ANLY ENTERPRIS
VOL. VII.
ALBEMARLE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898.
NO. 12.
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MV UUIllltEil'S LBAKSKU 1(1 COOK.
We usi'tl to have olil-fusliioncil things, like
t'aliluigt'K and ifrvciin;
We lli'il 1" lnive just commi'Il 8 ni, lmulr out
nf ticirk ami ln'sins;
Hut ihhv it's iKiuillnii. consomme, ami tilings
mailt' from a mm.
Ami it au feu and Julienne, since my iluui:li
B r's lriirm'il to cook.
We used to liave a piece of b.-i f just ordinary
meat ;
And iiicklcil pile's feet, soare-nlis, too, and
other things to eat:
While now it's lillet and ragout, ami leg of
mutton liraiseu ;
And macaroni an grntiii, ami slitM'p's head Hoi
landaiscd.
Kseallojis a hi Versailles a la tills and a la
that,
And sweethread a la Iiclillst; IfH enough t
kill a eat!
Hut while I suller deeply, I invariably look
As if I were delighted that my ihimilitrr's
learned to cook.
We have 8 lot of salad thing! It l ilns-iiii;
mavominise:
In place of oysters, hlue points frieassei'd u
Uoen ways.
And oranire roly-poly, tloat, and peach me
ineriiiLnle. alas.
Kiiough to wreck u stomach that is made of
plated lirass!
The (rood old thlmr-i have passed away, in si
lent, sad retreat :
We've lot's of hlnh-falutln' things, hut nothing
much to eat.
And while I never s:iy i) word, ami always
pleasant look.
Hut oh, I've hud dyspepsia sinceiuy daughter's
learned to cook.
HILL AKI' S LKrTKII.
TIiobo northern republicans are in an
awful tangle. They are torn all to
pieces on the Philippine question. The
press and the pulpit are fulminating
their various theories and giving advice
in no uncertain sounds. Dr. I'arkhurst
preached a Thanksgiving sermon to an
immense congregation and left the
thanks out. lie made bold to denounce
the war as an unholy one, conceived
in in and waged with iniquity and de
clared that this country had gained
neither glory nor respect by reason of it.
He said that not even the president
could tell whether he declared war be
cause the Maine was exploded or be
cause the Cubans were being Btarved,
or because a lot of congressmen threat
ened to play Judas to the administra
tion if he diilent declare war.
He says the president is continually
putting his ear to the ground like an
Indian to hear what the people of the
great west haye got to say about it.
It was a terrible arraignment of the
war party.
Dr. Van Dyke, another notable
preacher, took for his text "The Amer
ican Birthright and the Philippine Pot
tage," and forcibly denounced territor
ial expansion. Then again Dr. Morgan
Dix, another strongaud popular preach
er, refused to give thanks "for having
made war upon a feeble natiou a war
I thaTWaTeTrrerert Into for humanity ake
only and not to acquire terjitory."
And there were other preachers on
the other side and between the preach
ers and the press the people are be
wildered and don't no what to think.
But it is to bo observed that all the
preachers have some flings to cast at
the south about the negro except Dr.
Thomas Dixon. "The nigger is in
the wood pile" up there and everybody
is crazy about him. But Dr. Dixon
held forth in the Grand opera houso to
an immense audience and dared to tell
them the truth. He declared that Mrs.
Grannia was simply insane and he
hoped the Lord would save the negro
from such friends. He Baid: " I
know the southern people and the
northern people, and I know the ne
gro. He is better off to-day than the
northern working man. He never
starves are suffers for bread. The sun
does not rise or set on this city but
what some white man or woman or
children starve to death. For every
negro in the south found sleeping on a
bed of straw, I will show you five white
persons in the north who have not got
straw, and would be glad to have it.
The northern white man thinks less of
the negro than the southern white man
does. You don't want him in your
house nor close about you.' No trades
are open to him here. He is nothing
here but a servant; whereas, at the
south, he competes with the white man
iu every trade and walk in the econo
mic world. There are 50,000 negro
voters in New York now, bit who eves
saw a negro iflice holder among them ?
There is not one, and never will be.
The Anglo-Saxon will rule, and the
southern nrgro need expect no more ar
tificial support from the north. The
experiment is needed. The war gave
this nation a new era of its life. The
bloody shirt was burried on San Juan
hill. The negro must now stand alone,
aud there can never be a bloody shirt
issue again in this nation. The mvo
alone can solve bis problem, ni . lie
must do it, not by politics, but by
work."
Well, that sounds fine, but a good
deal of it is fancy. The fact remains
that before the war there was not a ne
gro in the chain gang in Georgia, and
now there are 4,000, and the number is
increasing daily, and the northern re
publican press and republican pulpits
are still denouncing us for it. In the
language of Governor Oates, I am con
tinually tempted to exclaim, "Well,
what are you'uns going to do about
it?"
ri.it 070 nm coins to have a Peace
Jubilee down here, and as John Temple
Graves said of lienry Uraay, "we are
i!in tn Invn n nation into teace."
Sec if we don't. We are going to treat
our northern visitors so generously anu
tim ihpin an hard that when they get
back home they won't say nigger for
two weeks, maybe a moutu. i wisu n
wore tviBKildn to iret those fanatics to
stay down here a year or so and see for
themselves how the negro lsuomg m
in A ilnnta or Savannah or any of the
big cities where most of the chain gangs
come from, but in the country or iue
smaller towns. I wish they would visit
Cartersville and see the negro draymen
hauling cotton and hear their merry
lunoti .nl ihoir inlrpc and gee the cotton
pickers in town on Saturday evening and
night spending their ween s wages ior
something good for Sunday, or sece
them in their churches on the Sabbath
and hear them sing and shout hih! give
glory to God. Who ever heard of a
Cirlersville negro abusing the white
people or complaining of oppression?
They are always handy and wear better
clothes than the poor whites at the
north, and at the sound of the school
bell their children pour in or pour out
like bees from a hive. Then; is no
troublo here or in the country ; no con.
llict, and all the money they make is
sjient at home. Cotton picking is their
annual frolic. My barber told me bis
shoeblack had quit him and gone to the
cotton patch, lie tamed 7" cents to
(I a day blacking shoes, but he has
gone to the field, where he can pick
more than a hundred pounds of cotton
and get 40 cents for il; but out there he
could talk and laugh and carry on with
the other negroes and have a good
time. Who ever heard of a negro
tramp going round begging for some
thing to eat? Well, now, if they are
so contented aud happ;, why does any
body want to disturb them about poli
tics or social equality ? But we are go
ing to see fun alive before long. The
negroes iu the islands we have taken
will give our northern brethren enough
to do and to think about, and maybe
they will let us alone for a while. I
see that Cardinal Gibbons has been ex
pressing opinion about the negro prob
lem, and be advises us to have a prop
erty qualification for voters. Well, the
New Kugland states have got that now
and say it works well. South Carolina
and Mississippi require an educational
qualification, but my opinion is that a
voter ought to have one or the other,
either property enough to make him
interested in his government or educa
tion enough to understand it. The
greatest menace to good government is
the purchasable votes of illiterate vaga
bonds, both white and black. GcoJ
gracious ! how fast we are living now.
A month is longer than a year used to
be. What with these Thanksgiving
sermons with the thanks, left out, what
with Spain and Cuba and the Philip
pines and the treaty aud the war inves
tigation and the movement of our troops
and the devilment of the negro soldiers
and the attitudes of the great powers to
ward us and the low price of cotton and
the Atlanta Jubilee and the coming of
Santa Claus and the awful wrecks on
the coast and the suicides and divorces
and lynchings and veudattas aud devil
ment in general our minds are kept
strained every day and we wonder what
the next daily paper will record. May
the good Lord have pity upon us all, is
my prayer, Bil.l. Am'.
Hill Arp's Letters Admired.
Editor Constitution I believe Bill
Arp to be a friend to all humanity, al
though I have no personal acquaintance
with him.
I have been thinking for some time
of doing for him what I have not seen
done by any one else, that of expressing
my heartfelt thanks for the many nappy
moments his published letters have
given me.
Somewhere away back in oil s I began
to read his letters. Whether they
would read just as well with some other
signature under them or not, I cannot
tell, but one thing I do know there are
few writers who need no greater assur
ance that their communications will be
published and read by the public than
that of seeing their signature attached
to them. I have made it a rule or
habit of my life to stop long enough to
read anything signed "Bill Arp."
They have made me laugh anil cry.
They have brightened many a dark
hour, and brought relief many times to
my cast down spirits. They have
brought life and sunshine many and
many times to my humble home. For
several years of late their weekly visits
have been enjoyed beyond measure.
But look here, his late letter, telling
us what he does for Mrs. Arp and mak
ing himself useful like a "boy" about
the house, kitchen, yard and garden
got me into a debate, not to say trouble
with my wife. Now, I am not in the
habit of dome heaps of things tnai ne
mentions; and when my wife read the
letter she took special pleasure in in
forming me that I didn't do that way
for her; and when she cornered me so
close I was compelled to act on the de
fensive. I told her I was a farmer and
not onlv a farmer, but a hand, and not
only a hand, but a slave to the crop;
that I not on v made 1.00(1 bushels ol
corn and twenty bales of cotton and
other things in proportion; but I gath
ered the most of all the crops anu
housed and otherwise disposed of them,
and I am sixty-three years old; and that
Bill Arp never had anything of the kind
to do; that he never plowed; he never
hoed a row of corn or cotton; he never
gathered a load of corn and cribbed it;
that he never picked a bale of cotton.
Now let Bill Arp keep coming, but
don't get mo into any more debates
with my wife. 1. K. Stahu.
Bermuda, Tex., Nov. 27, IS'.is.
Called to Congratulate the Sheriff nntl W
Arrested.
Lenoir News.
Sam Harper, colored, returned to
Lenoir last Friday or Saturday aim
dropped into Sheriff Boyd's cilice to
congratulate him on his re-election.
While there the sheriff drew from a
pigeon hole in his desk a warrant he
had received the day before, from
Randolph county, charging Sam with
burglary. Sam was in high spirits
when he entered the room but left it
with the sheriff for jail in a very differ
ent frame of mind. The sheriff savs
he really was sorry to have to execute
the paper under such peculiar circum
stences. "Sweet potatoes have been retailing
on our streets at 5 cents a peck. Far
mers can't afford to sell them at' that,
and freight rates are too high to ship
them," says the Hickory Mercury.
NKRMON 1JY KKV. SAM JONKS.
Recently Rev. Sam Jones preached
in the big tabernacle at his home in
Cartersville, Ga., from the following
text:
" 'I will declare my inquity. 1 will
be sorry fur my sins.'
"That was what David Baid. He not
only confessed his sins, but he was sorry
fur them," continued Mr. Jones. 'That
passage of Scripture should be the key
note of our hearts today.
"1 wish to say in the out set that sin
is the only thing that can permanently
harm us. It 's the only thing that
causes God to bide his face from us. It
is the only thing that ever brought
sorrow, yes, poignant grief to my heart.
Sin misleads us in every way.
"Now," Baid Mr. Jones, "lam going
to talk to God today about my sins. It
is well enough to kneel at the bedside in
prayer, to kneel at the family altar but
iet us talk with God today, let this whole
congregation open up their hearts and
freely and fr.mkly converse with God
this day.
"Let's quit talking about crops, and
about silver or no silver and let us talk
to God. Crop or no crop, silver or no
silver, v.e are millionaires if we can
but get the favor of God. Let us talk
with Him about our condition, our
dangers, our destiny. Let us humbly
confess to God our sins as David did.
Let us lose sight of all but the oppor
tunity to talk with God which is pre
sented this hour and let our spirits go
up in whispers in humble utterances to
our Creator."
"I havesinned,' exclaimed Mr. Jones.
"These words have sounded through all
the ages of the world. There are none
in this great audience who have not
sinned not one! You know this, every
man and woman here knows it, and you
can't say you haven't. All of this au
dience can look right up to God and say
with one voice: 'We have sinned.' If
we can only get each person here to
confess his sins, to say, 'I have sinned,'
and really mean it, then will a shower
of blessing full upon us all.
"If an angel from heaven should fly
down upon this platform and say, 'I
have sinned,' I Wouldn't know what he
meant. You wouldn't understand him.
We could not conceive how a perfectly
pure being like that could sin. But
when men and women confess their sins
sincerely we understand them. There
is so much cant in religious services at
at times. Let us get down to bottom
rock today. Let us all Bay, I have
sinned,' and mean it, and say, truly, 'I
am sorry for it.'
"The Prodigal Hon sinned. He said,
'Father, I have sinned aaainst heaven,
and am no longer worthy in thy sight.'
U here was he? Who was he? W hat had
he dnnf? TTe was In me presenvr-ur ms
father, he was a rebel against his
father's law, he had left a loving father
and family and gone astray. He
had been guilty of disloyalty against
God.
"A great man lias said that sin in its
ast analysis is revolt against God. Sin
is insubordination to God. And so the
Prodigal had rebelled against his own
loving father. Ho had eaid 'Give me
my portion. He had turned his back
upon his lather and his home, lie had
suffered the consequences of his dis
loyalty and now returned; he realized
his lost condition. He returned and
said, 'Father, I have Binned against
thee and am no longer worthy to be
called thy son.' Ho said more. 'In his
great sorrow he said, 'Make me a hired
servant.' Ho was ashatied, he felt his
unworthiness even to bo called In." own
father's son. He came back thoroughly
humiliated. He humbly confessed bis
sins. He was truly sorry for them, and
what did his father do? He ran, out to
meet him. He fell upon his neck and
kis-sed him. The lost had been found.
It was the greatest desire of his father
to have him back, and bis rejoicing over
the return ot his repentant son knew no
bounds.
"So if we will only confess our situ
and be truly sorry for them aud turn
away from them our Father in heaven
will freely forgive ua and rejoice over
our repentance.
"I looked back over my own life
spread out like ft panorama. I can
almost count the footsteps by which I
went down to degrtdation. I had
reached a point right here in Carters
ville beyond which I could go no fur
ther in iniquity. But I thank God He
has made homes uot made with hands
for all of us up there for all of us who
will only come back. Thank God He
has sent His son to the piles of straw,
to the garrets, to all the wretches of this
world steeped in sin sent His Son who
said, 'Come unto me all ye that are
weary and heavy laden and I will give
you rest.'
"There is a great difference," said
Mr. Jones, "in going off and coming
back. Like the Prodigal we must come
back in self-abnegation, and in humilia
tion. Then we shall be received with
the joy of heaven.
"I can picture that prodigal boy re
turning iu rags and misery aud shame
and want. I can see him as with out
stretched hands and humble voice he
exclaims, 'Father, I have sinned
against thee.' I can hear hiin plead
Mike) me a hired servant.' I can
see that father run to him with legs of
mercy.
"We have run off from our Father in
Heaven some of us and we are no
longer worthy to be called His children.
Let us return with humiliation, yee,
v.ilh sbiinie, and beg for the privilege
of being hired servants in His service.
Oh, yes, I had rather be a hired ser
vant in the service of God than a
crowned king.
' 'I have Binned,' and when I am
ashamed of it, it is a good thing. When
sinners have lost the sense of shame they
have nearly lost their souls. Oh, it is a
good thiug to see sinners sorry and
ashamed, piled down iu the straw of
humiliation, saying:
'God be merciful to me a sinner.'
'I would be glad to see each member
of every denomination here Bay, 'I'm
ashamed. I'll come back and confess
my sins to my Father and lead a better,
nobler, purer life.'
"I tell you when a man gets this
spirit of humiliation on him he's near
to God. God fishes on the bottom you
fishermen out there will understand this
God likes folks who don't know much,
who in their weakness and need cry out
to Him!
"Then there was the sin of David,"
continued Mr. Jones, "David's sin ex
pressed itself in remorse. When Nathan
dropped his linger upon David and said:
'Thou art the man,' remorse got hold
of David. His was an awful sin, and I
am glad to konw that his pardon was
the greatest. Remorse is the gangreue
of the soul. It is a consuming lire to
the moral nature. It gnaws upon the
conscience. It is that suffering of the
spirit which makes a man pay up. You
have heard of the 'conscience fund' of
the government. It was remorse which
led to that fund. Ren) orse in the spirit
moves everything from the cellar to the
garret. Oh, how badly some of us need
this spirit of remorse today to Bet us
right before God. Ah, remorse ought
to possess some of the boys and girls in
this audience. Some girl here has taken
a dagger and Blabbed her poor mother
to the heart; some boy has put his cruel
foot upon his mother these should cry
out in remorse, remorse the canker
of the soul, eating it day by day. 'I
have sinned,' cried David iu the anguish
of remorse. The spirit of remorse had
gotten hold of him and he could not
tolerate it. Oh, you husbands, who have
mistreaded your wives, you ought to
have it!
'Peter said: 'I have sinned.' The
confession of Peter is one of the most
interesting things iu the Bible. Peter
was a noble fellow. He was the only
one of the apostles who followed Christ
to the judgement hall of Pilate. The
trouble about Peter was that he broke
down, He went out and wept bitterly
after denying his Master. 'I have
sinned!' Peter's Bin was the sin of
cowardice. He was afraid.
"Oh, this spirit of cowardice is the
curse of the world. It is a sad state of
affairs. Why should a man be afraid
of anything,from the devil to the Dem
ocratic party?"
"I believe it takes more courage to
vote as you pray than to stand fourteen
hours before the guns of Santiago. I'm
talking to you out there, you Demo
crats, Populist and Republicans. You
vote with no more conscience than a
hog would drink a glass of buttermilk.
I tell you something is the matter with
the church in this town. It is dead.
The chiuch bells ring and the sermons
are preached, but the churches of Car
tersville couldn't be deader if the
preachers got upTniTTeirpntpus every
Sunday and recited 'Mary Had a Little
Lamb,"' or 'The Boy Stood on the Burn
ing Deck' Sunday in and Sunday out
for a year. Why, Atlanta and Chat
tanooga are the same way. If there is
a live Holy Ghost church in all this
country today it has kept out of my
sight. I tell you the church bus about
hobnobbed with politics until it is rotting
in the sight of God. I don't know a
dirtier, lousier set on earth than the
Democratic party of Georgia. I don't
vote with them and never will. I don't
know what the Pops would do if they
had the chance. In my judgment
they'll never have a chance. The
Democratic party is the whisky party.
I had just as soon go to Alaska for pine
apples as to a Democratic legislature
for laws against liquor.
"Cowardice is the sin of this country.
The preachers won't say what they
think. But Peter got over his cow
ardice. He repented and faced death
like a man. When they crucified him
he said, 'Nail me to the cross with my
head dow n. I am not worthy to die
like my Lord.' Peter wept. Oh, how
we ought to weep! God pity a coward!
Heaven bless with courage to stand up
for the right, anywhere mid everywhere.
"While I live," exclaimed the evan
gelist with splendid fervor, "while I
live I will speak my sentiments. I had
rather go around with a poultice on
my mouth and be jabbed in it every
few minutes and then shoot it to 'em
again, than to go around in a do-nothing
and say-nothing way. If there's
any better citizen in Georgia than I am
it is because he knows better than I do
how to be ft better citizen. I pay ray
taxes and have never been 'leveled on'
yet, and I don't vote with the Demo
crats, the Populists or the Republicans.
Oh, if we could but have a baptism of
courage in tins country we wouiu win
some lights yet.
"What we want in New York, in Chi
cago, nil over this broad land, is a bap
tism of fire that will make us stand
up for our convictions and for thryiglit.
We want the same spirit which ani
mated Dewey when his vessels limited
into Manilla bay quietly as ducks and
destroyed the Spanish tleet. 'By 12
o'clock,' said Dewy, 'we will destroy
them,' and at 11:30 the work had been
done. It just took a fellow like Dewey
to do it. Then he said to his men: 'I
told vou we'd do it.' Oh, if wo but had
the courage of Hqbson nnd Schley. If
we had in the church ol Jesus Christ
to-dav the courage that would sink
ships and destroy Meets in the cause of
religion how many great iignw we
would whip Tor the ngnti
"We need courage all around us
Ix-t us nrav for courage!
. "Then there was Judas IscarioL He
said: 'I haye sinned! His sin was the
crime of avarice. 'I have betrayed the
innocent blood!' he said after he had
pointed out the Lord. When he saw
how that they maltreated him he said:
There's vour money,' and went out
hanued himself. The confession of
Judos Iscariot was the confession of
desuair. Y'ou can go too far. Judas
went too far. I thank God that I have
never reached the point of despair.
' "And now, to sum up," said Mr.
Jones: "First, there was the confession
of the prodigal sun. It was humilia
tion. Second, there was David's con
fession of remorse. Then Job's con les-
sion arising from weakness. Job went
down under tire, but he riz again like a
man. Third, there was Peter's confes
sion proceeding from cowardice. All
of these confessed and repented and
came out happily.
"But the last one was Judas Iscariot.
His suicide was the confession of despair
and lie went out ami nangeu inmseii.
Avoid Coughing.
Heientlnc American.
physician who is connected with
an institution in which there are many
children says: "There is nothing more
irritable to a cough than coughing. For
some time I had been so fully assured
of this that I determined for one min
ute at least to lessen the number of
coughs heard in ti certain ward in a
hospital of the institution. By the
promise of rewards and punishments I
succeeded in inducing them simply to
hold their breath when tempted to
cough, nnd in a little while I was my
self surprised to see how some of the
children entirely recovered from the
disease. Constant coughing is precisely
ike scratching a wound on the outside
of the body; so long as it is done the
wound will not heal. Let a person
when tempted to cough draw a long
breath and hold it until it warms and
soothes every air cell, and some benefit
will soon be received Irom this process.
The nitrogen which is thus confined
acts as an anodyne to the mucous mem
brane, alliiving the desire to cough, and
giving the throat and lung a chance
to heal.
Olllce All the Time.
Cliarlotto Observer.
An Iredell county correspondent of
the Winston Republican gives the fol
lowing as the reason for the overthrow
of the Republican party on the 8th of
November:
1st. The abominable civil service
system.
2d. Appointing to office new converts
from the Democratic party.
3d, Retaining in olhce Democrats.
4th. Appointing western men to office
in the revenue service.
It will be noticed that every one of
these reasons relates to office. It is not
suggested that any matter of principle
entered into the coutest, but the whole
troublo resulted from the fact that in
one way or another the path of the
faithful to the pio counter was obstruct
ed. This is North Carolina and South
ern Republicanism all over. Web.
Flanigan hit it off to n nicety iu tne
national Republican convention when
he asked, "What are we hero for but
the offices?"
This interesting correspondent then
proceeds to say further:
now mat iepuuuujiDH amrn ipurnpn
that the Populists will not stick, let
them hereafter go with or fuse with the
ones they vote with.
The negroes and the ropunsts nave
been eye-sores to the Republican party.
We say give Cuba to the negro and the
Populists to the Democrats and the Re
publicans will carry North Carolina.
Of Interest to Cotton Mill Folks.
Salisbury Sun.
We cony a few remarks from the
Charlotte News of interest to cotton mill
folks and which makes good reading:
"The recentistrike in Augusta, one of
the first in the South, has again raised
the question of the difference in wages
paid by Northern and Southern mills.
The difference in the amount of money
paid is largely in favor of the North,
but the conditions and cost of living are
largely in the South's favor. Rental at
the South is inconsiderable, and opera
tives in mauv caseB raise much of their
own supplies in the little gardens around
the dwellings. The expense tor luei
amounts to little, food is much cheaper
and the heavy clothing absolutely re
quired at the North is uot needed in the
South. In many Northern mills there is a
system of fines that reduces the average
wages far below the ostensible amount
paid. In manv respects the eoutnern
operatives, even at the lower wage rate,
has advantages over his jxormern
brother."
It mav be seen from this that those
who work in cotton mill in the South
are not in such bad condition after all.
The Sun has a good list of subscribers
among cotton mill oiieratives. If there
are any who are chafing because their
burden is heavy their attention is called
to what their fellow operatives in the
North are undergoing. Although their
wages are less their expenses are far
smaller. The difference appears in
favor of the Southern mill hands.
Uold Mining In North Carolina.
The State Labor Commissioner has
completed his report for 1898. The re
port says there 18 consiucraoie acuvuy in
gold mining. Meekleuburg is far in
the ead in tne maner oi miues, wim
Union second and Cabarrus third.
There are twenty mines which deposit
in the assay office at Charlotte, mere
are in all about 103 mines. No finds
of big nuggets havo occurred during the
vcar. There are 11 brownstone quar
ries nnd 20 of granite. Two men lost
their lives in a quarry accident at Ashe
ville and two in a gold mine in Mont
gomery county. There are eight coal
mines, five of these being in Chatham,
but it appears that only one, the Cum
nock mine, is being operated. The
output of this during August, Septem
Ikt and October was onlv 2,528 tons.
This mine renewed operations August
1st, after being idle nearly a year, in
cendiaries having burned the plant.
Iu 18'J5 its product was 22,232 tons,
There are 23 corundum mines in opera'
lion. The market price for corundum
has ranged from 4 to 20 cents per
pound. There are 53 mica mines.
Mica mining is very active ana prices,
stimulated by protection, are high, be
ing $3 er pound for plates 4x4 inches
and $4 for 4x6 iuch plates. There are
many talc miues. Three of these alone
report a production during the year of
3,230,000 pounds.
"DOU8! DOGS! TOO MANV DOUSI" 18
MKS. MCLTON'S l'ATHKTIC t'KV.
Editor Atlanta Journal:
Among the many difficulties that
afliict farming operations in Georgia
the dog question is not the least by far.
any tierson would take the trouble to
ride through his own neighborhood in
country places and count up the dogs
that can be seen around cabin doors,
and then remember that somebody
must feed those worthies curs, such an
investigator would be CDnviced that dogs
should either be taxed or thinned out to
a reasonable number for more reasons
than one.
W hat a dog eats in the year would go
very far towards fattening a porker that
would be good for something when it is
killed, and if anybody is silly enough to
suppose that a dog can live on nothing
let him hear from poultry houses and
hen roosts before be makes a positive
assertion ou the subject.
For instance, I did not own a dog of
any sort last winter and spring. After
I had saved eggseoough watching (when
the hens cackled) to set a couple of
dozen hens, I had every nest broken up
in a single night, and this performance
was repeated twice before there was a
chicken hatched for our own raising.
I put out "rough on rats," acd some
cats that were really useful disapp3ared,
but the dogs were still in evidence. I
then bought setting eggs and made
another and third effort. When road
bauds were called on the public road in
the spring, aud dogs, of course, were
around their owners, as usual, I heard a
racket in uiy ben house, and despite a
frantic rush out of doors, I was only in
time to see an immense dog come forth
with his mouth streaming with broken
eggs and my work was all to do over
again. Now, when I read glowing ac
counts of the value of poultry raising I
wonder if all the dogs have been ruled
out of those favored sections. I tried
and I failed.
After such a season of vexation and
worry I at last counted a drove of 25
little turkeys, and promised myself that
I would have an abundance to use and
a few to sell about Christmas time.
These turkeys were nearly grown at fod
der-pulling time. As it rained every
day we made a big rush to get fodder
saved, with all the hands that could be
hired to go at it. On the very first day,
not one hund-ed yards from the house,
we found eight torn and mangled tur
keys in the field. Some we never found,
and two hobbled home to die that
night. My flock was reduced to ten
and the fodder wis absolutely worthless,
as it turned out, becauso of floods of
rain.
It leaked out that the fodder pullers
all carried their dogs with them, with
the result as before stated. These dogs
were in a lamisueu uuuuiuuu, nuu iue
turkey meat was in sight, and they
helped themselves.
Every mother s son vowed by all mat
was good that his dog had nothing to
do with the slaughter, and nobody
dared to inform on the guilty dogs for
obvious reasons. Could anybody bUme
me for shedding a few tears?
Wo have tens of thousands of acres
in Georgia that are fit for sheep pasture
and but little else. We cannot raise a
sheep where I live because the land is
infested with dogs that are of no good
to anybody. Sheep are good for food
and their wool very valuable for making
clothes. When I see a cabin full of
half-naked children and the doors
crowded with famished, worthless dogs
I ask myself why the Georgia legisla
ture cannot legislate on this line and
relieve the tension in this one place, if
it is incapable of reducing taxation or
of withholding appropriations that are
bankrupting the tax payers ol Georgia.
The sketch 1 have drawn for you is
taken from real life fact and one
poor struggling farmer's wife has had
her natience exhausted by these lawless
dogs that range the fields night and day
for a living.
If it is deemed necessary to allow one
dog to a family why not tax all the bal
ance of the pack ? My word for it you
would have fewer dngs aud better fed
dogs on that schedule. Why this cow
ardice in legislative balls?
Perhaps somebody will inquire why 1
did not hire somebody to go a gunning
for dogs, and supply ammunition in
abundance?
If such questioner had lived as long
as I have ou a farm and found a mule's
eye knocked out or a lame horse, or a
broKen-ieggea can, or a unssiug uog
after one such rash spurt in self-defense,
there would be no reason for asking
such a senseless question.
There are a thousand reasons why
you roust bear the ills you have rather
than rush into those you know of.
Your barns and dwellings are a pledge
to peace, and dogs must walk abroad
free citizens in a land of overburdened
taxation, until the lawmakers are much
interested in protecting farm products
as they are in placating dog owners who
can vote in election times.
1 know a negro family without a cent
in their possession, not a dollar a worth
of breadstuffs in their dwelling, not a
irood shoe on a single foot on the prem
ises, yet there is a great big dog sitting
by the cabin fire all day (ranging over
the plantation at night) that will eat as
much as either of the grown ones in
that incapable household. Somebody
has to feed it and its owner will not
work to do it. What should be done
with such a dog ? If they go a hunting
they knock oat the cotton in the fields,
as they rush around and about, and
there is no help, no redress, no satisfac
tion anywhere. Will the legislature re
member tuese things and give some
relief where it is needed ?
Mrs. W. H. Felton
Cartersville, Ga.
Equal to the Knrgaej.
"That woman next door wem and
got a hst exactly like mice."
"Did you make fuss about it ?"
"No; I gave mine to the cook."
WHAT HKNKY UKAUT SAID.
Macon Telegraph.
There are many who, with gratitude,
and admiration, remember the blazing,
burning speeches delivered by Henry
Grady in behalf of prohibition in At
lanta not long before he died. His was
always a warm, benevolent heart, and
for some time before he passed away
he seemed more than ever to seek the
good of the masses. In this interest he
entered the campaign for prohibiting
the sale of whisky in Atlanta with great
enthusiasm. The followingarraignment
of the liquor traffic is so just and strong
that we wish you to read it again:
To-night it enters a humble home to
strike the roses from a woman's cheek
and to-morrow it challenges this repub
lic in the halls of Congress.
To-day it strikes a crust from the lips
of a starving child and to-morrow it
levels tribute from the government
itself.
There is no cottage humble enough
to shut it out.
It defies the law when it cannot co
erce Buffering.
It is indexible to cajole, but merci
less in victory.
It is the mortal enemy or peace ana
order, the dispeller of men and terror
of women, the cloud that shadows the
face of children, the demon that has
dug more graves and sent more souls
unshrived to judgment than all pesti
lence that has wasted life since God
sent the plagues to Egypt and all the
wars since Joshua stood beyond Jericho.
It comes to ruin and it shall profit
mainly by the ruin of your soas and
mine.
It comes to mislead human souls
and to crush human hearts under its
rumbling wheels.
It conies to bring (ray-haired moth
ers down in shame and sorrow to their
graves.
It comes to change the wife s love
into despair and her pride into shame.
it comes to still the laughter on the
lips of Utile children.
It comes to stifle all the music of tne
home and to fill it with silence and
desolation.
It comes to ruin your body and mind,
to wreck your home, and knows it
must measure its prosperity by the
swiftness and certainty with which it
wrecks this world.
He Uot a Uaoa la Spanish.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
One of the students of the University
of Chicago went to a restaurant on Jack
son street a few days ago with two
friends who had fought with the First
regiment at Santiago. Naturally they
talked of the war, and although the stu
dent showed considerable knowledge of
the campaign, his - pronunciation of
Spamsn proper muuw was um, t
variably he gave the Spanish "J'' its
England sound.
His companions, who were better
posted on the Castillian tongne, stood it
as long as they conld, aud finally one of
them said : "See here, if you want to
talk war with ns yon most pronounoe
those Spanish words as shey should be.
Say 'San Huan' and Monteho,' and re
member that 'Hunta' is proper. Don't
give the words the 'J' sound. There is
no 'J.' It's pronounoed 'H' lways."
Oh, is it ?" returned the student with
a sneer of sarcasm, for he was getting
angry. "Then I suppose your name is
Hohu, not 'John,' as it used to be be
fore you went to Cuba j and perhaps you
want me to tell you that this restaurant
is on 'Hackson street."
The derisive laugh that followed so
angered the student that he leaped to his
feet.
I want you to understand," he
shouted, "that I am a hentleman I
Hump onto me, you hackasses, and I'll
show yon this is no hoking matter. By
the humping Herusalem, you haven't
any more sense than a hackrabbit. If
you insinuate that I'm a country hake,
I'll break your haw. By Himmy, I'm
going."
And the indignant student put on tus
hat and walked out.
Debit Slda of the War.
In the Fawtucket Times the debit
side of the Spanish war is detailed by
Mr. H. B. Metcalf as follows: Three
thousand American lives lost and more
than three thousand Americans rained
in health; many times three thousand
whose morals have been ruined by
camp life; an enormous debt created;
the repudiation of Washington s fare
well address, the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Monroe doctrine; de
moralization of the rising generation
with ideas of military glory; responsi
bility for millions of unmanageable
barbarians; a wrench to the doctrine of
protection payment of millions of dol
lars to Spain or her creditors; discredit
thrown upon the principle of arbitra
tion; conceit stimulated by whipping a
fifth-rate navy; a mantle thrown over
the vices of our demagogues. New
England seems to be opposed to the
new departure. This is to be expected.
What is not to be expected is mat iew
England should tolerate such Jingoes as
Lodge and Chandler.
InfalUbla Blgua.
El kin Timet.
All the indications in which great re
liance is placed point to a long and se
vere winter. In the first place, there is
the goose bone. For the first time in
eight years it is very wide and nearly
all white, which is a sure sign of early
snow, deep snow and snow of long dura
tion. Then there is the rag-weed, it is
unusually tall. Thus does nature pre
pare tor the feeding of the non-migratory
birds when there il to be deep snow.
Moreover, examinations of corn hurt s
has disclosed that they are nnaraaily
heavy. That is another sign of ex
treme cold. The woodchuck further
more corroborates ihe other evidence
with fur Of unusual thickness. Tbxt is
a sign that never fails, even when others
do.