BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Atlanta Constitution.
I was ruminating about the
grand army of middle men that
it takes to carry on the trade and
commerce of this country. I
veiily believe that they make
more money than the man
utacturers and there are twice
as many of them. A friend of
mine recently visited a large
manufactory of sewing machines
and the superintendent told him
that the prime cost of a tirst
class macliine was Sit. tit and they
jobbed them off at 13. The job
ber sold them for SIT) to agents.
The agents retail them at !?iS5, for
he has to rent a store room and
keep a horse and wagon and
make repairs free and soil on
installments and sometimes has
to take a machine back for non
payment. When the origin.il
Bill Arp moved to Texas he took
his wife's machine with him and
left his note behind with $10 un
paid. Shortly after that a new
agent was sent here who was not
acquainted with the Arp family
and he came out to my house and
wanted me to pay the note. I
had work to convince him that I
was auother Arp. The note was
signed William Arp, his mark,
and Cinderella Arp, her mark.
My wife was very indignant that
she should be suspected of mak
ing her mark.
Well, now you see how much
money went to the middle men
after the machine left the fac
tory 25 twice as much as it
cost to make it. Just so it is
with thousands of other things
that go through the hands of
middle men.
I was ruminating about this
because I received a report of
500 copies of my new book that
Mr. Byrd had sold. The book
cost 85 cents to electrotype and
print and bind it and I was to
have half the profits arising from
the sale. The price was $1.25,
postage paid, which was 11 cents.
Thirty copies had been sold here
at the book store for $37.50. The
book store kept 25 per cent or
$9.37. Mr. Byrd got $28.13.
The freight and incidental ex
penses amount to 3 cents a copy.
So the cost was 8 cents and it
netted 93 cents and and my half
of the difference was 3 cents on
a copy. The publisher and agent
or middle men get about all there
is in a book. I am not complain
ing at anybody but myself, for
Mr. Byrd told me that the price
would have to bo $1.50 to make
anything, but I wasn't thinking
about agents charging so much
and I wanted the people to have
it as cheap as possible. But it
can't go on this way. The pub
lication must stop or the price
be raised to $1.50 and if an agent
won't sell for 35 cents a copy, he
needn't sell at all. He runs no
risk. He loses no time. The
books sell themselves on the
counter. But Mr. Byrd can con
tinue to sell on mail orders for
$1.25 and 10 cents more for post
age. This will be a fair divide
all around and give the poor au
thor about 15 cents a copy.
Senator Hoar's speech at Chi
cago is before me. Nothing
since the war has so cheered me
and impressed me as that beau
tiful speech. Why doesn't every
newspaper in the south copy it,
It it a mat affliction for woman to
hare her face disfigured by pimples or
ny form of eruptive disease. It make
her morbid and sensitive, and robs ber
of social enjoyment Disfiguring erup
tions are caused by impure blood, and
are entirely cored by the great blood
purifying medicine Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. It removes from the
blood the poison cms impurities which
cause disease. It perfectly and pennan
' ently cures scrofulous sores, ecaema,
tetter, boils, pimples and other eruptive
diseases which are caused by the blood's
impurity. It increases the action of
the blood-making eland and thus in-
' crease the supply of pure rich blood.
For abort one year snd a half my face waa
one resr and a hall my
broken out, writes Mil
err badlv broken out wrhes M
Has Carrte,
Adams, of 1 16 Wnt Mala Street, Battlerreek,
Mich. " I spent treat deal of money with doe
ion and for different kinds of medicine, but re
ceived no benefit. At but I read if of your
advertiarments in a paper. andb is bottle
of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical D. try. be
fore I bad taken one bottle of thia medicine I
t:iced a change, and after taking three bottle
1 was entirely cared. 1 can well recommend
Dr. pie ret a Golden Medical Diacovary to any
on ainillarly afflicted."
' . The sol motive for substitution is to
permit the dealer to make the Httle
more profit paid by the sale of less mer
itorious medicines. He gain ; yon lose.
Therefore accept no substitute for
"Golden Medical Diaeovery.
The Ptople'a Common Sense Medical
Adviser, a book conUinlg 1008 pages,
is given away. Send ai one-cent stamp
for exftiae of mailing only, for the book
i 1 t r r"-rr, or 31 s'"'na for the vol
Ai! .,. Dr. R. V.
A Golden Rule
of Agriculture:
Be good to your land and your crop
will be good. Plenty of
Potash
In the fertilizer spells quality j
ana quantity in me nar , H
Test, write us anu
we will send you,
free, by next mail,
our money winning
books
or that part of it that pays such
a tribute to the southern people.
When I finished reading it 1
would have hugged the old man,
if he had been near enough.
Listen : "My life politically hns
been a life of constant strife with
the leaders of the southern peo
ple, yet as I grow older, I have
learned not only to respect and
esteem them, but I love the
great tualities which belong to
my countrymen of the southern
states. Thv;.y are .a noble race.
We may well take pattern from
them in some of the virtues that
give strength and glory to a free
people. Their love of home;
their chivalrous respect for wo
mantheir courage their deli
cate sense of honor their con
stancy which can abide by an
opinion or a purpose through ad
versity and prosperity and
through years and generations.
And there is another thing
covetousness, corruption and the
low temptation of money has not
yet found any place in southern
politics.
My friends, we cannot afford
to live in a state of estrangement
from a people who possess these
qualities. They are friends of
ours, born of our borning, flesh
of our tlesh, blood of our blood
and if I have a right to speak for
Massachusetts, will say, Entreat
me not to leave thee or forsake
thee, where thou goest, I will go.
Thou people shall be my people,
and thy God my God.' "
This is only a part of it. I
have placed it in my scrap book
along with the admirable edi
torial comment of the Constitu
tion.
The senator spoke truly when
he said that corruption in na
tional politics had not yet reached
the south. If the case had been
reversed our members would not
have unseated Butler, but with
the northern members the ends
justify the means. Yes, I re
member from away back how
the old man fought us. My fath
er was brougnt up in nis state
and my mother in South Caro
lina and when the senator and I
were in our early manhood (we
were born in the same year) the
war began between those two
states. Yes, more than fifty
years ago, and has been bitter
and unrelenting ever since. This
is a first sign of a returning
sense of justice that has come
from any great man of the Old
Bay state and we rejoice that it
has come from Senator Hoar, the
noblest Roman of them all. Its
influence will reach from Chicago
to Boston and its generous senti
ments will thrill every breast in
the southland.
I care nothing for Mr. Roose
velt nor his late letter. I am too
old to be deceived by wordy par
agraphs. When he retracts his
slanders on Jefferson Davis and
apologizes to his widow I will
have some confidence in his hon
or and his professed good inten
tions, but not until then. If he
is a gentleman he will do that.
If he is not a gentleman he won't,
and that is all there is in it.
Thomas Nelson Page and Harry
Stillwell Edwards and the Meth
odist preacher of Cincinnati!, to
the contrary ' 'notwithstanding.
Senator Hoar would not have ot
tered and published those slan
ders and if he had done it un
wittingly, he would have long
ago made the amends honorable.
."Slander is sharper than the
sword. Its breath rides on the
posting winds and its tongue
outvemons all the worms of the
Nile." Roosevelt is a stubborn,
conceited politician. He pro
fesses to be a friend to the south,
when be is not. it we send a
consul to a foreign country and
they do not like him be is re
called because he is non grata
persona." How much more care
ful should the president be to ap
point no one to ofllco who is not
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
M Nanaa Slretl. NSISm'!5?1
him keep on shoving Dr. Crum
on the people of a great city like
Charleston. And the negro is
an arrogant conceited fool or he
wouldn't take it.
"I know that you say that you love me,
But why did you kick me down stairs''-'
Some one asked Tom Reed if
there was such a thing as an
honest politician, lie said, "Yes.
An honest politician is one whom
you can buy and he will stay
bought, but even they are
scarce." BillAht.
YE OLDEN TIMES.
WriUf-u 'ir Tit' !.M'..fl..
It is a source of enjoyuie it to
sit at tlie feet of our oldest citi
zens and hear them tall: of the
days of long ago.
It was my pleasure to visit
Mr. Malhias Sharp yesterday
and he gave uie a bit of history
that I thought would be of inter
est, to tne readers oi ine dis
patch. He has just passed nis
Nith mile post in life's journey
and is still "peart" and enjoys
life. He can plow, make fence,
go to mill, ride horseback and do
lots of other farm work. He
showed me a conk shell that, he
said, his grandfather, Daniel
Sharp, picked up on the coast of
Maryland in the year 1730. It
is well preserved and has been
used in the Sharp family every
since as a dinner horn. Those
of us who have toiled in the fields
on hot summer days will never
forget the welcome sound of the
old dinner horn. But I am di
gressing. Elder Daniel Sharp
was born in England about the
year A. D., 171:?. He crossed
the Atlantic at the age of IS
years and settled in the State of
Maryland. There he married
and, not long afterwards, moved
to the State of Virginia; he was
in the Revolutionary war from
start to finish, and came out one
of the heroes of our grand inde
pendence. After the war ended
Elder Sharp came home. His
wife had died and his home was
going to wreck and ruin. He
had heard of Daniel Boone's dis
coveries in our beloved North
Carolina and soon he turned his
face in that direction. We can
not describe his journey through
Virginia and North Carolina,
but he was bound to travel on
horseback for there was no oth
er way of travel in those old
colonial days. He entered a
large farm on the Yadkin river in
what is now Davidson county
just above Boone's cave. Elder
Sharp had left a son in Virginia
by the name of Abram Sharp,
who was in the employment of a
saddle maker. Young Sharp,
having tired of his old employer,
left him and came to North Caro
lina. Not knowing where his
father was he came to Davidson
county and hired to a man then
living on the Salisbury and Dan
ville roadat what is now known
as tne old tied house between
Reeds X Roads and Cicero
Wood's house. Young Abram,
while there engaging in making
saddles, looked down the road
one morning and saw an old man
riding on horseback towards
Lexington; he went out to the
road and recognized him as his
long lost father. We can only
immagine the joys of such a sur
prise meeting.
The old man, Daniel Sharp's,
remains were laid to rest in the
family burying ground on Yad
kin river, just above the Horse
shoe Neck. Abram reared a
mighty family in this part of
Davidson county, of which Math
ias is the only one now living.
Even now, down to the sixth
generation, defendants of Dan
iel Sharp are living in this
neighborhood and they are
among the most highly respect
ed citizens of this community. ,'
Long live the Sharp family.
Swift, N. C. W.
Well Again.'
The many friends of John Blount
will be pleased to learn that he has
entirely recovered from his attack of
rheumatism. Chamberlain's Pain
Balm cured him after the beat doctors
in the town (Monon. Ind.) had failed
to give relief. The prompt relief from
pain which this liniment affords is
alone worth many times its cost. For
sale by all druggists.
The High Point correspondent
of the Charlotte Observer of the
8th saya : Work has begun on
the excavation of the silk mllL
mention of which was made in
this correspondence some time
ago. The buildings will be ready
for the machinery early in the
summer. The promoters ore
Swiss people, who own large fac
tories at Patterson, N. J., and
other Dlaces. It is Drowsed to
build the fflctory with avlew u
employing 1,000 hands, as they
can be educated to do the work.
This will draw a good class of la
bor and pive employment to a
' ' " i (' it is looking for tlis liirvl
There was a hurry call for the ambulance of the City Hospital. In the course of a few moments a
very sick woman was brought In on a stretcher she was pale as death and evidently suffering keen agony.
There Was a hasty examination and consultation, and in k's; than a quarter of an hour the poor creature was
on the operating table to undergo an operation for ovariMs.
The above is an accurate account of an incident which oecured in New York recently; the young
woman in question had warnings enough of her dangerous condition in the terrible pains and burning
serration low down in her loft side. rtie had no one to advise her, and she suffered torture until it
was too late for anything to save her life.
Women should remember that If they do not care to tell a doctor their
troubles, they should be willing to tell them to a woman, who stands ever
ready to advise and help them. Again we state that Mrs. Pinkham's advice is
freely and confidentially given to every one who asks for it. Address, Lynn, ilass.
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trouble was until the doctor pronounced it inflammation of the ovaries, and proposed an operation.
" I felt so weak and sick that I felt sure I could not survive the ordeal, and so I told him that I would not
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tmerirenev. and so I decided to try it Great was my joy to find that I actually improved after taking two bottles,
:io I kept taking it for ten weeks, and at the end of that time' I was cured. I had gained eighteen pounds
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" I will tell you how I suffered. I could hardly walk, was unable to sleep or eat.
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they sent for a doctor, who said I had inflammation of the ovaries, and must go
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undersigned J L Nelson, Commissioner
will sell on the premises of the late
Rhoda Daniels, dee'd, at public auc
tion to the highest bidder on SATUR
DAY THE 4TH DAY Or AFKIL.1903,
at 12 o'clock m., the following real es
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A tract of land in Hampton township
adjoining the lands of N. Davis, Jacob
Reich, and Sim Nelson, containing
sixty acres of land more or less. Al
so one other tract adjoining the lands
of Uriah Cllne, S pence Davis, et al,
containing 6 acres.
Terms of Hale: - Uasn on confirma
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J. L. NELSON, Com.
Dated March 8, 1903. , t .;
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