The farmer and mechanic., 1913-11-04
getting a Christmas present apiece.

getting a Christmas present apiece,
holding out their hands Tor tue soiu
pens; the President. after low-tonso
confab with Turnulty. over the parcn-
inent before him and writing as care
fully as a school child in new copy
book. and then speaking IN connoent
elooIIence OF the great party-trlumph pm |
and keeping Of the platform pledge;
and the intermingling mass OF ION
gressmen and newspaper men, law
vers thick. in the front of the room
The dominant tone OF the scene was
joy But theVe was one note an the
minor key in this music Of triumph;
this marseillaise of democratic sue
cess. AS ones eye flashed oyer the
room, it was suddenly arfested >by
the face of Champ Clark, Speaker, OF
the House A masterful face, leonIne
in its sense Of power: but pale under
the shock of white hair. and grief
stricken. The eye was rather down
turned. and the whole cast of the
cOuntenanCe was one rather OF re-
verie than absorbed attention upon
he interesting transaction at the
dask. This man who had commanded
majority of the Baltimore cOnven-
ton; this victim Of the two-thirds
rule: this statesman who had suffered
at the hands of Destiny, showed IN
his face, not jealousy, the disappoint-
ment of a life ambition. He seemed
to be thinking: 1T might have
been
Everything mild has been tanned
up-to-date. The ostrich has been
chased into farms where their tail
feathers are annually picked to float
from Gainsborough hats; the Nurs-
tang, and the Tar Heel Bank ponies
have been lassoed even the lightning
has been harnessed for the uses Of
mankind, but never before to-
day has the trailinb arbutus
consented to bloom anywhere
except in the woods. 1t is
| the daintiest of flowers. The violet
| is no sweeter; and Diana was not
more modest or wary or charry Of
| being fattered or subjected to the
smiles Of mankind. It's tender frag-
| rance is as sweet as the perfume that
used to be waited from the High
Priests censer. But it's bushes and
its sweetness were only for the dank,
dark shade of the woodland dell. The
arbutus, however has met it's Water
loo. It has capitulated to 'the bota-
mist in charge Of taxonomic and
range Investigations, DR.. Frederick
| v. Coville, and it came to terms in a
little basement room in the west wing
of the Department Of Agriculture
building. After it had baffled him for
| weeks, he went into his laboratory one
day, "fiddled with test tubes, per-
| formed weird rites with Bunsen bur
ners,' and then slipped out into the
woods with a new kind Of chemical
earth, sprinkled it on the arbutus
tail, and captured the coy creature
and now arbutus will play in any
!. bodys back yard. DR.. Coville tells
how in a ZOO word article strictly fol
!, scientific and botanical distribution.
In an interview the other day, Sec.
| retary of Agriculture Houston, 6
Union county Tar Heel by birth, stated
) that out of the 100000 school chill
> dren in the United States, 100000 fai
in their studies every year. He attri
$ butes the failure to sickness or un
I healthy tendencies, and the chief con
! tributOr to the diseases is bad teeth
s DR.. Houston is an educator as wei
e as a farming. man, and he wants tn
t country school children to have
g better chance. In North Carolina, h
e said, there is spent on the education
: Of city children, SIS year each, an,
r on the country child $3.50. That. i
d the average cost of urban and rura
s education per child. DR.. Houston
|, thinks the lads and lassies in tn
h woods and fields ought to have a
d good opportunities as the city chap
n to be fitted for the duties of life
r IN spite Of the
OF the hueer criticism Of the Bible
and the too general neglect Of Bibl
II teaching in the homes Of the coun
y try, it continues to be the most widel
/ circulated book in Christendom. Vol
: talre predicted that in one hundre
e years 1t would be forgotten book
d The hundred years have passed an
l. 1t Is Vo!taire who is forgotten A fe,
"a years ago IN a Paris Museum a
l English evangelist came across tn
l choir in which Voltaire used to sit :
r his desk to pen his attacks upon tn
in word Of God. Jumping the rail. tn
w preacher sat down in the seat Of tn
Id inf1del and sang:
D. Jesus shall reign wherer in the Su
in Doth his successive JOURNEYS run
r The following clipped from ns
s. per day or two old
I'd The Bible is the most popular boo
he in the United States This count,
We produces more Bibles than anv othc