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THE RECORD VOL. XXI WARRENTON, N. FRIDAY AUGUST 6 1915 NO 18 $1.00 A YEAR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Intersts of Warrenton and Warren County. 5c A COPY force, a familiar or genhv by whose impulses the mar ed, but whose counse1 impart. stands, and were eloquently ad-stands, nd were eloquently addressed by W.

K. Barham, and others. Cheer after cheer rent the air, and all was enthusiasm and excitement. After this had in some degree subsided, they again formed in line and came THE SILENT WITNESS. During the summer of 1914, Miss Jessica R.

Smith spent some time in Louisburg collecting proofs of her Father's claim of being the designer of the Stars anr? Bars. She was first told by Miss Mattie Brown, for THE CHARACTER WHICH MOULDS OUR LIVES. A Mosaic from Sundry Sources. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost When charcter is lost, all is lost. Old German Motto.

Happy is he so constituted that, steady eye on Revenge at the Bottom olS" Lincoln's Murder. thy with the South and bein somewhat daft, had assinated President Gave His Life as Pen-! the President on account of his alty for Executnon of Beall, course in the war! Which He Ordered. "After the plans failed, Dr. FROM PAPERS OF DR. FOOTE Foote says, Booth hurried to John Wilkes Booth Fired Fatal Washington and on his knees Shot, Not Through Patriotism 'mpiored President Lincoln to for South, but Because Death pardon or at least respite Beall.

Sentence of Friend Had Been Lincoln promised to respite, but Carried Out. that night ordered his execution. the strong hand on the tiller, r. by a deter ip the street a short distance, mined will, he guides his craft merly of Louisburg, but now of i then turning, went down in sin- past the hidden dangers, and finally anchors eafely nast the id- What a man is engraves it- den danerers. and mallv anchors Warrenton, of a flag that had gle file past the crowds of la-been presented by the Ladies of dies who stood on the side-walk our town to the Franklin Rifles, in front of the old Shaw place a Volunteer Company, which was to say farewell to clasp the hands organized here at least a month and kiss the lips of those they self on his face, on his form, on sa eIv in some ouiet harbor, in The remarkable story below is Dr.

Foote says "This order was his fortunes, in letters of light, position to enjoy with his loved 1 ji 1 1 ovQnf orl an-1 moo linnnn1 1 "I 1 1 -i Knew and loved and to bid Godspeed to each and all. At last, copieu irom me scrap-DooK 01 cv iCan vaa uaxigcu wmcn an may react out mmseii. ones the fruits of the struggle Comrade Davis, an old Confed- within thirty yards of my win- Nothing else will so save a man and at last when the supreme erate soldier of Farmville, Va. ow and inside Fort Columbus, from self-consumption as a com- moment arrives camly going to It is a newspaper print and it and not at Jonhson's Island, as plete surrender to excellence his eternal rest content in the seems to have been clipped from has been frequenty reported. to a lofty ideal.

It is a burning thought that he leaves to pos-the old Richmond Dispatch of "Booth, for what he termed zeal to get higher in the scale of ferity an unsullied name and about eighteen or maybe twen- the perfidy of President Lincoln character, an ever-increasing en that thp io before North Carolina passed the ordinance of secession. Up to last summer the old flag had been sacredly treasured as a relic of the hallowed past, but no special significance had been attached to its design. When it beneath the silken folds of this old Flag, they passed beyond the reach of clinging arms, and the vision of tear-dimmed eyes, but none an ten 01 tne desolation ty yeare ago. It is headed: "Pa toward himser and his friend thusiasm for the best, that will PflllfiP rfVp hies lixTOrl 1 3 i4-o. Tirnnnninnn fit ttlP hOQrTO TnQT TOOVQ likf CJ.

1 TV A T7 11 i- J. 1 Xl 1 1 Ml 1 KM was iiiteu xxum it wirtppixisa, "mi- xxu iptjrs juciL uy ur. vreorge a. roote joeaii, at unce swure lu avenge laiie no cmng less, tnat lilts upon however and tenderly unfolded, wait in silence the issues of the Intimate That Lincoln's Refusal his friend's death by killing both a plane worth living. it mutelv but eloquently pleaded i dreaded future.

Save Beall Led to the Assi- Lincoln and Seward. He did' Mn mnw i-f ioio Men of genius stand to in the relations of its intel- for the establishment of Major Of those who went forth that nation." not intend to shoot Lincoln in far above us that we can hard- men character of its Smith's claim, for it was in truth day, some came back to us, with The story reads as follows: tne theater, but the contemplat- ly hope to attain such heights, and while tne former a perfect Stars and Bars. i heart-ache disappointment, it is "We were much interested in ed opportunity did not offer it- the exercise of reaching up, the are admired the Iatter are foI Other witnesses, oesiaes miss true, but with unstained honor ia uvn arucie in tne wane or- owA XVi smuggle, even to approximate nA lKt est Student which came out in that Booth's spur caught in the fthem, increases our power, broad i Character is farmed by a va- Brown, testified to the Flag's its April number''-, says a writer curtain that fatal would ens our outlook upon life, and riety of minute and unashamed thev faced the having been copied directly from Alaior Smith's, so we may just- the Wilmington Messenger. nave escapea, at least ior a time ennobles our character. mnre or less uncier tne reguia- dark days of Reconstruction, and aj Thp war hnH nntii ly feel that it is one of the strong a -v wxuv vtvi J-kJ Not a day passes without its dis- QO iita hi chain of evidence lived among us brave and use- son Foote, a son of the late Dr.

the assination of the President. that of a Vounir man going It was made in Petersburg, lives. Others, alas! Were George A. Foote, of Warrenton, Jt was due simply and solely to straight to his goal, cutting his ciPline whether for good or for under the direction of Mrs. Clai- brought in the still majesty of an honored and higly re- revenge, intensinea by isootn way through difficulties, and sur evu- borne, wife of Dr.

John Herbert Death, and others still are sleep- PutabIe physician, lately deceas- ye and admiration for his moUnting obstacles which dis- i Carve the face from within, ed. lie nrst erives an extract hparfpn ofhpr if thpv wprp not drpss it. from withnnr Tr.y ea- nrst gives an Haihorne. of that citv. Mrs.

1 Ti 'Booth went to New York stepping-stones whoever would be fairer, illumi- Claiborne's life, since early in- from Appleton Cyclopedia of hri hppn npnt in Twin's-i 6,1,1 Biography of the hanging of that the morning of Beall's extcu- vnn nnnnnf in onv riWn nation must bee-in in thp sane; burg, and she was esjeciaaly in- but lOYing nancls- ut tnese last gallant and meritorious officer, tion and, being so grievously dis- by any sudden and single effort, the face catches the glow only there was one scarcely more than Capt. John Yates Beall, a native appointed at what had occured, will to be true if the habit of from that side. Merchants Jour terested in carrying out the wish a boy, Nick Long. A letter from of Virginia and born in 1835 and he became measurably an insane vour iife has been insinceritv and Commerce, es of her friends here. It is said that Miss Ella Noble a comrade, W.

E. Ballard, told nged On the 24th of February, man. I bad not the least idea I Each Qne of hd gave a silk dress for its field if I of how they found him on the 'f860' as a sketch was assinaite the God, and within the narrow blue. If so, it could not have battle field at nieht. lvin cold uute papers, uwU limitg of human capabiiity, ma.

BACK TO THE L-Jpqp. VV 11U WdO kJUlKCUH 111 LUC VUil- uiit Jiicixi, t.im i-w xxm i -i 1 j- .1 been from a scarcity of silk at arirl mnlinnlpse with a hnllpf hnl j.i Kes OWI1 UlSpusiLlOIl, Cliarac- alia mOClOnieSS Wltn a DUliet-nOie fQlAvo4-o o.Tvr or tttoci vmroalo it. nn on hmif 7 TVi. i4- ri 3 a 7 vv" ter, and permanent condition. vylllu UUUW1B through his breast and his boy- oned in Fort Coiumbus.

New i efclre the assassination. The ish ace unturned to the moon. Vnr Harhnr Fnnip'o nn.i tnan to whom hp thus ronfidpri i w--u holn fnr th hQr.lrnVi lanH" This old Flag, which we value umous paper is both interesting his purpose begged him not to andToductive soifits movement through the cultiva-beyond measure, was sent back and informing. He tells of the carry it out, and, finding that on Qf vaCant spaces within the ni-hnro- hpfnrp hp of efforts made to save the life of Booth was not to be turnod from Pssessor city limits by the poor and un- that period, but simply that she wished something of hers to go into the making of the flag. On one side of the field is North Carolina's Coat-of-Arms, now almost obliterated; on the other, in gilt letters as clear and distinct as if painted yesterday, is this inscription, "Our Lives 'to Liberty Our Souls to God.

Frank lin Rifles, presented by the ladies of Louisburg, N. April 27th, 1861." The exercises took place in the College Chapel, and Miss Ella Noble was chosen to To have a conception of a per- employed. Each year the asso-feet man or woman is not suf- ciations apportions four hundred fiicient; we should also have fxn eigth-acre farms to as many fam unquenchable desire and ambi- ilies who stand in need of moral tion to become perfect mentaliy 'or financial assistance. A large and physically as nearly as pos- number of these amateur farm-sibe. To do this it is necessary ers become attracted to the work -nstantly to keep our ideals be- learn the financial return to be Captain Beall, who was a regu- his revnge, left the city before the war, and entrusted to Miss i lar commissioned Confederate I he horrible tradegy occured.

Noble for safekeeping. After officer by Governor Andrew, of The Times Dispatch, her marriage to Capt. Charles Massachusetts, and others, but Hill Thomas, she lelfc to make in vain. Dr. Foote's cell in which her home in Tennessee but be- he was confined adjoined Captain FROM HENRY VAN DYKE, fore leaving, sent the Flag, to Beall's.

Beall and John Wilkes record of a faith sublime, her aunt, Mrs. Jones Fuller. 'Bth had been room-mates at i And hope, through clouds, far fore our consciousness, thereby obtained from right methods, get college and were dear inends. un. uibcerneu, Since 1S90, Mrs.

J. E. Malone The license of a love that burned making them a part of our some idea of scientific agricul- Booth tried every way to se- make the address of presentation has been lis and she cure BealFs release from prison. Through pain and doubt de- The chief factor in any man's ture, and each year a large nullifying time. success or failure must be his ber of "graduates" leave the "ba hopes to prove that it is really but in vain.

An effort to secure Capt. W. F. Green received the flag and gave it into the hands of the Ensign, W. K.

Barham, the firrt 'Stars and Bars" that his escape was made, in which Dr A light that gleamed across the own character; that is, the sum by farms" to engage in the regu-was presented to anv military or- Foote was to be a party. In wave of his common sense, his cour- lar work of truck farming or A both of these gentlemen making eloenent mf Wotic sneeches ganization. So far, none has been fact, two plans came to naught. Of darkness, down the rolling age, his virile energy and capac- farming on a larger scale. The eloquent and patriotic speecnes.

The interesti years ity. Nothing can take the place work done Chicago is under The first Lieutenant was A. S. found to ante-date, this old and oov nf hi inrliViHnal the direction of T.anra nninfv the direction of Laura Dainty Ul IllOLUlJLC lliLtJXeSL IS LU lUliUVV. -utiviug uiwi- uvmiu Perry; Second, W.

H. Yarbor- valued relic. Our character is but the stamp Pelham, president of the asso- A rainbow shining o'er the grave: Dr. Foote's private memorandum gives a statment that will The Franklin Times. on our souls of the free choice ciation, who has prevailed upon ough and Third, W.

S. This Company was drilled and surprise many, as it did us. The story of a soul at strife of good or evil we have made the owners of large tracts of common idea isthat PresidentLin I That learned at last to kiss through life. Hand to rlonaP tVipm fnr orivr1or THE LAST VOYAGE. (By Bishop Clark).

My work on earth is well-nigh the rod prepared for service here our town, but ere their departure for the front, our Mother State with her characteristic deliberation coin was murdered by John Wil- One of the most common forms ins DurDOses to the association. Booth was not to be turned from And passed through sorrow up of lying, and the most destruc-' ghe working upon the princi. head of the Northern tSates and to God, was responsible for the war upon From living to a higher life. had moved to her place among getting of her sister states, and shouted of the gea loud her cry "lo and Fmttv. xive to rignc cnaracier uuntuiig, 1 is trying to appear what we are that the raw Itallan or Slav not, to be accounted more learn- migrant will not go to the coun-ed, more virtuous, more noble, try direct from Castle Garden, better in every sense than we (but that with a little traininw are, without any effort to be and" encouragement, he will see what we would seem to be.

This the ater profits possible for no hearts responded with a truer gee Qff ghadowy realm devotion no hands were raised And thither turn the trembling helm. to register a more undying alle- jx j- it bim through farming and event- sin of lying and effectually pre- a vents growth in any direction, 11 leave the city and lile it absolutely fails in its back to the land. ONT stop advertising. To 1r purpose, for no one is deceived by pretense except the pretender BE STRONG. Be strong, stop advertising is to be forgotten.

Men whose names tv, 1. i The winds that blow so cold and more bravely and willingly to do Ane W1I1U LlltXV her bidding than those of our be-1 drea-!" Wer Franklin Rifles. The night Grow softer as the end draws to? ZaiZ ThCit" The dTstot gleams of silver light izens met in the Methodist chur- "fa 7: 1 ch fnv tt i Relieve the darkness of the night -n ior prayer to Him who alone cnniri There stand upon the misty cuid save danger's hour, but hore He only who never slumbers ri 1mwmA nTloc cnniri j7 j-i -i Faint forms qf loved ones gone Lum know of the other virgils of that night, of the agoniing eiore applications in the darkened The voice that once said Peace, chambers of our saddened homes 1 be Now whispers softly, "Fear no A boy who has the courage to tell the truth under all circum- We are not hear to play, to to dream, to drft; We have hard vork to do and loads to lift; stances, even when it may appear to be to his own disadvantage, will never do a mean, un you once heard every day you now think of once a year. And yet they are still there. They only stopped advertising.

wj txie morning 01 une ill." rst came, our streets were 4- i manly and dishonest thing. He Shun not the struggle, face it, will not stoop to do anything 'tis God's gift, questionable, no matter what ma Be strong, terial gain it may promise. It matters not how intrenched This is that which we call char the wrong, acter a reserved force, which How hard the battle goes, the Sail aiUI. ycb nut oiunc thronged by those who had come The Saviour takes me for His I to lu say good-bvp to thp "Rovs in SldiT I wai7His greeting when I land, SWT dT Mmii I wait the grasp of Christ's bless I acts directly by presence and c'a3T how long in front of viiC)y naitea without means. It is conceived ramt not nght on Tomorrow is a certain undemonstrable I comes the song.

ed hand. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiji an office which stood near where.