  the  Virginia  Bridge  &     fully  and  faithfully  renders. 
Iron  Company,  of    Roanoke,  Va.,  in  In    1889    Mr.    Wharton    married 

which  he  is  one  of  the  largest  stock-      Miss  Ida    M.    Murray,   a   native  ot 


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Greensboro,  a  most  excellent  woman 
and  a  member  of  one  of    Guilford's 
most  esteemed  and  worthy  families. 
By  this  union  there  were  born    two 
daughters,  who  are  now  Mrs    M.  F. 
Douglas    and  Mrs.  Walter  F.    Cole. 
There   are  five  grand    children.     In 
1915,  Mrs.  Wharton,  being  knocked 
down  by  a  passing  street  car,  was  so 
terribly    injured    that  she    survived 
the  accident  just  six  hours.     In  May 
1920,  Mr.  Wharton  was  married    to 
Jlrs.  C.  N.    Wharton,  of   Kentucky. 
In    this    man    there  is  not  only  a 
native  sense  of  justice  and  a  desire  to 
do  the  right  thing,  but  he  strives  to 
avoid   any    attitude   or  position  that 
would   even   suggest    taking   an  ad- 
vantage.    I  happen  to  know  of  just 
one   deed    that    lies    at  the  door  of 
Mr.  Wharton  that  shows  the  manner 
of  man  he  is,  and  how  far  he  would 
go   to    see    that  suffering  could  be 
avoided.     One    might    gather   from 
the  foregoing  that  Mr.  Wharton  had 
only   to  touch  a  thing  and  it  turned 
into  money.     A    friend    asked    him 
one   day,  "Ed,  have  you  never  been 
a  stockholder  in  a  concern  that  fail- 
ed to  make  good?"     He  is  reported 
to  have    acknowledged  that  he  was 
taken  in  once  by  a  company  that  "hit 
the  ceiling"  and  he  not  only  lost  his 
own  investment,  but  had  to  pay  con- 
siderable security  money.     This  fail- 
ure was  not  due  to  his  management 
and   he    was    in  no  wise  responsible 
for  the  collapse.     But  following  this 
failure,  and  this  I  knew  of  my  own 
knowledge,  Mr.  Wharton  did  a  deed 
that   not    over  one    in  ten  thousand 
would  even  consider  doing.     In  that 
company   were    a    large   number  of 
women  stockholders,  who  could  ill  af- 
ford the  loss,  and  while  he  was  in  no 
way  responsible  for  thvir  loss,  moral- 
ly or  legally,  he  personally  kept  every 


woman  stockholder  inviolate  from  a 
single  cent  ot  loss.  Heaven  had 
been  good  to  him,  and  in  this  manner 
he  grasped  the  privilege  and  oppor- 
tunity of  showing  his  gratitude. 

If  you  would  tell  the  average 
Greensboro  citizen,  who  knows  this 
man  most  intimately,  his  unblemish- 
ed life,  hisstrenuous  devotion  to  bus- 
iness, his  activity  and  liberality  in 
church  and  civic  matters,  that  Ed- 
ward Pay  son  Wharton  "is  a  high 
flyer,"  you  would  invite  a  contro- 
versy on  the  spot.  That's  just  what 
he  is— only  in  an  orderly  and  justified 
manner.  Loaded  down  with  bus- 
iness and  business  engagements,  and 
prompt  in  every  duty  and  obligation, 
he  has  several  times  flown  to  Roan- 
oke, Virginia.  A  pressing  engage- 
ment called  him  to  Roanoke  recently, 
and  the  schedules  of  the  trains  made 
a  negotiation  of  the  trip  in  time  im- 
possible, so  he  chartered  a  flying 
machine,  bade  his  wife  good-by 
when  she  manifested  an  abiding  love 
for  Greensboro  atmosphere,  and  re- 
ached Roanoke  in  ample  time  for  his 
engagement,  and,  bking  aeriel,  high- 
flying so  well,  he  returned  by  the 
same  method.  Thar,  has  been  the 
record  of  this  man  of  energy  and 
laudable  ambition  during  all  his 
year;,  and,  as  he  approaches  his 
sixty-third  birthday,  there  is  no  out- 
ward evidence  that,  that  tireless  en- 
ergy has  abated  one  jot. 

The  life  and  success  of  Mr.  Whar- 
ton emphasizes  two  well  established 
facts:  (1)  in  a  large  measure  a  man 
is  the  architect  of  his  own  fortune, 
can  overcame  obstacles  and  handi- 
caps and,  not  ha.ing  opportunities 
thrust  upon  him,  he  can  go  out  and 
make  thorn;  and  (2)  regular  atten- 
dance upon  the  privileges  and  duties 
of  courch  activities  and  contributing 


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a    faithful    and    liberal   service  to  a  a  milk  seller,  a  dairy  farmer,  then  a 
common    pood    are  not  inconsistent'     captain  of  industry  and    a  financier, 

with  making  a  handsome  and  honest  now    comfortable    fixed,     looks   the 

fortune.  world  square  in  the  face— and  during 

Edward  Payson  Wharton  not  long-  all  these  experiences  and    strenuous 

ago  was  a  bare-footed  country  boy,  activities  he  has  not  forgotten  God. 


SPRING 

HENRY  W.  LONGFELLOW 

Ah,  how  wonderful  is  the  advent  of  the  spring! — The  great  annual  miracle 
of  the  blossoming  of  Aaron's  rod,  repeated  on  myriads  and  myriads  of  bran- 
ches ! — The  gentle  progression  and  growth  of  herbs,  flowers  and  trees, — gentle, 
and  yet  irrepressible, — which  no  force  can  stay,  no  violence  restrain,  like  love, 
that  wins  its  way  and  cannot  be  withstood  by  any  human  power.  If  spring 
came  but  once  a  century,  instead  of  once  a  year,  or  a  burst  forth  with  the 
sound  of  an  earthquake,  and  not  in  silence,  what  wonder  rind  expectation  would 
there  be  in  all  hearts  to  behold  the  miraculous  change! 

But  now  the  silent  succession  suggests  nothing  but  necessity.  To  most  men, 
only  the  cessation  of  the  miracle,  would  be  miraculous,  and  the  perpetual  ex- 
ercise of  God's  power  seems  less  wonderful  than  its  withdrawal  would  be. 
We  are  like  children  who  are  astonished  and  delighted  only  by  the  second  hand 
of  the  clock,  not  by  the  hour  hand. 


The  Wizard  01  The  Alphabet 

Did  you  ever  think  what  a  strange  letter  "S"  is?  It  is  a  serpent  in  dis- 
guise. Listen— you  can  hear  it  hiss,  it  is  the  wizard'  of  the  alphabet. 
If  gives  possession  and  multiplies  indefinitely  by  its  touch.  It  changes  a  pear 
nto  a  spear,  a  word  into  a  sword,  laughter  into  slaughter.  Farmers  have  to 
watch  it  ciosely.   It  will  make  scorn  of  his  corn,  and  reduce  every  peck  to  a 

speck.     Sometimes  he  finds  it  useful,  before  his  horses,  the  team  will  turn 

If  he  needs  more  room  for  his  scock  into  steam.      If  ever  you    get    hurt, 

it  will  change  a  table  into    a    stable  call  the  serpent  to  your  aid.  Initan- 

for  him;  and  if  he  is  short  of  hay  he  tly  your  pain  will   he  in    Spain.    Be 

can  get  a  row  of  tacks  and    it  will  sure  to  take  it    with    you   the  next 

turn  them  into  stacks.     He  must  be  time  you  climb  the  mountain,  if  you 

careful,  however,  not  to  let  his  nails  desire  to  witness  a   marvel;    it  will 

lie  loose,  for  the  serpent's  breath  will  make  the  peak  speak.     But   do  cot 

turn  them  into  snails.   If    he  wishes  let  it  come  near  you  while  you  are 

to  see  an    engine    about    his    farm,  reading  now,  it  will    make   the  tale 

he  need  not   have  ar.ycoalor    water  stale.--  Selected, 
to    work   it;  let   the    serpent  glide 


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PITCH   IN  AND   PAY   IT? 

BY  R.  E.  CLASK 

Talking  with  a  Confederate  veteran  recently  (only  a  few  of  them  are  left), 
he  was  recalling  a  number  of  acquaintances,  now  dead,  who  left  good  estates; 
and  he  incidentally  mentioned  three  or  four  who,  he  said,  laid  the  foundation  of 
their  wealth  during  the  war  of  the  COs.  They  were  not  in  the  army,  and  being 
at  home  could  take  advantage  of  opportunities.     They  saved  some  cotton  out  of 

the  war,   he   said   and   as   cotton   was      best  service  of  which  they  were  cap- 
very  valuable  at  the  end  of  the  conflict      able  for  the  support  of  the  army  and 


they  got  a  start.  There  was  no  crit- 
icism of  these  men;  no  intimation 
that  they  had  dodged  army  service  or 
were  given  a  special  privilege  in  ex- 
emption, or  had  taken  undue  advan- 
tage of  the  opportunities  that  came 
their  way.  Some  body  had  to  be  left 
at  home;  and  those  who  were  pro- 
perly exempted  from  army  service 
cither  for  special  service  at  home  or 
because  they  were  unfit  for  military 
duty,  were  not  special  objects  of  fav- 
oritism, generally  speaking.  Hut-  the 
fact  remains  that  those  who  were  left 
at  home  for  any  reason  were  not  only 
spared  the  hardships  and  dangers  of 
the  fields,  but  they  had  opportuni- 
ties— very  limited  in  the  war  of  the 
Confederacy,  but  an  occasional  chance, 
nevertheless — to  safeguard  their  mat- 
erial interests  that  the  soldier  in  the 
field  could  not  have.  And  doubtless 
when  the  survivors  of  the  Confederate 
army  came  homo,  most  of  them  stripp- 
ed of  their  earthly  possessions,  and 
found  one  here  and  there  who  had  not 
served  in  the  army,  better  fixed,  there 
was  a  feeling  of  resentment,  of  in- 
justice, that  (lamed  hot.  Even  if 
those  exempted  from  army  service 
Were  justly  and  fairly  exempted,  as 
they  were  in  the  majority  of  cases  of 
course:  and  even  if  it  were  admitted 
that  the  stay-at-home  had  rendered  the 


to  help  dependents  at  home,  and  that 
there  was  nothing  shady  in  the  tran- 
sactions by  which  they  profited,  the 
feeling  of  injustice  remained.  It 
wasn't  fair  for  one  who  had  escaped 
the  hardship  of  army  service  to  pro- 
fit by  it  in  addition. 

There  were  few  stay-at-homes  from 
the  Confederate  army  who  profited 
because  there  were  very  few  stay-at- 
homes,  comparatively,  and  few  oppor- 
tunities to  profiteer.  Therefore  the 
feeling  of  injustice  was  not  so  wide 
spread,  because  there  were  so  few  ex- 
amples to  inspire  it.  The  ideas  sug- 
gested by  the  Confederate  veteran's 
remarks,  further  suggest  that  no  doubt 
at  the  close  of  every  war  there  is  a 
feeling  among  the  men  in  active  ser- 
vice that  they  were  made  the  "goats," 
while  those  who  stayed  at  home  were 
the  beneficiaries,  who  prospered  at 
their  expense.  The  comparison  is  of- 
ten unfair  and  the  criticism  of  the) 
stay-at-homes  is  often  unjust.  Some 
stay-at-homes  were  willing  and  anx- 
ious to  go  but  were  rejected  by  reason 
of  physical  defects  or  were  kept  at 
home  for  some  other  reason  and 
through  no  fault  of  their  own;  while 
some  who  went  did  not  go  willingly. 
Hut  nevertheless,  he  who  bore  the 
hardship  and  dangers  of  the  field 
feels  that   the  man  at   home  had  the 


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advantage — and  that  it  isn't  fair. 
This  feeling  is  intensified  in  the  case 
of  those  who  served  in  the  World 
War  because  there  were  so  few,  com- 
paratively, in  the  foreign  service  com- 
pared with  those  at  home;  and  the  op- 
portunities to  profit  at  home  were  so 
many.  It  is  unfair  to  make  it  ap- 
pear, as  some  of  the  former  service 
men  do,  that  those  left  at  home  were 
given  a  special  privilege  by  way  of 
discrimination.  The  per  centage 
of  those  who  escaped  service  by  special 
favor  was  small,  of  course.  It  simply 
happened  that  way,  not  by  prear- 
ranged plan.  Much  of  the  profiteer- 
ing was  premeditated,  but  the  fact 
that  the  man  kept  at  home,  through 
no  fault  of  his  own,  had  r.n  opportu- 
nity to  work  at  $5  or  $10  a  day  and 
live  in  comfort  while  his  brother  en- 
dured hardship  and  risked  his  life 
for  $30  per  month  and  keep,  makes 
a  contrast  that  rankles  and  is  bound 
to  rankle  in  the  breast  of  the  man 
who  saw  active  service.  It  can't  lie 
explained  away.  And  therefore,  when 
the  former  service  man  asks  for  a 
small  compensation  that  will  go  a  lit- 
tle way  toward  evening  up  matters, 
his  request  is  a  matter  for  serious 
consideration.  We  may  not  admire 
the  principle  of  the  proposition.  It 
is  impossible  to  pay  in  money  for 
army  service.  The  value  of  the  ser- 
vice of  the  man  who  fought  in  France 
cannot  be  computed  in  dollars  and 
cents.  And  when  the  man  who  came 
out  of  the  service  sound  in  body  and 
mind  demand  extra  pay,  in  the  face 
of  the  fact  that  the  country  is  bur- 
dened with  war  debts  and  that  ample 
jirovision  should  lie  made  for  the  phy- 
sically disabled  and  the  dependents 
of  those  who  perished  in  the  struggle, 


it  is  easy  to  say  that  they  arc  com- 
mercializing their  patriotism;  ore 
making  an  unreasonable  request  and 
cheapening  a  priceless  service  to  their 
country. 

But  right  here   is  a  good  place  for 
serious    reflection.     Those    of    us    at 
home,  either  because  of  age,  disability 
or  circumstance,  did  not  suffer  hard- 
ship   and    danger.     Few    of    us    com- 
paratively,   may    have   profited   finan- 
cially by  the  war — although  there  were 
enough  and  more   who  did  profit  and 
many  who  took  unfair  advantage  for 
gain — and  we  may  have  gone  the  lim- 
it of  our  capacity  to  support  the  boys 
at    the   front.     But    with   all   that  we 
had    an    advantage,    we    must    admit. 
The  sum  they  ask  is  a  small  amount 
per  man,  even  if  it  bulks  quite  large 
in   the   aggregate.      If   they   feel   that 
it  is  coming  to  them  should  they  not 
have    it'?     Evidently    the    country  is 
opposed  to  the  proposition.     The  only 
thing  that  will  put  it  over  is  the  fear 
of  the  soldier  vote.      But  coming  down 
to  a  matter  of  exact  justice  and  the 
desire   to  have   the  men   who  did  see 
active  service  feel  that  they  were  not 
objects  of  unjust  discrimination,  would 
it   not    be  best   for  us   all   to  pitch  in 
and  pay  it  .'     Personally  I  do  not  think 
those  who  did  not  see  service  abroad 
should  have  almost   as  much  as  those 
who  went  across,  as  the  bills  propose, 
but  that  is  a  matter  for  the  soldiers. 
One   thing   I  do   not    feel   that   we  can 
afford    is    to    have    these    men    think 
their   country    has    dealt    unjustly  by 
them,  that   their  service  and  sacrifice 
are   not   appreciated;   and   so  long  as 
their  request  is  as  reasonable  as  it  is, 
it  seems  to  me  that  the  duty  is  to  levy 
a  tax  and  pay  it;  a  tax  that  \vill  bear 
justly    and    fairly — heaviest   on   tli033 


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17 


who  profited  materially  as  a  result 
of  their  service.  The  great  majority 
of  tin;  former  service  men  will  not 
profit  l»v  the  payment.  The  few  hun- 
dreds they  will  receive  will  he  speedi- 
ly dissipated  in  most  eases.  But  that 
is  their  business,  not  ours.  If  they 
feel  they  have  it  coming  to  them  I 
would  not  deny  them. 

It  is  all  well  to  ask  these  men  to 
vait  for  a  more  convenient  season; 
I  have  felt  that  they  should  do  that. 
But  they  know,  as  the  rest  of  us  know, 
that  the  propitious  season  will  he  a 
long  time  coining,  if  it  ever  comes. 
That  what  with  the  ship  subsidies 
and  all  the  other  demands  that  are 
all  the  time  being  made  on  the  govern- 


ment, keeping  far  ahead  or  our  re- 
sources, their  turn  would  be  a  long 
time  coming  ajid  their  chances  lessen- 
ed with  the  passing  years. 

Candidly  I  have  felt  that  this  re- 
request  for  additional  compensation 
should  not  have  been  made.  But  as 
it  has  been  made — and  I  have  attempt- 
ed to  show  that  the  reason  for  the  re- 
quest has  a  solid  basis — and  those  who 
offered  their  all  feel  that  it  is  due 
them,  I  could  not  and  would  not  de- 
ny them.  But  I  would  go  square  to 
it  with  a  tax  levy,  keeping  in  mind 
the  eternal  principle  that  should 
govern  all  tax  levies — that  all  should 
pay  in  accordance  with  what  they 
hi\ve. 


The  new  guard  on  a  Welsh  railroad  came  to  a  station  which  rejoiced  in 
tie  name  Llanfairfechanpwllgogerych.  For  a  few  minutes  he  stood  look- 
ing at  the  signboaTd  in  mute  helplessness.  Then  pointing  to  the  board 
.-Tid  waving  his  other  arm  toward  the  carriages,  he  called,  "If  there's  any- 
body there  for  here,  this  is  it!" 


THE    "OLD   FIELD"    SCHOOL 

BY  MORRISON  CALDWELL 

Dear  to  me  are  the  days  of  the  "Old  Field"  school,  which  I  attended  with 
unspeakable  delight  after  the  "crops  were  laid  by"  and  before  fodder  pulling 
and  cotton  picking,  and  again  after  cotton  picking  and  before  corn  planting. 
The  little  log  school  house  stood  on  the  edge  of  an  old  field,  which  served  us 
for  play  ground.     The  cracks  between  the  logs  were  daubed  with  mud.     About 

three  feet    from   the   floor   a,   log  was  About  the  room  were  slab  benches  of 

cut  out  cm   one   side    thus   making   a  different    elevations    from    the    floor 

long  window,  with  a  plank  and  leather  for  the     comfort  of  the     puplis     of 

hinges  for  opening  and  closing.     Here  different    ages.     In    one    corner    sat 

^as  the  long  writing  desk,  where  we  the   teacher   with    a    bundle   of    fresh 

sat  upon  a  pine  slab  bench  and  wrote  switches  standing  against  the  wall  Q(t 

in  our  copy  books.      About   the  walls  her  back.     Her  favorite  discipline  was 


Mils  and  wooden  pegs  upon  which 
Wre  suspened  the  hats,  bonnets  sat- 
°iiels,  and  tin  buckets  of  the  puplis. 


to  hurl  one  of  these  "hickories"  at 
the  feet  of  some  culprit  who  was 
guilty    of    whispering    or    taking    his 


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eyes  off  bis  spelling  book  which  was  After  the  blue  back  we  read  in  tk: 
invariably  held   in   front   of  the   face  MeGuffy's    Readers,    and    the   North 
while   the   pupil  kept    up   a    perpetual  Carolina   Header  and    [   challenge  (lis 
noise   by   studying   out    loud.      In   the  apostles    of    the    present    to    show  a 
afternoon  when  the  entire  school  was  better  selection  of  literature  than  was 
told  to  get  your  "spells,"  a  perfect  compiled     by     Dr.     MeGuffy  of    the  I 
bedlam    broke    loose    with    the    whole  University    of  Virginia,    or  a    better  i 
school   spelling   the   words   aloud.     In  study  of  North  Carolina  history  than  ! 
order  to  appreciate  the  confusion  one  was  given  by   Dr.  Calvin  II.  Wiley  in  I 
must  understand  the  manner  in  which  his    readers.      When      it      comes    to 
spelling  was  conducted  or  practiced  in  mathematics,  1  look  back  to  those  old  I1 
those  days.     The  pupil   was  required  days  when  we  "ciphered"  on  slates 
to  call  out  the  letters  of  each  syllable  with  slate  pencils  and  "worked  out"  i 
and   pronounce   the  syllable  and   then  the  "sums"  in  "Davies  Arithmetic." 
proceed  in  like  manner  with  the  next  Here  again  I  defy  any  modern  school 
syllable.      Thus   if  the   teacher  should  to  show  a  larger  percentage  of  pupils 
give     out     the     word     to  be     spelled,  who   could   work    any   problem   in  the 
"publication"     the   process      was   as  arithmetic    studied.     What    we   stud- 
following;   p-u-b,   pub,   1-i,   li,   c-a,   ca,  ied   in   the   "old      field"     school    we 
publico,      t-i-o-n,      tion,      publication  knew  thoroughly  and  after  learning  ia 
The  principal  text  book — which  every  this  severe  school  we  had  minds  cap- 
pupil   in   school   was    required   to    use  able  of  thinking',  which  after  all  is  the    J 
daily — was    the      famous    blue      back  only    education    that    is    worth   while.  | 
speller.     And    there   were   spellers   in  Much  of  our  boasted  education  of  to- 
those  days!     Each  pupil  started  with  day,  if  weighed     in  the  balances    of 
his    a,   b,   e's,    and    ab-abs.    ''Baker''  thoroughness,  will  be  found  wanting, 
and    "horse-back    "    were   milestones  In   the   "old   field''   school   we  learn- 
along  his  path  of  knowledge.  "Imma-  ed  to  spell  correctly,  to  read  for  the 
teriality "  and  "incomprehensibility "  pleasure    of    friends,    to   declaim  and 
were  the  happy  hunting  grounds  and  recite     the     best     masterpieces    and 
when   he    was     graduated    from      the  poetry  of  the  world,  and  we  know  how 
"blue   back''   he     could   spell     every  to  calculate  any     mathematical    pro- 
word    in    the    book.    I    had    a    school-  ■  blem  of  our  after   life.     Thus  equip- 
mate,   who   wore  out     six  blue     back  ped  with   the  essentials  we  were  sure 
spellers  and  innumerable  "thumb  pa-  of  our  selves  whether  we  passed  on  to 
pers,"   before   he  became   thoroughly  higher  education  or  went  out  to  fight 
familiar  with  the  contents.  Xowdays,  the  battle  of  life. 
methinks  that  fellow  would  have  been           Would    that    our    school:-   of  today 
promoted  to  second  grade,  especially  would  strive  to  emulate  the.  thorough- 
if  his  father  by  chance  happened  to  ness  in  these  fundamental-      It  would 
be  a  member     of  the  school     board,  relieve   us  from  an   ocean    'f  Sniattet    j 
The  practical  proverbs  that  we  learn-  and  give  us  the  Gibraltar  of  Thorough- 
ed    in    tin-    old    blue   back    have   been  ness.      Better    a     few    things   known 
beacon  lights  in  many  a  dark  hour  of  perfectly,      than    a   thousand     thing* 
life's  journey.  superficially  studied. 


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This  picture     ot   tho      old      field  ol    ''Town  bull."     All  of  these  were 

I  school  would   be   incomplete   with   out  out      of      door     games.      But      when 

a  reference   to   our  play   time.        Sad  it   rained     and     we     had     to     spend 

anil  strange   to   say   all   the  sports   of  the     dinner     hour     playtime     within 

riV  happy  si'hool  days  have  disappear-  the      school       house       our       favorite 

ed  and  are  like  the- "harp  that  once  game   was     "Blind     Man's  .  Buff." 

through    Tara's    hall."    I    sometimes  We   accomplished   this   by   piling  the 

sigh  to  think  what   the  boys  of  today  benches  against  the  wall.     Should  the 

arc  missing  in      their     ignorance     of  boys  of  Jackson  Training  School  like 

"Anty  over",     "Cat   ball",     "Leap  to  know  how  these  games  are  played 

frog,"    ''Bull    pen,"     "  Roly     holy,"  I  may  take  the  time  to  tell  them.      I 

"Hide  eye,"   "Fox   and  geese,"  last  feel  that  this  article  is  already  stiff  i- 

hut  not  least  the  old   fashioned  game  ciently  long. 


Mr.  Caldwell,  though  a  lawyer,  is  a  literary  scholar,  of  wide  reading,  possess- 
ing an  uncommon  memory,  and  once  upon  a  time  was  a  most  successful  teacher. 
He  never  made  a  speech  in  his  life,  no  matter  what  the  occasion  or  the  eireurn- 
Etance,  that  in  spite  of  all  he  could  do  the  evidences  of  extensive  reading  would 
pour  out.  He  makes  reference  in  his  entertaining  rvrtiele  above  printed  that 
forces"some  more  talk."  For  instance,  that  quotation  concerning  "the  harp" 
and "Tara  halls"  demands  some  attention. 

Thomas  Moore,  the  charming  Irish  song-writer — who  was  he?  That  calls 
for  another  article  at  another  time — poetically  explains  Mr.  Caldwell's  quo- 
tation in  these  beautiful,  singing  expressions: 

The  harp  that  once  through  Tara's  halls 

The  soul  of  music  shed, 
Now  hangs  as  mute  on  Tara's  "walls 

As  if  that  soul  were  lied. 
So  sleeps  the  pride  of  former  days, 

So  glory's  thrill  is  o'er, 
And  hearts,  that  once  beat  high  for  praise, 

Now  feel  thijt  pulse  no  more. 

No  more  to  chiefs  and  ladies  bright 

The  harp  of  Tara  swells: 
The  chord  alone,  that  breaks  at  night, 

Its  tale  of  ruin  tells. 
Thus  freedom  now  so  seldom  wakes, 

The  only  throb  she  gives 
Is  when  some  heart  indignant  breaks, 

To  show  that  still  she  lives. 


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SANDY,    THE    GOOD    SAMARITAN 

BY  WILLIAM  E.  CURTIS 

Last  summer  I  made  the  acquaintance  of  a  most  estimable  dog.  He  is  a 
Scotch  collie  and  his  name  is  Sandy.  He  is  a  highly  respected  citizen,  and  if 
he  could  talk,  would  occupy  an  eminent  position  in  the  community  in  which 
lives. 

Sandy  spends  a  good  deal  of  his 
time  at  a  little  cabin  in  the  woods,  and 
acts  as  superintendent  over  the  place, 
looking  after  the  cattle,  the  horses  and 
the  chickens,  and  driving  intruders 
away.  His  sense  of  hearing  is  so 
acute,  and  his  instinct  is  so  keen,  that 
he  can  hear  his  master  and  mistress 
driving  toward  the  farm  before  they 
come  within  a>  mile  of  it.  Sandy  may 
be  snoozing  on  the  veranda,  or  on  the 
grass  under  one  of  the  trees:  sudden- 
ly he  raises  his  bead,  looks  around 
in  an  inquiring  sort  of  way,  his  ears 
stiffen  up,  his  eyes  gleam,  and  then 
with  a  joyful  bark  he  plunges  into 
the  forest  that  surrounds  the  place. 
Somehow  be  knows  that  the  carriage 


is  coming,  and  he  (lashes  down  the 
road  as  fast  as  he  can  run  until  he 
meets  it  with  a  joyful  welcome. 

Last  summer  Sandy's  particular 
duty  was  to  look  after  the  little  chicks 
that  were  hatched  from  time  to  time, 
and  that  seemed  strangely  incapable 
of  caring  for  themselves.  Xuthwith- 
standing  the  anxiety  rind  warnings 
of  their  mothers,  these  little  stran- 
gers would  persist  in  running  into  the 
high  grass.  This  was  almost  sure  de- 
struction, because  very  few  of  them 
could  find  their  way  out  of  it  again. 

Sandy  took  the  matter  into  his 
charge  and  with  patience,  gentleness, 
and  remarkable  skill  organized  a  life- 
saving  service  that  proved  very  suc- 
cessful. No  matter  how  he  was  en- 
gaged,   he    never    failed    to    make    a 


thorough  examination  of  the  hi«li 
grass  several  times  a  day,  and  he  set- 1 
dom  came  out  of  it  without  brin»iV 
in  his  .mouth  a  little  chicken,  which  '■ 
he  would  drop  gently  before  its  moth- 
er, a,nd  then  go  back  into  the  wilder- 
ness for  another. 

Sometimes  he  would  bring  out  lire 
or  six  stragglers  in  succession.  Scarce- 
ly a  day  passed  that  his  life-saving 
service  did  not  rescue  a  large  portion 
of  the  broods  that  otherwise  would 
have  perished,  fie  never  wounded 
or  bruised  the  little  wanderers,  but 
carried  them  iti  his  mouth  as  tender- 
ly as  a  mother  would  take  a  baby  in 
her  arms.  And  it  seemed  to  mc  that  , 
the  little  chicks  understood  that  Sandy 
was  sure  to  rescue  them,  ami  were  all 
the  more  reckless  on  that  account. 

There  was  always  a  colony  of  dojs 
and   cats   about    the   camp,   and  when 
supper    time    came,    they    acted  ns  if  j 
they    were   half   starved.      But  Sandy  j 
always  waited  patiently  until  the  rest  f 
were  satisfied,  and  then  in  a  most  dig- 
nitied  manner  he  took  what  was  left. 

One  day   Sandy  brought  home  with  | 
him  a  disreputable-looking  ear  wliicb 
belonged  somewhere  down  in  the  slums 
of    the    city,    and    was    called   Major,    i 
He    was    a    mangy    skeleton   covered 
with   wounds,  and   in  a  most  pitiable 
state   of   misery.      Sandy   coaxed  him   | 
ii] >  to  the  house,  gave  him  his  bed  and 
food,  and  licked  his  sores. 

Under  this  Good   Samaritan  treat- 
ment, Major  rapidly  recovered  health 


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ami  strength,  but  nothing  eoulil  make  separate  Sandy  ami  Major.     The  one 

jijni   look    respectable.     He    was   such  was  taken  and  the  other  was  left,  but 

a  clog   as    would   always   be    ugly    and  no  sooner  did  Sandy  realize  this  faet 

untidy.      He  did  not  possess  a  single  than  he  showed  his  disapproval.     He 

point  of  beauty,  nor,  so  far  as  any  one  supposed  that  his  friend  was  in  a  box 

could  see,  a  spark  of  intelligence.  But  in  the  wagon,  but  when  it  was  unload- 

he  afterward  proved  the  truth  of  the  ed,  and  Major  did  not  appear,  Sandy 

old  proverb  that  appearances  are  oft-  looked   disappointed,   and   soon   after 

on  deceit ful.  disappeared,  nor  was  he  seen  again  un- 

Sandy's    master    ami    mistress    did  til   breakfast   time   the   next   morning- 

nut  like  Major.     They  tried  all  sorts  when  Major  was  at;  his  heels. 
of  ways  to  drive  him  off,  but  Sandy  Sandy   had   trotted   patiently    back: 

stuod  by   him   and   took  care  of  him,  into  town,  hunted  up  his  friend,  and 

anil  saw  that  he  had  a  good  bed  and  had  brought  him  out  to  the  cabin.   He 

plenty  of  food.  made  three  trips  of  nine  miles  each 

When  it   came  time  for  the  family  that  day,  and   that    was   a  good  deal 

logo  out  to  the  cabin  in  the  woods  to  for  one  dog  to  do  for  another, 
spend  the  summer,  it   was  decided  to 


But  God's  ways  are  not  our  ways,  nor  are  His  thoughts  our  thoughts. 
Whether  He  would  approve  of  a  young  woman  dressed  as  a  man  appearing 
in  church,  we  cannot  say,  hut  when  we  read  that  His  servant  was  inspired 
to  write  to  the  Corinthian  Church  that  a  woman  praying  with  uncovered 
hesd  would  dishonor  her  head,  and  that  if  a  woman  have  long  hair,  it  is  a 
glory  to  her,  we  believe  that  He  demands  decorous  worship. — Eev.  Dr. 
Bridges. 


THE  WHITE  MAN'S  "BOOK  OF  HEAVEN." 

D.  D.  PROPER,  D.  D. 

One  of  the  most  pathetic  incidents  connected  with  the  early  settlement  of 
this  country  is  found  in  a  visit  of  four  Flat  Head  Indians  (sometimes  called 
Nez  Pereez)  at  St.  Louis  in  1832.  They  came  from  Oregon  to  get  a  copy  of  the 
white  man's  "Look  of  Heaven." 

On  Monday,  January  10,  1910,  Char-  According  to  the  story,  which  has 

lot,  the  last  great  Indian  chief  of  the  been  told  ami  retold  many  times,  a 
Northwest,  died  on  the  Flat  Head  missionary  from  California,  about 
reservation,  Monta.ua,  at  the  age  of  1S30  or  1831,  came  into  Oregon  and 
eighty-five  years.  Three  Feathers,  told  these  Indians  about  the  "Great 
were  famous  in  Indian  history.  Vic-  Spirit,"  and  read  from  a  book  which 
tor  and  his  brother,  Ignaee,  a  great  Cod  has  given  to  men.  He  told  them 
medicine  man,  were  of  the  company  of  Cod,  the  creation,  of  His  love  for 
°f  Indians  who  sent  the  delegation  the  human  race  and  of  the  way  of  sal- 
to  St.  Louis.  vation   through   the   Son,   and   of   the 


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Better  Land  Beyond.  They  were  much 
interested,  but  the.  missionary  went 
away  never  to  return.  The  Indians 
decided  to  send  four  of  their  number 
to  St.  Louis  to  get  a  copy  of  the  white 
man's  Book.  The  way  they  had  to 
travel,  it  was  a  journey  of  nearly 
3,000  miles. 

Although  their  appearance  upon 
reaching  St.  Louis  bore  pathetic  evi- 
dence of  their  privations  and  suffer- 
ing, yet  one  all-absorbing  longing  was 
in  their  hearts,  in  comparison  with 
which  all  else  was  dwarfed  into  in- 
significance. They  came,  they  said, 
from  the  land  of  the  setting  sun; 
across  the  great  snow-clad  mountains, 
and  the  wide  prairies;  for  many  moons 
had  they  traveled.  They  had  heard 
of  the  white  man's  God,  and  wanted 
the   white  man's  Book   of   Heaven. 

Finally  they  were  brought  before 
the  commanding  officer  of  the  military 
post,  General  Clark,  who,  though  a 
kind-hearted  man,  was  a  Roman  Cath- 
olic. He  took  them  to  priests,  and 
while  they  were  received  with  the 
greatest  hospitality,  and  shown  the 
pictures  of  the  Virgin  Mary  and  of 
the  saints,  they  were  steadily  denied 
the  oft-repeated  request  for  the  Bible. 

They  were  entertained  at  theatres 
and  dances,  but  did  not  find  the  light 
they  sought.  After  a  time  two  of 
their  number  died  and  the  other  two 
decided  to  return  without  the  "Book." 

A  farewell  dinner  was  given  them. 
At  that  dinner  one  of  the  chiefs  arose 
and  said 

"We  are  going  back  the  long  trail 
of  many  moons,  our  moccasins  worn 
"with  the  journey,  our  hands  heavy 
with  the  gifts  that  you  have  loaded 
upon  us,  but  when  we  stand  before 
-all  the  old  men  by  the  campfire,  and 


they  ask  if  we  have  brought  back  thai 
which  they  sent  us  for,  knowledge  of 
the  white  man's  God  and  the  white 
man's  "Book  of  Heaven,"  and  we 
have  to  answer,  "Xo,"  then  one  by 
one  the  old  men  will  go  out  into  th'e 
darkness,  the  camptires  will  burn  to 
ashes,  my  people  will  go  the  long,  saJ 
trail  to  the  hunting-grounds,  no  white 
man  to  go  with  them,  no  white  man's 
Book  to  show  them  the  Better  Land 
no  white  man's  Clod  in  their  hearts. 
I  have  no  more  words." 

One  young  man  was  so  impressed 
with  the  address  that  he  wrote  to 
friends  in  the  Fast  an  account  of  this 
strange  visit,  and  the  pathetic  appeal 
of  the  Indians  for  a  Bible.  Some 
Protestants  became  interested,  but  it 
was  two  years  before  a  missionary 
started  with  the  Bible  for  that  land 
Mr.  George  Catlin,  the  celebrated 
Indian  painter,  met  these  returning 
Indians  on  the'  plains  and  made  pic- 
tures of  them  which  hang  in  the 
Smithsonian  Institute  in  Washing- 
ton. After  leaving  Catlin  nnotherof 
the  Indians  died,  and  so  but  one  sur- 
vivor returned  to  announce  to  the 
great  Council  the  death  of  his  com- 
panions and  the  refusal  of  t he  white 
man  to  give  him  the  Book. 

The  tribe  was  embittered,  and  when 
missionaries  at  length  found  these 
Indians  they  received  no  welcome 
from  them,  and  the  Flatheads  remain- 
ed unreached  for  many  years. 

Some  time  after  this  the  Flathead 
Indians  heard  of  a  devoted  young  wo- 
man who  was  laboring  among  the  In- 
dian tribes  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Many 
Indians  under  her  teaching  had  re- 
nounced their  sinful,  s  iperstitiota 
lives,  and  were  earnestly  striving  to 
walk   in    "the    way    of    the   Cook. 


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Strange  rumors  of  this  pale-faced  wo- 
man and  the  wonderful  Book  traveled 
far  south  into  Oregon,  and  some  of 
die  Flatheads  went  to  investigate  the 
stoi'Y  for  themselves.  They  had 
meetings  with  the  pale-faced  lady,  and 
listened  to  the  story  oC  the  love  of  the 


Great  Spirit  as  revealed  in  His  Book, 
and  accepted  the  great  salvation. 
They  carried  the  good  news  home; 
others  also  went  and  heard  for  them- 
selves, and  in  their  simple  faith  they 
tried  to  live  up  to  what  they  had 
learned. — From    ' '  Missions. ' ' 


Perhaps  more  ignorance  is  covered  by  the  words  "they  say,"  or  "it  is 
said,"  than  many  of  us  think.  It  is  easy  to  throw  responsibility  for  the 
truthfulness  of  a  statement  on  somebody  not  known  and  thus  escape  the 
necessity  of  defending  any  false  declarations.  Gossip  and  scandal  thrive 
on  such  soil.  These  never  care  to  stand  back  of  their  words,  but  they  want 
them  to  have  the  appearance  of  fact  by  giving  credit  for  their  truthfulness 
to  that  indefinite  authority,  "They."  All  this  indicates  a  lack  of  know- 
ledge, possibly  due  to  indolence  in  proving  the  facts. — Selected. 


n 


"STATE    PROGRESS    IN    HUMANITIES 

(At  the  recent  meeting  of  the  State  King's  Daughters,  held  at  the  Jack- 
son Training  School,  there  was  among  the  other  attractive  features  on  the 
programme  an  address  by  E.  R.  Preston,  of  Charlotte,  who  was  specially  in- 
vited to  be  a  guest  of  the  convention.  The  Uplift  made  an  effort  to  get  the 
address,  but  has  just  succeeded.  While  that  particular  meeting  is  passed  for 
some  weeks,  the  address  teems  so  much  with  historical  matters  of  lasting  in- 
terest, that  it  will  read  well  at  any  time.) 

In  introducing  Mr.  Preston  to  the  and  good  wishes,  and  an  invitation 
audience,  Mrs.  D.  Y.  Cooper,  now  of 
Richmond,  Va.,  but  for  many  terms 
was  treasurer  of  the  State  organ- 
ization of  the  King's  Daughters  of 
North  Carolina,   spoke   as   follows: 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  annual  State 
Convention  in  Raleigh  in  1002  The 
King's  Daughters  and  Sons  deter- 
mined to  adopt  as  their  united  work  the 
establishment  of  a,  Boy's  Industrial 
and  Training  School,  and  at  once  be- 
gan a  vigorous  campaign  to  inter- 
est others,  to  secure  funds  and  to  dis- 
tribute literature  through  the  State. 
Those  of  us  who  took  part  in  the 
efforts  to  obtain  a  charter  with  an 
appropriation    met    only    kind    words 


to  come  again  when  the  treasury 
was  in  better  condition,  until  1907 
when  a  star  from  Mecklenburg  came 
on  the  horizon,  and,  like  the  wise 
men  of  old,  we  followed,  and  joined 
our  forces  with  his.  Who  can  for- 
get the  great  mass  meeting  of  women  in 
the  House  Representatives,  when 
Mrs.  R.  D.  Johnson  of  Alabama — 
originally  of  North  Carolina,  ad- 
dressed the  members,  and  a  mammoth 
petition,  carried  by  pages,  reaching 
all  the  way  down  the  aisle  to  the  door 
and  back  again,  was  presented?  And 
who  can  ever  forget  the  thrills  when 
the  bill  was  passed  granting  a  charter 
with  an  appropriation  of  $10,000.00. 


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The  leader  of  the  fight  is  our  guest  of  the  State  had  known,  but   not  the  last 

honor  and  speaker  this  evening  Hon.  however.     It  was  wonderful  to  see  the 

E.  R.     Preston,     and  with  him  is  his  influence  of  these  good  women  with  no 

-charming  wife,  who  is  the  granddaugh-  purpose  in  their  minds  except  to  help 

ter  of  the  great  man  for   whom   the  the  erring     hoys  of  North     Carolina. 

school   is  named."  Who    that    heard   her   can   forget  the 

Mr.   Preston,   taking   as   his   theme  eloquence  of  Mrs.     General     R.    D. 

"State  Progress  In  The  Humanities,"  Johnson  of  Alabama,  herself  a  native 

spoke  as  follows:  of  North  Carolina,  as  she  told  of  her 

"Fourteen  years  ago  there  assem-  struggles    in   Alabama   for   a   similar 

bled  in  Raleigh,  a  small  committee  of  School,  and  of  its  success,  and  how  she 

■women,  less  than  one  dozen,  (some  of  had  come  back  at  her  own  expense  to 

the  leaders  among  them,  being  pres-  her  native  state  to  speak  to  the  people 

ent  tonight),  inspired  by  the     noble  she  loved  the  best,  about  this  work  to 

purpose    to    make    another    appeal    to  which    she    had   given    her    life.   Per- 

the     legislature  of  1907     for  the  es-  sonally,   I   believe   that   not  withstand- 

tablishmcnt  of  a  Training  School  for  ing  all  of  our  months  of  work,  if  it 

delinquent    white    hoys,    as    they    had  had  not  been  for  this  group  of  women 

several   times    appealed  to    preceding  an(J    }[rs.    Johnson's    speech,   the  bill 

Legislatures,   but    without   success.  would  have   been  again  defeated  and 

Prior    to    this    time    in    the    fall   of  the    erection    of    this    school    delayed 


190(i,    a   general   committee   had   been 


possibly  many  years. 


formed  to  create  sentiment  in  behalf  Tt  wns  .,  wonderful  vision  those 
of  such  an  institution,  of  which  the  women  had,  and  tonight  we  stand 
speaker  happened  to  be  selected  as  here  as  witnesses  to  its  magnificent 
chairman.  This  committee  had  done  fulfillment  .  My  study  and  observa- 
its  best  through  the  newspapers,  pam-  tion  of  these  matters,  which  runs 
phlets  and  public  meetings,  to- arouse  back  for  twenty  years,  leads  me  to 
interest  in  this  legislation,  and  had  sav  without  flattery,  that  this  is  the 
accomplished  more  than  the  forces  equal,  if  not  superior  to  any  Boys' 
opposed  to  a  reform  school  realized,  Training  School  in  the  United  States, 
as  was  evidenced  by  the  monster  peti-  The  Institution  has  been  parti- 
tion presented,  which  you  may  remem-  cularly  fortunate  from  the  ven- 
der reached  twice  around  the  Hall  of  beginning  because  of  the  untiring 
the  House.  However,  the  battle  was  efforts  in  its  behalf  by  you,  Madame 
a  hard  one  and  it  seemed  that  the  President,  your  associates.  Miss  En- 
forces of  obstruction  and  delay  would  dale  Shaw,  Mrs.  I.  YV.  Faison, 
again  defeat  the  measure.  Then  it  and  the  other  ladies  and  gentlemen 
was  that  as  chairman  of  the  general  of  the  board,  and  also  in  having  Mr. 
-committee,  I  issued  a  hurry  call  for  the  J.  P.  Cook  and  his  devoted  wife,  ad 
representative  women  interested,  to  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Boger,  whose  self- 
come  and  stay  until  the  bill  passed.  sacrificing  and  successful  work  a« 
They  came  and  the  bill  passed.  knowa  through  North  Carolina.  And 
This  was  the  first  "Ladies'  Lobby"  in  this  connection  we  should  not  for- 


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25- 


ret  tin'  years  of  unceasing  work  for 
[he  passage  of  this  bill  by  Miss  Daisy 
Densoii  of  Raleigh,  ami  Hon.  R.  B. 
Hi>d\rine  of  Monroe  and  the  timely 
aid  of  Col.  W.  P.  Wood  of  Randolph 
Count Vj  who  introduced  the  substi- 
tute that  we  had  drawn  in  the  en- 
deavor to  meet  all  views,  and  was  the 
form  in  which  tlie  law  was  finally  pass- 
ed. 

These  Jackson  Training  School  boys 
are  about  the  finest  and  healthiest 
looking  set  I  ever  saw,  and  it  is  in- 
teresting to  know  that  of  the  1000 
bovs  who  have  passed  through  its 
elites,  more  than  900  have  made  good 
and  are  now  useful  citizens.  And 
vet  the  Jackson  Training  School  is 
in  its  infancy.  One  Hundred  years 
from  its  foundation,  it  will  probably 
have  reclaimed  one  hundred  thousand 
boys. 

For  some  years  after  the  bill  pass- 
ed, as  Mr.  Cook  probably  knows  bet- 
ter than  any  one  else,  the  School  was 
in  danger,  but  it  has  now  become  one 
of  the  most  popular  Institutions  in 
the  State,  and  The  Uplift  is  a  much 
quoted  paper,  constantly  keeping  its 
needs  before  the  public.  The  appro- 
priations made  by  the  last  Legislature 
will  permit  many  needed  improve- 
ments, and  the  policy  adopted  by  the 
board  of  allowing  counties  to  build 
their  own  homes,  seems  to  have  open- 
ed the  way  for  greatly  increased  use- 
fulness. There  are  already  five  of 
those  cottages  and  others  are  in  con- 
templation. The  total  value  of  the 
plant  cannot  be  exactly  estimated, 
but  a  conservative  figure  would  be 
*500,0OO. 

The  long  and  strenuous  fight  for  the 
Training  School  was  not  onlv  success- 


ful in  its  primary  purpose,  but  it 
seems  to  have  caused  or  at  least  aid- 
ded  in  an  awakening  of  the  conscience 
of  the  general  public  and  the  succeed- 
ing Legislatures  as  to  the  duty  and 
necessity  for  humanitarian  legisla- 
tion. I'p  to  1QU7,  the  policy  of  the 
State  had  been  limited  to  caring  for 
the  violent  insane,  the  blind  and  deaf 
mutes,  and  providing  in  some  measure 
for  the  education  of  normal  children. 
Since  that  time  each  Legislature  has 
broadened  the  humanitarian  activi- 
ties of  the  State. 

It  may  be  interesting  to  briefly  out- 
line to  you  the  State's  Progress  in 
the  Humanities  as  distinguished  from 
individual  charitable  efforts,  since 
the  Jackson  Training  School,  the  first 
of  this  particular  class  of  Institutions- 
was  started. 

In  1011,  there  was  enacted  the  ten 
hour  law,  followed  by  laws  for  the 
protection  of  women  and  children 
from  night  work,  and  improvements 
of  sanitary  and  health  conditions  in 
and  around  the  factories. 

At  this  time  also  there  was  found- 
ed the  Sanatorium  for  the  treatment 
of  tuberculosis,  which  is  benefitting 
those  affected  with  the  white  plague 
in  many  ways.  This  session  also  wit- 
nessed the  beginning  of  the  Caswell 
Training  School  for  feeble  minded 
children,  which  will  have  in  1022,  a 
capacity  of  400. 

In  1913,  the  law  for  compulsory- 
education  was  enacted. 

In  1017,  there  was  founded  Samar- 
cand  for  wayward  girls  after  a,  hard 
tight  in  which  the  women  of  the  State 
rallied  to  the  aid  of  Dr.  A.  A.  Mc- 
Geachy  of  Charlotte  and  others.  This 
Institution  will  in  1022  have  a  ca- 
pacity of  250  girls.     At  this  session 


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also  the  Orthopaedic  Hospital  at  marvelous  and  almost  wholly  new  di 
Gastonia,  was  created.,  or  as  it  is  com-  velopment  in  the  field  of  Legis.lr.tio! 
rnonly     known     "Bob      Babbington's  There   arc   some    pressing   needs  I 

Hospital,"  for  crippled  children.  Cer-  which  1  wish  to  call  your  attention 
tain ly  no  crusade  in  i\  holy  cause  was  feeling  sure  that  it'  you  undertake  ti 
ever  actuated  by  the  idea  of  Christ-  aid  along  these  lines,  success  nil; 
like  service,  more  than  Mr.  Dabbing-  crown  your  efforts,  as  it  lias  done  in 
ton  lias  been  through  his  long  years  so  many  ether  instances. 
of  struggle,  which  at   last    have  been  It  is  estimated  that   there  are  hi 

crowned  with  success.  tweeu    1000    to    1500    epileptics,   For 

(Ine  of  the   most   progressive   steps      whom    no    provision    is    made   bv  t! 
taken  by  the  State  for  the  protection      State.      There  are  many  of  the  Cnui 
and  care  of  children   in  recent  years,      ty   Homes,  as  was  the  case  of  ours  in 
was  the  passage  of  the  Juvenile  Court      Mecklenburg    County,    until    rccentlv  | 
Ai-t,  (Chapter  97,  Laws  of  L919.)    "No      which   need   modernizing,  and  here 
State    can    claim    to    lie    humane    that       might    he   well   to   say   that    the  Conntv 
tries  children   under  a  criminal  code;      ilome   of   Cabarrus    is    considered  bv 

places  equal  responsibilities  upon  the  those   who   have  studied   this  subject, 

child  and  the  adult;  and  that  tries  to  a  model  to  pattern  after.     If  you  have 

get  a  conviction  for  a  specific  offense  time  while  here,  it  might  be  interestiip 

rather  recognizing  the   fact   that    if  a  to  visit   this   Institution, 
child  is  in  court   for  an  act  of  delin-  Inasmuch     as  it     seems     that    the 

queney,  it  is  usually  a  result  of  con-  present  Federal  Administration  is  i 

ditions  not  of  his  own  making,  there-  willing  to  give  adequate  relief  to  the 

fore,  he  has  a  ehvira  against  the  State  hoys  who  fought   in   France,  it  should 

to    he    saved    from    his    surroundings  certainly  bo  the  duty  of  all  organiza- 

and    environment    and    not    punished  tions   such    as      yours,      and   I     know 

by   reason   of   the   same."     This  .act  it   will   be.  your  pleasure  to  see  that 

gives    the    State,    acting    through    its  not   only  the  soldiers   themselves,  lint 

•Juvenile   Courts    and   officers,   control  their  dependent  relatives  are  properly 

of    wayward    indigent    amd    neglected  provided  for     according  to  some    or- 

children  under  10  years  of  age.     All  ganized  plan. 

of  this  work  is  under  the  general  su-  Probably   the  most   inspiring  devel- 

pervision    of    Mrs.    Clarence   Johnson  opment    in    the    States    Humanitarian 

whose    success    furnishes    a    complete  Work,    is   to   he    found    in   the  Public 

answer  to  the  question,  "Are  women  Health    Department.      The    stamp  at 

qualified  to  manage  public  affairs. "If  approval   for  what   North  Carolina  is 

her  life  is  spare, 1  she  will  he  of  more  doing,  is  shown  by  the  election  of  Dr. 

value   to   the   State-   than   any   number  Rankin   as   the   President   of  the  Xat- 

of  mere  "amassers  of  money."  There  ional  Association     of  Public    Health 

were  10,989  cases  looked  after  by  these  Officials.     I   believe     it  .tube    said 

courts  from  July,  1919,  to  Sept.,   1021.  without  boasting  that  N'erth  Carolina 

As  much  progress  as  has  been  made  now  has  as     efficient   public     healtk 

by  the  state  in  the  humanities,  we  are  system  as  any  other  State  in  the  Union, 

as  yet   only   tit   lite   beginning  of   this  Its  benefits  an/shown  it    the  improv-    . 


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2T 


ed  health  of  the  people,  but  there  is  a 
vast  amount  yet  to  be  accomplished 
through  all  the  various  organized 
<iocacicS|  for  we  are  rapidly  coming 
to  the  view  point  that  a  primary  duty 
of  the  State  is  to  try  to  .see  to  it  that 
there  are  two  and  one  halt*  million 
hcalthlv  human  animals  in  North 
Carolina,  with  millions  still  health- 
ier to  follow  after  us  in  the  succeeding 
generations  and  we  must  start  at  the 
birth  of  the  babies.  If  the  parents 
are  too  ignorant  or  careless  to  look 
after  their  children's  health,  the 
State  functioning  through  its  schools 
and  courts  owes  to  itself  and  the 
child  in  question,  the  duty  to  step  in 
and  see,  to  it  that  the  little  fellow  is 
made  healthy  from  head  to  foot. 
You  are  no  doubt  helping  in  this  work. 
If  not,  will  you  when  you  return  to 
your  homes  lend  a  hand  by  seeing 
the  Clerk  of  the  Court  in  your  County 
who  will  put  you  in  touch  with  the 
proper  officials  and  have  your  or- 
ganization to  aid  them  in  carrying  out 
the  program  of  the  Health  Depart- 
ment ? 

We  have  thus  far  out-lined  some  of 
the  concrete  forward  steps  recently 
taken  by  the  State  in  Humanitarian 
Legislation,  but  the  greatest  accom- 
plishment is  not  material,  but  spirit- 
ual. It  is  the  complete  change  in  the 
attitude  of  the  masses  of  the  people. 
Fourteen  years  ago  it  was  hard  to 
arouse   any    wide    spread    interest    in 


social  welfare  Legislation.  Now  our 
charitable  institutions  are  the  favor- 
ites of  the  State  as  was  shown  by  the 
measurers  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
11)21,  in  appropriating  for  their  en- 
largement, a  total  amount  of  nearly 
two   and   one   half  millions  dollars. 

It  is  the  speaker's  belief  based  nport 
the  best  information  obtainable  that 
no  other  State  in  the  Union  can  show 
such  a  record  of  progress  in  humani- 
tarian legislation,  during  the  past 
fifteen   years. 

After  all  has  been  said  and  done,  the 
whole  movement  constituting  as  it 
does,  a  grand  epic  in  the  life  of  Xorth 
Carolina,  is  but  the  application  of  the 
teachings  of  Christ,  and  the  carrying; 
out  of  the  motto  of  the  King's  Daugh- 
ters, "Not  to  be  administered  unto,, 
but  to  administer."  The  old  theory 
was  that  the  only  responsibility  of  the 
State  was  to  protect  society  from  its- 
delinquents  and  unfortunates  when 
they  became  dangerous  or  a  nuisance. 
The  new  and  more  Christian  policy 
is  to  salvage  every  possible  human 
life,  and  to  give  to  every  child  no*. 
matter  how  bad  its  moral  or  physical 
heredity,  a  fair  chance  in  life,  for, — 
' '  We  have  come  to  believe 

That    nothing    walks   with    aimless, 
feet, 
That  not  one  life  should  bo  destroyed, . 

Or  east  as  rubbish  to  the  void, 
When  God  has  made  the  whole  com- 
plete." 


The  Beauty  of  the  House  is  Order; 

The  Blessing  of  the  House  is  Contentment; 

The  Glory  of  the  House  is  Hospitality; 

The  Crown  of  the  House  is  Goodness. — Anon. 


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Lloyd  George. 

(Springfield  Republican.) 

No  one  need  he  deceived  into  thinking  that  Lloyd  George's  sun  is  rising3 
instead  of  setting.     He  may  swing  in  his  orbit  of  supremacy  awhile  longer  r' 
but  the  night  cometh.     Since  1916  he  has  been  a  prime  minister  without  a 
party,  in  the  ordinary  sense.     The  coalition    shows    clearly   the    marks  of  , 
disintegration.     British  political  genius  has  been  shown  not  merely   in    the 

cleverness  of  Lloy  1  George  himself,  active  help  of  Amen iea's  man  power 
bat  in  the  ability  of  old-line  tories  Mr.  George  played  President  Wil 
like  Mr.  Balfour  to  stomach  thisold-  son  false  and  betrayed  the  liberal  :j 
time  radical.  That  many  of  them  principles  of  the  peace-making  in  his 
are  now  very  sick  of  the  premier  is  khaki  election  campaign  of  Dec- 
evident,  but  Mr.  Balfour  continues  ember,  1918  when  his  slogan  \va>, 
to  regard  him  as  almost  as  much  a  "Hang  the  Kaiser,''  and  "Make  the 
political  necessity  as  the  throne  it-  Germans  Pay  the  Cost  of  the  War." 
self.  I  his  is  a  remarkable  tribute  Before  Mr.  Wilson  had  delivered  his 
to  the  Welshman.  14  point  speech,  Mr.  George  had  de- 
Mr.  George  was  fixed  firmly  in  livered  one  in  the  same  spirit  huthe 
power  by  the  victorious  result  of  the  forgot  it  and  then  the  world  forgot 
war.  That  is  to  say,  after  ousting  it  at  Paris.  Mr.  Wilson  was  made 
Mr.  Asquith  on  the  ground  that  he  the  goat  for  the  failure  of  the  policy 
was  losing  the  war,  Mr.  George  of  appeasement  in  the  Versailles 
would  have  lost  it  himself  if  Amer-  treaty,  yet  Mr.  George's  reparation 
ica  had  not  come  to  his  assistance,  demands  made  appeasement  a  phan- 
The  German  break  through  the  torn  of  the  idealist's  imagination. 
British  fifth  army  in  March,  1918,  Of  Mr.  George  as  a  statesman  of 
revealed  the  military  incapacity  of  the  war  period  and  after  it  may  be 
the  George  ministry.  Two  millions  said  that  he  did  more  harm  to  bal- 
<jf  American  soilders  in  France  be-  ance  the  good  he-  did  than  any  other 
fore  snow  fell  again  that  year  saved  statesman  in  the  ttnglishspeakin? 
Mr.  George  and  made  him  a  great  world.  As  we  Americans  helped  to 
man  in  British  history.  Poor  Asquith!  make  him  such  an  overshadowing 
What  might  not  he  have  accomplish-  world  figure,  it  is  permissable  to  tell 
ed  had    he   been    favored  with    the  the  truth  about  him. 


"Everything  fails  but  love.  The  science  of  a  generation  ago  means 
nothing  now.  Institutions  which  seemed  as  firmly  established  as  the  ever- 
lasting hills,  have  in  the  last  years  gone  down  in  ruins.  But  the  chang- 
ing years  do  not  alter  the  might  of  love." 


THE  UPLIFT  29 

.o'-Jit«?-ia7ji1       l\Tr»$-«j.        opened,  has  nn  magazines  for  its  so- 

nstitutionai    i^oie^.   cietVi  the  ls(  cottage  very  generous. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.)  ly  donated    all  it    had    for    the  new 

cottage.  The  1st    cottge  expects    to 
The  orchard    is  being    sprayed  to      have    more  soon_ 


aid  the  rich    yield   of  fruit  which  i 
expected  of  it  this  year. 


When    it  is  raining:  at   the  school 

and  they  cannot  play  ball  out  doors, 

Parks    Newton,    of    Fort      Mills,  the    boys    have    games  to   take    the 

went  heme  on  a  hurried  call  to     the  place  of  out-door  ball.     Much  enjoy- 

sick  bedside    of     one    his    relatives  ment  is    derived    from  this  pastime. 

Monday.  No  dull  days  for  the  boys! 

Dudley  Pangle  has  left  the  school  Capt.  T.  L,  Grier,  who  has  charge 

on  a  visit  to  his  home  folks.   He  has  of  the  beautifying  of  the  lawn  facing 

sent  his  chum.  Marshall  Williams  a  the  6th  7th  and    8th    Cottages,    has 

box  of  candy.  set  out  trees  on  the  lawn  to  make  it 

,.      ,  .,    ,  similar  to  the  one  facing  1st  2nd  and 

The  smaller  boys  arestill  bottom-  3rd  Cottages.  Everything  possible  is 

ing  chairs,     for   this  job  they    are  b(?ing  done  t0  make  the   appearance 

payed  and  they  are  quite    proud  of  of  (he  schoo,  more  beautiful. 
the  honestly  earnet  money. 

When  Mr.  Lawrence  calls    jut  the 

The  pavilion    is   now    fitted     out  whole  band,  th<»y  usuailv  practice  in 

with  benches   curved  to   suit     the  the  pavilion.     When  a  visitor  who  is 

form   of  the   pavilion.      When    visi-  unfamiliar  with   the    school    comes, 

tors  go  up  into  it,  they  can  sit  down  and  hpars   ou[.    bandi    ha    remarks. 

and  view  the  scnool.  "whose  band  is  that  in  the  pavilion?" 

Monday    night    is    "roll    night."  The  visitor  is    surprised    when    told 

Thisis  the  night  in  which    each   cot-  that  the  band  is  the  school's,  compos- 

tage  receives    somewhere    near    200  ed  of  boys,  and  he  compliments   its 

rolls  to  be  given  to  the  boys.     I  need  Paying. 
not  say  that  they  are  enjoyed,  A    lot    of    the    caps  worn   by  the. 

'  The  boys  who  compose  the  Print-  h°ys    here    we,'e    SeUin£  <Jui-te  d'3* 

tng  Office    are    anxiously    awaiting  reputable    because   of  frequent  use, 

the  new  type  which    is  to    be    used  and  not  of  abuse-  Some  of  the  boys 

in  this  magazine,  for  they  take  pride  jt  is  sad  t0  SW>  have  no    h°m%f,olks 

in  the  appearance  of    their    publics-  to  write  to  asking  for  caps      Ihere- 

tiun.  '  fore  for  the  past  week  the  boys  who 

had  badly  worn    caps  and  those  who 

Murray  Evans,  the  "Ty  Cobb"  of  were  "capless"  each  received  a    cap 

the  school,  was  absent  from  the  ball  from  the  office. 
field  two  Saturdays  ago    because  of         _,      rtl  .  •.,  ..  ,, 

a  lame   ankle.     He  was   welcomed  ,  Jhp  5th  cottage  held  its     weekly 

*hen  he  "came  back"  the  next  Sat-  debate  F  rl,,ay-.  ^ut  not,wlth  n%*% 

urday.  ual  interest  which  attends  one.   Why.' 

Because    of  the  fact  that    niany    of 

Because    the  7th    cottage,    newly  the  members  are  preparing  for    the 


30 


THE  UPLIFT 


debate  which  is  to  be  held  in  honor 
of  Miss  Easdale  Shaw,  of  Rocking- 
ham, who  is  to  pay  the  boys  a 
anticipated  visit  in  April  and  for 
whom  the  society  is  named. 

Because  he  could  not  resist  the 
bidding  of  his  kindly  heart,  Mr.  \V. 
M.  Crooks,  in  charge  of  the  school 
section  Thursday  afternoon,  fore- 
went the  usual  running  around  of 
the  lawn  an^  drill  and  instead  gave 
the  order:  "By  file,  according  to 
size."  Cheering  arose  from  all 
parts  of  the  ranks,  which  gave  him 
to  know  that  his  kindly  act  was  ap- 
preciated. 

Sometime  Friday  afternoon,  it 
was  rumored  around  the  school  that 
the  school  baseball  tean  was  to  play 
the  Concord  "Y"  team  the  next  day. 
This  rumor  was  verified  upon  asking 
Capt.  Grier,  in  charge  of  the  school's 
team,  Imagine  the  disappointment, 
however,  when  Saturday  came  and 
it  was  again  rumored  that  for  some 
unknown  reason  the  game  had  to  be 
postponed  until  next  Saturday. 
Capt.  Grier  also  verified  this  rumor. 
However  the  school  team  put  on  its 
suits  and  had  a  game  of  practise 
with  the  second  nine.  Of  course 
the  second  nine  was  defeated,  and 
it  sure  looked  good  to  see  our  eld 
battery,  Russel  &  Hobby,  back  in 
their  old  form. 

The  old  well  which  was  on  the  east 
side  of  the  school  builaing,  had  ser- 
ved its  time  at  some  previous  date. 
At  that  time,  it  was  merely  covered 
with  boards  to  keep  the  boys  who 
are  at  school,  during  recess  period 
from  falling  in  it.  It,  being  in  the 
way  of  the  lawn  grading,  had  to  be 
filled  in.  Capt.  Grier  who  had  the 
job  of  filling  it    in,    decided    that  a 


good  deal  of  time  would  be  saved 
he  lodged  a   rock  somewhere   do? 
in  the  well  and  filling  it  in  from  tin 
point  up.     A  big  rock    was  chosen 
and  placed  over  the  hole.     Howevtr 
when  Capt.   Grier  tried    to    put  th 
rock  in  the  aperture,   it    would   w, 
enter.     This  was  not  because  of  hi 
that  it  would   not    fit,    but    because 
some  real    strength  was    needed  to 
adjust    it    over    the    opening  so  it 
would  slide  in.     Many  methodswere 
tried,  but  of  no  avail.     Finally  some- 
one    suggested    Pat.     "Pat"  is  He' 
nickname  of  Arvel  Absher,    the  boy! 
who  takes  any  pi  ize  at  the  school  of. 
fered  for  plumpness.     He  has  been! 
at  the    school    for  some    time   no»,, 
and  is  making  a   real    good   record. 
So,  when  h^    was    appealed    to,  he 
came,  and  when  he  saw  the  difficul- 
ty, he  "wtnt  to  it."     Very  soon  1?' 
had  adjusted  the  rock,    received  his! 
congratulations    modestly,  the  Irofe 
of    admiration    bent   upon    him  he' 
merely  increased  when  he  shrugged 
his  enormous  shoulders  as  if  to  say,  | 
"Oh,    that's    nothing.     You    ought! 
to  see  me  when  I  really  get  started."  j 


Entering  the  Contest. 

Mr.  Fairbrother's  offer  in  a  recent 
issue  of  The  Uplift  was  made  known 
to  the  boys  some  time  ago,  a  gc*F 
many  of  them  however,  had  a  liter- 
ary turn  of  mind  and  already  Kn«  : 
of  the  generous  offer  by  having  red 
it  in  this  magazine.  All  through 
the  three  weeks  of  preparation 
every  incident  worthy  of  note  for 
use  in  the  contest  was  stored  in  the 
boys'  minds,  later  to  be  placed  m 
paper. 

Friday,  with  their  previous  note 
and  knowledge,  the  boy*  wrote  their 
last  manuscript   with  extreme  u& 


THE  UPLIFT                                                 31 

of  handwriting,     punctuation,    and  lieing    a  carpenter  and  I'm  going  to 

neatness.     Many  and    various    were  win  the  first  prize." 

their    topics:     Doctors,       Printers,  "You're  both  dead  wrong!"  speaks 

Preachers,  Lawyers,    Dentists,    Me-  up  a  third  voice,  owned  by  the  name 

chanics   and     Engineers.     One    boy  of  Wilson.     "The  sewing-room  is  far 

wrote  on  a  very   deep  topic,  that  of  better  than  the  shop  or  printing  of- 

a Chemist.  There  were  it. any  others;  fice,  either  one.     I'm  going  to  be  a 

one  thing  being  known,  most  of  the  tailor."     And  so  on.     This  is  a  typi- 

ompofitions  are  of  such  good  quality  cal  conversation,  every  one  confident 

that  the   judges    will  have    a  "hot"  of    his  abilities  and  championing  his 

time  in.  deciding  which  are  best.     It  own  special  cause  at  the  school. 

is  now  foretold   that    this  will    be  a  To    the    ones  that   lose,    we    give 

warm    and  hotly    contested    match.  this    consolation,  that  it  is    not    be- 

Conversation  heard  from  a  group  of  cause  of  lack  of  work, 

boys:  When  they  had  finisned  their  com- 

"What  are  you  going  to  be,  Bill?"  positions,    each    bo,-   handed  his    in 

"Me?    I'm    goinir  to  he  a  printer,  with  a  feeling  of  pride  at  the   result 

you  bet  I'm  going  to  win  that  piize,  of  his  work,  full  of  hope,  eager  ex- 

too."  pectancy,  and  prepared  to  buffet  the 

"Huh!    you  haven't  got  a  chance,  disappointment,  if  he  loses,    with  a 

youknow  the  shop  is  better  than  the  show  of    good-nature.-  -One    of  The 

printing    orfice.      Em   writing  about  Boys. 


Kindess 

One  never  knows 

How  far    a  word  of  kindness  goes; 

One  never  sees 

How  far  the  smile  of  friendship  flees 

Down  through  the  years 

The  deed  forgotton  reappears. 

One  kindly  word 

The  soul  of  many  here  has  stirred. 

Man  goes  on    his  way 

And  tells  with  every  passing  day 

Until  life's  end: 

'•Once  unto  me  he  betrayed  the  friend." 

We  cannot  say 

What  lips  are  praising  us   today. 
We  cannot  tell 

Whose  prayers  ask  God  to  guard  us  well. 
But  kindness  lives 

Beyond  the  memory  of  him  who  gives. 
—Edgar  A.  Guest. 

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HAPPINESS. 


Happiness  is  never  an  earning:  it  is  a,  by- 
product; or  rather,  it  is  a  gift.  It  is  poured 
into  hearts  prepared.  I  think  that  most  of  us 
entertain  a  contemptible  notion  of  happiness. 
We  think  of  it  as  one  might  of  s,  short  potato 
crop — not  enough  to  go  around.  Indeed,  that 
is  precisely  the  reason  sometimes  given  for  the 
unhappiness  of  so  many  people — that  there  is 
not  enough  happiness  to  supply  the  needs  of 
all.  Whereas,  the  more  happiness  there  is, 
the  more  there  is  likely  to  he.  Happiness  is 
not  a  fixed  quantity,  like  the  world's  gold  sup- 
ply. Really,  happiness  is  an  infection:  the 
more  who  have  it  the  more  are  likely  to  catch 
it.  Did  you  ever  see  one  child  happy  with  the 
crudest  toy,  and  another  child  unhappy  with 
arms  full  of  toys'?  There  are  not  enough  toys 
to  beget  happiness.  Happiness  is  a  distilla- 
tion, a  recreation:  a  gift  to  hearts  prepared 
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Hie  Uplif 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED   BY 

Era  Authority  of  Hie    Stonewall  Jackson    Muin..    t     ■   ■ 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's  pS    „     Sr^   **d,utrW 
Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance  ^s-pton 
JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,          J   C   PISHFT?    n-      ,      „ 
=======L==                           '  Du'ect0>  p™tihg  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec  4  1920    ,t  +»,.  ifT^L  ' 

SONG  TO  APRIL. 

April,  April, 

Laugh  thy  girlish  laughter; 

inen,  the  moment  after 

Weep  thy  girlish  tears!  ' 
April,  that  mine  ears 
Like  a  lover  greetest. 
If  I  tell  thee,  sweetest, 
-All  my  hopes  and  fears 
April,  April, 

Laugh   thy  golden  laughter 
Weep  thy  golden  tears! 

-William  Watson. 

NOT  FORGOTTEN 

Mrs.  Margaret    E.  Milliard,   at  the  age    of  e,Vhtv  ft  u      • 

away  at  her  home  in   Asheville      This t  *  «7     KhtJ-three'  ha^  ^  Passed 
f-m  Asheville;  but  it  is  not  all'.  "^  ^'^  that  came  out 

The  city  went  in    mourning  over  the  mssmo-  „f   „■ 
^loners,    in  extending    ho  o    Tthf  meJo  y  IfThT"     ^  "* 
ected  that  the  firebell  be  tolled  for  a  period  of    Z  "T™'  d''' 

Revile  T.mes  answers  quite  fully  the  question-  ?      The 

V'rtoUy  ever,   chant*!,   institution  that  „»,■   „„«  in  thi.  com. 


ment 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

munity  found  its  inspiration  in  her.  Early  in  life  she  realized  the 
duty  of  a  people  to  its  destitute  and  unfortunate.  She  not  only  gave 
of  her  own  time  and  money  in  relieving  the  needy  and  straightening 
the  paths  in  life  of  the  straying,  but  she  aroused  the  conscience  of  the 
community.  She  drew  the  generosity  and  interest  of  others  to  her 
aid  and  her  individual  strength  was  multiplied  manyfold. 

A  woman  of  great  personal  charm,  of  wholesome  intellectual  inter- 
ests and  of  nohle  enthusiasms,  she  blessed  the  city  with  her  life.  Others 
can  take  to  themselves  the  credit  for  the  business  expansion  of  this  re- 
gion. To  her  memory  belongs  the  distinction  of  a  life  that  was  truly 
spent  in  the  service  of  others  and  that  revealed  the  heart  of  this  city 
to  itself."' 

Could  any  mar,  or  woman  wish  for  a  more  beautiful  tribute  paid  him  by 
the  acquaintances,  friends  and  neighbors  of  a  life-time?  This  opportunity, 
in  a  larger  or  smaller  degree,  is  open  to  every  one,  who  cultivates  a  vision 
that  reaches  beyond  self  and  self's  family.  One,  who  does  not  share  ia 
the  spirit  at  all  that  governed  che  activities  of  this  great  woman, 
who  has  just  entered  into  her  reward,  are  simply  parasites,  living  off  their 
fellows  and  prospering  because  such  folks  as  Mrs.  Hilliard  do  live  in  the 
community. 

This  woman  threw  out  the  life-line  to  many  an  erring  sister;    she  aide! 
them  to  find  their  equlibrium  and  make  a  new  start.     The   work    she  did 
touched   every    section    of    the    state     in    some    degree.     In  1914   when  a 
certain  sixteen  year-old  girl,  the  product  of  debased  environment   and   with    n 
no  wholesome  directing  influence,    became    entangled    with     the    law  and    )i 
was  committed  to  the  county  jail  for  four  months,  by  a  City  Recorder,  who, 
in  explaining  to  some    outraged  ladies,    cleared  his  judicial  skirts  i?)   and 
established  his  great  wisdom  by  declaring,  "I  did  that  to  protect  the  boys.'' 
But  this  Mrs.  Hilliard,  whom  Asheville  mourns,  pursued  the  better  course 
in  wanting  to  "protect  the  girls:"  so  after  Governer  Craig  had  commut  : 
the  foolish  sentence  of  four  months  in  jail  to  "the  care  and  keep"  of  Mrs. 
Hillard's  home,  where  Christian  influences,  wholesome  environment  and  in- 
struction were  resorted  to,  the  girl  was  transferred  to  Asheville,  and  was  re- 
cited, was  restored  to  society,  and,  instead  of  being  a  menace  "to  the  boyi," 
is  now  playing  an  orderly  part  in  life's  affairs. 

The  work  and  interest  of  this  godly  woman  touched  nearly  every  section 

of   North  Carolina  and  Asheville,  in  honoring  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Hilliard, 

honors  herself  more  in  the  expression  of  appreciation  of  the  glorious  work 

this  woman  accomplished  unselfishly  throughout  a  long  and  useful  life. 

Serving  rather  than  being  served  makes  a  memory  that  can  never  die. 

Speaking  of  the  great  work  of  Mrs.  Hilliard,  the  local  King's  Daughter;, 


1! 


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who  had  much  dealings  with  her  and  her  institution,  which  she  founded 
and  dii'pcted,  recall  a  letter  which  reveals  the  deep  interest  and  systematic 
care  that  governed  Mrs.  Hilliard  activities.  Several  months  after  the  re- 
ception of  the  girl,  transferred  from  i ait  above  referred  to,  Mrs.  Hilliard 
writes: 

"Madam  President, 
King's  Daughters, 
Concord,  N.  C. 

Pardon  my  seeming  neglect  in  failing   to  report  sooner  legarding 

As  you  may  know  the  Home  is  several  miles  in  the  country,  and 
in  addition  to  the  wintry  weather,  I  have  been  unable  to  visit  the  Home 
having  been  quite  unwell  for  some  months  past.  But  I  am  more  than  glad 
to  report  favorably— very  favorably— as    to  since  her  arrival. 

Mrs-  .Montague,  our  most  excellent  matron,  to  whom  I  revealed  the  history 
of  the  case---as  a  secret,  not  to  be  divulged  to  the  other  gir!s---has  taken 
special  pains  with  her  and  she  gives  me  from  time  to  time,  by  phone  and 
letter,  the    report.     She  to-day  assured  me  that  is  doing  well, 

and  lias  given,  so  far,  no  trouble. 

Now,  in  regard  to  the  matter  of  financial  support  to  which  you  referred, 
I  should  be  grateful  if  the  minimum  rate  of  fifty  dollars  per  year  could  be 
secured,  and  paid  monthly,  if  not  conveneient  in  advance.  You  can  im- 
agine how  without  endownment  it  keeps  the  Board  of  managers  busy  to 
meet  the  expenses  of  the  institution. 

Some  persons  not  interested  in  rescue  work  ask,  "does  it  pay?"  After 
an  experience  of  20  years,  I  can  truly  say,  "yes,  it  does  pay.  There  is  so 
much  pathos  and  heart-breaks  in  the  work  of  rescue,  as  you  get  a  peep  in- 
to the  underworld  of  lost  purity.  0,  if  Christian  women  were  only  awak- 
ened on  this  all  important  question  of  lending  a  helping  hand  to  their  less 
fortunate  sisters!     (Signed)  M.  E.  Hilliard." 


AN  AWAKENING 

The  light  seems  to  have  broken  at  last  in  Concord.  The  frequent  mur- 
ders that  have  occurred  in  the  count}'  and  the  sensational  trials  following 
have  given  the  county  an  unhappy  advertisement  with  outsiders;  but.  in 
reality,  the  morals  and  law-observance  of  the  community  are  at  no  lower 
ebb  than  in  any  other  section  of  the  state— it's  just  the  advertising  that 
seems  so  conspicuous. 

We  started  out  to  say  that  the  light  has  broken.  Civic  organizations 
have  not  thrived  in  our  midst— they  bob  up  with  a  flourish  and  then  die  a 
quick  death.  That  was  the  way  they  had  of  doing  in  the  past;  but  to-day 
well. 

First,  the  Rotarians  came  into  existence.     They  have  lived  for  six  months, 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

and  are  doing-  business.     Second,  a  Kiwanis  Club,  of    live,  earnest  men  01 
all  walks  of  life  and  professions  -54  strong-came  into  life.     Like  the  Rotthe 
arians,  they  have  caught  a  step.     It  is  moving,  in  fact,  in  high  gear      The/he 
are  bringing  to  their  meetings  men,  who  have  a  visicn,  a  message  and  able* 
to  handle  both  cleverly  before  the  Kiwanis.     Such    men    as    Dr.     Frazier, 
of  Queen's  College,  has  honored  the  Club  with    his  presence,     His  appear 
ance  at  the  late  meeting  of  the  Kiwanis  was  a  joy.     He    put    the    splendidea. 
assemblage  of  industrious,  active  men  in  a  good  receptive  mood  by  several,^ 
negro  stories.     Never  heaid  better  ones— never    saw  one    to    surpass  Dr.  ed 
Frazier  in  his  impersonation.     Had  you  not  seen  his  delightful  countenance.  ed 
you  would  have  thought  it  was  a  real    and    genuine  one    talking.     Having  g„ 
done  all  this  to  the  pleasure  of  his  host,  the    able    doctor  led  them  off  into  he 
a  discussion  of  just  what  Kiwanis  is,  stands  for  and  must  be  in  a  community.  ,e 

Third,  here  comes  the  organization  of  the  Merchants    &    Manufacturers  k 
Club.     There  is  plenty  work  for  it  to  do;  plenty   for    the    Kiwanis;    plenty 
for  the  Rotarians.     May  the  little  measly  jealousies,  the    cranky    rivalries, 
the  gossiping  clubs,  the  back-bitings  and    the    blackguarding,    all  of  which 
have  at  times  been  raging  in  nooks  and  corners  like  a   prarie    fire,   spend'11' 
their    last    fury   in    the    presence    of    an    awakened  town,  whose   citizen-  ,s" 
ship  at  last 'are  willing  to  organize  to  promote  the  common  good,  divorced  ^ 
of  all  personal  selfishness  and  persona!  profit. 

It's  a  great  day  in  the  life  of  any  community  when  men  of  affairs  ar.d  ie 
responsibilities  will  knock  off  for  a  period  and  discuss  matters  that  affect  ™ 
the  larger  development  and  welfare  of  a  young  city.  That's  just  what's  ;D 
happening  in  Concoid.  Loafers,  idlers,  gamblers,  murderers  might  just  as  !n 
well  give  the  old  community  a  wide  go-round. 

The  probable  result:  among  other  things,  these  agencies  of  communitj 
welfare  may  ascertain  if  all  the  fifty  million  dollar  road  fund  is  to  be  spent  |g 
before  a  single  cent  touches  Cabarrus  soil.  Every  county  in  his  district  has  L 
something  worthwhile  going  on  except  in  Cabarrus.  A  delegation  from  one  U 
or  all  of  these  clubs  might  wait  on  Mr.  Commissioner  Wilkinson  and  aseer-  ;;. 
tain  from  him  when  the  lightening  is  due  to  strike  Cabarrus.  All  roads  are  k 
supposed  to  lead  to  Washington ---certainly  Charlotte  does  not  want  to  push  h 
Washiugton  off  the  roost. 




THIRTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  |. 

|3 

The  Public  Schools  of  Cabarrus  county  contributed  the  munificent  (?)  to-  ,. 

tal  of  thirty-five  dollars  to  the  funds  being  raised  for  the  purchase  of  the  Ms-  i 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

morial  Chimes,  as  an  expression    of     our    love    for    the    Cabarrus    county 

World  War  soldiers.     One  of  the  modernly  certified    teachers,    explaining 

his   lack  of  interest  and  ability  to  aid  in  the  cause  through  his  school  said, 

"why,  the  chimes  can't  be  heard    in    my    district."     We    cannot  see   the 

graves  of  the  strong,  young  men  of  Cabarrus  county  who    lost    their    lives 

in  answer  to  the  call  of  their  country,  and  we  cannot  hear  the  hellish  nois- 

'    es  that  shook  the  earth  when  they  were  clashed  into    atoms,   but  we  know 

■    that  soma  of  our  boys  made  the  supreme  sacrifice;  and  the  children  of  today 

;    should  be  taught  and  led  to  know  that  patriotism  and  a  loving  remembrance 

of  our  heroes  are  not  to  be  measured  by  sound  or  sight. 

•  •••»«•« 

"SET  A  GOOD  EXAMPLE" 

The  News  &  Observer,    making   note    of  the    fact  that    Prof.    Roswell 
Miller  has  accepted  a  professorship  in  the  New  York  University,    has    this 

to  say: 

"Roswell  Miller,  the  son-indaw  of  Andrew  Carnegie,  has  accepted 
a  position  as  instructor  in  the  New  York  University  at  §2,500  a  year. 
He  evidently  agrees  with  Lyman  Abbot  who  said:  The  profession  of 
teaching  is  the  greatest  of  all  professions  excepting  only  one.  And 
that  one  is  motherhood."  Mr.  Miller  set  a  good  example  for  he  does 
not  need  to  work  at  anything.  He  served  in  the  Navy  during  the  war 
and  such  service  makes  men  feel  a  compulsion  to  patriotic  duty. 

Teaching  is  the  greatest  profession  only  if —And  that  "if"  must  give 
pause  to  all  who  dare  enter  it.     Unfortunately  too   many   enter  itasa 
stepping  stone  and  too  many  more  ply  their  holy  work  as  if  they  did  not 
daily  deal  with  immortal  souls.     The  teacher  who  lacks  the    vision    to 
see  and  embrace  the  opportunity  to  lead  children  into  nobleness  as  they 
master  the  three  "r's"  should  not  remain  in   the  honorable  profession 
for  a  day.    They  profane  it." 
He  could  beat  that  by  coming  to  North  Carolina  if  he's   able    to    pass 
the  certification  mill.  A  professorship  in  this  state  or  even  a  county  super- 
intendent's job  in  a    number    of   the    counties,   carries    a  more  handsome 
salary-even  a  clerkship  in  the  educational  department  lays    Prof.    Miller's 
compensation  in  the  shade. 


It  looks  like  the  News  &  Observer  has  made  out  a  strong  case  for  the 
bond  issue  to  improve  the  school  facilities  of  Raleigh.  The  amount  is  stag- 
gering-one million  dollars— but  those  who  have  seen  the  sorry  equipment 
the  Raleigh  Schools  have  to  go  up  against  can  well  see  how  a  million  dollars 
may  be  spent.     1  he  Raleigh  School  equipment  is  not  even  comparable  with 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

Concord's,  but  Concord  is  making  fight  for  $300,000.00.  In  Raleigh  the 
proposition  is  made  to  allow  the  City  Aldermen  to  overlook  and  direct  the 
expenditure.  This  is  a  strong  point  in  the  vigorous  campaign  that  is  mak- 
ing in  behalf  of  the  bond  issue. 

On  the  20th  of  March,  Mr.  Herman  Cone,  theeldtst  son  of  the  late  Cca- 
sar  Cone,  of  Greensboro,  was  married  in  New  York  city  to  Miss  Louise  Wolf, 
a  member  of  an  influential  and  popular  family.  Mr.  Cone  is  associated 
with  the  large  manufacturing  enterprises  that  'nave  been  signally  directed 
by  the  Cones  of  Greensboro,  is  a  thoughtful  and  substantial  young  man 
enjoying  the  highest  esteem  of  the  public.  At  a  late  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Jackson  Training  School,  young  Mr.  Cor.e 
promised  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  said  board  be  would  bring  his  bride. 
The  Cones,  k -oping  their  promise,  always  make  good. 


Editor  John.B.  Sherrill,  president  of  North  Carolina  Press  Association, 
had  a  meeting  of  his  Executive  Committee  on  last  Friday.  After  trans- 
acting its  business,  and  a  luncheon  with  Mrs.  Sherrill,  the  Committee  made 
a  visit  to  the  Training  School,  going  through  every  department  ami  ex- 
pressing a  delight  with  what  they  saw.  Little  Edwin  liked  the  looks  of  the 
visiting  editors,  and  he's  picked  out  the  one  he  wants  to  work  for  when  he 
finishes  his  course  in  our  office---Miss  Beatrice  Cobb,  of  the  Morganton 
News  Herald  may  just  as  well  install  the  very  fastest  linotype  possible  in 
her  office. 


The  mothers  having  failed  and  their  own  sense  of  modesty  not  turning 
the  trick,  several  of  the  large  and  fashionable  department  stores  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  have  issued  a  ruling  on  the  subject.  Peek-a-boo  shirt 
waists,  flesh-colored  stockings  and  bobbed  hair  are  outlawed.  Glory  be. 
The  world  is  certainly  getting  better,  when  the  management  of  the  depart- 
ment stores  recognize  the  necessity  of  insisting  that  its  employees  dre.;s 
with  more  clothes  and  becomingly. 


«    a    •    9    •    » 


Our  capital  city,  Raleigh,  is  getting  a  deluge  of  evangelistic  services. 
The  latest  there  is  Gypsv  Smith,  Jr.,  ard  the  way  he  talks  to  the  church 
members  makes  his  unchurched  hearers  appear  pretty  low  in  the  scale  of 
goodness.     If  any  one  of  the  local  pastors  would  say  half  as    much   to  his 


THE  UPLIFT  9 

congregation  as  does  Mr.  Gypsy  Smith,    Jr.,    that    local    pastor   would    he 
waited  on  with  a  request  for  his  resignation. 

Another  official  will  take  a  desk  in  the  office  of  the  State  Educational 
Department.  The  Executive  Coir  mi ttee  of  the  North  Carolina  Teachers' 
Association  have  elected  an  all-time  secretary  for  the  organization.  His 
salary  is  to  he  $4,000.00  per  annum,  or  $12.78  per  day  fur  each  working 
day.  The  selection  of  Prof.  Coltrane,  of  Roanoke  Rapids,  is  quite  a  hap- 
py one. 

Considerable  hard-luck  stories  have  been  coming  out  of  the  east  for  the 
past  twelve  months;  hut  an  oasis  in  the  desert  appears  by  way  of  an  an- 
nouncement of  the  Elizabeth  Independent,  which  is  soon  to  have  its  own 
home.  Editor  Saunders  is  preparing  to  erect  a  suitable  office  builiding  on 
his  own  lot. 

Governor  Morrison  has  named  his  commission  to  overhaul  the  system  of 
county  government.   It  is  a  body  of  able  men;  and  their  task  is  monumental. 


PHOTOGRAPH  SMILES 

This  is  a  grouchy  world.     Ah,  me! 

A  fellow  seldom  laughs. 
Why  don't  we  wear  the  smile  that  we 

Use  in  our   photographs? 


THE  SERPENT  AND  THE  FILE  ± 


* 


A  Serpent  in  the  course  of  its  wanderings  came  into  an  amourer's 
shop.  As  he  glided  over  the  floor  he  felt  his  skin  pricked  by  a 
file  lying  there.  In  a  rage  he  turned  round  upon  it  and  tried  to 
dart  his  fangs  into  it;  but  he  could  do  no  harm  to  heavy  iron  and 
had  soon  to  give  over  his  wrath.  •:♦ 


* 


"IT  IS  USELESS  ATTACKING  THE  INSENSIBLE." 

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What  Are  You  Going  to  Do  About  It? 

By  M.  N.   C. 

What  about  it?  Where  can  they  go?  Well,  what  about  what?  There 
is  a  class  in  Cabarrus  county  and  in  other  counties,  who  have  no  where  to  | 
go.  They  belong'  to  the  human  family,  ami  they  alone  have  to  eke  out  a 
miserable  existence,  and  are  a  menace  to  you,  to  me  and  to  all  wherever 
they  move---and  yet  when  they  come  among  you,  it  is  by  accident  or  other- 
wise that  a  discovery  is  made  that  they  are  carriers  of  the  great  white 
plague.  This,  then,  answers  our  questions  above— that  class  of  uninformed 
poor,  helpless  individuals  that  go  from  post  to  pillar  seeking  just  a  living, 
or  a  mere  existence. 

In  this  county,  as  well  as  in  some 
others,  there  is  a  movement  on  foot 
to  eradicate  the  tubercular  cattle, 
so  that  the  health  of  the  people  may 
not  be  impaired  from  that  source  by 
the  use  of  infected  milk  and  butter. 
That  is  a  wise  and  progressive  pur- 
pose. It  is  highly  humanitarian, 
for  it  means  that  by  the  use  of  pure 
foods  nature  is  better  able  to  ward 
off  diseases  and  to  fit  the  body  for  a 
successful  wage  of  the  battles  of 
life. 

This  suggests  another  phase  of 
the  subject.  The  work  is  scarcely 
begun  when  you  eliminate  alone  the 
tubercular  cattle.  Just  think  of 
the  many  house-wives,  as. well  as 
men,  who  are  afflicted  with  tuber- 
culosis and  svho  do  the  milking  and 
the  butter-making.  What  is  to  be 
done  with  these?  A  sound  cow 
handled  by  a  tubercular  attendant 
may  contaminate  the  milk  just  as 
much  as  the  danger  would  be  with 
a  sound  attendant  milking  a  tuber- 
cular cow.  The  best  informed 
among  us  are  totally  ignorant  of 
the  pievalence  of  tuberculosis  in 
even  our  own  county.  Like  a  thief 
in  the  night  it  is  lying  in  wait  for 
the  ignorant  and  the  intelligent,  the 
poor  and  the  well  circumstanced, 
seeking    whomsoever   it  mav  attack 


unaware. 

The  treatment  of  bovine  tuber- 
culosis is  one  proposition;  the  treat- 
ment and  care  of  the  indigent  and 
ignorant  tubercular  human  is  an- 
other. Both  are  pressing  needs  in 
this  day.  We  cannot  and  mast  not 
side- step  our  duty,  even  if  we  do  it 
from  a  selfish  standpoint---our  own 
safety.  Bear  in  mind  that  it  is  large- 
ly this  class,  generally  in  ignorance, 
that  is  spreading  the  dreaded  disease- 
to  a  degree  that  is  alarming.  These 
sick  parents  not  only  milk  and 
churn  but  prepare  the  meals  for  the 
family;  and  in  homes  like  many  sve 
have  there  is  no  way  to  segregate 
the  sick  from  the  well  and  the  child- 
ren from  the  adults,  even  if  a  know- 
ledge of  proper  precaution  is  pres- 
ent. 

The  "John    Smith"    tenant    class 


are  great  people  to  visit,  lor  masr 
of  them  cannot  read  and  have  no 
other  way  of  recreation  or  entertain- 
ment. Together  they  love  tc  assem- 
ble, tell  their  experienws,  discuss 
neighborhood  gossip,  talk  of  their 
ills  and  misfortunes.  Again, among 
these  people  there  is  a  prejudice 
against  intelligent  and  <-  ;iern  prac- 
tices in  dealing  with  vital  protlenis; 
among  them  thrive  the  faith  in  o=- 
ing''  and  in    juices  and    teas  from 


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11 


herbs  and  roots.  This,  of  course,  is 
an  abstract  pen  picture  of  a  condi- 
tion that  prevails  somewhat  through- 
out the  country. 

But  here  is  a  concrete  example,  in 
fiesh  and  blood,  and  of  the  present 
time,  and  within  two  miles  of  Con- 
cord. The  like  of  it  are  to  be  found 
in  every  township,  and  from  a  small 
spark  a  terrific  and  destructive  blaze 
may  follow.  I  saw  a  whole  family 
the  other  day  drive  into  the  yard  of 
another  "John  Smith"  tenant  farm- 
er. This  family  consisted  of  father, 
mother  ana  three  children,  the  eldest 
just  six  years  of  acre.  They  had 
lost  out  with  a  former  land-lord; 
they  were  drifting;  no  food,  scarce 
clothing;  not  a  cent  of  money  and 
nothing  to  command  money,  not 
even  energy  or  ambition.  The 
shackly  buggy  and  the  bony  horse— 
mv  God,  what  a  picture! 

There  was  joy  over  one  John  Smith 
tenant  meeting  another  John  Smith 
tenant.  The  children  mingled  and 
were  happy.  The  poor,  emaciated 
wife  and  mother  tried  to  smile  her 
delight  but  the  poor  thing,  hungry, 
tired,  worn  out  and  diseased,  made 
a  poor  effort  to  he  jubilant.  The 
fourteen  months'  old  baby  took  sick, 
bronchial  pneumonia,  that  night.  A 
doctor  was  called.  It  was  found 
that  the  baby  was  under-nourished, 
being  cared  for,  rocked  and  fed  by 
a  mother,  galloping  away  hers.df 
the  victim  of  tuberculosis;  and  she 
did  not  know  it.  and  after  being 
told  by  the  physician  her  real  condi- 
tion, refused  to  believe  and  resent- 
ed the  diagnosis.  Already  the  fath- 
er has  been  stung  by  the  deadly 
tug— he  moves  about  listlessly,  a 
gui'ffle  in  his  throat  and  a  hacking 
"°usrh.  The  world,  the  street,  the 
Pavement  are  his  spittoon— you    tell 


that  ignorant,  lifless  and  hacked 
father  of  three  children  and  the  hus- 
band of  a  dying  wife  that  be  must 
not  e  electorate  on  the  street,  on  the 
pavement  or  wherever  he  pleases 
am:  the  occasion  demands,  he  at  once 
regards  you  as  interfering  with  his 
privilege— the  idea  of  an  American 
citizen  not  being  permitted  to  spit 
where  he  pleases  he  takes  as  an 
abridgment  of  his  rights  and  he 
resents  it! 

L'nable  to  farm,  unable  to  get 
food,  unable  to  get  medicine,  he  pur- 
poses to  go  to  the  mills  where  the 
original  troubles  started.  To  make 
a  long  story  short,  this  man  is  carry- 
ing a  torch  to  a  favored  spot  where 
he  may  spread  the  great  White 
Plague  among  others,  absolutely  ig- 
norant of  the  danger  that  threatens 
them.  This  man  is  not  the  product 
of  immediate  times  and  agencies  and 
perentage.  He  wss  bred  in  gener- 
ations of  other  years--he's  just  a 
continuance,  a  reproduction  of  a  like 
kind.  This  leads  us  to  ask  the  ques- 
tion. What  is  to  become  of  the  three 
children,  who  are  not  responsible  for 
their  being  in  this  world  and  in  the 
plight  they  find  themselves?  Echo 
answers  What. 

To  make  every  cow  in  the  land  as 
healthy  as  healthy  can  bp,  or  kill  off 
every  cow,  even  put  them  out  of 
commission  altogether,  will  not  save 
these  children  and  hundreds  of  others 
in  our  own  country,  who  are  daily  ex- 
posed to  tubercular  parents.  There 
must  be  a  place  to  segregate  these 
afflicted  parents,  a  county  Tubercu- 
lar Camp;  there  must  be  enlarged 
and  increased  efforts  to  educate  the 
people  how  to  meet  these  situations, 
how  to  avoid  these  situations.  The 
education  that  teaches  a  child  his 
letters   and  does  not  teach  him    the 


12                                                     THE  ITL1  FT 

simple  laws  of  nature  and  body-care  Tubercular  Camp  for  th?  treatment' 

is  a  fraud  and  a  snare.  Every  intelli-  of  the  indigent   tubercular    and   in.  ■ 

gent  man  and    woman,    individually  crease   our    efforts    to    make  every" 

and  in  organized    government,    will  body    familiar    with    the    necessary ! 

be  held  responsible  for  the  crime  of  precautions  to  ward  oil'  this  dreaded  ' 

neglect  of  a  sacred  duty  to  the  less  disease  and    the    other    complaints 

fortunate---a  duty  that  contemplates  which      intelligence    annihilates  by' 

rescuing  the  indigent  and  the   child-  the  activities  of    health    officers  and 

ren  from  a  slavery  of    ignorance  in  other    propaganda,     then    we   mav 

our  midst  and  preventing  a  slow  tor-  stand  up  and   be    counted— short  o'f 

Turing  physical    death.     When    we  this,    we     are     dodgers,     shirkers 

have  established    in    the    counties  a  parasites. 


When  a  college  professor  winds  his  intellectual  tail  around  a  limb  of 
Darwin's  family  tree  he  naturally  looks  down  with  contempt  upon  ordin- 
ary people  who  walk  on  the  ground  and  who  were  made  in  the  image  of 
God.  But  while  this  gives  amusement  to  the  "tree  niaoi,"  it  does  not 
disturb  the  people,  except  when  such  men  take  charge  of  the  educational 
system  of  the  country  and  undermine  the  faith  of  those  entrusted  to  their 
care. — Bryan. 


THE    BATTLES    OF    SKY 

BY  K.  K.  CLARK 

Beheld  the  faker!  He  is  always  up  and  dressed,  going  to  and  fro  in  tie 
ear-th  and  up  and  down  in  it,  seeking  whom  he  may  rob,  and  lie  works  the  game 
successfully  that  he  should  flourish  like  the  green  bay  free,  if  he  dosen't.  There 
are  major  fakers  and  minor  fakers — those  who  do  business  in  a  small  way  and 
those  who  go  after  big  game  and  make  a  killing.     The  amazing  part  of  this 

faker  game  is  that  the  fish  are  always  common  that  it  is  surprising  that  t.ij- 

so    plentiful    and    ready    to    bite.     It  body  with  sufficient  knowledge  to  jo 

is    admitted    at    the    outset    that    few  about  alone  would  fall  for  them,  but 

there  lie  who  are  entirely  faker  proof;  which  find  ready  and  willing  victims; 

who  do  not  at  some  time  and  in  some  and  sometimes  the  same  folks  fall  for 

way,   fall   a    victim,   if   even   in   small  the  same  game  twice  or  thrice, 

measure,    to    the    faker's    wiles.     So  To   enumerate   the  many  anil  devi- 

matter  how   shrewd   nor  how  careful  ous  ways  worked  out  to  separate  the 

one   may   be,   he    is   almost   certain   to  unsuspecting    from    their   cash   would 

meet    at   some   time,   when   he   is   not  make  a  book.     The  common  class  of 

on  guard,  a  faker  who  will  work  him.  fakers  ever  present  with  us  are  what 

The    purpose    here    is    to    consider      are   commonly      ter 1     deadbeats— 

the   success   of   the   fake  games   that  those  who  make  debts  and  never  psj 

are  worked  over  and  over,  that  are  so  them   and      have   no   purpose     to  par 


THE  UPLIFT 


13 


when  they  make  the  debt.  They  are 
morally  worse  than  the  thief.  The 
thief  robs  in  the  darkness  or  when 
your  back  is  turned,  and  makes  no 
pretension  of  paying  baek.  The  faker 
violates  the  trust  reposed  in  him, 
destroys  confidence  and  commits 
robbery.  He  is  doubly  guilty.  It  is 
amazing  that  tho  deadbeat  class  can 
work  their  game  in  the  same  com- 
munity, and  frequently  on  the  same 
people,  through  the  years.  In  almost 
every  community  there  are  people  who 
are  generally  known  to  be  bad  pay — 
who  can't  be  depended  on  to  pay  a 
debt.  And  yet  they  continue  to  get 
credit.  They  seem  to  have  a  way 
with  them  that  enables  them  to 
successfully  rob  their  fellow-citizens 
and  keep  on  robbing  without  reaching 
tie  end  of  the  rope.  Why  people  will 
continue  to  trust  folks  whose  reputa- 
tion for  untr.ustworthiness  is  well  es- 
tablished is  one  of  the  unsolved 
mysteries.  The  honest  man  who  pays 
his  debts  is  compelled  to  contribute  to 
the  support  of  the  deadbeats  for  the 
merchant  levies  enough  profit  on 
those  who  pay  to  take  care  in  part  at 
least  of  his  losses  through  br,d  debts. 
That  rankles  in  the  breast  of  the  hon- 
est man,  and  he  would  probably  do 
something   about    it    if   he   could. 

Among  the  major  fakers  the  more 
spectacular  class  are  the  check  flash- 
ers, the  fake  stock  salesman,  etc. 
A  stranger  comes  into  town,  buys  a 
few  dollars;  worth  at  store,  offers 
a  sizable  check  in  payment  and  wants 
the  difference  in  cash.  The  merchant 
never  saw  him  before,  knows  nothing 
shout  him,  but  the  desire  to  accom- 
modate and  to  sell  a  few  goods  re- 
sults in  !ns  cashing  the  worthless 
check,   flu-  same   game    is   sometimes 


worked  on  two  or  three  business  men 
in  the  same  town,,  the  bird  of  passage; 
pockets  the  cash  and  is  gone.  That 
game  is  so  old,  so  common,  that  it  is 
a  wonder  that  the  veriest  amateur  iu 
business  would  fa.ll  for  it.  But  it  is  a 
fact  that  leading  and  experienced 
business  men  constantly  are  taken  in. 
Why  anybody  should  cash  a  check  for 
an  utter  stranger  without  some  sort 
of  identification  is  one  of  the  un- 
solved mysteries. 

The  "phony"  stock  .salesman 
flourishes  like  a  green  bay  tree.  It  is 
estimated  that  this  class  of  fakers 
took  many  millions  from  North  Caro- 
linians these  past  few  years.  The 
papers  are  full  of  the  exposures,  but 
the  business  goes  on.  Similar  fakers 
find  easy  marks  where  others  have  but 
recently  gathered  a  harvest.  This  last 
game  is  more  easily  understood  than 
those  mentioned.  The  buyer  of  "pho- 
ny" stock  is  a  victim  of  greed.  He  ex- 
pects to  get  inordinate  profits.  His 
common  sense  would  tell  him,  if  he 
would  exercise  it,  that  there  is  no 
such  thing  as  getting  something  for 
nothing  and  that  when  such  offer  is 
made  it  stamps  itself  as  a  fake.  But 
greed  overrules  common  sense.  The 
get-rieh-quiek  schemes  will  •-always 
flourish  because  the  desire  to  get  some- 
thing for  nothing,  to  accumulate 
wealth  rapidly,  is  so  overpowering  in 
the  average  mortal  that  they  who  fall 
into  the  snare  are  many  and  the  num- 
ber never  grows  less. 

It  is  one  of  the  unsolved  mysteries 
why  so  many  people  of  intelligence 
will  buy  stock  from  :*  stranger,  in 
some  enterprise  of  which  they  know 
nothing,  while  they  will  refuse  to  take 
stoek  in  a  home  enterprise?,  manned 
bv   home      folks,   their     friends     and 


14  THE  UPLIFT 

neighbors    whom    they    have    known  brother  would  say.  The  fakers  find  sj  : 

all  their  lives.  It  is  the  distance  that  many   people   who   are   ready,   willing 
lends    enchantment    to    the   view.    No  and   anxious   to   be   relieved   of   their  , 
man  is  hero  to  his  own  valet,  tliey  say ;  surplus    coin    that    sometimes    I    feel  ; 
and  we  will  fall  for  a  smooth-tongued  they  are  not  so  much  to  blame.  It's 
stranger,  of  whom  we  know  nothing,  true     that   the     same     industry,     in. 
rather  than  trust  our  money  with  the  genuity  and  rapacity  that  is  expended  | 
jjeople  we  do  know  and   in  whom  we  in  fake  games  would  earn  splendid  re- 
have   confidence.    The      building     and  turns,   better  returns,  in   honest  bu=i- 
loaai   associations,    which    do   more    to  ness.     But  the     desire  to     fake  is    so 
build  up  a  community  than  any  other  strong  in  tin-  crooked  that  they  prefer 
agency,  give  a  good  return  direct    to  that    way    with    less    returns    than  to 
investors  and  a  good  return  indirectly  walk  the  path  of  recitude.  And  there 
in    enhancing    all    community    values  are  so  many  who  are  tolerant  of  the 
But   the     building  and     loan  associa-  fakers,   who  seemingly  prefer  to  deal  i 
tions  never  have     enough     money  to  with    the    dishonest    rather    than  the 
supply  the  demands  made  on  them.  Too  honest,  that  it  is  a  temptation  to  lion- 
many   local   citizens   put    their   money  est  people  to  play  a  fake  game,  senng 
into  oil   stocks  or  other   ventures  of  that   so   many   folks   apparently  pre- 
like  kind.  fer  that  sort. 
But  what's  the  use?     As  Col.  Fair- 


In  a  sensible  editorial  concerning  the  work  of  Bliss  Bs(in,  representing 
the  American  Social  Hygiene  Association,  Col.  Harris  concludes: 

"She  believes  that  the  moral  standards  of  a.  community  are  altogether 
the  rcsponsibiltiy  of  its  adult  members.  Because  youth  must  be  served, 
and  it  is  the  elders  who  furnish  the  knowledge  and  the  diversions  they  seek 
so  eagerly.  Whether  there  is  wholesome  and  plentiful  recreation,  and  up- 
lifting educational  facilities,  is  a  matter  for  the  grownups;  it  is  their  duty, 
lest  the  children  find  for  themselves  the  questionable  diversions.  For  a 
child  is  unquestionably  the  product  of  its  environment  and  its  education. 
Perhaps,  chiefly,  environment,  for,  after  all,  morals  are  caught,— not 
taught." 


I  here  s  Place  In  Life  For  Tbe  Anecdote 

HARDSHELLED  BAPTIST:  Fifteen  years  ago  there  was  a  man  from 
back  in  the  cabbage  counties  of  North  Carolina  or  Virginia,  who,  knowing 
the  demand  for  a  cabbage  seed  that  came  from  the  country  where  the  fine 
mountain  cabbages  prow,  and  having  a  desire  to  ramble  and  seethe 
country,  followed  the  courts  in  western  North  Carolina,  carrying  a  haver- 
sack loaded    with  these   cabbage  seed,  his  own  raising  which  he  retailed  at 

15    cents    a   teaspoonful.     He  was  a      ignoramus;    and    with    ii  all  an  un- 
man of  good   qualities,    far  from  an      compromising     "Hardshelled    Cap- 


THE  UPLIFT                                                15 

tist."  he  would   give  the  company   an  ob- 

[  was  looking  after   the    interests  iect  lesson  that  would  clinch  his  side 

0f  a  well   known   newspaper   at  this  for  all  time;  so  he   called  for  a  black 

time,    and     attending     these    same  walnut  and  a  hammer.     Taking  the 

courts,  and   the    man   had   the  un-  walnut  he  said:  "this   outer  hull  re- 

nsual  name  of  Chenault,  by  the  way  presents    the    Methodist,    soft    and 

a  very  respected  name  in  some  parts,  easy   to   fall.     This  hard   substance 

as  I  learned   afterwards.     It  was  at  represents    the    missionary  Baptist, 

Taylorsville  that  I    heard  a  man  tell  and    mighty  good   folks;    but  now  I 

this  story  on  our  friend  Chenault.  am  going  to  show  you  what  is  inside 

He  went  home    with    or    stopped  this,    the    kernel,  and  it    represents 

for  the  night  with    a  family  back  in  the  true  church,  the  Hardshell  Bap- 

the foothills    of    Alexander    county,  tist;"  and  with   that  he  cracked  the 

and  there   was  quite  a   company  of  walnut    with    the  hammer,    and  be- 

neighbors    and    friends    there    that  hold  the  kernel  was  ROTTEN, 

evening,    and    in    the    conversation  Mr.   Chenault    was    dumfounded, 

they  got    into    an    argument   about  but  the  laugh  and  roar  and  chiding 

which  was  the  greatest  church,  and  that  went  up  from    that  crowd  was 

Mr.  Chenault  had   held    up  his  end  enough   to    make    him  leave   in   the 

pretty  well,  so  well  that  he  decided  night. ---Contributed. 


THE    STORY   OF   A   PENNY 

BY  REBECCA  CHAMBERS 
One  Jay  soon  after  I  was  mined  I  was  given  to  a  man  and  lie  put  me  iu  his 
cash  register.  Very'  soon  a  man  came  and  took  me  out  and  put  me  in  his 
pocket.  I  was  not  in  there  long  before  his  little  girl  asked  him  for  a  penny. 
He  gave  me  to  her,  she  gave  me  to  a  man  for  some  candy  and  he  put  me  in  the 
cash  register.  I  was  not  there  but  a  day  when  a  woman  came  and  gave  the 
man  a  niekle  and  wanted  five  pennies.  The  man  gave  me  to  her  and  four 
others.  This  woman  had  five  little  children,  she  gave  each  child  a  penny 
and  they  took  it  to  Sunday  School.  I  was  given  to  the  youngest  child  which 
was  a  boy.  He  had  a  little  poem  to  say  this  Sunday  and  this  is  what  he  had 
to  say : 

Japan  must  he  remembered 

So  I  this  penny  give 
To  help  to  send  the  gospel 

To  teach  them  how  to  live. 
After  hi'  had  said  His  poem  he  gave  me  to  the  Superintendent  of  the  Sun- 
day School  and  sent  me  off  with  thousands  of  other  pennies  to  Russia  to  help 
the  other  people. 

When  we  reached  Russia  a  penny  was  given  to  every  little  girl.  I  was  given 
to  little  girl  that  had  never  had  any  money  in  her  hands.  All  the  other 
children  bought  candy  except  this  little  girl,  she  was  so  happy  that  she  would 
lot  spend  me  and  I  was  happy  too  because  I  had  made  some  one  else  happy. 


1G  THE  UPLIFT 

JOURNALISM,    A    PERSONALITY 

BV  0.  W.  HUNT 

This  writer  lias  always  said,  and  still  savs,  that  no  man  could  hire  him 
to  edit  a  paper  according"  to  the  policy  of  the  owner,  whoever  he  was  or 
whatever  the  compensation.  His  idea  of  j  lurnalism  is  personal  journalism 
by  which  I  mean  a  paper  the  personality  of  the  editor  being  the  main 
attraction  to  its  readers.  The  editor  may  not  have  any  great  natural  abili- 
ty, but  if  there  is  a  streak  of  personality  in  it,  it  becomes  attractive.     The 

history  of    the  great   papers  of   the  Daily  Charlotte  Observer.     His   un- 
19th  century,     especially  the   latier  timely  passing  did  not  kill    the    Ob- 
part,   stand  out  in   just  a  few  great  server,,  except- in  the   eyes  of    those 
editors.     Chas.    A.    Dana    made  the  who  loved  and  read  it   for    the    veal 
New   York  Sun    what   was    perhaps  worth  of  the  man.     His   personality 
the  greatest  of  its    time.     Without  ami  fompkins  money  made  the  foun- 
Dana  it  has  never  had   ?nv  prestige  dation  on  which  a  great  paper  rests, 
as  compared  with  its  founder,  and  is  These  examples  are  shining  lights, 
now    noted    for    its   bitter    partisan  Otheis  of  smaller   degree    have  sue- 
politics.     The  New  YorK  Herald  was  ceeded  by  the  personal  vein   thrown 
the  work  of  Janus  Gordan  Bennett,  into  the  editorial    pages.     The   It- 
and  when  his  personality    went   out,  LIFT    carries  such,  if    the    editor  is 
its  great,    name    went    also.      These  not  aware  of  it.      hew  papers  carry 
can  still  be  great  as  commercial    pa-  a  cleaner,  readable,  interesting  edi- 
pers,    and     all    papers    can  succeed  torial  page  than    does    the    UPLIFT, 
commercially  with  no  great  editorial  and    it  is  this    personal    touch    that 
policy.  makes  it  popular;  as  much  s  >  as  the 
In  the  south    the    Louisville    Con-  cause  it  represents      I   have   always 
rier- Journal  was  the  chili  of   Henry  noted    these    things,    and   sometime 
Waterson,  and  was  an  authority    on  they  far  outweigh  money  in  building 
liberal    goverment.   Men  waited  for  a  newspaper.   I  know  there  are  those 
the     editoral     of    Henry    Waterson  who  draw  wages  to  edit  a  paper,  and 
and  formed  their  policies  by  it.     In  and  who  do  well,  but  history  records 
his  death  went  the    power    of    that  few  that  ever   reached    an    enviable    | 
paper     as    a     leader    of     southern  place.  The  paper  that  has  a  free  hand 
thought.      Henry     Grady    and      the  ed  editor  and    who    has  the  knack  of 
Atlanta   Constitution  were  synonim-  handling  men    in    a  personal   way, 
ous  terms,  while  Grady  lived  and  edit-  fair,    yet  critical,    has    a    following 
ed  it,   and  it  was  Grady's  personality  that  the    generalizer  and  hinter  at 
that  made  it  what  it  was;  he  thought  things  cannot    command.     Personal 
correctly,  fairly,  ably,    and    in    the  touch:     Knowing    men    and    being 
few  years  he  lived  made  a   national  known  of  men. 
name  through  a  distinct  personality.          This    rule,    as  I  see  it,  applies  to 
The  late    Joseph    Pearson    Caldwell  church    and   society  organs.     These 
made  a    country     weekly    a     great  may  be  taken  and  paid    for  and  nut 
name  through  his  personality,  which  read,  and  hence  do  little  good.    But 
ability  -vas  easily  transfered  to    the  if    they    are    taken    on    account  of 


THE  UPLIFT                                                 17 

magnetism  or  personality  of  the  man  belief    that  editors,  real  editors,  are 

who   writes  its  editorial   policy  and  born,    not  made;     and  that  many    a 

tl,e  paper    sparkles   with    all   these,  good    thing   has  been  ruined  in   the 

then   it  is  not   only    taken  but    read  making     because    of    the    ambition 

and  digested,  and  accomplishes  what  for    the    honor    such    brings.     Men 

it  was  intended  for,   the  good  of  the  seek  such  places  for  the  influence  it 

church,    the   good  of  the   order.     A  bnngs   to   them,    when  they    are  no 

man  may    have   pers-.mal    attraction  more    lilted  10  direct    the   policy  of 

only  in  the  circle  of  his  acquaintance  an  organ  than  a  seventeen  year  old 

or  he  may  overstep  such  and  become  boy.     Most    editors   of    ability   are 

astate  or  a  national  attraction,  both  employed  where  they  have  free  rein, 

accomplishing  the  same  in  his  sphere,  and  most  always  they  are  untramel- 

ln  cenciusion,    it  is   my    personal  ed  in  ihe  policy  they  undertake. 


If  I  can  teach  these  children  hew  to  live  that  they  may  get  happiness 
out  of  the  small  things  of  life,  how  to  make  their  own  good  times — to  he 
"their  own  hest  company" — I  shall  not  have  lived  in  vain,  and  shall  he 
frorthy  of  the  Neighborhood  Mother. — The  Continent. 


BISHOP    ASBURY    NOT    SO    FRAIL 

BY  W.  M.  SANDERS 

The  Write-up  in  Sunday's  Ne.vs  and  Observer  of  "The  Man  on  Horse- 
back" was  read  by  the  writer  with  keen  interest.  He  staled  that  Bishp  As- 
bury was  frail  in  body.  In  that  he  may  be  mistaken,  I  remember  distinct- 
ly that  the  late  judge  C.  M.  Cook,  of  Louisburg  related  an  incident  to  me 
40  years  ago,  which  wil!  rather  go  to  contradict  the  impression  in  regard 
to  the  Bishop's  physical  powers.     About  the    time  that  Bishop  Asbury  held 

the  first  conference  of  the  Methodist  er  of  Miss  Jefreys  took  umbrage  at 
Church  at  the  Green  Hill  home  the  the  remarks  made  by  the  Bishop  and 
incident  referred  to  occurred  and  is  attacked  him  with  a  cowhide  upon 
as  follows:  the  streets  of  Louisburg.  Where- 
Some  young  people  of  Franklin  upon  the  Bishop  took  the  cowhide 
County  near  the  home  of  Mr.  Hill  from  young  Jefreys,  overcoming 
participated  in  a  dance  and  among  him  physically  and  broke  it  into  a 
the  dancers  was  a  handsome  young  dozen  pieces  and  ordered  the  young 
lady  by  the  name  of  Miss  Jefreys.  man  to  "depart  at  once"— or  he 
On  her  return  to  her  home  from  would  do  him  likewise, 
the  dance  she  was  kilied  by  a  run-  I  remember  distinctly  that  Judge 
away  team.  Bishop  Asbury  was  in  Cook  said  to  me  that  Bishop  Asbury 
the  community  at  the  time,  or  soon  was  a  very  powerful  man  physically, 
thereafter,  and  referred  to  the  un-  Bishop  Asbury  was  born  at  Hands- 
fortunate  tragedy  from  the  pulpit,  worth,  Staffordshire,  August  20, 
and  used  it  as  a  warning  to  those  1745.  In  1771  he  was  sent  by  Mr.  Wes- 
who  engage  in  the  dance.     A  broth-  ley  as    a  missionary  to  this  country, 


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where  he    was  consecrated  in    17S4,  Civil  War.   Mis  son,   Robert    Jr., re 

Daring  a  long  life  of    almost    inees-  lntes  this  circumstance, 
sant    labor    he    traveled    on    horse-  Upon  reaching  Richmond  on    the » 

back  270,000  miles,  preached  16, 500  12th  from    Appomattox    his    father 

sermons  and  ordained  4,000    preach-  was  greatly    distressed    that    Grace, 

ers.      He    died    in     Richmond,    Va.,  Darling,  a    brown    mare  and    agiff.j 

March  31, 1816.  from  General  J.  E.  B.    Stuart.   Wy, 

Of  course  the  Methodists  through-  missing  and  he  states  that  his  father' 

out  the  country    are    greatly    inter-  used   unceasing  diligence    until  the 'i 

ested  in  the  equestrain  statue,  which  mare    was    found    and     brought  to 

is  soon  to  be  unveiled  at  the  capital  Richmond.  Grace  Darling,  and  Trave- er 

of  the  nation.  ler,  his  faithful  iron-gray  were  cared  r- 

As  a  lover  of    the  horse   I    share  for  tenderly  as  long  as  General  Lee  ''•' 

a  keen  interest  in  the  sentiment  ex-  lived  and  afterwards  by  his  children  it 

pressed  by  Bishop    Kilgo    that    the  and  given  decent  burials.  r. 

horse  whi  had  shared    his    master's  It  is  related  of  one  of  the   promi-  ,v 

hardships  will  go  with  him  to  Heaven,  nent  generals  on  the  other  side  thst  te  I 

Referring  to  Bishops  Asbury's  hoi  se  he  evidenced    no    affection    for  iht 

I  am  reminded  of    the    great    affec-  horses  ridden-  by  him  during  the  same  |r| 

tion  entertained  by  General  Lee  for  period  and  allowed    them  to   be  sold  e  j 

the  horses  ridden  1  y  him  during  the  at  public  auction.  , 

i) 


In  round  numbers  there  are  forty-four  thousand  illiterate  native-horn 
white  women  in  North  Carolina  according  to  the  1920  census.  If  assembled 
they  would  fill  a  city  the  size  of  Charlotte,  or  nearly  so. 


WOMEN  BOUGHT  WASHINGTON'S  HOME 

"Of  course,  every  one  knows  that  Mount  Vernon  was  the  home  of  General 
"Washington/'  writes  Heloise  Young  in  St  Nicholas,  "but  comparatively  few 
know  who  now  takes  care  of  it.  It  is  generally  supposed  that  Mount  Vernon 
belongs  to  the  government,  or  to  the  the  Colonial  Dames  or  to  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  but  these  impressions  are  wrong,  for  it  really  be- 
longs to  the  'Mount  Vernon  Ladies'  again  offered  it  to  the  government, 
Association  of  the  Union,'  which  is  which  again  declined  to  purchase  it 
composed  of  a  representative  from  He  then  offered  it  to  the  State  of 
each  State.  It  came  into  the  pos-  Virginia,  which  also  refused  it 
session  of  this  association  in  the  fob  Then  it  was,  in  1853,  that  Miss  Anne 
lowing  manner.  Pamela  Cunningham,  of  South  Caw- 

"In  about  the  year  1830,  Mr.  Ji dm  lina,  went  to  Mount  Vernon  to  see 
A.  Washington,  Sr.,  uttered  to  sell  Mr.  Washington  about  purchasing 
Mount  Vernon  to  the  government,  it.  After  a  great  deal  of  persna- 
but  they  would  not  buy  it.  After  sion,  he  agreed  to  sell  two  hundred 
the  death  of  Mr.  Washington)  his  acres,  including  the  ho--,,  and  tomb 
son,    Mr.    John    A.    Washington,    Jr.,     of    Washington,    for    £K>0.000,    with 


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Oie  condition  that  if  the  ladies  gethcr  they  began  to  re-store  Mount 
failed  to  take  proper  care  of  Mount  Vernon  and  bring'  it  back  to  the 
Vernon,  it  should  go  to  the  State  of  state  in  which  it  was  when  Wash- 
Virginia.  t  ington  lived  there.  And  the  asso- 
" After  the  two  hundred  thousand  ciaton  today  is  doing  the  same  thing 
dollars  was  raised,  .Miss  Cunning-  and  carefully  preserving  this  price- 
ham  called  upon  her  women  friends  less  heirloom  to  the  nation. 
from   the    different    States,    and    to- 


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THE    KEY. 

Love  passed  me  by  and  dropped  a  key, 

A  worthless  thing  it  seemed  to  be; 

But,  thinking  he  might  need.it  for 

Unlocking  some  unyielding  door, 

I  followed  him  and  whispered  clear: 

"Vou've  lost  your  little  key,  I  fear!" 

Love  turned,  without  the  least  surprise, 

But  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eyes, 

And  said:  "I  have  some  more  like  it. 
Keep  it.     'Most  any  door  'twill  fit. 

A'eep  it  and  use  it  often,  too, 

It  may  unlock  Success  for  you." 
(  Since  then  I've  wandered  to  and  fro, 

(  Using  Love's  key  where'er  I  go, 

And  many  gates  have  swung  aside 

When  I  the  magic  key  applied. 

So  many  doors  I  have  passed  through, 

I've  found  that  what  Love  said  is  true. 

Perhaps  you've  guessed  it  all  the  while: 

The  key  Love  dropped  is  just  a  Smile. 

Thomas  Russell  Shelton. 


"You  cannot  control  the  tongue  of  another,  but  you  are  responsible  for 
year  own  tongue." 


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PEOPLE    ONLY    HALF    ALIVE        ] 

(The  Health  Bulletin) 

That  the  average  man  and  woman  in  the  United  States  today  is  only  half 
living  and  is  not  doing  half  of  the  work  nor  getting  half  of  the  joy  from  Wurk  a' 
and  life  that  the  human  being  is  capable  of  getting  is  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Irving"1 
Fisher,  of  Yale  University,  the  greatest  student  and  authority  of  economic  ?■ 
health  conditions  in  this  country  today.  Tn  a  study  that  he  has  made  on  rural 3I 
health  and  national  well-being  he  annum  there  are  two  persons  sick  ' 
finds  that  only  something  like  1  per  during  the  year.  This  makes  about  r" 
cent  of  people  are  really  well  and  3,000,000  people  constantly  lying  ua  ''■ 
free  from  impairment.  He  says:  sick  beds  in  the  United  States,  of »' 
"What  would  we  think  if  99  per  cent  which  on  the  most  conservative  es-  f- 
of  a  dairy  herd  or  a  flock  of  sheep  innate,  at  least  half  need  not  have  )' 
were  found   impaired?"  been    there.     If    we    translate   these  w 

Interpreting  this  low  state  of  phy-  preventable  losses  into,  commercial 
sical  health  in  terms  of  what  it  terms,  we  find  that,  even  by  the  most  ir 
means  to  the  individual  the  writer  conservative  reckoning,  this  country  s, 
says:  "It  means  that  we  are  losing  is  losing  over  $1,500,000  worth  of  i, 
a  large  part  of  our  rightful  life,  not  wealth-producing  [tower  every  year.  |o 
only   by   death   itself,   which   eats  off  "Personally,"'  says  Professor  Fish-  ; 

many  years  we  might  have  lived,  but      er,   "I   believe   it    can   be  shown  that 
also    from      disease    and      disabilities      the   chief   cause   of   this   degeneration 
which  are  not  fatal  but  which  cripple      is   the   neglect   of   individual   hygiene, 
the  power  to  work   and   mar   the  joy      partly    from    ignorance,    partly  from  ! 
of  living."  indifference,  partly   from  sheer  help- 

As  to   what  this  state  of  physical      lessness.     The    degeneration    of  our  | 
inefficiency    means   to    the    producing      bodies   follows  a   degeneration  of  our 
power   of  this      country,   the  ■  writer      habits.  The  cure  for  the  degenerative 
again   says:      "We   may   assume   that      disease    is    more    personal    hygiene— 
on   the   average,   for   every   death   per      more  scientific  habits  of  daily  living." 


WHAT  PEOPLE  READ. 

Because  a  man  whose  name  was  not  known  to  one  American  in  a  hundred 
thousand,  whose  existence  was  of  vmreckonably  inconsiderable  public  hnpor-    ' 
tanee,  is  killed,  "news"  of  the  Hollywood  tragedy  crowds  from  the  front  pages   ;> 
the  daily  records  of  a  civilization  which  is  in  the  throes  of  a  struggle  for  es-     • 
istence.     History  of  the  most  tremendous  import  is  daily  in  the  making— and     > 
sre  are  invited  to  follow  fictitious  clews,  sniff  around  at  the  morals  of  a  bevy  of 
young  women,  and  wallow  in  an  every  morning  bath  of  scarlet-and-yellow 
sensationalism.     Are  people  really  as  excited  about  this  sort  of  thing  as  our 
popular  scandal  purveyors  believe?     Or  is  it  really  an  automatic  response  to  an 
artificial  stimulus,  administered  by  an  editorial  cult  which  itself  blindly  follows 
false  gods? — From  Leslie's  Weekly. 

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ADULT  COMMUNITY  SCHOOLS. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Kelly 

Organized  classes  for  the  purpose  of  teaching  the  rudiments  of  an  edu- 
cation and  for  tea  ching  other  things  that  pertain  to  good  citizenship  are 
tailed  Community  Schools. 


United  States  census  sheets  for 
1920  give  the  following  facts: 

1.  The  average  illiteracy  in  North 
Carolina  among  native  whites  of 
voting  age  is  10.6  percent. 

2.  The  average  illiteracy  in 
North  Carolina  among  native  whites 
from  10  to  20  years  inclusive  is  3.2 
percent. 

Various  surveys  in  North  Carolina 
show  actual  illiteracy  figures  to  be 
on  an  average  three  times  the  num- 
ber given  by  the  United  States  cen- 
sus figures.  The  above  facts  show 
that  native  white  illiteracy  is  fast 
disappearing  among  the  younger 
generations.  This  is  attributed  to 
longer-term  schojls,  better  prepared 
teachers,  and  the  enforcement  of  a 
compulsory  attendance  law.  But 
the  above  facts  also  show  that  more 
than  ten  of  every  hundred  white 
citizens  of  voting  age  are  absolutely 
illiterate. 
Consider  the  following  facts: 
1.  A  wise  enforcement  of  the 
compulsory  school  law  will  speedily 
v-ipe  out  illiteracy  among  the  young- 


er generations. 

2.  A  special  class  should  be  or- 
ganized in  every  school  for  begin- 
ners from  14  to  21  years. 

3.  County  and  city  school  boards 
may  appropriate  funds  for  teaching 
adult  illiterates  of  any  age  just  as  for 
teaching  other  public  school  classes. 

4.  The  state  provides  a  part  of 
the  texts  for  adult  beginners  and 
gives  information  concerning  other 
needed  texts. 

5.  A  special  training  school  is 
provided  for  teachers  of  these  adult 
beginners. 

I  his  year  we  hope  to  have  at  least 
one  carefully  selected  worker  from 
each  county  and  from  each  large 
town  attend  the  training  school  in 
order  that  they  may  go  back  and  be 
able  to  help  organize  the  work  and 
conduct  it  in  an  intelligent  way. 
This  will  come  to  pass  only  as  citi- 
zens realize  the  fact  that  North 
Carolina  might  well  boast  less  of  her 
native  born  citizenship  and  think 
more  of  what  should  be  expected  of 
such  a  citizenship. 


Bring  me,  I  pray  thee,  a  morsel  of  bread  in  thy  hand.  I  Kings  17:11 


Because  the  Master  is  not  here  with 

his  own  hand  today 
To  feed  the  hungry  multitudes  who 

throng  life's  busy  way, 
He  gives  the  task  to  ycu  c,nd  me,  he 

bids  us  hear  their  cry; 

He  says  that  if  we  turn  from  them  we 
also  pass  him  by. 


Our  eyes  are  blind;  we  see  only  an 

outcast  at  our  door; 
Yet  said  he  not  himself  that  they  who 

feed  and  clothe  his  poor 
Give  unto  him?    Them  day  by  day  for 

such  a  royal  Guest, 

Shall  we  not  bring  with  willing  hands 
our  choicest  and  our  best? 

Edith  H.  DivalL 


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THE  MYTH  ABOUT  PREACHERS'  SONS; 

(Presbyterian  Standard.) 
The  sons  of  the  preacher  have  always  been  under  a  cloud  in  popular  estima- 
tion. As  the  dog  with  a  bad  name  is  doomed  to  die,  so  each  preacher's  son 
has  to  prove  his  innocence  rather  than  force  the  public  to  prove  him  guilty, 
Occasionally  some  charitable  soul  will  try  to  excuse  him.  on  the  ground  that 
more  is  expected  of  him  and  that  he  is  not  judged  by  the  same  standard  as  other 

boy.     All  these  excuses  may  be  true,  twenty   per    cent    were    sons   of  ii.lt- 

but  the  fact  of  the  ease  is  that  they  chants;   twenty  per  cent  sons  of  far-j 

are  not  needed.     Statistics  prove  that  mors   and   laborers;    twenty   per  eentl 

the  preacher's  boy,  with  equal  chance,  sons  of  teachers,  physicians  and  law-! 

generally  surpasses  his  fellows.  vers;    and    that    the    sons    of   country  I 

Roger  Babson,  whose  business  judg-  preachers  were  thirty  per  cent  of  the  I 

meut  is  known  and  respected,  has  test-  whole. 

ed  the  matter.     lie  took  one  hundred  Notwithstanding  these  and  similar 

leaders  in  great  business  enterprises,  facts,  whenever  any  research  is  made, 

and    studied    the    influences    that    ap-  the  old  myth  will  continue  to  function, 

parently  made  them  successful  in  life,  and  the  good  people  will  continue  to 

He  states  that  of  these  hundred  men,  help  it  along. 
five   per  cent    were   sons  of  bankers; 


Let  us  be  of  good  cheer,  however,  remembering  that  the  misfortunes 
hardest  to  bear  are  those  which  never  come. — Lowell. 


MY    CHILDHOOD    ON    THE    ISLAND 

BY  CELIA  THAXTER      ■ 

I  well  remember  my  first  sight  of  White  Island  where  we  took  up  our  abode 
when  I  was  live  years  old.  How  delightful  was  that  long  first  sail  to  the  Kt 
of  Shoals!  How  pleasant  the  sound  of  the  ripples  against  the  boat  side,  as 
we  sat  perched  among  the  household  goods  with  which  the  little  craft  was  laden! 

It  was  at  sunset  that  we  put  a  shore  We    entered    the    quaint    little  o!<l 

on  that   lonely   rock   where   the   light-  stone   cottage   that    was   for  six  years 

house  looked  down  on  us  like  sonic  tall  our    home.      How    curious   it   seemed, 

black-capped  giant.     The  stars   were  with  its  low,  whitewashed  ceiling,  and 

beginning  to  twinkle,  and  the  salt  air  deep  window  seats  showing  the  great 

blew  cold  from  the  sea.  thickness  of  the   walls  made  to  with- 

Some  one  began  to  light   the  lamps  stand  the  breakers, 
in   the   high    lighthouse   tower.     Rich  A  blissful  home  the  little  house  he- 
red    and    golden    they    swung    around  came   to   the   children   wli     entered  it 
in   mid   air;    everything   was   strange  that  quiet  evening,  and  -h-pt  for  the 
and  fascinating  and  new.  first  time  lulled  by  the  murmur  of  the 


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encircling  sen.  I  do  not  think  a  hap- 
pier triad  ever  existed  than  we  were, 
living  in  that  profounded  isolation. 
It  takes  little  to  make  a  healthy  child 
happy,  and  we  never  wearied  of  our 
few  resources. 

In  the  long,  covered  walk  that  bridg- 
ed the  gorge  between  the  lighthouse 
mid  the  house,  we  played  on  stormy 
days.  Every  evening  it  was  a  fresh 
excitement  to  watch  the  lighting  of 
the  lamps,  and  to  see  the  colored  rays 
shine  out  over  the  sea.  In  the  great 
lantern  there  were  fifteen  lamps,  ten 
of  them  golden  and  five  red. 

As  I  grew  older,  I  was  allowed  to 
help  in  caring  for  the  lights  in  the 
tower,  and  sometimes  to  kindle  them 
myself.  It  was  a  pleasure  to  think 
how  far  the  lighthouse  sent  its  rays 
and  how  many  hearts  it  gladdened 
with  its  warning  light  of  safety. 

Once  or  twice  every  year  came  the 
old  black,  lumbering,  oil  boat  that 
brought  supplies  for  the  lighthouse, 
and  the  inspector  who  gravely  examin- 
ed everything  to  see  if  all  was  in  or- 
der. 

He  left  clear  red-and-white  glass 
chimneys  for  the  lamps,  soft  skins 
for  polishing  the  great  silver-lined 
reflectors,  large  bundles  of  wicks  and 
various  pairs  of  scissors  for  trimming 
them.  All  these  together  with  heavy 
casks  of  whale  oil  were  stored  away 
in  the  round  dimly  lighted  rooms  of 
the  lighthouse   tower. 

The  winters  seemed  as  long  as  a 
^'hole  year  to  our  little  minds,  but 
they  were  pleasant,  nevertheless.  In- 
to the  deep  window  seats  we  climbed. 
made  holes  in  the  thick  frost  on  the 
ttimlowpane.  and  peeped  out  at  the 
bright,  fierce,  windy  weather. 
We  watched   thy   vessels   scuddling 


over  tlie  dark  blue  sea,  all  feather 
white  where  the  short  waves  broke- 
hissing  in  the  cold,  and  the  sea  fowl 
soaring  aloft  or  tossing  on  the  water. 
Sometimes  the  round  head  of  a  seal 
moved  about  among  the  rocks,  but  the 
seals  were  even  more  shv  than  the 
birds. 

We  hardly  saw  a  human  face  beside 
our  own  all  winter.  But  by  the  fire- 
side, with  plants  and  singing  birds 
and  books  and  playthings,  the  cold 
and  stormy  season  wore  itself  at  last 
away. 

We  waited  for  the  spring  with 
eager  longing;  the  advent  of  the 
growing  grass,  the  birds  and  flowers 
and  insect  life,  the  soft  skies  and  soft- 
er winds, — -  these  things  brought  us 
unspeakable   bliss. 

In  the  spring  came  life  to  our  lone- 
ly dwelling.  Our  neighbors  on  t he- 
mainland  paddled  across  bringing  us 
letters,  newspapers,  magazines,  and 
told  us  the  news  of  months.  "With  the 
first  warm  days  we  built  our  little 
mountains  of  wet  gravel  on  the  beach, 
and  danced  after  the  sandpipers  to 
tlie  edge  of  the  foaming  waves.  We 
fashioned  rude  boats  of  bits  of  drift- 
wood and  set  them  adrift  on  the  great 
deep. 

We  launched  fleets  of  purple  mus- 
sel shells  on  the  still  jiools  in  the  rocks, 
left  by  the  tide, — pools  that  were  like 
bits  of  fallen  rainbow  with  tints  of 
delicate  seaweed,  crimson,  and  green 
and  ruddy  brown,  and  violet.  Rosy 
and  lilac  starfish  clung  to  the  sides 
of  the  rocks,  little  forests  of  moss 
grew  up  in  stillness,  gold-colored  shells 
crept  about,  ami  now  and  then  Hash- 
ed the  silvery  tins  of  slender  minnows. 

With  crab  and  limpet,  with  grass- 
hopper and  cricket,   we  made  friends 


Any  old  dead  fish  can  float  with  the  stream:  it  takes  a  live  one  to  swim 
against  it. — Gypsy  Smith. 


24                                                     THE  UPLIFT 

and    neighbors,    ami    we    were    never  denied  to  us,  though  we  had  no  daisitj 

tired    of    watching    the    hind    spiders  nor  violets  nor  wild  roses. 

thai  possessed  the  place.     Their  webs  Many    a    summer   morning   have  I 

covered     every     windowpane     to    the  crept  out  of  the  still  house  before  ain-¥ 

lighthouse  top,  and  they  rebuilt   them  one    was    awake,    and   climbed   to  the  ' 

as  last  as  they  were  swept  down.  top  of  a  high  cliff  to   watch   the  sun-  ' 

T  remember  in  the  spring  kneeling  rise.     Pale  grew  the  lighthouse  (lame  ' 

down  on  the  ground  to  seek  the  lirst  before  the  broadening  day,  as  I  wattli- 

blades  of  grass  that  pricked  through  ed  the  shadows  draw  away  and  morn- 

the  soil,  and   bringing  thorn   into  the  ing  break.     Facing  the  east  and  south, 

house    to    study    and    wonder    over,  with  all  the  Atlantic  before  me,  what 

"Whence  came  their  color.'      How  did  happiness  was  mine! 

they  draw  their  sweet   refreshing  tint  Infinite    variety    of    beauty   always 

from   the  brown  earth   or   the   limpid  awaited  me.     Coming  back  in  the  sun. 

air,  or  the  white  light  ?  shine,  the  morning  glories  would  lift 

the    lonesome    rock',    but    I    made    the  up  their  faces,  all  awake,  to  my  ador- 

most   of  all   I    had.      Ah,   how   beauti-  ing  gaze.     It   seemed   as   if  they  had 

fid  they  were!   Tiny  stars  of  crimson  gathered  the  peace  of  the  golden  morn- 

sorrel    threaded    on    their   long    brown  ing   in   their  still   depths,   ever  as  id;  j 

stems.      The    blackberry    blossoms    in  heart   had  gathered  it. 

bridal    white,      the    blue-eyed      grass,  Even  then   I    longed  to  speak  those  f 

and   the  crow-foot   (lowers  like  drops  things    that    made    life    so    sweet,  to  . 

of  yellow  gold  split  about  among  the  speak   the  wind,  the  cloud,  the  bird's 

short  grass  and  over  the  moss.  Dande-  Might,    the    sea's    murmur.     A    vain, 

lions,  buttercups,  and  clover  were  not  longing,  but  ever  the  wish  crew. 


COLONIAL    HEROINES 

(Fred  A.  Olds  In  Oxford  Friend) 

One  of  the  oldest,  quaintest  and  most  charming  towns  in  North  Carolina  u 
Edenton,  which  for  many  years  was  the  seat  of  government  of  this  Colony  or 
Province.  Happily  there  have  been  preserved  many -of  the  buildings  of  its 
early  period.  No  event  in  its  two  hundred  and  fifty  years'  existence  is  better 
known  than  what  is  popularly  termed  the  "Edenton  Tea  Party,''  of  date  Oc- 
tober 25,  1774;  apparently  the  first  declaration  by  tho  women  of  America  of 
their  patriotism  and  desire  to  aid  by  the  "Stamp  Act,"  made  an  eft'i- 
their  country.  <:y    of    Lord    Bute    and    then  burned 

October  16th,  1765,  North  Caroli-  it  in  the  public  street  and  made  the 
na  men,  at  Wilmington,  took  very  collector  of  customs  swear  he  would 
bold  action  to  prevent  the  use  of  the  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  stamps, 
-much     detested     stamps     prescribed       The  defiance  was  positive  and  it  won. 


I  r 


THE  UPLIFT  25 

The    first    Provincial    Congress,    or  Secretary, 

contention,  of   North   Carolina,   com-  This  meeting  adopted  a  resolution 

,,„,,,!  of  deputies  of  the  inhabitants  warmly  commending  the  aetion  of  the 

of  the  Province,  held   at   New   Bern,  Provincial     Congress     above     quoted 

August    25,    1774,    declared    in     the  and  declaring:  "We  will  not  conform 

plainest    terms    that    it    claimed   only  to    that   pernicious   custom   of   drink- 

Ihe  rights    of    Englishmen    and    that  ing   tea    and    will   not    promote    the 

it  was   the    very   essence   of   the    Bri-  wearing    of    any   manufactures     from 

[ish    Constitution     that     no     subject  England."     The  meeting  then  adopted 

should  be   taxed   except    by   his   own  the   following  as   its  solemn  dsclara- 

consent;   that    the   tax   upon   tea   and  tion   and    those   present   signed    their 

other  articles   consumed   in   America,  names  thereto: 

for  the   purpose   of   raisin-   a    reven-  "Edonton,  North  Carolina, 
Be,  was    highly    illegal    and    oppres-  "October   25,    1774. 
sive.    It    then    resolved:    "That    we  "  As  we  cannot  be  indifferent  on  any 
will  net,  directly  or  indirectly,   after  occasion    that    appears    to    affect    the 
the  first   day   of   January,    17/5,    im-  peaee   auc]   happiness   of  our   country 
port    from    Croat     Britain    any    East  anfl  M  [t  |las  |,een  thought  necessary 
Lilian    goods,    or    any    merchandise  for  the  public  goo,1,  to  enter  into  sev- 
whatever,    medicines    excepted  .That  eraj  particular  resolves  by  a  meeting 
ire  will  not   use    of  or    suiter  to  be  0f  members  deputed  from  the  whole 
used  East   Indian   tea   after   Septem-  Province,  it  is  a  duty  which  we  owe 
ber  tenth,  next   and   we  will  consider  not   only   to   our   near   and   dear   con- 
all  persons   not    complying    with   this  nections  who  have  occurred  in  them, 
resolve     enemies     to    their     country,  but   to   ourselves   who   are   essentially 
That  we  will   not   export    any   of  our  interested  in  their  welfare,  to  do  ev- 
coramodities    to    Great    Britain    after  erything  as  far  as  lies  in  our  power 
October  first,   1775."  to    testify    our   sincere    adherence    to 
On  the  23rd  of  October,  Mrs  Pene-  the  same  and  we  do  therefore  accord- 
lope  Barker,  a  leader  in  Edenton  so-  ingly  subscribe  this  paper  as  a  wit- 
ciety  and  of  marked  force  of  charae-  ness   of   our   fixed    intention    and   sel- 
ler ami  distinction,   called  a   meeting  emu  determination  to  do  so. 
of  the  ladies  of  the  town,  to  be  held  "Abigail   Charlton,   Lydia   Bonner, 
on  the  25th,  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Eli/.-  Elizabeth    Creecy,    Anne    Horniblow, 
abefh  King.     The  house  in  which  the  Anne  Johnston,  Marion  Wells,  Mary 
''tea-party"   was   held   was   a   quaint  Woolward,     Sarah     Matthews,     Jean 
ami  handsomely   built   one,   of   wood,  Blair,     Elizabeth     Roberts,     Frances 
facing    the    court    house    green,   be-  Hall,  Rebecca  Bondfield,  Mary  Cree- 
tween  the   court    house    and    Edenton  cy,     Sarah     Howcott,    Mary     Blount, 
Bay.    Fifty-one    ladies    responded    to  Elizabeth  P.  Ormond,  Margaret  Cath- 
tlie  call    and    they    were    thoroughly  cart,    Winifred    Iloskins,    Jane    Well- 
representative  of  the  finest   influence  wood,     Sarah      Valentine,      Penelope 
'ml  sentiment    in   the   Colony.     Mrs.  Dawson,     Mary     Bonner,      Susannah 
Barker  was   chosen    as    the    presiding  Vail,     Mary   Ramsey,     Isabctle   John- 
officer   and    Mrs.    Winifred    Iloskins,  ston,    Tersa     Cunningham,    Elizabeth. 


26  THE  UPLIFT 

Patterson,  Lydia  Bennett,  Margaret  ed  to  give  a  memorable  proof  of 
Pearson,  Anne  Haugllton,  Sarah  their  patrotism  and  have  accordingly 
Beasley,  Ruth  Benbury,  Frances  entered  into  the  following  houorablj 
Johnston,  Penelope  Barker,  Grace  and  spirited  association.  1  send  it  to 
Clayton,  Mary  Littledale,  Anne  Hall,  yon  to  show  your  fair  countrywomen 
Elizabeth  Green,  Sarah  Littlejohn,  how  zealously  and  faithfully  Aineri- 
Sarah  Howe,  Sarah  Hoskius,  Mary  can  ladies  follow  the  laudable  exam- 
Hunter,  M.  Payne,  Anne  Anderson,  pie  of  their  husbands  and  what  op- 
Elizabeth  Bearsley,  Elizabeth  Vail,  position  your  matchless  (italicized) 
Elizabeth  King."  ministers  may  expect  to  receive  from 

It   will   be  observed   that   the  sign-  a   people    thus   firmly   united   against 

■ers   were   English   and   Scotch   entire-  them.''        (Then    follow    the     signed 

ly.     Isr.belle    Johnston,    a     sister    of  resolutions.) 

Samuel    Johnston,    one    of    the    most  A    letter    form    Authur    Iredell  of 

notable  men  in  the  Province,  was  the  London  to  his  brother  James,  at  Eden- 

finance  of  Joseph  Hewes,  whose  home  ton,    (who    married    a    sister   of  one 

in  Edenton  was  quite  near  the  meet-  of  the  signers)   said:  "Is  there  a  fe- 

ing-plaee  of  these  determined  women.  male    Congress    at    Edenton,    too?    I 

Hewes  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  hope     not,    for    we    Englishmen   are 

Declaration  of  Independence  at   Phil-  afraid   of   the   male   Congress,  but  ii 

adelphia,  July  4,  1776.  the   ladies,   who  have  ever  since  the 

The  news  of  this  action  by  the  Amazonian  era  been  esteemed  the 
"Tea  Tarty"  was  carried  to  London  most  formidable  enemies;  if  they,  I 
with  great  quickness,  for  an  English  say,  should  attack  us  the  most  fatal 
account  of  the  affair  says  :  "The  news  consequences  are  to  be  dreaded.  The 
of  the  meeting  of  the  Society  of  Pa-  Edenton  ladies,  who  know  well  thai 
triotic  Ladies  at  Edenton  appeared  the  more  we  strive  to  conquer  them 
in  various  English  papers  about  the  the  more  we  are  conquered,  are  will- 
middle  of  January,  1775.  '  Possibly  ing,  I  imagine,  to  crush  us  into  atom; 
the  imposing  list  of  signatures  at-  by  their  omnipoteney.  The  only  «- 
tached  to  the  resolution  passed  at  the  curity  on  our  side  to  prevent  this 
gathering  caused  our  cartoonist  to  impeding  ruin,  that  I  can  perceive, 
select  this  incident  as  fairly  repre-  is  the  probability  that  there  are  but 
sentative  of  the  moral  and  physical  few  places  in  America  which  posses 
support  the  women  of  the  Colonies  so  much  female  artillery  as  Eiien- 
are  contributing  to  the  common  ton." 
cause."  It    is    quite    evident    from   readies 

Another  account  in  the  Morning  these  London  comments  "'.at  a  pK- 
Chronicle  and  Advertiser,  says:  "The  ture  had  been  made  of  tie  Tea  Par- 
following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  ty.  In  1828  Lieutenant  William  1. 1 
from  North  Carolina  dated  October  Muse,  of  the  United  States  Navy, 
27,  1774:  'The  Provincial  Deputies  whose  mother  was  a  Miss  Blouni 
of  North  Carolina  having  resolved  of  Edenton,  while  on  a  cruise  stop- 
not  to  drink  any  more  tea  and  to  ped  at  the  Island  of  Minorca  aw II 
wear  no  more  British  cloth,  many  there  saw  in  a  barber  shop  a  can- 
ladies  of  this  Province  have  determin-  cature  of  the  Edenton  Tea  Party,  a 


THE  UPLIFT 


2T 


mezzotint   in   lively   colors,  bought   it 
aIul  in  1S30  took  it  to  Edenton,  where 
it  was  placed  in  the  court   house  and 
ivas  viewed  with  very  great  interest. 
It  is  ten  by  fourteen  inches  in  dimen- 
sions and   it   is   said   that   the   repre- 
sentation of  the  characters  is  so  clear 
that  many   of   the   ladies   were   easily 
recognized    in    1S30.     Many    of    the 
words  of    the    document    the    ladies 
were  signing  are  plain.     Mrs.  Barker, 
the  presiding  officer,  is  shown,  gavel 
in    hand,     her     negro    maid    Amelia 
standing  behind  her  chair.      The  rec- 
tor of  the   church,   St.   Paul's,   at   E- 
denton,   Rev.    Charles   Earl,    is   shown 
in  caricature    as    kissing    the     lovely 
secretary,    who    turns    a    rosy    cheek 
towards  his  lips.  The  costumes  of  the 
period  are   faithfully   depicted.     One 
lady  is  pouring  tea  from  a  caddy  up- 
on  the    flour,    another    in    handsome 
costume  is  signing  the   resolve,  while 
under  the   table   are    a   child   playing 
with  a  string  and  a  dog  asleep.  Un- 
der Mrs.  Barkers 's  chair  is  a  hot  wa- 
ter jug,  to  warm  the  air.      There  are 
fifteen   figuring   in    the   picture,   some 
of  them  slaves.     Mrs.  Barker  is  por- 
trayed in  a  most   dignified  and  effec- 
tive manner.     Below    the    picture    is 
the  following  inscription:  "A  Society 
of  Patriotic  Ladys  at  Edentou,  North 
Carolina.     London:    Printed    for    R. 
Sayer  and  D.  J.  Bennett,  No.  53,  in 
'  Fleet  Street,  as  the  Act  directs,  25th 
March,   1775."     The    printer,    whose 
name  appears  in  a  corner,  was  Rich- 
ardson,   who     printed     the      famous 
"Letters  of  Junius.' 

Mrs.  Barker  was  possessed  of  great 
dignity,  courtesy  and  courage.  In 
the  War  of  the  Revolution,  when  a 
servant  ran  into  the  house  and  told 
her  that    s0me    British    soldiers    in 


charge  of  an  officer  were  taking  her- 
carriage  horses  from  the  stable  she- 
snatched  her  husband's  sword  from 
tile  wall,  ran  to  the  stable,  cut  the 
reins,  drove  the  horses  back  into  the 
building  and  informed  the  astonished, 
men  they  could  not  molest  their  pro- 
perty without  peril.  The  officer  ac- 
tually apologized  and  informed  her 
that  she  would  not  again  be  molest-  - 
ed.  She  was  married  three  times,, 
her  second  husband  having  been  a 
nephew  of  Earl  Craven.  She  and. 
Mr.  Thomas  Barker,  her  last  hus- 
band, are  buried  in  Edenton,  in  the 
private  cemetery  at  "Hays,"  then, 
the  residence  of  Samuel  Johnston, 
one  of  the  finest  colonial  homes  in 
America.  In  the  same  cemetery  lie- 
also  Joseph  Hewes,  who  died  of  a 
broken  heart  not  long  after  the  death 
of  Mrs.  Johnston,  his  finance  The- 
latter  rests  beside  him.  In  death 
they  are  not  divided. 

In  the  North  Carolina  Hall  of  His- 
tory at  Raleigh  are  the  tea  caddy 
from  which  the  lady  poured  the  tea 
upon  the  floor;  the  punch  bowl,  which 
was  provided  by  the  charming  secre- 
tary, who  brought  it  from  ''Paradise,, 
her  home  near  the  town;  the  portrait 
of  Mrs.  Horniblow,  one  of  the  sign- 
ers, and  the  caricature  which  has 
been  described;  together  with  a  per- 
fect copy  in  miniature  of  the  Tea 
Party  house.  In  the  rotunda  of  the- 
state  capital  is  a  bronze  tablet  bear- 
ing a  teapot,  commemorative  of  the 
Tea  Party  and  on  the  site  of  the 
Tea  Party  house  at  Edenton  is  a  large 
bronze  teapot  surmounting  a  cannon 
of  the  Colonial  period.  It  should  be 
stated  that  Edenton,  so  long  t he- 
Colonial  capital,  was  a  social  rival  o£ 
Williamsburg  in  Virginia. 


' 


28  THE  UPLIFT 

THE    GATEWAY    TO    HEALTH 

BY  C  J.  JOHNSON,  D.  D.  S. 

Good  habits  arc  best  established  in  early  life,  and  this  law  may  be  applied 
beneficially  in  cave  of  the  child's  teeth.  The  child  is  the  foundation  upon  which 
a,  nation  is  built,  The  progress  of  nations  depends  on  the  health  standard 
of  the  child.  TVe  can't  expect  as  much  of  the  future  men  and  women  of  this 
age  of  defects  if  we  ignore  the  developing  age.     The  great  call  to-day  is  for 

strung     men     and     women.     Defects  cent   would  be  defective.     In  some  of 
should  be- sought,  and  means  to  reine-  these  cases  there  is  lack  of  eneoura°'e- 
dv,   studied.      They   should   be   strong  nu-nt,  and  in  great  many  lack  of  pro- 
and   healthy   in   body   during  the   de-  per  knowledge  of  oral  hygiene  which 
veloping    age    to    make    strong    men  so  many  teachers  so  woefully  neglect 
and     women     mentally,     morally.      I  in  teaching.      It  is  very  clear  we  can't 
believe   one   of   the   hardest    problems  do  too  much  for  children  with  defects 
confronting    education    to-day    is    the  of    which    our    country's    success  de- 
backward    child.     There    is   generally  pends  on   future  generations  to  make 
some   cause   for   backwardness   in   the  it    foremost   of  all   others.     The  most 
work   of  the   school   child,   and   I   be-  important   of  all  is  before  school  a»e 
lieve     the    larger    per    cent     is     from  is  readied.      To  be  successful  in  school 
broken  down  decayed  and  permanent  the  child  should  enter  strong  in  body, 
teeth    of   which   home   conditions   and  mind    and    spirit.      The    proper  foun- 
habits   play   a    big   part.     Vfe    find    a  dation  is  the  keystone  to  success,  and 
great  number  physical  wrecks,  and  we  children  failing'  to  get  it  in  the  early 
SO   often   hear   it    said    they    will    out-  stages  of  school  life  are  handicapped 
grow    their    trouble,      hi    some    eases  throughout      life's       journey.     School 
we  do  see  a   marked   improvement   in  teachers  should  learn  more  the  impor- 
the   child   after   they   have  started   to  tance    of   giving    instructions   ill  oral 
grow,   but    what   the  chid   might   have  hygiene,      and     advising    children   of 
been   it'  they  had   not   had  the  several  having  their  teeth  attended  to  l>y  coin- 
years  of  standstill  ?     It  stands  to  rea-  petent     dentists.      Lack    of    Ihis   will 
son  that  a  child  during  its  developing  cause  a  great   many  sub-normal  c-hil- 
age  should  have  nothing  to  retard  its  dren,    which    not    only    causes    more 
progress   in  grasping  things  to  culti-  work   for   the   teacher  but   holds  otli- 
rate,  and  make  a  full  grown  developed  ers    back     in    their    progress,    which 
brain.      Can     that     lie     done     from     a  causes    loss    of    interest    and    fail  to 
weakened,    poisoned    body?     I    have  get    all    they    need    in    equipment  for 
asked    teachers    in    different    schools  life's  work.     And  [  believe  a  majority 
about  some  child  I  happened  to  notice  of    these    sub-normal    cases   could  be 
far  below  the  standard  physically,  and  be  made  normal  it  taken  in  time  oven 
they    would    invariably    tell    me    the  before  they  begin  school. 
child    wasn't    making    any    progress,  We    have    thousands    in   our   State 
and  was  a  repeater  every  year.     Up-  who  have  reached  their  teens  as-well 
on   examination   of  his   teeth   05  per  as   maturity    who   never  have    owned 


THE  UPLIFT  29 

I    a  tooth  brush  nor  have  ever  been  in-  rious     schools     to      teach     and     train 
j    side   a    dentist's    office.     What    more  the   children   the   importance   of  oral 
;    can   we    expect    of    men    and    women  hygiene    that     they     may     grow     up 
-    broken  down  physically  am!  menially  strong   physically   and   mentally;   that 
'    before  they  reach   the  prime  of  life?  they    may    have    children    they    can 
I  The  month  is   the  gateway  to  health,  teach  to  observe  the  laws  of  ''health 
:     and  if  we  fail  u>  start  in  time  to  keep  and  Hygiene,"  and  make  them  tit  sub- 
it  in  the  best  possible  healthy  condi-  jects  to  perform  the  duties  as  strong 
|    tion  we  cant  expect  nothing  else.      So  men     and     women    that    will    reflect 
it  behooves    the   parents,   health    de-  credit   on   their  parents,  schools   and 
partniclits,    and    teachers    of    the    va-  State. 


Institutional    Notes.   *?d  third  cottage?  is  b-^buiit. 

"*^  Tins  road  goes  on  down  to  the  place 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.)  where  the  bakery,  ice  plant,  laundry 

and  store  room  are  located. 
The  dairy  barn  is  being  built  rapid- 
ly.   The  silos  are  also    being    built.  Another  Wednesday    which     pro- 
mised   to   bring     joy     lo    some   of 
Every  evening  because  of    favor-      the  boys  has     arrived   and    passed, 
able  weather,    the    boys    play   ball.      Doyle  Jackson  and    Horn  t    Coving- 
ton   were    the     recipients    of    that 
day's 

tage  must  soon  be  opened. 

,,    ,  ,r    T      n  ■           ,    ...    .    ,               Lights  have  been  placed    on    the 
(.apt.  f.   L.    Oner    substituted    a      J_  ,     .:J_  tl_.  ,_   „._  _t  __  .r  tl__ 


New    bovs    are    arriving    so    fast  ,  , 

that  it  seems  that  the    eighth    cot-      da>'  s  Joy'  beCaUSe  U  brought  homc 


good  bit  in  school  for  Mr.    Johnson, 


posts  beside  the  bottom  steps  of  the 
Latham  Pavilion.     These,    when    at 


who  ivas  sick  a  few  days  ago.  .   ,  .    ..  ,.   ,  .    ,  .       ., 

night,  they  are    lighted,    make    the 

Because  of  rainy  weather  Monday,  ground   around    Fifth    Cottage    the 

the  boys  on  the  work  force  were  un-  brightest  spot  at  the  school,  whereas, 

able  to  do  any  work  on  the  outside,  this  ground  was  formerly  the  darkest 

part  of  the  campus. 

Stanly  Armstrong,  newly   arrived 

at  the  school,  has  been  placed  in  the  Duc,,ey  Pan^e  vvhose    Vls'*  to   hls 

Printing  Office.    He  is  making  rapid  home  vvas  notfd  '"  .last  wet*  s  ls,sue 

progress  nas     returned.     His     grandmother 

who  was  sick  and  whom    he    visited 

Responding  to  the  work  which  has  has  improved  very    much.     It    is   a 

been  placed   upon    them,    the  lawns  pleasure  to  know  that  our  boys    can 

are  now  getting    green.     They    are  be  trusted  to  their  homes  and    that 

f«y  pretty.  tlley  return  unattended. 

Capt  T.  L.  Grier  is  now    working  Saturday    is  a  day  long  to  be    re- 

rathejawn  facing  first  cottage.  We     membered  by  the  bovs.     It  was  the 
nope  it  will  be  as    beautiful  as    last      rea,  opening  o{  the  base-ball   season 


year's  lawn  was. 


for    them.     On    Saturday    a      fast 


A  street  leading  between   second      game  of  ball  was    played    with    the 


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THE  UPLIFT 


Winecoff  High  School  team.  The 
game  was  seven  innings  long.  At 
first  it  seemed  as  if  we  were  defeat- 
ed but  finally  we  came  out  on    top. 

Instead  of  going  to  schorl,  Satur- 
day, Capt.  Grier,  substituting  for 
Mr.  Johnson  who  is  sick,  took  the 
boys-  under  his  charge  to  the  ball- 
field,  wliere  he  laid  out  a  foul  line 
and  improved  upon  the  general  ap- 
pearance of  the  diamond-  He  was 
preparing  the  grounds  for  that  eve- 
ning when  the  J.  T.  S.  was  schudul- 
ed  to  play  another  team. 

Next  Sunday,  the  boys  will  re- 
ceive new  Sunday-school  quarterlies. 
They  wonder  of  whom  they  will 
study  in  this  new  quarterly  which 
will  occupy  their  Sunday  thoughts 
for  three  months.  And  this  is  not 
idle  curiosity.  The  boys  all  like  to 
get  up  their  lessons  for  the  coming 
Sunday.  The  quarterly  which  they 
have  just  finished  taught  of  the 
prophets  of  Israel  and  of  its  down- 
fall. 

It  is.  indeed,  a  pleasure,  to  be  at 
the  school  now.  Every  living  thing 
is  budding.  Plants  are  budding 
with  new  life,  green  leaves  and  beau- 
tiful flowers.  The  boys  here  are 
budding  with  joy  at  being  alive; 
praise  to  Him  Who  allows  them  to 
live.  The  scenery  around  the  school 
is  wonderful  to  behold,  such  is  the 
opinion  of  .Mrs.  L.  C.  Withers  of 
Charlotte,  who  gave  vent  to  an  un- 
controllable burst  of  delight  in  the 
privilege  of  seeing  it. 

Friday  Afternoon  a  committee  of 
the  Association  of  Editors  of  North 
Carolina  met  at  the  school.  The  af- 
ternoon school  s.  ch'on"dressed--up" 
for  the  occasion,  cloning  the  uniform 
dress    suit.     The     bjys    composing 


this  section  sat  in  school  for  a  time 
ami,  when  the  visitors  arrived,  fu! 
went  out  on  the  campus  and  "show, 
ed  'em  how  to  drill."  After  this 
the  boys  went  to  the  ball-grounds 
while  the  visitors  continued  their 
inspection  of  the  school.  "Phe 
reporter  went  with  the  crowd  to  the 
ball- grounds  and  did  not  see  the 
visitors  afterward. 


STORY  NOT  HALF  TOLD 
That  was  a  splendid  write  up  Bro- 
ther Cook,  of  The  Uplift,  gave  this 
County  in  a  recent  issue  of  his  paper, 
A  double  page  cut  of  Bethel  IT'tUffr!) 
School  was  used,  showing  this  splcn- 
did  building  in  great  shape.  Wo  re- 
gret that  our  issue  containing  tie 
picture  and  write  up  of  this  splendid 
school  could  not  have  had  pictures 
of  the  other  four  high  schools,  but  the 
schools  did  not  think  they  could  af- 
ford the  expense  of  the  cut,  hence 
Bethel  Plill  got  all  of  the  praise  and 
glory,  while  Brother  Cook  doubtless 
thought  that  was  the  only  high  school 
building  in  the  County  with  a  house 
worth  displaying.  Just  another  case 
of  where  it  pays  to  advertise.— Ror- 
boro  Courier.' 


CONCERNING    HEALTH 
By  Swift  Davis 

Recently  the  writer  read  an  item 
in  The  Charlotte  Observer  concern' 
ing  the  influenza  epidemic  at  the 
Appalachian  Training  School.  Strong 
sympathy  is  expressed  by  the  boys 
here,  for  the  afflicted  ones  and  hope 
for  the  near  future  of  their  recovery 
is  put  fourth. 

This  leads  to    a    reflection  of  the 


THE  UPLIFT 


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"Flu"  epidemic  here,  at  the  Jackson 
Training  School  and  of  its  results 
which  were  very  favorable,  to  say 
the  least.  Since  that  time  very 
little  sickness  has  occurred  at  the 
school.  In  fact,  only  two  cases  have 
been  noted  at  all. 

The  "White  House,"  as  the  place 
is  called  by  the  boys  because  of  its 
color,  is  where  the  boys  who  are  sick 
are  conveyed,  has  had  only  these 
two  occupants.  One  of  them  had  a 
a  broken  leg. 

Small  wonder,  that  people  like  to 
visit  the  school,  taking  into  consider- 
ation the  delightful  air  and  water, 
which  is  ours.  Good  food,  fine  air, 
pure    water,    plenty    of    refreshing 


sleep  are  only  a  few  of  the  assests 
which  make  the  visitors  remark  up- 
on the  health  of  the  boys.  Pallid 
faces,  colorless  cheeks  are  very,  very, 
rare.  After  breakfast,  dinner  and 
supper  a  rest  is  taken  by  the  boys 
so  as  to  not  injure  their  digestion. 
During  this  period  the  boys  have  a 
literature  recreation. 

Health  is  plentiful— will  continue 
to  be  so.  This  is  mainly  written  for 
the  relatives  of  the  boys  who  may 
feel  worried  over  the  condition  of 
living  for  their  boy.  To  them  be  it 
said  to  rest  in  peace  and  when  they 
next  see  their  boy,  be  prepared  for 
a  big,  manly  member  of  our  Institu- 
tion. 


ANOTHER  SIGN  OF  SPRING. 

Spring  is  surely  near  at  hand 
when  Editor  Ashcraft  of  Monroe 
Enquirer,  can  sing  this  Henhouse 
poetry: 

In  she  came, 
Down  she  sot, 
Laid  an  egg 
And  up  she  got. 


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THE  CHURCH 


One  of  the  favorite  paintings  of  critics  is  Millet's 
"Angelus."  A  young  laborer  stands  in  the  field,, 
and  by  his  side  his  wife,  a  simple  peasant  girl.  He 
holds  his  hat  in  his  hand  and  bows  reverently.  She 
clasps  her  hands,  and  is  the  expression  of  devotion. 
They  are  the  only  figures  in  the  picture.  There  is 
a  fork  in  the  ground;  at  their  side  a  wheelbarrow 
and  a  basket  of  potatoes,  all  telling  the  story  of  a 
day's  work.  The  artist  has  made  the  light  to  fall 
upon  his  bowed  head  and  her  folded  hands.  What  is 
the  meaning  of  this  scene.  Why  does  it  seem  as  if 
the  very  windows  of  heaven  are  open  r.bove  it  and 
the  interest  of  angels  is  centered  upon  that  ordinary 
field?  Far  away,  in  the  dim  outline,  a  church  spiie 
rises  against  the  sky.  You  can  almost  hear  tie 
sound  of  the  bell.  It  is  the  evening  "Angelus." 
At  its  sound  the  laborer  pauses  to  worship.  The 
church  bell  is  the  keynote  of  the  world's  music,  and 
the  church  spire  is  the  key  to  the  world'sbeauty.  The 
triumphant  march  of  human  society  depends  upon 
their  preservation.  Whatever  forces  in  the  world 
militate  against  the  interests  of  the  Church  ought 
to  be  opposed  with  all  the  courage  of  true  heroism 
by  all  Christians.— From  Cortland  Myers. 


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PUBLISHED    BY 

llie  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     'Typo-setting   by   the   Boy's   Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the   Post  OfEcc   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

"Oh,  every  fly  that  skips  our  swatters 
"Will  have  five  million  sons  and  daughters, 
And  countless  first  and  second  cousins; 
Of  aunts  and  uncles,  scores  and  dozens 
And  fifty-seven  billion  nieces; 
So  knock  the  blamed  thing  all  to  pieces." 
Walt  Mason 


G0!NG  AFTER  THE  TRUTH  OF  THE  SITUATION. 

Elsewhere  in  this  number  will  be  found  a  most  readable  and  serious  ar- 
ticle contributed  by  Mr-  Zimmerman  to  the  Raleigh  News  &  Observer.  He 
analyzes  the  housing  conditions  of  the  rural  sections  of  North  Carolina, 
and  points  out  most  earnestly  and  sensibly  what  must  be  done  before  we 
may  hope  to  be  headed  right  in  the  great  struggle  of  bettering  living 
conditions. 

This  writer  knows  some  things  and  would  give  utterance  to  them,  at  the 
risk  of  being  criticised,  that  in  his  partiality  and  love  for  his  section  he 
would  resent  were  they  uttered  by  strictly  an  outsider.  Having  lived 
practically  a  considerable  life-time  in  sight  of  the  very  conditions  which 
Mr. Zimmerman  describes,  he  knows  them  to  be  true.  Along  this  line,  Mr. 
Clark,  in  his  letter  of  this  week,  touches  on  the  subject.  He  emphasizes 
ail  that  is  said  by  Mr.  Zimmerman  in  reviewing  what  Iredell  county,  large- 
ly through  Miss  Celeste  Henkel,  did  a  year  ago  and  is  splendidly  continu- 
ing this  year. 

His  the  truth  that  makes  us  free.  No  chain  is  stronger  than  its  weak- 
est link.     A    people   that  have  no  vision  are  a  lost  people.     The  over-head 


4  THE  UrLIFT 

embelishments,  the  inordinate  desire  to  centralize  things,  to  create  new 
elfices  with  folks  on  fancy  salaries—  conspicuously  higher  than  they  could 
command  elsewhere  in  normal  organizations  or  corporations— will  not  brir? 
our  people  into  their  own.  The  effort,  the  money,  the  propaganda,  the 
prayers  must  be  brought  to  bear  direct  on  the  subjects.  Oh,  for  leaders 
that  are  not  drunk  with  their  authority  and  self-centred  importance.  Pay! 
ing  $3500  each  a  year  to  a  dozen  or  so  favorite  satelites  to  glorify  around 
the  person  of  the  chief,  all  comfortably  housed  and  working  (?)  short  hours, 
furnishes  dope  for  the  publicity  agent;  but  the  agents  that  go  out  in  the 
sticks,  go  into  the  homes  and  mingle  with  the  folks  carrying  messages  of 
progress,  developement  and  inspiration  on  salaries  barely  supporting  them 
—  these  be  the  ones  that  will  right  the  mistakes  and  wrongs,  if  such  a 
blessing  is  to  come. 

LET'S  GO. 

Monday,  April  3,  is  a  date  the  people  of  Cabarrus  may  well  remember. 
It  marks  the  time  when  public  officials,  seeing  the  light,  put  their  hands  to 
the  plough,  and  cried   "Let's  Go." 

The  County  Board  of  Education  made  an  appropriation  to  the  necessary 
funds  for  maintaining  our  All- lime  Health  Nurse  for  Cabarrus  County.  Its 
wise  action  removes  all  doubt  of  the  continuance  of  this  vital  agency  in  the 
county. 

Following  this,  the  County  Commissioners,  joining  the  State  and  Federal 
powers,    authorized  its  part  of  the   campaign   against   bovine    tuberculosis  ! 
in  the  County— a  sensible  and  progressive  step. 

Now,  if  the  County  Commissioners,  deserving  much  praise  for  its  forward 
vision,  will  get  busy  and  provide  for  the  building  of  a  suitable  tubercular  : 
hospital  or  camp  for  the  indigent  sufferers  among  us,  it  will  have  completed 
a 'wise,  sane  and  humanitarian  programme.  See  that  picture  on  another  page. 
If  Cabarrus  County  had  a  place  to  properly  segregate  and  treat  this  woman 
and  her  husband  (and  scores  of  others),  saving  their  lives,  preventing  a 
spread  of  the  terrible  tubercular  bugs  and  saving  these  innocent  children, 
weli  —  what  a  service! 

Let's  Go  Some  More! 


I 


The  suggestion  of  consolidating  the  several  state  educational  institutions 
under  one  directorate—forming  the  idea  of  one  great  univers;ty  system- 
has  met  with  a  variety  of  opinions  by  the  special  friends  of    the  respective 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

schools  and  by  the  press  generally.  The  accomplishment  of  this  suggestion 
may  lead  to  the  perfectly  natural  and  logical  business  of  adding  another 
Supervisor  with  a  desk  in  the  Department  of  Education.  The  monthly 
salary  pay-roll  of  approximately  ten  thousand  dollars  would  not  be  material- 
ly increased  thereby:  floor  space  might  be  lacking,  but  the  department 
could  swarm  again  taking  up  additional  quarters  so  as  to  have  elbow-room. 

It  is  a  peculiar  pleasure  manifested  throughout  the  state  over  the  selection 
of  Rev.  Dr.  B.  R.  Lacy,  of  Atlanta,  to  preach  the  Annual  Sermon  at  the 
comnring  commencement  of  the  University.  Mr.  Lacy  is  one  of  the  most 
scholarly  men  of  the  younger  set  in  the  South,  was  a  plumb  good  fighter 
across  the  seas,  and  is  a  most  able  preacher.  You  could  truthfully  say  many 
of  these  things  about  his  dadclv,  State  Treasurer  Lacy,  only  the  latter 
while  he  can  preach  some  mighty  fine  gospel  sermons  has  not  been  offici- 
ally licensed  to  do  so. 

The  Utlit  joins  his  many  friend  among  the  craft  in  congratulations  over 
the  evidences  of  growth  and  prosperity  that  are  attending  the  efforts  of 
Editor  J.  F.  Hurley,  as  expressed  in  a  new  modern  publication  house  which 
he  has  just  about  finished  for  the  Salisbury  Post.  There  are  larger  buildings 
given  over  to  the  newspaper  business  in  the  state,  but  none  can  surpass  the 
one  Mr.  Hurley  is  erecting  for  himself  in  the  matter  of  light,  convenience, 
adapability  and  appearence.  In  addition  to  the  new  building,  The  Post  is 
about  to  get  an  entirely  new  outfit. 


Messrs  J.  J.  Blair  and  W.  E.  Credle,  of  the  State  Department  of  Educa- 
tion, have  gone  to  Nashville.  Tenn.,  where  they  will,  according  to  the 
Raleigh  News  &  Obeserver,  "take  a  short  course  in  school  house  designing 
under  Dr.  Fletcher  B.  Dresslar."  After  their  return,  says  the  N.  &  0., 
the  Department  "will  issue  a  bulletin  containing  all  the  available  develop- 
ment in  the  design  of  school  buildings." 


The  Contractor  is  nearing  a  completion  of  our  Dairy  Barn,  which  in  all 
its  appointments  and  equipment  will  be  the  last  word  in  dairy  barn  con- 
traction. Much  care  has  been  taken  with  our  herd  of  cattle,  for  milk 
and  butter  are  prim?  neccessities  where  so  many  young  folks  are  to  be  fed. 


Greensboro  is  having  a  lively  scrap  among  her  citizens  over  the  question 


6 


THE  UPLIFT 


of  the  city's  lending  its  credit  to  the  Southern  railway  for  the  funds  needed 
for  the  erect'on  of  a  new  pasjenger  station.  That  fine,  wideawake  city 
needs  a  new  station  where  one  may  have  elbow  100m. 


9      9       9       9 


There  are  too  many- 


fires  taking  place  in  North  Carolina.     The  destruct- 


ion  of  property,  by  accident,  defective  construction  or  otherwise,  is  getting 
to  be  alarming. 


Governor  Morrison  i=  doing  his  part  in  making  the    County  School  Com- 
mencements attractive  to-dos  and  beneficial. 


THE  ASS'S  BRAINS 

The  Lion  and  the  Fox  went  hunting  together.  The  Lion,  on 
the  advice  of  the  Fox,  sent  a  message  to  the  Ass,  proposing  to 
make  an  alliance  between  their  two  families.  The  Ass  came  to 
the  place  of  meeting,  overjoyed  at  the  prospect  of  a  royal  allionce. 
But  when  he  came  there  the  Lion  simply  pounced  upon  the  Ass, 
and  said  to  the  Fox:  "Here  is  our  dinner  for  to-day.  Watch 
here  while  I  go  and  have  a  nap.  Woe  betide  you  if  you  touch  my 
prey."  The  Lion  went  away  and  the  Fox  waited;  but  finding  that 
his  master  did  not  return,  ventured  to  take  out  the  brains  of  the 
Ass  and  ate  them  up.  When  the  Lion  came  back  he  soon  noticed 
the  absence  of  the  brains,  and  asked  the  Fox  in  a  terrible  voice: 
'What  have  you  done  with  the  brains?" 

"Brains,  your  Majesty!  it  had  none,  or  would  never  have  fallen 
into  your  trap." 

"WIT  HAS  ALWAYS  AN  ANSWER  READY." 


! 


THE  UPLIFT 


HOW   HE   TOOK   ON   FOUR   POUNDS 

The  average  layman  and  busy  citizen,  going  about  the  duties  that  enter 
his  life,  has  never  taken  time  to  ascertain  for  himself  just  what  thebuisness 
of  the  Partent-Teaeher  Associations,  of  which  we  hear  so  much  now  and 
then  in  the  newspapers,   is. 


The  good  old  town  of  Concord, 
which  follows  sometimes,  often  way 
behind,  the  pattern  set  by  other 
communities,  has  a  Parent-Teacher 
Association.  It  got  busy  about  the 
public  schools  of  Concord;  and  an  old 
fogy  of  a  fellow  inquired,  "what's 
this  new  thing  Prof.  Webb  has  intro- 
duced into  our  schools?"  This  is  all 
the  excuse  The  Uplift  desires  for 
going  slightly  into  details.  It  will 
prove  interesting  and  gratifying  to 
those  who  love  childhood,  and  who 
desire  to  give  it  the  best  possible 
chance  and  equipment  for  life— it 
will  probably  bore  those,  who  live 
to  themselves  and  are  obsessed  with 
the  ideas  and  plans  that  governed 
their  activities,  and  who  care  not 
for  the  conditions  that  confront 
childhood,  just  so  their  own  are  not 
involved. 

The  Uplift  made  inquiry  of  Prof. 
A.  S.  Webb,  superintendent  of  the 
public  schools  of  Concord,  seeking 
a  story  of  just  what  the  local  Pa- 
rent-Teacher Association  was  do- 
ing in  connection  with  his  schools. 
Prof.  Webb,  cordially  and  politely 
responding,  said  that  he  had  turned 
the  request  over  to  Miss  Mary  King, 
stating  that  she  was  responsible  for 
the  existence  of  the  Parent-Teacher 
Association  in  Concord,  had  brought 
it  into  life  and  was,  with  others,  suc- 
cessfully directing  its  operations,  or 
words  to  that  effect. 

The  average  parent,  as  is  well 
known— in  fact  oftentimes  without 
Schick  or  a  child,  or  moving    thing 


charged  to  his  household,  he  may  set- 
tle knotty  educational  subjects,  give 
valuable(?)  ad /ice  to  teachers  and 
plan  a  day's  duties  -sometimes  butts 
in  and  makes  the  teacher's  life  a 
sorrow.  But  this  thing  that  has 
spread  over  the  country---the  par- 
ent-Teacher Association — has  worm- 
ed  itself  into  the  very  affections  of 
a  large  class  of  patrons  and  has  won 
the  respect  and  endorsement  of 
others  simply  because  of  its  worthy 
accomplishments  and  is  gloriously 
humanitarian. 

Among  the  many  fine  activities 
for  which  the  Parent-Teacher  Asso- 
ciation stands  for--bringing  the 
child  and  the  parent  closer  to-geth- 
er,  arriving  at  the  tiuth,  the  weak- 
nesses and  the  deficiences  and  the 
peculiarities  are  worthwhile  --is  hu- 
manitarian; the  care  given  to  the 
undernourished  child  is  an  outstand- 
ing function  of  the  Association. 
This  idea  is  the  outgrowth  of  the 
teaching  and  the  propaganda  of  the 
health  forces.  It  is  where  a  sensi- 
ble and  efficient  recognition  of  the 
duties  toward  childhood  shine  the 
brightest. 

The  picture,  appearing  elsewhese, 
was  taken  of  the  little  tots  in 
their  happiness  and  glory  over  the 
delightful  nourishment  given  thern 
twice-a-day  at  one  of  the  Concord 
schools  presided  over  by  Miss  King. 
It  is  an  inspiring  picture.  It  has 
long  been  settled  that  milk  is  one  of 
the  finest  and  most  essentia]  foods 
for  the  child.  It  is  known  that  many 


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THE  UPLIFT 


a  child  does  not  get  the  milk  its 
system  requires,  for  one  reason  and 
another.  It  is  known,  too,  that 
there  is  man/  a  child,  from  hard- 
ships at  home,  from  carelessness,  in- 
difference or  other  causes,  leaves 
home  for  a  day  in  school  without 
having  eaten  anything.  That's  a 
hard  proposition  for  the  teacher  ami 
a  cruelty  to  the  child.  Here  is 
where  the  undernourishment  ob- 
served in  children  becomes  most  no- 
ticable  and  prevents  that  develop- 
ment of  body  and  mind,  for  which 
all  sensible  school  activities  aim. 

The  source    that    furnishes     milk 
for  carrying  out  the  programme    of 
the    Association     is    maintained    by 
volunteers.     This  good  woman  here 
gives  ten  dollars.     Seeing  the  splen- 
did results,  she  will    probably    come 
back    with    another     ten.      Another 
good  woman  dropping  in  at  this  nov- 
el feed  time,  arid  becoming    so    en- 
thused with  the  beautiful  picture  of 
40  happy    little     Americans    taking 
their    half-pint    milk      nourishment 
through  sanitaiy  straws,  dropped  in 
a  five.     She'll  return    with    .another 
five    sometime.     The    local     King's 
Daughters,  of  course,  have  made    a 
contribution,     By  and  by  a  number 
of  che  men  in  the  community,     who 
have  prospered  in  this  world's  goods, 
will  see  the  noble  efforts  of  the    As- 
sociation and  the  gratifying    results 
and  they  will  come    to    its    aid    and 
support.  Good  people  do  such  things. 
The    very   first  thing  done    when 
Miss  King    got    ready  to    introduce 
this    beneficial    innovation,    was    to 
call  in    Miss  Stockton,    theall-time 
Health    Nurse    of  Cabarrus  county. 
This   efficient   and   sensible    woman 
went   about  her   job    in   accordance 
with  the  rules  that  govern  examina- 


tions of  this    kind.     The   ages  were 
ascertained,  then  by  a  common  rule 
it.  was    understood  what  the    height 
and  weight   should  be.     Somewhere 
in  the  forty's  was  the  number  found 
who    lacked    the    regulation    height 
and  weight  fur    their  ages;  and  in  a 
number   of  cases    marked   evidences 
of  undernouiishment  w?re  discover- 
ed.    '1  he  great  majority  of  the  child- 
ren took  to  the    milk  drinking  feast 
with  alacrity;  some  balked    because 
they  had  never   drunk  milk  and  had 
persuaded    themselves  that  they  did 
not  and  would  not  like  milk.  A  kindlv 
persuasion,    accompanied  by    sound 
reasoning,  soon    brought  the  young- 
sters    to    the     attractive     half-pint 
bottles.     Re  it  said    to  the  credit  of 
the   parents,    not  a    one   raised  any 
objection   to   this   humanitarian  act, 
either   from   sensitiveness,    pride  or 
foolishness.     On     the     other    hand 
quite  a  number  of  the  parents,  know- 
ing the  value    of  this  diet,  and  hav- 
ing been    unabie    themselves  to  per- 
suade   their     children    to    drink  as 
much  milk  as    they  knew  they  need- 
ed,  applaud    Miss    King's   progres- 
siveness,  ideas  and  success,  and  even 
gratuitously    furnish    some   of  the 
milk. 

Does    it    do    any    good?     Isn't  a 
child,    wdiose    hunger  has    been  ap- 
peased,   in    better    trim    for  school 
duties?     Is  it  a  hobby   that  has  got- 
ten  into    the    schools?     The   proper 
nourishment,      the      increasing    of 
weight  and  vitality,  producing  better 
spirits  may  be  a  hobby,  it  is  a  sound    l 
hobby.   In  a  month,  some  of  the  chil- 
dren increased  in  weight  as  much  as 
four  pounds— all    showed    increases, 
happier  frame  of  mind,  more  energy 
and  a  greater  interest  in  their  school 

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THE  UPLIFT 

A   MILK   PERFORMANCE 


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At  milk-period  in  one  of  the  Concord  Public  Schools,  where  the  Parent-Teach- 
er Association  through  Miss  Mary  King  is  carrying  on  the  business  of  looking 
after  the  undernourished.  These  little  Americans  are  thoroughly  enjoying  what 
humanitarirvn  thoughtfulness  is  providing  for  them.  From  sanitary  bottles, 
clean  straws,  this  life-giving,  health-producing  and  foone-and-flesh  making  re- 
past reaches  the  spot  without  coming  in  contact  with  fingers  or  outside  influen- 
ces. 

Going  on  for  only  a  few  weeks,  the  wisdom  is  manifest.  The  children  are 
Appier,  they  go  about  their  little  school  duties  with  enthusiasm,  they  are  tak- 
ing on  flesh  and  all  have  gained  in  weight  and  strength.  Let  the  people  support 
it—it  will  amount  to  lots  more  than  burning  gas  in  useless,  show-off  joy  parad- 
ing. 


10  THE  UPLIFT 


THE    WAY  THEY   DO    IN    IREDELL 


BY  R.  R.  CLAR/v" 


:i 


"We  Iredell  people  are  beholden  to  The  Uplift  editor  for  inserting  in  his  pub-  | 
lication  the  programme  of  the  home  a.nd  school  improvement  cainaigu  in  Ire.  ) 
dell,  in  connection  with  our  county  school  commencement.  This  as  The  Uplift  ! 
has  mentioned,  is  the  conception  of  and  is  promoted  by  Miss  Celeste  ITenkel.  j 
who  is  in  charge  of  the  home  economic  work  in  this  county.      Miss  Henkel's    i 

ability,  industry,  wide  vision  and  per-  community    that    has   made    tile  most    > 
sonal  popularity  have  made  her  work  improvements    in    homes,   schools  and    ( 
most  successful.     A  year  ago  she  pro-  grounds    the   past   year;    to   the   com- 
moted  a    similar    campaign    and    the  inanity  that   installs  the  most  eleetri-    i 
results  were  so  beneficial,  pleasing  and  cal   appliances,   that    paints   the  most    ( 
attracted    such    wide-spread    interest,  homes  and  barns,  etc.,  etc.,  it  requires 
that    she    was    encouraged    to    similar  no   argument    to   demonstrate   the  ad- 
effort   this  year.     We  are  all  looking  vantages    that    will    result    form  such 
forward   to     splendid  results  on      the  a    contest.      Not    only    will   there  lie  a 
22d,  the  final  date.     The  Uplift  does  healthy      rivaJy   as   to    the      improve- 
not  give  Iredell  too  much  credit  when  meats,  but   a   spirit   of   improvement, 
it  suggests  the  work  iu  this  county  as  that   will     include     modern     eonven- 
an  example  and  inspiration  to  others.  iences  and  attractive  homes  and  sur-    ! 
We    haven't    reached    perfection,    nor  roundings,  will  be  cultivated  that  will    ' 
do  I  think  that  we  are  unduly  puffed  continue  to  grow.      Prizes  are  also  of-    ! 
with   pride.     But    in   some   things   we  fered   fur   the    most    improvements  in    i 
feel  that  we  are  going  ahead,  and  es-  the  schools,  the  buildings  and  grounds, 
peeially   in   such    w  >rk   as   that   men-  such  as  can  bo  secured  by  community    } 
tioned.     Other  counties   have' debates  interest    and     co-operation;   and     for 
and   athletic   events   and   similar   con-  home  improvements — the  most  attrae- 
tests    in    connection    with    school    im-  five  bedroom,     using     old     furniture    : 
provement     and     home     improvement  (fixing  up   with   what   you  have),  the    j 
contests  such  as  Iredell  is  promoting,  most    kitchen   conveniences,   the  most    j 
which  mean  so  much  fir  butter  living  comfortable    living    room,    mo.     One 
conditions  in  our  rural  districts.   That  can   hardly  estimate  the  good  results 
expression  is  not  used  in  a  patronizing  from  the  cultivation  of  this  spirit  of 
manner.     The    rural    districts    natur-  home   and   community   betterment. 
idly   do   not   have   the  advantages   the  There  is  one  feature  of  the  contest    I 
urban  citizens  are  able  to  obtain.  But  that    is   some    what    unusual.     In  ad- 
the  rural  people  can  have  many  advan-  dition  to  the  various  prizes  fur  com-    . 
tages  they  do   not    have  if  the   spirit  positions  and  essays,  there  is  a  prize 
of  improvement,  of  home  and  oommu-  to  any  adult  in  the  county  for  the  best 
nity  and  school  betterment,  is  aroused,  essay    on    "One    of    Iredell's   Distia- 
So  when  prizes  are  offered— and  sub-  guished     Men."     This    includes   not 
stantial  prizes,  too  by  our  progressive  only  persons  born  in  the  county,  bat 
business  and  professional  men— to  the  others  who  have  done  their  life  work    . 


THE  UPLIFT 


11 


in  Iredell;  ami  it  means  not  those  who 
have    attained    material   success    only 
but   those   who  have   attained   distinc- 
tion in  their  profession  or  in  the  pub- 
lic service  and  who  won  success  under 
difficulties,  and  especially  those  who  '' 
have   contributed    to    the    public    wel- 
fare.    A  similar  prize  is  offered  for 
a  like  essay  to  any  adult  resident  of 
Llooresville  or  Statesville;   and  there 
is  also  a  prize  for  a  like  essay  from 
anv  high  school   boy  or  girl.     There 
is  also  a  prize  for  the  best  essay  on 
a  history  of  Iredell  county.     The  first 
two  prizes  were  offered  by  ^  native  of 
the  county  who  desired  to  promote  a 
study  of  the   prominent   men   of   Ire- 
dell for  historical  purposes.      As  a  re- 
sult men  and  women,  boys  and  girls, 
are  busy  gathering  material  for  write- 
ups  of  Iredell  citizens,  the  native  born 
and  others    who   have   conferred   dis- 
tinction    on  the     county.     It   is     an- 
ticipated   that    a    wealth   of   material 
will  be  offered  and  the  best  of  it  may 
he  preserved  in  permanent  form. 

Some  years  ago  I  had   occasion  to 

take  note  of  citizens  of  Iredell   who 

had   attained    distinction    within    the 

last   half   century    or    more    and    was 

surprised     to  find     that     only     two 

native-born  citizens     in  that     period 

had  come  to  special  prominence  while 

living     in   the      county — Mr.   Jos.    P. 

Caldwell,  distinguished  editor   (and  a 

part  of  his  most  noted  work  was  done 

while     a   resident      of   an      adjoining 

county)  ;  and  Hon.  \V.  D.  Turner,  who 

was  Lieutenant  Governor  1901-5.  The 

county  has  had  members  of  Congress, 

Superior  and   Supreme   Court   judges, 

and  Speakers  of  the   Legislature,   but 

all  of  them,  in  the   period  since   the 

>Var  Between  the  States,  were  natives 

of  other   counties.     Hon.    Jos.    Pear- 


son Caldwell,  father  of  Editor  Cald- 
well, who  was  a  member  of  Congress 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1853,  was 
the  last  native  born  son  to  attain  that 
distinction.  Judge  Anderson  Mitch- 
ell, who  lived  in  Statesville  while  serv- 
ing as  Superior  Court  Judge  in  the  per- 
iod early  after  the  Wjir-of  the  Sixties, 
was  a  native  of  Caswell  county;  Hon. 
William  M.  Bobbins,  who  attained 
distinction  as  a  member  of  Congress, 
serving  three  terms,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Gettysburg  Battlefield  Com- 
mission for  several  years  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  was  a  native  of 
Randolph;  Hon.  R.  F.  Armtield,  who 
served  two  terms  in  Congress,  was  a 
Superior  Court  judge  and  one  of  the 
most  eminent  lawyers  the  State  has 
known,  was  a  native  of  Guilford;  Hon. 
David  M.  Furehes,  Superior  and  Sup- 
reme Court  judge,  for  a  time  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  was  a 
native  of  Davie  county;  Hon.  Albert 
L.  Coble,  Superior  Court  judge,  was 
a  native  of  Alamance;  Hon.  B.  F. 
Long,  who  was  solicitor  and  who 
succeeded  Coble  as  Judge,  is  also  a 
native  of  Alamance;  Hon.  A.  Leazar, 
who  represented  Iredell  for  several 
terms  in  the  Legislature  and  was 
Speaker  of  the  House,  was  a  native 
of  Rowan:  and  Hon.  H.  P.  Grier, 
Speaker  of  the  hvst  Legislature,  first 
saw  the  light  in  South  Carolina.  Some 
native  born  Iredell  men  have  won  dis- 
tinction in  other  States,  but  for  more 
than  fifty  years  the  county  lias  been 
most  hospitable  to  those  who  came  in- 
to the  county  from  elsewhere. 

While  it  might  seem  that  native 
born  Iredell  men  were  without  honor 
in  their  own  baliwick,  there  has  been 
no  apparent  discrimination  against  na- 
tive sous,  and  to  our  credit  be  it  said 


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we  have  never  raised  the  issue  of  nati- 
vity. But  the  honors  we  have  given 
to  those  coming  anions'  us  is  evidence 

that  Iredell  is  a  good  county  to  move 
to.      This    same    situation    may    exist 


in    many    other    counties,    but    it   has 
seemed   to  me  rather  unusual  that  so 
many    Iredell    men    who    gained    f]js. 
tinetion  while  residents  of  the  county  J 
were  born  outside  the  eounty. 


MOVING  AMONG  US 


"What  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?"  was  the  subject  of  a  contribution  of 
M.  N.  C.  in  The  Uplift  of  April  1st.  Here  is  the  subject  and  the  occasion  of  that 
article.  A  mother  with  tuberculosis,  a  father  with  tuberculosis,  wasting  his 
strength  in  a  torturing  hacking  cough,  no  money,  no  chattels  except  a  dilapidat- 
ed buggy  and  a  bony  horse,  and  about  three  hundred  pounds  of  household  ef- 
fects, and  now  having  nowhere  to  put  them  since  his  landlord  gave  orders  for 
his  moving.  The  case  of  the  father  and  mother  is  a  trying  ordeal— unable  to 
get  treatment  to  stop  the  angry  march  of  the  cruel  disease,  the  county  hat- 
ing no  where  to  send  them.  But  what  of  these  children,  innocent,  irresponsi- 
ble for  conditions  under  which -they  have  been  brought  into  the  world— what  is 


THE  UPLIFT  13 

to  become  of  them?  Whajt?  What?  When  organized  government  reaches 
that  point  where  it  can  take  such  people  and  house  them  and  treat)  them  and 
save  the  children  from  the  lurking  dangers  that  beset  them  in  such  a  plight- 
then  that  government  will  be  reaching  the  glory  of  a  proper  functioning.  It's 
the  thing  to  do,  even  if  we  do  it  to  keep  the  clangers  from  our  own  household. 
Tuberculosis  bugs  have  no  more  respect  for  a  well-to-do  and  finely  dressed  indi- 
vidual than  for  poverty  in  tattered  rags. 


THE    SORT    OF    SERMON   FOR   TODAY 

(Greensboro  Advocate.) 

The  long,  prosaic  sermon  is  clearly  out  of  date.     People  who  are  accustomed 
to  clip  off  twenty-five  miles  an  hour  without  breaking  the  speed  limit  will  not 
be  content  to  give  an  hour  to  a  little  rambling  history  of  the  Jews,'  a  few  plati- 
I    tucks  as  dry  as  last  year's  bird  nest  and  about  as  useless,  and  a  long  drawn  out 
tale  that  has  the  flnvor  of  the  graveyard,  all  of  which  together  is  called  a  ser- 
mon.   If   sermons   of   that    sort   ever  Amos  got  to  his  now  charge  he  preach- 
served  any   good   purpose,   their   day  ed     justice     and     judgment.     "Take 
lias  passed  not  to  return.  thou  away   from   me  the  noise  of  thy 
Another  fallacy  is  to  make  the  ser-  songs;  for  I  will  not  hear  the  melody 
moil  short   and   thin.      That   ruse   will  of   thy   voice.     But    let   judgment   run 
not  work.      The  needs  of  modern  life  down  as  waters,  and  righteousness  as 
:    are  too  awful   and    too   deep   for  any  a    mighty   stream." 
1  kind  of   trick    to    meet    the    demands  That  kind  of  preaching  was  not  the 
'    of  the  hour.     The  call  is  not  long  ser-  sort    that    they   had   been    accustomed 
mons  nor  for  short   sermons,  nor   Cor  to  hear.      Samaria  woke  up,  Amos  got 
thick  sermons   nor    for   thin   sermons,  a    hearing,   ami    the    world   has   never 
but  it  is   for  sermons  saturated   with  been   the   same  since   this   prophet   of 
prayer,  bathed   in   tears,  and   as  high  righteousness     was  sent   of     God     to 
as  heaven  and  fts  deep  as  the  bottom-  preach    to   those    rich    sinners   in    Sa- 
1  less  pit.     If  sermons  are  high  enough  maria. 

and  deep  enough  and  hot  enough,  they  John  the  Baptist  did  not  give  his 
sill  bear  almost  any  length.  The  time  to  lopping  oil  limbs,  or  in  "taking 
courage  of  a  prophet  and  the  passion  off  the  bark"  as  some  preachers  boast 
of  an  apostle  never  fail  to  get  a  bear-  of  lining,  but  he  laid  the  axe  to  the 
[  in;:  in  any  age.  root  of  the  tree,  and  that  moral  wood- 
Amos  was  a  poor  country  preacher,  chopper  soon  had  the  crowds  running 
who  had  been  inaicm'  i  living  down  !n  after  him.  The  multitudes  (locked  to 
Judea  raisin-  serin  cattle  and  trim-  bear  him,  Herod  could  cut  off  his 
ming  fig  trees.  Cod  sent  hiu:  up  to  head,  but  ghosts  haunted  Herod  the 
a  big  rich  city  church  at  Samaria,  remainder  of  his  days,  and  Jesus 
where  the  peop:.>  rolled  iii  wealth  and  brings  His  tribute  of  praise  in  the 
luxury,  went  their  -o,md  id'  formal  immortal  declaration,  "Among  them 
religion  and  were  content,      lint  when  that  are  horn  of  women  there  has  not 


14                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

arisen  a  greater  than  John  the  Bap-  ception.     Passionate  prophets  of  Goi 

tist."  who  address  themselves   to  the  grM 

Such  examples     show   with     much  essentials  of  the  kingdom  of  God  am 

clearness   and   unmistakable   emphasis  to   the   universal   needs  of  the  luumu, 

just  what  kind  of  preachers  God  can  spirit,  will  have  the  approval  of  Gofi 

use  in  any  period  of  the  world's  his-  upon  their  ministry. 
tory.       And  this  present  age  is  no  ex- 


THE    COW. 


* ,. 


("Nimrod"  in  Chatham  Becord.) 

The  cow  is  man's  most  useful  beast,  her  golden  products  grace  his  feast.  A 
pension  she  is  justly  due,  and  well  deserves  a,  bonus,  too;  for  few  a  better  claim 
can  wield  for  gallant  service  in  the  field.  Her  milk  and  butter,  cream  and 
cheese — she  makes  a  specialty  of  these,  and  no  good  cook  would  ever  dare  to 
drop  them  from  the  bill  of  fare,  for  cakes  would  only  be  delusive  fakes.  The 
substitutes  that  men  produce  are  known  as  just  a  poor  excuse. 

The  cow  should  have  good  things  to  eat,  like  toasted  flakes  and  cream  of 
wheat,  and  when  she  rests  her  drowsy  head  she  ought  to  have  a  downy  bed.  We 
need  to  watch  her  smallest  ills  supplied  with  liniment  and  pills.  She's  auto- 
matic in  a  way  and  goes  herself  to  cut  the  hay;  whatever  weather  comes  to 
pass  she  swats  the  flies  and  cuts  the  grass.  On  passing  let  us  briefly  note,  sle 
leaves  the  tin  cans  for  the  goats.  She  eats  most  anything  you  wish,  but  onions 
form  her  choicest  dish. 

The  motor  cars  and  tractors,  too,  perform  most  all  the  horse  can  do,  but  no 
one  yet  has  told  us  how  to  have  good  cream  without  the  cow.  And  when  at 
last  her  hoary  age  has  forced  her  from  the  butter  stage,  the  butcher,  ever  wide 
aws;ke,  will  carve  her  up  in  chunks  of  steak;  the  leather  man,  we  might  cos- 
fide,  will  find  a  gold  mine  in  her  hide.  All  honors  on  her  humble  head,  she  ser- 
ves us  well,  alive  or  dead! 


How  Shall  We  Plead  To  This    Indictment? 

(By  C.  C.  Zimmerman,   in  News  &  Observer) 

Whiie  the  commission  appointed  by  governor  Cameron  Morrison  to  iffl 
prove  the  food  conditions  in  North  Carolina  has  everybody  talking  about 
how  to  swallow  vitamines  and  how  to  put  a  cow,  a  hen,  a  hog  and  a  bar- 
rel of  hominy  on  every  Tar  Heel  farm,  a  few  might  be  interested  in  so  vit- 
al a  subject  as  the  North  Carolina  farm  home. 

Did  it  ever  strike  you   that   there  housed  in    two-room    shacks?    And 

is  little  chance  of  improving    either  yet  there  are  more  than  8,573  such 

the  physical  or  moral    conditions   of  shacks    today    in     North    Carolina, 

people    when    whole     families     are  which  shelter  approximately   50,00') 


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Js'orth  Carolina  farm  people. 

In  these  days  of  efficiency  no  one 
denies  that  better  working  facilities 
increase  the  productiveness  of  labor. 
We  have  improved  our  factores,  put 
skylights  in  them,  painted  them 
white,  made  the  walls  all  windows, 
rearranged  them  and  don?  a  thou- 
sand such  things  because  the  physi- 
cal and  phychological  effect  increas- 
es productiveness.  We  have  passed 
tenement  and  housing  laws.  We 
have  built  parks  and  play-grounds 
for  urban  families;  and  yet  the  farm 
family,  the  only  family  unit  in  tne 
world  today  which  also  remains  a 
self-sufficing  economic  unit,  is  still 
in8,573  cases  right  here  in  North 
Carolina,  trying  to  live  and  eke  out 
a  day  by  day  existence  cramped 
within  the  unpaperd  walls  of  a  two- 
room  shack. 

Largest  Families,  Smallest  Houses 

To  make  the  matter  worse,  the 
largest  families  reside  in  these  small- 
est houses,  because  the  large  famili- 
es and  the  smallest  houses  are 
characteristic  of  the    poorer  classes 

Can  a  mother  cook  a  decent  meal 
-with  just  the  amount  of  carbohyd- 
rates, fats,  proteins  and  u'tamines 
-if  she  is  cramped  by  a  bed,  a  table, 
awashtub  and  a  cradle  in  the  same 
littie  room  with  her  cook  stove.  Can 
you  expect  her  to  be  the  same 
mother  as  the  woman  whose  kitchen 
is  a  well-arranged  special  workshop 
with  running  water  and  a  kitchen 
cabinet. 

There  is  no  getting  around  the 
fact  that  every  farm  is  a  factory; 
that  every  farm  produces  food  and 
law  materials  which  feed  the  work- 
ers and  keep  industry  going;  that 
in  addition  every  farm  is  a  human 
factory  turning  out  boys  and  girls. 


These  farm  boys  and  girls,  like 
the  crops  of  food  and  raw  materials, 
flow  in  a  constant  stream  to  the 
towns  and  cities.  By  the  time  the 
farm  boys  and  girls  reach  the  cities 
their  ideas,  habits  and  standards  of 
good  and  right  are  in  a  large  degree 
already  formed.  In  too  many  cases 
these  tastes  and  standards  were 
formed  or  rather  misformed  in  a 
two-room  shanty  that  could  hardly 
be  called  a  home. 

Let  us  ask  this  question— Which 
of  the  three  farm  products  is  fun- 
damental, food,  raw  materials  or 
people?  Let  us  ask  another  question 
— Are  North  Carolina  farms  as  Well 
equipped  to  produce  people  as  they 
are  to  produce  corn,  cotton  or  to- 
bacco? 

North  Carolina  has  269,763  farm 
homes  housing  1.339,279  men,  wo- 
men, boys  and  girls.  For  each  hun- 
dred houses  there  are  on  the  aver- 
age 515  people.  Of  these  209,763 
homes,  at  least  8,573  have  only  two 
rooms.  If  the  families  were  of  only 
average  size,  these  houses  would 
shelter  44,150  North  Carolina  peo- 
ple. But  as  every  body  knows  that 
poor  families  are  big  families,  it  is 
safe  to  say  that  50,000  citizens  of 
North  Carolina  have  not,  enough 
room  in  their  houses  for  ordinary 
privacy. 

The  Minimum  Standard. 

Housings  experts  have  estimated 
that  the  minimum  housing  standard 
for  purposes  of  health,  convenience 
and  decency  in  an  average  of  one 
and  a  half  rooms  for  each  cccupant 
of  a  house.  Thus  a  family  of  two 
persons  should  have  a  three-room 
house,  four  persons  a  six- room  house 
and  five  persons  at  least  a  seven-room 


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house. 

Experts  also  tell  us  that  theepuip- 
ment  ol  a  home,  next  to  its  size, 
has  most  to  do  in  determining  its 
efficiency  and  the  kind  of  human 
product,  it  will  make.  By  that  state- 
ment they  mean  that  homes  with 
screens,  rocking  chairs,  rugs,  baths, 
indoor  toliets  and  running  water 
most  often  turn  out  the  best  people. 

If  we  are  to  improve  conditions 
in  rural  INorth  Carolina,  our  primary 
job  is  to  improve  the  efficiency  of 
the  farm  home.  This  can  only  be 
done  by  remedying  the  size  of  the 
home  and  its  equipment. 

How  many  North  Carolina  farm 
mothers  toil  from  year  end  to  year 
end  without  washing  machines,  kit- 
chen cabinets,  running  water,  re- 
frigerators or  sewing  machines  at 
their  disposal?  How  many  rural 
homes  lack  electric  lights,  indoor 
toilets,  bathtubs,  rugs,  musical  in- 
struments, screens  and  newspapers? 
No  one  seems  to  know.  We  have 
never  gathered  the  facts. 

A  college  professor  was  invited 
not  long  ago  to  make  a  talk  in  a 
rural  community  on  "'Better  "Rural 
Living."  He  was  invited  to  have 
sapper  at  the  home  of  one  of  the 
leading  farmers  of  the  community. 
When  he  arrived  for  supper  he  fonud 
to  his  surprise  that  not  a  rug  was 
to  be  found  in  the  house;  that  the 
family  ate  in  the  kitchen  by  the 
stove  and  sat  on  boards  nailed  to 
the  table,  There  were  three  beau- 
tiful daughters  and  one  son  in  the 
family.  Three  of  these  children  had 
been  away  to  school. 

That  family  could  have  afforded 
to  live  bitter.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
they  could  nave  better  afforded  to 
maintain  a  high  standard  of  living. 
Yet  there    are    thousands    of    farm 


families  in  North  Carolina  just  like 
the  one  described.  They  own  their 
farms  and  have  a  bank  account  but 
they  live  as  their  grandfathers  did 
in  the  pioneer  days  of  agriculture. 
Increasing  Efficiency. 

We  can  increase  the  efficiency  of 
the  farm  home  by  educating  the 
people  to  want  better  homes.  We 
must  educate  the  parents  as  well 
as  their  children.  Education  for 
children  must  come  through  the 
schools.  For  the  parents,  there  are 
the  farm  papers  and  the  home  de- 
monstration workers. 

Rural  schools  are  not  doing  their 
job  as  they  should.  Every  one  knows 
that  so  we  will  not  discuss  them  here. 
But  for  purposes  of  direct  action, 
let's  talk  about  Mrs.  Jane  McKim- 
n.on's  home  demonstration  agents. 

In  1021  there  were  49  agents  in 
4lJ  different  counties  doing  home  im- 
provement work.  How  come!  Aren't 
there  one  hund.ed  counties  in  North 
Carolina?  Can  it  be  that  the  rural 
housing  standard  of  fifty-one  North 
Carolina  counties  is  perfect?  Does 
every  house  in  the  fifty-one  counties 
without  a  demonstration  agent  have 
a  bathtub,  an  indoor  toilet,  a  kitchen 
cabinet,  the  proper  rugs,  furniture 
and  ventilation? 

All  the  counties  having  home  dem- 
onstration agents  showed  need  of  im- 
provements, thirty  reported  distinct 
improvements  in  home  condition  as 
a  result  of  definite  campaigns  put  on 
by  the  demonstration  workers.  These 
counties  reported  new  equipment  as 
follows:  219  washing  machines,  234 
water  systems,  473  lighting  systems 
and  81  heating  systems.  A  totaLof 
1  ,?.13  kitchens  were  screened  and  780 
rearranged  on  an  efficient  basis.  |n 
2,012  homes  the  walls  were  refinish- 


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eS,  and  in  1,1348  others  the  floors 
vrcre  painted,  recovered  and  improv- 
ed. Kitchen  cabinets  were  put  in 
219  homes  previously  without  them, 
and  017  families  bought  tireless  cook- 
ers. Living  rooms  in  917  homes 
were  refinished  so  as  to  give  them 
more  of  a  homelike  air,  and  in  538 
homes  the  bedrooms  were  improved. 
JJore  than  2,600  houses  previously 
not  protected  from  flies  were  screen- 
ed during  the  year  as  a  direct  result 
of  the  home  demonstration  work. 

So  you  see  North  Carolina  is  start- 
ing the  job  of  improving  the  farm 
home  and  doing  it  most  efficiently 
through  the  home  demonstration 
workers.  Let  us  state  the  prog-ram 
for  the  permanent  improvement  of 
North  Carolina  rural  home  con- 
ditions: 

1.   Put    a  good  home  demonstra  ion 


agent  in  every  couatyin  the  State.  la 
each  of  the  thickly  populated  counties 
put  two. 

2.  In  each  county  that  has  a  colored 
'arm  population  of  more  than  1,000 
families,  put  one  or  two  colored  home 
demonstration  worker. 

3.  Turn  the  searchlight  of  public 
opinion  directly  upon  rural  schools. 

If  North  Carolina  expects  to  re- 
move the  social  barriers  which  exist 
between  town  and  country,  this  piece 
of  educational  work  must  be  done. 
The  home  of  the  farmer  must  be 
improved  until  it  is  equal  or  better 
than  that  of  the  town  dweller.  We 
must  fix  a  permanent  rural  civiliza- 
tion upon  the  soil  of  the  South  that 
will  be  an  asset  and  pride  to  future 
generations. 


The  United  States  refuses  to  join  the  league,  and  yet  it  insists  upon 
blocking  every  move  the  league  makes  without  first  consulting  this  coun- 
try; and  when  the  league  does  consult  us,  we  wa,it  a  year  before  answering 
the  inquiry!  Is  it  any  wonder  that  we  have  become  the  most  cordially  de- 
tested nation  on  th  face  of  the  earth? — Greensboro  News. 


ANCIENT   WHALE    PUT   AWAY. 

(News  and  Observer.) 

Rib  by  rib,  vertebrae  by  vettebrae,  workmen  have  unhooked  the  vener- 
able old  whale  from  his  moorings  in  the  State  Museum,  boxed  him  up  and 
put  him  to  rest  for  a  period.  Twenty-eight  years  is  long  enough  for  any 
old  whale  to  hang  suspended  from  the  ceiling  anhow.  He  is  deserving  of 
of  rest. 


A.  year  or  so  from  now  when  the 
new  Agricultural  building  is  finished 
somebody  will  get  out  his  bones  and 
the  blue  print  of  him,  re-assemble 
the  skeleton  and  again  the  multi- 
tude will  gaze  again  upon  the  like  of 
which  there  is  not  in   all  the  South. 


The  blue  print  is  very  materially  im- 
portant. Whales  have  a  lot  of  bones, 
this  venerable  specimen  about  1,800. 

MUSEUM  IS  EMPTY 

All  the  relics,  curios  and  what 
not  that  have  been  collected  into  the 
Museum  in  the  72  years  of  its  statu- 


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tory  existence  have  been  boxed  up 
and  put  away.  The  long,  high-ceil- 
ed rooms  of  the  old  building  are 
shut  up  and  await  the  hand  of  the 
executioner.  'J  here  is  no  Museum 
any  more,  and  the  last  of  the  ex- 
hibits to  go  was  this  ancient  Eubal- 
cena  Glacialia. 

North  Carolina  has  owned  him  46 
years.  He  was  caught  off  Morehead 
City  in  1S75,  and  the  next  year  his 
bones  were  presented  to  the  State 
by  Colonel  John  S.  Woodard,  then 
president  of  the  Atlantic  &  North 
Carolina— "Mullet"— railroad.  Lot? 
of  whales  used  to  be  caught  off 
Morehead  when  whalebone  still  con- 
tributed to  milady's  wordrobe,  and 
whale  oil  was  burned  in  lamps. 

COL.  WOODARD  DONOR. 

Just  how  the  Colonal  acquired  the 
skeleton  of  this  demi-  monster  of  the 
deep  is  not  a  matter  of  record,  but 
he  got  it  and  gave  it  to  his  State. 
Moreover,  he  paid  the  freight  on  it, 
3,500  pounds.  Railroads  were  more 
human  and  convenient  to  live  with  in 
those  days  before  the  Government 
got  so  interested  in  their  welfare. 

No  room  was  avaible  for  the  mass 
of  bones,  and  the  lot  was  thrown 
carelessly  on  the  floor.  Nearly  twen- 
ty years  they  rested  there,  and  might 
have  been  there  yet  but  for  the  kind- 
ly intervention  of  the  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago  in  1S93.  Then  practi- 
cally everything  movable  was  stripp- 
ed away  from  the  Museum  and  sent 
to  Chicago. 

With  most  of  his  treasures  gone, 
Curator  H.  H.  Brimley  had  time  on 
his  hands,  and  some  considerable 
space.  He  got  to  working  with  the 
old  whale,  and  before  the  stuff  came 
back  from  Chicago,  he  had  assembl- 
ed   the  1,800  bones  in  their    proper 


order,  and  hoisted  the  frame  half 
way  to  the  ceiling.  It  has  hung 
there  ever  since. 

CHINESE  PUZZLE  EASY. 

Vast  labor  and  vast  ingenuity  was 
expended.  There  was  no  working 
model  to  go  by,  and  the  things  had 
to  be  done  by  experimention.  No 
Chinese  puzzle  was  ever  more  baf- 
fling, and  besides  that,  the  great 
bones,  some  of  them  14  feet  long, 
had  to  be  wired,  or  worse  yet,  have 
steel  rods  inserted  in  them  to  give 
stability.  Eventually  it  was  done. 
North  Carolina  is  one  of  the  few 
States  that  can  boast  of  such  a  crea- 
ture. Charleston  has  a  smaller  one 
and  there  are  cne  or  two  in  other 
museums,  but  this  is  quite  the  finest 
specimen  of  them  all.  In  his  glory, 
the  old  whale  was  51  feet  long,  and 
weighed  200,000  pounds.  The  Skele- 
ton is  45  feet  and  a  few  inches  in 
length.  Every  bone  is  included,  and 
when  he  is  re-assembled,  no  such 
labor  as  the  first  assemblage  will  be 
necessitated. 

how7  old?  well- 
How  old  the  old  whale  might 
have  been  is  a  matter  about  which 
the  Curator  does  not  speculate.  He 
quit  speculating  about  ages  of  his 
creatures  some  years  ago  when  he 
dug  up  a  prehistoric  elephant  down 
in  Onslow  county.  He  was  pride- 
fully  showing  the  thing  to  a  good 
churchman  who  happend  to  be  on 
his  board  at  the  time.  The  old 
mountineer  wanted  to  know  about 
the  thing's  age---when  was  it  that 
there  were  hairy  elephants  in  this 
State. 

"That,  of  course,  is  uncertain," 
Mr.  Brimley  made  answer.  "Some 
geologists  -place  the  age  of  this 
specimen  at  50,000  years,  others  at 


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perhaps  500,000  years.     Certainly  it 
must  be  as  much  as  50,000  years." 

"Wh-what's  that?"  spluttered  the 
churchman,  who  no  doubt  is  a  strong 
supporter  of  William  Jennings 
Byran.  "Don't  you  know  the  world 
ain't  but  six   thousand    years    old." 


Mr.  Brimley  dosen't  say  how  old 
the  whale  was,  or  how  old  anything 
else  is  that  he  has  not  exact  figures 
on.  But  the  old  whale  was  probably 
in  Methuselah  class  when  he  fell  a 
prey  to  Morehead  City  fishermen. 


Davidson  county,  called  by  the  scorner  "Darkest  Davidson,"  is  forging 
right  to  the  front  in  education.  The  school  districts  arc  merging  so  as  to 
sscure  better  houses  and  better  teachers,  and  the  school  spirit  generally  is 
strong  and  wholesome.  There  is  a  great  clay  ahead  of  old  Davidson. — Char- 
ity &  Children. 


STARTING  A  RELIGIOUS  PAPER. 

(Mooresville  Enterprise.) 

Ninety-seven  years  ago  when  there  were  very  few  newspapers  printed 
in  North  Carolina,  Rev.  Robert  H.  Morrison,  A.  M.,  the  first  presicent  of 
Davidson  College,  set  on  foot  a  plan  whereby  the  people  of  North  Carolina 
should  have  a  religious  paper  and  issued  from  Fayetteville.  The  first  copy 
of  the  paper  The  Telegraph  was  printed  in  the  form  below,  and  the  orig- 
inal subscribers  had  their  names  appended.  This-  old  paper  was  secured  by  the 

Enterprise  from  Miss  Julia  Stirewalt,      nities  of    Eternity,    far 


of  this  city.  You  will  find  it  interest- 
ing and  it  is  somewhat  of  a  curio  in 
the  annals  of  printing  of  to-day. 

PROPOSALS  FOR  PUBLISHING 

The  importance  of  periodical  pub- 
lications has  long  been  felt  and  ac- 
knowledged. By  them  intelligence 
is  diffused,  error  corrected,  preju- 
dice removed,  vice  restrained,  and 
virtue  cherished,  to  an  extent  worthy 
of  universal  regard.  As  men  feel 
a  deep  interest  in  whatever  relates 
to  their  political  rights  and  temporal 
prosperity,  vehicles  of  worldly  news 
have,  in  all  civilized  countries,  been 
sought  with  eagerness  and  supported 
with  liberality. 

But  as  the  claims  of  Jehovah,  the 
interests  of  the  Soul,  and  the  solem- 


surpass  in 
magnitude  all  other  things,  it  is  reas- 
onable to  expect  that  religious  pub- 
cations  would  rise  up  gaining  patron- 
age among  men,  and  exerting  a 
beneficial  influence  in  forming  their 
characters.  Happily  the  present  age 
is  beginning  to  answer  this  expecta- 
tion by  a  growing  anxiety  for  religi- 
ous knowledge,  and  a  lovely  display 
of  benevolent  enterprise.  We  live  at 
a  time  when  plans  for  public  good 
are  boldly  conceived  and  fearlessly 
executed.  To  bless  others  is  becom- 
ing the  ambition  of  the  highest  and 
the  recompense  of  the  lowest.  To 
stop  the  growth  of  human  misery, 
by  opposing  the  march  of  human 
corruption,  is  now  attempted  in  al- 
most every  land.  To  carry  "far  as 
the  curse  is  found"    the    tidings   of 


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peace  and  the  means  of  purity, 
unties  the  strength  of  a  thousand 
hands,  and  engages  the  prayers  of 
ten  thousand  hearts. 

These  efforts  are  not  without  sus- 
cess.  The  cause  of  truth  prospers. 
The  kingdom  of  righteousness  ad- 
vances. The  works  of  darkness  give 
way,  and  unnumbered  triumphs  of 
the  Gospel  promise  the  approach  of 
better  times.  But  the  work  is  only 
begun.  Millions  of  the  human  fami- 
ly are  yet  covered  with  darkness, 
guilt  and  pollution.  Thousands  in 
our  own  country  know  nothing  of 
the  way  of  life. 

To  Christians  the  cry  for  help 
must  be  raised.  They  are  the  hon- 
ored instruments  by  which  Christ 
will  set  up  his  kingdom  in  the  world. 
His  standard  they  are  privileged 
and  required  to  follow;  and  to  do  so 
without  dismay,  and  fight  under  it 
without  defeat,  they  must  act  in 
concert.  To  secure  this  they  must 
know  their  relative  strength  and 
movement.  In  a  well-organized 
army  there  are  watchmen  to  look 
out  for  danger,  and  messengers  to 
report  the  acts  of  each  division,  and 
the  success  of  every  attempt;  so.  in 
the  host  of  the  Lord  there  must  be 
heralds  to  bear  tidings  of  what  is 
doing,  and  sentinels  to  guard  against 
hostile  invasions.  The  army  of 
Christ  is  not  drawn  up  in  one  field 
of  battle.  It  is  scattered  over  the 
whole  earth.  Hence  the  necessity 
and  usefulness  of  religious  papers, 
by  which  Christians  in  every  country 
may  know  what  is  effected,  what 
remains  to  be  done,  and  how  to 
cooperate  with  each  other  in  doing 
it.  There  is  no  other  way  in  which 
to  make  known  the  wants  of  every 
section  of  the  Church,  and  to  ensure 
concentrated  and  vigorous  exertions 


among  the  friends  of  Zion.  Accord- 
ingly, in  all  parts  of  the  Church,  arid 
among  all  denominations  of  Christ, 
ians,  such  publications  are  rapidly 
multiplying  and  cheerfully  support 
ed. 

N^rth  Carolina,  containing  a  pop- 
ulation of  more  than  six  hundered 
thousand,  and  many  flourishing 
churches,  has  not  one  such  paper. 
Why  this  lamentable  deficency?  No 
State  in  the  Union  of  equal  import- 
ance and  respectability  but  supports 
one  or  more. 

The  experiment  is  now  to  be  made 
whether  the  people  of  our  Stato  are 
willing  to  patronize  such  a  publica- 
tion. That  they  are  richly  able  none 
will  pretend  to  deny. 

The  editor  of  the  Telegraph  will 
use  every  exertion  to  make  it  a  faith- 
ful Journal  ofreligiousintelleger.ee, 
and  an  impartial  advocate  of  Christ- 
ian doctrine  and  vital  piety.  He 
will  have  before  him  a  choice  .;f  sec- 
lection  of  the  best  papers  and  magi- 
zines  in  this  country  and  some  of  the 
ablest  foreign  Journals,  from  which 
he  hopes  at  all  times  to  pre- 
sent an  interesting  abstract  of  use- 
ful information.  He  will  also  he 
aided  by  original  communications 
from  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
gentlemen  in  the  State. 

As  learning  and  religion  :nlorn  and 
promote  each  other,  and  cannot  be 
separated  without  mutilating  both, 
the  columns  of  the  Telegraph  will  be 
filled  in  part  with  select  literary 
pieces,  designed  to  increase  the 
knowledge  and  gratify  the  taste  of 
all  its  readers.  And  as  Christians 
owe  many  of  their  dearest  privileges 
to  the  admirable  Constitution  of  our 
wise  and  happy  government,  and  are 
deeply  interested  in  its  prosperity, a 
faithful  detail  of  political  events,  do- 


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niestie  and  foreign,  will  at  all  times 
be  given. 

Appropriate  remarks  on  agricul- 
tural improvements  and  Domestic 
Economy  will  occasionally  be  insert- 
ed. 

And  'last  but  not  least,'  the  im- 
provement, dignity,  and  usefulness 
of  the  Female  Sex  will  find  in  the 
Telegraph  a  willing  and  sincere  ad- 
vocate. 

The  paper  will  be  large,  neatly 
printed,  and  with  the  best  type. 
No  advertisements  will  be  admitted. 

The  first  number  to  be  issued  as 
soon  as  a  sufficient  number  of  Sub- 
scribers is  obtained. 

Trice  'lhree  Dollars  a  year,  or  Two 
Dollars  and  Fifty  Cents  if  paid  in 
advance. 

Fayetteville,  July  1,  1S25. 

Thomas  V.  Cannon. Concord 

John  H.  Alexander Concord 

John  C.  Ross Walnut  Grove 

Stephen    Alexander Do 


Kiah  P.   Harris   Concord 

Mary  L.  Alexander Concord 

Moses  Alexander Concord 

Levi  Hope Walnut  Grove 

John   W.  Reed Do 

John    Stevenson Concord 

Joseph  Crawford Concord 

Charles  W.  Harris Walnut  Grove 

Seth  Rogers . Concord 

Robert  Querry.  .Robert  W.  Smith's 

Thos  Hope Do 

Johseph    Wallace Walnut  Grove- 
Silas  Young Concord 

Benjamin  Alexander Smith's 

Geo.    Fleming.  .Missouri  S.  Jackson 

Ambrose     Alexander Concord 

Abner  Alexander.   Smith's 

James  Cannan Concord 

James    Allison.   Walnut    Grove 

Samuel  Kellough Dc 

David    MeRee Concord 

Isaiah  Deweese  . Walnut  Grove 

James  Wallis..  . .  .   __  Walnut  Grove 
Jediah   Wallace Concord 


PAUL'S  IRON  EXCLAMATION 

By  Ladd  Phurdey 

Paul  Xelson  gazed  from  the  window,  hardly  knowing  he  was  looking  out 
into  the  railroad  yards.  The  chugging  of  yard  engines  and  the  cheerful  bustle 
of  the  terminal  only  made  Paul's  heart  more  heavy.  From  time  to  time  he 
lifted  a  letter,  gazing  at  it  with  misty  eyes.  The  letter  was  a  curt  dismissal 
from  the  road,  couched  in  the  abrupt  style  of  the  general  manager,  who  never 
fasted  the  road's  type  writing  ribbons. 


"Anybody  might  have  made  tin 
blunder!"  exclaimed  Paul.  He  scowl 
I'd  as  ho  turned  his  eyes  toward  tin 
wsk  of  the  head  clerk  of  the  account 


odd  years,  is  an  old  bachelor  in  poor 
health  and  living  in  a  boarding  house, 
there  are  excuses  for  crankiness. 
Blunders  by  the  clerks  in  his  depart- 


ing division,   Mr.   Simpson,   who   had      metn  were  considered  by  Simpson  as- 

unforgiveable  crimes,  and  for  months, 
there  had  been  a  kind  of  an  epidemic 
of  blunders  in  the  accounting  division. 
Paul  had  made  a  blunder,  a  blunder 
that   outside   a  railroad   headquarters. 


gone  home   at   five. 

Simpson  wasn't  exactly  a  lovable 
Man,  but  then,  when  a  man  has  jug- 
S'ed  with  railroad  figures  for  thirty- 


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might  have  been  considered  as  rather 
funny,  but  unfortunately  the  blunder 
was  made  at  the  very  time  when  it 
was  most  dangerous.  For  the  stiff  old 
manager,  Jonas  Crea,  had  let  it  be 
understood  that  the  next  blunder 
would  most  certainly  eost  the  blunder- 
er his  position. 

And  the  overlord  of  the  road,  dig- 
nified and  prideful,  was  not  pleased 
■when  he  received  by  the  hand  of  a 
messenger  a  communication  which 
read,  "Dear  sir:  The  road  notes  that 
you  are  frequently  late  at  your  desk. 
You  are  expected  to  be  at  your  work 
from  eight  until  five.  Ten  minutes 
.loss  of  time  each  day  means  monthly 
a  loss  of  hours  of  service  to  the  road. 
THIS  NOTICE  IS  MEANT  FOR 
YOU." 

Mr.  Crea  himself  had  given  orders 
that  the  notices  were  to  be  sent  to 
certain  of  the  clerks,  and  that  he 
should  receive  a  copy  seemed  to  him  as 
a  kind  of  insult.  Moreover,  the  after- 
noon the  notices  were  enclosed  in  en- 
velopes by  Paul,  other  notices  of  a 
meeting  of  the  road's  executives  were 
also  sent  out.  The  executive  meeting 
was  an  important  one,  and  Mr.  Crea, 
who  prided  himself  on  keeping  such 
appointments,  did  not  receive  his 
notice  and  was  not  present. 

"Mad  as  a  batter!"  exclaimed 
Simpson,  when  calling  Paul  down.  "I 
don't  blame  Mr.  Crea.  And  he  called 
me  down,  as  if  I  could  lie  expected  to 
put  notices  in  envelopes  myself.  Mr. 
Crea  stated  that  the  very  next  error 
made  in  this  department  would  cost 
the  clerk  his  job.  He  never  goes 
hack  on  what  lie  says.  It's  your 
home  town  and  the  woods  for  you! 
You  draw  your  pay  to  the  first  of  the 
month,  and  you  look  for  another  job. 


That's  ali!  Here's  your  dismissal!" 
To  go  back  to  his  home  town  a:\,\ 
acknowledge  to  his  folks  he  had  been 
discharged!  To  Paul  that  seemed  ah 
most  impossible.  Yet  there  would  lie 
little  chance  for  employment  in  the 
railroad  town,  for  any  application 
for  future  employment  would  require 
a  statement  of  his  dismissal.  Hi; 
pay  had  been  small,  and  he  had  saved 
nothing,  and  at  the  end  of  two  weeks 
he  would  have  nothing  with  which  to 
pay  his  board  bill.  There  seemed  but 
one  thing  to  do — to  go  back  home. 

It  was  late  when  with  a  sad  face  he 
entered  Mrs.  Sullivan's  railroad 
boarding  house. 

"And  what's  ailing  ye?"  asked 
Mrs.  Sullivan,  as  she  stumped  into  the 
dining-room  with  Paul's  supper.  ''The 
road's  kept  ye  late  before,  but  ye've 
never  been  grouchy  'cause  ye've  been 
kept  late.  "What's  ailing  ye,  I'm  ask- 
ing?" 

Mrs.  Sullivan  had  a  big  heart  in  her 
big  body,  and  she  had  passed  through 
many  troubles.  The  big  heart  and  her 
own  troubles  were  the  reasons  why  all 
her  boarders  unloaded  on  her  their 
own  troubles,  and  the  story  of  Paul's 
dismissal  went  across  the  table  into 
her  open  ears.  Her  bror,d  fate 
grinned  when  she  heard  of  the  anger 
of  the  manager.  Her  husband  had 
been  a  trainman  and  she  had  heard  of 
the  manager  and  his  reputation  as  to 
pride. 

"We  all  gits  our  lessons,"  said  the 
widow,  when  the  story  was  finished, 
"Ye '11  no  doubt  make  ither  blunder-, 
but  ye 'II  never  again  mix  up  letters. 
Ami  don't  git  to  thinking  everything 
be  ended  wid  ye.  When  a  big  trouble 
hits  folks  it  always  seems  so,  but 
t lure's  many  an  engine  gits  busted  m 


re- 
This 

the 
ther 

lire- 
iosi- 
>ave 
i'  so 
dy! 

in 
•ere 

Sir. 


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i  .,11  accident  and  ye  wouldn't  know  it 
mien  hits  it  out  of  the  repair  shop. 
And  if  ye  wants,  when  ye  ain't  got 
;  so  pay  envelope,  ye  can  .stay  right  on 
I liere.  It's  never  meself  as  turns  any- 
f  body  out  when  his  luck's  down  on 
him!" 

,    Paul  thanked  Mrs.  Sullivan,  but  he 
[told  her   that   as   there  would   be   no 
jthanee  of  landing  employment  in  the 
I  railroad   town  he  had  decided  to  re- 
•  tarn  home  and.  that  after  two  weeks 
she  could  rent  his  room. 
When  a  chap's  income  will  be  cut 
I  off  at  the  end  of  a  stated  period  it  is 
!  amazing  how  fast  the  days  fly.     Be- 
j  fore  Paul  could  realize  it  he  was  in  the 
j  middle  of  his  last  week  with  the  road. 
His  trunk  was  packed,  but  as  yet  he 
kid  not    been    able    to   bring   himself 
!o  write  to  his  folks  of  his  disgrace. 
Already  a  new  junior  clerk  for  the 
accounting  department  had   been   en- 
gaged, and  it  was  Paul's  final  task  to 
train  him.     Aside  from   this  his  own 
duties  had  become  only  nominal,  and 
lie  now  clerk  attended  to  the  mail  and 
ran  all    errands.     Paul    would    spend 
Host  of  his  hours  gazing  longingly  in- 
to the  railroad  yard,  very  sad  of  face 
and  far  sadder  of  heart. 

On  a  Wednesday  afternoon  of  the 
last  week  he  was  sitting  moodily  in  his 
usual  place  at  the  window,  when  be- 
low in  the  yards  a  hatless  man  raced 
across.  As  he  ran  he  yelled  '"'Fire!", 
the  cry  repeated  by  others  who  iui  be- 
hind him.  Paul  lifted  the  window  and 
leaned  out.  From  all  the  windows  nl! 
Ac  terminal  exe'r?.!  ra'lroad  men  and 
Werks  were  gazing.  The  man  who 
bad  been  the  first  to  yell  an  alarm 
turned  in  a  signal  at  a  tire  signal  box, 
"id  a  moment  later  an  alarm  sound- 
ed from    the    whistle    at    the     repair 


shops.  At  first  Paul  failed  to  see 
any  evidences  of  the  lire,  then  a  black 
smoke  burst  out  of  the  upper  win- 
dows of  the  brick  building  next  to 
the  building  where  Paul  was  leaning 
from  the  window. 

''The  executive  offices!''  gasped 
Paul. 

How  the  lire  was  caused  was  never- 
known,  but  when  afterward  a  lire  in- 
surance expert  made  his  examination 
he  gave  it  as  his  opinion  that  the  fire 
was  caused  by  a  rat,  which  gnawed  the 
insulating  material  from  an  electric 
light  wire.  Very  likely  he  was  cor- 
rect; the  building  was  an  old  one  and 
harbored   many   rats. 

With  some  of  the  other  employes 
of  the  road  Paul  gave  his  aid,  helping 
to  carry  out  the  executive  offices  such 
valuables  and  records  as  could  be 
hastily  removed.  The  official  who  di- 
rected the  work,  and  who  himself  aid- 
ed, was  the  general  manager,  Crea, 
severe  of  aspect  and  of  few  words, 
and  as  cool  and  collected  as  if  he  were 
engaged  at  his  usual  tasks  at  his  desk. 

Above  its  first  floor,  where  the  offi- 
ces were,  the  burning  building  was 
stored  with  combustible  material,  and 
before  water  could  be  turned  upon 
it  by  the  fire  engines  it  was  .evident 
that  it  was  hopeless  to  save  the  build- 
ing. What  records  could  not  be  re- 
moved were  placed  in  safes,  and  it 
was  not  until  the  firemen  had  ordered 
all  out  that  Crea  was  ready  to  leave 
and  gave  the  order  himself.  The 
clerks  leaped  from  the  doorway.  Crea 
was  behind  Paul,  the  old  gentleman 
moving  toward  the  exit  with  his 
usual  slow  dignity.  Suddenly,  and 
with  no  warning  whatever,  the  entire- 
front  wall  of  the  old  building  above 
the  first   story   collapsed,  closing  the 


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doorway  and  the  front  windows  with 
a  mass  of  debris  and  cutting  oft'  every 
means  of  escape  for  the  two  who 
Tvere  behind  the  others.  For  in  the 
lower  portion  of  the  building,  which 
stood  against  another  building,  there 
"were  no  rear  windows.  Paul  was  so 
■dazed  with  the  peril  that  had  come 
■with  such  suddenness  that  he  hardly 
knew  where  he  was. 

"This  way,  young  man,"  said  Crea, 
the  words  rising  above  the  crackling 
of  flames  and  the  shouts  without  in 
the  yard.  "There's  a  cellar.  It 
must  be  the  cellar." 

Mr.  Crea  turned,  and  quitch'  led  the 
■way  to  a  door  in  the  rear  that  opened 
on  a  flight  of  stairs  and  led  to  the 
cellar.  And  what  with  the  stoppage 
of  windows  and  doors  the  heat  and 
smoke  had  instantly  become  stilling. 
At  the  door  Crea  stood  aside,  "Go 
down,  young  man,"  he  said.  "I'll 
close  the  door  behind  us.  For  a  short 
time  we  will  be  safe  below." 

Down  the  stairway  Paul  plunged 
into  the  darkness.  The  cellar  was 
pithchy  dark,  for  it  was  lighted  by 
electricity  and  the  wires  had  been 
burned  out. 

"Let  me  see,"  came  Crea 's  voice 
from  behind  Paul  in  the  darkness. 
"Beyond  where  we  are  there's  a  door- 
way at  the  front,  and  a  portion  of 
the  cellar  extends  out  under  the  yards. 
I  have  matches!  We'll  find  the  door- 
way. We're  not  safe  here,  even  for 
a  moment.  If  the  floor  should  settle, 
that  ends  us. 

Crea  led  the  way,  lighting  matches, 
and,  presently,  they  were  in  the  ex- 
treme  front   portion   of   the   cellar. 

"For  perhaps  a  half-hour  or  so  I 
think  we'll  be  safe  here,"  said  Crea 
quitely. 


"After  that?"  gasped  Paul. 
"We  mustn't  think  of  that,"  K. 
plied  Crea.  He  continued,  "This 
part  of  the  cellar  is  out  under  the 
yards.  We'll  both  shout  together 
and  with  all  our  might.  If  the  fire- 
men hear  they  may  suspect  our  posi- 
tion. All  they'd  have  to  do  to  save 
us  would  be  to  dig  down  a  foot  or  so 
and  remove  a  few  bricks.  Ready! 
One,    two,    three, — shout!" 

Again  and  again  they  shouted  in 
unison,  but  it  was  evident  they  were 
not  heard. 

"Very  natural,"  remarked  Mr. 
Crea.  "When  the  wall  fell  they  must 
have  thought  we  were  instantly  kill- 
ed." 

Paul's  heart  pounded  and  his  breath 
came  in  gasps.  The  snappings  of  the 
flames  above  were  becoming  hauler, 
and  even  where  they  stood  the  air  was 
becoming  acrid  with  smoke.  Death  in 
this  black  hole  seemed  the  most  hor- 
rible of  deaths.  Presently,  as  a  sud- 
den  thought  came  to  him,  Paul  gasp- 
ed, "Mr.  Crea!  There's  a  coal  shovel. 
Pack  in  the  other  cellar!  We  passed 
it." 

"Vain  hope!"  snapped  back  Crea. 
"We  can't  dig  our  way  out.  Even 
if  we  could,  it  would  be  hopeless  in 
the  time  at   our  disposal. 

"Don't  mean  that  sir!  Morse!  We 
might  use  the  code!  Hit  the  shovel  on 
something!" 

"The  old  trick!"  exclaimed  Crea. 
"But  with  all  the  confusion  above  us 
nobody  would  hear.  Besides,  there  - 
isn't  one  chance  in  a  thousand  that  it 
anybody  should  hear  he'd  happen  to 
be  a  chap  who  understands  Morse.  It 
we  had  some  way  of  making  a  '»? 
racket,  a  noise  that  would  be  heard 
all   over   the   yards,   your  idea  urigW 


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Wl'K. 

"The  iron  door,  sir!  Behind  us!" 
exclaimed  Paul.  When  you  lighted 
mat i'Ii ps  I  saw  it !  It'  we  had  an  ax 
,ir  a  big  hammer  ! ' ' 

"C'ogan,  the  foreman  of  the  yards, 
uses  the  cellar  tor  extra  tools,"  gasp- 
ed Mr.   Crea,   for  the  smoke   had   be- 
!  come    choking    in    the    cellar.      Pick- 
,  axes  are  in  the  corner  behind  us.      [ 
I  have   move   matches — follow    me!" 

Two  minutes  later  the  iron  door 
'  kid  been  closed,  and  with  a  pickaxe 
■  in  his  hand  Paul  was  thundering  up- 
]  on  the  door  tlie  Morse  signal  for  the 
;  exclamation    mark — three    slow    blows 

i  followed  by  one  short  blow.  In  the 
rlose  confines  of  the  cellar  the  signal 
I  u;is  almost  deafening,  but  Mr.  Crea 
bad  doubts  if  it  'would  be  hea,rd  out- 
side in  the  yards. 

But  among  the  men  who  were  fight- 
ing the  fire  were  several  who  were  ex- 
pert with  the  Morse  code.     "Listen!" 


exclaimed. 


'  Under     us!      The 


extension  to  the  cellar!  Crea  and  the 
young  chap  are  down  in  there!" 

Instantly  picks  and  shovels  were 
j'lit  in  use,  and  not  long  after  Mr. 
Crea  and  Paul  were  lifted  to  safety, 
by  this  time  almost  insensible  from 
'he  effects  of  smoke. 

On  tlie  following  morning  Paul  was 
simmioned  to  the  temporary  office  of 
tlie  general  manager,  which  had  been 
fitted  up  over  the  freight  department. 
As  Paul  entered,  the  old  gentleman 
seemed  even  more  stiff  than  usual, 
tot  he  smiled  a  genial  smile. 

"That  was  a  mighty  bright  idea  of 
jours,  young  man,"  he  said.  ''And 
it  you  hadn't  got  that  hunch, — but 
perhaps  we'd   better   not    talk   about 


that,  it  isn't  a  pleasamt  subject.  But 
what  I  wish  to  ask  is  how  a  junior  in 
our  accounting  department,  where  his 
duties  are  only  clerical,  should  be  so 
familiar  with  Morse  that  he  can  use. 
a  pickaxe  as  a  key  and  an  iron  door 
as  a  sounder  .' ' ' 

'-"Always  wanted  to  be  a,  railroad 
man,  sir,"  replied  Paul.  Learned 
Morse  before  I  left  school.  Have  an 
old  instrument  in  my  room  at  Mrs. 
Sullivan's  boarding  house.  Been 
practicing,  sir,  ever  since  I  got  my 
job  on  the  road." 

"Let  me  see,"  growled  Crea.  Seems 
to  me  you're  the  criminal  who  noti- 
fied the  general  manager  of  this  road 
that  he  must  be  at  his  desk  at  eight!" 

"Yes,  sir,"  stammered  Paul. 

"I  guess  you  learned  your  lesson," 
said  Crea.  After  all,  we  all  make 
blunders.  The  important  thing  is 
not  to  go  on  making  'em.  But  you're 
discharged,  young  man.  We  can't 
forget  that.  And,  you  know,  the  men 
say  that  when  I  give  my  word  I  never 
throw  a  reverse  lever.  Yes,  you're 
discharged. " 

"Yes,  sir." 

Mr.  Crea's  face  wrinkled  into  a 
more  genial  smile  yet.  "But,  then, 
I  see  no  reason  why  I  shouldn't  take 
you  on  again,"  he  chuckled.  "I've 
been  thinking  I  need  another  clerk 
in  my  own  department.  And,  of 
course,,  I  couldn't  be  expected  to  lift 
a  junior  clerk  from  the  accounting 
department  without  giving  him  a  sub- 
stantial increase  in  pay.  You  can 
report  to  my  head  clerk — he  will  have 
a  desk  for  you.  Shake  hands,  young 
man,  shake  hands!" 


2G  THE  LTLIFT 

There's  Is  Place  In  Life  For  Trie  Ancdote. 

ARMFIELD,  BYNUM  AND  AVERY.--  There  are  times  when  every  ),,,-. 
son  meets  up  with  a  situation  that  leads  to  a  very  serious  self-examination. 
Unable  to  fathom  the  conflicting;  and  confounding-  predicament  in  which 
men  sometimes  find  themselves,  they  call  in  friends  to  re-assure  them 


Ever  since  Isaac  Erwin  Avery  im- 
mortalized himself  with  North  Caro- 
linians by  his  pen  picture  of  the 
simple  Violet,  his  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances always  specially  recall 
him  when  the  innocent  little  flower, 
taking  no  note  of  lingering  frost  or 
a  snow  in  hiding,  makes  its  annual 
appearance. 

The  other  day  Lawyer  Frank  Arm- 
field,  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Concorl  bar,  stopped  me  with  the 
-question,  "did  you  know  Isaac  Erwin 
Avery?"  Continuing,  he  said,  "I 
shall  never  forget  the  all  but  paralyz- 
ing situation  in  which  he  found  him- 
self on  one  occasion  at  Trinity 
College,  along  about  1891."  Avery 
and  a  young  man  bv  the  name  of 
E.  T.  Bynuni,  now  a  successful  real- 
estate  dealer  in  Oklahoma  stace,  as 
students  left  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  and  entered  Trinity  College 
to  complete  their  education.  They 
took  up  with  Mr.  Armfield.  This 
triumvirate  became  fast  ;hums.  and 
often  times  attempted  the  unravell- 
ing of  some  of  the  most  obscure 
problems  that  always  bob  up  in  the 
researches  of  a  college  student.  By- 
num  was  a  great  tease;  he  carried 
around  with  him  an  affidavit  face, 
like  Jim  Pnu,  Herriot  Clarkson  and 
Jim  Bell.  You  think  such  people 
are  always  in  earnest. 

This  man  Avery  kept  Bynum  (and 
possibly  Frank  Armfield,  but  he 
would  not  admit  it)  eternally  busy 
in  deep  and  profound  thought  over 
some  of  the  most  serious  matters  in 


life— Avery  ran  to  psychologies; 
theories  at  time.  One  day,  Aver; 
propounded  persistently  and  in  seri- 
ousness a  proposition  to  Bynum--! 
what  lawyers  would  term  a  hy- 
pothetical question— it  was  too  much 
for  Bynum,  and  probably  the  world. 
in  all  its  glory  and  achievements i; 
yet  unable  to  answer  the  question, 
and  at  Avery's  conclusion  Bynm 
would  simply  ask,  "In  what  respect;" 

From  another  angle  Avery  would 
begin  his  proposition  over;  and  al 
its  conclusion,  Bynum,  apparently 
deeply  concerned  and  puzzled,  wouU 
simply  reply,  "In  what  respect?" 
Again,  the  brilliant  young  Avery 
thoroughly  aroused  over  his  search 
for  light,  and  in  maintenance  of  his 
proposition,  adopted  another  and 
what  he  thought  a  clearer  way  of 
putting  his  question  to  Bynum.  But, 
again,  the  affidavit  faced  Bynum 
would  respond,  "In    what  respect''' 

This  thing  went  on  and  on.  Avery, 
becoming  more  in  earnest  and  con- 
founded over  thv.  inability  ufmaking 
himself  clear  or  perhaps  the  go- 
tuseness  of  his  friend  Bynum,  called 
Frank  Armfield  aside  and  seriously 
inquired  of  him  if  be  saw  anything 
unusual,  about  him  (Avery)  that  . 
would  indicate  a  muddled  brain,  or 
a  slipped  cog,  or  "what's  wrong 
with  me?"  to  which  Mr.  Armfield, 
knowing  Bynum  and  having  caught 
his  purpose  to  rattle  and  counfound 
the  brilliant  mind  that  afterwards 
painted  in  everlasting  words  the 
violet,    laughingly    remarked,     IN 


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27 


VHAT    RESPECT?" 
Avery  saw  the  point  but  days  and 
•j  afterwads  he  seemed  to  wonder 


about  the  power  of  one  mind  over  an- 
other. 


jay 


The  late  E.  A.  Snow  left  $6,000  of  his  estate  to  orphanages  and  $1,000 
to  the  High  Point  Presbyterian,  church.     These  are  the  best  of  all  the  in- 
vestments he  made  in  his  will,  beq.ueath.ing  nearly  half  a,  million  dollars.- 
News  &  Observer. 


How  The  Color  Seas  Were  Named 

There  are  saveral  large  seas  which  were  named  for  their  colors.  The 
White  Sea  bears  its  name  with  perhaps  the  best  reason  of  any.  Its  shores 
ire  covered  wirh  snow  the  greater  part  of  the  year,  and  its  frozen  surface, 
is  for  that  time  a  snowy  plain. 


I  The  Red  Sea  is  also  entitled  to  its 
Dame.     Through  its  clear  waters  the 

'  reefs  cf  red  coral  are  clearly  to  be 
;;en.  Much  of  its  rocky  bed  is  the 
po\vth  of  the  coral  insect.  Another 
reason,  and  probably  the  true  one  for 
the  name  of  this  sea,  is  the  fact  that 
along  its  shores    lies    ancient  Edom. 

jiTiis  name  signifies  red. 

In  the  case  of  the  Yellow  Sea  its 
same  is  sufficiently  accounted  for 
from  the  appearance  of  its  water. 
the  sea  receives  a  great  deal  of  mud 

.from  the  rivers  of  China,  moreover, 

litis  shallow,  and  the  sandy  bottom 
jives  its  own  color  a  long  way  out 
from  the  shore. 

The  Black  Sea  affords  no  clear  ac- 
count of  its  name.  The  waters  are 
wt  black,  but  blue.  The  Greeks, 
"hen  they  first    became    acquainted 

'  with  this  sea,  called  it  by  a  name 
»hich   signifies    The     Inhospitable. 


Later  they  changed  it  to  The  Hospi- 
table. It  has  naturally  been  infer- 
red by  this  change  of  nan:e,  that 
upon  further  acquaintance,  trie- 
Greek  sailors  found  these  waters 
friendly.  But  the  Greeks  were  in- 
clined to  give  soft  and  flattering- 
names  to  the  objects  of  their  dread, 
and  that  may  be  what  they  did  in 
this  particular  case.  The  Greek 
name  holds  to  this  day  among  the 
older  nations  of  Europe.  The  Rus- 
sians called  the  sea  Black.  It  seems 
likely  that  this  name  was  suggested 
by  contrast.  The  sea  lies  south  of 
Russia,  as  the  White  Sea  lies  to  the 
north.  Had  the  latter  been  called 
the  North  Sea,  then  the  Hospitable 
of  the  Greeks  might  have  been  nam- 
ed by  the  Russians  South  Sea.  In 
the  same  way  the  B'ack  Sea  was. 
named  in  contrast  to  the  White  Sea* 
-—Classmate. 


"Life  is  filled  with  sand  bars,  rocks  and  hidden  wrecks.  AH  we  have 
to  do  to  wreck  our  life  is  to  give  full  play  to  our  inclinations,  passions 
and  lust  and  loves.  For  thousands  of  years  brighter  men  and  women. 
than  you  and  I  will  ever  be,  have  had  their  lives  wrecked  on  the  shoals  of 
time  because  they  insisted  upon  having  their  own  way.— Gypsie  Smith* 


28 


THE  UPLIFT 


A   BIT   OF   ADVICE 

J.  E.  PADDACK. 
Do  not  pity  yourself  because  of  the  name  some  one  has  given  you.  .Make 
a  name  for  yourself.  We  are  the  architects  of  our  own  fortune.  If  you  have 
made  a  mistake  in  life  profit  by  it.  Do  not  allow  your  spirit  to  droop  and  die 
■with  the  setting  of  today's  sun.  Look  for  the  glory  of  tomorrow's  sunrise 
with  a  thousamd  landscapes  all  flooded  with  light  and  beauty. 


Do  not  become  soured  on  the  world. 
Be  optimistic  and  cheerful.  Do  not 
allow  yourself  to  think  that  all  the 
good  people  have  died  off  leaving  the 
world    and   humanity    to   grope    their 


Whitcomb   Riley,   who  said: 
"Taint   no   use  to  grumble   and  coin- 
plain 
Its   just    as   cheap   and   easy   to  be 
happy  and  rejoice. 


way    through    unpenetrable    darkness      "When  God  sorts  out  the  weather  and 
and  gloom.     This  is  a  beautiful  world     sends  rain; 


in  which  to  live.     You  and  I  can  help 
to   adorn    it    by   living   beatiful   lives. 

When  the  clouds  hang  heavy  with 
darkness  just  remember  that  back  of 
the  clouds  is  the  sun  still  shining.  Thy 
fate  is  the  common  fate  of  all.  Into 
each  life  some  rain  must  fall.  Some 
day  must  be  dark  and  dreary. 

When  such  days  come  let  us  not 
forget  the  words  of  the  poet  who  said: 
""Let   us,   then,  be   up   and  doing 

With  a  heart  for  any  fate; 
Still    achieving,    still    persuing, 

Learn  to  labor  and  to  wait." 

It    was    the    Hoosier    poet;    James 


Why,  rain's  my  choice. 

And  so  it  is  in  this  life.  Things  mar 
not  always  be  according  to  our  liking, 
but  it  will  be  much  better  for  to  try 
and  adjust  our  lives  to  an  infinite  plan 
than  to  run  counter  to  high  ideals  anil 
lofty  purposes.  Live  each  day  as 
though  it  were  the  last.  Crowd  into 
today  all  the  good  you  can.  To-mor- 
row may  never  come.  Life  on  earth 
Mill  soon  lie  over.  Death  conies  to  nil. 
What  about  the  future  .'  He  who  takes 
care  of  the  present  need  have  any 
fears  for  the  future.  Prepare  for  it 
now. 


*  INSTITUTIONAL     NOTES 

*  By  S.  B.  Davis 


The  boys  are  bedding  sweet  pota- 
toes. 


ar,  was  a 


Mr.  Sam    Frazier,    of  St 
visitor  here  Monday. 

Last  Friday,  the  bo/s  all  wrote 
their  monthly  letters  to  their  respec- 
tive homes. 


Mr.  H.  C.  Brown,  of  Lillington, 
brought  Watson  O'Quinn  to  the 
school  Saturday. 

The  dairy  barn  is  rapidly  Hearing 
completion.  Soon  it  will  be  finished. 
The  dairy  barn  means  more  cream. 

The  J.  T.  S.  played  a  game  of  ball 
with  Roberta  Mills  Saturday.  The 
school  was  defeated,  but  not  without 
a  struggle. 

As  on  Saturday  a  week  ago,  last 
Saturday  Mr.  Johnson  took  the  boys 


THE  UPLIFT 


29 


under  his  charge  to  the  ball  field  and 
cleaned  it  up  before  the  game. 

When  going  to  chapel,  last  Sun- 
day, the  boys  looked  like  real  soldi- 
ers, in  their  uniform.  They  crossed 
the  Memorial  Bridge  in  single  file, 
keeping  excellent  step. 

The  newly-made  benches  looked 
considerably  out  of  place  without 
being  paintpd.  Realizing  this,  Mr. 
Cloer  took  all  back  to  the  shop  and 
and  painted  them  green. 

Each  night,  as  the  days  grow  long- 
er, more  time  is  added  to  the  time 
the  boys  stay  out  on  the  lawn.  Soon, 
instead  of  going  to  the  sitting  room, 
they  will  go  direct  to  bed. 

The  lawn  facing  Guilford  and  Dur- 
ham Cottages  has  been  plowed  up. 
This  was  done  so  fertilizer  could  be 
gotten  into  it,  making  it  rich  enough 
to  grow  grass  this  summer. 

A  few  officers  on  duty  last  Sun- 
day took  their  boys  for  a  walk.  Up 
and  down  th?  highway  could  be  seen 
thirty  boys  more  or  less  in  single  rile 
enjoying  themselves  unto  their  ut- 
most capacity. 

Summer  seems  to  be  here  once 
again.  It  reminds  the  boys  of  delici- 
ous water-melons  to  be  eaten  and 
also  of  long,  hot  hikes  to  the  river 
which  makes  the  water  more  pleas- 
ant when  they  reach  them. 

At  the  time  of  this  vriting  paint- 
ers were  working  on  the  school 
building.  -Ihey  have  painted  the 
halls  and  are  now  at  work  on  the 
various  rooms.  A  great  change  of 
appearance  is  accomplished  by  this 
work. 

Edward  Cleaver,  George  Lafferty, 


Johnny  Wright,  Milton  Hunt,  Lox- 
ley  Saunders  and  Homer  Covington 
enjoyed  Wednesday  verv  much,  be- 
cause they  were  being  visited  by 
home  folks.  It  is  not  to  be  doubted 
that  the  visitors  enjoyed  the  recep- 
tion here. 

Frequent  buffetings  by  the  elem- 
ents have  caused  the  flags,  Old  Glory 
and  Old  North  State,  to  be  quite 
torn  and  worn.  But  this  does  not 
decrease  the  boys'  respect  for  them 
and  every  morning  when  they  are 
raised,  they  are  saluted  with  con- 
siderable feeling. 

A  fence  has  been  placed  around 
the  little  clearing  in  front  of  the 
Printing  Office  to  keep  off  all  intru- 
ders or  trespassers  who  may  pass  in 
that  direction,  for  inside  of  this  lit- 
tle clearing  has  been  planted  flowers 
with  the  intention  of  making  the 
outside  appearance  of  the  Printing 
Office  more  beautiful  and  attractive. 

Some  surprises  come  seldom;  some 
come  often.  Some  are  pleasant; 
some  are  unpleasant.  But  this  re- 
porter knows  of  a  boy  who  was  sur- 
prised, but  was  surprised  pleasantly 
and  delightfully  W'hen  this  certain 
boy's  brother  and  sister,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Randel  Brooks,  stopped  to  see 
him  They  were  on  their  way  to 
Charlotte  coming  from  Winston- 
Salem. 

As  was  stated  in  last  week's  issue 
of  The  Upift,  when  the  entire  band 
practices,  it  does  so  in  the  pavilion. 
The  music  can  be  heard  plainly  in  the 
school  room.  But,  instead  of  de- 
tracting the  boys'  attention  from 
their  books  and  lessons,  it  fills  them 
with  a  new  strength  of  will  to 
prepare    their    lessons    so    perfect, 


30 


THE  UPLIFT 


that  when  the  class  is  reciting,    not 
one  misses  a  question, 

Sunday  services  were  held  in  the 
Chapel  Sunday  evening.  Rev.  Mr. 
Myers,  of  Concord,  took  charge  of 
the  services.  He  asked  Rev.  T.  W. 
Smith,  our  gf  od  friend,  also  of 
Concord  to  lead  the  boys  in  prayer. 
Mr.  Smith  did  so.  After  the  read- 
ing of  the  text,  Mr.  Myers  had  four 
of  his  girl  choir  singers  to  sing  for 
the  boys.  The  boys  surely  appre- 
ciated the  singing,  and  this  is  a  cor- 
dial invitation  for  a  return  visit  in 
the  near  future.  After  the  singing 
Mr.  Myers  spoke  from  the  topic 
"Giants."  He  told  the  boys  which 
giants  to  obey  and  which  not  to. 

Remarkable  achievement  in  an 
hereditably  short  time  is  tht  record 
of  little  Carlyle  Hardie,  one  of  the 
smallest  boys  at  the  school.  When 
this  prodigy,  for  such  he  is,  came 
to  the  school,  he  knew  naught  of 
learning.  Now,  however,  he  is  in 
the  third  grade  and  is  rapidly  advanc- 
ing. And  all  this  in  eight  months. 
The  other  day  when  the  boys  wrote 
their  monthly  letters,  his  was  of 
such  note,  full  of  the  doings  of  the 
school,  so  neatly  written  by  a  bjy  of 
eight  months  schooling,  that  Miss 
Greenlee,  his  teacher,  sent  it  to  the 
other  teachers,  Messrs.  Johnson  and 
Crooks,  for  inspection  Their  judg- 
ment was  also  favorable.  Little 
Charles  Blackrnan,  his  playmate,  is 
getting  "green  with  envy." 


HONOR  ROLL. 

"A" 

Robert  Pool  Joseph  Moore,  Ber- 
tram Hart,  Malcolm  Holman,  Homer 
Covington,    James  Honeycutt,  Fitz- 


hugh  Miller,  Doyle  Jackson,  Hoyle 
Faulkner,  John  Moose,  Victor  High, 
Vass  Fields,  William.  F.  Gregory, 
Harry  Ward  Johnnie  L.  Wright, 
Glenn  Riddick,  Ernest  Jackson, 
Everett  Goodrich,  Jake  Willard,' 
Albert  Keever,  Rufus  Wrenn, 
James  Foy,  Richard  Johnson,  Harry 
Shir'ey.  Roy  Johnson,  G.  Everheart, 
H.  Tys<m,  0.  Quinn,  C.  Rogers, 
and  M.  Gibert. 

"B" 

Ralph  Freeland  Stanly  Armstrong, 
Floyd  Huggins,  Authur  Montgom- 
ery, James  Shipp,  Swift  Davis, 
Frank  Thomason,  Arvel  Absher, 
Murray  Evans,  Walter  Shepard, 
Elbert  Perdue  Allie  Williams  Robt. 
Watson  and  Dudley  Pangle. 
Dohme  Manning,  Sylvester  Sims, 
Harvy  Wrenn,  Ernest  Jordan,  Ellis 
Nance,  Henry  Reece,  Charlie  Rotb- 
rock  Harry  Dalton,  John  Hill,  L" 
Grant,  John  Kemp,  A.  Corbett, 
Hazen  Ward,  Murphy  Jones,  and 
Herbert  Tolley. 


BRANDING  RECALLED 

Mrs.  E.  F.  Fenton  on  Monday  re- 
ceived a  telegram  stating  that  her 
brother,  George  D.  Smith,  had  died 
that  day  at  his  home  in  Fordyce, 
Ark.  Mr.  Smith  moved  from  Anson 
to  Arkansas  30  or  more  years  ago, 
and  was  very  successful  in  his  adopt- 
ed State.  He  was  the  son  of  John 
D.  Smith,  in  his  day  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Anson,  and  of  Mrs.  Lilla. 
Jacobs  Smith.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  who  was  Miss.  Sallie  Stur- 
divant,'  of  this  county,  and  by  several 
children;  also  by  one  brother,  Thomas 
D.  Smith,  of  Patrick,  S.  C,  and  three 
sisters,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Fenton,  Mrs.  M. 


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31 


J.    Roscoe,  and  Miss  Rosa  Smith,  of 
Rockingham. 

The  death  of  Mr  Smith  recalls  an 
interesting  bit  of  history  related  by 
E.  F.  Fenton.  John  D.  Smith  was 
killed  by  a  white  man  named  Morri- 
son in  the  days  before  the  War  be- 
tween the  States.  Morrison  was  em- 
ployed by  Smith,  who  discharged  him 
on  account  of  drunkedness.  Enrag- 
ed, Morrison  picked  up  a  hatchet  and 
threw  it  at  Smith  hitting  him  in  the 
head  and  inflicting  a  wound  which 
resulted  in  death.  Morrison  was 
tried,  and,  as  the  crime  was  not  pre- 
meditated, escaped  with  his  life.  The 
penalty  was  that  he  be  branded  in 
the  right  hand  with  a  large  "M." 
The  procedure  of  branding  wasa  s 
follows:  The  right  hand  was  placed 
in  a  vise  and  so  tied  that  it  could 
not  be  moved.  The  red  hot  iron 
was  then  applied  to  the  palm  of  the 
hand  and  held  it  against  it  for  the 
length  of  time  it  took  the  convicted 
man    to    say    "God  save  the  State" 


three   times.     Naturally    ho    talked 
fast. 

According  to  Mr.  Fenton's  rec- 
ollection this  was  the  last  branding 
under  legal  forms  in  the  history  of 
the  State,  a  law  being  passed  doing 
away  with  this  penalty  shortly  there- 
after 


How  Ke  Took  On  Four  Pounds. 

(Concluded  From  Page  8) 

work.  These  children  do  not  come 
from  poverty- stricken  homes---they 
are,  in  a  measure,  just  the  victims  of 
"not  kon wing  what- to-do- about-it." 
Welcome,  thrice  welcome,  to  an  ed- 
ucation that  seeks  to  have  a  sound, 
healthy  body  along  with  an  enlight- 
ened mind. 

Even  a  child  of  a  boarding-housj 
keeper  gained  four  pounds  last 
month;  is  unusally  bright;  as  happy 
as  a  lark;  and  has  begun  to  feel  like 
somebody  and  is  Iearning---a  radical 
change. 


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A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 


The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 
School.      Type-setting  by  the   Boy's'  Printing    Class.      Subscripton 
Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAJIES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the   Post  Office   at   Concord^ 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


"Is  it  true  that  a  trench  and  a  casket  is  all  there  is  at  the  end,  or  is 
there  something  beyond  life?  Your  life  should  bo  a  preparation  for  the 
something  beyond." 


THE  DOCTORS  CAN'T  AGREE 

Probably  every  well-balanced  person  in  North  Carolina  could  be    depen- 
ded upon  to  testify  that  the  state  sends  out  much  money  annually  for  food 
stuffs  that  could  be  produced  at  home.     To  condemn  the  sending  out    for 
that  which  others  can  raise  easier   and   with  less    expense,    and    our    own 
folks  with  the  same  energy  and  expense  could  raise  that  which  would  sur- 
'.  pass  the  value  of  that  which  is  shipped  in,  is  not  just.     The  average  farm- 
'  er if  he  has  sense  (and  that's  the  best  of  all  capital  in  farming),    has   just 
]  as  much  right  to  buy  in  the  cheapest  market  and  make    a    drive    on    that 
crop  out  of  which  he  knows  that  he  can  make  the  most,  as  does   the    mer- 
chant when  he  goB3  intn  the  market  and  seeks  the  best  prices  and  the     ar- 
ticle thac  will  be  a  seller. 

There  is  eternal  truth  and  sound  wisdom  in  the  claim  that  every  farm- 
er, tenant  as  well  as  land-owner,  should  by  all  means  have  at  least  one 
tiog,  one  cow,  one  yard  of  chickens,  and  one  garden.  There  is  no  wisdom 
however,  in  demanding  him  to  have  any  fixed  larger  number  when  he  knows 
that  under  the  conditions  which  he  encounters  he  cannot  make  them  prof- 
itable. The  other  day  a  "John  Smith"  tenant  farmer  carried  nine  puunds 
of  butter  to  the  market  and  he  had  to  take  81  cents  for  the  lot  because 
Restores  were  stocked  with  butter.     That  proposition  did  not  pay  him— 


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he  sustained  a  serious  loss.  That  tenant  should  have  one  cow  to  supph 
his  family  demands,  and  let  the  stocked-up  merchant  look  elsewhere  fo, 
his  butter. 

It  has  been  claimed  that  the  amount  of  the  state's  imports  of  food  an:i 
feed  reaches  one  hundred  million  dollars  annually.  This  estimate  was  combat- 
ed by  Zeb  Greene  and  by  thi>  Monroe  Enquirer,  and  they  made  out  a  good 
case  against  the  accuracy  of  the  estimate.  And  now  comes  a  manipulation 
of  figures,  predicated  upon  a  \'ery  unsound  basis,  that  puts  the  state's  annual 
'  expenditure  outside  of  the  borders  of  the  state  for  food  and  feed  at  the 
enormous  figure  of  .^235,000,000— so  positive  that  it  eliminates  any  odd 
thousands  or  odd  cents.  On  its  face  it  carries  a  self-condemnation.  This 
estimate  was  made  by  a  woman.  No  body  that  has  eyes  would  admit  that 
North  Carolina  sends  out  annually  for  food  and  feed  over  and  above  hoi 
own  production  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  on  an  average,  for  eveiy 
man,  woman,  youth  and  baby  in  the  state.     Tne  estimate  is  absurd. 

In  arriving  at  the  foregoing  figures,  the  author  of  the  statement  takes 
for  granted  that  every  man.  woman  and  child  each  makes  way  with  $155, 
00  worth  of  food  stuff  annually;  and  the  estimate  of  the  average  cost  for 
the  usual  animals  on  the  farm  is  just  as  fictitious  and  unreliable. 

This  campaign,  "Live  At  Home,"  has  done  some  good;  it  is  a  campaign 
that  has  been  conducted  for  fifty  years;  and  must  be  conducted  annually, 
for  a  new  crowd  is  ciming  on  every  day.  Rut  the  proposition  is  so  serious 
and  so  vital,  that  it  is  ill-advised  to  make  hysterical  statements  that  on 
their  face  make,  people  lose  confidence  in  the  sincerity  of  the  campaign  and 
the  purposes  of  it. 

North  Carolina  does  not  send  out  annually  $235,000,000  for  food  and  feed 
stuff  to  supplement  that  whi:h  she  raises  in  order  to  get  a  year's  existence; 
and  no  reliable  proof  can    be  had    to  sustain  the    contention.     The  truth  is  . 
bad  enough,  without  manufacturing  a  situation    worse  than  what  we  have 
-■•it's  bad  enough. 


"EDUCATIONAL  EPOCH" 

What  is  termed  an  epoch  in  the  educational  development  in  North  Caro- 
lina," has  been  extensively  commented  upon  throughout  the  state.  Years 
ago  Supt.  Joyner  inaugurated  the  idea  of  High  Schools  for  the  several 
counties.  Under  certain  conditions,  the  state  made  a  direct  appropriation 
towards  the  building  and  maintenance  of  such  high  schools.  A  few  coun- 
ties, something  like  28,    had    not  been    able  to  see  their  wav  cleai    for  the 


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establishment  of  the  said  high  school. 

Following  up  the  programme,  established  and  worked  out  years  ago 
'-inder  the  administration  of  Dr.  Joyner,  the  State  Department  of  Educa- 
tion last  week  made  an  appropriation  of  $54,850  towards  the  building  of 
high  school  buildings  in  43  counties.  This,  it  is  claimed,  will  amount  to 
frjm  $500  to  $1,200  to  each  proposition.  Of  course,  this  is  just  "a  drop 
in  the  bucket"  towards  a  realization  of  the  much  desired  progress.  The 
burden  and  the  task  are  matters  for  the  several  counties. 

The  appropriation  of  $54,850,  which  has  been  heralded  abroad  as  an  edu- 
cational epoch,  would  not  build  more  than  one  modern,  well-equipped  high 
school  building  were  the  entire  funds  centered  at  one  spot.  This  tardy 
act  by  the  higher  authorities  may  put  pep  and  hope  into  the  authorities  of 
the  counties  not  yet  blessed  with  a    high  school.     Every    little  bit  helps  in 

the  great  cause. 

•  ••••••• 

COULD  HAVE  BEEN  PRESIDENT 

It  is  wonderful  how  many  men  in  the  history  of  North  Carolina  who  side- 
stepped an  impending  honor,  which  was  shrouded  in  the  uncertainty  of  life. 
A  certain  prominent  man  of  North  Carolina,  who  had  behind  him  a  con- 
structive record,  could  have  been  in  a  few  months  governor  of  the  state 
had  his  partisan  friends  not  prevailed  upon  him  to  decline  the  nomination 
for  Lieutenant  Governor.  And  North  Carolina  would  have  had  another 
presidential  star  in  her  crown  had  a  certain  North  Carolinian  not  been  too 
modest.  He  lies  buried  in  the  Episcopal  cemetery  in  Pittsboro. :  But  read 
the  interesting  story  elsewhere  in  this  number  of  The  Uplift.  It  was  pre- 
pared by  that  delightful  gentleman,  Mr.  Henry  M.  London,  the  Legislative 
Librarian,  at  Raleigh.  This  paper  makes  acknowledgment  of  the  courtesy 
of  the  News  &  Observer  for  the  loan  of  the  cut,  showing  the  grave  of  the 
North  Carolinian  who  could  hive  been  president  of  the  United  States  had 
he  not  been  a  stickler  for  political  ethics. 

WORTHWHILE. 

What  is  called  "The  Tuberculosis  Primer"  has  been  issued  by  the  Veter- 
inary Division  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture.  .  It  is  a  fine  catechism  on  a 
subject  that  is  becoming  more  and  more  of  interest  to  the  average  citizen 
as  he  is  brought  face  to  face  to  the  startling  revelations  made  in  the  numer- 
ous health  campaigns. 

The  opening  statement  in  that  Primer  is  simply  unanswerable: 

"There  is  an  important  moral  side  to  the  milk  question  which    must    not 


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be  ignored  We  may  have  the  right-a  very  doubtful  right,  to  be  exact- 
to  neglect  the  dangerous  to  which  we,  as  adults  capable  of  judging  and  act- 
ing for  ourselvs,  are  exposed;  but  ,,  have  absolutely  no  right  to  neglect 
the  conditions  that  cause  suffering  and  death  among  cb.ldren.  The  failure 
to  act  and  to  act  quickly  and  unceasingly,  until  a  safe  milk  tor  children, 
at  least  is  within  easy  reach  of  every  mother,  may  be  characterized  as 
barbarous  if  net  criminal  indifference,  It  is  an  offence  against  the  innocent, 
unquestioning  confidence  which  children  repose  in  their  adult  friends." 

It  is'positively  a  jov  to  see,  day  by  day,  the  recruits  to  growing  numbers, 
who  believe  that  we  have  no  right  to  take  advantage  of  childhood.  More 
and  more  we  are  coming  to  fully  learn  what  our  duty  is  to  the  child,  who 
had  no  responsibility  for  his  entering  into  this  life  and  the  average 
child's  confidence  and  trust  in  the  adults,  is  a  challenge  to  us  grown-ups 
that  must  not  be  ignored,  when  vital  problems  come  to  be  settled. 


9      •      •      • 


That's  a  good  looking  set  of  men,  sterling  men,  who  compose  the  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  of  Durham  county.  The  officers  of  the  Jackson 
Training  School  have  completed  the  Durham  Cottage  which  this  Board 
authorized.  In  the  near  future  they  are  coming  with  a  number  of  their 
fellow  citizens,  headed  by  a  patriotic  North  Carolina  speaker  whom  every 
body  in  the  state  knows  and  loves,  to  officially  open  the  building.  The  one 
on  the  right,  standing,  is  not  a  member  of  the  Board  but  is  one  of  the 
livest  County  Welfare  Officers  in  the  land.  If  all  connected  with  the  state 
organization  and  th^  county  organization  were  as  practical,  energetic  and 
did  not  get  excited  over  every  little  theory  that  trickles  into  the  state  from 
Yankeedom,  as  is  the  sensible  and  working  Mr.  Stanley  (that  is  his  name) 
the  people  as  a  whole  would  have  a  higher  estimate  of  the  activities  of  the 
Welfare  Organization. 


Some  kind  of  a  Woman's  School,  for  the  study  of  political  subjects,  was 
pulled  off  in  Raleigh  last  week.  Judge  W.  P.  Stacey  was  an  invited  speaker 
and  made  a  forceful  address  upon  •  the  observance  of  constitutional  law. 
It  seems  that  Miss  Prof.  Elliott,  of  the  Greensboro  Normal,  followed  him 
the  next  clay,  taking  a  marked  issue  with  the  judge  in  some  of  his  positions. 
The  gifted  woman  knocked  the  brilliant  judge  completely  out  on  the  first 
round,  having  feelingly  recited  the  time-honored  story  of  Jack  and  Jill, 
declaring  most  eloquently  that  had  "Jill  had  her  hand  on    the    handle   the 


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THE  UPLIFT  7 

catastrophe  that  overtook  Jack-  would  not-  have-  materialized."     No    man 
can  go  up  against  an  argument  like  .that  and -survive.       ... 

.-.        -...  ..'•*.'••••-•..•_■•. 

A  Fine  "Example:  the  city  of  Greensboro'can  get  wrought  up  over  the 
settlement  of  a'pablic  question  to  the  f^ver-heat  point,  and  then  when  the 
struggle  is  over,  the  opposing  forces"  come  together  as  if  nothing 'ever 
occurred.  They  remind  one  of  the  way  lawyers  sometimes  do---cuss  each 
other  out,  then  walk  out  of  the  court  room  locked  arms,  so  to  speak.  A 
great  battle  has  been  going  on  in  Greensboro  over  the  proposition  of  lend- 
ing the  city's  credit  for  the  building  of  a  much  needed  railway  station---when 
it  is  over,  there-  will  be  no  breach;  Greensboro  has  a  way  of  keeping  down . 
factions.  - 

Winston-Salem  is  preparing  to  try  out  segregation  of  the  negroes.  One 
of  the  larger  modern  school  buildings  will  be  set  apart  for  the  colored  chil- 
dren, and  located  in  the  heart  of  a  twenty-five  acre  tract,  which  is  to  be 
developed  and  cut  up  into  lots.  These  lots  will  be  offered  to  colored  peo- 
ple, who,  in  turn,  must  agree  to  erect- good  homes  for  themselves.  A  Char- 
lotte cynic,  not  yet  recovered  from  the  shock  that  Winston-Salem  gave  him 
in  the  little  matter  of  population,  by  the  last  census,  doubts  that  a  25-acre 
tract  will  prove  large  enough  for  the  segregation  scheme. 

A  Thomasville  correspondent  sent  out  the  word  that  Archibald  Johnson, 
of  Charity  and  Children,  was  seriously  ill.  That  made  the  hundreds  of  de- 
voted friends  of  this  genial  and  useful  man  most  miserable.  The  latest 
report  is  that  .Mr.  Johnson,  in  a  steady  improvement  from  a  recent  illness, 
refuses  to  have  himself  considered  down. and  out  physically.  We  can't  get 
along  very  well  without  the.  original  "Blockade  Preacher"  and  he  needs  to 
hurry  up  with  his  recuperative  business.  ... 


If  the  Monroe  Journal,  whose  entertaining  piece  appears  elsewhere  in 
The'Uplift,  can  force  Edison  to 'present  himself  and  take  the  examination 
prepared  for  him,  we  will  soon  know  whether  the  great  electric  Wizzard 
can  be  "certified"  as  an  educated  man.  Certification  is  the  great  hobby 
in  this  period-they  want  to  certify  County  Welfare  Officers  now,  when 
the  simple  fact  is  they'  are  born  that  way. 

The  alleged  debate  between  Congressmen    Hammer   and    Stevenson,  of 


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South  Carolina  (the  latter  a  North  Carolinian  and  he  ought  to  be  ashamed 
of  himself  in  trying  to  rob  his  native  state  of  such  an  honor),  attempting: 
to  settle  the  birth-place  of  Andy  Jackson,  has  developed  to  that  point  by 
partisans  of  the  two  Congressmen  until  it  actually  gives  a  black  eye  to  the 
memory  of  the  distinguished  gentleman.  It  is  now  clear  that  Jackson  did 
not  know  himself  where  he  was  born— that's  awful. 

■  ••••••• 

Dr.  J.  Y.  Joyner,  who  has  become  a  tobacco  farmer,  if  not  a  horny- 
handed  son  of  toil,  having  put  much  ginger  into  the  organization  of  the 
Co-operative  Plan  of  Marketing,  is  being  mentioned  in  some  quarters  as 
gubernatorial  timber.  Few  men  are  more  widely  known  in  every  section 
of  the  state,  and  he  has  hosts  of  friends.  But  the  ring  for  the  hats  is  still 
in  the  making. 

In  the  parade  during  the  school  commencement  at  Beaufort.  N.  C,  last 
week,  a  dear  old  father  expressed  his  pride  over  the  fact  that  he  had  48 
grandchildren  in  the  august  parade,  and  26  of  them  were  in  one  school. 
Eace  suicide  is  an  unknown  ailment  in  North  Carolina- 

Last  Sunday,  April  9th,  was  the  fifty-seventh  anniversary  of  the  surrend- 
er at  Appomattox.  Not  many  of  the  thin  gray  line  are  left— following  their 
peerless  leader,  Robert  E.  Lee,  they  have  gone  to  heaven. 

Amid  the  great  procession  of  humanity,  will  you  make  up  your  minds 
that  you  will  be  poor  or  rich,  low  or  high,  successful  or  unsuccessful,  as 
God  shall  please;  bdt  that  you  will  not  be  of  the  bad  men  and  women,  who 
by  dwarfish  aims,  and  mean  passions,  and  vile  lusts,  and  acrid  tempers,  and 
lying  words,  have  made  the  world  worse,  and  life  darker,  for  their  fellow- 
men?— Farrar. 


Ought  a  university  president  be  a  teacher  by  profession?  The  trustees 
of  the  South  Carolina  University  evidently  do  not  think  so.  They  have 
elected  W.  0.  Melton,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Columbia  and  president  of 
the  State  Bar  Association,  to  succeed  Dr.  Currell.  He  has  had  a  successful 
business  as  well  as  legal  career.— News  and  Observer. 


North  Carolina  is  putting  a  million  dollars   a   month    into    state   roads; 


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& 


d  what  is  better,  a  considerable  portion  of  the  construction  'is    of    good, 
rd,  permanent  roads. ---Greensboro  News. 


THE   JAY   AND   THE    PEACOCK 


A  Jay  venturing  into  a  yard  where  Peacocks  used  to  walk,  found 
there  a  number  of  feathers  which  had  fallen  from  the  Peacocks  when 
they  were  moulting.  He  tied  them  all  to  his  tail  and  strutted  down 
towards  the  Peacocks.  When  he  came  near  them  they  soon  dis- 
covered the  cheat,  and  striding  up  to  him  pecked  at  him  and  plucked 
away  his  borrowed  plumes.  So  the  Jay  could  do  no  better  than  go 
back  to  the  other  Jays,  who  had  watched  his  behavior  from  a  dis- 
tance; but  they  were  equally  annoyed  with  him,  and  told  him 
"IT  IS  NOT  ONLY  FIXE  FEATHERS  THAT  MAKE  FIXE  BIRDS." 


10  THE  UPLIFT 

■     -'HALIFAX-APRIL    12,  1776      ■'"  ; 

On  our  North  Carolina  flag  is  to  be  seen    April    12th.     This   records    and 

commemorates  a  great  and  stirring  event  that  took  place  among-  the  Carolina 
patriots  in  1771).  The  seed  had  been  sown  in  nearly  every  section  of  the 
state,  which,  sprouting  in  (he  hearts  of  brave  men  and  women,  foretold  that 
absolute  freedom  from  the  English  yoke  was  bound  to  come. 

The  event  that  took  place  in  Char-  Convention  to  rote  for  a  Declaration 
lotto,  May  20th,  1775,  while  more  of  American  Independence.  And  they 
formal  and  expressive,  was  similar  to  did.  And  this  is  why  the  State 
what  had  been  engaging  the  thoughts      appropriately  carries  on  her  flag  the 


,e 


and     spirits     of     North     Carolinians  date  of   April  12th,   1*70. 

everywhere.  As  before  noted  in  The  Uplift,  it  is 

April   12th   is   a   legal   holiday.      It  fcQ  bg  reg£etted     that  the     grave     of 

celebrates     the     anniversary     of   the  Richard  Caswell,  who  became  the  first 

Halifax    Convention,    which    formally  constitutional      governor      of    North 

instructed    its   delegates    to    the    Con-  CaroHnaj    js    uninarkeJ.      Though   his 

tinental  Congress  to  meet  in  Philadel-  memory  is  commemorated  by  a  county 

phia   to   vote   for   a   separation    from  be;ng  name(J  foj.  him>  flnd  the  s{ate,s 

England.  As  representatives  of  North  expression  of  care  ,lnd  ;nterest  in  her 

Carolina    the      Halifax      Convention  feeble_mitlded   is   named    for   the  dis. 

named      William      Hooper,      Joseph  tinguished      patriot    and      statesman, 

Hewes   and      Richard      Caswell— and  Ki(.llanI  Caswell, 
they  were  instructed  by  the  Halifax 


It  is  faith  in  something  and  enthusiasm  for  something  that  makes  a 
life  worth  looking  at  . — Holmes. 


THE    CHURCH    AND    JOHN    SMITH 

(Charlotte  News) 

A  representative  of  a  homo  mission  board  of  one  of  the  well-known 
churches  of  the  South  made  a  trip  through  parts  of  Eastern  North  Carolina 
a  few  months  ago  and  came  back  to  report  to  his  board  and  to  the  gover- 
ning body  of  bis  church  that,  in  a  long  ministry  in  connection  with  home 
missionary  enterprise,  he  had  seen  few -sections  so  destitute  of  the  Gospel 
as  he  found    in  certain  parts  c-JUtkat  section.     He  singled  out    Edgecombe 

county  as  being  one  of  the  counties  that  such  a  religious  status  prevails 
sorely  in  need  of  missionary  work  in  Edgecombe  county  is  because  an 
and  his  denomination  has  already  excessive  farm  tenancy  prevails  there 
undertaken  the  planting  of.  a  mission  also.  What  has  happened  in  Edge- 
in  that  county.  combe  county  has  happened  all  over 
One  of  the    reasons,  undoubtedly,  the  United  States.     Wherever  t Were 


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is  an  unusually  large  amount  of 
tenancy,  there  is  a  dying  church  in- 
terest, a  drifting,  shiftless  popula- 
tion that  does  not  stay  in  any  one 
place  long  enough  to  take  a  proprie- 
tary interest  in  such  permanent  in- 
stitutions as  the  school  and  the 
churcli. 

[n  the  cotton  and  tobacco  counties 
of  the  South,  which  number  about 
800,  we  find  this  problem  developed 
to  an  aggravating  degree,  and  that 
is  true  also  for  North  Carolina.  In 
21  cotton  and  tobacco  counties  of 
North  Carolina  we  have  excessive 
farm  tenancy,  and  excessive  white 
illiteracy,  along  with  very  low  ratios 
of  church  membership.  Here  are 
dead  and  dying  white  country 
churches,  due  to  decreasirg  white 
population,  to  lack  of  interest  and 
decreasing  financial  supporc,  all  of 
which  are  directly  traceable  to  ex- 
cessive fa.m  tenancy.  The  State 
over,  there  are  n.ore  than  300  coun- 
try townships  that  are  dwindling 
both  in  population  and  in  church 
membership.  In  the  21  counties  just 
spoken    of    we  find  more    than  one- 


fourth  of  all  the  non-church  mem- 
bers of  the  entire  State  or  171,427 
in  all.  These  figures  refer  to  people 
10  years  old  or  older.  The  ratios  of 
non-church  membership  for  the  coun- 
ties as  a  whole  range  from  28  per- 
cent in  Vance  to  69  percent  in  Edge- 
combe. In  eight  of  these  counties 
more  than  half  of  the  people  of  re- 
sponsible ages  are  outside  the  church 
—in  one  county,  Edgecombe,  nearly 
seven-tenths!  Three  fifths  of  the  far- 
mers are  tenants  and  seven-tenths 
of  the  population  are  outside  the 
church  in  Edgecombe  county. 

And  there  is  not  a  county  in  the 
whole  State,  not  even  Mecklenburg, 
that  is  exempt  from  the  peril  of  this 
same  condition.  Wherever  we  find 
tenancy  prevailing  to  an  overwhelm- 
ing degree,  we  usually  can  put  our 
fingers  on  two  great  social  and  moral 
defections,  namely,  an  illiterate  pop- 
ulation and  a  non-church  going  pop- 
ulation. And  this  is  only  another 
name  for  no  schools  and  no  churches 
in  the  rural  regions,  and  that,  itself- 
is  only  another  name  for  stagnation 
or  collapse  or  outright  death. 


The  total  of  all  the  money  in  savings  deposits  in  all  the  banks  of  North 
Carolina,  divided  by  the.  total  population  of  the  state,  gives  us  $45.39  per 
capita  in  North  Carolina.  In  Vermont  the-  savings  per  inhabitant  are 
3371.54,;  and  tjhe  people  of  Vermont  are  not  blessed  with  our  soil  climate, 
diversity  of  argiculture,  manufacturing  and  mining.  The  Vermont  farmer 
has  a  growing  season  of  three  months  in  the  year.  He  sa'ves  more  than  . 
the  North  Carolina  farmer  because  he  appreciates  the  value  of  things  and 
"makes  the  most  of  the  opportunities,  he  has.  '  I  hajveno  doubt  North  Caro- 
lina could  learn  a  lot  from  Vermont,—  Elisabeth  City  Independent.  •    • 


12 


THE  UPLIFT 

WHAT  MODESTY  DID 

By  H.  M.  London. 


V, 


J 


In  St.  Bartholomew's  Episcopal  churchyard  in  the  historic  town  of  Pftts- 
boro  lies  burk  d  a  man  who,  but  for  his  modesty,  could  have  been  President 
of  the  United  States.  This  man  was  John  Owen,  a  native  of  Bladen  county 
who  was  twice  elected  Governor  of  North  Carolina  by  the  General  Assembly 
declining  a  third  term. 


The  last  and  most  distinguished 
public  service  of  Governor  Owen  was 
when  he  acted  as  president  of  the 
National  Whig  Convention  which 
met  at  Harrisburg,  Penn.,  on  De- 
cember 4,  1839,  and  nominated  Gen. 
William  Henry   Harrison,    the    hero 


of  Tippecanoe,  for  President  and  John 
Tyler,  of  Virginia,  for  Vice-Presi- 
dent. Governor  Owen  was  offered  the 
nomination  for  Vice-President  by 
this  convention  but  modestly  de- 
clined on  the  grounds  that  he  did  not 
think  it  proper   to  accept  a  nornina- 


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THE  UPLIFT  13 

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liion  from  a  body  over  which  he  was  today  not  having  been  fixed  at  that 

.  [foe  presiding  officer,  this  in  striking  time. 

[contrast  to  our  present   day  politics.  Governor  Owen's  death    followed 
[Had  he  accepted,  the  death  of    Har-  a  brtef  illness   while  on  a  visit  to  his 
hison,  which  occurred  in    the  spring  friend.  Henry    A.    London,    Sr.,    at 
[of  1841,  would  have  made  him  Pres-  Pittsboro.  .  Due  to  lack  of  transpor- 
[ident  of  ih-2  United  States.  ta.tion  facilities  in  that  day,   he   was 
In  this  connection  it  is  interesting  buried  in  the  Episcopal    churchyard 
'  to  note  that  Owen  died   October  9,  there  where  his  remains  now  repose. 
i  1S41,   within    a    few    months    after  The  man  who    might    have    been 
!  President    Harrison's    death.       Had  President  still  lives  through    distin- 
1  Owen  accepted  the    Vice-Presidency  guished  posterity.      He  was  an    un- 
and  succeeded    Harrison,    we  would  cle  of  the  late  Edward  Kidder   Gra* 
have  had  an  instance  of  a  President  ham,  president  of  the  University  of 
[and  a  Vice-President  both  dying  dur-  North  Carolina,   and   of  Miss  Mary 
ing  the  same  term  of    office,    which  Owen  Graham,    president  of    Peace 
e has  never  occurred  in  our  American  Institute,  and   was  the  great  grand- 
politics.     In  that  event,  the  selection  father  of  Judge  Owen  H.  Guion,  of 
of  the  President  would    have    been  New  Bern.     Many  other  well-known 
:  thrown  into  the  house  of  Represen-  North  Carolinians  have  his  blood  in 
tatives,  the    Presidential  succession  their  veins. 


through  the  cabinet  officers  as  it  exist 


I  do  not  know  what  I  may  appear  to  the  world,  but  to  myself  I  seem 
to  have  been  only  like  a  hoy  playing  on  the  sea-shore,  and  diverting  myself 
in  now  and  then  finding  a  smoother  pebble  or  a  prettier  shell  than  ordi- 
nary, whilst  the  great  ocean  of  truth  lay  all  undiscovered  before  me. — Sir 
Isaac  Newton. 


YOUNG    FOLK'S    EASTER 

By.  Jane  A.  Stewart 

In  many  parts  of  the  world  young  folks  look  forward  to  the  joyous  Easter- 
tide; and  in  some  lands  the  children  take  a  great  part  in  the  general  celebra- 
tion of  Easter. 

In  Great  Britain,  for  example,  joy  as  each  receives  the  gift — a  bag 
many  quaint  customs  are  observed,  of  raisins,  an  orange  and  a  sixpence! 
especially     by    children     during     the  And    many    visitors    in    London    at 

Easter  season.  Should  you  visit  at  Easter  like  to  stop  in  at  Westrninis- 
Easter,  in  one  of  the  London  churches  ter  School  to.  see  the  historic  game 
you  would  see  a  pleasant  practice,  held  by  the  boys  there.  They  gath- 
er nobody  knows  how  long  an  Eas-  er  in  the  Assembly  Hall  and  have 
ler  present  is  given  to  each  one  of  fif-  great  sport  in  a  grand  rush  for  the 
ty  children.     Imagine  their  shouts  of      pancakes,    which    are    tossed    in    the 


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TIIE  UPLIFT 


Easter  Sunday  and  Monday  are 
great  days  to  the  young  folks  in  the 
northern  counties  of  England.  In 
Cumberland,  Westmoreland  and  Nor- 
thumberland, Easter  Sunday  is  known 
as    "Pasehe    (Easter)    Egg    Day." 

The  observance  is  one  of  the  pret- 
tiest festivities  in  the  North  of  Bri- 
tain. Every  child,  whose  parents  can 
possibly  afford  it,  is  dressed  in  new 
clothing;  and  it  is  a  very  unfortunate 
"waan"  who  does  not  have  something 
new  to  wear  at  Easter.  The  children 
make  visits  to  their  friends  from 
whom  I  hey  receive  nice  presents  of 
Pasehe  eggs  and  oranges  with  fre- 
quently, a  penny.  The  Sunday  schools 
join  in  the  observance  by  giving  simi- 
lar presents.  The  country  children. 
in  Scotland  rise  very  early  on  Easter 
morning  to  go  on  a  search  for  wild 
fowls'  eggs.  Happy  are  the  boys 
and  girls  who  succeed  in  bringing 
home  some  of  these  desirable  tro- 
phies ! 

The  lively  celebrations  of  the  day 
are  postponed  until  Easter  Monday. 
Few  British  children  can  be  found 
on  that  day  who  have  not  received 
gifts  of  eggs  and  oranges.  The  eggs 
are  hard-boiled,  dyed  in  bright  colors 
and  marked  with  the  children's  Chris- 
tian names. 

Young  folks  in  Cumberland,  Eng- 
land, play  Easter  games  like  bowls 
and  balls.  Eggs  are  used  for  these 
games  instead  of  wooden  or  rubber 
balls.  These  contests  take  place  in 
the  open  fields;  and  are  often  held  the 
night  before  Easter  Sunday.  It  is 
a  very  pretty  sight  when  the  gay 
colored  eggs  are  tossed  into  the  air  or 
rolled  on  the  smooth,  green  grass 
by  the  romping  children. 


The  pretty  practice  of  coloring  eg»s 
as  part  of  the  children's  Easter  eel- 
ebralion,  began  so  long  ago  that  no- 
body knows  when  it  was  first  intro- 
duced. The  story  goes  that  once  a 
time,  people  were  forbidden  to  cat 
eggs  during  Lent,  and  so  the  eg»s 
were  stored  away  for  forty  days. 

At  the  end  of  that  time  there  were 
so  many  eggs  on  hand  that  the  peo- 
ple did  not  know  what  to  do  -with 
them.  There  were  no  cold  storage 
plants  then,  you  know.  So  they  just 
boiled  all  the  eggs  bard;  colored  them 
bright  pink,  blue  or  yellow  and  gave 
them  to  the  young  folks  to  eat  on 
Easter   morning. 

Later  candied  eggs  came  to  com- 
pote with  the  colored,  boiled  eggs. 
Soon,  the  ordinary,  every-day  egg  was 
left  to  the  boys  who  devised  the  game 
of  "egg-picking."  This  grew  out  of 
their  practice  of  testing  the  strength 
of  the  shell;  and  it  is  now  known 
all  over  our  country  as  well  as  in 
many  lands  across  the  seas. 

The  boys  begin  to  play  this  popu- 
lar game  some  time  before  Easter. 
They  till  the  air  with  their  cries  of 
"Upper."  When  somebody  responds 
to  another's  call,  the  two  knock  the 
ends  of  their  eggs  together.  The 
boy  who  calls  "Upper"  first  has  the 
privilege  of  using  the  small  end  of 
his  egg,  which  is  not  so  easy  to  break. 
The  one  whose  egg  resists  the  con- 
cussion gets  the  broken  egg.  The 
cracked  eggs  are  not  lost,  however, 
for  they  command  a  price  in  the  mar- 
ket.      ;•>■■: 

One  of  the  liveliest  of  young  folks' 
celebrations  at  Easter,  that  can  be 
seen  anywhere,  occurs  on  the.  lawn  of 
the  White  House  every  Easter  Mon- 
day.    Without  it  Easter  would  not  be 


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:    THE  UPLIFT  '1'S 

;-  Easter  to  the  children  of  our  National  candies  and  pennies.     Its  size  corres- 

I  Capital.    .Each   player   lias    a    basket  ponds    to.  the   means    of    the   family. 

1  of  eggs    for   the    egg   rolling    contest  The  doll  is  usually  made  of  clay  or 

on    the    lawn.      Should    an    egg    get  some  breakable  substance.     It  is  sus- 

f  broken  as  it  rolls  down  the  slope,  its  pended  from  the  ceiling.     The  eager 

J  owner  loses  and  goes  back  to  the  hill  young  folks  crowd  abput.     Each  one 

I  top  to  try  again.  is  allowed  three  swing's  at  the  "pin- 

"Breaking  the  pinata"  is  an'Eas-  ata"  with  a  wooden  club.     As  soon 

•  tor  game    of   young   folks    from    the  as    the    doll   is   broken,    the   children 

]  Rio      Grande      to      Patagonia.     The  scramble     for     the    scattered    candy 

i  "Pinata"  is  a  hollow  doll  filled  with  and  coins. 


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TUB  UPLIFT 


DURHAM  COUNTY  COMMISSION 


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C.  M.  Crutchfield 
H.  L.  Carver,  Chairman, 
W.  D.  Turrentino 


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On  the  27th  of  this  month  and  which  falls  on 
Thursday  will  be  a  glad  day  at  the  Jackson  Train- 
ing School.  The  boys  and  the  Officers  will  have  the 
choice  privilege  of  entertaining  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  of  Durham  County  and  a  delegation 
of  prominent  men  and  women  from  that  progressive 
county. 

This  delegation  comes  primarily  to  officially  open 
the  Durham  Cottage,  which  has  been  completed  for 
some  weeks  and  has  been  in  service.  It  is  under- 
stood that  these  folks  are  going  to  bring  with  them 
a  speaker,  we'll  furnish  the  music  and  the  luncheon 
—that  makes  a  fine  programme.  In  this  connect- 
ion, The  Uplift  has  authority  to  extend  a  cordial  in- 
vitation to  any  and  all,  who  are  interested  in  child- 
hood, to  join  in  this  happy  occasion. 

These  gentlemen  have  visited  the  institution  be- 
fore and  are  deeply  interested  in  the  work.  They  are 
coming  again  with  a  renewed  interest,  for  as  good 
business  men  and  with  a  forward  vision  they  are 
deeply  interested  in  the  problem  of  restoring  to 
society  that  which  was  going  a-stray. 


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13  "  THE  UPLIFT 

THREE    MINUTES-NO    DIFFERENCE 

A  talkative  fellow  traveler  felt  called  upon  to  keep  his  neighbor  informed 
about  a  lot  of  things  as  they  sped  across  the  country.  Incidentally,  it  was 
evident  that  the  talker  knew  far  less  than  his  listener,  but  the  listener  was 
courteous,  at  least  tolerant.  One  concern  of  the  talker  was  "what  time  is 
it?"  When  answered  by  a  trainman,  he  found  his  watch  was  three  minutes 
slow.  With  marked  desire  to  be  satisfied  even  with  his  misguided  watch  lie 
loudly  and  contentedly  declared,  "Three  minutes!  That  makes  no  differ- 
ence." Nearby  were  two  keen  business  men  who  had  b^on,  not  a  little  amused 
at  this  effusive  talker,  but  this  betraying  remark  was  enough  to  tell  them  the 
undependableness  of  this  young  man.  Their  quiet  comments  were  just  what 
would  be  expected  from  men  to  whom  time  means  much  and  to  whom  correct- 
ness is  a  requisite  for  worth. 

This  incident  tells  its  own  lesson.  The  only  further  comment  needed  is  to  sug- 
gest where  '  'three  minutes"  would  make  a  difference,  if  rightly  used.  There  are 
places  and  conditions  of  living  so  directed  by  the  regular  use  of  minutes  that 
none  of  them  is  disregarded.  There  are  other  places  where  being  on  time, 
having  the  watch  right,  is  little  regarded.  In  the  great  city,  with  its  fre- 
quently running  cars,  it  is  not  very  serious  to  miss  one,  or  more,  and  yet  this 
very  convenience  becomes  a  temptation  to  indifference  and  neglect.  Out  in 
the  country,  where  clocks  are  often  set  by  the  sun  or  by  a  distant  whistle,  and 
where  the  day's  work  is  from  daylight  to  dark  or  later,  it  makes  no  very  great 
difference  whether  timepieces  are  three  minutes,  or  more,  slow  or  fast.  But 
the  three  minutes  does  make  a  difference.  The  boy  who  uses  his  three  minute^ 
and  he  can  find  a  good  many  of  them  to  use  "on  the  farm,"  in  reading1 
worth-while  things,  either  along  a  special  line  which  his  ambition  would  fol- 
low, or  for  general  information  and  culture,  will  amaze  the  countryside  by 
his  broad  knowledge.     Three  minutes. may  make  a  difference. — Selected. 


THE    OUTDOOR   EASTER 

By  Delphia  Phillips 

Outdoor  Easter  celebrations  are  steadily  gaining  in  favor  from  year  to  year 
since  the  beautiful  services  on  Mount  Rubidoux,  near  Riverside,  California, 
first  began  to  attract  attention.  Only  within  the  last  few  years,  however, 
has  the  custom  begun  to  spread  to  other  localities.  For  a  long  time,  'he 
thrilling  service  held  at  the  great  cross  on  the  top  of  Mount  Rubidoux,  just  at 

sunrise,    was   the   only    thing    of   its  so  that  at  the  present  time,  hundreds 

kind,  but  the  custom  was  so  beautiful  of  pilgrimages  to  some  hill  or  eleva- 

and  so  appropriate   that  one  by  onp,  tion  are   made   from   different   loeali- 

the  surrounding  towns  and  connnuni-  ties. 
ties  began  adopting  it  for  their  own,  Because  of  the  climate  of  Califor- 


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19 


aia  the  outdoor  Easter  gathering's  are 
peculiarly  fitting.  Fogs  may  obscure 
tile  sunrise,  ami  the  early  morn  may 
be  chilly,  but  it  is  almost  absolutely 
certain  that  rain  will  not  spoil  the 
festival,  nor  cold  weather  keep  the 
people  away. 

There  is  something  wonderfully.. 
appropriate  and  inspiring  in  beginn- 
ing Faster  Day  in  this  fashion.  Thou- 
sands yearly  assemble  in  the  town 
of  Riverside  for  this  gathering,  and 
in  the  dim  early  morning  swarm  up 
the  slopes  of  the  mountain  to  gather 
about  the  cross.  Famous  singers  and 
speakers  have  from  time  to  time  given 
their  services  to  make  this  wonderful 
celebration  even  more  impressive,  but 
the  chief  inspiration  is  that  of  the 
great,  silent  throng  waiting  before 
the  cross  until  the  first  rays  of  the 
sun  gild  it  with  glory.  It  is  symbolical 
of  the  rays  of  divine  love  that  first 
lit  with  beams  of  mercy  a  dark  and 
sorrowful  world. 

If  any  of  the  throng  should  be  ask- 
ed which  hymn  was  most  appropriate 
for  such  an  occasion,  there  is  very 
little  doubt  that  the  answer  would 
he,  "In  the  Cross  of  Christ  I  Glory." 
To  hear  a  great  throng  sing  this  hymn 
m  the  hush  of  the  early  morning,  sur- 
rounded with  matchless  scenery,  and. 
wrapt  in  the  mysterious  sense  of.'  a.we  ' 
that  the  scene  engenders,  is  an  experi- 
ence never  to  be  forgotten.       i.lrV.i*  •." 

Here,  Henry  Van  Dyke  has  read 
his  beautiful  poem:  "God  of  the  Out- 
of  Doors,"  and  famous,  singers  have 
expressed  the  emotions  of  the'people^ 
through  songs  that  stirred  their 
hearts  to  heights  of  feeling  never  .be-., 
foie    dreamed   of.  ..■■         .  ■    ., 

Ml   about   the  city. of  Los  Angeles 
and    her.    suburbs,   the   people      have 


sought  their  nearest  Easter  shrines, 
and  whether  they  go  on  foot,  by  rail, 
or  in  automobiles,  the  one  purpose  is 
to  seek  the  uplift  that  comes  from  the 
heights,  in  company  with  those 
"gathered  with  on  a  accord,  in  one 
place." 

The  past  year,  the  little  town  of 
San  Pedro  held  its  first  hill-top  cele- 
bration of  the  day.  The  town  itself  is 
full  of  historic  associations,  and  is 
one  of  the  oldest  in  the  state.  It,  or 
rather,  the  site  of  it,  was  discovered 
by  Cabrillo,  the  Spanish  explorer,  in 
1542,  and  was  made  famous  by  Dana 
in  his  "Two  Years  Before  the  Mast" 
in  later  years.  It  is  a  quaint,  old-world 
appearing  town,  set  in  and  on  hills, 
with  a  vista  of  ocean  and  hills  for  a 
background. 

Within  the  enclosure  of  Fort  Mc- 
Arthur,  south  of  the  town,  rises  a 
splendid  elevation,  which  was  the  spot 
chosen  for  the  cross.  At  four  o'clock 
on  that  wonderful  morning,  the  citi- 
zens of  the  sleeping  city  were  thrilled 
by  the  far-off  notes  of  a  bugle.  They 
were  sounded  by  a  company  of  Boy 
Scouts,  who  had  been  instructed  to 
waken  the  people  in  time  for  the  sun- 
rise meeting  at   the  cross. 

A  gray  fog  overhung  town  and  bay, 
but  in  a  surprisingly  short  time,  an 
eager,  silent  .throng  were  wending  their 
way  toward,  the  .Hill-top.  There 
was. jSome thing  breathlessly  expectant 
in  the  very  air,  as  if  Nature  joined  in 
the  general  subdued  excitement  that 
pervaded  the  people.  On'e  was  re- 
minded again  and  again  of  the  first 
Faster  Morn,  long  ago,  when  the  "wo- 
men hurried  {b*0ie.fpnib.j  though  they 
were,  sorrowful,  while  these  were. ex- 
pectant. People  smiled  ,'as  they  pass- 
ed each  other  on  the  wav,  and  none 


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felt  like  strangers.  Though  they  did 
not  say  it  in  words,  many  faces  ex- 
pressed the  thought:  "He  is  risen." 
Slowly,  in  single  file,  the  silent 
throng  went  np  the  hill  to  the  cross, 
looming  black  and  forbidding  in  t lie 
early  morning  gloom.  The  scene  re- 
minded one  of  the  words:  "Who  shall 
ascend  into  His  Holy  Hill  V  "Who,  in- 
deed.' There  were  people  of  every 
nationality,  and  from  every  state  in 
the  union.  The  little  city  is  full  of 
foreigners,  and  many  races  and  reli- 
gions were  represented.  Up  from  be- 
low sounded  the  tinkle  of  Catholic 
bells  calling  to  early  mass,  but  people 
of  this  faith  were  also  at  the  cross. 
Chaplains  from  Army  and  Navy  took 
part  in  the  services,  and  blue  coats 
and    khaki    mingled    together    in    the 


throng. 

A  bugler  from  the  Boy  Scouts  call- 
ed the  meeting  to  attention  and  sud- 
denly, the  thing  we  had  hoped  and 
watched  for  took  place.  The  fog  lift- 
ed, and  a  bank  of  clouds  that  had  ob- 
scured the  eastern  sky  was  over- 
topped by  the  sun,  which  tipped  the 
dark  cross  with  beams  of  light.  How 
changed  now  was  the  scene!  The  bat- 
tleships that  had  loomed  ghost-like 
out  of  the  mist,  suddenly  assumed 
shape;  the  laden-lmed  ocean  caught 
the  rays  of  light  on  every  swell,  and  a 
thousand  lights  and  shadows  played 
over    the    green    background    of    hills. 

"I  know  that  my  redeemer  liveth," 
sang  a  beautiful  voice,  and  in  thou- 
sands of  hearts  is  the  '  assurance: 
"Because  He  lives,  I  too  shall  live." 


The  other  day  I  heard  a  man  say  that  there  would  be  great  prosperity  in 
this  country  when  the  merchants  quit  buying  diamonds  and  went  to  buying 
alarm  clocks,  and  when  the  farmers  quit  buying  silk  shirts  and  went  to 
buying  overalls,  and  when  everybody  got  up  early  and  went  to  work. 
— Iilonore  Enquirer. 


WHAT   IS   AN   EDITOR? 

Winston  Salem  Journal 

For  a  long  time  we  have  been  looking  for  a  good  description  of  a  real 
editor.  Some  say  he  belongs  to  a  profession;  others  that  he  is  a  member 
of  a  trade.  We  believe  some  court  recently  decided  that  a  newspaper  re- 
porter was  a  member  of  a  "learned  profession"  and  suppose  that  and  edi- 
tor would  come  under  the  same 
hsad,  in  the  opinion  of  said  court  at 
least. 

But,  fortunately,  we  do  not  have 
to  search  through, court  deeisions-to 
find  the  real  status  of  the  editor  in 
society.  A  friend  has  forwarded  to 
us  a  complete  descripion  written  by 
a  little  village  boy  who  was  given 
the  stunt  by  his  father  of    writing 


a  theme  about  editors.     Here  is  the 
results: 

"Don't  know  how  newspapers 
come  to  be  in  the  world.  Don't 
think  God  does"  eithpr. because  He 
ain't  got  liOthing  to  say  about  them 
in  the  Bible.  I  think  the  editor  is 
one  of  them  missing  links  you  read 
of,  and  stayed  in  the  bushes  until 
after  the  flood   and   then    has    been 


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jjere  ever   since.     I  don't    think  he 
[ever  died. 

"I  never  saw  a    dead    one    and    I 
jever  heard  of  one    petting    licked 
Our  paper  is  a  mighty  good  one,  but 
the  editor  goes  without  underclothes 

winter  and  don't  wear  any  sox 
and  dad  hasn't  paid  his  subscription 
jince  the  paper  started.  I  asked  dad 
if  that  was  why  the  editor  had  to 
;uck  the  juice  out  of  snowballs  in  the 
,',inter  and  go  to  bed  when  he  had 
his  shirt  washed  in  the  summer.  And 
then  dad  took  me  out  to  the  wood- 
shed and    he  licked  me  awful  hard. 

If  the  editor  makes  a  mistake  folks 
say  he  ought  to  be  hung,  butif  the 
doctor  makes  a  mistake  he  buries 
them  and  the  people  dont  say  any- 
tiring  because  the  doctor  can  read 
and  write  Latin. 


"When  the  editor  makes  a  mistake 
there  is  a  law  suit  and  swearing  and 
a  big  fuss;  but  if  the  doctor  makes 
one  there  is  a  funeral,  cut  flowers 
and  a  perfect  silence.  A  doctor  can 
use  a  word  a  yard  long  without  him 
or  anyone  knowing  what  it  means> 
but  if  the  editor  uses  one  he  has  to 
spell  it.  If  the  doctor  goes  to  see 
another  man's  wife  he  charges  for 
the  visit,  but  if  the  editor  goes,  he- 
gets  a  charge  of  buckshot. 

"When  a  doctor  gets  drunk  it  is  a. 
case  of  being  overcome  by  the  heat„ 
and  if  he  dies,  it  is  heart  trouble: 
when  the  editor  gets  drunk  it's  a 
case  of  too  much  booze,  and  if  he  dies, 
it's  the  jim  jams.  Anv  old  college  can 
make  a  doctor,  but  an  editor  has  to. 
be  born." 


A  bible  and  a  newspaper  in  every  house,  a  good  school  in  every  district 
—all  studied  and  appreciated  as  they  merit — are  the  principal  support  of 
virtue,  morality,  and  civil  liberty. — Franklin. 


HEAVY   TUBERCULAR   AFFECTION. 

Ninety-six  per  cent  of  the  children  in  the  Methodist  Orphanage  at  Winston- 
Salem  reacted  to  tuberculin  tests,  says  the  Raleigh  News  &  Observer,  fol- 
lowing an  investigation  that  was  ordered  when  the  entire  dairy  herd  of  the- 
institution  was  found  infected  with  tuberculosis  and  ordered  killed,  it  be- 
came known  here  yesterday.  Very  few  of  the  children  showed  clinical 
symptoms  of  the  disease. 

Health  authorities  here  are  not 
alarmed  at  the  result  of  the  test, 
and  believe  that  little  permanent 
harm  will  come  of  the  presence  of 
tubercular  cattle  in  the  institution's 
dairy.  Practically  95  per  cent  of  the 
adult  population  of  the  country 
would  show  the  same  reaction  to  the 
tubercular  test,  it  is  declared,  and 
with  the  remuval  of  the  source  of 
active  infection,    the  danger  is  be- 


lieved to  have  been  eliminated. 

MOST  ADULTS   TUBERCULAR 

"Everybody  has  tubercular  infect- 
tion,  but  relatively  few  have  tuber- 
culosis," declared  State  Health  Offi- 
cer W.  S.  Rankin,  commenting  or* 
the  condition  at  the  Winston-Sa!en> 
Orphanage.  "Ninety-five  out  of" 
every  hundred  people  would  show 
the  same  reaction  to  the  Von  Pirquet 


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test  as  did  these  children.  It  is  only 
when  the  physical  resistance  to  the 
infection  is  broken  down  that  tuber- 
culosis develops." 

Veterinary  inspectors,  working 
in  eo-operatii  n  with  the  Forsyth 
county  officials,  discovered  the  sit- 
uation at  the  orphanage  seveial 
weeks  ago.  Out  of  the  herd  of  31 
cattle,  all  but  two  of  the  milk  cows 
were  found  infected,  and  most  of 
them  were  in  such  advanced  stages 
of  the  disease  that  the  carcasses  were 
burned  after  they  were  killed.  All 
of  the  infected  cattle  were  killed  im- 
mediately, and  healthy  cattle  sub- 
stituted. 

SCIENCE  STILL  SEEKS. 

How  large  a  part  infected  milk 
plays  in  the  actual  development  of 
tuberculosis  in  the  human  body  is  a 
matter  about  which  scientists  are 
still  disagreed,  although  it  is  a  rec- 
ognized source  of  dangerious  infect- 
ion. Although  tremendious  advances 
have  been  made  in  knowledge  of  the 
disease,  the  medical  fraternity 
frankly  admits  that  there  are  many 
things  yet  to  be  established. 

The  Von  Pirquet  test,  brought  to 
this  country  twelve  years  ago  by  an 
Austrian  doctor  who  lectured  at 
John  Hopkins,  is  the  standard  meth- 
od for  determining  infection.  The 
test  is  made  by  hypodermic  injection 
of  a  dozen  drops  of  tubeiculin  poi- 
son beneath  the  skin  of  the  person. 
If  slight  inflamation  develops  tuber- 
cular -germs  are  present  in  the  sys- 
tem.,.,  r., ■  „ 

ri,, ;,.-•     HOW  TEST  IS  MADE. 

-  Tuberculin  is'rriade  in  this  fashion: 
Tubercular  germs  are" grown  in  lab- 
oratories. "  The  full  grown  culture 
has  the  appearance  of  mold.  The 
meld    is    dried,    placed  in  a  mortar 


and  pounded  to  a  powder  with  steri- 
lized instruments.  Salt  water  j;. 
added,  and  the  fluid  strained  through 
a  specially  constructed  filterer.  The 
germ  poison  seeps  through,  but  no' 
tubercular  germ.  Carbolic  acid  i; 
added  and  the  tuberculin  is  complete. 
Scientists  are  unanimous  in  the 
opinion  that  tubercular  germs  are 
present  in  most  people,  awaiting  only 
a  break  down  of  the  power  of  resist- 
ance to  develop  tuberculosis.  The 
infection  is  inherited  or  contracted 
either  through  the  breathing, 
through  milk  or  food.  Slight  poison 
is  always  generated  in  the  body. but 
is  thrown  off  through  the  natural 
processes.  When  the  body  is  no  long- 
er able  to  throw  off  all  the  poison, 
clinical  symptoms  develop. 

WILL    DESTROY    DISEASE 

"A  hundred  years  from  now  we 
will  have  conquered  tuberculosis," 
Dr.  Rankin  declared  yesterday.  "It 
will  be  as  rare  as  smallpox  or  yellnv 
fever.  I  don't  know,  but  I  do  know 
that  we  have  got  to  do  it.  Removal 
of  these  sources  of  infection  will 
help,  but  in  some  way  the  disease 
must  be  dealt  with,  and  eliminated.'1 

The  investigation  at  Winston- 
Salem  has  had  the  result  that  every 
institutional  herd  of  cattle  in  the 
State  has  been  examined,  and  all  in- 
fected catte  have  been  removed. 
Twelve  counties  have  adopted  plans 
for  testing  every  dairy  cow  within 
the  county,  and  eventually  the  State 
Veterinarian,  Dr.  William  Moore.be- 
lieves  that .  every  infected  cow  in 
the  State' 'will  have  bedn  removed. 

Under' the  existing'  statutes,  the 
Federal  government,  the  State  and 
the  owner  of  infected  cattle  share 
eqdally  in  the  loss  'entailed  by  the 
killing  of  diseased  animals.  Counties 


ir 


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o\v  co-operating  with  the  State  and  Davidson,    New    Hanover,     Pender, 
federal  governments  in    examining  Scotland,  Cumberland,  Robeson1,  Ala- 
very  cow  in  the   county    are    Pun-  mance  and  Cabarrus, 
orribe.     Rowan,    Forsythe,    Davie, 


The  animal  and  the  bird  seeni  to  busy  themselves  as  seekers  for  food, 
but  they  know  when  they  have  enough  and  then  stop  searching.  Too 
often  we  keep  busy  seeking  food  and  clothing  and  pleasure  and  gain,  and 
act  as  though  we  never  coulcl  be  satisfied.  We  do  not  seem  to  know  the- 
vrord  enough.  Disease  may  incapacitate,  or  old  age  check,  but  we  resent 
their  coming  because  they  interfere  with  our  desire. — Selected. 


ANSWER   THESE,   THOS.    A. 

(Monroe  Journal) 

Mr.  Edison  has  now  proposed  some  questions  designed  to  test  the  knowl- 
edge of  women.  They  are  an  improvement  on  the  set  which  he  put  out  some 
ime  ago  for  men.  Only  one  man  answered  them  correctly  and  -this  was 
:o  unusual  that  he  married  into  the  Edison  family. 


In  his  line  Mr.  Edison  is  one  of  the 
;reat  men  of  the  ages,  but  like  his 
Iriend,  Henry  Ford,  also  wonderful 
n  his  line,  he  can  slip  a  cog  as  badly 
a  the  most  of  us  when  he  gets  out- 
ride of  familiar  ground.  Edison 
<nows  more  about  electricity  than 
sny  man  who  has  ever  lived,  and  he 
so  dnubt  knows  mechanics,  but  he 
noes  not  know  the  mechanics  of  the 
human  mind. 

His  questions  were  perhaps  intend- 
ed to  test  not  only  the  memory  but 
the  power  of  observation,  but  a  man 
Blight  have  failed  to  answer  them 
all  and  still  be  an  educated  man. 

If  a  North  Carolinian  were  going 
to  question  Mr.  Edison  to  test  his 
knowledge  on  about  the  same  lines 
thathe  asked  questions  to  test  the 
education  of  men,  the  questions 
would  run  something  like  this: 

Who  was  Windy  Billy  Henderson? 

Quote  Jake  Harshaw's  well  known 
remark *to  the  buzzard. 

WHat distinguished  North  Carolin- 


ian was  killed  by  a  turkey  gobbler,, 
and  what  were  the  details  of  the  try- 
ing  circumstances? 

Explain  why  a  man  can  ever  be- 
crazy  enough  to  suppose  that  An- 
drew Jackson  was  born  in  South- 
Carolina. 

Shonld  Captian  Ashe  and  Mr.  Van, 
Noppon  succeed  in  substantiating  the 
Resolves,  as  against  the  Declaration,, 
what  effect  would  it  have  on  the  social 
standing  of  the  alleged    "Niggers"?" 

Did  North  Carolina  militia  bolt  at 
the  battle  of  Guilford  court  house, 
or  did  they  walk  leisurely  away  un- 
der orders  of  General  Greene  as  ex- 
plained by  Judare  Schenck? 

Prove  that  North  Carolina  is  the 
greatest  Stace  on  earth  since  she  has;, 
been  found  to  stand  at  the  bottom 
of  so  many  columns  of  figures.  '.' 

If  your  grandf Uher  was  not  born 
in' North  Carolina,  how  did  you  hap- 
pen to  do  so  well? 

• 'In  your  bpTnbn,  is  Unc'e.  Jde  a 
credit  or  a  discredit  to  the  Stale'"  ot 


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■Jus  birth.  fall? 

Which  is  the  proper  dinner  hour,  Of  course  there  are    many   more 

12  o'clock  or  6  o'clock.  questions    which    might    be     asked 

Why  was    the    Confederate    navy  profitably   but    unless-   Mr.     Edison 

yard  maintained  in  Charlotte?  could  answer  all    of    the    above  he 

Who  told  Zeb  Vance  so  many  jokes?  couldjnot    be    considered    educated 

Was  the  late  combat  between  Col.  according  to  his  own  tests. 
Watts  and  the  Supreme  court  a  dog 


The  strength  of  a  nation,  especially  of  a  republican  nation,  is  in  the  in- 
telligent and  well-ordered  homes  of  its  people.— Mrs.  Sigourney. 


ONE   CENTURY   AGO 

(Edenton  News.) 

We  are  indsbted  to  Judge  W.  M.  Bond  for  the  loan  of  a  copy  of  The  Ed- 
enton Gazette,  volumes  24  to  27,  dated  182S  to  1831,  from  which  we  pro- 
pose to  use  extracts  of  interest  day  by  day. 

The    Gazette     was   a     four-page  ton  that  his    second    cotillion   party 

magazine    size    weekly    paper,    and  will    take  place    at    the    courthouse 

such  outside   news    as   it    contained  on     Friday.      Gentlemen    must  be, 

was  derived  from    steamers    calling  provided    with    cards    of    admission 

here     or    newspapers    from     oth<_r  obtainable  at   Mr.    John    M.   Jones' 

cities.     On  the  title    page    appears:  store  for  a  dollar. 
"Printed  every  Tuesday  by  William  Even  one  hundered  years   ago  di- 

E.  Pell,  for  the  proprietor,    at    the  vorce  was  not  unknown  in  Edenton, 

cost  of  three  dollars  for    year   sub-  since  an  or(3er   was    made    to   serve 

scription,     payable    only    yearly    in  a  subPoena  upon  Jeremiah    Mixscn, 

advance;     advertisements     inserted  faUing  which  publication    for   three 

at  fifty    cents   per  square."     Who  moinhs   was  allowed  in    the   case  of 

the    proprietor    or    editor    were    is  Mary  jiixson  vs.     The  Court.    This 

not  revealed,  nor  is  there  any  expla-  publication  was  signed   by   John  S, 

nation  of  what  a  square  of  advertis-  Wood    clerk, 
ing  might  mean.  '  "     -  . 

Bishop  &  Fowler    offers    for  sale 

Through  the  Gazette    Postmaster  fifty    barrels    of    Old    Gates    apple 

N.  Bruner  informs  a  number  of  per-  brandy,  whiskey   and    new    rum  as 

sons,    who    have     omitted     settling  well  as  cut  nails  and  bale  rope. 
their   postage    accounts,    that    they  A  track  of  land,  part  of  the  estate 

may  have  some  trouble  if  they  don't  0f     the     late     Micojah    Bunch,  on 

pay  up,  as  the    Postmaster   General  the  main  road  from  Edenton  to  Suf- 

will  not  admit  of  submission  to  such  f0]ki  wa3  offered  for  sale  by  George 

wilful  neglect.  Blairi   specia,  mention    being  made 

Similarly  P.  H.  Anderson  informs  of  long  credit  to  the  purchaser, 
fthe  ladies  and  gentlemen    of    Eden-  John  Bonner  offered  $50  for  the 


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crehension  of  his  negro  man, 
,ve,  "a  quiet  likely  fellow,  about 
•.  10.  full  set  of  teeth, ^whose    fa- 


ther lives  at  Mr.  Nathan  Winslow's,. 

by  the  name  of  Spencer   (known    as- 
fiddler.") 


DON'T  RUN  AWAY  FROM  DIRT 

(By  M.  R.  S.  in  Woman's  Work.) 
Lolo  was  sitting  in  the  sun.     That  was  one  of  the  few  things  he  really  cared: 
out  doing.     There  was  pleasure  in  eating,  of  course;  but  no  meal  however 
oJ,  was  complete  without  a  long,  dreamy  lounge  in  the  warm  sunshine  after 
;rd. 

tribe,  had  this  same  habit;  they 
would  run  away  from  dirt  and  leave 
it,  rather  than  clean  it  up.  As  for 
what  was  on  themselves,  another 
coat  of  grease  would  cover  it  up>- 
and  make  them  beautifully  shiny 
again ! 

While  Lolo  sat  lounging  there,  he 
saw  a  stranger  coming  up  the  path 
that  led  out  of  the  bush.  Usually, 
the  first  person  who  sees  a  stranger 
calls  out  the  whole  village  to  look; 
but  Lolo  was  too  comfortable  to  move,, 
and  he  watched  the  man  idly.  At 
first  he  thought  it  must  be  a  white 
man,  for  he  wore  a  great  many  more 
clothes  than  were  the  style  in  Lolo '3 
village.  But  as  the  man  drew  nearer, 
Lolo  saw  that  he  was  as  black  as  him- 
self.    His  curiosity  began  to  stir. 

"Black  man,  in  white  man's  clothes. 
Uh!"   he   remarked   to   himself. 

There  was  another  thing  that  had 
made  him  take  the  newcomer  at  first 
for  a  white  man.  He  walked  briskly 
along  the  narrow  path,  instead  of 
idling  along  like  a  native. 

"Him  walk  fast!"  muttered  Lolo. 
"What  be  after  him?"  But  he  could 
see  neither  wild  animal  nor  trouble- 
some white  man  on  the  stranger's  foot- 
steps, so  he  wondered  more  and  more 
why  he  should  walk  so  quickly — it 
seemed  quick  to  Lolo — when  he  didn't 


Lolo  was  a  man  in  years  and  in 
;t.  but  his  mind  was  smaller  than 
.1!  of  the  American  child  who 
irts  to  school  for  the  first  time. 
1  the  little  African  village  there 
is  nothing    to    feed   the    tiny   mind 

the  big  body — nothing  to  see, 
::hing  to  hear,  nothing  to  do — 
;eept  things  he  didn't  want  to  do. 
Just  now.  he  was  thinking  about 
:e  of  those  things,  which  all  the 
sple  in  the  village  would  have  to 
)  presently. 

''Soon  time  to  make  new  vill- 
y."  he  thought  lazily,  and  the 
:or.ght  disturbed  the  pleasant  ease 
1  his  idleness.  Making  a  new 
iilage  was  not  an  agreeable  task, 
"."  it  was  the  less   of  two   evils. 

The  ratives  of  that  part  of  Afri- 
'-  where  Lolo  lived  have  a  custom 
::t  would  seem  very  strange  to  us. 
^:enever  the  tilth  in  their  villages 
-for  they  never  clean  anything  up 
-becomes  too  bad  to  endure,  they 
-~'i  to  another  place,  clear  new 
:-'-l  and  build  another  village.  This 
:;~;;-S  about  once  in  eighteen 
aaths. 

K  you  had  looked  at  Lolo,  you 
t;-'l  cot  have  thought  he  was 
-i'A  of  dirt,  for  there  was  plenty 
•1  it  on  Lim  and  about  him.  But 
'-'■■'■■  and  everv  o:her  African  in  hi.? 


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huvu  tp.ilu.it., ....  .  .  ,„  want,  the  stranger  to  see  that. he  was 

On    the,  very  >;.dg'e  ;bf!  hie    village  lyatclied.  '.If    he'   ku'eW.Jt,    he'   might 

stbocl  a  hut  which  nobody  hail  filtered  stop  'doing  those  queer. things',  and  L> 

for  days.     In  it  lay  a  pour  woman  in  lo  wanted  mightily  to  sue  what  would 

the  clutch  of  that  terrible  disease,  the  happen  next. 

Africaiirsleeping-sieknessl  .'  With    .no  '    What  'did.  happen    was    this:   the 
one  who  cared  enough  to, go. near  her, ■,    stranger   set    the    gourd    down   again 

she  was   sleeping  her  life   away   in  a  on  the  ground,  and  hung  the  cloth 


on 


filthy  hut,  among  dirt  and  insects  of  the  limb  of  a   tree.     Then,   breaking 

every  kind.  some  branches,  he  proceeded  to  bind 

The  buzzing  of  the  Mies  about   the  them  togther  with  long  grass  into  tlie 

hut  attracted  the  stranger's  notice  as  most    approved    form   of   an   African 

he   passed   it.     He   went    to   the'  low  broom. 

doorway  and  looked  inside.     If  Lolo  In    again    he    went',    and    presently 

had  not  been  too  lazy,  he  would  have  Lolo  saw  him  sweeping  busily.     How 

called  and  told  him  what  was  within;  many  kinds  of  dirt  and  vermin  came 

but  he  thought  the  man  would   soon  out   of   that   hut   in   the   next  quarter 

enough  find  out  for  himself,  and  hurrj  hour,  it  would  be  hard  to  count.    Tin 

on  his  way.  stranger  was  not  content  with  sweep- 

"Him  be  gone  in!"  said' Lolo  sud-  ing   them    outside.     He   made   a  tire, 

denly,    sitting    erect    with    something  with    some    strange    device    that  Lolo 

as   near   a   start    as   his   lazy  "muscles  could  not  see,  because  the  man's  back 

could  produce.     "What  for  lie  go  in  was  turned.     In  this  he  burned  every- 

that  dirty  place?     All  him  nice  clean  thing  that  would  burn ;  Jhen,  diggin; 

clothes     be     spoiled!     Him     foolish  the  loose  earth  with  n  stick,  he  buried 

man!'''  all  that  was  left. 

But  the  foolish  man  was  coming  Lolo  had  never  seen  anything  like 
out  again.  In  his  hand  was  an  old  this.  But  stranger  things  were  I" 
gourd  dipper.  He  laid  down  the"  little  conic.  The  man,  taking  oft  his 
bundle  he  carried  carefully  beside  the  "white  men's  shoes,"  and  rolling  np 
path.  Then  lie  took  the  gourd  down  his  duck  trousers,  carried  gourd  utter 
to  the  stream  that  ran'  a  little  way  gourd  of  water,  and  with  his  broom- 
beyond,  and  dipped  some  water  in  it.  a'nd  another  one  which  he  made  when 
Coming  back;  he  knelt  beside  his  bun-  that  one  was  worn  out— he  scrubbed 
flit'  and  took  from  it  a  piece  of  White  the  hard  earthen  door  of  the  hilt  with 
'doth.  Then  lie  entered  the  h'ut  again,  all  his'  'might.  .The  heat  dried  it  al- 
clirVying    the   cloth   and    the   water.  n'rdst  as  soon  as  lie   was  done. 

Lolo V curiosity   got' the   better   of  "Xo'w,  what   happen'.'"  Lolo  asked 

his  laziness.  'Rising  with  umis'al  quick-  Himself;   for  the'    man  bad     throim 

ness,  he  started  over  to  where  l.e  could  away"  his   broom    ami   gone   for  nton 

'get  a  view  inshiethe  hut.              '  water. 

":TluY    strange    man     stood'    within,  '  Now    the    white    cloth    came   dowr 

lbolcing' a'roilnd  for  a'plaee  to  set  the  from  the  tree;  the  bundle  came  o'pei 

gourd .down."  Then  he' shook  his  head  again,   and   a 'queer   little  green  cake 

aiid'Tnrned  to  come  out' again.'    Lolo  of  something  came  out  of  it,  and  ivenl 

Bt-epp'ed  helnrra  a  hut.  for  he  did 'not  into  the  hut  with  the  hum,  the  wSfei 


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id  the  white  cloth.  Lulu  had  never 
en  soup  in  his  life  before. 
The  stranger  bent  over  the  rude 
irthon  bed  where  the  poor  woman 
v,  Tenderly  he  bathed  her  uueons- 
ous  face  and  her  grimy  hands.  The 
varms  of  flies  were  already  leaving 
,.  hut,  where  tie  odor  of  filth  was 
J  longer  to  be  enjoyed. 
There  were  other  things  that  came 
ill  of  the  bundle,  but  Lolo  could  not 
>e  what  they  all  were.  Something 
rem  a  little  black  bottle  was  dropped 
a!0  the  woman's  mouth,  and  the  man 
iroked  her  throat  gently  until  she 
flowed  it.  Then  he  gathered  his 
longings  and  put  them  into  the  bun- 
"e  again — all    but  the    white    eloth; 


;  At  last  the  man  started  on  his  way 
lain,  right   up   into   the   middle    of 

Vs  village.     Lvlo  followed  him  at 

i  ° 

•afe  distance. 

'One  day,  many  sionths  later,  a.  mis- 
pary  from  the  coast  came  into  the 
pvc  interior,  following  the  steps  of 
p  native  Christian  teacher  who  had 
be  that  way  to  bring  the  good  news 
: Jesus  and  .His  love. 
. At  the  little  village  where  Lolo  liv- 


ed— which  hadn't,  moved  since  then; 
it  was  cleaned  up,  instead! — he  found 
about  sixty  men  and  women  waiting 
to  be  examined  for  baptism. 

The  leader  was  a  very  big  and  very 
black  fellow  who  gave  his  native  name 
as  Lolo,  but  asked  to  be  baptized  un- 
der the  name  of  Paul. 

"What  made  yon  want  to  be  a 
Christian?"  asked  the  missionary 
when  he  examined  this  man. 

Then  Lolo  told  him  all  the  story 
of  the  sick  woman,  die  filthy  hut,  and 
the  man  who  didn't  run  away  from 
the  dirt,  but  cleaned  it  up. 

"Him  take  off  shoes,  roll  up  clothes, 
carry  water,  sweep,  wash  old  woman's 
face,  make  her  rest  easy.  Then  him 
come  up  in  town,  talk  about  Jesus, 
say  Him  help  people.  Then  I  say, 
'You  good  Jesus-man;  do  what  Him 
do.  This  be  true  talk;  this  be  good 
talk.  Lolo  be  Jesus-man  too.'  " 
Lolo  paused  for  a  moment.  Then  he 
looked  around  the  clean  little  village, 
and  waved  his  big  hand. 

"'Deeds  never  die!'"  he  said. 
And  that  is  an  African  proverb  that 
is  just  as  true  in  any  other  country 
in  the  world. 


HURRY 

[Hurry,  say?  an  exchange,  is  peculiarly  an  American  trait.  It  is  one  of  the 
dominant   characteristics  of  our  life.     We  ha;e  almost  made  it  a   false 

i. 

!,. 
i;tis  mostly  not  an  efficient  factor 

[to  accomplishment  of  th?  world's 
A  Rather  it  is  a  mark  of  sup- 
'Mlity,  the  evidence  of  unbalanc'- 

Wdgment,  incompetency  for  the 
Ntion  of    the   work     in     hand. 

■f.visan  excuse  for  thoroughness 

honesty. 


Hurry  has  deep-seated  causes. 
At  the  root  of  hurried  conduct  there 
frequently  lies:  want  of  self-direct- 
ion, or  the  desire  to  appear  en- 
grossed in  affairs;  neglect  of  duty, 
or  the  postponement  of  itsdischage. 

The  atmosphere  of  hurry  is  con» 
ducive  to  ill  temper,   hasty    speech, 


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tmkindness  and  general  irritability. 
It  is  in  open  opposition  to  self-mast- 
•ery.  God  works  through  nature  sim- 
ply and  auiet.ly,  and  an  imperturb- 
able demeanor  is  in  harmony  with 
the  laws  of  the  universe.  The  mod- 
ern habit  of  hurry  amounts  to  nega- 
tive transgression.  We  do  not 
cultivate  the  virtue  of  self-controh 
we  do  not  learn  the  beautiful  lesson 
of  patience.  Habits  of  prayer  ar;i 
■contemplation  are  unknown  in  our 
-distracted  course. 

What  excellences  of  mind,  what 
riches  of  character,  are  possible  to 
those  who  do  not  hurry,  who  over- 
"Com.tr  external  excitement  and  go  oe, 


according  to  Robert  Louis  Stevenso' 
"like  a  clock  during  a  thundf 
storm" 

Three  desirable   things,    at  lea- 
may  be  attained  by    the    refusal  ■ 
hurry:  adoration,    friendliness,   a; 
the  cultivation  of  selfhood.     Woe 
it    not    be    worth     vhile,    amid  o; 
crowded  existence,    to  take  time 
adore?     To  feel  at  home    in   chur: 
when    there    is    no     public     sen\ 
schedule?     Are  some  of  the    peoj 
among  wnom  our  birth    or    occii; 
tion  has  placed    us    worth    knowir 
better?      What    of    the      untouch; 
resources  latent  in  ourselves? 


INSTITUTIONAL     NOTES 
By  S.  B.  Davis 


Soloman  Thompson  is  the  latest 
arrival  at  the  school. 

Capt.  Grier  is  giving  the  school 
grounds  a  general  good  cleaning  up. 

Vass  Fields  who  has  recently  been 
sick,  is  now  well  aud  back  oh  pun.p 
duty. 

The  Printing  Office  is  getting  out 
a  time  card  for  the  Wood  Workirg 
Department. 

Boys  to  receive  visits  last  Wei- 
nesday  were;  Claude  Coley,  James 
Phillips,  Victor  High,  JohnEdwaids 
and  Harry  Suthers. 

Harry  Hayes,  recent  arrival  at 
the  school,  has  been  placed  in  the 
Printing  Office,  He  is  expected  :o 
be  the  next  successful  reporter. 

S.  I.  Sharp,   of  Greensboro,    who 


was  a  former  pupil  here  and   who 
making  good  as    a    salesman,  spa 
Tuesday     and     Wednesday   at  t: 
school.    He  is  representing  thp  Wer 
ern  Electric  Company. 

The  trees  around   the    school  a: 
on  the  campus    are    taking   on  n. 
life    and    getting  green  respond::; 
to  the   coaching  of    the    sun,    S> 
when  the  sun's  rays    grow  strong-: 
the  boys    will  be    seeking    the  c 
shade  afforded  by  these  trees. 

There  are  many  unusual  chars, 
teis  at  the  school  so  why  can  wer. 
claim  a  poet?  William  Wilson  - 
the  best  at  the  school.  He  islv 
because  so  far  no  others  have  ma: 
their  debut.-  Perhaps  by  thenr: 
issue  another  poet  will  appear. 

Mr.  Goer,  assisted  by  his  for. 
of  boys,  has  made  a  ditch  leve 
for  the  school  and  a  tool  cabinet: 
Mr.  Horton,  our  shoe  mender.  I 
boys  working  under  Mr.  Cioer's;: 
pervision  are:  James  Shipp,  Mar: 
Butler,  Bertram  Hart  and  Clyde P 


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lard.  pleasures  and  profits  of  a  radio.  The 

-    ..                  .          ,           ,  aerial  has  been  raised  ovtr  the  school 

Quite  a    tew  boys   have    been  en-  building  and  soon  a]I  of  the            a. 

quiring  as  to  when    the  decisions  of  tug  wi],  be  cwip]ete.     Then  wiU  the 

the  )udges  (who   were  to  judge  the  b6      hear_    by  tfce    dd  of    th(?  radio 

essays  on  what   I  Would    Like  to  do  many  concerts  from  far  away  cities, 

and  why      Would  Like  to  do  it)  are  Th      an?  enthused  over  the  p,.ospets 

to  be  made    public.     They  are  anxi:  of  the  eruertainments  that  they  will 

ously    awaiting    to   see  who  will  win  l 
the  prize. 

,    .,         ,     „     ,T.  ,  ,          ,  Sunday   is    Easter!     Such    is    the 

Mr   and    Mis.    J.    B     Webb    and  thought  which    remains    uppermost 

Miss  Dora  Landreth.  all  of  Kanapohs  •„  the    min(]s    of    the  boys-     Easler 

were  visitors  at  the    sc  ,ool   Sunday.  means  t0  some  hoIi  j         good  tM 

Miss  Landreth  took    quite    a    liking  to  eat_  and         d  times.     But  t0  tho 

for  James    Autry    of    the    Meek  en-  b        at    lhe  schoo,    lt    means    more 

burg  Cottage.     She    told    him    that  tban     just      these    common  things. 

she  was  going  to  send  him  a  box    as  prid        ;s    tbe   anniversary    of    the 

soon  as  she  got  home.  crucifixion  of    Christ    and  Sunday  is 

Rev.    Mr.  Lawrence,  of   Concord,  the  anniversary  of   rising    f.om    the 

held  services  in  the  Chapel  Sunday.  grave.     They    are  happy    to  realize 

He  read    Romans    12th:    9---2L    and  that  on  this    day  many,    many  years 

then  took  for  his  text  rather  a  long  aS°  Jesus  d;ed    that   they    might  be 

one  it  being  found  in  Proverbs    the.  saved  from  sin- 

30th  chapter  and  verses  24---2S     He'  The  Boger  Literary  Society,  nam- 

then  spoke  on  prepardness.  fortifica-  ed  in  honor  of  Supt  Bo         and  for. 

tion,  unity  and  persistence.  med  in  the  Durham    Cottage,     held 

Workmen  are  busv  with  the  in-  its  election  of  officees  last  Tuesday, 
stallationof  the  huge  McEary  cold  The  officers  elected  were  as  follows: 
air  refrigerator  which  is  being  install-  Jack  McLellan,  President;  Richard 
ed  in  the  same  building  with  the  ice  Johnson,  Vice  President;  Simon 
plant.  We  hope  to  be  making  our  Gams,  Recording  Secretary;  Ray- 
own  ice  within  the  next  few  days.  mond  Keenan,. Corresponding  Secre- 
Onr  drinking  fountain  at  the  Latham  tar.v=  William  Hancock,  First  Re- 
Pavilion  will    be  cooled  with  ice.  porting     Critic;     Preston    McNeill, 

Second    Reporting    Critic;    William 

^  We  did  not  nave  a    game    of   ball  Gregory    Censor    and    Wesley  Cook 

Saturday  and    because   of   this,    the  Prosecuting     Critic.     This     society 

majority  of  the  boys  was   disappoint-  will  make  an  unusually  good  record. 
ed.     However,  the  boys  all    went   to 

the  ball  grounds  and  played    among  The  changes    in    bo>s    after    they 

themselves  tor  an  hour  or    so.     Then  have  fPent  a  t,me  at  this  sch°o1    are 

line  was  called  and  they  left  for  the  wonderful  to  behold.   When    a    new 

cotta-es  where  a    fresh    bath    and  Pallid    face'    unhealthy   boy    arrives 

clean  clothes  were  given  them.  at  th,s  school>  he  ,s  alwa-vs  a  subject 

of  the  officers  and  the  sober  thinking 

The    boys     will    soon     enjoy    the  boys.     His  development   is    watched 


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intently.  Soon  the  watcher?  begin 
to  notice  a  change  in  the  subject. 
His  cheeks  begin  to  take  on  color. 
His  face  rounds  out.  He  takes  on 
weight.  Soon  he  is  a  healthy  spec- 
imen of  humanity.  Many  examples 
of  this  development  are  to  be  found 
but  the  most  noticeable  is  the  one  of 
Magnus  Wheeler.  When  running 
around  the  lawn  he  would  always  be 
last  and  even  then  he  could  hardly 
co.ue  in.  But  he  began  to  take  on 
fat  and  now— well,  suffice  to  say, 
that  haidly  a  day  does  he  miss  in 
leading  the  racers  and  coming  in 
ahead  of  all  others. 


Need  More  White    Settlers 

North  Carolina  is  too  sparsely  set- 
tled. We  are  trying  to  get  better 
roads  and  better  schools,  and  Heav- 
en knows  we  need  both!  But  a  county 
with  50,000  people  can  support  good 
roads  much  more  easily  than  a  county 
where  there  are  only  10..000  or  20,000 
people  to  carry  the  whole  burden. 

Not  only  do  we  need  more  white 
settlers,  but  we  have  abundant  room 
for  them.  North  Carolina  is  about 
the  same  size  as  Iowa  and  Illinois. 
Yet  the  li*20  census  shows  that  Iowa 
has  28,000,000  acres  of  improved  or 
cultivated  land  and  Illinois  27,000,000 
whereas  North  Carolina  has  only  8,- 
000,000.  North  Carolina's  8,000,000 
acres  of  cultivated  land  vs.  Iowa's 
28,000,000--there  is  the  contrast! 

Nor  is  the  uncultivated  land  of 
North  Carolina  to  be  found  chiefly 
on  our  mountain  slopes.  Most  of  it 
is  level,  productive,  easily  cultivated 


eastern  North  Carolina  soil.  Tlie- 
state  should  redouble  its  emphasis 
on  drainage  and  encourage  the  com- 
ing of  good  settlers.  This  will  mean 
better  roads,  better  schools,  and 
lightered  tax  burdens  Think,  for 
examp!e,  how  much  one  Ohio  farm- 
er, A.  L.  French,  was  worth  to 
North-Carolina!  -Clarence  Poe. 


Summer  Rates  On  Southern 

During  the  coming  summer  tou- 
rist season,  the  Southern  Railway 
System  will  sell  round-trip  week-end 
tickets  from  principal  points  to  all 
mountain  and  seashore  resorts  in  the 
South  at  sixty  percent  of  the  double 
one-way  fare,  or  a  fare  and  one- 
fifth,  for  the  round-trip.  As  a  illu- 
stration, where  the  one  way  fare  is 
$10.00,  the  round  trip  fare  will  be 
$12.00. 

These  tickets  will  be  sold  on  Fri- 
days and  Saturdays  and  will  be  gnod 
for  return  trip  until  Tuesdays,  this- 
being  a  more  liberal  arrangement 
than  has  ever  before  been  in  effect 
and  one  which  will  enable  the  people 
of  the  South  to  make  week-end  trips 
to  mountain  and  seashore  resorts  at 
a  very  reasonable  cost.  It  will  be 
especially  advantageous  to  business 
men  who  wish  to  make 'Weekly  visits- 
to  their  families- at  resorts.  These 
tickets  will  be  sold  from  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and 
Louisville,.  Ky.,  as  well  as  points 
throughout  the  Southeast. 

These  tickets  will  be  put  on  sale- 
May  13th  and  will  be  sold  until  the- 
latter  part  of  September. 


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There  are  no  two  persons  alike.  We  differ  from 
one  another  in  many  of  the  characteristics  and  as- 
pects of  life.  We  could  not  be  precisely  alike  if  we 
were  to  try.  There  are  many  reasons  lying  at  the 
basis  of  our  differences.  But  I  have  been  wonder- 
ing if  the  reason  is  not  in  the  presence  or  absence 
of  a  real  purpose  in  life.  Sometimes  we  have  seen 
those  who  had  a  good  start,  who  were  generously 
endowed  with  talents,  whose  standing  was  of  the 
best,  and  yet  they  drifted,  amounting  to  almost 
nothing.  Then  again  we  have  known  those  who  got 
a  poor  start,  gave  little  promise  of  even  average 
success  in  life,  and  who  labored  under  many  handi- 
caps, and  yet  to  our  surprise  they  forged  to  the 
front,  passing  others  who  had  many  more  advan- 
tages. A  purpose  is  nothing  more  than  a  mind  to 
achieve  something.  It  brings  every  talent  and 
energy  to  bear  on  the  accomplishment  of  that  one 
thing.  It  has  no  power  to  increase  our  endowments, 
but  it  does  teach  us  how  to  unite  them,  draw  them 
together,  and  concentrate  them  upon  the  attainment 
of  one  goal.  The  scattered  rays  of  the  sun  would 
not  kindle  a  fire,  but  take  a  mirror  and  focus  the 
sun's  rays  on  a  given  object  and  see  the  result. 
Scattered  human  energies  are  dissipated  and  largely 
wasted  energies.  To  be  able  to  say,  "This  one  thing 
I  do,"  is  the  secret  of  an  enlarged  and  useful  career. 
To  flit  from  one  task  to  another  reduces  our  efforts 
and  paraly:es  our  energies. — Selected. 


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The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's   Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  seeond-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the   Post  OSiee   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

COMMISSIONER  WILKINSON-- -THE  PACIFIER. 

If  any  one  desires  the  truth,  go  tD  headquarters.  Some  w<=eks  ago  The 
Uplift,  in  noting  the  new  and  virile  organizations  starting  up  in  Concord 
for  the  common  weal  and  expressing  a  pardonable  delight  that  the  old  town 
had  decided  to  stop  curb-stone  knockings  and  complainings,  bucking  and 
spite-work  and  blind  devotion  to  the  one-man  idea,  suggested  that  the  Ro- 
tarians  and  the  Kiwanians  might  serve  the  public  a  good  turn  by  delegat- 
ing a  committee  to  wait  on  Highway  Commissioner  Wilkinson,  of  this  dis- 
trict, and  make  inquiry  "When  lightening  would  strike  in  Cabarrus  " 

This  was  done  in  the  course  of  time;  and  no  sooner  done,  than  irresponsi- 
ble run.ors,  deductions,  prophecies,  misunderstandings,  and  evidences  of 
dissatisfactions  and  cross-wires,  began.  Commissioner  Wilkinson  came  to 
Concord  Saturday  last.  He  brought  his  engineer,  and  a  good  one  is  this 
fellow  Pridgen,  who  knows  his  business  from  a  to  z.  Mr.  Wilkinson  listen- 
ed most  eharmintrly  to  the  remarks  and  resolutions.  He  was  awake  to  all  that 
wasgiingon.  He  made  his  talk—clear,  well-worked  out,  sounded  very 
sensible  and  was  sensible  all  through.  He  soon  satisfied  the  representative 
partvthat  had  assembled  that  he  knew  his  business,  was  doing  the  best  that 
could  be  done  and  just  as  fast  as  it  was  possible.  He  won  the  folks,  and 
what  seemed  at  one-  time  the  occasion  for  a  division,  factional  struggle  and 
a  mess,  vanished  by  this  man  Wilkinson's  gentleness,  smoothness,  clearness 
and  his  most  evident  purpose  to  do  the  right  thing  promptly  for  the  Cabar- 
rus cause. 

The  problem  was  thus  solved;  and  right  on  the  heels  of  this  amicable 
settlement,  Mr.  Martin  Cannon  movid  that  the  plan  outlined  by  Commissi- 


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oner  Wilkinson  be  endorsed  and  accepted,  and  it  accordingly  and  unanimous- 
ly carried.     It  was  all  and  entirely    due    to   Commissioner  Wilkinson,    The 

Pacifier. 

The  plan,  as  developed  at  the  meeting  on  Saturday,  involves  (he  letting 
of  the  contract,  at  the  May  meeting  of  the  Highway  Commission,  for  the 
Construction  of  a  hard  surface  road  from  the  corporate  limits  of  C  ncord 
to  the  Mecklenburg  line;  and  the  survey  of  the  road  from  the  Concord  lim- 
its north  to  the  Rowan  line,  rebuilding  the  old  road,  putting  it  into  proper 
repair  and  removing  the  grade  crossing  at  Cook's  Crossing.  That  has  been 
the  idea  all  the  while,  and  preparation  had  been  making  for  months  to  bring 
all  this  about,  but  idle  gossip  and  irresponsible  rumor  had  got  the  purpose, 
the  real  purpose,  into  a  tangled  ball,  locally. 

Everybody  lef r  satisfied  that  Cabarrus  would  be  properly  and  justly 
treated,  and  all  were  glad  the  Pacifier  came— when  the  love-feast  was  about 
to  start  Col.  Wade  H.  Harris,  editor  of  the  Observer,  walked  in  smiling, 
and  we  had  the  honor  of  convincing  him  that  there  are  more  than  one 
Hartsell  in  these  diggins  by  introducing  to  him  Mr.  J.  L.  ("Tiny")  Hartsell, 
the  Mill  man,  and  Senator  L.  T.  Hartsell,  (Luther),  the  Lasvyer  and  both 
of  these  Hartsells  are  good  men---but  Col.  Harris  insisted  on  knowing  which 
is  the  better.  He  was  directed  to  look  at  the  hair---he  is  now  convinced 
that  we  have  in  Cabarrus  county  just  as  many  Hartsells  as  they  have  "Mcs," 
in  Mecklenburg. 


ANALYZING  ACCURATELY  THE  SITUATION. 

Elsewhere  in  this  number  will,  be  found  a  very  strong  presentation  of 
"North  Carolina's  Needs"  as  seen  by  the  well-trained  eve  of  Dr.  W.  L.  Po- 
teac,  President  of  Wake  Forest  College.  Dr.  Poteat  recognizes  what  thous- 
ands  of  others  in  the  state  have  been  certain  of,  but  he  puts  into  language 
the  defects  so  clearly  that  conviction  must  follow  the  reading  of  th.  very 
sensible  article. 

The  public  is  beginning  to  see  the  fallacy,  if  not  the  foolishness,  f  the 
'edict-made  or  hand-made  teachers.  Just  because  a  teacher  has  con  .Meted 
a  certain  course  in  a  favorite  school  with  an  edict-made  classification,  r  one 
who  has  gone  through  the  frolic  of  a  theory  summer  school,  does  no;  make 
it  safe  for  one  to  accept  that  teacher  as  a  qualified  and  efficient  teacher. 
It  is  "too  heavy  emphasis  on  method",  quoting  Dr.  Poteat,  "at  the  e:  pense 
of  subject  matter."  Growing  out  of  this  method  prevailing  in  the  i  acher- 
facteries  that  have  been  set  up  in  North  Carolina    "many    know    1    w   to 


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teach  English,  but  do  not  know  how  to  write  it." 

It  is  well  enough  to  manifest  pride  in  the  physical  improvement  in  our 
public  schoo's  and  to  glorify  ourselves  in  the  attitude  of  the  public  to  sub- 
mit to  the  enormous  increase  in  the  public  school  fund---both  of  which  are 
objects  of  great  pride  and  are  necessary---but  when  the  people  come  to  feel 
that  there  is  too  little  response  in  the  way  of  result  for  all  this  expenditure, 
as  thousands  are  coming  to  look  upon  it,  there  is  grave  danger  of  a  severe 
back  set  to  the  cause.  The  multiplication  of  departments  and  supervisors, 
the  building  up  of  a  machine  far  removed  from  the  benighted  souls  for 
which  all  those  efforts  are  made,  at  an  extravagant  cost,  does  not^and  can 
not  solve  the  great  educational  problem  confronting  the  state. 

Eliminate  three-fourths  of  the  machinery  that  has  been  set  up  by  the 
educational  department,  cut  out  fifty  or  sixty  percent  of  the  officialdom 
that  is  being  maintained  at  great  cost,  transfer  more  of  the  responsibili- 
ties back  to  the  people,  where  they  properly  belong,  and  cut  out  the  useless 
red-tape,  then  the  "output"  will  have  a  chance  to  appear],commensurate 
with  the  expenditure. 


A  COMPARISON. 

We  copy  elsewhere  in  this  number  a  pen  picture  of  the  prevailing  saloons 
of  other  days.  This  is  from  the  Salisbury  Evening  Post,  a  fine  old  town 
wheie  there  yet  live  a  number  of  elegsnc  gentlemen  who  saw  with  their 
personal  eyes  just  what  Editor  Hurley  describes. 

Twenty-five  years  ago  the  most  popular  one  place  in  Salisbury  was  just 
by  the  railroad,  in  a  corner  of  what,  was  historically  called  the  Mount  Ver- 
non Hotel.  It  has  bsen  junked;  but  before  this  occurred, 'there  was  enough 
damage  and  evil  wrought  to  serve  a  thousand  generations  in  working  off 
the  superabundance  of  wild  oats.  It  is  ?one,  together  with  all  the  others 
that  damned    humanity  the  country  over,'  forever.     Glory  be! 

By  and  by,  the  lawless  will  have  all  been  garnered  in  the  penitentiary  or 
in  an  uncertain  beyond,  but  the  temptation  in  a  large  measure  being  re- 
moved from  the  yonng  there  is  a  possibility  that'the  crop  that  makes  the 
bootleggers  and  the  moonshiners  somewhat  profitable  for  a  time  will  cease 
to  grow  and  thrive--and  these,  with  public  sentiment  actively  on  guard 
will  perish  from  among  us. 

Isn't  strange  that  men  will  risk  their  character,  their  reputation,  their 
lives   and  that  of  their  famdy  in  a  sorry  business  the  history   of  which  is  in 


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the  finality  pauperism,  suffering  and  want    nine  cases    out    of  tvn  of  those  j] 
who  handle  whiskey  and  other  strong  drinks,  legally  or  illegally? 

\  PROUD  RECORD 

It  is  announced  that  during  the  month  of  February,  the  record  always 
being  kept  carefully  for  each  month,  on  the  entire  Southern  Railway  sy- 
stem there  was  not  a  single  fatality  among  the  employes  and  less  than  two 
hundred  of  the  thousands  that  are  employed  suffered  any  injury  of  any 
kind.  That  this  is  a  fine  showing  over  what  used  to  be  the  record  among: 
railroad  employes,  demonstrates  the  great  care  that  has  been  taken  to  em- 
ploy every  safety  device  known  to  the  railroad  world. 

The  Southern  Railway  has  made  a  better  record  than  jitney  drivers  and 
joy  riders;  in  fact  its  record  makes  the  operation  of  flying  machines  look 
like  a  vertible  graveyard  in  comparsion. 

It  is  noted  with  much  satisfaction  that  Vice-President  Henry  W.  Miller, 
in  charge  of  operation,  has  announced  that  owing  to  the  large  number  of 
of  casulties  that  are  oecuring  at  highway  grade  crossings  each  month  and 
to  assist  further  in  community  safetv,  the  Southern  will  enter  whole-heart- 
edly into  the  careful  crossing  campaign,  which  will  be  conducted  througout 
the  country  during  the  summer  months. 

CLARK'S  HUMAN  INTEREST  STORY. 
You  want  to  read  the  interesting  and  valuable  contribution  by  Mr.  R. 
R.  Clark  in  this  number.  He  tells  most  entertainingly  the  story  of  an 
educational  cause  that  dealt  with  the  lives  of  boys,  who  afterwards  be- 
came distinguished  in  the  affairs  of  the  country.  The  editor  of  this  paper 
was  delighted  over  the  reference  to  that  gcdly  man,  Prof.  L.  H.  Rothrock, 
now  of  Gold  Hill.  Unostentatiously,  with  marked  modesty,  and  with  a 
marvelous  success,  this  man  has  taught  hundreds  of  boys  and  girls  who  in 
no  uncertain  manner  reflect  in  their  lives  the  wonderful  influence  and 
thorough  training  this  conscientious  and  able  man  exerted  upon  them.  No 
wonder;  for  the  father  of  Prof.  Rothrock,  the  late  Rev.  Samuel  Rothrock, 
when  a  youth,  with  fifty  cents  in  his  pocket,  struck  out  a-foot  for  Gettys- 
burg. Pa.,  College,  where  he  was  educated.  That  determination  only 
indicates  the  stuff  out  of  which  men  are  made---and  his  son,  Prof.  Rothrock, 
of  whom  Mr.  Clark  so  entertainingly  writes,  couldn't  help  being  himself 
an  A  1  man.     Though  way  up  in  eighty,  Mr.  Rothrock  still  teaches. 

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the  Commencement  exercises  of  the  Stanly  eocnty  public  schools.  The 
;althy  and  enthusiastic  manner  in  which  the  people  of  old  Stanly  (once  a 
Kgard  in  some  respects)  are  going  about  the  business  of  making  rapid 
id  progressive  strides  and  her  great  accomplishments  in  the  cause  of 
location,  speaks  volumes  for  the  faithful  and  far-seeing  wisdom  of  the 
)unty's  leaders.  A  great  county  and  a  great  pe:ple.  Stanly  has  a  live 
ire  and  a  capable  leader  educationally  in  the  person  of  County  Supt. 
eap 

Mr.  Cates,  of  the  Observer  Printing  House,  has  placed  with  The  Uplift 
newedition.of  the  "Made-In-Carolinas"  trade  directory.  It  is  a  handsome 
ieee  of  printing,  full  of  valuable  information  =  nd  is  a  fore-runner  of  a 
epetitionof  that  most  splendid  show  that  was  puled  off  last  year  in  Char- 
jtte. 

$    £    *    ;;=    *    $.  $    £ 

The  Republican  State  Cjnvention.  held  in  Win=:on-Salem  last  week,  was 
argely  attended  and  was  an  harmonious  meeting.  Mr.  Brabham,  of  Dur- 
iam,  succeeds  Hon.  C.  A.  Reynolds  as  State  Chairman;  and  the  latter 
ucceeds  Hon.  John  M.  Morehead  as  National  Committeeman. 


THE   NURSE   AND   THE   WOLF. 

"Be  quiet  now,"  said  an  old  Nurse  to  a  ch2d  sitting  on  her  lap. 
"If  you  make  that  noise  again  I  will  throw  yoi  to  the-  Wolf." 

Now  it  chanced  that  a  Wolf  was  passing  ekse  under  the  window 
is  this  was  said.  So  he  crouched  down  by  the  side  of  the  house  and 
waited.  "I  am  in  good  luck  to-day,"  though:  he.  "It  is  sure  to 
:ry  soon,  and  a  daintier  morsel  [  haven't  had  1  r  many  a  long  day." 
So  he  waited,  and  he  waited,  till  at  last  the  clild  began  to  cry,  and 
he  Wolf  came  forward  before  the  window,  am:  he  looked  up  to  the 
Kiuse,  wagging  his  tail.  But  all  the  Nurse  did  was  to  shut  down  the 
window  and  call  for  help,  and  the  dogs  of  the  hi  use  came  rushing  out. 
"Ah,"  said  the  Wolf  as  he  galloped  away, 

'•ENEMIES-  PROMISES  WERE  MADE  TO  BE  BROKEN." 


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office  iu  the  very  heart  of  Salisbury 
the  new  home  of  the  Salisbury  Even- 
ing Post  is  an  actuality — Editar  Hur- 
ley, a  Cabarrus  product,  has  gone  to 
Salisbury  and  successfully  establish- 
ed an  institution. 

Cramped  into  a  one-room  quarter, 
he  grew  weary.  He  purchased  a  lot 
and  built,  suitable  for  modern  news- 
paper house,  an  attractive,  well  ar- 
ranged and  well  lighted  building.  It 
is  the  last  word,  up  to  this  date,  in 


the  constructor  and  arrangement  of 
a  modern  newspaper  home.  ', 

Much  of  his  equipment  has  been  re- 
placed by  new  and  the  verv  latest 
machinery.  The  future  is  bright;  and, 
if  the  people,  vhom  it  splendily  ser- . 
ves,  give  it  the  support  we  are  sur? 
they  feel  due  it.  The  Salisbury  Even- 
ing Post  will  bring  to  pass  the  truth  I 
of  that  big  ele-tric  sign  seen  across, 
the  street  near  the  station:  j 

"Salisbury's   The   Place" 


In  vrorking  out  its  disarmament  plans,  the  "Washington  conference  en    : 
tirely  overlooked  governor's  staffs. — Norfolk  Ledger-Iispatch. 


THE  UPLIFT 


A  CENTENNIAL  OF  HUMAN  INTEREST 

BY  E.  E.  CLARK 

I:  was  my  privilege  and  pleasure  (and  the-e  words  arc  _.ot  used  perfunc.tsrily 
in  ; his  case)  to  attend,  Saturday,  the  15th,  the  celebration  of  the  ccntennhl  of 

Ebenezcr  Academy,  in  Iredell  county.  At  this  centennial  celebration  I  n  :t  a 
number  of  people  who  bear  good  reputations,  who  told  m_  they  were  atteniing 

the  second  centennial  at  that  place,  death  of  Dr  I l.-'i  and  the  passing  of 
and  none  of  them  were  a  hundred  his  school  the  !  thany  people  foand- 
vt'srs  old  or  anything  like  it.  It  was  ed  the  school  that  they  oiled 
tl  r  way.  The  celebration  was  held  in  Ebenezer  academy,  and  which  was 
Bt-:bany  church  (Presbyterian),  seven  chartered  in  1822.  Il  was  taught  it  the 
m-es  north  of  Statesville.  What  is  "session  house"  of  the  church  intil 
Ik:  of  Ebsnezer  academy,  a  dilapidat-  a  building  conic  be  elected.  The  nost 
0,:  old  building,  stands  hard  by  the  noted  teacher  ;;  Ebonezer  in  that 
cb"rch  on  the  public  higl  .vay  Erow  period  when  it  Nourished  as  a  clissi- 
St:.:esvi!le  to  Turners-burg  and  Har-  eal  school  was  Hugh  K.  Hall,  I:  her 
mt-iy,  in  north  [redell.  Bethany  of  Dr.  E.  A.  II.  1.  a  venerable  p.ysi- 
cl _rch  celebrated  its  e  stennial  in  eian  yet  living  ii  Bethany  eouimii-ity, 
1S75,  47  years  ago;  and  many  who  at-  grandfather  of  Dr.  -las.  K.  [fall,  dis- 
tended the  church  centennial  were  on  tii._-ai.~hed  physician  and  alien.-  of 
!  1  for  the  centennial  uf  F.bene/er  Richmond,  Va.  A.  number  of  men  who 
.'.•:  icmy,  chartered  in  1S22  and  con-  afterward  bccai  e  prominent  in  ?ub- 
•'..  ted  as  a  classical  school  until  1850 j  lie  life  were  triined  at  Ebenezei  un- 
!_-n  as  a  neighborhood  school  until  a  der  Mr.  Hall,  a:  ung  these  being  ton. 
n -•""  building  was  erected  s  ime  years  Jos.  P.  Caldwell  member  of  Congress 
ago.  and  father  of  tie  distinguished  e  itor 
Dr.  Hall,  a  noted  pioneer  Presby-  of  t!"-"  same  nar.e;  Judge  Caldwfll,  a 
terian  preacher  and  educator,  who  distinguished  n.an  in  his  day;  Gen. 
left  the  pulpit,  put  ou  his  fighting  T.  31.  Clingman.  distinguished  piblic 
clothes  and  was  a  captain  in  the  war  •«*--  in  the  ante-bellum  days,  meaber 
of  the  Revolution.'  preached  and  of  Congress.  St-alor  and  brigadiir  in 
t.  .lit  in  this  section— at  Bethany  'h-  Confederate  army;  Burgess 
til  Fourth  Creek  (now  Statesville)  Gaither,  long  a  prominent  lawyer  at 
b:.h  before  and  after  the  War  of  the  Morgantown,  1-gislator  and  member 
Revolution.  He  conducted  a  classical  of  the  Confederate  Congress:  net  to 
s  tool,  called  Science  Hall,  in  the  mention  a  host  of  men  who  wr.  tght 
■  rinity  of  Bethany  church.  That  «'«■--  '"  private  station  in  their  :]&y 
tr'-ool  .eased  to  exist  after  his  death,  and    generation. 

sV»ut  the  beginning  of  the  last  centu-  The  most  int. resting  visitor  ai  this 

!J.  The     old      Scotch-Irish      believed  centennial     cell  'ration    at     FJIjexezer 

-    education     and     wherever     they  academy    was   Prof.    L.    H.    Rotlroek 

icanilfi    a   church    they  usually    es-  of  Rowan  county,  long  a  noted  t-ach- 

:-''!ish  d  a  school  hardly.  After  the  ei  in  Rowan  and  Cabarrus.  Prof.  2oth- 


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rock  entered  .school  at  Ebenezer 
academy  at  the  age  of  13,  70  years 
ago;  and  this  was  his  first  visit  to  the 
community  in  GO  years.  He  and  Dr.  E. 
A.  Hall  were  the  only  pupils  of  Hugh 
R.  Hall  that  were-  present.  Mr.  Roth- 
rock  gave  most  interesting  reminis- 
cences of  his  school  experience  at 
Ebenezer.  tie  was  an  only  son  and  his 
father  was  anxious  to  give  him  a 
thorough  education.  He  sent  him  to 
such  schools  as  were  available  and 
when  the  hoy  had  reached  the  age  of 
.13  his  father  was  on  the  lookout  for 
a  classical  school  to  prepare  him  for 
college.  Through  a  kinsman  he  heard 
of  Ebenezer  academy.  The  fact  that 
this  school  was  taught  under  Pres- 
byterian auspices  did  not  disturb  the 
Lutheran  Rothrock,  who  brought  his 
boy  to  Ebenezer  and  not  only  install- 
ed him  in  tile  home  of  the  teacher  to 
board,  but  on  his  departure  gave  that 
Presbyterian  teacher  .^5  to  buy  Pres- 
byterian Sunday  school  literature  for 
the  Lutheran  boy  to  attend  the  Pres- 
byterian Sunday  school.  That  he  was 
well  drilled  in  the  Westminster 
Shorter  Catechism  goes  without  say- 
ing, and  the  aged  Prof.  Rothrock  had 
with  him  the  hymn  book  they  bought 
for  him  with  part  of  that  $5.  Soon  af- 
ter he  entered  Ebenezer  the  Rothrock 
boy  became  dissatisfied  and  wrote  his 
father  to  come  and  take  him  home. 
The  aged  man  called  particular  atten- 
tion to  his  father's  answer.  The  elder 
Rothrock  was  in  no  hurry  to  reply, 
but  when  he  did  answer  he  told  the 
hoy  that  'Sir.  Hall  knew  what  was  best 
for  him  and  he  would  stay  in  the 
School.  "He  could  have  ruined  me 
by  allowing  me  to  have  my  way  at 
that  time, "said  the  now  aged  man, 
who  saw   in   the  later  years   that   his 


father  and  his  teacher  knew  best,  lie 
paid  high  and  touching  tribute  to 
both.  The  elder  Rothrock  wanted  |ijg 
boy  to  go  to  college  at  llettsburg,  I'a., 
The  son  wanted  to  go  to  Chapel  Hill. 
They  compromised  by  agreeing  for  the 
boy  to  go  to  Chapel  Hill  lirst  and  then 
to  Gettysburg.  But  the  upheaval  of  the 
(ios  changed  plans.  Rothrock  entered 
the  Confederate  army  and  his  only 
sight  of  that  Gettysburg  college  was 
at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  ami  he 
never  got  to  Chapel  Hill. 

There  wcr^  other  interesting  speak- 
ers at  the  Ebenezer  centennial,  lint 
Prof.  Rothrock  easily  came  first  on 
account  of  the  association.  Among  the 
others  were  Rev.  Dr.  M.  L.  Kesler, 
prominent  Baptist  minister  ami 
superintendent  of  the  Thomasville 
Orphanage;  and  Rev.  Dr.  Clyde  Tur- 
ner, pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
church  of  Greensboro.  Dr.  Kesler 
was  reared  in  Cool  Spring  community, 
adjoining  Bethany,  and  was  among 
home  folks.  Dr.  Turner  was  rear- 
ed in  Bethany  community  and  his 
father  taught  at  Ebenezer  academy. 
Dr.  Hosier's  address,  "The  School  of 
Cur  Memory,"  was  a  splendid  des- 
cription of  the  schools  of  the  former 
day— Hie  old  field  schools  as  they 
were  commonly  called;  and  he  paid 
high  tribute  to  the  teacher  who  train- 
ed him.  Futhermore  he  boldly  de- 
clared that  the  boys  ami  girls  who  at- 
tended the  old-time  schools  muler  I 
efficient  and  consecrated  teachers,  did 
not  lack  for  educational  opportunities. 
He  not  only  distinctly  rejected  sym- 
pathy in  that  respect,  but  lie  made 
some  comparisons  between  schools  ot 
that  time  and  this  in  which  the  old 
schools  did  not  suffer. 

The    Ebenezer    centennial     was    an 


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hisi.'iie     event   and     as  the     country      would  say,   "an   interesting  time  was 
conespoudent      of    the    local      paper      had  by  all." 


What  is  believed  to  be  the  first  bond  issue  ever  voted  in  North  Carolina 
before  breakfast,  is  the  recerd  of  Stanhope  school  district,  Nash  County, 
vhen  on  the  morning  of  the  11th  before  7  o'clock,  a  majority  of  the  regis 
tered  voters  had  cast  ballots  in  favor  of  the  issuance  of  $20,000  of  school- 
house  bonds.  The  bond  proceedings  were  under  the  management  of  At- 
torney Bruce  Craven,  who  —as  at  breakfast  at  his  home  in  Trinity,  when 
the  report  of  the  election  reached  him  by  telephone,  and  he  replied  that 
if  the  Stanhope  people  are  zs  early  to  bed  as  they  are  to  rise,  they  ought 
to  "be  "healthly,  wealthly  and  wise"  and  that  he  thinks  they  are.  The  new 
high  school  building  will  be  :he  community  center  for  one  of  the  finest  ru- 
rd  sections  of  the  state,  situated  in  the  fine  fanning  country  along  the 
T:r  river. 


HOW    SOON    WE    FORGET 

(Lexington  Dispatch) 

Diriug  the  war  everybody  learned  to  stand  at  attention  when  the  band 
or  nrchestra  played  the  "Star  Spangled  Banner."  Now,  nearly  everybody 
seeitiS  to  have  forgotten  how  the  national  anthem  sounds.  For  instance, 
a  note  in  the  New  York  World  says  that  a  group  of  Girls  Scouts  psssing  the 
Stat  je  of  Liberty  on  a  ferryboat  stood  and  sang  the  "Scar  Spangled  Banner," 

•■-ar.d  one  man  removed  his  hat.  dropped  as  far  from  their  spiritual 
We  don't  have  to  go  that  far  exaltation  as  they  had  beer,  lifted  by 
though.  At  the  county  commence-  the  stress  of  the  times.  Cculd  any- 
ment  he.-e  last  Saturday  the  band  one  imagine  a  band  playing  the 
played  the  national  anthem  at  astir-  "Marseillaise"  in  the  presence  of  a 
ring  point  in  one  of  the  historical  French  audience  and  the  French 
pageants.  The  grandstand  crowd  remaining  seated  or  with  heads 
that  had  seats  kept  them  anc  most  covered.  They  wouldn't  have  waited 
of  those  standing  paid  no  attention  to  see  if  the  other  fellow  was  gcing 
to  tie  air.  Here  and  there  perhaps  to  show  respect  for  the  flag. 
a  few  ex-service  men  took  mte.  Have  we  forgotten  all  that  this 
During  the  war  our  nations!  con-  flag  represents  for  us?  Havewefor- 
scicasr.ess  was  aroused  because  gotten  those  who  sleep  in  its  folds, 
things  came  home  to  us  when  our  or  are  we  just  naturally  a  careless 
own  kin  and  ken  were  ca::ed  to  people  who  wake  up  to  a  proper  res- 
fend  that  banner  of  white  and  red  pect  for  our  flag  only  under  great 
stripes  and  stars  in  a  field  of  blue,  stress  or  excitement? 
The  war    over,    nearly     everybody 


12                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

NORTH  CAROLINA  NEEDS. 

3y  Dr.  W.  L.  Potest. 

1.  North    Carolina    needs   to    sober  in  the  lead  of  an  ill  in  illicit  alcoholic 

her  pride  by  recognizing  her  sins,  to  production.     The      intelligence      and 

drop  tail  feathers  for  a  cod  minute  conscience  of  the  state  need  to  be  or- 

to  glance  at  ugly  feet.  guniml  and  made  practically  effective 

(1)  Education.  The  tn  ining  of  in  expunging  the  stain  of  this  bad 
our  public  school  teachers  is  inade-  distinction.  Our  native  independence 
quate.  Such  training  as  they  have  is  lasping  into  license.  The  personal 
had  puts  too  heavy  emphasis  on  liberty  folly  goes  unrebuked,  is  in- 
method  at  the  expense  of  subject-  deed  sometimes  championed  by  men 
matter.  For  example,  many  know  of  respectability,  and  ever  and  anon 
how  to  teach  English,  but  do  not  the  mob  digs  into  the  foundations  of 
know  how  to  write  it;  know  how  to  our  ordered  life.  Men  of  character 
teach  arithmetic;  but  not  how  to  and  better  equipment  are  needed  in 
solve  its  problems.  And  then  the  the  public  service  to  displace  men 
amount  of  training  is  meager.  As  whose  ambition  is  not  .justified  by 
regards    the    instruction    these    teach-  their  gifts. 

ers    impart,    we    ought    to   remember  2.  Xorth  Carolina  needs  to  t'elearu 

that  they  have  no  chance  a:  one  half  our  state  motto:   Be,  not  seem  to  be. 

of  our  school  population  beyond  the  As    a    state   and    as    individuals,  are 

sixth  grade.   In   all    the    grades,    and  we  not  on  a  splurge  of  luxury.'     We 

in  the  high  schools  as  well,  the  quality  need  lo  recover  the  true  perspective, 

of  instruction  is  inferior  as  compared  and  so  our  poise;   to   put   first  things 

with  results  elsewhere   in  the   United  first.      Enhance   life,    fe*   its   comforts 

States.     Are   we   not   too   much   occu-  wait.      Enrich  life,  let  the  impression 

pied    with    our    elaborate    educational  it    makes    take    care    of    itself.     Let 

machinery,,  too  little  concerned  "about  income    determine    expenditure.    In- 

its   output ,'     Thirteen  percent   of  us  sist   on  efficiency  in   the  public  busi- 

remain    illiterats,    and,     according  to  ness.     Revise  the  pay  roll.     Cut  out 

the   tests,   literate   is    far   from   being  duplication   in   responsibility   and  ex- 

the  same   as   educated.     Agricultural  cess  in  offices.     AVc  do  not  need  any 

rank    in      the     sisterhood    of     states,  longer   positions    which   were   created 

fourth,      educational      rank,      forty-  for  men.     Jones,  he  pays  the  freight, 

fourth.  and    is    getting    tired    of    paying  so 

(2)  Law     and    Order.      Fourth     in  much  for  goods   which  don't   come. 
legitimate      agricultural      production. 


Wise  and  patriotic  met:  of  all  political  parties  are  to-day  vividly  con- 
scious of  the  fact  that  we  stand  at  this  hour  upon  the  edge  cf  the  ahyss, 
that  the  abolition  of  the  autonomy  of  the  State  moans  the  destruction  of 
the  liberty  of  the  citizen  and  of  the  life  of  the  Republic. — Senator  S:.  inley, 
of  Kentucky. 


THE  UPLIFT  13 

EVERY  HOUSE  HAS  A  SILVER  LINING- 

BY  J.  GILBERT 

Maizie  was  Justing',   with,  disdainful  little    dabs,    the  dining-room   mantel. 

;    "What  is  the  use,"  she  grumbled,  "of  dusting  a  black  marble  slab,  anyway? 

It's  just  the  same  old  tombstone  when  you're  through." 

She    dumped    three   burnt   matches  door  with  a  wrathful  jerk  and  stood 

out  of  a  brass  basket  into  the  semi-  staring   moodily   across    the   big,   old- 

cimilar 'stove  beneath  tin;  mantel  and  fashioned    '•sideyard"      beyond      the 

scolded  a  fresh.  porch.  Glimpsed   above     the     garden 

"How  could  anyone  put  a  nasty  old  wall,   a   hay  wagon   rattled   along   the 

stove  where  they  might  have  made  an  quiet    street,  leaving    shining    shrcda 

open   fireplace?"  among    the   low-hanging    branches    of 

A  brisk  step  sounded  on  the  porch  the  trees, 
outside    the    door    and    her    mother's  "Quick,   dear, "called   Mrs.    White, 
voice  called,  "Open  the  door  for  me,  "make  a  wish  on  the  hay  wagon  be- 
dear.     My    bauds    are    full."  fore  it's  out  of  sight." 

Maizie   opened   the   door   to   admit  Maizie  was  distracted  only  partially 

her  mother  bearing  a  large  tray  upon  from  her  wrongs. 

which  was  arrved  the  fresly  burnish-  "I  wish,"  she  said,  "a  fairy  god- 

ed  family   silver.  mother   would   come   and   change   this 

"I  had  it  on  here,  so  I  didn't  stop  old   house    into   an   entirely   different 
to  put    it    through    the    little    window  place — into  something  that  T — " 
piece  by     piece,"   Mrs.      White      ex-  A  long,  jangling  peal  of  the  door- 
plained,   noting  the   disapproving  ex-  bell  interrupted  her  wish  and  Maizie 
prossion  on  her  young  daughter's  face,  threw   down   her   duster. 

Maizie  found      in  this     remark   an  I'll  go,  it's  proably  the  mail,"  she 

aggravation  of  her  grievance.  said,  as  she  crossed  the  broad  hall  to 

"Who    ever    heard,"    she    demand,  the   front   door.      "Perhaps   there's   a 

"of  a    kitchen    that    you    can   get    to  letter   from   dad." 

only  across  a  porch  or  through  a  little  But   the  '"good  morning"  intended 

window?"  for  the  postman     greeted     quite   an- 

"Xow,  childie,"  soothed  her  moth-  other      person.      A       tall,       beautiful 

er,  "lots  of  southern  houses  are  like  woman,   dressed      with    what      Maizie 

that.     It      does      seem   a   little   ineoii-  described     later  as      "expensive  sim- 

venient  after  the  bungalow,  but  there  plicity,"  stood  upon  the  cracked  white 

are  so  many  nice  things  about  this  old  marble   doorstep   and     responded      to 

place.     You'll   soon  get   used   to   it."  Maizie 's      salutation      with   these   re- 

Xlaizie  refused  to  be  comforted.  mai'kable  words: 

''We've  been  here  six  months  and  "Will  you  be  so  very  good  as  to  let 

I'm  rot      a   bit   used     to   it      yet.     I  me    come   in    and    see   your   house?    I 

thought    it    a    hideous    old    house    the  was  born   in  this  dear  old  place   and 

first  time  I  laid  eyes  on  it,  and  I  shall  spent    my      childhood      here.      It's    a 

always  think  so."  scandalously    early    hour    for    such    a 

She    -hook    her    duster   out    of    the  request,    I   know,    but    I    have   only   a 


14 


THE  UPLIFT 


short  time  between  trains  and  I  could-  had  loved  theui  as  a  child  Jlaizie  was 
n't    resist    the    temptation    to    beg    a  willing  to  waive  the  point, 
glimpse  of  my  old  home."  As    they    progressed    towards    the 
Maizie,   though  a  little  disconcert-  dining-room  Maizie  thought  the  satis- 
ed  by   the     surprise  of  it,     was     un-  faction  of  the  careful  finishing  touch- 
affectedly  cordial.  es  she  and  her  mother  had  just  given 
'"Why,  certainly,  come  right  in  and  to    Mandy's    thorough    houseoieanin.'j. 
look  around  as  much  as  you  care  to,"  The   crisp   while  curtains,  the   scarlet 
she  invited.  salvia  on  the  round  table,  the.  glcant- 
Thus     welcomed,      the      attractive  ing  silver,  seemed  to  radiate  a  sunny 
stranger    crossed    the    threshold    with  cheer  which   no   black    made   mantel 
pacer  step,   continuing  her  frank   ex-  in    the   world   could   chill.     Mrs.   Ju'l- 
plriations.   •  son's    enthusiasm,    however-     i-O'.iccii- 

"Mv  name  is  Judsou,  Sirs.  Judson  tinted  upon  the  half-round  stove 

It  is  twenty  years  since   I  have  been  "My  brothers  and  I  spent   many  a 

here  and  the  mere  sight  of  this  house  jolly  winter  evening  around  that  uoy 

stir-   a  hundred  happy  memories."  stove,    or    one   just    like    it."    she  dc- 

"Just  go  into  the  parlor  and  make  dared,    "popping    corn  an."    roasting 

yourself  at   home,"   said    Maizie   hos-  chestnuts   while  mother  re;d   Dickens 

pliably,    admiring    the    way    her    visi-  aloud    to    us    after    our    lessons    were 

tor's    hair    waved    and   glinted    undei  learned.      I   never  see  a  blu-k  marble 

lie;-    smart    hat.     "I    will      call      my  mantel    without   a   memory  picture  o£ 

mother.     She     will  be  glad  to     meet  that   dear   little  group." 

I  know."  She  brushed  a  gloved  h:  ml  hastily 


VI 


But  Mrs.  White,  Mandy  told  her.  across  her  eyes  and  Maizie  thought 
had  run  across  the  garden  to  a  neigh-  it  best  to  create  a  diver-ion. 
bor's,  and  Maizie  hurried  back  alone  "AVas  this  little  window  hero 
to  do  the  lienors  for  the  family.  Sin  then?"  she  asked,  indicating  the 
found  Sirs.  Judson  standing  in  the  wooden  slide  over  the  shelf  which  pro- 
mi  Idle  of  the  parlor  rug.  looking  a-  .  vided  a  somewhat  in-adequate  means 
bout  her  with  a  rapt  expression  in  her  of  communication  with  tie  kitchen. 
lovely  eyes.                                                            "Indeed  it  was,"  laughed  Mrs  Jud-    ; 

"How  perfect  that  old  gift  pape:  son,  "that  funny  slit  in  the  wall  was 
is  with  your  mahogany, "  she  exclaim-  for  us  children  a  ticket  window,  a 
ed.  as  Maizie  entered.  "I  do  believe  post  office,  a  banker's  cage  and  good- 
it  "s  exactly  the  pattern  that  served  ness  knows  what  besides.  We  had  so 
as  a  background  tor  our  old  1SG0  wal-  much  fun  with  it  that  we  freely  for- 
nnt    things.      1    always    loved    it."  gave  its  being  too  small  t-i    allow  our  j 

"It's  probably  the  very  same.   Our  Christmas  turkey  to  pass.     That  bad 

lav.. Ilord   is    18(30   himself  and   objects  to    be    covered    with     a    cishpan   to 

.to  change,"   Maizie   contented   herseit  keep    it    hot    while    it    was  being  con- 

with   saying.     The  stiff  gilt   peacocks  veyed  across  the  icy  porch  in  formal  . 

strutting    acrois    a  .  buff    ground    line  procession — like         the        Crate-hits' 

been   to   her   one   of   the   eye-sores   oi  goose." 
the   house,   but    if   the   beautiful    ladv  Maizie  laughed  too  at  the  idea. 


! 


THE  UPLIFT 


15 


"Almost  anything  is  fun  in  a  big 
family,"  slit;  admitted.  "There's  only 
one  of  me." 

Ami  when  they  went  out  into  the 
garden,  Mrs.  Judson's  delighted  rec- 
ognition of  the  dilapidated  old  grape 
arbor  and  her  description  of  its  haunt- 
ed fascination  for  her  childish  fancy 
went  so  far  to  soften  Maizie's  re- 
sentment at  their  landlord's  unwill- 
ingness and  their  own  inability  to 
make  the  charming  old  garden  what 
it  should  be. 

Then  back  again  to  the  house  and 
through  the  upstairs  rooms  they 
journeyed,  Mrs.  Jndson  finding  at 
every  turn  some  reminder  of  the  come- 
dies and  time-sweetened  tragedies  of 
a  much  loved  and  long-scattered  home 
circle. 

Even  the  little  room  over  the  kitch- 
en, which  by  the  same  architectural 
arrangement  as  that  of  the  lower  floor 
was  inaccessible  except  by  a  trip 
across  t lie  porch,  had  its  special  charm 
of  memory. 

"My   father,"    she    explained,    had 
his  laboratory    and    did   his   research 
work  there.      When  he  was  very  busy 
lie  used   to  hang  out   a   "  No   admit- 
tance"  sign    and    on    these   occasions 
the   upstairs    porch,    which    was    our 
usual   rainy-day    resort,   became    for- 
bidden ground  and  constituted  a  sort 
1  of  zone  of   silence   for   father's  pro- 
tection." 
Maizie  smiled  in  quick  appreciation 
\  of  this  arrangement.      She  had  never 
j  been  able   to    think   of   any    possible 
"  advantge   to    be    derived     from     the 
!   whimsical  isolation  of  that  little  room 
,   and   had    found    in    it    only    another 
|  object  of  her  disapproval. 

"My   dear   little   girl,"    Mrs.   Jud- 
.   son  said,  as  they  slowly  descended  the 


wide  stairway,  "you  cannot  know 
how  much  I  appreciate  your  kindness 
in  taking  me  in  as  you  have  done. 
Nothing  will  ever  be  home  to  me  quite 
the  same  way  ;-s  this  quaint  old  place 
and  it  has  seemed  like  a  sweet  dream 
to  see  it  again.  We  have  an  entirely 
ecfnvenient  and  very  attractive  house 
in  Canada,  where  my  husband  has 
recently  settled,  and  the  children, 
bless  their  hearts,  are  most  adorable 
interior  decorations.  But  here,  under 
this  old  roof,  I  was  a  child  myself, 
rich  in  the  priceless  gift  of  youth, 
with  mother  and  father,  like  bulwarks 
of  love,  guarding  my  care-free  hap- 
piness." 

Mai/.ie  had  been  unwontedly  quiet 
during  this  tour  of  her  present  home, 
a  real  voyage  or  discovery  for  her. 
She  had  made  the  proper  polite  re- 
joinders and  shown  sympathetic  in- 
terest in  her  guest's  enthusiasms,  but 
she  had  been  thinking  hard  all  the 
while,  and  now,  quite  suddenly,  she 
spoke  her  thoughts. 

"We  used  to  live  in  Indiana,  in  the 
sweetest,  most  up-to-date  little  white 
stucco  bungalow.  But  father  was 
moved  here  to  superintend  the  new 
mills  and  this  house  was  the  only 
thing  we  could  get.  I  have  hated 
it  every  minute  since  we  came.  But 
now,  after  all  you've  told  me,"  she 
faltered  a  moment,  then  went  on, 
"well,  you  see,  I  am  young,  and — and 
I  have  ray  mother  and  father,"  her 
voice  caught  in  a  little  half-laughing 
sob,  and  Mrs.  Jndson  said  not  a  word 
hut  squeezed  both  Maizie's  hands 
hard  in  complete  understanding. 

When  the  visitor,  with  a  surprised 
exclamation  at  the  tale  told  by  her 
bracelet  watch,  had  hurried  out  to 
the   ricketv   old  station   hack   waiting 


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at  the  curb,  Maizie  went  very  slowly  hug  and   the   news   of  the  wonderful , 

back    tu    the    sunny   dining-room    and  thing-  that  hail  happened  in  her  half-5 

regarded  the  black  marble  mantel  and  hour's  absence. 

the  semi-circular  slove  with  eyes  that  "Oh,  motherkin,"  she  cried,    "my! 

sparkled,    yet    were    a    little    misty,  wish    has    come    true.      A    fairy    god-, 

too.  mother    lias    been    here    and    changed  . 

Then    she    heard    her    mother   sing-  this  ugly  old  house  into  something  en- 

ing  in  the  garden  and  rushed  across  t i rely  different — into  a  beautiful  pal-, 

the  porch  to  give  her  a  breath-taking  ace  of  youth  with  bulwarks  of  love."  . 


The  correspondent  who  says  that  the  matter  of  electing  a  judge  and  so- 
licitor is  a  very  important  one  is  everlasting  right.  Some  one  has  said 
that  there  is  no  virtue  so  truly  great  and  godlike  as  justice.  The  trouble 
with  justice  as  it  is  frequently  dispensed  is  that  it  is  mechanical.  We 
need  tig  men.  good  men,  Christian  men  as  the  agents  of  justice  and  by 
all  means  solicitors  should  be  paid  a  straight  salary  so  that  their  compen- 
sation would  not  depend  on  securing  convictions. — News   and  Observer. 


ARE  YOU  A  HUNDR1  D  PER  CENT  MOTHER?  i 

By  William  R.  P.  Emersnn,  M.  D.  in  Woman's  Rome  Companion. 

A  man  «ho  has  novo:  served  in  war  is  scarcely  justified   in  criticizing  those 

who  have  been  at  the  front.      Nor  has  one  who  has  never  been  a  mother  a  , 

right  to  sneak  of  mothers  in  any  way  but  that  of  appreciation.     The  ambi-  >• 

tion  of  the  normal  woman  to  be  an  ideal   mother  is  the    greatest   influence  '" 
for  good  that  we  have. 

Although  the  bind  of  affection  be-      I.     TWENTY-FIVE  PER  CENT  FOR  PHV  f 

tween  imther  and  child  is  the  essen-  „,,,,  i 

tial  foundation  of  all  child    training,  . 

it  is  not  the  only  requisite    tor    sue-  Tne  first  question  I   wish  to    raise  J 

cess  in  this  matter,  fir,  with  the  best      is  your  attitude  toward  your  child's  < 

intentions  in    the    world,    everyone      physical  condition.   Is  he  growing  up  , 

knows  that  there  are  very  important      physically  and  mentally  tit?   You  are  i 

differences  in  the  kind  of  care  given      quite  right  in  saying    that    you    are  . 

by  various  types  of  mothers  to  their      ready  to  do  anything  in    order    that  j: 

children.  It  is  in  this  connection  that      your  boy  or  girl  may  be  strong  and  ■ 

I  wish  to  ask  you  m  .thtrssome  frank      well.      Pint  just  what  have  you  been  • 

questions,  and  to  suggest  a  scalp,  of      doing,  and  what  are  the  next  steps  to  e 

points  by  means  of  which  you    may      which  you  havp  committed    yourself  j 
determine  wheibpr  you  are    suceed-      in  order  to  accomplish  this  end? 

ing  or  failing,  in  tne  best  job  in  the  Hive  you    weighed    each  of  your  . 

worlu-  children  to  find  whether  they  are  up 


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' 


to  the  standard  for  their  weight?  Do  mother,  your  child's  physical   condi- 

not  satisfy  yourself  by  carelessly  say-  tion  must  be  the  first  consideration, 

ling.  "Oh,    lie  is  all   right.      He's  on  not  only  for  its  own    sake,    but    be- 

I  the  go  all  the  time.     There's  no  need  cause    it    is    the    groundwork    and 

j  to  worry  about  him!"  foundation  of  all  other  development. 

It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  thus  It  is    part   of     your   duty    as    an 

'  far  practically  no  attention  has  been  efficient  mother  to  see  that  the  good 

'given  to    growth    itself.     Even    the  physical  care  which  your  child    was 

physicians  have  been  chiefly  interest-  given  during  the  days  of  infancy    is 

ed  in  acute  and  chronic  disease  after  continued  through  the  pre  school  age 

I  it  has  developed,  and  with  caring  for  and  throughout  the  years  of  school 

a  deformities  by  means  of  braces  and  life,  when  there  is  a  tendency  to  fo- 

I  splints  after  they    are    cleirly    esta-  cus  attention  upon  other    forms    of 

I  Wished.   It  is  only  sine?  the  war  that  training.      No  facto;  in    the    child's 

$  there  has  been  a  general  awakening  development    can    be    isolated,   but 

i  to  the  fact  that  physical    unfitness  is  his  health  should  claim  the  mother's 


1  retarded  growth  ■  TJ     HQW    MaNy    p0JNTS    Ff)R    H0ME 

Tne  first  ching  to  do  it  your  child 
i  is  un  ler  weigh'  is  to  see  that  he  has  CONTROL. 

.'.]  thorough    physical    examination,   to  It  would  not  be  too  much    to   say 

:'i  determine  the  cause  of  his  condition,  that  good  home  control  is  "half  the 

;1  The  examination  forms   list  all   dp-  battle"  in  the  proper  nutrition    and 

:]  fects  that  may  be    interfering    with  growth  of  children;  but  as  I  wish  to 

j  growth.   You  should  get  your  family  be  fair  in  acknowledging  the  honest 

physician  to  go  over  each  point,  and  intention  of  all  mothers  to  do    their 

explain  to  you  the  indications  of  ab-  besst  in  this  matter,  I  am  rating  this 

normal  physical  condition.     Do    not  important  factor  at  only  twenty-five 

let  a  single  item  escape  you.  per  cent.     In  tin's  sectii  n  let  me  re- 

If  the  child   is    a  mouth  breather,  late  a  few  incidents  out   of    my    ex- 

or   there    are    enlarged    glands,    or  perience  with  mothers  and  children, 

other    signs   of    inflammatory    pro-  and  perhaps  some  of  these    extreme 

cesses,  let  nothing  stand  in  the  way  cases  will  help  you   to    check    vour- 

of  correcting  every  defect.     Do    not  self  up  in  this  regard. 
be  one  of  those  mothers  whojjgrasp  at  1  think    it    will    be    unquestioned 

every  excuse  for  delay,   saying,    "It  that  the  first  moral  training  a    child 

will  be  better   to  wait  until  a    more  should  receive  is  the  duty  of   obedi- 

convenient  time    before    having  the  ence.      The  act  is    so  instinctive    in 

condition  corrected;"  or,  "The  sum-  the    relations  between   mother   and 

mer  is  a  better  time,  and  vacation  is  child  that  it  might  almost  be  said  to 

only  a  few    months    off;  or,    "I  just  be  automatic,  where  the  mother  has 

can't  bear  the  idea  of  an  operation!"  blindly    surrendered    her      natural 

Excuses  of  this  k"nd  are   responsible  authority.      Yet  I  have  had  a  mother 

for  the  continued  sufferings    and  ill  say  to  me  when  I  told  her  to    bring 

health  of  thousands    of    children    in  her    little    son    to    my    office,    "l'l 

every  community.  brnig  him    if    he    will    come!"     He 

In      'nsid.'iing    your    rating  as  a  weighed  less   than  forty  pounds;  she 


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weighed  more  than  one  hundred 
fifty;  but  she  could  nut  see  the  ab- 
surdity of  her  position. 

The  maintenence  of  the  mother's 
authority  depends  upon  firmness 
from  the  earliest  years,  and  upon 
saying  to  the  child  exactly  what  she 
means  in  every  case.  It  is  fatal  to 
say,  "If  you  do  that  again  I  will 
punish  you,"  and  then  fail  to  do  so. 
The  mother  who  surrenders  to  the 
child  for  the  sake  of  avoiding  a  fuss, 
or  to  secure  "peace  at  any  price," 
not  only  finds  the  pric^  steadily  adv- 
ancing, but  soon  fails  to  get  peace 
at  all. 

I  frequently  ask  a  mother,  ''Have 
you  spoiled  your  child?"  And  all  too 
often  the  answer  is,  "I  am  afraid  I 
have."  Sometimes  this  over-indul- 
gence is  the  result  of  the  illusion 
that  the  child  is  supersentive,  and 
that  nothing  must  be  done  to  hurt 
his  feelings,  even  when  his  best  in- 
terests are  thus  sacrificed.  Pride  in 
a  child  may  easily  lead  to  the  habit' 
of  making  an  exhibit  of  him.  The 
old  idea  that  "children  are  to  be 
seen  and  not  heard"  was  one  ex- 
treme, but  no  worse  for  the  child 
than  the  present  tendency  to  "fea- 
ture" him.  If  you  have  been  spoil- 
ing your  child,  stop  it.  Begin  to  ex- 
act obedience,  and  you  will  be  sur- 
prised how  soon  your  difficulties  will 
diminish. 

The  mother  of  a  spoiled  child  is 
apt  to  complain  about  the  efforts  of 
others  to  discipline  her  child.  She 
accuses  her  husband  of  "interfer- 
ing." instead  of  backing  up  the  fath- 
er in  his  proper  assumption  of  au- 
thority. Some  mothers  think  they 
can  capitalize  muther-love  by  leading 
the  children  to  look  to  them  alone 
for  control. 

In  one  household  where    the  chil- 


dren are  my  patients,  the  father  has 
been  told  to  "keep  his  hands  off  the 
children  until  they  are  twelve  years 
old."  This  mother  is  very  sure  of 
her  ability  to  manage  her  children 
alone,  yet  when  her  own  mother 
came  to  pay  her  a  visit  she  was  so 
exhausted  from  the  lack  of  discipline 
in  the  family  that  at  the  end  of  a 
week  she  was  obliged  to  take  a  room 
in  a  hotel,  and  actually  slept  through 
most  of  the  first  twenty-four  hours 
from  sheer  fatigue! 

This  same  resentment  against  an; 
share  in  the  authority  over  the  chil- 
dren is  shown  in  other  relations.  A 
servent  is  often  forced  to  adopt  me- 
thods for  restraining  a  child  which 
are  disastrous  to  the  character,  how- 
ever effective  in  the  immediate  re- 
sult. But  these  difficulties  would  be 
less  if  nursemaids  were  selected  with 
due  regard  to  their  fitness,  and  train- 
ed to  cooperate  with  the  mother's 
system  of  discipiline. 

In  one  of  our  large  cities  an  inves- 
tigation was  made  to  find  what  be- 
came of  a  large  number  of  girls  d 
limited  intelligence,  some  of  whora 
were  actually  feeble-minded,  who 
had  left  school  as  soon  as  the  lai 
allowed.  A  large  proportion  of 
these  girls  were  found  employed  bj 
families  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances, where  they  had  char.ee  r.f 
little  children.  In  speaking  of  her 
nursemaids  one  mother  said"!  tries' 
to  have  h  r  help  with  the  dishes, 
but  she  broke  three  times  as  raanj 
as  even  the  cook  does,  so  now  she 
gives  all  her  time  to  the  children." 
The  most  important  work  in  tee 
world  left  to  one  incompetent  to  ; 
wash  dishes! 

GIVE     YOUR     CHILD     RESPONSIBILITY. 

Next  to  obedience,  the    most   in- 


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■ 

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portant  points  for  the  child  is  train-  the  daily  program  for  her  child  with 
jug  in    responsibility.     All    children  close  attention,  making  a  forty-eight- 
\ should  have  definite  work  suited    to  hour  list  of  his    activities  and    occu- 
;,  their  ability,  for  which  they    should  pations,  to  learn  the  unnecessary  oc- 
be  held  strictly  to  account.     Even  a  casions  of    fatigue.     She    acquaints 
toddling  child  has  a  natural  instinct  herself  with  even  the  seemingly  un- 
to  help,  which    should  be   encourag-  important  details   of  his    daily    life, 
ed  if  only  by  teaching    him    to    put  observes  the    amount    of    play    and 
sway   his   playthings   or  to   pick  up  work  he  is  attempting,  and    realizes 
articles    dropped.      Many     mothers  the  weak  points  at  which    friction  is 
say,  "it  is   so  much    easier    to  io  it  most  likely  to  occur.   She  makes  the 
I  myself";  but  the  child  should  n:  t  be  acquaintance  of  his  teachers  and  sees 
deprived  in  this  way  of  the  satisfac-  to  it  that   music    and   language   are 
tiori  oi  achievement,  emitted   if    he    is    not   able  to  carry 
There  are    many    ways    in    \  hich  extra  studies  without  losing  weight, 
growing  boys  and  girls  can    hep    in  The  same  watchful    supervision  is 
the  household  tasks.     A  simple  task  exercised    over    the    child's  amnse- 
S  daily  givpn  a  sence  of  responsibility,  ments.     She  must   determine    what 
.  and  an  opportunity  for  early    fain-  activities  are  within  the  range    of  a 
ing  in    neatness    and    efficiency.      A  reasonable   expenditure   of    eneigy, 
boy  who  is  g;ven  a  bicycle  can  he  re  and  help  the  child  to  live  within  his 
•'  quired  to  take  proper  care  of  it.  and  resources,  while  exercising  his  facui- 
i will  not  gnw  up  like  the  son  of  one  ties  to  the  fullest  extent. 
:  of  my  patienr.s,  who    was    gives    an  By    carefully     checking-    up     the 
\  automobile  and  lee  it  stand  outdoors  child's  food    and   heath    habits    she 
;  all  night  with  the  lights     on!     Fos-  will  s»e  that  he  has    favorable    con- 
sessions     which    are    bought     with  ditiors  for  growth  and    a    sufficient 
money  actually  earned  by    the   child  daily  total  amount  of  the  right  kind 
are  usually  priced  beyond  the  r':hest  of  food.     Earlier  articles  have    out- 
I gifts  that  come  without  effort!  lined  the  esseiatial  points   to   be   ob- 
Back  of  most  of  the    factors  ieal-  served  in  these  matters,  but  it  is  not 
in?  with  proper  home  controls  sands  easy  to  keep  id  mind  day  after    day 
|  the  question.     "Do  you  allow   your  the    importance    of    eating    slowly, 
| feelings  to  pervaii  over  your   judg-  avoiding    sweets     between     meals, 
.'meot?"     Is  the  basis  of  vour  control  sleeping  with  the  windows  wide  open, 
the  desire  to  insure  the  child's  high-  and  breaking  away   from  a  book  or 
est  development,  or  are  you  swayed  favorite  indoor  occupation  to  get  the 
by  the  influences  and   prejudices    of  necessary  amount  of  exercise  in  the 
pur  friends  and  neighbors?  For  ex-  open  air. 


IV.  THE  BALANCE  OF  THE   SC0£2 


ample,  do  you  choose    a    school    for 

the  character  of  the  person  in  charge, 

or  is  your  choice  dictated  by   rjper-  Character   is     closely     associated 

ficia!  and'-oeia!  reasons?  with  health,  for  it  requires  character 

not  only  to  get  well  but  to  keep  -.veil. 

The    remaining    2o    percent,    there- 


in.   TWENTY-FIVE  POINTS  F' 


the  daily  routine  fore,  depends   upon  your  answer,  to 

The  100-oer-cent    mother    fcltaws      the  question,  "What  are  you    doing 


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to  help  your  child  develop  high 
ideals,  which  are  the  basis  of  charac- 
ter building?" 

The  answer  to  this  question  will 
depend  largely  upon  the  quality  of 
your  own  ideals.  Are  you  keeping 
your  influence,  which  is  the  strong- 
est in  the  life  of  your  child,  true  to 
its  best  possibilities  as  you  see  them? 
One  of  the  finest  things  repeatedly 
said  by  mothers  is,  "I  have  a  struggle 
to  live  up  to  the  ideals  of  my  child." 

There  are  ideals  of  having  a  good 
time,  of  having  one's  own  way.  ideals 
of  dress,  and  ideals  of  living  up  to 
social  requirements.  To  these  ideals 
the  health  of  thousands  of  children 
are  offered  yearly  as  a  willing  sacri- 
fice. It  requires  character  to  forego 
pleasures  for  the  sak^  of  health,  to 
resist  the  tide  of  social  custom,  to 
answer  the  question:  "Jack  and  Lou- 
ise do  this,  why  can't  I?"  It  requires 
character  to  control  the  simple  habits 
of  eating  and  drinking,  to  take  rest 
periods  when  other  children  are  at 
play,  to  observe  good  hours  for  sleep. 
It  requires  character  to  plan  and  fol- 
low cut  a  sane,  wholesome  program 
for  the  growing  child,  instead  or'  fol- 


lowing lines  of  least  resistance. 

Many  parents,  in  an  effort  togiv=| 
their  children  an  "easier"  time  thi-. 
they  have  had  themselves,  try  to 
shield  them  from  every  form  of  hard- 
ship. They  forget  that  many  fice 
qualities  are  developed  in  the  hsrd 
school  of  experience.  Both  stud; 
and  work  are  necessary  to  the  de- 
velopment of  mental  and  physio! 
power.  Shielding  children  froa 
work  makes  thero  weaklings,  sr_i 
shielding  them  from  study  makss 
them  simpletons. 

Health  education,  then,  furnishes 
one  of  the  best  me?ns  for  sound 
character  building. 

In  closing  this  article  I  cannot 
forbear  to  say  that  in  the  task  at 
which  I  am  working— the  better  car; 
of  growing  children— the  one  sup- 
port that  has  never  failed  me  hu 
been  the  interest  and  patience  of  the 
mothers.  It  has  been  necessary  at 
times  to  admonish,  to  insist,  to 
speak  very  plainly,  but  I  have  met 
with  no  resentment,  for  when  tb:> 
is  done  in  order  to  get  a  child  well 
the  mother  can  be  eoanted  on  t° 
understand. 


APPEALING    TO    PRIDE 

(County  Superintendent  Wright  in  Beaufort  News) 
Since  coming  to  your  County  last  summer  I  have  traversed  it  from  Ports- 
mouth to  Stella.  The  diversity  of  the  County's  industry  is  interesting  ad 
wonderful.  I  have  stood  upon  the  shore  and  looked  upon  vessels  deliver  their 
wealth  of  sea  food.  The  sight  is  delightful  to  look  upon  and  it  makes  me  glad 
I  have  an  appetite  to  enjoy  my  part  of  this  cargo  and  thankful  that  we  have 
some  to  spare  that  we  can  pass  on  to  ty.  From  the  ''Land  of  the  sky" 
others  and  make  the  rest  of  the  world 
happy  too. 

I  have  viewed  with  delight  our  fer- 
tile fields,  teaming  with  verdue  and 
beauty.  Our  farmers  tickle  the  soil 
and  it  smiles  with  a  harvest  of  plen- 


in  western  North  Carolina  to  the 
broad  plains  of  the  east  there  a 
no  more  fertile  soil  to  be  found  thaa 
here  in  Carteret.  We  should  give 
thanks  and  be  glad,  for  nature  ha 
indeed   been   iknd  to  us. 


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2?. 


I     have      sliced     the   jury    melons 

.  form  Bogue   Sound  ami  given  thanks 

:  until    I    was    too    full    for    utterance. 

I  IS  have  sniffed  the  rich  perfumes  of 

the  fish  scrap  factory,  which  at  time 

!  teems  to  cover  the  earth  as  the  waters 

■  cover    the    sea,     and    it     makes    me 

;  promt  that  we  tune  the  tratermzmg 

effect    of   a    common   tie   that   makes 

us  all  akin. 

This  is  a  great  Country.  Its  in- 
dustries are  in  their  infancy  and  its 
possibilitis  are  only  limited  by  the 
energy,  thrift  and  intelligence  of 
its  citizenship  of  the  future.  I  be 
lieve  in  its  possibilities  and  I  glory 
in  its  future. 

I  thought  I  had  a  glimpse  of  its 
possibilities  before,  but  it  had  never 
been  impressed  upon  my  mind  so 
forcibly  as  it  was  last  Friday  when 
I  gazed  upon  the  parade  of  the  School 
Children  of  the  County.  All  of  these 
industries  are  important,  but  they 
fade  into  insignificance  when  we  com- 
pare them  with  the  great  task  of  pro- 
ducing men  and  women  of  the  high- 
en  type  out  of  these  boys  and  girls. 
Our  crops  are  important  but  none 
compare  with  the  crop  of  future 
eitizens  low  in  cultivation.  That 
is  to  produce  a  generation  to  come 
after  v.s  rhit  is  better  than  we.  The 
1  ;  of  the  world  is  in  its  c-hildh  >o'\. 
When  God  created  "he  world  in 
its  original  form  ■■-■l.A  placed  man  in 
the  Garden  of  Eden,  His  plan  was 
to  save  the  world  through  adult  :ite. 
This  p'aa  —as  s-^h  a  failure  that  we 


are  told  in  the  Bible  that  Cod  re- 
pented and  was  sorry  Lti.it  lie  luude 
man.  His  next  attempt  to  save  Iho 
woild  was  through  a  child.  And 
since  the  time  when  the  Savior  of 
man  lay  a  bah'-  in  Bethlehem  tho 
hope  of  the  world  has  been  in  its 
childhood. 

No  community  or  State  can  insure 
its  own  future  except  by  seeing  to 
it  that  every  youth  within  it:-!  borders 
is  granted  ample  opportunity  to  de- 
velop himself  to  his  fullest  capacity. 

No  community  can  hapc  tor  its 
youth  to  attain  their  full  stature 
which  fails  to  provide  at  least  that 
every  youth  within  its  borders  have 
the  opportunity  of  a  standard  high 
school  education.  If  your  communi- 
ty has  done  this  you  are  to  he  con- 
gratulated.       If   it    has    .not    '\-,r:(;    it, 

.r.!i;h- 


I.. 


eaaer, 

is   SICCA! 


you  as  an  educational 
not  be  satisfied  until  it 
ed. 

The  history  of  a  child  that  goes 
out  into  the  world  without  ;'■:-■  ad- 
vantages of  a  high  school  ed  .':■';' :oa 
is  already  written.  Competition  is. 
too  _"reat.  Only  a  genina  car.  »fntt 
the  tide  without  ar.  education  and 
keep  his  head  above  the  waves.  We 
must  consolidate  our  ••■':.'.■  'a  and 
make  thern  better.  The  ho;  -  of  r.he 
world     is   in   it-     childhood.     A    :-.--.a 

-:.  p     M    have   hut   'if.C,   T(tSs\    \t'.'j>   ':..'i itlOQ 

and  that  should  -.---  to  raake  :. ">  :or 
a  better  and  reore  ...•-:.._■-;.•  raaa 
:':.  in  :.-  is.      Sow    •  .-. :-    '  .  Errink 

about   it. 


;s,  subsidies  fcr  nur.c-3.  subsidies  railroads,  ?.::  th-.;i  it 
fdies  to  the  taxpayers.— Philadelphia  EeeoT&, 


22  THE  UPLIFT 

TO-MORROWS  WEATHER,  WHAT  WILL 

IT   BE? 

By  Sarah  Graham  Morrison 

Ave  you  "weather-wise?"     Some  old  people  who  live  in  the  country  can  | 
tell  the  weather  for  tie  following  Jay  much  more  accurately  than  the  observers! 
of  the  government  scientists.     The  insects  and  the  birds  and  animals  and  the 
vegetation  tell  all  ab  ut  he  weather.     They  know  mure  ban  we  do.     And  it  h 
from  these  that  the  <  juutry  folk  get  their  informaiun. 

Crows  are  good    (feather  prophets,  tinue   flying   about    very   late   in  the 

When     you  see     thai  early     in  the  evening..     The   floating  of  a  gossamer 

morning  soaring  to  treat  heights  and  and    especially    its    presence    on    the 

uttering  a  hoarse,  making  sound,  you  rigging  of  ships  are  indications  of  fair 

may      reasonably     certain   of   a   fine,  weather,  in  v  hi  eh  from  time  iinmemo- 

clear  clay.  Swallows  flying  unusually  rial    sailors    have    placed    much    eou- 

high  in  the  early  morning  are  anoth-  fidence.     The      appearence     of  gulls, 

er  sign  of  fair  weather,  petrels    and   other   sea    birds   ;it   some 

The  loud  quacking  of  ducks,  geese  distance      inland      presages      stormy  ■ 

and  other  water  fowl  is  -a  sign  of  rain,  weather. 

-Just   before  a  storm  you   will   always  Flies    are    more     troublesome    and 

find  swine,  roosters  atd  liens  rubbing  sting  several  hours  before  it  begins  to 

in  the  dust  and  in  utL-r  ways  showing  rain.     When   the   clew   lies  plentifully 

their    uneasiness.     Ciltle    and    sheep  on  the  grass  in  the  evening  you  may 

announce    a    storm    'ong     before     its  look    for    a    pleasant    morrow,   lint  ii 

arrival    by    huddling    in    one    corner  ■  there  is   little   or   no   dew,   a   wet  day 

of  the  field  with  their  heads  turned  is  ahead. 
away   from  the  wind.  The  common   English   sparrow  will 

Just  before  a  severs  storm  dogs  are  stop   its      chattering   noise      -even  cr 

apt  to  be  very  sk -jpy  and  dull  and  to  eight    hour's    before    the    arrival   ut  a 

lie    all    day    before    tie    fire.    If    they  storm,  and  become     ominously    silent. 

bark  long  and  loud    airing   the  night  All  birds  give  some  indication  of  an- 

without  any  visille  cease,  it  is  a  sign  proaching  storm  and  change  of  weath- 

of   a   sudden  change  in   temperature,  er,  but  some  species  are  easier  to  read 

When  moles  throw  up  more  earth,  than  others, 
when  numbers  of  spiders  appear  on  To  one  who  understands  the  habits 
the  wall,  when  pigeot.3  return  slowly  of  birds,  their  actions  foretell  chafes 
to  their  dovecotes,  vhen  the  frogs  in  the  weather  with  as  much  accuracy 
croak  with  unusual  "igor,  and  when  as  any  government  observer.  Indeed, 
the  bees  are  relit,  tar:  to  leave  their  there  is  nothing  more  remarkable  i- 
hives— all  these  are  declared  by  close  nature  than  the  ability  to  forecast 
observers  to  be  the  forerunners  of  the  weather  which  most  birds  St- 
rain, stinctively  display,  and  which  a  little 

When   the  next   day  is  going   to   be  study  enables  any  one  to  pro  Pi  by. 
fine  it  has  been  noticed  that  bats  con-  If  birds  known  to  llv  high,  and  for 


THE  UPLIFT  23 

I 

I  long  distances,   such   as   martins   and  more  than   u    few    minutes  at   a   Lime, 

.  ,ii:Vi  ront    kinds   of    swallows,   are    ob-  a   storm    is    indicated,    ciLhei    lain    or 

I  sorved   dying'   close    to    the   earth,   or  snow,   according   t<j   the   seavjii. 
J  keeping    near    their    homes,    it    is    an  When    peacocks    ami    guin-u    fowln 

|  almost  certain  indication  of  a  storm,  arc   noisy    we    may   expeel    u    Huddcri 

I  with   heavy   rainfall.  squall  or  heavy  rain.      The  cha tiering 

The   reason  for   this   action  is   sim-  foreshadows   rain  and   wind    ■ -.    i\ir<:\y 

I  ply  that  these  birds  depend  for  food  as  any  first-class  barometer. 
jj  upon   insects   flying    in    the   air,    and  blackbirds    /r-jin^    quite   early    in 

[insects  do  not   fly  high  proceeding  a  the  morning  and  continuing lh"ir  Ming 

j  storut,  becuse   the   atmosphere  is  too  well  into  the   afternoon,  forteJI   rain. 

-  heavy.     During   fair    weather  the   at-  When    they   utter    very    sww    and    !t- 

mosphere   is  lighter,  and   insects  can  quid    notes,    fair    weather    h    inditat- 

r!v    higher,    and    consequently    birds  ed. 

have  to  My  longer  and  higher  distan-  y,-..,  ,.,,,;  t,.:j    ,;.,.•!,,.,•  a  •••..•.•.-,-  ,VJj{ 

ees  to  secure  food.  }>e  „vt.r(,  ,jr   ;,.;:,j    }JS   ■>,,,.;,,..    of    th«j 

A:i    unusual    silence    is    frequently  gr.j^th    ox    bark    ontrr*    5niuk«    or 

aotiee'l    among    birds    a    short    time  saplings,     the     growth     be;?.2     much 

prior  to   a  severe  or  sudden  wind  or  thicker   --some    vears   than    olh   rs,   a;.-! 

thunderstorm.  an   ;.flusuaIIy  "m\,\    winter   \i;;*rW<>Vj 

Robins  sometimes  sit   upon  a  high  foil      inj    when   the    bark    !        growa 

tTvij  and  sing  loud  and  Ions:  just   be-  thick.     The  .wo--.  <A  lichens  that  grow 

:o:e  what     is    called    a    "growing"  on  the  :.;rtli  side  of  ./.<•;_.   •■■   er-gr«?e# 

slower,  but  seldom  do  so  if  the  storm  trees   wiSi   be  heavier  'luring  the  •**&- 

i;  it'  :::^  to  be  a  severe  one.  son  i»rec;<ding  a  cold   n'S/iter 

Migratory  birds  and  fowls  that  go  I"    said    crickets    vvjjj    ••hi-      sdvwjy 

Eorth  iii  summer  are  sire  to  2y  sonth  if  '.:   U  j:  t'.'.-'i  Vj     ■■  ■■■..'■■. :-r  t.    :.i.-^   '':.'-, 

previous  to  cold   or  stormy   weather,  nezt  daj  or  oo,  and  aga  -j  <-  rp  wjtb 

and   return    north    prior   to    warm    or  greater    rapidity    :!    a    >••; ■<-.•.    -;-'-.]     3 

pleasant  "vejthrr.     When  these  bird?  ■•'•:/:.;  t  i. 

are  noticed  rlyiEg  in  circles  i  -  I  dart-  <".-}.  (-f   teissiz't  ■■/>   ^v---   -,:,-.  v> 

tig  restlessly   about,   tier  is     •-  tally  a...  &s  bs.-ometm  :  •:.>  ■...•  ;  .    r    :-vgi, 

a  severe  atmospheric  disturbance  j.'.:  4;-  jv^h  ,:  eaih  ■■',   gr^en,    have   i    great 

far  .lis:  ist.  such  as  ■  y  -]-jr^  or  torna-  r  ..• .     ;   •..'...   -,  .  ■ .  •  • ;  ■--  .      -     -  •-  •-; 

Jo.  ■..-.;■'■-.::■■  y  •  ••••  .  li.\r 

When    chimney    swa'l   ws,    wr./.-  ■  •  _     -  ..,•  sji3y  be -ex:  —  -      !         ••'-■.;% 

Eid      :.-r   s:-e-:es    •.■:    sw<   Loirs   iv   m  \.   ■     t      .   ,„>-'..    •-.;-•     .■.■■■■■■_.   \..--   ye-How 

w!ft  ssd  tr;    kr.:cly.  there     ;  vttre  ..._-,-,  |;..v  i     lb        • --      .       b%.d 

io  >it  riii  in  the  n-trr  few  hoirs.  •„  .   ••_..■:       ;.      .  -.-  •  .-...•  '  ■-.?         '>:■-. 

".    ■  :i'--s    set  e*ja     .  ^  -  '-    ■■  6      -.,..;-;-.•■.--■  -  •  '  i.i*, 

-."-   i.-is^    -r_ii    -r-:.   :;    b*    -^v  -•-.  .v.v,  --  •.  -  . ■=•'■.'  .■   '^y^:-.  rirough' 

;-'- '.  "~:.-e*       -:.'      :'.  :    -■■■   :'';■     -  _■    ■'.'■  ■•■±;   -_:>   .■■■■■■■      ■ :.    ■_•_-.  \    „>-,   -c     ■,'Ju- 

r  is  a  -;;-   '■•.  . '  ■ -. :  i  rain.  .,  •        •    .  oaAy  ■■      '■    ■  -    ■  ■•■^.i 

'■•'    :.   the   rr-:.:    <.-..:-—  ~.    ■.  v  -    are  ■.."    .•      '-;-  v '■     ■      -■-■■'    -'    -     >ush*« 

--  ' .      •:::■_■-■    _l    the    —  •■    ■  .'    ■         r  •'..■-•..•••:■:>  ■- ,-    ■■    HhiM 


24                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

hole    in    the    web    whore    the    spiiler  to  herds. 

goes   to   hide.     If  your   lawn   is   well  A  jingle  that  expresses  substau  ■:■'. 

dotted  with  these  webs  in  the  moru-  ly  the  same  idea  put  it  thus:     •■>:,. 

ing,  regardless  of  how  cloudy  it  may  red  at   night    is  the  sailor's  delight.'' 

be,  you  are  safe  in  assuming  that   it  If  the  evening  sky,  near  the  wesuit 

will    be   fair   that    day,    at    least    for  horizon,    is    yellow    or    greenish,   tlii 

more   than  half  the   day     As   far   as  prospect    is    for    clear    weather,    foi 

known,  these  spiders  will  not  spin  their  these  colors  indicate  a  dry  air.     A>.; 

webs  if  it  is  going  to  rain  that  day,  so  Shakespeare,  it  seems,  was  v.v„|i. 

because  they  know  it  is  going  to  rain  erwise   as   well   as   a   great   dramatis:, 

and  that  rain  will  spoil  their  webs.  for  he  wrote: 

Among  the  best   weather  proverbs  The  weary  sun  hath  made  a  golden  set  j| 

are  those  which  have  to  do  with  the  And  by  the  bright  track  of  his  fietj 

color  of  the  sky  and  the   appearance  car, 

of  the  sun,  moo:,  and  stars,  for  chang-  Gives   token   of   a    goodly   day  toaor- 

es  in  their  aspect  are  caused  by  chaug-  row. 

es   in    the   atmosphere,    which   usually  If,    however,    the    evening    sky   ;; 

appeac  before  d.-rmite  changes  ill  the  overcast    with    a    uniform   gray,  tlie: 

weather.   Take  the  following  example:  we   know   that    numerous  water  .'..:- 

"A   red   sun   has    water   in   his   eye."  lets    are    present     in    the    atmosphere, 

Redness    of    the    sun    is    caused    most  and    that    dust    particles   have  hi  \: 

commonly    by    a    great    quantity    of  loaded    with    moisture.     Such   a  nc- 

dust  or  smoke  particles  in  the  damp  dirion  of  atmospheric  saturation  r...-.- 

atniosphere.      When    the    atmosphere  essarily   favors   rain  and  justifies  tL: 

is  heavily  charged  with  dust  particles  proverb: 

that   have  boeoi/.e  moisture-laden,   we  if   the    sunset   is   gray 

see  the  sun  as  a  fiery  ball.     And,  in-  <ry;e  next   vin  be  a  rainy  day. 

asmueh  as  the  formation  of  raindrops  Many  proverbs  for  telling  rain  ar: 

depends    upon    dust    or    other    parti-  snow  ;m.  based   upon  the  appears:..-, 

cles,    about    which    the    water'  vapor  0,    colored  rings  around  the  sua  ..:.. 

gathers,   it    follows   that    a   dusty   at-  „.„:)IU     Inasmuch  as  these  are  ob«rr- 

mosphere  is  favorable  to  rain.      Mole-  e<]  on\y  when  tiiere  ;s  mucu  H]0isr.;r- 

cules  of    water    vapor  in    the    atraos-  ;n   tue'  a{Ti  sayings   of   this   class    :-: 

phere  have  the  same  sort   of  optical  we]j  founded. 

effect.  "Clear  moon,  frost  soon,"  is  tree. 

There  are  m;.:.y  proverbs,  some  of  for  on  clear  nights  the  heat  oi  in 
them  good  and  useful,  concerning  the  earth  is  radiated  into  the  sky,  t-~-: 
color  of  the  sky  at  sunrise  and  sun-  cooling  the  land  surface.  On  the  on- 
set. From  Shakespeare  we  have:  er  hand,  clouds  act  as  a  blanket,  n- 
A  red  morn  thst  ever  yet  betokened  terfering  with  radiation  and  kc<  -" 
Wreck  to  the  seamen,  tempest  to  the  the    earth's    surface   warm. 

field,  Increase    of    humidity     ( favors". 

Sorrow    to    the   shepherds,    woe    unto  to  rain)    is  noted  by  the  gathericg  •: 

the  birds,  moisture   in   cold  objects,   the  <■  ■■---'- 


Gust  and  foul  flaws  to  herdsmen  and      tion  of  perspiration  on  our 


-    -'•  j 


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|j]ie  damp  appearance  on  slone  walls,  learn    to    use    his    eyes,      Do    riot    do- 

I the   tightening    of    cordage     and    of  pend   np.ni   the    sky   find   fdoudH   nlto- 

| strings    of    musical    instruments,    the  gether,  for  despite  nil  the  homely  old 

Ssettliiig   of   smoke,   etc.,   all   of   which  verses      and      prophecies      regarding 

■  phenomena   are  commonly   recognizeil  clouds  and  sunsets  remember  that  in- 

|  as  being  foretellers  of  a  coming  storm,  sects  and   birds   and   even    vegetation 

And  so  many  who  wants  to  become  are R  better     weather    prophet)!    t  Jjaa 

!  Mather-wise,   to   be   able   to   foretell  anything  else.     Make  a   study  of  th«*8<-» 

f  ihether   today   or   tomorrow    will    lie  things  about  you. 
fair   or    stormy,    wet    or    dry,    should 


THE   SEVEN  AGES   OF   MAX 

By  William  Shakespeare 

All  the  world's  a  stage, 

And  all  the  men  and  women  merely  players: 
They  have  their  esits  and  their  entrances; 
And  one  man  in  his  tiro/-  plays  many  part--, 
His  acts  being  seven  ages.     At  first  the  infant, 
Mewling  and  puking  in  the  nurse's  arms. 
And  then  the  whining  schoolboy  with  his  satchel 
And  shining  morning  face,  creeping  iike  snail 
Unwillingly  to  school.     And  then  the  lover, 
?r.-Z2^z  like  furnace,  with  a  woeful  ballad 
Made  to  his  mistress/  eyebrow.     Then  a  soldier, 
Full  of  strange  oaths  and  bearded  .':';:e  the  yard, 
Jealous  in  honor.  sudden,  and  quick  in  <ju.ir.-eJ, 
Seeking  the  bubble  reputation, 

Eves  ic  the  cannon's  mo i:h.     And  the.-;  the  jti*ti%, 
Iu  lair  round  belly  with  good  capon  Kjied, 
With  eyes  -evere  and  hesrd  of  formal  est, 
Full  of  wise  sa-<r;  and  modern  Is.-'i^^^t: 
And  so  he  plays  his  p&rt.     The  sixth  aire  hhifis 
Isjo  the  I-san  ar_i  slippered  pa^ta'o..-, 
v\ rrb  ST*ciacle5  ca  n/jse  a'd  p-.---h   ..-.  i.ie, 
His  youtitui  hose.  well  saved,  a  world  too  *'ide 
F.-  his  shruri  =h.iik;  aid  hie  vlg  .-.--aa!y  •..>.>. 
T  tuning  agfcin  toward  childish  *.---.>.  _-.  pe* 
Ajai  wiistiss  in  Lis  ~.  ;a-L     L*--.  -.■>-.*  vt  ail 
That   -uois   tils   strange^  e   esti   .    s  •*-■'; 


26 


THE  UPLIFT 


OLD-TIME   SALOON. 

(Salisbury  Evening  Post) 

Do  you  ever  pause  in  the  great   prohibition    desert    and    conjure    up  a 
picture  of  the  saloons  that  flourished  in  this  country  only  a  few  yeara  ago?1. 

Now  and  then  men,  passing- a  pro-      tite." 


minent  corner,  point  to  a  savings 
bank  or  spanking  new  cigar  store, 
and  say:  "There  used  to  be  a  swell 
barroom  here.  Gosh!  I  can  remem- 
ber when  Old  Cro  v  was  passed  out 
at  85  cents  a  quart  and  the  barkeep 
apologized  for  whiskey  under  seven 
years  old." 

All  that's  left  of  these  ancient 
whisky  dens  is  the  path  in  the  side- 
walk' worn  by  the  tramp  of  drunk- 
ards, feet  as  they  made  their  rounds, 
lapping  up  so  much  they  were  asham- 
ed to  drink  it  all  in  one    place. 


Prominent  among  the  customers 
was  the  business  man  who  ran  in 
at  the  stroke  of  every  hour  for  a 
highball  or  a  small  glass  of  water 
with  a  large  whisky  straight  for  a 
chaser. 

By  8  o'clock  at  night,  the  regu- 
lars were  well  tanked  and  below  the 
■din  was  the  friend's  apology:  "Dont 
mind  him,  he's  a  swell  fellow  when 
he  isn't    drunk." 

The  owl  cars  carried  them  home 
—  to  mothers  and  wives  who  sobbed 
quietly  in  the  stillness  of  night. 

There  was  considerable  privation 
in  the  average  hard  drinkers  home, 
short  on  funds  because  of  the  bar- 
room till's  greedy  appetite. 

A  drunken  man  was  disgusting 
to  the  good  citizen  and  home-build- 
er. A  fathers  greatest  fear  was 
that  his  son  would    "get  the    appe- 


There  was  another  type  of  saloon  ■ 
---the  low-down  type  that  hard  drink- 
era  usually  wound  up  in.  It  was 
a  den,  the  rendezvous  of  criminals, 
where  customers  were  thrown  into 
the  alley  after  they  had  been  stripped 
of  their  last  cent. 

The  amber  fluid  in  the  quart  bottle 
ruined  brilliant  men  by  the  tens  of 
thousands,  wrecked  an  intiinite 
number  of  homes  and,  for  those 
deeply  involved,  destroyed  nearly 
everything  for  which  life  is  worth 
living. 


That  ancient  institution,  the  open- 
ly conducted  saloon,  is  gone.  Now 
and  then  some  one'with  more  mon- 
ey than  brains  gets  hold  of  a  quart 
$12  or  rrwre. 

But  farthers  aren't  worrying 
about  their  sons  developing  a  chron- 
ic thirst.  Homes  are  happier,  with 
less  jangling.  More  money  in  the 
bank.  A  women  can  ride  on  an 
owl  car  now  without  danger  of  be- 
ing insulted. 

There  is  a  lot  of  talk,  around  the 
country,  about  infringing  on  per- 
sonal liSerly.  much  futile  argument 
about  bringing  back  light  wines  and 
beers. 

But,  at  heart,  the  country  is  dry. 
The  proof  is,  that  there's  almost  no 
talk  of  bringing  back  the  o'dtime 
saloon. 


A  person  ought  to  he  thankful  he  has  an  income  that  is  big  enough  to 
to  be  taxed.— Detroit  Free  Press. 


THE  UPLIFT 


2T 


"THE    LOST   ARTS" 


By  Wendell  Philips 
I  have  been  somewhat  criticized,  year  after  year,  for  this  endeavor  to  open 
the  claims  of  old  tares.     I  have  been  charged  with  repeating  useless  fables 
■xith  no  foundation.      To-day  I  take  the  mere  subject  of  glass.     This  material. 
Pliny  says,  was  discovered  by  accident.     Some  sailors,  landing  on  the  eastern 


coast  or  Spain,  took  their  cooking 
'jtensils  and  supported  them  on  the 
sand  by  the  stones  that  they  found 
in  the  neighborhood;  they  kindled 
their  tire,  cooked  the  fish,  finished  the 
meal,  and  removed  the  apparatus; 
ami  glass  was  found  to  have  resulted 
from  their  niter  and  sei  sand,  vitrified 
by  the  heat.  Well,  I  have  been  a 
dozen  times  critfzed  by  a  number  of 
wise  men,  in  newspapers,  who  have 
said  that  this  was  a  very  idle  tale; 
that  there  never  was  sufficient  heat 
in  a  few  bundles  of  sticks  to  produce 
vartiffieation — glass  marking1.  I 
happened,  two  years  ego,  to  meet  on 
pariries  of  Missouri,  Porfessor  Shep- 
liard,  who  started  from  Yale  College, 
ami,  like  a  genuine  Yankee,  brings  up 
anywhere  where  there  is  anything  to. 
I  happened  to  mention  this  criticism 
to  him.  "Well,"  says  he,  "a  little 
practical  life  would  Lave  freed  men 
from  that  doubt."  Said  he,  "We 
stopped  last  year  in  Mexico,  to  cook 
some  vension.  We  got  down  from  our 
addles,  and  put  the  cooking  appara- 
tus on  stones  we  foiled  there;  made 
our  tire  with  the  wood  we  got  there, 
resembling  ebony;  and  when  we  re- 
moved the  apparatus  there  was  pure 
silver  gotten  out  of  the  embers  by  the 
intense  heat  of  that  almost  iron  wood. 
"Now,"  said  he,  '"that  heat  was 
greater  than  any  necessary  to  vitrify 
tlie  material   glass.'' 

Well,     now     the     very     choice     of 
phrases   betravs   a   confession   of   in- 


feriority, and  you  see  it 


again  creeps 


out  in  the  amount  we  borrow.  Take- 
the  whole  range  of  imaginative  litera- 
ture, and  we  are  all  wholesale  bor- 
rowers. In  every  matter  that  relates. 
to  invention,  to  use,  or  beauty,  or 
fonn,  we   are  borrowers. 

You  may  glance  around  the  furni- 
ture of  the  palaces  in  Europe,  and 
you  may  gather  all  these  utensils  of" 
art  or  use;  and  when  you  have  fixed 
the  shape  and  forms  in  your  mind, 
I  trill  take  you  into  the  museum  of' 
Xa:des,  which  gathers  all  the  remains 
of  the  domestic  life  of  the  Romans, 
and  you  shall  not  fir.d  a  single  one 
of  "hese  modern  forms  of  art  or  beau- 
ty or  use  that  was  not  anticipated 
there.  We  have  hardly  added  one 
single  line  or  sweep  of  beauty  to  the 
antique. 

All  the  boy's  plays,  like  every- 
thing that  amuses  the  child  in  the 
open  air,  are  Asiatic.  Rawlinson  will 
show  you  that  they  came  somewhere 
from  the  banks  of  the  Ganges  or  the 
sui.urbs  of  Damascus.  Bulwer  bor- 
rowed the  incidents  of  his  Romaa 
stories  from  legends  of  a  thousand 
years  before.  Indeed,  Dunlop,  who- 
has  grouped  the  history  of  the  novels 
of  all  Europe  in  one  essay,  says  that 
in  :he  nations  or  modern  Europe  there 
have  been  two  hundred  and  fifty,  or 
three  hundred,  distinct  stories.  He 
says  at  least  two  hundred  of  these 
may  be  traced,  before  Chritianity,  to- 
the  other  side  of  the  Black  Sea.      If 


23  THE  UPLIFT 

this  were   my   topic,  which   is   not,   I  glass  of  drink  from  the  landlord,  vim  J 

might   tell   you   that    even  our   news-  pushed   forward   a    wine   glass   about 

paper  jokes  are  enjoying  a   very  re-  half  the  usual  .size;  the  teacups  also 

spectable  old  aye.     Take  Maria  Edge-  in  that   day  were  not  more  than  half 

"worth's  essay  on  Irish  bulls,  and  the  the  present   size.     The  landlord  said, 

laughable  mistakes  of  the  Irish.  Even  ''That    glass    out    of    which    you   are 

the  tale  vrich  either  Maria  Edgeworth  drinking  is  forty  years  old.''  "Well," 

of    her    father    thought    the    best,    is  said  the  thirsty  traveler,  confemplat- 

that  famous  story  of  a  man,  writing  ing    its    diminutive    proportions,    "I 

a  letter  as  follows:  "My  dear  friend,  think    it    is    the   smallest    thing  of  its 

I    would    write    you    in    detail    more  age    I    ever    saw."     That    story   as 

minutely,   if  there  was   not   an  iinpu-  told   is  given  as   a   story  of  Anthem, 

dent  fellow  looking  over  my  shoulder,  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  years 

reading  every  word."     "No,  you  lie:  before  Christ   was  burn.      Why!     All 

I've  not  read  a  word  you  have  writ-  these  Irish  bulls  are  Greek,  everyone 

ten."     This   is  an  Irish  bull;   still  it  of    them.     Take    the    Irishman    who 

Is    a    very   old    one.     It    is   only    two  carried  around  a  brick  as  a  specimen 

hundred    and    fifty   years    older    than  of  the  house  he  had  to  sell;  take  the 

the    New    Testament.     Horace    Wal-  Irishman    that    bought    who    shut   his 

pole    dissented    form    Richard    Lovell  eyes  and  looked  into  the  glass  to  see  . 

Edgeworth,    and    thought     the    other  how  he  woidd  look  when  he  was  dead: 

Irish  bull  was  the  best, — of  the  man  take     the     Irishman     that     bought    a 

~who  said,  "I  should  have  been  a  very  crow,  alleging  that  crows  were  report- 

handsome   man,   but    they   change   me  ed  to  live  two  hundred  years,  and  he 

in    the    cradle."     That    comes    from  meant  to  set  out  and  try  it;  take  the 

Don    Quixote,    and    is     Spanish;    but  Irishman   who   me   a    friend   who  said 

Cervantes  borrowed  it  from  the  Greek  o  him,  "Why,  sir,  I  heard  you  were 

in  the  fourth  century,  and  the  Greek  dead."      "Oh,  no,"  says  he,  "I  would 

Stole   it    from   the  Egpytian  hundreds  believe  the  man   who   told  me  a  good 

of    years    back.  deal    quicker     than    I     would    you." 

There  is  one  story  which  it  is  said  Well,    those    are   all    Greek.     A   score  i 

Washington  has  related,  of  a  man  who  or  more  of  them,  of  a  parallel  charac- 

■vvent    into    an    inn    and    asked    for    a  ter,  come  from   Anthens. 


"When  things  are  allowed  to  remain  in  the  latent  state,  they  are  merely 
possibilities.  We  happen  to  remember  that  there  is  in  North  Carolina  a  lot 
of  latent  resoueen,  latent  initiative,  latent  possibilities,  latents  people  and 
latent  capital.  When  latent  people  and  latent  capital  decide  to  get  out 
of  that  class  and  get  together  there  will  be  something  doing." — Wilming- 
ton Star. 


THE  UPLIFT 


29 


istitutional 


^otes. 


m 


By  S.  B.  Davis 

Miss  Freeze,  a  former  matron  at 
■  school,  was  a  visitor  here  Sun- 
h 

rhe  shop  boys  have  made  an  ice 
der  to  cool  the  water  at  the  Lat- 
n  Pavilion.  The  boys  work  under 
.  Cloer. 

Mr.  R.  B.  Cloer  ha?  been  sick  for 
2W  days.  The  boys  take  this  means 
expressing  to  him  Their  hopes  for 
speedy  recovery. 

Mis?  Mary  Young,  daughter  of 
s.  Young,  matron  of  the  King's 
ughter's  Cottage,  was  a  visitor  at 
•  School  Saturday. 

While  on  one  of  his  daily  rounds 
nday,  this  reporter  learned  that 
mbert  Cavenaugh.  one  of  our 
:s,  was  substituting  for  Miss 
?en!ee  in  the  school  room. 

lohnny  Wright,  Malcolm  Holman, 
try  Wilkerson  and  George  Howard 
ipdly  escorted  their  parents  ar- 
id the  school  Wednesday  exhibit- 
ir.gny  sights  to  the  parents'. 

?he  majority  of  the  boys  in  all  of 
r  joins  except  that  of  Miss  Green  ■ 
know  the  Ten  Commandments. 
Uizing  the  fact,  Miss  Eva  Green- 
h.  s  taught  them  to  her  boys. 

ili:s  Shotwell,  one  of  the  State 
|)e  ters,  gave  the  school  the  "once 
r"  one  day  last  week.  Her  in- 
Mi  :i  was  to  study  the  school,  to 
it-  needs  and  to  report  on  her 
?s?:gation. 

lecause  of  the  continual  running 
h    pumps  by  young  Vass  Fields, 


water  is  now  plentiful.  At  one  time 
the  big  steel  tank  with  a  capacity 
of  50,000  gal.  overflowed  and  the 
pumps  had  to  be  cut  off. 

Friday,  a  good  many  of  the  small 
boys  at  the  school  rejoiced  hecause 
they  saw  a  truck  bringing  to  the 
school  more  matetial  for  bottoming 
chairs.  As  they  are  paid  for  this 
work  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  that 
they  rejoice. 

Part  of  the  work  of  the  houseboys 
is  to  make  a  trip  to  the  store  room 
for  a  portion  of  goods  to  supply  the 
boys  in  the  cottgaes  for  the  day. 
When  a  boy  happens  to  see  one  of 
these  boys  carrying  a  load  of  good- 
ies his  mouth  sure  does  water.  Mr. 
Willie  White  has  charge  of  the  store 
rooms. 

Miss  Lalla  Teague  and  Miss  Dora 
Earnhardt  sent  Easter  t-ggs  to  each 
of  the  boys  in  tru-ir  Sunday  School 
classes.  This  gift  was  enjoyed  by 
the  boys  not  solely  because  of  the 
edible  matter  contained  in  them, 
but  because  they  knew  that  their 
teachers  were  thinking  of  them  on 
this  E-ister  day. 

A  vacant  spot  on  the  left  hand 
side  of  the  King's  Daughters  cottage 
was  showing  up  poorly  in  contrast 
.with  the  other  improvements  at  the 
school.  A  rourd  flower  bed  is  being 
placed  in  it.  James  Suther,  Earnest 
Jordan,  George  McMahan  are  now 
working  on  this  vacant  plot  of  land. 

1  he  dairy  is  Gearing  completion. 
Two  big  silos  on  either  side  of 
the  entrance  can  be  seen.  This,  of 
course,  is  where  the  food  for  the 
cattle  is  stored.  One  can  baldly 
realize  when  looking  over  the  school, 
that  this  is  three   miles    out   in    the 


30 


THE  "PLIFT 


country.  Frequently  tourists  on  the 
highway  stop  and  asK  some  of  the 
boys:   "'is  this  Concord?" 

Then  they  leavr  the  school  and  suc- 
ceed in  life  many  of  the  boys  will 
look  back  upon  the  days  spent  at  the 
Jackson  Training  School  with  con- 
siderable feeling;  and  affection. 
James  ShipD  and  some  bo/s  with 
thoughts  directed  in  the  above  chan- 
nel and  knowing-  this  fact,  have  ac- 
quired note  books  and  are  writing 
diaries  of  their  life  here.  It  is  hoped 
that  when  other  boys  read  this,  they 
will  do  the  same. 

The  many  friends  of  Prof.  W.  M. 
Crooks  and  the  oncers  and  the  toy? 
at  the  Jackson  Training  Scbr  ol  will 
be  interested  and  pleased  to  know 
that  this  officer's  son,  Master  Ver- 
non Crooks,  won  the  honor  and  title 
of  best  speaker  in  a  preliminary 
contest  held  at  the  Brown  Mill  school 
house.  At  t'ois  same  contest  Miss 
Frances  Talbert,  daughter  of  Mr. 
T.  V.  Talbert,  ~on  in  the  spelling 
match.  Master  Crooks  and  Miss 
Te'bert  will  represent  the  White 
Hall  school  in  a  fcture  speaking  and 
spelling  contest. 

''Hurrah!  We  are  going  to  lick 
the  Cabarrus  Mills  ball  team  this 
evening."  Such  ~vas  the  confident 
assurance  of  jne  of  the  boys  Satur- 
day morning.  Soon  this  statement 
spread  all  over  the  school.  Excite- 
ment prevailed.  As  soon  as  the 
boys  were  gathered  together  from 
their  various  oreupations,  they 
trooped  to  the  ba:tle  field  to  view 
the  conflict.  "Bitter  up,"  by  the 
"ump'',  Mr.  Wilson,  and  all  youthful 
eyes  were  fastened  on  the  battery, 
Russell  and  Hobby,  for  we  were  in 
the  field  first,  of  course.    Russell  be- 


gan his  days  work  in  fine  form,  but 
because  of  lack  of  complete  support 
in  the  field  our  opponents  possesed! 
three  runs  to  their  credit  to  our  none  | 
by  the  third  inning  But  our  boys 
would  not  say  C[uit  so  they  battled 
on.  In  the  next  innings,  the  fourth, 
they  manged  to  bring  in  a  lonesome 
runner.  In  the  fifth  inning  Cabarrus 
scored  one  more  run.  The  J.  T.  S. 
players  had  by  this  time  learned  the 
deceptive  curves  and  twists  of  Dick; 
balls  arid  were  making  use  of  this 
gladly  accepted  knowledge  to  the 
tune  of  four  more  runs  When  the 
fourth  came  in  a  deafening  cry  arose 
from  the  J.  T.  S.  rooters.  In  the 
sixth  the  visiters  werj  obliged  to 
mark  up  a  naught  for  their  record 
whereas  we  kayoed  their  by  knocking 
him  to  all  parts  of  the  field  and  add- 
ing five  to  our  already  defeating 
score,  making  the  grand  total  of  ten 
runs.  Their  new  pitcher  managed 
by  the  skin  of  his  teeth  plus  a  fast 
working  field  support  to  It, Id  us 
scorless  on  that  inning., The  eighth 
inning  saw  them  add  one  more  run. 
Their  third  pitcher— we  also  knocked 
out  the  second-managed  to  hold  us 
down  to  three  home  touches.  In 
the  ninth  they  were  held  back  by 
our  new  pitcher  Holman--  be  it  said 
here,  that  Russell, was  neither  knock- 
ed out  nor  tired,  but  we  just  wanted 
to  give  Holman  a  chance.  Because 
of  this  last  blank  inning  we  triump- 
hantly and  rightfully  claimed  the 
victory.  A  special  feature  of  the 
game  was  a  home  run  by  Russell 
manager  Grier  shifted  the  line— up 
and  put  out  16-  of  the  opposing  nine 
by  playing  first  base  himself. 
Score  bv  innings: 

R.  H.  E. 
Cabarrus  Mill  111  010  010  5  13  10 
J.  X.  S.  000  145  030  1310  6 


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COULD  DO 

Give  me  the  money  that  h:s  been  spent  in 
war,  and  I  will  purchase  every  foot  of  land  on 
the  globe.  I  will  clothe  every  man.  woman 
and  child  in  an  attire  of  rhich  kings  and 
queens  would  he  proud;  I  vril  build  a  school 
house  on  every  hillside  and  in  every  valley 
over  the  whole  earth;  I  will  iuild  an  academy 
in  every  town  and  endow  it,  ■,  college  in  every 
State,  and  fill  it  with  able  jrofessors;  I  will 
crown  every  hill  with  a  plact  of  worship  con- 
secrated to  the  promulgation  of  the  gospel  of 
peace;  I  -.vill  support  in  eve.y  pulpit  an  able 
teacher  of  righteousness,  so  tlat  on  every  Sab- 
bath morning  the  chime  on  oze  hill  should  an- 
swer the  chime  on  another  nund  the  world's 
wide  ciicimference  and  the  voice  of  prayer 
and  the  song  of  praise  should  ascend  like  a  un- 
iversal  offering   to   heaven.-Henry   Richard. 


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PUBLISHED    BY 


'  The  Authority  of  :he    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and   Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's   Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

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GOOD-BY,  DAD. 

I  left  my  dad,  his  fain:,  his  plough, 
Because  my  calf  became  hi;  cow; 
I  left  my  da  I  --'twas  wrong,  of  course- 
Because  my  colt  became  his  horse. 
I  left  my  dad  to  sow  znd  reip 
Because  my  lamb  became  his  sheep; 
I  dropped  my  hoe  and  stuck  my  fork 
Because  my  pig  became  his  pork. 
The  garden  truck  I  made  ti  grow 
Was  his  to  sell  and  mjne  to  hoe. 


A  PROPHE  :Y. 


If  there  is  any  credence  to  be  placed  in  the  usual  signs  or  the  "hand- 
|  writing  on  the  wail,''  when  Govornor  Morrison  retires  in  1925  it  will  fall 
to  his  ;ot  to  present  to  the  audience  for  the  inaagural  address  the  Honor- 
able A.  W.  Mclean,  of  the  state  of  Uobescn;  ard  by  the  same  token,  Gov. 
McLean  will  present  to  a  similar  audience  for  a  similar  purpose  the  Hon.  0. 
Max  Gtrdner.  This  event  is  set  for  19i9.  Thc?e  who  enjoy  big  crowds  and 
a  gaily  time  may  just  as  well  prepare  for  these  two  occasions  and  make 
their  hotel  reservitions. 

:;:    ******* 

THE  INTERESTING  YOUNG  THINGS. 
On  Mo.  46.   Wednesday  a  week  ago,    happy,   giggling  girls  bearded   the 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

train  at  every  station  in  North  Carolina,  South  of  Greensboro.  They  nere 
returning  to  the  Normal  from  an  Easter  trip  home.  They  greeted  each 
other,  hugging  and  kissing  in  a  manner  that  indicated  a  long  separation. 
It  was  an  interesting  sight  for  Col.  Turn  Yanderford  and  the  writer.  That'; 
the  reason  why  some  people  stay  so  young,  even  though  years  have  whiten- 
ed  their  locks—keep  young  by  enjoying  the  gurgling,  gigling  happiness  of 
young  girls  at  the  very  least  provocation.  Cut  one  is  tempted  to  ask  a 
serious  question  in  this  manner:  are  ali  the  girls  that  attend  college  these 
days  small  and  of  low  statures?  There  wasn't  a  single  girl  in  all  that  big 
crowd,  several  cars  full,  that  weighed  over  one  hundred  pounds  or  was  not 
so  tail  that  she  could  not  walk  under  Col.  Tom  Vanderford's  out-stretched 
arm  without  disturbing  he;  head  gear. 

Have  women  decided  to  put  up  these  precious  objects  into  even  smaller 
packages  than  ever?  Or  ir  it  that  the  larger  girls  are  going  oft'  to  co-edu- 
cationa!  institutions?  Or  have  they  decided  to  stay  at  home,  accepting 
what  the  home  schools  may  do  for  them?     There  is  a  reason. 

SOMETHING  NEW  UNDER  THE  SUN. 

The  Albemarle  News-Herald  editorially  announces  what  it  regards  "A 
Magnanimous  act"  which,  n  reality,  is  a  something  new  under  the  sun- 
When  prices  were  tangoing  in  the  sky  the  congregation  of  West  Albemarle 
Baptist  Church  increased  the  salary  of  its  pastor,    Rev.   Mr.  Richardson. 

At  a  recent  service  the  pastor  called  his  congregation  to  the  consideration 
of  a  personal  matter,  saying  that  the  church  owed  him  about  -?300,  of  which 
amount  he  proposed  to  donate  $200  himself.  He  then  offered  his  reso- 
lution, which  provided  for  a  cut  of  $30o  annually  on  the  pastor's  salary. 
And  here  is  where  another  new  thing  under  the  sun  occurred:  v. hen  it 
came  to  a  vote  on  the  preacher's  resolution,  there  were  about  a  half  dozen 
supporting  the  resolution  and  the  balance  of  the  congregation  stage-struck 
neither  voted  "yea"  nor  "nay." 

WHAT  A  CHANGE! 
The  scene  that  gieeted  one's  eye  as  he  entered  Yarborough  House  lobby, 
twenty-six  years  ago,  on  the  occasion  of  a  State  political  convention, is 
burnt  into  memory.  Scores  were  very  happy  under  the  influence  from 
the  joy  water  from  the  various  saloons,'  other  scores  had  just  r  turned 
from  Ed  Denton's  place  of  business  where  many  a  scheme  was  threshed 
out;  and  probably  other  scores  woubl    have  been    perfectly  willing  to  have 


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the  business  been  possible  of  negotia- 


tion a  bit  ''for  stomach's  sake" 
tion  without  observation. 

The  other  day,  on  a  similar  occasion,  that  very  same  Yarborough  lobby, 
slightly  changed  in  arrangement,  was  crowded  and  jambed.  Not  one  man 
but  that  was  normal;  not  one  had  taken  on  a  spirit  of  inspiration;  not  one 
seemed  to  be  looking  out  for  a  chance;  and  not  an  oath    vas  heard. 

And,  I  thought  how  foolish  it  is  to  set  up  the  claim  that  prohibition  does 
not  prohibit.  It  does;  and  when  the  public  mind  becomes  thoroughly  edu- 
cated tc  the  necessity  of  putting  down  the  lawlessness  that  yet  is  in  exist- 
ence, and  learns  to  know  that  in  reality  that  one  who  purchases  from  these 
lawless  folks  is  just  as  guilty  in  morals  as  the  salesman,  a  new  era  will  set 
ir,  throughout  the  good  old  state.     That  era  is  coming,  too. 


; 


If  a  Charlotte  reporter  were  to  call  around  at  the  Selwyn  hotel,  and 
interview  Col.  F.  B.  McDowell,  who,  with  Dr.  Battle,  of  Asheviile,  has  just 
returned  from  a  two-weeks'  f.shing  trip  in  the  waters  of:  the  Western  coast 
of  Florida,  he  would  get  a  fish  story  that  is  a  fish  story;  ana  incidently  he 
would  gather  some  valuable  and  highly  entertainning  news  about  other 
things.  We  besought  the  genial  and  delightful  gentleman  to  furnish  us 
an  authentic  account  of  his  trip,  with  all  the  side-lights,  but  his  intense 
modesty  defeated  our  desire.  His  story,  if  publicly  revealed,  would  sur- 
pass Ferabee's  "Little  Brown  Jug,"  which  could  not  hold  a  light  to  the 
Spanish  fishing  vessels  that  frequent  the  waters  off  the  coast  in  search 
offish  &c. 


If  Col.  Harris,  of  the  Charlotte  Observer,  doesn't  stop  marring  his  splen- 
did editorial  page  by  occasionally  referring  to  the  War  Between  the  States 
as  "the  Civil  War"  he'll  deserve  a  reprimand  from  the  Daughters  of  the; 
Confederacy.  In  fai't,  some:imes  ago  when  a  crusade  was  made  against  the 
miserable  Muzzy's  History  for  its  naughtiness  and  uglir.ess,  a  defender  of 
that  history  tried  to  justify  his  judgment  and  taste  in  its  use  by  citing  the 
fact  that  Ccl.  Harris,  a  real,  genuine,  un-reconstructrd  Confederate  by 
birth  and  sentiment,  accepted  the  term  "Civil  War"  for  the  great  strug- 
gle in  the  60s. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 

Gerald  Johnson,  of  the  editorial  sta.'i'  of  the  Greensb.ro  News,  was  mar- 
ried Saturday  afternoon  to  .Miss  Hayward,  of  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.  and  a 
nkce  of  the  late  Judge  Charles  H.  Duls.  of  Charlotte.  This  brilliant  your.g 


G  THE  UPLIFT 

.fellnw,  who  occasionally  took  paragraph  privileges  with  the  dear  girls,  will 
doubtless  become  a  little  more  careful  in  his  survey  of  subjects  and  objects 
for  editorial  notices.  The  happy  event  took  place  at  the  country  home  of 
Joseph  J.  Stone,  out  from  Greensboro,  who  is  also  an  uncle  of  the  talented 
and  attractive  young  woman  whom  editor  Johnson  has  successfully  won. 

Mr.  Hugh  McRae,  who  perhaps  has  dune  more  for  the  development  and 
growth  of  Wilmington  during  the  past  generation  than  any  other  citizen  of 
the  City  by  the  Sea,  has  disposed  of  his  large  holdings  in  the  T-'de  water 
Railroad,  the  street  railway  and  other  public  utilities  to  a  New  York  cor- 
poration. It  is  said  that  the  transaction  involved  a  sum  beyond  live  millions 
of  dollars. 


The  people  of  Piedmont  North  Carolina  will  have  the  opportunity  of 
hearing  one  of  the  most  distinguished  educators  and  remarkable  men  of 
the  whole  South  on  the  29th  of  May,  when  ex-Senator  W.  R.  Webb,  of  the 
famous  school  at  Bell  Buckle,  Tenn.,  comes  to  Concord  to  deliver  the  an- 
nual address  at  the  Graded  School  commencement. 

Laiy  Astor,  a  member  of  the  English  Parliament,  but  a  native-born 
Virginian,  has  got  about  everybody  in  this  country  excited.  She  is  the 
mother  of  six  children,  has  great  common  sense,  good-looking,  and  talks 
out  in  meeting.  She  is  having  her  fun,  too,  in  answering  all  kinds  of 
fool  questions  put  to  her  by  interviewers. 

******** 

And  editor  Earle  Godbey  is  afraid.  All  around  him  there  are  shining  ex- 
amples of  how  to  go  about  it,  how  to  win  and  how  to  bring  it  to  a  success- 
full  issue,  and  yet  he  lacks  the  nerve  to  try  it.  A  bird  that  can  sing  and 
refuses  should  be  forced  to  do  so,  even  to  the  extent  of  passing  a  law. 

#  >£    :'/i    >ls   %    i'n    :Je    sje 

Brisbane,  the  most  conspicuous  editorial  writer  in  the  United  States, 
while  he  startles  and  shocks,  sometimes  produces  a  state  of  anxiety.  Look 
how  easily  he  meets  the  cost  of  the  soldier  bonus  proposition  in  the  article 
"WHY  NOT  PRINT  BILLS  AS  WELL  AS  BONDS"  appearing  in  this  num- 
ber. 

*  *  *   *   *   *   *   * 

It  ;vJst  looks  like  lady  Nancy  Ast'.r  is  having  the  time    of  her  life.     It's 


THE  UPLIFT  v        7 

I  impossible  for  any  other    on  the    programme  in   any  meeting  to    receive  a 
•?j  passing  notice  until  the  English  sister  is  persuaded  to  retire. 

As  we  go  to  press  it  is  definitely  known  that  the  peach   crop  of  Georgia 
has  not  yet  been  destroyed. 


I  THE    HART   AND    THE    HUNTER  I 

•:•  ••♦ 

%  The  Hart   was  once  drinking  from  a  pool  md  admiring  the  noble  % 

%  igure  he  made  there.     "Ah,"  said  he,  "where  can  you  see  such  noble  * 

%  horns  as  these,  with  such  antlers!      I  wish  I  Lad  legs  more  worthy  to  !»* 

.;.  jear  such  a  noble  crown;  it  is  a  pity  they  are  so  slim  and  slight."  £ 

•;♦  \t  that  moment   a  Planter  approached  and  Srnt  an  arrow  whistling  .3, 

♦  after  him.       Awav  bounded  the  Hart,  and  soon,  by  the  aid  of  his  .j. 


♦      nimble  legs,  was  nearly  out  of  sight  of  the  Banter;  but  not  noticing 


* 


•:• 


,vhere  he  was  going,  he  passed  under  some  trees  with  branches  growing      ♦ 

■J* 

low  down  in  which  the  antlers  were  caught,  so  that  the  Hunter  had      * 

»> 

time  to  come  up.    "Alas!  alas!"  cried  the  Hart:  * 

"AVE  OFTEN  DESPISE  WHAT  IS  MOST  USEFUL  TO  US."         f 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

DO  NOT  SPEND  SUNDAY;  INVEST  IT! 

Some  one  in  a  past)  generation  was  guilty  of  an  awful  blunder.  Ke  made 
popular  the  phrase  "I  shall  spend  Sunday."  Perhaps  he  belonged  in  a  de- 
cade like  our  last  one,  when  people  poured  out  their  resources — material, 
moral  and  spiritual  in  a  kind  of  mad  hysteria,  where  every  principle  of  wisdom 
and  reasoning  was  set  aside,  and  the  whole  science  of  human  economics  was 
exchanged  for  the  studied  foolishness  of  heedless  extravagance. 

God,  who  created  the  universe  and  made  man  in  His  image,  set  boundaries 
and  made  distinctions.  He  established  seasons,  that  nature  might  have 
opportunity  to  restore  resourcefulness.  He  induced  the  period  of  sleep,  so  tint 
faculties  of  mind  and  body  that  are  agencies  of  thought  and  choice  may  he 
kept  fit  to  think  and  choose.  He  instilled  an  instinct  toward  saving,  that  there 
may  he  reserves  on  which  to  draw  in  times  of  opportunity  and  need  Time 
seems  to  he  mere  succession,  but  for  even,  this  He  made  a  law,  that  set  apart 
one  day  of  every  seven  to  be  of  service  to  mankind. 

Tc  spend  what  God  thus  assigns  for  purposes  of  reserve,  recuperation  and 
continuance,  is  to  bankrupt  and  to  destroy.  Rich  harvests  depend  on  rested 
fields,  clear  minds  follow  regular  and,  adequate  sleep.  Men  invest  the  fruits 
of  labor  and  husbandry  that  they  mayhave  something  in  store  to  guard  against 
disaster  and  to  plant  for  a  future  gain.  He  who  spends  completely  is  but  a 
prodigal  whose  end  is  among  the  swine. 

They  who  spend  their  Sundays  imperil  their  souls  and  their  heritage  from  • 
on  high.    Every  seventh  day  is  to  be  kept,  invested,  used  for  certain  capital 
purposes.  Communion  with  God,  fellowship  with  man  and  rest  from  toil  con- 
nect with  Sunday  because  only  thus  can  men  develop  and  continue  to  deve- 
lop the  kind  of  strength  and  character  that  last. 

Study  it  fcr  yourself.  What  sort  of  folk,  what  sort  of  homes,  what  sort  of 
communities,  and  what  sort  of  society  follow  spending  the  Lord's  Day? 
Whence  come  blue  Mondays,  maimed  victims  of  reckless  pleasure-seekers, 
crowded  dockets  in  police  courts,  and  lowered  standards  of  right  and  con- 
science? Business  men  fear  the  spendthrift;  they  know  how  often  dishonesty 
and  unfaithfulness  follow  the  lack  of  heed  to  laws  of  reserve.  How  bank- 
rupt in  wisdom  we  are,  when  we  use  up  the  measure  of  time  assigned  to  be 
kept  against  dissipation.  Oddly  inconsistent  are  bankers,  merchants,  social 
leaders,  and  prominent  persons,  who  remember  not  the  Sabbath  Day  as  set 
apart  from  the  rest  of  the  week. 

Invest  Sunday.  It  is  a  kind  of  capital  more  precious  than  pleasure  and 
wealth. — Selected. 


"He  who  takes  something  out  of  society  and  puts  nothing  back,  is 
thief." 


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THE  UPLIFT 


Grave  01  Rirhard  Caswell  is  Mow  Market! 

Years  ago  when  self-secrificing  teachers  from  all  over  North  Carolina 
were  accustomed  to  go  tc  Morehead  City  for  the  annual  gathering-,  where 
joy  and  inspiration  reigned  supreme  and  where  nature  ability  and  personal 
fitness  counted  for  its  face- value,  without  depending  upon  edicts,  units  and 
certifications,  and  where  real  giants  and  educational  heroes,  and  not  pigmies, 
led  safely  and  unerringly,  it  was  declared,  in  passing  Kinston,  "that  Rich- 
ard Caswell   the   first  Constitutional  Governor,  rested  in  an  unmarked  grave. 

It  is  not  true  to-day.     Not  only  is      1880  and  secured  private  funds  with 


his  grave  marked,  but  a  monument 
to  his  memory  stands  in  a  public 
street  of  the  hustling  little  city  of 
Kinston,  and  later  the  st£:e  memori- 
alized the  name  by  baptizing  an  im- 
portant state  institution  in  Caswell's 
name.  But  let  Prof.  Elisha  B. 
Lewis,  thp  hatless  and  charming  fel- 
low that  every  body  in  North  Caro- 
lina knows,  or  ought  to  know,  the 
private  secretary  of  Congressman 
Claude  Kitchin,  and  the  orator  of 
the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  tell  an 
interesting  storv  about  an  accom- 
plished fact: 

The  current  copy  of  'The  Up- 
lit,"  April  15th,  on  Pege  10  has 
the  following  very  misleading  state- 
ment: 

"As  before  noted  in  Tee  L'plikt 
it  is  to  be  regretted  that  :he  grave 
of  Richard  Caswell,  who  became  the 
Constitutional  Governor  of  North 
Carolina  is  unmarked." 

The  great  patriot  soldier  and  state- 
man  referred  to  made  his  home  in 
Lenoir  County,  in  Kinstcn,  practi- 
cally from  the  time  he  first  came  to 
the  colony  from  Maryland  as  a  boy 
of  seventeen  years.  He  resided  on 
the  street  now  named  for  him,  one 
block  from  where  it  crosses  Queen 
street,  and  directly  in  front  of  my 
own  home. 

The  citizens  of  Kinston  organized 
the  Caswell  Memorial  Association  in 


which  the  Associations  erected  a 
monument  to  him  at  the  intersection 
of  Queen  and  Caswell  streets,  In 
1881.  The  cornerstone  was  laid  by 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  North 
Carolina  on  August  3rd,  1SS1.  In 
the  intense  heat  of  the  great  fire  of 
1805  the  granite  shaft  of  this  mon- 
ument cracked  and  splintered.  Some 
years  later  Dr.  John  A.  Pollock  of 
Kinston,  then  State  Senator  from 
this  District,  secured  a  state  appro- 
priation of  $500.00  for  the  purpose 
and  this  shaft  was  replaced. 

His  grave  is  located  two  miles  west 
of  the  town  in  the  family  burying 
ground  on  the  farm  once  owned  by 
him,  and  166  yards  south  of  the  State 
Highway  from  Goldsboro  to  Kinston. 
Some  years  ago  St  John's  Masonic 
Lodge  of  Kinston  put  the  burying 
ground  in  order,  leaving  a  clump  of 
large  oaks  to  mark  the  spot  from  a 
distance,  and  placed  on  the  grave  an 
immense  granite  block  with  the 
word  "Caswell"  cut  deep  on  its  top. 
Due  north  of  the  grave  and  ac  the 
curb  of  the  highway  the  State  His- 
torical Society,  the  Caswell-Nash 
Chapter  D.  A.  R.,  and  private  citi- 
zens a  few  years  ago  placed  a  1-ronze 
tablet,  set  in  granite,  bearing  this 
inscription: 

"RICHARD  CASWELL" 

"South  of  this  tablet,  166 yards, 


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is  the  grave  of  Richard  Caswell, 
rhe  first  Governor  of  North 
Carolina  as  an  independent 
State. 

"I  will  most  cheerfully  join  any 
of  my  country  -  men,  even 
as  arank  and  file  man,  and  whilst 
I  have  blood  in  my  veins  freely 


offer  it  in  support  of  the  liber- 
ties of 'my   country". — Caswell 
to  his  son  in  1775." 
In  view  of  these  facts  I    am    con- 
strained to  remark  that  your  state- 
ment is,    to    put    it    mildly,    some- 
what misleading. 


Crime  is  heralded  to  the  ends  of  the  earth,  while  goodness  goes  unnotic- 
ed. The  absconding  cashier  gets  on  the  front  page  of  She  metropolitan 
dailies,  but  no  mention  is  made  of  the  thousand  and  one  chashiers  who  are 
faithfully  at  the  post  of  duty.  Knightly  deeds  are  passed  in  silence,  when 
one  misstep  is  like  the  sound  of  a  marching  army.  Such  facts  give  one  a 
warped  and  erroneous  notion  of  things.  Our  confidence  must  rest  in  the 
unpublished  goodness  of  the  world.— Christian  Advocate. 


NORTH   CAROLINA'S   STRANGE   MAN 

By  R.  R.  Clark 

Iredell  county  has  the  distinction,  as  readers  of  the  daily  papers  have  nuted, 
of  being  the  home  of  a  man  who  has  refused  to  accept  the  government  insur- 
ance allotment  due  him  on  account  of  the  death  of  his  son,  who  was  killed  in 
the  world  war.  As  it  is  the  custom  to  accept  without  question  whatever  can 
be  secured  from  the  government,  and  not  infrequently  claims  are  made 
against  the  government  that  are  not  fur  the  local  company  to  move.  He 
well  founded,   the  Iredell  man's  atti-      went   West   and  enlisted   in  the  regu- 


tude   has    naturally    attracted   nation- 
wide attention. 

Mr.  John  Speaks  is  the  name  of  the 
man  whose  peculiar  views  have  led  him 
to  reject  government  money  that  is 
lawfully  his.  He  lives  with  family  in 
Union  Grove  township,  21  miles  north 


lars,  getting  on  the  other  side  quite 
early  in  the  game.  He  was  killed  in 
action.  The  elder  Speaks  didn't  want 
the  boy  to  go  to  the  war  and  was  dis- 
posed to  feel  some  resentment  when 
he  learend  of  his  death.  He  thought 
the   authorities     were   to   blame     for 


of  Statesville.     His   son,   Thomas   B.      taking  his  son  under  age,  but  admitted 

Speaks,   enlisted   in   the  Iredell   Blues 

at  Statesville,  before  he  was  lfi  years 

old,  his    father   says,   and   some   time 

before   the   company   was   ordered   to 

camp  in  preparation  for  service  in  the 

world  war. 

Young    Speaks   was    so    anxious    to 
get  into  the  fight  that  he  didn't  wait 


the  hitter's  share  in  the  blame  (as  he 
no   doubt   misrepresented   his  age). 

Young  Speaks'  remains  were  sent 
home  from  France  last  year  and  were 
taken  to  his  father's  home  in  north 
Iredell  last  August.  Soon  the  report 
was  abroad  that  the  father  was  keep- 
in"   the   son's   coffined   remains   in  a 


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room  of  his  house  anil  refused  to  bury  mice  on  the  life  of  his  son.  A  gov- 
them.  Some  of  tlie  (..unity  officials  eminent  agent  visited  the  Speaks 
went  to  the  Speaks  home  and  found  home  and  endeavored  to  persuade  the 
this  to  be  true.  The  question  wheth-  father  to  Hie  the  papers  for  the  money 
cv  the  father  should  he  compelled  to  due  him  and  the  boy's  mother,  but 
1  iii'v  the  remains  was  considered.  The  Speaks  was  firm  in  his  refusal.  Ac- 
county  physician  decided  that  the  quaiutances  have  talked  with  him  and 
coffined  bones  of  the  soldier  son  were  endeavored  to  try  to  get  him  to  accept 
not  insanitary  and  that  the  physical  what  is  coming  to  him,  but  without 
health  of   the  family   was   not   endan-  avail. 

gered,  keeping  the  coffin  in  the  house,  The   story  got   abroad    from    Wash- 
and  Mr.  Speaks  was  allowed  to  have  ington  that  Speaks  refused  the  money 
his  way.     He  said  he  would  bury  the  on  account  of  religious  scruples — that 
remains  if  it  was  decided  that   it  was  believing    war    to    be    morally    wrong 
illegal  for  him   to  retain   them   above  he   held   that   any  one  sharing   in  the 
ground,  but  that  he  preferred  to  keep  profits  of  war  or  any  benefits  accruing 
them  that  way  for  the  time — at  least  therefrom,   was   a   participant    in   the 
until    an    absent    son    returned    home.  wrong.      What  a  sermon  for  the  war- 
Tim  casket  containing  the  bones  of  the  profiteers,  even  if  it  does  come  from 
son  was  kept   in  the  home  for  about  an   ordinary   citizen    in   the   rural   re- 
six    months,    until    the    father    could  gions!      But    while    -Mr.    Speaks   may, 
build  a  place  for  it.     He  constructed  and   probably   does,    feel   that   war  is 
in    the   corner  of   his  yard,   near   the  morally  wrong,  it  is  the  opinion  of  a 
residence,   a   neat   one-room  structure.  local   newspaper  man   who   visited  his 
In  this  the  casket  was  placed,  resting  home    and    talked    to    him    that    the 
on  pedestals  and  draped  in  the  Ameri-  word  "insurance"  is  the  real  trouble, 
can  Hag.     On  the   walls  of  the  room  Mr.  Speaks  said  that  he  bore  no  re- 
hang   the    uniform    and    other    army  sentment   against    the  government  hut 
equipment    of    the    soldier    and    other  that   lie  is   very  much  opposed   to  the 
personal  effects.     Mr    Speaks  makes  principle  of  life  insurance.   He  is  firm 
frequent  visits  to  this  resting  place  of  in  the  faith — or  professes  to  be — that 
his   soldier-son   and   the   remains    will  the    Lord    will    provide    for    His   own 
probably  be  left  above  the  ground  so  and  that  to  accept  the  insurance  mon- 
long  as  the  father  is  able  to  exercise  ey    would   betray   a    lack   of   faith   in 
his  authority.     Nothing  has  been  said  God    which    would    result    in    pnnish- 
of  the  attitude  of  the  other  members  ment.      Therefore    he    cannot    accept 
of  the  family — the  wife  and  the  ehil-  the  insurance  money  unless  he  should 
dren  that  are  at   home;  but   it   is  un-  feel  that  God  desired  him  to  take  it. 
derstood    that    Speaks   dominates    the  So  far  the   will   of   the  Lord  has  not 
family;  that  his  will  is  the  law  of  the  been  revealed  in  that  direction.     Mr. 
home.  Speaks,  it  is  said,  is  quite  a  religious 
Recently    the    story   came   out    that  man  according  to  his  lights.   He  reads 
Mr.  Speaks  had  refused  to  accept  (he  the  Scriptures  regularly  and  il   is  im- 
allotments  due  from  the  !?5,000  insur-  derstood  conducts  family  worship,  hut 


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Joes  not  attend  church  nor  allow 
the  members  of  his  family  to  attend 
church  or  Sunday  school.  This  dis- 
closes that  -Mr.  Speaks  is,  in  all  char- 
ity, a  "religious  crank."  It  is  hoped 
that  later  on  lie  may  change  his  mind 
as  to  the  government  money.  It' 
doseu 't  matter  so  much  tor  him,  prob- 
ably, but  his  wife  and  children  should 
have  the  benefit  of  it.  He  is  a  man 
of  small  means  and  unable  to  give 
(hern  many  advantages,  if  he  were  dis- 
posed to  do  so. 

The  prejudice  against  insurance 
money  and  the  belief  that  carrying  a 
life  insurance  policy  is  morally  wrong 
did  not  originate  with  Mr.  Speaks. 
The  writer  recalls  that,  in  his  boy- 
hood days,  when  life  insurance  was 
almost  unknown  and  not  understood 
in  the  rural  regions,  it  was  supposed 
to  guarantee  that  one  would  live  for 
a  stated  period.  This  was  regarded 
as  an  affront  to  the  Aimighty.  Even 
st  a  much  later  period,  when. the  pur- 


pose of  this  form  of  investment  was 
well  known,  old-timers  not  infrequent- 
ly remarked  that  money  from  that 
source  rarely,  if  ever,  helped  the  bene- 
liciaiies;  that  it  was  soon  dissipated 
or  lost  in  unwise  investments,  which 
they  considered  direct  evidence  of 
Divine  disapproval  of  life  insurance. 
Within  the  past  30  years  a  Statcsvilla 
man  of  the  old  school,  an  intelligent 
business  man,  bought  a  life  insurance 
policy,  soon  afterwards  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  it  would  prove  a 
"hoodoo''  for  him  and  abandoned  it; 
all  a  result  of  the  ancient  supersti- 
tion that  life  insurance  is  morally 
wrong. 

.Mr.  Speaks  lives  in  the  back  coun- 
try and  has  little  contact  with  the  ■ 
outside  world.  Therefore  his  reten- 
tion of  the  ancient  prejudice  against 
life  insurance  is  well  understood.  If 
the  government  allotment  had  been 
called  a  pension  he  might  have  ac- 
cepted it. 


"Your  children  are  obedient  and  so  respectful  in  manner.  You  have 
evidently  a  wonderful  power  in  forming  their  habits,"  said  an  observer. 
"Well,"  said  the  parent,  "training  children  does  not  depend  on  magic, 
hut  an  occasional  sleight-of-hand  performance  helps. — Selected. 


GARDNER    PROVES    HIS    CALIBRE 

(Cleveland  Star) 

The  Democratic  papers  of  the  state  are  generously  commending  the  lofty 
unselfish  announcement  of  our  fellow  townsman  Max  Gardener  that  he  be- 
lli ves  "political  equity  entit'es  Eastern  North  Carolina  to  the  next  norn- 
inttion  for  governor."  This  statement  is  bound  to  become  of  historic  inter- 
est in  the  state. 


There  i?  no  thinking  man  or  wo- 
mai  in  North  Carolina  who  does  not 
know  that  if  Max  Gardner  had  en- 
tered the  race  as  Governer  Mor- 
rison's successor  that  he  would  have 


entered  with  brilliant    prospects  for 

success:  In  the  first  place,  he-has  a 
tremendous  following  of  intensely 
loyal,  devoted  and  fighting  friends, 
who  enthusiastically  follow  him  with 


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a  zeal  and  spirit  rarely    known  even  Max    Gardner    for    the    reason,    if 

iu    politics.     In    the    second    place,  Gardner  had  marshalled  his    forces 

Gardner's  attitude    when    defeated  backed  by  the  splendid    womanhood 

by    a  small   majority    in    1920    was  of  the  state,  for  whom  he  stood  and 

superb;   he    was    heard  to    utter  no  suffered  in  1920,  and    launched   the 

complaint,    bat   submitted    without  fight  for  the  nomination  in   1921,  it 

sulking  to  the  mandates  of  his  party  might  have  broken  and  ruptured  the 

and  plunged  with  courage    and  eon-  Democratic  party.     The  party    can- 

fidence  into  the  campaign  of  his  sue-  not  stand  many  campaigns    such    as 

cessful     opponent    and    made    over  it  encountered  in  1920 

fifty  speeches  in  behalf  of  Governor  Of  course  the  people  of   Cleveland 

Morrison's  election.     This  act  alone  county  where  Max  Gardner  was  horn 

established    Gardner  in    the    minds  and  reared  and  loved  and  served  are 

and  hearts    of   North  Carolina    as  a  and    have    been    ambitious    for   his 

man  of  gubernatorial  calibre,  but  his  election  as  governor  of  North    Caro- 

recent  convention  statement  reveals  lina,  but  his  friends  are  just  as  hnp- 

the  reason  why  Gardner    has  more  py  in  the    knowledge    that   our   son 

personal  friends  than    any    man    in  has  the  confidence,    love    and    devo- 

state.  tion  of  North  Carolina  in  full    mens- 

To    our   minds   however   his     an-  ure  and  that  if  he  lives  no  power  or 

ouncement  which  puts   him    in    the  influence    on    earth    can    keep   him 

very  front  rank  of  North  Carolina's  from  becoming    in    192S,    Governor 

democracy  means  more    to     the     fu-  by    the    biggest     majority     in     the 

ture   of    the   Democratic    party    in  state's  history. 
North    Carolina    than    it    means   to 


Many  a  man  who  thinks  he  bears  a  great  enterprise  on  his  shoulders  is 
simply  round-shouldered  from  carrying  a  large  load  of  self  conceit. — Bast 
and  West. 


Why  Not  Print  Bills  As  Well  As  Bonds? 

By  Z.  E.  Green,  in  Marshville  Home 

The  Liberal,  published  at  Detroit,  advised  its  readers  to  listen  to  Arthur 
Brisbane: 

The  highest  paid,  most  widely  read  editorial  writer  in  the  United  States, 
in  his  editorial  in  the  Hearst  papers  of  February  13th,  as  a  way  to  solve 
the  soldier  bonus  problem,  says: 

"Where  to  find  money  or  the  sol-  now,  and  more  later,  to  distribute 
'fliers'  bonus?  Nobody  wants  to  be  among  3,000,000  soldiers.  The  mo- 
taxed,  least  of  all  those  that  war  and  ment  the  money  is  given,  it  will  be 
the  soldiers  made  rich.  spent,  distributed  among  108,000,000 

"Why  is  it  necessary  to   tax    any-  Americans,  quickly  absorbed.     Why 

body?  The  nation  wants  $500,000,000  not  simply  print   the   currency  and 


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15 


,  pay  the  soldiers  with  perfectly  good 
'  money  manufactured  by  the  govern- 
ment at  the  cost  of  paper  and  print- 
jag,  without  taxing  anyone? 

"Financiers  will  tell  you  that 
would  be  ruin,  'INFLATION,'  most 
horrible  of  nightmares.  Eut  finan- 
ciers proved,  in  their  opposition  to 
the  Federal  Reserve,  that  they  know 
nothing  about  money,  except  their 
own  desire  to  monopolize  it. 

"There  is  not  enough  currency  in 
circulation.  Our  gold  reserve  is  three 
times  what  it  has  been  in  the  past. 
We  could  double  the  amount  of  cur- 
rency without  harmful  'inflation.' 
Jlonev  needed  for  the  soldiers  could 
be  printed,  distributed  and  spent, 
and  it  would  have  on  the  nation's  fi- 
nances no  more  effect  than  a  few  gal- 
lons of  water  on  the  Majave  desert." 

ft     ft     *     ft     ft 

Men  like  Edison  and  Ford  also  be- 
lieve that  it  is  more  desirable  for  the 
govemmennt  to  print  an  additional 
amount  of  money  than  to  print  so 
many  bonds.  If  a  printed  govern- 
ment bond  is  "good"  without  any 
gold  to  redeem  it  can  anybody  except 
the  "financiers"  tell  us  why  irre- 
deemable paper  currency  can  not 
perform  all  the  functions  of  rrnney? 
For  instance,  it"  the  United  States 
government  sh.mld  decide  to  print 
two  billion  dollars  of  paper  currency 
to  be  used  to  pay  for  the  building 
of  hard  surface  roads  does  anybody 
ht!ie\e  that  those  who  sell  construc- 
tion materials  or  the  workers  would 
refuse  to  accept  the  newly  printed 
money  or  even  stop  for  a  moment  to 
ask  if  it  had  enough  gold  stored  in 
the  vaults  to  "back  itupV" 


In  every  age  and  in  every  country 
it  haj  been  the  financiers  who    have 


had  nightmares  when  they  thought 
of  inflation.  In  the  colonial  days' the 
colonies  used  printed  money  but  the 
money  brokers  —  the  idle  rich  who 
were  known  as  financiers  — always 
objected  when  it  was  proposed  to  in- 
'- crease  the  volume  of  money.  In 
his  autobiography  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin refers  to  this  attitude  by  the  few 
wealthy  men  living  in  Philadelphia 
when  that  city  was  s.  small  colonial 
town.  After  the  governing  body, 
however,  decided  to  have  more  money 
printed  Franklin  notes  that  immedi- 
ately hundreds  of  new  houses  were 
built  and  other  developments  quick- 
ly followed. 

***** 
During  the  war  this  country  be- 
came short  on  houses.  At  one  time 
it  was  estimated  that  we  needed  five 
million  new  houses  to  supply  the  del 
mand.  Millions  of  houses  are  stil- 
needed  and  rent  profiteers  in  many 
instances  are  making  the  late  war 
profiteers  look  small  in  comparison. 
There  are  millions  of  idle  men  wait- 
ing for  work.  There  is  an  unlimited 
amount  of  materials  waiting  to  be 
converted  into  buildings  The  one 
thing  lacking:  is  monev,  mor;  money 
—"INFLATION!"  We  have  had  a 
bitter  dose  of  deflation.  It  has  left 
the  industries  of  the  country  stag- 
nantly inactive.  The  Republican  ad- 
ministration could  easily  prolong  its 
administration  under  popular  approv- 
al if  it  could  adopt  the  policy  of 
printing  more  money  and  less  bonds. 
Aruthur  Brisbane  says  the  volume  of 
money  could  be  doubled  with  safety, 
Henry  Ford,  who  is  not  a  stock 
gambler  or  money  broker,  but  a  con- 
structive financier,  believes  more 
government  money  and  less  govern- 
ment bonds  will  help  to  relieve  the 
stagnant  condition   of    the  country. 


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Mr.  Edison,    who    has   been   worth  cost. 

more  to  the  human  race  than  all  the  "But  here  is  the  point:     If  our  na- 

stock  gamblers  and   money    brokers  tion  can  issue  a  dollar  bond  it  can  is- 

will  ever  be  worth,  lucks    with   con-  sue  a  dollar  bill.     The  element  that 

tempt  upon  the    fallacy    of    a    geld  makes  the  bond  good  makes  the  bill 

standard  for  our  domestic  currency  good,  also.     The  difference  between 

and  believes  in    what    the   financier  the  bond  and  the  bill  is  that  the  bond 

money   brokers   would    call    "Infla-  lets  the  money  brokers  collect  twice 

tion."  the  amount  of  the  bond  and  an  addi- 

»  »  .,  ,  »  tional  20   percent,    whereas  the  cur- 
rency   pays   nobody   but    those  who 

In  an   interview  Mr.    Edison  sng-  directly  contribute  to  Muscle  Shoals 

gests  that  the  government  issue  $30,-  in  some  useful  way.     • 

000,000  in  currency  for  the  develop-  "If  the  Government  issues  bonds, 

ment  of  Muscle  Shoals.     "Under  the  it  simply  induces  the  money  brokers 

old  way,"   says    Mr.   Edisjn,    "any  to  draw  $30,000,000  out  of  the  other 

time  we  wish  to  add  to   the  national  channels  of     trade    and  turn  it  into 

wealth  we  are    compelled    to  add  to  Muscle  Shoals;  if  the  government  is- 

the  national  debt."  sues  currency,  it  provides  itself  with 

"Now,  that  is  what  Henry  Ford  enough  mone/  to  increase  the  na- 
wants  to  prevent.  He  thinks  it  is  tional  wealth  at  Muscle  Shoals  with- 
stupid,  and  so  do  I,  thatfor  the  loan  out  disturbing  the  business  of  the 
of  $30,000,000  of  their  own  money  rest  of  the  country.  And  in  doing 
the  people  of  the  United  States  this  it  increases  its  income  vithout 
should  he  compelled  to  pay  $60,000,-  adding  a  penny  to  its  dett. 
000--  that  is  what  it  amounts  t<>,  with  "It  is  absurd  to  say  that  our  coun- 
interest.  People  who  will  not  turn  a  try  can  issue  $30,000,000  in  bonds 
shovelful  of  dirt  nor  contribute  a  and  not  $30,000,000  in  currency, 
pound  of  material  will  will  collect  Both  are  promises  to  pay;  but  one 
more  money  from  the  United  States  promise  fattens  the  usurer,  and  the 
than  will  the  people  who  supply  the  other  helps  the  people.  If  the  cur- 
material  and  do  the  work.  That  is  rency  issued  by  the  government 
the  terrible  thing  about  interest.  In  were  no  good,  then  the  bends  issued 
all  our  great  bond  issues  the  interest  would  be  no  good  either.  It  is  a 
is  always  greater  than  the  principal.  terrible  situation,  when  the  Govern- 
All  of  the  great  public  works  cost  ment,  to  increase  the  national 
more  than  twice  the  actual  cost,  on  wealth,  must  go  into  debt  am!  sub- 
that  account.  Under  the  present  sys-  mit  to  ruinous  interest  charges  at 
tern  of  doing  business  we  simply  add  the  hands  of  men  who  control  the 
120  to    150    percent    to    the    stated  fictitious  values  of  gold." 


What  is  love?  I  think  the  genuine  article  is  wise,  unselfish  interest  in 
other  people's  welfare,  interst  in  other  lives  than  my  own;  it  is  to  be  h;ippy 
in  their  happ'ress.  If  I  have  but  little  happiness  of  my  own,  this  is  one 
way  to  borrow  some— by  being  glad  in  the  gladness  of  others.— Chas.  A. 
Ames. 


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GOVERMENTS   PRINT   SHOP. 

(The  Dearborn  Independent) 

"Uncle  Sam's  print  shop  produces  all  the  tabulating  cards  by  the  United 
States  Census  and  Le  Army  and  Xavy  departments,  these  orders  amounting  to 
approximately  250/ '10,000  cards  a  \ear.  Special  machines  have  been  designed 
and  improved  for  This  work.     They  print  the  cards  on  either  or  both  sides, 

clip  off  the  corners,  number  ami  per- 
forate. 

".Mr.  Carter  am!  his  assistants  at 
the  Government  printing  office  pre- 
pare and  print  all  the  money  order 
applications  and  m<  ney  orders  for  the 
United  States  post  offices.  Xine  hun- 
dren  thousand  domestic  and  interna- 
tional money  order  books— each  book 
contains  200  individual  orders — are 
printed  every  year.  Three  special 
presses  which  print  the  money  orders 
in  two  colors,  but  ran  print  in  three 
hues  if  desired,  are  used. 

"The  yearly  purchases  of  the  Gov- 
ernment printing  ofSee  are  necessarily 
enormous.  Last  year  more  than  50,- 
000,000  pounds  of  paper  was  convert- 
ed into  Governmend  publications,  re- 


ports and  circulars.  Tt  required  100,000 
pounds  of  ink  to  print  the  text  matter 
on  this  paper.  If  ihis  huge  amount 
of  paper  were  spread  out  on  the 
ground  it  would  cover  an  area  of  135 
miles  square,  while  the  ink — all  of 
which  is  made  at  the  Government 
print  shop — would  be  adequate  to  col- 
or many  rivers. 

"In  the  neighborhood  of  65,000,000 
public  documents  in  the  form  of  bul- 
letins, reports,  reviews  and  results  of 
research  investigations  are  annually 
distributed  by  the  Division  of  Public 
Documents  of  the  G.  P.  O.  It  main- 
tains a  mailing  list  of  1,100,000  names. 
It  receives  325,000  letters  of  inquiry  a 
vear. ' ' 


WHAT  IS  THE  MATTER  WITH  THE  GIRLS? 


Figures  compile'  by  the  Metro- 
politan Life  Insurance  Company 
which  relate  to  the  ten  year  period 
1911  to  1920,  show  that  despite  the 
decline  in  the  mortality  from  tuber- 
culosis which  has  taken  place  during 
the  last  decade,  the  disease  is  actual- 
ly increasing  amor.g  girls  between 
the  ages  of  15  and  20  years.  Adole- 
scent girls  constitute  the  only  group 
in  which  the  tuberculosis  death  rate 
has  not  declined. 

During  the  six  year  period  1911 
to  1916,  the  average  annual  death 
rate  from  tubercubsis  among  white 
girls   aged  15  to  19  years,  who  were 


insured  in  the  industrial  department, 
was  144.5  in  100,000;  by  191-  this 
rate  had  increased  slightly  to  145.8 
and  in  1920  it  rose  further  to  151.5. 

During  the  same  time  that  the 
tuberculosis  death  rate  of  adolescent 
white  girls  was  increasing  five  per- 
cent, the  mortality  among  adolescent 
white  boys  was  decreasing  twenty- 
five  percent. 

The  records  at  the  North  Carolina 
Sanatorium  show  that  three  women 
apply  for  treatment  for  every  two 
men  and  yet  the  death  rate  for  males 
of  all  ages  is  almost  twice  the  death 
rate  for    females.     It    would    seem 


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1  of  more  care-      possibility    of     an     infection    from 
tbat  girls  are  in  need  of  moie  care       P '  sl      jf  the    disease    cannot 

ful    medical    attention    during ^the  |c(]  QlU  by  an  exarai. 

Sr   Sd  ;e%llf^_j;^  an  expert  on  the  d1Sease. 

And  yetl  tb.^1 1  ^"^s^^rsss  s 

and  lovely  herrings  ^/^^  m  Michigan,  coffee  from  Brad], 
Florida,  bacon  from  Chicago, J™*™  Louisiana-and  not  a  thing  except 
sugar  from  Cuba,  syrup  for  cakes  from  u  ^  ^ 

the  new  laid  eggs  from  Chowan  county,  an  ^ 

home-laid,  though    hey  J«ted  fi«h  and  were  ^  ^^  ^ 

Srto^trolf^CarLaWle^osephus  Daniels  at 

Edenton. 

FROM  CYRYTO~COuiirOF  ST.  JAMES 

By  Josephus  Daniels  in  News  &  Observer 
t    *    f   i  ™t    o  write  about  the  commencement  of  Cary  High  School  and 

sound  policy  wa?  at  sUke      Bj  t  it  ^  ^  ^^  rf  the  ^ 

iliv  not  much  o    his  service  as  a  cbun-      a.  i  .  r  a0t,  i  , 

he   entered   upon    bis   duties   and   was  then,.    Rufus   H     Jo nes,    A     H.  ^ 

not   given   time   to   demonstrate   how  ntt,     Di.     Malette,     n.     o. 

well  he  would  measure  up  in  the  Held  Atlas  B    Yates,  John  VL  C    .  ,  &* 

to  which  he  had  been  appointed.     At  A.  D.  Blackwood  and  o  I  e i*-  awto 

the  same  time  he  was  at  school  here-  it   that   there  was  as  good  a  H 

not    the    handsome    and    commodious  tory     school     here     as     was     po-bl 

building  that   is   oow  the  pride  of  the  under    prevailing    condition  ■     -^ 

county-Walter     H.     Page     was    bis  few  young  men   who  gottb r  ft* 

schoolmate      in      the     small     wooden  gleam     of     knowledge     n      t  he    CaJ 

Bcboolhouse   wheve   they   were   taught  school  won  high  pace.     Of !  thua a» 

the    three    r's.      At    that    time    Cary  Walter  H  .Page  attain  d the      >< 

was  the  home  of  Mr.  A.  F.  Page,  one  eminence  in    public    station    ..... 

of   the   noblest    captains   of   industry  fleeted  credit    upon,  the  place  o .  £ 

and   vision    the   Sfate   has   produced,  birth.   ,  He  was ,a  born  lover  of  bo JU 

It  was  here  that   Walter  Page,  after-  endowed  with  high  qualities     t .  ra.no, 

ambassador    to  Great    Britain  with    initiative    and   imagination 


an 
It 
war 


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19 


freedom  from  conventionality.  Per- 
haps he  owed  as  much,  perhaps  more, 
to  his  mother  than  to  his  father. 
Both  were  of  line  mettle  and  sterling 
stuff.  It  would  be  difficult  to  name 
two  parents  in  the  State  who  were, 
looked  up  to  more  in  their  com- 
munity or  who  gave  to  their  country 
children  of  stronger  character  or 
larger  usefulness. 

It    was    a    far    cry    from    the    little 
wooden   sehoolhouse   in    Cary    in    the 
seventies  to  the  Court  of  St.  James. 
But  after  all   it   is   not   so   far   a   cry 
as  we  are  wont   to  believe.     Most   of 
the    great    ministers    and    statesmen 
of  America   have   come   out   of   coun- 
try homes   or   homes   in    villages.      It 
is   not    how    big    a    town    a    man    is 
reared  in.      It   is  how  big  the  man  is 
and   whether    he    permits    himself    to 
be    circumscribed     by     his      environ 
merit.     A  dilligent  student,  Page  was 
trained    in    college    at    Trinity,    Ran- 
dolph-Macon,     Johns      Hopkins      (I 
think)    and     later    spent     some     time 
in  Germany  where  he  broadened  both 
his     mind      and    his      horizon.      But, 
though   whatever   concerned   mankind 
in  any   part   of   the   world   interested 
him  and    he    read    avidly    books   on 
every  subject,   even    when   abroad   he 
was    thinking     of     coming     back     to 
North   Carolina    to   do   his   life-work. 
He   won    his    position    in    other    lines 
but    lie    was    first    of    all    an    editor. 
He  taught   school,   he   took   a  dash  in 
politics,   he   was    ambassador,  but    all 
the  while   the    editorial    instinct    was 
uppermost.     He    learned    after    many 
attempts    to    speak    with    power,    but 
lis  gift    was    with    the   pen.      lie    al- 
ways  wrote    a    speech    that    was    far 
•letter    than    its    delivery.     This    was 
as  trn-  when  he  made  his  great   ad- 


dress at  Edinburg  as  when  he  first 
essayed  to  speak  in  the  school  here 
on  Friday  afternoons. 

After  he  had  completed  his  course 
in  college  and  university,  taught 
school  awhile,  the  one  thing  lie  had 
ever  kept  in  view — the  establishment 
of  a  real  newspaper  in  Raleigh — 
brought  him  back  home  in  1S84.  He 
had  written  for  other  papers.  He 
knew  he  had  the  goods.  He  wished 
to  build  up  a  vigorous,  truth-telling, 
frank  paper  in  the  capital  of  his 
State.  He  essayed  the  task  in  per- 
haps the  most  unpropitous  era  it 
could  have  been  undertaken.  But 
when  he  established  the  State  Chron- 
icle in  brightness,  in  interest,  in  a 
new  and  inspiring  note  it  appealed 
to  the  younger  and  more  progressive 
thought  of  the  State.  They  hailed  it 
with  gladness  and  hope.  It  was 
wholly  different  from  any  paper  then 
published  and  since.  It  had  his 
original  touch,  his  daring  disregard 
of  convention,  and  his  faith  that  the 
average  man  wanted  a  different  kind 
of  a  newspaper  than  the  State  then 
possessed.  But  he  did  not  reckon 
upon  the  chief  thing  that  prevented 
the  success  his  venture  deserved:  the 
poverty  and  illiteracy  of  the  peo- 
ple, coupled  with  the  provincial 
spirit  and  the  pressure  which  poli- 
tical solidarity  imposed.  I  i  emem- 
ber  the  enthusiasm  which  thrilled 
me,  then  just  beginning  as  a  boy 
to  try  to  write  locals  in  the  Wilson 
Advance,  when  Page  struck  out  on 
new  lines  in  the  State  Chronicle.  It 
seemed  a  call  to  rise  above  all  hind- 
ering traditions  and  to  go  forward 
with  faith  along  new  highways  to 
larger  freedom  and  larger  pros- 
perity.    Young    people    of    this    day 


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TILE  UPLIFT 


cannot  appreciate  the  conditions  that 
then   existed.      A   silver  dollar  looked 
as    big   as    a    cart-wheel,    and    nearly 
every  man  was  forced  to  expend  all 
his  energies  to  secure  sustenance  for 
himself   and   family.     The   older   men 
had  gone  through  Reconstruction  and 
just    succeeded    ill    rescuing'    the    ship 
of   state   from    those    who   came   dan- 
gerously    near     scuttling     it.     They 
were  resolved  not  to  risk  a  return  to 
those   days   of   peril.      Some   of   them 
feared  the  new  ideas  of  Page,  though 
lie  hated  the  blight  of  Reconstruction 
as       much      as      any.     Conservatism 
with    a   big   "C"    was    predominant. 
Page  called   it   Stagnation.     The   fine 
men   at    the   helm   were    true   to   their 
ideals   and   in   some    tilings   were   fol- 
lowing   the    only    course    that     would 
preserve     all     that     had     been     won. 
Page      was     impatient     of     ultra-con 
servatism  and  scored  it  roundly.     We 
youngsters    hailed    the    plainness    of 
his   speech    even   when   he   seemed    to 
go     too      far.     The      people      needed 
awakening  ami   Page  was   truly   wak- 
ing   them     up.      I    came     to     Raleigh 
in    the    winter    of    ISS5    to    edit    his 
paper    while    he    was    absent    for    a 
few  weeks.     At  that  time  he  had  felt 
the    impossibility    of    the    success    of 
which  he  had  dreamed.     He  had  con- 
verted  his   weekly  paper   into    an   af- 
ternoon   daily.      It     was    bright     and 
enterprising      and     he     printed      the 
news    and    something   of    the   modern 
touch   rather   than   in   the   brief  para- 
graph which  generally  prevailed.      At 
that    time     the     big     news    story    oc- 
cupied,   say,    a    quarter   of   a    column 
and   the  editorial  upon  some  political 
or  literary   topic   had   first   place   and 
made    a    column    or    sometimes    two. 
Page   made   the    l)ig   news    story    two 


columns,  with  a  corresponding  de- 
crease in  the  length  of  the  editorial. 
But  it  had  spice.  Il  hit  the  bull's 
eye.  It  had  style,  "style  all  the 
while,"  to  quote  modern  slang. 

But   money   did   not   How   in,   and  it 
required    money    to    print     a    paper, 
Page  wished  to  keep  ont  of  the  poli- 
tical atmosphere  and   never  ask  oilxe 
or    political    favor.     But    he    entered 
the    race  ,iu    the    early    part    of   1SS5 
for     Publie     Printer.      That     position 
then    paid    a    man    $3,000    or    more, 
and  that,  was  big  money.      More  than 
that:     the     editor     who     was     chosen 
Public    Printer    was    supposed    to    be 
the  spokesman,  the  organ  so  to  speak, 
of   the   Democratic   party.     Page  did 
not    aspire    to    that    when    he    began 
the  State  Chronicle.     It  was  Car  from 
his    thoughts.      But     in     January    his 
friends  persuaded  him  that  the  young 
men    of    the    State    could    elect    him 
and    that   his   election   woidd   lift   the  ; 
Democratic    party    out     of    the    rati 
ami    make    it    responsive    to    a 
and    broader    public    service, 
over,     he       desperately     needed     the 
money.     So    he    announced    that    his 
paper    would    like    to   be    given    the 
State  Printing.     It  was  a  ringing  and 
clarion    sort    of    announcement,    pen- 
ned   more    in     hope     than     in    desire. 
Some    of    he    younger    fellows    rallied 
to  his   candidacy.     But   it    was  of  no 
avail,  he  only  received  1<3   votes,  hut 
they      represented      legislators      who 
yearned    for   a   Xew   Day.      The   older 
men — (were    they    wiser?) — felt    that 
the   ideas   we   entertained   would  not 
bring     the     results     we     desired,    hut 
might  send  the  ship  on  the  rocks. 

Page  then  did  a  characteristic 
thing.  He  could  not  continue  h:i 
paper      as       daily — it       was      losing 


larger 
service.     More- 


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'  [money.        He  therefore    converted    it      Raleigh  was  of  deep  interest  to  h 


b 


nru 
lj    back  into  a  weekly,  with  a   brilliant  And,  when  lie     passed  into     the  be- 
1     editorial  entitled  "Change— But  For-  vend,  according     to  his     desire     his- 
'  In  i'd."     Soon  in  the  Spring  of  1885,  body  was   laid  to  rest   in   the  whole- 
:     he  accepted   an   editorial   position   in  some  soil  of  his  beloved  state  where 
1  |Xew  York,  the   State   Chronicle   wrfs  he  had  planned  to  spend      the     last 
'     continued   by   Mr.   Areudell   and   Mr.  years  of  his  life.     And  to  write!  .... 
Shotwell  until  October  when  I   went  .     "There  is  no  man  in  America  who 
I  to  Raleigh  to  try  the  job.     He  loved  can   write  so  good   a  private   letter" 
I  the  paper,  and,  busy  as  he  was,  for  said  President  Wilson     to     me     one 
i months  sent   a   weekly  letter  signed,  day.     He   was   correct.     In   a  period 
£''\V.  It.  P."  which  was  the  brightest  when    letter    writing    had    gone    out 
thing    that    appeared    in    any    North  of   practice,   he    wrote    with   the   flu- 
1  Carolina    newspaper.     But    it    stirred  eney,    charm    and   grace;   of    the   best 
;  up  the   folks!        And    when    he    got  masters   of   the   golden    age   of   letter 
latter  the  preachers   and   the  women,  writing.     I  had  myself  half  an  hun- 
I  declaring   that   "the  preachers  herd-  dred,  which  showed  his  real  soul  and 
led  good     women  by     sagnant     pool"  his    true    self,    which    were    found   in 
I  the  batteries     were     opened.   He  hit  The   News    and    Observer   file.     They 
B back.    But    other      engagements      de-  were    not    written    with    the    thought 
I  tunneled  his  time,  and  from  that  time  that    any    eye    would    read    them'  but 
She  seldom   wrote   for  North   Carolina  that    of    a    younger    co-worker,    with 
1  journals.     He    won    large    success    in  whom  he  was  often  in  argument  and 
j  large    fields    before    the    year  .1013  sometimes  in  utter  disagreement. 
H  called  him  to  the  great  station  where  It   is  a  glory     to  a  town  to     have 
■  j  his  devotion  to  duty  in  trying  times  given   the  world  so  eminent   a  diplo- 
i  cost  him  his  life.     He  wasn't  always  mat   and   Cary      is  justly     proud     of 
'  i  just   to    those   laboring    in   the    state,  Ambassador    Page,    its    most    distin- 
ct they  were  not     always  just     to  him,  guished  son.     He  will  live  in  history 

among  the  most  brilliant  of  the  bril- 
liant  diplomats  who  have  represent- 
ever  he  saw  an  old  friend  what  was  ed  the  United  States  in  Great  Britain. 


hut  he  had   an   abiding   love   for   the 
Mate  that  gave  him  birth,  and  vrhen- 


. 


\ 


going    on  in  Cary  or     Aberdeen     or 


At  the  several  sittings  of  the  late  Democratic  State  conventions  the  first 
man  on  had  and  the  last  one  to  leave  was  Alexander  Smith  Webb,  of  War- 
ren county.  He  is  the  father  of  Charlie  Webb,  of  Asheville,  and  Alex  Webb, 
of  Raleigh.  Though  up  in  the  eighties,  he  is  younger  than  the  foregoing: 
named  sons.  He  keeps  young  by  enjoying  himself,  keeps  a  close  watch  on. 
Jisgs,  Mutt  &  Jeff  and  is  proud  of  the  fact  that  he  never  had  but  one 
sweetheart  in  all  of  his  life  and  he  still  lives  with  rer. 


22                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

CHIEF    JUSTICE    j\LARSHALL. 

By  Mary  Tucker  Magill. 
John  Marshall  was  one  of  a  large  family  of  children.     Their  father  was  not 
a  rich  man,  and  when  John  was  a  boy  it  was  not  easy  to  get  the  comforts  of 
life.     The  father  made  up  his  mind,  however,  to  send  his  children  to  school. 

No   doubt   that   in   after  years   John  myself,"  said  the  young  man  ."What 

thanked   him    many    times   for    this  am  I  to  do?"  And  lie  was  very  angrj 

schooling.     Nor  would  he  ever  regret  at  the  bare  idea, 

the    hardships    by    which    he    gained  John  Marshall  stepped  up  to  life, 

what  made  him  the  groat   and  good  and  said  quitely,  "  Where  do  you  live, 

.man   that   he   was.  sir?" 

You  may  be  sure  that  he,  like  The  young  man  turned,  and  seeia; 
other  little  boys  and  girls,  was  often  a  shabbily  dressed  old  countryman, 
tired  of  his  books,  but  he  did  not  thought,  "This  old  fellow  wants  to 
give  up  lor  that.  make  a  little  money,  so  I  shall  let  hin 
As  John  Marshall  grew  older,  there  carry  my  turkey."  Handing  over  the 
was  no  office  in  the  gift  of  his  country  turkey,  the  young  man  said,  "Yon 
that  he  could  not  hafitve  had.  When  may  follow  me." 
he  died  he  was  greatly  mourned,  and  Judge  Marshall  did  so.  When  the; 
it  was  felt  that  in  his  death  the  coun-  reached  the  end  of  their  walk,  tt. 
try  suffered  serious  loss.  young  man  took  the  turkey,  and  hand- 
He  was  very  poor,  and  often  had  ed  the  bearer  a  piece  of  money.  Ihi 
to  dress  shabbily.  When  he  lived  in  young  man  was  astonished  when  il 
Richmond,  he  used  to  go  to  market  was  declined,  and  said  to  some  oci 
with  his  basket  on  his  arm,  and  bring  passing,  "Who  is  that  curious  oil 
home  what    was   needed.  fellow?" 

One   day    he    was    returning    away  "That    is    Judge    Marshall,   Chiei 

from  the  market  with  his  purchasees,  Justice   of    the    United    States/'  wa: 

when  he  heard  a  young  man  near  him  the  answer. 

•speaking    harshly.     Marshall     turned  You    may    imagine   how   the  rouH 

and  saw  a  finely  dressed  young  man,  man   felt    as    he    said,    "What  madi 

who  had  bought   a   turkey,   and   who  him  bring  home  my  turkey  ?" 

-could    not    find    any   one    to   carry    it  "Perhps   to   give   you   a   lessoa  o: 

iome  for  him.  false  pride,"  was  the  answer. 
"Of  course  I  cannot  take  it  home 


"Many  a  man  who  occupies  prominent  places  to-day,  has  reached  them 
~by  miking  of  his  failures  stepping  stones  to  better  and  bigger  things." 


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- 


Brilliancy  vs  Honesty 

By  Swift  Davis  (a  pupil) 


Randall  and  Withers  were  brothers.  Moreover,  they  were  twin  brothers, 
j Both  were  born  on  the  same  day  and  only  a  few  minutes  difference  be- 
1  tiveen  their  ages. 

No  two  more    physicially    similar      he  not  only   has    a    conscience,    but 
S  boys  could   be    found.     But  at    the      he  is  subject  to  it. 


; 


I 


surface— physically— similarity    end-  But    not    being    aware    of    these 

ed.     -Mentally,  Randall  was  wonder-  facts,  it  is  easily  understood  why  the 

ful.     Very  quickly  he    caught     the  parents  are  more  indulgent  to   Ran- 

point  of  each  of  his  lessons  in  school,  dall  than  to  Withers. 


■  He  could    write;  he  could  talk;    he  We  know  the  brothers'  character, 

could  teach.     Happy,  indeed,    were  so,  the    curtain   drops    and    twenty 

his  parents  when  they  contemplated  years  elapse 

the  future  of  this  prodigy.  Withers  and  Randall  are  now  thir- 
Withers   was  a   slow-going,  ordi-  ty-five  years  old.     Neither  have  suc- 
r.ary  boy.     B-illiancy  was  not  his  to  ceeded  to  a    remarkable    degree    in 
claim.     In  school,  how   different    he  life.     In  spite  of  their  diverse  dispo- 
was  from  his  brother!     Randall  was  sition,  they,  '.vith  their  wives  live  in 
nick  to  let    the    teacher    know    he  an  apartment  house  each  holding  si- 
ithers  said  naught,  milar  positions  and  drawing   similar 
sed   his  limit  mark.  salaries, 
ha  few  words,    Randall    was     bril-          The  wives  are  at  home   preparing 
j  liant;  Withers  was  dull.  dinner  and  doing  their  various  house- 
But  far  greater  in  importance  than  work.     The  bell  rings. anrj    upon    o- 
the  mentality  of  these  two  boys  are  pening   the   door  it  discloses  a  tele- 
J  their  morals.     Randall,  the  brilliant,  graph    messenger.     Randall's  wife, 
I  is  he  honest?     Yes,    hut  in    this    he  Adelaide,  signs  and  pays,  as    is    the 
!  es  not  obey  the    dictation    of   his  custom     and    opens    the     telegram 
[heart.     He  is  honest  merely  because  (which,  by  the  way,  is  addressed    to 
I  be  is  aJrgiJ  to  do  wrong.     He  is    a-  her  husband.)     The  message: 


quick  to  let    the    t 

1  understood  but  Wit 

He  narrowly  passec 


|  fraid  of  the  law  and  i'.S  punishment.  Your  father  lie?  on  hlj  death  HhH. 

How  often  this  applies  tO     the     case  Come  immediately.— Hand  [Lwyer] 

I  ofsorae  men  of  to-day.  The  wives  are    horror-stricken/?) 

Withers,  the  slow-going— put  the  The  husbands  arc    notified    ar.d   ail 

same  question  to  him:  is  he    honest?  leave  for  thecountry  borne. 

He  is.  but  not  in  the  manner  of    his  The  funeral    is    >ver    and 

-■'-'her.     Many  are  the  scoldings  he  Lawyer  Jtck   Hand   reads    the    will 

received  from  his  parents  because  of  only  a  section  of  which    is    printed: 

&  appearance  at  home   with    black  "1,  Clement  Southeriand,  be- 

fje,  blc    Jy  nose,  scratched  face  and  cjueath   to  rr,y  son.  Randall,  the 

torn  clothes.     No,  he  is   not  afraid  the  sum  of  ten    thousand    dol- 

j  of  not  being  honest.     Why.  then,  is  lar=  fSlO.OOQj. 

^straightforward?     Th<-   contrast  "l  a!s«j  bequeath   to  my  Eon. 

k'.ween  him  and  his  brother  is  that  Withers,    the  sum  of  five  thous- 


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and  dollars  ($5,000)." 

So  you  see  the  result  of  "standing 
in"  with  the  parents.  But  Randall 
did  it  falsely.  He  was  at  heart, 
corrupt. 

Brilliancy  is  on  top.  Randall  has 
a  better  chance  than  Withers.  Does 
he  succeed? 

The  news  of  their  inheritance  is 
spread  far  and  wide.  As  a  result 
many  poverty-stricken  inventers 
with  worthless  inventions;  sharps 
with  get-rich-quick  schemes  and 
many  others  crowd  their  doors  daily 
with  the  assertion  that  all  they 
need  to  make  a  fortune  is  capital 
and  the  brothers  have  the  capital. 

At  last  one  idea  appeals  to  Ran- 
dall. This  is  a  safe  proposition-*- 
apparantly.  He  and  Withers  can 
make  a  big  fortune  out  of  it  in  a 
year.  But  it  is  a  dishonest  propo- 
sition. Randall  is  aware  of  this 
fact,  but  it  docs  not  concern  him; 
he  feels  safe.  No  conscience  troubles 
him.  He  tries  to  inveigle  Withers 
into  the  scheme.  He  works  hard 
to  convince  Withers,  using  all  his 
his  brilliancy,  for  he  may  need  -With- 
ers' money.  After  a  few  days'  ar- 
gument Withers  promises  to  give  an 
answer  the  coming  day. 

That  night,  in  his  slumber  With" 
ers  dreams— dreams  of  his  boyhood. 
Once  mere  he  is  in  his  old  school 
desk  working  in  his  English.  He 
reads: 

"Let   your    conscience     be      vour 


guide." 

Next  sentence: 

"Honesty  is  the  best  policy." 

"The  only"--breaking  off  from  his 
dream  he  awakens.     When  his  mind 
is  back  to  the    present,    he    reverts  ■ 
back  to  the  problem  which  confronts 
him.     But,  strange  to  say,  it    is  no 
longer  a  pro  'lem.     His  mind  is    al- 
ready  made    up.     His     decision  fa- 
vors   honesty.     In  the    morning  he  j 
tells  the  waiting  Randal!  bis  decision, 
Randall  is 'furious.     He    turns    to  I 
leave.     Withers  calls    him   back  to 
plead  with  him  to  drop  the  scheme. 
But  Randall  is  firm  and  leaves. 

Once  more  let  us  drop  the  curtain 
for  twenty  years 

Randall  lives  in  disgrace,  wretch- 
ed and  pitied.  He  has  been  desert- 
ed by  his  wife;  he  has  only  a  dollar 
to  his  credit.  Even  the  dogs  when 
passing  him  cross  the  street.  He 
has  no  future;  no  ambition.  He 
has  sccceeded  only  in  failure.  This 
is  Randall,  the  brilliant,  but  dishon- 
est. 

Withers  is  now  the  president  of 
a  local  bank.  He  is  respected  by  all  , 
who  know  him.  His  happiness  lies 
in  his  family  in  which  he  rejoiced  in 
three  healthy  children.  At  the  next 
election  he  is  to  run  for  senatorship. 
He  is  a  director  of  many  institutions. 
Many  men  have  received  a  helping 
hand  from  him  when  in  dire  need. 
Withers,  the  dull,  but  honest  has 
succeeded. 


"It  is  all  right  to  spend  money  to  make  character — it  is  all  wrong  to 
spend  character  to  make  money." 


THE  UPLIFT  25- 

TEACHERS    MUST    "KNOW    THINGS" 

By  T.  C.  Clark 

Time  was  when  almost  anything  went  in  a  Bible  class.  If  the  teacher 
was  known  to  be  "pious"  he  was  recognized  as  a  fit  instructor  of  the  youth. 
He  might  have  little  or  no  education,  he  might  live  in  a  rut  mentally,  he 
might  even  be  neglectful  of  what  was  happening  in   the    great  world;   just 

so  he   was  "good"  he    received    the  visit  a  live  young  men's  class.     The 

0.  K.  of  the  superintendent  and  the  regular  teacher  was  absent,    ant)    a 

parents.  substitute  led  the  young  men  for  the 

But  that  time  has  past.    The  young  one  Sun  lay.      It  was  really  pathetic 

men  of  to-day    are  coming    to  know  to  note  the  failure    of    this   man    in 

things.     The    high   schools    are    be-  winning  his  pupil's    confidence.     He 

coming   veritable    universities,    and  knew  nothing  of  their  thought  world, 

the  students    are    becoming  experts  and  mumbled   over  obvious    and  in- 

m  social  and  philosophical  questions,  different  facts  in  a  way  that  brought 

ml  in  science   and    current  history  an    inner    contempt.     This   teacher 

are  saining   wide    knowledge.     The  did  r.ot  know  that    religion    is    now 

teacher    who   is    uninstructed    is    a  loi  ked  upon  as  a    part   of    life,    not 

bold  one  to  enter  upon  the  responsi-  some  dead,  musty  cemetery  of    use-- 

hility  of  teaching  young  men.  less  facts.     After  a    half-hour    with 

Such  a  tesfcher  must  have  the  him  one  felt  that  he  wanted  to  get 
modern  point  of  view.  That  is,  he  out  into  the  open  air  again,  and 
must  see  thine:  ;  in  the  large.  Fie'  breathe  fully  and  freely. 
must  have  his  eyes  turned  toward  Only  the  man  who  knows  can  suc- 
the  remarkable  developments  in  the  ceed  with  young  men  to-day,  unless 
world's  life  to-day,  in  science,  in  poli-  perhaps  he  has  the  genius  of  heart- 
ties  in  religion.  Unless  he  has  this  knowledge  and  sympathy  that  come 
view,  he  will  fail  in  getting  the  con-  without  the  learning  of  books  and 
iMenee  of  his  pupils.  It  was  the  school?.  Such  a  man  can  always 
writer's  privilege  a  short  time  ago  to  command  respect. 


THE  AUTOMOBOOB 

(Oxford  Friend) 

With  more  than  five  thousandmiles  of  good  roads  made  or  in  the 
making-,  Nortb  Carolina  will  be  a  paradise  for  that  species  of  road 
suisance,  the  party  who  loves  to  step  on  the  gas  in  an  automobile 
£nd  see   all    the   various  components  of  scenery    blend  into   one  futuristic 

streak,  unless  some  kind  of   suasion  tative  of  the  fair  sex  who  is  unfairly 

is  brought  to  bear  on  him.    Some-  jeopardizing  the  lives  of  other    driv- 

'inies   he    is  a    skillful    driver    and  ers  and  pedestrians. 

sometimes  he  is  not.     Sometimes  it  In    this    week's    Collier's    is     an 

knot  a  he  at  all,  but  some  represen-  editorial   fulminating     against     the 


26 


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ignorant  driver,  is  which  a  newly 
coined  name  (or  rather  a  rehashing 
of  names)  is  employed  to  describe 
the  person  who  knows  just  enough 
about  automobiling  to  pull  or  oper- 
ate the  wrong  tiling  in  an  emer- 
gency. 

Collier's  new  word  is  "Automo- 
boob,"  but  some  how  it  feels  that  this 
is  too  weak  and  polite  a  term  and  asks 
assistance  from  the  puplic  in  putt- 
ing the  label  on  the  undesirable  citi- 
zen referred  to.  Also  it  sicks  all 
good  drivers  on  him. 

But  read  for  yourself: 

"What  about  the  gentleman  or 
lady  who  knows  nothing  about  the 
•care  of  a  car,  or  its  operation,  except 
to  press  a  few  buttons  and  pull  a 
few  levers  and  steer  a  lurching 
•course  through  our  swift  and  order- 
ly motor  traffic? 

"Good  drivers  don't  like  him. 
The  American  Automobile  Associa- 
tion, with  350,000  members,  is  after 
him.     It  has  conceived  a  punishment 


that  is  both  cruel  and  unusual— and 
we  are  for  it.     'the  association  offers 
a  prize  for  a  name  that  will  describe  j 
him.     Collier's  is  glad    to    offer  one 
suggestion.      Here  it  is: 

AUTO.MOBOOB 

"We  will  be  glad  to  give  wide 
circulation  to  this  or  any  other  de- 
scriptive term  chosen  by  the  A.  A. 
A.  on  behalt  of  the  millions  of  sens:- . 
ble,  careful  drivers  who  want  real 
comfort  and  pleasure  on  the  roads. 

"Farther,  we  guarantee  that  if 
communities---instead  of  meting  out 
painless  fines--would  slap  "Automo- j 
boob"  (or  any  better  word  they  can 
find)  in  big  letters  on  the  front  and 
back  of  the  car  of  every  driver  con- 
victed of  reckless  driving,  and  would 
provide  a  heavy  penalty  for  remov- 
ing it  before  the  time  set,  the  roads 
would  soon  be  a  lot  safer  for  every- 
one. 

"If  you  know  a  better  word,  send . 
it  in." 


WHAT  IS  THE-  GREATEST  EARTHLY 

BLESSING?  ; 

By  S.  S.  Harris  in  Advocate 

The  phraseology  of  the  question  excludes  the  right  of  advocating  more 
than  one  thing,  yet  it  must  be  admitted  that  no  one  blessing  entirely  sep- 
arated from  all  others  could  produce  happiness;  I  have  therefore  selected 
that  which  necessarily  embraces  or  implies  those  blessing  from  which  the 
highest  degree  of  happiness  and  usefulness  eminate,  namely,  RIPE 
INTELLECTUALITY. 


It  has  been  well  said  that  know- 
ledge is  power,  and  the  wealth  of 
the  mind  is  the  only  true  wealth. 
It.  is  an  incentive  toenergyand  the 
inspiration  of  invention.  It  is  the 
motive  power  of  commerce  and  the 
masterwheel  of  mechanism.     It  has 


harnessed  steam  and  tamed  electri- 
city. It  captures  the  wild  ferocious 
king  of  the  forest  and  mak?s  him  as 
docile  as  a  lamb.  It  leads  great 
armies  to  victory  and  alleviates  the 
suffering.  It  discovered  a  vast  sav- 
age wilderness  reaching  from  ocean 


THE  UPLIFT  25- 

j  TEACHERS    MUST    "KNOW    THINGS" 

By  T.  C.  Clark 

Time  was  when  almost  anything  went  in  a  Bible  class.  If  the  teacher 
I  was  known  to  be  "pious"  he  was  recognized  as  a  fit  instructor  of  the  youth. 
1  He  might  have  little  or  no  education,  he  might  live  in  a  rut  mentally,  he 
Imight  even  be  neglectful  of  what  was  happening  in   the    great  world;   just 

-j so  lie   was     good"  he    received    the  visit  a  live  young  men's  class.     The 

|0.  K.  of  the  superintendent  and  the  regular  teacher  was  absent,    and    a 

Iparents.  substitute  led  the  young  men  for  the 

|    But  that  time  has  past.    The  young  one  Sun  lay.     It  was  really  pathetic 

amen  of  to-day    are  coming    to  know  to  note  the  failure    of   this   man    in 

■  things.     The    high    schools    are    be-  winning  his  pupil's    confidence.      He 

■  coming  veritable  universities,  and  knew  nothing  of  their  thought  world, 
:|  the  students  are  becoming  experts  and  mumbled  over  obvious  and  in- 
3  in  social  and  philosophical  questions,  different  facts  in  a  way  that  brought 
"j and  in  science  and  current  history  an  inner  contempt.  This  teacher 
I  are  gaining  wide  knowledge.  The  did  rot  know  that  religion  is  now 
Steadier  who  is  uninstructed  is  a  looked  upon  as  a  part  of  life,  not 
8 bold  one  to  enter  upon  the  responsi-  some  dead,  musty  cemetery  of  use- 
jliility  of  teaching  young  men.  less  facts.  After  a  half-hour  with 
|  Such  a  teacher  must  have  the  him  one  felt  that  he  wanted  to  get 
graoilern   point    of    view.   That,  is,  he  out  into    the    open    air    again,    and 

must  see  things    in    the    large.      He  '    breathe  fully  and  freely. 

must  have  his  eyes    turned    toward  Only  the  iran  who  knows  can  suc- 

I the  remarkable  developments  in   the  ceed  with  young  men  to-day,  unless 

I  world's  life  to-day,  in  science,  in  poli-  perhaps  he  has  the  genius  of  heart- 

j  tics,  in  religion.     Unless  he  has  this  knowledge  and  sympathy  that  come 

view,  he  will  fail  in  getting  the  con-  without  the  learning  of    books    and 

lidence   of  his    pupils.      It    was    the  school;.     Such  a     man    can    always 

writer's  privilege  a  short  time  ago  to  command  respect. 


THE  AUTOMOBOOB 

(Oxford  Friend) 

With  more  than  five  thousandmiles  of  good  roads  made  or  in  the 
making,  North  Carolina  will  be  a  paradise  for  that  species  of  road 
nuisance,  the  party  who  loves  to  step  on  the  gas  in  an  automobile 
f-nd  see   all    the   various  components  of  scenery    blend  into   one  futuristic 

streak,  unless  some  kind  of    suasion  tative  of  the  fair  sex  who  is  unfairly 

is  brought  to  bear  on  him.    Some-  jeopardizing  the  lives  of  other    driv- 

'iiies    he    is  a    skillful    diiver    and  ers  and  pedestrians. 

sometimes  he  is  not.     Sometimes  it  In    this    week's    Collier's    is     an 

13 nat  a  he  at  all,  but  some  represen-  editorial   fulminating    against     the 


26 


THE  UPLIFT 


ignorant  driver,  is  which  a  newly 
coined  name  (or  rather  a  rehashing 
of  names)  is  employed  to  describe 
the  person  who  knows  just  enough 
about  automobiling  to  pull  or  oper- 
ate the  wrong  thing  in  an  emer- 
gency. 

Collier's  new  word  is  "Autumo- 
boob,"  but  some  how  it  feels  that  this 
is  too  weak  and  polite  a  term  and  asks 
assistance  from  the  puplic  in  putt- 
ing the  label  on  the  undesirable  citi- 
zen referred  to.  Also  it  sicks  all 
good  drivers  on  him. 

But  read  for  yourself: 

"What  about  the  gentleman  or 
lady  who  knows  nothing  about  the 
•care  of  a  car,  or  its  operation,  except 
to  press  a  few  buttons  and  pull  a 
few  levers  and  steer  a  lurching 
•course  through  our  swift  and  order- 
ly motor  traffic? 

"Good  drivers  don't  like  him. 
The  American  Automobile  Associa- 
tion, with  350,000  members,  is  after 
him.      It  has  conceived  a  punishment 


that  is  both  cruel  and  unusual— and 
we  are  for  it.     '1  he  association  offers 
a  prize  for  a  name  that  will  describe  i 
him.     Collier's  is  glad    to    offer  one 
suggestion.      Here  it  is: 

AUTOMOBOOB 

"We  will  be  glad  to  give  wide 
circulation  to  this  or  any  other  de- 
scriptive term  chosen  by  the  A.  A, 
A.  on  behalt  of  the  millions  of  sensi- . 
ble,  careful  drivers  who  want  real 
comfort  and  pleasure  on  the  roads. 

"Further,  we  guarantee  that  if 
communities---instead  of  meting  out 
painless  fines— would  slap  "Automo- j 
hoob"  (or  any  better  word  they  can 
find)  in  big  letters  on  the  front  and 
back  of  the  car  of  every  driver  con- 
victed of  reckless  driving,  and  would 
provide  a  heavy  penalty  for  remov- 
ing it  before  the  time  set,  the  roads 
would  soon  be  a  lot  safer  for  every- 
one. 

"If  you  know  a  better  word,  send 
it  in." 


WHAT  IS  THE-  GREATEST  EARTHLY 

BLESSING? 

By  S.  S.  Harris  in  Advocate 

The  phraseology  of  the  question  excludes  the  right  of  advocating  more 
than  one  thing,  yet  it  must  be  admitted  that  no  one  blessing  entirely  sep- 
arated from  all  others  could  produce  happiness;  I  have  therefore  selected 
that  which  necessarily  embraces  or  implies  those  blessing  from  which  the 
highest  degree  of  happiness  and  usefulness  eminate,  namely,  PdPE 
INTELLECTUALITY. 


It  has  been  well  said  that  know- 
ledge is  power,  and  the  wealth  of 
the  mind  is  the  only  true  wealth. 
It.  is  an  incentive  to  energy  and  the 
inspiration  of  invention.  It  is  the 
motive  power  of  commerce  and  the 
masterwheel  of  mechanism.     It  has 


harnessed  steam  and  tamed  .dectri- 
city.  It  captures  the  wild  ferocioos 
king  of  the  forest  and  mak?s  him  as 
docile  as  a  lamb.  It  lead;:  great 
armies  to  victory  and  alleviates  the 
suffering.  It  discovered  a  vast  sav- 
age wilderness  reaching  from  ocean 


THE  UPLIFT 


27 


to  ocean  upon  which  it  erected  the 
greatest  nation  of  the  earth.  It  dis- 
covered the  law  of  gravitation  and 
comprehended  the  solar  system.  It 
is  the  foundation  stone  of  govern- 
ment and  the  capstone  of  civilization- 
it  has  embraced  Christianity  and 
controls  society. 

This  is  specially  the  greatest  earth- 
ly blessing  to  woman.  It  seems  that 
God  in  His  infinite  wisdom  did  not 
intend  woman  to  perform-  manual 
labor,  and  she  is  not  supplied  with 
the  sinew  and  muscle  equal  to  the 
sterner  sex,  but  with  Ripe  Intellect- 
uality she  can  launch  out  upon  the 
sea  of  life  and  paddle  her  own  canoe, 
ad  in  many  vocations  can  excel  her 
masculine  competitor.  However,  I 
svould  emphasize  this  bl 'ssine  to 
koman  as  mother. 

'   It  not  only  furnishes   an  immense 
i variety  basket  from  which    she    can 
'■elect  almost  anything  that  will  grat- 
ify the  mine  and  heart  and  a    shield 
land  balm  to  her  own    life,    but    the 
devating  influence  to  society  as  it  is 
transmitted  down  the  lines  of  poster- 
ity is   inconceivable.      Suppose    all 
bothers  could  be  endowed  with  this 
blessing,  what  a    grand    world    this 
a'oul'd  be?     It  can  be  illustrated  in  a 
measure  by  a  great  imaginary    pen- 
jfclum  swinging  from   the    hand    of 
God  with  circular  vibration,    swing- 
tag  around  and  around,  widening  its 
scope  with  every  revolution,    reach- 
's farther  and   farther,    until    the 
■hole  face  of  the  earth  is    covered, 
wiping  out  crime  and  misery,  idola- 
&S  and  superstition,  vice  pauperism; 
*1  of  which  are   born    in   ignorance 
»d  nurtured  in  illiteracy,  and  finally 
"ting  all  humanity  upon  such  a  high 
pne  of     development     that    Ripe 
jwllectuality  would  pervade  the  hu- 
san  vac?  and  the  Son  of  God  be  the 


accepted  King  of  the  world. 

Physical  health,  material  wealthy 
persona)  friendship,  public  popu- 
larity, etc.,  are  necessary  adjuncts, 
to  happiness;  but  a  robust  body  may 
have  a  feeble  mind,  and  men  of  or- 
dinary physical  and  mental  capacity 
quite  frequently  amass  immense 
fortunes,  while  it  is  an  old  axiom 
that  a  sound  mind  necessitates  a 
sound  body;  with  tnis  combinaton 
wealth  its  a  natural  result,  and 
with  this  triune  blessing  the  vast 
fields  of  usefulness,  pleasure  and 
happiness  are  bounded  only  by  the 
limits  of  this  world. 

The  most  enviable  position  of 
eminence,  the  dizziest  height  of 
d'stincticn,  the  idea)  embodiment  of 
affection  are  attainable.  If  you 
would  be  a  famous  author  take  up- 
the  pen.  If  the  heart  panteth  for 
the  plaudits  of  oratory  mount  the 
rostrum.  If  you  are  ambitious  for 
military  heroism  buckle  on  your 
sword  and  go  forth  to  battle,  or  if 
your  aspirations  reach  out  for  the 
honors  of  statesmanship  don  your 
conventional  suit  and  you  are  ready. 
Where-ever  inclination  leads  un- 
excelled success  attends  you. 

Let, the  natural  impluse  of  the 
healthy  mind  and  body  have  its 
sway  toward  your  fellow  creatures 
and  friendship  will  be  expressed  in 
every  handshake,  admiration  twinkle 
in  every  eye  to  which  you  are  ex- 
posed, public  popularity  will  sound 
in  the  bells  and  cannon  of  the  great 
citits  which  you  may  visit,  and  in 
social  circles  you  are  monarch  of  all 
you  survey. 

Imagine  youself  one  of  a  partv  of 
such  friends,  comprising  both  sex- 
es, with  elegance  and  refinement 
pervading  the  realm,  breezes  of 
chastity  fanning  every  face,  decorum 


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"vieing  with  gracefulness,  loveliness 
smiling  upon  the  brow  of  graduer, 
wit  wrestling  with  sarcasm.  I  can 
also  see  the  electric  sparks  flashing 
from  eye  to  eye,  and  taste  the  de- 
licious intellectual  fruit  gathered 
from  the  richest  fields  of  literature 
and  extensive  travel  among  all 
nations,  tongues  and  peoples. 

It  seems  to  me  after  the  enjoy 
Tnent  of  such  a  company,  and  the 
mind  and  heart  filled  to  overflowing, 
under  the  melodious  strains  of 
"Home,  Sweet  Home,"  I  would  fail 
asleep,  and  dream  of  "rising  in  the 
air,  and  float  up  and  away,  away  off 
into  those  supernal  regions,  in  the 
impossible  heights,  which  in  the  in- 
finite mystery  of  their  remoteness 
mock  aii  mortal  aspiiation,"  and  as 
all  things  terrestrial  fade  away  in 
the  distance  below,  and  the  brain 
grows  dizzy  and  the  heart  faint,  in 
thp  twinkling  of  an  eye  mortality 
puts  on  immortality,  and  the  loving 
arms  of  the  Savior  reach  down  and 
and  lifts  me  into  heaven,  and  there 
with  the  angelic  ho«ts  drink  from 
the  divine  intellectual  fountains 
throughout  the  endless  cycles  of 
eternity. 

This  leads  to  the  climax  of  what 
■constitutes  Ripe  Intellectuality.  It 
is  not  meant  in  the  foregoing  argu- 
ment that  the  natural,  unregenerate 
man,  even  with  the  highest  degree 
of  physical,  mental  and  material 
endowments  can  attain  to  the 
sublime  possibilities  which  ire 
vouchsafed  to  the  man  who  ias 
been  regenerated  an  born  into  i  he 
spiritual  realm.  Holy  writ  teaches 
that  "the  natural  man  receivethnot 
the  spiritual  things  of  God,  nor  can 


■ 

he  know  them,  for  they  are  spiritual-^ 
ly  discerned."  ^ 

But  with  the  new  birth,  and  th^  y 
light  of  heaven  radiating  into  the  ir 
heart,  mind  and  conscience,  his  soul. 
is  enthused  with  aspirations  t> ;. 
ascend  higher  and  higher  in  pursuit's 
of  knowledge,  wisdom  and  holiness,^ 
Egoism  witli  its  motives  dominat-ai 
ing  every  activity  is  transformed  in-  ^ 
to  altruism  with  the  chief  purpo.;-  » 
of  his  life  devoted  to  the  betterment s 
of  humanity;  and  as  he  grows  in  3 
grace  and  develops  into  ripe  Chris-  . 
tianity  which  is  the  real  essence  of  5 
Ripe  Intellactuality,  his  natural  and '] 
supernatural  powers  are  consecrated  f 
to  the  uplift  of  his  fellowman  anil . 
the  glory  and  praise  to  God.  "Lord,  . 
what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do?"  i£e 
the  paramount  thought  and  th'  . 
performance  his  greatest  delight.     { 

The  best    exemplar  of  these  fads?; 
is  the  life  of    Saint    Paul,  who   pos-  . 
sessed    all     the     elements    of   Ripe  J 
Intellectuality  more  nearly  than  ad  . 
man  of   whom    history    gives  an  ac-fr 
count,   and    whose    beneficence  hit- 
been  handed  down  through    all  ger, 
eraMons    for    nearly    two    thousand 
years   with    increasing    power  over-  , 
shadowing  all  other  earthly  blessing:  t 
so  completely    that  they    are  left  in " 
abject  obscurity.  ' 

It  seems  to  me    that    the  greatest, 
earthly   blessing   is    potentially  the 
greatest  heavenly    blessing  also,  fcj  ' 
what  is  this  life    but  a    preparation 
for     the    life    beyond    the     grave!-' 
Without    she    realization    of   which  j 
hope   the   infinite    purpose    of  God1 
pertaining    to    man,    the    crowninf1,  , 
achievement   of    all  creation   woulj 
be  unaccomplished. 


Guilford  County  has  clone  some  more  progressing.    Cabarrus  take  notice. 


THE  UPLIFT 


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Mr.  Ankers  reports  a  depth  of  28 
feet  in  his  new  well,  No.  4. 

Marion  Butler  was  ihe  only  one 
to  receive  a  visit  Wednesday. 

The  barn  beys  bava  a  new  mule, 
having  traded  another  one  for  it. 

Wooden  gallies  to  hold  the  mailing 
type  list  have  been  made  by  the  wood 
shop. 

Feet  are  tender  and  very  sensi- 
tive at  first,  but  as  they  toughen  all 
will  be  well. 

The  White  House,  or  our  hospital, 
has  besn  re-shingled  by  the  workmen 
and  is  now  weather  proof. 

Word  has  been  sent  to  each  cot- 
tage granting  the  boys  a  much  cov- 
eted privilege,  namely,  that  of  going 
barefooted. 

We  ire  busy  installing  a  new  water 
main  and  hydrants.  Ditches  have 
been  dug  in  which  to  lay  the  pipe;  it 
looks  as  if  we  were  going  to  have 
trench  war-fare. 

Miss  Wilson,  a  teacher  in  the 
County  schools,  sister  of  Mr.  Wilson, 
one  of  our  popular  officers,  was  a 
weekend  visitor  at  the  school  Friday, 
Saturday,  and  Sunday. 

A  half  a  dozen  of  Wenworth's 
second  year  Algebras  have  arrived. 
Three  boys  were  placed  in  this  study 
and  are  making  rapid  progress. 

Some  new  job  type  of  the  Wed- 
ding Text  and  Gothic  design  has  ar- 
rived at  the  Printing  Office.  The 
same  mail    broght    a    mailer    to   be 


used  in  mailing  our  Uplifts. 

A  tract  of  land  near  our  oichaid 
has  been  broken  up  and  harrowed 
by  the  boys.  This  land  last  year 
was  our  watermellon  patch.  It  is 
not  known  what  crops  will  be  plant- 
ed there  this  year. 

Miss  Ollie  Fitzgerald,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Mattip  Fitzerald.  of  Marshville, 
who  has  been  visiting  her  mother  for 
some  time,  took  Kodak  pictures  of 
the  Printing  Office  force  and  of  the 
evening  school  section  which  was 
drilling  at  that    time. 

Each  cottage  has  received  a  dur- 
able refrigerator  which,  of  course, 
will  be  filled  with  ice  from  our  new 
ice  plant.  The  ice  plant  is  not  yet 
quite  finished  but  as  soon  as  warm, 
or  rather  hot  weather  arrives,  it  is 
expected  to  be  making  ice. 

The  societies  of  the  two  cottages, 
Mecklenburg  and  State,  have 
ajourned  for  the  summer  vacation. 
The  participants  of  the  last  meeting 
of  the  Shaw  Society  were:  Sims, 
Allen,  Kennon,  Wilson.  Absher, 
Shipp  and  Autry.  'Ihe  last  named 
did  unusually  well. 

Allie  Williams,  before  he  was  plac- 
ed in  the  bakery,  had  been  a  house- 
boy.  He  was  making  such  a  success 
as  a  baker,  that  Mr.  Hilton  took 
him  to  the  bakery  and  gave  him  a 
real  chance.  Now.  Allie  can  bake 
bread  almost  as  good  as  Mr.    Hilton. 

The  J.  T.  S.  played  the  Cabarrus 
Mills  again  last  Saturday.  On  this 
occasion,  however,  fortune  did  not 
smile  on  the  Grey  Suits,  for  they 
were  defeated  by  a  score  of  7  to  1. 
In  spite  of  their  team  losing,  the 
boys  all  enjoyed  the   game    and    are 


30                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

looking  for  another    one    with    this  'vas  a    square   box  connected    to  a 

sarr.e  team.   Rossel   pitched  for  four  medium  sized  horn    by   a    wire.     A 

innings  and  Holman  traveled  there-  student  was  anxious   to  know  "how 

maining  three       In  the    first  session  can  people  talk  through    the    air  by 

the  visitors  scored  a  run    and    from  that?''    But  just  then   Mr.  Coltrane, 

then  on  piled  up  an    insurmountable  happened  to  connect  up  with   Pitts- 

lead.     Jack  McLellon  must  be  given  burg  and  the  speaker's  question  was 

special  mention     because    of    his  re-  answered  for  him,  but  not    entirely 

markabb  fielding  in    the  right    pas-  satisfactorily.     The    horn   began    to 

ture,     Long  runs  forward  and  back-  speak    presumably    announcing    the 

ward  catches  were  pie  for  him.  Then,  playing  of  some  instrument  by  some 

too  Williams,  Cook,  and     Honeycutt  person.  Then  after  a  moment's  pause> 

must,  be  given  credit.  The  Cabarrus  the  playing  began.     The  music   was 

Mills  may  accept  this  as  a  challenge  easily  distinguishable,  but  an  irritat- 

for  some  future  game.  ing  noise  like  the  sound   of  a  needle 

on  a  record    after    it     hiss    finished 

Last  Tuesday  word  was  circulated  playing,  disturbed  the    sweetness  of 

from  friend  to  friend  that  the  stud-  jt.  Then,  too,  Charlotte  would  "but- 

ents  of  the  school    would  be    enter-  in"  with  some  whistle  on' other  musi- 

tained  that  night  by  the  radio.    Not  cal  instrument.     But  on  the   whole 

a  student  had  seen  or  heard  a  radio  olr  students  enjoyed  the    ra:lio   im- 

until  then,  so  a  good  deal  of  natural  mensely.     During  one    of  the  slack 

curiosty  was  evinced.      That    night  moments  Supt    Boger  explained  the 

when  t:ie  bell  rang  each  cottage  went  rat)i0  to  the  enjoyment  of  an  afore- 

into  the  auditorium  where  the  radio  sajfj  speaker,  and  how  it    happened 

was    Lstalled.     If  some  anticipated  to  be  here.   After  a  few  more  rnun- 

huge  and    complicated    machinery,  bers.  the  students  returned  to  their 

they  were  doomed  to  dissapointment.  cottages. 
Tne  only  thing  that  met    their,  eyes 


Two  small  boys  were  discussing  the  Two  0,d   saUs  who  ,]ad  gpent  mo- 

various  excellences  of  then-  respective  of  their  Uve3  on  fish;ng  smackSi  were 

parents     and  the     conversation     had  arguing  about  mathematics.  Finally, 

reached   the  highly  critical  and  even  the  captian  of   the    ship    proposed  a 

personal  stage.  problem.   "If  you  sold  126  pounds  of 

"Well,"  remarked  Tommy  Stubbs,  codfish  at  6  cents  a  pound."  he  said, 

"you   can  say   what  you   like,   but   I  "how  mnch  would  you  make?" 

reckon  your  father's  about  the  mean-  Both     men    worked    awhile   with 

est  man  that  ever   lived.    Fancy    him  pencilsand  paper,  but  neither  seem- 

letting  you   walk   about   in  them  old  ed  to  get  very  far.  At  last    old   Bill 

shoes,  and  him  a  shoemaker,  too!"  turned  to  the  captain.    "Is  it  codfish 

"Bah,"  replied     Bobby     Roberts,  they  caught?"  he  demanded. 

"M  father     ain't  so  mean     as     your  "Yep"  replied  the  captian. 

father,    anyway.     Why,     fancy     him  "No  wonder  I  ouldn't  get  an  ans- 

being  a  dentist  and  your  baby  only  got  wer!"  exclaimed  Bill  in  disgust.  I've 

one  tooth!"  been  figuring  on  shad  all  the  time." 


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May  10 

Twenty-four  years  ago,  "when  the  tocsin  of  war 
sounded,  it  was  the  blood  of  the  old  Confederacy 
that  laid  the  first  red  rubies  upon  freedom's  altar. 
The  instantly  the  world  remembered  that  it  was 
the  South  whose  soldiership  and  valour  wrested 
Yorktown  from  the  British — the  South  whose  Pat- 
rick Henry  kindled  the  fires  of  the  Revolution,  whose 
Jefi'erson  wrote  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
whose  "Washington  commanded  the  Continental  ar- 
my, whose  Madison  framed  the  constitution,  whose 
Marshall  interpreted  the  organic  law — aye,  the 
South  to  whom  the  Union  was  indebted  for  existence; 
and' if  from  1861  to  1865  she  drew  her  sword  against 
the  Union's  flag,  it  was  in  defense  of  the  Union's 
constitution! 

"The  men  did  not  die  in  vain.  They  live  in  a 
literature  that  loves  a  lost  cause.  Troy's  down- 
fall awoke  the  harp  of  Homer.  The  Greek-sung 
glories  of  Thermopylae  have  sprung  from  the  death 
bed  of  Leonidas.  The  triumph  of  "Wellington  at 
Waterloo  has  not  eclipsed  the  Marengo  of  Napoleon 
and  in  the  distant  years  to  come,  Fame's  loudest 
blast  will  sound  to  all  the  listening  world  the  name 
of  Lee." 


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The  Uplift 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 


PUBLISHKD    BY 


The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting   by  the  Boy's  Printing    Class.      Suhscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1S79. 

MAY  MORNING 

By  John  Milton 
Now  the  bright  morning  star,  day's  harbinger, 
Comes  dancing  from  the  east,  and  leads  with  her 
The  flowery  May,  who  from  her  green  lap  throws 
The  yellow   cowslip  and  pale  primrose. 

Hail,  bounteous  May,  that  dost  inspire 
Mirth  and  youth  and  warm  desire! 
Woods  and  groves  are  of  thy  dressing, 
Hill  and  dale  doth  boast  thy  blessing; 
Thus  we  salute  thee  with  our  early  song, 
And  welcome  thee,  and   >vish  thee  long. 


MEMORIAL  DAY— MAY  10th. 

Memorial  day  had  its  origin  in  what  was  called  Decoration  Day.  The 
idea  originated  in  the  state  of  Georgia.  Its  observance  has  spread  to  most 
of  the  states,  both  North  and  South.  Officially  it  has  become,  and  of  right, 
a  holiday. 

The  date  of  month,  however,  varies.  The  reason  for  this  does  not  con- 
sist in  any  bickering  over  the  propriety  of  the  occasion,  or  from  a  lack  of 
appreciation  of  the  the  beantiful  practice  of  remembering  our  heroes  by 
covering  their  graves  with  flowfrs.  The  different  dates,  observed  by  a 
number  of  states,  is  the  result  of  the  seasons 

Flowers  seem  their  best  about  the  10th  of  May  in  North  Carolina—and  a 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

the  dear  old  Confederate  who  gave  up  his  11  fe  for  his  country    deserves   in 

memory  their  very  best.     In  Virginia,  for  instance,    the  date  is  May  30th; 

this    being    due  to  the  profuse  blooming'  of  flowers  coming  at  a  later  date 

than  in  North  Carolina. 

There    is  a  reason,  however,  for  North  Carolina  selecting  the    10th    and 

not    the  9th  or  any  other  aate  near  the  first  of  the  month.     On  that    day--- 

the  10th  of  May-- -we  have  a  reminder  of  the  anniversary  of  the  death  of  the 

Confederate  army's  right  arm,  the  sainted  Thomas  Jonathan  Jackson. 

:;:  *  $  *  *  $  *  * 

LEST  WE  FORGET. 

This  issue  of  The  UPLIFT  would  honor  the  memory  of  all  veterans  of 
the  War  Between  the  States  and  the  actors  in  that  awful  period  of  Ameri- 
can history.  This  writer,  joining  even  those  that  engaged  in  that  con- 
flict wherein  they  bore  the  burden  of  the  hardships  and  the  sorrows,  has 
no  feeling  of  animosity  whatever  against  the  leaders  and  their  descendents 
of  the  Federal  side.  He  could  very  well  do  so,  however,  because  in  nature 
there  is,  in  fact  and  truth,  what  science  has  discovered  and  determined  "pre- 
natal influence." 

The  mothers,  anxiously  awaiting  the  news  of  loved  ones  on  the  battle 
fields,  receiving  news  of  the  death  in  battle  of  a  soldier-son,  brought  into 
existence  all  over  the  Southland  child-life  that  had  bred  in  it  all  the  ten- 
dencies of  sorrow,  anxiety,  distress,  suffering- -real  and  imaginary  trials 
that  bind  the  children  of  the  Confederacy  without  appeal  to  the  mercy  of 
relief  and  freedom.  These  can  never  and  should  never  forget  the  heroes 
of  '61-'65.  , 

There  is  no  disposition,  no  desire,  to  revive  any  bitter  feelings.  The 
story  of  the  Confederacy  is  a  story  that  should  engage  the  whole  nation 
with  a  feeling  of  pride  mingled  with  sorrow. 

That  the  young  and  future  generations  of  the  South  should  be  pemitt- 
ed  to  forget  the  heroic  struggles  and  the  actors  in  the  Confederacy,  is  a 
crime  chargeable  to  the  teachers  and  leaders  of  the  South.  Remembering  in 
love  these  heroes,  is  no  offence  to  a  Union,  to  which  we  are  all  loval,  and 
none  stands  more  ready  to  uphold  her  flag  and  defend  her  against  all 
comers.  History  proves  this,  not  only  to  our  own  glory  but  to  the  com- 
mon glory  of  all  American  people. 

Painful  is  the  ract  that  many  a  high  school  pupil  is  permitted  to  pass 
out  into  active  life  without  a  speaking  knowledge  of  the  simple  facts  of 
the  story  and  leaders  of  the  Southern    Confederacy— due    entirely    to    the 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

tranny  of  the  course  of  study  and  the  character  of  modern  teaching  and 
ideas.  It  is  nothing  short  of  a  sin  against  childhood.  A  citizenship  that 
takes  no  pride  in  the  deeds  of  theic  forefathers  reflects  no  glory  on  a  coun- 
ty. 

WHAT  WOMEN  HAVE  CONTRIBUTED  SINCE  1865. 

On  the  first  Easter  morning  the  women  remembered  their  dead,  so  the 
Southern  women  of  the  nineteenth  century  put  on  their  mourning  attire. 
There  was  scarcely  a  home  in  the  whole  Southland  that  did  not  have  a  new- 
made  grave  to  demand  its  care. 

Right  well  did  our  women  rise  to  the  occasion,  for  early  in  1866  Confed- 
erate Memorial  Associations  sprang  up  like  magic  throughout  the  South,  the 
first  one  being  organized  at  Columbus,  Georgia,  on  April  26,  1S66;  and  at 
Charleston,  S.  C,  on  May  14,  1S66.  On  May  31,  1900,  a  general  Associa- 
tion was  formed  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  now  containing  more  than  seventy  dis- 
trict associations.  These  associations  have  given  a  tender  thought  and  im- 
pressive activity  in  seeing  that  the  graves  of  Confederate  soldiers  are  mark- 
ed; that  the  survivors  are  properly  remembered;  and  that  suitable  exercises 
are  annually  held  commemorative  of  the  courage.ius  service  of  the  Confeder- 
ate soldiers,  living  and  dead. 

To  their  splendid  and  earnest  organizations  may  be  attributed  the  estab- 
lishment, in  large  measure,  the  Soldiers'  Homes  of  the  several  states.  They 
may  have  come,  sooner  or  later,  but  the  activity  and  the  love  of  the  noble 
women  of  the  South  hastened  the  day  of  the  establishment  of  these  restful 
places  for  such  of  the  old  soldiers  as  wish  to  avail  themselves  of  their  care 
and  protection.  This  writer  well  remembers  thirty-four  years  ago,  how 
concerts  and  entertainments  were  held  to  create  funds  to  aisist  in  the 
maintenance  of  the  North  Carolina  Soldiers'  Home.  One  of  the  most 
beautiful  and  engaging  entertainments  e\er  held  in  Concord  was  a  Confed- 
erate Concert,  engineered  by  Madames  J.  P.  Allison,  R.  S  Harris,  Dr.  Her- 
ring, Dr.  Fetzer  and  the  writer.  The  proceeds,  amounting  to  nearly  two 
hundred  dollars,  went  to  Raleigh,  supplementing  the  maintenance  of  our 
State  Home.  Like  entertainments  were  held  all  over  the  state,  and  not 
abandoned  until  the  Legislature  rose  to  a  sense  of  its  obligation  for  a  com- 
plete and  just  support. 

Woman!     First  at  the  cross,  last  at  the  grave. 

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Something    must  be    done,  and  that  quick-     Lady  Nancy  Astor   walked 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

into  a  Baltimore  shoe-store,  tried  on  a  pair  of  shoes,  she  liked  them;  tried 
another  pair  and  liked  them— this  thing  kept'  up  until  she  had  invested 
$188.40.  Finally  she  put  her  feet  into  a  4  h  C  and  walked  oft'  as  if  nothing- 
had  happened.  Sister  Astor  is  putting  notions  into  the  heads  of  our  wives 
and  sweethearts  that  will  hurt. 

%    ;*;    %    ^    >|i    i'fi    %    % 

NAME  THEM. 

If  Cabarrus  county  be  an  average,  there  are  now  in  North  Carolina  just 
6  2.00  veterans  of  the  War  Between  the  States.  In  fact,  no  one  knows  the 
exact  number. 

The  Uplift  has  addressed  a  request  to  a  representative  citizen  ot  each 
county  in  the  State,  asking  for  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  survivors 
of  the  60s.  These  glorious  old  heroes  are  passing  so  rapidly  to  join  Lee 
and  Jackson  on  the  other  side,  that  it  is  necessary  to  fix  a  date  and  ask  for 
the  survivors  in  the  several  counties  of  date  of  May  10,  1922. 

These  will  be  published  in  The  Uplift  as  fast  as  received  or  is  practi- 
cable. 

Our  neighbor  counties  have  pressed  into  a  willingness  two  most  excellent 
gentlemen  and  experienced  legislators  to  consent  again  to  return  to  the 
General  Assembly,  after  an  absence  of  some  years.  Hon.  Z.  V.  Turlington, 
of  Mooresville,  will  go  from  Iredell;  and  Judge  B.  B.  Miller  will  be  one  of 
the  representatives  from  Rowan.    .That's  fine. 

Governor  Morrison  has  declined  to  appoint  colored  folks  to  the  office 
of  Notary  Public.     His  course  will  be    regarded  as  perfectly  consistent. 


WHAT  WE  MISSED. 

Home  and  its  delightful  setting  at  this  season  of  the  year,  is  the  best 
place  in  the  world;  but  the  desire  to  be  in  Greensboro  this  week  had  a  pow- 
erful hanking  in  it.  It  would  have  been  no  small  privilege  and  source  of 
entertainment  and  profit'to  have  looked  in  on  and  listened  to  the  brilliant 
women  gathered  there  in  the  annual  convention  of  the  Federated  Clubs  of 
North  Carolina. 

The  annual  gathering  of  these  representative  women  from  the  several 
towns  and  cities  of  the  state^reflects  a  progressive  spirit  in  the  respective 
communities  from    which    they    come.     The  deliberations,  conclusions  and 


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legislations  of  these  women  carry  a  much  greater  significance  than  formerly 
because  they  bear  a  political  voice  that  attracts  the  interest  of  all  mankind, 
especially  the  political  leaders  and  social  welfare  workers. 


THE    FOX   AND   THE    MOSQUITOES. 

A  Fox  after  crossing  a  river  get  its  tail  entangled  in  a  bush,  ami 
could  nut  move.  A  number  of  Mosquitoes  seeing  Ins  plight  settled 
upon  it  ami  enjoyed  a  good  meal  undisturbed  by  its  tail.  A  hedge- 
hog strolling  by  took  pity  upon  the  Fox  and  went  up  to  him:  "You 
are  in  a  bad  way  neighbor,"  said  the  hedgehog;  ''shall  I  relieve  you 
by   driving-   off   thoseMosquitoes    who    are   sucking   your   blood." 

'•Thank  you,  Master  Hedgehog,"  said  the  Fox,  "but  I  would  rather 
not." 

"Why,  how  is  that?"  asked  the  hedgehog. 

"Well,  you  see,"  was  the  answer,  "these  Mosquitoes  have  had 
[heir  till;  if  you  drive  these  away,  others  will  eome  with  fresh  appe- 
tite and  bleed  me  to  death." 


3  THE  UPLIFT 

WE  HAVE   THEM  YET  FOR   A  LITTLE 

WHILE. 


of  the  Cabarrus  veterans,  who  are 
yet  with  us,  is  complete  but  it  repre- 
sents the  surviving  Confederate  vete- 
rans as  revealed  by  the  records  kept 
by  Capt.  H.  Baxter  Parks,  of  Con- 
cord, who  kindly  furnished  same  to 
The  Uplift. 


J.  L.  Stafford,  Dr.  S.  A.  Grier,  Wm.  N.  Spears,  J.  P.  Culp. 
J.  S.  Harris,  D.  C.  Dayvault,  George  Misenheimer,  W.  J.  Hun- 


Stop,   think    for   a   moment.     How 

many  of  the  old  Confederate  soldiers 
can  you  name  in  your  midst?  They 
are  going — going  fast,  to  meet,  on  the 
other  side,  the  brave  comrades  who 
fought  as  they  fought  for  a  cause 
they  believed  right  and  righteous.  I 
do   not    know    that   the   following   list 

Township  1. 

Township  2 
sucker. 

Township  3.  ALL  DEAD. 

Township  4.  A.  L.  Demarkus,  John  Lowrie,  W.  A.  Davis. 

Township  5.  ALL  DEAD. 

Township  6.  J.  M.  Safrit,  T.  J.  Safrit,  J.  C.  Sikes,  Billy  Cruse. 

Township  7.  Henry  Moose,  John  H.  Moose,  Mike  Rinehardt,  George  Bice. 

Township  3.  John  Cook,  A.  C.  Barrier,  George  W.  Blackwelder,  William 


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9 


Barringer,  J.  T.  Halm,  George  Page,  John  A.  Barrier,  W.  H.  Mincy. 

Township  9.     Jacob  R.  Barnhardt,  Thos.  Einehardt,  Al.  Boat. 

Township  10.  John  S.  Turner,  Jas.  S.  Eussel,  D.  P.  Boger,  W.  H.  Hudson, 
Charley  Muse. 

Township  11.  T.  S.  Pharr,  W.  J.  McLaughlin. 

Township  12.  G.  M.  Lore,  Rev.  T.  W.  Smith,  C.  A.  Pitts,  M.  M.  Gillon,  H.  S. 
Pnryear,  Columbus  Holshouser,  T.  S.  Shinn,  G.  W.  Brown,  R.  0.  S.  Miller,  C. 
W.  Allman,  Chal  Plott,  D.  B.  Coltrane,  John  Mclnis,  A.  M.  Brown,  H.  B.  Parks, 
A.  G.  Bost,  G.  L.  Winecoff,  C.  F.  Walter,  John  A.  Propst,  Rev.  Jacob  Simp- 
son, Joe  White,  Capt.  Chas.  McDonald,  W.  J.  Hill,  A.  E.  Walter,  J.  C.  Honey- 
cutt. 


Just  sixty-two  ut'  the  brave,  dear, 
old  fellows  are  lei't  to  us  in  all  of  the 
whole  county.  They  are  going  fast. 
In  the  language  of  another: 

'■Veterans,  God  bless  you!  You 
served  in  the  noblest  army  ever  mus- 
tered upon  ihe  planet.  Your  sears 
link  us  to  an  immortal  past.  You  have 
been  heroes  in  peace  no  less  than  in 
war.  You  have  taught  us  to  be  brave 
in  danger,  patient  in  trial,  magnani- 
mous in  victory  and  undaunted  in  de- 
feat. Would  that  we  could  keep  you 
always,  men  of  grey  with  hearts  of 
gold!  But  the  remorseless  hour-hand 
moves  round  the  dial.  The  voices  of 
comrades  call  from  out  the  west.  One 
by  one,  Time  is  paroling  the  Old 
Guard,  and  soon  the  last  of  Lee's 
paladins  will  whisper  to  his  mates  be- 
yond starlight:  "I  am  coming,  boys, 
I  am  coming."  What  a  gathering  at 
the  river  will  the  last  reunion  be — 
'Where  falls  no  shadow,  lies  no  stain, 

'Where    those   who    meet   shall   part 
no  more 
And  those  long  parted  meet  again!'  ' 

1  >n  our  memorial  day,  May  the 
10th  "Mothers  and  Daughters  of  the 


Southland!  Fare  ye  forth!  Let  the 
magnolia  forsake  its  lofty  bough!  Let 
the  violet  quit  its  lowly  bed!  Let  the 
lilies  of  the  valley  join  the  mountain 
laurels  in  beauty's  pilgrimage  to 
knighthood's  holy  land!  Come,  spir- 
it of  the  Mother  South!  Come  from 
the  haunts  of  the  storied  past !  Come 
from  the  mansion's  pillard  pomp! 
Come  from  the  hovel's  humble  hearth! 
Take  toll  of  the  gardens  where  the 
roses  bloom  and  squander  the  gar- 
lands where  the  loved  ones  lie !  Bid 
tlie  live-oak  don  her  widow's  weeds 
in  the  woodland's  deepest  solitudes 
and  make  the  wild  rose  wander  to 
the  farthest  couch  on  which  a  war- 
rier  dreams !  Zephyrs,  sweep  your 
aeolian  harps!  Rivers,  chant  your 
funeral  requiems!  Ocean,  peal  your 
organ  thunders!  Your  theme  to- 
day is  Dixie's  dead.  Let  the  willows 
weep  on  every  lowland  plain !  Let 
the  cedars  sigh  on  every  highland 
height !  And  if  an  unknown  grave 
be  overlooked,  0  Dixie,  round  a  dew- 
drop  there  and  whisper  in  the  south 
wind's  softest  breath: 

'Thy  mother  loves  thee  still!'  ". 


"Everybody  has  his  faults,"  said  Uncle  Eben.  "De  principal  difference 
in  folks  is  whether  dey's  sorry  for  'em  or  proud  of  'em." 


10  THE  UPLIFT 

SOWING  AND   REAPING. 

(Presbyterian  Standard) 

Youth  is  tilt'  sowing'  season,  and  old  ago  is  the  harvest  time,  and  in  nothing 
are  there  more  erronerous  views  than  as  to  the  connection  between  what  you 
sow  and  what  yon  reap. 

Tt  is  true  the  Scriptures  are  very  plain  in  their  teaching,  but  when  men 
and  women  wish  tor  pleasure,  they  can  easily  persuade  themselves  that   they 


will  be  exceptions  to  this  general  rule. 
Parents  have  a  great  deal  to  do  with 
what  their  children  sow,  and  they 
will  be  held  responsible  for  what  they 
sow,  yet  at  the  same  time  we  must 
realize  that  often  parents  with  the 
best  of  motives  in  training  their  chil- 
dren have  to  contend  with  environ- 
ment, and  above  all  with  inherited 
tendencies,  because   the  moral   law   is 


speeted  and  sober  citizens. 

They  hear  them  boasting  of  their 
wild  days,  and  thus  they  naturally 
believe  that  such  a  youth  is  in  some 
way  the  natural  way  for  preparing 
a  respected  old  age.  These  men  who 
thus  boast  are  no  exceptions  to  the 
rule  of  sowing  and  reaping.  Ihey 
may  have  wills  strong  enough  to  curb 
their  appetites,  and   thus  are  nbta  to 


right  when  it  says  that  the  iniquities      present  a  fair  exterior,  but  too  often 


of  the  fathers  are  visited  upon  the 
children  unto  the  third  and  fourth 
generation.  That  law  of  reaping 
what  is  sown  is  inexorable.  The  sin 
of  some  ancestor  generations  back 
weakened  the  power  of  resistance  of 
your  children  and  makes  it* a  fore- 
gane  conclusion  that  he  must  fall,  un- 
less some  powerful  counteracting  in- 
fluence is  brought  to  hear  to  neutra- 
lize this  evil. 

The  parent  not  only  has  to  over- 
come heredity,  hut  too  often  then;  is 
a  lack  of  concert  between  father  and 
mother,  one  being  to  stern,  or  the 
other  too  indulgent.  The  result  is 
seen  in  the  child's  future  life. 


their  hearts  within  are  like  the  whited 
sepulchres  of  scripture,  ''full  of  dead 
men's  bones,  and  of  all  uncleanness." 

Let  no  one  deceive  himself.  This 
law  of  sowing  and  reaping  is  lixeii. 
Some  one  reaps  the  harvest,  and  as 
a  rule  the  one  sowing  has  to  do  the 
reaping.  The  very  apparent  nxi  ep- 
tions,  when  thoroughly  examined, 
prove  to  be  no  exceptions.  That 
man  who  sowed  his  wild  oats  in  his 
youth  and  now  in  his  old  age  is  full 
of  vigor  and  is  respected  in  a  com- 
munity, by  no  means  proves  that  the 
law  is  not  true. 

Blessed  with  a  vigorous-  consti- 
tution and  a  strong  will,  he  may  have 


Then  the  young  being  free  agents  passed  through     the     experience     of 

choose    for    themselves,    especially    in  youth  apparently  unhurt,  and  he  may 

this  day  when  the  independence  of  the  be  cited  as  one     who  does  not     reap 

child  is  encouraged  beyond   anything  what  he  has  sown.     Old  age,  however 

in  the  experience  of  the  past.     They  too  often  brings  the  harvest,  or  even 

may  hear  the  warnings  of  the  old,  but  granting   that    he    does   not    reap   the 

they    also    see    the    example   of    those  harvest  in  a  wasted  body,  it  too  often 

who  were  once  wild,  but  are  now  rt-  comes  in  the  shape  of  heartaches  ana 


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11 


sleepless  nights,  grieving  over  the  life      comfort.  If  we  sow  to  the  Spirit,  we 
of  his  sons.  reap  life  everlasting. 

The  other  side  of  the  law  is  full  of 


LIES   BURIED   AT   ARLINGTON. 


4 '  f 


'  ■■  ■  >  ; 
I     S     1     - 


,TvW/   : 
\V¥/": 


... 


* 


The  foregoing  is  the  picture  and 
surroundings  of  the  grave  of  Ev- 
erette  McAllister,  son  of  Mrs.  Ro- 
bert Lee  McAllister,  of  Mt.  Pleasant, 
Cabarrus  county.  He  was  among 
the  first--if  not  the  first---to  volun- 
teer from  Cabarrus  in  the  World 
War. 

He  was,  however,  the  first  Ca- 
barrus soldier  to  lose  his  life  in  the 
war  beyond  the  seas.  Volunteering 
in  May  1917,  he  went  into  training 
until  on  Thankgiving  of  said  year 
he  set  sail  for  the  scene  of  the  great 
contest;  and  landed  abroad  and 
reached  his  destination  on  Christams 


morning. 

He  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  the 
Marne,  July  15,  19 IS.  His  remains 
were  brought  to  this  country  and 
re-interred  at  Arlington  July  21, 
1921,  three  years  after  making  the 
supreme  sacrifice. 

Just  twenty  years  old,  with  a 
bright  mind,  having  just  finished  his 
education  at  the  Collegiate  Institute, 
at  Mt.  Pleasant,  when  he  volunteered 
in  the  service  of  the  cause  of  demo- 
cracy. He  gave  his  all.  What  more 
could  man  do  for  his  country  than 
to  die  for  it? 


"I  wonder  what  makes  the  water  look  so  yellow?"  asked  manima  the 
other  day  as  she  looked  at  the  globe  of  goldfish.  "Why,  I  des  the  gold 
dust  be  tomin'  off  the  fishes,"  replied  little  Irene. 


12 


THE  UPLIFT 


Talking  About  The  Facts. 


(Sfatesville  Daily) 

"Some  of  the  things  that  startled  the  country  as  a  result  of  investigations 
made  in  connection  with  the  war  are  now  being  examined  critically,"  re- 
marks the  Raleigh  News  and  Observer.  One  of  the  startling  statements, 
now  being  questioned,  is  that  "nearly  half  the  population  have  the  menta- 
lity of  12-year  old  children."  This  paper  does  not  recall  that  statement. 
but  it  was  asserted  that  as  a  lesulc  of  the  examinations  in  connection  with 
the  draft  act  a  large  per  cent  of  the  persons  examined  were  found  deficient 

mentally    and    physically.     It  is  ab-      tion  are   defective.  The  statement  is 


surd  on  its  face  to  say  that  "nearly 
half  the  population  have  the  men- 
tality of  12-year  old  children"  for 
the  very  gooJ  reason  that  nobody 
has  made  an  examination,  or  found 
it  possible  to  make  an  examination 
to  determinine  that  fact.  If  any- 
body said  that  it  was  simply  guess- 
work, not  founded  on  any  basis  wor- 
thy of  serious  consideration,  and  is 
therefore  valueless  if  not  slanderous. 
Reference  is  made  to  this  state- 
ment simply  to  call  attention  to  num- 
errus  similar  assertions  made  and 
accepted  as  facts  which  haver.o  real 
foundation  in  fact.  Physicians,  al- 
ienists, interested  in  their  work  and 
examining  large  numbers  of  people 
who  are  physically  and  mentally  de- 
fective, come  to  the  conclusion  that 
few  are  mentally  and  physically 
sound,  and  they  proceed  to  declare 
that  a  large  portion  of    the  popula- 


accepted  as  fact  because  of  the 
standing  of  the  man  who  makes  it, 
when  a  little  analysis  will  convince 
that  while  he  may  be  honest  in  his 
opinion  the  basis  of  his  assertion  is 
unsound.  His  observation  is  comp- 
paiatively  limited,  and  the  inference 
that  the  larger  part  of  the  popula- 
tion is  made  up  fo  similar  types  does 
not  always  follow. 

The  truth  is  a  whole  lot  of  folks 
take  in  too  much  territory  in  talk- 
ing about  things  of  which  they  have 
not  postive  knowledge  2nd  cannot 
have.  They  simply  assume  that  a 
limited  experience  gives  them  knowl- 
edge they  do  not  possess.  They 
make  a  guess  and  the  astonishing 
part  is  that  so  many  of  them  get 
their  guesses  accepted  as  facts  be- 
cause their  standings  is  such  that 
their  assertions  go  unquestioned. 


PUTTING    BIBLE    IN    NEWSPAPERS 

At  an  expense  of  one  dollar  for  every  million  readers,  the  Back  to  the 
Bible  Bureau  of  Cincinnati,  is  getting  one  verse  of  scripture  daily  prinled 
in  about  one  thousand  American  newspapers  and  magazines.  Its  total  driily 
scripture  readers  are  estimated  at  10,000,000  now,  two  years  after  :he 
bureau's  inauguration. 

A  goal  of  110,000,000  Bible    verse      tive. 
readers  daily  is  announced,    with    a  The   Bureau's  idea  is    that    d'-ily 

five-years  program  to  make  it  elfec-      reading  of  one  Bible  verse  makes  for 


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13 


good  citizenship,  and  that  the  best 
pulpit  through  which  to  reach  all 
persons  is  the  daily  press.  The  or- 
ganization is  non-secta>-ian,  its  daily- 
verses  going  to  publications  of  all, 
faiths,  free  of  charge  and  not  only 
to  newspapers  but  to  trade  journals, 
and  to  society  and  labor  publica- 
tions. 

How  the  idea  started  and  its  rapid 
growth  is  described  by  George  W. 
Hartzell,  a  Dayton,  Ohio,  manufact- 
urer, an  advisory  member  of  the 
Bureau.  The  chairman  is  James  N. 
Gamble,  of  the  Proctor  and  Gamble 
Company. 

The  Bureau  was  inaugurated  two 
years  ago  by  Addison  Y.  Reid,  of 
Cincinnati,  who  is  now  its  secretary. 
He  had  been  conducting  a  propagan- 
da for  prohibition,  sending  daily 
contributions  to  a  number  of  news- 
papers, and  paying  for  their  public- 
ation. With  the  adoption  of  the 
prohibition  amendment,  Mr.  Reid 
stopped  that  work,  but  decided  to 
try  a  campaign  of  Biblical  verse. 

At  first  he  paid  for  the  publication 
nf  daily  Bible  verses  just  the  same  as 
lie  had  paid  for  the  propaganda. 
The  verses  went  to  only  a  few  news- 
papers. After  about  six  months  paid 
publications,  olher  newspapers,  be- 
coming interested,  and  discovering 
that  Mr.  Reid  was  furnishing  the 
scriptural  quotations,  asked  him  to 
supply  them  also,  offering  to  make 
publication  without,  charge.  There- 
upon Mr.  Reid  stopped  paying  for 
insertion  of  the  verses,  and  the 
present  Bureau  was  inaugurated. 

Mr.  Hartzeil  said  that  in  these  two 
years  the  Biueau  has  expended  $10,- 


000,  al!  of  it  for  printing  and  pos- 
tage, as  there  are  no  other  expenses, 
all  the  work  being  voluntarilv  done 
by  a  group  of  Cincinnati  residents. 
The  response  to  the  Bureau's  letters 
offering  the  scriptures  has  been  uni- 
form from  all  sections  of  the  coun- 
try, Mr.  Hartzell  stated.  The  daily 
papers  now  publishing  include  46  in 
Canada  and  publications  in  Hawaii 
the  Philippines  and  Korea. 

Many  papers  have  been  putting 
the  daily  verse  at  the  bead  of  the 
editorial  column,  but  not  all. 

"A  large  Ohio  daily,"  said  Mr. 
Hartzell,  "is  running  the  verse 
completely  across  its  daily  comic 
page.  When  I  asked  the  editor  why 
he  chose  that  position,  he  replied: 

"Why,  don't  you  want  it  in  the 
most  conspicuous  place?' 

"This  editor  added,  laughing. 
'Perhaps  the  readers  of  the  comics 
need  balancing  more  than  anyone 
else.' 

"The  editor  of  a  Bellingham, 
Washington,  paper  made  a  personal 
investigation  to  discover  whether 
subscribers  really  read  these  daily 
verses.  He  reported  that  he  found 
that  thousands  actually  read  them. 

"The  verses  are  selected  by  Mr. 
Reid,  who  before  having  them  mail- 
ed, submits  them  to  a  committee 
of  ministers  and  church  officials  for 
approval." 

Mr.  Hartzell  said  that  the  Bureau 
is  now  engaged  in  raising  a  fund  of 
$200,000,  the  amount  it  is  estimated 
the  wr:rk  of  extending  the  publica- 
tion to  a  110,000,000  daily  circula- 
tion will  cost  in  the  next  five  years. 


Maybe  Hank  cannot  cut  the  fertilizer  bill  in  two,  but  the  south  would 
certainly  like  to  sea  him  try. — Greensboro  News. 


14  THE  UPLIFT 

MARRYING   ON   NOTHING. 

(Greensboro  Record.) 

Former  Govenor  Osborne,  of  Michigan,  informs  the  world  that  when  he 
married  he  had  nothing  and  was  able  to  give  his  bride  only  a  five  cent  ride 
on  a  street  car  for  a  wedding  trip.  He  did  have  one  other  nickel  and  spent 
that  on  a  five-cent  boquet  for  her. 

Thats  interesting  testimony,  first  hand  stuff,  proving  that  all  a  couple 
wanting  to  marry  needs  is  courage  and  some  ability.     The  ability  that  the 

ex-governor  and    his    wife    had  was  tention    of    marrying.     He    spends 

worth    more    to  them  than  a  house  it  to  make  a  good  appearance  in  the 

and  a  lot,  an  automobile— if  they  had  eyes  of  the  intended, 
automobiles  then--and  a  nice  collect-  It    is    true    that    the    parents  of 

ion    of  stocks  and  bonds  and  money  young  folks  may  have  plenty  of  coin 

in  the  bank.     They  took  the  plunge  but  that  is  generally  the  worst  thing 

because'^    they      were      not    afraid  that  could  happen  to  the  youngsters, 

and    they    came  up,  swimming  nat-  It  keeps  them  from  striking  out  vig- 

urally  and  got  to  a  nice  place  on  the  orously.     They  do  not  have  to  work 

shore  because  they  had  some  sense.  and  so  perhaps  they  don't.     What's 

But  they  wasted  no  time  in  dream-  the  use?  There  are  exceptions  of 
ing.  It  is  a  safe  bet  that  they  went  course,  some  people  would  get  ahead 
to  work,  both  of  them,  buckling  no  matter  what  the  barriers  in  the 
down  with  every  ounce  of  energy  shape  of  rich  parents,  but  most  of 
and  gumption  that  they  had.  Prob-  us  get  in  the  habit  of  working  be- 
ably  Mr.  Osborne's  wife  had  more  cause  we  have  to  do  it. 
to  do  with  his  successful  career  than  This  is  no  advice  to  a  fellow  ivith 
he  did.  only    ten    cents    to  go  marry.     The 

It  is  doubtful  if  few  couples  have  fellow  waiting  to  marry  until  he  has 

much  when  they  marry.     Their  par-  $10,000,    however,    seeing  marriage 

ents    may  have  something,  but  that  getting    further  away    can,    from  a 

in    many  cases  is  a  detriment,  keep-  consideration    of  the  Mr.  Osborne's 

ing    the    young    folks  from  striking  case,    quit  being  so  afraid  of  matri- 

out    vigorously.     It  is  a  rare  young  mony.      It    will    not    hurt  him  if  he 

man   who  saves  his  coin  with  the  in-  is  any  good. 


Sir  Douglas  Haig,  the  Scottish  commander-in-chief  of  the  British  armies, 
tells  this:  "A  Scot  bored  his  English  friends  by  boasting  about  Scot- 
land. 'Why  did  you  leave  Scotland?'  a  Londoner  asked,  'since  you  liked 
the  place  so  much?'  The  Scot  chuckled.  'It  was  like  this,'  he  said,  'in 
Scotland  everybody  was  as  clever  as  myself,  but  here  I'm  gcttin'  along  ver- 
ra  weel.'  " 


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15 


DR.    HUBERT   A.   ROYSTER. 


In  his  address  before  the  Medical 
said  among  other  things: 

"The  minimum  requirements  for  a 
career  in  medicine,"  Dr.  Royster  de- 
clared, "are  a  preliminary  educa- 
tion) four  years  in  the  medical 
school  and  a  license  to  practice. 
While  these  requirements  are  in- 
dispensable, they  are  by  no  means 
sufficient.  Three  high  attributes 
stand  out  as  the  real  elements  of  a 
successful  physician,  without  which 
all  requirements  fall  to  the  ground. 
This  trinity  is  brains,  culture  and 
character. 

"The  misfits  in  medicine,  as  well 
as  in  other  occupations,  are  due 
largely  to  lack  of  understanding. 
There  arc  many  in  the  cornfield  to- 
day who  ought  to  be  in  medicine — 
they  have  brains;  there  are  others 
in  medicine  who  ought  to  be  in  the 
cornfield — they  have  none. 

Common    Sense    Prime   Requisite 

"A  finely  endowed  intellect  is 
needed  to  carry  on  in  the.  realm  of 
medicine,  to  withstand  its  tempta- 
tion toward  the  illogical,  to  keep 
clear-headed  in  the  midst  of  fact  and 
fancy.  Such  endowment  comes  not 
from  science  itself;  it  issues  per- 
manently from  a  mind  nurture  in 
the  ways  of  thinking.  The  hand- 
maiden of  brains,  essential  for  the 
doctor,  is  common  sense,  which  is 
simply  the  ability  to  put  brains  to 
good   account. 

"Make  no  mistake  about  culture. 
Culture  is  refinement,  accuracy 
poise.,  resourcefulness,  it  is  not  ef- 
feminacy, weakness,  conventionalism, 
impracticability.        We      have      been 


Society,   in  session   at   "Winston-Salem., 

getting  too  far  away  from  tho 
humanities,  from  classical  education, 
from  academic  scholarship,  if  you 
please.  In  the  quest  of  science — ■ 
and  there  is  no  noble  pursuit — wo 
have  set  up  ultilitarian  courses, 
called  pre-medical  and  certainly  pre- 
medicated,  for  the  purpose  of  re- 
ducing to  a  minimum  all  those  things 
which  do  not  bear  directly  upon  tho 
matter  in  hand,  and  swelling  to  a 
maximum  those  that  are  concerned 
in  the  material  things  of  medicine. 
In  this  picture  we  have  left  out  tho 
very  bed  rocks  of  learning — the 
capacity  to  interpret  the  phenomena 
and  the  power  to  express  the  find- 
ings. 

Inaccuracy    Chief    Sin 

"We  are  living  in  an  age  the  chief 
sin  of  which  is  inaccuracy.  ^Ye  are 
inaccurate  in  thought,  in  speech,  in 
spelling,  in  writing.  We  know  a. 
great  deal;  but  do  we  know  anything 
very  well,'  Short  cuts  and  practical 
preparations  are  the  order  of  the  day. 
Language,  the  only  medium  through 
which  thoughts  are  giving  out,  has 
been  almost  forgotten. 

' '  We  cannot  divorce  science  and 
culture;  we  cannot  go  on  rearing  a 
race  of  seekers  after  truth  who  are 
not  trained  thinkers;  we  cannot  fail 
to  preceive  that  the  education  of  a 
candidate  for  a  learned  profession 
means  for  us,  as  it  has  meant  for 
all  the  older  nations,  a  thorough 
grounding  in  the  ancient  and  honor- 
able arts  and  classes  before  we  ap- 
proach  the  special  study   needed   for 


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our  dignified  calling.  That  way  our 
great  fathers  trod,  who  outstripped 
us  with  the  means  at  their  disposal, 
that  way  lies  our  hopes  of  elevation, 
of  bringing  hack  the  well-rounded 
medical  man  and  adding  to  him  the 
marvelous  scientific  attainments  of 
the  present  age. 

The  One  Big  Asset 

''The  one  big  asset  for  the  medical 
man  in  the  acquisition  of  the  scien- 
tific attitude  in  his  student  days. 
Every  physician  should  remain  a 
student  the  whole  of  his  natural  life. 
A  pitiable  sight  is  the  practitioner 
■who  was  known  as  a  'good  student' 
lint  who  after  five  years,  more  or 
less,  has  degenerated  into  a  routine- 
ist,  never  reviewing  his  former 
knowledge  or  adding  to  his  original 
store. 

The  Cry  of  the  Charlatan 

''What  has  no  place  in  science  is 
the  post  hoc  erge  porter  hoc  habit 
of  mind.  It  is  the  most  dangerous 
of  all  doctrines  for  the  medical  m'en. 
It  is  the  rankest  empiricism  and  fur- 
nishes the  platform  for  all  quacks 
and  imposters.  'Whereas  I  was 
blind,  now  I  see'  is  an  insidious  ap- 
peal to  effects  in  utter  disregard  of 
the  means — the  cry  of  the  charlatan. 
Montaigne  wrote  that  when  a  man 
is  sick  and  gets  well,  he  cannot  say 
whether  it  was  because  of  the  reme- 
dies used,  the  lapse  of  time  or  his 
grandmother's  prayers.  It  requires 
a  powerful  mental  efforts  to  get  away 
from  the  belief  that  whatever  hap- 
pens after  an  event  is  always  on  ac- 
count of  it;  but  we  must  get  away 
from  this  belief  or  we  shall  not  re- 
tain our  clear  thinkiner. 


"A  turn  in  the  affairs  of  medicine 
is  just  before  us.  Whether  that  turn 
will  be  toward  new  and  untired 
fields  or  along  some  old  and  well- 
worn  paths,  the  future — the  near  fu- 
ture— will  determine.  The  struggle 
is  on  between  medicine  as  practiced 
by  the  private  physician  in  the  time- 
honored  relation  and  practice  by 
groups  in  an  impersonal  collective 
fashion." 

As  To  Diagnosis 

Dr.  Koyster  said  that  "due  to  the 
multiplicity  of  technical  detail  and 
the  accumulating  mass  of  new  dis- 
coveries in  modern  medicine,  it  is 
now  more  than  ever  true  that  710 
man  diagnoseth  to  himself."  After 
discussing  diagnosis,  the  speaker  de- 
clared ' '  there  never  has  been  or 
never  will  be  anything  to  take  the 
place  of  cultivated  brains  and  train- 
ed special  sense.  The  dual  instru- 
ment, ready  for  instant  and  proper 
"use,  will  be  found  as  the  chief  equip- 
ment-in  the  office-  of  the  real  phvsi- 
cian. 

Asking  the  question  "and  what  will 
become  of  our  specialism"?  Where 
will  it  end?"  Dr.  Royster  said: 
"But  increasing  sub-divisions  of  spe- 
cialism give  us  pause,  so  much  30 
that  by  reaction  we  are  beholding 
a  newer,  specialists  the  general  prac- 
titioneer.  He  is  in  a  class  by  himself, 
left  in  charge  of  those  who  are  act- 
ually sick,  with  the  issues  of  life 
and  death  on  his  hands,  both  early 
and  late.  He  is  the  keystone  of  the 
medical  arch;  without  his  support 
the  whole  frabic  would  fall  to  the 
ground;  family  after  family  are  de- 
pending on  him  for  counsel,  relying 
on  his  judgment  in  every  crisis.     Of 


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17 


what  use  are  specialists  unless  there 
is  the  intermediary  to  say  when  they 
are  needed?  And  since  the  general 
practitioner  is  by  distinction  become 
a  specialist  and  expected  to  know  a 
little  about  everything,  why  should 
not  the  professed  specialist  be  re- 
quired to  know  something  about  gen- 
eral medicine?  One  finds  oneself 
somewhat  in  agreement  with  the  re- 
cently suggested  proposal  that  ex- 
amining boards  may  require  five 
years  in  general  practice  before  al- 
lowing the  privilege  of  going  into  a 
specialty. 

Group   Medicine 

"Many  are  rushing  into  group 
medicine  as  a  solution  of  the  whole 
matter.  Such  practice  brings  to 
bear  upon  each  case  the  combined 
study  of  a  number  of  specialists, 
who,  examining  the  patient  indivi- 
dully,  finally  comes  together  for  es- 
tablishing a  complete  dignosis  or 
leave  it  to  one  member  of  the  group 
to  pronounce  the  judgment.  Work 
in  groups  has  come  to  stay,  for  it  is 
inevitable  that  men  will  associate 
for  mutual  help  and  encouragement. 
Team  work  is  the  modern  slogan 
and  it  is  the  way  to  win  the  game. 
But  if  the  group  discounts  the  in- 
dividual and  the  individual  forgets 
the  patient,  we  have  not  group 
medicine,  but  gang  medicine,  and 
their  product  is  syndicated  science, 
than  which  nothing  can  be  more  un- 
scientific. 

After  discussing  arguments  for 
and  against  group  practice,  Dr.  Koy- 
ster  said  "My  feelings  is  that  the 
group  idea  is  one  of  the  most  use- 
ful modes  of  service  in  medicine. 
But  no  group  should  be  ironclad  or 
unwieldy;    its    tendency    to    send  out 


machine-made  work  should  be 
changed  into  that  of  a  hand-picked 
work.  It  should  stop  straining  at 
gnats  and  swallowing  camels,  and 
i-learn  that  the  group  was  made  for 
the  patient  and  not  the  patient  for 
the  group.  Just  as  strongly  should 
we  realize  that  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine will  never — and  should  never — ■ 
get  away  from  the  personal  relation 
of  patient  and  physician." 
Need  Of  The  Hour. 

"Battling  with  custom,  prejudice, 
disease. 

As  once  the  sone  of  Zues  with  death 
and    hell." 

"A  spirit  of  uncertanity  prevades 
our  rank  and  file,"  said  the  speaker, 
who  asked  "What  are  we  going  to 
do  about  it?"  Continuing,  he  said. 
"We  are  going  to  change  to  progress; 
we  shall  go  forword;  we  will  meet 
and  master  every  disturbing  diffi- 
culty. A  stubborn  element  of  con- 
servatism is  the  rule  in  this  common- 
wealth. We  are  to  prone  to  'be  not 
the  first  by  whom  the  new  is  tried' 
and  often  the  boast  of  being  'the  last 
to  lay  the  old  side.'  This  is  per- 
haps a  virtue;  but  a  virtue  run  to 
seed  may  constitute  a  vice.  Are  we 
not  something  afraid  of  the  new  he- 
cause  it  is  new?  Over  and  over 
again  it  has  been  asserted  that  'our 
people  are  slow  to  change,'  that  they 
will  resent,  any  interference  with 
the  existing  order  of  things.  It  is 
only  true.  Thus  will  come  our  ad- 
justment to  the  forward  movement — 
not  through  compelling  agencies  or 
rapid  fire  orders,  but  by  seeing  that 
whatever  benefits  the  people  of  a 
state,  who  gave  us  the  commission 
we  hold,  also  benefits  the  medical 
profession   whose     highest   aims      we 


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THE  UPLIFT 


have  at  heart  and  whose  noble  prin- 
ciple we  as  individuals  are  striving' 
to  maintain. 

Goal  For  Profession 

"In   conclusion  I   have   an   idea   to 

express  for  this  society.  First.  I 
would  have  it  conform  in  every  par- 
ticular to  the  specifications  set  forth 
in  Article  Two  of  the  constitution 
adopted  in  1902;  which  stated  that 
'The  purpose  of  this  society  shall 
he  to  federate  and  bring  into  one 
compact  organ  the  entire  medical 
profession  of  this  state  with  a  view 
to  the  extension  of  medical  know- 
ledge and  to  the  advancement  of 
medical  science;  to  the  elevation  of 
the  standard  of  medical  education 
and  to  the  enochment  of  just  medi- 
cal laws;  to  tile  promotion  of  friend- 
ly intercourse  among  physicians  and 
for  guarding  and  prospering  their 
material  interests;  and  to  the  en- 
lightenment and  direction  of  public 
opinion  in  regards  to  the  great  prob- 
lems of  state  medicine  so  that  the 
profession  shall  become  more  cap- 
able and  honorable  within  itself  and 
more  useful  to  the  public  in  the  pre- 
vention and  cure  of  diseases  and  pro- 
longing and  adding  comfort  to  life. 
Prime  Principles 
"I  would  have  this  society  embody, 
these  principles   in  the  conscience  of 


its  every  member,  especially  recall- 
ing the  significance  of  the  order  in 
which  the  principalis  are  presented: 
I  would  have  it  a  place  where  right- 
eousness reigns  and  no  mean  thing 
may  live,  I  would  make  it  a  guide 
and  not  a  trades  union;  1  would 
keep  it  a  heaven  where  politics  doth 
not  enter  and  where  selfish  exploita- 
tion both  not  corrupt:  I  would  wish 
everyone  to  think  not  of  what  the 
society  is,  but  what  he  is  to  give 
tin'  society;  I  would  want  it  a  com- 
munion where  freedom  rules',  where 
each  fellow  may  have  the  aspiration 
and  opportunity  to  develope  what  is 
in  him,  but  I  would  also  carry  its 
standard  so  high  that  we  may  draw 
all  men  up  to  it  and  never  for  one 
moment  trial  its  colors  in  the 
wretched  dust  of  the  unqualified 
and    the    unfit. 

"We  have  every  reason  to  feel 
encouraged.  My  note  is  one  of  op- 
timism. If  only  we  may  glorify 
brains  as  the  consummate  need;  if 
we  reverence  culture  as  a  means  of 
grace;  if  we  set  character  above 
circumstances  then  indeed  shall  we 
grow  in  capacity,  refinement  and 
virtue,  assuming  our  rightful  sta- 
tion as  devotees  of  a  learned  pro- 
fession, and  champions  of  the  real 
things  in  life." 


Heaven  is  not  reached  at  a  single  bound, 

But  we  build  the  ladder  by  which  we  sire 
From  the  loanly  earth  to  the  vatdted  skies, 
And  we  mount  to  its  smnmit  round  by  round 
I  count  this  to  he  grandly  true: 

That  a  noble  deed  is  a  step  toward  God, — 
Lifting  the  soul  from  the  common  clod 
To  a  purer  air  and  a  hroder  view. 


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THE    TOWN    THAT    WAS    LOST    AND 

FOUND 

(By  Emma  Mauritz  Larson  in  Young  Folks.) 
"Lost,  somewhere  in  Ohio  about  a  century  ago,  a  town.     Wanted  now  so 
that  its  150th  birthday  may  be  celebrated."     That  is  the  ad  that  might  have 

been  published  in  the  Ohio  papers  this  last  year)  though  of  course  it  wasn't. 
But  there  wore  some  people  in  the  state  so  deeply  iuterseted  in  finding  the 
exact  plaee  where  Schoenbrunn  used  to  be  that  they  spent  eight  months  of 

historical  research  ami  seven  weeks  of  difficult  tongues  of  many  Indian  tribes 

actual  digging,  and  it  seems  very  like-  and  had   the   friendship   of   the   Penn- 

ly    that    they    have    located    the    place  Sylvania    Indians. 

where  the  interesting  little  town  was.  It  was  springtime  when  he  reach- 
One  of  [he  things  that  made  the  ed  Geklemukpechunk,  the  capital  of  the 
search  hard  was  the  fact  that  Sehoen-  Deleware  Indians  in  the  Tuscarawas 
brunn  was  bin  ned  to  the  ground  when  Valley.  The  chief,  Xetawotwes,  re- 
it  was  only  ten  years  old  and  the  ceived  him  with  favor  and  said,  "  Yes, 
storms  and  snows  and  rains  and  suns  we  have  heard  of  the  work  of  our 
of  the  140  years  since  then  have  done  white  brothers,  the  Moravians,  in  the 
all  they  could  to  obliterate  every  trace  east,  how  they  desire  peace  between 
of  the  ruins  of  the  sixty  homes  along  the  white  and  red  men,  and  that  there 
the  two  streets  that  ran  like  a  letter  shall  never  be  war  upon  the  earth, 
T.  and  how  they  teach  the  Indian  chil- 
But  it  was  a  town  worth  searching  dren  in  schools  and  even  build  great 
for,  for  it  had  the  first  school  house,  houses  for  my  brothers,  the  red  men, 
and  the  first  church,  the  first  Tern-  to  worship  the  Great  Spirit  in.  I  will 
perance  Society  ami  the  first  Peace  give  you  land  for  such  a  town.  On 
Society  west  of  the  Alleghany  Jloun-  the  Tuscarawas  river,  that  is  the  Open 
tains,  a  big  load  of  honors  for  one  Mouth  River  of  great  plenty,  is  a  place 
village,  and  a  town  made  up  mostly  cleared,  an  old  Wyandot  town  site, 
of  red  men  at  that.  where  you  may  make  houses  and  fields. 
Four  vears  before  the  American  And  near  by  is  a  spring  to  give  you 
Revolution    broke    out    a    young    man  water." 

from    the   Moravian    town    of   Bethle-  So      David   Zcisberger,   when      May 

hem     in   Pennsylvania   decided      that  came  around  again,  brought  from  the 

since    his    church    believed    in    giving  Moravian  towns  of  his  own  state  five 

the  gospel   to  all  men  he   would   turn  Indian    families    to   start    a    Christian 

into      the   wild   country    beyond      the  town    in    Ohio.     The    chief's    gift    of 

mountains  ami  work  with  the  Indians.  land  was  indeed  a  good  place  for  the 

Tie  was   well   equipped   to   follow   the  new  town,  and  during  the  spring  and 

two   Moravian    missionaircs   who   had  summer    the    axes   were   busy    cutting 

just  "one  out  there,  for  he  knew  the  logs    for    houses    ami    the   school    and 


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the  church.  By  autumn  the  town  had 
been  named  Sehoenbrunn,  or  Beauti- 
ful Spring,  from  the  natural  spring 
which  supplied  them  with  clear,  cold 

water,  and  September  saw  the  chapel 
dedicated. 

By  this  time  other  Indians  had 
been  converted,  but  it  looked  like  the 
chapel  built  to  accommodate  five  hun- 
dred could  never  be  filled  out  in 
this  wilderness  of  heathen  red  men. 
But  the  preaching  and  teaching  of 
David  Zeisberger  was  winning  and 
the  lives  of  the  Indian  families  who 
had  laid  aside  blankets  and  tepees 
and  were  building  good  homes  and 
raising  grain  and  cattle  and  living 
in  peace  and  happiness  with  each  oth- 
er made  even  a  stronger  sermon.  So 
the  red  men  poured  in  to  the  chapel 
at  Schoenbrunn  and  lief  ore  long  it 
was  crowded  to  the  doors  for  the  ser- 
vices. 

The  Indian  Agent  for  the  Western 
District  of  the  American  Colonies 
came  for  a  visit  and  was  amazed. 
"You  have,  way  here  out  in  the  wil- 
derness, such  a  state  of  civilization  as 
wouuld  be  praiseworty  if  you  had  a 
town  entirely  made  up  of  white  men. 
How  you  have  accomplished  it  with 
these  savages  I  cannot  imagine." 

After  a  time  there  were  sixty  hous- 
es on  the  two  streets  shaped  like  a  T 
and  the  fields  and  meadows  stretched 
out  far  with  fine  harvests  and  sleek 
cattle.  There  were  neighbors  of  their 
own  belief  now  too,  a  few  miles  farth- 
er down  the  river  two  other  Moravian 
Indian  towns  had  been  started, 
Gnadenhuttcn  and  Salem,  towns  whose 
very  names  meant  the  home  of  happy 
peace.     But    peace    was    not    to    last 


The  Revolutionary  War  had  brok- 
en out  and  it  brought  troubled  times 
to  the  white  Moravians  in  the  east 
because  of  their  convictions  against 
lighting-.  But  their  sympathies  were 
strong  for  the  Americans  and  they 
opened  the  big  .-tone  Brethren's  houses 
in  their  three  Pennsylvania  towns 
as  General  Hospitals.  Two  thousand 
wounded  were  sent  to  them  at  one 
time,  among  them  Lafayette,  who 
chose  to  stay  in  one  of  the  comfortable 
homes  in  Bethlehem  and  who  went 
away  praising  the  Moravians  for  their 
kindness  and  skilled  care  and  the  in- 
dustry which  kept  every  one  busy 
spinning  and  weaving  blankets  for  the 
army.  Washington  came  to  this  Penn- 
sylvania town  of  the  Moravians  tou, 
and  was  most  pleased  with  the  ser- 
vices being  rendered  by  these  peace- 
loving  people. 

Count  Pulaski,  the  Polish  patriot, 
who  was  helping  the  Americans,  came 
to  the  Moravian  town  of  Bethlehem 
and  was  so  interested  in  the  tine  acade- 
mies and  the  industries  that  when 
some  of  his  4,00  troops  camping 
around  the  town  became  rowdyish, 
the  Count  himself  stood  .guard  all 
night  long.  The  grateful  Moravian 
women  embroidered  him  a  banner  in 
the  fine  stitches  they  knew  so  well 
and  he  was  carrying  this  when  he  fell 
at  the  battle  of  Savannah.  One  of 
his  officers  snatched  the  fallen  ban- 
ner from  beside  his  dead  leader  and 
long  years  later  it  was  secured  by  tbe 
Maryland  Historical  Society,  a  vivid 
record  of  the  faith  of  the  Moravian 
women  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  right- 
eousness of  the  American  cause. 


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So,  though  the  Moravians  were  not 
in  the  army,  they  did  valiant  service 
in  the  East  in  hospital  work  and  in 
supplying  food  and  clothing  for  the 
lighters.  They  kept  up  their  mission- 
ary work  in  the  three  little  new  towns 
in  the  Ohio  wilderness,  Sehoenbrunn, 
Gnadenhutten  and  Salem.  This  might 
well  lie  called  direct  war  service,  for 
the  towns  influenced  the  Indians  in  a 
wide  circle,  keeping  even  the  heathen 
Indians  from  attacking  the  colonists 
in  this  time  when  their  home  defense 
was  weakened  by  fighting  the  British. 

So  David  Zeisberger  went  on  with 
his  work  among  the  Indians,  using 
Sehoenbrunn  as  a  center  for  his  teach- 
ing and  bringing  to  it  the  red  men 
who  wanted  to  build  permanent  Chris- 
tian homes.  It  was  a  most  uncomfor- 
table place  for  a  town  to  be  located 
in  these  days  of  war,  for  though  the 
Pennsylvania  Moravians  thought  their 
mission  towns  far  out  in  the  wilder- 
ness and  safely  away  from  the  white 
men's  war,  Seholenbrunn  was  really 
half  way  between  two  wilderness 
forts.  The  one,  Port  Fitt  of  the 
Americans,  and  the  other,  Fort  De- 
troit of  the  British,  both  looked  sus- 
piciously at  the  Indians  in  between. 

One  day  in  the  late  summer  of  1781 
when  the  gardens  were  at  their  best 
and  the  fields  almost  ready  to  harvest, 
a  strange  company  appeared  on  the 
streets  of  Sehoenbrunn 

"You  sympathize  with  the  Amer- 
cans,"  said  these  British).  "We 
don't  like  to  have  you  half  way  be- 
tween our  Canadians  post  and  Fort 
Pitt."  And  they  carried  the  entire 
population  of  the  three  Moravians 
towns  on  the  Tuscarawas  away  to- 
ward Canada.  But  near  the  Sandusky 
river   in   Ohio   the   homeless   captives 


were  halted  for  a  winter  of  great 
suffering.  Their  only  food,  corn,  was 
so  scarce  that  famine  was  near  and 
they  begged  their  captors  to  allow 
them  to  return  to  their  old  homes  to  re- 
cover what  corn  from  the  fields  might 
have  lasted  sound  through  the  win- 
ter. 

At  last  their  British  captors  con- 
sented to  an  expedition  back  to 
Schenobrunn  and  Gnadenhutten  and 
Salem,  all  of  whose  fields  had  been 
left  with  the  harvest  ungathered. 
David  Zeisberger,  who  was  always  in. 
the  mist  of  the  greatest  danger,  never 
afraid,  was  not  there  to  lead  them 
back  to  gather  the  corn,  for  he  had 
been  sent  to  Detroit  to  be  tried  on  a 
trumped-up  charge  and  though  he 
was  quickely  acquitted,  he  was  not 
allowed  to  return  to  his  suffering 
friends  wintering  on  the  Sandusky. 
But  one  hundred  and  fifty  men,  wo- 
men and  children,  were  selected  from 
the  whole  population  of  the  three 
Ohio  towns  to  go  back  for  the  food. 

It  was  early  march  when  they  came 
to  the  deserted  towns,  and  cold  winds 
were  still  blowing,  but  they  went  at 
once  to  the  fields,  leaving  only  two 
or  three  Indians  in  the  homes  to  ar- 
range things  for  their  staying  sever- 
al days  until  they  could  gather  all  of 
the  harvest  that  remained  in  the  fields 
after  the  winter  storms. 

Before  many  hours,  though  their 
steady  labor  in  the  Gnadenhutten. 
fields  were  broken  by  visitors,  a  hun- 
dred soldiers  from  the  east  under  Col. 
Williamson,    of    Virginia. 

"Ah,  you  are  friends  then,"  said 
these  Moravians  Christian  Indians 
of  the  wilderness.  "We  have  heard 
from  David  Zeisberger  and  others  of 
the  brave  tight  the  Americans  are  ma- 


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Icing-  to  be  free.  And  we  are  glad  that 
the  people  of  our  mother  church  in 
Bothelehcm  in  Pennsylvania  have 
-had  tlie  chance  to  take  eai-e  of  your 
wounded  and  weave  blankets  of  your 
coats  for  the  lighters.  We  are  sorry 
we  have  been  too  far  away  to  help, 
■and  that  we  are  even  more  helpless 
now  because  all  of  the  people  of  our 
three  towns  were  earned  off  by  the 
British  towards  Canada.  We  have 
been  all  winter  in  the  terrible  cold 
without  houses,  in  a  place  on  the 
Sandusky  and  have  only  now  been 
allowed  to  return  for  corn.  Xincty 
or  so  of  us  are  here  in  Gnadenhutten 
and  the  other  sixty  are  at  Scheno- 
brunn,  Xorth  of  here,  and  Salem, 
south  of  here,  to  bring  their  corn. 
We  will  slot  finish  for  several  days. 
You  will  stay  all  night  witli  us  in 
our   log    houses    in    the    town.''' 

And  the  American  militiamen 
-Said  they  would  stay,  that  they  were 
glad  to  have  found  friends.  [t  is 
one  of  the  great  shames  of  our  early 
history  of  America  that  this  Colonel 
who  had  been  sent  out  by  the  colon- 
ies to  find  certain  wild  border  In- 
dians who  had  been  robbing  and 
molesting  white  men  in  eastern  settle- 
ments, was  neither  honest  nor  brave, 
nor  just.  lie  pretended  to  be  friends 
with  these  Moravian  Indians,  accept- 
ing their  hospitality,  and  moving  in- 
to the  town  for  the  night.  lie  knew 
that  they  were  peaceful  Christian 
Indians,  that  they  had  been  held  cap- 
tive by  the  British  and  could  not 
possible  be  the  few  robbers  he  was 
after,  and  that  as  Moravians  they 
were  strongly  in  sympathy  witli  the 
.American  cause. 

Hut  instead  of  meeting  honor  ami 
faith    with    honor    and    right    dealing 


from  these  first  moments,  he  had 
planned  to  kill  these  red  men  and 
women  and  children.  ''All  Indians 
are    alike.  What     does    it     matter 

that  these  are  Christians  whom 
the  Moravians  have  taught  not 
to  (ig)it.  They  are  the  easier  for  115 
to  kill,''  he  told  his  men.  "You  see 
how  easily  they  gave  us  their  guns 
which  they  had  in  the  field  to  kill 
game  for  food  when  I  said  we  were 
Americans  and  were  their  friends. 
They  are  an  easly  lot  to  get  rid  of,  hut 
we'll  wait  until  we  have  all  the 
crowd  together  from  the  three  towns.'' 

Strangely  enough,  the  Indians  un- 
consciously helped  this  plan  for  they 
suggested  that  they  send  word  of  the 
arrivals  of  these  white  friends  to 
Scheoenbrunn  ami  Salem,  and  they 
sent  two  messengers  on  horseback. 
Rut,  fortunately,  the  Indians  of  the 
other  two  towns  hadn't  arrived  when 
the  Colonel  carried  out  his  cruel  plan, 
and  in  two  of  the  big  log  shops,  built 
for  their  industries,  he  killed  the 
ninety    peaeefid    Indians. 

Taught  by  their  religious  leaders 
not  to  tight,  they  bravely  faced  these 
new  captors  who  had  tied  them  up 
men  in  one  building,  women  and  chil- 
dren in  another.  They  begged  only 
for  a  night's  time  and  .--pent  it  in 
holding  services,  and  singing  and 
asking  for  courage  to  meet  death. 
The  story  of  the  end  of  these  nil  ety 
Christian  Indians  martyrs  is  too  cruel 
to  tell  in  detail,  but  two  little  lads 
escaped  anil  ran  to  the  other  towns, 
meeting  their  Indians  on  the  way,  com- 
ing to  celebrate  the  arrival  of  white 
friends.  So  the  two  little  lads  trrn- 
eil  back  the  sixty  who  lied  in  to  the 
wilderness  and  finally  reached  Canada. 
There    thev    had   a   settlement   on   the 


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Thsmies   river  and   when    David   Zeis-  time  went  on  they  were  buried  in  the 

berger  was  released  from  the  Fort  at  fields,  and  now  for  more  than  a  huh- 
Detroit  lie  went  to  them,  still  undaunt-      died  years  no  one  lias  known  postive- 

Dcl   in   Ids   plan    to   build   many   towns  ly    where    Sehoenbrunn    stood.     Five 

for  Christian  Indians.  'sites  near  the  famous  spring  have  been 

Uleanwhile,     the     cruel     militiamen,  mentioned,  and  each  has  its  adherents. 

who    with    their    Colonel    shared    the  So  the  searchers  of  1021   who  wished 

blame  for   when   he   took   a   vote  only  to    lind    the    exact    site    for    a    public 

eighteen  of  the  hundred  soldiers  voted  commemoration  on  May  3rd,  1022,  of 

for   mercy    and    life    for   the   peaceful  the   town's    founding   by   David    Zeis- 

Imlians,  pressed  on  the  Sehoenbrunn.  berger,  went  eagerly  at  the  search. 

When  they  did  not  meet  their  expect-  Records  at   Washington  and  in  the 

ed  prey  on  the  way  and  found  no  one  historical     archives     of     Ohio     were 

in   the   town   they    were   the   more   en-  searched   for   months   and    every   tiuy 

raged.  phrase  that    would  help   to  locate  the 

"We  will  fix  it  so  that  no  one  will  two    streets    was    gathered.     A    map. 

ever  dare   to   come  back   here,"   they  drawn   by   David   Zeisberger   in   1772, 

said    and    set    lire    to    the   school    and  showing  the  layout  of  the  streets  was. 

the  big  chapel   that,  in   its  ten  years  a  help  and  it  indicated  a  bank  of  earth 

had    seen    many    a    beautiful    service  which  was  a  help  in  the  final  surmise 

of  music,  and  preaching,  ami  to  every  of   the   location.     But    alas,   this  map. 

home  and  shop.  did      not    include    the   spring      which. 

The    ruins    must    have    been    clear  would  so  simplify  the  exact  location, 
enough    in    those    early    days,    but    as 


There  are  so  many  church  members,  if  interested  at  all,  it  is  no  more 
than  to  get  a  seat  in  the  grandstand.  Some)  folks  go  to  church,  to  be  en- 
tertained by  the  preacher  and  the  choir,  just  as  the  players  are  expected, 
to  entertain  on  the  baseball  grounds.  But  grandstand  religion  will  not 
get  one  very  far  on  the  road  to  the  slues. — Christian  Advocate. 


CASE   OF   THE   COUNTRY   CHURCH. 

One  has  to  live  in  the  rural  section  to  understand  and  fully  appreciate- 
the  uneven  chance  and  opportunity  offered  to  our  citizens.  The  eternal- 
sapping  of  the  vitality  of  the  rural  section  is  so  serious  that  the  matter  de- 
serves a  first-hand  and  intimate  study  of  the  situation. 

The  Uplift  has  had  much  to  say  they  are  not  functioning  to  the  ad- 
along  this  line  for  the  past  months,  vancement  of  the  rural  cause.  It  may 
In  it  was  nothing  personal,  but  the  be  treason  to  say  this;  but  one  who. 
hope  alone  of  bringing  the  people  knows  the  conditions  twenty  years. 
who  are  in  the  saddle  and  drawing  ago  and  knows  them  to-day  through 
easy  salaries  for  short  hours  under  an  intimate  association,  is  perfectly- 
delightful  comforts  to    realize    that  aware  that  the  machinery  inaugura- 


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ted  to  care  for  the  rural  problems 
is  not  functioning  efficiently. 

Somewhat  along  this  line  just  read 
this  story  furnished  the  Christian  Ad- 
vocate by  Rev.  H.  C.  Byrum,  who 
has  most  clearly  analyzed  the  situa- 
tion in  his  section-- one  of  the  best 
in  Lincoln  county.  Read  what  this 
earnest  and  emphatic  preacher  has 
to  say: 

"I  am  now  on  the  old  historic  Rock 
Spring  circuit.  Some  of  its  churches 
date  back  to  1790.  One  has  the 
honor  of  beir.g  the  first  Method- 
ist church  organized  west  of  the 
Catawaba  river.  For  more  than  a 
century  Methodism  has  been  operat- 
ing in  this  territory.  We  have  now 
somewhere  about  950  members. 
Think  of  this.  No  college  graduate, 
for  this  more  than  a  hundred  years, 
has  ever  lived  within  the  bounds  of 
the  work  and  served  the  church  or 
as  superintendent  or  Sundy  school 
teacher.  We  have  two  graduates  as 
members  at  present,  but  both  are 
teaching  away  from  the  charge. 
We  have  one  graduate  teaching  with- 
in the  bounds  of  the  charge,  but  is 
with  us  only   while  teaching. 

This  year  will  finish  my  twentieth 
year  in  the  conference.  Four  years 
•of  the  time  I  had  a  Trinity  College 
graduate  to  superintend  a  Sunday 
school.  My  recollection  is  now  that 
I  have  never  had  a  college  graduate 
to  teach  a  class.  I  believe  I  did  get 
one  Davenport  graduate  once  to  read 
the  lesson  text  for  the  class.  I  am 
throwing  no  stones  at  education  or 
college  work.  I  believe  in  it  with  all 
my  soul.  The  hour  is  at  hand,  we 
need  to  deliver  some  goods.  The 
leadership  of  the  church  came  to 
this  charge  and  asked  for  $10,000.  It 
was  promised.  Then  for  six  or 
eight  thousand  more.     One  thousand 


of  it  was  promised.  There  is  not  a 
Sunday  school  room  on  the  charge. 
We  have  three  students  in  our  church 
schools  from  this  charge.  We  have 
more  than  this  number  in  other 
church  schools.  When  I  ask  why 
are  you  not  in  our  schools,  they  say 
we  get  the  same  advantages  in  oth- 
er schools  for  one  hundred  dollars  a 
year  less.  When  I  call  attention  to 
this,  I  am  informed  that  the  differ- 
ence is  in  quality.  But  with  this  long 
list  of  years  without  any  experience 
with  the  products  I  am  dumb. 

I  was  thinking  that  the  powers  to 
be  might  think  on  these  things.  If 
we  are  dead  sure  of  our  course,  then 
go  ahead;  if  not,  see  if  the  fodder  is 
to  high  and  kick  down  the  rack. 
There  is  something  out  of  balance 
when  it  comes  to  getting  the  rural 
people  to  patronize  our  schools. 

Again,  there  have  been  21  nam's 
transferred  frcm  this  charge  within 
the  lasc  six  months;  19  of  them  have 
gone  to  the  towns  and  cities.  We 
have  about  250  more  who  live  in 
towns  and  cities  who  seldom  ever 
meet  with  us  in  services.  We  have 
had  chapter  after  chapter  on  "Com- 
munity Life."  Well,  that  thing  has 
been  tried  out  right  herein  the  vil- 
lage of  Denver.  More  than  50  years 
ago  this  was  a  great  community 
center.  Today  we  have  signs  of  de- 
cay and  death.  Our  young  people 
are  leaving  just  as  fast  as  they  grow 
up.  The  old  folks  are  dying.  Scon 
we  will  furnish  a  fine  subject  for  a 
story-writer  who  wants  to  write  on 
"The  Deserted  Village." 

We  would  have  some  interesting 
facts  before  us  if  we  only  knew 
what  per  cent  of  rural  pastors' 
salaries  have  been  paid  to  date. 
How  many  of  them  are  beseiged 
from  every  side  to    get    the   money 


THE  UPLIFT  25- 

from  every    hand    for    the    various  will  make  Christian  Scientists  out  of 

causes.       Oh,    these    secretaries.     I  them  if  we  don't   mind.       The    first 

have  a  high  regard  for  them  person-  thing    you    know  some  of  them  will 

ally.     You    cannot    find    a   finer  lot  actually  be  believing  that  they  have 

than  the    ones  -  we    have.      But   we  jobs  when  they  have  not." 


"WHAT   ARE   YOU   DOING   WITH    THE 
-     NEGRO   YOU   OWN?" 

(Progressive  Fanner) 

Ex-Secretary  of  the  Navy  Josephus  Daniels  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  the 
recent  unveiling  of  the  monument  to  Booker  T.  Washington  at  Tuskegee,  Ala- 
bama. He  says  that  the  thing  that  perhaps  impressed  him  most  about  his 
visit  was  the  practical,  horse-sense  talk  a  colored  woman  made  to  the  Negroes 

"In    the    old    days    the    owners    of  to  him.     How  can  you  do  it  ? 
slaves     found    slavery    profitable     to  "1  Make  the  Negro  you  own  get  up- 

them.     That  is  why  they  owned  slaves  and  out  in  the  morning, 
and  why  they  opposed  emancipation.  "2   Make  the  Negro  you  own  work. 

How  did  they  make  a  slave  profitable  "3   Make  the  Negro  you  own  come 

to   them?     They   did   throe   things:  in  at  night. " 

"1   They    made    the    slaves   get    up  As  Mr.  Daniels  said,  "This  is  just 

and  get  out  early  in  the  morning.  about  as  good  advice  for  white  folks 

"2  They    made    them    work    after  as   for    Negroes."     Every    white   boy 

they  got  out   in  the  morning.  and  every  white  man  ought  to  say  to 

"3  They    made    them    come    in    at  himself:    "I   own   a   white   man    it   is 

night    and.  go   to    bed    and   get    their  up  to  me  to  train  him  and  treat  him 

night's  sleep.  so  he  will  be  ten  times  more  profitable 

"Now,  every  Negro  who  hears  me  to  me — by   inspiring  him  to  use  both 

owns    a    Negro — you    own    yourself,  brain  and  muscle    for  me,    than    the 

You   can   make   that    ownership  of   a  mere    muscle-service    of    a    slave    was 

Negro  as  profitable  to  yourself  as  the  ever  worth  to  a  master." 
slave-owner  made  the  slave  profitable 


THE  'LOWANCE 

Another  beautiful  idol  born  of  the  rosy  days  that  came  out  of  the  war, 
which  was  set  up  in  the  modern  household,  and  which  now  finds  itself  crowded 
close  to  the  outer  edge  of  the  ring,  where  it  lies  considerably  disfigured,  is  the 
"allowance."  We  can  recall  the  amusement  of  a  group  of  the  older  and  more 
experienced  fellows  as  they  sat  in  a  club  room  in  the  days  when  everybody 
Seemed  to  have  money,  and  listened  between  two  young  men  recently  em- 
t'o   (he   conversation   being  carried  on      barked     in     matrimonial      enterprise. 


2G 


THE  UPLIFT 


One  was  telling  the  other  how  well 
he  was  providing  for  his  wife.  There 
was  to  be  no  drudgery  for  her — he 
Lad  given  her  a  fixed  "allowance" 
of  !?50  a  week  for  household  expenses, 
and  she  should  never  know  an  hour 
of  worry.  The  other  was  be-moaning 
the  hardships  that  had  been  the  lot 
of  his  sisters  and  of  his  mother,  and 
there  should  be  none  of  that  for  his 
wife.  He  had  also  given  her  an  "al- 
lowance." Last  week  it  became  known 
that  tin-  ifoO-a-week-allowanee  man 
was  going  around  trying  to  find  a 
friend  to  endorse  for  him  al  the  hank. 
The  fellow  who  was  not  going'  to  allow 
his  wifey  to  undergo  the  hardships  his 
mother  had  faced,  had  long  since  quit 
dropping  in  at  the  club.  He  had  driv- 
en in  his  brass  tacks  and  was  rolling 
the  baby  carriage.  And  so  the  coun- 
try is  gradually  getting  back  to  earth 
and  the  high-fliers  with  it.  The  Ob- 
server is  mentioning  this  incident  be- 
cause of  the  trouble  many  young  men 
got  themselves  into  by  reason  of  the 
emulative  impulse.  Because  other 
young  fellows  were  establishing  their 
■wives  on  "allowances,"  why  should 
not  they  do  likewise?  Everything 
was  lovely  and  the  goose  was  hang- 
ing high  so  why  not  give  the  wife  an 
■"allowance"  and  live  in  ease  and 
''style?"  And  in  most  instances,  the 
lovely  young  things  that  had  the  al- 
lowances sailed  around  in  tine  style, 
buying  a  good  many  things  they  could 
done  without,  and  when  "deflation" 
came  along  they  had  blank  checks 
enough,  to  be  sure,  but  not  much  at 
the  bank  back  of  the  checks.  The  sys- 
tem of  "allowance"  was  good  enough 
when  money  was  to  be  shaken  from 
the  bushes,  but   it   was   found  not   to 


work  so  well  when  the  "over-drawn" 
notices  began  coming  in  from  (ho 
hank. 

If  Keesler  were  writing  this  edi- 
torial lie  would  he  sure  to  put  in  some- 
thing just  here  by  way  of  prodding 
the  young  people  lor  not  having  put 
part  of  the  " allowance "  into  building 
and  loan  investment,  either  for  stock, 
or  on  savings  account,  but  as  Keesler 
is  not  writing  this,  we  will  say  it  for 
him.  In  the  days  when  the  married 
men,  young  and  old,  were  setting  up 
their  house-holds  on  the  basis  of  the 
"allowance,"  the  country  had  entire- 
ly lost  sight  of  the  lesson  of  thrift. 
They  divorced  themselves  from  all 
ideas  of  economy,  as  if  times  were  al- 
ways going  to  lie  Hush  and  the  goose 
would  always  hang  high.  If  the  al- 
lowance had  been  soaked  down  into  a 
savings  account,  some  young  men  and 
some  of  the  older  men,  also,  would 
not  now  he  going  around  hunting  an 
endorser.  But  no  very  great  hurt  has 
been  sustained — the  greater  blow  has 
been  given  to  pride,  and  recovery  from 
that  is  easy.  While,  in  many  cases, 
the  allowance  has  been  mutally  agreed 
upon  as  an  incident  of  the  past  and 
conversations  overheard  in  the  clubs 
are  cast  in  soberer  and  more  sensible 
tone.  We  are  making  return  to  the 
sane  ways  that  mother  lived,  even  if 
some  hardships  and  some  drudgeries 
are  involved;  the  spirit  of  envy  of 
the  life  of  others  better  conditioned 
is  undergoing  a  wilt,  and  a  disposition 
is  being  cultivated  to  make  the  best 
of  one's  opportunities  and  to  live  ac- 
cording to   these   opportunities. 

The  greatest  blessing  that  could 
come  upon  a  household  is  content- 
ment, and  than  contentment  there  is 
no  better  foundation  in  the  world  up- 


THE  UPLIFT  2T 

on   which   to   build.     It    abides    when      forgotten. — Charlotte   Observer.  ' 

the   "allowance"   has    fled    and    been 


DURHAM    COUNTY'S   DAY. 

On  Thursday,  April  27,  the  institution  had  as  honored  guests  a  splendid 
delegation  from  Durham.  Headed  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,. 
this  delegation  came  to  officially  turn  over  to  the  institution  the  completed 
Dormitory  Cottage  which  the  county  had  authorized  and  paid  for 

Tn   the  party  were  the  commission-  tor    the    Board   of   Commissioners    of 

ei's,   Messrs.  II.   L.   Carver,   chairman,  Durham    County,    he   officially    turned. 

C.  M.   Crutchfield,  P.   S.   Thomas  and  over   the   Cottage   to     the     institution 

D.  H.  Stalling*,  Commissioner  Tur-  with  the  best  hopes  and  prayers  of  his 
routine  being  prevented  by  illness  to  county,  for  the  success  and  progress, 
come.  of    the    School.     J.    P.    Cook,   for   the 

ilr.  \Y.  E.  Stanley,  the  wide-awake  Board  of  Trustees,  accepted  the  splen- 
County  Welfare  Officer,  was  the  mas-  did  and  handsome  gift  which  re- 
fer of  ceremonies.  After  a  luncheon  presented  a  cost  of  $22,250,00. 
in  the  Durham  Cottage —  and  it  was  Following  this,  in  a  most  interest- 
a  hungry  crowd  having  come  by  mo-  ing  and  effective  manner  Mr.  Wyatte 
tor  cars,  157  miles — all  repaired  to  the  Dixon,  representing  the  Junior  Order,. 
Auditorium,  where  the  student  body  presented  the  School  a  Bible  and  U. 
had  assembled,  headed  by  the  institu-  S.  flag.  When  Mr.  Dixon  unfurled  the 
Hon  band,  which  Director  Lawrence  Hag  the  student  body,  without  notice,, 
lias  so   splendidly   trained.  rose   as   one   boy   in   doing   respect   to- 

Rev.  T.  jVI.  Green,  representing  the  Old     Glory.     These    thoughtful     and 

Durham   Ministerial   Association,  con-  much  appreciated  gifts  were  accepted 

ducted    religious    exercises,    followed  by   Supt.    Boger   in    a    happy   manner 

by  some    worthwhile   and    helpful   re-  making   clear  that   no   opportunity   is. 

marks.     At   this   junction    Mr.   D.   B.  ignored  to  make  a  proper  use  of  the 

Coltrane,    Treasurer    of    the    Jackson  fullest  meaning  and  influence  of  these 

Training   School,  spoke  the  words  of  two — the   Bible   and   the   tlag — in    the 

welcome  to  the  visitors  and  made  an  conduct  of  the  institution, 

effective   address   in    which   he   traced  Throughout    the   exercises   Lawren- 

a     devotion   for     and  a     service     in  ee's   Band   dispensed   thrilling   music, 

behalf     of   "A   Vision"   which     cul-  And     America     and     Carolina,     with 

initiated    in   the   establishment   of   the  Miss  Mary  Gaither  at  the  piano,  was 

Jackson  Training  School.  sung  by  the  entire  audience. 

Judge  W.  H.  Young,  of  the  Juvenile  Throughout    the    rendering    of    the 

and  Superior  Courts  of  Durham  Coun-  pleasing  programme,  there  was  in  evi- 

ty  made  a  pleasing  address,  touching  deuce   the   high   esteem   in   which   Mr. 

forcibly  upon  the  necessity  of  an  or-  Stanley,   the   Welfare   Officer,   is   held 

gaui/.ed  service   in   behalf  of   the  un-  by    the   officers   and   citizens   of   Dur- 

fortunate,  at  the  conclusion  of  which,  ham.     He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 


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THE  UPLIFT 


best  in  the  State  and  he  shows  that 
ability  and  good  common  sense  that 
would  shine  even  in  the  State  De- 
partment of  Welfare  Work.  Gen'l 
J.  S.  Carl",  who  was  scheduled  to  be 
present  and  make  an  address,  sent  his 
regrets  because  of  an  unexpected  call 
out  of  the  State.  This  line  and  be- 
loved gentleman  never  loses  an  op- 
portunity to  give  to  the  Jackson 
Training  School  his  blessings  and  oth- 
er evidences   of  an   encouragement. 

In  the  Durham  party  were,  besides 
the  officials  already  mentioned,  Miss 
Magaret  Clark,  (the  only  lady,)  who 
is  the  assistant  to  Mr.  Stanley,  and 
Messrs.  C.  W.  Stallings,  T.  L.  Pender- 
grass,  Sid  High,  E.  ('.  Smith,  W.  T. 
High,  Jack  Flodge,  A.  P.  Carlton, 
S.  G.  Marshall  and  last,  but  not  least, 
J  as  A.  Robinson,  long  time  a  popular 
and  beloved  newspaper  man  of  Dur- 
ham, who  is  deeply  concerned  in  ren- 
dering a  faithful  service  himself  in 
the  cause  of  all  uplift  work  through- 
out   the    State. 

The  entire  student  body  and  offi- 
cers of  the  Jackson  Training  School 
enjoyed  the  presence  of  the  Durham 
folks  and  felt  honored  by  their  visit. 
It  was,  indeed,  a  happy  day  in  the 
life  of  the  institution  which  seeks 
to  serve  humanity. 


HONOR  ROLL. 

''A" 

Edward  Cleaver,  Lambert  Caven- 
augh,  Ralph  Cutchin,  Joseph  Moore, 
Malcolm  Holman, William  Handcock, 
Jas.Huneycutt,  Henry  Faucett,  Jack 
Mcleland,  Swift  Davis,  Fitzhugh  Mil- 
ler, Hoyle  Faulkner,  Murray  Evans, 
Victor  High,  Harry  Ward,  John 
Wright,  Newian  McDonald  Marshal, 


Williams  Floyd,  Linville  Arch  Brady, 
Tom  Hanna,  Richard  Johnson, 
Dohme  Manning,  Albert.  Keever, 
Sylvester  Sims,  Rufus  Wren,  Lloyd 
Winner,  Max  Thompson,  Chas.  Roth 
rock,  Paul  Leitner,  Murphy  Jones 
Preston  Winders,  Willie  Harvel,  Car 
Iton  Hager,  Milard  Gilbert,  Julius 
Kemp.  Allen  Oglesby.  Paul  Kim- 
mery,  Jack  O'Neill,  Alvin  Cook,  Roy 
Caudill,  Nomie  Williams,  Robert  Hol- 
land Eunice  Byers,  Walter  Mills, 
Ben  Poteat,  Grover  Cook,  Walter 
McMahan,  Johnie  Branch,  Dick  H. 
Johnson,  Cleburn  Hale,  Walter  P. 
McNeil,  Fred  Mills  Herbert  Apple, 
Carlye  Hardy,  Connie  Loman,  Ram- 
ond  Scott,  Paul  Green,  Walter  Tay- 
lor, 

"B" 

Thomas  Moor,  Chester  Shepherd, 
Elvis  Carlton,  Earnest  Carver,  Char- 
lie Stone,  Charlie  Jackson,  Charlie 
Lisk,  Garfield  Mercer,  James  Allen, 
Plaz  Johnson,  Luther  Chenault,  Kel- 
ma  Smith  Magnus  Wheeler,  Ray- 
mond Keenan,  Lox'.ey  Saunders, 
Floyd  Huggins.  Arthur  Montgom- 
ery, Jas-  Shipp,  Frank  Thomason, 
Doyle  Jackson,  Jno.  Moose,  Allie 
Williams,  William  Wilson,  Marion 
Butler,  Vass  Fields,  William  Gre- 
gory, Washington  Pickett,  Aster 
Adams,  Brevard.  Bradshaw,  Moses 
Fasnacht,  Everett  Goodrich,  Pa^ks 
Newton,  Harry  Sims. 


Institutional    Notes. 

By  S.  B.  Davis 

Lyman  Sikes,  a  former  boy  who 
is  now  working  on  a  farm,  was  a 
visitor  here  Tuesday. 

Mr.    Jenkins,    wolfare    officer    of 


THE  UPLIFT 


29 


Halifax    county,    brought    a  boy 
the  school  Friday 


to 


Mr.  Ankers  has  left  for  bis  home  in 
Richmond  Va.,  for  a  short  vacation. 
Work  on  the    well    No.  4    will  stop 
i   for  a  time. 

Doyle  Jackson,  Edward  Cleaver, 
Earl  Crow,  Worth  Stout,  Winders, 
and  Edgar  Warren  were  the  recipi- 
ents  of    visits    last  Wednesday. 

One  of  the  students,  by  the  name 
H  of  Luther  Chenault,  has  returned  to 
j  the  work  force  after  an  absence  of 
u   some  time  which  was  compelled  by  a 

hurt  ankle. 
I 

Bertram  Hart  and  J.  A.  Shipp  are 
;  now  rescreening  the  doors  of  all  the 
1  cottages,  to  keep  out  the  summer 
?   pests,  flies.       Hart   supervisers   the 

work. 

I  A  new  flag,  Old  Glory,  has  been 
I  hoisted  on  high,  to  take  the  place  of 
i  the  old  one  which  was  getting  quite 
I  ragged,  due  to  the  buffetings  of  the 
I  elements. 

Work  on  the    Gaston  Cottage    is 
I  rapidly  advancing.    The  Rockingham 
|  Cottage  has  been  finished  some  time 
Ago  and    now    is    awaiting    the    ar- 
rival of  furnishings. 

William  Hancock  was  visited 
Tuesday  by  his  sister,  Miss  Francis 
Hancock  and  her  friend  Miss  Sadie 
White,  both  of  whom  are  now  stu- 
dents of  King's  Business  College  of 
Charlotte. 

The  boys  learning  the  Linotype 
are  getting  quite  efficient.  The 
fastest  operator  is  Edward  Cleaver. 
Soon  the  printing  office  will  be  turn- 
ing out  as  good  operators  as  any 
Linotype  school. 


Mr.  KnoxBaines,  Memphis  'lonn., 
who  is  connected  with  Bakery  Equip- 
ment work,  was  at  the  school  Mon- 
day looking  over  our  own  bakery. 
'He  was  accompanied  by  Mr.  R.  S. 
Monroe,  Savannah,  Ga. 

Along  with  the  delegates  from 
Durham,  came  Messrs.  S.  R.  and 
W.  T.  High,  who  are  brothers  of 
Victor  High,  student  of  this  school. 
To  say  that  Victor  was  surprised  and 
delighted  to  see  them,  is  putting  it 
mildly. 

The  butter  churn  is  being  worked 
daily  now,  at  the  Administration 
Building.  Monday,  Arthur  Mont- 
gomery, the  very  adept  worker  of 
this  machinery,  churned  301bs.  of 
butter.  On  this  day  he  distributed 
three  pounds  of  butter  to  each  cot- 
tage for  the  boys. 

It  is  expected  that  the  ice  plant 
will  be  opened  Thursday,  of  this 
week.  The  fountain  at  the  pavilion 
is  now  supplied  with  water  cooled 
by  ice;  but  this  ice  had  to  be  bought. 
The  ice  plant  will  save  this  small, 
but  nevertheless  important  expense 
and  many  more  larger  ones. 

Rev.  Kenneth  McKeever  of  Con- 
cord and  Dr.  Shaw,  of  Statesville 
were  visitors  here  last  Tuesday.  Mr. 
Crooks  had  known  Rev.  McKeever 
when  he  was  a  small  boy  but  had 
not  seen  him  in  twenty  y?ars  more 
or  less.  Therefore  the  visit  was  very 
much  of  a  delightful  surprise  to  him. 
He  also  knew  Dr.  Shaw. 

The  barn  boys  are  now  planting 
their  watermelon  crop.  Last  year 
the  boys  had  watermelons  two  and 
three  times  a  week.  And  yet  a  good 
deal    of  that  crop  was  killed  by  late 


30                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

frost.     If    no    late    frost  occurs  the  12:     "Prepare    to    meet    thy   God,'' 

boys  ire  confident  that  this  delicious  he  spoke  on  the   topic  of    "Proof  of 

edible  will  be  as  plentiful  if  not  more  and  turning  to  God.''  Bev.  Swarin- 

plentiful  than  last  season's  eiop.  gen,  please    accept    this    as    hearty 

invitation    for    another    in-the-near- 

Upon  a  recent    visit  to   the    now-  future  visit, 
being-erected    dairy,     the     reporter 

learned  two  facts  not  very  well  Monday  and  Tuesday  of  last  week 
known  among  the  students  and  of-  the  Institutional  Band  played  at  the- 
fleers.  These  are  that  the  silos  are  White  Hall  School  entertainment. 
30  ft.  high  and  have  a  special  ap-  The  band  boys  enjoyed  going  to  play 
paratus  for  conveying  the  food  to  for  this  audience,,  and  by  the  applause 
the  cows.  The  cement  floor  is  now  accorded  them,  it  is  evident  that 
being  laid  and  one  of  the  workers  the  audience  also  enjoyed  the  play- 
gives  it  as  his  opinion  that  the  work  ing.  Arthur  Montgomery  deservts- 
will  be  finished  this  week.  credit    for   his    beating    of    the  big 

drum    and  Mr.  Boger  says,  'If  you 

Miss  Lalla  Teague,  Matron  of  2nd  want    to  hear  someone  really  beat  a 

Cottage,  has  left    for    her    home  in  snare  drum,  you  ought  to  be  around 

Newberry,  S.    C.     Miss    Teague    is  when  the    band  is    playing    in    the- 

high  in  the  opinion  of  the  boys   who  pavilion."     Parks  Newton  beats  the 

were  under  her  charge  and  they,  to-  snare  drum, 
gether  with  all  the  boys,  express  the 

wish  that  she  has  a  pleasant  and  School  was  recessed  Monday  from 
happy  visit.  May  she  return  soon!  Air.  Johnson's  room  to  aid  Mr.  John- 
Miss  Eagle  is  substituting  for  her  Goodman  in  carrying  a  number  of 
for  the  time  teing.  large  poles  which  are  to  be  used  in 
_,  .  „  ,  „  _  ,  rebuilding  our  te'ephone  and  elec!ric 
The  boys  of  the  State  Cottage  have  [ines  The  wires  are  not  just  now 
received  a  Bible  from  a  friend  who  being  instaliedi  but  new  pole  sites 
is  very  dear  to  them.  More  than  are  desired.  The  poles  were  balanc- 
once  has  Mrs.  M.  H.  Freeland  do-  ed  and  tied  on  the  fore  whf?elg  of 
nated  articles  to  the  boys.  Some  a  wagon  Then  thjs  strange  ccn. 
were  edibles.  Some  were  practical  traption,  which  was  called  a  "batter- 
gifts.  The  boys  of  the  State  Cot-  inK  ram»  by  Mr.  Johnson,  waspnsh- 
tage  surely  appreciate  this  gift.  It  ed  by  boys  from  .  behind  and  -l]ed 
will  always  be  a  reminder  of  her  to  bythe  boys.'in  front.  Ailment  well 
them.  Mrs.^  Freeland  has  a  son  0n  the  first  trip  until  student  Absher 
here,  and  he  is  making  a  worthy  .ec-  decided  to  ride.  Absher,  you  must 
or"-  know,  is  not  a  little  boy,  and  he,  at 
Rev.  R.  A.  Swarengen,  of  Kan-  a  rough  estimate  weighs  somewhere 
napolis,  conducted  services  in  the  near  two  hundred  pounds.  So,  when 
chapel  Sunday,  April  23rd:  He  first  he  perched  his  bulky  self  on  the  eon- 
became  aquainted  with  the  students  veyance,  it  stopped  suddenly.  No 
and  won  their  approval  by  telling  one  could  guess  the  cause  until  a 
and  acting  a  joke  for  them.  Then,  boy's  glance  perchanced  to  rest 
taking  for  his  text  part  of  Amos    4:  UP«»    "Pat"    Absher.     Then,  he  let 


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out    a  yell  and  pointed  to  Pat.     Pat  very   much   enjoyed    by    the     boys. 

!  abdicated    from    his  lazy    but  lofty  Following-  a    song   sweetly  sung-  by 

I  throne-     After    that    the   boys    saw  Miss  Helen    Fisher,    Miss    Margaret 

£  that  he,  too,  worked.  ..Hendrix  next  told  a  story  of       ''St. 

Christopher"  in  such  a  manner    that 

Sunday  was    an    unusual    dav    in  jt  held  the  students  breathless   with 

I  that    it     detered     from     the     usual  interest  until  the  very  end.    Another 

I  routine.     On  this  day,  instead    of  a  duct  hy  the    Misses    Morrisons    was 

I  preacher    holding     services,     ladies  as  mucn  appreciated    as    their    first 

I  from    Concord,  assisted     by  a    few  song  was.     Miss  Annie  Snider    next 

I  men,    came    out    and    told    stories,  conducted  a  reading  for  the  students 

|  spoke,  sang,  read  and  recited.      Mr.  anfj  after  a  song  by  the  audience  and 

i  J.  J.  Barnhart  presided,  and  opened  the  Benediction  by  our  ever  present 

I  the  exercises  by  reading  a    selection  and    faithful    friend,    Rev.    T.     W. 

I  from  the  Bible  and  then    leading    in  Smith,  the  students  were  dismissed. 

I  prayer.     The  Misses  Cedelaide    and  To  the  ladies  who  took  part  in    this 

1  Mary  Morrison  sang  a    duet.     Then  program   the  boys     and    gentlemen 

I  Miss  May  White  gave  a  very  insper-  desires  to    express    their    gratitude 

ing  and  uplifting    talk,    which    was  for  their  kindness. 
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The  Uplift 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's   Printing    Class.     Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

The  heights  by  great  men  reached  and  kept 

Were  not  attained  by  sudden  flight, 
But  they,  while  their  companions  slept, 

Were  toiling  upward  in  the  night. 


20th  OF  MAY— MECKLENBURG'S   GLORY 

Though  Mecklenburg  furnishes  the  name  of  a  great  event  (at  that  time 
Cabarrus  county  was  embraced  in  the  Mecklenburg  territory,)  the  whole 
state  has  a  lively  interest  in  the  history-making  event,  which  Charlotte 
jealously  presses  to  her  bosom,  and  ought  to. 

There  are  yet  some  doubting  Thomases,  but  they  assume  this  attitude 
simply  in  a  spirit  of  tease  or  influenced  by  the  results  of  a  little  hair-split- 
ting. But  something  like  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration,  which  is  to  be  ob- 
served in  some  style  this  year,  did  occur  in  such  a  way  and  manner  as  to 
warrant  our  pride  and  perfect  safety  in  accepting. 

Dr.  Wiley's  North  Carolina  Reader  has  this  reference  to  the  event  that 
took  place  in  Charlotte  May  20th,  1775,  or  thereabouts : 

"At  the  time  of  the  adjournment  of  the  second  provincial  congress,  the  peo- 
ple of  North  Carolina  were  in  a  state  of  high  excitement- 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  many  then,  and  even  before  that  time,  looked 
forward,  with  hope,  to  the  prospect  of  an  independent  government;  and  those 
who  are  familiar  with  the  character  of  the  inhabitants  and  the  course  of  events 
at  that  day,  will  not  doubt  that  a  republican  sentiment  was  gathering  strength, 
and  had  many  able  and  fearless  advocates.  There  could  be  no  prosperous  or 
secure  government  in  North  Carolina,  unless  founded  on  democratic  principles; 
and  this  was  seen,  felt,  and  acknowledged  before  the  -flight  of  Martin. 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

In  this  state  of  the  public  ruind,  Col.  Thomas  Polk,  of  the  county  of  Meck- 
lenburg, issued  a  notice  to  the  committee-men  of  the  county  to  assemble  in 
Charlotte,  in  the  month  of  May,  1775.  It  was  understood  that  the  most  mo- 
mentous questions  would  come  before  the  committee;  and  when  it  met,  in  the 
court-house,  a  great  crowd  of  people  were  in  attendace. 

Abraham  Alexander,  a  former  member  of  the  legislature,  was  chosen  chair- 
man, and  John  McKnit  Alexander  and  Dr.  Ephram  Brevard  appointed  clerks. 
A  number  of  papers  were  read  to  the  committee  and  the  people;  and  a  hand- 
bill, brought  by  express,  and  containing  an  account  of  the  battle  of  Lexington, 
in  Massachusetts,  on  the  19th  of  April  preceding,  was  also  read.  Several  elo- 
quent speeches  were  made;  and,  at  their  conclusion,  the  people  loudly  cheered 
for  independence. 

A  committee,  consisting  of  Dr.  Ephrim     Brevard,  Rev.  Hezekiah    J.  Baleh 

and  William  Kennon,  Esq.,  were  appointed  to  prepare  resolutions  suitable  to 

the  occasion;   and  while  they  were  out,  the   question   of  independence  was 
still  discussed. 

On  the  20th,  at  noon,  the  convention  reassembled,  amid  an  anxious  throng 
of  spectators,  and  amid  breathless  stillness  the  resolutions  absolving  the  people 
from  all  political  connection  with  England,  and  declaring  them  a  free  and 
self-governing  community,  were  read.  They  were  discussed  and  unanimously 
passed;  and  then,  from  the  court-house  steps,  Col.  Polk  read  them  aloud  to 
the  concourse  of  people,  who  received  them  with ,  three  prolonged  cheers, 
throwing  their  hats  into  the  air  and  manifesting  other  extravagant  signs  of  joy; 
u  Capt.  Jack  was  engaged  as  their  bearer  to  the  president  of  the  provincial 
congress,  and  was  also  instructed  to  deliver  copies  to  the  delegates  from 
North  Carolina  to  the  continental  congress.  As  Capt.  Jack  passed  through 
Salisbury,  the  general  court  was  sitting,  and  at  the  request  of  the  judge,  Mr. 
Kennon,  one  of  the  committee  who  drew  them,  and  an  attorney  of  the  court, 
read  these  resolutions  in  open  court,  in  the  hearing  of  a  large  multitude  of 
people,  judges,  lawyers  and  citizens,  attentively  listening  and  approving 

The  delegates  in  congress  at  Philadelphia  thought  it  prudent  not  to  present 
these  proceedings  to  the  body  of  which  they  were  members,  and  by  this 
cautious  policy  the  resolutions  were  in  a  measure  smothered,  lost  to  history; 
and  for  nearly  half  a  century  were  unknown  to  the  world,  and  until  a  copy 
of  the  "Cape-Fear  Mercury"  containing  the  resolutions  was  discovered  and 
made  public." 

THE  LATE  D.  A.  TOMPKINS  WROTE: 
If  William  Tell  never  lived,  none  the  less  does  the  story 


THE  UPLIFT 

represent  a  sentiment  that  did  live,  and  which  will  continue  to 
live  for  all  time,  iconoclasts  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

If  it  could  be  proved  that  the  meeting  ascribed  to  May 
20th  never  took  place,  still  would  the  Mecklenburg  spirit 
of  independence  in  advance  of  the  rest  of  the  country  sur- 
vive. The  emblem  of  the  hornets,  the  resolves  of  Mav  I-ilst, 
and  abundant  other  proof  of  the  independent  spirit  of  the 
times  survive  to  sustain  the  fact  that  everything  else  here 
was  in  accord  with  the  Declaration  of  May  20th,  1775. 

The  same  evidence  and  plenty  besides  goes  to  show  that 
there  was  a  declaration. 


CONFESSIONS  ARE  IN  ORDER. 

Rev.  Dr.  J.  R.  Bridges,  editor  of  the  Presbyterian  Standard,  in  a  late 
number  of  that  paper  makes  note  of  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the  '"Woman's 
Auxiliary"  which  has  been  doing  great  business  in  the  affairs  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church. 

•  The  Standard,  noting'  the  doubts  entertained  by  certain  ones  over  the  wo- 
men entering  into  such  great  activity  with  any  good  to  the  church,  and  oth- 
ers taking  comfort  in  the  belief  that  the  movement  would  prove  '"a  flash  in 
the  pan,"  makes  a  most  splendid  confession  that  amounts  to  a  declaration 
that  all  is  well.     The  Standard  says: 

"This  was  not  due  to  any  doubt  of  woman's  ability,  but  to  the  feeling 
that  the  conservatism  of  the  Church  would  finally  compel  them  to  be 
content  to  work  in  a  quiet  corner  of  the  vineyard.  This  dream  proved 
that  married  life,  though  extending  over  an  experinece  of  thirty  odd 
years,  had  taught  us  no  lesson  as  to  woman's  persistency  when  once 
she  has  decided  that  she  intends  doing  a  certain  thing. 

Ten  years  have  passed,  and  with  each  year  has  passed  our  inherited 
conservatism,  and  now  we  are  forced  to  confess  that  the  Lord's  hand 
was  in  the  movement." 

The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that  except  for  the  work,  the  activity  and  the 
vision  of  the  women,  organized  and  unorganized,  the  church  would  be 
struggling  at  a  harder  rate  than  now  characterizes  her  efforts  to  accomplish 
her  great  work.  The  women,  if  they  have  not  kept  the  church  alive  and 
in  action,  have  at  least  kept  her  growing. 

Some  of  these  days,  the  cause  in  all  its  nakedness  and  greatness,  will 
appear  to  the  leaders  that  the  proper  field  of  activity  for  the  churches  is  in 
the  unchurched  world  and  not  in  the  folds  of  the. several  denominations. 
This  canibalistic  religious  enthusiasm  is  repugnant  to  fine  taste  and  order- 
ly religious  action.     The  church  gains  nothing  in  the  sight  of  the  unchurch- 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

ed  by  her  ability  to  capture  the  sheep  of  other  folds:  and  the  weakness  of 
being  changed  and  captured  does  not  reflect  such  a  credit  upon  the  vacilat- 
ing  as  to  influence  any  converts  and  souls  from  the  great  multitude  of  the 
unchurched  in  our  own  state,  which  should  be  the  slogan  of  all  wise,  relig- 
ious leaders. 

It  was,  after  all.  a  happy  dcy  in  the  life  of  the  church  when  women  ral- 
lied to  the  work  of  the  church.  They  were  needed:  they  have  proven  the 
wisdom  of  the  movement  in  all  the  denomonations  and  .it's  a  mighty  agency 
that  is  now  working  in  the  cause  of  the  church.  Christianity,  good  morals 
and  correct  society.  The  women  have  by  their  faithful  service  issued  a 
challenge  to  the  men,  including  the  preachers,  in  this  work  of  the  Lord, 
by  bringing  into  the  fold  those  who  are  now  unchurched. 

MEETING  OF   THE   TRAINING  SCHOOL  BOARD 

The  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Jackson  Train- 
ing School  was  held  at  the  Institution  on  Tuesday  of  this  week.  In  atten- 
donce  were  Madames  T.  W.  Bickett  and  Margaret  C.  D.  Burgwyn,  Miss 
Easdale  Shaw,  and  Messrs.  R.  O.  Everett,  Herman  Cone.  D.  B.  Coltrane 
and  J.  P.  Cook. 

Various  satisfactory  reports  of  the  activities  of  the  school  were  received, 
plans  for  a  further  growth  and  development  were  agreed  upon,  and  a  gene- 
ral inspection  of  the  plant  was  made.  Just  before  luncheon,  the  winners 
in  the  Fail-brother  story-writing  were  called,  and  Mrs.  T.  W.  Bickett,  in 
beautifully  chosen  words,  of  good  cheer  and  fine  advice,  presented  to  each 
his  earned  prize.  This  was  a  pleasing  event  to  the  Board  and.  of  course, 
it  was  a  very  important  event  in  the  lives  of  these  promising  youngsters. 

i'fi   jj:  $  %   %  sic  $   % 

A  CORRECTION. 

In  THE  UPLIFT  of  May  6th  an  error  of  omission  occurred  in  the  list- 
ing of  the  surviving  Confederate  soldiers  now  living  in  Cabarrus  county. 
This  is  most  likely  a  clerical  error  that  crept  into  Capt.  Parks'  report. 

Mr.  M.  M.  Gillon.  one  of  the  best  men  that  Cabarrus  ever  produced,  him- 
self a  follower  of  Lee,  calls  attention  to  the  omission  of  the  names  of  J. 
Frank  Fink  and  H.  W.  Barnhardt.  of  No.  5.  Thomas  Brumley.  of  No.  2;  and 
Dr.  L.  A.  Bikle  and  Col.  James  N.  Brown,  of  No.  12.  Col.  Brown  is  in 
his  95th  year,  and  in.  addition  to  being  a  Confederate  is  a  veteran  of  the 
Mexican  War.      This  addition,  which  we  believe  is  now  correct,  makes  the 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

total  number  of  the  surviving  veterans   of  the  War  Between  the  States   in 
Cabarrus  county  just  67. 

The  ravages  of  the  Mississippi  river,  having  broken  through  the  levees 
and  flooded  tens  of  thousands  of  acres  in  the  state  of  Mississippi  and  Louisi- 
ana, are  among  the  worst  of  all  history.  Thousands  of  people  are  homeless 
and  destitute  of  food  or  property,  and  the  loss  and  suffering  are  appalling. 
There  is  always  something  occuring  to  make  us  understand  that  we  cannot 
tell  when  a  catastrophe  may  overtake  us;  and  these  things  teach  people  every- 
where that  the  spirit  of  man  must  not  feel  too  secure  and  arrogant.  At  best, 
we  are  helpless — and  never  independent  of  the  interest,  help  and  associa- 
tion of  our  fellow  men. 

*    *    *    *    *    *    if! 

'.'You  may  tell  the  women  of  North  Carolina  that  if  they  want  to  do 
something  they  must  get  out  and  fight.  The  opportunity  for  service  was 
never  brighter  nor  the  necessity  greater."  That  is  the  message  sister 
Nancy  Astor  sends  to  the  women  of  our  state.  Had  this  delightful  woman, 
who  has  turned  the  head  of  all  Virginia  by  her  return  visit,  after  becoming 
famous  and  popular  in  England,  found  it  possible  to  come  among  us  she 
would  have  discovered  that  the  Tar  Heel  sisters  are  thoroughly  aroused 
not  only  to  their  privileges  but  are  conscious  of  their  power. 

******** 

Where  there  is  so  much  smoke  there  must  be  some  fire.  It  is  probably 
well  that  the  state  is  not  to  continue  paying  out  its  good  money  for  the 
services  of  a  man,  whose  attitude  and  remarks  are  so  beclouded  as  to  leave 
the  impression  that  he  is  not  orthodox,  who  ignores  certain  social  laws 
and  is  so  uncertain  in  the  views  he  entertains  as  to  make  the  conservative 
fear  that  his  influence  upon  the  young  is  unwholesome. 

The  rat-killing  women,  who  drove  a  spanking  good  trade  in  Concord, 
leaving  not  a  very  good  recommendation  for  the  efficiency  of  their  stock-in- 
trade,  and  whose  method  of  business  was  followed  by  an  inspector  from  the 
national  government,  have  had  themselves  '"writ"  up  in  a  syndicated  let- 
ter, carrying  their  photos.  That  very  same  pair  could  make  a  return  trip 
and  find  suckers  on  an  ecpially  as  sorry  a  proposition. 

********  , 

The  winner  of  the  Fairbrother   1st  prize,  whose  little  story  is  published 


8  THE  UPLIFT 

in  this  number  of  THE  UPLIFT,  is  known  among  his  associates  as- 
'"Woodrow"  Wilson,  while  his  name  is  really  'William.  Master  "Woodrow" 
gives  a  novel  reason  why  he  does  not  desire  to  be  rich;  but  the  fact  that 
he  aspires  to  "run  a  train  down  the  mountain  by  his  mother's  door"  is  a 
worthy  spirit  and  a  fine  ambition . 

Friends  of  the  craft  will  please  observe  the  long  article  in  this  issue,  un- 
der the  title  of  '"Stories  and  Picture  Studies"  covering  about  seven  pages. 
The  entire  piece  was  set  up  on  the  Linotype  by  Master  Edward  Cleaver, 
a  mere  strip  of  a  youngster,  with  only  a  few  weeks'  practice,  in  (i  hours. 
If  it  can  be  beat,  in  the  language  of  Venus,  a  famous  rural  Rowan  corres- 
pondent, "trot  out  your  operator." 

******** 

Is  there  any  earthly  excuse  or  reason  for  sending  out  of  the  state  for  men 
and  women  to  perform  services  for  which  they  have  had  no  special  training 
when  we  have  in  our  midst  many  men  and  women  far  superior  to  the  im- 
ported ones?  Unqualified  surrender  to  theory  and  bluff  make  actions  in- 
defensible. 

It  is  claimed  that  the  activity  of  theK.  K.  K.  forced  the  resignation  of  Prof. 
Lindeman  of  the  faculty  of  the  N.  C.  College  for  Women.  This  is  hardly 
correct.  There  were  probably  other  and  more  vital  reasons  for  the  ending 
of  the  unfortunate  situation. 

******** 

Mr.  Clark's  letter  this  week  carries  a  perfectly  legitimate  and  timely 
challenge  to  the  women.  Let's  begin  now  to  fight  for  the  obliteration  of 
the  double  standard,  which  is  a  cowardly  disgrace  that  has  too  long  afflict- 
ed society. 

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From  all  sources  the  reports  indicate  that  the  women  had  a  glorious 
meeting  in  Greensboro  last  week.  They  are  wide  awake  to  their  privileg- 
es and  responsibilities. 

******** 

Cotton — the  great  king  of  the  South — has  its  eyes  open  and  is  moving  in 
the  right  direction. 

******** 
Lincoln  County  has  two  women  aspiring  for  the  office  of  County   Treas- 


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urer.     They  are  seeking  the  honor,  however,  through  two  different   chan- 
nels. 


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♦*♦  *»* 
,J.  the  goat  came  to  the  Lion's  cave,  and  stopped  there  listening  for  a  ♦ 

j£  long  time.     Then  a  Sheep  went  in,  and  before  she  came  out  a  Calf  .;. 

♦J*  came  up  to  receive  the  last  wisnes  of  the  Lord  of  Beasts.     But  soon  ^ 

»>  the  Lion  seemed  to  recover,  and  came  to  the  mouth  of  his  cave,  and  *;* 

X  saw  the  Fox,  who  had  been  waiting  outside  for  some  time.     "Whv  »> 

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♦  Fox. 


^*      do  you  not  come  to  pay  your  respects  to  me?"  said  the  Lion  to  the 

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^*  the  track  of  the  animals  that  have  already  come  to  you;  and  while  I  ♦:♦ 

*  see  many  hoof -marks  going  in,  I  see  none  coming  out.   Till  the  animals  % 

*  that  have  entered  your  cave  come  out  again  I  prefer  to  remain  in  the  % 
»♦♦  open  air."  ♦ 
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DISCRIMINATION    AGAINST    WOMEN. 

By  R.  R.  Clark. 

Since  the  women  have  been  admitted  to  membership  in  the  electorate 
they  are  giving  attention  to  the  rank  discriminatory  laws  enacted  under  the 
regime  of  the  mere  men;  and  it  is  cause  for  wonder  if  the  men,  those  who 
are  broad  enough  to  comprehend  the  depth  of  the  iniquity  of  some  of  the 
enactments  that  discriminate  against  the  wonmen,  are  not  heartily  asham- 
ed that   these   statutes   are  permitted      by    consent    of   parents    or   guardian, 


to  disgrace  the  law  books.  It  would 
seem  that  those  who  are  not  so  pre- 
judiced that  they  never  can  know  and 
never  will  understand,  would  embrace 
the  opportunity  to  wipe  the  offend- 
ing statues  off  the  books  as  quickly 
and  as  quietly  as  possible,  so  that  they 
may  be   forgotten. 

The  clubwomen,  in  session  at 
Greensboro,  adopted  a  legislative 
programme,  mentioning  quite  a  numb- 
er of  things  that  they  will  bring  to  the 
attention  of  legislative  candidates  and 
urge  on  the  next  session  of  the  Legis- 
lature. They  will  ask,  among  other 
things,  that  the  "age  of  consent"  be 
raised  from  14  to  16  years;  and  that 
the  law  which  prohibits  the  accept- 
ance of  the  unsupported  testimony 
of  the  woman  in  cases  of  seduction 
or  abduction,  be  amended  so  that 
jurors  can  have  the  privlege  of  be- 
lieving the  woman  if  they  think  she 
is  telling  the  truth.  These  are  the 
statutes  I  had  in  mind  as  cause  for 
shame,  as  a  disgrace  to  our  civiliza- 
tion— laws  that  the  men  should  want 
wiped  off  the  statutes  books  quickly, 
so  that  their  part  in  the  shame  may 
be  soon  forgotten. 

Our  laws  authorize  a  girl  at  the  age 
•of  14  to  consent  to  her  own  ruin, 
to  voluntarily  commit  an  act  which 
may  damn  her  body  and  soul.  But 
a  girl  is  not  permitted  to  contract 
legal   and  honorable  marriage   except 


until  she  has  reached  the  age  of  18. 
That  is,  a  girl  is  not  supposed  to  have 
capacity  to  choose  a  mate  in  honor- 
able wedlock,  without  supervision,  un- 
til she  has  reached  the  age  of  18 
years.  But  at  the  age  of  14,  yet  a 
child  in  mind  and  body,  she  is  left 
entirely  free  to  become  the  victim 
of  the  wretch  who  may  presume  on 
her  youth  and  ignorance.  So  far 
from  seeing  any  inconsistency  in  this 
matter,  our  law-makers,  within  re- 
cent years,  men  who  aspire  to  leader- 
ship in  public  affairs,  have  brazenly 
and  defiantly  defended  it  and  refused 
to  increase  the  age  to  16,  two  years 
short  of  the  legal  age  of  marriage. 
The  infamous  double  standard  of 
morals,  and  the  false  standards  of 
society,  which  make  the  erring  woman 
an  out-cast  while  her  partner  in  guilt 
suffers  little  if  at  all,  should  move 
one  to  cast  all  possible  protection 
around  the  girls.  But  so  far  it  has 
failed  in  North  Carolina  because  re- 
spectable men,  husbands  and  fathers, 
simply  cannot  get  away  from  the  idea 
that  the  man  should  be  allowed  great- 
er priveleges  than  the  woman  in  sex 
relations. 

The  other  law  is  no  less  infamous, 
if  not  more  so.  In  case  of  indictment 
for  seduction  or  abduction  the  woman 
may  testify,  but  the  jury  is  not  per- 
mitted to  accept  her  testimony  un- 
less   she    is    corroborated.     Let    that 


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sink  in.  The  lowest  specimen  on  the 
face  of  the  earth,  if  he  is  in  the  form 
of  a  man,  no  matter  what  his  color 
or  his  character  nor  how  infamous 
his  offence,  may  go  on  the  stand  and 
testify  in  his  own  behalf,  and  the 
jury  can  accept  that  testimony  un- 
corroborated if  they  believe  the  wit- 
ness. But  no  matter  how  high  the 
character  of  the  woman  previous 
to  her  fall,  her  unsupported  testi- 
mony is  not  sufficient,  no  matter  how 
strongly  the  jury  may  believe  in  its 
truth.  ,  The  law  was  made,  of  course, 
to  shield  the  roan.  It  is  obvious  that 
in  ease  of  that  kind  corroborative 
testimony   is   rarely   available. 

It  is  impossible  to  understand  how 
men  of  breadth  and  fairness  and  jus- 
tice can  defend  such  infamy  as  these 
laws  represent.  They  were  enacted 
at  a  time  when  all  laws  were  made 
with  the  purpose  to  subject  the  wo- 
man to  the  will  of  the  man;  or  at 
least  they  denied  the  woman  an  equal 
show  with  the  man.  And  men  who 
have  accepted  the  practices  of  cus- 
tom, without  considering  the  injus- 
tice, may  not  have  realized  the  enormi- 
ty  of   the   disgraceful   statutes.     But 


.  there  is  no  longer  excuse,  if  it  be  ex- 
cuse, for  lack  of  understanding.  The 
women  have  the  vote.  If  they  do  not 
use  it  to  rid  the  statute  books  of 
such  infamy,  if  they  do  not  refuse  to 
support,  but  do  their  best  to  defeat, 
candidates  who  refuse  to  aid,  and  that 
promptly,  in  blotting  this  discrimina- 
tion from  the  statute  books,  they  will 
deserve  all  that  and  more.  In  other 
words,  if  the  women  do  not  use  their 

.  new  freedom  to  secure  justice  for 
themselves  along  with  the  promotion 
of  better  morals,  they  will  prove  their 
unfitness  for  membership  in  the  elec- 
torate. I  do  not  believe  they  will  per- 
mit the  discrimination  to  continue. 
They  may  preceed  slowly  until  they 
get  their  bearings ;  but  once  they  feel 
sure  of  themselves,  I  am  of  the  opinion 
that  trouble  is  coming  for  the  unrec- 
onciled reactionaries  who  would  con- 
tinue to  treat  the  women  as  children, 
notwithstanding  the  equality  of  citi- 
zenship. I  admit  that  the  wish  may 
be  father  to  this  thought,  but  I  have 
faith  in  the  women.  If  I  did  not 
believe  they  would  do  better  than  the 
men  I  would  not  have  championed 
woman   suffrage. 


What  I  Would  Like  To  Do  And  Whv  I  Would  Like 

J 

To  Do  It  When  I  Leave  The  Jacks  on  Training  School. 

Answer  to  Col.  Al.  Fairbrother's  Question. 


Some  weeks  ago,  Col.  Fail-brother 
sent  the  editor  a  cheek  for  fifteen 
dollars,  asking  that  the  boys  of  the 
training  school  be  called  upon  to 
put  on  paper  their  answer  to  the 
question  involved  in  the  title  of 
this   article.     A   great   number  of  the 


boys  told  the  story  of  their  desire. 
By  elimination  on  the  part  of 
competent  parties,  the  many  papers 
were  reduced  to  seven  in  number. 
These  were  turned  over  to  Prof. 
A.  S.  Webb,  superintendent  of  the 
Concord  Public  Schools,  to  select  the 


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1st,  2ond,  3rd,  4th  and  5th  best.  He 
marked  the  papers  simply  by  figures 
for    no    names    appeared    on    the    pa- 

lst — William  Wilson 
2ond — Edward  Cleaver 
3rd — Swift  Davis 
4th — Jacob  Columbus  Mead 
5th — Vass  Fields 

This  writer  can  very  well  under- 
stand the  reason  for  Prof.  Webb's 
feelings  when  he  was  prompted  to 
accompany  his  decision  with  two  one- 
dollar  bills  and  this  note : 
"My  dear  Mr.  Cook: 

I  am  not  sure  that  the  awards 
are  right  but  that  is  the  way  it  ap- 
pealed to  me.  I  can't  leave  any  of 
of  them  out  so  I  am  inclosing  a  dol- 
lar   apiece   for   six   and    seven. 

(Signed)   A.   S.  Webb." 

6th,  and  7th  are :  William  Gregory 
and  Loxley  Saunders.  So,  after 
all,  these  little  fellows  get  honorable 
mention,  through  the  kindness  and 
tender  heartedness  of  Prof.  Webb, 
to  the  tune  of  a  dollar  eaeh. 

The  Uplift  congratulates  the  boys, 
who  are  winners,  and  it  wants  to  here 
assert  that  every  one  of  the  papers 
turned  in  exhibited  real  merit ;  and 
all  showed  that  each  boy  had  a  laud- 
able ambition  tucked  away  in  his  lit- 
tle self,  that  under  favorable  circum- 


pers.  Taking  the  key,  we  find  that 
the  following  is  the  result  of  Mr. 
Webb 's  decision : 

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stances  and  the  great  kindness  of  the 
state  must  finally  blossom  into  some- 
thing worthwhile. 

This  friendly  little  contest  amount- 
ed to  no  little.  It  put  pep  into  the 
boys,  it  gave  them  something  to  think 
about  and  the  occasion  to  search  seri- 
ously and  earnestly  their  own  hearts 
and  minds.  It  put  many  of  them, 
perhaps,  to  the  point  of  deciding  that 
they  had  a  mission  and  that  there  is 
a  service  for  them  to  perform.  Aside 
from  this,  the  practice  of  putting  on 
paper  what  thoughts  went  through 
their  minds  is  of  incalcuable  value. 

To  anybody  else  that  wants  to  fath- 
er or  mother  another  research,  the  door 
stands  wide  open;  the  boys  are  ready. 
Let  us  have  your  proposition.  The 
winners  particularly  desire  that  The 
Uplift  assure  Col.  and  Mrs.  Al.  Fair- 
brother  that  their  generosity  and 
thoughtfulness  are  fully  appreciated 
bv   them. 


WILLIAM   WILSON-WINNER    1ST  PRIZE. 

It  has  always  been  my  way  of  thinking  from  the  time  I  knew  right  from- 
wrong  that  every  boy  shonld  learn  a  trade.  There  is  no  use  of  a  man  be- 
ing a  beggar,  it  is  because  he  wants  to  be  one;  if  he  is  a  plumber,  it  is  be- 
cause he  wants  to  be  one. 

Get  up  and  get,  don't  wait  for  fourteen  years  old  and  ever  since  I 
things  to  go  your  way;  get  up  and  was  seven  I  wanted  to  run  a  train; 
help  them  to  go  your  way.  I  am  now     my  father  was  an  engineer,  and  so  do> 


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13 


I  want  to  be  one. 

When  I  leave  the  school  I  am  go- 
ing to  finish  my  books  at  high  school, 
then  go  to  college  and  learn  all  that 
an  engineer  needs  to  know.  Then 
after  I  do  all  these  things,  I  am 
going  to  work  and  work  until  I  am 
twenty-one  years  old.  By  that  time 
I  will  surely  have  a  reasonable  a- 
mount  of  money.  I  will  then  go  to 
Asheville  and  ask  for  a  job  as  an 
engineer.  The  run  I  will  want  will 
be  down  the  mountains  from  Ashe- 
ville through  Saluda  right  by  my 
mother's  door. 

All  this  might  sound  kindly  side- 
ways to  some  people  but  this  is  what 
I  mean.  I  don't  want  to  be  a  rich 
man  when  I  am  grown.  Of  course, 
I  don't  want  to  be  in  want.  It  is 
not  because  there  is  no  chance  of  my 
being  rich  but  because  my  people 
always  said,  that  it  is  easier  for  a 
camel  to  go  through  the  eye  of  a 
needle  than  it  is  for  a  rich  man  to 
enter  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven.  I 
am  look'ng  to  go  to  heaven  when  I 
die  and  a  rich  man  can't  very  easily 
go. 

When  I  am  on  duty  on  the  train 
I  can  learn  more  about  the  good 
Old    North    State    and  can    see  the 


scenery  and  at  the  same  time  be 
earning  an  honest  living.  It  may 
seem  strange  but  it  is  the  truth  that 
J  can  run  a  train  as  young  as  I  am. 
I  can  start  it.  I  can  stop  it.  I 
know  a  good  many  things  about  one. 
My  father  has  taught  my  biggest 
brother,  I  have  also  been  taught  by 
my  father. 

The  question  of  why  I  would  like 
to  be  an  engineer  is  a  simple  one. 
I  have  been  at  the  Jackson  Training 
School  for  about  two  years  and  I 
like  the  place  very  much.  I  had 
not  been  here  over  a  year  before 
Mr.  Boger  put  me  in  the  sewing 
room  to  make  the  boys  clothes.  I 
had  never  before  sewed  on  a  sewing 
machine.  Now  I  can  make  any- 
where from  four  to  seven  shirts  in 
one  afternoon,  not  counting  the 
forenoon.  I  can  also  make  overalls, 
sheets  and  uniforms.  I  could  get  a 
job  in  a  tailor's  shop  but  I  don't 
want  to  take  the  women's  work 
away  from  them. 

I  want  to  be  an  engineer  tc  help 
my  country  along.  My  country  has 
got  to  have  somebody  to  run  the 
trains,  so  1  might  do  it  as  well  as 
anybody.  I  want  to  make  my 
mother  proud  of  her  boy. 


"We  must  hold  it  as  precious  charge,  this  fulfilling  of  all  that  citizen- 
ship means,  to  the  memory  of  those  veterans  who  suffered  throughout  the 
unrealization  of  years.  So  what  are  we  doing  to  seal  our  union  with  the 
national  body  politic?  In  what  way  can  we  co-ordinate  in  national  ef- 
ficiency? Where  and  what  is  the  use  of  having  citizenship  if  we  do  not 
apply  it." — Mrs.  Sidney  P.  Cooper. 


14  THE  UPLIFT 

SURVIVING    CONFEDERATE  VETERANS 
OF    IREDELL    COUNTY. 

The  Uplift  is  endebted  to  Hon.  J.  A.  Hartness,  the  Clerk  of  Court  of  Ire- 
dell county,  for  the  furnishing  of  the  names  and  adresses  of  the  living  Con- 
federate soldiers  of  Iredell  county. 

Though  Iredell  county  is  above  the  average  North  Carolina  county  both 
in  size  of  territory  and  population,  the  list  shows  that  there  are  living 
just  eighty-one  of  the  heroes  of  61-65. 

IN  STATESVILLE:R.  E.  Beaver,  J.  C.  Brown,  J.  M.  Clark,  R.  B.  Cook, 
Wm,  S.  Eagle,  D.  W.  Edwards,  W.  J.  Evans,  Frank  A.  Freeze,  W.  H.  H.  Greg- 
ory, W.  G.  Hendren.  R.  B.  Joyner  (96  years  old),  N.  L.  Lewis,  F.  E.  Menis,  W. 
M.  Mills,  C.  A.  Mills,  G.  F.  Mitchell,  G.  W,  Nash,  Jas.  G.  Page,  E.  K.  Robbins, 
J.  M.  Shook,  J.  E.  Simpson,  A.  W.  Taylor. 

STATESVILLE,  R.  F.  D.:  J.  A.  Fox,  P.  W.  Brawley,  J.  M.  Crawford,  H. 
Huffman,  Wm.  F.  Orren,  J.  M.  Rickert,  J.  P.  Stout,  H.  A.  Tomlin. 

MOORESVILLE:J.  P.  Austin,  John  W.  Cowen,  Aaron  Plyler,  W.  A.  Raney, 
N.  L.  Robinson,  F.  S.  Shook,  T.  A.  White;  A.  A.  Kelley,  Mooresville  R.  F.  D. 

TROUTMAN:W.  M.  Bradshaw,  J.  Y.  Cavin,  Geo.  C.  C.  Dearman,  J.  A.  Gal- 
ligher,  W.  M.  Hoover,  W.  H.  Hunter,  W.  E.  Ledwell,  J.  H.  Link,  E.  P.  Rog- 
ers, and  E.  W.  Overcash,  Mooresville,  R.  F.  D, 

ELMWOOD:  John  Foster,  Silas  Freeland,  Hail  Hair, 

HARMONY: J.  C.  Joyner,  (R.  F.  D.,)  Thomas  Renegar,  J.  B.  Stroud, 
(R.  F.  D.),  William  L.  Wooten. 

HOUSTONVILLE:  L.  Barnard,  Z.  R.  Tharpe. 

TURNERSBURG:W.  R.  Moore,  T.  B.  Campbell  (R.  F.  D.,)  H.  H.  Harhin, 
(R.  F.  D.)  Wilford  Horn. 

LORAY:A.  C.  Combs,  J.  A.  Morrison. 

SCOTTSiJ.  A.  Deal,  A.  Guy. 

EUFOLA:W.  A.  Fisher,  W.  W.  Stewart. 

CLEVELANDsG.  L.  D.  Eller  (R.  F.  D.) 

NEW  HOPE :  John  J.  Godfrey,  Thomas  M.  Snow. 

BARIUM  SPRINGS:.. Henry  T.  Johnston,  W.  P.  Whitley, 

STONEY  POINT:  T.  M.  Marshall,  (R.  F.  D.,)  W.  A.  Prim,  F.  M.  Teague,  W. 
T.  Watts. 

MT.  MOURNE:  Robert  E.  Mayhew. 

OLIN:  J.  C.  Siceloff,  Thomas  M.  Walker,  H.  C.  Warren. 

CATAWBA:   L.  York. 

A.nd  the  foregoing  be  all  that  are  left  in  Iredell  county  of  the  brave  fellows, 
who  risked  all  uncomplainingly  in  answer  to  the  call  of  their  country.  The 
line  is  fast  growing  thinner. 


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15 


THE     NEGLECTED     DUTY      OF     THE 

SCHOOLS. 

By  Dr.  Clarence  Poe. 

Again,  people  are  asking  this  question  as  never  before:  What  are  our 
school  doing  to  give  worthy  ideals  to  the  multitudes  of  eager,  aspiring, 
truth-seeking  boys  and  girls  who  pass  through  their  portals? 

The  schools  of  today  teach  facts,  but  what  are  they  doing  to  develope 
character  or  even  happiness?  If  Edwin  Markham  was  right  when  he  said 
that  man's  three  great  needs  are  re-  fairer  world." 

presented    by     three     B's— "bread,  And  if  our  schools  are   failing    to 

beauty,     and       brotherhood"---what      train  the  young  for  noble  citizenship, 


are  our  schools  doing  to  train  our 
youth  for  this  three  fold  challenge 
of  life?  In  our  country  schools  the 
practical  subjects  like  arithmetic  are 
taught  in  terms  of  tjwn  things  and 
town  interests,  and  it  is  often  hard 
to  get  half-way  recognition  for  agri- 
cultural subjects.  Beauty  is  largely 
forgotten  and  brotherhood  even  more 
largely  so.  Do  we  not  teach  boys 
and  girls  to  think  of  individual  and 
personal  success  rather  than  of 
success  through  service  to  one's  fel- 
lows and  one's  community?  As  Dr. 
Henry  F.  Cope    says: 

"  J  here,  I  am  convinced,  is 
the  very  heart  of  our  weakness 
in  educational  matters—that 
our  present  system  uf  public 
education  is  organized  for  the 
education  of  individuals  in  in- 
dividualism ....  It  matters 
not  at  all  what  the  youth  has 
learned  of  the  encyclopedia  of 
science  if  he  has  felt  no  passion 
for  life,  if  he  has  never  quicken- 
ed with  a  thrill  for  humanity,  if 
he  has  never  seen  a  vision  nor 
dreamt    a   dream  of    a    better, 


for  community  service,  for  neigh- 
borhood betterment,  are  they  not 
also  letting  our  boys  and  girls  drift 
without  moral  chart  or  compass? 
Are  they  not  failing  to  provide  any 
compelling  moral  guidance  for  life? 
Granting  that  parents  themselves 
should  give  moral,  training  to  the 
young,  must  we  not  face  the  fact 
that  half  the  parents  are  not  giving 
such  training?  And  is  not  the 
general  public  suffering  seriously 
because  of  this  widespread  neglect? 
Can  our  nation  afford  to  let  such  a 
condition  go  on  without  remedy?  * 
Here  in  America,  we  of  course 
cannot,  must  not,  teach  the  doc- 
trines of  any  religious  sect.  But 
even  though  this  is  true,  should  not 
the  fen  Commandments,  the  Gold- 
en Rule,  the  Two  Great  Command- 
ments, and  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount 
be  early  taught  to  every  boy  and 
girl  as  forming  a  universally  accep- 
table moral  basis  for  life,  whatever 
one's  sectarian  views  may  be?  And 
will  the  seeming  moral  degenercy  of 
today  be  checked  until  we  do  give 
such  training? 


It  is  of  great  importance  in  a  republic,  not  only  to  guard  society  against 
thel  oppression  of  its  rulers,  but  to  guard  one  part  of  the  society  against 
the  injustice  of  the  other  part. — James  Madison. 


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HARVEY    BIRCH. 

By  J.  Fenimore  Cooper  in  "The  Spy" 

"Well,  Tom,  a  slanderous  propensity  is  incurable — but,"  stretching  for- 
ward his  body  in  the  direction  he  was  gazing,  as  if  to  aid  him  in  distinguish 
ing  objects  through  the  darkness,  "what  animal  is  moving  through  the  field 
on  our  right?" 


"'Tis  a  man,"  said  Mason,  looking 
intently  at  the  suspicious  object. 

"By  his  hump  'tis  a  dromedary!" 
added  the  captain,  eying  it  keenly. 
Wheeling  his  horse  suddenly  from 
the  highwav,  he  exclaimed  —"Har- 
vey Birch!— Take  him,  dead  or 
alive!" 

Mason  and  a  few  of  the  leading 
dragoons  only,  understood  the  sud- 
den cry,  but  it  was  heard  throughout 
the  line.  A  dozen  of  the  men,  with 
the  lieutenant  at  their  head,  fol- 
lowed the  impetuous  Lawtcn,  and 
their  speed  threatened  the  pursued 
with  a  suddenly  termination  of  the 
race. 

Birch  prudently  kept  his  position 
on  the  rock,  where  he  had  been  seen 
by  the  passing  glance  of  Henry 
Wharton,  until  evening  had  begun 
to  shroud  the  surrounding  objects 
in  darkness.  From  this  height  he 
had  seen  all  the  events  of  the  day 
as  they  occured.  He  had  watched, 
with  a  beating  heart,  the  depart- 
ure of  the  troop  under  Dunwoodie, 
and  with  difficulty  had  cjrbed  his 
impatience  until  the  obscurity  of 
night  should  render  his  moving  free 
from  danger.  He  had  not,  howewer, 
completed  a  fourth  of  his  way  to 
his  own  residence,  when  his  quick 
ear  distinguished  the  tread  of  ap- 
proaching horse.  Trusting  to  the 
increasing  darkness,  he  determined 
to  persevere.  By  crouching  and 
moving  quickly  along  the  surface 
of  the  ground,  he  hoped  yet    to    es- 


cape unseen.  Captain  Lawton  was 
too  much  engrossed  with  the  fore- 
going conversation  to  suffer  his  eyes 
to  indulge  in  their  usual  wanderings, 
and  the  peddlei,  perceiving  by  the 
voices  that  the  enemy  he  most  feared 
had  passsed,  yielded  to  his  impa- 
tience, and  stood  erect,  in  order  to 
make  greater  progress. 

The  moment  his  body  arose  above 
the  shadow  of  the  ground  it  was 
seen,  and  the  chase  commenced. 
For  a  single  instant  Birch  was  help- 
less, his  blood  curdling  in  his  veins 
at  the  imminence  of  his  danger,  and 
his  legs  refusing  their  natural  and 
necessary  office.  But  it  was  only  for 
a  moment.  Casting  his  pack  where 
he  stood,  and  instinctively  tighten- 
ing the  belt  he  wore,  the  peddler 
betook  himself  to  flight.  He  knew 
that  by  bringing  himself  in  a  line 
with  his  pursuer^  and  the  wood  his 
form  would  be  lost  to  sight.  This 
he  soon  effected,  and  he  was  strain- 
ing every  nerve  to  gain  the  wood  it- 
self, when  several  horsemen  rode  by 
him  but  a  short  distance  on  his  left, 
and  cut  him  off  from  this  place  of 
refuge.  The  peddler  threw  himself 
on  the  ground  as  they  came  near  him, 
and  was  passed  unseen.  But  delay 
now  became  to  dangerous  for  him 
to  remain  in  that  position.  He  ac- 
cordingly arose,  and  still  keeping  in 
the  shadow  of  the  wood,  along  the 
skirts  of  which  he  heard  voices  cry- 
ing to  each  other  to  be  watchful,  he 
ran  with  incredible    speed  in  a    par- 


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17 


llel  line,  but  in  an  opposite  direction, 
to  the  march  01  the  dragoons. 
fl$The  confusion  of  the  chase  had 
been  heard  by  the  whole  of  the  men, 
though  none  distinctly  understood 
the  order  of  Lawton  but  those  who 
followed.  The  remainder  were  lost 
in  doubt  as  to  the  duty  that  was  re- 
quired of  them;  and  the  aforesaid 
cornet  was  making  eager  inquires  of 
the  trooper  near  him,  on  the  subject, 
when  a  man,  a  short  distance  in  the 
rear,  crossed  the  road  at  a  single 
bound.  At  the  same  instant  the 
sentorian  voice  of  Lawton  rang 
through  the  valley,  shouting:--- 

"Harvey  Birch--take  him,  dead  or 
alive!" 

Fifty  pistols  lighted  the  scene, 
and  bullets  whistled  in  every  direct- 
ion around  the  bead  of  the  devoted 
peddler.  A  feeling  of  despair  filled 
his  heart,  and  in  the  bitterness  of 
that  moment  he  exclaimed:— 
"Hunted  like  a  beast  of  the  forest!" 

He  felt  life  and  its  accompani- 
ments to  be  a  burden,  and  was  about 
to  yield  himself  to  his  enemies.  Na- 
ture, however,  prevailed.  If  taken, 
there  was  great  reason  to  apprehend 
that  he  would  not  be  honored  with 
the  forms  of  a  trial,  but  that  most 
probably  the  morning  sun  would  wit- 
ness his  ignominious  execution;  for 
he  had  already  been  condemned  to 
death,  and  had  already  escaped  the 
fate  by  stratagem.  1  hese  considera- 
tions, with  the  approaching  footsteps 
of  his  pursuers,  roused  him  to  new 
exertions.  He  again  fled  before 
them.  A  fragment  of  a  wall,  that 
had  withstood  the  ravages  made  by 
war  in  the  adjoining  fences  of  wood, 
fortunately  crossed  his  path.  He 
hardly  had  time  to  throw  his  exhaust- 
ed limbs  o\?er  this  barrier  before 
twenty    of    his  enemies  reached    its 


opposite  side.  Their  horses  refused 
to  take  the  leap  in  the  dark,  and 
amid  the  confusion  of  the  rearing 
chargers,  and  the  execrations  of 
of  their  riders,  Birch  was  enable  to 
gain  a  sight  of  the  base  of  the  hill, 
on  whose  summit  was  a  place  of 
perfect  security. 

The  heart  of  the  peddler  now  beat 
high  with  hope  when  the  voice  of 
Captain  Lawton  again  rang  in  his 
ears,  shouting  to  his  men  to  make 
room.  The  order  was  obeyed,  and 
the  fearless  trooper  rode  at  the  wall 
at  the  top  of  his  horse's  speed, 
plunged  the  rowels  in  his  charger, 
and  flew  over  the  obstacle  in  safety. 
The  triumphant  hurrahs  of  the 
men,  and  the  thundering  tread  of 
the  horse,  too  plainly  assured  the 
peddler  of  the  emergency  of  his 
danger.  He  was  nearly  exhausted, 
and  his  fate  no  longer  seemed 
doubtful. 

"Stop  or  die!"  was  uttered  above 
his  head,  and  in  fearful  proximity 
to  his  ears. 

Harvey  stole  a  glance  over  his 
shoulder,  and  saw  within  a  bound 
of  him  the  man  he  most  dreaded. 
By  the  light  of  the  stars  be  beheld 
the  uplifted  arm  and  the  threaten- 
ing saber.  Fear,  exhaustion,  and 
despair  seized  his  heart,  and  the 
intended  victim  fell  at  the  feet  of 
the  dragoon.  The  horse  of  Lawton 
struck  the  prostrate  peddler,  and 
both  steed  and  rider  came  violently 
to  the  earth. 

As  quick  as  thought  Birch  was  on 
his  feet  again,  with  the  sword  of 
this  discomfited  dragoon  in  his  hand. 
Vengeance  seems  too  natural  to 
human  passions.  There  are  few 
who  have  not  felt  the  seductive 
pleasure  of  making  our  injuries  re- 
coil on  their  authors;  and  yet    there 


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are  some  who  know  how  much 
sweeter  it  is  to  return  good  for  evil. 
All  the  wrong  of  the  peddler 
shone  on  his  brain  with  a  dazzling 
brightness.  For  a  moment  the  de- 
mon within  him  prevailed,  and  Birch 


branished  the  powerful  weapon  in 
the  air;  in  the  next  it  fell  harmless 
on  the  reviving  but  helpless  trooper. 
The  peddler  vanished  up  the  sidet'of 
the  friendlv  rock. 


Work  is  one  of  the  greatest  blessings  to  the  human  race.  It  is  noble 
to  work  and  ignoble  to  shirk.  Work  is  the  noblest  birth-right  of  the  hu- 
man race.  Fit  yourself  for  some  honorable  work  and  then  follow  it  prop- 
erly. 


ON   A   BATTLE    FIELD 

(Henry  W.  Grady) 

A  soldier  lay  wounded  on  a  hard-fought  field,  the  roar  of  the  battle  had 
died  away,  and  he  rested  in  the  deadly  stillness  of  its  aftermath.  Off  over 
the  field  flickered  the  lanterns  of  the  surgeons  with  the  litter,  bearers, 
searching  that  they  might  take  away  those  whose  lives  could  be  saved  and 
leave  in  sorrow  those  who  were  doomed  to  die   with  pleading  eyes  through 

the     darkness.      This    poor    soldieJ      flame.     He  watched    it  inch  by  inch 


poor 

watched,  unable  to  turn  or  speak  as 
the  lantern  drew  near.  At  last  the 
light  flashed  in  his  face,  and  the  sur- 
geon, with  kindly  face,  bent  over 
him,  hesitated  a  moment,  shook  his 
head,  and  was  gone,  leaving  the  pocr 
fellow  alone  with  death.  He  watch- 
ed in  patient  agony  as  they  'vent 
from  one  part  of  the  field  to  another. 

As  they  came  back  the  surgeon 
bent  over  him  again.  "I  believe  if 
this  poor  fellow  lives  to  sundown  to- 
morrow he  will  get  well.''  And  again 
leaving  him,  not  to  death  but  with 
hope;  all  night  long  these  words  fell 
into  his  heart  as  the  dew  fell  from 
the  stars  upon  his  lips,  "if  he  but 
lives  till  sundown  he  will  get  well.'' 

He  turned  his  weary  head  to  the 
east  and  watched  for  the  coming 
sun.  At  last  the  stars  went  out, 
the  ease  trembled  with  radiance,  and 
the  sun,  slowly  lifting  above  the 
horizon,  tinged  his    pallid  face  with 


as  it  climbed  slowly  up  the  heavens. 
He  thought  of  life,  its  hopes  and 
ambitions,  its  sweetness  and  its  rap- 
tures, and  he  fortified  his  soul 
against  despair  until  the  sun  had 
reached  high  moon.  It  sloped  down 
its  slow  descent,  and  his  life  was  ebb- 
ing away  and  his  heart  was  faltering, 
and  he  needed  stronger  stimulants  to 
make  him  stand  the  struggle  until 
the  end  of  the  day  had  come.  He 
thought  of  his  far-off  home,  the 
blessed  houss  resting  in  tranquil 
peace  with  the  roses  climbing  to  its 
door,  and  the  trees  whispering  to  its 
windows  and  dozing  in  the  sunshine, 
the  orchard  and  the  little  brook 
running  like  a  silver  thread  through 
the  forest.  "If  I  live  till  sundown  I 
will  see  it  again.  I  will  walk  down 
the  shady  lane;  I  will  open  the 
battered  gate,  and  the  mocking 
bird  shall  call  to  me  from  the  orch- 
ard, and  I  will  drink    again   at    the- 


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19 


old  mossy  spring." 

And  he  thought  of  the  wife  who 
had  come  from  the  neighboring 
farmhouse  and  put  her  hands  shyly 
in  his,  and  brought  sweetness  to  his 
!ife  and  light  to  his  home. 

"If  I  live  till  sundown  I  shall 
look  once  more  into  her  deeo  and 
and  loving  eyes  and  press  her  brown 
head  once  more  to  my  aching  breast." 

And  he  thought  of  the  old  father, 
patient  in  prayer,  bending  lower  and 
lower  every  day  under  his  load  of 
sorrow  and  old  age. 

"If  I  but  live  till  sundown  I  shall 
see  him  again  and  wind  my  strong 
arm  about  his  feebie  tody,  and  his 
hands  shall  rest  upon  my  head  while 
the  unspeakable  healing  of  his  bless- 
ing falls  into  my  heart." 

And  he  thought  of  the  lict!f>  child- 
ren that  clambered  on  his  knees  and 
tangled  their  little  hands  into  his 
heartstrings,  making  to  him  such 
music  as  the  world  shall  not  equal 
or  heaven  surpass. 

"If  I  live  till  sundown  thev    shall 


again  find  my  parched  lips  with 
their  warm  mouths,  and  their  little 
fingers  shall  once  more  run  over  my 
face  " 

And  then  he  thought  of  his  old 
mother,  who  gathered  these  children 
about  her  and  breathed  her  old  heart 
afresh  in  their  brightness  and  attun- 
ed her  old  lips  anew  to  their  prattle, 
that  she  might  live  till  her  big  boy 
came  home. 

"If  I  live  till  sundown  I  will  see 
her  again  ,  and  I  will  rest  my  head 
at  my  old  place  on  her  knees,  and 
weep  away  all  memory  of  this  deso- 
late night."  And  the  Son  of  God, 
who  died  for  men,  bending  from 
the  stars,  put  the  hand  that  had 
been  nailed  to  the  cross  on  the  ebb- 
ing life  and  held  on  the  stanch  until 
lhe  sun  went  down  and  the  stars 
came  out  and  shone  down  in  the 
brave  man's  heart  and  blurred  in  his 
glistening  eyes,  and  the  lanterns  of 
th.'1  surgeons  came  and  be  was  taken 
from  death  to  life. 


It  is  said,  that  it  cost  more  than  $10,000,000  a  day  to  run  the  government 
of  the  United  States.  Stupendous  as  that  sum  is,  it  represents  less  than 
a  dime  a  day  for  each  citizen  of  Uncle  Samuel's  domain. — Monroe  En- 
quirer. 


SPARTACUS  TO    THE    GLADIATORS  AT 

CAPUA. 


(By  Elijah 

Ye  call  me  chief;  and  ye  do  well 
to  call  him  chief  who  for  twelve  long 
years  has  met  upon  the  arena  every 
shape  of  man  or  beast  the  broad  Em- 
pire of  Rome  could  furnish,  and  who 
never  yet  lowered  his  arm.  If  there 
■be      one    among    vou    who    can      say 


Kellogg) 

that  ever,  in  public  fight  or  private 
brawl,  my  actions  did  belie  my  tongue 
let  him  stand  forth  and  say  it.  If 
there  be  three  in  all  your  company 
dare  face  me  on  the  bloody  stands,  let 
them  come  on.  And  yet  I  was  hot  al- 
ways thus — a  hired  butcher,  a  savage 


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chief  of  still  more  savage  men.  My 
ancestors  came  from  old  Sparata,  and 
settled  among  the  vine-clad  rocks  and 
citron  groves  of  Syrasella.  My  early 
life  ran  quite  as  the  brooks  by  which 
I  sported;  and  when,  at  noon,  I  gather- 
ed the  sheep  beneath  the  shade,  and 
played  upon  the  shepherds  flute,  there 
was  a  friend  the  son  of  a  neighbor,  to 
join  me  in  the  pastime.  We  led  our 
flocks  to  the  same  pasture,  and  partook 
together  our  rustic  meal.  One  even- 
ing, after  the  sheep  wern  folded,  and 
we  were  all  seated  beneath  the  myrtle 
which  shaded  our  cottage,  my  grand- 
sire,  an  old  man,  was  telling  of  Mara- 
thon and  Leuetra :  and  how,  in  ancient 
times,  a  little  band  of  Spartans  ,  in  a 
defile  of  the  mountains,  had  withstood 
a  whole  arniy.  I  did  not  then  know 
what  war  was;  but  my  cheeks  burned, 
knew  not  why;  I  clasped  the  knees  of 
that  venerable  man,  until  my  mother, 
parting  the  hair  from  off  my  forehead, 
kissed  my  throbing  temples  and  bade 
me  go  to  rest,  and  think  no  more  of 
those  old  tales  and  savage  n;.i,  That 
very  night  the  iioir  .us  kidded  on  our 
coast.  I  saw  the  breast  that  nourished 
me  trampled  by  the  hoof  of  the  war 
horse;  the  bleeding  body  of  my  father 
flung  amidst  the  blazing  rafters  of 
our  dwelling !  To-day  I  killed  a  man 
in  the  arena ;  and,  when  I  broke  his 
helmet  clasps,  behold,  he  was  my 
friend !  He  knew  me,  smiled  faintly, 
gasped,  and  died;  the  same  sweet 
smile  upon  his  lips  that  I  had  marked 
when,  in  adventurous  boyhood,  we 
scaled  the  lofty  cliff  to  pluck  the  first 
ripe  grapes,  and  bear  them  home  in 
childish  triumph.  I  told  the  praetor 
that  the  dead  man  had  been  my  friend, 
generous  and  brave;  and  I  begged 
that  I  might  bear  away  the  body,  to 


burn  it  on  a  funeral  pile,  and  mourn 
over  its  ashes.  Ay,  upon  my  knees, 
amid  the  lust  and  blood  of  the  arena, 
I  begged  that  poor  boon,  while  all  the 
assembled  maids  and  matrons,  and  the 
holy  virgins  they  call  Vestals,  and  the 
rabble,  shouted  in  derision,  deeming 
it  rare  sport,  forsooth,  to  see  Rome's 
fiercest  gladiator  turn  pale  and  trem- 
ble at  the  sight  of  that  piece  of  bleed- 
ing clay.  And  the  praetor  drew  back 
as  I  were  pollution,  and  sternly  said, 
"Let  the  carrion  rot;  there  are  no 
noble  men  but  Romans."  And  so, 
fellow  gladiators,  must  you,  and  so 
must  I,  die  like  dogs.  0  Rome  I 
Rome !  Tho'u  hast  been  a  tender 
nurse  to  me.  Ay  !  Thou  hast  given 
to  that  poor,  gentle,  timid  shepherd 
lad,  who  never  knew  a  hasher  tone 
than  a  flute  note,  muscles  of  iron  and  a 
heart  of  flint ;  taught  him  to  drive  the 
sword  through  plaited  mail  and  links 
of  rugged  brass,  and  warm  it  in~the 
marrow  of  his  foe;  to  gaze  into  the 
glaring  eyeballs  of  the  fierce  Xumidian 
lion,  even  as  a  boy  upon  a  laughing; 
girl.  And  he  shall  pay  thee  back,  un- 
til the  yellow  Tiber  is  red  as  frothing 
wine,  and  in  its  deepest  ooze  thy  life 
blood  lies  curdled. 

Ye  stand  here  now  like  giants,  as 
ye  are.  The  strength  of  brass  is  in 
your  toughened  sinews,  but  to-morrow 
some  Roman  Adonis,  breathing  sweet 
perfume  from  his  curly  locks,  shall, 
with  his  lily  fingers,  pat  your  red 
brawn,  and  bet  his  sesterces  upon 
your  blood.  Hark !  Hear  ye  yon  lion 
roaring  in  his  den  .'  'Tis  three  days 
since  he  tasted  flesh;  but  to-morrow 
he  shall  break  his  fast  upon  yours — 
and  a  dainty  meal  for  him  ye  will  be. 
If  ye  are  beasts,  then  stand  here  like 
fat   oxen,   waiting   for  the   butcher's 


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knife.  If  ye  are  men,  follow  me. 
Strike  down  yon  guard  gain  the  moun- 
tain passes,  and  there  do  bloody  work, 
as  did  your  sires  at  Old  Thermopylae. 
Is  Sparta  dead"?  Is  the  old  Grecian 
spirit  frozen  in  your  veins,  that  you 
do  crouch  and  cower  like  a  belabored 
hound  beneath  his  master's  lash.     0 


comrades!  Warriors!  Thracians!  If 
we  must  fight,  let  us  fight  for  our- 
selves. If  we  must  slaughter,  let  us 
slaughter  our  oppressors.  If  we  must 
die,  let  it  be  under  the  clear  sky,  by 
the  bright  waters,  in  noble,  honorable 
battle. 


STORIES   AND   PICTURE   STUDIES. 

By  Mrs.  E.  E.  McMillen. 
Picture  study  usually  implies  nothing  more  than  looking  at  pictures  for 
mere  entertainment  or  with  more  advanced  students  an  examination  of  master- 
pieces for  the  purpose  of  becoming  acquainted  with  the  technique  of  the  artist. 
The  story  teller  makes  no  use  of  the  second  of  these  methods  of  approach,, 
but  an  extended  use  of  the  first.  Pictures  entertain  but  each  masterpiece- 
has  an  additional  interest  in  the  story  that  is  associated  with  it.     A  picture 

Hofmann — Worship    of    the    Wise 
Men. 

Hofmann — In  the  Temple  with  the 


is  the  starting  point  for  many  an  in- 
teresting narrative.  The  child  may 
learn  the  story  back  of  the  picture 
and  something  of  the  life  and  work 
of  the  artist  who  painted  it.  Pic- 
tures may  be  selected  and  arranged 
in  an  orderly  sequence  so  as  to  set 
forth  the  significant  event  in  a  life  or 
in  an  epic. 

Perhaps  the  most  beautiful  and 
complete  picture  story  one  could  ar- 
ranged is  that  of  the  life  of  Christ  as 
shown  in  the  picture  of  the  masters. 

Here  are  a  list  of  pictures  that  may 
be  supplemented  with  other  pictures 
and  may  be  purchased  from  Perry 
Picture  Company. 

Plockhorst — The    Announcement. 

Correggio — The  Holy  Night. 

Da  Pabriano — Adoration  of  the 
Magi. 

Raphael — Sistine  Madonna. 

Raphael — Madonna    of    the    Chair. 

Bodenhauser — Mother  and  Child. 

Durer — Flight  into  Egypt. 

Van  Dyck — Repose  in  Egypt. 


Doctors. 

Hofmann — Christ  and  the  Doctors. 

Hofmann — Christ  blessing  little 
Children. 

Hofmann — Driving  out  the  Money 
Changers. 

Hofmann — Anointing    Jesus'    Feat- 

Hofmann — Teaching  from  a  Boat. 

Hofmann — Christ's  enter  into  Je- 
rusalem. 

Geiger — Kiss  of  Judas. 

Rubens — Descent  from  the  Cross. 

Munkassy — Christ  before  Pilate. 

Naack — The  Resurrection. 

Spurgenberg — The  Three  Marys  at 
the  Tomb. 

Plockhorst — Easter   Morning. 

Ender — Holy  Women  at  the  Tomb. 

Hofmann — Easter  Morning. 

The  children  should  become  fa- 
miliar with  at  least  15  or  20  masters. 
Of  the  Italian  master  we  might  take  I 

Lenardo     Da     Vinci.      (1452-1519> 


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Michael  Angelo  (1475-1564)  Titian 
(1477-1576)  Raphael  (1483-1520) 
Correggio  (1494-1534)  Guido  Reni 
(1575-1642)  They  should  know  some- 
thing about  the  life  of  each  one. 

•  Lenardo  Da  Vinci's  great  strength, 
both  of  bodv  and  mind  should  be  not- 
ed. 

A  story  should  be  made  of  the  fol- 
lowing incident  of  the  Master  Verro- 
chio  and  his  pupil.  Verrochio  com- 
manded his  pupil  to  paint  in  one  of 
the  angel  heads  in  a  picture  which  he 
was  hastily  finishing.  Seeing  that  his 
pupil  could  paint  it  better  than  he 
could  have  done,  he  hastily  burned 
his  brushes  and  palette  and  declared 
lie  never  would  paint  again. 

The  two  Da  Vinci's  pictures  that 
are  best  know  and  of  which  the  most 
should  be  made  are  ' '  The  Last  Sup- 
per" and  "Mono  Lisa." 

Michael  Angelo  and  Raphael  might 
be  studied  together  for  they  were 
leading  artists  of  Rome  and  Florence 
in  Sixteenth  Century.  Michael  Angelo 
loved  architecture  and  sculpture  bet- 
ter than  painting.,  but  at  command  of 
the  Pope  he  was  obliged  to  drop  the 
mallet  and  chisel  to  take  up  the  brush, 
and  adorn  the  ceiling  of  the  Sistine 
Chapel,  tho '  he  told  the  Pope  that  this 
shoidd  be  the  work  of  the  painter 
Raphael. 

Raphael  was  also  a  sculptor  but  we 
Lnow  him  best  as  a  painter.  He 
painted  "The  Madonna  Delia  Sedia 
'"or  Madonna  of  the  Chair  and  "The 
Sistine  Madonna. 

The  Sistine  Madonna  was  perhaps 
the  last  picture  of  the  Holy  Family 
■ever  painted  by  a  master  artist. 

The  story  associated  with  the  Mad- 
onna of  the  Chair  was  that  of  an  old 
hermit  who  had  but  two  friends,  one 


a  young  girl  named  Mary,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a  wine  dresser  and  the  other  an 
old  oak  tree  which  stood  near  his  hut. 
A  terrible  storm  destroyed  the  old 
man's  hut  and  he  was  compelled  to 
find  refuge  in  the  tree.  Mary  took 
him  to  her  home  and  cared  for  him. 
The  oak  tree  was  cut  down  and  casks 
were  made  from  the  wood.  Before 
the  old  man  died  he  prayed  that  both 
his  friends  might  be  remembered, 
Mary  was  afterward  married  and  be- 
came the  mother  of  two  beautiful 
children.  One  day  the  painter  Raphael 
passed  her  home  and  saw  Mary  and 
her  two  children  in  her  garden.  He 
took  the  top  of  one  of  the  casks  stand- 
ing near  by  (which  happened  to  be 
one  of  the  casks  made  from  the  her- 
mit 's  oak  tree)  and  sketched  them 
upon  it.  He  carried  it  home  and  from 
this  painted  the  Madonna  della  Sedia. 
The  old  hermit 's  prayer  was  answer- 
ed. 

The  Sistine  Madonna  is  named  for 
St.  Sixtus.  The  left  hand  figure  gives 
us  a  feeling  of  a  divine  moment  in  the 
lives  of  the  people  pictured. 

Perhaps  one  reason  for  this  lies  in 
the  ethereal  setting  of  the  picture. 

The  Madonna  is  standing  upon  and 
being  lifted  up  by  the  clouds.  St. 
Sixtus  is  looking  in  adoration  upon 
the  Mother  and  child,  while  St.  Barba- 
ra upon  the  right  is  gazing  down  up- 
on the  earth.  The  two  cherubs  at  the 
bottom  complete  the  unity  of  the 
picture.  While  Michael  Angelo  and 
Raphael  were  working  in  Rome  and 
Florence  Titian  was  working  in  Ven- 
ice. The  Venetian  pictures  were  not 
able  for  their  brilliant  coloring,  while 
perfection  of  line  was  of  secondary 
importance.  When  Titian  accepted  the 
invitation    of    the   Pope    to    come    to 


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Rome,  Michael  Angelo  admired  the 
wonderful  coloring  of  the  Venetian 
painter,  but  deplored  the  fact  that  he 
could  not  draw  better. 

The  Roman  painter  believed  that 
the  secret  of  good  art  was  in  correct 
lines  while  the  Venetians  tho't  more 
of  coloring.  Titian's  picture  of  St. 
Christopher  is  a  wonderful  represen- 
tation of  the  old  legend  of  the  giant 
carrying  the  Christ  Child  across  the 
stream.  Correggio  's  life  and  works 
differs  from  any  other  Italian  artist 
we  have  considered.  He  was  never 
placed  under  any  great  painter  but 
studied  in  an  art  school  in  Mantua. 
Correggio  painted  that  famous  picture 
' '  Holy  Night. ' '  In  this  picture  the 
Holy  Night  radiates  from  the  child  in 
Mary 's  arms  and  lights  up  the  moth- 
er's  face.  At  the  left  ~ i ■  1  -s  are  figure^ 
of  a  shepherdess  and  two  shepherds. 
The  woman  shades  her  face  from  the 
light  with  one  hand,  while  with  the 
other  she  holds  her  offering  two  doves 
in  a  basket  for  the  Christ  Child.  In 
the  background  is  Joseph  with  a  mule. 

Day  is  just  breaking  as  is  indicated 
by  the  faint  light  in  the  East.  Above 
circles  and  angelic  choir.  Correggio 
was  very  fond  of  painting  Cherubs, 
angels  and  children 

Guido  Reni  should  be  included  in 
our  list  because  he  is  the  creator  of 
the  Aurora.  This  picture  and  the 
story  it  portrays  should  be  taught  to 
every  Grammar  Grade  child.  This 
picture  enriches  the  old  Greek  stories. 
Aurora,  the  Goddess  of  the  dawn,  is 
opening  the  gates  of  the  morning  for 
her  brother  Apollo,  the  sun  god.  Be- 
low is  the  earth  wrapped  in  darkness. 
Apollo,  is  his  chariot  drawn  by  his  im- 
patient steeds,  is  surrounded  by  the 
hours  in  the  form  of  graceful  maidens. 


There    are    two    Spanish    artists   with 
whom  the  children  should  be  familiar. 

Velasquez  (1599-1660)  and  Murillo- 
(1617-1682)  Velasquez  was  the  court 
painter  for  Philips  IV.  At  the  age  of 
23  his  teacher  advised  him  to  leave 
Seville  his  birthplace,  and  go  to  Mad- 
rid. He  wished  to  see  the  King,  but 
did  not  till  some  time  later  on  his  sec- 
ond visit.  TVhen  the  King  saw  one 
of  his  portraits,  he  sat  for  a  portrait 
himself.  "When  the  picture  was  finish- 
ed the  King  was  so  delighted  that  he 
kept  Velasquez  with  him,  fitting  up  a 
studio  for  the  young  painter  in  his 
palace.  Soon  Velasquez  and  his  fami- 
ly settled  in  Madrid.  Rubens  the 
great  Flemish  painter,  when  on  a  visit 
to  Madrid,  told  Velasquez  of  the  great 
master  pieces  of  Italian  art. 

Velasquez  then  asked  permission  to- 
go  to  Italy  and  see  the  masterpieces 
of  these  artists.  Philips,  after  some 
argument  gave  his  permission  to  go, 
with  an  exact  understanding  from  the 
artist  that  he  would  return  to  the 
Spanish  court.  In  18  months  he  was 
called  back  by  the  King  and  painted 
court  pictures  there  until  the  end  of 
his  days.  Because  of  these  pictures 
of  Velasquez  the  court  of  Philip  IV. 
is  made  familiar  to  us. 

Murillo 's  works  differs  from  Velas- 
quez in  that  his  subjects  were  usually 
children  or  religious  subjects.  He 
painted  peasant  children  while  Vel- 
asquez depicted  the  children  of  the 
court.  Velasquez  depicted  realistie 
truth,  while  Murillo  depicted  sym- 
bolical truth  or  that  which  was  more 
or  less  imaginary,  His  Saint  Anthony 
of  Padua  the  story  of  whose  life 
Murillo  was  very  fond  won  for  him 
the  title  "The  Painter  of  Heaven." 

Murillo 's  Madonnas  are  very  beau- 


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tiful. 

While  Velasquez  was  painting  roy- 
ality  in  the  court  of  King  Philip  in 
Spain.  Van  Dyck  the  Flemish  painter 
was  preforming  a  similar  service  for 
King  Chas.  of  England.  He  now  a 
court  painter  had  studied  with  the  fa- 
mous Ruben  and  was  considered  his 
best  pupil. 

We  have  two  important  Dutch  art- 
ists Rembrandt  the  painter  of  people, 
and  Paul  Potter  the  painter  of  ani- 
mals. 

In  Rembrandt's  work  we  are  par- 
ticularly drawn  by  the  strong  faces 
which  he  portrays.  Paul  Potter  began 
.  his  study  of  animal  life  very  early  and 
at  the  age  of  14  be  was  able  to  paint 
with  great  success  the  animals  he 
loved. 

His  picture  The  Bull  is  one  of  his 
best. 

Of  the  English  artists  we  find  Rey- 
nolds (1723-1792)  Turner  (1775-1851) 
and  Landseer  (1802-1873)  Reynolds 
held  first  place  in  the  realm  of  por- 
trait painters.  Some  of  his  pictures 
of  children  remind  us  of  Murillo's 
children.  He  had  the  happy  faculty 
of  catching  their  attitudes  while  in 
play.  Reynold's  child  pictures  are 
fascinating  to  children,  and  their 
imaginations  often  run  riot  in  inter- 
preting these  pictures.  One  little 
girl  of  nine  years  upon  seeing  "Age 
of  Innocence"  for  the  first  time  ex- 
claimed, "Oh!"  she  must  be  looking 
straight  into  fairy  land.  Turner  was 
a  lover  of  color  and  never  cared  so 
much  for  correct  form. 

Landseer,  the  animal  painter  who 
has  been  called  ' '  The  Animal  Story 
teller  of  the  Victorian  Age,"  is  a 
•great  favorite  of  the  children.  Each 
■of   his   dog  pictures   for  which   he   is 


famous  tells  a  story. 

The  French  painters  who  the  chil- 
dren should  know  are  Trayon  (1810- 
1865)  the  artist  who  received  his  in- 
spiration as  an  animal  painter  from 
Paul  Potter  pictures.  He  considered 
one  of  the  best  painters  of  sheep  and 
oxen.  Also  Corot  (1796-1875)  the 
lover  landscape.  His  trees  and  foliage 
are  distinctive  and  children  like  his 
nature  picture.  The  two  peasant 
painters  Millet  (1841-1875)  and  Bre- 
ton 1827  should  be  studied  together 
so  that  their  lives  their  ideas  and  their 
general  effect  may  be  compared. 
After  a  sixth  grade  class  had  been 
looking  at  the  pictures  of  Millet  and 
Breton  one  child  in  comparing  their 
work  said,  Millet 's  people  look  like 
real  working  people  and  Breton's  look 
like  city  folks  dressed  up  to  look 
like  people  who  worked  in  the  fields. 
This  remark  we  know  was  very  true. 
Rosa  Bonheur  who  was  a  lover  and 
painter  of  animals  is  a  favorite  with 
the  children. 

It  is  said  What  small  boy  has  not 
wished  for  a  horse  like  the  Noble 
Charger. 

Of  the  American  artists  children 
should  know  something  of  the  work  of 
Whistler  and  Sargent. 

There  are  many  more  who  contri- 
buted to  the  world  of  art  of  which  this 
book  does  not  mention.  So  in  present- 
ing an  artist  to  the  children  it  is  good 
judgment  not  to  leave  out  the  many 
little  incidents  which  may  be  told 
about  their  lives.  For  example  take 
the  story  that  is  told  of  Landseer  when 
he  was  presented  to  the  King  of 
Portugal.  The  King  said,  "Mr.  Land- 
seer, I  am  delightful  to  make  your 
acquaintance  I  am  so  fond  of  beasts. 
If   the   children  forget   Landseer  for 


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a  time  this  will  recall  him  to  their 
memories. 

Miss  Amy  Foote  of  the  state  Teach- 
ers College  of  Colo,  ^has  used  the 
following  plan  to  make  picture  study 
very  attractive  to  her  sixth  grade. 

In  order  to  gain  interest  of  the 
children  several  pictures  by  the  same 
artist  were  shown  to  them  every  day 
two  and  then  a  little  of  the  life  of  the 
artist,  or  some  of  his  characteristics 
were  given  in  an  attractive  manner. 
After  interest  was  developed,  grad- 
ually some  of  the  technique  of  the 
work  was  considered  unity,  balance, 
rhythmical  lines,  and  atmosphere. 

Unity  was  introduced  to  the  class  in 
the  picture.  ' '  The  Return  to  the 
Farm. ' '  by  Troyon,  by  saying  to  them 
"Which  cow  did  you  think  Troyon 
liked  best?  Why"?  The  pupil  agreed 
upon  the  white  cow,  but  second  ques- 
tions brought  forth  a  variety  of 
answers.  Then  Miss  Foote  showed 
them  how  every  picture  has  its  center 
of  interest  a  unit  toward  which  all 
other  figures  and  lines  in  the  picture 
pointed. 

Men  like  "Willet  and  Corot"  she 
said  did  not  have  any  difficulty  in 
arranging  their  lines  and  figures  by 
Vanduek  or  the  court  painters  who 
painted  the  children  of  King  Charles 
and  many  other  royal  groups  had  dif- 
ficulty. I  wonder  why  ?  Then  one 
small  boy  excitedly  answered,  "Be- 
cause they'd  all  wanted  to  be  unity." 

In  some  of  Millet's  pictures  we  can 
show  balance  very  effectively.  For  in- 
stance cover  up  the  small  figure  of  the 
horse  and  rider  in  the  background  on 
the  right  side  in  ' '  The  Gleaners ' '  by 
Millet.  Show  the  picture  to  the  class. 
Determine  whether  or  not  they  feel 
that  something  is  gone.  The  same 
may      be    done    with    "The      Woman 


Churning ' '  Cover  the  doorway  and 
the  chickens  entering  the  house.  Here 
you  can  introduce  atmosphere  because 
of  the  glimpse  you  caught  thru  the 
door  gave  distance  to  the  picture. 
Result  of  the  children's  interest  in 
pictures  was  that  they  begun  to  got 
copies  of  pictures  for  then-selves  and 
wanted  to  study  the  artists  according 
to  their  Nationality  beginning  with, 
Italian  masters. 

Miss  Estelle  Hurll  in  her  book 
"How  to  show  Pictures  to  Children," 
tells  us  of  the  use  of  picture  posing. 

The  pictures  which  illustrate  a 
story  would  naturally  be  the  first  ones 
used  in  the  story  hour.  A  list  of 
these  pictures  are; 
Leonarda  da  Vinci  Last  Supper. 
Titian  The  Tribute  Money,  Saint 
Christopher. 

Raphael  School  of  Athens,  Saint 
Peter  in  prison,  Saint  Catherine, 
Saint  Cecilia,  Sistine  Madonna,  The 
Transfiguration,  Madonna  of  the 
Chair. 

Correggio — Holy  Night,  Repose  in 
Egypt,   Marriage  of   Saint   Catherine. 

Guido  Rini — St.  Michael  and  the 
Dragon   Aurora. 

Rubens — Descent    from    the    Cross. 

Van  Dyck — Portrait  of  Charles  I., 
Children  of  Charles  I.,  Baby   Stuart. 

Velasquez — Prince  of  Balthazar, 
Portrait  of  Aesop. 

Murillo — St.  Anthony  of  Padua, 
Christ  Feeding  the  Multitudes,  Saint 
John  and  the  Lamb,  Saint  Francis  of 
Assisi. 

Rembrandt — Christ  Blessing  the 
Little  Children,  Sacrifice  of  Abraham. 

Reynolds — Angel  Heads,  The  Infant 
Samuel. 

Turner — Dido  Building  Carthage, 
Ulyssess  Deriding,  Poly-phemus. 

Millet— The  Angelus. 


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The  Story  of  Saint  Christopher. 

Once  upon  a  time  a  long  time  ago 
beyond  the  seas,  there  lived  a  boy 
named  Christopher.  As  he  grew  up 
lie  was  unusually  strong  and  giant 
like.  He  drove  cattle  to  field  and  liv- 
ed in  the  mountains  and  on  the  plains. 
Being  alone  much  of  his  time,  he  had 
little  opportunity  for  play  or  sport 
with  the  other  children,  and  when  he 
came  home  his  parents  did  not  play 
with  him  or  entertain  him,  and  so  he 
sought  recreation  where  he  could  find 
it  in  other  places.  He  was  so  full  of 
energy  and  his  parents  often  scolded 
him.  This  drove  him  off  to  himself  in 
bad  moods.  On  one  occasion  he  set  fire 
to  a  forest  all  in  sport  because  he  had 
no  one  to  join  him  in  better  things. 
His  stepmother  scolded  him  and  pun- 
ished him  so  that  he  would  often  go 
away  alone  or  join  bad  companions  in 
mischief.  Finally  one  day  quarreling 
with  a  man,  he  killed  him  because  of 
his  greater  strength. 

Fearing  to  return  home,  he  wander- 
ed in  strange  lands,  sometimes  work- 
ing for  his  living,  and  sometimes  liv- 
ing on  what  was  given  him.  YVhere- 
ever  he  went  people  admired  his  broad 
shoulders  and  manly  form,  for  he  was 
giant  like  in  size.  One  day  he  heard 
■of  the  Emperor  of  Germany  who  was 
king  and  the  mightiest  man  in  all  the 
world.  As  Christopher  admired  and 
worshipped  strength  he  wanted  U> 
serve  the  Emperor.  At  last  after 
long  journeys,  he  came  and  stood  be- 
fore the  German  Emperor  and  offered 
his  services.  The  Emperor  was  at 
that  time  waging  wars  for  his  king- 
dom and  when  he  saw  Christopher, 
giant  like  and  strong  he  admired  him 
and  readily  accepted  his  services  tak- 
ing    him  along    as    a    body     guard. 


Christopher  was  delighted,  and  threw 
his  whole  strength  into  the  service  of 
the  Emperor,  and  did  many  wonder- 
ful  deeds. 

So  strong  was  Christopher  that  he 
would  bear  lugs  on  his  shoulders  and 
place  them  across  ravines  to  build  a 
bridge  for  the  army  to  pass  over. 
The  Emperor  always  encouraged  him 
all  of  which  pleased  Christopher  for 
he  tho't  he  had  at  last  found  him  who 
was  most  worthy  of  worships  and  ser- 
vice. 

But  on  one  occasion  as  the  Emperor 
was  riding  near  a  forest  he  made  the 
sign  of  the  cross  and  turned  in  another 
direction.  Then  Christopher  said  to 
the  Emperor  ' '  Why  did  you  turn  back 
from  the  forest  ? ' '  The  Emperor  said, 
''The  devil  lives  in  that  forest,  and  I 
fear  him."  Christopher  then  said 
"Why!  I  tho't  you  were  afraid  of 
nothing.  But  the  Emperor  answered, 
' '  This  demon  of  darkness  is  very 
strong  and  I  fear  him."  Finally 
Christopher  said  "If  you  are  afraid 
I  wish  to  leave  your  service  and  join 
myself  to  the  devil  because  I  do  not 
want  to  serve  any  but  the  strongest. 
So  Christopher  parted  with  him  as 
soon  as  the  king  paid  him  his  wages. 

Now  Christopher  turned  his  face  to- 
ward the  dark  forest,  and  there  in 
the  depths  found  a  black  altar  where 
on  the  devil  sacrificed  the  body  of 
people  and  hard  by  it  he  found  the 
devil  and  likewise  offered  his  services 
to  him  which  were  accepted.  Every- 
thing went  well  till  they  came  by  a 
hill  in  an  Eastern  land.  On  the  top  of 
the  hill  there  stood  three  crosses. 

The  devil  turned  aside  as  if  in  fear. 
He  said  to  the  devil,  ''Why  are  you 
afraid?"  Then  the  devil  said  "On 
that  middle  cross  was  crucified  a  man 


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who  is  greater  than  I  and  I  fear  him. ' ' 
Again  Christopher  said,  if  your  are 
afraid,  why,  then  I  am  done  with  you 
I  want  to  serve  him  wlio  is  not  afraid. 
And  so  he  parted  from  the  devil,  and 
as  he  went  away  the  devil  laughed  and 
mocked  him.  Christopher  wandered 
for  a  long  time  inquiring  here  and 
there  for  the  man  who  had  died  upon 
the  cross.  Finally  one  day  he  found 
a  priest  who  lived  in  a  cave  that  open- 
ed upon  a  beautiful  river.  Tired  foot- 
sore and  weary  he  sat  down  at  the 
invitation  of  the  priest  who  brought 
him  refreshing  water  from  the  spring 
and  gave  him  food.  After  he  had  rest- 
ed a  moment,  he  said  to  the  priest, 
' '  Can  you  tell  me  about  the  man  who 
died  on  the  cross  ? ' '  For  he  had  never 
heard  of  this  man  until  the  devil  had 
told  him.  The  priest  consented  to  tell 
him  the  story  of  his  life.  He  told 
Christopher  how  the  man  of  Galilee 
had  lived  and  toiled,  and  suffered  to 
make  the  world  better  and  how  he  had 
been  crucified,  dead  and  had  risen 
again  and  that  tho'  this  man  was  dead, 
his  spirit  was  still  in  the  world  to 
make  the  world  better.  Then  Christo- 
pher'said  to  the  priest.  "He  is  the 
one  I  wish  to  serve,  but  how  can  I  ? " 
The  priest  said,  You  see  this  river? 
There  is  no  bridge  for  the  people  to 
cross;  it  is  wide  and  dangerous  at 
times  and  if  you  wish  to  serve  him 
help  those  who  try  to  cross  it  for 
you  have  mighty  strength  and  in  that 
way  you  will  be  serving  him  who,  tho ' 
dead  still  lives. 

This  pleased  Christopher  so  much 
that  he  built  a  house  of  logs  and 
boughs  by  the  river  side,  and  when 
people  came  to  the  river  he  would 
wade  through  the  water,  take  them  on 
his   shoulders   and   bear   them   across. 


Years  passed  by  Christopher  grew 
gray  in  the  service  of  humanity  and 
flis  Master.  He  soon  became  a  friend 
of  all  the  eountry  and  loved  by  all. 

One  dark  night  when  Christopher 
lay  upon  his  bed  he  heard  someone 
calling  like  the  voice  of  a  child.  ' '  Oh, 
Christopher,  kind  good  Christopher 
come  and  help  me  across  ! ' '  He  arose 
from  his  bed  and  seizing  his  great 
staff  waded  thru  the  water  until  he 
reached  the  other  side  of  the  river,, 
but  there  he  found  no  one.  So  he  wad- 
ed back  thru  the  water  and  lay  down 
upon  his  couch  again.  No  sooner  had 
he  done  this,  and  he  heard  the  same 
voice  again.  He  responded  faithfully 
as  before  but  found  no  one.  Still  a 
third  time  he  heard  the  same  voice 
calling-  for  help.  This  time  he  sat  up 
in  his  bed  and  was  troubled  for  he 
tho't  some  one  was  calling  him  he 
could  not  find  him. 

Now  he  made  a  third  trip  across 
the  river,  and  there  he  saw  a  little 
boy. 

He  asked  who  he  was  and  told  him 
that  he  had  crossed  the  river  twice  to 
find  him.  The  little  boy  told  him  ho 
was  there  all  the  time. 

Then  Christopher  bent  low  and 
took  the  little  man  on  his  shoulders 
and  waded  thru  the  water  but  the  boy 
grew  heavier  until  he  seemed  as  heavy 
as  a  man.  When  Christopher  reach- 
ed the  other  side  and  put  him  down, 
he  saw  in  his  presence  a  young  man 
in  appearance,  with  a  shining  face. 

This  man  said  to  Christopher,  "I 
am  he  whom  you  serve ;  bury  your 
staff  and  after  a  certain  number  of 
days  buds  will  appear  thereon. ' '  Then 
he.  disappeared  vanishing  as  a  mist,  or 
as  a  shadow,  tho'  Christopher  saw  not. 
Then  he  went  and  lay  down  upon  his 


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•couch  and  slept  in  great  peace  of  mind 
•and  body. 

Years  passed.  Christopher  "was 
still  loved  by  all  the  people  and  faith- 
ful to  his  work,  but  his  days  were 
numbered.  Tho'  somewhat  feeble,  he 
still  bore  the  people  on  his  shoulders 
across  the  river.  One  dark  stormy 
night  when  the  wind  roared  thru  the 
tree  tops,  and  the  rain  fell,  Christo- 
pher lying  upon  his  bed,  heard  a  voice 
call.  He  tried  to  rise  and  answer,  he 
"did  go  in  response  to  the  voice,  but 
it  was  his  spirit  only  that  went,  the 
last  call  had  come  to  him. 

The  next  morning  the  storm  was 
gone  and  the  sky  was  blue.     People 


came  to  cross  the,  river  and  called  as 
usual  to- Christopher  but  there  was  no 
response.  They  tho 't  perhaps  he  was 
asleep  and  went  to  the  cottage.  There 
they  found  him  asleep  but  it  was  the 
long  sleep.  And  a  smile  was  on  his 
face.  Because  of  his  service  to  the 
people  they  afterwards  called  him 
Saint  Christopher. 

(Master  Cleaver,  who  set  the  fore- 
going article,  followed  the  piece  of 
re-print.  It  contained  a  number  of 
typographical  errors  which  must  not 
be  charged  to  him.  In  the  entire  ar- 
ticle he  made  just  one  error,  taking 
the  copy  as  a  perfect  guide.  This  er- 
ror  was    leaving   out    "is" — Editor.) 


THE    KING-KILLERS. 


CROMWELL  having  died  in  1658,  the  English,  most  of  whom  were 
still  greatly  attached  to  the  royal  family,  soon  begged  Charles  II.  to  come 
back  and  take  possession  of  his  throne.  He  gladly  returned  ti  England, 
where  he  punished  no  one  for  the  revolution,  except  the  men  who  had  con- 
demned his  father,  to  death.  A  few  of  these  king-killers,  or  "regi- 
cides,"   as   they    were    called,    fled      overtake  them. 


from  England  as  soon  as  they  heard 
the  king  was  coming,  and  three 
took  passage  for  America. 

Two  '  of  these  men,  Goffe  and 
Whalley,  after  some  trouble,  reach- 
ed the  New  Haven  colony,  where 
Puritan  friends  helped  them  to  hide. 
The  king  sent  orders  to  arrest  them, 
and  magistrates  began  to  search 
every  house  to  secure  the  regicides. 
For  about  eighteen  years  these  two 
men  lived  in  constant  dread  of  be- 
ing caught;  but,  thanks  to  their 
many  friends,  they  always  escaped. 
They  dwelt  for  a  while  in  a  desert- 
ed mill,  then  in  a  cave,  and  once  hid 
under  a  bridge  while  their  pursures 
galloped  over  it,  expecting    soon    to 


The  fact  that  the  New  Haven 
people  had  sheltered  some  of  his 
father's  judges,  added  to  the  com- 
plaints of  the  Quakers  and  discon- 
tented colonists,  displeased  Charles 
II.  greatly;  and  he  finally  declared 
that  New  Haven  should  cease  to 
form  a  seperate  colony,  and  joined 
it  to  Connecticut,  which  received  a 
new  charter  (1662). 

It  is  also  said,  however,  that  these 
two  colonies  were  united  mainly  to 
please,  the  Connecticut  people,  be- 
cause they  had  won  the  king's  favor 
by  sending  him  a  pretty  message  to 
welcome  him  back  to  the  throne. 
The  charter  he  gave  them  was  the 
most  liberal  ever  granted   the    colo- 


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29 


nists,  although  the  one  Roger  Wil- 
liams secured  for  Rhobe  Island  also 
granted  many  privileges. 

You  doubtless  remember  the 
treaty  made  between  the  Indian 
King  Massasoit  and  Governor  Carver, 
when  the  Pilgrims  first  came  to  Ply- 
mouth. This  treaty  was  kept  forty 
years,  and  Massosoit  and  his  tribe 
faithfully  helped  the  colonists  to 
fight  the  other  Indians.  But  when 
Massasoit  died,  his  two  sons,  who 
had  received  the  names  of  Alexand- 
er and  Philip,  began  to  rule  in  their 
turn. 

Alexander  knew,  by  the  wampum 
belts  which  were  the  history  books 
•of  his  tribe,  that  nearly  all  the  land 
•of  his  Indian  father  had  been  sold 
to  the  white  men,  piece  by  piece. 
It  had  been  given  in  exchange  for 
beads,  kettles,  blankets,  etc.,  and 
now  very  little  was  left.  But  the 
Indians  fanced  that,  although  they 
bad  sold  the  land,  they  could  still 
hunt  and  fish  there  as  much  as  they 
pleased.  The  colonists,  however, 
would  not  allow  them  to  do  so,  and 
drove  the  Indians  farther  and  fath- 
ers off,  until  they  began  to  feel 
cramped  for  space. 

It  is  said  that  when  one  of  the 
colonists  once  came  to  bid  an  Indian 
chief  to  remove  still  farther  from 
the  white  settlements,  the  red    men 


invited  him  take  a  seat  beside  him 
on  a  log.  Crowding  nearer  and 
nearer  his  guest,  the  chief  bade  him 
move  again  and  again,  until  he  forc- 
ed him  to  the  very  end  of  the  log. 
But  when  the  colonist  declared  he 
could  not  move  another  inch  without 
falling  off,  the  chief  calmly  answer- 
ed: "It  is  just  so  with  us.  We 
have  moved  as  far  as  we  can  go,  and 
now  you  come  here  to  ask  us  ot  move 
farther  still.'' 

This  feeling  of  unfair  treatment 
made  Alexander  so  angry,  at  last, 
that  he  formed  a  secret  alliance 
with  the  Narragansett  Indians  to 
kill  all  the  white  men.  But  the  Ply- 
mouth governor,  hearing  of  this, 
promptly  sent  for  him,  bidding  him 
come  and  clear  himself  of  the  accus- 
ation of  treachery.  Then,  as  the 
Indian  did  not  obey  at  once,  Wins- 
low  quickely  set  out,  with  his  men, 
to  bring  him  by  force. 

Alexander,  turions  at  being  thus 
compelled  to  mind,  fell  seriously  ill 
from  fever.  The  colonists  then  al- 
lowed his  followers  to  carry  him 
home;  but  on  the  way  back,  the  In- 
dian chief  breathed  his  last.  Ever 
after,  his  people  were  in  the  habit 
of  saying  that  he  had  gone  to  the 
Happy  Hunting  Grounds,  where  the 
palefaces  could  never  come  to  crowd 
him  out. 


THE    SANDPIPERS  NEST 

By  Celia  Thaxter 

One  lovely  afternoon  in  May,  when  I  was  wandering  up  and  down  look 
ing  for  flowers,  I  heard  a  cry  of  distress  In  a  moment  a  little  sandpiper 
crept  from  under  a  bush,  dragging  itself  along  as  if  every  bone  in  its  body 
had  been  broken. 

Its  wings  drooped  and  its  legs  hung  of  pain  and  kept  just  out'of  the  reach 
as  if  almost  lifeless.    It  uttered  cries      of  my  hand,  fluttering  along  as  if 


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wounded. 

Suddenly  I  remembered  that  this 
was  only  the  sandpiper's  way  of  con- 
cealing from  me  a  nest.  Her  object 
was  to  make  me  follow  her  by  pre- 
tending she  could  not  fly,  and  so 
lead  me  away  from  her  treasure. 

Then  I  carefully  looked  around  for 
the  nest  and  found  it  quite  close  to 
my  feel,  Mrs.  Sandpiper  had  only 
drawn  together  a  few  leases,  brown 
and  glossy,  a  little  green  moss,  and 
a    twig    or    two,    and    that    was    a 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

The  school  has  purchased  two 
new  mules  to  help  in  the  spring- 
planting. 

The  morning  section  operator  of 
the  Linotype  is  Jack  Pressley.  He 
is  rapidly  acquiring  a  first  hand 
knowledge  of  the  machine. 

Mrs.  Wrenn,  of  Hoffman,  .has 
taken  charge  of  the  Durham  Cattage' 
in  the  place  of  Mrs.  Fitzgerald  who 
has  left  for  her  home. 

Another  boy  is  proud  of  the  fact 
that  he  has  had  his  first  lesson  on 
the  Linotype  machine.  Young  Vass 
Fields  is  expected  to  make  good  at 
his  job — a  printer. 

One  boy  at  the  School  possesses  a 
gold  tooth.  This  is  admired  by  the 
boys,  some  of  whom  would  lose  a 
tooth  to  get  a  gold  one.  Smith  is 
often  asked.     Is  it  pure  gold?'' 

Capt.  T.  L.  Grier  went  on  a  busi- 
ness trip  to  Charlotte  last  week. 
While  he  was  there  he  saw  a  few 
ball  games.      As  he  is  the    manager 


pretty  enough  house  for  her. 

Four  eggs  about  as  large  as  those 
of  a  robin  were  within.  No  won- 
der I  did  not  see  them,  for  they 
were  pale  green  like  the  moss,  with 
brown  spots  the  color  of  the  leaves 
and  twigs. 

I  could  not  admire  them  enough, 
but  in  order  to  remove  all  fear  from 
my  little  friend,  the  sandpiper,  I 
came  very  soon  away,  wondering- 
that  so  very  small  a  head  could  con- 
tain so  much  cunning, 


of  our  own  team,  seeing  these  games- 
will  certainly  aid  him  in  coachings 
our  boys. 

Rev.  Mr.  Myers,  of  Concord,, 
preached  to  the  boys  Sunday  in  the 
Chapel.  He  spoke  on  the  topic: 
"The  True  Character  of  Satan.5* 
Along  with  Mr.  Myers  came  his. 
choir,  who  sang  a  few  selections. 
"His  little  girl"  sang  a  solo  for  the- 
boys,  which  was  enjoyed  very  much. 

It  was  mentioned  once  before  of 
the  originality  of  the  boys.  Xow  one- 
of  the  chief  of  these  boy  inventors  is 
working  on  an  invention,  the  nature- 
of  which  he  will  not  divulge.  His 
name  can  be  given  however.  It  is 
William  Wilson. 

The  new  body  type  which  was 
ordered  some  time  ago.  has  arrived 
at  last,  to  the  joy  of  the  boy-printers> 
This  issue  is  set  out  of  the  new 
type.  It  very  nearly  matches  our- 
Linotype  design  and  greatly  im- 
proves the  appearence  of  The  Uplift. 

William  Hatch. of  lit.  Olive,  receiv- 
ed a  crate  of  strawberries  from  his 
mother.  Mrs.  C.  B.  Hatch.  But  un- 
like an  average  boy.  he  shared  his 
fruit  with  the  other  bovs  in  the  cot- 


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tage — thirty-three    boys.     He   does 
not  know  the  meaning' of  selfishness. 

Mrs.  R.  B.  Cloer  has  been  sick  for 
a  time,  but  we  are  glad  to  report 
she  is  now  very  much  improved. 
There  was  no  matron  to  substitute 
for  her  during  her  illness,  so  Mr. 
Cloer  deserted  the  shop  for  a  while, 
and  took  her  place.  The  boys  un- 
der his  charge  voted  him  a  capital" 
matron. 

Mr.  Ankers  arrived  at  the  school 
Tuesday  night.  Work  on  well  No.  4 
was  begun  Wednesday.  Thursday 
the  reporter  went  down  to  the  well 
digger,  to  see  how  he  was  progress- 
ing. Mr.  Ankers  said  the  depth  of 
48  ft.  had  been  reached.  Mr.  Ankers 
was  putting  in  a  new  pipe  during 
the  reporter's  visit. 

Ice  made  in  our  newly  finished 
ice  plant  has  been  given  to  all  the 
cottages.  To  the  old  house  boys 
getting  ice  from  the  ice  plant  is  an 
unusual  procedure.  The  house  boys 
all  grasped  wheel  borrows  and 
rushed  to  the  plant.  In  a  minute 
they  vere  all  on  their  way  to  the 
various    cottages     each     conveying 


ten  to  fifty  pounds  of  ice 


The  State  is  erecting  another  cot- 
tage at  the  School.  It  is  located  just 
behind  the  School  Cottage.  Mr. 
Misenheimer  is  doing  the  surveying 
and  other  work  needed  first  in  buil- 
ding a  cottage.  Then  when  it  is 
finished  it  will  house  thirty  boys. 
These  thirty  boys  will  be  taken  from 
unfavorable  environments  and  plac- 
ed in  this  school.  Soon  they  will 
take  an  interest  in  doing  right;  next 
they  will  take  pride  in  doing  right 
and  after  a  time  they  cannot  be  com- 
peled  to  do  wrong. 

Saturday,  April  29th,  the  two 
rooms  under  charge  of  Messrs.  John- 
son and  Crooks  matched  their  spell- 
ing ability.  After  a  long  and  hotly 
contested  struggle,  Mr.  Johnson's 
students  finally  defeated  those  of 
Mr.  Crooks.  When  the  spelling 
match  was  over,  Mr.  Crooks  realized 
that  more  time  was  still  available, 
so  he  procured  some  grammars  and 
had  a  grammar  match  in  the  same 
manner  as  in  a  spelling  match.  This 
contest  was  not  finished,  however, 
for  the  boys  knew  the  English  so 
perfectly  none  would  sit  down. 


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BREAKING   HABITS. 

That  great  scientist  of  California,  Luther  Bur- 
hank,  takes  a  tree  that  has  been  going  to  the  bad 
for  some  reason  or  other  for  hundreds  of  years,  and 
at  last  has  become  altogether  ugly  and  noxious  and 
by  the  shock  of  a  new  creation  he  breaks  up  all  its 
old  habits,  turns  its  energies  into  new  channels,  and 
makes  of  it  a  lovely  and  fruitful  thing.  And  if 
your  magician  can  work  that  miracle,  and  break  up 
the  habits  of  a  tree,  and  make  of  it  a  new  thing, 
beautiful  and  fruitful,  why  should  it  be  thought 
a  thing  incredible  that  God  can  break  a  man  off 
from  his  past,  and  recreate  him  in  the  image  of 
righteousness  and  true  holiness? — W.  L.  Watkinson, 
D.  D. 


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A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.      Type-setting  by  the   Boy's  Printing    Class.      Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class,  matter  Dec.  4, 1920,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

COME  UP  HIGHER. 
J.  G-.  C. 

I  saw  the  mountains  stand 
Silent,  wonderful,  and  grand, 
Looking  out  across  the  land. 
When  the  golden  light  was  falling 
On  distant  domes  and  spire; 
And  I  heard  a  low  voice  calling. 
'Come  up  higher,  come  up  higher, 
From  the  low  land  and  the  mire, 
From  the  mist  of  earth  desire, 
From  the  vain  pursuit  of  pelf, 
From  the  attitude  of  self; 
Come  up  higher,  come  up  higher." 

SEEM  PROUD  OF  THEIR  ANCESTORS. 

Dr.  J.  C.  Massee,  formerly  pastor  of  Tabernacle  Baptist  church  of  Raleigh, 
hut  now  of  Boston,  Mass.,  is  back  in  Raleigh  delivering  a  series  of  lectures. 
Tn  one  of  them  he  made  this  declaration:  '"it  is  impossible  for  a  man  to  be  a 
Ghristam,  and  believe  in  evolution."  The  reverend  doctor  does  not  be- 
lieve that  he  evoluted  from  a  monkey  or  an  ape.  and  he  is  conscious  that  he 
is  a  Christian,  and  he  knows  that  to  believe  that  stuff  he  must  discount  the 
powers  and  teachings  of  the  Bible.  Most  normal  men — in  fact,  all  normal 
folks  are  in  sympathy  with  Dr.  Massee's  views. 

Now  come  six  men,  posing  as  professors  and  members  of   the    faculty   o 


4  .  THE  UPLIFT 

the  department  of  Biology  and  Entomology  i'1  the  Stale  College,  at  Raeligh, 
taking  issue  with  Dr.  Massee  and  declare  that,  "that  all  scientists  ami  im- 
partial students  of  the  subject  are  convinced  I  hat  evolution  is  as  much  of 
an  actuality  as  is  the  phenomenon  of  gravity."  While  that  is  not  so.  it  may- 
be these  scholarly  gentlemen  think  that  those  who  do  not  agree  with  them 
could  not  be  classed  as  "scientists  and  impartial  .students."  ■  It  is  time 
to  call  a  halt  in  this  progammo  of  instilling  into  the  minds  of  the  young  any 
doubts  that  would  lead  to  their  abandoning  the  great  truths,  which  the 
Bible  clearly  teach,  and  which  have  for  ages  made  men  upright,  honorable 
and  of  service  to  their  fellow  man.  Profs.  Z.  P.-Metcalf,  B.  W.  Wells,  C. 
0.  Eddy,  I.  V.  Shunk,  J.  E.  Eckerfc  and  A.  C.  .Martin  are  the  professors  and 
"scientists  and  impartial  students  of  the  .subject."  that  sign  the  protest  a- 
gainst  Dr.  Massee's  utterance.  Are  they  North  Carolina  folks?  Doesn't 
sound  like  it.  If  they  have  any  ccnifort  or  special  joy  and  pride  in  having 
descended  from  apes,  let  us  not  deprive  them  of  any  thing  they  may  get  out  of 
it;  but  North  Carolina  should  not  at  this  stage  of  unrest  be  paying  out  its 
good  money  to  men  to  teach  Darwinism  to  our    youths  and  young  men. 

Dr.  Riddick,  President  of  State  College,  ought  to   send    for   Col.    Bryan. 
This  is  not  a  subject  for  the  '.I  K's. 

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*.  MASTER   SWIFT   DAVIS— INSTITUTIONAL   REPORTER.  ' 

1 
This  promising   young  fellow   is  the  institutional    reporter.      Those  who     , 
read  his  "items"  are  compelled  to  recognize  that  he   'has  a  nose  for  news."      j 
Whenever  the  editor  walks  into  the  office  with  a   bunch  of  the   morning  pa- 
pers or  a  magazine.  Swift  easts  a  wistful    eye  at  them,  and  soon  he  is  gain- 
ing permission  to  "look  over   them."      He  has  a  wonderful   memory  and  no 
little  ability.      He  will  read  an   article,  and  come,   as  near  reproducing  it  us 
many  of  more   advanced   age.     He  aspires    to  be    a. chemist;  but    somehow 
THE  UPLIFT  has  picked  1dm  out  for  a  Feature  Writer  at  some   future  day      , 
on  the  Charlotte  Observer  or  one  of  its  prominence  and  character. 

This  young  fellow  won  the  third  prize  in  the  Fail-brother  inquiry,  aud  ; 
no  sooner  than  bis  prize  of  three  dollars  was  turned  over  to  him  he  asked  - 
the  privilege  of  making  an  investment  of  a  subscription  to  the  Charlotte 
Observer.  At  that  end  of  the  line,  Col.  Harris,  taking  note  of  Master  t 
Swift's  communication,  lias  the  following  interesting  editorial  in  Sunday's  ; 
Observer:  ' 

"We   are    inclined    to   handle   this  morning  a  letter  received  during  the 
week  from  Swift  Davis,  a  Charlotte  lad  who  is  equipping  himself  for  a.seful    x 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

purposes  in  life  at  this  Jackson  Training  School,  mainly  because  the  letter 
is  illustrative  of  the  inspirational  services  of  that  institution  and  of  how 
it  lends  opportunity  for  constructive  work  in  the  direction  of  developed 
good  citizenship,  The  letter  from  the  young  fellow  is  in  itself  an  editorial, 
easily  woven  into  a  good  story  for  the  hoys.  He  presumes  the  editor  will 
be  surprised  that  he,  a  student  at  this  school,  should  be  subscribing  to 
The  Observer,  but.  says  young  Swift,  one  reason  is  that  1  was  born  and 
reared  in  Charlotte.  "That,  however,"  he  writes,  "is  only  incidental. 
1  know  thai  you  have  read  and  do  read  THIS  UPLIFT,  our  official  organ, 
and  1  work  in  I  he  department  which  publishes  this  magazine.  1  have  learn- 
ed here  the  power  of  writing  and  the  love  for  writing.  Loving  to  write, 
naturally  I  love  to  read  not  only  articles  that  enterain  but  articles  of  instruct- 
ion and  of  a  political  nature.  Some  may  say  that  one  cannot  'love'  material 
objects,  but  if  1  do  not  Tove,' I  know  I  like  The  Charlotte  observer.  The 
editorials  never  fail  to  give  mo  food  for  thought.  Who  knows  but  that  some 
day  1  may  be  writing  for  The  Observer'/" 

This  young  chap  who  is  unquestionably  training  for  a.  useful  citizen,  then 
tells  how  and  why  he  profits  by  reading  this  paper  and  how  his  personally- 
earned  money  is  being  invested  in  an  individual  subscription,  but  that  is 
aside.  The  point  is.  that  here  is  a  lad  who  has  seen  a  vision  and  finds  in 
the  Jackson  Training  School  the  instrumentality  through  which  this  vision 
is  to  be  realized.  The  printing  office  at  that  institution  not  only  affords 
opportunity  for  a  practical  education  in  the  art,  but  affords  boys  like  Davis 
a  chance  to  develop  their  talents  as  writers.  The  lad  who  writes  so  intel- 
ligently and  well  as  young  Davis  is  bound  to  improve  with  maturity  of  body 
and  mind,  and  The  Observer  believes  it  can  see  indications  that  for  one 
thing,  the  Training  School  is  turning  out  a  future  editor  of  qualifications. 
The  building  up  of  young  Davis  is  but  an  example  of  how  the  Jackson 
Training  School  is  building  up  several  hundred  boys  every  year  and  turn" 
ing  them  out  into  useful  pursuits.  Swift  Davis,  of  Charlotte,  may  not 
realize  the  fact  at  present,  but  he  is  giving  this  splendid  institution  one  of 
the  best  advertisements  it  has  ever  had. 

BEEN  LOOKING  AT  HER  FOB  FIVE  YEARS. 

One  of  the  truest  pictures  yet  painted  of  an  actual  condition  is  that  ex- 
hibited by  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Sewell.  of  Indiana,  herself  a  farmer's  wife,  at 
the  National  Agricultural  Conference  recently  held  in  Washington.  Among 
Other  things  she  said: 

"The  farmer's  wife  is  his  business  partner  as  the  wife  of  no  other  busi- 
ness man  can  possibly  be.  The  man  who  has  a  shop  or  factory  or  of- 
fice closes  the  door  (if  his  business  when  he  goes  home.  His  wife  has 
not  been  there.  She  knows  nothing  about  how  the  day  has  gone  for 
him,  in  a  business  way.  whether  for  weal  or  woe. 

"But  the  farmer's  wife  is  an  entirely    different  position.      She    lives 


6  '  THE  UPLIFT 

fn  the  factory.  She  washes  lor  and  boards  the  men  that  work  in  the 
shop.  She  knows  if  the  cattle  break  into  the  growing  corn  that  financi- 
al disaster  will  result;  so  unaided  she  drives  them  out  and  then  with 
her  own  hands  builds  up  the  fence.  Shi;  knows  full  well  when  the 
tractor  doesn't  run  right.  She  can  tell  it  by  the  unmistakable  brittle- 
ness  of  your  temper  at  the  noon  hour! 

The  farm  woman  sees  the  storm  sweep  down  over  the  prairie,  de- 
stroying the  ripening  harvests.  The  uninitiated,  the  city  person,  would 
see  only  a  line  growing  crop  and  think  how  many  dollars  it  would  mean 
if  properly  harvested  and  marketed.  But  your  farmer's  wife  sees  far 
more  than  that  in  the  growing  crop.  She  sees  new  linoleum  for  the 
kitchen  floor,  a  new  suit  for  the  good  man,  a  trip  to  her  childhood  home, 
long-deferred  music  lessons  for  the  little  daughter,  or  the  first  quarter 
of  advanced  education  for  the  promising  farm  boy.  That's  what  she 
sees. 

"But  in  the  face  of  all  that,  when  the  storm  does  come — fully  realiz- 
ing all  its  impart  in  wiping  out  the  work  of  the  farm  family  for  an  en- 
tire season — she  bravely  hides  her  own  feelings,  slips  her  hand  into 
her  husband's,  and  says.  Never  mind!  We  will  weather  it  somhow.' 
She  is  his  real  partner,  asking  not  only  to  share  the  pleasures  and  the 
profits  but  ready  and  willing  to  drink  to  the  last  drop  the  dregs  of  his 
bitter  cup  of  losses  and  discouragement." 

And  what  she  receives  towards  the  educational  qualification  of  her  child- 
ren for  life's  work  is  in  many  instances  an  incompetent  teacher,  a  grocery 
clerk,  an  imbiber  of  coca  cola,  without  animation,  without  experience,  and 
with  no  interest  other  than  in  the  little  salary  attached.  While  this  farm 
woman  is  bravely  meeting  her  task,  the  man  who  placed  over  her  children 
a  make-shift  of  a  teacher  draws  three  thousand  dollars  for  his  valuable  and 
expert  service. 


CO-OPERATION. 

This  thing  we  call  co-operation  is  of  dynamic  force.  What  can't  be  ac- 
complished single-handed,  may  prove  of  easy  accomplishment  when  heads, 
hands  and  hearts  of  a  fcr.v  people  join  in  one  common  purpose. 

It  is  a  very  easy  mattor  to  organize  most  any  profession  or  occupation; 
but  the  difficulty  is  in  getting  that  particular  organization  to  function  dilli- 
gently  and  unceasingly.  There  is  one  exception,  however,  to  the  forego- 
ing statement.  The  hardest  proposition  that  genius  ever  went  up  against 
is  the  matter  of  oi-ganizing  the  farmers  anywhere  near  a  75  per.  cent  basis; 
and  when  the  organization  is  effected  it  becomes  a  problem  how  to  make  it 
function  and  survive. 

The  Grange  lost  its  pep;  the  Alliance  hit  the  ceiling;  the  Farmers' Union 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

is  petering  out;  and  now  comes,  perhaps,  the  most  practical  measure  that 
ever  confronted  the  farming  interest,  that  of  co-operation.  There  is  just 
enough  business  and  reason  in  the  premises  to  make  it  appeal  to  practical 
folks.  But  it,  too.  is  having  a  hard  time.  Conflicting  interests  are  at- 
tempting to  throw  a  monkey-wrench  into  its  organization;  all  kinds  of  ad- 
verse stories  are  being  told  about  its  alleged  failure  where  tried  out;  hut 
THE  UPLIFT,  somewhat  of  a  homy-handed  son  of  toil  itself,  is  inclined  to 
subscribe  fully  to  this  editorial  declaration  in  the  Progressive  Farmer: 
"enough  falsehoods  have  been  told  [about  co-operative  marketing]  to  make 
Ananias  turn  over  in  his  grave  with  jealousy." 

In  the  finality  all  legitimate  businesses  will  profit  by  the  outcome  of  co- 
operative marketing,  well  organized  and  heartily  and  faithfully  supported. 
Let  the  leaders  take  courage;  laugh  the  opposition  to  a  rout;  and  let  the  pro- 
ducers participate  in  legitimate  and  remunerative  profits.  Justice  can  hurt 
no  honest  man. 

#    %    %    %    Jjs    %    :;<    i\t 

WAS   MAJOR  FINGER'S   WHOLE    DREAM   REALIZED? 

When  the  late  Mar.jor  S.  M.  Finger,  then  state  superintendant  of  the  public 
schools  of  North  Carolina,  conceived  that  the  girls  of  the  state  deserved  and 
should  have  a  state-aided  educational  institution,  and  developed  the  idea  of 
what  resulted  in  the  Greeneshoro  Normal,  he  cast  about  over  the  state  for 
|  two  men  to  make  the  campaign.  His  idea  was  to  prepare  girls  for  teaching 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  state.  After  considering  all  the'  available  men 
for  the  campaign,  he  proceeded  to  make  the  selection  by  elimination.  Every 
time  his  wise  conclusion  came  direct  to  the  door  of  Dr.  E.  A.  Alderman 
and  the  late  Chas.  D.  Melver.  Major  Finger's  dream  was  realized  in  the 
final  establishment  of  the  school  for  girls.  It  would  be  interesting,  however, 
to  know  what  percentage  of  the  graduates  of  the  Greensboro  Normal  (now 
the  N.  C.  College  for  Women)  actually  take  work  in  the  rural  public  schools, 
the  purpose  Maj.  Finger  had  uppermost  in  mind. 

$$$$$:!:$$ 

A  DEAD  GIFE-AWAY 

The  Presbyterian  Standard  in  a  late  number  carried  a  most  sensible  article 
bearing  on  the  commoness  of  titles.  That  they  may  be  had— these  Ph.D's, 
D.D's.  A.M.  &c— from  some  Western  institutions  by  the  payment  of  a  fee 
of  twenty-live  dollars  and  the  answering  of  a  very  simple  questionaire, 
makes  them  common  and  of  little  value.     Whenever  you  see  a  contribution 


3  THE  UPLIFT 

in  the  papers  signed  with  "Rev"  or  "Dr."  or  has  behind  it  "A.  M."  or 
seme  other  title,  nine  times  cut  of  ten  it  is  either  the  name  of  a  negro  or 
some  one  who  came  by  his  title  by  the  easy  route  and  is  using  it  to  lend  im- 
portance to  himself,  which  otherwise  could  not  be  had.  To  avoid  sorrow 
and  the  waste  of  precious  moments,  we  always  look  to  see  how  a  communi- 
cation is  signed  before  we  read  it — we  have  been  "sold  out"  too  often  al- 
ready by  reading  seductive  medicine  advertisements.  The  average  negro 
always  puts  "A.  M."  after  his  name;  and  some  small  preachers  write  "Rev." 
before  theirs.      They  can't  resist  it. 

The  school  board  of  the  Concord  schools  very  properly  and  wisely  turn 
ed  down  the  proposition  of  the  twelfth  grade.  Confidentally,  couldn't  the 
equivalent  of  the  work  of  the  twelfth  grade  be  absorbed  in  the  eleven  grades 
without  injury  to  the  child  or  hardships  on  the  teachers?  The  belt  might 
be  tightened  slightly,  a  few  more  hours  could  be  devoted,  some  lost  motion 
eliminated.  Honestly,  isn't  fifteen  years  of  a  boy's  or  girl's  life  spent  in 
attaining  an  A.  B.  degree  too  much  time?  In  the  days  past  when  they  made 
fine  A.  B.  scholars,  the  equal  of  any  of  to-day.  the  deed  was  accomplished 
in  less  than  twelve  years  all-told.  The  claim  that  college  and  universi- 
ty curriculms  have  been  extended  is  untrue — a  slight  rearrangement  only 
has  taken   place  to  lit  into  a  fad  or  a  hobby. 

******** 

Fads  have  to  spend  themselves.  Playgrounds  and  parks  grew  out  of  a 
condition  of  a  thickly-settled,  tenement  congested  city,  where  homes  have 
no  yards  and  the  sun-shine  is  rarely  seen  except  on  the  tops  of  sky-scrap- 
ers. The  average  North  Carolina  town  and  city  have  homes  blessed  with 
ample,  shady  lawns.  There  need  be  more  concern  about  light,  pleasant  oc- 
cupation for  the  children  rather  than  so  much  play.  The  men  who  are  ac- 
tively doing  things  to-day,  and  the  women  who  are  good  mothers,  fine 
house-keepers  and  faithful  church-workers,  were  men  and  women  who  play- 
ed, when  children,  in  their  own  yards  and  answered  the  call  of  father  and 
mother  when  some  light  task  needed  the  attention    of  a    dutiful,   ambitious 

youngster.      The  play  idea  is  getting  too  rank. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  %  * 

In  this  great  progressive  and  statistical  age,  there  need  be  no  surprise 
if,  in  the  interest  of  promoting  the  growth  of  "scientists,"  the  next  Federal 
census  includes  this  very  logical  question:  ''Who  was  your  ancestor — an 
ape,  a  monkey  or  a  baboon?"     This  is  just  as   important,  in  fact  more  so,  as 


THE  UPLIFT  g 

10  know  whether  the  subject  is  white  or  black,  foreign  or  native  born.  It 
would  be  very  interesting  to  know  the  folks  in  good  old  North  Carolina 
who  feel  certain  that  they  sprang-  from  the  baboon. 

*-.  >;<  %  $  3>c  ge  $  $ 

By  way  of  the  News  and  Observer,  and  from  the  pen  of  Ben  Dixon  Mc- 
Neil, THE  UPLIFT  lias  in  this  issue  a  most  entertaining  and  instructive 
story  of  what  it  means  to  build  the  hard-surfaced  roads  which  now  engage 
the  activity  of  the  state.  The  finest  thing  of  all  that  occurred  in  the  admin- 
istration of  the  late  Governor  Biclcett  was  his  discovery  of  Frank  Page  and 
the  engagement  of  his  service  in  this  business  of  building  roads  for  North 
Carolina. 

ib  *  $  $  $  s&  $ 

Alfairs  are  getting  better.  A  recent  trip  down  the  Seaboard  ottered  ab- 
solute proof  of  this  statement.  The  5  P.  M.  train  was  crowded  to  the  doors 
—most  of  them  were  traveling  men.  You  know  them  from  their  grips,  the 
little  sheets  they  are  studying  and  the  examination  of  Dunn's  and  Brad- 
street's  reports.  When  "drummers"  begin  to  stir  lively,  there  is  a  reason 
fur  it.  Demand  is  in  the  air;  people  are  wanting  something;  and  others, 
detecting  this,  hasten  to  supply  their  wants.     Glory! 

^c  ^  >;<  >;<  #  %  ^c  $ 

Every  crime  and  evil  doing,  while  sin  is  at  the  root  of  them,  is  occasion- 
ed by  idleness.  Keep  the  child  and  man  busy  and  interested  in  the  ac- 
complishment of  something  useful,  and  this  tiling  you  call  the  crime-wave 
will  recede.      In  all  probability  a  good  habit  will  thus  be  formed. 


The  Concord  Rotarians  and  Kiwanians  could  render   the  local  public  an- 
i  other  very    valuable  sarvica    were  they   to  find  out  why  the   local  cotton 
market  is  under  that  of  nearby  towns,  and  cause  the  local  market    to  stand 
|  up  with  others. 

[['  the  constitution  forbids  the  teaching  of  the  Bible  in  the  public  schools, 
is  it  not  unconstitutional  to  teach  u  theory    that   sets   at   naught   the  great 
!  truths   taught  in  the  Bible? 


Hiving  a  painful  recollection  of  the  last  one   applied,    we    rather  rejoice 
that  the  U.  S.  Senate-  has  put  a  tariff  tax  of  25  per  cent  on  mustard  plasters. 


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It  took  an  S-hour  debate,  however,  to  make  tin- piaster  tax  stick. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  #  * 
Today  one  hundred  ami  forty  seven  years  ago,  we  have  reasons  to  believe, 
the  folks  in  Charlotte  village  were  having-  a  big  and  exciting  time. 


THE   BAT,   THE   BIRDS, 

BEASTS. 


A  great  conflict  was  about  to  come  off  between  the  Birds  and  the 
Beasts.  When  the  two  armies  were  collected  together  the  Bat  hesitat- 
ed which  to  join.  The  Birds  that  passed  his  perch  said:  "Come  with 
us;"  but  he  said:  I  am  a  beast."  Later  on,  some  Beasts  who  were 
passing  underneath  him  looked  up  and  said:  ''Come  with  us;"  but 
he  said:  "I  am  a  Bird."  Luckily  at  the  last  moment  peace  was 
made,  and  no  battle  took  place,  so  the  Bat  came  to  the  Birds  and 
wished  to  join  in  the  rejoicings,  but  they  all  turned  against  him  and 
he  had  to  fly  away,  lie  then  went  to  the  Beasts,  but  soon  had  to 
beat  a  retreat,  or  else  they  would  have  torn  him  to  pieces.  "Ah," 
said  he  Bat,  "I  see  now 

HE  THAT  IS  NEITHER  ONE  THING  NOR  THE  OTHER  HAS  NO 

FRIENDS." 


LIVING 

Sir  Walter  Scott 

Sir  Walter  Scott,  justly  called  the 
Wizard  nf  the  North,  was  born  in 
Edinburgh,  in  1771.  He  was  lame 
and  in  delicate  health,  and.  in  con- 
sequence Of  tins,  spent  much  of  his 
youth  in  various  parts  oi  the  country 
with  friends.  This  made  him  fa- 
miliar with  the  Scottish  charac- 
ter and  habits,  as  well  as  Scottish 
anecdotes,  tradition,  and  history. 
more  especially  the  Scottish  border 
history.  He  was  exceedingly  fond 
of  out-of-door  life,  and  his  reading 
was  mostly  romances.  He  was  a 
great  reader,  and  in  this  way  as  well 
as  by  conversation  acquired  that 
mine  of  information  upon  which  he 
drew  so  freely  in  after  life.  As  a 
hoy  he  was  not  scholarly  in  his 
tastes,  and  did  not  apply  himself 
well.  He  knew  some  Latin,  but  no 
Greek.  Later  he  learned  to  read 
German,  French,  Italian,  and  Span 
ish.  He  had  great  fondness  for  in- 
venting and  telling  stories,  and  did 
it  vefnarkably  well,  thus  early  show- 
ing his  bent  of  mind.  His  poems 
were  written  before  his  novels. 
The  more  noted  ones  are  "Lay  of  the' 
Last  Minstrel."  "ilurmion,"  "Lady 
of  the  Lake,"  '"Rokeby,"  and  "Lord 
of  the  Isles."  His  first  navel  was 
published  anonymously.  The  long 
list  that  followed  cannot  be  given 
here.  Among  the  most  famous  are 
"Kenilworth."  "fvanhoe."  "Heart 
of  Midlothian."  "Old  Mortality." 
'The  Talisman,"  "The  Antiquary.'' 

The  Bride  of  Lammermoor," 
"Quentin  Durward,"  and  "Waver- 
ley." 

Scott  was  ambitious,  not  only  to 
Mke  a  name,  but  to  establish  a  great 
estate.     In  1S11  he  bought  the  first 


THE  UPLIFT  11 

HISTORY.  ' 

of  what  afterwards  became  Abbots- 
ford.  In  the  course  of  years  he  ex- 
pended great  sums  of  money  here, 
altogether  not  less  than  8300.000. 
He  became  connected  with  a  pub- 
lishing: house,  and  its  failure  in 
1S20  involved  him  in  a  debt  of  silill),- 
000.  He  attempted  to  pay  this  great 
sum  by  his  pen.  and  before  his  death 
six  years  later  he  had  paid  $330,000, 
a  task  never  before  equaled.  The 
amount  of  work  done  in  this  period 
by  Scott  is  marvelous,  but  he  broke 
down  under  the  strain. 

Thomas  Hughes 

Thomas  Hughes  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1S23,  and  died  in  1S96.  His 
"Tom  Brown  at  Rugby"  and  "Tom 
Brown  at  Oxford"  made  him  im- 
mensely popular.  Aside  from  these 
hooks,  he  wrote  a  great  deal,  largely 
in  favor  of  a  form  of  socialism. 
Among  his  most  popular  books,  be- 
side those  already  mentioned,  are 
"Our  Old  Church— What  shall  we 
do  with  it?"  and  Rugby,"  an 
account  of  a  cooperative  colony,  at-- 
temptedinthis  country,  in  Tennes- 
see. He  also  wrote  "The  Manliness 
of  Christ."  a  strong  and  very  origi- 
nal work.  The  following  extracts 
from  "Tom  Brown's  School  Day's," 
though  very  far  from  giving  you  a 
complete  story,  will  give  you  an 
excellant  idea  of  the  character  of  the 
work.  You  will  certainly  read  it  in 
a  complete  form.  While  it  may  not 
rank  high  as  literature,  it  is  a  book 
that  will  do  you  good  to  read. 
Henry  Ward  Beecher 

Henry  Ward  Beecher.  son  of  Dr. 
Lyman  Beecher,  and  brother  of 
Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  was  born  at 
Litchfield,  Conn.,  in  1813  and  died  in 


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1S87.      In  childhood    he   gave    little  Locke,"  "'Two  Years  .A go.."    Yeast," 

promise  of   future   distinction,     He  and  "Hereward    the    Wake"  are  all 

began  preaching  at  Lawrenceburg.  excellent.      You    are  most   likely    to 

Ind.,    but  soon  removed  to    Indian-  be  pleased    with    "Westward    FTo." 

apulis.      In  18-17  he  went    Brooklyn.  Kingsley  died  in  1 8-17 . 

as  pastor  of  Plymouth  Church,  whore  Daniel  Webster 
he  gathered  an  immense  eongregatii  in 
and  became  the  most  noted  preacher 
in  America.     He  was  also  a  popular 

writer  and  lecturer.      He  wrote  one  «'«??t«-™    Ionosphere     was  born   at 

novel1  Norwood."    a    tale     of    New  Salisbury,  fc.  H.,inliS2.  He  uttond- 

Englandlife.      He   published    manv  ed    PI»»>1«    ?*?"'   Academy,    and 

volumes  of  sermons,  essays,  lectures.  wa*  *o  <hthclent  that  he  could  not  be 

-,,-,,1  .,,i,.  .  .„t.  induced  to  declaim  before  the'  school 

t  L 1 1 1 1  t  u  l  l  t '  a  S  fc JIa .  r  r                        .     t. 


.Daniel  Webster,  one  of  the  great- 
st  orators  that  has  over  lived  in  the 


Charles  Kingsley 


He  entered    Dartmouth    very  poorly 
prepared,  but  led   his    class    before 


Charles  Kingsley  was  born  at  the  close  of  the  lirst  year.  After 
Dartmoor.  England,  in  1819.  He  graduation  he  taught  school  for  a 
took  honors  at  Cambridge  and  was  time  to  earn  money  to  help  his  broth- 
ordained,  becoming  first  couiateand  er  through  college.  lie  studied  law 
then  rector  of  Eversby.  lie  was  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  lSllj. 
always  ready  to  plead  the  cause  of  In  1812  he  was  elected  to  Congress 
the  oppressed  and  neglected,  and  and  opposed  the  war  with  Great 
none  the  less  ready  to  attack  abuses.  Britain.  In  181(i  he  removed  to 
He  was  intensely  fond  of  nature;  per-  Boston.  He  soon  came  to  be  re- 
haps  this  taste  made  possible  the,  garded  as  the  foremost  lawyer  in 
Water  Babies,"  one  of  the  few  per-  New  England.  His  reply  to  Hayne 
feet  fairy  tab's  of  the'  language.  is  one  of  the  most  memorable 
Kingsley 's  descriptive  powers  were  speeches  ever  made  in  Congress. 
very  great;  lie  is  not  excelled,  per--  His  Bunker  Hill  Orations,  and  the 
haps,  in  this  respect  by  any  English  Oration  on  Adams  and  Jefferson,  are 
writer.  While  he  wrote  some  among  the  greatest  speeches  ever 
poetry,  and  some  of  merit,  and  that  delivered  in  this  country.  He  was 
which  has  been  popular,  on  the  Secretary  oi  State  under  Harrison 
whole,  he  does  not  take  high  rank  as  and  opposed  the  annexation  of  Texas. 
a  poet.  His  greatest  novel  is  "Hy-  He  died  in  lSa2. 
patia,"  but  "Westward  Ho,"  "Alton 


This  wonderful  country  of  ours  is  now  spending  $70,000,000  a  year  on 
cosmetics.  And  it  is  getting  so  that  when  one  sees  a  girl  without  auy 
paint  at  all  on  her  face,  it  seems  as  if  s^e  must  have  left  home  in  '4  big 
hurry,  and  that  nobody  ought  to  whisper  to  her  to  run  right  back  and  put 
something  on  her  face.  The  woman  of  the  east  thinks  it  a  dreadful  thing 
if  a  strange  man  should  see  her  regular  face,  and  it  may  come  to  that  in 
this  country. — Greensboro  News. 


THE  UPLIFT  13 

CONFEDERATE   SURVIVORS   OF  DAVID- 
SON  COUNTY. 

Mr.  C.  M  Thompson,  a  prominent  feitizun  of  Lexington,  and  himself  a 
veteran  of  the  sixties,  upon  request  of  THE  UPLIFT,  has  kindly  furnished 
iH?™-™™ r  Confederate  Survivors  now  residents  of  Davidson  county 
LEXINGTON:  Capt.  F.  C.  Robbins,  C.  W.  Trice,  C.  A.  Hunt.  C.  M.  Thomp- 
son, George  Musgruve,  R.  M.  Shouf.  Lindsay  Byerly  (4).  Andrew  Sink 
Robert  Cooper.  Joel  Cranford,  (1),  Alex  Evans  (3).  Andrew 
Cicero Goss,   J.    A.   Richard,   J.    T.      Byerly  (2). 

i'arborough,      Harvey       Trantham.  'COMPLEX':      John     Kerns.      Jim 

George  xV.    Tliomason.   .1.    A.    Aber-      Kerns, 
nathy.  Alfred  Smith.  DENTON:  S.     J      Buie     G      W 

LEXINGTON,    R.   F.    D's:    L.    L.      Williams. 
Cohard  (1).  West  Philips  (3),  G.  W.  NEWSOM:  T.  B.  Stokes.   William 

Crouse,  (I!):  J.  L.  Hedriek  (6).  John      Walker.  E.  M.  Reeves. 
H.  Smith    (2).  Henry    Bower    (2),  LINWOOD,  R.  P.  D:  W.  P.  Miller 

James  Myers  (3).  Riley  Leuoard  (3),  (2),  Alfred  Kuster  (3),  W.  A.  Sharp 
G.  F.  Hedriek  (5).  G.  W.  Beeker  (5),  (3),  Thomas  Lanning  (f ).  J.  G.  Shoaf 
Capt.  John  Koontz,  (3),  Wesley  By-  (3),  J.  H.  MeCarn  (2).  Henry  Feez- 
erly  (3),  Obe Byerly  (2),  Robt.  Scott  er  (2).  C.  A.  Barnes  (1).  W.  A.  Me 
U),R.  J.  "Wagoner  (1),  D.  S.  Leon-"wBride  (1).  Sam  Simmerson  (1), 
ai'd  (1).  Lewis  Willams  <  D.Rowland  Frank  Vonnts  (2). 
Walser  (4).  Philip  Hedge  (4).  James  HIGH  ROCK:  Fred  Morris;  R,    F. 

Thomas    (1).    John   H.    Swine-     (6).       D.— A.  D.  Kinnev    (1).    Silas   Cross 
George  Easter  ( 3),    Henry    L.  Sink      [1]. 

(31.  Frank  Miller  (1).  J.  EL   Thomp-  THOMASVILLE:    B.    L.    Owen; 

sun   (3),   R.    B.  Gentle   (3).   R.     F.      R.  F.   D.— William   Jarret    [4].   An- 
Hedrick  (fi),  Wm.  Fritts  (2),    Wiley      drew  Clodfelter  [3]  T.  W.  S.  Grimes 
Leuoard  (6)'.  Goe.  A.  Hedriek  (li).      [4].  J.  W.  Lee  [4]. 
Barton  Myers  (3).  Albert  Myers  (3).  JACKSON  HILL:  C.  L.  Badgett. 

B.  C.  Gobble(3),  George  Koontz(3),  HANDY;  Jack  Keith. 

Jake   Bylery(2).     Zeno    Tusseydi).  Total  in  Davidson.    34. 

David  Hedrick(5).  David  PerrellU). 


What  I  Would  Like  To  Do  And  Why  I  Would  Like 
To  Do  It  When  I  Leave  The  Jackson  Training  School. 

By  Edw.-,rd  C!eaver---2cnd  Prize. 
Upon  seeing  Col.  Fairbrotherskind  oiler  in  the  THE  L'PLIFT.  I  at  once 
determined  to  express   my  veiws  on  "What  I    should  like  to  do  and   why  I 
fOiil.-l  like  to  do   it  when  I    leave   the  Jackson  Training  School."      After  I 
leavi  this  institution  1  will  finish  at  the  Higli  School,  and    then  I    hope   to' 


14                                                    THE  UPLIFT 

Lave  the  opportunity  to  go  throujrh  college.  Having  had  a  thorough  educa- 
tional training,  I  hope  to  be  fitted  for  the  position  that  is  now  my  ambition, 
An  Editor. 

One  reason  why  I  .should  like  to  of  seeing  her.soon  rallied  and  left 
be  an  editor  is  that  I  sincerely  do-  the  sickbed.  Undoubtedly  the  pa- 
sire  to  be  of  great  service  to  my  state  per  aided  in  his  recovery.  The  mo- 
rn which  I  live.  Many  of  our  great  tlier  realized  this  and  was  grateful  to 
men    have   come    from    the  editorial  the  newspaper. 

chair.     Another  reason  why  I  want  Another  reason  why  I  want  to  he 

to  be  an  editor  is  that  1  want  to  make  an    editor,    is    that    North    Carolina 

a  profitable  living  in  the  world.    An  needs  men  to  take  the  place  ofthose, 

editor's    position    is  one  of  great  re-  who  are   continually    going   to  their 

sponsibility.      He     may    lead    us    to  reward  in  the  great    beyond;    and  I 

peace  or  to  war.  to  bliss  or  sorrow.  hope  to  lie  able  anil  competent  some 

All  news,    if  it  is  to  circulate  fast.  day  to   till    one    of    these    vacancies. 

must  bespread  by  wide-awake  news-  The  whole  world    in   every    depart- 

papers.      I  know  a   woman,  who  had  ment  of  life  and  activity    is    looking 

a  son  in  the  late  war.    He  was  wound-  for  such  men  as  want  to  be  of  service 

ed   and  unconscious.      No  identitica-  to  their  fellow-men  and    their    state. 

tion    card   or    book    was  to  lie  found  People  depend  upon  the  editors  in 

upon    him.      As  a  result  his  mother  a  large  measure  to  lead  them;  and  in 

was    not    notified   of   his    condition.  order  to  do  this. the  editor  ought  to 

A  comrade,  however,  knew  his  name  lie  not  only  conscientious  but  be  p:e- 

but  nothing  else.      In  the  list  of  the  pared  to  had  them  in  the  right   way 

wounded,  his  dear  mother    saw    his  and  not  in  the  wrong. 

name.      She  forth  with    went    to  his  To  lie   an  editor  is  my  life's  ambi- 

bedside,  and  he,  because  of   the    joy  tion. 


It  is  necessary  for  the  welfare  of  the  nation  that  men's  lives  be  based 
on  the  principles  of  the  Bible. — Theodore  Roosevelt. 


ETERNITY   ONLY   CAN   MEASURE. 

By  C.  W.  Hunt. 

I  have  been  thinking  for  seme  weeks  along  a  line  I  had  thought  on  be- 
fore, but  somehow  it  came  with  more  emphasis,  and  after  1  had  read  Dr. 
Poe's  splendid  article  on  education  in  last  number  of  THE  UPLIFT,  my 
thoughts  centered  on  this:  do  we  not  do  too  much  agitating,  on  the  order 
of  a  broadcasted  radio  message,  much  of  which    is    wasted   on   desert  air, 

like  the  flower  "born   to   blush   un-  energy  was  centered  on  some  dw-erv- 

seen?"     Often  time  money  and  good  ing   boy   or  girl   with  an    ambition, 

postage  and  paper  are  wasted  send-  but    who    has    no    show,    instead  of 

ing  matter  to  these  whose  names  are  wasting  good    intentions    we    could 

among    the    well  known,    but     who  develop  and  set  in  motion   a    wave 

need  none  of  the  "dope"  when  if  that  that  would    roll    on    when    all    who 


THE  UPLIFT                                                15 

had  to  do  with  it  had  turned  to  homes,  better  food  and  such.  A 
dust  again.  life  touched  for  belter  things  by 
At  the  breakfast  table  we  were  such  an  act  as  I  refer  In  here  not 
discussing  a  certain  talented  girl,  only  brightens  it,  but  it  brightens 
without  means,  but  with  an  ambi-  others  around  it.  Nothing  like  a 
t ion  for  an  education,  whom  a  ecr-  personal  touch:  the  seeing  and  real- 
tain  welfare  worker  [in  private]  izing  at  close  quarters  what  can  Ik; 
was  securing  .1  scholar  ship  for  in  done  to  make  things  better  around 
college,  that  she  might  help  to  work  those  we  labor  for. 
her  way  through,  and  come  out  to  A  man  seeking  to  do  good,  that 
teach  others  and  thus  send  on  down  will  hist,  after  he  has  gone  hence, 
the  ages  an  influence  that  only  eter-  could  do  nothing  that  would  raise  a. 
nity  can  measure.  That  is  real  grander  monument  to  him  than  the 
work,  by  the  side  of  which  broad-  education  of  a  sweet  aspiring  girl, 
casting  pales  into  insignificance.  the  taking  up  of  a  deraliet  boy,  plac- 
Often  it  has  occurred  to  me  that  a  ing  him  in  a  plaee  like  Jackson 
canvass  to  ascertain  where  those  Training  School,  making  a  man  with 
are  that  can  lie  helped  would  amount  an  intention  to  do  all  the  good  he 
to  ten  times  the  good  to  be  done  by  can. 
campaign    in     general     for     better 


"The  great  and  satisfying  happiness  of  life  need  never  he  Hought  after. 
It  always  comes  as  a  ty-product  of  ordinary  daties." 


A    GLINT    METEOR    FOLLOWS    NANCY 

ASTOR. 

Something  was  bound  to  happen  to  keep  the  Virginians  braced  up  ■•\ym 
the  departure  of  the  brilliant  and  charming  Lady  Astor.  tt'ir  triumphant 
visit  through  the  Old  Dominion  and  to  the  scene  of  her  childhood  stirred 
the  folks  so  that  something  out  of  the-  ordinary  had  to  be  pulled  of  to  '/.>:>■;> 
the  Virginians  from  a  state  of  pining. 

Nature  took  care  of  them.   Under  a  nated    the    heavens  over    southern 

Norfolk  date  line  and  3Iay    VI    this  Virginia  and  sections  of  North  Caw- 

accvunt  of  a  giant  meteor   was   sent  lina.     The   trail  of  Sight,  as  ihejae- 

out  to  The  press;  ;•  or  feJJ  in  a  -!w  e  .;■■.  t-  '.'.■;■:■  the  /.-- 

"The  shock  of  a  twenty-ton  meteor  nith  at  an  ahgJe  •  \  u^xi  >1  \~>  d.<  -j.--  -.s. 

Tvhi  -h  ci-^-Led  to  the  ground    in   an  was   visible  in    this  eity,  ftkS;,'KO.<id 

isolated  spot   in   Nottoway  County,  and  at  points  aiong  the  Juu&h  ii'tvvr, 

12  n  Lies  rorth-west   of    BSaek.sto.ne.  creating  geneiai  exeiten*  rat  t-.-.d  ev- 

ite  'ast  night  was  felt  for   a   radius  en  consternation  on    she  j/art  <rf  ti.-; 

of  :  tv  miles    while    the     briliiam  negro"* 

glar    of  the    ineadecent  bodv  illumi-  The  meteor.  eo/.<jpo»ed  of  a  meitai- 


10  THE  UPLIFT 

lie  substance,    crashed  into  a  grove  Meteors  are  small,  erratic  bodies 

of  oak  trees    with  an  explosive   roar  rushing' through  the  planetary   sys- 

some  distance  from  any  house,  mak-  tern,  and  getting  hot  in  the  process, 

ing  a  hole  with  an  area  of  500  square  appear  in  the  atmosphere  surround- 

feet  and  birrying  several  trees  with  ing  our  earth  as     shooting  stars." 

it.      Flames  which  immediately  shot  Some    of  these  falling   bodies    have 

up    were    visible    for    many    miles.  reached  the  earth,  as  did  the  one  of 

while  trees  caught  tire.  Thursday  night,  and  such  are  called 

The  shock   of  the  tall   was  felt  at  "aerolites"  or   "meteorites."      Nuru- 

Lawrenceville,    Petersburg,    Chase  bers,  of  course,  are  burned  up  before 

City,  and  at  other  points.      At  Law-  they  reach  us,  and  who  can  tell  what 

renceville,    100  miles  west  of  here,  destruction  such  a  catastrophe  may 

windows    were    rattled   and    houses  represent,  or  whether  it  bo  or  be  not 

were   shaken   while    at   Chase  City  inhabited  world  which  has  thus  been 

similar  effects  were    noted.     Auto-  plunged  to  destruction  by  fire, 

mobilists  on  the   roadways  in  Meek-  They  are  of  a  metallic  or  stony 

leu  burg  county  said   it    seemed  as  nature.     On  certain  nights  in   Au- 

though   their  cars  had   caught  fire,  gust  and  November  it  has  been  eal- 

so  great  was  the  illumination.  dilated   that  these  meteors  will  ap- 

In  Norfolk  the  meteor  appeared  to  pear.  They  fall  from  certain  con- 
be  about  half  the  diameter  of  the  stellations,  after  which  they  are 
full  moon  and  much  like  a  street  named;  as  Leonides,  from  Leo,  in  the 
arc-light.  Its  tail,  of  orange  bril-  November  displays.  The  star  show- 
liance  with  a  sharp  blue  flame  fading  ers  sometimes  present  the  appear- 
out  at  the  extreme  end,  apparently  artee  of  a  beautiful  display  of  rockets. 
was  about  tenor  twelve  times  as  Millions  of  them  imsh  around  the  sun, 
long  and  fully  as  broad  as  the   body.  and  when,  as  occasionally    happens, 

In  Richmond  a  streak  of  light  was  our  earth  comes  near  them,  we  have 
noticed  before  the  ball  of  tire  was  '  a  grand  display  of  celestial  tire- 
seen  swirling  through  space  to  be  works. 

followed    by   the    reverberations    of  It  is   estimated   that   the    average 

an  explosion.     The  entire  southeast-  number  of  meteors  that  traverse  the 

ern  skies  were  illuminated   as   if   by  atmosphere   daily,   and     which    are 

a  flash  of  lighning  and  a  burst   of  large  enough  to  be  visible  to  the  eye 

names."  on  a  dark,  clear    night,  is  7,500,000; 

Parties,  returning  from  Charlotte,  and   if  to  these  the  telescope  meters 

saw   this  meteor   at   a    point    below  be    added,  the    number  will  he    in- 

Concord.      It  was   described  as    be-  creased      to     400,000.000.     In     the 

ing   of  the  size  of  a   grape-fruit    and  space  traversed  by   the  earth   there 

displaying   a  tail.      It   appeared    to  are,  on  the  average,  in  each  volume 

reach    the  earth   not  many    hundred  the  size  of  our  globe    [including  its 

yards  away,  and  afterwards   finding  atmosphere],     as   many    as      13,01)0 

that    it  realy  touched   earth  in    Vir-  small    bodies,   each  one  capable  ot 

ginia  about  two  hundred  miles  away,  furnishing  a  shooting  star     risible 

the  Concord  parlies  were  proud  that  under  favorable  circumstances    to 

they  did  not   quit   their  automobile  the  nakedeye. 
and  attempt  a  location  of  the  visitor. 


THE  UPLIFT 

SENTENCED    TO    DIE. 

(Near  East) 


17 


Twelve  Men,  with  grave  faces, 
were  met  to  decide  and  issue  of  life 
or  death. 

Xo  burly   criminal  stood  there  to 
receive  punishment  for  his  crimes, 
—only  a  little  child,  begging  for  life. 
Her  sin   was  hunger  and  naked- 
ness. 

She  trembled,  and  almost  fell,  as 
she  stretched  out  thin,  bare  arms  in 
supplication. 

"Hunger! — Bread!''  were  the  only 
words  she  spoke. 

A  long  time  passed,  while  those 
men  fought  to  escape  the  verdict 
they  must  render.  But  then  the 
words  came: 

"We  have  not  found  anyone  who 
will  give  you  bread,  little  girl.  We 
have  told  a  great  many  people  about 
you,  but  they  have  given  to  so  many 
other  boys  and  girls  that  they  arc- 
tired  of  giving.  There  is  not  enough 
bread,  now,  to  go  around— no,  not 
even  a  crust.  We  are  very  sorry, 
dear  little  girl,  but— we  must  let 
you  die." 

A  cruel  jest?  No!  A  cruel  fact, 
multiplied  thousands  upon  thous- 
ands of  times!  If  only  one  such 
pleading  child  were  condemned  to 
die  ! iecause'Sveare"!tiredof giving" 
it  would  be  enough  to  blanch  the 
cheeks  of  every  man  and  woman 
who  readsthispage.  But  upon  many 
thousands  of  boys  and  girls  the  sen- 
tence of  death  lias  just  been  passed. 
In  Armenia  a  Christian  race  is  be- 
ing blotted  out  — while  the  world 
looks  on.  In  Armenia  peace  did  not 
com.  when  the  rest  of  the  world 
stopped  lighting.    Last  year  140  vil- 


lages were  destroyed;  thousands  of 
mothers  and  grown  daughters  were 
violated  and  slain;  fathers  were 
herded  into  buildings  and  burned; 
multitudes  of  orphaned  children 
were  driven  into  the  wilderness  to 
wander  and  die.  unless,  perchance, 
they  might  be  gathered,  like  lost 
lambs,  into  folds  of  safty  by  the 
Near  East  relief.  Conditions  are 
worse  than  at  any  time  since  the  ar- 
mistice. Frantic  appeals  for  more, 
food  to  save  the  children,  for  more 
clothing  to  cover  their  naked  bodies, 
for  more  hospitals  and  orphanages 
to  give  them  refuge  come  surging 
over  the  cables  to  '  kind,  generous 
Americans,"  the  hoped-for  savior  of 
Armenia. 

And  in  the  moment  of  this  crisis, 
when  the  question  of  life  or  death 
for  unnumbered  thousands  of  chil- 
dren must  be  answered,  the  tender 
charity  of  American  mothers  and  fa- 
thers has  begun  to  fail.  Their  an- 
swer to  the  multitude  of  little  orph- 
ans whose  only  sin  is  hunger,  and 
nakedness  and  immeasurable  grief, 
has  been. — in  December,  and  Jan- 
uary, and  Feburary,  and  March  — 
not  more  money,  and  more  clothing, 
and  more  food,  but  less.  And  so  the 
cruel  order  has  gone  forth  from  the 
offices  of  the  near  East  Relief  to  re- 
duce all  expenditures  twenty-five 
percent.  Twenty-live  children  from 
every  hundred  now  receiving  care 
must  be  turned  away.  Among  the 
many  thousands  whose  wails  of  hun- 
ger, ami  sickness,  and  cold  have  not 
vel  been  answered,  not  one  can  be 
satisfied. 


18 


THE  UPLIFT 


HOW   FRANK   PAGE    WORKS. 

Een  Dixon  MacNeill  in  News  and  Observer. 


'■you  can't  sit  down  and  write  a  le 
find  $250,000  for  which  please  ship  to 
roads.     Roads  arc  not  in  the  catalogue 

Thus  did  Highway  Commissioner  i 
tive  citizen  who  had  come  to  Raleigh 

to  be  pulled  to  get  a  piece  of  road 
finished,  why  somebody  didn't  get 
behind  that  fiddling  contractor  and 
make  him  do  something. 

"He's  been  piddling  along  there 
now  since  last  September,  and  not 
done  yet  Looks  like  lie  will  not  be 
through     this  whole     summer.     Why, 

look    to    me . ' '     And    so    on, 

He  just  couldn't  understand  it, 
couldn't  see  any  reason  why  they 
didn't  go  on  and  finish  it  and  let 
people  get  some  use  out  of  it  some- 
time. 

A  Lesson  From  Home 

"How  many  tons  of  fertilizer  did 
you  buy  this  year.'"  The  question 
took  the  restive  citizen  somewhat 
aback.  He  was  thinking  about  the 
slowness  of  contractors. 


'  I  got  forty  tons  this  year.  Win 


it 


"How  far  did  you  have  to  hau 
and  how  long  did   it   take  you?" 

"Four  miles,  and  off  and  on,  the 
boys  were  about  a  week  at  it,  maybe 
more  than  that.  The  weather  was 
bad   some   of   the   time   and — " 

"Do  you  know  how  many  tons  of 
rock  and  sand  and  cement  that  pid- 
dling contractor  has  got  to  haul,  some 
of  it  ten  miles,  before  he  finishes  that 
job  you  are  kicking  about  ?" 

He  didn't  know.  He  hadn't 
thought  about  it,  though  he  had  seen 
trucks  going  back  and  forth.  "Well, 
I'll  tell  you.     That  contractor  has  got 


tter  to  Sears  Roebuck  saying  'Euelosed 
me  at  once  ten  miles  of  hard  surfaced 
,  ami  you  have  got  to  build   'em." 
rank  Rage  illumine  the  mind  of  a  res- 
to  find  out  just  what  sort   of  wires  had 

to  move  4,336  tons  of  stuff,  some  of 
it  ten  miles  and  all  of  it  an  average 
of  live  miles,  and  he  has  got  to  haul 
it  in  good  weather,"  stated  the  Com- 
missioner. 

Why  Not  Hurry? 

"Well,  why  don't  he  get  him  some 
more  trucks  and  get  through  with 
it?"  The  inquisitor  was  in  no  wise 
ready  to  surrender. 

"Why  didn't  you  get  all  the  wag- 
ons in  the  neighborhood  and  get 
through  with  your  fertilizer  in  one 
day?"  the  Commissioner  countered. 

"Wouldn't  pay." 

Wouldn't  pay  you,  would  it?  Well, 
how  long  did  it  take  you  to  get  your 
fertilizer  in  the  ground?" 

"Part  of  it  is  under  the  shed  yet. 
You  know  how  to  put  out  fertilizer. 
It  took  about  two  weeks,  one  dis- 
tributor, one  plow  and  then  a  cotton 
planter.". 

"Why  didn't  you  get  half  a  dozen 
distributors  and  half  a  dozen  plows 
and   do   it   all   in  one  day?" 

"Say,  don't  you  know  any  more 
about  farming  than  that?  Don't  you 
know  that's  foolishness?"  The  res- 
tive citizen,  who  happened  to  he  a 
farmer  and  a  member  of  the  board 
of  county  commissioners  back  at 
home  was  beginning  to  think  that  the 
Commissioner  was  gone  plumb  be- 
yond all  reason,  or  that  he  was  not 
good  enough   Tar  Heel   to  know  even 


THE  UPLIFT  19 

the  rudiments  of  fanning.  tent  ion   to  the  minutest  detail  in  the 

"Don't   you  see   it,   don't   you   see  measuring  and   mixing  of  the  aggre- 

that      there   has  got   to   he      common  gates,  and  the  14-day  vigil  that  conies 

sense      in    building    mads   just      like  while  the  cement  is  getting  its  "set." 


1C  Miles  Per  Week 


there  is  in  tanning.  You  can't  get 
your  fertilizer  home  in  a  day,  plant 
'your  crop  the  next,  harvest  it  the  Three  hundred  feet  of  pavement 
day  after  and  spend  the  rest  of  the  ',cr  dav>  a!ul  :m  average  of  four  days 
year  doing  nothing.  It  just  doesn't  w'"'lc  a  w'eok  '"  t,le  sPrinSi  summer 
work  out  that  way.  It's  the  same  and  fal1,  is  a"  average  that  eontrae- 
way  about  building  a  road."  The  tors  and  lliSh«"ay  engineers  and  in- 
Commissioners  had  convinced  one  sPeetoi-s  Arcam  about  at  night.  Just 
citizen  that  it  takes  time  to  build  a  now  ""'"'  are  70  construction  gangs 
roail  in  the  Slate  maintaining-  that  aver- 
All  of  which  about  sums  of  why  a=e'  ;'1"1  S4'00  Eeet  "r  Pavement  are 
Xorlh  Carolina  can't  get  its  road's  added  to  tllLJ  State  svstem  every 
built  overnight.  BuilcL.ig  a  mile  of  week-  But  lhink  baek  to  t,le  <'ailis 
bard  surfaced  road  mi  •  ws  mini  and  snows  and  freezes  of  last  win- 
labor  aol  ni..i'.j  mate.ial  than  the  tel''  and  the  rains  lhat  are  ahead. 
construe'i  -:  pf  a  ten-3iurv  builder.?,  Figured  baek  to  the  basis  of  the 
but  str  >1k 'J  oai  along  h.'-'Mi  feet  lndlvldual  J"1',  it  is  less  than  a  quar- 
of  ground  it  doesn't  show  up,  and  ter  o£  a  raile  a  ttcek-  and  a  mile  Per 
most' of  the  woik  is  done  out  or  sighl  month      ls    a    Potable    average      in 

ood      weather.      That    is    where      the 


of  the  public. 

Soni'3  Scier.eo  In  II 

Building    a    roa  1    involves 


citizen  who  wants  his  road  when  he 
wants  them  gets  restless  and  not 
infrequently  gets  so   restless   that   he 


highly  developed  technique  linn  l.v.il.l-  gets  uis  ],.,,  .m(1  (.01nes  (lown  to 
ing  an  value  b'lildirjg  Tilings  have  Raleigh  to  see  what 's  the  matter.  If 
got  to  be  just  so,  even  to  the  number  lu,  ,..m-t  come>  (le  buys  .,  stamp. 
of  seconds  that  the  rock  and  sand  -'Why  can't  he  get  along  faster? 
and  cement  are  mixed  together  ill  nave  we  got  to  stand  for  that  detour 
the  mixing  machinery,  the  number  for  the  rest  of  our  lives ? "  Constant- 
of  gallons  of  water  that  go  into  the  lv  t]H,  question  recurs,  the  folks 
mixture,  the  accuracy  of  the  measure-  euss  anout  getting  stuck  on  a  de- 
ments of  material,  the  texture  and  tour  somewhere  and  write  sarcastic 
qualities  of  the  material,  the  set  and  liters  about  the  whole  business. 
the  curing  of  the  mass  after  it  is  Chief  Engineer  L'pham  calls  it  3 
belched  out  of  the  mixer.  "detour  year,"  a  year  when  so  much 
The  weather  has  got  to  be  right.  ,)f;  [ue  touring  in  North  Carolina  will 
It     can't    he   done   in   the   rain,     7ior  |x.  detouring. 


It's  a  Sizeable  Job 


light  after  rain,  and  when  it  doesn't 

tain,  the  creeks   run  dry,  and  drouth 

is  likely  to  stop  work  for  weeks  at  a  But    why  can't    it    he   done   faster? 

time.     Hard  surfaced  roads  come  only      How  many   of   these   restless   citizens 

through    patience,    and    constant    at-      know   what   the   State  of   North   Car- 


20  THE  UPLIFT 

oliiui  asks  for  when  it  oilers  a  road  where  it  should  cross  this  hill.  Afler 
to  a  contractor,  or  how  he  "ill  go  the  first  survey  came  other  eiigi- 
abont  ^«-'l  1  i nu  the  road  to  the  S t ;i  t c  ?  neers,  anil  designed  the  road,  no- 
How  many  ever  saw  the  specifications  counted  for  every  shovel  full  of  dirt 
of  hard  surfaced  construction.  Take  thai  would  have  to  be  moved,  eom- 
l'or  instance  the  project  to  be  let  down  puled  the  last  truck-load  of  rock 
in  Cumberland  county  week  after  next.  that  would  he  needed.  Then  l he 
This  is  what  is  wanted:  plans  came  to  Craven's  department 
Clearing  and  grubbing,  17  acres;  and  every  foot  of  the  read,  grades, 
excavation,  59,200  cubic  yards;  ditch-  curves  and  the  like  were  made 
es,2,000  cubic  yards;  1,184  lineal  df  ready  for  the  blue  print, 
east   iron  pipe,  Hi  to30    inches   in   di-  Find   Local   Materials 

ameter;     pavement,      116,940      square  ,>   ,-  ,,  -,.     ,- 

,  '     .     ,       ...  „,,   '    .  ,  Belore    the    specifications    are    sent 

varus;    u-b    men    thickness,      lhe    lob  f      ,,  ,       f  .,        ,-,         .        . 

_  •'  to    the    contractors,    the    Department 

is  11.0/   miles  long,  stretching  toward        ..      T  .  ■  i    -c     »      >   i 

,  .  "1       lllS]>ectlons    and     lests    takes      a 

Raeford,  and  in  most  particulars  is  an  ,        ,       ,-.  .■   •.  , 

1  liana.      Une  or  its  men  goes  iinwn  to 

average  of  the  conditions  throughout 


the  State. 


the    prospective    job    and    over    every 
acre   of   the   ground   looking    for   na- 


The      contractor    will    figure       the  ,•  .     •   ,  '    ,.,    t       ■,, 

.  °      ■  tive   materials    that   will   come   up   to 

tiling  out  on  the  unit   basis,  and  sub-  , ,,        ,       :«    .t;    .,,       ir    n,„_      ;. 

.    ■  '  the    specifications.     It    there    is    any 

nut    his    bid.     Should    he    happen    to  stone>  ,u,   flnds  Qut   if  i(.   wiU  do  for 

be  low,  he  will   assemble   about   *7o,-  n,a(1    buiklillg.      He    looks    fol.    san(lj 

000    worth    of    maehinerv    and    equip-  ,■  i         i     i   ,    i    »i  n 

11  tor     gravel,   calculated   the     quality, 

meat,    buy    005    carloads    of    crushed  ,  .,,      ,  ,  ,,     ,    ,      ,   , 

anil     measures  the  haul,   and     takes 
stone,   3-jS   carloads  of   sand   and   107  .        ,.   .,,      ,  •,  •>,•.  , 

'  _  note  or   the  accessibility. 


carloads    of    cement.      lie    will    go    to 
work,  and   in   a  year  or  so,  he  ought 


Reports  of  these  investigations  are 
attached    to    the    call    for    bids.      The 


to  be  through  the  job.  contractor   can    figure  just   how   mad, 

How  Job  Is  Started               .  ioeai    material    he    can    use,   and    how 

Back  of  the  bidding  in  of  the  con-  much    he    can    save.      One    contractor 

tract    is    yet    another    story,    of    how  recently   made   out   his   bid   before  lie 

the      State    found    out    exacly      how  got   the     material  survey,  and     when 

much    work    there    was   to   be      done,  he   did   get    it,   he   eut.fGSjOOO   oil1  his 

and   set    the   specification   down   on   a  bid    and   got    the   job.      Otherwise   lie 

piece      of    paper.      First,   of      course,  might    have   been    buying   stone    from 

Commissioner        McGirt        designated  West    Virginia    when    there   are   .:cres 

that    road    as   one   he   wants   built    as  of   it    within    a   stone's   throw   of  his 

soon      as   possible,   and    it    \ys      desig-  job.     This     department   costs     some- 

neted   for  "immediate  construction.''  tiling      like    $2,00    per    month,      and 

Instructions      went   out    to   the      engi-  saves,  well,  nobody  knows  how  much, 

neering    department.  Ordinarily   the  contractor  does  not 

Preliminary  surveys   were  made   to  buy    his    cement    and    in    some    cases 

locate    the    road,    to    mak    whether    it  the   purchase   of   the   sand   and    -tone 

should  go  this  side  or  the  other  side  is   left    to    the    Commission.     A    fixed 

of      such    and    such    a    field    or      just  price   is   made   on   materials,   and   the 


THE  UPLIFT                                                 21 

bid     is  figured  on   that     basis.     The  to  be  laid  down.     It  has  to  be  drained 

Commission     buys  through     eompeti-  and  smoothed   out   and  solidficd,   and 

live    bidding   in   large    quantity,    and  settled   and   made:   ready    for   the   tre- 

generally  is  able  to  effect   a  big  sav-  mendous    weight    that    it    is    to   carry 

fog.     If  he   does  his  own   buying,  he  for   the   next    few   decades.      It    is   as- 

gets  start'  as   low  as  he  ''an,   and   us-  important      as    the   foundation    of      a 

ually  at   a   price  obtained  before  the  Sky-scraper. 

bid  is  submitted  At  Last  the  pour 

Included    m    the    contractor's    out-  rnl           ... 

.                    .  ,^  then   tliev    begin   to    pour,   as   the 

fit    is      a    concrete    mixer,    eight      to  .        .        ;,,.      °       ,       \ 

,           o  i               i               ,    '          .  ,  saying  is.      that  is  tliev  begin  to  put 

twelve      3-ton    motor    trucks,      with  ,                                ,          '  ,                 , 

down  concrete.      A   truck   comes   lum- 


ilumn-bodies  and  a  very  short  wheel 
hasi'i  a  loading  crane,  steel  forms, 
and     a   raft     of  smaller     miscellany. 


bering   down   the   right   of   way,   load- 
ed   with    three    tons    of    rock,    cement 

and    sand.      The    aggregate    is    "one- 
Fur     the  grading,   twenty   to     forty 


far      [lie    Ljiaoinu,    iweniv    to       Iortv  ,       ,     ,  .  ,.        ,T 

,    .„   ;,  ,'    .       ,        ■       two-ana-a-hall-live,      or  one  part  ce- 

leams,      and    it    the    work    is      heavv  .  ,    '  , ,„  '     , 

llient,  two  and  a  hair  parts  sand  ana 

five  parts   crushed   stone      Jt   mounts. 

a   turn-table,  is  turned  around,   backs- 
will     use,   the  railroad   will      provide  , ,  •  ,    , 

.,     .       ,  o-     i     -i  i     i      i-  ,      "1'   1°   the   mixer   and   dumps   the   ag- 

side   tracks.     He   builds   loading   and 


enough,     a  steam     shovel.     For     t 
1,190     carloads  of  material   that      h 


measuring  bins,  and  a  warehouse  for 
cement. 


gregate   into   the   hopper   of  the  mix- 
er. 

Xinety  seconds,  after  the  mass  is. 
Get  Ready  First  whirled '  around  and  around  in  the 
First  the  grading.  Any  school  boy  mixer  a  sluice  opens,  and  the  gray, 
who  hasn't  forgotten  the  formula  for  sticky  mass  comes  out  into  a  travel- 
extracting  the  cube  root  from  60,000  ing  bucket.  The  bucket  shoots  Out 
cubic  yards  will  be  able  to  figure  along  a  sweep,  the  bottom  drops  out 
just  how  big  a  pile  of  dirt  that  is.  and  the  mess  is  spilled  out  over  the- 
It  is  a  tremendous  pile  of  dirt,  but  subgrade,  which  has  been  smoothed 
it  comes  in  handy  filling  up  low  out  like  a  floor.  There  laborers  with 
places  on  the  right  of  way,  making  spades  smooth  it  out,  and  tuck  it 
embankments  and  tills  and  the  like,  up  against  the  steel  sides  of  the 
Five  per  cent  is  the  maximum  grade  forms.  The  first  concrete  is  laid, 
allowed  on  a  State  road,  a  rule  that  two  and  one  third  cubic  yards  of  it. 
has  been  abrogated  not  more  than  More  trucks  and  more  whirling 
twice  in  all  Xovth  Carolina,  and  then  of  the  mixer  more  falling  out  of  the 
for  special  reasons.  bottom  of  the  bucket.  Three  hun- 
Wuter  pipes  have  to  be  laid,  and  dred  feet  in  one  day  is  a  tremendous 
|  the  machinery  set  up.  These  things  trip  for  the  mixer  to  move  along-  - 
are  done  usually  while  the  grading  the  right  of  way,  and  there  are; 
is  getting  under  way,  and  the  sub-  smiles  of  satisfaction,  [f  the  sched- 
grade  allowed  to  settle.  If  sub-  ule  of  the  trucks  is  not  carefully 
grade  is  too  technical  a  term,  it  is  worked  out,  the  mixer  must  wait,  or 
the  -round,  just  plain,  everday  truck-  must  stand  in  line  waiting 
ground,   where   the   concrete   i-   going  their     turn   to   di.sgore   the   dry      ele- 


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merits  that  will  presently  become 
concrete.  Or  if  the  water  dosen't 
.flow  in  a  steady  stream.  It  is  a  high- 
ly synchronized  business. 

But  that  is  not  the  end  of  the 
road.  It  is  not  finished.  The  next 
fourteen  days  are  as  critical  as  the 
proverbial  baby's  second.  Then  is 
the  time  that  the  summer  meticulous 
care  must  be  taken.  Otherwise  the 
concrete  will  crack.  It  must  get  its 
set,  and  then  it  must  be  cured,  and 
somebody  has  got  to  sit  up  at  night 
with   it. 

First  comes  a  man  with  what  they 
call  templates,  a  sort  of  a  glorified 
and  magnified  trowel  that  smoothes 
the  smallest  wrinkles  out  of  the  wet, 
soggy  surface,  and  leaves  it  as  clean 
as  a  pane  of  glass.  Then  very  ten- 
dely  they  lay  burlap  or  canvass  over 
the  new  laid  pavement, and  turn  on 
the  hose.  For  24  hours  a  steady 
stream  of  water  kept  running  over 
it.     The  burlap  is  kept   soaked. 

After  that  they  take  of  the  burlap 
and  spread  two  inches  of  earth  ovei 
the  surface.  More  water  constantly 
keeping  the  earth  always  wet  for  14 
days.  Twenty  one  days  and  the 
earth  is  removed  and  at  the  end  of 
the  '23th  day,  traffic  can  begin  to 
travel  over  it.  By  that  time  it  has 
its  set,  and  has  been  thoroughly  cured, 
to  use  a  phrase  that  these  roads  tech- 
nicians have  borrowed  from  the  to- 
bacco grower.      The   road   is   finished 

"Contractors  are  just  as  honest 
and  conscientious  as  any  other  class 
-of  men  in  the  world,  but  some  of 
them  have  to  be  watched."  Mr.  Page 
says  now  and  then  He  watches 
them  all  the  time. 

Never  a  seconl  while  the  work  is 
in  progress  is  it  away  from  the  eyes 


of  an  inspector.  Lung  investigation 
and  costly  experience  have  taught 
road  engineers  how  to  compound  the 
mixture  that  goes  into  a  road,  and 
the  specifications  say  what  it  is. 
Sand  is  cheaper  than  cement,  and 
stone  is  cheaper  than  sand,  ami 
there  are  contractors  who  would  not 
hesitate  to  put  in  less  eeiiitnt  it' 
they  could  get  away  wi'Jl  it. 

The  specifications  say  that  l ho 
road  must  be  six  inches  thick  on  the 
sides  and  eight  inches  thick  in  the 
middle.  Half  an  inch  cut  jl't  the 
depth  anywhere  would  mean  eight 
per  cent  less  cost  in  the  road,  ant 
that  much  more  prolil  1,>  the  con- 
tractor if  he  could  "e."  away  with 
that.  Some  of  them  tr.  it,  and  sotne 
of  them  lack  training,  and  many  ol 
them  don't  need  wiUhiug.  But  they 
all  get  it. 

Fp  at  the  loading  bins,  there  is 
an  inspector  who  watches  every  hag 
of  cement  that  goes  into  the  lk,\, 
measures  (lie  -tones  lor  it  and  the 
sand.  Down  at  the  mixer  is  anothti 
man  who  watches  the  indicator  to 
see  that  the  mix  is  ninety  seconds. 
Thirty  seconds  off  would  speed  up 
the  job,  but  it  would  show  up  later 
when   the  cement   began   to  crack. 

Another  check  is  maintained  back 
in  Raleigh  in  the  testing  labratory. 
The  contractor  submits  to  the  Com- 
mission an  account  of  every  bag  of 
cement  that  he  uses  ami  an  account 
of  every  foot  of  pavement  he  lays. 
They  can  figure  out  to  a  yard  how 
much  pavement  he  ought  to  have 
laid  with  so  much  cement.  They  do 
figure  out,  and  some  recent  fig- 
uring will  probably  develop  some 
things. 

One   inch  of   the   right   sort   of  ce- 


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ment  have  two  and  half  billion  par-  ent     locations  would  double  the     size 

tides      in    it.     On    that    depends      its  of    the      organization,    the      overhead 

value.      Other      cement    is    not      good  cost      of  operation,   and   the  cost     off 

for  roads,  but  the  contractor  can  get  equipment.      Concrete     work  lias     its. 

it  for  less  money.      Some  contractors  limitations,      and   anyhow   the     roads 

would  use  it,  but   the  testing  depart-  ..are   going    to    last    several    life    times, 

men      tests    every    shipment    of      ce-  if  time  is  taken  with  building   thom. 

ment     that  comes  to  a  job  in     North  The  restive  citizen  got  his  hat  and 

Carolina.     Very    often    the    inanufac-  went      home.     He   din't   know      until 

hirer     wails   and  gnashes   his      teeth  he  got   to   figuring  on  the  gaek  of  an 

and    sell    a    rejected    car    load   of   ce-  envelope   that    this  year  North   Caro- 

iiient   to   somebody   who   is   less   care-  Una   will  buy  19,512,000  tons  of  road 

fill.  building    materials,    dump    them    into 

But    why    can't    all    this    be    done  a      hundred    hoppers    and    see      them 

faster?  come    out    on    the    other    side    in    the- 

llard     surface   roads   are   IS     feet  shape  of  450  miles  of  hard  surfaced 

wide,  and   there  is  room   for  but  one  roads,   or   that    the    State    was   so   al- 

concrete  mixer  and  three  men  work-  mighty   particular   about    it. 


mt 


abreast.     Two   mixers   on    differ- 


A  man  becomes  at  last  what  he  loves  best. — David  Gregg. 


ADOLESCENT  BOYS   OUT   OF  SCHOOL. 

A  recent  investigation  of  245,000  employed  boys  yield  many  facts  about 
such  boys  that  are  interesting  and  suggestive  to  educational  authorities,. 
The  study,  which  was  made  by  Mr.  EL  C.  Burdge  for  the  New  York  State 
Military  Commission,  is  based  on  a  questionnaire  sent  to  sixteen,  seventeen 

and      eighteen-year-old      employed  The   median    employed   boy     left 

boys  and  shows  the   following   find-  school  at  about  15.5  years  of  age. 

ings.  The  median  employed  boy  eomplet- 

Six  sevenths  of  all  sixteen,  seven-  ed  about  8.3  grades. 
teen  and  eighteen-year-old  boys   in  The  grades  completed  by  the  med- 
New  York  State  are  out  of  school.  ian  employed  boy  vary  from   8.3   in 
Over  sixty-five  per  cent  of  the  em-  Greater  New  York  to  7.7  in  the  farm- 
ployed  boys  remained  in  school  one  boy  group. 

or  more  years    beyond   the    complu-  The  vast   majorty   of   these    boys 
sory  ai>e  limit.  left  school  because  they  "wanted  to- 
Over  thirty  per  cent  left  on  or  be-  go  to  work"  and    not    because    they 
fore  reaching  the  legal  age  for  leav-  were  obliged  to. 
in<*  school.  Less  than  fifteen  per  cent   report- 
About  six  per  cent    left   illegally.  ed  that  they  were  obliged    to   go   to- 
About  thirty  per  cent   left    school  work, 
before  fifteen.  About  ninety  per  cent  of  the   em- 


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ployed  boys   received   their   educa-  in  getting1  employment.  " 

tion  in  the  public  schools.  About  one-fourth   get   their  jobs 

Relatively  few  employed  boys  re-  through  friends  and  acquaintance, 

ceived  any    training    in   State-aided  About  three-fourths  get  them  by 

vocational  schools.  applying. 

Mathematics    is    the     best     liked  Over  forty  per  cent  spent  less  than 

study  among  the  employed  boys.  four  and  one-half   months   on   their 

English  is  tin'  least    liked    study.  last  job. 

Less  than  ten  per  cent  of  the   em-  About  sixty  per   cent    spent   less 

plo3"ed  boys  attend  night  school.  than  seven  and  one-half   months  on 

Over  sixty  per  cent  state  that  they  their  last  job. 
do  not  wish  to  attend.  Most  boys  leaving  school  on  or  be- 
Less  than  three  per  cent   of   fore-  fore  completing  the  eight  grade  enter 
ign-born  boys  attend    night    school.  and  desire  to    enter    the    industrial 

The  median  employed  boy  receiv-  trades  and  occupations. 

ed  between  fifteen  and  eighteen  dol-  Most  boys   who   complete   one  or 

lai'S  per  week.  more  years  in  the  high  school  enter 

Less  than  two  per  cent  of  the  em-  and    desire    to    enter     professional, 

ployed  boys  are  assisted  by  schools,  clerical,  and  retail  business  occupa- 

churches,  and  employment  agencies  tions. 


Whether  v/e  climb,  whether  we  plod, 

Space  for  one  task  the  scant  years  lend- 
To  choose  some  path  that  leads  to  God, 
And  keep  it  to  the  end. — Reese. 


THE   HYGIENE    OF   THE   HOME. 

By  Muriel  Barnes. 

It  is  universally  agreed  that  a  woman  who  honestly  and  intelligently 
supervises  or  cares  for  her  home  makes  a  Worthwhile  economic  and  social 
contribution  to  her  community.  More  and  more'  the  present  day  social 
order  is  recognizing  the  force  that  well  ordered  homes  can  exert 

Therefore,  our   homes   now    must  or  linger.      Insects.-  such    as   water 

be  something  more  than  mere  places  bugs,    tlees,    mosquitoes  or  roaches 

of  protection  or  of  peaceand pleasure.  must  be  kept  out  of  the  home  by  the 

To  ful fill  this  real  purpose  they  must  simple  device  of  keeping  that    home 

contribute  to  mankind's  efficiency  by  free  of  unsanitary  waste  improperly 

contributing     to     the      health     and  disposed  of. 

strength  of  every  member  of  the  fam-  Fortunately,    the   modern    hnme- 

ily;  hence  a  home  to  really  lie  of  ser-  maker  is    baring    menanee    of   uver- 

vice  in  these  modern  times  must  be  furnishing.     With  decreased  furni- 

a  safe  and  sanitary  place  to   live    in.  tui'C    and    so-called   ornaments     the 

It  must  be  free  of  dirt,  dust  or task- of  keeping    the    home   clean   is 

of  any  kind  where  germs   may    lurk  made  infinitely    lighter.      Rut   it   is 


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not  only  the  interior  of  the  home  the  heat-making  qualities  of  the  sun. 
that  makes  for  its  sanitation  ;  the  These  elements  should  be  freely  ad- 
grounds,  the  yards,  the  out  houses  mitt  eel  not-only  to  the :  living  and  sleep- 
all  play  an  important  part  in  the  ing  rooms  but  to  the  kitchens  and 
health  of  the  home.  storage  rooms;  to  pantries  and  pro- 
A  home  where  the  common  house  vision  closets  and  to  all  places  where 
lly  is  permitted  to  roam  at  will  is  the  the  necessary  articles  of  living- 
net  a  place  of  protection  but  a  place  are  kept. 

of  potential  danger.  A  home  with-  Doctors  and  druggists,  pills  and 
Out  adequate  ventilation;  without  fa-  potions  are  indeed  powerless  topro- 
cilities  for  letting-  in  the  air  and  sun-  tect  us  if  we  neglect  the  elements  of 
shine,  is  not  a  place  of  safety  but  sanitation  in  the  home.  Each  day 
a  place  of  actual  peril.  We  now  real-  this  is  being  learned  more  thorough- 
ize  that  man  lias  never  manufactured  ly  and  it  is  the  homemakers'  obvious 
a  disinfectant  or  ag  erm-destroyer  duty  to  society  that  the  practical  ap- 
cqunl  to  that  created  by  nature  from  plication  of  those  lessons  be  not  de- 
oxygen  and  nitrogen,  of  the  air   and  laved  nor  their  benefits  denied. 


Stay,  stay  at  home,  my  heart,  and  rest; 
Home-keeping  hearts  are  happiest. — Longfellow. 


THE   VALUE  OF   YOUTH. 

By  Elizabeth  Forman 

It  is  a  scathing  indictment  of  our  Men  who  have  honor  and  who  will 

spiritual    progress  that  man   is    the  not  lie. 

hist  of  God's  creatures  to  be  scientif-  Strong  men,  uncrowned  men  who 
ically  studied.  Not  till  the  end  of  the  lift  their  head  above  the  fog  in  pub- 
19th  century  was  discovery  made  lie  dutv  and  in  private  thinking." 
of  the  child.  It  been  heralded  as  The  cry  will  be  needless  in  the 
the  crowning  achievement  of  that  future  in  proportion  to  the  realization 
century;  that  the  result  of  that  dis-  of  the  world  that  in  it's  hands  lies 
covcry  has  been  so  meager  is  a  mat-  the  plastic  mind  and  heart  of  youth 
trr  of  concern  to  all  of  us.  At  every  and  so  all  the  hopes  and  possibili- 
crisis  in  the  world's  history  the  bit-  ties  of  the  future, 
ter  cry  has  gone  forth.  "God  give  us  Just  here  I  feel  that  I  must  go 
men."  A  time  like  this  demands  back  of  my  subject  a  little  and  ex- 
great  hearts,  strougfaith  and  willing  press  some  impatience  with  our 
hands.  governing  bodies;  because  they  are 

"Men  whom  the  lust  of  office  can-  not  yet  awake   to   the   necessity   of 

not  tempt,  safe-guarding  the  value  of  youth  by 

Men  whom  the  spoils  of  office  can-  proper  laws  for  the   elimination    by 

uot  buy  surgical  procedure  of  those  unfit  for 

Men  who  possess  opinions  and   a  reproduction.      The  social    value   of 

will  youth    is   enormously     reduced  for 


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lack  of  such  laws.  Someone  has 
put  it  simply  and  clearly  by  saying 
'We  must  get  the  right  people  born 
and  the  wrong-  people  not  born." 
"We  have  estimated  the  national 
value  of  youth  by  numbers  alone 
and  so  put  ourselves  in  the  position 
of  the  men  who  estimates  his  wealth 
by  the  number  of  coins  he  owns  not 
knowing  whether  they  are  counter- 
feit. Ruskin  says,  It  is  a  matter 
of  no  final  concern  to  any  parent 
whether  he  shall  have  two  children 
or  four,  hut,  it  is  a  matter  of  quite 
final  concern  whether  those  he  has 
shall  or  shall  not  deserve  to  be 
hanged." 

A  nation's  real  strength  and  hap- 
piness do  not  depend  upon  proper- 
ties or  territories,  nor  on  machin- 
ery for  their  defence,  but  on  their 
getting  such  territory  as  they  have 
well  filled  with  none  but  respecta- 
ble persons  which  is  a  way  of  in- 
finitely enlarging  one's  territory 
possible  to  every  country.  Darwin 
says  that  except  in  the  case  of  man 
himself  hardly  anyone  is  so  ignor- 
ant as  to  allow  his  worst  animals 
to  breed. 

The  world  never  put  forth  its 
strength  against  evil  when  they  are 
small.  The  multiplication  of  jails, 
poor  houses,  insane  asylum  and  cor- 
rective institutions  to  take  eareof  the 
youth  which  come  from  the  degener- 
ate and  mentally  deficient  warns  us 
that  this  evil  has  reached  gigantic 
proportion  and  that  legislation  must 
soon  begin  to  provide  for  youth 
its  proper  heredity. 

Five  hundred  million  dollars  are 
invested  in  prisons,  two  hundred 
million  for  their  maintenance.  Six 
billion  dollars  spent  on  crime  each- 
year.  Youth  comes  into  the  world 
a  potential  asset    to  society  as    it 


comes  in  response  to  a  universal  call 
and  in  fulfillment  of  a  natural  law. 
When  it  becomes  a  liability  the  fault 
is  with  society  as  society  has  the 
advantage  of  the  accumulated  know- 
ledge and  wisdom  of  the  ages,  to 
which  the  child  has  an  inherent 
right  and  society  suffers  when  youth 
is  deprived  of  it.  Heredity  gives 
us  potentialities,  environment  makes 
them  actualities.  Their  relative  im- 
portance is  a  secondary  considera- 
tion so  that  we  have  them  both  per- 
fected, and  as,  unhappily,  we  cannot 
as  yet  secure  for  our  youth  freedom 
from  heredity  taint  we  must  use 
that  powerful  weapon  environment 
to  the  limit  of  its  possibilities. 

If  every  child  born  into  the  nation 
this  year  were  correctly  trained 
what  period  of  time  would  elapse 
before  graft,  political  trickery,  mur- 
der, theft  and  all  the  greater  anil 
lesser  brood  of  evils  would  be  rel- 
egated entirely  to  the  barbarous 
past?  Will  you  accuse  me  of  extra- 
vagent  optimism  if  I  say  fifty  years, 
and  yet  I  think  you  must  agree  with 
me  that  so  powerful  are  the  influ- 
ences of  environment  that  we  can 
almost  absolutely  determine  the 
moral  and  spiritual  destiny  of  our 
youth. 

Walt  Whitman  expresses  the  idea 
very  happily  in  his  poem: 

"'There  was  a  child  went  forth  every 

every  day. 
And  the  first  object  he  looked  upon, 

that  objedt  he  became, 
And  that  object  became  a  part  of  him 
For  the  day  or  a  certain  part  of  the 

day, 
Or    for   many   years   or   stretching 

cycles  of  years." 

Beginning  young,  action  becomes 
habit,  and  habit  becomes  character, 


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supreme 


which  gives    to   youth    its 
and  eternal  value. 

We  should  give  our  youth  a  sound 
liody  and  such  training  as  shall  en- 
able him  to  make  a  living.  Mental 
and  moral  self-reliance  and  the  pro- 
per outlook  tor  social  efficiency. 

We  might  spend  hours  counsell- 
ing with  each  other  as  to  the'  value 
and  methods  of  acyuirment  of  these 
things,  but  what  especially  con- 
cerns us  who  are  banded  together 
'"In  His  Name"  is  the  awakened  con- 
science. Jesus  said  "I  came  that 
you  might  have  life  and  that  you 
might  have  it  more  abundantly." 
There  is  no  fullness  of  life  in  this 
sense  unless  one  has  part  in  the 
life  of  God.  It  is  the  goal  to 
which  all  this  training  must  lead; 
without  this  spiritual  awakening 
and  growth  youth  will  be  of  very- 
little  lasting  worth  to  society  be- 
cause it  will  not  have  that  to  bestow 
which  society  most  needs  for  its 
prosperity  am:  happiness.  A  youth 
:mbued  with  courage,  morality  and 
ofty  purpose  shall  feel  a  burning 
indignation  at  wrongs,  at  injustice, 
at  foul  living,  shall  bring  rich    con- 


tribution of  enthusiasm  tothe  world's 
life,  shall  replenish  the  soul  of  the 
world. 

Now.  have  we  as  professed  fellow - 
ers  of  the  Master  banded  together 
In  His  Name"  no  obligation  or  re- 
sponsibility other  than  to  talk  this 
over? 

Quite  recently  in  California  a  boy 
lfi  years  old  was  sentenced  to  30 
years  in  prison  for  murder  in  the 
second  degree.  The  judge  in  pass- 
ing the  sentence  said  it,  was  sad  but 
he  said  we  can't  shut  our  eyes  to  the 
past,  the  boy  had  been  associated 
with  a  dangerous  element.  What 
about  shutting  your  eyes  to  the  fact 
that  a  boy  16  is  sent  to  prison  for  30 
years  as  a  result  of  h.s  environment? 
Who  is  responsible  for  the  fact  that 
there  existed  a  dangerous  element 
ready  to  contaminate  a  boy  of  l(i? 
Thirty  years  of  prison  life  will  make 
this  boy  a  dangerous  enemy  of  soci- 
ety. Is  that  the  best  that  civilizat- 
ion can  do  for  the  protection  of  youth. 
What  can  we  do?  What  is  our  part 
in  the  great  work  of  throwing  safe- 
guards around  the  youth? 


Do  good, — all  the  good  in  thy  power, — of  every  sort, — and  to  every  per- 
son.— Adoniram  Judson. 


SUMMER   RAIN. 

By  Henry  Ward  Beecher  ■ 

Men  begin  to  look  at  the  signs  of  the  weather.  It  is  long  since  much  rain 
fell.  The  ground  is  a  little  dry,  and  the  road  is  a  good  deal  dusty.  The  gar- 
den bakes.  Transplanted  trees  are  thirsty.  Wheels  are  shrinking  and  tires 
are  looking  dangerous.  Men  speculate  on  the  clouds;  they  begin  to  calculate 
hew  long  it  will  be,  if  no  rain  falls,  before  the  potatoes  will  suffer;  the  oats, 
tie  corn,  the  grass — everthing.     To  be  sure,  nothing  is  yet  suffering,  but  then — 

Rain,  rain,  rain!  All  day,  all  night  The  hay  is  out  and  spoiling.  The 
Stotidy   raining.      Will   it   never  stop?      rain  washes  the  garden.     The  ground 


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-is  full.     All  things  have  dvunk  their  Indeed,   sir,    your  humble   servant 

fill.     The    spring's    revive,    the    mend-  even,  was  stirred  up  on  the  day  after 

ows  are  wet;  the  rivers  run  discolor-  "Fourth  of  duly."     The  grass  in  tlio 

ed     with    the    .soil    from    every    hill,  old  orchard  was  not  the  best.     Indeed, 

Smoaking  cattle  reek  under  the  sheds;  we  grumbled  at  it  considerable^-  while 

liens,    and    fowl    in    general,     shelter  it    was  yet   .standing.     But   being  cut 

and   illume.      The   sky   is   laden.      The  and  the  rain  threatneing  it,  one  would 

clouds   are   full   yet.      The   long   fleece  have  thought   it  gould,  by  the  nimble 

covers   the   mountains.      The   hills   art'  way   in   which   we  tried   to  save  it! 

Clipped   in   white.      The   air  is  full  of  Blessed      be     horse     rakes!     One..: 

moisture.  half  a  dozen  men,  with  half  a  dozen 

Rain,  rain,  rain!      The  winds  roars  rakes,   would   have  gone   whiskinz  up 

down     the     chimney.      The     birds    are  and   down,   thrusting   out    and   pul'inu 

silent.     No      insects      chirp.      Closets  in    the    long-handled   rake,    with   slow 

■smell      moldy.      The      barometer      is  and  laborious  process.     But   no  more  S 

■dogged.      We     thump  it,  but   it     will  of  that.     See  friend  Turner,  mounted 

not  get  up.   It  seems  to  have  an  under-  on    the    wheeled     horse     rake,     rid'rgj 

standing  with  the  weather.     The  trees  about  as  if  for  pleasure.     Up  go  the 

"drip,       shoes     are     muddy,      carriage  steel    teeth    and    drop    their    collected 

■and    wagon     aresplashed    with     dirt,  load,  down  go  his  feet,  and  the  tc.th 

Paths   are   soft.      So    it    is.     When   it  are  at   work  again;   and  at   every  ten 

is   clear   we   want    rain,    and    when   it  or    fifteen    feet    the    windrow    forms.', 

rains  we  wish  it  would  shine.  It    is   easy   times   when   men  ride  and 

But,  after  all,  how  lucky  for  grumb-  horses    rake!     No    more    hand    rakes, 
lers  that  they  are  not  allowed  to  rued-  and  no  more  revolving  horse  rakes! 
die  with  the     weather,  and  that     it  is  Meanwhile,   the   clouds   come   howl- 
put  above  'their  reach !  What  a  scramb-'  ing   noiselessly   through   the   air,  ami 
ling,  selfish,  mischief-making  time  we  spit   here   and   there   a   drop   prelimi-  jj 
should    have,    if    men    undertook    to  nary.     But    the    hay    is    cocked,    the 
parcel  out  the  seasons  and  the  weath-  sides  dressed  down,   and   all  is  ready   ; 
■ed  according  to  their  several  humors  — except  the  hay  covers!  Alas  for  our 
■or  interests!  negligence.     The    manufacturers    had 

But  if  one  will  look  for  enjoyment,  offered  to  send  us  some  for  trial,  and 

how  much  there  is  in  every  change  of  we  had  forgotten  to  say,  "Send  them 

weather.     The    formation    of    clouds,  along!"     And  now.,  with  our  hay  cut 

— the    various   signs   and   signals,    the  and  the  rain  coming,  we  mourned  our 

uncertain   wheeling  and   marching    of  carelessness.     With  good  hay  cover;, 

the  lieeey  cohorts,  the  shades  of  light  our   two   dozen   little   haycocks    ivould 

and  gray  in  the  broken  heavens, — all  have  been  as  snug  as  if  in  the  barn. 

have    their   pleasure    to   an   observant  Well,   if  one  thing  .suffers,  another 

eye.      Then   came   the   wind  gust,   the  gains.   See  how  the  leaves  are  washed, 

distant,   dark   clouds,    the    occasional  the  grass  drinks,  the  corn  drinks,  the 

fiery  streak  shot  down  through  it,  the  garden   drinks,    everything   drinks.  It 

tun    and   hurry    of   men    whose    work  is  our  opinion  that  everything,  except  . 

may   suffer!  man,  is  laughing  and  rejoicing.  Trees. 


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29 


shake  their  leaves  with  ;i  softer  sound. 
Bucks  look  moist  and  soft,  at  least 
where  the  muss  grows.  Even  the 
solitary  old  pine  tree  chords  his  harp, 
and  sings  soft  and  low  melodies  with 
plaintive  undulations. 

A  good  summer  storm  is  a  rain  of 
riches.  If  gold  and  silver  rattled 
down  from  I  he  clouds,  they  would 
hardly  enrich  the  land  so  much  as  the 
soft,  long  rains.  Every  drop  is  sil- 
ver going  to  the  mint-.  The  roots  are 
machinery,  and,  catching  the  willing 
drops,  they  assay  them,  refine  them, 
roll  I  hem,  stamp  them,  and  turn  them 
out     coined     berries,     apples,    grains, 


Institutional    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

Mr.  Ankers  has  reached  the  depth 
of  153  ft  with  the  well. 

Judge  Willams,  of  Charlotte,  was 
a    visitor    at     the    school  Saturday. 

The  house-boys  are  now  getting 
ice  so  frequently  it  seems  a  regular 
part  of  their  routine. 

Mr.   R.   B.  Cloer,    popular  officer 

here,  was  visited  by  his  lather, 
Mr.  J.  W.  Cloer,  of  Taylorsville. 
Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday. 

Tuesday,  the  9th,  was  a  day  of 
vacation  from  the  studies  of  school. 
But  it  was  not  one  from  work,  how- 
ever, for  some  raked  hay,  others 
hoed  and  still  others  did  needful 
work. 

Rev.  Mr.  Dryman,  of  Brown  Mill 
Methodist  church,  was  the  conducter 
of  services  in  the  Auditorium,  Sun- 
day May  14th.  A  few  minutes  be- 
fore,  his    arrival   the   boys     sang     a 


and  grasses.  When  the  heavens  send 
clouds,  ami  they  hank  u[>  the  horizon, 
be  sure  they  had  hidden  gold  in  them. 
All  the  mountains  of  California 
are  not  SO  rich  as  are  the  soft  mines 
of  Heaven  that  send  down  treasures 
upon  man  without  asking  him,  and 
pour  riches  upon  his  held  without 
spade  or  pickax — without  his  search 
or  notice.  Well,  let  it  rain,  then. 
Xo  matter  it  the  .journey  is  delayed, 
the  picnic  spoiled,  the  visit  adjourn- 
ed. Blessed  be  rain — and  rain  in 
summer!  Ami  blessed  be  he  who 
watereth  the  earth,  and  enricheth  it 
for  man  and  beast ! 


number  of  religious  songs  and 
hymns.  Rev  Dryman  spoke  on  the 
topic  "Man." 

Mr.  .T.  D.  Haney,  Charlotte  elec- 
trician, worked  on  our  electrical  ap- 
paratus last  week,  transfering  the 
wires  from  the  old  to  the  new  poles, 
lie  also  fixed  our  apparatus  so  that 
the  authorities  will  not  have  to 
send  to  Concord  to  have  the  supply 
of  electricty  cut  off  over  the  whole 
school.  This  can  now  be  done 
here. 

The  Fairbrother  Contest  being 
over.  Mr.  Johnson  announced  to  his 
students  that  another  contest  per- 
taining to  the  Latham  Pavilion  is 
now  open.  Many  boys  are  writing 
for  the  prizes  which  are  as  follows: 
1st  prize,  §3;  2nd  prize,  82;  3rd  prize 
Si.  The  ones  who  won  in  the  Fair- 
brother  Contest  are  all  striving  to 
their  utmost  capacity  to  win  at  least 
one  of  these  prizes. 

Boys  in  digging  ditches  prepara- 
tory to  laying  pipes,  frequently  en- 
countered big  rocks    which   barred 


30 


THE  UPLIFT 


their  further  progress.  The  sup- 
ervisor of  the  ditch  digging,  Capt. 
Grier,  decided  the  the  quickest. 
easiest  and  best  way  to  remove  the 
rocks  would  be  to  blast.  Now  ex- 
plosions startle  different  working 
parties  and  caused  them  to  scatter 
helter-skelter  for  safety.  The 
blasting  does  the  work,  though,  and 
it  is  well  worth  its  trouble. 

Louis  Norris.  Claude  Coley,  Ellis 
Nance.  Fred  Parrish,  Lick  Brock- 
well,  Earnest  Jordan  and  Kieth 
Hunt  joyously  dropped  whatever 
work  they  were  doing  when  came 
the  news:  '  Someone  is  here  to  see 
you!"  They  then,  after  greeting 
parents  and  relatives,  showed  them 
around  the  School,  filling  the  ones 
who  had  not  visited  the  school  be- 
fore with  new-found  admiration  of 
the  scenery  and  buildings;  increas- 
ing the  admiration  of  the  old  visit- 
ors. 

Sunday  the  14th  was  the  day 
which  is  celebrated  the  country  over 
with  reverence.  It  was  Mother's 
Day.  The  students  feel  that  dedi- 
cating a  Sunday  to  the  Mothers  of 
the  world  is  the  only  fitting  tribute. 
They  know  that  no  one  is  more  bless- 
ed than  Mother.  When  they  speak 
of  her,  their  voices  take  on  a  lower 
and  softer  tone.  Their  eyes  well 
with  feeling  whenever  they  hear  the 
word  Mother.  The  students  wrote 
home  Monday,  the  15th,  with  letters 
full  of  expressions  of  gratitude  to 
mother. 

The  Institutional  Band  under  the 
capable  leadership  of  Mi-.  Lawrence, 
sojourned  to  Concord  Tuesday,  the 
9th,  to  play  for  the  American  Legion. 
The  next  day  being  the  Kith  of  May 
— Memoral  Day — they   went  again  to 


Concord  to  vie  with  others  in  doing 
high  honor  to  tin1  still  surviving 
Confederate  Veterans.  Each  Band 
individual  came  back  with  stories  of 
wonderful  'good  times"  each  good 
time  reflected  upon  the  unselfishness 
of  the  Citizens  of  Concord  in  making 
the  Jackson  Training  School  stu- 
dents feel  at  home.  Whenever  any 
of  the  boys  go  to  Concord,  they  are 
always  treated  kindly,  curteously 
and  helpfully. 

Something  "has  occured  at  the 
school  which  made  all  of  the  hoys 
happy.  It  has  made  the  Mecklen- 
burg Cottage  boys  happier  and  vet 
made  the  reporter  happiest  of  all, 
because  he  is  a  native  of  Mecklen- 
burg. The  joy  bringing  event 
was  the  installing  of  the  bronze  tab- 
let on  Mecklenburg  Cottage.  There 
is  no  need  of  pointing  out  the  Meck- 
lenburg Cottage  to  any  visitors  be- 
cause they  can  see  it  in  print.  The 
Mecklenburg  Cottage  boys  areeager- 
ly  awaiting  the  visit  of  the  committee 
from  this  up-to-date  county  who  are  j 
to  present  the  cottage  to  the  school. 
The  Mecklenburg  Cottage  was  made  > 
possible  by  the  efforts  of  Rev.  A.  A. 
McGeachy,  pastor  of  the  Second  j 
Presbyterian  Church,  of  Charlotte. 


J.  T.  S.  WINS. 


Saturday  witnessed  one  of  the 
most  exciting  games  of  ball  that  was 
ever  played  on  J.  T.  S.  soil.  The 
J.  T.  S.  met  and  defeated  the  team 
hailing  from  St.  John's  Church. 
The  game  was  one  full  of  features 
and  remarkable  plays.  From  the 
first  until  the  fourth  innings  neith- 
er side  scored,  although  it  called 
for  some  unusual  fielding  on  the 
J.  T.  S's  to  hold  the  other  side  score- 


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less.  The  St.  John  players  sure  full  of  hits  For  both  sides.  Then 
hit  the  pill!  Singles  constituted  came  the  turning  point  of  the  game. 
their  main  hopes,  but  the  clever  When  the  school  went  to  bat  it  scor- 
playing  by  the  J.  T.  S,  still  held  ed  one  run.  School  fans'  hopes  ran 
tlieni  down.  The  home  team  pitch-  high  again,  and  such  cheering  and 
er  was  batted  freely  as  he  did  not  rooting!  But  after  that  erne  run  the 
wear  himself  down  by  pitching  in  his  side  was  retired.  Anxiety  prevail- 
utmost  strength.  He  had  a  justly  ed  until  St.  John  was  also  retired  and 
placed  confidence  in  his  fellow  team  when  the  J.  T.  S.  again  went  to  bat, 
mates.  In  the  fifth  inning  the  each  player  was  told  to  "do  your 
fun  commenced — fun  for  the  visitors.  best."  Each  player  must  have, 
The  J.  T.  S's  opponents  began  that  obeyed  this  instruction,  for  again  a 
inning  by  applying  the  stick  to  the  run  was  placed  to  the  credit  of  the 
ball.  The  out-fielders  were  sent  to  J.  T.  S.  Now  the  two  learns  were 
scurrying  to  all  parts  of  the  pasture  tied  and  such  a  race  for  she  victory! 
collecting  knocked-away  balls.  The  visitors  were  again  turned  back 
Three  outs  were  finally  called  against  without  a  run.  The  home  team  came 
them  after  they  had  chalked  up  a  1  to  bat  full  of  hope.  This  hope  was 
toll  lead  over  the  J.  T.  S.  The  realized,  for  soon  one  of  the  J.  T.  S. 
School  scored  not  a  run  in  the  next  players  crossed  the  home  plate, coin- 
session,  but  the  visitors  .^repeated  ing  from  third.  The  game  was  over, 
their  previous  performance.  Faces  J.  T.  S.  won  by  the  score  of  3  to  2. 
grew  long  and  many  of  the  School  Score  by  innings: 
fans  believed  that  the  J.  T.  S.  had  R.  H.  E. 
lost  the  game.  But.  like  others  the  St.  John  000  Oil  U00  0—2  ?  5 
players  "died  fighting."  The  next  J.  T.  S.  000  000  Oil  1—3  (5  8 
inning  was  void  of  any  runs,  though 


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AUTHOR. 

"One  Sunday  afternoon  Margaret  Bottonie  was 
returning  to  her  home  in  New  York  City,"  said  Mr. 
S.  D.  Gordon.  "She  had  been  attending  the  famous 
Bible  class  of  Dr.  William  Thomson,  the  man  who 
made  'The  Land  and  the  Book.' 

"As  she  reached  home  she  found  a  caller.  He 
was  a  scholarly,  cultured  gentleman,  a  professor  in 
one  of  the  New  York  City  universities.  In  express- 
ing her  regret  at  being  out  when  he  called,  she  ex- 
plained she  had  been  at  Dr.  Thomson's  class. 

"With  his  contempt  only  thinly  veiled  by  his  fine 
culture  of  manner,  «ie  caller  said,  'Oh,  you  believe 
in  the  Bible,  do  you?' 

"Margaret  Bottome  was  a  woman  of  rare  person- 
ality and  Attractiveness.  She  turned  to  her  visitor, 
and  very  quitely  said,  'Oh,  you  see,  I  have  the 
pleasure  of  a  personal  acquaintance  with  the  Author 

of  the  Book.' 

"And  that  made  all  the  difference  to  her.  With 
her  unusual  gift  of  simple  speech  she  had  told  the 
secret  of  getting  an  understanding  and  nKstery  of 
this  Old  Book." 


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PUBLISHED    BY 


"ha  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Eoy'3  Printing    Class.     Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,.         J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

The  truly  richest  old  man  in  America  probably  carries  a  dinner  pail  and 
measures  his  wealth  in  health  and  happiness  and  not  money. — The  Buffalo 
Times. 

♦   ~Y   *    -!<   $  J(t  Jfc   3ji 

' '  CHILDREN  FOR  SALE  CHEAP. ' ' 

That's  a  very  engaging  article  elsewhere  in  this  issue  from  the  pen  of 
Prof.  C.  C.  Zimmerman,  of  the  State  College,  at  Raleigh.  He  analyzes  the 
educational  problem  in  the  rural  districts  of  North  Carolina  in  such  a  way 
that  there  seems  no  chance  of  escape  from  the  charge  of  a  seriously  neglected 
responsibility  on  the  part  of  the  leaders. 

Prof.  Zimmerman  dates  the  educational  revival  in  North  Carolina  from  the 
popular  administration  of  the  late  Ayeock.  Unfortunately  the  great  boost 
Gov.  Ayeock  gave  to  the  cause  of  education  stopped  almost  wholly  in  the 
'owns  and  cities— it  spent  but  little  of  its  brilliant  force  on  the  rural  prob- 
lem. '  It's  a  hard  thing  to  say— it  is  a  most  painful  thing  to  face— but 
it  is  the  everlasting  truth  that  in  the  main  the  rural  schools,  except  in  a 
few  instances,  are  not  functioning  one  whit  better  or  more  efneienty  today 
tlian  they  did  in  the  days  when  Major  Finger,  John  C.  Scarborough  and  C . 
H.  Mebane  administered  the  educational  matter's  of  the  Stat 3.  In  recent 
years,  the  leaders  have  been  running  after  half-baked  theoiies,  making  the 
machine  top-heavy  and  in  some  instances  very  fancy  and  high-sounding— 
working  the  end  fartherest  from  the  child  and  the  cause,  making  a  great 
and  spectular  posing,  but  the  average  rural  child  has  been  growing 


I  noise 


«p  in  ignorance. 
This    took    place,    too,    in  the  face  of  the  fact  that  the  funds  collected  for 


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educational  purposes  is  twenty  times  as  great  as  formerly, 

Let's  make  the  platform  of  the  ''modern  cavalier"  carry  an  even  half 
dozen  planks.  How  would  this  do  for  the  sixth:  "Give  the  County  School 
authorities  more  legislative  power— latitude  to  exercise  some,  good  common 
sense  in  handling  the  one  hundred! lm)  counties)  different  school  problems; 
and  demand  that  they  make  service  rather  than  salary  their  slogan. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 

DR.  ALEX  GRAHAM'S  HISTORICAL  COHTRIBUTIOK. 

THE  UPLIFT  has  a  security  box.  where  it  places  its  few  valuable  collect- 
ions. In  that  strong  box  yoes  the  fourth  page  of  the  Charlotte  Observer  of 
May  20th,  H)22.  It  is  Prof.  Alexander  Graham's  contribution  of  evidence 
as  to  the  authenticity  of  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration  of  Independence. 
It  is  valuable,  entertaining  and,  in  a  large  measure,  very  satisfying. 

Those  of  us  who  revere  the  memory  of  the  Confederate  cause  and  the 
heroes  that  made  it  immortal  in  history  by  their  valour,  their  bravery  and 
great  sacrifice,  cannot  but  regret  that  Dr.  Graham  would  offer  as  testimony 
anything  that  may  have  been  said  by  Muzzy's  History,  already  tahoocl, 
condemned  and  kicked  out.  Dr.  Graham  quotes  Muzzy  as  saying:  "North 
Carolina  led  all  the  colonies  in  the  matter  of  independence,  and  Massachu- 
setts and  Virginia  and  all  the  other  colonies  fell  in  behind  and  followed  her 
example." 

We  are  unable  to  find    in   Muzzy's   History    (The  Revised   Edition)  the 
foregoing  quotation;  but  at  the  bottom  of  page  113,  in  a  foot-note,  printed  in 
very  small  type,  this  occurs:   "In  May  1775,  some  North   Carolina  patriots,  j, 
of  the  county  of  Mecklenburg,  had  voted  that  the  king's  civil  and    military  j 
commissions  were  all  annulled  and  vacated.'      This  vote  was   practically  a 
declaration  of  independence  by  the  patriots  of  Mecklenburg  County,  but  no  I 
formal  declaration  was  drawn  up,  and  the  North   Carolina  delegates  failed 
to  report  the  resolution  to  the  Continental  Congress."     The  '  much  cussed 
and  discussed  Mr.  Muzzy,"  therefore,  must  have  undergone  a  slight  change 
in  his  views  about  the  character  of  this  historical  event.    But  the  historian 
(?)  Muzzy  did  not  repent  of  what  he  said  on  page  47  of  his  Revised  Edition: 
"There  is  little  in  the  history  of  the  Carolinas  to  detain  us.     It  is  a  story 
of  inefficient  government,  of  wrangling  and  discord  between  people  and  gov- 
ernors, governors  and  proprietors,  proprietors  and  king.     North  Carolina 
was  described  'as  a  sanctuary  of  runaways,'  where  'everyone  did  what  was 
right  in  his  own  eyes,  paying  tribute  neither  to  God  nor  to  Caesar.'  " 
Dr.  Graham's  citation  of  other  evidence  is  from  high  and   reliable  sourc- 


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cs.  which  he  has  marshaled  in  a  fine  manner  toward  making  out  a  strong1 
ease  for  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration;  and.  years  and  years  to  come,  copies 
of  his  story  and  account  of  this  great  event  of  177o.  and  handled  so  splendid- 
ly by  the  Charlotte  Observer  May  20th,  1922  will  be  brought  out  from 
various  sources  and  homes  to  enlighten  new  comers  and  new  generations. 

%  %  %  *  #  &  %  # 

REMEDYING  SOME  WEAK  POINTS. 

Dr.  Brooks,  the  State  Superintendant  of  Public  Instruction,  has  issued  a 
letter  to  the  county  school  authorities,  that  indicates  that  his  thoughts  just 
now  are  running  along  very  practical  lines.  He  notifies  counties  that  they 
need  not  expect  any  contributions  from  his  department  towards  the  salaries 
of  the  County  Superintendents.  Very  wise  act.  When  lie  started  contrib- 
uting towards  the  local  salaries,  the  cost  of  the  local  offices  shot  skyward. 
Jumping  from  SI, 500  to  $3,000  with  a  salaried  clerk,  was  traveling  at  a 
pretty  rapid  rate.  Under  the  new  ruling  the  salaries  must  be  met  locally 
and  doubtless 'mi  the  future  will  be  fixed  on  a  basis  commensurate  with 
the  services  rendered. 

In  the  very  same  pronouncement  from  the  State  Department  of  Education, 
may  be  seen  another  ruling  which  is  headed  in  the  right  direction.  The 
requisite  for  a  two-teacher  school,  underlie  crazy-quilt  school  law,  was  an 
average  attendance  of  thirty.  The  ruling  now  makes  the  minimum  of  38  for 
a  2-teacher  school,  "preferably  forty."  This  basis  for  designating  the-  two- 
teacher  schools  seems,  to  practical  school  teachers  in  the  rural  sections,  as 
fundamentally  wrong.  This  matter  should  be  decided  on  the  grades  repre- 
sented in  said  schools  rather  than  entirely  on  the  number  of  pupils  in  atten- 
dance. But  the  fact  that  a  bad  error  has  been  acknowledged  and  a  correc- 
tion attempted,  by  which  a  waste  of  school  funds  will.be  avoided,  shows 
very  gratifying  evidence  that  the  real  problem  of  rural  education,  for  which 
the  "department  is  primarily  maintained,  is  receiving  business-like  atten- 
tion. 

Let's  go  some  more. 

******** 

Miss  Bessie  Thompson,  of  Leasburg,  Caswell  county,  is  an  avowed  can- 
didate for  the  State  Senate  from  the  district  composed  of  the  counties  of 
Durham,  Alamance,  Orange  and  Caswell.  She  is  described  as  a  woman  of 
the  highest  intellectuality  and  thoroughly  progressive.  If  M.ss  Thompson 
succeeds  and  THE  UPLIFT  is  pulling  for  her  with  all  its  might,  she  wdl 
be  an  outstanding  historical   figure  in  North  Carolina-the    first  woman  to 


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sit  in  the  North  Carolina  Senate  Chamber  with  all  the  rights  of  full  citizen- 
ship including  the  privilege  of  voting  and  being  heard  on  all  questions. 

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The  officials  of  the  Statu  Fair  are  having  some  little  excitement 
over  whether  to  move  or  enlarge  the  fair  grounds,  or  stay  put.  General 
Julian  S.  Carr,  who  saved  it  Iran  bankruptcy  twice,  made  a  public  confes- 
sion of  his  regrets  in  naming  a  certain  gentleman  assistant  to  the  president.. 
The  general  public  had  ccme  to  wonder  why  the  General  was  thrusting 
honors  so  carelessly. 

Our  neighbor,  The  Concord  Observer,  is  moving  into  new  quarters. 
Editor  Keistler  is  conscious  of  his  surroundings.  In  full  view  of  the  Court- 
House  and  the  City  Hall,  and  right  at  his  door  is  a  grave-yard.  If  the 
brothel1  be  not  good,  the  authorities  will  have  but  a  few  steps  to  take  in 
bringing  him  to  account. 

The  Monkey  ites  in  the  high  places  in  North  Carolina  look  foolish  and  very 
monkeyish  before  the  great  majority  of  our  people,  who  believe  The  Book 
is  the  one  infallible  guide. 

V.  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  *.* 
•  i  »jp  v  t*  *y  *,»  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  %*  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  V  ; 
*•?  ♦> 

1        THE   MAN  AND   THE   WOOD.         I 

*♦*  V 

♦I*  ♦;+ 

*■£  A  man  came  into  a  wood  one  day  with  an  axe  in  his  hand,  and  beg-  T 

*  jed  all  the  Trees  to  give  him  a  small  branch  which  he  wanted  for  a  * 
<•  particular  purpose.  The  Trees  were  good-natured  and  gave  him  one  •:* 
%  of  their  branches.  What  did  the  Man  do  but  fix  it  in  the  axe  head,  !•' 
'£  and  soon  set  to  work  cutting  down  tree  after  tree.  Then  the  Trees  * 
♦>  saw  how  foolish  they  had  been  in  * 

*  GIVING  THEIR  ENEMY  THE  MEANS  OF  DESTROYING  THEM-  * 
%  "                                   SELVES.  % 

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FINDINGS    OF    AN    INSPECTOR. 


For  several  days  last  week  we  had 
from  up  North.  Thcyaro  coming  e\ 
and -.everybody  else  who  feel  an  intei 
Training  School.     Occasionally  a  foo 

one  who  has  absolutely  no  practical  1 

confronts  an  institution  of  this  kind 
and  then  goes  into  tin.'  details  of 
giving  advice,  instruction  and  a 
general  rcvisvmont  of  methods. 
These  folks  make  one  tired.  But 
these  occurrences  are  rare. 

Some  months  ago  a  pretty  little 
Yankee  girl,  wearing  her  dress  on 
a  level  with  her  knees,  assuming 
a  superiority  of  authority  and  a  com- 
mission from  a  higher  sou  re  .'.monkey- 
ed about  the  premises  for  a  period, 
then  went  off  with  her  eyes  skinned 
for  "'defects"and  closed  to  the  things 
that  loomed  large  and  important  and 
even  remarkable  for  an  effort  of  just 
thirteen  years.  The  tragedy  of  the 
thing  lies  in  the  fact  that  the  pretty 
little  Yankee  girl  knows  no  more 
about  the  science  and  prevailing 
methods  concerning  the  handling 
of  the  delinquent •  then  a  jay-bird 
knows  about  evolution. 

Rut  Dr.  W.  H.  Slingerland, 
special' agent  of  Child-Helping  Rus- 
sell Sage  Foundation,' of  New  York, 
(by  the  way  he  is  typical  of  our  im- 
aginary picture  of  an  orthodox 
Kentucky  Colonel,  and  is  a  real  plea- 
Mi  re  to  look  at  and  listen  to)  spent  a 
few  days  on  the  ground.  Dr. 
Slingerland  has  visited  every  instu- 
tioii  of  this  kind  and  some  trying  to 
be  of  this  kind  in  the  United  States. 
Up<.in  his  leaving,  the  editor  of  The 
Uplift  handed  him  a  self-addressed 
enveloped  and  requested  him  to 
write  back  his  opinion  of  the  Jackson 
Trt  ining  School.  We  did  not  care  to 


in  our  midst  an  interesting  gentleman 
eryfew  clays,  ail  of  them  are  welcome 
est  in  the  great  work 'of  tin.'  Jackson 
comes  among  us — I  mean  by  "fool" 
nowledge  of  the   great    problem   that 

take  his  remarks  lor  publieation 
while  the  excitement  of  his  enthu- 
siasm was  at  fever  heat — we  preferr- 
ed the  impressions  of  a  cool  and 
deliberate  moment 

And  tin:  following  is  Dr. 
Slingerland's  letter: 

"In  response  to  your  special  re- 
quest for  a  few  paragraphs  in  regard 
to  the  Stonewall  Jackson  Manual 
Training  and  Industrial  School,  I  am 
glad  to  say  that  the  institution  im- 
pressed me  as  one  of  the  best  of  the 
schools  for  delinquent  boys  in  the 
southern  states,  and  one  that  will 
rank  well  with  such  schools  in  any 
of  the  states. 

I  congratulate  you  on  an  excellent 
site,  high  and  sightly,  well  drained 
and  healthy,  and  attached  to  a  fairly 
fertile  body  of  tillable  land. 

I  congratulate  3-ou  on  your  build- 
ings, which  are  above  the  average 
in  kind  and  quality.  Especially  do 
I  feel  that  your  fidelity  to  the  Cot- 
tage Plan,  and  it  in  its  entirety,  so 
that  each  cottage  is  a  complete  do- 
mestic unit"  is  to  be  highly  com- 
mended. The  possible  home  life  in 
such  a  plant  is  far  above  what  can 
be  attained  in  one  that  is  congregate 
or  has  more  or  less  of  centralization. 

I  also  feel  that  your  growth  is 
phenonmenal,  especially  for  the  last 
year  or  two.  I  note  that  seven  cot« 
tages  are  now  occupied  with  their 
complement  of  boys;  that  two  more 
are  practically  ready  for  their  fami- 
lies; and  that  contracts  for  two  more. 


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are  let.  and  they  will  be  available  in 
a  few  months.  This  will  give  you, 
wh  .n  they  are  all  occupied,  eleven 
cottages  with  30  boys  each,  or  a 
total  population  of  330.  You  expect 
to  reach  this  point  within  a  year. 

Let  me  suggest  that  this  number 
will  very  In  gely  increase  your  res- 
ponsibilities, and  the  numbers  and 
variety  of  members  in  the  Staff.  I 
trust  that  a  high  grade  of  workers 
may  be  maintained;  that  the  aca- 
demic school  may  lie  properly  en- 
larged and  strengthened;  that  more 
high  grade  Industrial  or  Vocational 
departments  may  be  maintained, 
under  the  leadership  of  competent 
Trade  teachers;  and  that  the  excel- 
lent spirit  that  now  seems  to  per- 
vade the  School  may  not  be  lost 
when  numbers  multiply. 

I  am  glad  to  express  my  appreci- 
ation of  your  excellent  Superinten- 
dent, Professor  Charles  E.  Boger, 
to  whom  I  feel  much  of  the  steady 
advancement  of  the  School  is  due.  I 
also  found  serveal  of  the  Staff,  with 
whom  I-  was  brought  in  contact,  ex- 
cellent and  devoted  persons,  for 
whose  influence  and  efficiency  there 
can  be  no  doubt. 

Your  Chapel  is  a  Gem.  It  is  one 
of  the  bestv  though  far  from  the  lar- 
gest, in  such  schools  throughout 
the  Nation.  You  are  favored  above 
many  in  having  the  special  co-opera- 
tion of  the  Kings'  Daughters,  and 
this  their  latest  and  most  expressive 
gift  is  indeed  noteworthy. 

Your  School  Building  is  one  that 
is  a  credit  to  the  School  and  to  the 
State.  I  rejoice  to  find  a  school 
building  erected  with  definite  re- 
gard to  future  needs,  not  barely  so 
as  to  accommodate  the  population  of 
today.  Here  you  .  can  adequately 
supply  rooms  and  the  equipment  for 


several  hundreds  more  than  you  now 
have  without  undue  crowding.  It 
is  a  splendid  way  to  build,  thus  an- 
ticipating growth.  I  note  also  the 
special  service  rooms.  To  have  a 
central  library  room,  and  a  librarian, 
seem  to  me  very  desirable.  I  was 
pleased  to  find  that  provision  was 
made  for  a  Clinic  Room,  where  all 
sorts  of  examinations  and  minor 
treatments  tan  be  given.  The  excel- 
lent auditorium  must  supply  a  "long 
felt  want."  I  hope  the  basement 
Gymnasium  may  soon  be  equipped 
for  service.  Altogether,  it  is  one  of 
the  best  and  most  inclusive  buildings 
of  the  kind  I  have  seen  anywhere. 

The  School  has  been  highly  favor- 
ed in  the  matter  of  health,  and  so  fur 
there  has  been  little  need  of  a  real 
hospital.  But  that  favor  may  not  al- 
ways last,  and  especially  as  the 
numbers  are  doubling  up  so  fast. 
I  beg  to  advise  that  adequate  hos- 
pital facilities  be  provided  the  earl- 
iest possible  day. 

I  was  impressed  by  the  homelike 
spirit  of  the  institution,  and  the  de- 
sire of  most  of  the  boys  to  remain  as 
long  as  possible.  One  of  the  lads 
said  there  was  only  one  thing  he  was 
worrying  about,  the  fact  that  he 
probably  would  be  sent  home  the 
next  parole  day.  If  he  is  a  sample 
of  many,  and  I  think  he  is,  the 
Board  and  the  Staff  are  to  be  con- 
gratulated on  the  success  of  their 
work. 

If  I  may  judge  from  sample  copies 
of  THE  UPLIFT  that  came  into  my 
hands,  this  little  paper  is  not  only 
unique  as  an  institution  periodical, 
but  is  worthy  of  a  place  among  the 
very  best  of  those  published  in 
the  Industrial  Schools  of  the  coun- 
try. Its  office,  the  printing  olfice  of 
the  School,  is  an  excellant  example 


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of    an   Industrial   Department  that 
does  real  vocational  work. 

The  State  of  North  Carolina  may 
well  be  proud  of  the  exeellant  start 
made  hen.1  in  building  a  plant  for  a 
real  School  for  this  class  of  immature 
citizens.  Let  me  emphasize  my 
pleasure  in  the  fact  that  the  institu- 
tion is  without  any.  'visible  signs  of 
the  penal  idea."      It  is  not  a  juvenile 


prison,  it  is  a  SpecialSehool.andthe 
School  idea  is  written  large  in  every 
part  and  structure  of  the  plant. 
The  small  element  of  custodial  care 
necessarily  a  part  of  the  institution 
can  almost  be  ignored  in  our  vision  of 
its  larger  and  better  function.  I 
wish  that  all  of  your  citizens  could 
visit  and  study  the  school,  and  rec- 
ognize these  important  facts." 


It  is  believed  by  some  outsiders  looking  in  that  the  learned  brethern, 
if  they  did  not  descend  from  the  simian  tribe,  at  least  are  making  monkeys 
of  themselves  just  now. — Monroe  Enquirer. 


POWER   OF   CUSTOM. 

By  R.  II.  Clark. 
It  is  usage  that  fixes  the  standard  in  manners,  conduct,  form  of  expression, 
the  habits  of  the  individual  and  the  mass;  custom  fixes  the  standard  of  con- 
vention and  continued  practice  takes  the  form  of  unwriten  law.  Usage,  cus- 
tom, is  constantly  changing  and  the  matter  of  vital  concern  is  whether  it 
changes  for  better  or  for  worse.     Forms  of  expression,   the  use  of  words, 

change    and    are    tixed    by    usage,   re-  He  went  to  the  origin  of  the  word,  its 

gardless   of    the    original    meaning   of  derivation,  and  insisted  on  its  use  only 

the  words.      Chester  A.  Lord,  and  old  in  its  original  meaning.     For  instance 

New  York  newspaper  man,  has  been  to  say  that  one  is  "in  the     prime  of 

writing      in    the    Saturday      Evening  life"  means,  according  to  usage,  mid- 


Post  some  very  interesting  remini- 
seenes  of  newspaper  men  and  news- 
paper work  in  New  York  in  the  old 
<lays.  Naturally  the  reminscenes  deal 
much  with  Mr.  Dana,  who  made  the 
Xew  York  Sun  famous  for  so  many 
years.  Mr.  Dana,  as  older  newspaper 
readers  know,  was  a  very  scholarly 
man  and  under  his  adminstration  the 
Sun  was  a  model  of  correct  English 
and  altogather  a  splendid  production 
as  to  scholarship  and  language.  Mr. 
Dana  frequently  "called  down"  the 
writers  on  his  newspapers  for  the  mis- 
use of  words.  Neither  usage  nor  the 
dictionary   counted     with   Mr.   Dana. 


die  age.  Mr.  Dana  didn't  allow  that 
to  pass.  Prime,  said  the  scholarly 
old  editor,  is  from  the  Latin  word 
primus,  which  means  first,  and  a  man 
in  the  prime  of  life  is  in  the  first  of 
life  and  therefore  a  young  man. 

But  with  all  the  instruction  of  Mr. 
Dana  and  others  like  him  usage  goes 
on  fixing  the  standards  for  the  use  of 
words  and  the  customs  and  practices 
of  life.  In  recent  years  it  has  be- 
come the  common  practice  to  say  and 
write  " Congressmen  and  Senators" 
in  referring  to  the  members  of  our 
national  legislature.  Congress  is 
made  up  of  two  bodies  or  houses,  the 


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House  and  the  Senate.  There  are 
Senators  in  Congress  anil  Represen- 
tatives in  Congress,  and,  strictly 
speaking,  a  Congressman  is  a  member 
of  either  house.  Hut  it  became  cus- 
tom to  refer  to  the  members  of  the 
House — the  Representatives  in  Cou- 
gress--as  Congressmen  ami  that  has 
been  iixeil  by  usage,  not  because  it  is 
correct. 

Change  of  usage,  of  custom,  is  nec- 
essary and  desirable.  Hanging  on  to 
a  practice  simply  because  it  is  custom, 
is  foolish.  The  thing  to  determine  is 
whether  the  change  is  right  or  desir- 
able, is  for  the  best.  In  the  old  and 
sinful  days  it  was  not'  'accounted 
wrong,  generally  speaking,  to  keep  a 
little  strong  drink  about  the  premises 
and  custom  sanctioned  its  use  within 
reasonable  bounds  and  sometimes 
within  unreasonable  bounds.  But  the 
abuse  of  the  custom  resulted  in  the 
outlawing  of  the  liquor  traffiic  and 
the  use  of  intoxicants  is  no  longer 
considered  respectable,  or  at  least  not 
in  good  form.  One  instance  when 
the  change  is  for  the  better,  it  must 
be  admitted. 

But  there  are  other  changes  in  man- 
ners and  customes  that  can't  be  com- 
mended which  are  tolerated,  and  the 
toleration  mtTans  they  will  soon  he- 
come  fixed  practices.  That  is  where 
the  trouble  comes  in.  In  attempting 
to  break  away  from  fixed  standards, 
which  in  many  instances  could  be  re- 
laxed without  harm  if  not  wish  profit, 
the  disposition  is  to  go  too  for  and  the 
wrongful  practice,  being  tolerated, 
gradually  becomes  fixed  and  accepted 
because  of  usage.  I  haven't  the  time 
nor  the  reader  the  patience,  to  enum- 
erate some  of  the  changes  which  have 
been   for  the   worse,  in  manners   ami 


conduct,  but  I  am  going  to  suggest  one 
of  vital  concern,  and  that  is  in  the 
standard  of  honesty. 

There  have  always  been  dishonest 
people  ami  always  will  be,  but  [  am 
suggesting  that  certain  forms  of  dis- 
honesty have  been  tolerated  until  they 
are  brazenly  put  into  practice  and 
even  find  defenders.  Formerly  when 
hanks  were  few  and  the  use  of  checks 
uncommon,  worthless  checks  were  rare 
because  it  had  not  occurred  to  many 
people  that  they  could  till  out  a  check 
and    pass    it    over    for    an    obligation, 


w!ie 


ther  or  not  thev  had  any  fund 


s  m 


bank  to  meet  the  check.  But  after 
the  use  of  checks  became  common 
giving  cheeks  without  funds  in  bank 
to  meet  the  payment  came  into  prac- 
tice and  it  is  becoming  alarmingly 
common  because  drastic  measures 
have  not  been  taken  to  check  the 
worthless  checks.  In  any  gathering 
of  merchants  or  bankers  this  practice 
of  giving  worthless  checks  in  payment 
of  bills  is  a  subject  for  discussion  be- 
cause it  has  become  an  almost  every- 
day practice  among  some  of  our  so- 
called  "best  people."  It  isn't  con- 
fined to  the  sharpers  and  fakers  who 
get  forged  checks  cashed  by  the  un- 
wary and  then  pass  on.  It  is  your 
home  folks,  some  of  them  high  in  so- 
cial, business  and  religious  circles, 
who  readily  write  checks  and  pass 
them  for  value  received  when  the 
cheek  is  worthless  because  the  drawer 
had  no  funds  in  the  bank  when  he 
wrote  it  and  knew  he  had  none.  ;iome 
of  the  worthless  cheeks  are  mad.  uood 
after  more  or  less  trouble,  the  drawer 
adding  lying  to  the  first  sin  by  pre- 
tending that  he  didn't  know  h  /  had 
checked  all  his  funds  out  of  tin:  bank 
when   be   wrote   the   check.      At  'cast 


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99  per  cent  of  the  people  who  write 
cheeks  know,  or  can  know,  whether 
they  have   the   money   in  the  hank. 

Of  course  the  practice  is  dishonest. 
It  is  false  pretense,  pretending  to. 
give  something  of  value  for  value  re- 
ceived when  it  is  well  known  that  the 
cheek  is  worthless.  Why  isn't  some- 
thing done  about  it  ?  Because  so  many 
so-called  respectable  people  have  fal- 
len into  this  disreputable  and  dis- 
honest practice  that  it  has  attained  a 
sort  of  standing  by  usage.  If  the 
practice  continues,  and  it  is  being  ac- 
cepted, seemingly,  as  a  necessary  evil, 
presently  if  one  should  be  arrested  for 
giving  a  worthless  check,  as  lie  should 
he,  a  cry  of  persecution  will  be  raised. 
It  is  custom;  others  do  it;  and  he 
who  objects  to  it  will  be  criticised  as 
unreasonably  severe.  Nevertheless  ev- 


ery man  who  accepts  in  good  faith  a 
check  which  proves  worthless  should 
immediately  send  and  officer  with  a 
warrant  for  the  drawer,  unless  he 
has  reason — sound  reason — to  be- 
lieve that  an  honest  error  was  made. 
Certainly  the  warrant  should  be  next 
in  every  case  where  it  is  learned  that 
giving  worthless  checks  is  a  habit. 
A  few  cases  of  prosecution  would 
break  up  the  practice  and  honest  peo- 
ple owe  it  to  themselves  and  to  the 
public  to  place  a  brand  on  those  who 
persist  in  dishonest  practices  simply 
because  they  are  allowed  to  get  by 
with  them. 

In  accepting  usage  as  a  standard 
be  certain  that  the  usage  isn't  moral- 
ly or  legally  wrong.  The  conscience 
if  given  a  chance,  will  in  most  eases 
lix  the  moral  standard. 


I  was  entering  the  Concord  postofnee,  Monday  afternoon,  and,  in  pass- 
ing two  baby  carriages,  each  with  a  child,  one  of  the  dear  little  fellows 
(or  may  have  been  a  little  sister)  raised  up  and  smiled.  The  colored  nurse 
'Angrily  gave  the  child  a  push  and  ordered,  "Durn  you,  stay,  clown  dar." 
It  is  not  "where  is  my  wondering  boy;"  but  rather  "where  are  some 
wondering  mothers,  these  days?" 


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CHILDREN    FOR    SALE    CHEAP. 

By  C.  C.  Zimmerman. 

In  these  days  of  million  dollar  bond  issues  for  city  schools  and  peti- 
tions for  a  fatal  reduction  of  county  expenditures  for  school  and  welfare 
work  by  '"citizens  and  taxpayers"  organizations  in  the  rural  districts,  some 
of  the  more  public-minded  and  progressive  Tar  Heel  folks  will  perhaps  be 
interested  in  the  rural  schools  of  the   State.     Rural  schools  mean  the  7,738 


schools  in  North  Carolina,  of  which 
Schools  4. SOU  in  this  year  of  grace 
19:.' 2  are  one- room  one-teacher 
schools. 

People  haven't  always  had  schools 
of  any  kind,  and  free  public  schools 
have  existed   only   a   few   decades. 


Primitive  people  taught  their  child- 
ren the  productive  habits  of  the 
tribe  by  singing,  dancing,  and  play- 
ing together.  As  these  people  made 
their  living  by  hunting  and  fishing, 
and  by  taming  the  wild  animals, 
their  schools  consisted  of  war  games, 


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fighting  games,   fishing   games,  and 
dances  for  the   development   of    the 

individual. 

Tarheel  citizens  of  today  don't 
make  their  living  by  hunting,  fish- 
ing, and  the  taming  of  wild  animals. 
Unlike  the  Tarheel  before  the  day 
of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  the  present 
day  citizen  of  North  Carolina  makes 
his  living  by  growing  tine  leaf  to- 
bacco in  the  face  of  tobacco  wilt,  by 
growing  fine  cotton  under  boll  wee- 
vil conditions,  by  selling  factory 
made  shoes  under  conditions  of  busi- 
ness depression,  and  by  all  the  other 
trades  and  occupations  characteris- 
tic of  industrial  civilizations. 

So  the  Tarheeel  of  today  must 
have  a  higher  brand  of  intelligence 
and  training  than  was  required  dur- 
ing the  fishing  and  hunting  days  or 
even  during  the  days  immediately 
prior  to  the  boll  weevil,  the  income 
tax.  and  the  coal  strike.  What  is 
North  Carolina  doing  about  it.  and 
what  has  she  accomplished? 

North! Carolina  under  the  leader- 
ship of  the  great  Charles  Brandy 
Aycock,  has  seen  that  every  North 
Carolina  child  has  a  chance  for  an 
education."  Every  county  and 
every  townshyp  is  dotted  with  rural 
schools,  and  every  town  has  from 
one  to  a  dozen — all  for  the  purpose 
of  teaching  Tarheel  boys  and  girls 
the  things  necessary  for  modern 
citizenship  and  modern  methods  of 
making  a  living. 

The  most  sacred  institutions  in 
North  Carolina  right  now  are  her 
schools.  They  are  sacred  because 
these  schools  are  the  seats  of  know- 
ledge, the  brains  of  civilization,  and 
the  hope  of  all  future  progress. 

Take  the  public  schools  from 
North  Carolina  over  night  and  keep 
them  away  for  ten   years.     At   the 


end  of  that  time  the  civilization  of 
North  Carolina  would  have  gone 
back  a  hundred  years. 

But  there  are  two  things  about 
the  schools  of  North  Carolina  that 
should  engage  the  attention  of  every 
citizen.  First,  the  towns  because 
of  their  increased  wealth  and  better 
facilities  of  communication  have  im- 
proved their  schools  faster  than  the 
country,  so  that  the  country  boy  is 
handicapped  in  the  competition  for 
the  things  which  make  life  comfor- 
table and  agreeable.  In  the  second 
place,  modern  methods  of  gaining  a 
living  are  changing  so  fast  that  busi- 
ness has  outstripped  our  schools, 
that  while  our  schools  teach  Latin, 
Greek,  and  theoretical  mathematics, 
business  men  are  talking  about  pro- 
tits,  sales,  international  trade,  and 
cost  accounting. 

And  while  our  rural  schools  are 
telling  about  young  Lochinvar  who 
came  out  of  the  west  and  about  the 
boy  that  stood  on  the  burning  deck, 
our  farmers  are  talking  about  credit, 
world  conditions,  diversified  farm- 
ing, boll  weevils  and  war  finance 
corporations. 

Let's  take  Wake  county  rural 
schools  as  typical  of  North  Carolina. 
There  are  still  03  white  one-teach- 
er, two-teacher,  and  three-teacher 
schools  in  Wake  county,  and  only  11 
outside  of  Raleigh  and  Wake  Forest 
have  four  or  more  teachers.  Forty- 
six  of  the  jo  rural  schools  for  negro 
children  are  only  one-teacher  and 
two-teacher  schools.  These  condi- 
tions exist  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
the  North  Carolina  Educational  ('em- 
mission  in  its  1920  report  found  it 
almost  impossible  to  have  an  el)''  lent 
rural  school  with  less  than  four 
teachers. 

The  terms  in  23  of  Wake   county's 


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13 


132  rural  schools  arc  only  4  or  5 
months  long,  and  the  terras  in  S2 
Others  are  only  li  months  long". 
Thirteen,  or  less  than  ten  percent 
of  the  schools  outside  of  Raleigh  and 
Wake  Forest,  have  terms  of  8  months 
or  longer.  Yet  every  school  in 
Raleigh  has  a  9  months  term. 

An  average  of  more  than  5,000  of 
the  13,700  rural  school  children  are 
absent  each  day.  The  greatest  per- 
centages of  these  absences  occur  in 
the  smallest  schools  with  the  shortest 
terms  and  the  lowest  paid  teachers. 

Our  rural  people  through  false 
ideas  of  economy  and  lack  of  interest 
in  these  sacred  institutions  are  hand- 
icapping their  own  boys  and  girls 
—their  own  kith  and  kin  — in  the 
struggle  for  existance. 

The  salaries  of  21  of  the  373  rural 
teachers  iu  Wake  county  are  less 
than  S300  a  year.  Of  all  the  rural 
teachers  conbined,  only  22,  or  (> 
percent,  get  more  than  SHOO  a  year. 
Wake  county  rural  people  are  just 
kidding  themselves  if  they  think 
they. are  going  to  get  the  kind  of 
school  teachers  they  ought  to 
have  for  less  than  $1200  a  year  or 
$100  a  month.  The  22  teachers 
who  do  receive  living  salaries  teach 
in  the  towns  such  as  Zehulon.  Wen- 
dell. Apex,  Cary,  Fuquary  Springs, 
and  Holly  Springs. 

Don't  blame  it  on  John  C  Lock- 
hart,  Superintendent  of  county 
schools.  Mr.  Lockhart  is  one  of 
Wake  eounyt's  most  ardent  expon- 
ents of  good  schools  but  he  has 
been  handicapped  by  a  lack  of  fol- 
lowers. 

There  never  was    a   time   in   the 
history  of   North      Carolina     when 
farm  boys  and  girls  needed  educa- 
tion more  than  they  do  now.     Each 
;  succeeding  age  only  increases   that 


need.  Have  farmers  of  North  Caro- 
lina ever  faced  the  problems  they 
do  to  day?  Cooperative  marketing, 
proper  credit  conditions,  the  pro- 
blem of  home  raising  of  food,  diver- 
sified farming,  the  boll  weevil — are 
not  these  tough  problems  for  far- 
mers to  face? 

That  the  prosperity  of  the  town 
and  the  country  are  independent 
is  no  longer  a  question  of  doubt. 
Good  business  on  the  farm  means 
good  busines  in  town.  Good  busi- 
ness— profit-paying  business — will 
never  settle  permanently  on  North 
Carolina  farmers  until  the  country 
schools  teach  each  embroy  farmer 
the  correct  solution  of  agricultural 
problems. 

The  superintendent  of  schools  in 
a  county  of  the  kind  which  shelters 
several  taxpayers  organization  that 
are  now  clamoring  for  such  an- 
archistic changes  in  public  expen- 
ditures as  would  be  fatal  to  all  pro- 
gress, told  a  recent  visitor  that  70 
of  86  schools  in  the  county  were  of 
the  one,  room  one-teacher  type  with 
terms  of  six  months  or  less.  The 
county  had  only  one  improved  road, 
and  this  road  was  impassable  dur- 
ing the  rainy  season.  Yet  these 
people  were  demanding  the  resig- 
nation of  this  county  superintendant 
because  he  had  increased  the  school 
expenses  $9,000  the  previous  year 
by  making  the  educational  standards 
a  little  higher. 

There  they  were!  More  than  one- 
fifth  of  the  people  in  that  county 
could  neither  read  nor  write.  Stuck 
in  the  mud.  and  cutting  up  their  tow 
line. 

Need  one  be  surprised  to  find  that 
the  town  and  city  boys  who  compose 
the  freshman  classes  at  North  Caro- 
lina State  College  of  Agriculture  and 


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Engineering  have  an  average  of  96 
months  pre-College  education  com- 
pared to  77  months  pre-college  edu- 
cation for  the  country  boy  who  en- 
roll in  the  same   class. 

A  smaller  percentage  of  the  coun- 
try hoys  ever  go  to  college  at  all,  and 
those  who  do  are  handicapped  to  the 
extent  of  more  than  two  years  of  pre- 
liminary training. 

North  Carolina  citizens,  the  time 
has  come  to  call  to  arms.  Let  anoth- 
er Aycock  step  forward  to  bear  the 
banner  of  the  rural  school. 

Here's  the  program  this  modern 
cavalier  should  battle  under. 

1.  An  eight  month  school  law  com- 
pulsory for  every  child  in  North 
Carolina,  white  and  colored. 

1.  A  taxation  system  whereby 
every  man  will  be  forced  to  give  un- 
til it  hurts.  People  are  not  conscious 
of  the  loss  and  cost  of  the  inefficient 
six-month  school  system. 

3.  A  salary  increase  for  every  ru- 
ral school  teacher  by  twice,  and  an 
efflciencp  increase  in  every  rural 
school  by  live  times. 

\.   A  mcas'ure  proposing  to  sprin- 


kle some  quintessence  of  Dodo  juice 
upon  the  tail  feathers  of  certain  poli» 
ticians.  who  live  in  towns  with  elec- 
tric lights  and  good  schools,  and 
further  their  private  ends  with  poli- 
tical speeches  to  farmer  organiza- 
tions on  false  economy  and  tax  re- 
duction. 

■).  A  measure  proposing  the  paint- 
ing of  a  sign  on  the  door  of  every 
North  Carolina  School  with  a  term 
of  less  than  eight  months  reading 
thus: 

"Children  for  sale  cheap.  This  com- 
munity thinks  more  of  dollars  than  of 
its  boys  and  girls.'' 

People  who  wish  to  stop  this  in- 
tellectual suicide  in  a  large  num- 
ber of  North  Carolina  communities 
can  do  so  by  the  backing  of  such  a 
modern  cavalier.  One  generation 
of  proper  schools  in  North  Carolina 
will  make  her  a  garden  of  Eden.  She 
can  build  a  rural  civilization  higher 
than  any  civilization  that  every  lived 
on  paved  streets  or  in  city  blocks. 

North  Carolina  has  the  people., 
the  land,  and  the  money.  What  she 
needs  is  the  vision. 


THE    WOMAN    WHO    HAD    SEEN    LIFE. 


The  farmer's  wife  is  the  woman  who  has  walked  across  the  ploughed 
fields  some  stormy,  wintry  night  that  she  might  help  her  sister  in  that 
greatest  hour  of  trial.  She  has  taken  into  her  arms  and  tenderly  dressed 
the  tiny,  heplcss  hahy.  In  other  times  she  has  reverently  composed  the 
limhs  of  the  silent  de.4d.  In  the  eyes  of  the  city  woman  she  has  sc  for 
forgotten  poise  and  dignity  as  to  know  how  to  milk  cows,  harness  the  horses, 
and  learn  the  rude  surgery  of  the  farm.  Yes,  she  goes  even  further  than 
this — in  the  spring  time  of  the  year  she  will  carry  hahy  lamhs  and  I-'itle 
pigs  into  her  clean  warm  kitchen  thi.1;  she  may  save  them  from  peri0  "'ng. 
But  after  all,  isn't  she  the  woman  who  has  really  saen  life? — Mrs  Or  vies 
W.  Sewell. 


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Lankey  Johnson  is  suffering;  not  suffering  from  poverty,  but  from  jealously. 
Though  he  ran  down  the  rich,  he  envied  them — and  envied  in  particular  "Runt 
Koster,  the  little  millionaire  of  the  school. 
Now,    it    was     no   more    "Hunt's"      him      favors    which    he    didn't      seek 

I  fault  that  he  was  wealthy  than  it  was      didn't    need   and   didn't   desire. 
Lankey 's  fault  that  lie  was  poor,  and  Rant  had  two  rooms  and  a  bath  iu 

I  although  Lankey  couldn't  believe  it,  the  new  school  building  which  his  i'ath- 
Runt  was  suffering  too.  While  Lankey  er  had  presented  to  the  school.  Runt 
could  talk  about  his  poverty  and  didn't  want  them  but  his  father  laid 
glory  in  it,  Runt  couldn't  blow  about      down  the  law    and  it  must  be  admitt- 

:  his  wealth — some     boys  might  have —       ed  that    even    the   great  ones    of    the; 

;  lint  Runt  wasn't  built  that  way.  school  bowed  before  his  wealth. 

There  was  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  Runt  was  pampered  openly  in  class, 

tl)e  things   Lankey   said.     They   were      coached  by  the  instructors  so  that  his 
mean  things  and  cut  Runt,  deeply,  but      weekly  report  might  be  a  „\>od  one.   In  - 
they   were    true;    even    Runt    couldn't      athletics  it   was  the  same  thing;     he 
deny  that,  though   they  just   hurl    the      was   picked   for   the  substitute   center 
same.     Yes,   Runt's    wealth    brought     field  on    the    ball    nir.o— tin    position 


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which  Lankey  Johnson  tilled,  and  filled 
on  his  merit  alone.  Runt  played  in 
games,  of  course,  but  only  when  those 
games  were  won  or  lost  beyond  all 
hope.  The  Coach,  Pop  Squires,  rode 
in  Runts  automobile  and  received 
many  favors  from  Charles  Koster,  the 
millionaire. 

But  Runt  with  all  Iris  wealth  and 
.influence  complained  within  himself 
that  he  didn't  have  a  chance.  He  lik- 
ed baseball  and  knew  he  could  make 
good  if  lie  was  ever  put  in  a  position 
where  he  had  to  stand  alone — a  posi- 
tion where  his  money  wouldn't  help. 
He  had  always  made  good  in  his  exam- 
ination when  his  opportunity  was  equal 
with  tile  other  boys.  But  how  could 
he  make  good  in  base  ball  when  he  felt 
the  sneers  of  his  comrades  as  soon  as 
he  ran  uponthe  held.  They  knew  that 
wealth  and  not  merit  was  sending  him 
out  to  center  and  with  a  heart  full  of 
shame  and  eyes  dimmed  with  tears 
was  it  any  wonder  that  he  invariably 
struck  out  and  his  nervous  twitching 
lingers  dropped  easy  tlies.  If  he  ever 
got  the  chance — the  chance  where 
something  depended  on  him — but  he 
hjaved  a  sight — it  would  never  come 
to  him  without  the  asking  and  he  just 
couldn't  stoop  to  that. 

Lankey  Johnston's  envy  turned  to 
hatred.  He  wasn't  exactly  a  mean 
hoy,  but  his  whole  being  cried  out 
against  the  injustice  of  the  thing 
When  a  game  was  won ;  simply  packed 
away;  and  nothing  but  the  glory  left; 
lie  was  taken  out  and  Runt  put  in. 

Runt  hated  to  go  in,  but  he  went 
for  he  wouldn't  admit  before  the  boys 
that    his   position   was   brought. 

Runt  had  many  companions  but  few 
friends  and  as  time  went  on  and  the 
whispered  scandal  was  brought  to  his 


ears  lie  sunk  more  and  more  within 
himself.  So  the  rich  boy  who  loved 
games  and  company  sought  seclusion; 
and  as  he  wandered  off  by  himself  the 
phrase  "stuck  up"  was  added  to  his 
burden. 

Came  the  day  of  the  big  game — the 
day  when  the  entire  "Smith  School" 
traveled  lifty  miles  to  play  their 
greatest  rival  "Austen  Prep."  The 
boys  had  a  special  train  and  a  baud 
for  this  was  the  gala  celebration  of 
the  whole  school  year. 

Poor  Runt  stood  by  t lie  window  in 
his  magnificent  room  gazing  down  at 
I  lie  activities  on  the  school  grounds. 
The  ba  ml  was  playing — banners  were 
waving — and  the  boys  were  joyfully 
forming  in  line  to  march  behind  the 
automobiles,  which  bore  the  team  to 
the  station. 

Runt  turned  from  the  window.  He 
was  a  member  of  that  team  but  no  one 
missed  him,  no  one  inquired  why  he 
was  not  with  his  comrades.  lie  in- 
spected himself  in  the  long  mirror; 
his  base-ball  suit  was  new,  unsoiled 
and  of  better  material  than  that  of  his 
companions.  Money  had  done  that 
and  more.  But  one  thing  he  felt  it 
could  not  buy  him;  a  place  in  the 
hearts  of  his  school  mates.  He  didn't 
want  to  ride  in  the  train  with  his 
friends  with  the  team  didn't  the  glory 
he  didn't  deserve. 

Runt  rode  to  Austin  in  the  big 
Pierce  Arrow  with  his  father  and  lit- 
tle sister,  Betty.  His  father  didn't 
understand  him  and  Balked  constant- 
ly of  the  glory  of  the  day  the  honor 
due  the  team  of  which  Runt  was  a 
member. 

"We'll  see  that  you  play  to-day, 
son,"  his  father  patted  him  on  the 
back.     "Don't  look  so  downcast,"  he 


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misunderstood  the  boy's  looks.  "A 
>vord  to  Pop  Squire  will  lix  things. 
You  just  leave  it  to  your  old  Dud.  He 
knows  how  to  handle  men.'' 

"Please,  father.  I  don't  wish  to 
play."  There  was  real  agony  in  the 
boy's  voiee.  "Nonsense — there  is 
glory  to  be  won  and  I'll  see  that  you 
have  a  hand  in  the  wining  of  it.'' 

It  was  Betty  who  understood  only 
to  well  Runt's  position,  for  he  had  of- 
ten confided  in  her  when  his  heart  was 
near  to  bursting.  It  was  she  now 
who  smoothed  away  the  mental  pain; 
explaining  that  Punt  was  not  well 
enough  to  play  and  so  obtaining  her 
father's  promise  that  he  would  not 
urge  it. 

Runt  sat  in  a  field  box  with  Betty 
and  his  father;  lie  just  couldn't  sit 
among  his  team  mates.  For  eight 
innings  he  watched  the  game  go  steadi- 
ly against  his  team  until  the  score 
stood  seven  to  four  against  "Smith.'' 
Then  with  two  outs  and  none  on  base, 
Lankey  Johnson  came  staggering  in 
from  center.  A  delay  in  the  game; 
then  came  the  announcement  that  Lan- 
key  had  a  touch  of  the  sun  and  could 
play  no  more. 

Pop  Squires  was  in  a  diemma;  he 
had  used  all  his  available  players  in 
an  inaffective  effort  to  obtain  the  much 
much  needed  runs.  Now  he  looked 
hopelessly  about— there  was  no  one 
left — there  was  nothing  left  for  him 
to  do;  he  signaled  Runt.  Runt  ran 
out  in  the  field;  not  as  he  had  run 
before,  for  there  was  no  shame.  His 
money  hadn't  bought  this.  There 
was  no  one  else  to  go,  to  be  sure,  and 
his  appointments  wasn't  compliment- 
ary or  flattering,  but  they  needed 
him — no  mater  how  bad  they  might 
think  him — they  needed  hi:n.     When 


the  next  player  struck  out  Runt  ran 
gayly  into  the  bench  with  his  team. 

In  the  first  half  of  the  ninth, 
with  two  out,  and  all  hopes  seem- 
ingly gone.  Benny  Hoffman  knocked 
out  a  single  and  Joe  Rogers  stretch- 
ed a  long  single  into  a  double. 
This  left  a  man  on  second  and  third; 
and  Harry  Percy,  with  a  brace  of 
doubles  to  his  credit  came  to  the 
bat. 

Xow  the  Austin  pitcher  had  a 
good  pair  of  ears  and  had  used  them 
to  advantage.  He  overheard  the 
talk  concerning  Runt's  poor  playing 
aad  as  runt  Was  next  to  the  bat  he 
decided  to  take  no  chances;  so  he 
passed  Percy. 

The  bases  full,  two  out  and  Runt 
up;  Runt  who  had  never  made  a 
hit.  The  game  seemed  hopeless 
to  the  "Smiths"  boys.  Oh,  for  Lan- 
key  with  a  single  and  then  Bull 
Robison  the  heavy  hitter  of  the 
earn.  There  was  no  cheers  as  Runt 
steppped  to  the  plate,  nothing  but 
silence — the  silence  of  despair. 

But  Runt  had  confidence.  He  had 
played  the  whole  game  in  spirit  as 
he  sat  in  the  box  and  had  studied  the 
pitcher  and  new  he  threw  a  straight 
ball  that  he  could  hit.  He  knew 
more  than  that,  for  he  knew  when 
that  ball  was  comming.  He  had 
watched  the  piteher  closely  and 
knew  that  every  time  he  threw  that 
straight  ball  he  bent  his  right  knee 
almost   to  the  ground. 

It  was  with  an  easy,  confident  air 
that  the  pitcher  faced  Runt;  then 
with  the  grace  of  assurance  he  de- 
livered the  ball.  Straight  towards 
Runt  it  sped  so  that  he  stepped  back 
to  avoid  being  hit.  But  just  before 
it  reached  the  boy  it  broke  and  curv- 


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ing  out  came  across  the  center  of  the  that   the   Austen  pitcher  most  prided 

plate.  himself  on. 

"Strike   one!"  Runt's   chance.      Hunt's   hope.      He 

A  groan  broke  the  silence.  never   waiter   for    that    ball    to    reach 

Alone,  of  all  that  mass,  Hunt  seem-  the  plate,   but   holding  his  bat   at   the 

ed  undisturbed.     He  walked  back    to  very    end   he   swung;    swung    with   all 

plate    and   pounded    his    bat    upon    it.  the  force,  all  the  power  of  his  hidden 

His   eyes    were   clear   and   steady   and  muscles. 

the   hands   that    held   tile   hat    .lid   nut  Crash !     Through     that    silence    the 

tremble.    He  had  longed  for  this  chance  heavy   crack   of   the   ash      against    the 

and    it    had    come — this    tight    against  leather    sounded    like    a    pistol    shot. 

the      wealth    which    was      smothering  Like   a    flash   Runt    was   off;   speeding 

his    ambitions.  towards    llrst.      He   knew    he    had    hie 

Another  quick  delivery    ami  the  ball  the    ball      fairly,    and      with      all    his 

cut  the  corner  of  the  plate  just  above  strength    but    he    did    not     know   just 

Runt's  knees.      Still  the  boy  held  his  how    far.      As    he    ran    he    raised    his 

bat    over    his    shoulder — the    ball     re-  eyes;    a   thrill   of   pride   went    through 

-sounded    in    the    catcher's    glove.  his   whole   body   for   as  he   looked   the 

.''Strike   two!"  the    centertlelder    turned      and      with 

There  were  several  who  cried  out —  hunched      shoulders    and      bent    head 

but   the  majority  set   in  silent   agony  sped   out   towards   the   high  grass. 

or    arose    to    leave    the    Held.  Cry  after  cry  came  from  the  stand — 

The  pitcher  smiled  prepartaory   to  followed   by   the   shout, 

his    third    delivery.     So   sure   was   he  "A  homer— a  homer!" 

that    victory    was    within     his     grasp  And   it   was  a  home  run,  for  Runt 

that  he  gave  but  a  passing  glance  to  crossed  the    plate  a    good  ten  feet  a- 

the   three   base   runners.  head  of  the   ball. 

Through  the  silence,  as  the  pitcher  It  was  a  happy  red-faced,  panting 

wound   up,   came   a   cry.  .boy  that  took  his  place  on  the  bench. 

"Oh    Runt."     It    was    Betty    who  He' watched  hissis  ter-his  only  friend 

called  out.     The  cry  was  wrung  from  —standing    on    the    seat    and    waving 

her — for   she   felt   the'  sneers   of    the  her      tlag    well    above    the      shouting 

school  and  thought   what  her  brother  throng.      His    cup    of    happiness    was 

must   be   suffering.  very    nearly      full   for    the   score    was 

As  the  echo  of  that  cry  died  away  eight    to    seven    with    the    "Smith" 

the   pitcher   threw   the   ball;   but   just  team   one   rdn   ahead;    and    Kun(    had 

before   that   ball    left    his    hand     the  done  it      The  homer  was  needed,  too, 

pitcher's  knee  bent  so  that  it   nearly  for   Bull   Robinson,    the   heavy   hitter 

touched  the  ground.  the      team,    struck      out.      Let      there 

That    was     the     signal     that     Runt  was   something   lacking  in   the  praise 

awaited;  that  was  the  sign  his  steady  of  his  comrades.      So  strong  was  the 

eye   had   sought   and   he   knew   before  feeling    against     Runt     and    so    deep. 

that    ball   started   that    it    would   be   a  rooted    the      opinion      that     thi     boys 

straight  one  and   would  cut   the   very  held;    that      more    than      once     Runt 

center  of  the  plate.     It  was  this  ball  caught    the  word   "Luck." 


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It  wasn't  luck  and  Runt  know  it 
unci  he  could  not  help  but  resent  the 
whispered  comments.  Was  it  pos- 
sible that  after  all,  his  money  was- going 
to  over  power  common  justice.  Yes; 
.he  could  even  fell  the  restraint  in  the 
words  of  praise  of  Pop  Squire.  Deep 
in  his  heart  Pop  was  putting  it 
down  as  luck;  and  Runt  knew  it. 
He  looked  up  in  the  stand;  no,  they 
didn't  put  it  to  luck,  there;  they 
were  too  happy — bdt  when  the  whis- 
pered word  had  passed  around.  What 
then.'  Runt  eompressd  his  lips.  He 
knew   the   answer. 

It  was  with  a  feeling  of  bitterness 
that  Runt  took  up  his  position  in 
center  Held.  Could  it  be  that  other 
things  besides  money  Stood  between 
himself  and  his  companions  ? 

The  lirst  man  of  the  "Austen" 
team  drove  a  single  through  short  and 
the  next  took  his  base  on  balls.  The 
third  player  grounded  through  second 
and  it  was  only  by  Runt's  quick 
fielding  that  the  first  batter  was  held 
J  on  third.  He  got  a  cheer  for  that 
|  and  his  spirits  rose.  Perhaps  he 
might  yet  be  able  to  earn  a  position 
on  the   team. 

It  was  looking  mighty  bad  for  the 
"Smith"  School  nine.  Bases  full; 
none  out  and  but  one  run  needed  to 
tie  tlie  score.  And  worst  of  all  the 
most  dangerous  man  of  "Austin" 
Prep,  was  advancing  slowly  to  the 
plate. 

Sow,  it  came  to  Runt  that  the  run- 
ners were  laying-  pretty  far  off  the 
bag.  He  wanted  to  call  the  second 
base-man's  attention  to  it,  but  he 
feared  it  would  be  considered  pre- 
sumptive on  his  part.  But  he  had  an 
Wer  what  was  taking  place.  They 
wer^   going    to    try    a   triple   steal    or 


the  hit  and  run  pl.iy.  He  didn't 
stop  to  think  wheth  c  or  nut  he  was 
doing  right,  he  bacice  I  his  own  judg- 
ment and  started  running  toward  sec- 
ond. Then  the  pitcher  threw  the 
ball. 

Bung — there  was  a  crack  like  the 
snap  of  a  whip  as  the  Austen  player 
leaned  heavily  upon  the  ball.  The 
ball  shot  straight  and  low  out  to- 
wards the  unprotected  second  bag. 
A  sigh  went  up  from  the  Smith  boys 
for  it  looked  like  a  sure  hit — good 
good  for  two  runs  at  lciast,  for  at  the 
crack  of  that  hit  all  the  base  runners 
had  started. 

Then  a  cry  went  up,  for  Runt  was 
not  in  center  field  but  well  in  towards 
second  and  running  like  chain  light- 
ing toward  the  speeding  ball.  Could 
he  get  it — could  he  even  stop  it. 
They  answered,  no.  The  best  player 
on  the  team  never  could  have  made 
that  catch — but  Runt.  Well  it  was 
enough  to  make  them  laugh — but  the 
situation  was  too  serious.  T'wn  as 
they  watched,  the  small  form  of  Runt 
drove  through  the  air — he  turned  a 
complete  somersault;  but  those  who 
watched  closely  saw  that  the  boy's 
bare  left  hand  had  grasped  the  ball 
and  held  it,  before  he  ever  touched 
the  ground. 

But  the  fall,  severe  as  it  was,  had 
not  dazed  Runt.  He  was  up  in  a 
minute  and  before  the  runner  from 
first  knew  just  what  had  happened 
Runt  touched  him  out.  Two  out — 
then  a  cry  went  up  from  the  Austen 
school.  The  runner  from  second  heard 
it  and  was  making  a  mighty  effort 
to  return  to  the  bag.  But  if  Runt 
acted  quickly,  he  thought  quickly  also, 
and  as  the  runner  approached  the  bag 
Runt    made   a   dive   and   reached   it  a 


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second  or  more  ahead  of   him — three  Then      Pop      Spuires,      who      only 

out.     Runt — the    despised    Runt    had  hoard    the    end    of    the    conversation, 

made  a  triple  play  unassisted.  spoke  up. 

It   was  some  moments   before   that  "Oh,  you  won't   loo.se  tenter,  Lan- 

vast  throng  understood  just  what  had  key.     Runt's   too   valuable   a   man   to 

really    taken    place — then    a    mighty  stay  out   there.     He  used  to  think  he 

shout    rent    the    air.     The   game    was  was  somewhat  of  a  pitcher  and-  some 

over  and  "Smith"  had  won.  how  I  think  so,  too." 

Lankey  Johnson  was  one  of  the  first  "I  made  good,  then  .'"  Runt 's  face 

to  reach  Runt.  was    beaming. 

''Oh,   forgive   me,"    he    cried.     "I  Pop  Squires  raised  his  hand, 

did  it  on  purpose.     I  hated  you  so  I  "Listen."   was   his  only   answer, 

pretended    to    be    siek.     I    wanted    to  Prom      the   stand   came   the      lusty 

show  you   up.      But   I'm  so  glad   you  school  yell  and  at  the  end,  "RUNT— 

made  good.     Von  deserve  my  position  R-U-N-T — RUXT. " 

and  I  am  glad  you   are  going   to  get  The   next   instant    the  entire  school 

it.     For  you  will  get  it."  bore  down  upon  him  and  hoisting  him 

"You    won't    loose    center."    Runt  high    upon    their   shoulders    bore   him 

laid  a  kindly  hand  upon  his  shoulder.  triumphantly  from  the  field. 


FROM    FAMINE    FIELDS. 

By  Martha  Haskell  Clark  in  The  Outlook. 

I  am  a  little  better  than  a  movie  show 

Because  I  speak  reality..     You  kno  7 

That  I  was  there,  have  worked  and  shared  and  seen. 

And  yet.  like  shadow  pictures  on  the  screen. 

The  scenes  I  paint  brings  but  a  passing  thrill. 

Of  pleasant  horror.     Self-complacent  still. 

Your  murmur,  "Sad!  So  sad!"  and  go  your  way, 

While  cards,  and  tea-rooms,  and  the  latest  play 

Will  reap  their  easy  millions  through  the  week. 

You  cannot  sense  the  things  of  which  I  speak. 

You  are  not  heartless.     Could  I  only  lay 

One  baby's  body  at  your  feet  today. 

Or  here  and  now  bring  swift  before  your  eyes 

One  mother  watching  by  her  child  that  dies, 

You  would  be  pitiiul.  would  strain  to  give, — 

And  thousands  doomed  by  apathy  would  live. 

Great  God  of  Nations,  give  me  words  to  stir 

These  sleek-fed  aisles  oi  broadcloth  and  of  furl 


THE  UPLIFT  22 

SURVIVING    CONFEDERATE  VETERANS 
OF   STANLY   COUNTY. 

Mr.  S.  H.  lleurne,  a  substantial  friend  of  the  Jackson  Training  School  and 
!iie  «f  the  leading-  citizens  of  Albemarle  and  well  known  throughout  North. 
Carolina,  has  gone  about  the  business  of  listing  all  the  surviving  Confederate 
Veterans  now  living  in  Stanly  county.  There  are  just  S8  of  the  heroes  of  the 
»0s  yet  with  us.     They  are: 

ALBEMARLE:  E.  M.  Biles,  U.  F.  mfthcock,  E.  W.  Williams,  B.  F.  Snuggs, 
J.  L.  Gilbert,  R.  D.  Thompson,  W.  H.  Honeycutt,  J.  D.  Smith,  M.  MeKethaw^ 
J.  Cicero  Pickler,  Enoch  Williams,  William  D.  Blackwekler,  G.  W.  Watson, 
Eowell  Harwood,  M.  M.  Poplin,  Joseph  Morton,  John  H.  Underwood,  (R7), 
jFrank  Melton  (Rll). 

|  NEW  LONDON:  Henry  Arey,  Job  Calloway,  J.  H.  Hearne,  Silas  Luthan,. 
J.  E.  Reeves,  D.  E.  Ridenhonr,  William  Southerly,  Eli  Vandengriff  Amrij 
'Vankoy,  J.  M.  Etafioid  (R  12). 

PALMERVILLE:  J.  W.  Jenkins,  W.  D.  Reinhardt. 

NORWOOD:  D.  C.  Poplin,  J.  W.  Eddins,  R.  S.  Ellis,  J.  J.  Colson,  W.  H. 
Catkins,  W.  D.  Nichols,  J.  J.  Cooper,  James  Floyd,  Walcom  Thomas,  Fi'ank 
,2arkey,  George  Lee. 

|  RICHFIELD:  W.  A.  Misenheimer,  G.  M.  Misenheimer,  H.  D.  Plyler,  J.  B. 
Parker,  D.  H.  Ridenhour. 

\  BLOOMINGTON:  Eben  Burleyson,  D.  Basworth,  W.  F.  Furr,  D.  E.  Hun- 
'sycutt,  E.  R.  Harris,  C.  L.  Harkey,  C.  W.  Lambert,  William  Mason,  Frank 
jHason,  J.  E.  Hatley  (R  11). 

i  LOCUST:  Eli  Himeycutt,  Dock  H»neycutt,  Jackson  Huneycutt,  James  Bur- 
las,  Israel  Little,  Jesse  Long,  Jacob  Hathcock,  J.  B.  Jenkins,  (R  8). 
|  BIG  LICK:  Wesley  Burleyson,  W.  R.  Brooks,  Daniel  Hinson,  Wesley  Whit- 
ley, 0.  F.  Dry  (R  7). 

;  ENDY:  A.  L.  Eudy,  Nathan  Poplin,  J.  W.  Burleyson,  J.  W.  Whitley,  T.  L. 
[Ticker  (R  5). 
I  OAKBORO:  E.  L.  Whitley,  J.  E.  Hartsell. 

AQUADALE :  L.  T.  G.'-kldy,  F.  G.  Turner,  J.  S.  Curlee. 
I  COTTONYILLE:  Frank  Cooper,  W.  R.  McSwain  (R  5). 
!  MILLINGPORT:  H.  H.  Eudy,  Julius  A.  Fisher,  Fileman  A.  Harward. 

GLADSTONE:  Marvel  M.  Ritchie. 
I  MISSION:  Adam  Burleyson. 
FINGER:  Isaac  Shoe,  G.  H.  Sides  (R  12). 


To  be  sure !  The  people  that  heard  the  Raleigh  debate  on  evolution  know- 
just  as  much  about  it  as  they  did  before.  *  *  *  *  *  There  is  but  one- 
sources  of  reliable  information  about  the  origin  of  man,  and  The  Book  is 
that  source. — Charlotte  Observer. 


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QUESTIONS     FOK   THE     MONKEYITES. 


As 


By  D.  D.  Cochran,  of  Rocky  Mt. 
.ich  person  or  living  thing,  is  the  outcome  of  a  previous  life,  back  to 


:She  beginning  of  all  life,  we  would  be  glad  if  the  evolution  scientist,  who  is 
a  Christian,  would  answer  two  questions  only;  inasmuch  as  all  Christians  be- 
lieve that  man  has  an  immortal  soul. 

Do  animdls  have  immortal  souls?     If  not  at  what  stage  of  evolution  from 
-inimal  to  man  does  the  soul  appear?     I  for  one  would  like  to  know. 


THE    HOLIEST    THING    ALIVE. 

C.  D.  Bulla  in  Christian  Advocate 

I  do  not  remember  when  my  eyes  lirst  looked  upon  her  beautiful  face. 
I  have  heard  that  she  went  down  to  the  valley  of  deep  darkness  to  bring 
me  from  God's  everywhere  into  the  here.  When  I  found  myself  in  the 
country  home,  she  "was  with  me.  She  drew  me  close  to  her  warm  bosom 
and  spoke  gentle  words.  I  have  not  found  those  words  in  my  books,  but,: 
[  knew  their  meaning  from  the  first,      snows   in  little   boots  with  red   tops 

and  copper  tips.  Seated  near  the 
teacher's  desk,  for  reasons  good  to 
the  pedagogue,  I  looked  through  tin' 
windows  of  the  "Elementary  Spell- 
ing Book,"  by  Noah  Webster.  L.  L. 
D..  in  Wisdom  Land. 

That  apron  string  streched  out  to 
the  village  church.  When  the  great 
bell  rang  on  Sunday  morning,  she 
took  me  to  the  services.  Sometimes 
as  the  good  man  prayed  or  the  peo- 
ple sang  she  shouted.  I  did  not 
know  why  she  said  "Glory"  and 
"Hallelujah,"  but  her  face  "'as 
bright  and  she  said  she  loved  every- 
body. At  such  times  I  thought  she 
might  go  away  into  the  blue  ::kies 
and  was  glad  when  she  became  ijuiet 
and  put  her  arms  about  me,  saying: 
"God  bless  my  boy  1"  She  gave  me 
money  with  which  to  buy  a  New 
Testament.  My  sister  taught  v  a  the 
"Blesseds"  by  heart;  and  be.ausejj 
she  did,  I  know  more  about  humility  Q 
and   penitence  and  mercifulness  and  ; 


and  they  comforted  me. 

I  soon  learned  that  a  low  cry 
brought  her  to  me;  and  when  she 
came  near,  hunger  and  cold  and  fear 
vanished.  Often  when  she  looked 
down  into  my  eyes  as  I  lay  in  the 
cradle'  her  lips  moved,  though  I 
heard  not  a  word.  Whether  baking 
or  sewing  or  spinning  or  reading, 
she  was  never  out  of  reach  of  the 
high  chair.  It  is  written:  "He 
shall  give  his  angels  charge  over 
thee." 

For  a  long  time  I  was  not  farther 
from  her  than  the  length  of  her  ap- 
pron  string.  It  reached  to  the  yard. 
She  watched  me  from  the  porch  as  I 
played  on  the  carpet  of  soft  grasses 
and  gathered  posies  and  listened  to 
the  song  birds  in  the  trees  that  shad- 
ed our  home. 

That  narrow  strip  of  gingham 
reached  to  the  schoolhouse  across 
the  bridge.  She  gave  me  a  basket 
lunch,    and   I    walked    through   the 


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singleness  of  purpose.  For  those 
gracious  words  spoken  by  Jesus  on 
[he  Mount  have  never  left  me. 

The  time  came  when  Iheardsome- 
bocly  say:'"  A  fellow  should't  always 
be  held  by  an  ap  von  string."  1  was 
sorry  to  hear  anybody  say  that,  be- 
cause at  the  other  end  of  one  apron 
string  was  the  best  friend  I  ever 
had.  The  slightest  pull  at  my  end 
of  the  string  brought  her  my  side 
day  or  night.  She  bound  with  soft 
bar  dages  and  balm  all  my  hurts  of 
land  and  head  and  heart. 

Later  on  I  heard  about  a  land  of 
gold  and  sunshine  and  flowers,  be- 
yond the  village  and  the  church 
steeple,  on  the  western  sky  line. 
One  foggy  day  when  I  did  not  see 
dearly  I  slipped  my  hand  from  the 
loop  of  the  apron  string  and  wonder- 
ed far  in  the  twilight  country.  I 
saw  many  strange  and  interesting 
things,  yet  I  was  not  happy.  I  had 
money  in  my  purse,  but  it  did  not 
buy  the  things  I  needed.  When  I 
prayed  the  only  answer  was  a  voice, 
saying:       'They  love  and  miss  you 


at  home."  Something  kept  tugging 
away  at  my  trunk  until  I  started 
back  to  the  home  of  my  childhood.  It 
was  bright  and  cheery  at  the  old 
hue  side.  A  new  life  began  to  course 
through  my  veins.  T  slipped  my  hand 
into  the  loop  of  the  apron  string, 
to  remove  it  again  never,  please 
God.  Since  then  1  have  journeyed 
far  at  the  call  of  duty,  but  again  and 
again  a  slight  tightening  or'  the'  apron 
strings  has  brought  me  into  compan- 
ionship with  the  guardian  angel  of 
my  whole  life-time, 

My  mother  has  reached  the  one 
hundredth  milestone  on  her  way  to 
the  land  of  day  and  song.  The  Lord 
has  been  her  sun  and  shield.  He 
has  given  her  grace.  He  will  give 
her  glory.  I  shall  miss  her  when 
she  leaves  me  for  that  sweet  and 
blessed  country,  but  I  shall  find  her 
again  by  the  gentle  drawing  of  the 
apron  string  of  deathless  love.  I 
do  not  forget  that  my  children  have 
a  mother. 

A  mother  is  a  mother  still, 
The  holiest  thing  alive." 


What  I  Would  Like  To  Do  And  Why  I  Would  Like 
To  Do  It  When  I  Leave  1  he  Jackson  Training  SchooL 

Answer  to  Col  Al.  Fairbiother's  Question — 3rd  Prize 

Upon  reading  Mr.  Fairbrother's  kind  offer  in  the  UPLIFT,  I  deemed  it 
an  opportunity — one  with  the  door  open —  to  express  myself  on  a  subject 
which  has  long  been  a  pent-up  hope  in  my  soul. 

Before  coming  to  this  school  I  "dabbled",  so  to  speak,  in  chemistry. 
A  few  simple  experiments,  such  as  testing  water,  making  ink,  etc,  delighted 


my  science-hungry  soul.  Little  di 
,1  tl  en  realize  the  true  value  of  tin' 
'profession  of  chemist;  but  now,  after 
i ten  months  from  this  work  and  little 
[experiments,  I  find  that  my  desire 
(for  it  has  not  decreased  in  the  least. 
On  'he  contrary,  it  has  grown. 


Perhaps,  to  some  boys,  who  lead 
a  happy-go-lucky,  take-what-ever- 
comes  life,  it  would  seem  foolish  to 
have  a  life's  schedule  already  plann- 
ed,  but  this  is  so  in  my  case. 

When  I  leave  this  school,  it  is  my 
desire  to  take  up  my  special   educa- 


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tion  where  I  left  off  (Due  to  the  fact' 
of  the  kick  of  education  among'  the 
boys  who  come  here,  no  higher 
grade  than  the  eighth  is  required). 
This  means  three  more  years  of 
earnest  work  in  the  High  School.  If 
it  is  possible  by  exerting  my  utmost 
effort,  I  must  go  through  college. 
Perhaps,  I  may  write  a  few  articles 
and  stories  which  may  appear  to  the 
public  interest.  Regardless  of  the 
mode — be  it  cleaning  the  streets,  or 
doing  some  higher  work — I  will  go 
through  college  but  go  honestly. 

After  a  college  experience,  if  my 
information  is  correct,  I  must  take 
a  special  four-year  course  in  chem- 
istry. This  I  mean  to  take,  and,  if 
successful,  I  will  attain  to  the  much 
desired  position  of  expert    chemist. 

And  now  comes  the  ugderlying 
reason  for  this  ambition:  the  value 
of  chemistry  to  mankind.  Once  a 
painter  disappeared;  he  was  last 
seen  painting  a  newly-finished 
building.  Most  people  believed  that 
he  had  fallen  from  his  scaffold  into  a 
cask  of  acid,  which  was  standing 
below  the  spot  where  he  was  seen,' 
and  thus  he  had  been  destroyed. 
But  how    was     this  to    be    proved? 

No  one  had  seen  him  fall  into  it; 
■consequently  his  grief-stricken  wife 
was  unable  to   collect  the  insurance 


on  his  life,  because  there  was  no 
proof  his  death.  She  had  no  rela- 
tives and  no  means;  she  was  slowly 
starving  for  the  lack  of  proper  food 
and  care.  Herein  is  the  part  tin; 
chemist  plays:  a  chief  chemist,  whoso 
name  is  unknown,  took  a  sample  of 
the  suspected  acid  and  tested  it 
with  favorable  results,  confirming 
the  former  suspicion  and  thus  sav- 
ing a  life- 
Liquid  air  is  a  very  important 
chemical  discovery.  Submarine  nav- 
igators desire  great  motive  power 
andalso  air  for  the  crew  to  breathe. 
Airship  inventors  want  great  power 
and  tightness  combined.  In  sugery, 
the  intense  cold  of  liquid  air  has  the 
same  property  as  great  heat  without 
causing  a  blister  and  frequently  it 
take  place  of  a  surgeon's  knife. 
Hence  this  discovery  in  chemistry 
saves  many  lives  without  disfigur- 
ing the  patients. 

Other  similar  testimonies  could 
be  cited,  but  space  does  not  permit  | 
— suffice  to  say,  that  chemistry,  be- 
sides being  a  very  interesting  sci- 
ence, is  a  professian  of  importance  9 
and  great  profit  if  one  becomes  an 
expert  in  it.  If,  by  some  invention 
or  discovery,  I  can  make  the  life  of 
man  on  earth  more  comfortable  and 
profitable,  WHY  SHOULDN'T   V! 


Editor  Sherrill  and  I  were  chatting  in  front  of  the  City  Hall  late  Sunday 
afternoon.  Two  young  girls  (apparently  eleven  or  twelve  years  old)  rig- 
ged out  in  spectacular  costumes  passed  by.  Their  stockings  were  rolled 
clown  three  or  four  inches  below  the  knees;  and  the  flimsy,  short  dresses 
lacked  at  least  four  inches  reaching  the  knees.  Mr.  Sherrill,  in  astonish- 
ment, said,  "look  there!  What  is  that?"  We  agreed  they  were  twin 
orphans.  Oh,  womanhood,  rise  up  in  your  might  and  demand  in  this  land 
the  preservation  of  that  womanly  modesty,  which  our  mothers  used  to 
rightfully  claim  and  did  possess. 


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ENCOURAGEMENT. 

Two  men  met  on  a  steamer  crossing  the  ocean.     Something  drew  them  togeth- 
er.   Each  did  not  know  that  he  should  have  known  the  other.     They  had  many 
conversations  before  they  reached  the  other  side. ....They  talked  on  almost  every 
conceivable  subject.    At  last  their  talk  turned  to  the  Sunday  school.    The 
elder  seemed  eager  to  speak.    He  made  a  bold  confession.    He  said  he  did  not 
2nd  himself  able  to  get  up  much  enthusiasm  on  that  subject.    He  said  he  wafe 
once  a  Sunday  school  teacher,  but  he  could  not  see  that  he  was  doing  any 
'  good  and  so  he  droppd  out.    The  testimony  of  the  younger  man  was  different. 
jHe  said  he  could  not  help  believing  very  firmly  in  the  Sunday  school.    He  had. 
|  started  attending  when  very  young.     With  more  earnestness  than  was  hi3 
usual  manner  he  said  that  he  had  very  good  teachers  in  school  and  that  some 
of  the  deepest  impressions  of  his  life  he  received  in  that  class.     So  effectual 
jVas  the  teaching  that  under  it  he  gave  his  heart  to  God  and  entered  joyfully 
j  into  His  service.     In  the  course  of  the  testimony  the  young  enthusiast  named. 
the  school  he  had  attended.    Instantly  the  other  said,  "Why  it  was  that  school. 
I  attended.    It  was  in  tihtt  school  I  taught.    My  name  is  so-and-so."     Reach- 
ing forth  his  hand  the. younger  said,  "And  I  was  in  your  class.    I  remember 
iyou  now.     Some  of  the  lessons  you  taught  I  shall  never  forget."     From  that 
!  day  a  new  tie  bound  those  two  men.    They  were  often  seen  standing  side 
\\>y  side  recalling  old  memories  and  Agreeing  on  the  silent  influences  set  in 
notion  in  the  Sunday  school. 


SIR    ISAAC.  NEWTON. 

By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 

On  Christmas  Day,  in  the  year  1G42,  Isaac  Newton  was  born,  at  the  small 
■village  of  Woolsthrope,  in  England.  Little  did  his  mother  think,  when  she 
i beheld  her  new-born  babe,  that  he  was  destine.]  to  explain  many  matters  which 
had  been  a  mystery  ever  since  the  creation  of  the  world. 

;    Isaac's     father     being    dead,    Mrs.  saws  of  various  sizes,  manufactured 

X'ewton    was     married    again     to    a  by  himself.     With   the  aid  of  these 

clergyman    and     went     to     live      at  Issae   contrived  to  make  many  euri- 

Korth  Witham.     Her  son  was  left  to  ous  articles,  at  which  he  worked  with 

]  the  care  of  his  good  old  grandmother  so  much  skill  that  he  seemed  to  have 

who  was  very  kind  to  him  and  sent  been  born  with  a    saw    or    chisel  in 

jliiin  to  school.  his    hand. 

In  his  early  years  Isaac  did  not  The  neighbors  looked  with  vast  ad- 
appear  to  be  a  very  bright  scholar  miration  at  the  things  which  Isaac- 
hut  was  chiefly  remarkable  for  his  manufastured.  And  his  old  grand- 
ingenuity  in  all  mechanical  occupa-  mother,  I  supose, :  was  never  weary 
Hon.     He  had  a  set  of  litle  tools  and  of  talking  about  him.     "He'll  make 


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a  capital  workman  one  of  these 
day,"  she  would  say.  "  No  fear 
but  Isaac  will  do  well  in  the  world 
and   be;   a   rich   man   before  he  dies," 

It  is  amusing  to  conjecture  what 
were  the  anticipations  of  his  grand- 
mother and  the  neighbors  .  about 
Isaee's  future  life.  Some  of  them, 
perhaps,  fancied  that  he  would  make 
beautiful  furniture  of  mahogany, 
rosewood,  or  polish  oak,  inlaid  with 
ivory  and  ebony  and  magnificiently 
gilded.  And  then,  doubtless,  all  the 
rich  people  would  purchase  these  fine 
things  to  adorn  their  drawing-rooms. 
Others  probably  thought  that  little 
Isaac  was  destined  to  be  an  architect, 
and  would  build  splendid  mansions  for 
the  nobility  and  gentry,  and  churches 
too,  with  the  tallest  steeples  that  had 
ever  been  seen  in  England. 

Some  of  his  friends,  no  doubt,  ad- 
vised Isaac's  grandmother  to  appren- 
tice him  to  a  clock  maker;  for,  be- 
sides his  mechanical  skill,  the  boy 
seemed  to  have  a  taste  for  mathema- 
tics, which  would  be  very  useful  to 
him  in  that  profession.  And  then, 
in  due  time,  Isaac  would  set  up  for 
himself,  and  woidd  manufacture 
curious  clocks  like  those  that  contain 
"sets  of  dancing  figures  which  issue 
from  the  dail  plate  when  the  hour  is 
struck;  or  like  those  where  a  ship 
sails  across  the-  face  of  the  clock, 
and  is  seen  tossing  up  and  down  on  the 
waves  as  often  as  the  pendulum  vi- 
brates. 

Indeed,  there  was  some  ground  for 
supposing  that  Isaac  would  devote 
himself  to  the  manufacture  of  clocks, 
since  he  had  already  made,  one  of  a 
kind  which  nobody  had  ever  heard  of 
hefore.  It  was  set  a-going,  not  by 
wheels  and  weights  like  other  clocks, 


but  by  the  dropping  of  water. 

This  was  an  object  of  great  wonder- 
ment to  all  the  people  round  about; 
and  it  must  lie  confessed  that  there 
are  few  boys,  or  men  either,  who 
could  contrive  to  tell  what  o'clock  it 
is  by  means  of  a  bowl  of  water. 

Besides  the  water  clock,  Isaac  made 
a  sundial.  Thus  his  grandmother 
was  never  at  a  hist  to  know  the  hour; 
for  the  water  "clock  would  tell  il  in 
the  shade  and  the  dial  in  the  sun- 
shine. The  sundial  is  said  to  be 
still  in  existence  on  the  corner  of  the 
house  where  Isaac  dwelt.  If  so,  it 
must  have  marked  the  passage  of 
every  sunny  hour  that  lias  passed 
since  Isac  Newton  was  a  boy.  It 
marked  all  the  famous  moments  of 
his  life;  it  marked  the  hour  of  his 
death;  and  still  the  sunshine  creeps 
slowly  over  it,  as  regularly  as  when 
Isaac   first  set  it   up. 

Yet  we  must  not  say  that  the  sun- 
dial has  lasted  longer  than  its  maker; 
for  Isaac  Newton  will  exist  long  af- 
ter the  dial — yea,  and  long  after  the 
sun  itself —shall  have  crumbled  to  de- 
cay. 

Isaac  possessed  a  wonderful  faculty 
of  gaining  knowledge  by  the  simplest 
means.  For  instance,'  what  method 
do  you  suppose  he  took  to  find  out 
the  strength  of  the  wind?  You  will 
never  guess,  how  the  boy  could  compel 
that  unseen,  inconstant,  and  ungovern- 
able wonder,  the  wind,  to  tell  him 
the.  measure  of  his  strength.  Yet 
nothing  can  be.  more  simple.  He 
jumped  against  the  wind,  and  by  the 
length  of  his  jump  he  could  calcu- 
late the  force  of  a  gentle  breeze,  a 
brisk  gale,  or  a  tempest.  Thus,  even 
in  his  boyish  sports,  he  was  cont- anal- 
ly searching,  out  the  secrets  .of.  phu- 


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osopby. 

Not.,  far  from  his  grandmother's 
residence  there  was  a  windmill  which 
worked  on  a  new  plan.  Isaac  was 
in  the  habit  of  going  thither  frequent- 
ly, and  would  spend  whole  hours  in 
examining  its  various  parts.  While 
the  mill  was  at  rest,  he  pried  into  its 
internal  machinery.  When  its  broad 
sails  were  set  in  motion. by  the  wind, 
lie  watched  the  process  by  which  the 
millstones  were  made  to  revolve  and 
crush  the  grain  that  was  put  into  the 
hopper.  After  gaining  a  knowledge 
of  its  construction,  he  was  observed 
to  be  unusually  busy  with  his  tools. 

It  was  not  long  before  his  grand- 
mother and  all  the  neighborhood  knew 
what  Isaac  had  been  about.  He  had 
constructed  a  model  of  the  windmill. 
Though  not  so  large,  I  suppose,  as 
one  of  the  box-traps  which  boys  set 
to  catch  squirrels,  yet  every  part  of 
the  mill  and  its  machinery  was  com- 
plete. Its  little  sails  were  neatly 
made  of  linen,  and  whirled  round  very 
swiftly  when  the  mill  was  placed  in 
i  draught  of  air.  Even  a  puff  of 
rind  from  Isaac's  mouth  or  from  a 
pair  of  bellows  was  sufficient  to  set 
the  sails  in  motion.  And  what  was 
Jiost  curious,  if  a  handful  of  grains 
of  wheat  were  put  into  the  little  hop- 
per, they  would  soon  be  converted  in- 
to snow-white  Hour. 

Isaac's  playmates  were  enchanted 
ritli  his  new  windmill.  They  thought 
that  nothing  so  pretty  and  so  wonder- 
ful had  ever  been  seen  in  the  whole 
Torld. 

"But,  Isaac,"  said  one  of  them, 
"you  have  forgotten  one  thing  that 
Wlo'igs  to  a  mill."  .   .  . 

"  .Ykat  is  that?"  "asked  Isaac,  for 
he  supposed  that,  from  the.  roof  of 
:le  mill  to  its  foundation,  he  had  for- 


gotten nothing. 

"Why,  where  is  the  miller?"  said 
his  friend. 

"That  is  true;  I  must  look  out  for 
one,"  said  Isaac;  and  he  set  himself" 
to  consider  how  the  deficiency  should 
be  supplied. 

He  might  easily  have  made  a  min- 
iature figure  of  a  man;  but  then  it 
would  not  have  been  able  to"  move, 
about  and  perform  duties  of  a  miller. 
As  Captain  Lemuel  Gulliver  had  not 
yet  discovered  the  island  of  Lilliput, 
Isaac  did  not  know  that  there  were 
little  men  in  the  world  whose  size 
was  just  suited  to  his  wind-mill. 
It  so  happened,  however,  that  a. 
mouse  had  just  been  caught  in  the- 
trap;  and,  as  no  other  miller  could 
be  found,  Mr.  Mouse  was  appointed 
to  that  important  office.  The  new 
miller  made  a  very  respectable  ap- 
pearance in  his  dark  gray  coat. 
To  be  sure,  he  had  not  a  very  good 
character  for  honesty,  and  was  su- 
spected of  sometimes  stealing  a  por- 
tion of  the  grain  which  was  given 
him  to  grind.  But  perhaps  some 
two-legged  millers  are  quite  as  dis- 
honest as  this  small  quadruped. 

As  Isaac  grew  older,  it  was  found 
that  he  had  far  more  important  mat- 
ters in  his  mind  than  the  manufacture 
of  toys  like  the  little  windmill. 
All  day  long,  if  left  to  himself,  he 
was  either  absorbed  in  thought  or 
engaged  in  some  book  of  mathema- 
tics or  natural  philosophy.  At  night, 
I  think  it  probable,  he  looked  up  with 
reverential  curiosity  to  the  stars  and 
wondered  whether  they  were  worlds 
like  our  own,  and  how  great  was  their 
distance  from  the  earth,  and  what  was. 
the  power  that  kept  them  in  their 
courses..  Perhaps,  even  so  early  ia 
life,    Isaac    Newton    felt    a    presenti- 


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raent  that  lie  should  be  able  here- 
after to  answer  ;ill  these  questions. 

When  Isaac  was  fourteen  years 
•old,  his  mother's  second  husband 
being  now  dead,  she  wished  her  son 
to  leave  school  and  assist  her  in  man- 
aging  the  farm  at  Woolsthope.  For 
a  year  or  two,  therefore,  he  tried  to 
turn  his  attention  to  fanning.  But 
iis  mind  was  so  bent  on  becoming  a 
scholar  that  his  mother  sent  him  back 
to  school,  and  afterward  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge. 

I  have  now  finished  my  anecdotes 
of  Isaac  Newton's  boyhood.  My 
story  would  be  far  to  long  were  I  to 
mention  all  the  splendid  discoveries 
which  he  made  after  he  came  to  be  a 
man.  He  was  the  first  that  found 
out  the  nature  of  light;  for,  before 
his  days,  nobody  could  tell  what  the 
sunshine   is   composed   of. 

You  remember,  I  suppose,  the  story 
■of  an  apple's  falling  on  his  head  and 
thus  leading  him  to  discover  the  force 
of  gravitation,  which  keeps  the  hea- 
venly bodies  in  their  courses.  When 
he  had  once  got  hold  of  this  idea;  he 
never  permitted  his  mind  to  rest  un- 
til he  had  searched  out  all  the  laws 
by  which  the  planets  are  guided 
through  the  sky.  This  he  did  as 
thoroughly  as  if  he  had  gone  up  a- 
mong  the  stars  and  tracked  them  in 
their  orbits.  The  boy  had  found  out 
the  mechanism  of  a  windmill;  the  man 
explained  to  his  fellow-men  the  me- 
chanism   of    the    universe. 

While  making  these  researches,  ha 
was  accustomed  to  spend  night  after 
night  in  a  lofty  tower,  gazing  at  the 
heavenly  bodies  through  a  telescope, 
his  mind  was  lifted  far  above  the 
things  of  this  world.  He  may  be 
said,  indeed,  to  have  spent  the  great- 
er part  of  his  life  in  worlds  that  lie 


thousands  and  millions  of  miles  away; 
for  where  the  thoughts  and  the  heart 
are,   there   is   our   true   existence. 

Did  you  never  hear  the  story  of 
Newton  and  his  little  dog,  Diamond! 
One  day,  when  he  was  fifty  years  old, 
and  had  been  hard  at  wark  more 
than  twenty  years  studying  the  theory 
of  light,  he  went  out  of  his  chamber, 
leaving  his  little  dog  asleep  before 
the  fire.  On  the  table  lay  a  heap  of 
manuscript  papers  containing  all  the 
discoveries  which  Newton  had  made 
during  those  twenty  years.  When 
his  master  was  gone,  up  rose  little 
Diamond,  jumped  upon  the  table, 
and  over  threw  the  lighted  candle. 
The   papers   immediately   caught   fire. 

Just  as  the  destruction  was  complet- 
ed, Newton  opened  the  chamber  door 
and  preceived  that  the  labors  of  twen- 
ty yeais  were  reduced  to  a  heap  of 
ashes.  There  stood  little  Diamond, 
the  author  of  all  the  mischief.  Al- 
most any  other  man  would  have  sen- 
tenced the  dog  to  immediate  death. 
But  Newton  patted  him  on  the  head 
with  his  usual  kindness,  although 
grief  was  at  his  heart. 

"0  Diamond,  Diamond,"  he  ex- 
claimed he,  "thou  little  knowest  the 
mischief    thou    hast    done!" 

This  incident  affected  his  health  and 
spirits  for  some  time  afterwards; 
but,  from  his  conduct  toward  the 
little  dog,  you  may  judge  what  was 
the   sweetness   of   his   temper. 

Newton  lived  to  be  a  very  old  man, 
and  acquired  great  renown.  He  was 
made  a  member  of  Parliament  and 
received  the  honor  of  kimjhthood. 
But  he  cared  little  for  earthly  fame 
and  honors,  and  felt  no  pride  in  the 
vastness  of  his  knowledge.  All  that 
he  had  learned  only  made  him  feel 
how  little  he  knew  in  comparison  to 


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what  remained  to  be  known. 

"I  seem  to  myself  like  a  child," 
he  said,  "playing  on  the  seashore  and 
picking  up  here  and  there  a  curious 
shell  or  a  piety  pebble,  while  the 
boundless  ocean  of  truth  lies  undis- 
covered  before   me." 

At  last,  in  1727,  when  he  "was  four- 
score and  five  years  old,  Sir  Isaac 
Newton    died — or,    rather,    he    ceased 


to  live  on  earth.  We  may  be  per- 
mitted to  believe  that  he  is  still  search- 
ing out  the  infinite  wisdom  and  good- 
ness of  the  Creator  as  earnestly  as 
while  his  spirit  animated  a  mortal 
body.  He  has  left  a  fame  behind 
him  which  will  be  as  endurable  as  if 
his  name  were  written  in  letters  of 
light  formed  the  stars  on  the  mid- 
night  skv. 


Li'3'Hcriiional    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

Mr.    J.   W.   Clore's  visit  at    the 

School  was  noted  in  last  week's  issue 
of  The  UPLIFT.  When  he  arrived 
at  home  he  sent  back  to  the  school 
a  much  needed  and  appreciated 
gift. 

A  medicine  chest  for  holding  rem- 
edies for  stumped  toes,  cut  hands  and 
scratched  faces  will  soon  make  its 
way  to  the  office  where  the  aforesaid 
injured  boys  take  their  complaint 
and  ask  for  cures. 

Malcolm  Holman.  Charles  Mayo. 
Everett  Goodrich  and  Ralph  Poter- 
field  rejoiced  last  Wednesday.  To 
some  the  visit  of,  their  parents  was 
asurprise;  others  expected  and  were 
looking  for  them. 

The  lumber,  brick  and  other  ma- 
!  terial  that  is  needed  in  construct- 
ing the  new  cottage,  has  arrived. 
This  material  is  being  rapidly  un- 
loaded so  the  construction  of  the  cot- 
tage will  not  be  delayed. 

The  digging  of  our  well,  by  Mr. 
Ankers,  has  been  delayed  because 
of  ruck  obstruction.  Mr.  Ankers  says 
this  delay  will  soon  be  remedied, 
however]  and  work  will  go  on  faster 


than  ever.  His  depth  at  the    present 

is  70  ft. 

"Practise  makes  perfect."  This 
adage  sure  holds  out  in  the  case  of 
our  ball  phi  vers.  Every  evening  two 
boys  chose'  and  have  a  game  of 
practise.  Each  boy  does  his  best  and 
of  course  when  one  does  his  best  he 
can  go  his  last  trial  a  little  better 
and  so  on  until  we  have  a  very  near- 
ly unconquerable  nine. 

Rev.  T.  X.  Lawrence,  minister 
of  Concord,  preached  to  the  boys 
Sunday,  May  the  21st.  This  was 
the  third  Sunday  of  the  month — the 
time  for  the  Charlotte  minister  to 
come,  but  none  arrived  due  to  some 
unknown  condition.  Rev.  Lawrence 
read  the  story  of  David  and  Goliath 
from  the  Bible  and  then  told  the  boys 
of  some  of  the  present  day  Goliaths 
they  will  have  to  contend  with  and 
and  struggle  with. 

Preston  Holbrooks.  of  Greensboro, 
was  a  visitor  at  the  school  Saturday. 
When  he  was  told  of  the  societies,  and 
their  need  of  money,  he  promptly 
and  generously  donated  three  dollars  ' 
to  the  Cone  Literary  Society.  This 
money  will,  in  all  probability,  be 
used  in  subscribing  to  some  useful 
magazine  or  paper  which  will  in- 
crease the  knowledge  of  the  society, 


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individually  and  as  a  body.  Mr.  Hol- 
broolts  formerly  was  a  boy  here  and 
he  realized  the  needs  and  value  of 
the  society.  He  was  dressed  in  the 
attire  of  a  successful  citizen. 

Dr.  W.  H.  Slingerland,  Specia1 
Agent  of  the  Department  of  Child- 
helping.  Russell  Sage  Foundation, 
New  York  City,  visited  the  School 
Thursday,  the  18th.  He  was  on  a 
visiting  tour  of  schools  similar  to 
the  Jackson  Training  School  and 
had  already  viewed  sixty  of  them. 
Dr.  Slingerland  answered  a  question 
which  had  long  confronted  the  stu- 
dents. The  question  was  this: 
"What  do  the  plain  citizens  think  of 
schools  of  the  Jackson  Training 
School  sort?  Dr.  Slingerland  said 
that  when  these  schools  were  first 
established  most  people  thought  of 
them  as  prisons  for  delinquent  boys. 
"Now,"  said  Dr.  Slingerland.  "the 
thought  has  arisen  that  these  schools 
are  just  special  schools  for  special 
boys  under  special  conditions."  Dr. 
Slingerland 's  talk  was  enjoyed  by  all 
hearers. 


ANOTHER  VICTO&Y   . 

Roughly  estimated,  230  yelling 
and  cheering  spectators  saw  the  J. 
T.  S.  again  wallop  Cabarrus  Mills 
by  a  score  of  r>  to  1.  This  gave  the 
J.  T.  S.  credit  for  two  victories  out 
of  three  games  played  with  Cabarrus 
Mills. 

The  game  commenced  with  J.  T. 
S.  in  the  field,  Holman  pitching  and 
Cook  catching.  Faucette  command- 
ed the  first  station  pending  the  arri- 
val of  Hobby.  The  visitors  could- 
n't connect  up  with  Holman's  puz- 
zling delivery  and  were  forced  to 
take    the   field' scoreless.      J.  T.    S. 


players  were  unable  to  do  anything: 
with  Troutman's  heaving  also,  so 
they  ended  the  first  session  similar- 
to  the  visitors. 

In  the  first  half  of  the  second 
frame  Holman  again  retired  the  side- 
without  allowing  them  to  gallop 
over  the  platter  with  a  single  tally. 
But  when  J.  T.  S.  used  the  warelub 
the  second  time  she  became  acquain- 
ted with  the  platter  to  the  tune  of 
one  run.  Holman  clouted  a  single 
and  by  stratagem  trotted  over  the 
marking  point.  Fortune  ■  again 
frowned  on  Cabarrus  in  the  next  in- 
ning, for  she  failed  to  tie  the  score. 
But  to  the  J.  T.  S.  fans  it  must  have 
seemed  that  Fortune's  grin  extended 
from  ear  to  ear.  Three  more  runs 
were  placed  on  the  J.  T.  S.  side  of 
the  scoreboard! 

For  the  next  four  frames  neither 
side  crossed  the  platter,  though 
both  sides  clouted  the  pill.  Wil- 
liams, a  sure  center  fielder,  traveled 
a  large  portion  of  center  field  just 
in  time  to  snatch  a  fly  from  the  war- 
club  of  a  Cabarrus  Warrier.  It  was 
in  the  third  inning  when  the  Cabar- 
rus Mills  manager  dcrricked  the 
pitcher,  Troutinan,  and  because  of 
lack  of  players,  sent  him  to  the  mid- 
dle pasture,  taking  the  place  of  a 
kid  of  fourteen  birthdays.  Simpson 
took  charge  of  the  mound.  In  the- 
eighth  session  Holman  lost  his 
chance  of  pitching  a  shutout  game 
when  one  of  the  Cabarrus  Millers 
scored.  But  one  run  was  all  the 
visitors  could  claim  and  when  the 
last  out  was  called  on  them,  the  J. 
T.  S.  still  lead  by  the  aforesaid  score. 
Russell  was  clearly  the  leading  slug- 
ger, getting  a  trio  of  hits  in  four 
trips  to  the  bat.  Troutman  headed 
the  visitor's  clouting  list,  getting  two 
bingles  in  four  chances.  Evans  and 


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Honoycutt,  both  I'or  the  .1.  T.  S., 
smashed  out  two  baggers,  Honey- 
cutt  made  two  hits  in  font-  trips  to 
the  bat  and  Evans  copped  two  hits 
in  three  trips. 

Score  by  innings: 

R.  fl.  K. 
Cabarrus  Mills  000  000  010— 1    7    9 
J.  T.  S.  013  000  01x— 5  13   4 

Batteries:  Troutmau,  Simpson  and 
\\>st;  Bolman  and  Cook. 


BIG  DEVELOPMENT 

$ !  That  it  may  continue  adequately  to 
'"Serve  the  South."  Southern  Rail- 
way System  has  recently  plated  or- 
ders for  new  equipment  consisting  of 
20  locomotives,  5.390  freight  cars  of 
steel  construction.  500  automobile 
cars  of  steel  construction,  100  steel 
passenger  cars, and  250  cabooses  cars' 
of  steel  underframe  construction. 
The  magnitude  of  the  order  can 
better  be  appreciated  when  it  is  rea- 


lized that  if  it  were  possible  to  place 
the  freight  ear  equipment  in  one  train 
it  would  be  47  miles  from  the  engine 
to  the  caboose.  If  broken  up  into 
trains  of  an  average  length,  it  would 
comprise  250  freight  trains,  or  one 
train  every  2i  miles  from  Washing- 
ton to  Atlanta. 

The  new  passenger  ears,  if  coupl- 
ed into  one  train,  would  be  a  mile 
and  a  half  in  length  from  the  engine 
to  the  rear  coach,  and  represent  20 
trains  of  the  average  length.  The 
coaches  are  of  the  latest  design  and 
are  of  all  steel  construction. 

In  placing  this  large  order  for 
new  equipment,  which  will  be  de- 
livered in  time  for  the  fall  business, 
the  Southern  has  demonstrated  its 
faith  in  the  return  of  business  pros- 
perity in  the  South  and  this  will 
place  the  Southern  in  position  to 
handle  with  safety  and  dispatch  this 
increased  business. 


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CONCORD,  N.  C.,  JUNE  3,  1922 


1TO.  30 


WE    DETERMINE    OUR 

CONDITION. 

A  contractor  a.sked  a  young  employee  once  to  es- 
timate the  probable  cost  of  a  house  that  he  proposed 
building.     After   careful   emulation  he   "P1^      1 
think  we  can  afford  to  build  that  house  for  §3,000. 
"Very  well,"   said  the  employer,    "you.,   go   ahead 
with  the  house  and  you  may  have.,  the  profit  you 
make.     "  Now  the  young  man  was  soon  to  be  mar- 
ried aid  he  thought  he  might  increase  his  profit  by 
using  inferior  cement,  poor  shingles,  and  cheap  lum- 
ber and  by  covering  up   all  defects  by.,   putty  and 
paint.    In  this   way   he   added.,   considerable   to   has 
gains.    By  and  by  the  wedding  day  came,  and  ctaumg 
his  wedding  presents  he  found  one  from  his  employ- 
er-the  deed  to  the  house  he  had  just  finished,    ine 
bride  was  delighted,  but  John  did  not  seem  so  en- 
thusiastic.      After  their  honeymoon,   however,   they 
moved  into  the  house.     At  first  all  went  well.     But 
in  the  course  of  a  few  months  the  found,  ions  be- 
gan to   settle;    great   cracks   appeared  in  the  walls 
and  ceilings;  the  roof  began  to  leak.     He  had  built 
Ms  own  house,   and  so  he  could  not   complain      In 
"outh  we   are  building  the   characters  that  will be 
ours  through  life.    If  we  put  in  poor  mate n*  xrt 
ten    motives,  warped  ideas,  vicious  hVbits,  or    even 
ill  second  grade  qualities,  we  must  remember  that 
■we   cannot   escape   from  the   ultimate   consequences. 


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JUNE. 


Clad  in  the  glorious  robes  of  royalty, 
Bordered  with  verdure,  fringed  with  nodding  ferns, 
And  gemmed  with  starry  blossoms,  June  returns, 

"While  all  the  misty  batteries  of  the  sky  |"" ' , 

With  peal  on  peal  of  thunderous  revelry 
Salute  her  coronation.  Fiercely  burns 
The  lightning's  crimson  fire;  the  tempest  yearns  s  -; 

Its  soverign  to  proclaim  right  loyally.  '  "■ 

In  proud  review,  down  from  their  cloudy  camp, 
Poured  the  massed  squadrons  of  the  rain,  with  tramp 

And  clash  of  arms.    Then  swells  the  melody 

Of  bird-notes  in  a  joyous  symphony. 

The  sun  breaks  forth,  June  reigns,  and  eaSrth  the  while 

"Worships  the  radiant  beauty  of  her  smile. 

—Willis  Boyd  Allen 


STATE-AID  TO  FARMERS. 

In  certain  quarters  a  new  idea  is  being  earnestly  advocated  by  certain 
propagandists.  Accepting' as  a  fact  that  KM)  thousand  families  live  in  other 
people's  houses  in  towns  and  cities  and  that  117  thousand  are  cultivating. 
ether  people's  hinds,  these  propagandists  are  advocating  state-aid  to  those 
to  purchase  on  easy  terms  their  homes  and  their  farm  lands.  There  is 
some  merit  in  the  proposition,  if  we  are  to  accept  at  full  value  the  reports 
ciming  out  frcra  Denmark,  Australia.  Ireland,  England.  Scotland  and  even 
California  in  our  own  country. 

Facts  will  pretty  well  sustain  one's  observation  that  there  are  hundreds 


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of  families  in  towns  and  country  that  have  not  the  remotest  desire  lu  own 
their  own  homes.  These  are,  of  course.,  nol  the  very  best  people.  One 
of  the  first  indications  of  a  good  citizen  is  his  absorbing- desire,  whether  ho 
ever  succeeds  or  not,  is  to  own  his  home.  Whenever  a  man  owns  his  home, 
or  wauls  in  own  his  home,  he  becomes  vitally  interested  and  exercises  a 
healthy  concern  in  all  questions  that  alTeci  the  community  of  which  he  anil 
his  family  arc  a  part.  Home-ownership  and  farm-ownership  should  be  en- 
couraged. .  . 

The  plan  is  for  tlie  slat.-  to  lend  ils  credit,  as  is  being  done  in  the  matter 
of  building  school  houses,  in  issuing  bonds  at  a  low  rate  of  interest  ami 
then  lend  the  money  to  individuals  at  a  slightly  higher  rate,  but  lower  than 
the  legal  rate,  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  homes  and  farms;  ft  i,s apart 
ot  the  contract,  however,  in  the  scheme  that  the  borrower  agrees  and  binds 
himself  to  pay  the  annual  interest  and  one-thirtieth  of  the  loan  every  year. 
The  only  difference  in  this  and  that  which  prevails  in  the  matter  of  school- 
house  building,  the  act  recently  having  been  declared  by  the  North  Carolina 
Supreme  Court  as  constitutional,  is  that  iii  this  the  state  deals  with  an  in- 
dividual and  in  the  former  the.  state  deals  with  a  corporation  or  a  county 
unit.         ■  _  .  ■ 

The  advocates  of  this. proposition  claim  that  what  is  usually  spent  in  fili- 
form of  rents  will  meet  the  annual  expense,  and  at  the  end  of  thirty  years 
the  people  will  have  something  to  show  for  what  they  have  paid  out  in  the 
way  of  rents  and  part  of  the  crops. 

The  idea  is  practically  worked  out  in  the  Farm-Loan  Banks  which  the 
national  government  is  conducting.  'The  benefits  of  this  system  the  advo- 
cates desire  to  extend  to  a  larger  number,  by  having  the  state  finance  the 
matter  by  way  of  lending  its  credit.  The  scheme  is  gaining  ground  and 
some  able  advocates;  and  it  is  entirely  possible  and  probable,  that  in  a  few 
years  some  statesman,  wishing  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  dear  people  to 
his  progressive  spirit  and  his  humanitarian  impulses,  will  mount  this  pro- 
gramme and  ride  it  through  to  success.  Stranger  tilings  have  happened. 
We  have  just  started.  For  ages  the'  idea  of  the  State's  function  was  to 
check  and  prevent  things — the  prevailing  idea  is  now  to  urge  them  on  ami 
give  a  lift. 

******** 

SUPERINTENDENT  POU'S  REPORT. 

Elsewhere  THE  UPLIFT  carries  a  late  report  by  George  R.  Pou  of  arairs 
relative  to  the  State  Penitentiary.      Though  it  represents    a  series    of   acts 


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which  threw-  men  ami  women  into  prison,  there  is  something  about  it  that 
makes  entertaining  reading— not because  of  the  crime  and  the  criminal, 
but  the  information  it  gives  regarding  the  activity  of  the  courts,  a  picture 
of  the  lame  places  in  society,  what  laws  arc  must  frequently  violated,  and 
last  but  not  least  the  very  sonsiblciobservations  made  by  Mr.  Pou. 

For  a  great  state  like  North  Carolina  the  entrance  of  3S0  prisoners  dur- 
ing the  past  twelve  months  -  an  average  of  three,  to  the  county,  and  one  a 
day — does  not  seem  large;  but  when  we  remember  that  this  report  does  not 
include  the  scores  and  scores  that  each  county  find  guilty  but  do  not  go  to 
the  penitentiary  to  receive  their  punishment,  the 'picture  is  such  as  to  cause 
a  serious  consideration.  That  the  population  of  the  penitentiary  has  increas- 
ed from  about  seven  hundred  to  nearly  eleven  hundred,  is  occasion  for 
serious  study  of  the  question  of  law-observance  in  North  Carolina. 

The  average  person,  also,  would  think  that  the  majority  of  law  violators 
were  of  the  colored  race.  The  statistics  for  the  past  year  disprove  that 
view.  Of  the  380  admitted  to  the  Raleigh  prison,  during  the  year  21(1  were 
white,  and  1(34  were  colored.  Taking  into  consideration  the  relative  num- 
ber of  each  race,  the  percentage  of  colored  folks  placed  in  the  penitentiary 
during  the  past  twelve  months  is  far  ahead  of  that  of  the  white;  but  this  is 
nothing  to  be  proud  of. 

The  most  startling  thing  about  the  exhibit  is  the  large  number  of  the 
population  of  the  state  prison  that  have  had  educational  advantages.  Was 
there  something  lacking?  This  is  a  vital  question  that  should  concern  the 
leaders.  It  would  have  added  to  the  interest  of  Mr.  Pou's  statement  if  he 
could  have  supplied  the  information  as  to  how  many  of  his  prisoners  had 
taken  interest  in  Sunday  Schools  or  had  any  active  church  affiliations. 

What  Mr.  Pou  says  about  the  criminal  insane  is  gospel  truth.  The  in- 
timation is  that  Gov.  Morrison  may  suggest  some  humane  legislation,  bear- 
ing on  this  matter. 

******* 

"IGNORANCE  IS  DEATH." 

A  large  audience  attended  the  closing  exercises  of  the  Concord  High 
Scoool.  The  entire  programme  was  entertainingly  carried  out.  Supt.  A. 
S.  Webb  seemed  happy  in  the  close  of  what  is  regarded  a  very  successful 
year.  The  graduating  class  numbered  thirty-three.  In  the  class  were 
seventeen  girls  and  sixteen  boys.  This  looks  good;  for  in  former  years  too 
many  boys,  stung  with  the'  clerkship-bee,  dropped  out  before  reaching 
graduation  from  the  High  School  department. 

Perhaps  never  before  in  the  history  of  the  school  has  an  abler  address  been 


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delivered  than  the  address  of  Hon.  W.  R.Webb,  of  Bellbuckle,  Tenn.  A 
most  engaging  manner  is  his;  his  message  profound,  full  of  wisdom;  deep 
thinker,  superb  scholar,  His  deliberate,  clear  delivery  was  oratory  itself. 
There  was  magnetism  in  every  word  the  great  scholar  used,  so  much  so  that 
a-  crowd  of  foolish,  silly  girls  and  dudish  boys  in  the  rear  soon  became  quiet 
and  joined  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  work  of  this  master. 

Mr.  Webb,  the  famous  teacher  of  Tennessee,  and  for  a  short  time  a  Unit- 
ed States  Senator,  filling  out  an  unexpired  term,  is  a  native  of  North  Caro- 
lina, a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  and  did  a  brave  sol- 
dier's part  in  the  60s.  In  emphasizing  culture,  Christain'  living  and  acting,  a. 
continnous  growth,  with  ideas  and  ideals,  the  charming  and  eloquent  speaker 
and  teacher  proved  beyond  doubt  to  a  vast  audience  that  faced  him  in  the 
school  auditorium,  Tuesday  evening  last,  that  Ignorance  Is  Death. 

******** 

COMPLETE  DIVOECE. 

The  elimination  of  the  Bible  from  the  public  schools  is  perhaps  about 
complete.  There  may  be  and  there  may  not  be  any  explanation  in  this  of 
the  statement  of  Supt.  George  Pou.  of  the  State  Penitentiary,  who  shows 
how  many  of  the  convicts  have  reached  the  seventh  grade  and  even  beyond. 

But  it  is  a  fact  that  the  Bible  plays  but  little  part  in  the  education  of  the 
vast  majority  of  our  children.  The  other  night,  at  the  graduating  ex- 
cricesofa  large  and  interesting  class  of  boys  and  girls,  who  had  completed 
the  course  in  a  High  School,  not  even  the  suggestion  of  a  simple  prayer 
appeared  on  the  programme.  It  was  immaterial  whether  there  was  Divine 
care  and  direction  of  the  efforts  of  the  young  engaged  in  the  exercise,  nut 
even  asking  for  guidance  for  the  judges,  giving  them  wisdom  to  make  just 
decisions  in  matters  that  were  forever  to  be  of  some  concern  to  the  partici- 
pants. 

Man  feels  his  keeping;  he  wants  no  assistance;  he  depends  on  his  own 

powers  and  wisdom.      Bnt  it    was  a  proof  anyway,    that  the  constitutional   , 

separation  of  the  church  and  state  in   this  instance  is  absolute — a  complete    . 

divorce.  I 

******** 

Public  selfishness  and  living-to-one-self  spirit  in  the  land  would  become 

intolerable  and  make  one  have,  after   all,  a  poor  estimate  of  the  good  of  man    , 

spending  just  afsw  years  on    this  earth  and  then  ''cut  down,"  except  forthe    " 

occasianal   manifestations  of  broad  thoughtfulness  for  and  "nterest  in  those,  r 

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who  are  to  com.-  after  us.  Aa  example  of  this  unselfishness,  which  make  us 
think  more  of  I  he  high  purposes  of  this  life  and  give  a  sustaining  hope, 
was  the  completion  of  the  magnificent  gift-of  Mr.  J.  A.  Odell,  of  Greens- 
boro, in  the  form  of  a  much  needed  building  at  the  Greensboro  College  for 
Women.  It  is  a  memorial  to  his  sainted  wife,  but  it  is  a  living  contribution 
to  the  aid  of  worthy  women  for  years  to  come.  Here's  where  money  does  its 
loudest  and  best  service. 

They  arc  tearing  down  the  old  court-house  in  Greensboro,  to  make  room 
for  a  seventeen  story  building  for  which  the  Jefferson  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany recently  let  a  contract.  The  building  was  erected  in  1857.  When  the 
cornov-stone  was  placed,  in  keeping  with  the  practices  of  those  days,  a 
quart,  bottle  of  corn  liquor  wis  placed  in  the  chest.  The  whole  of  Greens- 
boro, it  appears,  is  terribly  excited  and  watching  for  the  time  when  the 
corner-stone  is  reached.  What  happens  then  is  very  problematical.  What 
a  change  has  come  upon  this  country  and  its  people  and  their  customs. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  a  do/en  people  in  all  of  Guilford  would  never  consent  to 
introducing  intoa  cornor-stone  of  any  kind  of  a  building  to-day  a  whole 
quart  of  pure  corn  liquor.  They  couldn't  if  they  would;  and  they  wouldn't 
if  they  could. 

Gov.  Cam  Morrison  was  about  to  be  written  down  as  the  ''Good-Roads 
Governor"  of  North  Carolina.  He  himself  has  thrown  a  monkey-wrench 
into  that  arrangement  of  historical  events.     Hear  him: 

''Some  people  say  that'I  want  to  be  known  as  the  'Good  Roads 
Governor  of  North  Carolina.'  This  is  not  true.  My  ambition  is  to  be 
known — at  least  for  a  while — in  the  traditions  of  North  Carolina  as 
the 'Health  Governor.'  Good  roads  are  very  important,  and  I  hope 
to  see  ours  the  finest  system  of  highways  to  lie  found  in  the  Republic; 
but  good  roads  are  not  of  any  account  to  sick  or  dead  folks.  It  is 
much  more  important  to  have  a  healthy  population." 

?i<  ****** 

It  seems  to  be  a  real  pleasure  for  some  people  to  share  their  possessions 
with  their  friends— it  is  easy  for  them  to  be  generous.  As  we  write  this 
we  have  in  mind  a  certain  person  who  each  year  sends  a  check  for  a  con- 
siderable sum  to  the  Training  School.  This  friend  of  ours  has  the  spirit  of 
the  ideal  giver;  for  in  making  his  gifts  he  has  no  thought  of  recompense 
nor  is  he  seeking  the  admiration  of  the  public,  but  he  gives  because  ho 
forgets  to  hoard  and  has  learned  to  live.     We  refer  to  none  other  than  Mr. 


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Parks  of  the  Parks  Belk  Co.    whom  we  wish  to  thank  openly  for  the  liberal 
check  which  he  sent  to  us  recently. 

******** 

In  a  number  of  counties  of  the  state,  we  note  that  the  County  Superinten- 
dents have  made  engagement  for  teachers  for  their  several  schools  for  tin; 
coining  year.  This  method  will  save  the  necessity  of  picking  up  at  the  last 
moment,  alleged  teachers  in  the  persons  of  grocery  clerks,  who  actually 
don't  know  the  name  of  the  Governor  of  North  Carolina,  to  lead  the  educa- 
tional work  in  some  of  the  districts. 

******** 

"I  expect  to  live  to  see  a  woman  Governor  of  North  Carolina  and  there  ait* 
many  who  would  do  a  better  job  of  it  than  some  men  have" — Josephus 
Daniels  in  a  speech  at  Carolina  (Maxton)  Commencement.  Why,  of  course! 
Every  county  has  a  woman  or  two  big  enough  and  smart  enough  to  till  that 
great  office.     Nominations  are  in  order. 

******** 

Tom  Lacy,  son  of  State  Treasurer  Lacy,  won  the  essayist  medal  at  David- 

son  College.    My.  how  time  flies!    Just  a  few  years  ago,  it  seems,  Tom  Lacy 

-was  playing  around  on  the  floor  of  the  Treasury  office   with   blocks  and 

picture  books;  and.  now.  modestly  walking  off  with  a  prize  that    represents 

a  genuine  achievment. 

******  *  * 

They  are  re-locating  Meredith  College,  the  Baptist- school  for  girls.  Hav- 
ing purchased  a  site  at  Method,  out  a  few  miles  from  Raleigh,  a  wa^  eon- 
fesses  that  there  is  no  design  to  make  it  a  Method— ist  institution.  Rut  turn- 
ing down  Greensboro's  offer  near  unto  $]aO,OOO.OU,  shows  how  the  Baptist 
cling  to  Raleigh. 

*****<4**  t 

That  87-year  old  Scotchman  in  Robeson  county,  who  had  himself  examined  i 
and  then  went   up  thousands  of  feet   into  the  air,  had  a  very  lively  curoisity 
to   know  how  it  feels  to  ride  in  a  Hying  machine.      The  gay  snort    declared! 
after  landing  that  it  was  one  of  the  greatest  enjoyments  of  his  life. 

******** 

There  is  much  worthwhile  to  think  of  in  the  interesting  article  that  Prof. 
C.  C.  Zimmerman  contributes  in  this   issue  of   THE  UPLIFT.     He  seems 

justified   in  declaring  that  there  are  ''Only  two  kinds  of  deaths  excisable''   ! 


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The  next  time  the  dictionary  is  revised,  it  would  be  probably  just  as  well 
to  eliminate  the  word,  '"modesty."      t 


THE    DOG   AND   THE   WOLF 

A  gaunt  Wolf  was  almost  dead  with  hunger  when  he  happened  to 
meet  a  House-dog  who  was  passing  by.  "Ah,  cousin,"  said  die  Dog, 
"I  knew  how  it  would  be;  your  irregular  life  will  soon  be  the  ruin 
of  you.  Why  do  you  not  work  steadily  as  I  do,  and  get  your  food 
regularly  given  to  you?" 

"I  would  have  no  objection,"  said  the  wolf,  "if  I  could  get  a 
place. " 

"I  will  easily  arrange  that  for  yon,"  said  the  Dog;  "come  with 
me  to  my  master  and  you  shall  share  my  work." 

So  the  Wolf  and  the  Dog  went  towards  the  town  together.  On 
the  way  there  the  Wolf  noticed  that  the  hair  on  a  certain  part  of  the 
Dog's  neck  was  very  much  worn  away,  so  he  asked  him  how  that  had 
come  about. 

"Oh,  it  is  nothing,"  said  the  Dog.  "That  is  only  the  place  where 
tlie  collar  is  put  on  at  night  to  keep  me  chained  up;  it  chafes  a  bit, 
but  one  soon  gets  used  to  it." 

"Is  that  all?"  said  the  Wolf.  "Then  gooddjye  to  you,  Master 
Dog." 

"BETTER  STARVE  FREE  THAN  BE  A  FAT  SLAVE." 


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CAPTAIN    SALLY    THOMPKINS. 

i  By  H.  E.  Zimmerman 

Captain  Sally  Thompkins  was  bora  in  Virginia.  Her  father  died  several 
years  before  the  war,  when  the  woman  of  the  family  moved  up  to  Richmond, 
taking  with  them  their  retinue  of  servants.  For  awhile  the  young  woman 
buised  herself  with  church  work  ami  in  nursing  the  sick.  Then  came  the  war. 
The  terrible  days  of  lighting  around  Richmond  in  1So2  showed  that  the  city 
could  not  adequately. care  for  the  thou- 
sands of  wounded  men  streaming  in 
from  the  battlefields.  The  city  was 
already  chocked  with  refugees  from  the 
outlying  country.  The  army  hospitals 
were  crowded  to  the  doors.  There 
seemed  no  end  to  the  stragglirg  am- 
bulance trains.  It  was  Miss  Thomp- 
kins who  saw  most  clearly  the  need 
of  private  hospitals.  She  got  a  house 
and  went  to  work.  The  house  be- 
longed to  Judge  Robertson  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Virginia,  who  placed 
it  at  her  disposal  for  as  long  a  time 
as  she  might  need  it.  Using  her  well 
trained  servants  as  attendants,  Miss 
Thompkins  opened  the  Robertson  Hos- 
pital, and  from  then  till  the  end  of 
the  war  devoted  herself,  her  time  ami 
her  private  fortune  to  its  mainten- 
ance. "Miss  Sally,"  as  the  soldiers 
called  her,  was  a  beloved  figure  in 
the  quiet  wards.  Her  patients- wor- 
shipped her.  Other  private  hospitals 
started,  and  many  did  good  service, 
but  after  awhile  abuses  crept  in.  Pa- 
tients were  sometimes  overcharged 
and  sometimes  neglected.  Finally 
Gen.  Lee  ordered  that  every  hospital 
not  under  the  command  of  a  commis- 
sioned officer  should  be  closed.  The 
first  Miss  Sally  knew  of  this  order 
was  when  the  ambulance  drew  up  be- 
bore  her  door  to  remove  her  patients. 
She  met  the  crisis  with  character- 
istic decision.  Leaving  orders  that  not 
a  man  should  be  moved  until  she  re- 


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turned  she  hurried  across  the  city  and 
laid  her  case  before  the  president. 
Mr.  Davis  shook  his  head.  Of  course 
he  knew  of  the  good  work  she  had 
been  doing  and  he  would  like  to  help 
her,  but  there  was  the  order.  ""Why 
not  commission  me?"  asked  Miss 
Sally.  That  certainly  was  one  way 
out.  Mr.  Davis  approved  her  sugges- 
tion and  she  got  her  commission  at 
once. 

When  the  new  captain  returned  to 
the  hospital,   she   found   the   work  of 


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removing  the  wounded  already  begun,  were  low  end  the  appetites  of  the 
She  showed  her  commission,  the  men  convalescents  voracious.  Every  penny 
were  carried  back  into  the  house  and  of  the  new  income  went  for  feeding 
the  ambulance  drove  away.  Accom-  the  inmates  of  Robertson  Hospital, 
panying  the  commission  was  a  salary.  ,  which  remained  open  till  the  end  of 
That    was    a   godsend,   for  her   funds      the  war. 


Little  self-denials,  little  honesties,  little  passing  words  of  sympathy, 
little  nameless  acts  of  kindness,  little  silent  victories  over  favorite  temp- 
tations— these  are  the  silent  threads  of  gold  which  when  woven  together, 
gleam  out  so  brightly  in  the  pattern  of  life  thtft  God  approves. — F.  W. 
Parrar. 


DOING   THE   BEST   WE    CAN. 

A  few  days  ago  our  committee  on  Sunday  school  lessons  was  extended  an 
invitation  to  visit  in  a  body  the  H.  J.  Heinz  factory  in  Pittsburgh.  The 
invitation  was  accepted.  The  heads  of  the  plaat  were  very  cordial.  It  was 
not  my  first  visit  there,  but  I  went  with  greater  eagerness  than  a  stranger, 
for  I  knew  about  what  was  in  store  for  us.     After  luncheon  we  gathered   in 


the  auditorium  to  listen  to  a  state- 
ment of  the  phenomenal  growth  of 
the  plant  and  of  the  character  of  the 
work  it  is  doing.  Instantly  our  eyes 
were  caught  by  a  mot'.o  in  large  let- 
ters on  the  arch  over  the  platform. 
A  number  of  us  simultaneously  took 
out  our  notebooks  and  copied  it. 
This  is  how  it  runs,  "Do  the  best 
you  can,  where  you  are.  with  what 
you  have,  today."  To  those  of  us 
who  know  the  circumstances,  it  is  a 
brief  but  accurate  biography  of  Mr. 
Heinz.  It  may  also  be  the  rule  un- 
der which  all  of  us  shall  doourwork. 
To  do  our    work.     To  do  anything 


less  than  what  we  can  is  notsuccsss. 
To  sit  down  and  lament  the  unfavor- 
able circumstances  in  which  we  are 
placed  in  which  we  are,  placed  and 
to  wish  to  be  in  another's  shoes  is 
the  strright  road  to  failure.  To  say 
we  have  no  talents  and  therefore  can 
do  nothing  is  cowardly  and  leads  to 
defeat.  To  defer  till  tomorrow  what 
we  should  do  today  and  to  wait  for 
other  times  and  seasons  is  bound  to 
spell  failure.  Read  that  motto  again 
and  perhaps  it  will  put  into  you  a 
measure  both  of  contentment  and  of 
aspiration. — Selected. 


The  world  is  full  of  roses, 
The  roses  are  filled  with  dew; 

And  the  dew  is  full  of  heavenly  love 
Which  drips  for  me  and  you. 

—J.  Whitcomb  Riley. 


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ARE    CHURCH    PAPERS    READ? 

The  Dearborn  Independent 

In  a  discussion  of  the  results  of  an  multiplicity  of  religious  publications, 
the  California  Christian  Advocate  questions  the  benefit  to  the  church  of  so 
many  as  are  at  present  struggling  for  existence.  The  same  multiplicity  ex- 
ists in  the  secular  field,  and  for  the  same  reason,  but  the  elimination  of  su- 
perfluous literature  is  not  so  simple  as  it  is  with  the   religious  bodies. 

One  great  trouble  is  that  so  many  it  from  a  sense  of  duty  has  no  use  for 
inferior  and  useless  offerings  are  put 
on  both  markets.  Individuals  as- 
pire to  teach  the  world  who  them- 
selves lack  the  equipment  either  to 
instruct  or  to  interest. 

The  editor  of  a  church  paper 
should  be  of  the  brightest  mentality, 
thoroughly  educated,  with  an  ability 
to  compel  attention,  and  with  aknow- 
ledge  of  the  world  few  of  the  stud- 
ents of  theology  possess.  Not  only 
should  he  be  fitted  for  his  work,  but 
he  must  be  fitted  to  it.  The  aptitude, 
the  natural  talent,  is  not  to  be  gain- 
ed, but  thorough  education  gives  a- 
bility  so  to  clothe  his  ideas  as  to 
present  them  as  polished  jewels  to 
an  eager  clientele.  That  clientele 
must  be  won  by  merit. 

No  paper  has  the  right  to  claim 
support  merely  on  the  ground  of 
loyalty  on  the  part  of  sect  or  party  or 
class  it  claims  to  represent.  It  may 
achieve  a  financial  support  that  will 


keep  it  alive,  but  the  man  who  takes    worth  while. 


it  usually,  and  its  printed  contents  is 
not  known  to  him.  He  subscribes 
justas  he  would  give  to  a  beggar — to 
get  rid  of  the  suppliant  in  the  easiest 
way. 

The  pastor  who  suggests  from  the 
pulpit  the  need  of  the  general  sup- 
port of  the  church  paper  should  lie 
more  careful  than  he  is  in  general  to 
avoid  aid  to  the  unworthy.  No  pas- 
tor should  except  a  commission  as  an 
agent  for  private  enterprise.  He  is 
paid  to  do  a  certain  work  for  his 
church.  If  he  knows  or  believes  a 
publication  to  be  of  value,  there  can 
be  no  criticism  if  he  says  so,  pub- 
licly or  privately,  but  there  his  eff 
orts  should  cease. 

Two  propositions  made  by  the 
Advocate  are  not  to  be  questioned: 
the  multiplication  of  papers  does  not 
increase  the  number  of  readers,  and 
the  expence  is  a  waste  and  a  drain 
on  the  sources   of  supply   to   those 


Believe  ine  when  I  tell  you  that  thrift  of  time  will  repay  you  in  after  Ufa 
with  a  usury  of  profit  beyond  your  most  san3uin8  dreams,  and  that  wasto 
of  it  will  make  you  dwindle  jjike  in  intellectual  and  moral  statue  beyond. 
your  darkest  reckoning. — Gladstone. 


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THE    CHANGE 


By  Dr  TV. 
ZMin-li  oE  the  evil  of  this  age  grows  o 
people  remained  among  their  kinsmen 
with  a  moral  restraint   that   they  lose 
multiplicity  of  occupations  make  reside 
oils.     Immigration      and      emigration 
have  (hanged  the  habitation  of  man- 
kind.     Mankind    is,    therefore   one    in 
interest;  and  the  gospel  is  right  that 
says:     "The      field    is    the      world." 
The  state  is  no  larger  than  a  county 
was  a  hundred  years  ago.     The  gospel 
in  that  day  dealt   with  the  individual 
and  the  family;  now  it  deals  with  the 
community  and  the  world.     In  those 
"good  old  days"  family  life  Ojnd  fam- 
ily character  counted   in     religion  as 
well  as  business     and     politics;  but 
those    days       cannot      return.     They 
passed  away  with  the  passing  of  the 
muzzle  loader  and  the   tallow  candle. 
People  take    more  risk  in  the  business 
fnd   in   the   social   circle   where    they 
are  unknown;   and  that   accounts  for 
the  multiplication  of  crime  and  lust. 

This  new  order  has  created  a  de- 
mand for  a  new  application  of  the 
gospel  on  a  larger  scale.  It  is  not 
enough,  now,  to  make  a  good  family: 
it  must  be  a  good  community  to  pro- 
tect the  individual.  It  is  not  enough 
for  the  individual  to  keep  the  Sabbath 
the  Sabbath  itself  must  be  kept  holy: 
and  the  community  must  be  kept 
virtuous  for  the  safety  of  the  individ- 
ual. When  families  lived  far  apart, 
each  family  could  have  its  own  pig- 
pen; but  when  the  community  grows 
into  a  city  no  family  can  have  a  pig- 
pen. The  question  then  becomes  a 
community  question.  The  individual 
n.crges  into  the  community.  All 
sanitary  laws  grow  out   of  this  eoni- 


W.  Staley 

tut  of     peripatetic     population.     When 
and  acquaintances  it  surrounded  them 
among  strangers.      Transportation   and 
nee  ajul  birthplace  no  longer  cotermin- 
munity    relation.      This    new    relation 
grows   larger   all    the   time.      The  gos- 
pel for  the  whole  world     grows  as  an 
obligation      upon    the      church.     The 
time  is  coming     when  no     nation  can 
lje  safe  till  all  nations  are  safe.     The 
urge  for  world-peace  grows  out  of  this 
necessity.     The    missionary    program 
is  not  an  ideal  of  enthusiasm;  it  is  a 
huge  obligation     for     protection      of 
Christianity   as   well   as   the  salvation 
of  mankind.     What   is  called  the  so- 
cial gospel  is  simply  the     application 
of  the  gospel  on  a  larger  scale.      This 
of  coarse,   does   not   neglect   the   indi- 
vidual,  but   blesses   the   individual    in 
countless  ways.     Business  is  no  longer 
an  individual  enterprise,  but  a  corpo- 
rate enterprise,  which  is  simply  legal 
co-operation.     As    the    world      comes 
closer     together,  this  is  a     necessity. 
Democracy   is   nothing  more   nor   less 
than  monarchy  expanded  into  the  rule 
by  the  people  instead  of  by  one  man. 
Individual  rulership  is  dead;  individ- 
ual  religion    no    longer      covers      the 
ground;  though  the  individual  spirit- 
ual power  is  greater  as  it  becomes  a 
factor    in    community    religion.      One 
steel  rail  does  not  make  a     rail-road, 
but  one  steel  rail  out  of  place  in  the 
track  may  wreck  a  train.     The  single 
rail     becomes  more   important   as     it 
joins  its  brother-rail   in   the   hundred 
mile    track.     Individual    religion    be- 
comes mighty  linked  up  with  commu- 
nity temperance,  honesty,  virtue  and 
social  purity.  * 


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N.    C. 


POPULATION. 


News  and  Observer. 


Murder  is  the  most  widely  practised  and  the  most  generally  punish- 
ed felony  in  North  Carolina,  according  to  a  census  of  the  population  of 
the  State  Prison  for  the  year  ending  May  .">,  1922.  Of  the  380  men  and 
women  admitted  to  the  prison  during  the  twelve  months  period,  94 
were  committed  for  murder  on  sentences  ranging  from  two  years  to  life 
tiire. 


Larceny  and  house  breaking  take 
second  and  third  places  in  the  roster 
of  crimes  for  which  men  are  sent  to 
prison,  with  highway  robbery,  rape, 
assault  with  deadly  weapon,  thief  of 
antomobiles,  burglary  and  violation 
of  the  liquor  law  sfollowing  in  the 
order  named,  with  a  scattering  of 
other  crimes  down  to  the  one  man 
who  was  committed  for  wrecking  a 
bank,  and  two  for  embezzlement. 

During  the  year  the  prison  popu- 
lation registered  a  net  gain  of  272 
prisoners  over  discharges,  paroles 
and  pardons.  The  total  population  on 
May  5  was  1,052,  and  since  the  pri- 
son was  established  in  1873,  forty- 
nine  years  ago,  17,900  men  and  wo-' 
men  haved  passed  through  its  doors. 
The  gain  in  population  has  been 
slight  from  year  to  year  until  this 
past  twelve  months. 

Last  Tuesday  Superintendent 
George  Ross  Pou  issued  to  each 
member  of  the  Citizens  Committee 
of  One  Hundred,  named  by  the  State 
Welfare  Confluence  to  study  prison 
condition  and  suggest  remedial  leg- 
islation, passports  that  will  take 
them  into  every  prison  and  prison 
camp  in  the  State.  Actual  conditions 
ean  be  learned  in  that  manner,  and 
-Mr.  Pou  hopes  that  out  of  it  may 
come  some  plan  for  better  prison 
management. 

The  general  knowlegeof  the  aver- 
age  citizen   of  the   State   about  the 


place  where  North  Carolina  punishes 
its  men  and  women  convicted  of 
felony  is  usually  vague.  The  prison 
is  to  most  a  place  to  which  a  man 
is  sent  if  he  is  over  taken  in  wrong- 
doing serious  enough  to  warrent  a 
sentence  of  two  yearsor  more.  What 
comes  of  him  after  that,  nobody 
knows  exactly,  and  not  a  great  many 
people  have  been  seriously  concern- 
ed about  It. 

Three  classes  of  work  are  avail- 
able for  the  prisoner  when  the  judge 
sentences  him  to  years  at  hard 
labor."  The  prison  can  either  build 
roads,  it  can  farm,  or  it  can  engage  its 
forces  in  nining.  Laws  and  customs 
prohibit  competition  with  any  skill- 
ed aritzan.  Most  of  the  prisoners  in 
the  State  are  either  at  work  on  high- 
way construction,  or  are  employed 
at  the  State  Prison  farms. 

Last  year  the  prison  took  in  380 
men  and  women  convicted  as  fol- 
lows: murder,  94;  grand  larency,  Ii9; 
housebreaking,  07;  highway  robbery, 
19;  rape,  15;  assault,  14;  theft  of  auto- 
mobiles, 14;  forgery,  12;  burgalry, 
12;  prohibition  laws,  11;  false  pre- 
tense, 0;  bigamy,  4;  kidnapping  ab- 
duction, 4;  arson,  3;  conspiracy,  3; 
secret  assault,  3;  embezzlement,  2. 
The  remainder  are  for  a  miscellany 
of  crimes. 

Two  hundred  and  sixteen  of  the 
380  were  white  men,  and  104  ncgroos. 
The   average    age   of  the  prisoners 


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IS 


admitted  is  2S  and  the  average  sen- 
tence is  7  years.  Of  the  3S0  prison- 
ers, 95  are  illiterate.,  23U  have  educa- 
tion reaching  as  high  as  the  seventh 
grade;  75  are  high  school  or  college 
j  trained.  Two-thirds  of  them  are* 
physically  lit  lor  road  work. 

The  physically  fit  are  sent  out  to 
prison  camps.  The  less  able  bodi- 
ed are  sent  to  the  Prison  Farm  four 
miles  west  of  Raleigh;  the  disabled, 
totally  or  partially,  arc  kept  atthe 
central  prison  here.  The  negro  male 
population  of  the  prison  is  543;  white. 
380;  females,  white  11  and  black,  33; 
criminul  insane,  (!.").  In  the  Central 
Prison  are  kept  169 men  and  women, 
black  and  white. 

This  is  the  reaction  of  Superinten- 
dent Pou  to  the  appointment  of  the 
Citizens'  Committee: 

'What  do  I  think  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  Citizens  Committee  for 
thestudy  of  prisons?  Fine!  Iftheydo 
notallow  fanaticsand  sentimentalists 
to  sway  them.  They  must  not  heed 
the  fellow  who  believes  a  prisoner 
is  no  longer  a  human  being — those 
whom  we  sometimes  call  hard-boiled; 
this  elass  believe  a  prisoner  is  not 
entiteled  to  any  consideration  but 
should  lie  cuffed  and  banged  about 
until  his  very  soul  and  spirit  is 
broken, 

"Then  the  opposite  elass — fanatics 
andsentmentalists — they  believe  pri- 
soners should  be  rolled  in  white,  ask- 
ed if  they  will  work  and  be  fed  on 
ice  cream  and  chicken  three  times  a 


day. 


I   do  not  know    which  of   the 


above  class  of  people  do  more  harm. 
Then  comes  the  middle  class,  those 
v  ho  believe  a  prison  is  a  prison,  not 
a  Sunday  School  Conference.  They 
believe  in  providing  good  clothes, 
good  food,  good  quarters,  proper 
medical  attention,    treated  humanly 


and  worked  as  in  theintentof  the  law. 
I  hope  1  belong  to  the  hitter,  elass. 

'  Show  me  a  prisoner  in  the  State's 
Prison  who  is  dissatisfied  with  the 
treatment  accorded  him  and  1  will 
show  you  a  prisoner  who  hasnotper- 
formed  his  duty. 

'Relative  to  our  support  I  cannot 
understand  why  it  is  deemed  proper 
for  us  to  compete  with  the  laborer 
anil  the  farmer  and  not  with  the 
manufacturer.  There  is  a  class. of 
prisoners  who  are  unlit  for  manual 
labor  who  could  be  utilized  in  some 
industry. 

"The  Criminal  Insane  Department 
of  the  State  Prison  should  be  abol- 
ished. While  [  have  made  some  im- 
provement since  my  incumbency  the 
State>  of  North  Carolina  is  really 
guilty  of  crime  for  its  past  and  pres- 
ent neglect  of  the  Criminal  Insane. 
Why  don't  1  remedy  it?  Because  I 
have  neither  the  authority  or  tho 
funds.  Because  a  demented  person 
commits  a  crime  is  no  reason  why 
the  great  State  of  North  Carolina 
should  deprive  him  of  all  possible 
chance  of  cure  and  proper  treatment.- 
Govenor  Morrison  realizes  the  ne- 
cessity for  placing  the  Criminal  In- 
sane where  they  can  receive  the 
same  attention  given  other  unfortu- 
nate Insane  persons. 

Is  the  State.Prison  self-support- 
ing? in  a  manner — yes  but  only  by 
rigid  economy  in  every  department 
(as  it  should  be)  and  partially  by 
deprivation  of  some  things  prison- 
ers are  really  entitled  to.  The  rec- 
ords of  the  State's  Prison  disclose 
that  it  has  hardly  supported  itself 
from  it  earnings  for  the  past  few 
years.  And  now  we  have  not  a 
fertile,  easily  cultivated  farm  to  pro- 
duce from. 

"The  majority  of  the  farm  we  have 


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near  Raleigh  is  naturally  poor  laud. 
A  part  of  it  is  very  susceptible  to 
proper  fertilization  and  cultivation, 
but  the  most  of  it  is  in  a  run  down 
gulley-washed  condition  and  it  will 
be  several  years  before  it  can  show 
a  profit.  So  we  cannot  depend  upon 
our  farm  to  assist  us  materially  in 
support  of  the  prison.  Candidly  1 
do  not  believe  we  will  do  more  than 
make  farm  expenses. 

Why  we  now  have  a  population 
of  nearly  eleven  hundred  while  a 
year  ago  we  had  nearer  seven  hun- 
■  dred.  About  one-third  of  our  popu- 
lation are  crippled  or  diseased  and 
are  non-producers.  About  a  year 
ago  we  received  $3.25  for  prison 
labor,  today  we  receive  S1.7.">  per 
day.  A  year  ago  we  paid  guards  §50 
per  month,  board  and  lodging;  to- 
day we  pay  them  $-10,  board  and 
lodging.  The  price  of  labor  was 
therefore  necssarily  cut  practically 
fifty  per  cent  in  order  to  hire  them 
out,  while  we  were  only  able  to  re- 
duce our  guards  pay  t  venty  per 
cent.  One  half  our  expense  is  for 
guarding. 

We  had  rough  sledding   the    past 
winter,  Capt.  Busbce,  who  has  been 


with  the  prison  for  thirty  years,  says 
last  winter  was  the  most  disastrous 
he  has  seen  with  the  prison  from 
the  standpoint  of  bad  weather  and 
no  demand  for  labor.  You  know  we 
receive  no  money  for  our  men  when 
it  rains  or  it  is  too  wet  for  work. 
We  begged  contractors  to  take  our 
man  but  they  would  not  do  so.  We 
were  only  able  to  put  cud.  about  half 
the  number  available. 

What  do  we  raise  on  our  farm? 
Well  I  am  cultivating  live  hundred 
acres  on  old  Caledonia  in  corn  and 
peas.  The'  yield  of  peas  if  we  have 
good  seasons,  will  furnish  us  suffi- 
cient quality  to  feed  our  men  for  one 
year.  We  will  have  sufficient  corn 
to  feed  our  teams,  fatten  our  hogs 
and  grind  a  great  deal  into  corn  meal 
for  our  prisoners.  We  have  wheat, 
oats,  corn,  peas,  sweet  and  Irish  po- 
tatoes, a  large  truck  patch  includ- 
ing fifty  thousand  cabbage  plants  at 
our  Camp  Polk  Farm.  Pigs?  Yes, 
we  have  about  four  hundred  head 
and  they  are  a  sight  worth  seeing. 
We  also  have  one  hundred  acres  in 
long  staple  cotton  and  three  hundred 
'and  fifty  acres  in  short  staple." 


Whatever  it  msjy  be  called,  we  know  that  enthusiain  warms  our  hearts 
and  Alls  us  with  a  thrill  of  happy  purpose.  If  we  are  enthusiastic  ?(bout 
our  class,  about  our  schools,  about  our  town,  about  our  home,  our  farm, 
our  car — anything,  indeed,  to  which  we  have  a  bond  of  ownership — we 
must  certainly  have  nothing  within  us  that  is  mean  or  hampering,  nothing 
but  which  will  be  helpful,  inspiring,  uplifting.  Whatever  we  are  enthu- 
siastic about  that  do  we  love  and  cherish.  If  it  is  our  job,  then  our  job 
is  a  thing  of  glory,  however,  humble  it  may  be.  And  doing  our  work,  wheu 
stimulated  by  the  fire  of  enthusiasm,  we  will  render  service  worth  while — 
Young  Peoples'  Weekly. 


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17 


VI 


J  V 
JLjI 


OF    DEATHS    EX- 


CUSABLE. 

By  C.  0."  Zimmerman. 

A  Factory  is  thought  of  as  a  place  when'  peaple  pi'oduce  finished  goods 
—shoes,  bicycles,  or  gingham  aprons.  But  North  Carolina  has  209,763 
factories  of  another  and  no  less  important  kind — places  where  raw  goods 
are  produced.      These  are  her  2t>9,7(>3   farms— raw  goods  factories. 


For  a  long  time  after  the  begin- 
ning of  the  factory  system  of  produc- 
tion, states  allowed  the  factory  own- 
ers to  produce  the  goods  under  the 
most  uncomfortable  and  unsanitary 
conditions.  But  the  last  quarter 
century  has  proved  that  unsanitary 
factories  and  unsanitary  working- 
conditions  endanger  the  lives  and 
the  working  capacity  not  only  of  the 
wage  earners  but  also  of  society  as  a 
whole.  The  results  is  that  today  we 
subject  our  factories  to  strict  health 
inspections  and  sanitary  laws. 

It  is  now  time  that  progressive 
Tarheel  citizens  should  turn  their 
attention  to  the  sanitary  and  health 
conditions  on  the  269,763  farm  •  fac- 
tories of  the  state — 72,594  of  which 
in  this  year  of  the  Lord  1922  con- 
tinue to  dump  their  dish  water,  slop, 
and  house  refuse  from  the  kitchen 
into  the  back  yard. 

If  a  hotel  in  North  Carolina  was 
to  serve  a  meal  from  an  unscreened 
kitchen  the  sheriff  would  close  the 
p'ace  overnight.  Yet  77,425  farm 
mothers  serve  meales  to  77,125  fami- 
lies from  an  unscreened  kitchen 
three  times  a  day— a  total  of  232,275 
n;eals,  not  one  of  which  is  protected 
from  disease  laden  flies. 

A  common  boast  of  the  farmer  is 
tLathis  occupation  is  the  most  health- 
ful occupation  in  the  world.  Yet 
in  the  last  10  years  the  death  rates 
in  the   cities  of   four    states     have 


dropped  below  the  rate  for  farm 
people  in  those  states. 

In  19011  approximately  20  people 
in  each  thousand  died  each  year. 
In  1921  the  death  rate  was  only 
about  12  per  thousand.  But  the 
death  rate  of  the  city  people  has 
declined  twenty  percent  in  those 
two  decades  and  that  of  the  ceuntry 
folks  only  three  and  a  quarter  per- 
cent. Let  the  reader  ask  himself 
this  question;  If  farming  is  the 
most  healthful  occupation  in  the 
world,  why  are  the  city  disease  and 
death  rates  declining  faster  than 
those  of  the  country? 

It  is  because  the  city  people  have 
made  sanitary  rules  and  regula- 
tions. It  is  because  the  city  people 
use  tooth  brushes,  bathtubs,  and 
typhoid  vaccines,  while  country 
people  continue  to  use  patent  medi- 
cines, castor  oil,  and  kerosene  rags. 
The  city  people  call  on  the  doctor 
or  dentist;  the  country  people  wait 
for  the  patent  medicine  vender  to 
call. 

The  people  of  this  country  spend 
half  billion  dollars  annually  for 
drills  and  medicines,  more  than 
three  hundred  million  of  which  goes 
for  patent  medicines,  Four  fifths 
of  this  money  spent  for  patent  medi- 
cines is  spent  by  country  people. 
Instead  of  calling  the  doctor  the 
country  people  turn  to  the  bottle  of 
Soakems  Penuria  or  Dowom's    Tal- 


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THE  UPLIFT 


nacko. 

The  health  of  the  city  people  has 
improved  because  they  have  increas- 
ed the  consumption  of  health  goods 
and  because  they  teach,  preach  and 
practice  preventative  hygiene.  Thir- 
ty years  ago  there  were  less  than  2- 
700  drug  items  on  the  market.  To- 
day there  are  more  than  45,000  each 
of  which  aims  to  eradicate  some  de- 
finite ailment  of  society. 

The  city  doctor  goes  into  the 
school  and  eliminates  the  unfit  by 
making  them  tit.  The  city  teacher, 
an  expert  in  her  line,  teaches  sanita- 
tion and  hygene.  The  city  sanitary 
and  health  officer  polices  the  disease 
germs  from  the  street.  The  city 
boys  are  tit. 

The  country  doctor  is  handicapp- 
ed in  his  work  by  the  antagonism  of 
the  rural  people.  The  country  tea- 
chers, most  often  an  eighteen  year 
girl  with  no  teaching  experience, 
does  not  ofter  have  either  the  prop- 
ideals  or  the  prestige  that  will  tit 
her  to  teach  proper  health  practices. 
Each  farmer  considers  his  home  a 
castle  and  will  not  listen  to  the  ad- 
vice of  the  rural  health  officer.  The 
farmer  in  his  ignorance  allows  the 
fly  to  tract  from  the  privy  to  the  well 
and  the  butter  dish.  On  the  average, 
the  country  children  are  not  so  fit  as 
the  city  children. 

Only  two  kinds  of  deaths  are  ex- 
cusable— those  from  oid  age  and 
those  from  accidents,  [n  the  last  20 
years  the  people  have  begun  to  learn 
that  death  from  disease  are  inexecus- 
able. 

Where  four  died  from  typhoid 
fever  20  years  ago  only  one  dies  now. 
The  reductions  in  deaths  from  meas- 
les has  been  three  to  one;  scarlet 
fever  three  to  one;  diphtheria 
three  to  one;  tuberculosis  ten  to  six; 


pneumonia  three  to  two;  yellow  fever 
has  been  eradicated,  and  small  pox 
and  typhoid  fever  are  beginning  to 
see  their  finish. 

The  country  is  the  most  healthful 
environment  in  the  world.  The  far- 
mer possesses  the  sunshine,  the  air. 
tlie  growing  grass,  and  the  running 
water.  The  city  dweller  has  the 
foul  slum,  the  disease  laden  wind, 
the  paved  street,  and  the  pipe  juice. 
But  the  farmer  closes  his  window 
at  night  to  keep  out  the  pure'  air. 
He  throws  the  slop  from  the  poarch 
and  kills  the  grass  in  his  yard.  He. 
places  his  house,  barn,  and  privy  at 
a  too  convenient  distance  from  the 
well  and  invites  the  fly  to  bring  in 
disease  germs  through  unscreened 
( 1  oo  r s  a n.d  w  indo w  s . 

Shall  we  wonder  that  the  city  is 
fast  stealing  from  the  country  the 
prestige  of  good   health? 

Shall  we  wonder  that  the  farmer 
is  handicapped  by  sickness,  disease, 
and  death.  Shall  we  wonder  that 
tin'  patent  medicine  man  considers 
the  farm  folkes  his  owu  particular 
game. 

North  Carolina  has  as  her  adviser 
a  first-rate  public  health  expert,  Dr.. 
W.  S.  Rankin.  But  Dr.  Rankin  can't 
remake  a  rural  civilization  by  him- 
self. .  He  must  have  the  help  and 
cooperation  of  the  270,000  farm  fam- 
ilies. He  must  have  the  help  of 
thousands  of  good  health  preachers 
— the  teachers,  ministers  of  the  gos- 
pel, farm  and  home  demonstration 
agents,  doctors,  and  county  health 
nurses. 

And  they  are  willing  to  help. 
More  than  3, 000  farm  homes  were 
screened  last  year  as  a  direct  result 
of  the  advice  and  urging  of  Mrs.  Jane 
S.  McKimmon's  49  home  demonstra- 
tion girls.      The  community  picture 


THE  UPLIFT 


ID 


shows  under  the  directions  of  Colo- 
nel W.  G.  Crosby  showed  health  films 

and  gave  health  lectures  last  year  to 
more  than  450,000  farm  people.   Dur- 
ing the  same  year  puplic    health   of- 
ficials under  Dr.  Rankin's  guidance 
!  treated  thousands  of    teeth    and    re- 
moved thousands  of   tonsils  for   the 
.  rural  .school   children.     The    rural 
'  school    teachers,    where   they   have 
I  the  proper  training,  are  giving  their 
help.   Through  these  agencies  count- 
less numbers  of   rural   people   have 
|  heen  vaccinated  for  typhoid,    small 
j!  pox,  and  diphtheria. 

North  Carolina  has  done  a  great 
J !  work  for  her  people,  but  she  must 
j ;  do  more.  She  must  stop  this  continu- 
',''  al  race  suicide  which  comes  through 
i  ignorance  of  sanitation.  She  must 
!  breed  a  race  of  people  to  run  her 
factories  and  till  her  idle  soil. 

Here  is   the   progamm   on    which 


she  can  do  this  work.     Read  it  and 


see  if  yon  can  help. 

1.  Put  an  active  county  health  of- 
ficer in  every  county  of  the  state. 
Where  negroes  live  give  them  speci- 
al officers — disease  germs  do  not 
draw  the  color  line. 

"2.  Put  at  least  one  Home  Demonst- 
ration agent  in  every  county  to  work 
with  the  rural  people. 

8.  Multiply  by  five  the  efficiency 
of  the  open  country  and  village 
schools. 

4.  Coordinate  these  forces  for  a 
continuous  drive  against  diseases 
and  unsanitary  practices. 

If  North  Caroliua  is  great  in  the 
future  as  she  has  been  in  the  past, 
she  will  be  great  because  she  rears 
great  people. 

No  people  can  be  great  unless 
they  possess  strong  and  healthy 
bodies.  We  cannot  have  a  great 
civilization  unless  we  have  a  heatlhy 
population. 


"A  short  time  ago  there' /died Jnjthis ..country  a  woman  who  .was. known  far 
iad  wide  for  her  philanthropy.  She  had  never  had  a  great  deal  of  money  nor 
a  great  deal  of  time,  hut  the  world  is  a  hetter  place  because  of  her  generosity. 
Someone  who  knew  her  well  said  this  of  her,  'It  wasn't  what  she  gave  but  the 
way  she  save  it.  When  she  did  you  a;  favor  ,it  was  a  pleasure  for  her  to  do  it 
When  she  gave  a  Christmas  gift  it  was  not  only  carefully  chosen  but  it  was 
beautifully  wrapped.    Whatever  she  gave,  she  gdve  magnificently. 

"The  teaching  profession  is  primarily  a  giving  profession  If  a  teacher  has 
nothing  to  give  or  does  not  know  how  to  give  it,  he  is  not  ready  a  teacher  at  all 
He  may  be  a  storehouse  of  valuable  information  or  a  theorist  of  parts  but  he 
is  not  a  teacher.    If  he  cannot  bridge  the  space  between  the  pnpil  and  himself, 

"••Trwiy'in'which  he  bridges  this  space  is  the  measure  of  a  teacher's  suc- 
cess in  his  profession.  One  sees,  from  time  to  time,  teachers  with  sour  faces 
uiyieUling  demeanor.  These  are  the  unwilling  givers;  the  miser  of  the  profes- 
sion How  does  the  successful  teacher  teach?  Willmg ly;  dynamicaUy;  as  f 
hnoved  it.  He  not  only  gives;  he  gives  magnificently. "-Connecticut  Schools 
bulletin. 


20  THE  ;U;PLI1<T 

SURVIVING    CONFEDERATE  VETERANS 
OF    BURKE    COUNTY. 

Mr.  John  ('.  McDowell,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Burke  county  and  one  who 
esteems  most  highly  these  heroes  of  the  War  Between  the  States,  has  kindly 
furnished  the  names  of  the  survivors  now  living  in  Burke  county.  Mr.  Mc- 
Dowell reports  105,  and  adds  that  in  the  list  there  is  only  one  surviving  officer, 
Captain  L.  A.  Bristol. 

MORGANTON:  W.  W.  McGimsey,  N.  W.  Allen,  Joseph  L.  Allman,  Charles 
Bradshaw,  L.  A.  Bristol,  W.  A.  Brittain,  Julius  A.  Brown,  W.  T.  Oausby,  J.  M. 
Chester,  W.  A.  Clontz,  B.  Coffey,  L.  A.  Crawley,  A.  N.  Crawley,  D.  F.  Denton, 
W.  T.  Dula,  H.  C.  Fisher,  J.  L.  Fox,  R.  G.  Gibbs,  W.  J.  Gibbs,  W.  F.  Hallybur- 
ton,  J.  P.  Hawkins,  Daniel  Hicks,  George  A.  Holder,  J.  A.  Houck,  S.  A.  John- 
son, I.  I.  Davis,  W.  A.  Ross,  N.  T.  Keaton,  Edney  McNeely,  J.  P.  May,  Joseph 
Mull,  Jr.,  Samuel  M.  Mull,  Mark  Poteet,  J.  A.  Rector,  J.  S.  Scott,  S.  B.  Scott, 
S.  L.  Settlemyre,  John  Shoup,  Julius  Smith,  Daniel  Smith,  Willi?,m  M.  Sparks, 
Leonard  Whisenant,  Richard  WiUiams. 

MORGANTON,  R.  F.  D's:  S.  M.  Asbury,  Jackson  Miller. 

CONNELLY  SPRINGS:  Nathan  L.  Chapman,  J.  T.  Brittain,  D.  A.  Cook, 
W.  A.  Hildebrand,  Amos  Huffman,  W.  L.  Lowman,  J.  W.  Parish,  J.  A.  Perry, 
W.  P.  Rhoney,  S.  W.  Roper,  W.  A.  Stanley,  Louis  Warlick. 

GLEN  ALPINE:  John  E.  Arney,  T.  S.  Bright,  W.  L.  Carswell,  G.  M.  London,  j 
J.  L.  Simpson,  Joseph  W.  Simpson 

GIBBS:  Nathan  Clark,  Amos  F,  Alexander,  W.  H.  England,  J.  J.  Wise,  Dan-  I 
iel  Ramsey,  B.  B.  Clark. 

DREXEL;  W.  A..  Berry.  D.  C.  Hudson. 

TABLE  ROCK:  "William  L.  Allen,  J.  W.  Jaynes,  Theodore  McGimsey,' J.  B, 
Williams.  .  . .    . , 

ENOLA:  William  Benton,  Ambrose  Hudson,  ..     . 

VALDESE:  M.  A.  Holler,  Jones  M.  McGalliard,  Edney  Powell,  R.  M.  Powell,  | 
W.  M.  PowelL 

HICKORY:  Silas  Berry,  S.  M.  Wilkie,  W.  A.  Wilson. 

CHAMBERS:  John  Chapman. 

HENNESSY:  Ephriam  Lane. 

DOGWOOD:  Joe  C.  Baird. 

GILMER:  John  C.  Coffey. 

BURKEMONT:  D.  J.  Dale. 

EILDEBRAN:  Leander  P.  Hildebrand. 

WORTMAN:  Peter  Lail. 

PERKINSVILLE:  R.  P.  Laxton. 

GAMEWELL  STORE:   C.  H.  Lewis. 

ROLLINSs  Malton  Moses. 

FONTA  FLORAS  J.  P.  Parks. 

DYSARTSVILLE:  T.  P.  Sa'tterwhite. 


THE  UPLIFT  21- 


BURKEtAlva  Smith. 

PARK  HILL:  Alexander  Smith. 

CHESTERFIELD:  R.  W.  Sudderth,  Peter  Swink. 

HARTLAND :  J.  W.  Williams. 

MARGARETTA:   Stanhope  Johnson,  Hugh  Howard. 


The  average  young  person  loses  enough  time  between  the  ages  of  twelve 
dnd  twenty  to  become  the  best  informed  citizens  of  his  or  her  com- 
munity if  only  the  lost  hours  were  put  to  use. 


AITING    FOR    THE    ARMADA 

By  Charles  Kingsley 

See  those  five  talking  earnestly,  in  the  center  of  a  ring  which  long's  to- 
overhere,  and  yet  is  too  respectful  to  approach  close.  Those  soft,  long  eyes, 
and  pointed  chin  you  recognize  already;  they  are  Walter  Raleigh's.  The 
fair  young  man  in  the  liamecolord  doublet,  whose  arm  is  round  Raleigh's 
neck,  is  Lord  Sheffield;  opposite  them  stands,    by    the   side  of  Sir  Richard. 

Grenville,  a  man  as  stately   even   as  oddly  with.the  huge  gold  chain  about 
he, — Lord  Sheffield's  uncle,  the  Lord  his  neck,    waddles  up,  as  if  he   had 
Charles  Howard  of  Effingham,    Lord  been  born,  and  had  lived  ever  since, 
j  High  Admiral  of   England;  next    to  in  a  gale  of  wind  at  sea.       The  upper 
i  him   is   his   son-in-law,    Sir  Robert  half  of   his   sharp,    dogged     visage 
.  Southwell,  captain  of   the   Elizabeth  seemed  of  brick-red  leather,  the  low - 
;  Jones;  but  who  is  that  short,  sturdy,  er  of  badger's   fur;    and  as  he  claps 
,  plainly   dressed   man,     who   stands  Drake  on  the  back,  and   with    broad 
;  with  legs  a  little  apart  and  hands  be-  Devon  twang  shouts,  ''Be  you  a-com- 
'  hind  his  back,  looking  up  with  keen  ing   to  drink   your    wine,    Francis 
'gray    eyes    into    the     face   of --each— -Drake,  or  be  you  not? — Saving  your 
speaker?      His  cap  is  in  his   hands,  presenee,.my  lord," — the  Lord  High 
so  you  can    see    the   bullet   head   of  Admiral  only  laughs,  and  bids  Drake 
crisp  brown  hair  and  the    wrinkled  go  and    drink,  his    wine;    for    John 
forehead,  as  well  as-the  high   cheek  Hawkins,  Admiral  of  the  Port,  is  the 
bones,  the   short,    square   face,    the  patriarch   of    Plymouth   seamen,    if 
broad  temples,  the  thick  lips,  which  Drake  be  their   hero,   and   says  and 
|  are  yet  firm  as  granite.     A   coarse,  does  pretty  much    what  he    likes  in 
plebeian  stamp  of  man,  yet  the  whole  any  company  on   earth,  not    to  men- 
figure  and  attitude  are  that  of  bound-  tion    that     to-day's    prospect  of  an 
S  less  determination,    self-possession,  Armageddon  fight   has  shaken  him 
j  energy;  and  when  at  last  he  speaks  altogeather  out  of  his  usual  crabbed 
a   few    blunt    words,   all    eyes   are  reserve,  and  make  him  overflow  with 
;  turned  respectfully   upon   him;    for  loquacious  good  humor,  even    to  his 
his  name  is  Francis  Drake.  rival  Drake. 

A  burly,  grizzled  elder,  in  greasy,  So  they  push  through  the   crowds 

!  sea-stained   garments,     contrasting  wherein  is  many  another  man  whom 


22 


THE  UPLIFT 


-one  would  gladly  have  spoken  with 
face  to  face  on  earth.  Martin  Frob- 
isher  and  John  Davis  are  sitting  on 
that  bench,  smoking-  tobacco  from 
long  silver  pipes;  and  by  them  are 
Fenton  and  "Withrington,  who  have 
both  tried  to  follow  Drake's  path 
round  the  world,  and  failed,  though 
by  no  fault  of  their  own.  The  man 
who  pledges  them  better  luck  next 
time  is  George  Fenner,  know  to 
the  seven  Portugals,"  Leicester's 
pet,  and  captain  of  the  galleon  which 
Elizabeth  bought  of  him.  That  short, 
prim  man  in  the  huge  yellow  ruff, 
with  sharp  chin,  minute  imperial, 
and  self-satisfied  smile,  is  Richard 
Hawkins,  the  Complete  Seaman, 
Admiral  John's  hereafter  famous  and 
hapless  son.  The  elder  who  is  talk- 
ing with  him  is  his  good  uncle  Wil- 
liam, whose  monument  still  stands. 
■or  should  stand,  in  Depotford 
Church;  for  Admiral  John  set  it  up 
there  but  one  year  after  this  time, 
and  on  it  recorded  how  he  was  "A 
worshiper  of  the  true  religion,  an 
■especial  -benefactor  of  poor  sailors,-.a 
most  just  arbiter  in  most  difficult 
•causes,  and  of  a  singular  faith,  piety, 


and  prudence."  That,  and  the  fact 
that  he  got  creditably  through  some 
sharp  work  at  Porto  Rico,  is  all  I 
know  of  Willian  Hawkins;  but  if  you 
or  1,  reader,  can  have  as  much,  or 
half  as  much,  said  of  us  when  we 
have  to  follow  him,  we  shall  have 
no  reason  to  complain. 

There  is  John  Drake,  Sir  Francis's 
brother,  ancestor  of  the  present  stock 
of  Drakes;  and  there  is  George,  his 
nephew,  a  man  not  overwise,  who 
has  been  round  the  world  with  Am- 
yas;  and  there  is  Amyas  himself, 
talking  to  one  who  answers  him  with 
fierce,  curt  sentences,  —  Captain 
Barker,  of  Bristol,  brother  of  the 
hapless  Andrew  Barker  wdio  found 
John  Oxanham's  guns,  and  owing 
to  a  mutiny  among  his  men  perished 
by  the  Spaniards  in  Honduras  twelve 
years  ago.  Barker  is  now  captain 
of  the  Victory,  one  of  the  queen's 
best  ships,  and  he  has  his  accounts 
to  settle  with  the  dons,  as  Amyas 
has;  so  they  are  both  growling  to- 
gether in  a  corner,  wddle  all  the  rest 
are.as..  merry  as  the  flies  upon  the 
vine  above  their  heads. 


I   AM. 

By  Swift  Davis  (A  J.  T.  S.  Pupil)  . 

lam  your  most  valuable  possession,  yet  you  never  give  me  a  second 
thought.  I  show  you  many  pleasures,  yet  you  never  thank  me,  I  cannot 
be  regained  once  I  am  lost,  yet  to  an  utmost  degree  you  are  careless  with 
me.  You  use  me  every  day,  yet  I  receive  no  salary  from  you.  Because 
of  me  you  rejoice,  sorrow,  laugh,  weep;  sing  or  curse.      You  would   rather 

lose  a  fortune  than  me,  yet  men  do 
without  me.  If  I  leave  you,  you  are 
helpless,  yet  some    men  have    never 


had  me  but  attain  great  heights  of 
success.  I  am  guarded  by  you  vig- 
ilantly,    yet     unconsciously.    I     am 


priceless,  yet  every  one  of  you  own 
and  are  careless  with  me.  Some 
men  use  an  imitation  of  me,  but  io 
not  profit  by  it.  I  show  you  many 
others  similar  to  me,  yet  you  never 
care  to  look  at  me  unless  I  am   hurt. 


THE  UPLIFT  23.. 

You  do  not  see  me,  yet    you    can  sec  Eye.   Now  that  you  know  me  go  bade 

me.   By  me  men  usually  judge   your  over  my   assertions  and  see  if  they 

character,    for    I    do  not      deceive.  are  true.                                                 i, 

Can  you  guess  who  I  am?  I  am  your  :.-J 


The  birds  are  moulting.  If  man  could  only  moult  also — his  mind  once  a 
year  its  errors  his  heart  once  a  year  its  useless  passion!  How  fine  we 
should  all  look  if  every  August  the  old  plumage  of  our  natures  would 
drop  out  and  he  blown  away,  and  fresh  quills  take  the  vacant  place!  But 
we  have  one  set  of  feathers  to  last  us  through  our  threescore  years  staid  ten — 
one  set  of  spotless  feathers,  which  we  are  told  to  keep  spotless 
all  our  lives  in  a  dirty  world.  If  one  gets  broken,  broken  it  stays; if  one 
gets  blackened,  nothing  will  cleanse  it.  No  doubt  we  shall  all  fly  home 
at  last,  like  a  flock  of  pigeons  that  were  once  turned  loose  snow-white  from 
the  sky  and  made  to  descend  and  fight  one  another  and  fight  everything 
else  for  a  poor  living  amid  soot  and  mire.  If  then  the  hand  of  the  un- 
seen Fancier  is  stretched  forth  to  draw  us  in,  how  can  he  possibly  smite 
any  of  us,  or  cast  us  away,  because  we  came  back  to  him  black  and  blue 
with  bruises  and  besmudged  and  bedraggled  past  all  recognition? — James 
Lane  Allen. 


What  I  Would  Like  To  Do  And  Why  I  Would  Like 
To  Do  It  When  I  Leave  The  Jackson  Training  School. 

By  Jacob  Columbus  Mead---4th  Prize 

1  am  just  a  small  hoy  at  the  Jackson  Training  School;  and  I  think  that 
every  boy  would  like  to  do  something  when  he  leaves  the  school — and  :  f 
think  that  every   boy  should  do  something. 

It  has  been  my  desire  to  be  a  mechanic  ever  since  I  can  remember;  and 
I  am  going  to  be  one.  Any  boy  who  tries  is  always  what  he  wants  to  be. 
I  am  going  home  and  show  people  what  I  can  do. 

If  a  boy  tries    there   is   always  a      go  home  and    worry   my   mother  for- 
helping  hand  to  aid  him;  and  if  a  boy      money— I  mean    to    work    for  it  and 
tries  to  win  he  wins;    but   if   a     boy      give  it  to  her,  not  take  it  from  her. 
does  not  desire    to  be   anything,   he  I  can  be   doing   something  all  the 

need  not  expect  to  be  anything.  I  time  for  there  is  machinery  all  over 
am  going  to  work  and  earn  what  I  the  world.  I  can  help  people  and 
can  and  be  of  use  to  people  in  that  be  doing  myself  good,  all  at  the  same 
way.  >•  time.      I  mean  to   be  a  mechanic  not 

Why  I  would  like  to  be  a  mecban-      a  piece  of  one.     Look,  if  one  of  these 
io.  is  because  I  like  the    trade,  and  I      big   machines   gets    broke   I    could 
already  know  a  little  about  it   audi      then  fix  it.     There  would  be  lots   of 
can  learn  more.     That's    what   I  am      tilings  I  could  do. 
going  to  do;  and  I  do   not   intend  to  Sometimes  a  boy  gets  into  trouble, 


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und  people  say  that  lie  will  never  he 
anything — they  know  not  what  they 
say.  Send  him  to  this  institution, 
and  when  he  returns  home   ask   the 


people  what  they  think  of  him.  This 
place  makes  something  out  of  a  hoy. 
This  institution  has  done  lots  for  me 
and  I  sure  do  appreciate  it. 


Most  peroidicals  for  women  are  edited  by  men.  The  majority  of  wo- 
men's dressmakers  are  men.  Music  appeals  most  largely  to  women,  but 
it  is  composed  largely  by  men.  The  membership  of  the  church  is  largely 
of  women,  but  the  world's  greatest  preachers  are  men.     Why? 


JAIKIE'S   FLOWER    GARDEN. 

By  S.  R.  Crockett 
Once  I  wrote  obout  two  little  hoys  who  played  togeher  all  through  the  heats 
of  the  Dry  Summer  in  a  garden  very  beautiful  and  old.      The  tale  told  ho\:  it 
came  to  pass  that  one  of  the  boys  was  lame,  und  also  why  they  loved  one  an- 
other so  greatly. 

From  over  seas  there  came  lettersone,  two,  and  three,  asking  to  be  told  what 
these  twodid  i  the  beautiful  garden  of  Long  Ago,  what  they  played  at,  where 
they  went,    and  what  the    dry  sumer      gnarled  trees  green-mosed,   that   bore 

little  fruit,  but  made  a  glory  of  shade 
yi  the  dog  days. 

Up  among  the  branches  Jiminy  made 
a  platform,  like  those  Jaikie  read  to 
him  about  in  abook  of  Inhian  travel, 
where  the  hunters  waited  for  tigers 
to  come  underneath  them.  Ever  since 
Jaikie  became  lame,  he  lived  at  the 
manse  and  the  minister  let  him  read 
all  sorts  of  books  if  so  he  wished. 
Jiminy  eared  little  about  books,  but 
Jakie  looked  upon  each  one  of  them 
as  a  new  gate  to  paradise. 

Once  iit  who  used  always  to  do 
what  Jimmy  bade  him;  but,  after 
Jaikie  was  hurt,  it  was  quite  different. 
Jimmy  now  came  to  Jaikie  and  said, 
"What  shall  we  do  to-day?"  A. id 
then  he  would  wheel  his  friend  in  a 
little  carriage  the  village  joiner  made, 
and  afterwards  cany  himamong  liie 
orchard  trees  to  the  place  Jaikie  wan- 
ted to  go. 

"Jiminy,"  said  Jaikie,  "the  flow- 


heats  had  to  do  with  it  all.  Perhaps 
it  is  a  foolish  thing  to  try  to  write 
down  in  words  that  which  was  at  once 
so  little  and  so  dear.  Yet,  because 
I  love  the  garden  and  the  boys,  I  must, 
for  my  own  pleasure,  tell  of  then  once 
again, 
his  father's,  which  is  the  same  thing, 

It  was  Jiminy 's  garden,  or  at  least 
or  even  better.  For  his  father  lived 
in  a  gloomy  study  with  severe  books, 
bound  in  divinity  calf,  all  about  him; 
and  was  no  more  conscious  of  the  ex- 
istance  of  the  beautiful  garden  than 
if  it  had  been  the  Desert  of  Sahara. 
On  the  other  hand,  Jiminy  never  open 
a  book  that  summer  except  when  he 
could  not  help  it,  which  was  once  a 
<3ay,  when  his  father  instructed  him 
him   in  the  Latin  verb. 

The  old  garden  was  cut  into  squares 
by  noble  walks  bordered  by  boxwood, 
high   like  a  hedge. 

There  was  an  orchard  also,  with  old 


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ers  are  bonnie  in  the  plots,  but  they 
are  all  prisoners.  Let  us  make  a 
place  wher  they  can  grow  as  they 
like."  Perhaps  he  thought  of  himself 
laid  weak  and  lonely,  when  the  green 
world  without  was  all  a-growing  and 
a-blowing. 

"Bring  some  of  the  flowers  up  to 
this  corner,"  said  Jaikie,  the  lame 
boy,  and  it  was  not  long  till  Jiminy 
brought  them.  The  ground  was  baked 
and  ry,  however,  and  soon  they  would 
have  withered,  but  that  Jaikie  issued 
his  commands,  and  Jiminy  ran  for 
pails  upon  pails  of  water  from  the 
little  where  now  the  water  had  stop- 
ped flowing,  and  only  slept  in  pools 
with  a  little  green  scum  over  them. 

"I  can't  carry  water  all  night  like 
this,"  said  Jiminy  at  last.  "I  sup- 
pose we  must  give  up  this  wild  garden 
here  in  the  corner  of  the  orchard." 

"Xo,"  said  Jaikie,  rubbing  his  lame 
ankle  where  it  always  hurt,  "we  must 
not  give  it  up,  for  it  is  our  very  own, 
and  I  shall  think  about  it  to-night 
between  the  clock-strikes."  For 
Jaikie  used  to  awake  and  count  the 
hours  when  the  pain  was  at  the  worst. 

So  in  the  little  room  next  to  Jim- 
iny, Jaikie  lay  awake  and  hearkened 
to  the  gentle  breathing  of  his  friend. 
Jiminy  always  said  when  he  went  to 
bed,  "I'll  keep  awake  to-night  sure, 
Jaikie,  and  talk  to  you."  And  Jaikie 
only  smiled  a  wan  smile  with  a  soul 
in  it,  for  he  knew  that  as  soon  as  Jim- 
iny's  drowsy  head  touched  the  pillow, 
he  would  be  in  the  dim  and  beautiful 
country  of  Nod,  leaving  poor  Jaikie 
to  rub  the  leg  in  which  the  pains  ran 
the  next  stroke  of  the  clock. 

As  he  lay,  Jaikie  thought  of  the 
flowers  in  the  corner  of  the  orchard 
thirsty  and  sick.     It     might   lie   that 


they,like  him,  were  sleepless  and  suf- 
fering. He  remembered  the  rich  car- 
nations with  their  dower  of  sweet 
savor,  the  dark  indigo  cornflowers, 
the  spotted  musk  monkey  flowers, 
smelling  like  a  village  flower  show, 
They  would  all  be  dropping  and  sad, 
and  it  might  be  that  the  ferns  would 
be  dead — all  but  the  hart's  tongue; 
which,  though  moisture-loving,  can 
yet  train  itself  to  endure  and  abide 
thirsty  and  unslacked.  But  the 
thought  of  their  pain  worked  in  Jai- 
kie's  heart. 

"Maybe  it  will  make  me  forget 
my  foot  if  I  can  go  and  water  them." 
So  he  arose,,  crawling  on  his  hands 
and  knees  downstairs  very  softly, 
past  where  Jiminy  tossed  in  his  bed, 
and  softer  still  past  the  minister's 
door.  But  there  was  no  sound  save 
the  creak  of  the  stairs  under  him. 
Jaikie  crept  to  the  water  pail,  and  got 
the  large  quart  tankard  that  hung  by 
races  up  and  down,  and  to  listen  for 
the  side  of  the  wall.  It  was  a  hard 
job  for  a  little  lad  to  get  a  heavy  tin 
vessel  filled, — a  harded  one  still  to  un- 
lock the  door  and  creep  away  across 
the  square  of  gravel.  "You  have  no 
idea,"  he  said  afterward,  "how  badly 
gravel  hurts  your  knees  when  they 
are   bare." 

Luckily  it  was  a  hot  night,  and  not 
a  breath  of  air  was  stirring,  so.  the 
little  white-clad  figure  moved  slowly 
across  the  front  of  the  house  to  the 
green  gate  of  the  garden.  Jaikie  could 
reach  out  only  as  far  as  his  arms  would 
go  with  the  tin  of  water.  Then  pain- 
fully he  pulled  himeslf  forward  to- 
ward the  tankard.  But  in  spite  of 
all  he  made  headway,  and  soon  he  was 
creeping  up  the  middle  walk,  past  the 
great   central  sundial,  which     seemed 


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shigh  as  a  church-steeple  above    him.  "Bide    a    little      while,'!    said   he, 

The  ghostly  moths  fluttered  a!j.ut  him  "and  yon  shall   have   plenty   for  root 

attracted    by    the    waiving      white    of  and  flower,  for  branch   and   vine  and 

his   garments.      In      their      corner   he  stem." 

found    the    flowers,     and     as     he    had  There    were    not    many    little    boys 

thought,      they     were     withered     and  more     loving  than   Jaikie   in  all     the 

droping.     II«   lifted  the   water     with  world;  and  with  his  work  and  his  help- j 

his  palms,  and  sprinkled   it   upon  the  ing  and   talking,  he  had  quite  forgot- 

plants,  taking  care  that  none  dripped  ten   about   hisfoot.He  began   to   creep 

through,  for  it  was  very  precious,  and  back    again      in    the    quiet,      colorless 

he  seemed   to   have  carried    it     many  night;  but  before  he  had  gone  away, 

miles.     As  soon  as  they  felt   the  wat-  the  honeysuckle  said,  "Remember  to 

er  upon   them,   the   flowers   paid     him  eome  back  to-morow  and  water  us,  ami 

back  in  perfume.  we  will  get  ready  such  line  full  cups  : 

'•[    wish   I   has  some  for  you,  dear  of  honey  for  you!" 

buttercup,"  said  Jaikie  to  the  golden  And  Jaikie  promised.     He  shut  the 

chalicces  which  grew   in   the    hollows  gate  to  keep  out  the  hens.     lie  crept  . 

hy  the  bumside;   "can  you   wait    an-  across  the  pebbles,  ami  they  hurt  his 

"  \Ye    have      waited      long,'*      they  knees  more   than   ever.      He   hung  ap 

seemed  to  reply;  "we  can  surely  wait  the   tin   dipper   again  on   its  peg,   ami 

other  day?''  climbed    the    stairs      to    his    bedroom. 

Then  the  honeysuckle  reached  down  Jiminy  breating  as  quietly  as  a  lazy 

a  single  tendril  to  touch  Jaikie  on  the  red-spotted  trout  in  the  shadow  of  the 

cheek.      "Some    for    me,    please,"    it  bank    on    a    warm   afternoon.     Jaikie  i 

said;  "there  are  so  ntany  of  us  at  our  crept  into  his  bed  and  fell  asleep  with- 

house,  and  so  little  to  get.     Our  roots  out  a  thought. 

are  such   a  long  way   oft',and   the   big  He  did  not  awake  till  quite  late  in 

fellows  farther  down  get  most  of  the  the  day,  when  Jiminy  came  to  tell  him 

juice  before  it  comes  our  way.     If  you  that  somebody  had  been  watering  the 

cannot   water   us  all,  you  might  pour  (lowers  in  the  Corner  of  the  Shadows  | 

a  little  on  our  heads."   So  Jaikie  lift-  during  the   night.      "I   think   it  must; 

ed  up  his  tankard  and  poured  the  few  before  Jaikie  had  time  to  tell  him  how  ■ 

drops   that   were   in  the   bottom   upon  have   been   the   angels,"   said  Jiminy, 

the  nodding  heads  of  the  honeysuckle  it  all  happened.     "Hy  father  theinks  [■'■ 

blossoms.  so.   too." 


A  man  has  no  more  right  to  make  a  living  out  of  a  community  with- 
out giving  something  back  to  that  community  than  hs  hrjs  to  receive  that 
for  which  he  does  not  give  value  received. — Christian  Sun. 


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27 


CLOCKS     RUN 

NIGHT   THAN 


RAPIDLY     AT 
DAYTIME. 

They   run   faster 


Clocks  today  are  formally  listed  in  the  high-life  class. 
at  night  than  by  day,  says  Science  arid  Invention. 

If  the  first  clock  ever  made  had  run  correctly,  at  noon  on  Thursday  it 
would  show  S:  13  p.m.  Saturday:  would  have  gained  20.293  seconds — 2  days, 
S  hours  and  13  seconds — since  clocks  of  our  present  type  were  invented  in_ 

A.  D.  9%  to  supplant  hour   glasses, 


water  clocks  and  measured  candles. 
The  20,923  seconds  include  the  leap 
year  gains. 

At  last,  so  the  volunteer  statis- 
tician says. 

However,  as  the  clocks  have  been 
corrected  day  by  day,  at  noon  today 
it  is  noon  today. 

The  vagaries  of  the  clocks  have 
been  disclosed  by  Dr.  R.  H.  Tucker 
of  Lick  Observatory,  a  prominent 
astronomer,  who  has  given  special 
attention  to  clocks. 

He  find  that  three  first-class  clocks 
at  Lick  Observatory  have  gained 
.06  of  a  second  every  night  for  sever- 
al months, 

The  results  of  his  investigation 
are  included  in  the  annual  report  of 
Dr.  W.  W.  Campbell,  director  of 
Lick. 


The  clocks  w.ere  checked  from  a 
large  list  of  stars  whose  positions 
are  known  with  high  precision.  The 
report  says  meridian  transits  were 
recorded  .06  seconds  of  the  time  too 
early  in  the  sunsit  as  compared 
with  thh  sunriseperiod.  Differ- 
ences of  temperature  would  ac- 
count for  only  5  per  cent  of  the  dis- 
crepancy. 

Nobody  knows  the  cause,  but  Dr. 
Tucker  is  still  at  work  on  the  prob- 
lem. 

Prof.  Charles  Burckhalter,  di- 
rector of  Oakland's  Chrbot  observa- 
tory, asked  for  his  opinion  on  it,  said 
that  Dr  Tucker  was  the  expert  of 
experts  on  this  question,  but  that 
the  public  need  not  be  alarmed,  as 
the  discrepancy  discovered  by  Dr. 
Tucker  has  been  rectified  day  by 
day  automatically. 


THE    QUAKERS. 


While  the  English  were  founding 
changes  had  taken  place  in  England 
Charles  I.,  and  the  English,  weary  of 
promises,  rose  up  in  rebellion  in  1643. 

By  this  time,  the  English  Puritans 
had  increased  so  that  they  became 
masters  of  the  country.  It  was  gov- 
erned by  their  chief,  Oliver  Crom- 
well and  called  the  Commonwealth  of 
England.  The  Puritians,  being  in 
power,  made  the   Roman    Catholics 


the  New    England  colonies,     many 

King  James    I.  was    succeeded  by 

monarchs    who  did    not    keep    their 

and  the  Church  of  England  people 
as  uncomfortable  as  the  latter  had 
once  made  them.  Many  Catholics 
Anglicans  were  therefore  only  too 
glad  to  cross  the  ocean,  in  their  turn, 
so  as  to  found  new  homes  where  they 
could  worship  as  they   pleased;    and 


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you  shall'soon  hear  how  they  prosper- 
ed: 

Cromwell,  as  Protector  of  the 
Commonwealth  of  England,  made  a 
new  law  (1651),  called  the  Naviga- 
tion Act.  By  this  law  it  was  decided 
that  the  colonist  should  build  no 
more  ships,  and  that  all  their  goods 
should  be  carried  across  the  ocean 
only  in  English  vessels.  This  law 
was  very  unjust,  and  captains  of 
English  ships  speedly  took  advantage 
of  it  to  raise  their  prices  for  freight. 
So,  while  England  was  rapidly  grow- 
ing rich,  her  colonists  grumbled  sore- 
ly   at    the  heavy  rates  they    had    to 

Pay- 
That  sarr.e  year  began  the  great 
■  Quaker  excitement  in  Massachusetts. 
The  Quakers  wc-re  the  disciples  of 
a  very  good  man,7  George  Fox 
They  called  themselves  Friends, 
but  were  called  Quakers  by  the  other 
people,  because  they  often  said  one 
■ought  to  quake  at  the  thought  of 
the  wrath  of  God: 

As  some  of  the  months  and  days  of 
the  week  bore  the  names  of  the  old 
Jieathen  gods,  the  Friends  would 'not 
use  them,  but,  instead,  numbered  the 
-days  and  months,  speaking  of  the 
first  day  of  the  sixth  month,  the 
twelfth  day  of  the  second  -month,-, 
and  so  on.     They  would  not  take  any 


oaths,  either,  but  used  only  the 
words  "yea"  and  "nay."  They 
further  treated  all  persons  alike,  call- 
ing even  the  king  hy  his  given  name, 
and  refused  to  take  off  their  hats  in 
his  presence.  Although  generally 
quite  and  modest,  a  few  of  the 
Quakers  were  so  anxious  to  spread 
the  teachings  of  their  preacher  Fox 
that  they  came  over  to  Massa- 
chusetts, knowing  they  would  be  ill- 
treated  there. 

Nevertheless,  ...they  began  preach- 
ing, and  firmly  but  quietly  refused 
to  stop  when  told  to  do  so.  :  'I  hey 
were  therefore  tortured  and  punish- 
ed in  many  ways.  A  few  were  whip- 
ped, sent  to  jail,  or  put  in  the 
stocks.  Their  books  were  burned; 
they  were  driven  out  cf  .the  colony; 
and  "as  all  this  was  not  enough, 
four  of  them  were  hanged.  The 
Quaker  excitement  finally  grew  so 
great  that  some  of  them  were  sent 
.back  to  England  and  the  rest  forced 
to  take  refuge  in  Rhode  Island, 
where  they  could  practice  any  re- 
ligion they  liked.  But.  th.2  Quakers 
who  had  been  shipped  back  to  Eng- 
land, and  especially  a  few  discontent 
ed  colonists,  complained  very  much 
of  the  Massachusetts  government, 
-and. made  considerable  trouble  for 
New  England. 


I 


"Why  is  it,  when  one  is  wakeful  at  night  and  waits  for  the  clock  to 
strike  in  order  to  learn  the  time,  it  is  always  half-past  something? — New- 
ark Evening  News. 


When  you  know  a  thing,  to  hold  that  ycu  know  it ;  and  when  you  do  not 
know  &  thing,  to  cllow  that  you  do  not  know  it;  this  ia  knowledge. — Con- 
fsciua. 


"It  is  poor  economy  that  save3  ourselves  at  the  expense  of  another,'1 


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29 


;::^:a:iuc:!af    Notes. 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

Supt.  Bogor  wont  to  Charlotte. 
recently,  on  a  business  trip. 

Garland  Banks  was  visited  by  his 

'home  folks'  one  day  last  week. 

-Miss  Hattie  Fuller  is  being  visited 
by  her  sister,  Miss  Elizabeth  Fuller. 
of  Chester,  S:  C. 

The  State  Cottage  defeated  the 
Mecklenburg  Cottage  j  Monday  in  a 
fast  game  of  ball. 

Thomas  Hannah/  a  third  Cot- 
tage hoy.  has  left  our  tnhlst  to 
go' home   on  an  honorable  parole.-  ■' 

Sunday  afternoon,  after  preaching, 
the  band  played  in  the  pavilion, 
much  to  the  enjoyment  of  the    boys. 

Mr.  Hilton  was  visited  Sunday, 
j  by  bis  wife,  Mrs.  Hilton,  his  little 
|  son  and  his  sister-in-law,  Miss  Pace, 
'  all  of  Charlotte. 

Mr:  and  Mrs.  Rr  B.  Cloer  have 
been  visited  by  the  hitter's  father, 
Mr.  J.  M.  Picker*,  and  his  daught- 
er,'both  of  Trdell. 

Sunday,  a  few  weeksago  Mr.  Cloer 
borrowed  the  camera  of  Paul  Green 
and  snapped  a  few  pictures  of  the 
boys  in  Mecklenburg  Cottage.  Sat- 
urday the  pictures  came  back  devel- 
oped and  many  were  the  demands 
for  them. 

John  Edwards,  Malcolm  Holman- 
M  array  Evans,  Johnnie  Wright,  Os, 
ear  Johnson,  Roy  Johnson  and  John 
Kemp  were  the  lucky  ones  Wednes- 
day, May,  24th.  They  showed  the 
visiting  parents  or  relatives  around 


1  ho  school. 

The  lawn  facing  our  cottages  is 
so  pretty  and  inviting  that  it  is  hard 
to  keep  otf  it.  But  the  students 
know  far  too  well  not  to  mar  a  lawn 
as  beautiful  as  this  one  by  romping 
and  playing  on  it.  Therefore  every 
day  adds  to  its  beauty. 

<V  ball  game  with  the  Hartsell's 
Mills,  was-to  lie  played  Saturday. 
Indeed,  they  did  play  a  few  innings, 
and  when  the  game  was  called  be- 
cause of  rain,  the  J.  T.  S.  led  by  a 
score  of  1  to  II.  It  is  planned  to 
play  this  same  team  next   Saturday. 

..    The  dairy  barn  is  now  completed 
.This  means  many  more    cows,  must 
be  purchased,  and  many  more  cows 
mean  much  more  milk.     pMilk  lm-ans 

.health  for  the  boys.  Health  cannot 
be  bought  with  money,  and  knowing 
this,  all  the  boys  feel  as  wealthy    as 

.any'millionaire.  . 

As  no  school  was  held  last"  week, 
the  lines  were  assembled  and  the 
best  cott6n  hoe  rs  were  picked  out  and 
were  sent  to  hoe  the  cotton  of  vari- 
ous planters.  '  Some  went  to  Mr.  A. 
B\  Pounds'  crop  and  after  hoeing 
it,  they  were  "setup"  by  Mr.  Pounds, 
who  brought  them  ice  cream.' 

Saturday,  Miry  20,  when  the  cot- 
tage lines  assembled  at  the  trees, 
Mr.  Boger  introduced  to  the  bo3's  a 
real  friend.  This  was  the  friend 
who  has  clone  so  much  for  the  school. 
She  was  Mrs.  J.  S.  Grierson,  of  Char- 
lotte. This  was  her  first  visit,  but 
the  boys  hope  it  will  not  be  her  last. 

For  their  Sunday  School  lesson 
last  Sunday,  the  boys  studied  one 
entitled:  "Jeremiah   Speaks   Boldly 


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for  God."  They  derive  many  prac- 
tical solutions  to  every  day  obstac- 
les from  such  lessons  as  this.  It  is 
because  of  this  fact  that  interest  is 
always  taken  in  the  next  Sunday's 
lessons. 

The  school  section  has.  of  late, 
been  improving  the  crop  of  potatoes. 
Part  of  this  work  is  to  sift  lime  ov- 
er the  plants  to  kill  the  bug's  which 
destroy  the  potatoes.  Other  work 
is  to  hoe  the  potatoes,  giving  them  a 
better  chance  to  grow  and  produce 
abundantly.  Still  other  work  is  to 
set  out  young  sweetpotato  plants. 

The  fire  hydrants  have  arrived 
here  and  are  soon  to  be  put  in  use. 
A  fire  is  one  of  the  rarest  occu ranees 
at  the  school.  Indeed,  only  one  fire 
has  occured  in  the  life  of  the  school 
and  that  was  only  a  small  one  one. 
But  the  superintendent  believes  in 
prepardness  and  that  is  the  cause 
for  the  installing  of  the  fire  hyd- 
rants. 

Mrs.  H.  S.  Willioms,  Mrs.  John 
G.  Parks,  Mrs.  J.  V.  Davis  and 
Mrs.  Williams  of  Guilford  College 
were  the  guests  of  Miss  Mary  Gaith- 
er,  Friday,  May  19th.  Miss  Gaither 
conducted  the  visitors  around  the 
the  school.  They  were  especially 
interested  in  the  work  being  done 
in  the  Printing  Office  and  each  re- 
quested a  sample  copy  of  THE  UP- 
LIFT. 

Mr.  Hilton,  in  charge  of  the  bak- 
ery, decided  to  move  his  oven  to  a 
more  spacious  and  desirable  location. 
But  moving  the  oven  was  too  much 
of  a  job  for  his  boys,  so  he  had  to 
beg  permission  from  Mr.  Shaw,  in 
charge  of  the  printing  office,  to  use 
the  physical  strength  of  the  boy-print- 


ers. "They  went,  they  saw,  and 
they  conquered."  Now  the  oven 
is  established  and  Mr.  Hilton  is  pro- 
fuse in  his  thanks. 

Our  grapes,  strawberries  and  oth- 
er edible  fruit  are  now  growing  ripe. 
Some  strawberries  are  already  ripe 
and  many  are  gathered  to  be  made 
into  pies  and  various  other  forms 
suitable  to  the  palate.  Many  are 
eaten  uncooked.  But  in  the  rahuls 
of  the  boys  a  fixed  picture  remains. 
It  is  a  picture  of  summer  Saturdays. 
On  these  Saturdays  the  boys  all 
walk  through  the  hot  sunlight  to 
the  river.  But  they  do  not  object 
to  the  hot  sun,  for  the  waters  are 
more  pleasant  because  of  traversing 
through  it.  •  When  ,  they  arrive  at 
the  school  again  watermelon  awaits 
them!  Cool  delicious  watermelon! 
Then  a  ball  game — then  supper— 
the  weekly  allowance  of  candy- 
then  bed. 

Continued  work  on  the  State  Cot- 
tage will  soon  cause  its  completion. 
Perhaps  some  people  may  think  that 
the  attitude  of  the  boys  at  this  school 
toward  improvement  of   the   school 
is  one  of  utter   indifference  or  may    j 
even  suspect  the  students   bear  ar 
ill  will  towards  the  school.      But  in 
this  they  are  badly  mistaken.     Tht   ;: 
reporter  has  good  reasons  for  ruak    : 
ing  this  statement,  for  he  is   one  o 
the  boys  and  is  intimately   acquain 
ted  with   them  and    their   thought! 
and  moods.      He  knows  that    when    '■ 
ever  the  news   comes   that   anotbe 
cottage  is  to  be  built  here,  the  hoy 
rejoice.     Why?      For     the      sirapl 
reason  that  they  have  learned  thei 
life's  lesson,  have  profited  by  i    am 
are  glad  to  know  that  other  boys  ar 
to  have  the  same  benefits. 


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of  his  supposed  weaknesses. 

To  see  things  through  other  people's  eyes,  as  well 
as  our  own.would  greatly  help  in  reaching  proper 
conclusions  in  any  given  situation.  We  only  need  to 
be  E.S  true  to  others  as  we  are  to  ourselves  that  there 
may  he  grounds  enough  for  right  relation  between 
man  and  man.  Henry  "Ward  Beecher  said  on  one 
occasion,  "In  friendship  your  heart  is  like  a  bell 
struck  every  time  your  friend  is  in  trouble."  To 
sympathize  with  those  who  are  clown  and  want  to 
help  tnem  up  Sgain — to  give  the  glad  hand  of  fel- 
lowship to  those  who  are  discouraged  on  life's  way 
— to  speak  a  word  in  season  to  them  that  are  weary  . 
—to  help  others  bear  their  hurdens  as  best  we  may 
is  to  be  like  Him  who,  in  the  spirit  of  selfforgetful- 
ness,  gave  His  life  "&  ransom  for  many."  "He 
may  breathe,  but  never  lives,  Who  much  receives 
and  nothing  gives",  but  this  holds  with  reference 
to  our  sympathy,  our  helpfulness  and  our  co-oper- 
ation as  well  as  to  our  money.  The  last  and  least 
thing  the  good  Samaritan  gave  the  wounded  man 
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The  Uplift 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED   BY 

The  Antbsrity  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson   Manual   Training  and   Industrial 

School.     Ty^e-setting  by  tha  Boy's  Printing    Clas3.     Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  yoar  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  3,  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  £S  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,   at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1S79. 

"IRE  WAY  UP  AND  OUT." 
The  most  ignorant  person  among  us  will  admit  that  no  chain  is  stronger 
than  its  weakest  link."  That  county  in  which  the  town  and  city  folks  are 
in  sympathetic  touch  with  the  peoples  of  the  surrounding  country,  is  the 
most  prosperous.  Take  a  map  of  North  Carolina,  and  you  can  by  this  very 
rule  pick  out  the  most  progressive  and  prosperous  counties. 

Genuine  patriotism  and  a  progressive  spirit  would  have  us  say,      I'm  a 

Cabarrusite."  not  a  Concordite;  'I'm  a  Mecklenburger,"  not  a  Cliarlottean; 

and  so  on  down  the  line.     Without  a  particle  of  the  spirit  of   criticism  or 

knocking,  it  seems  unfortunate  that  the  leading  bodies — such  as  the  Kiwan- 

ians  and  the  Rotarians— in  their  commendable  enthusiasm  and  forward  and 

constructive  vision  confine  themselves  entirely  to  those  things  that  concern 

'  Concord  alone.     It  is  a  fundamental  truth,  that  none   would  gainsay,  that 

'  the  more  the    rural   section   that   surrounds  Concord  or  any   other   town 

|  prospers  in  all  things  that  make  people  and  causes  successful,  the  more  will 

the  towns  and  cities  in  that  territory  thrive. 

The  health  conditions,  the  school  advantages,  the  moral  attitude  of  the 
rural  sections  should  be  of  just  as  much  vital  concern   to  town    people   as 
those  just  around  them.     What  if  every  child  in  town  is   highly   educated, 
I  and  the  children  of  the  outlying  districts  are  ignorant  by  being  deprived  of 
';  proper  educational  facilities?     What  if  every  individual  in    town    is   pros- 
'  porous,  has  a  nice  working  bank-account  and  enjoys  all   the  modern    privi- 
leges of  civilization,  and  the  rural  sections  around  can  lay  no  claim   to  any 
;  '  of  these  possessions?     Even  if  the  selfish  influences  of  business  did  not  in- 
'  spire  a  more  active  concern  over  the  welfare  of  the  surrounding  rural  sec- 
tion, that  higher  law  of  service  to  fellow  man  should  be  invoked. 
It  is  no  wisdom  and  justice  in  urging  "John  Smith"  to  keep   a    cow,   in- 


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vite  him  to  carry  his  surplus  butter  to  market,  and  the  dealer  pays  him 
just  fifteen  cents  a  pound  and  in  trade,  and  then  turns  around  and  sells  it 
for  forty  and  forty-five  cents.  This  is  no  fanciful  citation — it  is  done,  and 
done  week  after  week.  If  John  Smith  out  in  the  country  had  the  proper 
educational  advantages  he  would  escape  this  imposition.  Have  you  any 
just  reason  to  suppose  that  the  child  of  John  Smith  will  be  any  better  able 
to  protect  himself  against  such  injustice,  when  you  are, making  no  ef- 
fort to  carry  light  to  his  darkened  soul? 

With  all  the  mills  in  our  mist,  and  the  consequent  demand  for  raw  cot- 
ton to  supply  their  needs,  is  there  any  reason  why  the  price  of  cotton  on 
the  local  market  is  not  equal  to  that  in  other  towns  in  the  same  geographi- 
cal territory?  Will  one  buyer  better  the  bid  of  another?  Why  not?  Is  there 
any  good  reason  why  cotton  on  the  Charlotte  market  should  be  usually 
quoted  half  cent  higher;  or  a  whole  cent  on  the  Monroe  market?  Did  you  ever 
stop  to  think  how  much  is  lost  to  the  producer  by  the  simple  term  of  '  off- 
grade"  being  applied  to  his  bales  of  cotton?  The  farmer  doesn't  know,  and 
he  accepts  the  statement  of  the  buyer  and  thinks  he  got  by  with  a  good 
bargain.  There  is  absolutely  nothing  personal  in  this;  but  it  is  a  citation 
of  facts  that  confront  us.      Why   not  an  ofTical  grader? 

When  the  farmer  fails  to  get  that  extra  $2.50  for  his  bale  of  cotton  be- 
cause his  home  market  is  one-half  cent  under  the  market  of  a  nearby  town, 
you  weaken  his  purchasing  power  just  that  much;  and  thereby  some  legiti- 
mate business  or  profession  in  the  town  loses  that  much  trade.  And  who 
gets  the  benefit  of  this  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  that  should  have  gone  to 
the  farmer?  Suppose  that  farmer  sold  ten  bales  rather  than  one,  who  gets  I 
the  extra  twenty-five  dollars  that  missed  the  farmer's  pockets? 

More  and  more  theevidenceaccumulat.es  that  salvation  demands  the  100 
percent  organization  of  the  Co-operative  Marketing  Plan  among  the  farmers, 
or  they  will  continue  to  be  sufferers.  If  the  splendid  bodies  now  meeting 
■weekly  in  Concord  could  devise  some  means  to  right  this  condition,  they 
will  be  doing  a  service  to  their  fellow  countryman;  and,  just  like  all  good,  ! 
just  acts  have  a  habit  of  doing,  they  will  be  making  of  their  own  town  a 
better  market  and  adding  to  its  volume  of  business,  and  better  its  reputa- 
tion, 

The  Chapel  Hill  News  Letter,  on  this  point,  speaks  thus: 

"Think  of  it — in  seventy-five  years,  Charlotte,  Winstom-Salem,  and 
Greensboro  have  managed  to  accumulated  bank  capital,  surpluses  and 
undivided  profits  amounting  to  thirteen  million  dollars  all  told,  and 
in  a  single  year  thirty  millions  go  out  of  Mecklenburg,  Forsyth,  Guil- 


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ford  for  imported  food   supplies. 

If  these  three  counties  wore  selffeeding,  the  banking  capita!  of 
their  capital  cities  could  be  doubled  and  their  business  in  loans  and 
discounts  twenty  times  multiplied  in  a  single  year. 

The  local  market  for  home-raised  food  and  feed  supplies  is  the  big- 
gest economic  problem  that  our  growing  cities  have  to  solve.  And  the 
commercial  club  secretary  who  is  not  working  at  town-and-country  in- 
terdependencies  and  mutual  prosperity  has  not  even  begun  to  learn 
the  abe's  of  his  job. 

He  serves  his  city's  business  best  who  best  serves  the  farmers  in 
the  trade  territory." 

******** 

WHERE  VISION  GOT  IN  ITS  WORK. 

We  have  had  five  years  of  medical  inspection  of  school  children  in  North 
•Carolina,  the  provision  for  which  was  made  by  a  law  whose  passage  was 
secured  by  the  late  Thomas  W.  Bickett.  During  this  5-year  period  this  re- 
cord has  been  made:  3,595  children  operated  in  tonsil  clinics;  ti(j,452  given 
free  dental  treatment:  240.123  examined  by  school  nurses,  physicians  and 
dentists;  and  .500,000  examined  by  teachers.  What  an  army!  At  the  be- 
ginning of  this  campaign  there  was  sharp  professional  opposition  because 
of  the  feeling  that  it  was  encroaching  on  the  rights  of  doctors  and  dentists 
and  others.  That  fear  was  groundless,  as  has  been  happily  demonstrated. 
No  physician  or  dentist  has  perished  or  been  put  of  business;  on  the  other 
hand  their  number  have  increased  and  are  busy.  It  is  a  fact,  that  this  cam- 
paign has  emphasized  the  importance  of  this  care  for  the  children,  and 
growing  out  of  it  hundreds  have  gone  voluntarily  to  the  doctors  and  the 
dentists,  who  otherwise  would  never  have  seen  the  necessity. 

Tlje' dynamic  force  behind  this  great  accomplishment  is  none  other  than 
Dr.  Watt  Rankin,  to  whom  all  of  North  Carolina  is  deeply  indebted.  It  is 
popular  now,  and  there  are  many  who  claim  some  credit  for  its  benign  oper- 
ation among  us,  but  the  true   evidence  runs  right  straight   to  the   door  of. 

Dr.   Rankin. 

******** 

THE  GREATEST  INVENTION 
Hon.  W.  R,  Webb,  the  famous  teacher  of  Bellbuckle,  Tennessee,  found 
himself  delayed  among  a  gathering  of  folks  at  a  country  store.  They  were 
installing  a  telephone— in  the  thing's  early  day— and,  of  course,  there  were 
doubting  Thomases  present,  One  loud-mouthed,  know-all  fellow  declared 
it  an  impossibility.  To  convince  him  they  made  connection  with  an  ac- 
quaintance of  his  twenty  miles  away;    called  Mr.    Doubting  Thomas  to  the 


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phone,  and  notwithstanding  he  conversed  easily  with  his  friend,  and  recog- 
nized his  friend's  voice,  he  refused  to  be  convinced  until  he  had  looked  into' 
every  box  in  the  store,  thinking  his  friend  had  been  concealed  near  by. 
TheD  the  crowd  began  a  discussion  of  the  greatest  inventions.  Some  named 
the  sewing  machine,  others  one  thing  and  another.  Finally,  they  called  on 
Prof.  Webb,  who  up  to  that  time  remained  quietly  enjoying  the  conversa- 
tion, in  this  manner:  "Well,  stranger,  what  do  you  think  is  the  greatest 
invention."  The  great  scholar,  rich  in  experiences  and  wise  with  the  les- 
sons of  more  than  eighty  years,  gently  replied:  'I  consider  the  invention  o* 
the  alphabet  the  greatest  of  all  ages.''  Who  be  there  to  deny  this?  And 
how  can  one  be  content  not  to  make  an  acquaintance  with  it? 

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THE  SORE  EYE. 

Elsewhere  in  this  number  will  be  found  an  intertaining  and  instructive, 
article  on  how  to  beautify  one's  premises  cheaply,  quickly  and  pleasingly. 
When  we  consider  the  fact  that  woods  are  full  of  attractive  shrubbery,, 
vines  and  flowers,  growing  wild  in  profusion,  it  is  astonishing  how  many 
otherwise  good  and  substantial  country  places  are  left  nude  and  bare  of 
these  flowers  which  nature  has  with  a  lavish  hand  thrown  at  us. 

An  ugly  fence  may  be  concealed  with  vines  of  beauty;  the  staring  naked- 
ness of  country  homes  may  be  eradicated  by  a  small  drawing  upon  the 
near-by  forest — costing  just  a  little  time,  some  enthusiasm  and  not  one  cent. 
The  expenditure  of  this  little  effort' would  enhance  the  value  of  a  place;, 
give  joy  and  comfort  to  the  family;  inspire,  a  love  for  the  beautiful  in  other- 
wise blank  souls;  and  contribute  to  the  advancement  of  a  community. 

Read  the  article.  It  will  do  us  all  good.  The  pictures  that  aid  the  full 
appreciation  of  the  little  story,  carry  conviction.  Nature  all  about  us  issues- 
a  challenge.      Let's  meet  it. 

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AH  ABIDING  FAITH— ES3ULTIH(J  ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 

THE  UPLIFT  takes  over  bodily  a  most  engaging  article  written  by  Col. 
Wade  H.  Harris,  for  his  editorial  page  in  the  Charlotte  Observer,  on  the 
operations  and  accomplishments  of  Mr.  HughMacRae,  a  constructive  genius- 
of  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

It's  a  picture  that  Mr;  Harris  has  painted  of  the  phenominal  success- 
attending  the  constructive  and  ambitious  plans  which  Mr.  MacRae  adopted 
some  years  back.     Enhancing  his  own  fortune,  showing  to   the  world  the 


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possibilties  and  the  opportunities  of  his  state,  giving  the  opportunity  to 
others  to  better  the i r  condition  materially  and  otherwise,  Mr.  MeRae  mani- 
fested a  faith  and  exercised  a  nerve  that  few  men  of  this  day  possess.  And 
this  man  of  energy  is  not  dune — he fe  making  others  plans;  but  read  Col. 
Harris'  story. 

*  ■'?  *  *  *  *  *  * 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  withdrawal  of  Mrs.  W.  N.  Reynolds,  of 
Winston-Salem,  of  her  candidacy  for  President  General  of  the  National 
D.  A.  R.  Till-;  UPLIFT,  knowing  the  capability,  the  attractive  personality 
and  the  popularity  of  this  most  beloved  North  Carolina  woman,  joins  thous- 
ands of  North  Carolinians  in  regrets  that  the  State  could  not  share  the 
distinctive  honor  of  furnishing  to  this  noble  organization  a  President  Gener- 
al, who  would  reflect  not  only  great  credit  on  the  state  but  on  the  organiza- 
tion itself. 


I:  THE   WOLF  AND   THE   KID.' 

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ȣ  A  Kid  was  perched  up  on  the  top  of  a  house,  and  looking  down  saw 

%  a  Wolf  passing  under  him.     Immediately  he  began  to  revile  and  at- 

*  tack  his  enemy.  "Murderer  and  thief,"  he  cried,  "what  do  you  here 
♦>  near  honest  folks'  houses?  How  dare  you  make  an  appearence  where 
£  your  vile  deeds  are  known?" 

*  "Curse  awav,  mv  young  friend,"  said  the  AVolf. 

*  "IT  IS  EASY  TO  BE  BRAVE  FROM  A  SAFE  DISTANCE 
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THE  TRICKS  OF  TIME. 

It  would  be  an  interesting  piece  of  business  to  examine  an  inventory 
taken  of  the  views  of  men  and  women  as  to  what  class  they  fall  to  in  the  mat- 
ter of  age.  Foralong  time  the  ktf  Joseph  P.  Caldwell  used  to  ask  the  ques- 
tion "why  do  a  rabbit  wobble  its  nose."  and  "when  does  a  pup  become  a 
dog," 

ing.  This  is  the  report  under  a 
tripple  head  that  the  New  York 
"World  makes  of  a  certain  service: 

"Spiritual  blues,"  the  essential 
difference  between  ah  optimist  and 
a  pessimist  and  the  possibility  of 
learning  to  see  the  cheerful  side 
of  things,  were  the  topics  of  the 
Rev.  PaulE.  Scherer  at  Holy  Trini- 
ty Lutheran  Church. 

It  is  as  simple  as  crossing  from 
the  shady  to  the  sunny  side  of  a. 
street,  Mr.  Scherer  told  his  congre- 
gation. One  cause  of  pessimism 
just  now,  he  added,  is  that  people 
keep  their  noses  too  close  to  1922 
and  fail  to  remember  right  has 
triumphed  in  the  past  over  wrongs 
as  firmly  intrenched  as  those  of  the 
present. 

Spiritual  Blues 


It  is  generally  accepted,  regard- 
less of  size,  weight,  or  equipment 
that  one  becomes  a  man  when  he 
reaches  the  age  of  twenty-one.  It 
would  be  of  interest  as  intimated 
above  to  know  when  a  man  regards 
himself  as  an  old  man,  or  when  he 
"  thinks  he  is  approaching  that  point. 
No  two  would  agree  on  the  fatal 
date. 

But  to  see  folks,  having  become 
fathers  and  mothers,  prominent  in 
the  affairs  of  church  and  state,  when 
it  appears  that  on  just  yesterday 
they  were  children  playing  around 
in  the  innocence  of  childhood,  there 
are  those  among  us  who  have  men- 
tal pictures  of  certain  ones,  who 
in  their  pleasing  manners  and  hap- 
py dispositions  made  impressions 
on  us.  This  writer  well  remembers 
a  happy-faced,  pleasing  little  boy 
yet  in  little  dresses,  back  yonder  in 
1895,  Even  then  he  aspired  to  be  a  . 
preacher.  It  was  great  sport  to  have 
the  little  fellow  stand  up  and  say 
over  and  over  his  first  little  sermon, 
which  was  short  but  full  of  good  and 
whoesome  advice.  It  was,  'You 
must  be  good  and  kind  and  gentle. 
Amen." 

The  other  day  I  picked  up  a  copy 
of  the  New  Yoi'k  World,  which  is 
making  a  practice  of  sending  men  out 
to  report  weekly  certain  of  the  lead- 
ing representatives  among  the  1,600 
churches  in  that  city,  to  find  out 
whut  the  preachers  are  talking  about 
and  Tfhat  the  congregations  are  do- 


Nothing  in  human  experience,"' 
said  he,  'tends  to  give  a  downward 
slant  to  every  thought  like  repeated 
private  failure  to  clinch  the  mastery 
of  the  best  in  ourselves  over  the 
worst.  All  of  us  have  some  notion 
of  what  we  ought  to  be  and  most  of 
us  are  at  swords'  points  with  what 
we  are.  We  have  lost  so  long  we 
are  by  no  means  as  confident  as  we 
used  to  be  of  what  we  can  be.  'The 
measure  of  the  stature  of  the  fullness 
of  Christ'  seems  impossible.  Give 
us  a  goal  we  can  reach!'  we  cry. 
And  thtre  you  have  the  beginning 
of  a  chronic  case  of  spiritual  blues. 
"We  like  to    read  of    the  life  cf 


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Christ  in  Palestine,  but  at  the  idea 
of  making  any  remote  approach  to  it 
here  in  New  York,  we  smile  and 
shake  our  heads. 

Imagine  thinking  of  others  more 
than  of  ourselves  in  the  rush  hour 
■on  the  subway!  Things  that  seem 
not  unnatural  when  we  read  of  their 
happening  in  Judea  hundreds  of 
years  ago  seem  utterly  foolish  when 
we  think  of  their  happening  on 
Broadway  today.  Actually  we 
have  come  to  take  many  of  Christ's 
commands  with  a  grain  of  salt.  We 
think  they  are  beautiful  but  not 
workable.  Even  His  great  promises 
seem  1  ardly  possible.  'Whatsoever 
ye  ask  in  My  name,  that  I  will  do.' 
Is  there  anybody  here  who  really 
believes  that?  The  theory  we  ac- 
cept but  the  paretiee  we  deny. 

I  think  it  is  really  all  because 
this  private  warfare  of  ours  has 
gone  so  poorly  with  us.  When  a 
.man  is  beaten  back  clay  by  day,  he 
begins  to  lose  faith  in  the  ideals 
that  beckon  him. 

That  v  is  just  the  point  where 
■Christ  comes  in.  He  tell  us  with 
perfect  assurance  we  can  win.  If 
you  have  to  fight,  my  friend,  at 
least  step  over  where  the  Master 
is,  and  fight  in  the  sunshine. 
Evil  On  Every  Hand 

'The  conference  at  Washington  is 


followed  by  war  in  China.  The  con- 
ference in  Genoa  almost  goes  on  the 
rocks.  We  read  of  crime  waves 
and  the  loosening  of  morals  and 
preachers  who  babble  treasonable 
nonsense  about  the  uselessness  and 

it >rality  of  creeds.      It  is   pretty 

hard  to  keep  our  good  cheer  in  the 
face  of  all  that. 

"When  Christ  was  driven  out  of 
Judea  to  die  He  said:  'Be  of  good 
cheer,  I  have  overcome  the  world.' 
"Paul  just  escaped  death  at  Da- 
mascus, and  his  road  after  that  lay 
through  suspicion  persecution  and 
death. 

"When  we  count  up  victories  the 
unanimous  vote  goes  to  Jesus  and 
Paul.  I  have  never  yet  seen  a  bal- 
lot for  Pilate  or  Ceasar." 

This  Rev.  Paul  Eherman  Scherer 
is  none  other  than  the  little  fellow 
who  yet  in  dresses  was  preaching 
his  tine  little  sermon,  in  1895,  in  his 
neighbor's  home  on  West  Corbin 
Street,  of  Concord. 

Boys  and  girls,  under  proper  en- 
vironment and  with  reasonable  ad- 
vantage, quickly  become  men 
and  women  and  go  out  into  the 
world  and  leave  their  impress  upon 
it.  It  is  a  wonderful  development 
that  nature  uses  in  preparing  suc- 
ceeding generations  to  take  the 
places  of  the  retiring  ones. 


This  morning,  just  outside  of  town,  I  saw  two  little  boys  wading  about 
in  a  shallow  pond  fishing  for  tadpoles,  studying  nature,  exercising  their 
little  bodies  and  making  plans  for  the  accomplishment  of  their  quest 
One  half  hour  later  I  saw  on  the  streets  two  boys  about  the  same  size 
taking  their  joy  out  in  smoking  cigarettes  and  listening  to  some  vile  talk 
going  on.  A  little  further  up  the  street  wats  a  three-year  old  boy  lounging 
around,  the  pick  of  every  passer-by.  A  little  further  up  a  dress-maker 
was  finishing  some  little  skirts  for  two  little  girls,  each  carrying  eleven 
yard3  of  ribbon.  That's  the  system  prevailing  for  the  rearing  of  chil- 
dren. 


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IMPROVE   HOME   SURROUNDINGS. 

By  William  Wallace  Fairbanks 

The  man  or  woman  or  the  boy  or  girl  who  takes  no  pride  in  keeping  the 
home  outwardly  attractive,  is  very  liable  to  have  little  ambition  to  advance 
in  life.  When  we  enter  a  front  gate  tliat  is  minus  a  picket  or  two  and  hangs 
by  one  hinge  we  expect  to  rind  a  grassgrown,  and  untidy  walk  and  the 
porch  and  entrance  way  likewise  untidy.      From  these  outward  signs  we  will 


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The  home  of  a  well-to-do  farmer  where  no  effort  has  been  made  to  beautify 
or  improve  surroundings. 


be  pretty  sure  to  decide  that  the  hab- 
its of  the  whole  family  are  careless  and 
indifferent.  Their  going  out  and  com- 
ing in  are  without  system  or  order; 
and  their  treatment,  each  of  the  other 
is  along  the  same  careless  lines.  Chil- 
dren who  go  out  from  such  a  home 
are  pretty  sure  to  carry  with  them 
the  habits  thus  formed;  they  take 
them  into  the  business  place,  the  store 
and  the  work  shop;  habits  that  hold 
down:  that  prevent  one  getting  any- 
where in  any  walk  in  life. 

The  gate  hanging  by  the  one  hinge 
iind  the   neglected,   untidy      walk   are 


seemingly  but  little  things;  but  from 
just  such  is  the  character  of  a  lifetime 
formed.  A  little  attention  given  each 
day  to  the  improvement  of  the  home 
surroundings;  a  few  touches  here  and 
there  is  all  that  is  required  to  over- 
come the  appearence  of  neglect;  and! 
the  same  pride  that  prompts;  us 
to  keep  our  home  premises  neat  :".d 
orderly,  will  have  the  same  effect  as 
regards  our  personal  habits  and  daily 
life. 

Modern  and  up-to-date  homes  3re 
expensive  possessions  these  days,  not 
all  can  have  them;     but  even  if  cur 


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11 


homes  of  ancient  make:  if  it's  a  bit 
the  worse  for  wear  and  looks  shabby 
arid  weather  beaten,  it  yet  should  be 
the  very  best  place  on  earth  and  may 
easily  be  made  so  attractive  that  we 
need  feel  no  shame  in  its  ownership. 
A  little  effort  will  make  and  keep  it 
looking  home-like.  Instead  of  look- 
older  and  shabbier  it  should  show  im- 
provement with  the  passing  years. 
No  great  outlay  of  money  is  required 
— only  a  concerted  effort  where  every 
member  of  the  family  may  do  his  or 
her  part.  Enthusiam  and  ambition 
along  this  line  will  prove  contagious 
and  soon  each  will  be  trying  to  outdo 
the  other  in  effort  to  give  the  home 
surroundings  a  thorough  overhauling 
and  a  general  clean  upp. 

In  painting  a  picture,  none  would 
think  of  placing  unattractive  objects 
directly  in  the  foreground;  the  first 
glance  would  displease.  A  few  strokes 
of  the  artists'  brush,  however,  would 
have  changed  the  offensive  object  into 
something  beautiful;  and  so  the  un- 
attractive features  about  our  home 
may  be  easily  changed.  Accumulated 
rubbish  may  be  removed.  An  unpleas- 
ing  fence  corner  may  be  partly  con- 
cealed with  vines.  In  front  of  a  shed 
or  other  necessary  outbuildings  may 
be  planted  a  clump  of  shrubs  or  trees 
or  a  vine  covered  trellis. 

The  direct  approach  to  the  home  it- 
self is  of  great  importance;  this  need 
not  be  in  any  sense  imposing.  A  de- 
lapidated  gate-way  or  a  front  fence 
with  pickets  missing  here  and  there 
gives  an  air  of  poverty.  Pickets  may 
be  easily  replaced  and  an  old  and  shab- 
by fence  that  cannot  be  rebuilt  may 
have  a  rose  or  other  hedge  planted 
xdong  its  length.  Any  boy,  handy 
vith  tools  can  make  an  attractive  gate- 


way, even  if  only  by  planting  two 
heavy  posts  in  the  ground  with  a  tim- 
ber cross-peace  on  top.  Let  the  ends 
of  this  project  over  about  a  foot,  place 


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has    made    this    simple    cottage 
home-like  and  attractive. 

a  narrow  pannel  of  lath  at  the  sides 
where  the  fence  joins  on,  plant  and 
train  vines  over  the  whole,  and  simple 
as  it  is,  you  have  a.n  entrance  to  your 
home  you  need  not  be  ashamed  of  it. 

To  give  your  gateway  a  rustic  effect, 
use  small  tree  trunks  that  may  be  ob- 
tained usually   from  a  nearby   wood. 


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Instead  of  vines,  a  clump  of  trees  or 
may  be  planted  at  its  base.  And  so 
with  only  tbis  slight  effort  you  have 
greatly  improved  the  appearance  of 
your  home. 

Flowers  and  shrubs  and  trees  about 
the  home  afford  the  simplest  and  eas- 
iest means  of  converting  it  into  a  beau- 
ty spot.  Give  only  ordinary  attention 
to  seeleetiions,  planting  and  care  and 
nature  will  give  full  returns;  besides 
this,  Ihe  cure  and  cultivation  of  (low- 
ers is  a  most  delightful  pastime  for 
old  and  young. 

A  front  yard  or  walk  devoid  of 
flowers,  trees,  shrubs  or  running  vines 
is  but  a  barren  waste  no  matter  what 
else  it  may  possess.  These  are  so 
easy  to  get  and  grow  that  no  homo 
should  be  without  them.  Native 
frees  or  shrubs  from  a  nearby  forest 
or  wood  are  often  as  beautiful  and 
desirable  as  any  that  the  florist  shops 
supply.  Some  sort  of  flowers  will 
grow  and  flourish  in  every  locality — 
it's  only  a  question  of  making  select- 
ions adapted  to  your  particular  neigh- 
borhood. For  quick  growth  for  the  com- 
ing spring  and  summer,  consult  the 
catalogue  and  some  dependable  florist 
and  choose  what  your  home  is  most  in 
need.  of.  Such  "common"  plants 
as  sunflowers,  hollyhocks,  or  foxglove 
planted  in  mass,  will  till  an  unslight- 
ly  or  unattractive  corner;  while  a 
morning  glory  vine  will  convert  a 
woodshed  or  fence  into  an  object  of 
beauty. 

A  home,  whether  it  cost  much  or 
little,  whether  it  be  quite  modern  or 
very  old  fashioned,  is  the  very  best  in- 


vestment a  family  can  make.  It  is 
the  place  about  which  sentiment  cen- 
ters and  its  influence  goes  with  us  in- 
to  the   outer   world    and      follows   all 


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form    an    attractive    support 

for  a  rose  hedge. 

through  life.  Whatever  effort  may 
lie  expanded  to  make  this  more  at- 
tractive or  to  raise  its  atmosphere 
to  a  higher  level,  will  bring  returns 
greater  than  mere  money  could  ever 
buy. 


It  is  possible  to  be  so  intent  on  good  manners  that  we  attain  nothing 
else.  Even  manners  need  a  heart  to  make  them  of  much  real  worth;  an:-, 
insincerity,  however  polite,  is  still  insincere. 


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13 


HUGH  MACRAE,  BUILDER. 

By  Col.  Harris  in  Charlotte  Observer. 

Naturally,  (lie  people  of  Wilmington  manifested  an  interest,  not  unmixed 
with  concern,  over  the  possible  direction  the  future  activities  of  mr.  Hugh 
McaRne  might  take,  since  severance  from  the  ties  that  bound  his  time  to  the 
welfare  of  the  Tidewater  Power  Company  left  him  foot-loose  to  engage  in 
other  development  endeavor,  for  in  MacRae,  it  was  long  since  evident,  was  born 
the  ideas  of  the  promoter,  the  developer  and  the  builder.     This  interest  on  part 


of  Wilimington  was  shared  by  the 
State,  for  MeRae  has  kept  a  big  iron 
in  the  forge  of  the  west  as  well  as 
several  in  the  clay  hearth  of  the  east. 
He  founded  Linville  City  from  the 
cutting  of  the  trees  and  the  grubbing 
of  stumps,  while  at  the  same  time 
watching  the  blossoming  of  the  colon- 
ise he  had  planted  in  Xew  Hanover  and 
Pender  counties.  What  we  are  going 
to  write  is  an  establishment  of  our 
conviction  of  the  purposes  which  are 
to  actuate  Mr.  MeRae  for  the  immed- 
iate future.  Through  importation 
of  picked  secleetions  of  thrifty  Ital- 
ians, Poles,  Germans,  Hollanders  and 
Hungarians,  Mr.  MeRae  has  succeed- 
ed in  establishing  what  might  be  de- 
scribed as  "object  lessons''  in  what 
can  be  accomplished  in  the  fertile  soil 
and  friendly  climate  of  the  vast  coast- 
al country  of  the  State,  where  thou- 
sands of  acres  of  rich  lands  have  been 
left  idle  since  the  time  the  turpentine 
industry  was  abandoned  by  reasons  of 
exhaustion  of  the  trees.  In  one  par- 
ticular locality  Mr.  MeRae  has  a  de- 
monstrated success  in  dairying;  in 
another  in  the  growing  of  nursery 
plants  and  several  other  localities 
examples  of  success  in  diversified 
farming.  The  owner  of  the  demon- 
stration dairy  is  a  German  named 
Schwartz.  .Mr.  MacRae  loaned  him  the 
Irnd   and  staked  him   to   a   couple   of 


cows  seven  years  ago.     Schwartz  has 
a  wife  and  family  of  six  sons  and  as  a 
matter  of  course,  all  are  industrious. 
He   is   now  undisputed   owner  of  one 
of  the  finest  dairy  barn  in  the  entire 
county,  with  two  rows  of  stalls  and  fif- 
ty line  milkers  to  the  row.   The  barn  is 
as  clean  as  the  kitchen,  the  floors  daily 
scoured  and  sanded,  with  no  more  of 
the  order  of  a  cow  barn  about  it  than 
could  be  detected  in  the  parlor  of  any 
city   home.     This  man   Schwartz   and 
his  six  sons   are  now  making  $100   a 
day  out  of  their  dairy  business — and 
the  father  did  not  own  a  copper  cent 
seven   years    ago!     His   place   consti- 
tutes one  of  the  oases  in  what  was  for 
40  years   an   abandoned   pine   barren, 
and  it   is  six  miles  from  Wilmington. 
A     few     miles     from     this     $l,00-a 
day   dairy   is   the     nursery     farm     of 
Verzaal,   the   Hollander   who   has   de- 
veloped the  $4,000-a-year  acre  which, 
was  described  in  The  Observer  a  few 
days   since.     Verzaal    came    over   ten 
years    ago,  his    only     asset    being    a 
thrifty  family  of  boys  and  girls.     On 
one  acre  of  ground    he    grows    things 
that  bring  him  an  established  income 
of  $1,000  a  year  and  he  has  half     A 
dozen  acres  which  he  uses  in  the  na- 
ture of  a   savings  bank  in  which    he 
has  planted  a  ten-year  account.     Two 
acres  of  this  ground,    for   example,  is 
set    out    to   boxwood    seedlings    which 


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have  been  coaxed  to  the  proper  height 
and  left  to  broaden  and  expand  in 
girth.  At  the  end  of  ten  years  they 
-will  be  dug  up  and  the  account  closed, 
Verzaal  collecting  both  principal  and 
interest  in  the  shape  of  checks  com- 
ing in  from  nurseries  in  37  States  to 
the  total  of  $41,000  for  the  matured 
boxwood  crop.  The  acre  which 
brings  him  in  £4,000  a  year  profit  is 
latticed  over,  and  it  is  under  its  dif- 
fussed  light  that  he  coaxed  its  plants 
into  a  growth  in  one  year  that  would 
require  10  years  in  the  open.  The  prin- 
ciple is  simple.  It  is  a  known  law  of 
nature  that  plants  reach  up  or  out 
for  the  light.  Potatoes  and  onions 
mid  things  of  the  kind  sprouting  in 
the  celler  affords  illustration  of  the 
theory.  The  lattic.  work  developes 
alternate  squares  of  shade  and  light 
on  the  ground  under  it.  The  plants 
constantly  reach  the  sunny  spots  and 
in  that  way  they  rapidly  attain  tall- 
ness  in  growth.  The  young  boxwood 
plants  coming  up  under  lattic  would 
not  be  recognized  as  such  at  first, 
glance.  They  have  the  spindling 
characteristics  of  young  willows. 
When  they  reach  the  height  desired 
they  are  put  out  into  the  open  fields, 
as  stated,  to  attain  body.  Verzaal 
lives  in  a  bungalow  on  which  the 
architect  did  his  best.  It  is  equipp- 
ed with  water,  baths,  electric  lights, 
books,  victrola  and  telephone,  with 
the  radio  receiver  on  the  way,  and 
his  wife  "cooks  with  gas,"  His 
farm  and  stock  is  worth  #30,000,  and 
if  he  owes  any  balance  on  it,  he  is 
ready  to  pay  off  that  balance  when 
called  for — and  all  this  in  ten  years! 
On  the  individual  colonies  in  Pen- 
der and  New  Hanover  the  industrious 
workers     have    scored    successes     in 


every  case  and  they  need  no  credit, 
for  they  have  the  cash  to  pay  their 
way. 

It  is  now  Mr.  MaeRae's  purpose 
to  do  for  the  native  people  of  am- 
bition and  industry  what  he  has  done 
for  these  foreigners.  He  has  shown 
our  people  "how,"  and  he  intends 
helping  them  to  it.  Perhaps  the 
shorter  the  story,  the  more  easily  it 
may  be  understood.  All  that  part 
of  North  Carolina  coastal  plain  is  of 
the  same  quality  of  richness  as  that 
developed  by  the  colony  farmers.  Mr. 
MaeRae  proposes  to  divide  it  up  into 
small  farms  of  an  average  of  ten  acres. 
He  will  clear  it,  cultivate  the  fields, 
build  the  home,  the  barns  and  the 
garage,  and  turn  it  over  to  the  invest- 
or the  same  as  a  newly-finished  and 
completely  furnished  home.  The  aim 
is  to  put  the  settler  first  in  position 
to  make  a  living  and  pay  for  his 
farm.  When  he  has  made  enough 
money  to  take  up  the  title,  the  ex- 
change of  money  and  deed  .will  ho 
made.  Philanthropy?  Of  course 
it  is,  but  Mr.  MarRae  is  only  doing 
what  the  Hollander  Verzaal  has 
done.  In  due  course  of  time,  Ver- 
zaal will  close  on  his  boxwood  ac- 
count, as  Mr.  MaeRae  will  realize 
on    his    farm-furnished   account. 

As  a  first  step  in  development  of 
the  small  farm  idea,  Mr. 'MaeRae  has 
laid  off  the  Oleander  .estate  of  several 
hundred  acers  into  small  farm  lots. 
The  suburbanite  will  not  only  have 
a  home,  but  a  farm  surrounding  it 
from  which,  by  due  diligence,  he  will 
be  enabled  to  make  an  independent 
living.  These  city  farms  will  contain 
from  three  to  five  acres.  The  home 
will  be  there,  the  land  cultivated  aid 
all  the  investor  will  have  to  do  wili  be 


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13 


to  take  off  his  coat  and  buckle  down 
to  work.  These  city  farms  from 
which  he  expects  to  step  to  greater 
accomplishment,  will  be  known  as  the 
Oleander  States,  and  the  rural  life 
will  be  ideal  might  be  anticipated 
from  the  fact  that  the  elegantly 
paved,  pergolaed  Oleander  Park,  with 
its  beutiful  grasses,  flowers,  camphor 
and  other  trees,  will  be  established  as 
the  Community  Center. 

More  small  farms  and  more  popu- 
lation is  the  developing  idea  of  Mr. 
Hugh  MacRae;  he  is  a  man  who  has 
never  failed  in  carrying  out  his  ideas 
to  the  visioned  success,  and  it  may 
not  be  to  previous  to  write  him  down 
now  as  Master  Builder  of  the  Soil. 

The  fertility  of  this  eastern  land 
has  been  known  for  years,  but  the 
trouble  encountered  was  in  solution 
of  the  drainage  problem.  It  was  nec- 
essary for  these  lands  to  be  drained 
before  they  could  be  cultivated,  but 
drainage  has  been  made  easy.  It  is 
not  now  the  work  of  days  and  weeks; 
it  has  become  the  work  of  a  minute,  of 
the  flashing  of  an  eye,  for  drainage 
ditches  and  canals  are  now  "dug" 
by  dynamite.  The  stick  are  laid 
along  the  desired  course,  very  much 
after  the  manner  in  which  Lousiana 
sugar  planters  lay  the  joints  of  cane 
and  the  ditch  or  canal  is  laid  open  its 
entire  course  at  the  touch  of  the 
button. 

Having  given  practical  demonstra- 
tion of  what  can  be  done  in  the  way 
of  making  money  out  of  the  soil  by 
small  farms  intensively  cultivated 
and  of  how  it  is  practical  to  capitalize 
the  dairy  barn  Mr.  MacRae  wants  to 


convert  these  table  lands  of  the  coast- 
al plain  into  a  great  pasturage  for 
growing  beef  cattle  and  live  slock. 
It  was  discovered  by  him  that  along 
with  the  boll  weevil  came  a  new 
species  of  grass  which  takes  the  com- 
mon name  of  carpet  grass.  Mr.  Mac- 
Rae has  developed  experimental  pas- 
turages with  this  grass  combined  with 
.Tapcnese  and  common  white  clover, 
which  forms  a  lasting  and  depend- 
able pasture  ten  months  out  of 
twelve..  He  is  going  to  cover  Xew 
Hanover  and  Pender  counties  with 
pastures  of  this  kind  as  another 
example  of  what  ean  be  done  in  live- 
stock raising  in  the  State.  He  has 
fenced  off  an  old  pine  field,  rank  with 
native  wild  grass,  over  which  he  graz- 
es cattle.  Over  this  he  distributed 
— sowed  is  the  better  word — carpet 
grass  and  the  two  clovers  at  the  rate 
of  two  pounds  to  the  acre.  The  cattle 
will  this  season  graze  off  the  old  grass 
and  there  will  then  come  into  being 
the  permanent  new  pastures  of  a  com- 
bination grass  that  is  indestructible. 
It  is  this  combination  that  makes 
the  greenery  of  the  neighboring  golf 
links.  But  the  doubtful  say  that"  was 
cultivated.  For  that  reason  Mr.  Mac- 
Rae scattered  his  carpet  grass  seed 
wild  from  which  he  proposes  to  de- 
velop a  pasture  alongside  as  pretty 
as  the  golf  links.  He  is  a  man  of  vis- 
ion backed  by  faith.  The  country 
would  do  well  to  watch  him  for  a  year 
or  two,  because  he  is  undoubtedly 
lending  his  Influence  and  his  sagaci- 
ty to  the  breaking  of  a  new  day  in 
North  Carolina  rural  life. 


The  man  who  is  worthy  of  a  kindness  is  the  man  who  will  pass  it  on 
when  it  comes  to  him.  ■    •  ■■•:■■ 


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J\ 


GEORGIA  WOODMAN. 


Ey  V/.  Gilmore  Siimns 


Mark  Forester  was  a  stout,  strongly-built,  yet  active  person,  some  six  feet 
in  height,  square  and  broad-shoulderd — exibiting  an  outline  wanting,  perhaps, 
in  some  of  the  more  rounded  graces  of  form,  yet  at  the  same  time  far  from 
symmetrical  deficiency.  There  was,  also,  not  a  little  of  ease  and  agility,  to- 
gether with  a  rude  gracefulness  in  his  action, the  result  equally  of  the  well-eom- 
bined  organization  of  his  animal  man  and  of  the  hardy  habits  of  his     woodland 


life.  His  appearance  was  youthful, 
and  the  passing  glance  would  per- 
haps have  rated  him  at  little  more 
than  six  or  seven-and-twenty.  His 
broad,  full  chest,  hefiving  .  strongly 
with  a  consciousness  of  might — to- 
getherwith  the  generally  athletic  mus- 
cularity of  his  whole  person — indi- 
cated correctly  the  possession  of  pro- 
digious strength. 

His  features  were  frank  and  fear- 
less— moderately  intelligent,  and  well 
marked — showing  an  attractive  vi- 
tality, strong  and  usually  just  feeling, 
and  a  good-natured  freedom  of  char- 
acter, which  enlistedcontidenee,  and 
seemed  likely  to  acknowledge  few  re- 
straints of  a  merely  conventional  kind. 
Xor,  interpret  the  inward  man.  With 
the  possession  of  a  giant 's  powers,  he 
was  seldom  so  far  borne  forward 
by  his  impulses,  whether  of  pride  or 
of  passion,  as  to  permit  of  their  wan- 
ton or  improper  use.  His  eye, too, 
had  a  not  unpleasing  twinkle,  promis- 
ing more  of  good-fellowship  and  a 
heart  at  ease  than  may  ever  consort 
with  the  jaundiced  or  distempered 
spirit. 

His  garb  indicated  in  part,  and  was 
well  adapted  to,  the  pursuits  of  the 
hunter  and  hte  labors  of  the  wood- 
man. We  couple  these  employments 
together,  for,  in  the  wilderness  of 
North  America,  the  dense  forests,  and 


broad  prairies,  they  are  utterly  insepa- 
rable. In  a  belt  made  of  buckskin, 
which  encircled  his  middle,  was  stuck, 
in  a  sheath  of  the  same  material,  a 
small  ax,  such  as  was  well  known  to 
the  early  settlers  as  a  deadly  imple- 
ment of  war. 

The  head  of  this  warlike  instrument 
(or  that  portion  which  was  opposite 
the  blade  and  made  it  weigh  to  corres- 
pond with  and  ballance  the  latter  when 
hurled  form  the  hand)  was  a  pick  of 
solid  steel,  narrowing  down  to  a  point, 
and  calculated, with  a  like  blow,  to 
prove  even  more  fatal,  as  a  weapon  in 
conflict,  than  the  more-legitimate  mew- 
■  ber  to  which  it  was  appended.  A. 
throng  of  oxhide,  slung  over  the  wood- 
man's shoulder,  supported  easily  a 
light  rifle  of  the  choicest  bore;  for 
there  are  few  matters  indeed  upon 
which  the  wayfarer  in  the  southern 
wilds  exercises  a  nicer  and  more  dis- 
criminating taste  than  in  the  select- 
ion id'  a  companion,  in  a  pursuit  like 
his,  of  the  very  last  importance;  and 
which,  in  time,  he  learns  to  love.  TLe 
dress  of  the  woodman  was  composed 
of  a  coarse  gray  stuff,  which,  lining 
-o.i  sii(  jjo  iss  o;  p8A.ias  'a'iSuus  enq 
bust  and  well-made  person  to  the  '.-.t- 
most  advantage.  A  fox-skin  cap,,  of 
which,,  studiously  preserved,  obviated 
any  necessity  for  a  foreign  'tasieli 
rested  slightly   upon  his  head,  giving 


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1? 


u,   unique    finUh    to    his      appearance      have  supplied. 
which  a  fashionable  hat   would  never 


A  Mental  Expert,  imported,  by  the  state  to  pass  upon  the  mentali- 
ty of  Worth  Carolina  subjects  in  school  and  other  institutions — when 
there  are  scores  and  scores  of  capable  experts  among  us — asked  a  boy, 
in  testing  his  mentality,  what  would  you  "regard  that  occasion,  at  which 
Share  were  present  a  doctor,  a  preacher  and  a  lawyer?"  The  boy 
quickly  replied,  "A  wedding."  Because  the  boy  did  not  answer  "A 
Puneral"  he  was  classed  of  low  mentality.  That  boy  evidently  had  nev- 
^r  seen  a  doctor  follow  his  patient  to  the  grave. 


HOW   FOLKS   LIVE. 


Onehalf  of  the  world  does  not  know  how  the  other  half  lives"  is  as 
true  a.s  sunlight.  Then  in  each  there  Ls  a  variety  of  living  and  acting. 
Even  in  the  same  country,  the  same  county,  the  same  town  and — to  bring 
it  down  to  the  smallest  unit — in  the  same  community  there  is  a  variety  of 
living,  conduct  and  habits. 


There  are  people;  who  must,  in 
keeping  with  their  system  of  living, 
have  a  daily  bath;  and  it  appears, 
from  appearances  and  otherwise, 
that  there  are  some  people  who  re- 
duce their  bathing  to  an  annual  af- 
fair. There  are  families  that  have 
but  one  washing  day  in  a  month  for 
wearing  apparel,  and  that  is  done 
■on  a  Saturday.  The  first  think  and 
know  the  second  class  are  ignorant 
and  without  ambition  and  without 
pride;  the  second  class  think  the 
first  are  ''powerfully  dirty  to  have 
to  wash  every  day." 

Here  is  a. story  I  ran  across  which 
tells  something  about  the  Wild  Men 
of  Siam.  After  you  have  read  it, 
dear  reader,  make  an  observation 
and  figure  if  something,  so  far  as 
practical  results  are  concerned,  just 
is  bad  cannot  be  found  nearer  home. 
And  what  are  you  doing  to  correct 
k— to  curry  a  light,  information  and 
knowledge  to  these  benighted  souls? 
IP.ut    the   story:      "An  entirely  hea- 


then folk  living  in  the  mountains 
about  fifteen  miles  out  of  Tapteang, 
Siam,  have  made  their  first  advances 
toward    the   mission  station  there. 

These  people,  who  have  negro 
features  and  the  kinky  hair  of  the 
black  man,  are  living  in  the  open 
under  the  big  forest  trees,  without 
houses  or  shelter.  They  do  not  seem 
to  know  the  meaning  of  agriculture, 
but  live  on  roots  and  wild  plants 
and  nuts.  They  also  go  cpiite  with- 
out clothing,  though  they  are  great 
hunters,  and  shoot  monkeys,  birds 
and  animals  with  poisoned  arrows 
blown  through  long  reed  blow  pipes. 

"A  hunting  expedition  usually 
takes  all  the  women  as  well  as  the 
men.  and  when  they  go  they  dig  holes 
in  the  ground  and  put  their  smaller 
children  and  babies  inside.  The 
mouth  of  the  hole  is  covered  with 
branches  and  leaves,  and  as  no  ani- 
mal in  Siam  will  go  anywhere  near 
anything  that  looks  like  a  baited 
trap,  the  tiny  tots  are  perfectly  safe 


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till  their  parents  return. 

"Home  of  these  "wild"  people, 
however,  have  learned  enough  of 
the  ways  of  civilization  to  speak  a 
little  Siamese  and  wear  clothing 
■when  they  come  down  from  their 
mountain  fastnesses  to  the  villages 
and  towns.  Not  very  long  ago  they 
visited  the  mission  station  at  Tap- 
teang.  It  was  just  at  the  close  of 
a  prayer  meeting  when  a  social  hour 
with  tea  and  music  was  being  enjoy- 
ed, and  of  course  the  uninvited 
guests  were  asked  to  sit  down  also. 
The  strangers  were  not  quite  sure 
of  the  proper  etiquette  for  the  occa- 
sion, but  observing  the  other  guests 
sitting  on  the  floor  in  groups,  they 
went  off  into  a  corner  by  themselves 
and  sat  down  also.  A  cup  was  given 
them,  and  they  placed  it  in  the  center 
on  the  floor  and  took  turns  sipping 
a  spoonful  at  a  time  from  a  single 
spcon. 

They  had  apparently  learned  to 
beg — indeed,  the  members  of  the 
tribe  who  can  speak  Siamese  and 
wear    clothes  after   a  fashion,  come 


down  to  the  villages  lor  the  express 
purpose  of  begging—and  before  they 
left  the  niissionaires  brought  out 
some  old  clothes  and  shoes  for  them. 
There  was  confusion  in  properly 
adjusting  the  garments,  and  the 
Christians  had  much  ado  to  keep 
from  showing  their  amusement  at 
the'  men  trying  to  clothe  themselves, 
in  the  women's  dresses  and  the  wo- 
men trying  to  get  into  trousers  and 
coats.  The  shoes  interest  ed  them 
the  most,  though,  but  there  were 
not  enough  of  them  go  a  round.  This 
occasioned  no  trouble,  however, 
and  they  finally  bade  their  hosts 
goodby,  each  nan  and  woman  went 
off  very  contentedly  with  one  foot 
covered  with  a  shoe  and  the  other 
bare. 

"Before  they  left,  however,  the 
niissionaires  had  asked  them  whom 
they  worship — if  they  were  Budd- 
hists. "No,"  responded  one  of  the 
men,  TVe  worship  the  big  person 
up  there."     And    he   pointed  to  the 

sfcy- 


A  man  (and  this  does  not  exclude  wonum)  should  never  he  ashamed 
to  say  he  had  been  in  the  wrong,  which  is  hut  saying  in  other  words  that 
lie  is  wiser  today  than  he  was  yesterday. 


WHAT   PSYCHOANALYSTS    CAN'T  GIVE. 


By  R.  R.  Clark. 

The  papers  written  by  the  young  fellows  in  the  Training  School,  in  whi 
they  tell  what  they  hope  to  be  and  do,  their  hopes  and  aspirations  as  to  I 
ture  careers,  have  been  interesting.  They  reveal  the  bent  of  the  mind  of  t 
boy.  Too  often  the  young  folks  get  little  encouragement  to  talk  about  th. 
plans  for  life.  Many  of  them  are  timid  about  telling  their  hopes  and  asp:: 
tions  for  fear  of  the  rebuff  they  often  receive,  instead  of  the  sympathetic  i 

terest  they  deserve.  The  older  people      unfitted  to  choose  on  their  lifewoi 
usually   think   children   are   not   capa-      Sometimes,     often     perhaps,  that 
hie   of   deciding   for   themselves;    are      true.     But  they  should  be  eneoura~ 


1- 

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19 


to  talk  about  what  they  want  to  do. 
It  is  foolish  for  a  parent  to  decide  on 
the  child's  lifework  and  [Hit  him  at 
.the  career  chosen  without  some  intel- 
ligent effort  to  discover  the  berit  of 
Ms  mind  and  the  physical  and  mental 
equipment  for  the  vocation  chosen. 
Many  failures,  misfits,  result  from 
that  too  common  practice. 

If  youngsters,  as  these  boys  at   the 
Training  School,  decide  they  want   to 
do    some    one    thing    and    continue   of 
that  mind,   all   the  time   trying  to  do 
.something  in  the  direction  of  the  fav- 
ored vocation,  it  is  generally  accepted 
as      satisfactory   evidence   that      they 
have  chosen  their  calling;  and  the  rule 
probably  holds  good.     But  it  must  be 
admitted,  too,  that   the  fact  that  they 
may  think  they  want   to  do  some  one 
thing  is  by  no  means  postive  evidence 
in  all  eases  that  that  is  the  thing  at 
which   they   will   succeed.     A  man   in 
middle  life  recalls  that   when  he  was 
a  small   boy  he  harbored  a  desire  to 
become  a  preacher.     That  might  have 
been  taken  (and  fortunately  was  not) 
as     indications  of  a  call;  and  if     the 
aealous  folks  who  would  make  preach- 
ers out   of  any  material  offering,  re- 
gardless   of    fitness,   had    caught   that 
boy    young,    they    might    have    thrust 
him  into  the  ministry.     But  as  a  mat- 
ter of   fact   the  yearning  for  the  sal- 
vation    of  souls  never     entered     that 
boy's    mind.     lie    was   reared    in   the 
country  and  the  preacher  was  to  him 
the  biggest  man  he  knew.   He  thought 
it    would   be   grand    to    stand    up   and 
'•orate"   to   admiring  throngs.     That 
boy  simply  had  a  desire  to  lie  a  pub- 
lic speaker  for  the"big  of  the  thing;" 
for     the  admiration     he  thought     he 
could  command.      Fortunately  for  him 
and  the  Church  his  lines  fell  in  other 


work. 

It  the  choice  of  vocation  is  discuss- 
ed witli  the  young  and  they  are  given 
ail  the  information  possible  about  the 
ins  and  outs  of  the  work  in  which 
they  think  they  want  to  engage;  if 
they  still  "hanker"  for  a  particular 
calling  after  they  have  learned  as 
much  about  the  unpleasant  side  of  it 
as  they  can  assimilate,  and  they  have 
mental  and  physical  characteristics 
which  seem  to  tit  them  for  the  calling, 
and  they  should  be  encouraged  to  go 
to  it.  While  I  am  not  posing  as  ex- 
pert in  such  matters,  I  think  it  ex- 
tremely hazardous  to  over-persuade 
or  to  force  a  young  person  to  adopt 
some  particular  line  of  work  against 
his  will,  or  to  yield  to  his  desire  to 
follow  some  particular  calling  without 
first  trying  to  let  him  learn  as  much 
as  possible  about  the  difficulties  he 
may  expect. 

With  us  the  selection  of  life  work 
is  a  sort  of  hit  or  miss  process.  It 
isn't  always  what  we  would  like  to 
do,  or  what  we  think  we  would  like, 
that  is  chosen;  we  often  have  to  take 
what  offers.  We  can't  always  exer- 
cise choice  for  lack  of  opportunity. 
And  sometimes  when  we  have  the  op- 
portunity, subsequent  events  show  a 
mistake.  It  is  usually  considered  a 
bad  sign  when  a  young  person  changes 
occupations  frequently.  Justly  or  un- 
justly the  idea  gets  abroad,  and  it  is 
not  without  foundation,  that  one  who 
is  trying  first  one  thing  and  then 
another,  is  no  good.  Sometimes  the 
changing  is  simply  an  effort  to  find 
what  one  is  fitted  for.  By  and  by  the 
changer  may  strike  his  stride  and  suc- 
ceed. But  frequent  changing  is  dan- 
gerous. Hence  the  great  importance 
of    young    people    gathering    all    pos- 


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sible  information  about  (he  calling 
they  think  they  want  to  persue  before 
they  take  it  up;  and  in  making  the  .se- 
lection the  wisdom  and  experience  of 
older  pople  is  helpful.  Nobody  can 
pick  for  you  a  job  for  which  you  are 
fitted  so  well  as  you  can  do  that  for 
yourself  if  you  use  intelligence  in 
making  the  selection;  for  nobody  can 
know  the  secret  urging  and  inclination 
of  your  mind  as  you  know  it. 

.  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  the 
psychologists  and  the  psychoanalysts 
are  doing  good  work  in  helping  young 
people  rind  their  proper  calling.,  The 
study  of  the  mind  is  entertaining  and 
helpful.  .Some  of  the  psychologists 
claim  too  much,  'there  are  experts 
not  a  few  who  claim  the  ability  to 
give  one  the  once  over  and  tell  him 
what  he  should  do — all  about  himself. 
"While  I  don't  know  enough  about 
psychology   to   discuss   it,  I   draw   the 


line  on  the  claim.  After  all  is  saic? 
and  done,  there  is  more  or  less  guess 
work.  The  man  has  yet  to  be.  born 
that  can  accurately  read  another's 
mind  on  all  occasions.  But  there  is 
much  that  can  be  done  in  that  direc- 
tion and  I  count  it  distinct,  progress 
that  the  young  have  opportunity  to 
secure  some  information  as  to  their 
fitness  for  a  particular  calling  with- 
out the  hazard  of  going  into  some- 
thing blindly  only  to  find  afterward 
that   they  have  made  a  mistake. 

And  don't  forget  that  the  greatest 
asset  in  any  calling  is  something  the 
psychoanalysts  can't  give — the  will 
and  the  determination  to  succeed  at 
all  hazards.  It  is  lack  of  these  quali- 
ties that  make  more  failures  than  tak- 
ing up  the  wrong  job.  "Whatsoev- 
er thy  hand  tindeth  to  do,  do  it  with 
thy  might.'' 


A  pretty  little  story  comes  out  of  the  comniencement  of  Fassifern 
School  at  Hendersonville.  Three  Seniors  tied  with  a  Freshmen  for  the 
Bible  medal.  The  three  Seniors,  Misses  Catherine  Goodman,  of  Concord, 
Louise  Belden,  of  "Wilmington,  and  Elizabeth  Shelton,  of  Charlotte,  put 
their  heads  togeher  and  asked  that  the  medal  go  to  Miss  Frances  Scales, 
of  Greensboro,  the  Freshman  who  tied  with  them.  The  Seniors  were  per- 
fectly satisfied  with  honorable  mention,  and  that  beats  drawing  straws. 


What  I  Would  Like  To  Do  And  Why  I  Would  Like 
To  Do  It  When  I  Leave  1  he  Jackson  Training  School. 

By  Vass  Fields-- -Winner  of  5t'i  prize. 

I  think  every  boy  should  learn  .some  useful  trade  when  lie  leaves  the- 
Jackson  Training  School.  It  has  always  been  my  desire  to  be  a  printer.  B:  t 
first  I  want  to  go  to  high  school  and  get  more  education,  because  no  man  win 
get  very  far  in  this  world  without  a  thorough  education.  lam  expecting 
too,  to  go  to  college,  but  I  am  not  go-  After  finishing  school,  I  mean   '■> 

ing  to   ask    father  for  the  money — I      work  to  make  enough  money  to  sup- 
mean  to  work  my  way  through.  port  my  father  who  has  work  so  Ici.j 


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for  me  and  whoexpected  to  see  me  an 
honor  to  my  community  and  to  the 
slate  and  not  a  disgrace.  [  am  thank- 
ful to  say  that  while  I  am  at  the 
Jackson  Training  School  I  can  learn 
much  about  the  printing  business 
and  I  am  going  to  take  advantage  of 
the  opportunity.  The  reason  I  want 
to  be  a  printer  is  because  it  is  hon- 
orable work,  and  is  a  service  to  the 
poor  people  who  are  not  able  to  see 
the  world  except  through  the  news- 
paper. 

I  am  not  going  to  stop  at  just  an 
ordinary  printer,  or  else  I  would  Jet 
collage  experience  go;  but  my  desire 
is  also  to  bean  editor.  I  believe  by 
working  my  way.  I  can  become 
wl  at    I  want  to. 


But  before  I  become  a  real  printer- 
or  editor  I  want  to  get  one  year  of 
military  training,  so  if  war  should: 
ever  again  come  I  will  be  ready  to 
defend  my  native  country.  I  want, 
too,  to  become  a  Christian  and  to  give 
my  heart  to  Christ.  I  believe  that 
all  men  who  have  done  anything 
worthwhile  are  men  who  have  given 
their  heart  to  Christ.  If  you  are  a 
Christain  you  will  be  happy  and 
cheerful  and  "do  untoothers  as  yon 
would  have  them  do  unto  you." 

I  sincerely  want  to  show  the 
world  that  I  can  make  something  of 
myself  in  spite  of  all  hardship.  To 
win  an  easy  race  is  easy — to  win  a 
hard  race  is  hard. 


THE  NAME  OF  YOUR  STATE. 

There  are  few  studies  more  interesting  than  that  of  the  origin  of  geographie- 
names.  We  do  not  need  to  go  to  foreign  lands  for  this,  but  can  draw  from  our- 
own  fertile  country,  from  its  states,  cities,  towns  mountains,  lakes  and  rivers. 
In  this  wide  territory  we  shall  find  names  both  curious  and  commonplace.  Yet 
from  them  all  we  ean  learn  both  history  and  geography  as  well  as  something 
of  the  character  of  the  pioneers  who  chose  them. 

Take  for  example  the  subject  of  refer  to  the  heights  of  Boston  over- 
American  state  names.     Here  we  find      looking  the  hay.     Connecticut  is  also 

names    of    Indian,    English,    Spanish,     of      Indian    origin,    meaning      "Long 

and   French    origin,    each   one   having 

a  special   significance.     At   least   half 

of  them   have  been   derived  from  the 

picture  language  of  the  red  man  and 

■when  translated  tell  of  some  natural 

feature     of      the     region.     The     rest 

have  had  their  source  in  the  colonists' 

love  for  their  mother  countries  and 
I  sj^ak  to  us  of  the  Old  World  and  its 
!  rulers. 

The     fist   state  to  boar  an     Indian 

na  ne      was      Massachusetts,      which 

means  in  the  red  man's  tongue  "Near 

tin    Great    Hills."     It    is    thought   to 


River  Without  End."  This  state  has. 
taken  its  name  from  its  principal 
stream;  it  was  originally  written 
Quonoktacut. 

Passing  to  the  westward  many 
states  are  to  he  found  taking  their 
names  from  important  rivers.  Ohio 
was  derived  from  Ohionhiio,  mean- 
ing "Beautiful  River."  The  French: 
translated  it  "La  Belle  Riviere"  on 
their  early  maps.  Tennessee  was  once 
written  Tanasse;  the  original  mean- 
ing <d'  the  word  has  been  lost,  but 
it  is  sometimes  translated  "Bend  irt 


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■the    River."     It    is    applied    to    both 
:gtate  and  stream. 

Kentucky  is  another  name  of  In- 
dian origin.  It  has  various  transla- 
tions; the  best  known  is  that  recorded 
by  Daniel  Boone  as  "Dark  and 
Bloody  Ground."  Somewhat  happier 
translations'  are  "Meadow  Land," 
and  "At  the  Head  of  the  River." 
Mississippi,  in  a  similar  way,  is  best 
known  as  "Father  of  Waters," 
though  the  translation  is  no  longer 
•considered  technically  correct.  The 
word  means  "Gathering  in  of  All  the 
"Waters." 

The  name  Alabama  was  first  ap- 
plied to  the  river  and  later  adopted 
by  the  state.  It  is  usually  interpret- 
ed as  "Here  We  Rest,"  though  there 
is  question  as  to  its  true  meaning. 
Texas,  our  largest  commonwealth, 
likewise  bears  an  Indian  name.  The 
word  is  said  to  mean  "Friends,"  or 
^'Allies,"  being  used  as  a  form  of 
greeting  by  the  red  mam 

Illinois  is  peculiar  in  that  it  is  a 
■combination  of  the  French  and  the" 
Indian  language  Ilini,  meaning 
■"Men/'  was  the  name  of  a  powerful 
tribe  living  in  that  section  of  the 
country,  while  "ois"  is  the  French 
Rdjective  termination.  By  the  state 
of  Iowa  another  tribal  name  is  per- 
petuated. It  was  taken  indirectly, 
being  first  applied  to  the  river. 

Michigan  as  one  would  expect, 
means  "Big  Lake"  or  "Great 
Water."  In  this  case  the  state  has 
adopted  the  name  of  the  lake  much  as 
the  others  have  that  of  the  principal 
stream.  Wisconsin  is  usually  trans- 
lated as  "Wild  Rushing  Channel." 
the.  name  referring  to  the  river. 
French  explorers  wrote  it  Quiscon- 
sin." 


Minnesota  has  derived  its  name 
form  the  Indian  word  moaning 
"Cloudy  Water,"  or  as  is  sometimes 
given  "Skytinted  Water."  Our 
greatest  western  stream  gives  its 
name  to  the  state  of  Missouri.  Those 
who  know  its  yellow  coloring  can  ap- 
preciate the  translation  "Muddy- 
Water." 

Arkansas  has  taken  its  name  from 
the  river  of  the  same  name.  A  pop- 
ular translation  is  "Bend  or  Bow  in 
the  Kansas,"  but  it  is  believed  that 
the  true  meaning  has  been  lost.  Ear- 
ly French  explorers  wrote  it  "Alkan- 
sia"  or  "Alkansis. "  Nebraska  took 
its  name  for  the  stream  now  called  the 
Platte.  It  is  a  descriptive  term, 
meaning  ".Shallow  Water,"  or 
"Broad  Water." 

The  two  Dakotas  bear  an  Indian 
name  signifying  "Allies."  It  was 
originally  written  "Dakota,"  of  "Na- 
kota,"  as  well  as  in  its  present  form. 
Kansas  bears  a  tribal  name,  first  ap- 
plied to  the  river  near  which  the  red 
men  lived.  Translated  it  is  "Wind 
People,"  or  "People  of  the  South 
Wind." 

The  state  of  Oklahoma  also  bears  a 
tribal  name.  It  has  the'  pecularly 
significant  meaning  of  the  "Red  Peo- 
ple." Wyoming  was  named  for  the 
historic  valley  in  Pennsylvania.  The 
Word  has  two  meanings,  "Extensive 
Plains"  and  "Mountains  with  Val- 
leys Alternating."  Both  apply  equal- 
ly   well. 

Mexico  is  said  to  have  been  derived 
from  ' ' Texitli, ' '  the  name  of  an  Az! eo 
god.  It  is  sometimes  given  another 
meaning  being  translated  as  "Habita- 
tion of  the  God  of  War."  The  name 
of  Arizona  has  come  from  "An.:o- 
nac"       meaning       "Place    of    SaMl 


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2ST- 


Springs."  The  Indians  first  applied 
il  to  a  locality  near  the  present  town 
of  Nogales. 

Utah  has  taken  its  name  from  the 
Ule  tribe  of  Indians.  One  meaning 
assigned  to  it  is  "Home  on  the  Moun- 
tain Top."  Idaho,  which  completes 
the  list  of  states  with  Indian  names, 
shows  another  happy  choice.  The 
word  is  translated  "Gem  of  the 
Mountains." 

Twelve  of  our  states  have  names  of 
English  origin.  Virginia  was  so  ehris- 
ened  by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  in  honor 
of  Elizabeth,  the  Virgin  Queen  of 
England,  who  was  ruling  at  the  time 
of  the  first  settlements.  Maryland 
likewise  perpetuates  the  name  of  an 
English  pueen  Henritta  Maria,  wife  of 
the  unfortunate  Charles  1. 

New  York  state  also  was  named 
for  English  royalty.  The  Duke  of 
York-,  in  whose  honor  the  Dutch  settle- 
ments were  re-christened,  became 
James  II  of  England.  The  Carolinas 
take  their  name  from  royalty,  but 
there  is  some  question  as  to  which 
King  Charles  should  have  the  honor. 
The  French  named  the  region  for 
Charles  IX  of  France,  while  the  Eng- 
lish proprietors  named  it  for  Charles 
II  of  England. 

There  is  however,  no  confusion  a- 
bout  the  origin  of  Georgia.  Though 
founded  by  General  Oglethorpe,  it 
was  named  for  and  by  George  II  of 
England.  As  it  happens,  Pennslyva- 
liia  is  the  one  state  in  the  Union  name- 
ed  for  its  founder.  Penn  himself 
preferred  to  call  his  grant  ' '  Slyvania ' ' 
hut  Charles  II  would  not  have  it  other 
than  with  Penn's  name  incorporated 
in  it. 

Xew  Hampshire  was  named  by  John 
Mason,  the  proprietor  of  the  colony, 


for  the  English   county  of  Hamshire. 
Xew  Jersey   likewise   perpetuates   the- 
name  of   the   Channel   Isle  of  Jersey,. 
I  lie    hereditary    home    of    Sir  George 
Carteret. 

The  diminutive  state  of  Rhode  Is- 
land is  sometimes  said  to  have  been 
named  for  the  Island  of  Rhodes  in  the 
Mediterranean.  Put  it.  is  more  than 
likely  that  the  name  is  the  anglicized' 
form  of  Rhode  Eylandt  (Red  Island)- 
applied  to  it  by  early  Dutch  navi- 
gator. 

Delaware,  the  second  smallest  state,, 
was  likewise  named  for  an  early  ex- 
plorer. Lord  de  la  Warr,  first  gover- 
nor and  captain-general  of  Virginia, 
made  some  explorations  in  the  bay  and 
river  now  bearing  his  name.  It  is 
said  that  the  tribe  of  Indians  known 
as  Delawares  took  their  name  from 
these  features. 

We  find  but  three  states  with  names, 
of  French  origin.  Vermont  was  first 
explored  by  Champlain,  who  named 
it  Vert  Mont  after  its  Green  Moun- 
tain, the  dominating  natural  fuature 
of  the  state.  Maine  is  also  thought 
to  have  been  christened  by  French 
explorers.  Xo  doubt  it  had  its  origin 
in  the  province  of  that  name,  which 
was  the  home  of  Henrietta  Maria, 
queen  of  Charles  I  of  England.  Loui- 
siana commemorates  the  name  of 
Louis  XIV  of  France. 

Gf  the  remaining  stales  six  have, 
names  of  Spanish  origin.  The  first, 
to  bear  a  Spanish  name  was  Florida,, 
discovered  by  Ponce  de  Leon  on 
Easter  Day,  1512.  The  word  ,  it 
seems,  commemorates  the  holy  day- 
though  it  is  possible  that  it  was  used 
in  reference  to  the  "llowery"  aspect 
of  the  country. 

The     other  states     with     Spanish. 


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names  lie  in  the  west.  California 
"was  list  given  by  some  of  the  follow- 
ers of  Cortez  to  the  peninsula  we 
know  as  Lower  California.  It  was 
the  name  of  a  fabled  island  in  an  old 
Spanish  romance  that  had  stirred  the 
imagination  of  the  explorers.  It  has 
proven  most  fitting  for  the  state  that 
has  adopted  it. 

Colorado,  is  Spanish  for  "red."  It 
■was  first  applied  to  the  river  whose 
important  tributaries  flow  through 
the  state.  It  may  have  designated 
the  ruddy  color  of  the  stream,  or  the 
red  earth  that  abounds  in  some  re- 
gions. Xevfcda,  meaning  "snowy," 
has  reference  to  the  snow-elad  peaks 
■of  the  state.  Montana  is  another  de- 
scriptive term  from  the  Spanish,  trans- 
lated as  "Mountainous." 

There  are  several  theories  as  to  the 
origin  of  the  name  Oregon.  To  Joa- 
quin Miller,  the  poet,  is  accredited  the 
one   that   it   came   from   the   Spanish 


"Aura  Agua,"  meaning  "Gently  Fall- 
ing Waters."  Another  explanation 
is  that  it  was  derived  from  the  Span- 
ish "Oregones, "  meaning  "Big-eared 
Men."  and  applied  by  the  early  mis- 
sionaries to  the  natives  of  the  region. 
There  are  two  states  that  may  be 
said  to  have  names  that  are  distinctly 
American.  Washington  was  named 
for  the  father  of  his  country,  and 
though  the  word  is  of  English  origin, 
it  belongs  to  us  in  a  way  that  none 
would  deny  or  dispute.  Indiana, 
though  suggesting  the  red  men  who 
made  their  homes  in  the  territory,  is 
a  coined  word  like  many  another  to 
be  found. 

In  all  the  list  there  is  no  state  that 
commemorates  the  name  of  the  dis- 
coverer of  the  New  World.  We  have, 
however,  the  District  of  Columbia, 
and  the  famous  western  river  of  the 
same  name  to  make  up  for  this  defi- 
ciency....  •   ■ 


CONE-DERATE      SURVIVORS      OF     MC- 
DOWELL  COUNTY. 


Hon.  D.  F.  Giles,  school  man   and  ' 
in  the  Western  part  of  the  state,  has 
a  list  of  the  living-  Confederate  solide 
They  are  sixty-two  in  all  and  are  as 

D.  N.  Davis..  W.  C.  Elliott,  W.  A. 
Silver,  John  Suttles,  Lee  Williams, 
S.  M.  Howard,  S.  F.  E.  Gruber,  J. 
M.  Godfrey,  E.  G.  Sherrill,  A.  B. 
Watson,  John  Houek,  xV.  Yount,  J. 
M.  Clay,  Geo.  MeCormack.S.  H.  Cur- 
tis, T;  J.  ,-Wise,  G.  W.  Bradley,  G. 
T.  Mangum.  E.  Burnette,  J.  A. 
Hemphill,  James  Gilliam.  J.  G.  Holli- 
field,  John  Collis,  William  H.  Gil- 
liam, S.  M.  Collis.  A.  F.  Mor- 
gan,   A.    L.    Beach,  A.    C.    Gardin, 


egislator,  wielding  a  large  influence 
kindly  furnished  THE  UPLIFT  with 
rs,  now  resident  in  McDowell  county, 
follows: 

S.  A.  Hensley,  A.  B.  Halford,  M.  G. 
Perdergrass.  James  Swann,  James 
A.  Pyatt,  James  Morris.  J.  F.  Mor- 
gan, T.  M.  Cuthbertson,  J.  L.  Bur- 
gin,  C.    C.    Bradley.  W.  C.    Ja.v  es, 

A.  F.  Mode.  Lee  Holland,  J.  L. 
Walsh.  S.  P.  Tate,  W.  F.  Early, 
S.  E.  Poteat,  M.  Buchannun.  T,  Y. 
Little,  J  C.Brown.  A.  Wilkersoi!.  A. 

B.  Mashburn,  John  Chapman,  John 
Presnell,  Enos  Green,  D,  L.  Y.'el- 
born  James  Hemline,  Daniel  Holland, 


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D.  M.  Laughridge,  Joe  Swan.  J.  L. 
Burgin,  J.  L.  Cowan.  W.  B.  Rat- 
lift',  W.  G.  Bateman. 


Some  Corrections. 

Our  attention  has  been  called  to 
several  errors  that  got  into  the  Ire- 
dell list,  and  for  the  corrections  we 
are  indebted  to  Mrs.  Harry  P.  Deat- 
tn,  President  of  the  U.  D.  C's  Chap- 
ter at  Mooresville.  Of  the  printed 
list  in  THE  UPLIFT,  Mrs.  Deaton 
states  soldier  Aaron  Plyler  lives  in 
Rowan  county,  and  that  Messrs.  F.  S.' 
Shook,  A.  A.  Kelly  and  E.  W.  Over- 
cash  are  dead,  having  passed  away 
during  the  past  twelve  months.  Mrs. 
Deaton.  iurnishes  the  following  nam- 
es to  be  added  to  the  list  as  publish- 
ed: 

J.  A.  Kennerly,  W,  A.  Rainey,  S. 
A.  Hoover.  N.  L.  Robison,  J.  W. 
Johnston,  T.  A.  White,  A.  A.  Gab- 
riel,  J.  A.  Howard.  Daniel  Plyler, 
Alfred  Fisher,  William  Deal,    J.   M. 


Steele.  H.  H.  Cope.  N.  L.  Cranford, 
D.  B.  Brantley,  J.  K.  Mayhew,  John. 
W.  Cohen,  J.  B.  Atwell,  J.  E.  Elien- 
burg,  J.  F.  Fail-child,  Rev.  R.  ..W. 
Boyd,  J.  W.  Whitley,  Dr.  R,  PL 
Morrison. 


In  the  list  published  recently  for 
Cabarrus,  these  failed  to  be  report- 
ed: Messers  C.  Edney  Barringer, 
Adam  M.  Furr,  Thos.  J.  Shinn, 
Georye  W  Bost,  Caleb  Cruse  and' 
Rufus  T.  Honeycutt. 

(The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that 
it  is  no  easy  matter  to  get  a  complete 
and  accurate  list  in  a  first  publica- 
tion. Many  of  these  old  heroes  are 
growing  feeble,  stay  close  to  home 
and  thus  drop  out  of  sight.  It  will 
l>e  a  matter  of  appreciation  for  any 
one  to  call  our  attention  to  any  er- 
rors, either  of  commission  or  omis- 
sion, during  the  course  of  the  pub- 
lication of  the  survivors  of  the 
several  counties  of  the  state. — Edi- 
tor.) 


MOTOE'S    ELEPHANT   HUNT.- 

By  Henry  M.  Stanley. 


After  a  good  breakfast  of  rice  and  curry,  which  the  chief  of  our  band 
sent  me  from  his  table  to  make  me  strong,  I  started.  It  was  then  about 
neon,  and  the  sun  was  very    hot,    though  in  the  forest   it   would   be  cool 


. 


enough . 
In  a  short  time  I  washy  the  river, 


and  clear  water.  I  walked  along 
i  coking  to  the  right  and  left  constan- 
i  :ly  tor  hours,  when  just  about  two 
I  burs  before  sunset  I  heard  a  hollow 
1  pound,  as  though  the  earth  wasshak- 

j  H> 

I  knew,    after   listening,  that  the 

\    our.d  was  caused  by  a  herd    of  ele- 
phants walking  in    file    along    the 


hardbaked  road,  and  that  they  were 
approaching  the  stream  to  drink. 

In  a  moment  I  was  down  on  my 
face  like  a  dead  man.  The  grass  was 
about  two  feet  high,  and  very  thick, 
so  that  hvas  quite  safe  if  J  did  not 
stir,  and  I  am  too  old  a  hunter  not  to 
know  what  to  do  in  the  neighborhood 
elephants. 

As  the  elephants  passed  by,  I  lift- 
ed up  my  head  cautiously,  and  count- 


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•*;d  them.  Two-four-six-eight-teu 
enormous  beasts,  who  tossed  their 
trunks  aloft,  as  if  they  were  the 
masters  of  the  forest,  and  knew  it. 
They  passed  on,  and  [  wriggled  out 
until  I  was  some  distance  away. 

Then  I  jumped  up  and  leaped 
across  the  stream,  and  on  all  fours 
crept  across  a  deep  bend  of  it.  Lying 
Hat  on  tiie,  ground.  I  moved  toward 
■agreat  tree,  a  baobab,  that  stood  be- 
tween  me  and  them. 

If  the  elephants  had  all  stood  in  a 
row  drinking  from  the  river.  I  could 
never  have  come  up  to  them  unseen; 
but  one  greedily  thirsty  fellow  was 
standing  in  the  middle  of  the  stream, 
almost  touching  the  baobab  tree 
with  his  side,  so  that  he  completely 
hid  me  from  the  others. 

Bringing  down  my  gun,  I  pointed 
it  three  inches  or  so  behind  the  left 
fore  leg,  on  a  level  with  the  beast, 
and  fired.  The  elephant  sprang 
forward.  By  doing  so,  he  left  me 
right  under  the  eyes  of  the  others 
as  I  hurred  away.  I  was  bounding 
over  the  low  bushes  and  grass  tops 
as  if  I  were  an  antelope. 

The  elephants  got  over  their  sur- 
pries  in  a  second.  Then  a  wild 
snort  of  rage  greeted  my  ears,  and  I 
krew  by  the  crash  of  the  bushes  and 
splash  of  water  that  they  were  after 
me. 

The  awful  crashing  came  nearer, 
and  nearer,  and  I  saw  that  the  lord 
of  the  herd  was  but  thirty  paces  from 
me.  He  seemed  to  tower  up  to  three 
times  his  usual  height,  and  to  swell 
out  to  three  times  his  natural  size.    • 

His  great  ears  stood  straight  out 

as  flat  as  a  board,  and  his  eyes  were 

like  coals    of   tire.     His   trunk'  was 

lifted  up,  his  head    was     stretched 

"out,    and    the     two     long,     mighty, 


gleaming   teeth   seemed   awful   just 
then. 

I  suppose  that  he  was  only  fifteen 
feet  from  me  when  the  tricks  of  the 
elephant  hunters  came  to  my  mind. 
In  an  instant  I  tinned  half-way.  and 
ran  out  straight  to  the  right  from 
the  direction  that  1  had  Hirst  been 
going. 

The  elephants  passed  on,  rushing 
ahead.  I  had  got  fifty  yards  away 
before  they  could  turn  about.  Only 
for  an  instant  they  stopped.  They 
caught  sight  of  me  again  and  with 
loud  furious  snorting,  again  they 
charged  in  a  mass. 

I  am  a  swift  runner,  but  the  best 
of  us  seemed  to  crawl,  compared 
to  the  speed  of  an  elephant  for  the 
first  few  hundred  yards.  The  elep- 
phant  were  gaining  rapdily. 

A  little  distance  off  before  me, 
and  to  the  left,  was  a  clumpof  brush- 
wood. If  I  could  gain  that,  I  might 
find  somewhere  to  hide. 

In  a  few  momentsl  reached  it. and 
looking  sharply  about,  I  found  a 
hole"  in  the  ground.  It  belonged  to 
.a  wild  boar,  but  I  though  thai  it 
would  be  a  good  plase  to  hide,  so  I 
dropped  down  and  crawled  in. 

I  beard  the  elaphant  thunder 
overhead.  At  the  same  instant  there 
was  a  grunt  behind  me,  and  1  was 
shot  out  of  that  hold,  like  a  bullet 
out  of  a  gun.  I  lost  all  knowledge 
•of  everything  for  many  hours. 

When  I  recovered  it  was  night. 
My  friends  found' me,  and  eaivied 
me  back  to  the  camp. 

Next  day  the  elephant  was  picked 
up,  about  two  hours'  distance  ivom 
the  place  where  I  had  shot  him,  .The 
tusks  were  as  large-as  any  that  vrere 
ever  seen,  and  brought  a  large  sum 
of  money.  -       :..!-..  •"  ■  i'i 


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THE    ARISTOCRACY    OF   YOUTH. 

By  J.  E.  Paddock 

The  words  aristocracy  comes  from  two  Greek  vords,  Aristos,  best,  and' 
Kratein,  to  be  strong,  to  rule  and  it  rightly  means,  the  rule,  not  of  the  high- 
born, but  of  the  best. 

We  are  apt  to  think  of  the  word  aristocratic  as  meaning  those  who  are 
stylish  or  put  on  airs  as  we  sometimes  say. 

There  is  a  real  aristocracy  and  a 


false  or  counterfeit. 

We  usually  ascribe  it  to  those 
who  are  above  the  rank  and  tile  of 
the  crowd. 

But  for  my  purpose,  on  this  occa- 
sion I  desire  that  we  shall  divorce 
it  from  its  accommodated  forms  of 
meaning  and  adhere  strictly  to  the 
original  meaning. 

The  first  years  are  the  best  be- 
cause they  furnish  the  best  opportu- 
7iity.  It  is  virgin  soil  clean  and 
ready  for  use. 

The  mind  in  its  early  years  is 
'  plastic,  when  it  is  easy  to  learn. 
j  Memory  work  can  be  done  much 
more  readily  than  at  a  later  period 
:  in  life.  In  fact  it  is  the  period  of 
!  memory  when  it  comes  natural  for 
memorizing. 

First  years  are  the   best  because 
;  things  learned  then   are  more  per- 
manent.    The  mind  functions  more 
'.  easily  and  accurately. 

The  reception,  retention  and  the 
;  reproduction  of  mental  activities 
';  best  accompany  the  early  years. 

The  best  years  of  life  properly 
1  used  develop   strength   for  the  exi- 
1  gencies  of  life.     Strong  to   do  and 
1    be;  to  rule  in  the  affairs  of  life. 

'    Youth  is  the  period  of  religious 
i    susceptibility.     The    conscience  is 
i   :  tender  and  clear.     Impressions  for 
good  are   easily  made.     More  per- 
il    sons  become    religious   during  the 
early  years  in  life  than  later  on. 


It  is  natural  that  it  should  be   so. 

During  this  period  hero  stories 
make  a  strong  appeal.  It  is  the 
time  of  great  awakening.  When  the- 
nature  is  changing  and  the  youth 
finds  himself  possessed  of  new  and 
strange  feelings. 

.  The  boy  wants  to  look  like  a  man; 
and  dress  like  a  man.  He  finds, 
himself  breaking  away  from  his. 
usual  way  of  living  and  wants 
things  different.  He  is  changing  in- 
to manhood.  He  will  never  be  the- 
same  as  he  has  been  before. 

There  is  a  close  and  vital  rela- 
tionship between  purity  and 
strength.  The  youth  is  strong  in 
proportion  as  he  has  kept  himself 
pure.  One  cannot  be  impure  and 
hope  to  remain  strong. 

Purity  and  strength  are  twins  and 
always  reside  together.  The  type 
of  purity  that  is  conducive  to  strong; 
manhood  is  that  which  has  been, 
carefully  and  well  directed.  There- 
comes  a  time  in  the  life  of  every 
child  when  the  parent  should  in  a. 
sensible  way,  tell  the  child  just 
what  it  should    know. 

Why  not? 

Better  a  thousand  times  that  a 
parent  should  inform  his  child  than 
that  such  information  should  reach 
the  child  through  some  other- 
source. 

There  is  no  more  sacred  duty  falls 
on  a  parent  than  that  of  telling  a. 
child  what  he  should  know,    and   at 


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"the  proper  time. 

The  early  years  are  the  most  to 
be  coveted.  The  whole  course  of 
the  life  can  be  shaped  in  just  a 
few  years.  As  the  twig  is  bent  the 
tree  is  inclined.  It  is  during  these 
years  that  the  child  gets  his  educa- 
tion, shapes  his  course  in  life,  forms 
his  habits,  developes  his  character, 
becomes  interested  in  religious  mat- 
ters and  practically  settles  the  whole 
course  of  his  future,  years  of  useful- 
ness. 

It  was  because  of  these  things 
we  were  told  Remember  now  thy 
Creator  in  the  days  of  thy  youth 
"when  the  evil  days  come  not  nor  the 


years  draw  nigh  when  thou  shalfc 
say,  I  have  no  pleasure,  in  them.  If 
we  do  these  things  we  shall  never 
have  anything  to  regret.  If  we 
fail  in  doing  them,  we  shall  never 
know  but  little  of  the  aristocracy  of 
youth,  for  these  years  are  the  best 
years  life  affords  and  are  the  ones 
most  greatly  to  be  coveted  by  think- 
ing persons. 

What  the  world  needs  most  to-day 
is  the  rule  of  the  best. 

The  best,  the  strongest,  the  pur- 
est that  the  youth  of  America  can 
furnish — this  is  the  aristoei'acy  for 
which  the  world  is  calling. 


Insti 


iuoaai 


(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 


g»e      just  been  completed  by  the  printers 
~'S      of  the  school. 


Rev.  Mr.  Lawrence  conducted 
religious  services  here,  Sunday, 
June  4. 

Claude  Coley  and  Murray  Evans 
received  visits  from  home  folks  Wed- 
nesday. 

The  band  did  not  play  in  the  pavi- 
lion last  Sunday,  and  was  missed 
very  much. 

The  boys  studied  '  Jehoiakiin 
Tries  to  Destroy  God's  Word,"  for 
their  Sunday  School  lesson  May 
HI. 

Lamp  post  as  pretty  as  the  ones 
-around  our  main  lawn  are  soon  to 
be  placed  upright  around  the  lawn 
facing  the  last  finished  cottages. 

Work  on  a  phamplet,  "The  Occu- 
pation of  Suffolk  by  the  Yankees 
during  war  between  the  states"  has 


The  band  boys  are  in  eager  anti- 
cipation. They  are  to  go  on  a  pic- 
nic soon  and  of  course  you  know 
what  picnics  suggest  to  them.  All 
sorts  of  good  times. 

Due  to  tireless  work  by  Mrs.  II. 
B.  "Cloer,   matron    of  Mecklenburg 

'Cottage  this  cottage's  lawn  is  filled 
with  flowers,  and  it  often  causes 
visitors  to  stop  and  gaze  at  it  with 
admiration. 

Mr.  Ankers  has  gained  some  in 
his  quest  for  water.  Soon  he  will 
strike  this  soon-needed  substance 
and  new  cottages  will  be  opened 
without  fear  of  lack  of  this  life  giv-  j 
ing  substance 

The  pipes  are  being  laid  away  in 
the  grounds  now.  One  necce.-  siv$ 
of  this  pipe  laying  was  to  dig  up  ihe 
highway,  causing  tourists  and  trav- 
elers to  pass  through  the  schools 
campus.  Of  course  the  pupils  en- 
joyed this,   for  they   could    see  (he 


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travelers  better  and  could   excange 
heartier  greetings. 

In  a  fully  featured  and  yet  rather 
o^or  game,  here  Saturday,  June  3, 
Hartsell  Mill  was  unable  to  stop  the 
winning  streak  of  the  J.  T.  S.  and 
lost  their  game  thereby  with  a  one 
sided  score  of  10  to  2.  Hegu'.ar,  a 
former  boy  here,  and  who  is  suc- 
ceeding in  life,  held  the  important 
position  between  second  and  third 
.stations. 

Holman  twisted  the  apple  for  the 
J.  T.  S..  using  many  deceptive 
curves  and  drops  which  the  visitors 
were  unable  to  connect  up  with.  J. 
T.  >S.  acquired  an  overwhelming 
lead  in  the  first  frame  and  was  nev- 
er in  danger  afterward.  The  J.  T. 
S.  players  knocked  the  delivery  of 
Thomas  V.  all  over  the  orchard. 
Honeycutt  and  Williams  were  on 
bases,  namely  2nd  and  3rd,  when 
Holman,  the  pitcher,  did  something 
unusual  for  most  moundsmen.  He 
lammed  the  pill  for  a  three  base  hit! 
The  hit  would  have  gone  for  a  com- 
plete circuit  but  the  ball  landed  on 
a  tree,  enabling  the  middle  pasture 
player  to  get  it  and  send  it  to  the 
main  works,  preventing  Holman 
from  claiming  home  run  honors. 
In  this  inning  the  home  team  gained 
four  runs. 

The  next  session  ended  for  the 
opponents  in  the  same  manner  as 
did  their  first  trial,  for  Holman 
would  not  allow  his  slants  to  be 
straightened;  he  issued  no  free  pas- 
ses 'and  struck  out  many  men. 
I,  T.  S.  increased  her  lead  by 
gaining  one  more  run  in  her  next 
frame. 

For  the  next  two  innings   neither 

side  scored.     It  sure  was   funny  to 

.fee  the    way   the  Hartsell     Millers 


walked  backward  from  the  diamond 
when  Holman  grasped  a  warelub 
and   fa:-ed  the  hurler, 

In  the  fifth  Hartsell  Mill  repeat- 
ed her  previous  performances,  while 
the  Griermen  dented  the  apple  for 
another  run  to  be  placed  on  their 
count.  The  sixth  session  was  the 
only  lucky  one  for  the  mill  team. 
Holman  again  lost  his  chance  for 
pitching  a  shut  out  game;  his  oppo- 
nents look  two  runs  from  him.  But 
this  was  their  first  and  last  score. 
In  the  last  two  innings  J.  T.  S.  scor- 
ed four  more  runs  and  the  Cabarrus 
Millers  had  to  chuck  in  their  lost 
column  a  defeat  by  a  ten  to  two 
score.  The  J.  T:  S.  has  to  its  credit 
seven  victories  and  two  defeats. 

Mooresville  must  be  a  dandy 
place  for  training  and  making  real 
ball  players,  for  two  of  the  best  play- 
ers on  the  team,  Honeycutt  and  Ev- 
ans, hail  from  this  place  w  here  clean 
ball  is  taught.  They  were  candi- 
dates for  and  won  a  place  in  the 
Hall  of  Fame  at  the  J.  T.  S.  Honey- 
cutt copped  a  two  bagger  in  the 
last,  two  games  played  and  Evans 
claims  one  for  the  game  with  Cabar- 
rus Mills. 

Williams,  keeper  of  the  middle 
pasture,  besides  making  a  spectacu- 
lar forward  catch  and  ''aiding  and 
abetting"  in  a  double  play,  clouted 
the  pill  for  a  two  bagger. 

Cook.  Hegular  and  Russell  played 
fine  ball. 

But  the  remarkable  part  of  the 
whole  thing  is  that  only  a  few  days 
previous  to  this  game,  the  regular 
nine  was  defeated  by  the  scrub  team 
in  a  walkaway  practice  match.  Capt. 
Grier,  manager  of  the  Griermen, 
when  told,  laughed  long  and  loud  at 
this  strange  psrank  of  fate.  How- 
ever, "we should  worry"  if  the  loo- 


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als  continue  winning    games.    Who 
can  stop  our  winning  streak? 

Score  by  innings: 

R.  H.  E. 
Hartsell  Mill  000  002  000—2  2  3 
J.      T.      S.    410  010  22x— 10   13   1 

Thomas  V.  and  Frank  K.;  Holman 
and  Cook. 


HONOR  ROLL 

"A" 

Chas.  Rothrock,  Brevard  Brad- 
shaw, Richard  Johnson,  Mark  King, 
JakeWillard,  Albert  Keever,  Sylves- 
ter Sims,  PaulLeitner,  Chas.  Bishop, 
Harvy  Wrenn.  Rufus  Wrenn,  Henry 
Reece,  Frog  Suther,  Carrol  Guice, 
Sam  Dixon,  Thomas  Oglesby,  San- 
ford  Hedrick,  Joseph  Pope,  Blois 
Johnson,  Julius  Camp,  Dallas  Hen- 
sley,  PaulKimmery,  Thomas  Moore, 
Jack  Frazier,  Worth  Stout,  Watson 
O'quinn,  Lee  Bradley,  Brady  Vene- 
able,  Walter  Mills,  Ben  Pot  eat,  Chas. 
Stone,  Autery  Wilkenson,  D.H.John- 
son, Charlie  Jackson,  Cleburn  Hale, 
Herbert  Apple,  Paul  Green,  Chas. 
Lisk,  Walter  Taylor,  Plez  Johnson, 
Claude  Friske,  Joseph  Jorden,  Ar- 
thur Duke,  Earnest  Laster,  Newlan 
McDonald,  Jno.  Hughs,  Bertram 
Fart  Kelma  Smith,  Magnus  Wheel- 
ler,  FredParrish,  ChallieLee,  Lam- 
bert Cavenaugh,  Loxley  Saunders, 
Joseph  Moore,  Malcolm  Holman,  Wil- 
liam Hancock,  Jas.  Honeycutt,  Hen- 
ry Faucette,  Floyd  Huggins,  Arthur 
Montgomery,  Jack  McLelland,  Argo 
Page,  Frank  Thornason,  Columbus 
Mead,  Doyle  Jackson,  Murray  Evans, 
Roy  Baker,  Robt.  Watson,  Victor 
High,  William  Wilson,  Dudley  Pan- 
gle,  William  Gregory,  Harry  Ward, 
Jno.  Wright,  Swift   Davis. 


"B" 

Milton  Hunt,  Aubrey  Weaver, 
Earle  Crow,  Ellis  Nance,  Lloyd  Win- 
ner. Anderson  Hart,  Archie  Brady,. 
Julian  Piver.  Garland  Banks.  John 
Hill,  Luther  Grant,  Forest  B5'ersv 
Murphy  Jones,  Luther  Cray.  John 
Kemp,  Hazen  Ward,  Ralph  Porter- 
field,  Herbert  Tollie,  Lee  Smith, 
Clifton  Rogers,  Chester  Shepherd, 
Elvis  Carlton,  Eunice  Byers,  Earnest 
Carver,  Walter  McMahan.  .Tohnie 
Branch.  Chas.  Parton,  Chas.  Mor- 
row, James  Allen.  Hugh  Tyson, 
Homer  Covington,  Luther  Chenault, 
Jerome  Bruton,  Clyde  Willard, 
David  Underwood,  Edward  Clever, 
Edward  Thomas,  Ralph  Cutchen,. 
Chas.  Mayo,  Jas.  Shipp,  Louis  Press- 
ley,  Harry  Lamb,  Fitzhugh  Miller, 
Arvel  Absher, HoyleFaulkuer,  WTal- 
ter  Shepai'd,  Jno.  Moose,  Allie  Wil- 
liams, Marion  Butler,  L(  e  Rogers. 


A  GBEAT  STATE  ASSET. 

Gradually  the  plant  at  the  Jackson- 
Training  School,  at  Concord,  is  ex- 
panding into  proportions  wrothy  the; 
great  State  institution  that  it  has  be- 
come and  to  the  broadening  of  the- 
purposes  which  it  was  designed  to- 
fulfill  for  the  youth  of  the  State.  The- 
proposition  for  a  joint  cottage  for  the- 
counties  of  Iredell  and  Rowan  has 
materialized  and  this  assures  a  hand- 
some addition  to  the  colony  of  coun- 
ty buildings.  The  capacity  of  th*- 
Jackson  Training  School  has  been 
strained  from  the  day  it  opened  its. 
doors,  but  the  cottage  system  point- 
ed the  way  out  of  the  difficulty.  No 
county  could  make  better  provision 
for  the  future  welfare  of  its  youth, 
than  investment  of  this  kind,  and 
each  new  cottage  adds  to  the  great- 
ness of  the  institution.     The   enclc- 


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avor  of  this  school  has  been  to   turn  olina.      To  feed  his  stock,  numbering 

out  a  State  asset  in  the   shape  of   an  into  the  hundreds,  he  grewhay— lit- 

educated  and  a  trained  young   man-  erally  hundreds  of  acres  of  it-^on  his 

hood,    and  North  Carolina   is  today  large  farm  to  the    west  of  the   city 

filled  with  living   examples   to   the  And  what  do  you  suppose  his  prin- 

succcss  of  its  work.— Charlotte  Ob-  eipal  forage  crop   consist  of?     The 

stn'ver-                                                  .  lowly  popcorn.     He  sowed   it   alone 

— ■ and  sometimes  mixed  withcowpeas. 

MAKING  HORSE  FEED  Not  "nl-v  did  tllr  P°P«>rn    make  the 

finest  kind  of  hay   but  grain  as  well. 

The  older  farmers  of  Union  coun-  for  there  were  on    the  stalks  little 

ty  remember  the  late  John  W.  Wads-  ears  of  corn  which  stock  ate  cob  and 

worth,  the  big   liveryman   of  Char-  all.     Popcorn  may    be    planted    or 

lotte.      Twenty-five   or  thirty  years  sown  as    late  as  July    and   it    is  cut 

ago  he  operated  perhaps  the  largest  before  it  is  well  matured  to  make  the 

livery  and  sale  stables  in  North  Car-  best  forage. — Monroe  Enquire. 


THE  PESSIMIST  FIREFLY. 

The  Pessimist  Firefly  sat  on  a  weed 

In  the  dark  of  a  moonless  night; 
"With  folded  wings  drooped  over  his  breast 

He  moped  and  he  moaned  for  light. 
"There  is  nothing  but  weeds  on  the  earth,"  said  he, 

"And  there  isn't  'a  star  in  the  sky; 
And  the  best  I  can  do  in  a  world  like  this 

Is  to  sit  on  this  weed  and  die." 
Then  be  your  own  star,  then  be  your  own  star. 

The  Optimist  Firefly  said, 
If  you'll  leap  from  your  weed,  and  will  open  your  wings 

And  bravely  fly  afar, 
You  will  find  you  will  shine  like  a  star  yourself, 

You  will  be  yourself  a  star; 
Yes,  the  thing  you  need 

Is  to  leap  from  your  weed 
And  be  yourself  a  star."— Sam  Walter  Foss. 


CONCORD,  N.  C.  JUKE  17,  1922 


NO.  32 


!  THE   ALTRUISTIC   SPIRIT    I 

I  '  * 

%  In  the  Boxer  rebellion,  China  sadly  wronged  tho  * 

£  United  States.     The  indemnity  awarded  our  coun-  % 

|  try  was  nearly  $15,000,000.    We  might  have   gone  * 

*  •  to  wur  with  China  to  collect  it.  Instead,  we  for-  * 
%  gave  China  her  debt,  remitting  nearly  the  whole  of  % 

*  it.     China  was  surprised  and  pleased  at  this  unex-  % 

*  pected    turn  of  affairs,  as  was  Jacob  when    Esau,  *  . 

*  whom  he  hxd  wronged,  fell  on  his  neck  and  kissed  ♦ 
;?:  him.     What  has  been  the  result?  China  at  once  sent  * 

*  a  high  dignitary  to  Washington  with  an  expression  % 

*  of  his  nation's  deepest  gratitude.  And  then  China  * 
%  met  our  nation's  courtesy  with  a  courtesy  of  her  ♦ 
^  own:  she  set  aside  this  great  sum,  and  decided  to  * 

*  use  the  income  in  educating  Chinese  students  in  % 
America.  Every  year  650  students,  her  brightest  * 
young  men  and  women  are  studying  in  our  various  * 

£  colleges,  because  of  this  fund.    The  United  States  % 

*  is  being  abundantly  rewarded  for  boing  kind,  tender-  % 
%  hearted,  forgiving,  to  China.— Tarbell. 

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PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and    Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the  Boy's   Printing    Class.     Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 

Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,  at  the  Post  Office  at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1S79. 


He  who  believes  in  eternal  justice  cannot  be  beaten  in  life.  He  may 
be  stung;  he  may  be  half  dead  with  the  wounds  of  life,  stricken,  of  he'art 
in  the  lonely  desert;  but  he  is  sure  to  start  into  energy  the  .moment  he 
sees  t'he  fresh  sunlight  or  the  breeze  of  the  new  impulse,  such  impulse 
as  God  sends  a  man  who  clings  to  Him  by  faith. — Stafford  A.  Brooke. 


A  CALL  TO  CONCORD  CITIZENS. 

The  question  of  adequate  school  facilities  for  the  children  of  Concord,  of  both 
races,  is  a  vital  one1 — too  vital  to  be  mussed  up  by  an  unnecessary  public  de- 
bate, out  of  which  will  grow,  if  anything,  a  feeling  of  discord  and  bitterness. 
This  is  no  time  for  any  further  discord  in  a  town  that  is  trying  at  the  eleventh 
hour  to  live  in  unison  with  its  honored  name. 

There  is  no  reason  of  any  kind  whatever  for  abuse  of  anyone,  whether  he 
favors  or  opposes  a  bond  issue  for  $225,000  for  the  enlargement  of  the  school 
facilities.  If  free  men  have  not  the  privilege  and  the  perfect  right  to  oppose  a 
measure,  until  they  are  convinced  of  the  merits  of  that  measure,  then  we  have 
coine  upon  evil  times. 

If  the  school  board  of  the  city  of  Concord  would  take  the  public  into  a  full 
and  frank  confidence  as  to  all  the  ffoets  in  the  case,  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt 
that  the  citizens  would  register  a  just  verdict.  If  the  Board  is  in  debt  and 
needs  some  of  the  bond  money  to  discharge  that  obligation,  why  tell  the  public 

ifs  their  business;  if  the  Board  means  to  enlarge  the  present  high  school 

building  tell  the  public  how  much  enlargement  and  what  amount  of  money  is 
reeded  to  do  the  work;  if  the  Board  intends  to  build  another  High  School 
building,  tell  the  public  what  the  site  is  to  cost,  what  the  building  is  to  cost 
and  their  reason  for  such  a  course. 

There  are  real  good  men  in  Concord,  men  who  have  contributed  large  ser- 


4  CHE  UPLIFT 

vice  towards  educational  advancement  in  Concord  and  want  to  do  the  proper 
tiring  at  this  critical  period,  who  desire  lo  be  informed.  As  it  stands  they 
do  not  think  that  ■'{''225,000  is  required  to  solve  the  educational  problem;  but  if 
the  Board  can  and  will  make  an  open  and  frank  exhibit  of  how  it  intends  to 
spend  this  enormous  sum,  these  men  will  have  the  light  to  govern  them  in 
casting  an  intelligent  ballot. 

If  it  van  be  shown  that  there  is  a  probability  of  on  increase  in  the  school 
population  within  tin' next  tea  years,  then  it  would  certainly  be  wise  to 
take  this  into  consideration.  The  simple  statement  of  any  person  or  board 
or  organization  to  say  that  "we  are  building  for  all  time  to  come"  is  absurd- 
ly foolish  and  foolishly  absurd.  No  one  has  the  knowledge  to  warrant 
such  a  statement;  and  no  one,  not  even  the  school  board  itself  has  the  au- 
thority to  bind  its  successors,  or  rather  attempt  it,  not  to  ask  for  additional 
bond  issues  for  a  future  enlargement. 

THE  UPLIFT  stands  unequivocally  fur  full  school  facilities  for  every 
child  wherever  he  be — that  is  a  bounded  .duty  we  owe  the  child,  and  any- 
thing short  of  this  is  courting  criminality  in  this  enlightened  age.  And 
it  thinks,  too,  an  unnecessary  amount,  an  amount  beyond  the  immediate 
needs  for  the  next  ten  years,  is  a  brutal  injustice  against  the  public. 

If  there  be  any  responsible  party  that  knows  the  real  facts  and  the  de- 
mands and  has  authority  to  speak  for  them,  let  him  take  the  public  into  his 
confidence  by  making  a  full  and  complete  exhibit.  The  education  of  our 
children  is  too  vital  a  matter  to  be  committing  blindly  inexcusable  errors; 
but  cut  out  the  threatened  joint  debate. 

%    %    #    :*:    ^ '  :jc    ^s    £ 

It 
1*. 

j  GOVERNOR,  MORRISON  AT  N.  C.  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN. 

Gov.  Cameron  Morrison  was  the  Commencement  orator  at  the  late  finals 
of  the  Women's  College  at  Greensboro.  He  broke  a  precedent,  in  the 
matter  of  what  the  public  heretofore  has  regarded  a  proper  subject  for  a 
Commencement  occasion.  But  what  does  Gov.  Morrison  care  for  precedents 
when  the  house  is  on  tire  or  something  is  going  wrong  in  the  state.  His 
subject  that  day  before  the  ninety  and  five  sweet,  attractive  graduates  was 
''Agriculture  and  Horticulture." 

The  Governor  was  impressed  with  the  brilliancy  of  the  occasion,  and  him- 
self was  in  tine  trim,  looking  every  inch  a  Governor  with  all  that  term  im- 
implies.  It  seemed  that  the  great  audience  was  shocked  when  he  announc- 
ed his  subject — at  least  several  near  this  writer  gave  evidence  to  that  fact 
and  they  sat  in  enrapt  attention  to  the   really  admirable  address,  abouad- 


I'HE  UPLIFT  5 

"rag  in  unanswerable  argument  and  bearing  in  every  sentence  a  heart-felt 
•conviction  that  even  converted  the  audience.  Not  a  stir,  or  smile,  or  ap- 
plause, after  the  opening  and  very  hearty  greeting,  was  in  evidence  among 
that  intelligent  audience  until  the  Govenor  eloquently  and  dramatically  de°- 
clared,  1  am  in  favor  of  children  and  others  having  chicken  every  other  day 
in  the  year.'''  Then  it  was  the  entire  audience  gave  a  hearty  and  unani- 
mous endorsement,  including  the  gowned  faculty  on  the  stage.  From  that 
time  on  Gov.  Morrison  had  his  audience  in  perfect  control;  and  under  other 
environment  he  could  have  led  the  crowd  right  into  the  heart  of  actual  and 
sensible  farming,  which  everybody  now  knows  is  not  being  done  in  North 
Carolina. 

As  A  Country  Woman"  elsewhere  in  this  issue  deplores  that  among 
the  ninety-five  graduates  only  one  has  manifested  a  determination  to  take 
on  a  missionary  spirit  and  go  back  to  the  country,  where  God  knows  the 
condition  is  appalling,  and  do  her  might,  let  us  hope  that  she  will  preach 
the  Governor's  sound  doctrine  until  others  join  her  in  the  task.  Because 
of  this  breaking  of  a  precedent,  Gov.  Morrison  got  talk  started,  and  his 
truly  admirable  advice  will  travel  all  the  furtuer. 


A  LITTLE  SHOP  TALK. 

Gentle  reader,  look  up  in  this  number  "Margeret  Martin's  Adventure," 
and  read  it — read  it  to  your  girls,  to  your  boys,  to  all.  It's  a  delightful  story 
— it's  a  picture  of  beautiful  home  life,  home  co-operation. .and  home  manners 
— it 's  goodness  and  naturalness  combined.  . ...-  :..   i., 

Master  Edward  Cleaver,  a  little  more  than  13  years  o£-age,  with  less  than 
one  months  study  in  the  use  of  the  Linotype  machine,  alone  and  wifliout 
direction  set  the  article  in  5  his.  and  45  minutes,  sending  the  proof  to  the  editor 
who  was  unable  to  find  a  single  error.  Those  conversant  with  type-setting, 
will  realize  at  a  glance  that  this  piece,  full  of  commas,-' quotation  marks,  dash- 
es etc.,  is  not  the  easiest  composition. 

Talk  about  the  dropped  stitches  of  a  vanished'  or  palsied' hand— wherever 
the  spark  of  divinity  nestless,  active  or  dormant,  there  is  an  engaging  hope 
tu  beckon  onward  those  who  recognize  the  brotherhood' of man' and  the  God- 
given  spirit  of  service. 

********  .....    .>    .  _  ,t  • . 

In  the  light  for  solicitor  for  thejlaleigh  district.  In  "the  second'  primary, 
the  bio-  guns  are  in  evidence.      Lawyers  Hinsdale  and" fcvTiiis,  tl~e  latter  tho 


3  THE  UPLIFT 

leader  in  the  first  primary,  are  contesting-.  It  seems  that  a  majority  of 
the  bur  has  lined  up  with  Hinsdale,  but  Lawyer  J.  William  Baily.  who  is 
supporting  Evans,  stirred  the  animals  in  the  court-house  on  Monday  last. 
From  his  angle  Mr.  Baily  sees  that  the  Underworld"  are  against  Evans 
and  are  attempting  his  annihilation.  Mr.  Evans  was  an  orphan,  educated 
at  Oxford  Orphanage,  is  a  man  of  strong  mentality,  fearless  and  aggres- 
sive. Mr.  Hinsdale  belongs  to  one  of  the  old-time  families  of  Raleigh  and 
as  a  lawyer  has  had  some   Ifttle  experience. 

*    *    *    *    *    *    *    * 

Miss  Gertrude  Weill,  ofGoldsboro,  has  broken  a  precedent.  She  bold- 
ly walked  up  to  a  polling  place  in  Cioldsboro  during  the  primary  June  3, 
and.  dieovering  that  a  large  number  of  tickets  were  marked  in  accordance 
with  the  sympathy  and  desires  of  a  certain  henchman,  bodaeiously  tore 
them  into  bits.  One  lady,  in  meeting  another  lady  in  Greensboro  a  few 
days  afterwards,  expressed  our  sentiments  exactly  in  this  hearty  saluta- 
tion, "Hurrah  for  our  Gertrude"  and  then  the  two  women  right  where  they 
are  tearing  down  the  old  court-house  began  hugging  each  other  in  joy   and 

glee. 

******** 

Commissioner  of  Agriculture  Graham  should  get  a  copy  of  Gov.  Morrison's 
Greensboro  Normal  address  on  Agriculture  and  Horticulture,  issue  it  in 
pamphlet  form,  send  a  bunch  to  every  school-district  in  the  state  for  general 
distribution.  That  speech  should  reach  the  people  out  in  the  sticks,  where 
it  can  and  will  do  great  good.  It  will  get  nowhere  with  town  farmers '  and 
agriculturists — let  those,  who  will  profit  by  it,  have  an  opportunity  to  see 
and  study  the  line  ease  the  Governor  made  out  against  our  way  of  farming. 

******** 

The  Charlotte  cotton  market  on  Monday  was  quoted  at  21  3-4  to  22,  while 
in  Concord  it  was  reported  as  just  21.  There  is  .a  reason  for  this,  and  so 
long  as  this  difference  occurs  in  the  price  of  that  product  which  touches  an 
all  but  helpless  class  (as  things  are  now),  just  so  long  will  Concord,  Concord's 
reputation  and  Concord's  business  houses  suffer.  This  is  a  wrong  that  should 
not  be  permitted  to  stand  longer. 

******** 

Sister  Nancy  Astor  has  reached  home  after  her  triumphant  American 
visit.  The  cold-blooded  neighbors  didn't  meet  her  with  a  brass  band,  or 
call  out,  the  fire  company,  or  do  so  small  a  thing  as  having  the  courthouse  bid 


THE  UPLIFT  ? 

■rung.      Lady  Astor  will  have   to  come   hack    where   real   personality   and 
an  effervescent  brightness  are  recognized  and  appreciated. 

*  *  •■:•  *  *   *   *   * 

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A  \  irginia  lawyer  has  been  sentenced  to  jail  for  live  days  for  contempt 
of  court.  Must  have  been  a  mighty  sorry  court,  whose  contempt  would 
bring  down  on  a  lawyer  only  five  days  in  jail.  Gov.  Trinkle.  in  trying 
his  nerve,  refused  to  pardon  the  lawyer. 


There  have  been  3S.000  business  failures  since  May  1920  .vhen  deflation 
set  in.  Experts  claim  with  a  degree  of  plausibility  that  the  tide  has  turn- 
ed. 

Work  on  the  Rowan-Iredell  Cottage  is  going  toward  rapidly. 


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*•*  One  wintry     day  a  Woodman    was  tramping  home  from  his     work  <• 

♦J*  »!* 

->  vhen   he   saw  something  black  lying  on  the   snow.     When   he   came  ♦> 

*  closer  he  saw  it  was  a  Serpent  to  all  appearance  dead.     But    he  took  £ 

*  it  up  and  put  it  in  his  bosom  to  warm  while  he  hurried  home.  As  * 
♦>  soon  as  lie  got  indoors  he  put  the  Serpent  down  on  the  hearth  before  *> 
%  the  fire.  The  children  watched  it  and  saw  it  slowly  come  to  life  .> 
*;*  again.     Then  one  of  them  stooped  down  to  stroke  it,  but  the   Ser-  £ 

*  pent  raised  it  head  and  put  out  its  fangs 'and  was  about  to  sting  the 
»:•  child  to  death.     So  the  Woodman  seized  his  axe,  and  with  one  stroke  <;• 

*  cut  the  Serpent  in  two.     "Ah,"  said  he,  <. 

*  "XO  GRATITUDE  FROM  THE  WICKED."  * 
♦:♦  *&■ 

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THE 


JOB. 


ONE,  ..GIRL    WILL    TACKLE 

By  A  Country  Woman. 

By  reading  THE  UPLIFT  I've  learned  to  have  a  deeper  interest  in  human- 
ity, for  the  thoughts  expressed  through  the  columns  of  your  paper  pulsates 
with  a  depth  of  feeling  for  mankind  in  every  walk  of  life. 

The  great  London  preacher,  who  spoke  at  the  recent  commencement  of 
Trinity  College,  truly  gave  a  lucid  definition  of  true  leadership  when  he 
said;  "The  true  leadership  that  feels  the  pity  of  the  multitude  and  seeks  to 


give  true  guidance  to  one's  fellows 
is  the  aristocratic  gift  of  God.  The 
object  of  the  pulpit  is  to  create  an 
atmosphere  for  the  factory  and  the 
farm."  As  I  read  I  felt  that  he 
could  have  so  easily  added,  'and  the 
object  of  the  Press  ought  to  be  to 
create  the  same  interest,''  for  more 
people  read  the  newspapers  and 
periodicals  than  attend  divine  wor- 
ship. Do  you  realize  that  if  the 
editors  of  North  Carolina  had  one 
specific  thing  in  mind,  written  up 
in  the  same  spirit  of  earnestness, 
and  issued  on  the  same  date  that  the 
power  and  influence  brought  to  bare 
in  behalf  of  that  object  would  be  in- 
calculable. 

Why?  Because  there  are  news- 
paper readers  in  every  community 
and  there  is  the  other  class  who  love 
to  tell  the  news  first  and  thereby  in- 
formation is  carried  to  the  illiterate. 
One  can  easily  see  the  dynamic  pow- 
er of  the  press  if  such  an  experiment 
were  to  be  tested  out.  I  venture  to 
say  that  the  most  isolated  community 
of  our  state  would  have  some,  even 
though  vague,  information  of  the 
subject  matter  in  the  papers  of  that 
date. 

Hearing  Governor  Morrison,  last 
week,  in  his  annual  address  to  the 
graduating  class  of  the  N.  C.  Wo- 
man's College,  in  which  he  most 
strongly  stressed  Agriculture  and 
Horticulture    and   Gardening — that 


every  home  ought  to  have  its  vege- 
tablegarden,  fruit  trees,  pecan  trees, 
poultry  yard,  hogs,  cows  etc — the 
thought  came  to  me  row  can  these 
girls  afford  to  goto  the  rural  section 
to  teach  after  spending  money  and 
time  on  their  education  when  the 
county  schools  as  a  general  thing 
have  such  pour  inducements  in  the 
way  of  school  facilities  and  homes  to 
offer  in  return  for  service  unless 
there  were  some  endowed  with  that 
gift  of  God — the  real  missionary  spir- 
it. I  made  it  my  business  to  impure 
how  manyofthe95  garduates,  whore- 
ceived  diplomas  on  .Tune  6th  at  the 
N.  C.  W.  College,  expected  to  teach 
in  the  rural  schools  of  the  state.  The 
answer  is  appalling  but  true.  Just, 
one  of  that  large  crowd  of  bright  and 
attractive  girls  has  the  pity  of  hu- 
manity in  her  heart  to  such  an  extent 
as  to  venture  out  in  the  country  to 
give  true  guidance  to  her  hobbled 
rural  sister  and.  brother.  I  fear  the 
subject  so  ably  and  earnestly  dis- 
cussed by  Gov.  Morrison  will  never 
be  broadcasted  to  the  extent  of  real- 
izing extensive  and  intensive  results 
through  one  lone  representative  of 
that  big  class. 

There  is  a  chasm  between  oppor- 
tunities of  the  town  and  city  on  the 
one  hand,  and  those  of  the  rural  sec- 
tion on  the  other  hand.  Now,  how- 
can  this  chasm  be  bridged?  Surely 
there  is  no  disposition  on  the  part  of 


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any  one  to  take  from  the  towns  and 
cities  any  conveniences  of  modern 
civilization,  or  to  lower  the  stan- 
dards of  the  College  so  as  to  make  her 
products  lit  into  rural -life;  but  there 
ought  to  be  a  desire  in  the  heart  of 
every  patriotic  North  Carolinian  to 
reach  out  and  help  to  make  the  life  of 
a  teacher  in  the  country  attractive 
by  better  school  facilities.  Herein 
the  news-papers  of  North  Carolina, 
getting  the  lay  of  the  land,  could 
start  an  educative  propaganda  that 
would  help  this  honest  but  timid 
people,  the  rural  fathers  and 
mothers,  who  by  their  very  en- 
vironment have  been  denied  the  ad- 
vantages of  town  people,  to  find  the 
way  to  proceed  about  establishing 
better  school  facilites  for. their  chil- 
dren. If  something  radical  and 
positive  is  not  soon  done,  history 
must  repeat  itself  and  this  coming 
generation  will  not  be  and  cannot  be 
any  improvement  on  the  past.  The 
only  hope  of  the  future  home- 
building,  such  as  Gov.  Morrison  so 
eloquently  and  clearly  pictured,  lies 
in  the  character  of  the  school  life 
and  the  influence  of  the  teacher  in 


every  community. 

CJood  schools  help  to  make  thrifty  ■ 
and  intelligent  house-wives;  and 
surely  you  could  not  expect  so  much 
of  the  dull-eyed  mother  eking  out 
the  miserable  existence  which  was 
bequeathed  her,  unless  you  bring  to 
bear  upon  her  and  her  family  the  in- 
fluences of  broad-minded,  capable 
and  enthusiastic  teachers,  who  have 
a  vision  and  the  spirit,  of  service. 

Teachers,  having  had  superior  ad- 
vantages amid  luxurious  comforts, 
naturally  look  for  a  salaiy  and  home 
comforts  commensurate  in  every  way 
with  their  past  experiences.  Many 
are  even  educated  out  of  and  away 
from  their  former  sphere  and ,' en- 
vironment. 

Let  us  hope  that  the  day  is  not  far 
distant  when  the  rural  child  will  be 
given  an  even  chance  with  the  city 
child.  The  school  must  come  first, 
and,  as  sure  as  day  follows  night,  so 
surely  will  all  the  other  good  things 
come  to  make  complete  an  ideal  rural 
home,  the  kind  that  Gov.  Morrison 
suggested  in  his  address  to  the  grad- 
uating class  of  the  Greensboro 
Normal,  last  week. 


Mr.  Dave  GaskilL  of  Salisbury,  is  a  fine,  good  fellow;  in  fact,  he  is  an 
institution  within  himself.  When  a  mere  boy  he  came  up  from  Morekeid 
City  to  make  his  home  with  his  brother  in  Salisbury.  It  is  interesting 
to  hear  him  tell  how  his  eyes  were  opened  in  his  trip  across  the  st?ie. 
"You  know,"  said  he,  "I  £iai  a  IleUhodist.  When  I  was  in  Morekead  I 
thought  there  were  only  two  religious  denominations— Baptist  and  Metho- 
dist. Here  in  Salisbury  I  found  that  there  were  others.-  But  when  I  had 
an  opportunity  to  go  with  my  brother  to  New  York,  I  was  astounded.  In 
the  hotel  there  was  a  church  directory,  and  I  do  believe  Share  were  ,  h  In- 
dred  different  denominations  inviting  you  to  their  service:;."  _ier 

we  get  from  our  narrow  bound£.Vies,  into  the  greater  opportunities,  all 
the  bigger  and  more  important  seems  the  world;  .and  from  every  hand 
comes  the  call  for  service. 


10  -THE  UPLIFT 


CHASLE3  WOJITH  JOHNSTON 
Charlotte,  IT.  C. 


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U 


CHARLES  WORTH  JOHNSTON. 


The  above  is  the  baptized  name  of  our  subject,  who.  without  his  know- 
ledge but  by  his  natural  atfabilityand  delightful  approachableness,  has  come 
to  be  known  by  his  hosts  of  friends  as  just  "Charlie  Johnston."  From  a 
■country  iad.  born  Oct.  14.  1S61,  when  the  affairs  of  this  country  were  in  a 
chaotic  state  and  when  men  and  women  were  suffering  the  terrors  and 
sorrows  of  war,  Charles  "Worth  John- 


ston, now  of  Charlotte.  N.  C,  has 
justly  and  fairly  earned  a  proud 
place  among'  the  big  and  dominant 
leaders  and  captains  in  the  busi- 
ness and  industrial  life  of  North 
Carolina.  This  has  been  accomp- 
lished by  his  native  ability,  his 
.strenuous  devotion  to  duty  and  his 
high  sense  of  honor  and  integrity. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Cabarrus 
•county  on  the  old  Johnston  home- 
stead near  the  Jacob  Stirewalt  old 
mill,  in  No.  3  township,  of  sturdy 
.and  strong-minded  parentage.  His 
father  was  Samuel  Johnston,  whose 
brother  was  for  years  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  church  of  Char- 
lotte, and  his  mother  was  Mary 
(Smith)  Johnston,  a  sister  of  the 
late  Dr.  G.  G.  Smith,  once  a  leading 
and  popular  citizen  and  practicing 
physician  of  Cabarrus  county  and 
Concord.  In  this  union  there  were 
just  three  children,  one  daughter, 
who  died  in  infancy;  and  two  sons, 
one  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  the 
other,  Mr.  Edgar  Horace  Johnston, 
a  prominent  business  man  and  lead- 
ing citizen  of  Rock  Hill,  S.  C. 

Though  the  schools  of  the  period 
of  Mr.  Johnston's  youth  are  looked 
upon  to-day  by  the  modern  doctors 
of  education  as  feeble  and  peculiar 
efforts  after  education,  there  were 
nevertheless  in  that  time  outstand- 
ing examples  of  the  finest  educa- 
tional training  ever  known  in  all 
the   history    of  the    state.     Young 


Johnston  had  the  privilege  of  being 
under  that  master.  Prof.  Augustus 
Leazer,  a  justly  famous  teacher  of 
that  period  and  whose  efficiency  and 
fine  reputation  still  survive  in  the 
lives  and  conduct  of  hundreds  of 
manly  and  succcessful  men.  Young 
Charlie  Johnston  was  under  the  ed- 
ucational training  of  Prof.  Leazer 
for  six  years,  having  attended  his 
school  at  Prospect  and  afterwards  at 
Coddle  Creek.  In  1S79  he  entered 
Davidson  College,  remaining  there 
until  18S2  when  he  accepted  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  town  of  Davidson. 

Mr.  Johnston  married  Miss  Jen- 
nie Stough,  of  Davidson,  and  bless- 
ing this  union  are  three  children, 
Mr.  Horace  Johnston,  who  is  now 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  con- 
duct of  his  extensive  manufacturing 
enterprises,  Mrs.  R.  W.  Stokes  and 
Mrs.  E.  J.  Brasswell,  all  residents 
of  Charlotte.  In  1921  death  entered 
tins  home,  and  Mrs.  Johnston,  the 
devoted  wife  and  mother,  was  called 
to  the  great  beyond. 

In  1884,  becoming  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Stough,  Cornelius  &  Co., 
Mr.  Johnston  and  his  firm  built  the 
Cornelius  Cotton  Mills,  of  which  he 
became  secretary  and  treasurer.  The 
enterprise  was  successful  in  every 
particular.  In  1895  Mr.  Johnston 
removed  to  Charlotte,  where  he  be- 
came the  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Highland  Park  Cotton  Mills,  of 
which  at  that  time  the  late  Col.  W. 
E.  Holt,  and    the  late  J.  S.    Spencer 


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were  the  outstanding  directing  offi- 
cials. Upon  (lie  burden  of  advanc- 
ing years  oftCol.  Holt,  to  Mr.  John- 
ston was  handed  down  the  active 
management  of  this  enterprise, 
which  then  had  just  150  looms. 
Later  an  enlargement  took  place, 
providing  fur  the  necessary  spin- 
ning machinery  to  make  the  mill  in 
every  respect  a  well  balanced  manu- 
facturing plant.  This  organization. 
the  Highland  Park  M'fg.  Co..  under 
the  direct  and  masterful  direction 
and  control  of  Mr.  Johnston,  has 
grown  into  a  mammoth  industrial 
machine,  consisting  today  of  No.  1. 
at  Charlotte,  with  16,000  spindles  and 
5,00  looms;  No.  2,  at  Rock  Hill,  with 
10.000  spindles,  and  800  looms;  and 
No.  ?,,  at  Charlotte,  with  30,000 
spindles  and  1,036  looms.  No.  2.  at 
Rock  Hill,  S.  C,  is  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Mr.  E.  H.  Johnston,  a  brother, 
who  just  'a  few  years  ago  was  making 
his  living  on  the  old.  Johnston  home- 
stead-.in.  western  Cabarrus.  At 
Rock  Hilljs  owned  arid  operated  by 
this  .company,  a  Cotton  Oil  Mill  of 
sixty  ton  .capacity. 

In  addition  ,to  tin'-  already  men- 
tioned manufacturing  enterprises, 
Mr.  C.  W.  Johnston  is  president  of 
the  Brown  ■  and  Noreott  mills,  at 
Concord;  of  the  -Jewell  mill  at 
Thomasville.  of  a  mill  at  Selma;  of 
the  Park  Yarn  mill,  of  King's  Moun- 
tain; and  is  owner  outright  of  the 
mill  of  the  Johnston  Mfg.  Co.  Mr. 
Johnston  is  the  president  and  chief 
stockholder  of  the  Johnston  Mills 
Company,  a  million-dollar  corpora- 
tion recently  charted,  which  is  en- 
gaged in  the  commission  business 
alone.  One  would  think  that  with 
these  interest,  going  and  virile,  the 
energy  of  one  man  would  be  suffi- 
ciently   occupied    and    entertained; 


but  not  so.  There  is  building  today 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Johnston 
at  Spindale  a  large  mercerizing 
plant,  which,  lam  told,  will  be  the- 
latest  word  in  the  construction  and 
efficiency  of  such  an  institution.  The 
activities  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  are  not  confined  to  the  work 
of  cotton  mills  and  allied  interests, 
fur  he  takes  a  lively  interest  in  the 
commercial  and  banking  life  of 
Charlotte,  and  is  now' a  director  of 
the  Commercial  Bank  and  interested 
as  a  stockholder  in  other  financial 
and    various  institutions. 

As  I  write  of  this    very    success- 
ful   and    useful  man,    knowing     no 
little  about  his  early  youth,  his    op- 
portunities and   his  environment ,    I 
cannot  keep  back    the  wonder  as    to- 
how  many  men,   successful  and  out- 
standing  men,    reached    that    posi- 
sition  in    business  life,  who  followed 
their  first    impulses    and    leadings. 
Answering  my  own  curiosity,  I    am 
constrained  to  believe  that  there  are- 
but  few.     When  a  great  big,  strap- 
ping boy,  Charlie  Johnston  attended 
a    "writing-school,"    conducted    by 
E.  W.    Scott,     a  genius   with    pen 
and  ink.     Young  Johnston   display- 
ed wonderful  talent  along   this  line, 
and  Scott  made  him  believe  as   most 
normal   men   do    to-day    that    good 
pensmen,  like  poets  and    teachers, 
are    born    that     way.     While    Mr. 
Johnston  was    paying    court  to  the 
goddess  of  the  writing  art,  he  drew 
with  a  pen  a  picture  of  an  eagle,    18 
X  2-1  inches  the  picture  is,  that  was- 
so  well  executed  and  looked  so   like 
the  real    thing   in    nature,   that   his 
contribution  took  a  medal  in  1880  at 
the  famous  Poplar  Tent  Fair.      This 
event  and  occurrence  were  enough 
to  turn  the  head  of  an  average   boy, 
and  make  him  believe   that   he    had 


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struck  his  calling  and  stride;  but 
Charlie  Johnston,  thennot  quite  nine- 
teen years  old,  had  too  much  sturdy 
material  in  his  make-up  to  fall  to 
the  temptation  of  becoming  a  Writ- 
ing-School -Master— that  would  have 
been  a  tragedy.  Even  today  Mr. 
Johnston,  practical  business  man 
that  he  is,  writes  "a  most  beautiful 
hand"  that  puts  a  copy-plate  on  its 
good  behavior. 

There  is  a  time  in  the  life  of  an  in- 
dividual when  somebody  puts  into 
his  mind  an  idea,  a  thought,  a  sug- 
gestion, that  sticks  and  takes  root, 
and  develops.  Mr.  Samuel  John- 
ston, the  father,  a  very  observant 
and  thoughtful  man,  made  an  ob- 
servation in  the1  presenceof  his  two 
sons  when  the  late  Capt.  J.  M.  Odell 
bought  the  McDonald  mill  in  Con- 
cord and  began  its  enlargement 
and  development.  Said  Mr.  John- 
ston: *  That's  logical;  theSouth  isthe 
place  for  the  cotton  mills;  here  the 
field  of  cotton,  over  yonder  the  fac- 
tory; here  the  help  and  the  climate. 
The  day  is  coming  when  this  sec- 
tion will  be  the  real  home  and  the 
leader  in  the  cotton  mill  interest." 
The  boys  may  not  have  realized  it 
at  the  time,  but  the  man  closest  to 
them  sowed  the  seeds  that  found 
a  "welcome  soil  in  the  lives  of  his  two 
sons. 

It  is  the  material  side  and  record 
of  a  man  that  attract  the  interest  and 
admiration  of  the  public  in  general. 
13ut„when  this  success  is  applied  to 
the  material  and  to  selfish  ends  a- 
lone,  it  requires  but  a  short  time 
after  the  funeral  for  the  hero  of  in- 
dustry to  become  lost  in  the  realm 
of  forgetfulness.  God  and  fortune 
have     met     the     character   and    th  e 


energy  of  Charles  Worth  Johnston; ' 
and  the.  combined,  forces  have  re- 
sulted in  a  most  wonderful  accom- 
plishment. Success  and  fortune 
have  faild  to  turn  his  head — he  re- 
mains the  same  natural  spirit  that 
made  for  him  friends  in  his  youth.  He 
has  not  forgotten'  his  God,  nor  the 
widow  and  the  orphan.  Probably 
there  is  no  .nan  in  North  Carolina  who 
does  (and  the  left  hand  never  knows 
what  the  right  hand  does)  more  for 
distressed  humanity  than  does  Mr. 
Johnston,  and  yet  the  hounds  of 
publicity  are  commanded  to  keep 
still.  I  know  this  to  be  a  literal 
fact;  and  I  have  been  impressed 
by  the  man's  simple  joy  and  pleasure 
in  the  doing  of  the  acts  of  mercy, 
helpfulness  and  service,  that  can  be 
traced  to  his  generous  and  benevo- 
lent heart.  He  counts  it  a  high 
privilege  to  contribute  to  the  promo- 
tion of  the  welfare  of  the  living  and 
the  coming  generations.  Literally 
he  belives  and  acts  on  the  theory 
that  God  blessed  his  efforts  that  he 
might  render  a  service  to  his  fellow 
man — not  his  to  harbor  in  selfish- 
ness, but  to  do  good  with.  That's- a 
man's  estimate  of  the  true  life. 

Left  in  1879,  when  his  father  died,' 
with  probably  less  than  the  small  sum- 
of  three  thousand  dollars,  and  now 
conservatively  placed  into  the  million- 
aire class,  is  a  record  that  attests  the 
virtue  and  glory  of  energy,  faithful- 
ness and  integrity  to  young  men  as  a 
good  working-capital  and  a  foreshad- 
owing of  success — that  success  that 
makes  the  world  better  and  more  pros- 
perous by  having  lived  in  it.  This  is 
truly  the  record  made  by  Charles 
Worth  Johnston,  of  Charlotte,  a  cap- 
tain of  industry  and  of  benevolence. 


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BURR   REFUSED   CHRISTIANITY. 

By  Mrs.  H.  E.  Monroe. 

Burr  himself  tells  us  that  a  the  age  of  eighteen  the  Spirit  of  God 
came  upon  him  with  such  power  that  lie  fled  to  the  woods  to  settle 
that  great  question  which  faces  every  human  being — "'.Shall  I  be  a 
Christian?"  He  said  to  himself:  "  I  purpose  as  a  lawyer  to  succeed  by 
the  tricks  of  the  trade.  There  is  many  a  short  cut  in  business  winch 
aCliristian  could   not  take,   therefore  I    shall  not    be   a   Christian."     He 

tells  us  that  the  Spirit  of  God  never 
again  troubled  him.  He  sinned 
against  the  Spirit,  that  unpardon- 
able sin.  Left  to  himself,  his  desti- 
ny led  him  to  a  high  place  only  to 
make  his  fall  more  terrible.  Social- 
ly he  was  the  most  charming  man  of 
his  day,  but  he  entered  no  home 
which  he  did  not  defile.  No  woman 
loved  him  but  to  her  sorrow.  Bun- 
was  holding  the  position  of  Vice- 
President  as  a  Republican  when  he 
was  nominated  by  the  Federalists 
for  Governor  of  New  York.  Some 
of  the  leading  men  of  that  party  re- 
fused to  support  him,  among  them 
Hamilton.  This  led  to  the  duel  in.- 
which  Hamilton  was  killed,  July  11, 
1804.  Burr  was  disfranchised 
and  banished  by  the  laws  of  New 
York,  and  was  indicted  for  murder 
by  the  authorities  of  New  Jersey 
for  having  killed  Hamilton  on  the 
soil  of  that  State.  He  could  not  en- 
ter either  New  York  or  New  Jersey 
to  settle  his  business.  He  was . 
bankrupted,  and  more  than  55.000 
in  debt  when  all  his  property  had 
been  sold  and  the  results  paid  over. 
The  day  before  the  duel  Burr  had  a 
right  to  suppose  himself  a  more  im- 
portant man  than  Hamilton.  Was 
he  not  Vice-President?  Had  he  not 
just  received  a  majority  of  the  votes 
of  the  city  of  New  York  for  Gover- 
nor of  that  State,  in  spite  of  Hamil- 
ton's greatest   exertions?     Yet    the 


day  after  the  duel  the  dying  Hamil- 
ton had  the  sympathy  of  every 
human  being,  and  Burr  was  a  fugi- 
tive from  justice,  not  knowing 
friend  from  foe.  Never  was  there 
a  greater  revulsion  of  feeling.  He 
went  back  to  Washington  and  again 
presided  over  the  Senate,  but  was 
simply  scorched  by  the  open,  daily 
manifestations  of  the  scorn  of  Sena- 
tors. On  Saturday,  March  2,  he  took 
leave  of  the  Senate.  That  body  was 
in  executive  session,  therefore  no 
spectators  were  present.  Mr.  Burr, 
one  of  the  most  eloquent  as  well  as 
one  of  the  handsomest  men  of  his 
day,  rose  in  his  place. after,  the  gal- 
leries had  been  cleared.  He  began 
his  address  by  saying  that  he  had 
intended  to  remain  during  his  con- 
stitutional time,  but  he  felt  an  indis- 
position coming  upon  him  and  he. 
now  desired  to  take  leave  of  them. 
The  silence  could  be  felt.  There 
was  no  shorthand  reporter  present, 
and  exactly  what  he. said  is  not 
known — perhaps  nothing  very  dif- 
ferent from  what  other  retiring 
Vice-Presidents  have  said.  No  ref- 
erence was  made  to  the  duel,  no:e 
to  the  scorn  he  had  merited,  unless 
it  were  in  his  words,  "For  injuries 
received,  thank  God,  I  havenomem- 
mory."  He  thanked  the  Senators 
for  kindness  and  courtesy.  Heju'O- 
phesied  that  if  every  political  liburty 
in  this  country  died,  its  expiring  ag- 


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onies  would  be  witnessed  on  the  floor 
of  the  United  States  Senate.  As  he 
walked  out  no  man  rose,  no  man 
shook  hands  with  him;  when  the 
door  closed  on  him  it  shut  him  out 
forever  from  position,  usefulness, 
home,  country,  the  love  of  women,' 
and  the  friend-ship  of  men.  At  the 
President's  reception  on  the  follow- 
ing Monday  two  Senators  were  re- 
lating the  circumstances  to  a  group 
which  had  gathered  round,  them 
On  being  asked,  How  long  did  Mr. 
Burr  speak?"  one  of  them  answered, 
I  can  form  no  idea;  it  may  have 
been  a  moment  and  it  may  have  been 
an  hour;  when  I  came  to  my  senses 
I  seemed  to    have  awakened   from  a 


kind  of  a  trance.."  Purr,  hurled 
from  power  and  honor,  wandered 
a  fugitive  from  justice,  and  at 
last  would  have  been  laid  in  a 
pauper's  grave  but  for  the  care 
of  a  woman  who  had  loved  him 
in  his  better  days.  Surely  the 
Pslamist  was  right  when  speaking 
of  the  righteous  andtheunrighteous, 
he  said:  "And  lie  shall  be  like  a  tree 
planted  by  the  rivers  of  water,  that 
bringeth  forth  his  fruit  in  his  season; 
his  leaf  also  shall  not  wither;  and 
whatsoever  he  docth  shall  prosper. 
The  ungodly  are  not  so;  but  are  like 
the  chaff  which  the  wind  driveth 
away." 


COLUMBUS     COUNTY   VETERAN     HAS 
EVERYTHING  READY 


Whiteville,  June  10._"j.  J.  Prosperforme  D.  W.  Doctor  DeVowell 
Conner,  Born  Nov.  9th,  1830.  Joined  the  Confederate  Army  1861.  Re- 
turned home  June  26th,  18(15.   All  things  to  the  glory  of  God." 

The  above  is  an  exact  inscription  of  the  monument  in  the  Fair  Bluff 
cemetery.  However,  the  well  known  gentleman  whose  epitaph  it  bears  is 
not  dead  and  in  spite  of  the  snows  and  storms  of  92  years  is'  a  hale  and  happy 
old  gentleman  and  can  be  seen  on  the  streets  almost  every  day  of  the  week 
when  the  weather  is  pleasant.  He  says  that  his  grave  will  not  be  dug  for 
some  time  yet,  but  he  is  risking  no  chances  whatever  on  getting  caught 
napping  when  that  eventful  day  comes  off  and  has  procured  his  coffin  which 
has  been  stored  away  until  it  becomes  necessary  to  use  it.  No  explanation 
is  forthcoming  why  the  old  man  wants  to  be  on  time  about  his  final  ceremonies, 
while  the  name  he  bears  is  a  heavy  weight  for  his  shoulders  to  carry. 


Why  He  Flewsseau 

A  lady,  who  purchased  her  trousseau, 
Now  thinks  she  was  foolish  to  doesseau, 

For  the  man  she  would  wed 
Has  just  bolted  instead — 

That  is  why  the  poor  maiden  boohooseau! 

Wayside  Tales. 


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"WE  DONT  BUY  FROM  AGENTS." 

The  world  is  full  of  all  kinds  of  people.  Probably  it  is  well,  or  else  it 
mignt  prove  a  very  dull,  monotonous  affair.  Every  community  has  its  out- 
standing man  of  pecularity — the  mystery  man.  Some  people  are  afraid  of 
him;  some  have  a  contempt  for  him;  others  try  to  forget  that  such  a  fellow 
moves  among  them. 


A  Salisbury  man  gave  us  an  inter- 
esting story,  illustrating  how  a  man 
of  mystery  operated  and  caught  by 
his  own  acts,  but  up  to  this  good  day 
he  never  found  it  out  unless  there  is 
a  way  of  earthly  things  breaking 
through  the  mist  that  shrouds  the 
other  worlds  beyond.  It  seems,  as 
the  story  goes,  this  mystery  man  had 
a  few  folks  hypnotized  and  proceeded 
very  largely  to  attend  their  busi- 
ness— taking  the  bit  in  his  own 
mouth.  One  of  these  hypnotized 
gentlemen  was  having  a  building 
erected.  A  plate  glass  represen- 
tee desired  to  figure  on  the  materi- 
al in  his  line. 

Having  succeeded  in  reaching 
the  inuer  innerness  of  the  myster- 
ious man's  sactum,  the  agent  pro- 
ceed to  request  the  drawings  that  he 
might  figure  on  the  material  and 
make  a  proposition."  We  don't  deal 
with  agents,"  said  the  man  of  myst- 
ery, "we  buy  direct  from  the  fact- 
ory;" and  unceremoneously  dismiss- 
ed the  agent. 

Unwhipped  the  agent  made  a 
hasty  trip  to  Charlotte,  bought  the 
plan  from  the  architect  for  five   dol- 


lars, sent  them  to  the  Pittsburg 
factory  with  this  request:  "The  man 
who  is  locally  sitting  on  the  job  re- 
fuses to  deal  with  agents  or  repre- 
sentives,  claiming  that  they  buy  di- 
rect from  the  factory.  I  haveseeur- 
ed  these  plans  from  the  architect. 
Figure  out  a  proposition  and  send 
direct  from  your  office  to  Mr.  So  and 
So.  While  my  commission  is  a 
usual  5  percent,  but  this  fellow  put 
me  to  extra  trouble  and  an  extraex- 
pense,  I  vish  you  to  add  a  10  per 
cent  commission  so  I  may  be  re- 
munerated properly. 

The  Pittsburg  factory  earned 
out  to  the  letter  the  instructions  of 
their",  i-.epresenti.ve  ('"agent"),  and 
in  a  few  days  the  man  of  mysterd 
sent  his  acceptance  of  the  proposy 
tiou  and  the  plate  glass  that  are  ii- 
that  building  which  the  man  of  mysn 
tery  controlled  were  bought,  after- 
all,  from  an  agent,"  who  received 
111  per  cent  rather  than  a  5  per  cent 
commission  from  the  man,  who 
'never  buys  from  an  agent."  That 
building  is  in  North  Carolina,  and 
still  serves  a  useful  purpose. 


That's  a  peculiar  performance  they  pull  off  at  the  commencement  of 
the  North  Carolina  College  for  Women,  at  Greenshoro.  After  the  ninety- 
five  pretty,  bright  young  girls  had  finished  their  march  down  the  main 
aisle,  hound  together  in  a  rope  of  daisies,  they  were  buried  at  the  foot  of 
the  stage  for  t':e  balance  of  the  exercise,  while  the  multitude  of  gowned 
teachers  occupied  the  stage  in  full  view  of  the  great  audience  that  wer_t 
there  primarily  to  see  the  ninety-five  graduates  and  to  hear  Gov.  UorrisOTi. 


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-•ONE  BILLION  DOLLARS  FOR  EDUCATION 

Selected 

In  two  periodicals  that  came  to  my  desk  to-day  I  found  two  significant 
statements  on  the  subject  of  education.  The  first  stands  as  the  caption  of 
this  article.  America  spends  through  compulsory  taxation  one  billion  dol- 
lars for  education.  The  figures  are  huge.  We  can  form  only  a  faint  con- 
ception of  so  large  a  number.  So  committed  are  we  to  the  need  and  prin- 
ciple of  universal   education,  and  so      To  establish  and  maintain   a 


necessary  is  it  in  a  democracy,  that 
we  are  willing  to  expend  vast  sums 
of  money  to  wipe  out  illiteracy. 

The  other  statement  reads.  "Ur- 
ges Education  to  protect  Nation. 
Head  of  National  League  of  Women 
Voters  says  this  is  Safeguard  of 
Republic."  These  may  be  eonsider- 
•ed  random  estimates  of  the  value  of 
secular  education,  but  they  are 
voices  from  the  crowd  representing 
a  very  deep  and  general  feeling.  We 
may  not  give  assent  to  the  popular 
assertion  that  knowledge  alone  will 
keep  us  as  a  people  in  the  safe  way; 
but  without  question  ignorance  is  a 
foe  of  the  most  formidable  character. 
Not  a  cent  do  we  begrudge  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  public  school 
system  of  the  United  States. 

We  wish  it  were  possible  to  set 
down  here  the  annual  budget  of  the 
Christain  Church  of  this  country 
for  religious  education.  We  have 
seen  various  statements,  supposedly 
from  reliable  sources,  purporting  to 
give  us  an  approximate  estimate  of 
the  money  we  put  into  Christian 
schools  of  one  sort  or  another.  But 
those  estimates  differ  so  widely  that 
we  shall  not  name  any  one  of  them. 

It  goes  without  saying  that 
Christian  schools  cost  money  just  the 
same  as  secular  schools.  Teaching 
religion  is  very  little  different  from 
teaching  history,  literature,  science, 
or  any  other  branch   of  knowledge. 


jhool 

for  the  dissemination  of  the  Gospel 
in  any  part  of  the  globe  requires  its 
stipend,  [t  has  been  claimed  we 
spend  two  cents  a  week  for  the  re- 
ligious training  of  each  young  life 
under  our  care.  We  may  spend 
that  much,  or  many  times  that 
amount,  but  in  either  case  our  con 
tributions  are  pitifully  inadequate. 

The  work  of  the  Church  schools 
must  be  placed  on  a  basis  that  com- 
pares favorably  in  equipment  curri- 
culin,  teaching  force  and  result  with 
the  public  school  system  of  our  coun- 
try. We  can  never  hope  to  gain  the 
co-operation  of  trained  educators 
for  our  cause  if  we  insist  on  being 
content  with  impractical  and  anti- 
quated methods.  One  of  the  imme- 
diate needs  is  a  budget  sufficiently 
large  to  make  possible  a  building  in 
which  a  school  may  be  expected  to 
do  good  work.  It  reflects  on  the 
manner  in  which  we  approach  our 
tasks  when  we  contribute  willingly 
through  taxation  toward  secularedu- 
cation  and  then  keep  our  dollars 
in  our  pockets  svhen  au  effort  is  put 
forth  to  make  more  thorough  the 
program  of  the  schools  of  the  Church. 

We  believe  no  education  .is  com- 
plete without  religion,  .  We  further 
believe  it  is  the  Church's  duty  to 
teach  religion,  but  how  can  she 
hope  to  assume  this'  responsibility 
without  a'de'gree  of  support  com- 
mensurate with  the  opportunity.   In 


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addition    to   a  spiritual   basis   this      wort  must  have  a  dollar  liasis. 


Now  that  the  old  Confederate  is  beginning  to  march  upon  Richmond  for 
the  Reunion,  one  naturally  thinks  of  the  events  of  the  gre'St  War  between 
the  States.  Out  in  No.  3  township,  Cabarrus  County,  near  the  eld  Stire- 
walt  mill  and  the  playground  of  Dr.  Watt  Rankin,  there  lived  one  of  the 
county's  sturdiest  citizens.  He  was  Mr.  Samuel  Johnston,  the  father  of 
Mr.  Edgar  H.  Johnston,  of  Sock  Hill,  S.  C,  and  Mr.  Charles  W.  Johnston, 
of  Charlotte.  The  story,  as  recalled,  has  a  crowd  of  Yankee  soldiers 
moving  £.bout  in  these  quaters  during  the  later  part  of  1365.  They  were 
largely  foraging. 

They  called  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Johnston.  They  were  seeking  butter  and 
eggs  and  such  like.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnston  has  not  enjoyed  real  coffee  for 
months  and  months.  Mrs.  Johnston  exchanged  somee  butter  with  the 
Yankees  for  coffee.  The  husband  was  away  in  the  field.  When  he  turned 
in  for  dinner,  he  caught  the  odor  of  what  carried  him  back  to  former  days. 
"What's  this  I  smell,"  he  said  to  his  wife.  "It  is  coffee,  for  which  I 
exchanged  some  butter  with  several  Yankees  who  came  along."  Mr. 
Johnston  belonged  to  that  large  class  of  good  people  who  thought  that  the 
South  could  not  be  whipped;  and  when  that  event  took  place,  they  con- 
soled themselves  that  they  "were  not  whipped,  but  overpowered."  "Pour 
it  out,  my  clear  wife,"  s£.id  Mr.  Johnston,  "we  can't  afford  to  drink  ' 
Yankee  coffee  at  this  period."  Mr.  Ed.  Johnston,  the  son  and  who  was 
about  eight  years  old,  remembering  the  event  as  if  it  were  burnt  into  his 
memory,  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eye,  said,  "and  they  did|  pour  that  coffee 
out,  into  cups  and  saucers." 


THE  IDEAL  HOME. 


Selected. 

Occasionally  we  see  an  advertisement  in  the  newspaper  stating:  that  a  certain 
real  estate 'agent  has  "a  line  home  for  sale."  It  is  a  mistake.  Xo  one  can  buy 
or  sell  a  home.  What  the  real  estate  agent  really  means  is  that  he  has  a  house 
to  dispose  of.  It  is  a  business  of  the  people  who  live  in  it  to  make  it  a  home. 
It  is  a  comparatively  easy  thing  to  a  good  home.  Integrity  should  !  e 
build  a  house  if  one  has  the  money,  its  architect ;  industry  should  be  i'.s 
An  architect,  with  the  assistance  of  ventilator;  tidiness  should  be  its  uo- 
bricklayers,  carpenters  and  masons,  holsterer.  It  should  be  lighted  by 
will  soon  put  up  a  dwelling,  but  to  cheerfulness,  warmed  by  affection, 
construct  a  real  home  takes  much  more  and  over  all  should  be  the  canopy  >f 
time  and  thought.     The  materials  that      God's  blessing. " 

enter  into  it  are  invisible.  The  ideal  home  may  be     in  a  cot- 

Old   Dr.    Hamilton,    in    his    quaint      tage,  in  a  tent,  in   a  log   cabin  in   the 
way,    says:     "Six    things    constitute     woods,  in  a  shack  on   the     prairL — 


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anywhere  but  if  it  is  the  abode  of 
friendship,  love  and  sympathy  it  is 
a  heaven  on  earth. 

The  ideal  home  is  a  place  of  real 
comfort.  What  a  line  old  English 
word  "comfort''  is,  and  how  much  it 
suggest!  Every  man  ought  to  feel 
that  this  element  exists  in  his  home 
whatever  else  may  be  lacking.  It  is 
rough  enough  outside;  there  is  a  great 
deal  that  rasps  and  annoys  in  the  busi- 
ness life  of  today.  For  every  worried 
working  man  the  home  should  be  a 
kind  of  sanctuary. 

The  furniture  of  a  dwelling  should 
be  chosen  with  a  view  to  comfort 
rather  than  style.  Some  housewives 
have  a  strange  liking  for  antique  ar- 
ticles of  furnishing,  and  others  are 
determined  to  have  the  latest  fash- 
ion, but  there  is  usually  very  little 
satisfaction  to  be  had  in  either  of 
these  extremes.  There  is  probably 
nothing  that  a  man  appreciates  more 
than  a  roomy,  old-fashioned  chair  in 
"which  he  may  read  his  evening  paper,  . 
or  a  wide  sofa  with  sufficient  length 
for  him  to  stretch  out  in  what  he  calls 
"solid  comfort."  This  is  the  element, 
perhaps  more  than  any  other,  that  he 
■craves  in  his  home. 

A  true  home  will  be  a  place  of  har- 
mony and  peace.  When  Frederick  the 
Great,  we?iried  with  the  fatigues  of 
war,  built  a  house  for  himself,  he  or- 
dered the  words  "Sans  Souci"  to  be 
inscribed  over  the  doorway,  to  indi- 
cate that  nothing  disturbing  should 
be   allowed   to  enter   it. 

Demon  of  Discord 

It  is  to  be  feared  that  there  are  many 

homes   where    the   demon   of     discord 

:    prevails.     It  is  quite  a  common  thing 

to   see   the      motto,   "God   bless      our 

home,"  in  the  dining  room.     That   is 


very  beautiful,  but  there  is  no  use 
hanging  such  a  motto  if  the  father 
is  in  the  habit  of  bottling  up  his 
wrath  all  day  and  then  uncorking  it 
when  he  gets  home,  or  if  the  mother 
is  a  continual  scold,  tilling  the  house 
with  perpetual  clamor.  Under  such 
circumstances  the  motto  is  a  mockery. 

A  prominent  employer  of  labor 
states  that  domestic  quarrels  greatly 
lessen  the  business  efficiency  of  men 
and  women.  Xo  man  can  do  his  best 
work  if  he  comes  to  his  task  after  a 
quarrel  with  his  wife,  and  the  wife 
at  home  is  miserable  for  the  whole 
day. 

Domestic  disagreements  are  often 
caused  by  a  very  little  thing.  A 
foolish  remark,  a  sharp  word,  a  severe 
reproof,  a  flippant  jest  are  often  suffi- 
cient to  precipitate  a  wrangle,  and  un-. 
fortunately  when  it  is  started  neither 
party  to  it  seems  to  have  sense  enough 
to  keep  quiet.  Cross  words  add  fuel 
to  the  fire,  and  the  happiness  of  the 
home  is  gone.     What  a  pity! 

A  very  fine  motto  to  hang  up  in  the 
home  and  strive  to  live  by  would  be 
the  words  of  Paul  to  the  Ephesians: 

"Let  all  bitterness  and  wrath,  and 
anger  and  clamor,  and  evil  speaking 
be  put  away  from  you,  with  all  malice. 
And  be  ye  kind  one  to  another,  ten- 
derhearted, forgiving  one  another, 
/even  as  God  for  Christ's  sake  hath 
forgiven  you." 

This  injunction  translated  into  the 
life  of  every  member  of  the  family 
would  make  an  Eden  of  every  home. 

Home  ought  to  be  made  an  attrac- 
tive place.  A  man  may  honestly  aim 
at  possessing  a  beautiful  house.  Dr. 
Dwight  says:  "Uncouth,  mean,  ragg- 
ed, dirty  houses  constituting  the  body 
of  any  city,  will  be  regularly  accom- 


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pained  by  coarse  grovelling    manners. 

The  dress,  the  furniture,  the  mode  of 
living,  and  the  maimers  will  corres- 
pond with  the  appearance  of  the 
dwellings." 

It  is  not  necessary  for  every  house 
to  be  what  "Abbotsford,"  Sir  Walter 
Scott's  home,  was  called,  "A  poem 
in  stone,"  yet  there  is  room  for  some 
display  of  taste  even  in  the  smallest 
and  poorest  dwelling. 

Leigh  Hunt  illustrated  that  a  pleas- 
ant dwelling  can  be  made  in  the  most 
unfavorable  circumstances.  lie  was 
imprisoned  for  nearly  two  years  for 
an  alleged  libel  on  the  Prince  of 
Wales.  During  this  time  he  did  not 
yield  to  depression,  but  spent  his  time 
in  decorating  the  walls  of  his  gloomy 
prison.  With  the  simplest  of  means 
lie  made  his  cell  so  attractive  that 
Charles  Lamb  declared  that  there  was 
not  another  such  room  except  in  fairy 
land. 

Pictures  a  Power. 

Among    the    silent    influences    that 
count  much  in  the  formation  of  char- 
acter are  the  pictures  that  hang  upon 
the  walls.     We  see  them  so  often  that 
they    make    deep    impressions.     It    is 
of     great    importance    that     they    be 
bright    and   cheerful.     A   book    agent, 
one  day,  wanted   to  sell  me   an  illus- 
trated   copy    of    Dante's      works.     It 
contained   a  large   number  of  fearful 
looking  pictures  of  goblin  and  fiends. 
I  told  him  that  I  would  not  have  such 
a   book   upon   my   library   table   if   he 
gave  it  to  me.      Put  up  bright,  cheer- 
ful pictures  and  let  the  song  of  glad- 
ness  and   the   shout   of  laughter  ring 
through  the  house. 

The   ideal  home   will   be  a   cheerful 


place.  Cheerfulness  is  partly  a  mat- 
teer  of  temperament,  but  it  is  also 
the  result  of  effort  and  habit.  It  is 
more  than  a  pleasure — it  is  a  posi- 
tive duty.  Black  is  not  one  of  na- 
ture's favorite  colors.  Nature  re- 
joices in  things  bright  and  gladsome. 
Toys,  playthings,  games,  jokes,  romps 
are  a  valuable  part  of  the  home  pro- 
gram. The  loving  words  and  the  sun- 
ny smiles  that  children  get  from  their 
mother  in  the  early  days  of  life  make 
an  indelible  impression  on  them.  No 
finer  compliment  could  be  paid  to  a 
mother  than  the  epitaph  once  put  up- 
on a  tombstone:  "She  always  made 
home   happy." 

"She  made  home  happy!"  these  few 
words  I  read 

Within      a    chutvyard    written    on      a 
stone; 

Xo   name,   do   date,   the  simple  words 
;alone, 

Told   me    the    story    of    the    unknown- 
dead. 

A  marble  column  lifted  high  its  head 

Close  by,   inscribed   to   one   the   world 
has  known; 

But   ah!   that  lonely  grave  with  moss 
o'ergrown 

Thrilled   me    far    more    than   his   who. 
armies  led. 

"She    made    home    happy!"    through 
the  long  sad  years,    . 

The  mother  toiled  and. never  stopped 
to  rest, 

Until  they  crossed  her  hands  upon  her 
breast, 

And   closed  her  eyes,  no  longer  dim- 
med with  tears. 
The    simple   record    that    she   left    be- 
hind 
Was  greater  than  the  soldier's  to  my 
mind. 


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CONFEDERATE    SURVIVORS   OF  ANSON 

COUNTY 

Through  the  kindness  of  Mrs.  Mary  Bennet  Little,  formerly  president  of  Hie 

state  organization  of  the  V.  D.  C,  and  who  jealously  grasps  every  opportunity 

0  keep  alive  the  cherished  memory  of  the  heroes,  living  and  dead,  of  the  GOs, 

'he     Uplift    is   enabled  to  give  below  the  surviving  Confederate   soldiers,  now 

esidents  of  Anson  county.     They  number  just  53. 

P.  C,  Allen,  J.  M.  Billingely,  John  A  Boggan,  S.  Benton,  W.  M.  Brower,  W. 
H.  Bryant,  Henry  Bailey,  W.  A.  Curlee,  Davidson  Curlee,  Ed  Caudle,  Cul  Caudle, 
Henry  Covington,  Henderson  Davis,  E.  F.  Fenton,  Peter  S.  Grooms,  Ed  Gaddv, 
S.  F.  Caddy,  Joel  Gaddy,  Frank  Gaddy,  George  W.  Gulledge,  J.  C.  Goodman, 
Milton  Griffin,  George  W.  Huntley,  Noah  Hinson,  W.  H.  Kelly,  E.  S.  Kiker,  J. 
A.  Little,  T.  H.  Lewis,  W.  J.  McLendou,  John  McAllister,  James  McRae,  31.' B. 
Martin,  John  Moore,  Peter  F.  Morton  Thomas  Morrison,  John  A  Xewton,  W. 
\\~.  Pigg,  Riehard  Poplin,  James  Porter,  Hugh  Pinkston,  A.  Redf'earn,  "William 
Ricketts.  C.  H.  Rivers,  Wm.  A.  Smith,  E.  F.  Shepard,  G.  T.  Sbepard,  Samuel 
Stegall,  Jas  M.  Thomas,  E.  W.  Treadway,  Z.  T.  Treadway,  Rufus  Trexler,  J.  B. 
Tarletou,  Thomas  B.  Wyatt. 


CONFEDERATE    SURVIVORS    OF   RICH- 
MOND  COUNTY. 

Hon.  W.  X.  Everett,  of  Rockingham,  at  our  request  has  furnished  us  with 
3  list  of  the  surviving  Confederate  soldiers  of  Richmond  county.  Mr.  Everett, 
"ho  is  one  of  the  outstanding  citizens  of  the  state,  an  experienced  and  able 
legislator,  enjoying  the  confidence  not  only  of  his  own  people  but  thousands 
•  throughout  the  state  who  have  learned  to  know  him,  writes  that  he  is  satisfied 
ihat  there  are  several  other  Confederate  soldiers  in  the  county  who  have 
noved  into  their  bounds,  but  at  this  date  he  was  unable  to  secure  their  names. 
Ihe  Uplift,  therefore,  is  constrained  to  believe  that  in  all  of  Richmond  there 
re  probably  not  over  forty-five,  Mr.  Everett's  list  showing  just  thirty-seven. 
■Tnev  are: 

I  E.  F.  Fenton.  J.  K.  Austin,  F.  L.  Cole,  Thos.  B.  Covington,  E.  X.  Ingram,  E. 
JC.  Cole,  Stephen  Wall,  William  R.  Covington,  W.  H.  Dabbs,  W.  B.  Dawkins,. 
Janes  Palmer,  M.  B.  Garret,  Jas.  F.  Gay,  E.  S.  Hart,  Wm.  D.  Ingrain, 
stealer  Jacobs.  Josaph  Lemlay,  LaTrrence  Lalham,  B.  W.  Luther,  John  A.  Mc- 
Wl,  Nelson  Mc  A  skill,  Starland  C.  McDonald,  A.  L.  McDnffie,  Arch  McGreg- 
:,  P..  C.  Meacham,  M.  L.  Morrison,  W.  B.  Morse,  J.  C.  NeT?,  A.  B.  Nickolson, 
Saieon  K.  Pate.  Arnold  Perdue,  A.  P.  Quick,  W.  M.  Eoberts,  Harrison  Shepard, 
■•obi  Snrgne'r,  John  H.  Thrower.  J.  B.  Williams. 


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CONFEDERATE    "BATTLE    ABBEY. 


•>■) 


The  old  soldier's  of  the  b'Os.  or  as  many  as  can  do  .so.  will  be  moving  on  to 
Richmond  on  the  20th.      A  news  item  coming  out  from  Richmond,   Va.,    un- 
der date  of  11th,  gives  a  good  idea  of  the  preparation  making'  for  this  event. 
perhaps  the  last  one  that  be  can  held    with  an  appreciable  attendance.   The  , 
story  runs:  , 

Leisurely  inspection  of  the  Con- 
federate Memorial  Museum,  bettor 
known,  perhaps,  as  the  "Battle 
Abbey,"  promises  to  be  one  of  the 
most  interesting  features  of  the  thir- 
ty-second annual  reunion  of  the 
United  Confederate  Veterans,  which 
will  open  here  on  June  2U  and  con- 
tinue three  days. 

The  ''Battle  Abbey"  was  complet- 
ed not  many  months  ago,  and  this 
will  be  the  first  time  Confederate 
"veterans  living  any  distance  from 
Richmond  will  have  the  opportunity 
to  view  it. 

Houses  Famous  Painting 

This  building,  superbly  situated 
in  the  center  of  a  beautiful  park  in 
Richmond's  fashionable  West  End, 
now  permanently  houses  most  of  the 
fine  paintings  and  portraits  of  fa- 
mous battles  of  the  "War  Between 
the  States  and  of  the  immortal  chief- 
tains who  followed  Robert  B.  Lee, 
"Stonewall"  Jackson,  Pickett  and 
Pettigrew,  Semmes  and    Buchanan. 

The  mural  paintings  which  adorn 
the  walls  of  the  museum  in  them- 
selves well  deserve  and  have  earned 
the  highest  praisefrom  international 
art  critics.  Charles  Hoffbauer,  a 
French  Alsatian,  executed  this 
work,  and  the  results  he  produced 
bespeaks  the  hand  of  the  master. 
Hoft'bauer's  work  was  interrupted 
during  the  World  War  when  he  re- 
turned to  France  and  fought  beneath 
the  Tri-Color. 

Eventually   the   "Battle    Abbey" 


will  house  the  larger  bulk  of  Con- 
federate relies,  and,  it  is  expected, 
will  become  the  South's  greatest 
shrine — a  shrine  to  which  pilgrims 
from  the  whole  world  will  journey. 
Still  the  Capitol  City 

Richmond  is  still  the  Captial  City 
of  Southern  memories,  and  in  call- 
ing- again  for  the  remnants  of  that 
army  which  defended  her  sixty 
years  ago  she  does  so  in  the  con- 
sciousness that  they  will  respond  to 
a  man,  as  their  years  permit.  Re- 
ports reaching  General  Julian  S. 
Carr,  of  Durham,  Commander  of  the 
United  Confederate  Veterans, 
through  the  Richmond  Reunion 
Headquarters,  indicate  that  not  less 
than  5,000  of  the  surviving  45,000 
Confederates  will  be  here  for  the 
elaborate  ceremonies  and  entertain- 
ments. 

Richmond  has  not  only  summoned 
her  heroes  of  more  than  a  half-cen- 
tury ago,  but  has  also  beckoned 
their  wives,  their  widows,  their 
daughters  and  their  sons. 

The  Convention  of  the  Sons  of 
Confederate  Veterans,  the  United 
Daughters  of  the  Confederacy  ind 
the  Confederated  Southern  Memorial 
Association  will  open  on  June  19; 
that  of  the  United  Confederate  '  '*et- 
terans  on  June  20.  All  will  conclude 
on  June  22. 

Usual  reduce  railroad  rates  lave 
been  granted  by  all  the  trans;  orta- 
tion  systems  in  the  Southeastern 
States  to  Richmond   and    returt   for 


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the  exclusive  benefit  of  the  veterans, 
members  of  their  famlies,  auxiliary 
organizations,  sponsors  and  maids 
and  matrons-of-honor. 

The  program  of  exercise  and  en- 
tertainments probably  will  make 
this  the  greatest  reunion  in  the 
history  of  the  Confederate  veterans. 
There  will  be  addresses  by  some  of 
the  youth's  greatest  orators— Unit- 
ed States  Senator  Pat.  Harrison,  of 
.Mississippi;  W.  Tate  Brady,'  of 
Oklahoma:  Dr.  Henry  Lewis  Smith. 
president  of  Washington  and  Lee 
University;  General  Julian  S.  Carr, 
who  will  also  preside  at  all  business 
sessions;  Governor  E.  Lee  Trinkle, 
of  Virgina;  Dr.  Douglas  Freeman. 
of  Richmond;  Mayor  George  Ainslie, 
of  Richmond  and  other  distinguish- 
ed men. 

To  Honor  Confederate  Sailor 
Richmond  has  done  much  in  honor 

J  nf  the  Confederate  Soldier  and   now 
wishes  to  pay  equal   tribute  to   the 

j  Confederate  sailor.     Another  of  the 

;  principle  features  of  the  reunion  will 
be  the  laying  of  the  cornorstone  of  a 

■  monument  to  Matthew  Fontain  Maury 


Pathfinder  of  the  Seas,"   and  hero 
of  the  Confederate  Navy. 

Richmond  plans  to  receive  the  vet- 
erans in  royal  style.  There  will  be 
a  welcome  for  each  of  them  as  they 
,  alight  at  the  railway  stations.  Each 
will  be  greeted  by  a  member  of  the  Re- 
union Committee,  given  proper 
eredentails  and  provided  with  quar- 
ters in  ease's  where  reservations 
have  not  been  made  in  advance. 

That  the  vistors  here  for  the  re- 
union will  form  a  throng  of  many 
thousands  is  already  attested  by  the 
fact  that  Richmond  hotels  have 
closed  their  reservation  books, 
boarding  houses  have  prepared  to 
accommodate  thousands  and  it  has 
been  found  necessary  for  hundreds 
of  private  homes  to  be  thrown  open 
in  order  to  assure  that  every  visitor 
will  have  a  comfortable  lodging. 

The  reunion  program  includes- 
three  Confederate  balls,  reception 
after  reception,  a  great  parade  and 
review,  band  concerts  and  trips  to 
nearby  battlefields,  which  are  al- 
ways dear  and  near  to  the  hearts  of 
all  Confederates. 


MARGERET    MARTIN'S    ADVENTURE. 

By  Frances  McKinnon  Morton 

Margeret  Martin  came  into  the  comfortable  family  living  room,  threw  her- 
self down  on  the  old  davenport  and  slumped  disconsolately  into  the  corner. 

"Well,  Sue,  it's  happened!"  she  said  shortly. 

"What's  happened,  Margeret  Martin?"  her  sister  asked  with  quick  and 
loving  solicitude. 

"I'm  invited  to  spend  the  week-end  with  Nancy  Willis  out  at  Roaedale— 
I've  been  afraid  it  would  happen  and  I  knew  Nancy  Willis  last  year  in  High 
now  it  has."  School  and  she's  a  splendid  girl." 

Sue  laughed  with  a  little  catch  of  "Oh,  I  know  it,"  Margeret  inter- 
relief  in  her  voice.  "Why,  honey, you  rupted,  "there  isn't  a  thing  wrong- 
talk  as  if  a  real  disaster  had  happen-  with  Nancy  Willis.  I  love  her  my- 
|.d  to  you,  when   I   think   it's   lovely,      self,  bat—" 


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"Well,  what's  the  matter  then?" 
Sue  queried  anxiously. 

Margeret  looked  at  her  in  mild  sur- 
prise. "Why,  Sue,''  she  said,  "I 
thought  of  course  you'd  understand 
— this  is  a  house  party — I  don't  kuow 
all  those  who  are  invited,  but  I  know 
Mary  Edith  Vamey,  Josephine  Gard- 
ner and  Jean  Roberts  are  all  invited — 
oh,  and  Murray  Atkins  and  Frank 
Lambert  and  some  others — all  rich 
people  who  can  buy  everything  they 
want   to  wear,  and  I — " 

"Oh,  is  that  all  that's  troubling 
you?"  she  laughed  with  relief.  "Well, 
I  guess  the  Martin  family  can  rise 
to  an  occasion — write  aud  accept  your 
invitation." 

"It  wasn't  written — she  just  saw 
me  at  school  and  asked  me  and  I 
couldn't  refuse  without  hurting  her 
feelings,  but — "  returned  Margeret 
briefly. 

"Well,  don't  worry  any  more 
then,"  comforted  Sue  with  a  lovely 
'older-sister'  sweetness.  "I  say  the 
i'aiuily  can  rise,  to  the  occasion — we 
Lave  till  Friday  afternoon  to  get 
ready  and  1  say  you  needn't  feel 
ashamed  of  your  clothes  when  we  get 
through  with  you." 

"Honey,  you  know  I'm  never 
ashamed  of  my  clothes,"  Margeret 
interrupted  with  a  heightened  color. 
"I  know  that  mother  makes  the  pret- 
tiest dresses  any  girl  could  want,  but 
you  know  my  things  are  all  just  sim- 
ple school-girl  clothes  and  these  girls 
are  all  older  than  I  am — they  will 
have  party  dresses  and  dinner  gowns 
and — and — " 

Sue  laughed  and  Margeret  gave  a 
deep  sigh.  "You  see,"  she  said  dis- 
consolately, "I  dont  even  know  what 
all    thev    will    have    because    I    never 


went  to  a  house-party  in  my  life." 

Sue  stooped  to  kiss  the  firm,  round 
cheek  of  the  younger  sister  who  was 
so  dear  to  her.  "Never  mind,  honey, 
we'll  fix  it  up  all  right  for  you." 

"But,"  protested  Margeret,  "I 
don't  want  you  all  to  deny  yourselves 
to  dress  me  up — still  I  don't  want  to 
go  out  there  looking  so  plain  and 
shabby  that  Nancy  will  be  ashamed 
of  me  before  her  friends — Nancy 
dresses  plainly  for  school  herself  aud 
we  read  Latin  together  all  the  time 
and  are  good  friends  and  I  know  she 
likes  me  but  don't  you  see,  I  have  a 
little  pride  myself  and  I  don't  mind 
not  going  places,  but  I  don't  want  to 
go  like  the  'guest  without  the  wedding 
garment,'  you  see,  don't  you,  Sue 
dear?" 

"I  do  see  how  you  feel,  Margie," 
Sue  answered  quitely,  "but  we'll 
manage  it  all  right  for  you  and  don't 
you  worry  about  it  any  more.  It's 
just  a  few  weeks  till  final  'exams'  and 
you  know  we  all  want  to  do  something 
for  you  when  you  graduate  anyway." 

Margeret  lifted  her  face  and  smiled, 
"Oh,  Sue,"  she  said,  "you  surely  are 
the  sweetest  sister  in  the  world  and  j 
I  know  you  and  mother  can  make  all 
sorts  of  pretty  things,  but  you  see  I'm  ! 
not  willing  for  you  to  spend  a  lot  o£ 
money  on  me  now — father  hasn't  it 
to  spare  and  I  know  it  and  I  don't 
want  the-  rest  of  you  going  without 
things — if  she  had  only  written  I 
could  have  refused — " 

"Nonsense,"  interrupted  Sue,  "you 
oughtn't  to  want  to  refuse — it  would 
hurt  Nancy  to  have  you  to  do  that.' 

So  Sue  took  matters  in  her  own 
hands  and  with  the  wonderful  skill 
she  had  learned  with,  her  mother  first 
and     her  Domestic     Science     teachei 


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25 


afterward,  she  tucked  and  stitched 
and  altered  first  her  mother's  pretty 
grey  silk  dress  and  then  her  own  be- 
loved pink  organdie  until  they  fitted 
Marger  e t    perf ec tly . 

"But  I  won't  have  you  do  that," 
Margeret  protested  in  spite  of  the 
pleased  smile  that  would  come  over 
her  face  at  the  sight  of  herself  in  the 
pretty  finery. 

"We've  already  done  it,"  she 
laughed,  "and  we  loved  doing  it — 
didn't  we,  .Mother-mine?'' 

"We  certainly  did,"  agreed  Mrs. 
Martin  with  a  pleased  smile  that  well 
matched  Margeret 's  own,  "you  are 
going  to  take  my  rose  silk  scarf  that 
father  brought  me  from  France,  Ro- 
land is  going  to  lend  you  his  precious 
traveling  bag  that  his  science  profes- 
sor gave  him  when  he  took  him  on 
that  western  trip." 

"And    oh,   yes,"    interrupted    Sue, 

''Ellis  insists  on  lending  you  his  pon- 

i  gee  shirt  that  mother  made  him.     It 

j  will   just    fit   you   and   with  my   plaid 

1  skirt  will  be  just  the  thing  for  a  sport 

suit." 

Margeret  sighed,  "You  just  load 
me  down  with  kindness,"  she  said, 
"and  I  don't  know  how  I'm  to  pay 
it  a.ll  baek." 

"Just  go  on  and  enjoy  your  house- 
party,"  Mrs.  Martin  laughed  in  reply, 
"we'll  all  find  something  else  to  wear 
] while  you  are  gone  and  I  know  some 
girls   do   take   lots   of   clothes   for   an 
,  occasion  like  that." 
j     "We  want  you  to  reflect  credit  on 
jibe   Martin   family,"   Ellis   remarked 
gas  he  came  in  and  smiled  at  Margeret 
looking  so  stately  and  dressed  up  in 
:   the  grey  silk  with  the  rose  scarf. 
[    "You'll    do   it    all    right,"   Roland 
seconded  as  he  brought  out  his  beau- 


tiful  traveling  bag   ready   for   her   to 
pack   it. 

"You'd  better  take  my  new  slip- 
pers too,"  Sue  offered  as  she  brought 
them  from  her  closet  where  she  kept 
them  wrapped  in  tissue  paper  and  in 
her  dainty  shoe  box. 

"And  I  want  to  come  in  on  that 
too,"  said  Mr.  Martin  coming  that 
moment  into  the  room.  "I've  met 
Nancy  and  I  think  she  is  a  fine  girl. 
I  don't  know  Senator  Willis  personal- 
ly but  I  admire  his  public  career  and 
wouldn't  want  my  little  girl  not  to 
have  what  she  needs  for  an  occasion 
like  this." 

Margeret 's  eyes  shone  through  a 
little  mist  as  her  father  handed  her 
five  dollars — she  knew  very  well  that 
her  father's  long  illness  had  cost  so 
much  that  five  dollars  just  to  spend, 
was  not  easy  for  her  father  to  spare. 

"Well,  the  Martin  family  certainly 
did  rise  to  the  occasion,"  Margeret 
declared,  when  dressed  in  her  own  sim- 
ple blue  taffeta  she  was  all  ready  to 
start  on  Friday  morning,  "and  I  just 
love  you  all  for  it.  I'm  going  to  do 
my  best  to  reflect  credit  on  you." 

"Lemme  give  you  a  pointer  about 
the  knives  and  forks,  Sis,"  Ellis  of- 
fered with  all  earnestness  of  a  four- 
teen-year-old boy  w-ho  likes  to  appear 
well.  "I  found  it  out  last  year  at  the 
Boy's  Banquet — you  begin  at  the  out- 
side and  work  in  toward  your  plate 
and  you  won't  get  far  wrong." 

So  with  the  advice  and  all  the  'best 
things'  the  family  possessed,  Marge- 
ret started  on  her  eventful  journey. 

The  journey  on  the  train  was  only 
of  about  twenty  minutes  duration  and 
before  she  was  half  through  wonder- 
ing if  there  would  be  a  party  every 
night,   except    Sunday   of   course,   the 


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brakeuian  called  "Rosedale  Station" 
and  she  had  to  got  oft'  the   train. 

She  wondered  who  would  meet  her 
and  if  they  would  come  in  the  big 
luxurious  car  that  the  family  some- 
times drove  about  in.  In  spite  of 
herself  too,  she  couldn't  help  wonder- 
ing what  Josephine  and  Jean  and  the 
Other    girls    would    be    wearing. 

She  had  a  comfortable,  well-pre- 
pared sort  of  feeling  though  with  her 
brother's  beautiful  traveling  bag  and 
all  uf  her  pretty  tilings  safely  stowed 
away  inside  of  it.  How  good  it  was 
of  all  of  them  to  semi  her  away  with 
all  these  pretty  things  ! ' ' 

"Beg,  pardon,  but  are  you  Marge- 
ret  Martin?"  asked  a  fine  looking 
man  in  khaki  overalls  and  a  clean  blue 
shirt. 

Margeret  smiled  as  she  answered, 
"Yes."  It  must  be  the  Willis's 
driver  but  he  certainly  had  a  fine, 
sweet  face  she  thought,  and  Margeret 
was  never  one  to  grudge  a  smile  to 
those   who   served   her   comfort. 

''Then  come  right  on  this  way,  Mar- 
geret, "  he  said  as  he  shook  hands  with 
her  and  introduced  himself  as  Mr. 
Willis.  "We've  another  guest  around 
here — the  boys  wanted  to  come  for 
you  in  the  car  but  Judge  Lambert  and 
I  were  going  fishing  and  we  wanted 
the  old  buck-board  so  we  slipped  off 
and  came   to   the   train  ourselves." 

The  two  grey-haired  men  chuckled 
over  the  joke  as  gaily  as  if  they  were 
just  good-natured   big   boys. 

Margeret  had  been  supposing  that 
the  over-ailed  driver  must  be  some 
country  relation  of  the  Senator's,  but 
the  porter  at  the  station  called  him 
"Senator,"  so  maybe  it  was  he  after 
all. 

Surely  she  couldn't  tell  from  what 


the  two  men  said  to  each  other  for 
they  called  each  other  "Hill"  and 
"Joe"  as  simply  as  Margeret's  own 
father  and  her  dearest  uncle  called 
each  other  "Sam"  and  "Jimmy." 
It  was  queer  and  it  sort  of  upset  her 
ideas  of  things  a  little  but  she  hadn't 
time  to  think  much  for  she  was  crowd- 
ed into  the  old  buck-board  and  driving 
down  the  shady  road  to  Rosedale  be- 
fore she  eouldJ  get  it  all  straightened! 
out    in   her   mind.  . 

''That's  a  line  traveling  bag  you 
have  there,"  the  Senator  admired  as 
he  took  hold  of  it,  "better  stow  your 
old  valise  underfoot  there  Joe,  and 
hold  on  to  this  yourself.  We  don't 
want  to  get  it  lost.  It  sort  of  reminds 
me  of  an  old  friend  of  mine — Profes- 
sor Richards — he's  sort  of  an  ex- 
pert on  traveling  bags — has  them 
made   to   his  order." 

"Professor  Richards  gave  it  to  my 
brother  Roland,"  Margeret  answered 
proudly,  and  before  she  realized  that 
she  was  talking  with  a  United  States 
Senator  and  a  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  she  had  already  told  them  a 
good  deal  about  that  beloved  brother 
of  hers  and  the  special  kind  of  work, 
he   was  interested  in. 

The  house  at  Rosedale  was  another 
surprise  to  Margeret — it  was  a  big 
old-fashioned  country  house,  roomy 
and  comfortable  arid  well  furnished  to 
be  sure  but  plain  and  livable  and  lov- 
able. 

Not  more  lovable  though  thai:  Mrs. 
Willis  in  her  fresh  blue  ehambray 
morning  dress. 

"Do  you  know,  Nancy,"  she  found 
herself  saying  easily  as  Nancy  went 
up  to  her  room  with  her,  "th:,t  this 
house  and  your  mother  look  alike.' 

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27 


ocl  "we  all  know  it,  but  I'm  glad  you 
caii  see  it — the  rot  of  the  boys  and 
girls  have  gone  for  a  horse-back  ride 
and  I 'in  helping  mother  with  the  din- 
ner, so  I  'ill  going  to  leave  you  to  hang 
your  things  up  and  get  into  something* 
you  won't  mind  having  a  good  time  in 
— hang  your  things  here  in  this  closet 
and —  " 

Margeret  had  already  hung  her  hat 
up  and  begun  slipping  out  of  her  blue 
dress  as  naturally  as  she  would  have 
done  at   home. 

"I  see  you  brought  that  pretty 
cheeked  gingham,''  Nancy  laughed  as 
Margaret  lifted  it  out  of  the  traveling 
bag,  "it'll  be  the  very  thing  to  wear — 
hang  your  things  up  now  and  hurry — 
you're  to  help  me  hull  the  dew  berries 
for  dinner  and  set   the  table." 

And  Nancy  was  gone  smiling  down 
the  stairs  while  Margeret  hung  up  her 
beautiful  things  and  in  her  heart  gave 
thanks  that  her  own  good  mother  had 
insisted  on  her  bringing  the  checked 
gingham   and   the  pink  chambray. 

There  was  a  wholesome  heartiness 
about  the  way  Nancy  had  left  her  to 
hurry  that  made  her  finish  her  task 
with  a  rush  so  that  she  could  do  her 
share  of  the  berries. 

Mrs.  Willis  gave  her  a  real  mother- 
smile  of  welcome  as  she  appeared  in 
'  the  sunny  kitchen,  all  fresh  and  sweet 
in  her  simple  gingham  dress. 

•"Here's  a  blue  apron  dear,-'  she 
said  simpl.v,  "there's  always  lots  of 
j  work  to  do  in  the  country  and  we  all 
i  help  out  here — we  don't  keep  servants 
1  at  Rosadale.  It  seems  so  homey  and 
]  nice  to  get  together  on  the  work  that 
;  w<  keep  it  that  way." 

And  'homey  and  nice'  Margeret 
found  it  all — straight  through  from 
the  rishice  excursion  on  the  river,  with 


sandwiches  and  supper  and  a  row  in 
the  moonlight,  through  the  sweet  .ser- 
vice in  the  little  country  church,  the 
quiet  Sunday  afternoon  and  finally 
the  trip  home  in  the  dewy  dawn  of 
Monday  morning. 

The  Martin  family  were  at  break- 
fast when  .Margeret  slipped  in  on 
them.  "Shame  071  you,  lazy  town- 
folks,"  she  laughed  happily,  "wo 
country  people  have  been  up  for 
ages."' 

No  use  to  ask  .Margeret  if  she  has 
had  a  happy  time,  her  smiling  lips, 
her  sparkling  eyes  and  her  glowing 
cheeks  all  told  the  news  without  words. 
Still  the  family  had  to  ask  the  natural 
question. 

"Then  tell  us  about  it,  dear,'" 
came  the  mother's  understanding 
question.  ' 

"And  what  I  have  to  tell  will  be 
interesting  I  know,  because  I — Mar- 
geret Martin,  spinster,  and  at  present 
in  good  health  and  of  a  sound  mind- 
have  had  an  IDEA — a  good,  straight,, 
clean,  clear  idea  that  I'll  never  for- 
get— I  thought  it  out  for  myself,  but, 
of  course,  I  had  a  living  illustration 
to  help  me  do  my  thinking." 

"Well,  let's  have  it,"  interrupted 
Ellis,  who  was  always  impatient  of" 
Mai'geret's  dramatic  effects  in  con- 
versation. 

"You  shall  have  it,  my  dear  broth- 
er, when  I  come  to  it.  I  'in  going  to 
tell  the  story  my  way,  beginning  at 
the  beginning.  Senator  Willis  and 
Judge  Lambert  met  rne  at  the  train — 
they  were  dressed  in  over-alls  and 
driving  a  beautiful  trotting  horse  to- 
a  little  old  shabby  looking  buck-board, 
but  their  manners  were  just  as  courtly 
as — as,  well  as  any  gentleman's  could 
be.     Nancy    had    stayed    at    home    to 


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meet  me,  the  rest  of  the  young  peo- 
ple had  gone  for  a  horseback  ride. 
Mrs.  Willis  cooked  dinner,  Nancy  and 
I  helped  and  it  was  all  so  homey  anil 
sweet,  it — it  made  me  think  of  you, 
Mammy  dear,  and  I  just  loved  the 
peace  and  the  flowers  and  trees  and 
all  the  nice  country  things.  After 
dinner  Jean  and  Herbert  washed  the 
dishes.  It  wasn't  Jean's  turn — every- 
body, company  and  all,  took  turns 
at  the  work  ami  it  was  just  like  play 
— but  Jean  loves  to  wash  the  dishes 
and  she  changed  with  Josephine,  who 
likes  to  sit  and  churn.  It  was  the 
nicest  sweet  country  butter,  you  would 
have  liked  it  so  much,  Mammy.'' 

"Didn't  you  have  any  parties?" 
Ellis  asked  wonderingly. 

"It  was  all  a  sort  of  party,"  Mar- 
geret  answered,  "and  you  can  inter- 
rupt me  all  you  want  to  for  I  see  I 
can't  tell  it  straight.  I'll  just  tell 
about  the  nice  things  you  let  me  have 
and  then  you '11  see  what  my  idoa  is 
even  before  I  get   to  it." 

"Traveling  bag"  Ellis  began  as  if 
he  were  going  to  call  off  the  things 
one  by  one. 

"Glad  you  reminded  me  of  that. 
Senator  Willis  liked  it  so  much  and 
knew  right  away  that  Professor  Rich- 
ards had  something  to  do  with  it.  lie 
was  so  friendly.  He  made  me  think 
of  you,  father,  ami  it  was  easy  to  talk 
to  him.  1  told  him  about  you,  Ro- 
land, and  the  work  you  had  done  with 
Professor  Richards,  and  he  says  he 
•can  get  you  the  very  place  you  want, 
to  work  in  Washington." 

Roland's  face  fairly  beamed.  He 
had  wanted  to  ask  Margeret  to  talk 
to  Senator  Willis  about  that  very 
thing,  but  had  not  wanted  to  presume 
on  their  friendship  for  his  sister. 

"You      are    a    jewel    of    a      sister, 


Madge,"      he   began,    but      Margeret;] 
waved  him   back   into  silence.     "i\ni[. 
father  dear,  I  didn't  have  one  mite  of 
use      for  your     live      dollars  so     I've 
brought    it    back    to   you    to    buy   yoii 
some    fishing    things — I    told    Senator) 
Willis   how   you  loved   fishing  and  he 
is  going  to  invite  you  out  there  next  ' 
Saturday.     You're  going  too." 

Mr.    Martin    did    not    interrupt   in 
words,  but  his  smile  demanded  special : 
notice,    which    Margeret    stopped    to, 
give  in  her  own  way. 

"Mammy  dear  and  Sister  Sue,  I 
brought  all  your  lovely  things  back' 
to  you  just  as  nice  as  they  were  wheu 
you  gave  them  to  me — I  didn't  oncej 
put  I  hem  on,  but  it  was  a  grand  feel- 1 
ing  it  gave  me  to  know  I  had  them" 
there  if  I  needed  them." 

"Hut  what  did  you  wear/"  Sue 
interrupted  her  with  this  very  natural 
question. 

"My  checked  gingham,"  Margeret' 
answered  as  gravely  as  if  she  were 
making   an    important    announcement. 

"But,"  Sue  began,  and  Margeret 
answered. 

"Could  I  keep  it  clean  when  I  \\ja 
going  through  the  woods  and  having 
a  real  sensible  good  time?  No,  1 
Couldn't — I  washed  it  and  ironed  it 
Saturday  morning;  at  the  same  time 
I  washed  some  tea-napkins  for  Mrs. 
Willis.  They  try  to  keep  down  the 
washing  so  it  won't  be  so  hard  for  the 
caretaker's  wife.  No,  they  don't  ketyj 
servants  out  there.  They  say  the) 
don't  need  them  and  they  like  doings 
things  and  just  being  busy  and  natural 
and  happy.  Mrs.  Willis  is  coming  to] 
see  you  next  week,  Mammy.  She  says 
she  likes  the  way  your  daughter  cooks 
and  washes  and  irons." 

There  was  a  general  laugh  around 
the  breakfast  table  and  then  Margeret 


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pipe  in  the  well  just  across  the  road 
from  the  Printing  Office. 

Alter  religious  services  in  the 
Auditorium  Sunday,  the  boys  under 
charge  of  the  Mecklenburg  Cottage 
officer  went  down  to  the  pasture 
where  cool  breezes  abound  and  took 
a  f.'\v  pictures  of  each  ether. 

Evidently  fast  work  is  being  done 
in  the  sewing  room.  Prom  June  1, 
to  June  1 1.  22.")  shirts  were  made  by 
the  boys.  And  they  were madegood, 
too.  The  seeing  room  is  under 
charge  of  .Miss  Lottie     freeze. 

The  fire  hydrants,  which  are  nec- 
essary to  the  growing  school,  huve 
been  placed  in  the  ground,  and  soon 
will  be  ready  for  use.  But  it  is  hop- 
ed by  all  boys  and  officers  that  a  de- 
mand for  such  a  use  will  never  arise. 

'Jeremiah  Cast  Into  Prison." 
Such  was  the  subject  of  the  Sunday 
School  lesson  Sunday,  June  11. 
This  lesson  went  on  to  tell  the  boys 
not  to  be  discouraged  if  their  efforts 
to  reform  and  aid  others  were  repuls- 
ed or  disdained.  Each  boy  went 
his  own  way  feeling  better,  for 
down  inevei'5  one's  heart  there  was 
a  secret  desire  to  find  the  lost  sheep 
and  "bring  them  in." 

No  ball  game  was  played  Satur- 
day, much  to  the  disappointment  of 
many  of  the  boys.  Some  were  glad 
of  this  because  they  would  get  to 
play  themselves.  So  two  boys  chose 
for  players  on  the  big  diamond   and 


two  chose  on  the  smaller  diamond. 
The  boys  "fell  t0"  for  an  afternoon 
of  pleasure.  It  was  with  reluctance 
that  when  the  whistle  was  blown 
they  obeyed  the  call  for  assemblance. 

Rev.  Air.  Lawrence,  of  Concord, 
took  charge  of  religious  services  in 
the  Auditorium  Sunday,  June  11.  in 
harmony  to  plans.  He  read  for  his 
selection  tin.1  first  chapter  of  Psalms. 
Then  he  spoke  from  the  rather 
strange  but  interesting  topic:  "En- 
gines and  Boxcars."  Had  he  so  de- 
sired, the  boys  could  have  repeated 
his  selection  for  him,  for  this  Psalm 
had  long  since  been  memorized  by 
them.  Some  of  the  boys  are  of  the 
opinion  that  the  officers  are  the  ''En- 
gines" and  the  boys  the  ''Boxcars." 

Or.s  of  the  >  chool's  hens  recent- 
ly took  up  her  habitat  with  Mr. 
doer  in  the  shop,  because  of  the  ex- 
cellent laying  places  available  there 
and  other  personal  reasons  she 
would  not  divulge.  Good  food 
soon  started  her  to  laying.  In  the 
course  of  time  she  had  fifteen  eggs 
at  her  disposal;  Mr.  Cloer  had  not 
taken  them.  Naturally  she  did  the 
same  to  them  as  others  of  her  spe- 
cies would  do.  One  afternoon  Mr. 
Cloer  continually  heard  a  "peep!" 
"peep!"  He  investigated  and  his 
surprise  was  boundless  when  he 
found  his  friend  with  fourteen  sons 
and  daughters.  He  is  now  count- 
ing his  chickens  after  they  are  hatch- 
ed." 


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The  Uplift 


A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL 

PUBLISHED    BY 

The  Authority  of  the    Stonewall  Jackson    Manual    Training  and   Industrial 

School.     Type-setting  by  the   Boy's  Printing    Class.     Subscripton 

Two  Dollars  the  year  in  Advance. 

JAMES  P.  COOK,  Editor,  J.  C.  FISHER,  Director  Printing  Department 


Entered  as  second-class  matter  Dec.  4,  1920,  at  the  Post  Office   at   Concord, 
N.  C.  under  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 

Ah,  how  skillful  grows  the  hand 
That  oheyeth  love's  command. 
It  is  the  heart  and  not  the  brain 
Thrft  to  the  highest  doth  attain, 
And  he,  who  followeth  love's  behest, 
Far  exceedeth  all  the  rest.  \\ 

,  — Longfellow. 


THE  ISSUE  IS  NOW  JOINED. 

In  the  issue  of  THE  UPLIFT  of  the  17th  editoral  expression,  entirely 
neutral,  was  made,  calling  for  a  full  and  frank  exhibit  from  the  Board  of 
School  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  Concord,  relative  to  the  proposed  bond 
issue  of  8225,000  for  the  enlargement  and  change  of  the  public  school 
equipment  of  the  city. 

After  that  article  was  iu  type  and  printed,  but  before  THE  UPLIFT 
reached  its  readers,  the  said  Board  published  an  exhibit  of  its  plans  and 
purposes.  This  statement  seems  necessary  to  avoid  leaving  the  impress- 
ion that  the  School  Board  of  Concord  refused  to  ''take  the  public  into  its 
confidence,"  which  is  not  the  case  at  all.  THE  UPLIFT  standing  for  the 
education  of  all  the  children,  city  and  rural,  merely  called  for  the  exhibit 
that  all  men  and  women  might  the  more  intelligently  decide  what  their  duty 
with  respect  to  the  issue  of  bonds  is. 

The  School  Board  has  shown  its  hand— the  case  is  with  the  people. 

ifE     ffi     #     $     #     &     * 

"BUT  GOLD  IS  NOT  ALL" 
There  is  carried  in    this   issue  anediturial  from  the  Charlotte  Observer  of 


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the  17th.  which  is  not  only  the  finest  kind  of  a  sermonette,  but  shows  a 
singularly  fine  knowledge  of  the  philosophy  of  the  art  of  true  living' and 
conduct. 

It  recognizes  the  fact  that  we  come  into  the  world  all  naked  and  bare, 
and  that  when  we  leave  it  we  go  helpless  and  shorn  of  all  the  fruits  of  ma- 
terial effort  and  striving.  .Some  rich  men.  not  particularly  in  worldly 
possessions,  but  in  those  fine  things  of  life,  refuse  to  die  and  live  on.  On 
the  other  hand  there'  arc  men,  who  have  conquered  the  commercial  and 
manufacturing  world,  amassed  great  fortunes,  live  singly  to  the  glory  and 
advancement  of  their  immediate  own.  that  die.  when  the  last  call  comes, 
the-  eompletest  obliterating  death  that  ispenniltedniantoehoo.se.  The 
grave  marks  the  end:  the  imposing  and  costly  monument  is  of  no  avail  in 
keeping  alive  the  memory  of  him  who  lives,  acts  and  dies  in  selfishness. 

Too  often  men.  drunk  with  success  and  affluence,  forget  that  this  life  is 
merely  a  period  of  probation,  unmindful  of  the  intense  importance  of  giving 
thought  to  the  great  hereafter. 

y    "A  'TIP'  FOE  THE  JACKSON  BOYS." 

Under  the  foregoing  caption  Editor  Harris,  of  the  Charlotte  Observer, 
makes  the  following  remarks  that  are  very  pleasing  and  encouraging  to 
the  management  of  the  Jackson  Training  School — in  fact  the  boys  them- 
selves manifested  a  great  appreciation  fur  the  kindly  notice  by  the  Obser- 
ver. The  editor  was  reminded  of  what  the  Observer  had  done  by  at  least 
a  dozen  of  the  youngsters. 

They  were  real  excited  over  their  effort  to  find  out  something  more 
about  Mr.  J.  Levin,  who  gave  evidence  of  his  approval  of  what  is  being- 
done  here  and  how  it's  being  done.  But  here  is  Col.  Harris'  editorial 
remarks  in  a  recent  number: 

Mr.  J.  Levin,  a  New  Yorker  "looking  about''  in  the  South,  stopped 
in  at  The  Observer  office  a  day  or  so  since,  to  make  remark  upon  the 
Jackson  Training  School  which  he  came  upon  unawares  on  his  way  out 
of  Concord  for  Charlotte.  He  had  seen  nothing  of  the  sort  in  his 
travels  and  he  regarded  it  a  credit  not  only  to  the  State,  but  to  the 
South.  The  purpose  which  the  institution  serves  made  strong  appeal 
to  him,  but  he  appeared  most  deeply  impressed  with  the  character  of 
the  plant  which  has  been  provided  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  work 
for  which  the  school  was  designed.  It  is,  he  declared,  the  most  com- 
pletely-equipped plant  for  training  purposes  that  he  has  known,  and 
the  harmony  in    design    was   especially  a    feature  for   commendation. 


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Ho  had  been  considerably  interested  in  the  developing  possibilities  of 
the  cottage  plan,  and  his  thought  was  that  the  eoun'.ies  contributing 
the  buildings  ought  to  establish  their  beneficence  by  lettering  the  cot- 
tages. He  declared  he  desired  to  make  note  of  the  names  of  the  coun- 
ties contributing  in  this  substantial  manner,  but  there  was  no  way  in 
which  the  respective  buildings  could  be  designated. 

As  a  matter  of   course,  the    same  thought    may  have  come  to   other 
visitors  to  the  institution,   as  well  as  to   the  many  travelers    who  pass 
that  way,  and  it  suggests  an  opportunity  for  the  management.      There 
need  bo  no   going  outside   for  a    sign  painter  to  do  the  job.     Give  the 
painting  class — for   boys   are  taught    to  paint  signs  as    well   as  to  do 
other  things  at  this  school — a   few  papers  of  gold    leaf,    the  ""gum  and 
the  tools,  and  let  them  set  to  work  painting  a    sign  to  go  over  the  door 
to  each  cottage.      Fine  crops  are   raised   there — the  boys   do  it;  one  of 
the  neatest,   specimens  of   the    typographical   art  in  The  Weekly    UP- 
LIFT, is  printed  there,  and  the  boys    do   it.      The    handiwork    of    the 
boys  is  seen  in  every  detail  of  grounds  and  buildings,  and  why    could 
it  not  lie  said  that  they  painted  the  signs  indicating  the  Mecklenburg, 
the  New  Hanover  and  other  cottages  in  the  building  scheme?      It  is  a 
good    guess  that  while  some  readers  are    applauding    the    idea,  the 
boys  at  the  institution  are  laying  plans  to  put  it  through. 
From    the  National  Highway  the  tablets  of   each  of  the  County    Cottages 
can  not  be  read:  but,  as  a  fact,  each  Cottage  already  bears  the  name  of   the 
county     in  letters  cut  into  marble.      The    Mecklenburg    Cottage  enjoys    a 
bronze  tablet  which  the  building  committee  donated  for  the  purpose. 

A  drive  through  the  campus  will  reveal  the  names  of  the  cottages  the 
first  one  at  the  head  of  the  driveway  is  that  of  the  "King's  Daughters" 
and  the  last  one  towards  Charlotte,  now  building,  will  ivhen  completed, 
be  tabled  "Rowan-Iredell  Cottage."  Interested  friends  are  always  wel- 
come on  the  grounds — it's  a  great  big  institution  made  up  of  home  units,  of 
thirty  members  to  a  family,  with  no  more  secrets  or  skeletons  than  can  be 
found  in  one  of  the  best  regulated  homes  in  North  Carolina.  Here's  hoping 
that  Col.  Harris  will  bring  Mr.  Levin  to  see  us.  The  UPLIFT  voices  the 
welcome  of  the  management  and  the  youngsters  to  all  interested  friends, 
who  find  it  covenient  to  drop  by  and  pass  the  time  of  day. 

*$*****♦  ' ;~ 

HOW  CAN  THIS  BE  ACCOUNTED  FOR? 

Some  weeks  ago  THE  UPLIFT  took  editorial  notice  of  some  statistics  re- 
lative to  the  population  and  affairs  of  the  State  prison,  the  same  growing 
out  of  an  interesting  article  prepared  by  the  genius  Ben  DixonMcNeil,  of  the 
News  &  Observer.     This  paper   expressed  the   suggestion   that   had  Mr. 


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George  R.  Pou,  the  very  efficient  and  sensible  supi  rintendent  of  that  insti- 
tution, indicated  how  many  of  his  guests  had  been  attendants  upon  Sunday 
School  or  members  of  the  Christian  Church,  prior  to  their  going  to  prison, 
the  statistics  would  have  offered  additional  interest. 

Supt.  Pou.  under  the  date  of  June  15,  writes  THE  UPLIFT  the  follow- 
ing courteous  letter,  and  gives  the  statistics  which  THE  UPLIFT  had  ex- 
pressed a  desire  to  see.      Mr.  Pcu's  letter  follows: 

''I  have  received  and  read  with  interest  THE  UPLIFT  of  June  3rd, 
I  note  your  reference  to  the  fact  that  information  was  not  given  as  to 
the  number  of  prisoners  who  were  church  members  and  Sunday 
School  attendants  prior  to  their  committment  to  the  State's  Prison.  In 
reply  I  wish  to  state  that  I  was  not  requested  by  Mr.  Mac-Neil  to  give 
this  information. 

Feeling  that  you  might  be  interested  in  these  statistics  I  beg  to  ad- 
vise as  follows:  Of  the  three  hundred  and  ninety-one  white  men  and 
women  in  the  State'sPrison  two  hundred  and  seventy-six  were  Sunday 
School  attendents  and  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  are  church  mem- 
bers. Of  the  five  hundred  and  seventy-six  negro  men  and  women  in 
the  States  prison  two  hundred  and  sixty  three  attended  Sunday  School 
and  three  hundred  and  fifteen  are  members  of  the  church.  Of  course 
none  of  the  above  include  the  Criminal  Insane  Department  of  this  Insti- 
tution. 

It  may  further  interest  you  to  know  that  we  make  every  effort  pos- 
sible to  have  religious  services  at  the  Central  Prison  and  State  Farm 
and  all  our  camps.  In  some  instances,  however,  it  is  not  possible  to 
have  services  each  Sunday  as  some  of  our  camps  are  in  remote  sections 
of  the  State  where,  it  is  inconvenient  for  a  minister  to  get  to  the  camp. 

If  at  any  time  there  is  any  information  you  desire  relative  to  the 
State'sPrison  I  will  be  only  too  glad  to  furnish  it  to  you  upon  request. 

Of  the  white  men  and  women  in  the  State  prison  -IS  per  cent  plus  were 
church  members;  and  of  the  colored  men  and  women  54  per  cent  plus  were 
members  of  the  church.  This  is  a  bad  showing,  just  on  the  face,-  for  the 
efficacy  of  the  restraining  influences  from  evil  of  the  Sunday  School  and  the 
Church;  but  who  is  it  that  will  deny  that  except  for  the  influences  of  these 
agencies  for  good  the  record  would  be  more  appalling.  But  these  fig- 
ures, while  accurate,  do  not  carry  conviction  on  the  subject.  As  indicated 
in  the  former  article  there  has  been  a  large  increase  in  the  prison  popula- 
tion, during  the  past  two  years.  .  This,  as  can  be  well  accepted,  is  a  direct 
result  of  the  demoralized  condition  of  society  as  an  after-war  effect;  and  the 
Sunday  School  and  the  Church  have  had  a  struggle  to  combat  the  bad  in- 
fluences and  the  riot  of  the  times  precipitated  by  abnormal  conditions. 

The  foregoing  information  will  be  of  interest    to   the   Committee   of  One 


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hundred,  winch  is  studying  prison  conditions,  and  no  doubt  will  engage  the 
serious  attention  of  the  State  Welfare  Department,  which,  while  not  a  i-eli- 
gious  agency,  takes  a  lively  interest  in  all  such  matters. 

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  * 

Miss  Beatrice  Cobb,  the  owner  and  editress  of  the  Morgan  ton  News- 
Herald,  was  so  pi'oud  of  the  acquisition  of-a   new    and    modern    hotel The 

Caldwell — she  issued  an  enlarged  and  an  historical  number  of  her  always- 
attractive  newspaper  in  celebration  of  the  opening  of  what  the  town  was, 
like  a  number  of  other  towns  in  North  Carolina,  in  great  need.  About  the 
.same  time  the  gifted  and  industrious  Miss  Cobb  was  hostess  of  the  weekly 
craft,  who  met  in   Morganton. 

******** 

Mrs.  Gordon  Finger,  a  brilliant  Sundy  contributor  to  The  Charlotte  Ob- 
server, picks  up  some  striking  sentences  in  an  address  by  Thomas  Glasgow , 
who  addressed  the  Woman's  Club.  Says  he;  ''Women  and  men  with  stam- 
ina and  courage  must  keep  the  faith  and  beat  back  the  tide  of  change  and 
petty  indulgence  and  seeking  for  pleasure  which  are  the  little  foxes  de- 
stroying the  vineyard  of  American  manhood  and  womanhood". 

******** 

Of  course  no  one  expects  a  corporation  to  have  the  privilege  of  meriting 
a  place  in  heaven;  but  the  question  arises  what  will  become  of  the  man  or 
men  who  fixed  the  rates  the  Southeastern  Express  Company  charges  for 
the  hauling  of  packages.  Is  there  a  heaven  for  a  man  that  would  charge 
81  cents  express  for  hauling  a  two  bushel  bag  of  soy  beans  from  Charlotte 
to  Concord,  twenty-one  miles? 

******** 

Mr.  Hinsdale,  one  of  the  candidates  for  solicitor  of  the  Raleigh  district, 
diagnoses  the  ailment  of  one  of  the  candidates  for  Governor  of  North  Caro- 
lina as  "insane  egotism."  That  may  or  may  not  be  so.  but  the  courts 
ou«'ht  to  investigate  it— we  don't  need  any  'brain  storms"  at  this  period 
ot  the  state's  prosperity. 

And  Statesville  has  a  new  hotel.  It  is  The  Vance.  There  is  not 
anywhere  a  more  attractive  hostelry-  It  cost  §250,000  and  is  named  for 
the  middle  name  of  the  chief  promoter,  Mr.  C.  Vance  Henkel. 

******** 


It's 


■•ot    the    thoughtful  and     watchful    pose,    but   the  New   York   man 


s 


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missed  it  when  be  failed  to  put  into  the  moutli  of  our  friend.  Hon.  Her i of 
Glarkson,  his  faithful  cob-pipe.  The  story  is  alright  and  well  deserved., 
but  the  picture  "  ain't"  good  of  the  active  and  fearless  Charlottean. 


* 


♦ 


THE  SWALLOW 

B] 


AND  THE    OTHER 


It  happened  thai  a  countryman  was  sewing  some  hemp  seed  in  a 
field  where  a  Swallow  and  some  oilier  bird's  were  hopping  about  pick- 
ing up  their  food.  "  Beware  of  that  man,"  quoth  the  Swallow.  "  Why 
what  is  lie  doing?''  said  the  others.  "That  is  hemp  seed  he  is  sow- 
ing; be  careful  to  pick  up  every  one  of  the  seeds,  or  else  you  will  repent 
it.  The  birds  paid  no  heed  to  the  Swallow's  words,  and  by  and  by 
the  hemp  grew  up  and  was  made  into  cord,  and  of  the  cords  nets  were 
made,  and  many  a  bird  that  had  despised  the  Swallow's  advice  Was 
caught  in  nets  made  out  of  that  very  hemp.  "  What  did  I  tell  you?" 
said  the  Swallow. 

"DESTORY  THE  SEEDS  01''  EVIL,  OR  IT  WILL  GROW"  UP  TO 

YOUR  RUIN." 


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ECHO  FROM  RICHMOND 


Gen.  Julian  S.  Carr,  Commander-in-Chief. 


Where  the  Boys  of  the  '60s  are  in 
annual  convention. 

A  touching  scene  was  enacted  in 
connection  with  the  opening  of  the 
session  early  today  when  Gen.  Julian 
R.  Carr,  commander-in-chief  of  the 
veterans,  arose  from  his  chair  and 
extending  his  arms  with  dramatic 
gesture  exclaimed  to  the  old  veterans 


in  a  low  voice: 

"God  bless  you  all,  I  love  you,  I 
love  you." 

Silence  prevailed  for  a  few  sec- 
onds, when  veterans  and  'women  in 
the  audience  were  seen  to  wipe  away 
tears.  Then  a  storm  of  applause 
followed. 


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TWO    MENANCES    TO    CIVILIZATION. 

By  Charles  F.  Moore. 

EVOLUTIONIST.  SPIRITUALISTS. 
The    evolutionists    are    greatly    to          Xow  appears   another  real  cause  of 
blame,    and    add    greatly    to    tile    gen-  unrest.      It    is    that    class    nf    deluded 
oral    unrest    by    their   insane    theories,  people    who   call    themselves   spiritua'l- 
beeause    many    people    have    no    mere  ists,  or  occult  scientists,  ami  claim  to 
sense    than    to    believe    them.      1,    too,  lie  able  to  communicate  with  the  dead. 
believe  in   evolution   to  a   certain  ex-  It   is  astonishing  at   the  large   follow- 
tent.      The    fact    is      that    true    evolu-  ing  these  pretenders  have  among  that 
tion     seeks  the  perfection  of  life     al-  class    of    people    who  are    always  ;iu- 
ready      formed    into    species,      rather  xious     to    he    decieved.      It    is     really 
than   changing   one    form    to    another,  amusing     to     read      of    some     of     the 
Some      evolutionists     claim    taht      we  messages     these     people     claim     they 
first   lived  in  the  sea,  and  came  out  in  receive    from    the    departed    spirits.    I 
the   form  of  crabs   and   lobsters;   then  do     not      deny     that      angels,    or      the 
became   monkeys,   and    finally    became  spirits   of    those   passed     on    into    the 
human  beings  with  all  our  God-given  beyond  might  possibly  be  communicat- 
powers.      By     their    theory    I     wonder  ed   with.      Here  is  how  it   would  have 
what      we   would   bo  ages   from      now.  to      he    accomplished      however.      One 
The      evolutionists   may   indeed      have  would    have  to    live  a  life    nearly  per- 
had   monkey   ancestors   a    few   genera-  feet   in  faith  in  (lod,  and  be  a  perfect 
tions      back,   but    no   absolutely      sane  Christian,    like    the    prophets    of    old; 
man   believes  he  is  descended   from  a  then     I     would    say    that    one     mi"ht 
monkey.   We  are  the  sons  of  God,  and  possibly  be  able  to  see  the  angels'  of 
desire  to  bo  followers  of  Moses  rather  God   an  1   the   spirits  of  the   dead   and 
than    Darwin.      Will   su::m    ardent    be-  talk    with    them,    for   angels    certainly 
liever  in  evolution  please  explain  why  do  exist.      But  the  ouija  board  crowd 
the  universe  is  here,  and  how  it  oper-  are    mistaken.      Xu    angel    would  coll- 
ates?     The  goal  of  evolution   may   be  descend    to    touch    such    clap-trap    as 
said  to  be  perfect  psychic  or  soul  life.  that.      The  honorable  A.  Couan  Doyle, 
By    that    term   is   meant   perfect    faith  and   Sir   Oliver   Lodge   are'  victims*  of 
in    God    and    perfect    life    and    health  their    own    hallucinations.'    They    are 
of    the    soul.      The    perfection    of    the  helping    to    drive      the    world    further 
soul   is   what   evolution   is   for.      in   no  awav   from   God. 
other  evolution  could   I   believe. 

Whence  came  conscience?  Did  dead  matter  educe  the  divine  sense  of 
right  2nd  wrong?  Did  a  concourse  of  atoms  create  that  primeval  vice- 
gerent of  God,  "a  prophet  in  its  inspiration,  a  monarch  in  its  peremptori- 
ness,  a  priest  in  its  sanctions  and  anathemas?" — he  then  who  sa!ys  there 
is  no  god  does  not  solve  even  the  most  elementary  difficulty  of  the  hirm.au 
mind  while  he  creates  difficulties  a  million  times  more  numerous,  and  a 
million  times  more  insolube. — F.  W.  Farror. 


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WHAT  A  WOMAN   THINKS. 


By  Mrs.  W:  A.  Eliason. 


That  justice  must  neither  be  'de- 
nied, sold  nor  delayed  is  a  funda- 
mental principle  of  our  government. 
Justice  means  right  between  man  and 


s 


,    ..-, 


i 


Hon.  Zeb  Vance  Long 

man — woman  being  implied  in  the 
term  "man"  and  the  punishment  of 
the  transgressor  of  this  right. 

To  prosecute  the  transgressor, 
one  must  not  only  know  the  law,  but. 
must  have  the  courage  and  integrity 
to  execute  that  law. 

Mothers  and  teachers  know  that 
there  never  was  a  rule  that  some 
child  did  not  try  breaking  it  and. 
unpunished,  the  broken  rule  be- 
comes a  fiction,  "Men  and  women 
•are  but  children  of  alargei  growth" 


and  every  law  of  our  land  is  tested 
daily  ami.  if  unpunished,  it  becomes 
a  scrap  of  paper;  because  Mr.  Zeb 
Vance  Long  is  a  lawyer,  trained  at 
the  U.  X.  C.  Law  School  and  having 
twenty  years  successful  practice,  the 
women  will  be  safe  in  trusting  him 
as  Solicitor  in  so  far  i.s  legal  know- 
ledge goes.  He  has  prosecuted  in 
a  number  of  murder  cases  and  as 
County  Attorney  has  seen  to  it  that 
justice  was  executed. 

He  comes  of  fearless  quick-witted, 
courageous,  Never-surrender," 
God-fearing  Scotch  Irish  folk.  His 
father,  Dr.  J.  F.  Long,  for  sixty 
years  was  practicing  physician  in 
the  northern  half  of  Iredell  and  per- 
formed the  first  surgical  operation 
in  this  part  of  the  county;  his  great- 
great  grandfather.  Maj.  Mussenden 
Mathews  an  elder  in  the  first  church 
in  the  northern  half  of  Irdell  County, 
was  one  of  two  Reverent  patriots  to 
out-wit  twenty  Redcoats;  his  mater- 
nal uncle,  Col.  Robert  Cowan  of  the 
old  Thyatira  Cowan  family  was  in 
the  last  tight  at  Appomattox  and 
never  surrendered;  and  his  brother, 
Dr.  H.  F.  Long,  has  knocked  the 
life  back  into  more  dying  folks  than 
any  other  .surgeon  in  the  State  and 
Money  is  not  a  necessary  equivalent 
for  aD  operation  either. 

Tempermentally  a  Methodist,  his 
wife's  long  line  of  Presbyterian  Min- 
ister ancestors  and  his  own  inheri- 
tance have  made  Zeb  V.  Long  a 
Presbyterian  who  can  be  commend- 
ed as  a  fearless,  just,  yet  withal,  a 
sympathetic  advocate,  characterist- 
ics invaluable  in  a  Solicitor. 

Mr.  Long  served  four  successive 


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terms  in  the  Legislature  where  he 
stood  for  the  strengthening  of  every 
moral  law,  having  the  honor  to  be 
twice  chairman  of  the  Appropriation 
committee.  Here  he  worked  with 
the  women  in  the  chartering  of  the 
Stonewall  Jackson  Training  School. 
Mr.  Long  says  if  the  action  recently 
taken  by  the  Women's  Club  at 
Greensboro  reflects  the  woman-hood 
of  the  State  he  lias  no  fear  of  the 
political  outcome  of  women  in  poli- 
tics. 

The  thing  in  Mr.  Long  that  should 
appeal  most  to  the  women  of  the  dis- 
trict is  the  interest  he  takes  in  the 
education  of  youth  of  our  land;  for 
it  is  not  the  punishment  of  law 
breakers  but  the  education  that  pre- 
vents law  breakers  that  marks  real 
progress  of  civilization.  Not  having 
had  the  opportunity  of  a  college 
education,  Mr.  Zeb  V.  Long  ap- 
preciates the  value  of  all  educa- 
tion. Mr.  Long  owes  his  educa- 
tion to  the  common  schools  the  "Old 
Academy"  and  to  private  tutors,  J. 
A.  Matherson,  Vernon  J.  Hill  and 
that  great  educator,  and  venerable 
man,  Prof.  Amos  D.  Kestler.  whose 
character  as  'veil  as  teaching  formed 
a  mighty  influence  in  the  life  of  more 
than  one  young  man  who  was  so 
fortunate  as  to  have  him  for  a  pre- 
ceptor. 

There  is  no  man  of  like  age  in   the 
State    who    has    made   more   school, 


Sunday  School  and  patriotic  addres- 
ses than  Mr.  Long,  all  of  which  take 
time  and  thought,  often  he  quotes 
this  simple  poem  most  effectively; 

I  wandered  in  the  woodland  meadow 

where  the  thrushes   sing, 
I  found  on  a  bed    of  mosses   a    bird 

with  a  broken  wing, 
1  healed  it's  wound  and    next   morn- 
ing it  sang  it's  sweet  old  strain. 
But  tin/  bird  with  the  broken  pinion 

never  soared  so  high  again. 
I  found  a  young  life  broken  by  Sin's 

seductive  arts, 
And  touched  with    Christ-like   pit}-, 

I  took  him' to  my  heart. 
He  lived  with    a  noble   purpose   and 

struggled  not  in  vain. 
But  the  bird  with  the  broken  pinion 

never  soared  so  high  again. 
The   bird   with    the    broken     pinion 

saved  another  from  the  snare, 
And  the  life  which  sin   had    ruined, 

lifted  another  from  despair, 
So,  each  loss  has    its   compensation, 

there's  a  healing  for  every  pain 
But  the  bird  with  the  broken  pinion 

never  soared  so  high  again. 

Because  he  stands  for  the  preven- 
tion of  'Broken  wings"  as  well  as 
the  punishment  of  the  breaker  of 
wings",  I  commended  Mr.  Zeb  V. 
Long  to  the  women  of  this  district 
as  well-fitted  for  the  office  or  Solici- 
tor ft.  r  which  he  has  been  unanimous- 
ly nominated  by  his  party. 


Heard  in  a  Barber-Shop:  I  listened  to  an  interesting  converssftion  down 
in  Alabama.  A  boll-weevil  jumped  onto  the  hood  of  a  ford  and  looked 
the  driver  square  in  the  face,  and  asked  the  privilege  of  driving  the  tin 
lizzie  for  him.  The  request  was  indignantly  denied.  "All  right,"  the  boll- 
weevil  is  alleged  to  have  replied  before  taking  departure  from  the  hood  of 
the  Ford,  "You  decline  me  a  privilege  just  now,  but  next;  fall  I'll  call  a- 
round  and  drive  this  blame  thing  under  the  shed."  ! 


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PLAYING    OPEN    WITH    THE    PUBLIC. 

By  R.  R.  Clark. 
The  editornl  in  the  last  issue  of  THF*  general  conditions,  and  the  attitude 
UPLIFT,  urging  the  local  school  board  of  these  school  boards  is  typical, 
to  take  the  public  into  its  confidence  The  idea  that  those  who  manage  the 
as  to  its  plans  and  purposes  with  ref-  public  business  are  not  called  "on  to 
erence  to  a  bond  issue  the  voters  are  keep  the  public,  the  taxpayers,  the 
asked  to  authorize,  was  especially  in-  stockholders  whose  money  they  ex- 
teresting  to  me.  It  was  a  forcible  re-  pend,  advised  as  to  the  conduct  of 
minder  of  my  experience  as  a  news-  their  business,  prevails  generally, 
paper  man,  when  I  used  much  space  more  especially  as  to  local  affairs— 
urging,  imploring,  and  at  times  criti-  county  and  municipal.  The  people 
cizing,  my  home  school  board  for  its  are  frequently  called  on  to  vote  bond 
methods  of  secrecy  in  handling  the  issues,  for  good  purposes;  money  is 
affairs  of  the  public.  But  notwitb-  frequently  borrowed  on  the  faith  and 
standing  the  people  seemed  to  be  with  credit,  of  the  people  and  large  lloat- 
me — SO  much  with  me  that  on  ing  debts  accumulated,  ami  the  pub- 
one  occasion  they  rose  up  and  smote  a  lie  generally  is  left  in  the  dark  as 
school  bond  issue  which  I  favored,  to  the  details  of  the  expenditure, 
.solely  to  give  expression  to  their  feel-  The  honesty  of  these  local  officials 
ing  against  the  secret  and  autocratic  is  not  generally  questioned.  I  be- 
methods  of  that  school  board — none  of  lieve  that,  generally  speaking,  very 
these  things  moved  that  school  board,  few  of  them  have  any  purpose  to 
They  pursued  the  policy  of  ignoring  "put  something  over."  But  it  is 
the  public  except  when  they  wanted  a  ignoring  the  rights  of  the  people, 
bond    issue  voted,  and   got    away  with  whose   servants   they   are — even   if   so 


e 


t.  The  people  were  aggrieved,  but  it  few  of  them  realize  it — that  remains 
never  seemed  to  occur  to  them  that  it  a  mystery  to  me.  It  is  indefensible. 
was  possible  to  put  folks  on  that  The  people  have  a  light  to  frequent 
school  board  who  would  recognize  that  and  full  explanation  as  to  the  ruanhge- 
the  people  had  some  rights  ill  addition  meat  of  '  their  affairs;  how  much 
to  paying  the  bills.  The  men  who  com-  money  is  being  collected,  the  pur- 
posed the  hoard  were  fine  men,  leading  pose  for  which  it  is  expended;  the 
citizens,  and  to  this  day,  I  have  never  amount  of  the  public  indebtedness,  the 
been  able  to  understand  their  attitude  annual  interest  charge,  and  whether 
of  secrecy  and  disregard  of  the  public  the  indebtedness  is  being  reduced  or 
as  to  their  proceedings.  But  they  increased;  how  many  people  are  em- 
kept  it  up  and  do  to  this  day.  ployed  at  the  expense  of  the  public 
Hut  be  it  understood  here  and  now  and  what  for;  and  the  total  paid  in 
that    I  know    nothing    about  and  have  salaries,  etc. 

nothing  to  do  with  the  situation  in  the  How   many   people   in   the    average 

local  habitat  of  THE  UPLIFT;  neith-  town    or    county    in    North    Carolina 

er  am  I  offering  advice  as  to  that.     I  know   the  amount   of  the  county   and 

am     submitting     a    few     remarks     on  municipal  debts,  or  anything  of  con- 


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sequence  about  their  public  affairs?  been  suggested.  This  should  be  done 
Very  few.  They  can't  know  because  several  times  a  year,  so  that  the  peo- 
tliey  are  not  advised;  and  few  of  them  pie  Mould  be  kept  fully  posted  and  up- 
have  the  time  or  the  capacity  to  to-date  with  reference  to  the  conduct 
make  au  examination.  It  is  the  busi-  of  their  business.  It  should  be  done 
ness  of  the  officials  to  have  these  mat-  first,  because  it  is  right.  The  people, 
ters  at  their  " fingers-ends, "  able  to  all  the  people,  have  a  right  to  the 
tell  all  about  it  on  short  notice,  which  details  of  the  conduct  of  their  blisi- 
few  of  them  can  do.  But  if  they  ness.  They  do  not  elect  and  pay 
do  know  they  won't  take  the  pains  to  public  officials  to  keep  these  things 
tell  the  public.  They  seem  to  fear  concealed  from  theni.  Secondly,  it  is 
that  publicity  will  hurt  in  some  way;  not  only  right  but  it  is  good  policy 
or  at  least  that  is  the  only  reason  I  to  be  candid  with  the  people.  Here 
could  ever  figure  out  in  years  of  wrest-  are  kickers  and  unreasonable  coiu- 
ling  with  this  problem.  The  officials  plainers  among  the  masses  of  course, 
should  know,  if  they  have  intelligence  but  the  great  majority  are  reasonable, 
sufficient  to  exercise  the  overlordship  fair  and  honest.  If  they  are  told  the 
to  which  they  have  been  called,  that  truth  and  kept  advised  as  to  their 
the  indisposition  to  tell  what  they  are  affairs,  so  far  from  complaining  they 
doing  and  why  created  suspicion  and  will  be  the  more  ready  to  meet  the 
arouses  dissatisfaction.  Very  often  expenditures  and  to  increase  cost 
there  is  grossly  unjust  criticism  of  the  when  they  are  shown  that  money  is 
management  of  public  affairs  and  ser-  needed  for  good  and  neccessary  pur- 
ious  charges  are  whispered,  or  made  poses  and  that  they  will  get  value 
openly,  against  good  men  who  have  received  for  what  they  have  to  pay. 
been  guilty  of  no  wrong.  But  usually  I  sometimes  think  that  if  our  public 
they  who  are  unjustly  accused  deserve  officials  were  determined  on  a  policy 
no  sympathy;  their  refusal  to  take  that  would  eventually  undermine  pub- 
the  public  into  their  confidence  is  the  lie  confidence  they  could  not  select  a 
cause;  whatever  injustice  is  done  them  better  one  than  their  general  attitude 
is  their  own  fault.  of  secrecy  ami  indifference.  It  is 
Sometimes  there  is  an  audit  of  pub-  no  answer  to  say  the  "the  books  are 
lie  accounts  and  a  so-called  statement  open."  They  know  that  few  people 
published.  What  can  the  average  can  examine  the  books  and  get  satis- 
reader  get  out  of  the  statement  of  the  factory  information.  Sometimes 
average  public  accountant?  Nothing,  even  the  experts  can't  understand  the 
or  so  little  that  he  is  more  dissatisfied  the  system  of  keeping  public  accounts, 
than  he  was.  It  would  be  easy  for  the  The  remedy  for  this  condition  is 
officials  whose  business  it  is  to  know  in  plain  sight.  It  is  possible  to  find 
to  write  out — or  tell  the  local  newspap-  somebody  to  manage  public  affairs 
er  men,  who  will  be  more  than  glad  to  who  will  be  willing  to  do  what  their 
do  the  writing — a  simple,  concise  state-  employers  want  done.  Hut  the  people 
ment  of  the  fac'.s,  the  amount  of  the  either  do  not  care,  for  all  their  coin- 
indebtedness,  the  interest  charge,  the  plaining,  or  they  do  not  seem  to  knov.' 
salaries,  etc.,  such  information  as  has  how  to  go  about  applying  the  remedy. 


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IS 


;1    HAV1 


FOLKS"-VIRGINIA 


BO  YE1* 


IX. 


By  Zoe  I  Hart,  in  The  Lutheran. 


On  Monday,  May  22.  the  even- 
ing papers  brought  us  the  shocking 
news  of  the  death  of  our  missionary 
friend,      Miss    Virginia    M.    Rover. 


We  read  over  and  over  again  the  ac- 
count of  the  collision  of  the  two  ocean 
vessels,  trying  to  convince  our 
selves  that  the  Miss  V.  M  Hover 
named  among  the  missing  could  not 
possibly  be  our  Miss  Virginia.  But 
the  next  evening's  papers  brought 
us  further  details,  stating  that  Miss 
Dover  was  a  missionary  on  her  way 
hack  to  India.  Finally  a  communi- 
cation from  the  office  of ,  the  Amor- 
can  Board  removed,  all  possible 
doubt  as  to  identity. 

Miss  Buyer  was  born  in  Pitts- 
burgh. She  was  left  an  orphan  at 
a  very  early  age.      She  had  no  recol- 


lection of  her  Father]  but  the  impres- 
sion was    with    her  that   lie  had  per- 
ished   in     the    flood   at,    Johnstown. 
She  had  a  few    definite  memories  of 
her    mother.      On     the     day    of    her 
mother's  funeral   she    was    taken  to 
live  in  a  family  where  she  was  treat- 
ed very  unkindly.     One  day.    when 
she  was  running  away   from   abuse, 
she  met  a  policeman  and  appealed  to 
him  for  protection,     lie  proved  to  be 
a  kind-hearted  man.  for  lie  tool;  the 
little  child  to  his   home    and    finally 
adopted  her    as    his  own.      The  fos- 
ter-mother was  a  sincere  Christain 
woman,  and  from    her  Virginia  first 
heard  of  missionaries  and  their  work. 
She  was   still  a  child    when   her 
much-loved   foster-mother  died,  and 
very    soon    thereafter   she    was    re- 
ceived into  the   Orphans'  Home  and 
Farm  School    at     Zelienople,      Pa. 
When    her   foster-father   died    some 
years  later  he  feft  a  small    legacy  to 
Virginia,  with  the  Be  v.  .1.  A.  Kribbs 
as  her  guardian. 

When  Miss  Agnes  Schade  was  at 
home  on  furlough  one  time  and 
visited  the  Orphans'  Home,  she  said 
to  Virginia,  then  a  girl  in  her  early 
teens,  '"You  must  come  out  to  India 
some  day  and  help  me  teach  in  my 
Girls' School."  The  girl  said  that 
she  would  like  to  do  that. 

She  was  a  bright  student  and 
those  in  charge  of  the  Home  encour- 
aged her  to  make  the  most  of  her 
talents.  Her  elementary  education 
was  that  given  to  all  the  children  in 
the  splendid  Home  school.  She  at- 
tended Zelienople  High    school,   and 


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then  went  to  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Slippery  Rock.  After  her 
graduation  she  taught  for  three 
years  in  the  Home  school;  where  the 
children  fairly  idolized  her.  Then, 
in  order  to  secure  proper  certifica- 
tion uuderthe  education  laws  of  the 
State,  she  taught  in  the  public 
schools  for  three  years. 

It  was  at  Thiel  Summer  School  in 
1914  that  Virginia  finally  heard 
■what  sounded  to  her  like  a  clear  call 
to  missionary  service  in  India.  In 
her  Mission  "Study  Class  Mrs.  E.  0. 
Cronk  presented  the  need  for  more 
missionaries.  She  appealed  espec- 
ially to  mothers  to  give  willingly  of 
their  sons  and  daughters  for  such 
service.  This  appeal  aroused  in 
Virginia's      heart       the      question: 

May  it  be  that  God  took  my  mother 
from  me  and  gave  me  into  the  keep- 
ing of  a  Home  mothered  by  the 
Church  because  Fie  wanted  me  to  be 
a  foreign  missionary?"'  It  did  not 
take  her  long  to  reach  a  decision. 
Then  she  set  about  to  prepare  her- 
self more  adequately  for  her  new 
work.  She  studied  Theology, 
Church  History,  and  Christian  Mis- 
sions under  the  direction  of  her 
pastor,  the  Rev.  G.  if.  Sehmir,  who 
was  then  serving  the  Zelienople 
parish.  At  the  same  time  she  was 
tireless  in  her  zeal  in  the  work  of 
Sunday  School,  and  missionary 
Society,  making  it  hard  (<>r  those 
organizations  to  till  her  place  when 
she  left  for  India. 

It  was  quite  natural  to  think  that 
it  was  much  easier  for  Virginia 
Royer  to  go  to  India  as  a  foreign 
missionary  than  for  one  who  must 
leave  mother,  father,  and  others 
near  and  dear.  But  on  two  occasions 
we  had  glimpses  into  the  dear  girl's 
heart  that  caused    us   to   think  diff- 


erently. 

When  she  was  all  tired  out,  after 
having  bidden  farewell  to  many 
friends  the  last  night  of  Thiel  Sum- 
mer School  in  1915.  she  opened  her 
heart  to  a  friend.  She  said  she  be- 
lieved it  would  have  been  much 
easier  for  her  to  start  off  for  India  if 
her  mother  were  living  here  in  the 
homeland,  loving  her  and  praying 
for  her  while  she'  was  gone.  She 
said  she  had  never  so  longed  for  her 
mother  as  since  she  had  begun  pre- 
paring to  go  to  India. 

With  seven  others.  Miss  Rover 
was  commissioned  for  service  at  the. 
meeting  of  the  General  Council  in 
Rock  Island,  in  September,  1915.  In 
all  the  other  cases,  the  outgoing 
missionaircs  were  accomplished  to 
the  commissioning  service  byatleast 
one  relative,  in  most  cases  by  sever- 
al members  of  the  immediate  family. 
Lingering  in  the  Church  after  the 
beautiful  service,  those  young  peo- 
ple stood,  each  one  the.  center  of  a 
group.  Miss  Boyer  stood  a  bit  apart, 
alone.  A  friend  who  saw  her  thus, 
reading  the  expression  on  her  face, 
stepped  to  her  side  and  clasped  her 
hands,  whereupon  the  lonely  girl 
said,  with  almost  a  sob,  "I  haven't 
any  folk's!"  '  Yes,  you  have,"  assur- 
ed her  friend,  'every  one  here,  to- 
night is  a.  member  of  your  family." 
But  it  wasn't  quite  the  same  as  hav 
injf  "folks." 

Aside  from  these  two  instances, 
we  never  saw  Virginia,  unhappy  or 
sad.  Her  habitual  attitude  was  one. 
of  smiling  optimism. 

Soon  after  she  reached  tho  Rajah- 
mundry  mission,  she  began  to  teach 
English  to  some  of  the  classes  in  the 
Girls'  Central  School.  Rut  before 
she  had  mastered  Telugu  sufficiently 
well  to  teach  in  the   vernacular,  her 


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health  became  impaired.  She  had  Brenau  College.  Gainesville,  C4a. 
togo  to  Madanapalli  for  treatment  in  During  the  winter  her  physical 
the  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium.  FTer  condition  improved  so  much  that  she 
health  improved  and  she  went  buck  was  able  to  make  a  contract  with  the 
to  Raj  ah  n  Hind  r  j- .  But  it  was  soon  American  Board  to  go  back  to  Kodai- 
evident  that  she  could  not  live  on  the  kanal  to  teach  in  the  Highclerc 
plains.  She  went  to  Kodai kanal  in  School  for  five  years! 
the  hills  and  soon  was  able  to  teach  She  sailed  from  Boston  on  May  3, 
in  the  Highclerk  School  there— a  going  on  the  maiden  trip  of  the  new 
school  t'.»r  missionaries'  children.  Cunarder  steamihip  Samaira.  After 
When  Miss  Boyer  returned  to  ten  days  in  England,  she  started 
America  early  in  1921.  it  seemed  forward  on  the  last  part  of  her  jour- 
doubtful  wh,  r.her  she  would  be  able  ney.  on  the  British  steamship  Egypt, 
to  return  to  India.  The  report.--  of  tu  the  dense  fog  on  the  evening  of 
examining  physicians  in  Baltimore  May  20.  the  Egypt  was  rammed  by 
and  Pittsburgh  caused  her  to  send  the  French  freight  steamer  Seine, 
her  resignation  to  the  Bourdof  Fore-  oft  the  Island  Ushant.  The  liner 
ing  Missions  of  the  Church.  But  sank  about  a  half  hoar  after  being 
■she  did  not  give  up  hope,  of  return-  struck.  Ten  passengers  and  about 
ing  to  India  because  she  could  not  eighty  of  the  ship's  officers  and  crew 
endure  the  climate  of  the  plains.  She  were  lost, 
went  to  sfcudv  for  a   school    year  at 


"How  are  tlie  tomatoes  coming  on?"  asked  the  gardener  of  the  wife 
•of  the  new  summer  resident.  "I'm  rather  afraid  we  shan't  have  any," 
was  the  reply.  "Why,  I  thought  you  said  that  you'd  planted  half  your 
garden  with  tomatoes."     "I  did,  but  Iforg'otto  open*  the  cans." 


BUT  GOLD  IS  NOT  ALL. 

Charlotte  Observer. 

There  is   something  more  in   life  impotent.      It  should  be  the.  ambition 

than  the  acquisition  of  gold.      In  the  of  every  man    to   do    the   thing   that 

scheme  of  creation  every  human   be-  God  wants  him  to  do.     To  be  a  good 

ing  is  allotted    a    task    to    perform,  carpenter  is  to  fulfill  a  laudable  am- 

Carpenters  and   bricklayers   are  as  bition.      If  all  of  us  studied  law    the. 

necessary  in  building  the  struotu:o  wheels  of  industry   would    cease  to 

of  the  universe  as  are    bankers    and  turn. 

over-lords.  Ambition  does  not  mean  Wealth  is  merely  the  accumula- 
te striving  after  great  vealth;  there  tion  of  property.  Any  fool  can  gath- 
are  higher  ambitions  than  that.  er  together  a  few  dollars,  but  it  is 
Were  ft  not  for  the  artisans  who  only  the  appointed  ones  who  can 
lay  together  the  warp  and  woof  of  make  a  song  for.the  morning  stars 
things  the  money    barons    would  be  to  sing   together.     All   of   us   leave 


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our  footprints   on    the  sands,    even  another  half   score   of  years   to   the 
though  our  names  may  bo  foi'gotten.  measure  of  his  life.     The   picture  of 
The  pot  of   gold   at    the    end  of    the  Edgar  Allen  Poe  grubbing  for  doll- 
rainbow  of  life  is  the  promise  of  re-  ars  would  be  as  ludicrous  as  that  of 
ward  for  a  duty  well  performed.    All  the  Angel  Gabriel  digging  for  earth- 
the  wealth  of  the  world  cannot  keep  worms. to  angle  for  minnows.      This 
the  breath  in    our    bodies    after    the  child  of  circumstance,  lashed  by  the 
thread    of    life    shall    have     run     its  gods  into  the  fulfillment  of    his    des- 
couise.     The  Kings  of  the  earth  and  tiny,  unable  to   get   away    from  the' 
the  diggers    of    ditches    in   the    last  forces  within  that  drove  and  whipp- 
day  will  lay  them  down  together    in  ed    him   on    and    on.    expressed    his 
a  trench  that  other    men    have    dug.  agony  in  song  that  will   live   as    long 
Death    is    no  respecter  of   persons.  as  the-  written  word  shall  last.   When 
The  only  heritage    of   a    man    is   six  the  monolithic  stone  at    the    head    of 
feet  of  the  earth    he   trod   in    life    in  the  banker  shall  have  crumbled  into 
which  to  sleep  after  he  is  dead.  dust  and  be    forever    forgotten,   the 
There  is  something   more   in   life  name  of  Poe  will  still  be  as  sweet  as 
than     the     acquisition     of     wealth.  honey  on  the  tongues  of  men. 
There  is  something  higher  and    bet-  \\  is  better  to  have  been  a  Poe  and 
tor  and  sweeter  than  the   accumula-  lived  in  poverty  than  to  have  been  a 
rion  erf  property.    Money  cannot  ere-  Midas  and  leave  nothing  behind  than 
ate   the    miracle  of  a  tree  or  breathe  the  sordid  tale  of  wealth.      It  is  bet- 
the  breath  of  life  into  the  body  of  a  lit-  ter  to  have  been  the   author  of   Ann- 
tie  child.   A  frightened  puppy  in  the  abel  Lee  and  Ulalume  and  the  House 
maze  of  a  congested  corner  will  cause  of  CJshur.  and  to  have  died  in  pover- 
busy  men  to  pause  because  they  see  ty   upon    the    streets   of    Baltimore, 
behind  the  appealing   eyes  and    the  than  to  have  hoarded  a  few    pennies 
wagging  tail  the  mystery  of  creation.  in  a  bank  in    order   to    live   another 
An  infinite  wisdom  puts  into   us  all  little  span  of  years.      What   did  Poe 
the  instinct  that  drives  us    forward.  care  for  gold  and     the   accumulation 
(t  is  the  man  who  uses  the  talents  thereof  while  his  heart    was    flooded 
that  God  has  given  him  and  does  not  with  a  song  toosweet  for  utterance? 
covet    those    things     that     are     his  He  was  a    brother  to    the    feathered 
neighbor's  who  reaches  the  ultimate  minstrel  in  the  trees    that    sang    be- 
of  his  destiny.      The  gold   that    men  cause  God  had  put  the  song  into  his 
strive  for  does  not  mean  as  much    to  throat.       He    fulfilled    the    purpose 
the  Creator  of  it  as  does  the  life  of  a  for  which  he  was  put  upon  the  earth, 
little  feathered  creature  splitting  his  The  world  is  a  little  happier  because 
throat  with  the  ecstasy  of  life  in    his  of  his  having  lived    in  it. 
arbor  of  green  leaves.                                     Xo.    this    is     not    a     preachment 
A  grave  and  reverend  banker  dis-  against  thrift,  nor  even  is  it   intend- 
plays  upon  a  placard  in  a  window  of  ed  to  discount  tin;  great   importance 
his  counting  house    the    admonition  of  that  principle  and  practice.      It  is 
that  if  Edgar  Allen    Poe    had    saved  merely  a  reminder  that    gold  is    tut 
his  money   he   might     have     added  'all.' 


THE  UPLIFT 


19 


MAROONED    0: 

By  Henry 

Above  the  famous  Shoshone  Falls. in 
southern  Malm  the  Snake  River, 
winding  serpent-like  thru  its  deep 
gorge,  runs  smoothly  enough.  Upon 
the  surface  there  is  no  hint  of  the 
many  suction  holes  and  fissures  in  the 
river  bottom  nor  is  there  a  warning 
of  the  sheer  drop  of  two  hundred  and 
■twelve  feet  just  beyond.  The  pres- 
ence of  a  cataract  rivaling  Niagara 
•would  not  be  even  remotely  suspect- 
ed by  one  unfamiliar  with  the  stream. 

In  spite  of  this  quiet  appearance 
which  has  lured  countless  swimmers 
to  destruction,  it  is  one  of  the  most 
treacherous  streams  in  the  world  and 
has  a  peculiar  reputation  for  not  giv- 
ing up  many  of  its  victims.  Bodies 
often  sink  to  the  bottom  and  are  then 
sucked  into'  deep  holes  and  fissures 
by  currents  of  tremendous  power. 

Tragedy  and  near  tradegy  are  link- 
ed with  the  history  of  Snake  River. 
Accidents  to  swimmers,  canoeists  and 
explorers  are  all  too  common.  Each 
year  warnings  are  issued  and  each 
year  adds  to  the  list  of  gruesome 
tragedies.  Swimmers  continue  to  risk 
themselves  in  the  evil  water,  seeming- 
liy  unmindful  of  danger. 

Approximately  two  hundred  feet 
above  the  gigantic  falls  a  huge,  motor 
driven  ferryboat  is  operated,  carrying 
passengers  and  conveyances  to  Je- 
rome and  Twin  Falls  counties.  Great 
cables  spanning  the  river  at  this  point 
keep  the  Mat-bottomed  craft  in  the 
right  position  and  prevent  it  from 
drifting  toward  the  brink  of  the  cat- 
aract and  certain  doom.  No  one  ever 
went  over  Shoshone  Falls  even  in  low 
water  and  survived. 


Nf    THE    RIVER. 

H.  Graham 

During  a  hot,  midsummer  day  when 
a  strapping  six-footer  who  sat  at  ease 
business  was  light  for  the  ferryman, 
in  the  boat  idling  the  lazy  hours  away, 
a  number  of  boys  came  down  and  went 
in  swimming.  For  some  time  they 
swam  around  and  disported  in  a  live- 
ly manner,  enjoying  tie  cool  water. 

At  length,  tiring  of  swimming,  one 
of  the  boys  took  a  canoe  and  started 
paddling  out  into  the  river.  He  was 
clad  in  a  bathing  suit.  His  compan- 
ions were  engrossed  in  their  own  sport 
and  paid  little  heed  to  him.  The 
ferryman  saw  .at  a  glance  that  the 
lad  was  unfamiliar  with  the  manipula- 
tion of  a  canoe  and  called  to  him  to 
go  back. 

Due  to  the  shouting  and  laughing 
his  warning  was  unheard  and  the 
young  canoeist  steadily  moved  toward 
mid-stream.  One  thing,  however,  he 
failed  to  realize;  his  stroke  was  too 
weak  to  keep  the  craft  from  going 
downstream.  So  slowly  was  it  drift- 
ing toward  the  brink  that  the  boy  did 
not  realize  it. 

Before  long  it  became  evident  to 
him  that  it  would  require  hard  pad- 
dling to  get  back  to  land.  All  at 
once  his  perilous  position  was  under- 
stood. He  noticed  that  the  current 
was  moving  more  swiftly.  For  a  mo- 
ment his  face  became  ashy  pale  and  in 
his  fright  and  anxiety  to  return  his 
paddle  was  carried  away  from  him 
and  over  the  falls.  Then  a  row  boat 
.  put  out  from  the  ferry  upstream  and 
more  vividly  than  before  he  realized 
his  situation. 

If  he  was  helpless  in  the  hurrying 
mass  of  green    water  before,   he   was 


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THE  UPLIFT 


doubly  so  now  and  ;it  the  merey  of 
the  current.  During  the  few  moments 
required  to  drift  onward  to  the  brink 
his  mind  was  keenly  active  trying  to 
formulate  a  plan  of  escape. 

The  ferryman  had  turned  back  un- 
able to  brave  the  current.  The  lad's 
comrades  on  the  bank  became  frantic 
over  the  sudden  turn  of  affairs  and 
were  thoroughly  alive  to  the  situation. 
Yet  they  seemed  powerless  to  aid. 
Nothing  could  save   him. 

As  tile  canoe  swept  on  the  boy 
caught  sight  of  a  projecting  rock, 
rather  flat  on  top.  This  lay  directly 
ahead  of  him.  If  he  could  only  get  on 
that  rock  he  would  be  saved  temporari- 
ssud  ooub.)  s|i(  ppio.vv  jng  ;  jsimj  \\s  \[ 
on  the  right  side?  Ahead  yawned  the 
abyss  of  death  and  a  deafening  roar 
bewildered  him.  'Death  fairly  stared 
him  in  the  face!     Could  he  do  it? 

With  lighting  rapidity  he  sped  on- 
ward until  opposite  the  providential 
boulder.  He  had  passed  on  the  right 
side.  Preparing  for  a  mighty  effort 
he  threw  himself  on  the  end  of  the 
jagged  rock  and  hung  on  tenaciously. 
Part  of  his  body  was  in  the  water 
and  it  taxed  his  endurance  to  the  limit 
to  hold  on.  His  legs  ached  and  his 
arms  seemed  like  inanimate,  lifeless 
things.  lie  felt  as  though  it  would 
be  a  pleasure  to  give  up  and  lloat  on. 
He  was  so  weary,  so  absolutely  help- 
less. But  he  had  not  been  used  to 
giving  up.  His  chums  had  nick-named 
him  "Plucky"  and  he  meant  to  live 
up  to  the  name. 

Tightly  he  dug  his  finger  nails  into 
the  lava  rock  above.  Then  he  slowly 
tried  to  pull  himself  up.  The  rush- 
ing water  pushed  and  pounded  against 
him,  making  the  task  difficult.  His 
entire    body    ached    and    pained;    his 


arms  lacked  the  usual  strenght.  He- 
dimly  knew  that  his  lingers  were 
bleeding  and  his  swimming  suit  was 
almost  torn  off. 

Inch  by  inch  he  drew  himself  up, 
his  heart  pounding  like  an  engine  and 
his  lungs  paining.  But  he  was  gain- 
ing. Another  six  inches  would  find 
him  on  top.  His  knee  rested  on  the 
rock  and  a  few  seconds  of  strenuous 
pulling  in  a  last  enfeebled  effort  saw 
his  body  stretched  out  at  full  length. 
Then,  a  million  glittering  stars  flutter- 
ed before  his  eyes'and  unconsciousness 
crept   over  him. 

Upon  awakening  the  lad  felt  re- 
freshed. Naturally  strong,  his  stal- 
wart, young  body  needed  but  a  few 
moments  rest  to  restore  strength.  Sit- 
ting up,  he  ascertained  his  injuries 
and  found  he  was  almost  unhurt  ex- 
cepting a  bruise  on  one  side  which 
had  scraped  against  the  "rock,  and  his 
bloody  lingers  which  had  served  him 
so  well   in  clinging   to   the  boulder. 

Then  he  began  to  look  about.  The 
rock  upon  which  he  had  been  saved 
was  irregular,  being  long  and  narrow 
with  ragged  edges.  Cautiously  ho 
moved  to  the  outer  edge  and  peered 
over.  The  sight  almost  made  his  heart 
cease  beating.  Xot  over  ten  feet  dis- 
tant the  mass  of  water  was  pouring 
over  the  precipice  to  a  lower  level  ac- 
companied by  a  sickening  roar.-  A 
fine  mist  blinded  him. 

Then  the  thought  suddenly  came  to 
him  that  he  was  not  actually  saved. 
All  around  him  rushed  the  turbulent 
green  waters  and  he  was  like  a  fly  in 
the  midst  of  it  all.  The  south  bank 
was  over  live  hundred  feet  distant 
while  the  north  was  not  more  than 
fifty. 

"So  near  and  yet  so  far,"  he  mur- 


THE  UPLIFT 


22 


mured. 

To  venture  forth  in  the  stream 
would  have  invited  death.  Yet  to 
stay  where  he  was  and  starve!  He 
didn't  know  which  would  be  more  ac- 
ceptable. 

It  was  late  afternoon  yet  the  sun 
was  a  couple  of  hours  high  and  he  was 
hopeful.  Far  across  the  river  he  could 
plainly  see  the  stunted  cedars  fring- 
ing the  water,  the  numerous  look-out 
points  for  tourist  and  the  steep  grades 
winding  out  of  the  canon.  A  grim, 
faint  smile  lurked  about  his  lips  as 
he  prided  himself  on  obtaining  the 
best  view  of  the  falls. 

All  at  once  his  mind  beuame  active. 
Where  were  his  companions  '■  Had 
they  deserted  him  or  were  they  search- 
ing for  his  body  in  the  dangerous, 
whirlpool  rapids  below  the  falls?  The 
bodies  of  two  boys  who  had  slipped 
into  the  river  a  year  previously  had 
been  found  on  the  shore  several  days 
afterward  and  the  lad  thought,  as  he 
sat  there  in  the  midst  of  swirling 
waters,  that  he  ought  to  be  thankful 
for  not  sharing  a  similar  fate  even  if 
he  had   not   yet   been  saved. 

Suddenly  a  bit  of  water  splashed 
over  the  big  rock.  Never  had  the 
river  done  this  before.  Always  it 
had  confined  itself  to  its  bed.  The 
river  was  rising!  They  were  letting 
out  some  water  at  the  storage  reser- 
voir at  Milner.  One  look  told  the  lad 
that  the  water  was  two  feet  higher 
than  when  he  climbed  upon  the  rock. 
Inch  by  inch  it  was  rising  and  a  few 
moments  would  see  the  rock  inundat- 
ed. 

A  look  of  horror  covered  his  face. 
Rescue  must  come  and  come  speedily 
for  it  would  not  be  long  before  he 
would  be  swept   into   the  current   and 


hurried    over    the    falls.     It    was    im- 
perative that  succor  come  at  once. 

Looking  shoreward  a  joyful  yet  un- 
expected sight  lay  before  him.  There 
on  the  bank  were  his  chums  and  the 
ferryman  all  motioning  and  beckon- 
ing to  him.  They  were  shouting  at 
the  top  of  their  lungs  but  the  roaring 
water    drowned    their    best    efforts. 

A  bare  fifty  feet  separated  them 
yet  death  hovered  in  that  short  dis- 
tance and  there  did  not  appear  to  be 
any  possible  way  to  roach  shore  and 
safety.  After  calling  to  their  marooned 
comrade  the  boys  stood  around,  not 
knowing  what  to  do.  Every  few  sec- 
onds their  hands  served  as  mega- 
phones for  their  hoarse  cries,  but  as 
before,  with  no  effect. 

Shortly  afterward  the  ferryman 
produced  a  strong  and  long  rope. 
Hope  tilled  the  lad's  heart  as  he 
caught  sight  of  it.  If  he  could  only 
catch  hold  of  it. 

The  first  throw  fell  short  as  did  a 
second.  On  the  third  attempt  the 
rope  fell  over  the  rock,  but  the  water 
carried  it  away  swiftly  before  the 
waiting  hands  of  the  boy  could  seize 
it. 

During  the  intervening  seconds  the 
water  was  steadily  rising  until  the 
rock  was  given  a  shallow  bath.  The 
man  redoubled  his  efforts  to  throw  the 
rope  to  the  boy. 

After  a  number  of  unsuccessful 
casts  it  reached  its  destination.  The 
rope  was  caught  and  fastened  to  a 
projection.  First  the  lad  pulled  it 
tight  and  then  made  it  fast.  A  shout 
of  sheer  joy  arose  from  those  on  the 
shore.  Success  was  not  certain  but 
the  first  lap  of  the  journey  was  com- 
pleted. 

The  force  of  the  wateragainst   the- 


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THE  UPLIFT 


rope  was  terrific  and  all  wondered 
that  it  did  not  give  way 

Well  the  lad  knew  that  the  struggle 
to  gain  land  even  if  the  rope  held 
would  teat  his  strength  to  the  utmost. 
It  would  be  necessary  to  cling  tightly 
and  pull  himself   forward. 

lie  paused  briefly  before  lowering 
himself  into  the  water.  Then,  notic- 
ing that  the  shore  end  of  the  rope  was 
fastened  securely  to  a  rock,  he  sank 
into  the  water  and  started  to  pull  a- 


head.  The  force  of  the  current  WHS 
even  more  than  he  had  anticipated 
Twice  he  felt  certain  the  rope  would 
break,  but  it  did  not. 

His  endurance  was  taxed  to  the  limit, 
for  the  rushing  water  pushed,  twisted 
and  pounded  against  his  exposed  body 
and  pounded  against  his  exposed 
body.  Nevertheless,  foot  by  foot  he 
advanced  until  his  bare  feet  rested 
on  the  rocky  shore  and  safety. 


DURHAM    COUNTY   VETERANS. 


General  Julian  S.  Carr,  Comman- 
der-in-Chief who  never  loses  an  op- 
portunity to  lighten  the  burdens  of  a 
veteran  or  to  do  him  full  justice  and 
protection  at  all  times— his  courage 
and  faithfulness  always  jewels  in  the 
sight  of  Gen.  Carr— furnishes  this 
list  as  the  surviving  Confederate 
veterans  now  resident  of  the  county 
of    Durham: 

W.  T.  Redmond— Commander  G.  E. 
Lougse  J.  H.  Shields  W.  H.  Xumi  J. 
W.  Ferrell  A.  J.  Lloyd  J.  E.  Lyon,  G. 
D.  Langston,  J.  J.  Moring,  Jim  Black- 
wood, W.  Holder,  J.  I.  Murry,  G.  C. 
Stallings,  J.  D.  Lewis,  H.  O'Brien,  S. 
M.  Khew,  J.  A.  Shipp,A.  Oakley  I.  S. 
Barbee,  W.  J.  Maynard,  J.  T.  Ladd  J. 
W.    Rodgers,    A.    C.  Freeman,    T.    C. 


Martin,  B.  A.  Summerlain,  J.  YV. 
Garrard,  J.  L.  Rogers,  S.  W.  Young, 
W.  W.  Teasley,  YV.  B.  Copley,  J.  K. 
Billings,  J.  T.  Ferrell,  W.  T.  Hailey, 
J.  W.  Hamilton,  J.  F.  Bailey,  Lovet 
Ennis,  William  llolloway,  Woodward 
Holloway,  K.  E.  Howard,  James  B. 
Blacknall,  Julian   8.   Carr. 

Col.  W.  P.  Wood,  late  State  Audi- 
tor and  legislator  of  wide  experience, 
whom  everybody  in  Randolph  county 
esteem,  has  gathered  up  for  THE  UP- 
LIFT the  names  of  the  surviving 
Confederate  soldiers  now  living  in 
Randolph  county.  Just  think,  this 
county  furnished  to  the  great  con- 
flict over  3,000  men,  and  of  them  less 
than  one  hundred  are  yet  with  as. 
They   are: 


CONFEDERATE    VETERANS   OF   RAN- 
DOLPH   COUNTY. 

Col.   W.  P.   Wood,  late   State   Audi-  Confederate    soldiers     now     living    in 

tor  and  legislator  of  wide  experience,  Randolph     county.      Just     think,     llus 

-whom  everybody   in  Randolph  county  county  furnished  to  the  great  con'.ict 

esteem,  has  gathered  up  for  THE  LP-  over  3,000  men,  and  of  them  less  than 

LIFT     the     names     of     the    surviving  one   hundred   are   yet    with   us.      I  hoy 


THE  UPLIFT 


23 


William  T.  Fox,  R.  T.  Mclntire, 
John  T.  Tun. or,  Z.  XL  Williams,  W. 
C.  Hooker,  A.  L.  Jarrell,  Doc  F.  All-' 
rod,  W.  B.  Allied,  John  Wesley  All- 
red,  T.  W.  Andrews,  \\".  R.  Aslnvorth, 
\V.  II.  Bran.  Jesse  \Y.  Bowdoin,  John 
S.  Bowden,  L.  B.  Brady,  Wyatt 
Brady,  .1.  D.  Brown,  I'.  \Y.  Burgess, 
Murphy  Burriss,  II.  C.  Causey,  D.  0. 
Cobble,  A.  M.  Cress,  G.  A.  Cross.  XL 
H.  Cross,  W.  S.  Crowson,  W.  Davis, 
\V.  Xoniian  Davis,  \V.  J.  Delk,  .1.  W. 
Ellis,  <i.  XI.  Frazier,  Hiram  P.  Gard- 
ner, Henry  XI.  Gardner,  Franklin 
Gray,  X.  B.  Gunter,  T.  YV.  Hall,  James 
Hancock,  .John  Hancock,  YV.  H.  Han- 
rock,  D.  H.  Hill,  -J.  II.  Hill,  1).  C. 
Hilliard  John  W.  Hoi, In-,  J.  C.  Hoov- 
er, J.  P.  Hopkins,  XI.  XI.  Hopkins,  J. 
W.  Howell,  XI.  XI.  Hughes,  L.  \V. 
Hunt,   D.   J.  Jarrett,  F.   L.  Johnson, 


I..  Johnson,  Frank  .Ionian,  I.  XT.  Lam- 
bert, Kelly  Latham,  Jell  Lineberry, 
\Y.  S.  Lineberry  XIadison  Lowe', 
George  Luther,  Thomas  D.  XlcXIaster, 
William  H.  XlcPherson,  T.  F.  Xlilli- 
kan,  B.  X.  Xlodlin,  Xfilo  Xloffit,  John 
Xloore,  F.  Morris,  A.  G.  Xlyrick,  II. 
H.  Xelson,  B.  L.  Owen,  -I.  XL  Pounds, 
S.  F.  Pugli,  William  Reddiek,  Samuel 
Rightsell,  Iredell  XI.  Robbins,  A.  C. 
Hush.  A.  J.  Rush,  Stephen  P.  Sear- 
let,  James  Scott,  K.  F.  Seehrest,  Jesse 
T.  Shaw,  W.  D.  Siler,  Thompson  Siler, 
S.  B.  Spencer,  Lemuel  Spencer,  Rich- 
aid  C.  Stokes,  W.  A.  Stout,  L.  0. 
Sugg,  A.  E.  Tillman,  Alpheus  Upton, 
Flkana  Wall.  R.  XI.  Wellborn,  F.  J. 
White,  J.  8.  Wilkinson,  T.  J.  Wood, 
Xoah  L.  Yates,  J.  W.  Yeargin,  S.  C. 
Yolk,  Larkin  York,  S.  L.  Younts,  P. 
H.  Xlorris,  Dr.  F.  A.  Asbury,  Sam'l 
Alldridge,  \Y'.  P.  Wood. 


A  cheerful  friend  is  like  a  sunny  day,  which  sheds  its  brightness  on  all 
around;  and  most  of  us  can,  if  we  choose,  make  of  this  world  either  a  pal- 
ace or  a  prison. — Lubbuck. 


A  XVORD   ABOUT  BOOKS 

This  is  a  reading  age.  It  can  he 
more  truthfully  said  now  than  ever 
before  that  "Of  the  making  of  books 
there  is  no  end.''  The  amount  of 
literature  that  comes  from  the  press 
each  year  fairly  staggers  one.  Each 
of  us  can  read  only  a  small  portion  of 
it.  It  is  not  all  intended  for  you 
and  me.  Much  of  it  is  good,  but 
maybe  not  good  for  us.  Much  of  it 
tits  into  a  need  you  and  I  feel.  Xow 
Mnee  I  cannot  read  it  all.  I  must 
-elect  what  I  shall  read.  This  pro- 
cess of  selection  should  be  done  with 
the  utmost  care.  Much  of  the  litera- 
ti re  now  being  produced  is  without 
a  message  or  a  soul.     It  is  a  sheer 


waste  of  time  to  try  to  read  it.  We 
are  told  that  out  of  every  thousand 
books  published.  650  do  not  see  the 
end  of  the  first  year.  Xlost  of  the 
others  are  forgotten  in  two  or  three 
or  five  years.  Out  of  more  than  one 
million  volumes  in  the  Imperial 
Library  at  Paris,  over  700,000  are  out 
of  print.  We  can  help  to  put  some 
volumes  out  of  business  by  not  read- 
ing them  or  recommending  them  to 
others.  We  may  share  in  an  enter- 
prise of  the  noblest  kind  by  speak- 
ing well  of  volumes  that  have  help- 
ed us.  The  literature  problem  is 
one  of  the  most  vital  that  home-mak- 
ers and  homekeepers  have  to  deal 
with. — Selected. 


■24  THE  UPLIFT 

LINNAEUS  "THE  FATHER  OF  MODERN 

BOTANY.'" 

By  Lena  C.  Aiders 

May  brings  the  birthday  of  one  of  the  greatest  naturalists,  who  has  ever 
live,]  '  Though,  Linnaeus  was  not  wealthy  he  yet  possessed  eyes  that  could 
see  the  richness  of  the  beauty  of  this  world,  as  few  other  men  have  done,  and 
ho  helped  to  teach  others  to  see  this  wealth,  too.  Linnaeus  right  name  was 
Carl  von  Linne,  which  was  changed  to  Carolus  Linnaeus,  in  Latin,  when  he  was 
made  a  nobleman,  and  it  is  by  this  name  he  is  best  known. 

Carl  von  Linne  was  bom  May  23,  containiugViny  books  on  science  and 
17D7  in  Rushult,  Sweden.  His  father  nature,  into  winch  Carl  delved.  1 au- 
was  a  Lutheran  minister  with  a  large  in*  to  get  Carl  interested  in  either 
parish,  liven  as  a  baby,  Linnaeus  the  ministry  or  medicine,  at  the  end 
showed  his  fondness  for  animals,  of  the  year  Doctor  Rothe  took  him  U 
flowers  and  nature,  and  as  he  grew  Kill  am  Stoboeua,  who  was  a  physician 
older  showed  a  marked  preference,  for      to  the  king. 

them.     His  great  love  for  nature  puz-  .Doctor  btobae.us  bad  a  large  coJIec- 

zle.l  his  devoted  father,  for  he  tion  of  natural  history  curiosities  that 
thought  the  boy  should  like  books  bet-  he  did  not  have  arranged,  and  put 
ters.  He  hoped  Carl  would  become.  Carl  to  cataloguing  these  The  boy j> 
a  minister  or  doctor,  but  his  fear  in-  writing  was  almost  illegible,  and  he 
creased  that  the  boy  would  not,  as  had  an  impatient  temper,  so  he  often 
the  years  passed,  and  his  son  grew  to  quarreled  with  the  doctor  Several 
love  the  .rreat  out-of-doors  more,  and  ■  times  the  physician   turned  hun   from 

the   house,   but   upon    Carl  s    promise 
The  Lim.es  had  a  beautiful  garden,      to   do   better,   let    nun    try   again.      A 
in     which  the  whole   family     worked,      last  in     desperation   the  doctor     sent 
and  when  Carl  was  eight,  years  old  he      Linnaeus  to  the  University  o     Upsalfc 
was  .riven  a  corner  for  his  very  own.  Once   inside      tbe   university      am 

He  was  delighted,  and  Idled  it  with  with  his  beloved  nature  books  it 
bright  flowers,  which  he  tended  care-  seemed  to  the  young  man  he  had  en- 
fully  Try  as  he  would  Mr.  Linne  tared  a  new  world.  He  round  unlunit- 
could  not  get  his  small  son  interested  ed  opportunities  to  study  botany  and 
in  books,' and  becoming  alarmed  he  the  sciences,  and  was  greatly  en- 
took  him  to  a  doctor  to  be  examined,  couraged  in  this  by  teachers  in  the  m- 
Doctor  Rothe  was  a  kind  and  under-  stitute.  In  Doctor  Rudbeek,  the  pro- 
standing  man,  and  understood  the  fessor  of  botany,  the  young  student 
boy's  desire  to  be  a  naturalist  better  found  a  good  friend,  and  supported 
than  did  his'  father,  lie  advised  Mr.  himself  by  working  in  the  professor  S 
Linne  to  let  Carl  stay  with  him  for  a  office.  He  found  chaos  among  (ho 
year  which  the  minister  consened  to  botany  and  natural  history  specimens 
do    'The  doctor  had  a  grand  library,      in     RudbcckV  office,  and     arranged 


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them  in  order.  During  this  time  he  degree  in  medicine  so  he  went  to 
wrote  his  first  book  on  plant  life,  Harderuiak  and  attended  school  there, 
which  was  short  and  appeared  in  1729.  He  was  soon  awarded  a  degree,  and 
The  same  year  he  began  a  scries  of  then  visited  Leyden,  where  he  pub- 
tours  in  which  he  gave  lectures  about  Misheil  the  first  sketch  of  "Systcma 
(lowers.  Nature." 

Through   the   interest  ami   kindness  In   1731,  Clifford,  who  was  then  the 

of  Doctor  Rudbeck  and  others  in  the  English   ambassador,   urged    Linnaeus 

university,    Linnaeus   was  si  nt    on   an  lo  come  and   live  with   torn   at   Harte- 

exploring  trip  to  Lapland.      It.  was  as  camp.      Linnaeus  accepted  the  invita- 

t hough  the  young  botanist  had   found  tion,  and  stayed   with   him  the  great- 

a    new   country    in    which    to    roam    to  er    [art    of   several   years,    living   like 

his    heart's    satisfaction.      Alone,    ox-  a  prince.      During   this  time  he  wrote 

f.ept  lor  a  horse  and  dog  he  remained  "I  foetus      Clifford iensis,"    and    other 

in    Lapland    from    May   to    November,  hooks.      In    173C    he   visited    England 

1731,  exploring  the   hills   and   valleys.  and  in    1738  he   wen  to  Stockholm,  as 

gathering  much  material.      In  1773  he  ;|   physician 

wrote     a  book   about     the  plants      he  [„'     ]74o   Professoi    Rudbeck      died 

found  on  this  trip,  calling  it  "Flora  a,„i    Linnaeus  was  appointed  to  suc- 

Laponica.  ,.ct.(]  njm  as  professor  of  natural  his- 

By  this  time  Linnaeus  had  become  lory  at  Upsala  University.  At  last 
famous,  but  was  earning  hardly  Linnaeus  had  found  his  life's  work,  and 
tnough  to  support  himself.  Many  of  in  1 7.10  his  "Philosopbia  Botaniea" 
I  lie  persons  at  Upsala  were  jealous  of  was  published.  Three  years  later  ap- 
him,  and  nicknamed  him  the  "Gypsy  pearcd  his  "Species  Plantarum."  In 
botanist."  Discouraged  with  the  1778  he  started  again  the  labors  of  elas- 
li-ealment  he  received  at  the  univer-  sifying  plants,  which  he  had  begun 
sity  Linnaeus  went  to  live  with  the  when  a  student.  He  classified  them 
famous  Professor  Bcevhaave  at  Am-  according  to  the  number  of  stamens 
sterrlam.  Here  with  a  class  of  young  and  pistils,  which  was  a  great  ini- 
tial uralists  he  had  many  delightful  provement  on  any  classification  then 
rambles,  and  during  this  time  be  in  existence,  and  from  which  he  has 
wrote  "  Kud  anient  a  Botaniea/'  which  given  the  name  "V'alher  of  modern 
is  one  of  the  most  valuable  botanies  botany."  To  him  science  is  also  in- 
ever  written.  While  at  the  proles-  debted  for  a  new  system  of  naming 
Mir's  house  he  made  the  acquaintance  plants. 

of   Peter   Kalm,   another  great    natur-  Daring    this    time    Linnaeus    wrote 

.ilist,      who      visited      America,      and  a     book,  "Heaven's  First   Law,"     a 

brought  back  many  rich  specimens  of  treatise   on    minerology   and   zoology, 

flora      for    himself   and    Linnaeus      to  which      made   him      an    authority      in 

classify.  science,  as  well  as  botany,     fie  wrote 

Then  for  a  time  Linnaeus  made  bis  about      a  hundred  and   eighty     books, 

home  with  Dr.  MVraeus,  whose  daugh-  which      was   either   about    plants     or 

tor,     Sara,  he  married.     The     doc-tor  science.     Shortly    after    his    Scientific 

il^ested  'to   Linnaeus   that    lie  g.'i    a  boo!;   was  published,  he  was  given  the 


26  THE  UPLIFT 

Knight  of  Polar  title,   with  the  rank      apoplexy  on  his  beautiful  estate  near 
of  nobility.  Upsala,   in   177b,   but   his  memory  has 

Busy  all  bis  life  Linnaeus  died  from      lived   through   all    tlie  years. 


Some  more  signs.  Men  have  destroyed  their  influence  with  a  majority 
of  the  rural  folk  by  showing  a  lack  of  faith  in  the  moon.  David  Houston, 
former  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  went  out  his  way  while  holding  that 
great  office,  to  reflect  on  the  power  of  the  moon,  and,  ds  a  result,  the  aver- 
rural  operator  thinks  him  a  sorry  farmer.  But  old  "Aunt  Jane,"  a  typical 
ftnte-bellum  negress,  who  boasts  of  having  nursed  Col.  Leroy  Kirkpatrick 
and  yet  laments  that  the  Colonel  took  to  the  law  because  of  suspicion  over 
his  welfare  in  the  hereafter,  says  that  every  body,  most,  in  Sharon  town- 
ship, Mecklenburg  county,  fuvve  great  faith  in  the  control  of  moon  signs. 
For  instance,  when  the  sign  is  in  the  feet  (the  fish)  three  clays  in  succes- 
sion, the  month  will  be  wet;  and  that  it  is  the  proper  time  to  wean  things 
and  such.  According  to  this  prophecy,  July  will  be  a  very  wet  month  for 
the  sign  is  in  the  feet  for  three  successive  days,  on  the  12th,  13th  and  11th. 
By  this  very  token,  look  out  for  a  flood  in  October,  for  in  that  month 
the  "sign  in  the  feet"  occurs  three  clays  in  succession  and  on  two  occa- 
sions in  the  month — 2,  3  and  4,  and  29,,  30  and  31.  If  this  happens  the 
reputation  of  the  moon  in  its  control  of  weather,  weaning  babies  and 
such  like,  will  be  thoroughly  established. 


UNFAIR   TO   THE   WOMAN 

Columbia  S.  C.  State. 

The  decision  of  the  court  of  appeals  of  the  state  of  Washington  that  "legally 
•alimony  for  a  husband  is  an  unheard  of  thing"  is  of  minute  interest  in  South 
Carolina,  where  devorces  arc  unheard  of  things,  but  it  is  astonishing  that  so 
curios  an  exposition  of  law  should  have-  come  out  of  the  Far  West  where 
women  have  been  far  in  advance  of  their  Eastern  sisters  in  gaining  political 
equality  with  men.  pelf  and  plenty  of  it  and  if  the   pom' 

Wherefore  in  a  suit  for  divorce  man  in  the  case  be  equipped  with 
brought  by  the  husband,  if  the  nothingbetter  than  a  hard  luck  story, 
woman  be  in  the  wrung,  should  she  what  possible  reason  should  stand  in 
not  be  in  the  same  way  liable  for  the  way  of  his  derivirg  sustenance 
alimony  and  for  attorney's  fees  as  from  the  abler  partner  that  had 
the  husband  would  have  been  had  treated  him  with  contumely, 
the  circumstances  been  reversed?  If  it  happened  that  a  kindly  gentle- 

As  the  earner  and  holder  of  money  man  possessed  of  nothing  but  good 
and  property  in  these  times,  there  looks  and  winning  ways  have  a 
is  no  discrimination  between  man  spouse  possessed  of  a  royal  income, 
and  woman  if  the  woman  be  superior  shall  she  be  allowed,  in  Washington 
in  the  acquisitive  arts,    if  she    have     or    elsewhere,   to   throw   him  over- 


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27 


board,  if   she   grows   tired  of   him, 
and  make  no  compensation     tor    his 

unremitted  devotions? 

The  State  believes  that  the  women 
of  the  United  States  will  resent  the 
imputation  of  the  Washington  court 
that,  despite  the  erasure  of   the    an- 


cient insult  the  woman  is  weaker 
than  man,  she  is  still  not  strong- 
enough  to  pay  for  the  riddance  of  a 
husband  of  whom  she  has  wearied. 

In  1922  can  any  sort  of  distinction 
in  law  between  men  and  women  be 
rationally  defended? 


One  of  the  handsomest  and  most  attractive  girls  in  all  this  section  has 
heen  off  to  school —  one  of  the  oldest  and  of  the  sahest  and  hest  reputations, 
whose  great  work  touches  every  state  in  the  South  and  has  for  generations. 
She  returned  the  other  day.  Her  naturally  beautiful  face  and  fine  complex- 
ion were  all  bedaubed  with  an  extravagant  amount  of  commercial  daub. 
Being  remonstrated  with  by  a  friend  for  substituting  the  false  for  the 
natural,  she  fired  back,  "Well,  all  the  girls  do  it;  and  I  followed  suit." 
That's  the  sorriest  excuse  in  the  world  for  any  one  to  give  in  defense  of 
a  slavery  to  a  foolish  fashion. 


THE  WHITE  SEAL. 

By  Eudyard  Kipling. 

Kotick  was  a  little  baby  seal,  all  head    and  shouders,  with  pale,    watery 
i  eyes,  as  tiny  seals  must  be.     But  there  was  something  about  his  coat  that 
made  his  mother  look  at  him  very  closely. 
"Sea  Catch"  she  said  at  last,  "'our  baby  is  going  to  be  white." 

I     "There 


never  has  been  such  a 
thing  in  the  world  as  a  white  seal," 
Sea  Catch  snorted. 

"I   can't  help  that,"   said  Matka; 
"there    is    going  to   be   one   now." 
And  she  sang  the  low  crooning  seal- 
ing that  all  the  mother  seals  sing  to 
iheir  babies: 


You  musn't    swim  till  you're 
weeks  old, 


' 


will   be  sunk    by 
.rales    and     Killer 


Or    your  head 

your  heels; 
And    summer 

Whales 
Are  bad  for  baby  seals. 
Are  bad  for  baby  seals,    dear  rat. 
As  bad  as  bad  can  be; 
Hut  splash  and  grow  strong. 
.vnd  you  can't  be  wrong, 


Child  of  the  Open  Sea! 

Of  course,  the  little  fellow  did  not 
understand  the  words  at  first.  He 
paddled  and  scrambled  about  by  his 
mothers  side,  and  learned  to  scuffle 
out  of  the  way  when  his  father  was 
fighting  with  another  seal,  and  the 
two  rolling  and  roared  up  and  down 
the  slippery  rocks. 

The  first  thing  that  Kotick  did 
was  to  crawl  inland.  There  he  met 
tens  of  thousands  of  babies  of  his 
own  age,  and  they  played  together 
like  puppies,  went  to  sleep  on  the 
clean  sand,  and  played  again. 

Little  seals  can  no  more  swim  than 
little  children,  but  they  are  unhappy 
till  they  learn. 

The 'first   time  that   Kotick    went 


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down  to  the  sen,  a  wave  carried  him 
out  beyond  his  depth.  His  big  head 
s.ank  and  his  hind  flipper  flew  up  ex- 
actly as  his  mother  had  told  him  in 
i he  song,  and  if  the  next  wave  had 
not  thrown  him  back  he  would  have 
been  drowned. 

After  that  he  learned  to  lie  in  a 
pool,  and  let  the  wash  of  the  waves 
just  cover  him  and  lift  him  up  while 
he  paddled,  but  he  ah-ays  kept  his 
eyes  open  for  the  big  waves  that 
might  hurt. 

He  was  two  week's  in  learning  to 
to  use  his  flippers.  All  that  while 
he  floundered  in  and  out  of  the  water. 
He  coughed  and  grunted  and  crawl- 
ed up  the  beach,  and  took  cat-naps 
on  the  sand,  and  went  back  again, 
until  at  last  he  found  that  he  truly 
belonged  to  the  water. 

Then  you  can  imagine  the  times 
that  he  had  with  his  companions, 
ducking  under  the  rollers:  or  com- 
ing in  on  top  of  a  comber  and  landing 
with  a  swash  and  a  splutter  as  the 
big  waves  went  whirling  far  up  the 
beach:  or  standing  upon  his  tail  and  • 
scratching  his  head  as  the  old  seals 
did;  or  playing  "I'm  the  King  of  the 
Castle."  on  slippery,  weedy  rocks 
that  just  stuck  out  of  the  wash. 

Now  and  then  he  would  see  a  thin 
fin,  like  a  big  shark's  fin,  drifting 
along  close  to  the  shore.  He  knew 
that  this  was  the  Killer  Whale,  the 
Grampus,  which  eats  young  seals 
when  he  can  get  them.  Then  Kotick 
would  head  for  the  beach  like  an 
arrow,  and  the  tin  would  jig  oil'  slowly, 
as  if  it  were  looking  for  nothing  at 
all. 

Late  in  October  the  seals  began  to 


leave  St.  Paul's  for  the  deep  sea,,  by 
families  and  tribes.  Matka  and  Ko- 
tick set  out  together  across  the  Pa- 
cific. 

Matka  showed  Kotick  how  to  sleep 
on  his  back,  with  his  flippers  tucked 
down  by  his  side,  and  his  little  nose 
just  out  of  the  water.  Xo  cradle  is 
so  comfortable  as  the  long  rocking 
swell  of  the  Pacific. 

This  was  one  of  very  many  things 
that  Kotick  learned  and  he  was  al- 
ways learning.  .Motka  taught  him 
how  to  follow  the  cod  and  the  halibut 
along  the  under  sea  banks,  and 
wrench  the  rockling  out  of  his  hole 
among  the  weeds:  how  to  skirt  the 
wrecks  lying  a  hundred  fathoms  be- 
low water,  and  dart  like  a  rifle-bul- 
let in  at  one  port-hole  and  out  at  an- 
other as  the  fishes  ran. 

She  taught  him,  too.  how  to  dance 
on  the  top  of  the  waves  when  the 
lightning  was  racing  all  over  the 
sky.  and  wave  his  flippers  politely 
to  the  Stumpy-tailed  Albatross  and 
the  Man-of- War  Hawk  as  they  went 
down  the  wind. 

She  taught  him  how  to  jump  three 
or  four  feet  clear  of  the  water,  like  a 
dolphin,  flippers  close  to  the  side 
and  tail  curves;  to  leave  the  flying- 
fish  alone  because  they  are  bony;  to 
take  the.  shoulder-piece  out  of  a  cod 
at  full  speed  ten  fathoms  deep;  and 
never  to  stop  to  look' a*  a  boat  or  a 
ship,  but  especially  a  row  boat. 

At  the  end  of  six  month,  what  Ko- 
tick did  not  kno  7  about  deep-sea 
fishing  was  not  worth  the  knowing. 
And  all  that  time  he  never  set  flip- 
per on  dry  ground. 


Deliver  us  from  fear  and  favor,  from  mean  hopes  and  cheap  pleasures. — 
Stevenson. 


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ON  FLORIDA  RIVERS. 

By  Madison  Cawein 

Along  the  St.  John's  River  soft  maples,  ruddily  turl'ted,  made  bright  the 
somber  banks,  showing  only  occasionally  a  pine  or  palmetto  amid  the  wild- 
erness of  cypress  trees  trailing'  with  the  moss.  Cherokee  roses  to  rarely 
ran  a  rambling  riot  of  great  white  blossoms  around  the  boll  of  some  live 
oak.      The  water,  of  a  sullen  blackness,  had  no  more  current  than  a  pond  or 

lagoon.     The    furrow    of  our    little       neath  which  swim  their  images  amid 


steamer  fell  away  from  the  stern  in  a 
.  sort  of  yeasty,  smoky-topez  foam. 
Water  lilies  laid  long  banks  of  blos- 
soms along  either  shore.  An  alli- 
gator, a  sluggish  bulk,  slowly  cross- 
ed a  lilypaven  inlet. 

Lilies;  more  lilies  seemed  to  spread 
over  the  entire  river  a  cloth  of  gold. 
Hemlocks,  cypressses,  and  black 
gums  seemed  to  welcome  us  with  the 
waving  of  funereal  banners,  long 
streamers  of  Spanish  moss,  as  we 
entered  the  Ooklawaha  passing  a 
leaky-looking  rowboat  with  an  old 
negro  in  it,  picturesque  among  the 
yellow  lilies  of  the  lagoon.  Lilies; 
lilies,  holding  up  everywhere  in- 
numerable lists  tight  full  of  gold. 
The  dogwood  and  jessamine,  in  full 
bloom,  diversified  with  white  and 
gold  the  seemingly  impenetrable 
woods.  Here  and  there  on  the 
high-lifted,  desolate  branches  of 
twisted  trees,  looking  like  huge- 
nests  of  unknown  birds  of  prey, 
great  clumps  and  masses  of  mistle- 
toe were  seen. 

In  its  placid,  mirror-like  depths 
the  skies  and  woods  are  exactly  re- 
produced that  you  are  often  de- 
ceived as  to  which  is  the  real  and 
which  is  the  reflection.  Bittern  and 
heron  and  egret  haunt  here;  often 
winging  slowly  over  the  ivied  and 
creepered  solitudes.  And  startled 
by  our  approach,  crane  and  king- 
fisher swing  alouj    its   surface,    be 


the  green  streaks  of  grass,  that  re- 
minds one  of  the  streaming  hair  of 
kelpies.  Hell-divers  or  didappers 
rise,  flash  away,  and  the  teal,  with 
their  instant  wings,  skip  the  water 
into  ripples.  At  twilight  the  limp- 
kins  begin  their  wild  wailing,  plain- 
tive as  that  of  a  lost  child;  and  like 
a  vulture,  silent  and  solitary,  on  the 
aead  Limb  of  a  tree  the  water  turkey 
sits,  somber  above  the  uncurling, 
ghostly  spider  lilies,  hanging,  long 
strips  of  white,  among  the  cypress 
knees. 

In  the  darkness,  before  the  coming 
of  the  moon,  we  seemed  passing  be- 
tween immaterial  walls  of  phantom 
forest,  clothed  in  the  fluttering  cere- 
ments of  the  dead,  the  dark,  wild- 
trailing  moss — or  was  it  the  waving 
of  spectral  arms,  ghostly  shrouds 
and  mantels  of  dead  Seminoles? 
Enormous  hands,  taloned  and  crook- 
ed of  finger,  seemed  clutching  up  at 
us  out  of  the  unseen  waters,  or  im- 
pended, threateningly  above,  eager 
and  waiting  an  opportunity  to  snatch 
us  away  into  the  phantom  forest; 
nearly  always  they  resolved  them- 
selves into  the  gaunt  and  twisted 
limbs  of  leaning  trees. 

From  an  almost  sleepless  night  in 
my  narrow  cabin,  having  been  kept 
awake  by  the  clattering  and  crash- 
ing of  branches  that  raked,  every 
now  and  then,  the  sides  of  the  boat 
in  its  passage  up  the  stream,  I  arose 


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to  find  the  moraing  massed  and 
streaming  with  mist:  the  forests 
seemingly  more  spectral  looking 
through  the  banks  and  flying  shreds 
of  vapor  than  they  were  last  night. 
Suddenly  the  sun  rose,  scattering 
with  level  crimson  lances,  wildly 
glorious,  the  routed  and  ribboned 
fog.  We  had  left  the  Ocklawaha 
River  and  were  steaming  up  Silver 
Spring  Pain.  Drenched  with  the 
mist  and  dew  the  moss  hung  motion- 
less from  the  trees,  smoky-brown 
and  dripping.  The  butterflies  that 
had  taken  shelter  upon  our  decks 
during  the  night  were  too  weighed 
down  with  the  wet  to  lift  their 
wings. 

The  water  of  Silver  Spring  Run  is 
perfectly  pellucid;  to  the  depth  of 
some  forty  odd  feet  everything  is 
plainly  visible.  Garfish,  bream, 
black  bass,  pickerel,  and  turtle  are 
discernible  swimming  slowly  or 
swiftly  away  from  our  advancing 
keel.  At  Silver  Spring  itself  we  gaze 
down,  as.  we  pass  over  it,  upon  a 
mighty  ledge  of  rock,  magnified  by 
the  refraction  of  the  water  probably, 
forty-eight  feet  from  the  surface;  it 
seems  to  be,  with  its  great  rift,  the 
entrance  to   some  vast   cavern   that 


INSTITUTIONAL  MOTES 

(Swift  Davis,  Reporter.) 

"Work  on  the  new  well  has  been 
pushed  forward  so  rapidly  that  the 
depth  of  97ft.  has  been  reached. 

Mr.  Zebulon  Teeter,  of  Concord, 
and  a  graduate  of  Trinity  College  in 
the  recent  finals,  lias  accepted  work 
at  the  school.  He  has  charge  of  the 
Rockingham  Cottage. 

The  boys   on    the   working    force 


disgorges  an  underground  river 
which  furnishes  the  water  of  this 
great  spring.  At  the  depth  of  eigh- 
ty-four feet  the  bottom  is  perfectly 
visible  and  the  ripples  of  a  rowboat,. 
oaring  and  breaking  the  surface,  are 
magnified  a  hundredfold  on  the  rocks 
below,  irisated  into  wonderful  colors: 
emerald  green  and  ultramarine  blue, 
blurring  and  streaking  the  •  bottom; 
the  effect  being  thj  same  as  that  of 
some  glimmering  submarine  scene- 
presented  in  pantomime  on  the 
stage, 

The  clear,  round  lake,  hemmed  in 
as  far  as  the  eye  can  see  with  for- 
ests of  cypress,  black  gum,  live  oak, 
pine,  and  palmetto,  solemn  hung 
with  their  gray  moss,  is  a  weird  sett- 
ing for  its  mysterious  crystal.  Here 
and  there  the  cypresses  ar.d  black 
gums,  swollen  by  the  water,  bulge 
out  abruptly,  the  tree  trunk  seem- 
ingly supported  on  a  black  pedestal. 
The  cypress  knees,  extinguisher- 
shaped  (like  so  many  giant  clubs 
thrust  knot  downward  into  the 
water),  bristled  along  the  shore 
and  the  forest  towering, above  them, 
silent  and  sad,  was  like  some  strange 
woodland  turned  to  stone. 


are  hoeing  peanuts  at  the  present 
time.  This  work  is  done  cheerfully, 
even  willingly,  for  the  boys  know 
the  fruits  of  their  labor  will  be  giv- 
en to  them. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  R.  Howard,  of 
Dunn,  were  at  the  school  Wednes- 
day, June  14,  to  visit  their  son, 
George  Branch.  Having  a  plenti- 
ful orchard  of  their  own,  they 
brought  some  baskets  of  peaches 
and  when  the  boys  were  assembled 
in  the  rest  room  young    Howard  in- 


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sisted   on   giving  a    few   baskets  of 


seven  occupied  cottages  and  placed 


,                     .  -.---.  ......  "pan   v.ui-bugua  aim 

the  peaches  out  to  then,.  in  the  Rockingham  Cottage,  making 

The  doors  of  the  Rockingham  Cot-  !n       ***[  °f    *wenty-e«h*    boys* 

*   .,„  „,        n              "ui.K.iii0nam  oot  When  ei,ch  cottage     s     completely 

tagewerethwn  open  on    Friday,  .filled  again  the  total  number  of  boys 

June  lb.      The  opening  was  attend-  hera  will  he  two  mmdl.cc,      d        > 

cd  « rth  unusual  interest  by  the  boys  fom,   The  Qew  L.ott        .     Q(         ^ 

ofTime  horn   Je1;        °    m*Cl™isfi0n  spotlessly    clean   and    each    ne'ly 

r,    ,"e      Th        Pu1,ng       ,    U'him  moved  youngster's  ambition"  is    to 

Cottage      This   cot  age  makes    the  ktep    it  so.     Not   because  he   .     a 

e.ghth  to  be   occupied  and   in   use.  Mecklenburg  Cottage   boy,  but  be- 

The    opening   o     this    new   cottage  Cause  he   knows,    the  reporter    can 

merely  marks   the    step   to  another  say  with   pardonable   pr  ide   that   if 

round  taken  by  the   Jackson   Train-  the  Rockingham  Cotta/e  b         k 

mg  School   on   the    ladder    of    im-  their  cottage   as  clean  as  Mecklen- 

provement     and     progress.     Four  burg  Cottage,  then  they  .will     do 

boys  were   taken   from   each    of  the  u-en 


There  is  nothing  that  abides  except  character.  There  is  nothing  truly 
interesting  but  a  ms.n,  excepting,  of  course,  a  woman,  but  she  is  so  inter- 
esting that  the  study  of  the  female  of  the  species  becomes  too  absorbing  for 
analysis. — Hon.  Josephus  Daniels. 


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If  a  task  is  once  begun, 
Never  leave  it  till  it's  done; 
Be  the  labor  great  or  small, 

Do  it   well,  or  not  at   all. — Phoebe  Cary. 


AGAIN,  THE  MATTER  OF  RURAL  POLICEMEN. 

While  the  brutes  that  attacked  Mr.  and  Mrs  Ketehen,  New  York  tourists 
enroute  home  from  Florida,  while  camping  in  a  rural  spot  in  Moore  county, 
have  been  caught,  are  in  prison  and  have  confessed  to  the  hellish  crime,  the 
fact  remains  that  under  the  lack  of  rural  protection  the  fiends  might  have 
escaped,  as  many  violations  of  the  law  are  going  unpunished  because  of  a 
lack  of  police  regulation  in  the,  rural  sections. 

That  diabolical  act,  where  a  young  woman,  soiled  and  fallen  she  may  be 
was  outlandishly  and  brutally  treated  by  three  white  men,  at  a  notorious 
resort  of  sin  and  vice  in  Cabarrus  county,  might  have  not  occui'ed  had  rural 
policemen  been  on  duty;  in  fact,  the  dirty  joint,  maintained  with  a  per- 
fect contempt  for  law  in  the  pursuit  of  nearly  every  vice  known  to  sin, 
might  be  brought  to  an  accounting  were  there  moving  about  minions  of  the 
law  bent  on  sustaining  the  majesty  of  the  state. 

There  is  one  thing  certain  that  were  brave  and  courageous  rural  police- 
men, who  make  no  distinction  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties,  in  service  in 
certain  quarters  of  Cabarrus  county  and  in  some  others,  there  would  be  a 
perceptible  falling  off  cf  the  presence  of  certain  professional  and  business 
folks,  who  cannot  give  a  plausible  excuse  for  their  presence  at  such  places 


4  THE  UPLIFT 

at  certain  times. 

The  time  has  arrived  where  the  safety  and  the  peace  of  certain  communi- 
ties require  the  diligent  services  of  courageous  rural  policemen;  and  the 
authorities  should  provide  for  them.  Lacking  the  legal  authority  to  put 
on  rural  policemen,  a  bold  request  should  be  made  for  such  authority  to 
the  end  that  decency  may  enjoy  its  rights  and  privileges.  Crime  in  the 
rural  sections  is  just  as  bad  as  crime  in  incorporated  towns;  and  the  fact 
that  certain  citizens  of  incorporated  towns  use  the  rural  sections  to  carry 
on  their  dirty  work,  should  not  be  overlooked  in  such  a  way  as  to  make 
such  jo'nts  appear  privileged  or  licensed. 

REQUIRES  MORE  THAN  MONEY. 

Sometime  ago  Raleigh  voted  one  millions  dollars  for  the  enlargement  and 
improvement  of  its  public  school  facilities.  The  brave  act  was  heralded 
throughout  the  country,  and  it  deserved  to  be  norated. 

Since  that  time  the  Capitol  city  has  been  tied  up  amongst  its  disagree- 
ments as  to  locations  and  other  matters  connected  with  the  expenditure  of 
the  princely  fund,  and  nothing  tangible  has  come  from  the  appropriation  of 
a  million  dollars  for  school  facilities.  It  requires  many  things  besides 
money  to  make  schools  prosper — unselfishness,  vision,  energy  and  hope 
are  among  these. 

VERY  PROMISING. 

That  a  reciprocal  responsibility  exists  between  the  town  and  rural  inhabi- 
tant is  becoming  more  and  more  acknowledged.  People  in  advance  sections 
have  learned  that  there  can  bo  no  healthy  and  substantial  progress,  if  their 
surrounding  communities  are  backward,  untbriving,  ignorant  and  depriv- 
ed of  educational  advantages. 

In  a  number  of  the  counties  of  the  state  there  is  noted  with  much  pleas- 
ure organized  plans  and  efforts  to  bring  the  town  and  rural  population  into 
a  better  knowledge  of  the  problems  that  confront  each.  Thus  the  bar  of  an 
imaginary  line  of  incorporation  is  coming  to  be  disr  egarded,  and  that  there 
is  a  great  big  and  vital  problem  that  needs  the  best  wisdom  ard  interest 
of  all. 

The  sooner  the  authorities  learn  that  the  substaniability  of  any  civiliza- 
tion rests  not  on  a  few  select  of  its  population  but  upon  the  general  aver- 
age of  the.  citizenship  of  the  whole  county  and  section,  then  an  ideal  con- 
dition will  become  possible.     Let  us  hope,    while  the  towns  have  advanc- 


THE  UPLIFT  5 

ed  at  a  marvelous  rate  in  educational  facilities,  that  those  who  are  charged 
with  this  duty  will  cease  excusing  themselves  for  a  lack  of  function  by 
pointing  at  these  evidences  of  progress,  which  is  not  their  making,  but 
set  themselves  to  work  at  the  jobs  which  belong  to  them.  In  a  recent  is- 
sue of  a  prominent  paper  a  high  sehool-ofnaial  pointed  with  pride,  with 
word  and  picture,  to  what  had  been  accomplished,  but  every  example  was 
a  town  or  city  proposition,  in  which  he  and  his  machine  had  no  part,  but 
was  silent  to  the  conditions  in  the  field  for  which  his  high  office  is  prima- 
rly  maintained. 

Come  clown  to  earth!  The  rural  child  is  not  getting  what  is  due  him, 
except  in  spots  where  genius  and  vision  hold  sway.  A  leader  with  a 
sympathy  for  the  whole  people,  who  can  rise  to  the  grave  responsibilities 
of  his  duties,  in  county  and    state,  is  an  outstanding  demand  of  the  times. 

*  *  *  *  *  * 

A  BOOK  OF  A  PAPER. 

Sunday's  Greensboro  News  was  an  edition  of  ninty-six  pages.  The  only 
way  any  suggestion  of  improvement  is  possible,  is  to  say  that  it  should  have 
had  four  more  pages,  an  even  hundred.  This  could  have  been  accomplished 
by  putting  on  the  whole  a  thing  a  four-page  back  and  binding  it,  thus  mak- 
ing a  book. 

It  represents  a  vast  amount  of  genius,  lab  jr  and  ability  of  the  first  water, 
that  issue  does;  but  the  subject  is  a  good  one.  and  deserves  all  the  noto- 
riety given  it. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  be  able  to  estimate  just  how  many  new  citizens, 
how  many  new  enterprises  and  how  much  capital  that  very  admirable  exhi- 
bit will  bring  to  Greensboro.      It  surely  points  the  way. 

****** 

A  PUBLIC  SERVICE. 

Mr.  Sidney  H.  Hearne,  perhaps  the  oldest  living  native  of  Albemarle 
yet  a  resident  of  that  wonderful  community,  has  rendered  a  large  and  un- 
selfish sei  vice  to  his  fellows.  It  is  announced  that  Mr.  Hearne  has  ten- 
dered to  the  town  authorities  the  gift  of  an  attractive  and  convenient 
site  of  three  acres  for  a  Public  Park. 

The  generosity  as  well  as  the  business  foresight  of  Mr.  Hearne  is 
attested  in  that  the  offer  carries  no  flare-back  or  insurmountable  obstacles, 
all  he  requires  is  a  business-like  development  and  maintenance  of  the  site. 
Without  this,  the  propositon  would  be    worthless. 

This  leads  to  some  reminiscence.     Thirty-two  years  ago  there  was  only 


6  THE  UPLIFT 

one  brick  structure  in  Albemarle — this  was  a  brick  ''smoke  house"  on  the 
lot  of  the  late  Samuel  J.  Pemberton.  To-day,  Albemarle  presents  quite  a 
solid  appearance  in  her  substantial  and  attractive  brick  buildings.  And 
this  growth  and  development  are  just  the  results  of  having  in  Albemarle 
men  of  vision  and  service,  =ueh  as  is  now,  as  in  the  past,  being  exhibited  by 
one  of  the  state's  finest  characters,  Sidney  H.  Hearne. 

****** 

A  MYSTIC  MASE. 

Somebody  started  the  puzzle  of  ascertaining  the  twelve  outstanding, 
worthwhile  men  of  the  age  in  this  country.  Others  are  amusing  themsel- 
ves in  the  mystic  mase  of  a  smaller  territory. 

Now  comes  Miss  Nell  Battle  Lewis,  the  artist  of  '"incidentally"  in  the 
Raleigh  News  &  Observer,  undertaking  to  pick  out  the  most  conspicuous 
and  worthwhile  dozen  North  Carolina  women.  She  is  treading  on  dangerous 
ground.  Take  one  hundred  well-informed  women  of  the  state  and  set  taem 
down  to  make  their  list  of  the  twelve  notables,  and  you  will  have  a  hi.ad.red 
different  selectiors.  THE  UPLIFT,  however,  can  see  now  the  sp:.rkling 
eye,  the  amused  smile  and  the  nervous  little  twitch  while  Miss  Le\  'is  was 
engaged  in  the  work  of  elimination  and  substitution  in  this  labor  of  dis- 
covery. 

Perfectly  willing  to  accept  Miss  Lewis' work  as  fairly  well  done,  THE 
UPLIFT  must  insist  on  its  belief  that  the  famous  twelve  can  be  easily 
found  in  Cabarrus  county,  without  straining  the  imagination  over  the 
whole  52,000  square  miles  of  N.  C.  territory. 

But,  seriously,  when  it  comes  to  the  contributing  to  real  joy  and  enter- 
tainment, we  insist  on  making  her  list  a  baker's  dozen  by  adding  the  name 
of  Miss  Lewis  herself. 

****** 
"TROT  IT  OUT." 

We  are  indebted  to  the  Salisbury  Post  for  the  entertainment  of  the  art- 
ticle  portraying  some  of  the  history  of  '"Venus,"  the  Rowan  correspondent 
that  has  become  famous  throughout  the  land  for  his  unique  "items"  and 
his  observing  '"nose  for  news" — nothing  escapes  his  eagle  eye,  not  even  an 
old-time  country  dinner,  a  big  pumpkin,  or  a  pretty  girl. 

A  finer  selection  for  his  newspaper  name  could  not  be  had.  That  Morn, 
ing  Star,  which  moves  in  an  orbit  between  that  of  Mercury  and  that  of  the 
earth,  at  a  distance  of  67,000,000,  miles  from  the  sun,  Venus,  fits  most  fine- 
ly the  subjects  that  attract  the  attention  of  this   faithful    correspondent. 


THE  UPLIFT  7 

He  finds  the  unique,  the  extraordinary,  the  curious,  the. oddities;  and, 
with  a  faith  that  is  beauty  itself,  he  challenges  the  world  everywhere  that 
''if  you  can  beat  it,  trot  it  out." 

THE  UPLIFT  has  a  devoted  friend  in  New  York  city  to  whom  is  oc- 
casionally sent  some  of  the  productions  of  Venus  from  the  Post  and  the 
Concord  Tribune.  That  friend  calls  in  his  friends  at  dinner  after  the 
day's  work  is  over,  and  it  is  asserted  that  the  originality  and  choieeness 
of  the  subjects  that  this  artist  displays  has  prolonged  their  lives,  and  made 
the  grind  of  their  work  in  that  old  town  much  more  tolerable. 

THE  LTPLIFT  is  surprised,  however,  to  learn  that  Venus  is  of  English 
extraction.  He  sees  too  many  funny  things  and  displays  too  much  humor 
to  be  a  regulation  Englishman. 

****** 

FEELING  MORE  COMFORTABLE 

Now  that  a  complete  water  system  has  been  installed,  including  a  50,000 
gallon  steel  tank,  a  well  that  gives  up  4,(300  gallons  of  water  per  hour  (not 
to  speak  of  others  giving  a  total  of  55  gallons)  five  hundred  feet  of  standard 
fire  hose,  the  Jackson  Training  School  plant  is  in  the  least  danger  of  fire. 
And  with  two  watchman  constantly  on  duty,  life  and  pi'operty  are  subject 
to  a  minimum  of  danger. 


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"VENUS"  THE  UNIQUE. 


Per  flesse  azure  et  gules,  a  bar- 
nacle argent ! 

You  don't  know  what  we  are  talk- 
ing about?  Neither  do  we,  but  we 
have  been  threatening  to  "trot  it 
out ' '  for  some  time. 

It's  the  inscription  on  the  coat  of 
arms  of  the  Virginia  Wyatts,  accord- 
ing to  one  of  the  Richmond,  Va., 
newspapers,  the  forebears  of  our  own 
Faith  scribe,  Venus,  who,  the  paper 
says,  is  a  descendant  of  Sir  Francis 
Wyatt,  one  of  Virginia's  early  colon- 
ial governors,  who  was  a  son  of  Sir 
George  Wyatt,  of  Boxley,  Kent,  Eng- 
land, who  was  born  in  1621  and  be- 
came governor  when  he  was  thirty- 
three  years  old. 

In  addition  to  the  inscription  on 
the  coat  of  arms,  the  Virginia  news- 
paper says,  "ringed  on  the  crest  is 
an  ostrich  proper,  holding  in  the 
beak  a  horseshoe  argent." 

The  writter  has  never  lamped  the 
coat  of  arms  of  the  Wyatt  family  and 
has  to  take  the  description  of  the 
Virginia  paper  as   correct. 

The  Virginia  paper  did  not  trans- 
late the  inscription,  probably  for  the 
'same  reason  that  we  are  not  going  to 
try  it.  The  man  who  translates  our 
Latin  is  on  his  vacation. 

But  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  Wyatt 
family  is  not  what  we  started  to 
write  about.  This  is  a  sketch  of  Sir 
John  Thomas  Wyatt,  of  Faith,  better 
known  as  Venus,  descendants  of  Sir 
Francis,  son  of  Sir  George,  of  Brox- 
ley,  Kent  England,  etc. 

Born  in  Davidson  County. 

The  subject  of  the  sketch  was  born 


(Salisbury  Post) 

in  Davidson  county  October  31,  1851, 


and    is    therefore    seventy-one    years 
old. 

He  was  married  forty-two  years 
ago  to  Charlotte  Elizabeth  Philips, 
oldest    daughter    of    Esquire      E.     E. 


J.    T.    WYATT 

Philips.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Re- 
formed church  and  has  been  writing 
"Items  From  Faith"  for  the  past 
forty-six  years. 

He  moved  to  Faith  just  fifty-one 
years  ago.  He  is  a  granite  contrac- 
tor. 

Since  his  wife's  death,  he  has  been 
living  alone  at  Faith. 

Items,  Curios  and  Granite. 


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ft 


He  has  divided  his  time  about 
equally  between  his  granite  busi- 
ness, the  writing  of  items  and  the 
collecting  of  curios. 

His  curios  which  have  been  dem- 
onstrated at  many  county  and  state 
fairs  include  some  of  the  most 
marvelous  collections  of  Confeder- 
ate Veteran  reunion  medals,  arrow 
heads,  newspapers,  articles  of 
clothing,  etc.,  ever  assembled. 

His  writings  attract  great  admi- 
ration from  readers  for  the  mar- 
vels of  the  vegetable  world  which 
he  "trots  out"  for  other  corres- 
pondents to  beat. 

Thru  his  correspondents,  young 
couples  have  met  and  started  on  the 
jaunt  thru  life  in  double  harness. 

He  attends  virtually  every  pub- 
lic gathering  in  the  county  and  many 
•outside  the  county  to  collect  his  "I- 
tems  From  Faith. ' ' 

He  has  attended  practically  every 
Confederate  reunion  since  there  has 
been  a  reunion.  He  always  has 
something  interesting  to  write,  and 
furnishes  the  newspaper  guys  with 
copy — for  example  the  lead  to  this 
story  was  carried  by  one  of  the  lead- 
ing Richmond  papers. 

Sir   John    says    he   was    a   member 
of  Company  B,  Freeman's  Battalion. 
Shipped  First  Car  of  Grahite. 

But  why  should  we  attempt  to 
write  a  history  of  a  writer  when  he 
is  alive.  We  submitted  a  question- 
naire to  Venus  and  it  covers  our  sub- 
ject   accurately. 

"I  was  married  to  Charlotte  Eliza- 
beth Philipps,  Oldest  daughter  of 
Esquire  E.  E.  Philipps,  we  lived  hap- 
pily together  for  nineteen  years.  She 
has  been  dead  about  twenty-four 
vears,  am  a  widower,  living  alone  in 


my  own  home  in  the  center  of  Faith 
and  am  boarding  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  A.  Peeler  and  have  been  for 
several  years  and  I  am  almost  just 
like  a  member  of  the  family.  He  runs 
a  big  store  and  is  a  wealthy  man  and 
has  plenty  of  everything  good  to  eat. 
I  have  retired  from  business  arid  am 
.taking  the  world  easy  and  am  having 
the  best  time  of  my  life.  Am  the  old- 
est man  living  in  Faith  now." 

"Everybody  who  is  living  in 
Faith  moved  here  since  I  did.  I  have 
been  living  here  longer  than  anyone 
else  here.  I  shipped  off  the  first  oar 
load  of  granite  that  ever  went  off 
from  here  and  started  up  the  greatest 
granite  industry  in  the  Southern 
states  and  now  thousands  of  people 
are  benefitted  by  this  granite  business 
and  the  good  work  with  continue  for 
many  years  to  come  as  the  granite  bed 
is  from  twenty-five  to  thirty  miles 
long  and  from  one  and  one  half  to 
two  miles  wide  and  from  5  to  6  miles 
from  Salisbury  and  crosses  the  rail- 
road track  at  Granite  Quarry  and  runs 
thru  the  center  of  Faith  and  Faith 
is  the  home  of  the  North  Carolina 
Granite  Millstones  for  grinding  corn 
and   wheat. 

"The  outside  world  don't  know 
it  but  thousands  of  dollars  are  sent 
to  this  section  by  the  portable  corn 
mill  factories  and  other  mills  to  pay 
for  the  little  granite  stones  that  go 
in  these  portable  mills. 

"Faith  has  about  500  inhabitants 
and  nearly  everybody  works  in  the 
granite  quarries,  except  the  women 
folks.  The  granite  works  is  a  fine 
business  and  that  is  the  reason  so 
many  people  are  moving  here  to  make 
it  their  home.  I  fill  all  orders  for 
granite  work  that  I  receeive." 


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THE    ART    OF    FORGETTING. 


(Monroe  Journal) 


It  is  said  that  wanting  things  that 
we  cannot  have  and  which  we  could 
very  well  be  without  causes  much 
of  the  disappointments  of  life.  An 
ancient  philosopher  is  credited  with 
the  saying  that  he  was  wealthy  in 
being  able  to  do  without  so  many 
things.  "Forget  it.''  has  become  a 
popular  bit  of  modern  slang.  Sup- 
pose we  should  practice  the  art  of 
forgetting,  not  only  forgetting  the 
desire  for  a  multiplicity  of  things 
beyond  our  reach,  but  forgetting  the 
disagreeable  things  of  the  past.  To 
many  people  it  would  be  a  rejuve- 
nation. 

It  is  a  question  which  class  of  un- 
happy people  is  the  largest,  those 
who  make  themselves  miserable  by 
longing  for  things  beyond  their 
means  or  those  who  warp  their  lives 
by  harboring  the  things  that  should 
be  forgotten. 

The  person  who  harbours  all  the 
petty  annoyances,  the  vexing  irrita- 
tions, the  mean  words,  the  unkind 
acts,  the  wrongs  and  the  disappoint- 
ments he  has  suffered  is  travelling  a 
road  that  leads  straight  to  perma- 
nent unhappiness  if  not  to  an  insane 
asylum. 

No  superior  person  ever  does  this, 
for  the  one  who  does  it  cannot  be 
superior.  His  faculties  are  too 
much  warped,  his  vision  is  blurred. 
He  can  have  little  wholesome  initia- 
tive and  no  poise.     He  cannot  build 


character  worth  while  [because  his 
thoughts  turn  inward  like  an  in- 
growing toe  nail,  not  outward  for 
the  absorption  of  more  strength. 

You  have  often  heard  the  expres- 
sion, "I  can  forgive  but  1  can't  for- 
get." But  no  one  can  do  any  such 
thing.  You  can  only  say  that  you 
forgive  while  making  the  mental 
reservation  to  remember.  While  if 
you  forget  first,  there  will  be  no 
trouble  about  forgiving.  Pretty 
soon  you  will  see  that  it  is  not  worth 
thinking  about  one  way  or  the  other. 

Passing  by  the  annoyances  or  the 
irritations  or  thepetty  injustices  and 
thinking  of  more  important  things  in 
life  is  like  leaving  the  brush  and 
bushes  and  drift  that  clutter  up  a 
winding  foot  path  and  passing  out 
into  the  broad  and  clean  highway, 
where  you  can  cease  to  think  of 
your  feet,  and  hold  your  head  high 
and  behold  the  far  spaces,  the  widen- 
ing rivers  and  the  far  flung  horizon. 
Holding  a  high  head"  has  a 
deeper  meaning  than  is  commonly 
supposed.  The  high  head  which 
comes  of  mere  vanity  and  the  at- 
tempt to  be  disdainful  is  nothing  and 
is  justly  and  quickly  sized  up  as 
opera-bouffe.  But  the  high  head 
which  comes  from  a  determination  to 
respect  one's  self  too  much  to  be  a 
quibbler,  a  nagger,  or  a  reservoir  of 
petty  recollections,  gives  poise,  and 
universally  challenge  admiration. 


"Chew  your  food,  Doris,  before  you  swallow  it;   your  stomach  hasn't 
teeth  to  chew  with." 

"Mine  has.    I  swallowed  two  last  summer." 


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11 


FORD  ON  THE  MODERN  SCHOOL. 


Henry  Ford,  in  an  article  in  the 
Dearborn  Independent,  criticizes 
modern  methods  of  teaching  says : 

"The  first  thing  that  school  vaca- 
tions impress  upon  us  is  the  help- 
less condition  in  which  the  schools 
leave  most  boys.  They  have  learned 
nothing  that  they  are  eager  to  prac- 
tice; they  have  studied  nothing  that 
they  are  eager  to  test.  So  far  as 
their  own  feeling  goes,  there  is  a 
gulf  between  the  interests  of  the 
classroom  and  the  interests  of  the 
world  at  large.  To  the  eyes  of  the 
boy,  the  school  and  the  world  are  not 
engaged  in  the  same  things  at  all. 
His  experience  has  not  given  him 
any  practical  hand-hold  on  the  life 
that  swirls  about  him.  As  a  conse- 
quence, the  vacation  period  is  not 
nearly  so  pleasant  for  the  boy  as 
older  folks  think  it  is.  It  throws 
,him  out  of  the  routine  that  exer- 
cised authority  over  him;  it  does 
not  throw  him  into  anything  else 
but  vileness.  He  is  largely  left  to 
his  own  devices.  He  tries  to  'play' 
but  it  is  harder  for  a  boy  to  '  play ' 
in  this  mechanical  age  than  it  evei 
was  before.  After  his  temporary 
gladness  because  of  his  release  from 
school,  vacation  becomes  really  a 
problem  for  the  boy  of  energy. 

' '  Sometimes  he  tries  to  work,  to 
get  a  job  somewhere,  but  there  are  nol 


many  jobs  for  boys  who  can  stay  on- 
ly two  months;  and  so  we  learn  an- 
other thing  from  vacations,  namely, 
we  have  no  place  for  our  boys.  We 
have  not  taken  them  into  considera- 
tion. We  have  rid  ourselves  of  them 
by  placing  them  in  school,  that  is,  by 
placing  them  in  the  atmosphere  and 
under  the  control  of  the  most  un- 
practical element  of  our  population; 
and  then  we  have  forgotten  them. 

' '  The  dangerous  age  for  a  boy  is 
that  period  when  the  school  is 
through  with  him,  having  told  him 
everything  but  how  to  get  a  start  in 
life,  and  practical  life  looks  at  him 
askance.  The  truth  is,  we  have  left 
no  place  for  the  boy.  We  have  re- 
fused to  give  hifcu  a  hand-hold  on 
life  at  a  time  when  his  development 
urges  him  to  get  that  hand-hold.  We 
have  forced  him  to  pursue  a  course 
which  if  it  does  not  unfit  him  for 
his  part,  at  least  does  not  fit  him  for 
cised  authority  over  him ;  it  does 
it.  The  result  is  that,  to  many,  study 
becomes  abhorrent  in  youth,  and 
work  becomes  abhorrent  in  matur- 
ity. Instincts  thwarted  at  both  pe- 
riods become  obstructions  all  the  way 
through.  Freedom  is  an  essential 
developement  in  life;  freedom  with 
discipline  is  consistent ;  freedom  with 
repression  is  not. ' ' 


If  you  want  knowledge,  you  must  toil  for  it;  and  if  pleasure,  you  must 
toil  for  it.  Toil  is  the  law.  Pleasure  comes  through  toil,  and  not  by 
self-indulgence  and  indolence.  When  one  gets  to  love  work,  his  life  is  a 
happy  one. — Ruskin. 


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SOME    REMARKABLE  ESCAPES    IN 
THE   LIFE    OF   A   BOY 


By  George  Cleaton  Wilding. 


When  one  looks  back  over  the  ad- 
ventures and  risks  of  his  red-  blood- 
ed boyhood  he  falls  to  wondering-  how 
half  of  the  boys  ever  pull  through  it 
and  reach  manhood.  But  it  is  simply 
amazing  how  much  a  healthy,  lively 
boy  can  endure  and  yet  survive  it, 
and  come  out  of  it  all  smiling;  how 
nearly  he  can  walk  into  the  jaws  of 
death,  and  then  swing  back  into  the 
sunny  path  of  life.  I  think  that  all 
normal  boys  relish  a  risk.  I  am  sure 
that  to  me  it  was  the  spice  of  life 
when  I  was  a  boy. 

My  first  real  exciting  adventure 
took  place  in  a  Pennsylvania  coal 
village,  when  I  was  bit  of  a  lad,  say 
about  seven  years  old.  It  was  a 
rather  raw  day  in  late  November, 
and  a  half-dozen  of  us  little  fellows 
were  playing  on  top  of  a  coke  fur- 
nace because  of  its  warmth.  In  a 
furnace  of  this  sort  the  coal  is  shov- 
eled in  through  the  doors  in  the  front 
of  the  furnace  on  a  lower  level,  while 
the  vent-holes,  or  chimneys,  are  on 
the  level  at  the  top  of  the  furnace 
where  we  were  playing.  In  theexcite- 
nient  of  our  game  I  tumbled  into  one 
of  these  holes.  Fortunately  the  work- 
man had  just  shoveled  into  this  par- 
ticular furnace  a  lot  of  fine  coal,  or 
slack,  and,  luckily,  I  fell  into  the 
black  center  of  this  smoking  heap. 
Instantly  I  fell  to  screaming  and 
thrust  my  hands  as  high  as  I  could 
reach  them.  The  boys  gathered  quick- 
ly around  the  hole  in  the  face  of  the 
rising  smoke,  and,  reaching  down, 
they   caught   me   by   the   hands    and 


arms,  and  after  a  hard  tug  yanked  me 
out.  The    flames    were    gathering 

about  me  as  I  was  lifted  out.  My 
clothes  were  scorched,  and  my  hands 
were  slightly  burned,  but  I  was  saved. 
One  of  the  boys  had  raced  to  our 
home,  near  by,  to  tell  my  mother,  who 
was  busy  getting  dinner.  She  came 
at  the  top  of  her  speed,  with  a  fork 
in  her  hand,  and  catching  me  up  in 
her  arms  she  dashed  home  with  me. 
What  a  wonderful  being  is  a  mother! 
My  second  exciting  escape  occurred 
when  I  was  about  eleven  years  old. 
My  father  was  the  superintendent  of 
the  coal-mines.  A  lot  of  large,  emp- 
ty coal-barges  were  made  fast  to  the 
shore  near  the  tipple.  That  old  Ohio 
River  was  at  flood-tide.  Its  turbid 
surface  was  covered  with  floating 
driftwood — planks,  slabs,  logs,  trees 
and  small  buildings.  A  great  lot  of 
this  miscellaneous  stuff  was  packed  in 
front  of  the  bows  of  these  big  barges. 
The  current  was  so  strong  that  it  was 
jammed  very  close  together,  so  that 
we  boys  could  walk  upon  the  surface 
of  it.  I  carelessly  stepped  upon  a 
place  where  were  small  pieces  of  wood 
and  bunches  of  froth.  Down  I  went, 
and  that  swift  current  promptly  car- 
ried me  under  the  half  acre  of  drift- 
wood. Instantly  I  felt  that  I  must 
not  allow  myself  to  be  carried  under 
the  coal-barge.  So  I  grasped  firmly 
the  limbs  of  a  fair-sized  tree,  and  felt 
carefully  for  a  soft  place  over  head, 
and  after  a  good  deal  of  effort,  butted 
my  head  through.  At  once  the  boys 
saw  me  and  lifted  me  to  freedom  and 


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13 


safety.  As  I  gazed  about  me  at  the 
blue  sky  and  trees  on  the  hillside,  how 
beautiful  it  all  looked  to  rue. 

My  third  risk  occurred  in  a  little 
village  on  the  banks  of  the  Ohio  Riv- 
er, in  a  part  of  Virginia  which  is  now 
"West  Virginia.  It  was  an  inspiring 
winter  morning.  The  day  was  crisp 
and  cool  with  brightt  sunshine.  It  was 
a  great  temptation  to  a  boy,  even  if 
it  was  Sunday.  I  was  about  for- 
teen  then  and  passionately  fond  of 
skating.  So,  hiding  my  old  fashioned 
skates  under  my  overcoat,  I  sallied 
forth.  In  the  outskirts  of  the  vil- 
lage I  met  a  number  of  the  boys  on 
their  way  for  a  day  skating.  The 
river  had  risen,  and  the  backwates 
had  lifted  Broad  Run  out  of  its 
banks  over  the  creek.  The  ice  was 
hard  and  smooth,  just  ideal  for  our 
sport.  Soon  we  had  our  skates 
strapped  onto  our  boots,  and  we  were 
gliding  over  the  glittering   ice. 

Soon  we  were  so  interested  and 
excited  that  we  forgot  all  else.  In 
the  meantime  the  water  was  steadily 
rising,  but  we  failed  to  observe  it. 
At  last  it  had  lifted  the  ice  loose  at 
the  shore,  and  we  were  carelessly 
skating  on  one  huge  floating  cake  of 
ice.  As  I  turned  suddenly  the  heel 
of  my  skate  split  this  great  ice-cake 
clear  across  the  creek,  and  I  dropped 
neatly  down  into  this  yawning  crack. 
I  could  swim  like  a  duck.  Although 
I  was  burdened  with  a  heavy  suit  of 
clothes,  overcoat,  boots  and  skates 
I  managed  to  swim  to  the  edge  of  the 
ice  cake.  As  best  I  could  I  put  my 
elbows  upon  it  and  tried  to  pull  my- 
self up.  But  the  edge  of  the  ice 
broke  off  and  let  me  slip  back  into 
the  cold  water.  I  tried  this  several 
times  with   the  same  wretched  luck. 


I  was  by  this  time  getting  very  cold 
and  weak.  I  felt  that  something  des- 
perate must  be  done.  So  I  again 
swam  to  the  edge  of  the  ice,  and  this 
time  I  came  up  to  it  sidewise.  I 
lifted  my  hip  up  upon  the  ice  and  roll- 
ed, and  this  time  it  sustained  me. 
All  of  this  time  that  bunch  of  boys 
had  stood  at  a  distance,  scared  stiff, 
and  utterly  unable  to  help  me  in  any 
way.  They  all  had  succeeded  in  get- 
ting unto  the  shore.  Stiff  and  numb 
I  rose  to  my  feet  and  slowly  skated 
to  the  end  of  a  huge  log,  that  reached 
to  the  shore,  climbed  upon  it  and  thus 
reached  the  bank  of  the  creek. 

Quickly  taking  off  my  skates  I  flung 
them  to  a  friend,  and,  with  "Pets" 
Roush,  I  raced  over  frozen  fields,  with 
that  ice-water  in  my  boots,  splashing 
up  my  legs,  for  almost  a  mile  to  the 
farmhouse  home  of  "Pets"  father, 
Mr.  Philip  Roush.  Here,  luckily,  we 
found  nobody  at  home.  "Pets  made 
an  immense  wood  fire  in  the  great 
stone  fireplace,  and  I  stripped  off  and 
lay  down  on  a  big  thick  blanket  in 
front  of  the  roaring  fire.  My,  but  it 
did  feel  good.  I  put  on  a  new  suit  of 
' '  Pets ' '  clothes,  while  mine  were  dry- 
ing, and,  in  the  meantime,  we  filled 
up  on  apples  and  doughnuts.  Then  I 
got  into  my  own  clothes  again,  and  we 
went  back  to  the  creek  and  the  boys, 
finding  a  safe  place,  we  skated  till 
dark.  How  quickly  a  boy  forgets! 
And  mother  was  to  settle  with  when  I 
got  home. 

My  fourth  escape  happened  when  I 
was  about  sixteen  years  old,  in  the 
Ohio  River,  near  the  place  of  the  sec- 
ond adventure.  A  lot  of  those  empty 
coal-barges  were  tied  to  the  shore  near 
the  coal  tipple,  in  the  lower  end  of  the 
village.     A    bunch   of    us    boys    were 


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having  our  afternoon  swim  one  warm 
summer  day.  We  were  in  a  contest, 
diving  from  the  watchmans  boat,  the 
' '  Garibaldi, "  in  an  open  stretch  of 
water,  inside  the  flotilla  of  big  barges. 
When  my  turn  came  I  made  my  dive, 
determined  I  would  win  by  making  it 
a  long  one.  I  turned  to  much  to  the 
right,  and  when  I  came  up  I  was  un- 
der a  barge. 

I  bumped  my  head  pretty  hard, 
and,  for  a  moment,  I  was  slightly 
stunned,  so  that  I  lost  my  sense  of 
direction.  I  could  not  be  sure  which 
was  the  way  to  shore  and  safety. 
Any  other  course  meant  certain 
death.  I  remembered  reading  that 
at  the  bottom  of  a  stream  one  could 
find  out  which  way  the  current  flowed 
I  instantly  dived  to  the  bottom, 
thrust  my  fingers  into  the  soft  mud, 
and  at  once,  I  felt  the  flow  of  the 
stream.  Now  I  knew  the  way,  and 
''pulled  for  the  shore." 

But  the  remarkable  thing  is  that 
while  a  part  of  my  mind  was  busy 
with  the  important  problem  of  mak- 
ing my  escape  from  death,  another 
section  of  my  mind  was  busy  with  a 
great  moral  or  spiritual  problem.  My 
life  passed  before  my  vision  like  a 
vivid  panorama.  There  was  no  haste. 
It  passed  by  steadily  and  slowly.  I 
saw  and  estimated  the  moral  events 
of  my  life.  My  acts  of  disobedience  to 
my  parents,  to  the  voice  of  my  inner 
conscience,  to  my  God,  all  stood  out 
before  me  in  plain  view.  I  stood 
condemmed  at  the  bar  of  righteous 
ness.  When  I  reached  the  shore  I 
was  exhausted  and  faint,  and  I  stret- 
ched out  on  the  sand  in  the  sun,  as 
the    bovs    gathered    around    me.     Of 


course,  for  a  time  I  was  the  hero  of 
that  gang  of  boys.  But  it  was  a  long 
time  before  I  told  all  of  that  story. 

My  fifth  adventure  took  place  when 
I  was  a  big  boy,  almost  twenty  years 
of  age.  I  was  on  my  way  home  from 
college  for  the  Christmas  vacation. 
I  took  that  lumbering  old-fashioned 
sled-stage  at  Athens,  Ohio,  for  Pome- 
roy,  a  distance  of  some  twenty  miles. 

We  started  at  about  8  p.m.  through 
a  pretty  deep  snow.  It  was  a  bitter 
cold  night.  After  an  hour  or  so  I  was 
the  only  passenger.  I  curled  up  in  the 
straw  and  tried  to  keep  warm.  But  I 
got  colder  and  wanted  to  go  to  sleep; 
but  I  knew  that  I  must  not  do  that. 

At  last  I  must  have  yielded  to  this 
drowsy  tendency,  for  the  driver  sai< 
he  spoke  to  me  several  times  and  I  did 
not  answer  him.  Then  he  was  uneasy 
so  he  stopped  the  horses,  and  came 
back  to  me.  He  talked  to  me,  shook 
me,  and  yet  he  could  not  waken  me. 
He  then  picked  me  up  bodily  and 
threw  me  out  on  the  hard  frozen 
ground.  The  sudden  jolt  aroused  me, 
and  I  became  conscious. 

The  early  sensations  of  freezing  are 
delicious.  As  the  blood  trickled  up 
my  arms  and  legs  the  tickling,  prick- 
ling feeling  made  sort  of  gentle  lull- 
aby. It  all  seemed  like  a  beautiful, 
dream.  But  when  that  same  blood 
rushed  back  into  my  hands  and  feet, 
the  pain  was  terific,  as  sharp  as  a 
knife.  The  blood  seemed  to  be  as  hot 
as  molten  metal.  When  I  came  to  my- 
self I  was  irritable  cross,  angry.  I 
wanted  to  light  the  driver.  He  laugh- 
ed and  backed  out  of  my  way.  But 
when  my  mind  cleared.  I  thanked  him 
warmly  for  saving  mv  life. 


A  spoiled  child  is  to  be  pitied.    Also  its  parents. — Exchange. 


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LOCAL  MARKET  PROBLEM. 


(The  Robesonian) 


"The  local  market  for  home-raised 
food  and  feed  supplies  is  the  biggest 
economic  problem  that  our  growing 
cities  have  to  solve,"  says  the  Uni- 
versity News  Letter.  Here's  a  job  for 
a  whole-time  commercial  club  sec- 
retary to  tackle,  if  we  had  one  in 
Lumberton,  a  man-size  job  in  solving 
which  he  would  earn  his  salary. 

News  items  from  Fayetteville  and 
Gastonia  recently  have  told  of  the 
success  of  curb  markets  in  those 
towns.  The  News  Letter  says  that  our 
farmers  will  never  produce  ample  sur- 
pluses of  bread  and  meat  for  the  near- 
by town  dwellers  under  present  con- 
ditions. "Peddling  food  products 
from  door  to  door,"  continues  the 
News  Letter,  "is  peddling  business 
and  the  stomach  of  robust  farmers 
rebels  at  it.  Our  towns  and  cities 
must  provide  local  market  arrange- 
ments, conveniences,  and  facilities  for 
home  raised  food  products  just  as 
cotton  and  tobbacco.  The  local  mar- 
ket for  home-raised  food  and  feed 
products  means  regional  stockyards, 
shipping  facilities  and  advantageous 
freight   rates;   abattoirs,   chilling  and 


packing  plants ;  warehouses,  ware- 
house certificates,  and  bank  loans  on 
these  certificates;  open  air  curb  mar- 
kets, and  well  managed  free  publie 
market  houses  in  the  larger  cities; 
camping  yards  and  sheds,  rest  rooms, 
and  so  on  and  on.  But  even  more  it 
means  the  marketing  habit  on  part  of 
housewives  and  merchants,  along  with 
fair  prices  and  profits  for  the  farm- 
ers. It  means  town-and-country  co- 
operation, and  the  lack  of  such  co- 
operation spells  inevitable  failure." 

Not  lcng  ago  a  farmer  upbraided 
a  Lumberton  man  because  when  he 
brought  some  potatoes  to  town  he  did 
not  find  a  market  for  them.  "And 
yet  farmers  are  urged  all  the  time  to 
produce  food  and  feed  products  suf- 
ficient to  supply  the  home  towns," 
he  said. 

Farmers  will  supply  bread  and 
meat  for  the  town  dwellers,  no  doubt 
when  the  town  dwellers  supply  the 
market. 

"He  serves  his  city's  business  best 
who  best  serves  the  farmers  in  the 
trade  territory,"  concludes  the  News 
Letter. 


Chinese  automobiles  are  now  being  manufactured  for  the  first  time  by 
a  machine  company  in  China. — Exchange. 


BROADENING    EDUCATIONAL    FIELDS. 


(New  York  Evening  Post.) 


Education  was  once  a  private  fam- 
ily concern.  Then  it  developed  into 
a  local  or  community  matter.  Next 
it  passed  to  State   control.     Now    it 


alized  through  the  operations  of  the 
Towner-Sterling  bill,  which  is  de- 
signed to  furnish  Federal  aid  and 
maintain   fairly   uniform    standards 


is  on  the  verge  of  becoming  nation-      over  the  whole  country.      The    next 


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step  in  the  process  is  towards  inter- 
nationalism, and  it  is  highly  signifi- 
cant that  the  National  Education  As- 
sociation, which  emphatically  de- 
manded continued  support  for  the 
Towner- Sterling  bill,  should  have 
arrange  to  send  invitations  to  forty- 
five  countries  asking  their  teachers 
to  join  with  ours  in  a  world  confer- 
ence on  education  in  1923. 
So  far  each  of  these  sweeping  advan- 
ces has  brought  boons  far  outweigh- 
ing, from  the  standpoint  of  a  de- 
mocracy, the  incident  aldifficulties. 
While  the  home  and  the  school  dis- 
trict may  have  lost  authority  in  the 
process  at  least  a  strong  case  may 
be  made  showing  such  loss  was  the 
cause  rather  than  the  effect  of   edu- 


cational reforms.  With  the  meas- 
ure before  the  country,  that  is  un- 
doubtedly the  case.  If  all  the 
States  were  meeting  their  several 
educational  problems  fully  enough 
to  satisfy  the  conscience  of  the  coun- 
try, there  would  be  no  call  for  legis- 
lation of  the  sort  embodied  in  the 
Towner-Sterling  bill,  with  its  pro- 
visions for  Federal  aid,  a  national 
education  programme,  and  an  edu- 
catior  in  the  cabinet. 

The  value  of  the  first  world  con- 
ference on  education  may  be  chiefly 
inspirational,  but  later  gatherings 
may  produce  solvents  for  interna- 
tional discords,  sedatives  for  nation- 
alist spleens,  and  tonics  for  world 
thought. 


The  block  of  granite  which  is  an  obstacle  in  the  path  of  the  weak,  be- 
comes a  stepping-stone  in  the  path  of  the  strong. — Carlyle. 


SHOES   IN   BANK   BOX. 


(Salisbury  Post) 


Shoes  in  a  bank  deposit  box! 

Doubt  it?  Don't  blame  you.  But 
Dank  employes  are  to  be  trusted! 

Admittedly,  it  wasn't  a  shoe  for 
an  adult  man.  Quite  the  contrary; 
it  was  the  shoe  of  a  little  child.  Per- 
haps the  first  pair  the  baby  had  ever 
worn. 

Mother  was  saving  it  until  her 
boy"  became  a  man;  that's  why  it 
happened  to  be  in  the  bank  deposit 
box — it  was  asserted.  The  little 
shoes  was  worn  slightly;  but  that 
didn't  matter.  They  were  his" 
shoes;  which  in  itself  was  sufficient. 

Perhaps  this  was  the  most  sur- 
prising relic  depos.ted  in  the  bank 
boxes.  Ijook  in  the  boxes?  Not 
one  peep;   just  gathering  the    dope 


from  the  memory  of  clerks  who  had 
accidently  seen  certain  things  plac- 
ed in  the  boxes  from  time  to  time 
during  the  past  decade  or  longer. 

Money,  old  coins,  life  and  fire  in- 
surance policies,  mortgages,  deeds 
and  commercial  papers  of  all  kinds 
and  descriptions  were  said  to  have 
been  desposited  in  these  boxes. 

One  old  confederate  veteran  proud, 
of  his  long  service  under  General 
Robert  E.  Lee;  proud  of  the  day's 
of  the  confederacy;  proud  of  their 
money  even  though  it  had  eventually 
become  worthless, — had  deposited  a 
wad  of  old  confederate  bills  in  his 
box. 

Another  peculiar  document  was 
a    marriage     license — the    cetificate 


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too!  Drawn  up  properly  and  incor- 
porated before  a  year  had  lapsed? 
Funny,  eh?  Well  maybe  not.  No 
■one  knows— except  the  parties  who 
had  it  placed  there — why  it  was 
there.  Probably  to  save  it?  Pre- 
vent wifie  or  hubby,  in  a  case  of  a 
vehement  disagreement,  from  tear- 
ing it  in  shreads? 

That's  just  a  guess.  Haven't  in- 
vestigated the  cause;  don't  even 
know  who  the  parties  are  and  if 
that  knowledge  was  given  out. — far 
be  it  from  a  reporter  to  expose  the 
.guilty  parties. 


But  it's  worth  preserving — any 
register  of  deeds  or  judge  of  a  super- 
ior court  can  tell  you  that! 

Curios  innumerable  also  fill  the 
boxes.  S.ome  were  "unnamable." 
Vague  descriptions  could  only  be 
secured;  too  vague  to  bank  an  argu- 
ment on  so,  it  won't  be  necceseary 
to  enumerate. 

Any  old  love  letters  there?  Didn't 
hear  of  any — but  there  might  have 
been  for  you  never  can  tell! 

Pa  and  Ma  wouldn't  admit  it  if 
they  had  preserved  any? 

Could  vou  blame  them? 


"If  the  troopB  are  denying  you  or  those  you  represent,  the  right  to  do 
anything  you  want  to  do  please  let  me  know  at  once  what  it  is,  and,  if, 
it  is  not  against  the  law,  I  will  see  that  they  are  requested  to  let  you  do 
it." — Gov.  Morrison  to  President  Barrett. 


A  PAIR  OF  LABRADOR  BOOTS. 


By  Greta 
The  people  who  live  in  Northern 
Newfoundland  and  along  the  Labra- 
dor Coast  are  accustomed  to  look  up- 
on many  of  our  necessitties  as  lux- 
uries from  the  very  force  of  circum- 
stances. Stores  are  few  and  far 
between,  besides  they  usually  carry 
only  staples,  and  money  for  even 
these  is  not  alwa3's  plentiful.  The 
men  make  and  mend  their  own  nets 
whenever  possible  as  well  as  their 
own  komatiks,  snowshoes,  and  dog 
harness  for  the  winter.  The  women 
knit,  make  mats,  fashion  the  sealskin 
trousers  and  warm,  fur-fringed  'dik- 
•ey, '  as  the  parka  is  called  here,  for 
winter  wear,  and  often  provide  every 
member  of  the  family  with  a  pair  of 
sealskin  boots  in  addition  to  all  this. 
These  boots  are  very  cleverly  design- 
ed  and   are    interesting   examples   of 


G.  Bidlake 

neat  workmanship.  The  English 
and  Newfoundland  women  learned 
to  make  them  from  the  Eskimo  wo- 
men who  were  already  proficient  in 
the  art  when  the  former  came  strang- 
ers to  the  Coast.  Still,  one  observes, 
that  to  this  day  the  women  who 
turn  out  the  best  boots  are  nearly  al- 
ways pure  Eskimos  or  of  a  decidedly 
Eskimo   ancestry. 

Labrador  sealskin  boots  are  not 
made  of  the  soft,  silky,  brown-furred 
seal  familiar  to  commerce.  Several 
different  varieties  are  used  for  their 
making,  all  rather  light  in  color 
though  spotted  with  dark  brown  along 
the  back  and  sides.  They  are  local- 
ly known  as  'harps'  and  'jars,'  and 
there  is  a  third  variety  which  I  have 
never  seen  but  which  is  quite  com- 
mon and  is  called   'square  flippers.' 


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Seals  are  usually  killed  in  the 
Spring,  though  the  Labrador  people 
also  get  a  few  in  the  Fall  and  shoot 
a  stray  one  "whenever  they  find  it.  A 
great  deal  of  work  goes  into  the  bus- 
iness of  making  a  pair  of  boots.  The 
old  recipe  for  cooked  hare  said,  'first 
catch  your  hare'  and  if  you  want  to 
have  a  pair  of  sealskin  boots  you 
must  first  catch  your  seal.  This  is 
done  in  more  than  one  way.  I  shall 
first  tell  you  how  it  is  done  by  the 
Newfoundland    seal    hunters.  The 

Labrador  men  do  it  differently. 

Seals,  you  know,  come  down  from 
the  Arctic  regions  in  the  Spring 
w-hen  the  ice  breaks  up,  about  March, 
on  floating  pans  or  large  masses  of 
moving  ice  called  'floes.'  Each  moth- 
er seal  has  a  baby  seal  by  her  side- 
For  the  first  six  weeks  of  their  lives 
the  young  seals  are  almost  pure  white 
and  are  known  as  'white  coats.' 
Perhaps  some  smart  boy  or  girl  can 
tell  me  why  they  are  this  color.  Lat- 
er they  shed  their  jackets  and  are, 
for  a  while,  called  'ragged  coats.' 
The  people  of  the  North  often  call 
all  seals  'swiles'  and  refer  to  the  seal 
hunt   as  '  swiling-time. ' 

As  soon  as  the  ice  begins  to  give 
way  off  shore,  steamers,  guided  by 
aeroplanes,  leave  the  Newfoundland 
ports  and  brave  the  bergs  and  'slob' 
ice  in  order  to  find  the  seal  herds. 
Sometimes  these  ships  are  crushed  in 
the  ice  and  founder;  sometimes  they 
are  wrecked  or  almost  submerged 
by  the  'calving'  or  parting  of  a  huge 
berg  near  them ;  sometimes  the  men 
get  too  far  away  from  their  ship  or 
become  detached  from  their  party 
and,  not  being  able  to  get  back  be- 
fore nightfall,  suffer  tortures  from 
exposures   or   often  freeze   to   death. 


A.  great   deal   of   danger  attends   ont 
of  these  seal  hunts. 

When  the  seal  herds  have  been  lo- 
cated the  steamer  stops  and  its  crew 
go  out  on  the  ice.  They  leap,  from 
pan  to  pan,  killing  the  seals  by  a  blow 
from  a  'gaff'  or  'bat'  and,  after 
'sculping'  or  skinning  them,  leave 
the  pelts  upon  the  ice.  A  collection 
of  five  or  six  pelts  is  called  a  'tow' 
and  each  man  hauls  his  tow  to  the 
ship  if  she  is  near.  If  she  be  distant 
he  leaves  them  in  a  heap  and  the 
steamer  collects  them.  When  a  suf- 
ficient quantity  of  skins  has  been 
packed  away  in  the  hold  the  ship 
'bears  up'  for  home  and  off  they  go 
back  to  Newfoundland  where  anxious 
friends  and  relatives  look  hourly  for 
their  coming  and  long  to  know  that 
the  trip  has  been  a  success.  Every 
year  the  women  wait  at  home  while 
their  men  face  the  danger  of  the  seal 
hunt. 

The  Labrador  hunters  do  things  on 
a  smaller  scale  as  they  mostly  want 
the  sealskins  for  their  own  use  and 
not  for  sale.  They  practice  what  is 
known  as  'inshore  fishery'  and  take 
the  seals  in  nets  laid  along  the  shore 
or  shoot  them  from  their  row  boats 
in  some  secluded  bay  where  seals 
seek  shelter  or  become  stranded  whei 
a  pan  of  passing  ice  drifts  in  anc 
melts. 

Here,  after  the  seal  is  sculped,  the 
flesh  is  not  wasted,  but  comes  to  the 
family  table  in  many  a  dark,  rich, 
wholesome  dish.  The  skin  is  lashed 
into  an  oblong  frame  for  stretching 
and  drying  and  is  laid  in  some  high 
place  to  dry  so  that  the  dogs,  which 
become  wild  at  the  scent  of  meat,  may 
not  get  in.  This  high  place  is  usual- 
ly provided  by  the  top  of  the  house 


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or  a  shed. 

When  the  skin  is  dry  one  of  the 
men  rips  it  from  the  frame  and 
stores  it  away.  From  time  to  time 
throughout  the  summer  he  brings  it 
•out  of  the  wooden  chest  in  the  corn- 
er of  the  kitchen  and  'works'  it  with 
his  hands  to  'break  the  grain'  and 
make  the  hard  dry  skin  soft  and  pli- 
able. I  have  seen  men  roll  the  skin 
up  tightly  and  stamp  on  it  during 
this  process. 

The  leather  once  softened,  the  skin 
is  handed  over  to  the  women  of  the 
house  who  do  the  rest.  They  wet  it 
thoroughly,  sometimes  in  the  brook 
and  sometimes  in  a  tub  of  water, 
and  roll  it  up  in  a  piece  of  thick,  wet, 
woolen  cloth,  taking  care  that  there 
is  always  a  thickness  of  cloth  be- 
tween the  layers  of  skin.  It  is  then 
put  away  in  a  warm  place  where  it 
will  keep  damp  and  left  for  about 
eight  days.  If  it  shows  signs  of  dry- 
ing out  the  cloth  is  dampened  again. 
At  the  end  of  the  eight  days  it  is 
brought  out  and  the  hair  scraped  oft' 
with  a  sharp  knife.  The  leather  is 
now  ready  for  cutting.  It  is  quite 
light  in  color  but  becomes  dark  from 
frequent  applications  of  seal  oil  ap- 
plied  while   in  the  wearing. 

The  skin,  however,  is  not  the  only 
part  of  the  seal  that  goes  into  the 
making  of  a  pair  of  boots,  for  the 
sinew  with  which  they  are  sown 
comes  from  the  neck  of  this  same  an- 
imal. It  is  a  circular  portion  about 
three  inches  in  diameter  and  five 
inches  long.  While  still  moist,  it  is 
stretched  over  a  round  stick  and  left 
to  dry.  The  drying  finished,  it  is  put 
in  the  chest  with  the  skins,  having 
been  slit  up  in  order  to  remove  it 
from   the   stick.        When  both    leath- 


er and  sinew  are  in  shape  and  the 
time  permits  or  necessity  demands, 
a  woman  begins  to  make  the  boots. 
She  cuts  pieces  about  half -inch  wide 
from  the  sinew,  which  now  looks  like 
brown  parchment,  and  puts  it  to 
soak.  When  well  soaked  these  strips 
stretch  out  into  a  coarse,  dark  thread, 
which  is  twelve  or  more  inches  long. 
There  are  times  when  the  supply  of 
sinew  becomes  exhausted  and  then 
stout  linen  or  cotton  thread  must  be 
used.  This  rots  quickly  after  the  boots 
are  exposed  to  the  water  so  sinew  is 
always  used  if  it  can  be  had. 

Every  woman  who  makes  boots 
has  a  number  of  brown  paper  pat- 
terns which  she  carefully  keeps.  The 
dav  the  boots  are  to  be  made  she 
brings  out  the  skin,  cuts  the  sinew, 
puts  it  to  soak  and  lays  her  pattern 
on  the  leather.  She  is  careful  not 
to  waste  a  bit  of  it  in  the  cutting 
for  families  in  the  North  have  a  way 
of  growing  larger  while  seals  are  be- 
coming scarcer  year  by  year.  She 
first  cuts  two  wide,  long,  double  leg 
pieces  that  narrow  toward  the  bottom 
and  slant  down  to  a  point  at  one  side, 
slant  down  to  a  point  at  one  side. 
She  clips  off  part  of  this  point  so  as 
to  leave  a  curve.  When  the  leg  is 
joined  by  a  seam  up  the  back  this 
leaves  a  half  circle  bending  up  near 
the  instep.  To  this  she  sews  a  piece 
shaped  like  a  half  sole,  except  that 
it  is  rounded  at  both  ends,  and  the 
uppers  are  done.  She  now  cuts  two 
wide,  large  sole  pieces  and  gathers 
them.  If  she  is  a  good  boot  maker 
here  is  where  her  best  work  will  come 
in.  All  the  pieces  have  been  soaked 
to  soften  them  and  now  these  soles 
must  be  gathered  with  fine  stitches 
for   several     inches      around   the   toe 


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and  heel.  The  'heel  strings'  at  the 
back  betray  a  poorly  made  boot  and 
great  care  is  needed  to  pucker  them 
in  just  right  and  get  them  sewed 
firmly  thus.  Three  of  these  heels 
strings  are  used.  The  large  sole  piece 
turns  up  all  the  way  around  so  that 
the  few  inches  around  what  was  the 
edge  when  it  lay  flat  really  form  a 
part  of  the  upper  when  the  boot  is 
worn.  You  will  know  more  of  what 
it  looks  like  if  you  will  examine  a 
pair  of  shoe  packs  or  mocassins  for 
some  makes  follow  out  the  same  idea. 
The  boots  are  finished  when  a  band 
of  sealskin,  perhaps  with  the  hair 
left  on,  has  been  sewed  round  the  tops 
as  a  binding.  If  they  are  boots  for 
a  grown  person,  it  has  taken  a  quick, 
skillful  woman  a  day  to  make  them 
but  if  for  a  child,  and  the  children 
look  very  quaint  and  odd  in  their 
shorter  boots  which  come  only  half 
way  to  the  knee,  it  has  not  taken 
more  than  five  hours  or  so. 

Boots  of  this  kind  are  commonly 
worn  by  men,  women  and  children 
though  many  have  '  store  boots '  for 
Sunday  and  festive  wear.  The  seal- 
skin boots  last  well  except  during 
the  summer  when  they  become  scuff- 
ed from  traveling  over  the  rocky  hill 
trails  and  the  stones  in  the  door 
yard.     The  pair  I  have  has  been  half 


soled  by  sewing  new  pieces  of  leather 
on  both  where  the  leather  on  the  ball 
of  the  foot  has  worn  through  and 
where  the  bottom  of  the  heel  was 
showing  the  wear.  I  often  saw  wo- 
men soaking  the  sole  and  heel  pieces 
for  this  and  I  noticed  they  chewed 
them  around  the  edges  after.  This 
was  to  soften  the  stiff,  hard  leather 
even  more  and  it  is  an  effective  mea- 
sure for  when  put  on  the  stitches  in 
these  pieces  are  very  close,  do  not 
come  through  to  the  surface  and  caa 
scarcely    be    detected. 

These  home-made  boots  resist  wat- 
er fairly  well,  especially  when  oiled, 
but  they  would  be  very  cold  footwear 
in  the  winter  were  it  not  for  the 
thick,  warm,  flannel  lining  which 
goes  inside  them.  It  is  made  so  as 
to  look  rather  like  a  bed  sock  and  is 
worn  outside  at  least  two  pairs  of 
home  knit  woolen  socks.  The  boots 
always  pull  on  and  are  made  to  fit 
over  both  socks   and   lining. 

Slippers  of  sealskin  are  made  too, 
and  one  may  have  the  fur  side  inside 
or  outside  as  one  chooses.  These, 
however,  are  mostly  for  sale  to  sum- 
mer visitors  and  volunteers  at  the 
Grenfell  Mission  hospitals,  while 
the  boots  are  for  the  daily  wear  of 
the  people  of  the  Coast. 


"I  see, "remarked  a  gentleman  as  he  paid  a  small  newsboy  for  Ms  pa- 
per, "that  you  are  putting  up  a  good  many  new  buildings  in  your  town." 
"That  is  the  only  kind  we  put  up  here,  sir,"  replied  the  little  fellow 
with  a  touch  of  civic  pride. 


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EDUCATION  IS   THE  BASIS  OF   AMERI- 
CAN   GROWTH. 


By  George  F.  Day 


The  first  postmaster  general  made 
the  rounds  of  the  offices  under  his 
supervision  upon  horseback,  so  few 
were  they  in  number.  But  now  he 
is  one  of  the  busiest  men  in  the 
Union  with  an  arary  of  clerks  at  his 
command.  The  increase  in  letter 
writing  has  not  been  entirely  ac- 
cording to  America's  growth  and  im- 
provement in  that  service  but  has  in- 
creased according  to  her  advancement 
in   education. 

Inside  of  the  first  month  after  the 
landing  of  our  Puritan  fathers  on  that 
bleak,  cold  New  England  shore,  the 
first  free  school  of  America  was  es- 
tablished and  within  a  year  the  foun- 
dations of  Harvard  college  had  been 
laid  so  that  when  the  children  and 
grandchildren  of  these  pioneers  grew 
to  maturity  and  took  their  places 
they  need  not  live  in  ignorance  but 
might  be  able  to  enter  into  the  duties 
of  life  knowing  their  rights  and  will- 
ing to  fight  for  them. 

Our  country  has  advanced  ever 
since  its  founding  rapidly  and  it  is 
due  to  her  attention  to  educational 
■interests.  Where  was  the  first  iron 
stove  invented?  The  world  had  for 
years  been  struggling  along  the  best 
it  could  with  the  old-fashioned  fire- 
place and  a  hole  in  the  roof  to  let  the 
smoke  out.  It  was  left  to  Benjamin 
Franklin,  a  poor  American,  to  invent 
the  first  practical  iron  stove  and  thus 
revolutionize  this  kind  of  manufac- 
turing. Would  he  have  been  so  suc- 
cessful in  any  country  where  he  could 
not  have  received  a  liberal  education? 


We  have  no  reason  to  think  so.  So 
it  was  with  the  invention  of  the  plow. 
People  had  for  years  been  using 
crooked  sticks  and  big,  heavy,  cum- 
berson  implements.  It  was  left  to 
an  American  to  invent  the  first  prac- 
tical plow.  So  we  can  trace  the 
growth  of  the  invention  and  adoption 
of  practical  tools  from  the  earliest 
time  until  the  present  day.  People 
may  say  that  education  is  not  respon- 
sible for  this  development,  yet  Ameri- 
ca stands  first  in  practical  inventions 
and  manufactures  and  is  the  shipping 
place  of  the  world.  Why  should  it 
have  been  left  to  America  to  revolu- 
tionize the  trade  of  the  nations  un- 
less it  was  because  of  her  superior 
advantage  of  education?  It  is  the 
practical  man  educated  in  the  prac- 
tical way  tht  knows  the  needs  of  the 
masses  and  the  easiest  way  to  meet 
them.  That  is  why  Americans  have 
succeeded.  The  nobility  and  higher 
class  of  England  have  always  enjoyed 
the  privilege  of  education  but  they 
did  not  know  the  necessities  of  a  com- 
mon man  and  not  knowing  paid  prac- 
tically no  attention  to  his  improve- 
ment and  laboring  man  without  edu- 
cation could  not  better  his  condition. 
Our  land  is  full  of  schools  and  col- 
leges for  the  purpose  of  educating 
the  children  of  just  such  men  and 
they  are  not  only  urged  to  send  them 
but  are  compelled  to  do  so.  Gradual- 
ly there  has  been  introduced  into  our 
school  system  in  a  great  many  places 
a  course  of  manual  training.  Where 
the  hand  as  well  as  the  mind  can  be 


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trained;  where  the  rich  man's  chil- 
dren work  side  by  side  with  those  of 
lower  rank;  where  the  boy  or  girl  is 
taught  what  handwork  is  and  how 
essential  it  is  to  their  success.  As 
a  result  students  became  more  in- 
terested in  their  work.  Tl|ey  ^are 
taught  the  dignity  of  labor.  It  has 
been  proven  in  a  great  many  case* 
that  students  who  had  no  interest  in 
their  school  before  this  system  de- 
veloped have  become  enthusiastic  over 
their  work  and  look  forward  with 
pleasure  to  the  two  hours  spent  at 
the  bench  or  in  the  study  of  domestic 
science.  By  constant  association  with 
labor  they  learn  to  respect  it  as  one 
of  the  noblest  things  in  our  existance, 
and  come  to  realize  how  much  we  de- 
lend  upon  the  common  laborer  ft*" 
even  the  smallest  necessities  of  life. 
This  system  of  manual  training  has 
been  introduced  into  our  schools.  It 
may  be  argued  by  some  that  education 
is  not  essential  to  a  man's  success, 
that  a  person  with  a  good  knowledge 
of  business  is  far  ahead  of  the  person 
who  has  a  good  book  education  but 
does  not  know  anything  of  commercial 
life.  That  must  be  true  to  a  certian 
extent  but  how  much  more  easily  a 
person  can  learn  business  methods 
and  the  way  in  which  business  con- 
cerns are  conducted  if  his  mind  is 
trained  thoroughly  in  his  high  school 
course  and  if  he  knows  how  to  acquire 
a  knowledge  of  business  under  his 
consideration  and  how  to  use  it  to  its 
best  ends.  It  certainly  seems  practi- 
cal that  a  person  whose  mind  is  train- 
ed, has  knowledge  of  other  things  and 
can  apply  the  one  thing  to  its  best 
advantage,  it  is  far  superior  to  a  per- 
son skilled  in  one  branch  who  has  been 
educated    in    one    business     only    and 


whose  mind  is  narrowed  down  to  one 
consideration.  He  cannot  conduct  his 
business  so  as  to  receive  the  benefit 
of  other  things  but  must  carry  on  his 
work  in  that  one  narrow  channel  in 
which  he  has  been  educated. 

Education  is  essential  to  a  full  en- 
joyment of  life.  You  can  get  no 
pleasure  out  of  a  thing  you  do  not  un- 
derstand. A  person  must  be  educat- 
ed to  understand  even  the  most  com- 
mon things  in  our  every  day  life. 
What  pleasure  is  there  for  a  person 
to  witness  anything  he  does  not  un- 
derstand. He  sees  the  action  but 
never  having  given  the  matter  any 
thought,  does  not  inquire  what  are 
the  causes  and  what  the  effects.  He 
simply  witnesses  it  and  if  it  is  out  of 
the  ordinary,  wonders  a  little  and 
dismisses  the  matter  from  his  mind. 
It  is  not  this  way  with  a  person  who 
has  received  a  general  education.  He 
understands  the  causes  of  an  event 
and  what  its  significane  is.  He  gets 
pleasure  out  of  the  smallest  occurren- 
ces which  to  some  people  mean  practi- 
cally nothing.  It  may  be  that  these 
things  are  of  no  practical  use  but  it 
is  just  the  men  who  do  observe  and 
understand  that  make  the  successful 
men  of  the  world. 

America  has  grown  from  thirteen 
struggling  colonies  to  one  of  the  most 
powerful  nations  of  the  world.  She 
has  arisen  from  her  dependence  upon 
Great  Britain  to  an  independent 
nation.  Because  Americans  had  been 
educated  they  knew  their  grievances 
and  were  able  to  convince  other 
nations  of  the  fact. 

It  is  due  to  education  that  America 
is  such  a  Democratic  country  in  its 
belief.  It  is  because  America  under- 
stands the  dignity  of  labor  that  the 


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23 


laboring  man  is  respected,  and  it  is 
just  these  things  that  unite  the  states 
into  a  closely  bound  nation  and  makes 
it  one  of  the  more  important  powers 
among  the  great  nations. 

The  only  hope  for  the  lasting  pro- 
gress of  our  race  is  constant  reform 
in  social  life.  To  bring  this  about 
we  must  begin  with  the  children.  It 
is  in  consideration  of  them  that  our 
school  system  comes  into  use.  That 
system  which  is  the  pride  of  our  race, 
which  has  aided  so  materially  in  bring- 
ing about  the  great  rise  of  this  re- 
markable country.  Scattered  all  over 
this  broad  land  of  ours  are     schools, 


colleges  and  universities.  All  design- 
ed for  building  up  the  character  of 
the  younger  Americans.  Such  is  the 
state  of  affairs  in  our  own  country. 
Thus  it  is  that  America  has  achieved 
her  dazzling  success,  not  by  one  great 
lead  as  the  old  empires  of  the  East, 
but  gradually  and  evenly  advancing 
to  her  present  magnificence.  She 
has  spread  about  her  into  every  coun- 
try where  her  influence  could  pos- 
sibly be  left  a  helpful  inspiration. 
What  better  thing  can  be  said  of  a 
country  than  that  education  follows 
the  flag. 


Ex- Vice  President  Marshall,  upon  Ms  return  from  Europe,  received  a 
report  on  the  operations  of  his  100  acre  farm  and  found  his  net  profit 
for  the  year  was  $2.39.    He  will  probably  return  to  the  lectture  field- 
News  &  Observer. 


A  MILLION  NEW  CARS 


Considerably  more  than  a  million 
new  automobiles  were  licensed  in  the 
United  States  last  year.  No  wonder 
we  see  shoals  of  new  cars  on  the 
streets  every  day. 

The  serious  problem,  in  connection 
with  the  operation  of  automobiles, 
is  chance  taking  at  railroad  grade 
crossings.  In  spite  of  the  frightful 
mishaps  reported  each  day,  there  is 
only  a  slight  checking  of  the  evil. 
The  only  known  remedy  is  to  ever- 
lastingly keep  on  urging  drivers  to 
observe    the    following    precautions : 

When  you  drive  near  the  railroad 
tracks  that  are  to  be  crossed  Think 
of  Trains  of  Cars.  Right  there  on 
the  tracks,  is  the  only  place  you  will 
find  any. 

With  such  thoughts  in  your  mind, 
you  will  be   p^pared  for  any  emer- 


gency. Most  times,  there  will  be  no 
train  near  enough  to  hinder  you,  but 
DON.T  trust  to  LUCK.  LOOK  and 
LISTEN    every   time. 

If  you  trust  to  luck,  you  are  not 
giving  yourself  and  your  passengers 
a  fair  deal.  A  professional  gambler 
will  bet  almost  anything,  but  he  nev- 
er wagers  his  Life.  He  might  lose 
a  lot  of  money  once  and  then  recoup 
his  losses  in  another  venture.  But 
every  one  of  us  know  that  when  he 
loses  his  life  he  is  going  to  sfiay  dead. 

That  man  who  is  killed  at  a  cross- 
ing yesterday,  had  no  desire  to  die. 
There  w£s  no  end  of  things  to  make; 
life  worth  while.  The  man  simply 
followed  in  the  steps  of  thousands, 
who  made  the  mistake  of  yielding  to- 
a  quick  impulse  of  trying  to  beat  a 
train  over  a  crossing. 


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Sober  second  thought  would  have 
saved  him;  so  we  close  this  little  ap- 
peal with  a  solemn  warning  that  now 


is  the  time  to  Call  a  Halt,  and  Cross 
Crossings  Cautiously. 


The  doctors  say  that  the  people  do  not  drink  enough  water,  and  -there 
seems  to  be  no  way  to  make  them  drink  it -except  to  prohibit  it. — Boston 
Transcript. 


THE  FAMOUS  SEDAN-CHAIRS  OF  CHINA 


The  «edan-criair,  which  is  com- 
monly used  in  the  south  of  China 
for  short  journeys,  is  a  very  com- 
fortable vehicle.  The  elastic  poles, 
fastened  to  the  sides  and  twelee  or 
■sixteen  feet  in  length,  act  somewhat 
as  springs,  and  the  motion  is  agree- 
able, except  upon  a  steep  hillside; 
there  the  oscillations  given  by  the 
steps  of  the  carriers  grow  emphatic 
and  discomforting. 

The  sedan-chair  is  often  handsome- 
ly finished  within  and  without.  It 
<?an  be  closed  to  the  public  view, 
and  affords  a  fine  protection  from 
sun  and  rain.  It  has  the  right  of 
way  over  all  things  except  official 
processions,  and  the  carriers  on  a 
thronged  street  mark  their  approach 
by  loud  outcries  for  room,  and  use 
little  ceremony  in  pushing  the  un- 
wary or  slow  out  of  their  Way- 
When  two  chairs  going  in  opposite 
directions  meet,  it  is  a  trial  of  cour- 
age, bravado,  strength,  and  noise, 
as  to  which  shall  turn  aside  for  the 
other:  The  chair  of  a  bride,  or  of 
an  official,  takes  a  recognized  prece- 
dence, and  such  chairs  are  often  mark- 
ed by  unusual  elegance  of  color  and 
upholstery,  or  by  an  extra  number 
of  carriers. 

No  other  mode  of  travel  for  short 
distances  in  China  is  equal  to  the 
chair    for    comfort    and    convenience, 


although  one's  sympathy  for  the  car- 
riers mars  one's  pleasure  at  times. 

The  Peking  cart  deserves  a  more 
energetic  characterization  than  one 
can  give  it.  Imagine  a  two-wheeled 
vehicle,  built  like  the  ox-carts  on 
New  England  farms,  although  a  little 
more  than  half  as  large  and  without 
any  seat,  surmounted  by  a  cover  of 
blue  jean,  drawn  by  a  mule  and  driv- 
en by  a  hardy  Chinese,  the  passenger 
being  left  to  dispose  himself  as  well 
as  he  can  in  the  interior.  Then  keep 
in  mind  the  dirt  roads  in  China,  left 
to  time  and  chance  and  the  weather 
from  year  to  year,  full  of  ruts  and 
unsuspected  stones  and  holes,  often 
more  like  the  bed  of  a  brook  than  a 
public  highway.  Pack  the  cart  and 
pad  his  exposed  points  as  carefully 
as  he  may,  the  luckless  traveler  is  at 
the  mercy  of  his  driver  and  the  road, 
and  is  liable  to  carry  on  his  person 
for  many  weeks  the  impressions  of  a 
few  hours'  travel. 

And  yet  this  is  the  chief  mode  of 
travel  in  the  north  of  China.  Seven 
miles  of  it  are  about  all  the  average 
Occidental  can  endure.  A  donkey's 
back,  even  one's  own  feet  are  much  to 
be  preferred. 

Donkeys  abound  in  northern  China, 
and  are  much  used  for  moderate  dis- 
tances. They  are  piny  creatures* 
hardly  four  feet  high,  and  their  backs 


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25 


and  their  slender  legs  seem  insuffi- 
cient to  bear  more  than  their  own 
weight,  yet  they  receive  their  burden 
meekly,  and  amble  at  a  good  pace 
along  the  dusty  roads.  It  is  comical 
to  see  a  man  six  feet  in  height  and 
weighing,  it  may  be,  two  hundred 
pounds,  astride  one  of  these  little 
beasts,  and  moving  soberly  along  at 
the  pace  of  four  miles  an  hour. 

The  litter  is  the  luxurious  mode  of 
travel  by  land,  and  merits  special 
attention.  A  hundred  miles  or  more, 
all  the  way  from  Peking  to  Pao-ting- 
fu,  one  can  try  this  conveyance,  which 
combines  dignity  and  ease.  If  one 
doubles  the  capacity  of  the  covered 
sedan-  chair  and  fills  it  with  a  mat- 
trees  and  blankets  and  other  baggage 
for  a  reclining  seat,  puts  mules  un- 
stead  of  men  betwen  the  poles  in 
front  and  behind,  and  adds  a  driver 
to  keep  the  mules  to  their  work,  you 
have  the  Chines  litter.  You  mount 
the  litter  before  the  poles  are  placed 


on  the  mules'  backs,  and  you  dis- 
mount when  the  mules  are  unharness- 
ed and  the  litter  set  down,  unless 
you  are  willing  to  risk  your  neck  and 
limbs  in  a  leap  from  the  side  window 
to  the  ground  which  is  some  four 
feet  below. 

If  the  mules  keep  step  and  do 
not  stumble  or  trot,  all  goes  well. 
When  they  break  step,  or  gallop,  or 
stop  to  graze,  or  to  drink  at  a  chance 
pool,  one's  reverie  is  rudely  broken, 
and  all  one's  strength  and  skill  are 
needed  to  keep  right  side  up  and  un- 
side  the  litter.  But  as  the  sides  are 
open  to  the  breeze  and  the  view,  and 
as  one  may  sit  up  to  read,  or  recline 
to  rest  or  sleep,  this  mode  of  travel  is 
next  to  that  by  chair  for  pleasure, 
and  far  better  for  extended  journeys, 
especially  if  one  have  agreeable  com- 
panions to  share  the  m3als  of  the  day 
and  the  luxuries  of  the  native  inns 
at  night. — Wellspring. 


I  believe  in  the  boys  and  girls,  the  men  and  women  of  the  great  to- 
morrow ;  that  whatsoever  the  boy  soweth  the  man  shall  reap.  I  believe 
in  the  curse  of  ignorance,  in  the  efficacy  of  schools,  in  the  dignity  of 
teaching,  and  m  the  joy  of  serving  others.  I  believe  in  the  wisdom  as 
revealed  in  human  lives  as  well  as  in  the  pages  of  a  printed  book;  in  les- 
sonstaught,  not  so  much  by  precept  as  by  example ;  in  ability  to  work  with 
the  hands  as  well  as  to  think  with  the  head;  in  everything  that  makes  life 
large  and  lovely.  I  believe  in  the  beauty  in  the  schoolroom,  im.  daily 
life  and  in  out-of-doors.  I  believe  in  laughter,  in  love,  in  faith,  in  all 
ideals  and  distant  hopes  that  lure  us  on.  I  believe  that  every  hour  of  ev 
ery  day  we  receive  a  just  reward  for  all  we  are  and  all  we  do.  I  believe 
in  the  present  and  its  opportunities,  in  the  future  and  it  promises  and 
in  the  divine  joy  of  living. — Amen. — Edwin  Osgood  Grover. 


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WHERE  ARE  YOUR  EYES 

Doctor  Galin  said  our  eyes  were 
placed  at  the  top  so  that  we  could 
see  things  at  a  distance.  It  sounds 
simple  enough,  but'  not  many  of  us 
have  thought  of  it  just  that  way. 

Signals  in  light-houses  are  elevat- 
ed so  that  they  may  be  seen  from 
afar.  Many  other  instances  might 
be  cited  to  show  the  value  of  high 
lights. 

The  driver  of  an  automobile,  as  he 
sits  at  the  steering  wheel,  has  a  clear 
view  ahead  and  ought  to  be  able  to 
protect  his  passengers  from  danger 
at  the  railroad  grade  crossing.  The 
risk  of  being  killed  by  a  train  of  cars 
is  something  we  all  learned  in  child- 
hood days. 

There  should  be  no  haphazard 
driving  across  railroad  tracks.  Any 
driver  who  assumes  that  because 
trains  run  only  at  occasional  inter- 
vals he  is  relieved  of  the  necessity 
of  being  vigilant  every  time  he  cros- 
ses the  tracks,  certainly  takes  a  big 
chance  of  being  numbered  with  the 
slain. 

Careful  use  of  eyes  and  ears  is  the 
first  consideration :  nest  comes  some- 
thing else  quite  as  important,  the  ex- 
ercise of  good  judgmnt  in  meeting 
the   situation   that   confronts   us. 

Much  has  been  said  about  the  safe- 
ty habit — what  a  good  thing  it  is. 
Evervbody  gives  assent  to  it  in  the- 
ory, but  that  many  fail  to  practice 
it,  is  demonstrated  daily  at  railroad 
crossings,  where  lives  lost  and  bodies 
maimed  are  the  heavy  toll  paid  for 
Thoughtlessness. 

Thank  your  lucky  stars  for  those 
good  eyes,  placed  high  up  at  a  point 
of  vantage  in  your  anatomy!  Yes, 
and  see  to  it  that  you  make  100  per 


cent  use  of  those  same  eyes  at  a  place 
of  known  danger,  like  the  railroad 
grade  crossing. 

Who   drives   across 
In  a  careful  way, 

Will  live  to  drive, 

Another  day. 


THE   POWER   THAT   CONTROLS. 

Many  of  you  have  read  about  Xer- 
xes, a  great  king  of  the  East,  centu- 
ries before  Christ  was  born.  It  was 
this  man  before  whom  Esther  appear- 
ed in  order  to  intercede  for  the  lives 
of  her  people,  the  jews,Xerxes  was  in 
many  respects  an  able  ruler  and  gen- 
eral, but  he  took  himself  more  seri- 
ously at  times  than  he  should  have 
done.  He  was  one  of  the  greatest 
kings  of  all  time  but  not  so  great  as 
he  thought  he  was.  Once  when  he 
was  conducting  a  millitary  campaign 
against  a  powerful  foe,  he  ordered 
bridges  constructed  across  a  sea  so 
that  his  army  might  pass  over. 
When  they  were  completed  a  storm 
arose  and  swept  the  bridges  away. 
Xerxes  flew  into  rage  and  ordered 
the  sea  to  be  lashed  with  whips.  He 
hoped  in  this  way  to  punish  and  tame 
it.  But  how  foolish.  Man  has  little 
control  over  the  winds  and  waves  of 
the  sea.  But  I  should  say  he  has 
about  as  much  power  to  calm  the 
tempestuous  sea  as  he  has  to  control 
his  own  passions  and  evil  tendencies. 


RAIL  AND  WATER  RATES  PHIL- 
ADELPHIA  TO   SOUTH. 

Norfolk,  Va,,  June  30. — Announce- 
ment was  made  by  the  Southern  Rail- 
way System  of  the  establishment  of 
rail  and  water  freight  service  be- 
tween Philadelphia  and  the  South  in 


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27 


connection  with  the  Inland  Steam- 
ship Company,  via  Pinners  Point,  the 
Southern's  terminal  opposite  Nor- 
folk. 

Rates  with  the  usual  differentials 
under  the  all-rail  rates  will  apply  on 
traffic  moving  via  this  route  between 
Philadelphia  and  contiguous  territory 
on  the  one  hand  and  points  in  the 
Carolina,  Southeastern  and  Mississippi 
Valley  territories  on  the  other. 

The  Inland  Steamship  Company  has 
a  line  of  self-propelled  barges  with 
daily  service  between  Philadelphia 
and  Norfolk.  Freight  leaving  Phila- 
delphia one  day  will  be  delivered  at 
Pinners  Point  the  following  morning 
in  time  for  forwarding  to  the  south 
on  the  Southern's  fast  manifest 
freight  train,  No.  53. 


INSTITUTIONAL    NOTES 

(Swift  Davis,  Repoi-ter.) 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  V.  Talbert,  the 
former  an  officer  at  the  J.  T.  S.,  are 
being  visited  by  Mrs.  J.  C.  Faggart, 
of  Chase  City,  Va. 

Watermelon  twice  last  week!  It 
sure  is  a  sight  for  sore  eyes  to  see 
a  line  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  boys 
each  devouring  a  fourth  of  a  melon. 
But  they  ate  carefully  and  no  ail- 
ments resulted. 

The  old  clippers  which  are  run 
by  the  movements  of  the  fingers, 
are  so  out  of  style  that  ways  and 
means  of  procuring  some  electric 
clippers  are  now  being  discussed 
by  the  authorities. 

Nothing  so  grand  as  a  sincere, 
constant  friend.  Mr.  R.  S.  Hunt- 
ington, ot  Greenville,   S.  C,  is  this 


kind.  He  makes  frequent  visits, 
mingles  with  the  boys,  te'ls  them 
stories,  performs,  stunts  and  acts 
generally  the  "big  brother."  His 
latest  visit  was  particularly  a  joy. 

There  are  certain  officers  at  the 
school  who  are  extremely  admired 
by  the  boys — in  fact  they  take  these 
officers  as  their  models.  Then  there 
was  a  small  few  who  consider  them- 
selves above  the  boys.  They  are 
forever  on  their  dignity.  These 
few  &oon  find  their  littleness  out  and 
leave.  Those  officers  and  matrons 
who  have  been  here  for  some  time 
can  take  it  for  granted  that  they  are 
in  the  first  class.  May  the  first 
class  survive  and  increase! 

Elbert  Perdue  and  James  Phillips 
were  taken  to  Concord  recently  to 
have  their  tonsils  removed.  Both 
were  brought  back  two  or  three 
days  later  nearly  recovered  and  able 
to  do  light  work.  This  simply 
means  that  our  bojTs  are  always  in 
the  "pink  of  condition"  and  even  in 
an  operation  they  can  come  from  un- 
der it  with  "flying  colors."  With 
their  tonsils  gone  these  boys  feel 
more  free  and  do  not  have  the  disa- 
greeablefeeling  of  "swallowing  their 
tonsils." 

The  bakery  of  the  Jackson  Train- 
ing is  now  being  deservedly  lauded 
and  is  receiving  its  just  rewards. 
Compliments  and  good  wishes  come 
from  all  sources.  One  of  the  main 
reasons  for  these  compliments  is 
that  as  Mr.  Hilton  proudly  states, 
"It's  one  of  the  cleanest  bakeries 
in  North  Carolina.''  The  bread 
baked  down  here  is  so  delicious 
that  many  of  the  boys  prefer  it  to 
cake.  And  Allie  Williams,  the  com- 
ing first  bakeryman  of  the  J.   T.    S. 


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has  learned  from  the  skillful  Mr. 
Hilton  how  such  palatable  bread  is 
cooked.  It  is  indeed  good  to  see 
the  wonderful  clock-work  machinery 
way  in  which  the  students  of  the 
bakery  trade  handle  their  jobs. 
When  the  oven  is  to  be  filled  with 
pans  of  dough,  each  knows  his 
place  in  line;  one  boy  grabs  a  pan, 
hands  it  to  his  left  hand  neighbor, 
who  in  turn  gives  it  to  the  chap  on 
his  left  side  and  the  pan  of  bread-to- 
be  thus  eventually  reaches  the  oven 
in  which  a  boy  places  it  with  a  long 
paddle.  Long  before  the  first  pan 
reaches  the  oven  another  is  started 
down  the  line.  This  is  a  fine  exam- 
ple of  the  idea  of  co-operation.  The 
oven  is  emptied  just  vice  versa.  Ours 
is  a  modern  bakery  lacking  only  a  lit- 
tle machinery.  Many  patrons  of  Con- 
cord desire  to  buy  bread  from 
our  bakery,  but  as  the  school  grows 
larger,  the  demand  for  bread  increas- 
es so  this  cannot  be  done.  Suppose 
you  come  to  the  J.  T.  S.  and  see  the 
best  bakery,  for  its  size  and  equip- 
ment in  North  Carolina., 


NEXT! 

By  The  Reporter 

Beginning  his  first  tilt  with  the  in- 
vading Flowe's  Storemen  Saturday 
by  completely  whiffing  the  first 
two  men  who  had  garnered  enough 
nerve  to  face  him,  and  striking  out 
the  last  baffled  and  puzzled  man  of 
the  initial  frame,  John  Russell  won 
the  aforementioned  game  by  the 
nose  to  nose  score  of  3  to  2.  But 
Russell's  opposing  pill  twister,  John 
Boger,  was  also  in  fine  form  and  by 
way  of  letting  the  J.  T.  S.  batsmen 
know  this  irritating  fact  he  dupli- 
cated J.    Russell's  performance   on 


none  other  than  J.  Russell    himself. 

After  Russell  had  considerably 
disturbed  the  air  around  the  gutta 
percha  in  his  endeavor  to  bite  the 
apple,  J.  Honey cutt  grasped  a  war 
club  and  strode  up  to  the  home  plate, 
confident  of  fulfilling  his  rather 
vicious  intentions.  But  he  too 
walked  away  a  much  disappointed 
boy,  consoling  himself  with  the 
thought  "I'll  do  better  next  time." 
Then  R.  Kiser  performed  and  the 
first  session  was  declared  over. 

Two  more  frames  pushed  along 
much  in  the  same  manner  as  the  ini- 
tial chapter,  intersprinkled  with 
occasionally  a  single  or  two.  In 
one  inning  the  J.  T.  S.  had  men  on 
third  and  the  keystone  sack  but  in 
this  pinch  Boger  settled  down  and 
struck  'em  out. 

Then  the  fourth  performance 
sauntered  along  innocently  enough. 
The  Storemen  straightened  out  three 
or  four  of  Russell's  sizzling,  puzzling 
slants  and  though  under  extreme 
oppression  carried  in  two  tallies 
just  before  three  of  them  were  "kill- 
ed." Then  the  batters,  the  "killed" 
ones  and  all  ran  out  to  their  stations 
in  field  and  with  retaliating  revenge 
in  his  heart  each  Grierman  went  to 
bat  determined  to  hit  the  pill.  And 
they  did  it!  Holmon  changed  the 
J.  T.  S.  goose  egg  to  a  1  and  A.  Wil- 
liams tagged  up  on  a  long  fly  to  cen- 
ter field  and  split  the  path  open  get- 
ting to  the  last  station — home. 
Later  the  winning  run  came  in. 

Under  threats  of  rain  two  more 
innings  were  played,  but  neither 
side  scored.  Russell  held  the 
Storemen  down  to  three  scattered 
hits  and  the  moundsman  in  the  pit 
for  the  visitors  let  the  Griermen 
down  with  five  hits.  In  the  begin- 
ning of  the    seventh   frame   Jupiter 


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29 


Pluvius,  who  had  threatened  befor9 
to  come  see  the  game  finally  arrived. 
and  he  must  have  brought  a  few  of 
his  damp  friends,  for  the  game  was 
■declared  '"called"  by  the  best  um- 
pire who  has  officiated  a  game  at  the 
J.  T.  S.  this  season— Mr.  M.  L.  Dor- 
ton.  In  the  game  Hobby  annexed  a 
three  bagger,  Cook  coming  next  in 
honors  getting  a  keystone  sacker. 
Honeycutt,  of  the  locals  and  Bigger, 
for  the  visitors  each  claim  four  as- 
sists. Freeman,  one  of  the  op- 
ponents, who  tended  the  first  sta- 
tion, gathered  laurels  for  his  put- 
outs — eight  in  number.  Peculiar 
as  it  may  seem,  Holman  and  Wil- 
liams both  had  perfect  days  at  bat, 
for  even  though  they  got  only  one 
hit  apiece,  the  one  time  at  bat  gives 
them  the  above  mentioned  honors. 

The  Jackson  Training  School  de- 
sires battles  with  other  teams  of 
high  standing.  Some  real  teams! 
Send  them  along  and  they'll  be  tak- 
en down  a  notch  or  two. 

Isn't  this  a  good  enough  reason 
for  desiring  some  regular  teams? 
We  are  not  prejudiced  in  our  own 
favor  but — well,  see  for  yourself: 


Club  Standing 

W. 

L. 

Pet. 

J.      T     S.      11 

3 

.786 

Pitching  Record. 

W. 

L. 

Pet. 

Hegular               1 

II 

1.000 

Cook                     1 

0 

1.000 

Holmau                0 

1 

.857 

Russell                 3 

•> 

.600 

Bailey  Groome,  Sporting  Editor 
of  the  Charlotte  Observer,  made 
note  of  the  fact  that  the  ball  field   of 


the  Jackson  Training  School  had 
been  named  "The  Manassas  Field," 
in  his  "One  Man's  Opinion  on  Sport 
Topics."  He  also  told  the  reason 
why  Stonewall  Jackson  was  such  a 
wonderful  military  commander.  Mr. 
Groome  might  be  interested  to  know 
how  the  J.  T.  S.  lads  play  ball — in 
fact  how  they  enter  into  all  sports. 
To  say  that  these  boys  play  ball  and 
other  forms  of  sports  just  like  Stone- 
wall Jackson  would  play  were  he  a 
lad  of  today  is  sufficient  to  guaran- 
all  teams  who  enter  into  competition 
with  the  J.  T.  S.  fair  play  and  also 
a  close  match  of  strength  and   skill. 

Then  too  he  may  know  that  of  all 
papers  of  sport  which  come  to  the 
J.  T.  S.  (and  that  isno small  amount) 
the  boys  prefer  the  Charlotte  Obser- 
ver. The  writer,  who  is  a  subsrerib- 
er  to  that  paper,  is  beseiged  by 
scores  of  boys  who  want  to  see 
Charlotte's  Sports."  "One  Man's 
Opinion  on  Sport  Topics"  is  read, 
re-read,  and  then  read  some  more. 
Small  wonder  is  it  that  when  the 
writer  receives  his  paper  again  it 
is  a  sadly  ragged  remnent  of  what 
it  was. 

Want  another  victim  on  Manassas 
Field! 

Saturday's  score: 

Score  by  innings: 

Flowe's"  Store  000  200  00—2  3  2 
J.     T.     S.         000  300  00—3  5  5 

Game  called  6th,  rain. 

P.  S.  I  want  it  distintly  under- 
stood that  the  'Cook"  referred  to  is 
not  our  editor.  He  has  no  time  for 
the  "pill" — he's  busy  with  the  pen 
and  typewriter. — Reporter. 


I  had  rather  suffer  for  speaking  the  truth  than  that  the  truth  should 
suffer  for  the  want  of  my  speaking  it. — John  Pym- 


30  THE  UPLIFT 


As  fire  when  thrown  into  water  is  cooled  down 
and  put  out,  so  also  a  false  accusation  when  brought 
against  a  man  of  the  purest  and  holiest  character, 
boils  over  and  is  at  once  dissipated  and  forgotten. 
— Cicero 


Southern  Railway  System 

Announces 

Greatly  Reduced  Round  Trip  Fares 

—For— 

SUMMER  SEASON,  1922 

Take  Your  Choice 

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