The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-08


and recall in their conversation. some
' of their boyiSh FRANKS and expert
ences. But, in later life. when l knew
more of printers, l realized, more thar
could then imagine, the very broth
crIy feeling they had for each other
How these sudden cold snaps dc
make us hug the fire! Last Tuesday
/ it was warm and rained. In the fore
noon, and I didn't care so much for a
| fire; but in the evening it began to
snow and turn cold, and Wednesday
morning everything was frozen hard
and fast, and wood going up. -Four
dollars and fifty cents is now the price
of cord of wood, which, if put To the
test. would be two-thirds of an old
time honestly measured cord.
] told the readers q few weeks ago
something about the high price OF
wood, and how we had to use it, so
sparingly we could only keep our toes
warm. and SO | got a barrel OF kind
ling wood which came in good time,
and is doing a good service, this cold
snap, making fires start off in the
morning. This is the note which eX-
planned the matter It comes from
Lumberdale, n. c.:
Dear Mr.. Whitaker: Papa takes
the Farmer and Mechanic and we read
al your letters. You said you couldn't
hardly keep your toes warm much less
your heels, that wood was so high aIil
still going up. | send you a barrel
of kindling wood for a Christmas
present. ! hope you can get warm
Christmas anyhow
Yours truly,
Masters Clyde and Marshall Thomp-
son.
i. Z. Joyner, ESQ., placed this writer
under renewed obligations by sending
TO him a turkey for Christmas the
seventeenth one. by the way. he has
received from Mr.. Joyner in the past
seventeen years. No man ever had a
better friend than Mr.. Joyner has
shown himself to be to me. And as
sure him that no one could appreciate
nore than | do such tokens of friend
ship; for, il there is anything I do
really enjoy it is carving Christmas
turkey Thanks, dear Tom.
DR.. Fred. Whitaker, my nephew,
and a chip of the old block-his faith
er being my eldest brother-sent me
a box Of cigars to smoke after T had
Toasted on turkey; and oftener if 1
felt like it. They were fine, and al
though Christmas has gone the box is
not yet empty. Between turkeys and
cigars things went very nicely all the
week.
l have already told the readers how
nicely | spent the Christmas, SO | viii
not repeat.
] wish to say to the travelling public
who have to stop over at Selma. either
for dinner or for a night they will find
the right place, over at the Wyoming
House on the north side of the depot
Mr.. Kitchener has virtually built Il
new hotel and newly furnished it,
r
go there, everything is in first-claSs
condition to make people comfortable
mwardly and outwardly. Mr.. Mitch
ener deserves and doubtless will get q
large share of the public's patronage.
If man does a thing, actuated by
good motive which is misunderstood
and misinterpreted by another per-
son, and estrangement between the
parties is likely To follow. explanation
should be made and the party who
has felt himself aggrieved ought TO be
made to know that no harm was in
tended. A thorough lady or gentle
man will not allow a misunderStand-
ing to interrupt friendly relations.
| once knew case. however. in
which one man wounded the feelings
of another, and the matter went on
until they got to be deadly enemies.
Was there any real cause for all this?
Not a bit.
The man who wrote the unkind let
ter soon found out that he was mis-
taken as to the true condition of
things: but having expressed his opin-
ion, predicated upon, what he after
wards knew was an erroneous idea. he
wouldn't explain or try to make
He was TOO much of a cow
ard to do right when he knew that he
was wrong and had done the wrong
thing. / use to hear him say: Il may
have done wrong, and l now think
that | did, in the matter; but l can't
afford to stultify myself by making eX-
And so, he let the matter go on and
the breach widen because he did not
have the manhood to do right.
L have written this much to bring
me to a closing sentence which is: Let
us try, dear readers, in this new year.
to square all our dealings by the gol-
den rule-doing unto others-one and
all, as we would have them do unto u.s.
Heaven is governed by that rule. an'i
he who fails to keep it here cannot
expect to reach that holy place.