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SARGE PLUNK BTT.
That eterything is so cheap it
don't pay to make it, is a common
expression, and upon this might be
counted the failure of many young
lives.
In the towns riding is so cheap
that it don't pay to walk a quarter.
Cakes and pies can be bought cheap
er than they can be made at home.
Keady-made clothing is so cheap that
it don't pay to se-v, and so on and
o on.
. In the country the same ideas pre
vail, A fine bush cut down and
ekianed makes the best hoe handle
in the world and two slits with an ax
one to cut it down, tho other to
cut it off has it ready, yet a plenty
of farmers buy hoes with handles
just for the handles. Hickory is
waste everywhere in Georgia, and
white Oak is in abundance, yet there
is not a store hut what sells ax han
dles, swingle trees and plow stocks,
They are so cheap that it don't pay
to make them, and yet we know that
the sale of thece things are making
firms rich somewhere.
In the home life of country folks
is where. you see the leak of this idea
At its worst. Show me a man 50
. years old that ever saw an idle girl
during his childhood. If they went
visiting during those days they car
ried along some sort of work. Knit
ting was a pastime occupation and
did not interfere in the least with
the socibility of any company. It
was a clear pick up as printers
would say to have all sorts of socks
and stockings for a family, and yet
these, things have come to be so
cheap that it don't pay to just pick
?JJ1 up. Pickles, preserves, the sa
ving of delicasies for soups for win
ter use. All these things can be
bought cheaper than they can be
' made or saved at home.
This is y,ll a delusion th js idea
that it is cheaper and better t6 buy
nil these things. But the financial
damage is not the worst loss. The
demorilization engendered by the
idleness it brings is the worst fea
ture. It makes the poor girl so
Jiglpless in her idleness that she is
au object of pity to any person that
looks upon her and thinks at all.
The poor things have nothing on
earth to do but sit and hold their
iiands. They may resort to reading
The most of them do but it is
trasjjy, and this strips her of all her
charms as they used to pertain among
the girls who knit and talked and
laughed and sang around every fire
aide in Georgia.
If it were possible to give a picture
of the average Georgia home of be
fore the war, surely it would not be
cut of place and it would be a bles
sing if we could but turn the present
generation to striving at an imitation
of those conditions.
One thing certain, there was no
idleness then. There is a notion
that the sons of planters were raised
in idict'e. Thu is not true n.- u
great majority neatly allthe pros
perous farmers of Georgia required
their sons carrv row for row with the
negroes. The- truth is there was
mighty little haughty or self-conceit
people in Georgia before tho war.
The rating people then was in the
quality of character, not from the
style they assumed or thy money
they owed. While there was small
disposition to exalt one's self among
his fellows , there wds an absence of
that low quality implied by the term
"poor folks." A proper self-respect
belonging to all, as a rule, and this
was natural among those of wealth
and called for no strain among those
in ..humbler . circumstances. From
Manassas to Spottsvlvania the man
of a hundred slaves slept under the
same blanket with the boy of a wid
owed mother who was striving at
home with wheel and loom and who
died let us hope, without ever a
thoughtthat any had more interest
in this land of Dixie than she and
hers. In my heart I believe that
this southland before the war was
the nearest a land of equality than
anv has been before or will ever be
ugain. .There was no "rich folks"
and no "poor folks" as that term is
understood today, but "my folks,
my home, my church, my country,
they are the best"- this was tho
spirit of those year?, and it was the
only lofty of the old held school sys
tem then.
Just why, whatever it is that does,
should get a million-dollar idea into
a fifty-cent capacity I fail to under
stand. But that it is true that this
does pertain is too plain to be dis
puted. And, allow me to say with
all the emphasis that I can put in it,
the poor family which has the big
notions with small capacity are tho
accursed people of our race tu-day.
They are the pitiful idle, who sit
and hold their hands, beleiving
everything is too cheap to be spend
ing their time in producing them at
home, and with ideas of style that
not an honest wage earner in the
world could back up. This idea
carries the children away, breaks up
the home, makes small the old dadies
and mamjes and will ruin the world
unless it is- stopped and stopped
speedily.
Even if thousands knew just why
this is thusly, would there be one in
all those thousands honest enough
and brave enough to proclaim it to
the world? I think not. - honest
a person is morj than apt to be a
poverty-stricken cuss and his daily
needs would keep him from taking
the risk. The truth is, that no one
thing has brought us to 'where we
stand. The. vile hypocrite that went
into the churches and patting the
little children on their heads with
"you poor, poor thing," has been
the greatest factor for harm. In the
name of some "ism" thohe hypocrits I
got the first poison planted in the
youthful mind, and many more have
followed. Nothing has been able to
stand against these "ismists," They
have turned the church into temples
of money-changer; and prostituted
the Christian religion' into fanatic
craze. We are right now on the eve
of a great political campaign, which
in the olden times would have!
brought fo ward a statesmanship of
lofty principles, well calculated to
brighten the intellects and. keep the
wrangles out of church and away
from the firesides. Bless you, I con
fidently make the prediction, that if
you were to ever try to start the
thing on the lines that he had in the
days when J I ill and Toombs mid
Stephens and the Cobbs and such as
these met. each other and educated
the people to a'Jove of country, kept
the wrangles out from the fireside
ly politics approaching statesman
ship, it would not run a week before
those "ismists" would have cverv
woman and child in the wrangle,
th. i.i r, the dao, the (Jhina
!.' - : . .r;,i ,- i i c would be as
-'.-I i 4.rcoi'.ria cocker, and-a
good deal better until after their
ballots were cast for some fanatic
craze .beneficial ' to the hypocrites.
This fanaticism keeps us away from
a resume of politics on the hustings,
where great principles used to be
difcussed in statesmanlike order,
and from whence this country got
the best results from polices, both
to church, state and home. Let' us
all pray to be delivered and to have
a resume of times like they used to
be. v Harge "Plunkett..
The Best Prescription for Malaria
Chills aud Fever is a bottle ofGuovK's
Tasteless Chill -Tonic, It is simply
iron aud quiuiue in a taotelebs form. s.o
cure uo pay. Price f0c. -novl-ly
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
All County and District Funds, Both
for Present and From Previous
Years Must bo Used Before
Aid is Asked.
Mr. J. A. McAllister, superintendent of
Robeson county public schools. Las written
the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
raising quite an important point with ref
erence to county aud district EChool fuuus
to the four mouths standard, lie says:
'From fund apportioned July 1, J 90 J ,
soru districts havo a balance on hand Jan
uary 15)02. Are such balances left over
from previous years to be. considered aa a
part of th funds required to be reported
and used before aid ironr the second $100,
0U0 apportionment can be asked ?" ,
The following answer has been forward
ed by the State rtuperiutoudeut :
"The law, chapter 5-J 3, - section 4, com
mencing with line 7 mya : "the county
board of education shall also report the
amount of all school funds available for
the use of the entire county, aud also the
amount that is available for the use of the
particular district or districts needing ad
ditional help.' This .certainly means that
if the district had any 'back money,' that
is, money to its credit before July, 15)01,
tbat ajjiount should bo added to this yeai's
fund. J?or instance, if in auy district there,
was $15 00 left over to credit of a district
during tne spring of 11)01, then at the July
meeting there Uiay have been $-'.700 more
apportioned to that district, and at tne Jan
uary meeting of the board, 'there was $,',p
more apportioned that district thus making
the avaiiuble funds for that district 5)000,
and if the committee paid teacher .".o0
per month, the district would lack $10.00
of having enough available funds to run a
four mouths school, and the State is ex
pected to supply that deficiency. If your
construction was correct the State would
have to supply $L'f.U0, but you are ce rtainly
mistaken. There was in the bauds of county
treasurers last July $227,804.57, and that
law, chapter 5-1;;, section 3, e., certainly
contemplated that all of this money, and
the entire school funds of this year, amount
received for taxes, the first $10O,O0i). c,
should all be exhausted, aud thi?u it fheie
was not enough to have a four mouths
term, the coid $100,000 could be usod to
buppiy the deficiency."
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A NEW INDUSTRY.
Tarboro is shipping borsos to, Richmond.
For a county thul inipotts buuetrtus of
horses and mulos annually such a statement
not only seems odd but increridaulu.
The reporter ''got on'' to this the other
day when'ho heavd a trader say to a firmer
with Whom there had just boeu a swa,i of
horses, "briny -youra m at once, it will just
make up a car load I'm going to ship."
The reporter's curiosity was so gready
excited that he had io learn mora, lie was
informed that old Vplugs" which will sell
iu this market for only a few dollars sell
readily iu Kielmiomi lor a much .better,
price. So whenever a trader -Las accuiiiu
lattd t.tiouh to make a car load oil t.hoy go
to hichmuiid. '
Some persons have been heard to ex.
press the. opinion the county is lortunate
to be rid of them at any piice. Tmburo
Southerner. .
We will wager that s-ome of those same
horses are taken lo Richmond, fattened up
u iiule uud rubied, then shipped buck and
sold to our pcupla as "imported" stock.
Saved Her Child's Life,
,'Tn three wotks our chubby iiule boy
wai changed by Ftieiunouia almost to a
skeleton," writes Mrs." VV. Wuikims, of,
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iu, that, iu spite of a good uoctor's treat
ment for several week-:, grew vvorso eve-ry
day. We then ued Dr. King's tlaw Dis
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FACTS TOLD CLEARLY.
Now that there arc professors of adver
tising jta4 professional writers of advertise
ments there, seems to be an ituprosriou that
the principles of publicity are complicated.
Yet it remains true that except m peculiar
cases a plain and Simple statement of facts
makeB the best business iinnor. tiCement,
The facts which ;te advertiser wants tho
public to kuow are exactly tho facts which
the public wants to know.
Clerk's Wise .uggeition.
"I have .lately bi-eu m:uh tronbied with
dyspepsia, boicliing. and soar htomuch,"
writes M. y. JMead. hadiua pharmacist of
Atlleboro, MasB. "I couid eat hardly any"
thiug without .suffering se veral hnns, ily
clerk suggested I try Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure which I oid VTith most happy rt-snl a.
I haVo had no more trouble and when ol.c
can o to eritirig mince pie, cheese, candy
and unts aft-r such a time, llieir diutHiiou
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pepia Cure iieartily," You d n't have to
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: Ever since iho firsfc nntiearanee of my
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