French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-03

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, of either good or evil but somebow uo
want to see visions and hear of mira
cles and put good things off to fntnre
Iages n mfllenniums, instead of Nv
ing IN happiness every day of our life.
Troubles,-yes we have troubles hut
what are they, but vapor which soon
passes away?
OF course the trend of events make
us all change our attitudes and beliefs.
Soon ater4 the recent presidential
election, a foreigner was being ex-.
am1ned in a United States court for
admissions to citizenship. He was
asked the question, "Mr. Aulando. do
you belong to any secret society or
alien organization which is opposed
ITO our democratic form of govern
ment3 Yes, Judge, before now ali
been a republican, now ah change a
democrat" You see the political
times were changing and it was nee
essary for our Eastern newcomer to
change with them so it is with us all,
We may change u political notions,
our religious ideas. our thoughts
about government, our ideas about
farming. about society, for like the
newcoming citizen above referred to,
we all like the idea of being in the
OWA"s DAA1J 0unOdy IS1uSSS " US-
lieve in the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of man, not because
he really does not believe it, but be-
cause he has a creed to carry out and
he knows that the bulk of those who
listen to him. will cling to the creed
instead Of the other great truth, if it
be a truth. 1t is going to take mighty
hard pulpit hammering howeer.. all
I over this globe, in the future, to hold
thinging people to Billy's dogma. in
stead of the FatherhOOd and Brother
hod idea. OF course we all will have
little trials, shortcomings and diff
%culties, we do not all see the future
OF even the proprieties of life alike,
for while out West, we read of a law
yer's legal advertisement along the
line of sepcialties in the practice. He
made a speciality of marriage troubles
and family infelicities. He said in his
advertisement, "All advice free, either
in person or by letter, family dis
putes settled on easy terms, twenty
years installments for payment of
tees. rents collected, and bankruptcy
encouraged. Wishing you all a merry
Christmas, a happy Newyear, a new
hat for Easter and a Bingham dress
for Fourth of July,-call and see me-, :
Snorgins, Atty" We hardly think
this method of soliciting legal bust
ness would pass the Committee Ethics
of North Carolina Bar Association,
but it might be heIDful to voting limbs
of the law, in some parts Of the
West.
There are times when most all OF
us wonder what this world is going to
do without us whe nwe Nave it. as we
are sure, to do. sooner or later. This
writer once had a little school bell
and he has it yet keeping 1t as a SOU
Yenir. There are people in Hender-
son county who have heard that bell
ring at Byers Academy. Smoky Hol-
low, Shaws Creek, n Pleasant
Grove, where we taught school one
tap of the bell me2nt that the classes
in their known order, should come
80 rthe outdoors, when they heard the
two taps meant that school was out
and how the small boys would sprint
TO rthe outdoors. whdOthey heard the
two-tap of the bell-meant to cease
from the tolls of labor and study. a
breaking out from confinement,"God
their sweet cheerful voices as
thew ROM to the playground, we can
hear that sweet music yet. Some OF
those verv kids now almost have gray
hairs-it has been forty years ago..
Well SCHOOL will oon be out" with
an of Us 70 rvery many of those same
children have now passed on to the
other shore.
We often heal people talk about the
end of the world and when it is to
come and if we but think, all that is
easy to tell-when the clods fall and
close me in. what need / care ABOUT
the end. I am cold dust, my footsteps
silent. nv office closed. let another
worthier take it's place-for a snort
let my name be mentioned by a
few-he taught a school out here was
collector. had something 10 90
with the Board of Education, ] heard
nv father sav and on it goes till after
awhile you will never be mentioned
and the world will not know that YOU
ever was here. 1 know but little hen
tho world began with and shall / be
enough to worry about how 1t IS
going to end for I have had my day
troubles. my business affairs, nv
educational days, my hard financial
knocks, nv disappointments. my joys,
'o+s OF eoea fun, scads Of dear friends,
a mighty few treacherous en-
emies, had thousands of books. PAPERS
md magazines to read and enjoy, and
when a man gets old. If he ever does,
there is no place on this earth that is
a home for him, except the
community where he was born and the