Show 44 M t ml 4 i home paragraphs J lo 10 last winter in a period of rashness and inconceivable folly we took look a few dancing lessons we learned the tango the one step and the hesitation with all the dips drags giace vines and lame ducks ducass thereunto appertaining and in such cases made and provided we thought we had terpsichore lashed to tile the rudder of a zeppelin As we glided about the hall or from divan to davenport just missing tile the piano plano lump in our mad flights through some friendly parlor we ne used to feel sorry tor for poor mr and mrs castle we were the dancing demon of the day we were but last night we happened to drop in on some friends whose as we entered was tearing oft off by the sea by the beautiful sea we shall forever hate that tune tor for it Is inextricably intermingled with the wreck of our fondest conceit we learned last i night that we cant dance no more than a rabbit MS e cant dance there vas a young fellow in that parlor aho vho ho had brought with him from the city a slew of new steps and motions and gestures and poses and by the time we got there he had taught the young ladies such delicatessens delica tessens as the half and half tile the fox trot th alis silo slip and the ford flop or something like that why we even know the holds any more everything ne e did was passe or aisne aasne or we were major general dub last year if you did id rot hesitate well you come around this year it if you hesitate you are lost and no reward offered 0 say that to some friend when you leave him saturday night of course you will mean that you will go to church sunday it if ile he will go too a tine fine way to start off it if you I 1 are undecided as to which church to attend select the one your mother used to go to you cant go tar far wrong any fellows mothers religion ought to be good enough tor for him so next sunday give up the lazy hour halir in bed have your best clothes ready put em on and start out with your head up rp and your shoulders back youre doing one of the best things you ever 1 did in your life and it if you keep it up you will never be sorry and nd be surprised to see how good it feels to be in church and above till all things it if there is congregational sn singing ging SING dont merely hold the book and bluff blud at singing fill I 1 vp up your lungs and let out the music know it all right you may have forgotten the words but tile the tune never why your mother used to sing it she will be a happy woman when she knows knovs that her boy was at hurch in durham N C the executive I 1 committee of the anti saloon league of the state Is preparing to introduce a bill into the next legislature waiching will make it a crime for any resident cf the state to have any sort of liquor in his possession or in his home it will not be necessary to show that the citizen attempted to give away to his friends or to sell the liquor I 1 the very tact fact that h he e has it in its his possession or in his hon home will be sufficient to send him to the pene tertiary tent iary lary therefore the new bill will lie ile the most drastic ever offered tor for passage the present prohibition law of north caroline is extra extreme I 1 in it its provisions but there is said to be more boot legging in the state t than h an in any other state it is in the hops hope 0 of destroying this bootlegging and the keeping of blind tigers that the anti saloon league will work hard for the passage of the new bill thank god some of us have an old fashioned mother not a woman of 0 the period painted and enameled with all her society manners and tine fine dresses white jeweled hands that never felt the clasp of baby fingers f n but a dear old fashioned with a sweet voice eyes into whose clear depth the love light shone and brown hair just threaded with silver lying smooth upon her i faded cheek the hands worn with toll toil gently guided our steps in childhood and smoothed our cheeks in sickness ever reaching out to us in yearning tenderness blessed Is the memory of an old fashioned mother it floats to us like the beautiful perfume of some wood blossoms the music of other voices may be lost lut but the enchanting memory of hers v will III echo in our soul forever As a result of the november elections there are now fourteen states in the dry column they are arizona colorado georgia kansas maine mississippi north carolina north D dakota kota oklahoma oregon tennessee virginia washington and west virginia a there remain 15 states in which halt balf the population live in so called no license territory they are alabama arkansas florida idalio idaho indiana lowi iowa kentucky louisiana minnesota nebraska new hampshire south carolina south dakota texas and vermont 4 there remain eleven states in which 25 per cent of the population lives in no license territory they re california deleware illinois maryland ryland massachusetts michigan missouri ohio utah wisconsin and wyoming at different times in the rast post 23 states have adopted the policy of prohibition all but nine tor for one reason or another abandoned it for or local option or control by license california a and ud ohio out of the six ix states in which stat statewide eide prohibition b don amendments wore were voted on this his fall all elected to remain in III the wet column in ohio the new amendment to the constitution practically places the state in the wet column forever as it provides that no new liquor legislation shall be introduced into the legislature the present ijes 1 aws lio however Never are very strict and are carried out to the letter the new amendment does not prohibit the holding of wet and dry elections in communities under the laws that a are re a at t present in tores force the states that have voted dry during the year 1914 are arizona colorado oregon washington and virginia 0 it is useless to be dis heartened because things do not go just as you would like to have them murmur ing does not cure troubles A disagreeable face will not altar a disagreeable tact fact try to extract some giali of comfort out of your adversities never despair under whatever circumstances circum be cheerful and hope arg so philosophical as a smile A merry heart is the height ct cf wisdom the greatest part or 0 our wit wi 1 disappear when viewed through the lenses anses of cheerfulness let the dors dire past sink out of eight bight triumph jr in the lord look toward the sunrise eliout it in the midst of shadows as it acou saw the dawn kissing the hills pill fill your soul boul with the visions of morning and the song bong of the lark then all will become suffused with daylight all gloomy places will aulse I alse ulse with sunshine the clammy rocks will glisten with dew aou would id you like to know the key to unlock tho doorway to a happy life it Is cheerfulness and if the earth has nothing to bring you you can still rejoice in the lord and rejoice evermore folks who go to bed late or are corly risers have an opportunity to lu observe a comet at present the now new ethereal visitor is not a portent lor or protest of the creator of 0 the universe against the crime of a world at war it Is familiar to astrino and is a regular visitor it may be seen about 1030 at night low on the northern horizon under the pole star it ascends during the night and may be in the northeast between 2 and I 1 a in it may be seen best sit at these hours the comet is faint having the brightness of a third r 1 magnitude agni tude star and lias pas a tall several cf cle grees in length it is really much larger than the famous Ilai leb comet but Is vastly farther from the parth arth than balleys Hal leys approach tour four scars cars ago it will be visible to the naked eye until tile the end of 0 this buy things that are re made in your ho home me town when you can and soon you can buy anything v many a young man goes away to seek his fortune when fortune is seeking for him at home ahers so live that when your summons comes to join the commercial club you will jump at the chance many a man can tell you where is but cant just lay his hands on his bucksaw it very long atter after a wise young man reaches the marrying age before lie he reaches the parsonage 0 A business block on the main street is a better belter monument to a a man than a stone in tile the cemetery 6 there are a good many ways to help this town and a good many people to help it if they would all work it if you will consider the men in this town who are well ott off you will wil find that most of them made their money here A coat has to fit as well in the back as it t does in the front a town reeds not only good streets but clean alleys 0 we a any ruined castles in this country but we have some barns that are not near as old that look just as bad 4 you have to be a citizen in order to vote but you have got to do a good deal more than vote in order to be a citizen after tour four thousand years man bas never found anything to make him happier than a wee house with a wee wife in it when a wagon gets into a rut there is nothing to do but to put our shoulder to the wheel it is the same with a community the home paper ought always to bo singing the praises ot of the home town but lets make it a chorus instead of a solo the big things done in the big towns the greatest poem in the english language was written in a country churchyard it strange how some men will build a house for a new dog first thing but when they get married never think any farther ahead than a flat |