North Carolina Newspapers

1 ' 1 'u ; j . i' k I t ' i j i , ( 1 j , e i : '', I ; f " , , V - . I have never seen women docking horses. For that matter, I have never ieen men docking horses. I never want to. Probably no woman has ever docked a horse or stood by while it was done. But women could put a stop to the brutal practice if they chose to do so. They have remedied many an abuse that men had failed to put a stop to. Wom an's .influence over man is certainly great enough to confer this boon on suffering hortes. The docking of a horse puts him in line for more trouble than anything Trubbles of BL ETHEL Well, as I was a sayln' when I land ed In Newberry, 1 wade prezactly 93 pounds, and when 1 left 1 wade Jrttt a hundred and only atade t.ure a week. There ain't no tellln where XM ha' kickej the beam ut If I'J to' stade a month. I wcrn't sur pdtsed at mfself tho, fur I neon t-iat tnltey nl everybody down there wa fatter than they uxed to be, and I aller wood be In the fashion and Ur alonf with the majority if it hap pened to ute me. Now tharea J. M- Davla, the au perlntender of the Newberry Cotton Mill, Jest a fat at) butter; when we llvad down there alx year ago, he was Jeat a common aize tall sietiJer man. lie wai only a weave boss then tho, and' 1 reckln that gittln a fatter Job made him fatten up. I know there'a uinthlr)8 in that fur tbere'a Wiley Koon, the ex;ond boa halnt been hlHtod up no hier, and ho ftuint sot no bigger. A Mr. Hardlman la bo, now. And there' Will Thomaa, atlll a weavin and in plto of the good wlt tlea thar ila wife cooka on that lie atove, his ntummkk et icana agin bia backbone fur support. And John Shirley In prezactly like foa waa six year ago Jxt ua good lookln', no older and no bigger. lfl waa them bachelor gain, (we ain't al lowed to call 'em old niaidx any more), I'd send Cupid atter that man ao rapid he'd have to surrender or git out. Thr$ he la workln' hard and aarln' money and eayln' bl hla au tlona that he halnt got no erthly uo fur pettloote$ of no description. lt'a shame fur a good h unbind to be rulnln and goln to need In the baeh- eler state. Won time there waa a? acheler era 1 who went threw the world wir.i hi hed and Indifferent hart, proudly ecornln awl advances of tho tother aex. and refuain the honer of bein perished to Jeth bl any who axed the favor. But atter a while aba cotch a glimpso of t'.ie fortieth sine post loomln up cloe , and be yant it waa old age, roomatlcks, new ratjy and lonecumness, and ehe gOt kered. With horrer she looked back over her mlaapent life bejun to think of what mite ha' boon, and to wish Oat U had been, and to won der it It waa yet too l ite. Won evenin way atter sundown, when twlllte shad era was a stealin ovar MH and dale -when the whlp-pore-wlll. nlte hawk and hoot-owl, waa tunin op their musical apperatus hl gal went way out In the lone sum wood and prade witn awl the elerqnenc born of despair, that, the Lord wood send her a hushin, "Lord send him, - and tend ' him Hvk" aho pleaded. "Who-who, who-who-o-." Beallxln that beggors tnut not be choice, and bern In a big hurry any .how, aha anaeredi .. ' 'Aay body, will ido. deer Lord, Jest fO as he wares britches.'' - jonn snirisr, iHict warnm; git a move on you, gum day old ai will om along 'and glva you a Jose of roomatt)?rroBt.'Tnrtfr,'-an4'Tthffr( things, ana youll irlsh iks awl forty . to iar tna oit ftwish of tham pat ! Becky Ann TilCJfAS. tlcotoa that you have been a scorn In, the gentle foot step of a number four, and will wlh in vane fur a soft female woman' hand to ru! you with arnlky adlve and narve and bone liniment, and to apply musterd plan ters to. the place that hurts. I've Veen old age and lonesuniness wobblln along hand In hand, and It's enuft to melt a "nart of stone to see how miserable they air together. But tawk about people fattenln there's Professer Wright, the book keeper of that same mill. anJ law sake, 1 woodn't a node him if I had seen him any where el. lie uaed to bo so slim and trate that I thought he wore a lace Jacket, and now he is a grate big-, fat, soft and mushy lookln man. j il shore did mlns Mr. T. J. McCrary who was president and general man ager when We lived there. When he died the mill peenle lost a mltey good frlwnd; but they do say that Mr. SSach, Wright, who is in his place, is as good as hu can be and can't he bcpt Id none. I had the pleasure of mectln' Mr. Wright and he made a mitey lsverable compression on me aiifi I am orful hard to fuie. Every forth Sunday tilto. Mr. Wright ct sum bis: hlfalutln O. ). or other titled minister, to leckter In wnn of the three churches on t ho mill hill. It's a union sarvlce nnd ever lidy jtuze and lnjoys it. I hearn the A. It. P. preacher fru.m UP town, hut I can't . recomember his name. He made the grandest lecter 1 ever hearn on Christian Character. It wa.s rand, thrillln and sde lnsplrln, and made many harts long to reach a higher plans of llvln. Tho lecter was made n the Mether dlst church and 1 will say rite here that It Is the finest church 1 ever seen on a mill '.ill!, and 1 halnt neen many no where that was as tine. I went to sue ml old friend Mrs. Tom Harman, who is a chartnln yun wider, the third or fourth wife of the late Thomas Herman, who was sum kind of a 4nsuranee man, Me and W. M. Thomas and wife awl accepted a Invite to Dr. Mmith won nlte and we shore had a uke lime. There's two Dr. Smiths at Newberry, but this won is a fllok In docter and mltey popler. lie shore has got a lovely wife and uin sweet children. The other Dr. (Smith Dr. Van Smith Is a mertflctne onl'pni mixer. Me and Jems uster paterniae him. Jeems thinks there Bint no- body like Dr. Van Smith, and I gue there aint. Won day I was up town and wantd to get sum buttlns and threw a mistake and nut being uned to the place I went In the druy store, lookln fur em. r. Smith didn't keep but Una tut Vie nxed me If I node what went "around a buttln." I told , him t allers rappe.1 the thread around "em when ! sewed 'em on. Tie ed he 'alters herd that a li!!y jroto went rond 'U buttln." JtwsleCums, whose mother lives In Wadesboroj lsrunnln a groser ttorg-ifrKewfterrr Tid"Tetttirncft'n reel estate. W. used to trada a heep with 0- XII. WOMEN CAN that could be done to him. ftll this suffering and agony in his later days could be stopped to-morrow if the women of the country would say so. I believe they could do this by as simple a thing as refusing to ride behind a docked horse. But will women refuse to do this? I have drawi this picture to arouse them. Of course they don't really cut off horses' tails. But what is the difference as, far as the horse is concerned between chopping off his tail and preventing its being done? Women are doing so much good as humanitarians that it seems only just to appeal to them to use their great pbwer to have anti-docking laws passed in Klettner and James Mlmnauga and' found them both doln a hustiln blz ness at the same old stands. I seen our old frend Tom Wicker and his pa and ma. We used to live clos to 'em and shoro thought a site of 'em. I found the editor of The Herald and News was also fat like mltey nl everybody else. I'v hearn that to make a long tall snort, you have to cut It off, and I reckln I'd better not let this narrative get too lengthy or the editor mite amputate It. Bo I'll hurry on. I didn't Intend to go back bl Sauls berry, but Jeems writ that he cudn't meet me at Wadesboro, and I had to. I left .Newberry at 10:30 a. m., Au gust 2, goln' 'bo way of Columby. Boon as I got outen Newberry, I noticed that tho crapa was better than I had seen any where on my travels. T'.ie rode was good too and I cud actllly rite and reed what I writ. Prosperity was the first stop- pin place, and was won place- that had a comproprlate name. Every thing around there looked mltey pros perlferous. Won thing that got bl me was, I een a buggy settln up on top of a hi house rite straddle of th comb. How it got there Is more than I can Tompelhend. O've hearn tell of folks rl Jin a hi norop, but sumbody down there must ha' rid a hi buggy. The scenery along the way was Jest grand and dlgnlfflce.nt. .Sumilmes we was In a deep cut wlU.,h,l walls on each lde, and sumtlmes oh a hi pinnacle and lookln' deep down Into dangerous precipices and ravines. There's lots of wood land In that country ton treat oko forrests and pine thickets the home of many a fet tiered songster. Have hearn of swnmps and red how deserters and erlmlnila often hid in 'cm: Jest btdow Pomnrla, I seen won a grate lirk dismal lookin place that made tho creeps crawl up and down ml splnll collum. It was hevy timbered with big trees and thick un der growth, and where the warter wernt a standln the ground looked mltey soft and treacherous. At won place I seen a little foot path zlgzagln Into the mlsterlus In terior of that orful lookln place -and U wandered if sumwhere In them cadaverous depths, a blind tiger was a hldln. It was tho lonestimest lookln place I ever seen; not a single leaf trem bled In the breexe that wasn't there notji bird did I see. Awl was si lence, deep, dark and orful, except tho thundcrln of the trane which Aeemert stangely out of place and made won want to iiolj t'helr breth. Hopes was Jest won of them little three sided closet statlona but I reck ln It hopes to be bigger aum Jay. I saw large fields of corn along there that had been under water still swampy. Peak Is a little place and a church In the distance with a tall peak, must ha give It he nnme. . At Alsten we crossed Broad river, a grate wide eleepy and laxy muddy stream. Cud hardly tell which way It w a runln. Pee pie change kyars at Alsten, fur Spartan burg and Anhevllle. We passed too mora little places, Waltttcevilla and Little Klver. . before we got to Columby. There was more purty woods and pine thicket an J off to the rlto at intervtis, we cud ketch a glimpse of Broad river. But iTrrnj jrtek tittle. 11 1 " 1 atter leavin Newberry, a cou- faUera gotto Uwkia on the PUT AN END TO seet rlto behind me, and In corse as I wernt deef, I cudn't .help '.learin their converse, and I larn't a hole lot. Won of 'em was a wldder, fifty in looks anJ twenty in feelln, and he was a relatin sum of his" recent ex plites with the fare sex. lie told how a few daze before he had tuck a gal to a plcknlck, and ater he got there lie eeen anuther won he liked better and he tuck her home, and didn't no "how In trie Diner and Tom Wawker" the won he carrld got back. I toll you It made ml blud bile to hear him, and I'd ha' give a hole lot fur a caatice to teach him a leasln and I got the chance. The other man got offen the kyars at Tomarla, and purty soon ml frisky widderer got up and went atter a drink of warter: as he pasBcd. me he tipped his hat and give me a Inter ested look. . ' As ho cum back I sorter drappeJ mi ihej and roolod up ml lze at 'nlm In a cokettUih way, blushed and smil ed. He stopped, pulled of hla hat and axed If I wood share ml seet with him. "Why certain, and thank you, too," ses I, with anuther blush and a kill In smile, makln room fur him. I was lonesum and a long wase frum home anJ I hope that everybody will Jedgo me accordln. Let them at alnt gllty throw the first rock, and be pertlck ler how they take aim, or they mite aceldently smatTn their own wind ers. Ketchln 'hold of his britches In a dainty way and pullln 'em up a lit tle as he sot down so as to show his purty red silk ox, the wlderer placod hlsself beside me, givln me a side waie look of Inkwlry which I returned with interest. On a fine gilt edge kyard, .ie writ his name and a dress: "J. T. R , Atlanta, Ga. Dealer In Reel Estate." I toro a leef outen ml mcmerandy book and writ ml name this way: "li. Annie Jones, Norwood, N. C." That's the way we got Interduced and It's as a good way as any. fur we wern't long In gittin acquainted. "B. Annie Jones," he red. Then turnln to me ho sorter laffed and axed: "Had you ruther be Annie Jones than be Annie sumbody else?" "Thata Jest accordlu," lit answer! Sea he: "May I be so impertlnint as to axe If you air a maid, wife or wider?" "Why In eoreo you may, and t'.iank you fur your interest," I returneJ with tho sweetest smile I had In the shop. Then while I was waitin fur to him to axe me. I grappled hi the him axe me, I grappled conscience bl the tlirote, flung her outen the wlnJer and et her on the tother aide of Little rilver which we was Jest a croasln, tellln iicr to stay there til I got revenge on this male man fur ool In a alster woman. Then I lade ml hand on ml .iarti rolled ml Ise up toerda hevon (but they fever got no further than the cealln of that kyar) and whlsperej.- In thrillln accents: "A wider pore loneum hart-broke wider." ' ' Then I placed ml tiankercVier over ml fare In slch a way that I cuJ etlck ml flner in ml Ue and make the teem uum,' and let won of ml hands drap on the seet rite side of hisn. , "Oh, ml deer, do furglve me, I'm sorry I axed the question. Hut you no It's dangerls fur a fellera peace of mind, sumtlmes, to be In the pres-wtfeuf-a untimlt essrmlif womait-eml not no wJiere ehe stands. I no ore aacUy how ta elmpathy with you fur HORSE DOCKING. I have lost a companion too. Ml hart Jest akes to find anuther con gonll mate, and lon.gs to pore out Its welth of affection at the feet of won who would reclprokate the feelin," he faltered. "Me too." I murmured. "When I t'hink how happy me and ml deer husbind used to be and then realize that It Is awl over ml hart mltey nl brakes. How hansum he was as he sot onithe piazer and red the papers while I churned; and how purty hs orburn hare was as the summer breezes kissed It when he swung In the hammock, while I drawed warter and wartered the cows and hogs. Oh, I miss him so much and you make me think of him more than any one I ever seen," I simpered, slldin ml hand along tllMt touched hisn. He grab bed It and squeezed it, sayln "Deer little woman, earth has no sorrer that Tieven can not heel. It will awl be rite In the sweet bl and bl." "Thats awl so," I ansered, "but that alnt much conservation to a lonew!d der that Is in gooJ helth, and needln sumbody In the present world to manage tier blzeness. What use has a lone wldder with lots of property and no sense about -managln It?" I axed. "Ah? Tou are welthy, then? and awl alone? About how much do you own ?" I thought of the three razer-back hogs tho crippled won Ide horsta, and tne holler horn cow, and an swered: "I don't no prezactly, but I guess Its about -er, well sumthin less than fifty tflotisand dollers, maybe." "You deer lltle woman; no wonder you feel the need of a help mate, If I was not afraid you wood think me too fast. I wood axe you to take pity on ml lonesuranesa anJ let us travil the rest of lifes Jurney (hand In hand." aqueesin ml, hand with em phasism. "Thank you fur the compliment,' scz I. "Do you raly meen .It? Fur If you air in arnest I wood be bleg ed to say yes, you air so. much like ml deer departed." I stammered, squeesln back. ' . "7 ' s ' "Blres your little hartl But I never i cud set on the piazer or any where else and let this little hand Jo, the work, Darjin, Oh. I wish, we was outen this blasted kyar and' where I cud" t , . . "Now what air you sayln that furf I reckon you mean this blessed kyar, fur If It hadTuot been fur it, when wood we a met?" I -.interrupted. "Yes, Deerest; arfj when may I clalme ml little brlJe?" he axed. "I'll hv to study a little,' sec I getttng a little narvls. .-: "What'a the use In waitin, babv? I need you and you need me. We can have the not tide , aoon aa we get to Columby, and I could go rite on home with you and, settle your bixnese fur you and then take you rite on to Atlanta." lie pleaded. . I be gun to git kereX:'t:v;:i-'-fis:';v "Tarn aalrAa ' ir m)m . . on 1HM more about each other first; ; we alwto aee me Jest aa sure aj you loved same as perfect strangers" sex I, and I seen that we wai mltey nl to Columby,-' ...- :r-; , Y';',-r'V r"- "Ob, I declare we air plum to our stoppin place we air In : the city!" I exclaimed. " "I never ?waa in this place Before." ''.-.;,-..---;i:ff'''-4,yt. ?r "Then I clame the pleruure of tak lo you to rldo and nhowtn you the sites," he aed egerly; '!&h thank you air, but I don't atop herH -a wur eicha matter and I'd be sketred to go rldln fur feer I'd fit left." - every state in the Union. Women have bad them passed in some states. Whj not make a clean sweep of it? - ' , If a docked horse only knew that women could save others of his race from the suffering he has gone through, how the horse would try to pleas6 the woman ! But on the other hand, horses are docked with women's consent . ; , :v . , 1 doubt if they realize just what this means. If my picture, the last inthjs ' series of articles, is a brutal one, I can only say that it would give me much greater pleasure to draw a picture showing women rushing to the relief of the torttiresl , horse and driving the hired veterinarian from his brutal work. v "Well, what difference wooi that make? You belong to me!" he sed. "Well, I'll think about it," I smiled, as we got outen the kyar and went Into the biggest and purtleat waitin room I ever seen an J Oh! Joy, I seen that there was a private room awl curtained off fur the ladles and I drawed a long breath of relief, fur I node I cud get In there and ml widderer woodent Jare to foller. And In there I etrate way wantt dodging him as he waa a getting a drink of Warter. , Threw the curtains I could see him lookln around aorter mistifled and uneasy like, anJ I node It woodn't be long till he splcloned mi where about. I eot down In the remotest corner I cud find and trlde to reed, "By the Eternal."' Wonc'e In awhile I wood pecpouten them curtains and see that penky thing pacin up' and down, with greate beeds of perspira tion roolla down bia face in grate drops of swet. I reckin a our had past, and I Been a little gal part the curtina and cum in totln a grate big bunch of purty white roses. She looked atound and axed: "Is there a l&dy in here bl the name of Mrs. Annie Jones?". . There was severll ladles in there and they awl begun to look round at each other, - queatloniniy..-'-. no won spoke. I red on, Purty oon she spide me aettin there of to won aide, and she cum to me and axed; 1 "Alnt you The Won? If so please say so and take these so I'll get , a doller fur deliverin 'em," Holdin out the flowers. I euddinly got. currld gls, took the flowers and found a lit tie note In among 'em. "Stop mlntt tlll I reed this, little gal," aed I pullin It out and reedin It. It was this: . "Dearest, . why arc you Uvatin me so cruel? You are nearly killing me. Plese cum out and let me have a few worJs with you before- our , trane leves, Have you won mi hart simply to trample it beneath your feet? Pity me and explane your conduct, it you have any pity In your , harU . . "Youra only, J. T. B . On the back of the note I writ; "Will be out In a few momenta, .as sure as I love you." And" then I set! lej down comfert able to ttii reedin. s'And law! the glimpse I had of that man, his face awl lit up with hope agin, mltey ni give me pulpertation of the hart. Sea I to tneflelf: "It I ever lt back home, to Jeems agin,: and git out; of this scrape, ever peaky oij widderer can fool ever dunce of a woman 1n the universe, fur awl I keer,'?and I wont say a,; wordp Well, atter while a old. black mammy cum In there and ed ml trane waa out there and I ri with ml hart In ml throte, grabbed ml reticule and umbril, anJ rushed out. Rite in the arms of the widderer; and mltey nl upsot hint. , - ..He held m( hands and. axed: Didn'r yovt, say you wood be out met And why didn't you cum?" 4'Cawse I didn't love you," , 1 an aered, lookln hlri strata In tne facft, Sea I: - "Old. fellor, as you aow ao shall you reep. . You air Jest now reepln the harvest that. you aowed tho other day at that plcknlc. I hope when I tell you that I've got a man worth a cowpen full of elch as you, that you will feel as bad aa that pore 'critter did that you treated to uamaZttJ.-'. With his Ise a bulgln, he turned me loose and hissed! - ,' .,- Copyright, 1307, fcy Katherlne N. Elr&all . "I'll see that your man nose ot this." - "Do," I ansered. "It would ttekle Jeems mltey ni to Jeth. I shall take pleasure In tellln 'aim, mlself,. And if you want to tell him too. Jest go to Norwood, N. C. and axe fur Jeems, $nd I'll insure you to git a warm re ception," and I bowed to him polite and left him standln there. When I got home I did tell Jeems awl about it and he sed he didn't find but won fault of the perseedins I orter a gone drlvln with the dunce and seen the sites of Columby, there bl derlvin aum benefit frum the ac quaintance. BECKY ANN JONES. Nicknames of Fresldents. . WubUwton. Herald. ,,,...2 The calling o President Roosevelt 'Teddy" ( in popular speech Is only carrying out a practice in resrand to ' ' many of .the Chief Executives of our country. . Many of mem were known v by nickname. "The Father of Hla Country was the most familiar name applied tp Oeorgo 'Waaliington, though he was aleo called by the , claaalc&lly snlnded of his day "Am- , erJca'a Fa-lous." "The Cinlrfimatua of the Weet," "Atlas of America," Tlow- . er of the Forest" and "Savior of His Country." "Lovely Georgtus" waa an appellation applied to fhlm In derision ' by the British eoldlery. President Ad- , ama twaa called" "The Sago of Monti cello," President Monroe waa "The Laat Cocked Hat." J. Q. Adaiiw wa "The Old Man Eloquent," Jackson was "Old Hickory" and "Hero of New Orleans." Van Buren was "The Llttlo Wizard" and "King 'Martin the First," Tyler was "Young Hickory" and 'The Accidentally president," Taylor waa "Old Rough and Ready." "Old Zach" 1 and "OJd .Buena Vtefca," FHmore was The American Louie Philippe." Lat- : er presidents up to Theodore Roose velt seemed to have osi-mped nlrik namea, although Orovet-.. Cleveland after his first term was dubbed by Dana 'The Stuffed Prophet." 1 , Piano Acts as Burylar Alarm.- n Pellham Dispatch to The New York " Press.' s' ' Because a clumsy burglar stumb led and sprawled over the keybyrd of a piano In the parlor of DolVjtck Smith, a rich contractor, early Nioay the burglar and a "pal" were coin palled to abandon booty valued at sev eral thousand dollars which they had packed In- bundles ready to , carry away. Quite recently Emlth bought the pi ano, He bought it solely for Its har-, mony producing qualities and had no Idea it would serve aa a burglar alarm ; Several silver artlclea of bric-a-brac were placed on top of the piano, and evidently in reaching for these , one of the burglars fell, hla bands strik ing the keys. A loud, discordant rum ble disturbed the' quiet of the house an Jaroused the whole family, , , ; Smith seised 1 his revelver and . ran down stairs in time to see two men ' speeding down path In the front ' yard. Jle fired several shots at them . but the bullets "Went wild. Near the piano afterward the contractor found tne- bundle of valuables the men had Intended to carry away, but which they abandoned In Tielr htujte to es cape when tne piano proclaimed their presence. p , , Experienced. "I met your friend DuV " lev to-ony." "YesT I haven't seen him for a ion m." f stnwe mretneters as had! aa ever," "Oh, no! He's quite an adept at It now.WhUadtlptl Pre. fan at it f1 7