The Chronicle from Wilkesboro, North Carolina • Page 2

1 V. tA rt 1 i 1 SOUND SEPiSE rCO.M DR. K1LG0. THE VALUE OF TALK. KING'S RETURN.

STATE -NEWS. LIVED TWENTY YEARS NEATH UH- i SHE Mrs. Feltoii in Atlanta Journal Professor Insram Says He Expected Such an Event Concord Times. IUlelfili Times. JL Tf iirtll hfl one luftkv j'Hnv fnr cause; of education when the world of colleges cuui oiwa cuuuuiu uiufe men natterned after the heart and headjbf Dr.

Kilgo, the very acom- and very practical president of Trinity. When, riot so very many days prior to the close of the, recent prohibition campaign, the busy president got down to Raleigh one Sunday to put in his word for the cold water cause, he treated the congregation fortunate enough to hear him to an address that, broke away from the dry. colorless, hackneyed phrases With which everyr body is familiar and with whose principles everybody agrees and put the Old subject in such fresh and entertaining phraseology that the question straightway took on a new interest for every one within sound of his voice. It was an original way of telling the old story that was then being told all over the State in a colorless and unoriginal way. Ever since then we have been waiting to heaf what the doctor would say when it came time for him to hand out sage observations to his graduating class.

Sunday he talked to this class and, as everybody who has heard Dr. Kilgo much is by this time ready to agree, he took singularly interesting hold of another subject that frequently is rendered dry and tedious by men who cannot put new ideas or language into it. Here, foe instance, is what the head of Trinity hdsj to say about specialization, the present-day of schools as well as of individuals The result of college making specialists of their men is to put them in a world pf their own and speaking a language that others cannot understand. It has fallen to the lot of great colleges to find special studies and spheres of learning to intimidate the unlearned until, it is not unlikely, there may be yet created a department of learning haying for its object the study of the left wing of a mosquito! Don't understand me to oppose specialization. A man must have his work and belong to some vocation.

But I am1 very far from saying- that he mijst know nothing else. He who stands aloof. keeDs himself isolated. takes that solidarity from modem society and civilization, is quivering and trembling with a looseness that is full of prophecies of disaster." About the best thing, though, it seems to us, in all this emphatically practical as well as interesting talk, is the sound, nlain flavor of democracy running all through it. The young man or woman who, after four years goes out in the working winrld with the pbmphous and overbearing attitude toward his fellow-men that is coming to be more and more the tendency of so-called educated men toward those supplied with less book learning, has failed to absorb one of the vital principles of education at the Durham institution.

No pupil of Dr. Kilgo who takes the doctor's advice will never, be in danger of becoming a book snob, next to the blue blood snob the most contemptible member of the -whole snob family of which the annals of snobbery hold any record. He will nbt for a moment find it impossible t6 get out of his sheU long enough to speak civilly, if not companion-ably, to the man or woman that spent less time on the finishing touches of the school-room. And he fill not beat his creditors to keep up appearances, a trick to which, to be truthful, more educated than un educated people appear to be ab- dicted. The doctor says, and every vnnntr fellow eoincr'out of Harvard and Yale and Princeton and the, oth er really big universities this month out to cut out the following paragraph and paste it up in his hat for future reference: 1 "Don't go out in life trying to keep up with the The most of you are poor.

I know you. The worst feature of artificial ism is' that it appears most frequently among those of us who can't afford it. -The woman who debates long whether she would wear a veil of mourning for her dead husband rather than Whether she should mourn, is an example. Many of our young" girls discuss the proper age at which they frnnlro fhpir dehut instead of decid ing whether they have sense enough come at all. Don't Keep up ap- arances if you must lose your lit at the grocer's.

And steer won't pro-have a di- tear of the woman who w.t vou there or you'll vorce suit pretty soon So long as such sentiments as these permeate the faculty and student body at Trinity, the good Methodist college up at Durham will continue to send out useful, practical and approachable citizens rather than the miserable apology for a human being whose main object in life is to work as few hours as possible orVas many dollars as possible; with i the supreme ambition to spend all his leisure time throwing his nose up and his chest out as he sneers and slurs about people that start life with less book preparation than has been his portion. Although Oklanoma was admitted into the Union as a State on the'16th last November, a new star not yet been officially added to tpe national flag. By an act of Congress, this will be done, however, on the 4th of July, making OId Glory forty- sixth star. This law was passed in 1818. and has been in force ever since that no new star coulk be added to the flag until thd 4th of Julv following admisfion of a State BRELLA.

Hermit in English Woods Leads Happy life Without a Home. In a wood about thirty miles from London lives an old man who for twenty years has. known no other roof than an umbrella. A -representative of one of the morning newspapers found him re cently one afternoon seated under a large carriage umbrella amid the pine trees, making ready for his tea. Close by was a perambulator packed with miscellaneous goods, including several umbrellas, clothing, etc.

The old man who is an ex-soldier, looked in excellent health. "Twenty years ago I took to the woods," he said. 'During the great snowstorm a few weeks ago I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I was covered with snow many inches reep. But I am never ill. I have not had a day's illness in my life.

I have lived a simple, single life, and I have no more worry than that tree has. I have no rates and taxes to pay, I have no wife to bother me and I have plenty of friends. "How do I live? Well, all the village people know me, and they provide me with tea and bread. A man does not want much to live; on, you know. I am quite happy under my unbrella.

"I can sew as well as a jailor, and I mend all my clothes. I have several changes of clothing in my 'motor' (referring to the perambulator). I have clean shirts, socks, boots and other things there. I have ray bath in the woods and wash my things here. one ever interferes with me.

I never light a fire, and 1 never ask for money. "When darkness comes on I put up my big umbrella, take my boots off, put my legs in a sack and cover myself up with clothing, on top of which I place this mackintosh. I tie my perambulator to my legs or arm, and settle down for the night." The Law and Order League. Lexington Dispatch. That prohibition is going to be a reality so far as Davidson county and Lexington are concerned is indicated in the steps taken and to be taken toward perfecting a Law and Order League, composed of not only the ministers and leading citizens and business men, and all who feel that it is for the good of the community that law should be supreme.

That this movement is not perfunctory and listless, an empty thing that will result in nothing, is shown by that fact that money is going to be put into the organization to pay for the arrest and conviction of those who break the law. The league is to be virile and determined, and with a specially appointed lawyer and detective service, together with active town, county and state officials all supported by juries that are backed by an everwhelming public sentiment, prohibition is bound to prohibit in Davidson county, as it will wherever such vigorous methods are taken to suppress the pernicious illegal manufacture and sale of whiskey. And at the top of this list of the forces of law we want to see judges who will never suspend judgment on payment of costs, and who will not stop at short terms on the roads; but judges who will send moonshiners and blind tigers to the penitentiary for the maximum length of time. You needn't tell us if five weary years await the man who messes with whiskey that prohibition wouldn't prohibit. Celebration of Saint John's Day at the Oxford Orphan Asylum.

At Oxford, on Saturday, June 27, the Masons of the State will celebrate Saint John's Day. A special communication of the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina will be held at the Oxford Orphan Asylum on this day. After the meeting, interesting public exercises will take place out in the great oak grove of this institution. Grand Master Gattis has appointed Rev. Chai.

E. Maddry, of Greensboro, Orator of the occasion. The children of the Oxford Orphan Asjlum will take part in the exercises. In the afternoon they will give an attractive, open-air entertainment Three hundred and twenty children are now under the care of this orphans' home. The people of North Carolina are heartily invited to be present.

A large attendance is anticipated. Blackberry Pie. Monroe Enquirer. Blackberry pie. It hold a place in the estimation of all lovers of good things to eat that no other product of the land or sea occupies.

Blackberry pie bridges the chasm between the millionaire and the pauper. It is found on the mahogany table of th6 haughty society leader and on the oil-cloth covered pine table of lowly' washer-woman. It is on the bill of fare of the inmates of the poor house. The rich man who rides his gasoline buggy and the poor tramp who rides the rods under the freight cars or steps from crosstie in the blistering sun meet on a common level at the lunch counter and both order blackberry pie. In a word blackberry pie is the one article of diet which makes the world Blackberry time, good folks, is here.

i "Rurhteous indignation usually means "devilish madness." Sparfe Moments. A Talk is cheap, but only when it is cheap' talk. When it has i no mean ing, no purpose, no aim back of it, then the thing you say is worthless, and even those whom you have for the amused walk away strongly impressed with your, unimportance. a But when the words you utter are charged with some vital meaning, are prompted by sincerity of purpose, then your talk, whatever you express, either in speech or in print, is the most precious thing in the world, though the world may be slow in recognizing the value of it. Someone will pay some attention to yon, someone will believe "in you.

At least you yourself will will have faith in your object and one disciple is better thah none. The best idea at first has only one adherent. Sooner or later, others will follow, and one by one they all prove that talk, the right kind of talk, is not so cheap as some may think. Don't be afraid to talk if you have something to say. If you haven't you will soon fina it out and it is worth while out.

But do not be easily frightened by the man who for the lack of a better argument quotes to to you an old adage to the effect that talk is cheap. You can asily knock him out with some other adage. There are a lot of sayings of the world, and one of the purposes of each one of them is to contradict the others. Don't be bashful. Take the floor and speak your little piece.

You may have the right idea and you may strike the right audience any time. The siighest suggestion, if given to the proper person at the opportune moment, will make a place for you in the world. There are lots of people looking for ideas, and they will pay for them, even if they have not the clearest idea as to what an idea is. All you have to do is to convince them that you have the idea and that you can make it work. If you have found the man that understands, then you have your real discoverer.

Recognition uever comes to those who sit and wait for it without in the least disturbing the peace and quiet of the community. Don't be afraid to talk. The good word is yet to be spoken. Will It Cut Off Special School Taxes? Greensboro Dispatch. A prominent member of the bar here says that the recent Supreme Court decision declaring that under the constitution the State and county poll tax shall pot exceed $2 will cut poll taxes levied in special school tax districts, as they are at present collected by the sheriff as par of the State and county poll tax on the citizens of the special tax districts.

In Guilford county special school tax districts the total of this poll tax will reach $3,000 at least, and until some remedial legislation can be had, if the above construction of the Supreme Court opinion is correct, the loss in poll tax contribution to the school fund in these special districts throughout the State will rech $75,000 to $100,000. The lawyer mentioned gave his opinion after a careful examination made by request of a county school superintendent of education. Child Bests a Bishop. Dr. Ingranf, Bishop of London, is a learned ecclesiastic, but he declares that at times young children, of whom he is extravagantly fond, upset him badly with their questions.

Once he was addressing a gathering of poor children, and at the close of his remarks invited any boy or girl to ask him questions. The Bishop answered several, but was finally floored by a little girl, who asked "Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's ladder when they had wings?" Dr. Ingram escaped by blandly inquiring: 'What little boy or girl would like to answer that question." Taft Has 603 Votes; Enough To Nominate. The Republican national conven-tiorfwill meet in Chicago to-day. Secretary of War William Taft will have a total of 603 delegates on the temporary roll call, without taking into consideration any that have4 either-endorsed him or declared for him in any other manner.

The decision of the: national Re- Eublican in the contests ave given Mr? Taft 319 delegates who already had 398 instructed delegates before the national committee began the hearing of contests. Pardon for Caleb Powers. governor Wilson, of Kentucky, recently 1 inaugurated, Republican, last Friday granted an unconditional pardon to Caleb S. Powers and James Howard, serving life sentences -for complicity in the assassination of Governor Goebel several years ago. Both were considered as political prisoners, and a pardon was predicted when Wilson was elected.

Governor Wilson has been besieged by petitions to exercise clemency since he has been in office. The petitions came from all parts of the country. Col. John R. Webster, editor of the Reidsville Weekly, and Mr.

J. Allen Holt, of Guilford, one of the candidates for the Democratic nomi-dation. in th district; had a small scrape at Oreensboro Wednesday, night. They afterward made friends end shook hands. Marion went dry June 1st, and as a result there is nothing doing in the police court, nota bingle arrest 'being made for drunkenness.

Of the 182 applicants foV license to practice medicine in North Carolina 93 passed the examination before the State Board, while 29f ailed to make the required. average'. Two women and a child were drowned and two men narrowlyes-caped death when a taxicab automobile became uncoritrollflble on West 56th streets in New York Tuesday night and ran down the dock the foot of the street into the Hudson River. Only those confederate soldiers and widows who make 'application for pensions are required v. to do so before the Clerk Court before -May 1, and those that have been on the pension list ddnot shave to renew the application, as we stated last week.

Judge Fred Moore at Greensboro Wednesday night, name J. receivers for two railway companies in this section of the stat the Carolina Valley Railway Company.1 with offices at High Point, and the iThomasville-Denton railway, leading from Thom-asville to Denton and the, Iola gold mines. Rev. J. B.

Boone died Wednesday morning at, Henderson vi He of. para lysis and softening of the brain. He had been sick two months. He was 72 years of age. He was for.

a long time suDerintendent of the Thomas- ville Orphanage. Sirce, his resignation he had led a auiet and retired life in r. W. H. Stewart, editor of the Salisbury waked to find negro in the act of burglarizing his house.

Mr. Stewart fired on the negro who got away. Later the negrd was found suffering from a bullet wound in the abdomen, and was identified by Mr. Stewart as the man he fired on. Five dangerous long-term convicts made a successful dash for liberty from the state penitentary Wednesday as a large squad of them were being marched from railroad- con struction work in Hyde county to convict camp some distance away.

They were all negroes, rewards being offered by the state prison auth-orites here for the re-arrest of each of them. With the state prohibition election carried by a big majority and pro hibition to be effective throughout the state January 1, 1909 the charter ing of a new corporation to -do a wine, liquor, cigar and tobacco busi ness is remarkable. Such a corpora- ion, the Eagle Saloon Company. of Winston-Sajem, wag granted a charter by the secretary of state Tuesday. The 2-year-old child of T.

O. Page at Madison had a miraculous escape from being killed by ailorfolk Western freight train Friday. It strayed from home and was playing on the track when a train came around the curve and before the engineer could stop, he had knocked he tot down and passed over it. ts mother saw the accident. Strange say the child was not hurt, barring a few slight bruises.

State Normal College. We desire to call attention to the advertisement of the Stat2 Normal and Industrial College whichappears in this issue. Every year sees a steady growth in thi3 great institu tion devoted to the higher education of the women of North Carolina. The Mclver Memorial Building pro vision for which was made by the ast General Assembly, is now in course of erection and will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the fall term. The College last year had a total enrollment of 930 students.

Ninety- two counties were represented. Nine-tenths of all the graduates of this institution have taught in the schoolspf North Carolina. The college dormitories are furnished by the State and board is provided at actual cost. 4 Two hun dred appointments to the dormitories apportioned among the several counties according to population, will be awarded to applicants about the middle of July. Students who may wish to secure one of these appointmen to should make application before July 15th.

Mr. Bryan Has It The Bryan publicity bureau gives out the statement that 630 delegates have already been instructed for Mr. Bryan and that sixty-seven others in states not bound by the unit rule have declared their personal preference for him and will give him their votes, this giving 'him a total of 697, twenty-five more than necessary to secure the nomination oft the first ballot under the two-thirds rule. Among the states yet to hold1, conventions are Florida. Tennessee, North Carolina, Vermont, Georgia, Maine Mississippi, Montana, and Colorado and Porto Rico.

The 'Bryan bureau maintains that the Ne-braskan will get. a large majority of the votes from these state's: I V'v A blue crane, of "enormous dimensions was taken from flight by a shotgun near Oxford Tuesday By actual measurement the bird is six feet And one inch from tip of bill to tip of toes and measures six feet four inches from "the tips of its wings. It has been stated for a fact that it was the largest one ever killed in Granville county, A eorresDondent inauires jsoncern intr the dutv of wife, and mother. if her husband drinks sqanders the property-and mistreats her. -ohaii she bear her, burden and wait for her reward at the resurrection of the just, or should she leave him ta his deserts and protect herself and chil dren from his neglect and cruelty! This is a serious and far-reaching question and much depends upon the proper decision, which may De maae under existinor circumstances.

I understand fully the solemnity of the vows taken atthe manage altar. "So lone as you both 1 shall live," means a great deal to both parties. A marriage ceremony is as solemn as a funeral service in some respects. It affects the unborn as well as those who take the vow; and it ix passing strange that so many persons rnsn into matrimony without due reflec tion and a knowledge of what the union 'means to themselves and to those to come after them. But we may also conclude that the partnership should be a mutual one, and when the husband fails to do any part of his duty to his family there should be some relief, some where, for the wife and mother, and especially there should be protection for the little children who came into the world without their own -con sent, and who have to suffer from the hereditary taints handed down by a drunken father and by whose example children may be seriously contaminated.

A mother who has been cruelly beaten in the presence of her chil dren owes it to herself, that such cruelty and bad conduct shall not continue. She should not put up with it, for her own sake, and if the man has not lost all sense of obligation to the mother of his children she should make it a matter of duty, that no more children should come here to be thus afflicted and robbed of their rights to a decent home and clean blood in their little veins. A conscientious woman must be a loyal mother as well as a dutiful wife, and she owes as much to her children as she can possibly owe to the father, when she considers the responsibility of bringing children into the world and who are to be moulded into good or bad citizens accoridng to heredity and environment, and whose eternal destiny will be affected by the home they are born into. When a mother fully appreciates the dangers that attend a drunken father's association with his children, and the demoralization of his example and habits she must pain fully realize the conditions which surround her offspring. She must endeavor to relieve them of these dangers.

Our courts are prompt to relieve women who are cruelly mistreated and exposed to confirmed drunken ness in their homes, but they can only relieve by granting divorces and a divorce means a separation, legal and binding. I understand the hesitation which oppresses a good woman, in asking for a divorce (and I think I also- un derstand how reckless some women are who make improper use of divorce suits) but the main question centers about the duty which a clean- souled wife and mother owes to her self and her children when life is made intolerable by a brute of a drunken husband, who is unworthy of being a parent to her children or the husband of a good women. She owes a duty to the unborn as well as to the living; and if I were on the jury I'd say, let the women go in peace and save those children from the drunken father. Wanted to Hang. Elijah Skaggs, the self-styled successor to Christ and leader of a big cult in the southwest, was last Saturday at Fort Smith, Ark.

sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary upon a conviction on the charge of criminal assault upon one of his women followers. The latter in justice's court denounced Skagg, but in the circuit court she said that the assault was spiritual instead of carnal, and that her charge against him was the result of an understanding with Skaggs, who desired to be hanged and buried. Skaggs told his followers that he would rise again the third day and thus prove that he was the second Christ. He 'offered his lawyers $600 to secure the death penalty and on the witness stand prayed for the death sentence. The woman -who was assaulted has been arrested for perjury.

The Election Came at the Wrong Time For the Antis. Charlotte Observer "William, how come you to let the State go for prohibition asked an Observer man of William doorkeeper at the Southern Manufacturers' Club, yesterday. "How come?" "Yes, why did vou let the pro-highs do it?" "t)e 'lection wuz held atde wrong time fur de anti-pro-highs," said William, "Dat's why, an how come." ''You mean in the summer time?" "No, sir; in de day time. Ef dey'd help! it at night, an' lef de' weemens an chilluns at home, we'd been all right. 1 could'er gut my crowd out den.

But, comin' in de broad day light, as it did, dey wuz a little The Directoire gown has been revived in France, and is expected to become popular in America. Trousers are worn under the skirt. -X 4 Jean Napoleon Ingram was up from his cotton ranch last Saturday, and had not assumed his customary seat amongst The Times exchanges when the morning Observer was placed in his hands announcing the. safe arrivalsthe previous day from Cedar Park, via Paris, of his former comrade. C.

F. King at Boston. The Professor was nbt surprised; "had expected such a cataclysm; knew that King had the stuff in him to face his adversaries; and was glad that he had bearded his enemies in their den and was smiting them hip and thigh:" The details and dis-closures-the says "of this arch conspiracy of the financial age," he awaits with interest. In the meantime he is 'pleased to observe that, in his late manifestos to the people, Charles F. sustains his old time vigor in the scathing denunciation of his foes.

He recalled an incident in western politicial history as a parallel to King's recent epoisode. At the. close of the unpleasant ness between the States, in 1865V Goverridr Isham Harris, of Tennes see, jomed general Fnces's uoniea-erate colony, crossed the Rio Grande, obtained from Maximillian, reigning povfirnor. land crants at Cordova. Mexico" (at which the Professor once spent a summer's excursion, white in the Latin Renublic) "for coffee culture.

Governor Harris at his exit to Mexico, left in safe hands, several thousand dollars of State specie until such a State crovernment was established, and a urovernor. 1 elected who had the people's confidence to receive and disburse Dublic -money honestly. Pttrsnn Rrnnmlfiw. at that interest- ing epoch, came on the carpet-bag tide into the office of Provisional Governor, through the favor of Andrew Johnson. Brownlow had not warmed his official chair until he issued a reward of some thousand dollars, for the apprehension and delivery of the absent Isham Harris.

When the tidings reached Mexico the irate ex-governor left his coffee bushes, and journeyed to Nashville with the coin in a sack, and a shoot-in iron in his hin Docket, and walked into Brownlow's office. The parson threw Up his hands, and began to quote Scripture; protesting that: 'As long as the lamp held out the hardest sinner could The two governors adjusted their finan-nancial transactions without violence." The Professor hopes that King's monetary affairs at Boston will nave similiar adjudications. About the Dog. A prominent citizen was on ttrial, charged with harboring a vicious dog. The attorney for the defense had consulting a dog expert and had learned that if a dog holds his tail up over his back when he barks he is not angry, while if he holds is straight out behind him he is in a belligerent, blood-thirsty frame of mind.

Anxious to air his newly acquired information, the lawyer began cross-questioning the persecuting, witness in this manner: VNow, did you notice the position in which, this dog's tail was held when he came at you?" "I did not," said the witness, "for that was not the end from which I anticipated injury. I had another end in view. Now, if the dog had been a hornet "No -levity, sir!" thundered the attorney. "Answer the question. In what position was the dog's tail when he came at you?" fied witness, him." Hthat it was behind flood Woman Who Will Do Right and Tend Store.

The following from the last issue of the Wilkesboro Patriot is printed as a matter of interest and information "Mr. Edtfor Please advertise in your paper that I want to get me a good womari one that will do right and tend to the store. I am by myself, with nobody to help me. I don't care how poor she is, for I have got plenty to support her. If any one wants to marry, tell them to write to me or come and look around my place of business.

I am living in the east end of town, on Main street. "Yours, VJoiJn A. Porter. "North Wilkesboro. N.

Raised Rents as Punishment? StatesTllle Landmark The Landmark stated in its last issue that Mr. D. L. Arey, a big distiller and liquor dealer of Salisbury, had served notice on certain tenants of an advance in srents, pleading as excuse that he will lose much money on account of the State votingfor prohibition, and that on account of the advance two of the tenants of the Arey building will go out of business and another will move. i A Salisbury man tells The Landmark that the advance was from $75 to $125 per month and that it was made because the tenants voted for prohibition, this being Mr.

Arey's method of punishing that one who voted against prohibition i could probably rent the buildings foe the same money as If this statement be correct, Mr. Arey4 may think he is getting even with some-, bodv but he may live to that he has "bitten off bis nose to spite Ms into the Union. Xfice. i Mm t-.