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rni3 NEWS AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY DECEMBER 27, 1U05
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buy while summer
, prices prevail; :
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CAPITAL CITY FUEL CO,
If you want -special rood
Music for holiday dances, or recep
tions send for' Prof, . Levin's-Orch.ee-:
tray The only professional orchestra
In the State. .Reasonable r prices.
-Special prices for out of town engage
"jments. c- Adress PROP. J. LEVIN,.'
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We are coins to sell fruit cake 20
cents pound? plain citron and raisin
cake 20 cts.; oranges 10 cts.: dozen.
Big reduction on canned sroods."Meal
reduced to 25 cts..'- 'Meat -reduced ' to
10 cts., Raisin; and currants' teduced
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NOTICE. : t
v The annual meeting of ;the share
holders of the Citizens. National Baxk,
Raleigh, TV. C. - will , be held In their
banking rooms in this city, on Tues
day, January 12th, 1909, at'12 o'clock
noon." is-, , '
HENRY E.:XJTCHFORD,
. -. rCashief.
: I2-l$;nntil, ISVan, - ! r-y-sy:,
VE HAVE EVERYTHItlG
A;
Voull need for those Xmas
Cakes,-they are freslr. too
SMITHrFORESTCO.
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- Oialss TJoxv ner.rly
l;- PLAJ73 .T?ARLY for BEST RESULTS
, s.-;Cho!c3 Palms "and Ferns in great
;t variety. Wedding bouquets and fun
era! decDrations a specialty. Cut flow
;rrr4 xt all kinds in reason. Mail, tele
. grcpli and te!spone orders receive
- . . A-: ''- 1.
ALL ABOUT VESSELS 'WHICTI SAIL
iYROUND THE 'BLACK CONTI-
Tlio Big? Care liners and" , the , LlfeJ
t- LTpon TlKni- Potato Races and Hu-1
Tnan?jCock f-Fights A Fashionable
Crowd to UicLCongo ftnd
:. the Gulf , of Guinea -Tlie Ships of
Meditermnean Africa Travel oft
" the RedSea ifo Australia Via
Cape -Tottu.
(Copyright,: 1908; by, Frank G. Car-
;,c-.'h;r : penteri-v-- t.-;-1 v.;
wa&hlhgton, IX ? C.-Few people
realize tbs? enormous- extent - of the
present steamship travel about Africa.
AU of ourVgreat Atlantic Hners now
h ave-" Bhi ps which leave :jCew York"
regular tjr far the lledlterranean. and
hot a few of these call at Algleria and J
nave branch r lines to Egypt. These
are regular sailings" to Europe froib
every African port; and there is a
continuous-ilne of ' vessels' stretched
like a.necklack' of .beads about : .the
.black ' continent. r'r'-'''''1'':'
-went ''from New York ta MorOctTo
on . one of the big , steamers of the
North German Lioydwhteh 1n eight
days landed me -at the Strait of - Gi
braltar. We passed by the Azores,
almost .touched .Spain, .and. in com
ing " into tiort. could see 4 the ' heights
of . Africa over -te way. ' J -J crossed
the straight in a launch to Tangier,
vhich'is only e, few miles distant, and
then coasted . the northern shores, of,
the Meditterranean sea, incHidlnsr Al
geria, Tualsia and Tripoli. t -
After leaving the Land of the Nile.
Ltooka'-shiD-thVough- the. Suez. canal
and them went, down the fourteen
hlmdred niiies : whith eomnrisA . the
length of .the Red, Sea, eing t tofit
through Bab-el-Mandeb to Aden, In
southern i Arabia.-- From Oiat, port-
naa one or .the steamers of the Indian
ocean to earry me around the Great
Horn of -.East Africa, and I went on
other steamers southward along the
east' coast, passing through the Mo?
zambique channel to Beira, InPortu
Buese 4omb Airica, . p rem' t-ape 1 own
I Journeyed tip the -west coast of the
continent ta the Maderla Islands, not
far; from .Gibraltar, where 1 I ; had
started Un. -end thence went on to
Southampton, and home to New York.
it will' thus be seen that I have cir
cumnavigated the continent. I i have
gone .over l the i routes of the i early
f noenlclansr whoi were sent around
-Africa about "560 Bi C: by an Egyp
tian King, as described by Herodotus,
and have touched nearly all the places
umt.i vaaco, da Gama -and -Bartholo
mew f Diaz discovered at About : the
time -Columbus -came across the At-
antic and - found -our nlyrworld. . -J
I i Big Steamships to thV Cape.
There- are now a half 'doses- lines
or steamers 1 plying between England
and' the Cape of 43ood - Hope;.'" They
mane the voyage in . from -.seventeen
10 twenty-three ,days. :- and - there re
otner ana -slower vessels which, jstop-
ping at . trie 'various ports. Are a'
month os so on .the-, way ' iK i. V
some or these ships go down the
east coast-by-tfay s of the Suez canaL
and some sail baek -and forth" by the
west coast alone. Thep.f there are
ships -which go-to the Cape- of Good
lTnrA. nn th1r vv in. ; &
steamers ' whlcitail that way: for
the tria, ardund ftha, coatinenL tart.
mg xu :Vm &$e 'lna icjoinjng sJicl
by' the other, and-Vice versa. - ' v -'
tTb t fare i frm London to Cape
To wit ranged 'from- J 1 8 to; S 2 1 bfattd
tnere are -second-class rates "by which
pne can go ,as pheapiy toCape Town
as he can' travel first-class fare from
&6W York toUverpool.vThe vessel
upon o wmcn ti cam from -the Cape
5 hope to England .was one
of ihe big mail steamers of the Unldrt J
fjittla -"Urto-- .tr wilt vv.A'Txcir.v-n: t A 1
yesset of over .12.00 tons.... "We made
the . trip in - Just seventeen , days, iand'
were landed at Southampton at the
very honr we were i told we would
reach there before leaving V- t
- v Tto Union Castle Line. , ,
The. Union Castle' line is one of the
oldest of the African steamship com
panies. "As the Union line, 'which was
rounded fifty-five -years -ago.-it sent
the first steam yessels reeulaf ly to
South"" Africa. '"-There were only two
of the company's ships -which ' then
exceeded S00 tons. About twenty
years- later- this line was -united j with
the t Castle company, the two telng
combined by Sir Donald urrie,-whe
is still the president of the oraranlza-
tion, f ; At that ' time the contract for
A 1 V m . . -2-
me ma.ua was paseq on a tnirty-sevr
en-aay passage with a A 5 0 0 bonus 'for
eVeryday under that.-and the postage
rates were xme shlUingi. per -V : letter
Since then Hhe 'rates have , been re
duced to two cents, and the time to
sixteen and . one-half "days. There are
now about a-score of . these - mail
steamers, and they 11 belong to the
Union Castle? Company,' which? has
perhaps , -dozen .or -so other vessels
in jits African service. ; -' ' r -. n
These boats carry all the gold and
diamonds .that .come from South Af
rica, their freight of that -kind alone
being annually worth at ' least SliO.
000.000. - --- --.y . -
Among (the other British ' lines are
the- Aberdeen. . which sails - f romLftiri w
don to Natal direet, rounding 1 the
Cape of Good Hope and calling only
at- the ports of 'East Africa.- These
are ships lof from 3,000 to',000 tons.
They .go down the' west coast,1 stop
ping at the Canary - Islands, - and
come first! into port af "Durban. From
there they ? go to Lopfenco Marques,
Beira, Mozambique, Zanzibar and
Mombasa,: The trip-to . Mombasa
cosU $220 'and" to NtaU $1S0. v
.Then t there is the Bucknall steam
ship lines; which -goes to Cape Town
by way of (Madeira . and also calls at
Natal. Its f area to Natal are. $100
and to Cape rTown $ 1 4 0. -The ships
are of about six thousand ton each.
The Natal line, to Durban direct, has
smaller" vessels, but it H charges just
about the same rates, ' while ' the
British India line, which goes from
London to the Suez 'canal and t down
the east coast. ' costs v considerably
more; -"Passengers on- the latter-boats
must transship at Aden, and the ves
sels are comparatively small. J The
rate to.Mombiwa or Zanzibar (k $225,
while to Delagoa Bay. the i port for
the Transvaal, it Is more than $300.
Life on an African Steamer.
- Traveling on these African steam
er is, it seems to me, - much more
agreeable than on the great floating
hotels which cross the , Atlantic. The
ship which brought me from South
Africa was .almost 600 feet long, 60
feet wide and more than 40 feet deen.
The first-class cabins were on the up
per deck, and ttie rentliaUon was
such that we were" perfectly comfort-
awe. When 'we crossed '(the equator.
The ship rolled a bit. but only-a few
of us were seasick, and ther voyage
was enjoyable from- one tend ' to i the
Other. . . :('; ; ,-y- v y- --.
tLeaving the Cape of Qood Hope,
we dId:cot etep. .until we reached
Madeira,- fourteen days later. During
this time the passengers became well
acquainted, and all seemed anxious to
nave a.good tinae. ; Shortly af ter leav-
ins'ajcouection, averaging about $5
apiece, was v taken up from , the first
and eecond lassassengerr, and this
formed a pursa-- of ''several y hundred
dc' --rs, which was used as premiums
for frames and contests, into- which
an me passengers entered. It was
v- r::t ci.Olynpio anie3 hcli in raid
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ocean, m :wtiicli both laaies andgen-
ilemen joined. Thererwa8. consider
able rivalary etween the first ' and
second classes,'' and each , ' - had
its
en-
champlons.,t . Among the sporty
tered intoiiy " the rladlea'-wre
the
spoon and egg sprints and the potato
race. In ihe spoon and egg race a
hen egg is -laid on the deck ata.-cer--
tain spot and the girl contestant must
iun ad scoop this up with, a spoon
and scarry it. without letting it fail.
baclc to the goal. -The distance f is
thirty or forty yards. It requires bkIII
to :et 'the I egg,: into ' the ? spoon and
a -steady hand to carry it, F "
in tne potato race " tn ree rows oj
ten raw potatoes are laid upon f the
deck, the potatoes of each row being
three- feet- apart. There 4s -a4 bucket
at -the end of each row. In" this
game three girls can contest at one
time. Each takes a row and attempts
to gather' her potatoes more quickly
than the ' others. The ' potatoes can
ba nicked 11 r onlv one at a time, and
eJl must go into the bucket- at ! the
end of - the row. "The one who j fin
ishes Iflrst. getting ? her whole ' ten in
her bucket, is the winner. " $
.Another sport in which both sexes
contested, was threading, the needle.'
In. this the boy puts the tnreaa
through the eye while his girl holds
the needle. The couple which threads
L first is successful. , -i-r-.:; . ' -
' As to games ror the ..men. tnese
were " legion ' and some most rldlcul
ous. One was marking the deck"with
'What waacaUed the bow line stretch,
- Frank G. Carpenter.
and another was a pillow fight con
test In the latter two men baianc
Jng themseiyes astride a pole with
a mattress beneath' them, fought ekch
ythet with pillows until; one f tras
knocked on the mattress,' There
were about forty contestants for .this
prize and an Englishman won lt.'-:n'-i
,"Then there was the human cock
fight, in which two ; men with their
arms, tied over their knees and - fast
ened there by a stick, attempted: to
crowd each, other out of a ring! on
1 the floor by mean of 1 theiri toes.i and
uiHt lire tunient .iu wo.wnu;cuuiu vhi.
Miscuit or. drink a bottle of soda
i 5For these "games fatti: eld- apd young
entered; and S6uthAfrican legislator
and colonels vied with ..tourists, gold
miners ind engineers; to see ''who twas
best There were also cricket match
gB wbere the balls wierei caught i by
TiAtd Ant 4in t H iMm f th di1r.
and concerts and dances night after
nighty.
: Ji t
Etiquette and Faslilon.
Thefman-)rj womarf'whor jjbes: to
South Africa with- lib more 1 baggage
than he can carry in his or her- hat
will feel much lout of. place. . Thefe is
more dressing on those ateamers than
onTthe biggest ships which cross .the
Atlantic. On the way-from the Cape
of Good Hope to Madeira" there: was
not-a man in the ar st" class "who did
not put on Tuxedo or a ' street pen
coat and a stiff boiled shirt for dinner
each . night, and most of. the ladles
wore lovr necks and short 1 .'sleeves
This custom prevails on all the steam
ers, and on both sides of the conti
nent There is full dress at all the
dances and concerts, rand the party
In .the saloon during the evening looks
more like that of ja Washington par
lot than like the rough, and tumble
eroyrd" which one always ofjnds on the
Mo Atlantic Unprn. .- ; : .i - 4;
As to the meals '?n the ships, they
are; 'excellent.- I had good .board
even , -on tne . smau . Meniterranean
coastal steamers andr on the -vessels
along the east .coast The eating'-on
the ships rrom thet cape 10 1 ionaon
IS about as good as on the Atlantic,
and there are four or five meals 1 a
day. . Here for instance .is my-' sche
dule forgone dayr; At: 7:30' a. m.
the boy - entered my cabin - with ? tea
( .4 -
Marks a new epoch in rcadvrmade footweat.
v
It is' a - bench made, hand lasted shoe; $how
; ing in' qualityj in-faultless , ntj in every line,
the work of the expert shoemaker. , You find
in the ; Steadfast the exact - features " that yoii
"Y pay twice as much for in made-to-order hoes'.
In its comfortj its individual styles and it
-unusually' high grade of leathers, it is trj-day
. . absolutely unsurpassed by; any footwear at
- -any. price. 'Y Y '
. 0f 05 ''or-winter. includes .nobbiest
; line 61 footwear - ever 'shown Y v 'l-i ! 1
7 in this city. 'All "the newest
leathers, tne newest' " tqes
built according to the latest r
Y ; dictates of " shoedom' ' :
: We are exclusive ap-ents for
... .
the Steadfast Shoe
n yuutvrn mt wot southtrn Ctntlemmn r
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PEEBLES Q EDVAHES3,
12 EAST BLIKTIN STREET.
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and a cracker, which I ate In bed.
At 8;30 I had agood breakfast tn' the
dining saioon: at 1 a luncneon witn
soup and' dessert, at 4 o'clock 'tea in
tne 1 saioon. : and . at 9130 ainner. ne
latter meal ' lasted ah hour or more,
and, in addition, there was a supper
late in the evening.
Steamships Wliich Go Around Africa.
V I eahnot imagine a better health
trip than a sea' voyage around "Africa.
There are several ilnea which - go
down one coast and up the other. One
of -the best is a German African line
byV which one starts at Hamburg and
can go either -'east or' west. 3 If- he
chooses the Western route he calls
at Las Pal mas In the Canaries and
then goes on to Cape Town, the voy
age there taking twenty-three or
twenty-four days. Leaving the - Cape
or Good Hope the ship next calls vat
Port -Elisabeth, the Liverpool of
South 'Africa; .and .'then .- goes on :tb
East London and Durban. th capital
Of i.'NataX.'". vThe: ,twor next ;. stoppages-
are In Portuguese, 'East Africa and
then come' Mozambiaue. Chinde and
Dar - es Salaam, the capital of Ger
man East Africa. - : From ft there;! the
ships - go on to iZanzibar.Tanga ""and
Mombasa, and thence vnorth ' ,td Aden
and on up the Red sea and Suez canal
to-the-Meditterranean. They1 go from
Port Sa4d - to Naples, and thence out
back through the Strait of Gibraltar
to Hamburg. v The whole trip, includ
Jng board, costs just about 2400 first
class, witn the stewaras tees aaoea.
and it takes about; two months to
make it.' ' 1
" If one "wishes to visit the ports of
West Africa, the Wberman 'line, sail
ing from Hamburg. 'IH ' take Vhlm
along the Gulf of Guinea and down
to the Kongo, and it has also ships
td . Swakopmund, "in German South
west 'Africa, There- are' some vessels
sailing regularly 'from , Antwerp ' to
the Kongo' ana 'others which go to
Gibraltar and around 15 the -coast of
Morocco." -The trip to, the t Kongo
takes- nineteen' d ays and . i. he steamers
leave for there every three -weeks.
The land at Matadi. where lone can
catch the railroad past the rapids of
the Kongo to Stanleypool. - i . ; ,
There' is -also a Portuguese steamer
which goes fromj Lisbon three ..times
month' for 'Loanda, -Benguela, and
the ports of .Portuguese West Africa,
and there aref British steamers from
Liverpool every other -Saturday ' for
Sierra Leone, Accra, and Lagos. The
fare' to -Sierra Leone is o.. These
same ships go to Liberia. he fare
there costing 2120. -The rate' from
Antwerp to the Kongo is f ISO and to
Lagos .t 150, - -' ' T
- v Mediterranean Africa.
. 'Mediterranean Africa is very easily
reached ; from Europe. , The " Frenchi
have a number of lines which steam
from Marseille to Algiers. Oran.and
Tunis, -and there are Italian ships
which make - the same ' ports. One
canv go almost daily in twenty-four
hours Jrom France to Algiers, and
the trjp' to Tunis is not much longer.
There -are ships sailing weekly from
Naples to' Tunisia, and there' i a line
of vessels whichugoea Mrom t Tuais .to
TripoliAcalling at Sfax and Gabe and
thence goingn 1r way 'of Trtpoit t
MSlta. These boats ure bf about one
thousand tons each and af e 'rather
dirty. -The -fares; are low. ' ! v ? K'--iAt,
present tfie Gemjanihes are'
trjing tocatcW the Ametlesn travel
to Egypt and both , the Hamburg
Anterteanand - North '(lernaig "Lloyd
havo branch Hnes .from". Naples ; ,tb
Alexandria. ' Within : the past' year 6r
so tlte-Hamburg-Amerleanhas-pvt Ita
own - steamers on the Nile and . they
now compete with the mail . vessels1
of the - Khedive, and with lbose 1 of
.Thomas Cook A ohi iWhtch ,ha
ok A Son'iWhtcrthavd o
J t r" - yHv,iue,
long held. aTmdrfdpoly ofi, that trade.
the small ships from there- aerbss
to Tangier. o 4ie cas-star ti iiti Mar
seilles' and come '"down ! the coast of
Spain on; toey Frepch i - vessels', f to
imu. vruea 10, Ja.uoruio mat
way. ine liritisn nave a- Morocco
line which inu&es a round tr ef all
the ports on "the Atlantltf Trom Lbn-
cost .Is $1 25; nd during; the 1 voyage
one calls at the Canary IslandSi 'and
the? Madeiras iand a!s iseven dif
f eren , portsrf Morocco;' There Is a
Hamburg cQmpany which makes
somewhat Ihei Ssame ' Toute; ,ajid fa
French line" which eoes from " Mar
sellles? to Tangier three times every
montn.. :? .
" 5 r On die Red Sea.
The African countries on the Red
Sea can be reached by several lines
from Suez and there are daily-steam
era which will take you there by-way
or tne canai. ,.The Khediviai steam
ship ' line, 1 which carries" the rroyal
mails of Egypt. Is now sailing from
Suez - every -Wednesday evening .'for
fort Sudan ana Kuaklm.- and 'every
two -weeks t rom Massowah.rHodeldah
and Aden. : One of.the stops of-these
boats iscat Jeddah. where " Mother
Eve-4s- buried' and -where the pilgrim-,
ages start for Mecca. e'Maasowah is
t! e port for Italian Africa. ?ahd Port
Sudan - is ( the terminus of the new
railroad which has just been -built
across the Nubian 'deserts from the
Red Sea to Khartum. i
The-Italiana havea line to Masso-
wah, and the Messageries Maritime,
the great French lines, stops at
PJbouti, which la the best , port for
ADyssinia. xnere is a., fttue railroad
there belonging" to the French,; which
in this city. Yf
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takes - ens in and almost ' to . Ila rrar
and from there all travel must be on
camels or mules. ----- v ?
There are -also regular steamers
sailing -from Bombay to the ports of
jast 'Arrica. anu -a. number or large
vessels which make regular trips to
Australia via cape Town. The.White
Star Hne has such-a service .'composed
of 'steamers of about twelve thousand'
tons each; the New, Zealand Shipping
Company and 'Shaw & Seville" have
similar vessels. On these ships Hhe
passage to ' Cape Town costs from
$100 to $150, and to Australia perhaps
$ 2 0 to-' $ 30 more.- Indeed one can
make ah "oeean trlpTarpund, the .world-
lni tnat - way, utKing.;i passage nrora.
London to New; Zealand and thence
going . on to England by , the Strait
of
Magellan.
( FRANK G. CARPENTER.
ABOCATES 1 IIOMESTEAD LAW.)
r (Aseville Citizem) ; : '-
Ashevllle. N. C. Dec 21. 190S. 1
To the editor: I was surprised to
note in a - recent issue of your paper
ani -outcry against the homestead law.
in j Yny opinion, one ofnhe most just
and benign laws on our 'Statute books.
How an .enlightened and liberal .Jour"
nal 'which professes to be on then side
of i the - people as against plutocracy;
Tvhich claims to stand for-popular jus
tice' as against the grasping rich, can
advocate the ' repeal of this . .barrier
against oppression, is beyond my
coKiprehension.-! ( -'"!'.'.'
If we were all like fish In a pond.
the' little ones to be swallowed by the
big ones, it would be entirely consist
tent'to advocate a repeal of this be
nign law. But since we -are all broth
ers,' facing a common destiny.' mortal
creatures with -h immortal souls.- an
swerable to the same merciful - and
Just God, it Is only befittinsr that we
should show some consideration and
benignity one for another-the strong
for the "weak. In other wokjs. that
we should live'and let tlve. The fact
thatrny brother-has been unfortunate;'
that in lire s struggle he has fallen be
hind 'that he owes more than he can
pay, even that he owes tne, is no sufll
dent 'reason why I should Pe permit
ted tp -etrin hlm of every vestige i-of
property . and turn him." and perhaps
with him: an entirely innocent . and
helpless 'family, out upon." the - cold
uncharitable world rwithout any means
of ! suDPort You seem to assumevthat
alt men : who are; protected by the
homestead lawiare ."dead beats,; etc..
etc., '"whereas many; an "honest .-;man
Has peea emeiaea irom .oppression
and his wife and children savedfront
want v xid suffering . by this bulwark
against Human greed. ? (You seem
chiefly concerned for the welfare5- of
the' wholesale merchant who credits
out his" goods, or the retail : merchant
who -elects- to do a Ume business, but
J oes not seem to occur to you that
neither the -wholesale nor retail ?ner
chant . is under -any,; : compulsion - to
not own property in "excess of a home
stead, dr who are not worthy of credit.
The homestead law is "known r; of all
men. -It enters. into every contract and
none is mislead, or at least peed not
bei ntislead -or deceived ty It r: ;, ! (ft
You say this law fbars -honest mer-:i
cnants rom 'getting .credit . ana aias
dishonest men to get it" Thia etate
mnt is,4r contradiction -on. 'Ijts face.. If
It,-prevent. one , man . ' fronvt," getting
credit how :can, itaid. another to ge,t.
iti-hether lionest-or, dishonest?. The
pact r,-i8f ythat- ..notwithstanding ; the
homesteaa, law;., any -honest merchant
caftvJret; ' credit, f.rnpre. credit in fact )
thin ie, ought to have. r . The, truth is
anxious to sell their goods tha,t, they
urge, and almost force theirwares on
the litle pierchants and often. r induce
IthantUe .merchants:' hbwfeveir honest.
tq, buy peypna tneir capacity, or awnty
a. 1 a i - -j.a a. - - . 1
payr .AJie,wouoie,is i,nav in
sale , merchants' do not stop at; im
portuning .honest retailers to. buy,! but
take long risks, on 'dishonest .ones, "and
then complain at. the: Insufficiency' of
tne laws, . aa denounce . aisnonesi t tn
slight proteCtfon-whicM ls giverf. tol the
little man" who has 'been importuned
Into buying beyond his j capacity' or
abflityrto 'pay.y.: Oh. no,Ythefe. 4f n6
kind of trouble for an honest, man to ,
get credit, ' ...Often he; gets more Credit
orj has ,more thrust upon him .(than
Is for 'his good. Then again we have
the ' mortgage system v hereby .any
man ' can pledge or- bind his property
below his exemptions, even to the-last
penny's ' worth. if he sees proper to
do so. 5 for'debts he desires to create.
If a man has no ' property the aboli
tion of the homestead dr the personal
property exemption would add noth
ing ttb pia credit and if he has prop
erty hecan easily make It available
as a means or credit by the simple in
strument Of -a mortgage. It is ; true
that the mortgage often works a hard
ship, but ' no f greater t hardship than
wbuld an execution, if the barrier of
the homsetead -and personal property 1
exemption were ..taken ; away. , V 'Not
very long .since 'I Darticlnaled In (: a
trial in the court house wherein it
was deve) oped .by .the evidence that a
then prosperous merchant under ; . the
power : of . a chattel (mortgage, had
sent the sheriff armed with claim and
delivery proceedings and .. had taken
xrom a poor man the last ear of corn
which'- he had .for bread, .and the, only
I pig which were left for meat, and the
onjy cow which rurnisned milk tor
his if ive 'children, '- and. yet this mer
chant "was acting within the .Jaw.
When M tread your tirade against - the
homestead I . thought "What a glor-
ously prosperous time -this and. -like
merchants "would have if your doc
trine would .prevail !" If - the ' home
stead Bhd ! personal : property e?emp
Uon were abolished, - the poor v man
could" be Just as. effectually cleaned
'up,! Just as-icompletely wiped off i the
face of the earth, by an execuUon. as
he pow can by means of claim and de
liverv or foreclosure under a mort
gage or deed o trust (.But you may
say "let the poor man keep out of
debt," but I say "let the rich man or
the merchant keep his money orchis
goods." He Is under no greater com-!
pulsion' to make debts than : is-, the
poor man to keep out of debt..;;, J
Vou say "the homestead law should
be repealed," . How are you going
about repealing It - It Is not a statute
-to bb'-wroed out of existence - .at "the
whlmi of i a legislature. It la; embedded
in our 'organic f law and can be bro-
gated'-or amended only, by a vote of
the ; people. -rThe consUtutiop itself
provides that all amendments -thereof
shall- have been agreea to Dy tnree
flftha -af V each House -of the General
Assembly, - and - shall be submitted M
the next general election to- the quail
fled voters vof the whole: State. At
least nine-tenths of the ouaiifled vot
ers of the State are in favor' of the.
hymestead.?- You should as wen n
Herts. Ice' to coniict Patrick -Henry i of
sedition or George Washington .of
treason by a verdict of the people of
this State, as to-repeal this law-which.
fcas been twtce embodied! in -our;coi-stitutlon
;bv 'two different conventions
And twice ratified by the whole people
oune aiaie.
GEORGE A. A
.A'Scrious Objection. yyr;
That the "scoffers 'and cross-questioners
of the Suffragettes often bring
confusion upon -their own heads was
welL illustrated at. a. recent meeting
at wh ich -Mrs. Borrmann -Wells was
delivering an " address, - A. v mant had
asked several questions, and in each
instance-received a prompt reply. His
final- query, was:' ; .z-- 'h'-:--.?
"Why don't you get married r.
'There is one serious obJecUon to
your suggestion." replied Mrs. Wells,
"and the objection I refer to 4s at pres
ent standing beside this platform lin
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