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t Making; Fortunes In the onih.
"Wilmington Star.
I There are more fortunes being
f made in the South today, for the
amount of money invested, by keen,
I sharp-eyed speculators and investors,
I than in any part of the American
continent. These fortunes are made
I principally in timber and mineral
f lands, both of which are as a rule
bought at ridiculously lew figures,
simply for the reason that the own
ers of the properties 6old know the
value of a dollar, but do not know
the value of the properties they sell.
As a:i illustration in print, we clip
the following from a letter in the
Pittsburg Dispatch, written from
Logan Court House, West Virginia,
which we find in the Baltimore Sun,
a paper which keeps a sharp eye on
Southern progress and development.
"Within the past twelve months
not less than $1,000,000 have been
harvested by nervy and far-sighted
investors in the timber and mineral
lands of Logan, Wayne and Wyom
ing counties, and millions more of
profits will be reaped within the
next two or three years. Two years
ago, and in many cases within a
much less time, lands ranking among
the best in West Virginia, standing
thick with magnificent timber and
underlaid with splendid bituminous
coal could be bought through the
"Big Sandy" country for from $2 to
$5 an acre. Today these lands are
held any where from $10 to $30, and
the tendency of prices is constantly
and rapidly upward. At least a
score of companies aud associations
of capitalists, with available niouey
ranging from a few thousand up to
$100,000 or $300,000, have been or
ganized for the purpose of acquiring
the title to large tracts of the wild
lands of the counties named, and
probably GOUfOOO acres of territory
are now held for investment, while
other hundreds of thousands of acres
have been sold and resold, netting
large proGts.
"Your correspondent has in mind
one tract of land, underlaid with
thirty feet of the very best coking
coal, which was bought by a modest
combination of gentlemen having
little money, but the ability to see a
good thing, for $1,300. In less thau
a year they sold out for $15,000 and
the present owners have refused
$25,000 for the tract Another com
pany bought 4,000 acres for $5 an
acre. They have sold the timber
alone for enough to pay for the land
and leave them $30,000 cash, and
they have the minerals and the land
itself left. Still another combina
tion purchased 7,000 acres for $10
ai acre. They have refused $4 a
tree for 14,000 poplar trees, have at
least $50,000 of other timber, at d
5,000 acres of their land, carrying
thirtyone feet of coking coal, one
Bolid vein being thirteen feet thick.
Tkeir investment of $70,000 will
net them $500,000 as sure as the
next four years roll around. The
original owners of the property seem
to have no conception whatever of
the value of their property. For a
few hundred dollars in cash they
readilv part with large tracts of
land standing thick with timber,
and rich in coal, iron ore and other
minerals."
Some persons reading this might
conclude that, the writer had given
undue license to his imagination and
taken undue liberties with figures,
but we have seen enough right here
in our own State to justify us that
while there may possibly be a little
exaggeration in some of his state
ments they are substantially true.
We have seen as finely timbered land
as there is on the continent sold for
less per acre than one tree of the
hundreds that grew upon an acre,
when felled and sawed into lumber,
would command. Thousands of
acres have been thus bought by men
who intended to strip off the timber,
or by others who intended to hold
for future speculation, the sellers re
ceiving an insignificant sum, which,
if held on to, would in time have
brought them ten times the amount
they received or made a valuable in
heritance for their children. This
thing is going on today and the
lumber seeker is abroad spying out
the land and putting oe dollar in
where he kuows he will get a hun
dred back They watch tfce cqn
ptruption qf railroads, and, tjie rai
foad in prospect with reasonable
probability pf being built in the
near future, then they go on their
prospecting tours and quietly select
the properties which strike their
fancy and buy at their town figures.
And so with the iron properties
and other minerals, some of which
can be bought today for a less price
per acre than they can per yard tin
years from now, because the rail
roads are pointing into them, which
will give them a value in compari-
VOL. III. NO. 9.
son with which the price set upon
them now is as nothing. We know
the country of which we speak, we
have been watching its progress and
development for twenty-five years,
we know something of its resources
and of its possibilities, aud we feel
as confident of what we are here
writing as we do that the Cape Fear
river will continue to flow into the
ocean.
We do not believe in the dog in
the manger policy, but we do not
like to see our people throw away
treasures for little or nothing, nor
barter for a song what may become
a source of generous income to them,
or a rich legacy to their children.
ContrntloBiil rbat.
News and Observer.
Unless somebody slips up in their
calculations, there will be several
changes in the delegations in the
next Congress. The Farmers Alliance
shows its head about in spots and is
a confusing factor in Congressional
politics when the incumbents at
tempt to figure out their nomination.
John Henderson, who has now be
come an influential member aud is
on the open road to get usefulness,
has an Alliance man in his path,
farmer and ex-Speaker Leazer, of
Iredell county, who is the talked of
Alliance candidate for Congress. The
district would lose heavily in the
exchange, and for the reason that
Leazer will be a new man a long
time. Some think that Cowles and
Rowland will be succeeded by far
mer candidates, Graham possibly in
Cowles' district and Alexander in
Rowland's district. McClammy, it
is understood, will be supported by
the Alliance for renomination. It
will be either Ewart or Vance in the
9th district. They are both mem
bers of the State Alliance. Polk is
not a candidate in Bunn's district,
and the statement is authorized that
he will not be. Skinner the only
Tom Skinuer, whose pcuetration of
the future saw a second Chicago at
Cumberland Gap, and naturally vot
ed to hold the World's Fair at that
place seems to enjoy the distinc
tion of being let alone, but he is a
man who cannot be taken by sur
prise. If Janis was nominated to
morrow, Skinner wouldn't know
what hit him, and wouldn't give a
fig to know either. He is a true
man, and a good representative. He
was put on Indian affairs because he
was supposed to know more about
Indians than rivers and harbors
representing as he does a coast dis
trict. He i3 also a member of the
committee on "Alchoholic and Li
quor Traffic." He is the only man
ou the committee who doesn't know
brandy from whisky, and low wines
from high wines. As a sampler,
consequently, he is a prodigous fail
ure, and opportunities that might be
invaluable to a great many of his
constituents are wholly lost on Skin
ner. In the fifth district the Alliance
will either have a candidate or sup
port a man who is known to be
friendly to its interests, who is not a
lawyer or banker. All the talk in
this direction points unmistakably
to"Baldy" Williams, of Granville.
If this be true, and it looks very
much that way, the question, "Who
can beat Bower," is answered.
A more important matter still, is
the United States Senatorship. Vance
will be re-elected if the Alliance does
not prevent it. The indications are
that he will get that support. He
has always been the choice of the
farmers of North Carolina, and he
has been given to understand that
they still appreciate his great worth
and devotion to principle. Of all the
farmers in the Senate, he was se
lected to introduce the agricultural
depository bill, which is the offspring
of the National Alliance, and which
is regarded by that organization as
test legislation. It begins the fight
against the National Bank and Rail
road monopolies. The House and
Senate will both have an opiortuni
ty to make a record on it The Al
liance has determined to push the
measure to a vote. The first hear
ing will be had about April, when
President Polk will address the Sen
ate committee on agriculture. The
next State legislature, it is said, will
show a large Alliance majority in
both, brances, and bo far as can now
be sepn &nce wjll be the choice of
that element. It is rule or to be
ruined with the farmers now, as they
see it, and if the protection of their
interests involves politics, they must
either go into politics or go to pieces.
There are stirring tinus ahead, nn
less all the signs are misleading.
J. B. II.
The Congressmen who shirks hi 4
voting duty when sorely needed bv
his party should be labored with by
his constituents, aud dropped from
the Ust of candidates tor re-election.
A Noble Tribal.
The other d&y the legislature of
Mississippi was considering the bill
to appropriate $10,000 to the erec
tion of a Confederate Monument.
Several speeches were made, one of
which is thus reported by the Jack
son Clarion-Ledger of the 27th nit.:
" On my right rose a negro man
of some 60 years of age, one of the
few Republican members in this
pretty solidly Democratic House,
and said in full round tones, " Mr.
Speaker." The Speaker recognized
him with, "The gentleman from
Washington," that being the county
he represented. Immediately a per
fect stillness filled the place, and the
House was all attention. A smile
of anticipated pleasure lighted every
face, and hardly knowing why, I
fell into the prevailing mood.
The colored Republican member,
spe iking on this I ill to appropriate
moneys to erect a monument in
honor cf the Confederate dead, said
something like this :
" Mr. Speaker, I have risen here
in my place to offer a few words on
the bill. I have come from a sick
bed, and was forced to struggle up
here leaning on the arm of a friend.
I stand here in considerable pain.
Perhaps it was not prudent for me
to come. But, sir, I could not rest
easily in my room, sick though I am,
and allow this discussion to pass
without contributing to it a few re
marks of my own. I was sorry to
hear the speech of the young geqtle
mau from Marshall county. I am
sorry that any son of a soldier
should go on record as opposed to
the erection of a monument in honor
of the brave dead. And, sir, I am
convinced that had he seen what I
saw at Seven Pines and in the seven
days' fighting round Richmond, the
battlefields covered with the man
gled forms of those who fought for
their country and their country's
honor, he would not have made that
speech. When the news came that
the South was to be invaded, those
meu went forth to fight for what
they believed, and they made no re
quests for monuments to commem
orate their brave deeds aud holy sac
rifices. But they died, and their
virtues should be remembered. Sir,
I went with them. I, too, wore the
gray, the same color that my master
wore. We staid four long years,
and if that sad war had gone ou till
now I would have been there yet. I
know what it all meant, and under
stand the meaning of my words
when I say that I would have teen
with my countrymen still had the
war continued until this good day.
I want to honor those brave men
meu who died for their convictions.
When my mother died I wa3 a boy.
Who, sir, then acted the part of a
mother to the orphaned slave boy
but my 'old missis?" Were she
living now, or could she speak to
me from those high realms where
are gathered the sainted dead, she
would tell me to vote for this bill
And, sir. I shall vote for it I want
it known to all the world that my
vote 16 given in favor of the bill to
erect a monument in honor of the
brave Confederate dead."
The House burst into rapturous
and prolonged applause. The bill
was put upon its passage and was
carried bj a good majority. Every
colored member voted "aye."
The name of the negro, who,
though emancipated by the Confed
erate iauure, ana ltepubucan in
politics, voted for the bill, is J. F.
Harris, of Washington county, Miss,
Thing That Tickle tbe landmark.
Statesville Landmark.
To see a man look in a horse's
mouth and then pretend to know
how old he is.
To hear every fellow who catches
cold, declare he has the grip.
lo hear a man talk about eating
"a check" when he mean3 a snack a
or a lunch.
To hear a rooster who came here
without any seat in his breeches,
and is now pretty well off, decry
Statesville.
To hear a republican express his
private opinion about things.
To see a fellow who is loaded to
the back teeth, walking about under
the delusion that nobody knows b,e
is hauling.
fo note the severe and disdainful
expressions of the beat whose paper
has been stopped because he wouldn't
pay for it
To hear one of the high-toners
say "keenen" when he means qui
nine.
To see a small mule bitched to 1
large top buggy.
"Is it a crime to be a woman ?"
said the pretty agitator. "If it is.
it's a very capital crime," rejoined a
gallant auditor. Munsey's Weekly,
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1890.
ttOO-Year Club.
We have before us a novel circu
lar, handed us by a friend. It sets
forth an explanation of what is
called the " Ralston 200-year Club,
or How to Live Two Centuries."
Tbe advocates of this society claim
to have methods of treatment which
will enable men to prolong their
lives for 200 years. From this cir
cular we copy the following predic
tions :
" The closing decade of the nine
teenth century is pregnant with the
wonders of the twentieth.
Withiu the next 290 years we shall
crojs the ocean iu a day.
Within the uext200 years we shall
send letters from Boston to San
Francisco in an hour.
Within the next 200 years the air
will be navigated by ships, moving
with great velocity over our heads.
Within the next 200 years persons
will travel from New York to Chi
cago in two hours.
Within the next 200 years fire will
not be known nor needed for cook-
ng or heating purposes.
Within the next 200 years every
monarchy on the face of the earth
will be wiped out of existence.
Within the next 200 years the
world will be governed by an Inter
national Congress ; people will speak
in one universal language, and the
earth will be entirely rid of the
heathen and barbarous nations.
While it is true that these predic
tions cannot be verified as facts, the
portents of the times point unmis
takably to their fulfilment In the
ight of past experiences no person
is sate in denying the greatness of
the future. The mighty trend of
time moves toward the sudden up
lifting of the world jinto a super
terrestrial existence. The develop
ment of man is ripe for communica
tion with the beings on the planet?.
Such vast leaps in the progress of
events as have marked the last fifty
years cannot continue much louger
without elevating us beyond the
bounds of earth itself."
According to the above quotations
the millenium will be here in the
next 200 years I
Davy Crockett's Canimand.
Baltimore&n.
In Jackson's campaign of 1S12
originated the world-wide motto,
" Be Eure you are right and then go
ahead." The fact was given me
personally by Gen. Win. Moore in
these words: " I was a captain but
a very young man, in that command.
Divy Crockett was in my company
quite young and awkward. 1 had
trouble with my men, and told them
would go and lay my com
plaints before tbe General. I did
so. and young Crockett, officiously
went along. When I had stated my
case tne uenerai sum: "captain,
don't make any orders without need
ing them, and then execute them,
no matter what it costs."
Returning to camp, the boys want
ed to know what the General said.
when Davy Crockett, with a big
laugh, Baid, " The General told the
Captain to be sure he is right and
theu go ahead." General Moore in
formed me that the next day Crock
ett's words were in the mouth of
every soldier in the regiment, and
they were uted all through the cam
paign. " lie sure you are rigm and
then go ahead " is a common saying
now wherever the English language
is spoken.
The Wire are Harmless.
New York Ileraldt
"Mr. Smith," said the electric
light manager to his foreman, " we
want some men to testify to the ab
solute harmlessuess of the electric
light current used by us; you might
ask Roberts."
Foreman : " He was killed while
fixing a wire last night"
"Well, Jackson will do then."
" He accidentally grounded
wrong wire last week and is scarcely
expected to live, sir."
" Such awkwardness. Send Wil
hams."
"Sorry, sir; but he was paralyzed
while fixing an electric lamp pu
Thursday."
'.' Really it's most annoying. Em
ploy sorn'e new men at once j send
them to testify to the. committee be
fore they have time to get them
selves killed."
A man of Morgan county, Ohio,
has a cat which is known by the
neighbors as "solar spectrum.'
From the tip of its tail to the end
of its nose there are distributed all
the colors of the rainbow. Its nose
shines like a carbuncle and there are
several shades of violet on the fore
legs. it, 1
Cronee Alliance, in Georgia, has
expelled a member for refusing to
pay a security debt
America Abroad.
Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Daniel March, of Massachu
setts, who has been traveling exten
sively in oriental countries, says :
I saw advertisements for the sale
of the Waterbnrv watch filling
a
whole columns in newspapers and
large spaces ou the outer walls of
buildings in all the great cities of
India. I heard the hum of the
America sewing machine in the by
ways and broad streets of Bombay
and Calcutta and Rangoon. I saw
American lamps for burning Ameri
can petroleum hawked about the
streets on wheelbarrows for sale in
Yokohama and Tokyo and Shanghai.
I heard the clatter of the American
typewriter in Chefu and Tientsin
and Swatow and Aiutab. I heard
American dentistry praised as the
beat in the world, and I traveled
with an Ame.ican dentist who was
on his way to practice his profession
in the City of Peking. I afterward
received his printed circular an
nouncing his arrival iu the great
imperial city, and his readiness to
extract the molars of mandarins or
fill the cavities of Coufucianists in
the most approved style of Ameri
can art.
I was glad when I saw American
tram-cars running in the streets of
Tokyo, ard the American wind mill
pumping water on the Bluffs of
Yokohama. I was clad when I
heard the click of Connecticut
clocks keeping good time for Ori
entals who are always behind. Cal
ifornia canned fruits and Oregon
salmon and Boston baked beans in
hotels all over the east made me feel
that home was not so very far away,
and that the time was fast coming
when one might compass the globe
and find himself at home and among
his own people, and hearing the fa
miliar sounds of his mother tongue
all the way. And the fact that
America is so often represented a
the east by the homely articles of
practical and every-day use did not
make me wish that my country had
more works of fine art, or more ruins
and traditions of ancient time.
The Bartlett pear and the Jersey
peacn ana me uamson plum were
t tit r -m
introduced into China by a mission
ary, who whs the son of an American
farmer. When a boy he learned to
break colts and plant trees and hold
the plow in Western New York.
He went to China to plant the Tre
of Life, where the thorns and briers
of superstition and iguorance bad
usurped the ground for ages. When
I saw him picking fruit from trees
and vines which he had imported
aud planted with his own hands in
his garden, and when I rode with
him through the streets of Chefu
on a wheelbarrow of his own mak
ing, I thought him a good illustra
tion of the typical American who
lives in all climates, masters all
trades and gives an inspiration of
hope to all people. The Japanese
jinrikisha, which runs in every city
and country road of Japan, is the
invention of an American missionary
whose salary failed him in the time
of war, and who was obliged to turn
his hand to irtechanical work for
awhile for the means of living. The
Japanese persimmon, which grows
in great abundance and makes de
licious fruit in California, was intro
duced by an American missionary
who was out of health, and who
went to California to recover. He
made $13,000 out of persimmon
planting, and then, having recovered
his health, he went back to his
chosen work in Japan. The art of
decorating pottery and painting
scenes and working wonderfully in
ivory has been in China for 2,000
years. And the people still lived in
mud houses, children went naked,
and their parents worshipped the
spirits of the air and the dragons of
the deep; women dug up the field
for planting instead of turning the
soil with the plow ; men pulled grain
up by the roots instead of reaping it
with sickles or mowing it. with
scythes ; children learned the ways
of their fathers, and plodded on in
the journey pf life under the same
weary load of ignorance and super
stition from generation to genera
tion. Christianity comes bringiug
first the kingdom of heaven, and, as
fast as that is received, all useful
and practical arts aud occupations
follow in its train. Homes are
brightened and beautified, minds are
enlightened, hearts are cheered, and
the people look up as if they saw
the day of redemption from the
bondage of ages drawing nigh,
Mr. Bilyea, who is a professional
fruit man says that those fruit trees
which were in bloom during the re
cent frost are all killed. He says it
will be an advantage to those trees j
which bad not bloomed, as it woulAi
throw them back s little. '
General Lee's Stnlue.
Richmond Dispatch.
The bronze equestrian statue of
General Lee, which is the work of
the well-known Parisian sculptor,
Antonia Merrier, was delivered over
today to Colonel Burgoyne, repre
senting the State of Virginia. lie
has just arrived in Paris. In com
pany with Colonel Burgoyne and
M. Mercier he visited the attliers of
Thiebaelt Friere3, where the statue
is now stauding and where it will
remain on exhibition for three days,
preparatory to being shipped to
America.
"Splendid! splendid!" was the
exclamation of the Southerner as he
looked for the first time upon the
majestic features of the great com
mander. The likeness is perfect
and everything about the statue is
true to life. The sword the General
carries is an exact representation of
the original; his boots rest in the
stirrups, entering very slightly.
The statue weighs about eight
tons. It wa3 cast in eight sections,
the largest being the horse's body,
which alone weighs 4,000. The
casting ou that section was a most
difficult and delicate operation, and
the statement that the statue had
been cast in eight pieces seemed
scarcely credible, so perfect had the
joints been made. The date fixed
for unveiling is May 29. Col. Bur
goyne invited M. Mercier to be
present on the occasion and the
sculptor said it would give him sin
cere pleasure to accept the invitation.
A Navel Proeet.
Scientific American.
When it was stated some weeks
since in the newspapers that the
building of a milk pipe from a
point in New York State to New
York city was projected there was a
rather general smile, and the matter
was treated as a joke. The projec
tors were however, in sober earnest
A company, with a capital of
$500,000 has it ia announced, been
formed at Middleton, N, Y., for the
purpose pf constructing such a line.
The proposed method of forwarding
the milk is in cylindical tin cans
surrounded and propelled by water,
and the promoters of the scheme as
sert that the time of transportation
for a distance of 100 miles will not
exceed an hour, while the profit will
be about one cent a gallon. Fire
and Water thinks if this sort of
thing goes on, we need not be sur
prised ere long to find New York
the converging point not only of
oil, natural gas and milk pipe lines,
but of whiskey ducts from the blue
grass regions, and beer ducts from
Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee.
The pipe manufacturs may feel
cheerful at the prospect before them.
Cloves or Human Nkln.
Philadelphia Record. .
Gloves which are sold as kid are
often made of human 6kin," said
Dr. Mark L. Nardyz, the Greek
Dhvsician. of Philadelphia, the
other day. "The 6kin on the beast,
continued the physician, "is soft and
pliable, and may be used in the
making of gloves. When people
buy gloves they never stop to ques
tion about the material of which
they are made. The shop-keeper
himself may be in ignorance, and
the purchaser has no means of as
certaining whether the material is
human skin or not The fact i3,
the tanning of the human skin is
extremely carried on in France and
Switzerland. The product is manu
factured into gloves, and these are
imported into this country. Thus
you see, a person may oe wearing
part of a distant relative s body and
not know it
Then the doctor drew from a
drawer a brand new pair of gloves.
"There, he said, "is a fine article
made from the skin of a child. As
the hide of a kid compares with that
of a goat, so, of course, does the
skin of a child compare with that
p,f an adult, and it is much sought
for glove purposes."
Wenr From a Newspaper OfHc.
Mirror,
In 1873 a rather mature looking
young man was employed in the
Secretary's office of the United
States Senate. He was under thirty
years of age, but close study and
hard newspaper .work had made him
look older. He was a quiet, digni
fied man and was known as "Gil"
Pierce among his intimate friends.
His duties as Assistant Journal
Clerk threw him in contact with the
Senators and he made many friends
among them. Later on he joined
the editorial staff of the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. President appointed
him Governor of" Dakota TerrUwy.
He will be in Washington again in
a few days, this, time as the newly
elected United States Senator from
the State of North Dakota,
WHOLE NO. 113.
The Snb-Treaanrjr In Colonial Times.
News and Observer.
Referring to the warehouse prop,
osition of the Farmers' Alliance,
called the sub-treasury plan, it may
not be unteresting to recall that we
here in North Carolina had a similar
arrangement in colonial times.
Parliament would not allow the
Province to issue enough paper
currency to answer the needs of
the people, and to relieve the
stringency of the money market,
the legislature established govern
ment warehouses, and bonded in
spectors were appointed to inspect
certain farm products and naval
stores intended for shipment After
inspection and branding, certificates
were given of their deposit in the
warehouse, and for certain of the
commodities so stored. The inspec
tor gava "his notes, according to a
fixed valuation of the articles,
which notes were legal tender for
private and public dues. And thus
the people were to some extent sup
plied with a local currency.
These warehouses were numerous
in the Albermarle section and eas
tern part of the Province, and were
located at the landingj where snch
commodities could be conveniently
held for shipment The only one
in the West was at Campbellton,
now Fayettcville, and the absence of
such facilities for the western part
of the Province was one of the
grievances that led to the disaffected
condition cf the western folks which
eventually culminated in the Regu
lation movement Without doubt
tLe leading element in that whole
affair was the scarcity of currency,
and while the situation in the eas
tern counties was releived by the is
sue of Inspector's notes on deposits
iu warehouses, the western counties
suffered greatly for the want of a
circulating medium. Recalling this
system in use among us more than
a century ago, it is not devoid of in
terest to observe how similar causes
have led to a revival of the idef ,
which is now sought to be applied
to the whole country, although then
restricted to this colony alone.
There seems to be ""nothing new
under the sun."
X Trne Bills Against tbe Berrler
Lynchers.
Stte8ville Landmark.
Davidson Superior Court was in
session at Lexington last week. The
persons who were bound over last
fall at the preliminary investigation
into the lynching of Robert berrier
for the shooting of his mother-in-law,
were presented to the grand jury
by Solicitor Long, who sent with the
bills the names of about thirty wit
nesses. Some of the witnesses were
examined and the grand jury return
ed no true bills in all the cases. Aud
so ends the matter. But the pro
ceedings taken in this case will be
apt to result in good. These defend
ants have been put to trouble, loss
of time and the expense of employ
ing counsel, and have been in some
jeopardy. The next lynching party
that starts out in Uavidson or any
of the surrounding counties will be
apt to think tice. Though hand
joined in hand and singing psalms
around the victim, the murderers
have not gone unrebuked.
At burke Superior Court last week
Solicitor Bower sent bills against
parties suspected of having been en
gaged in the lynching of the white
man and the negro at Morganton
last September, and these were re
turned as were those at Lexington;
not true bills.
A Dade In the Flney Woods.
State Chronicle
A prominent lumberman in Moore
county tells me that some days ago
there was a fire in the lumber dis
trict The dwelling house was burn
inff ranidlv when the alarm was
0 A r
given. Men and wemen hastily ran
out of the building, to save their
lives, scantily attired. After they
had escaped, the gentleman who
owned the house looked back and
saw a young man who was visiting
at the house standing before the
mirror deliberately dressing himself
as if the house was not on fire. The
only light he had was that of the
burning house. He was fully at
tired when he did emerge, with the
exception of his cravat He looked
as if he owed an apology to the
scantily attired ladies forjnot having
that article properly adjusted..
A dnde will be a dude, and neither
fire nor cold nor rain nor anything
else can change him.
At the Naval Academy at Annap
oU a Japanese student nearly killed
a man who had lied about him.. It
was a Jap he went for. Has he
this soon learned the Southern way
of dealing with an enemy ?
IN THE
NEATEST MAjYjYEB
AND AT
THE LOWEST HATES.
"ot All Gold That Glider.
Kingston, N. Y., March 8.
James II. Badeau is the latest vic
tim of gold brick swindle. He is a
leading farmer of Greene countv.
Two weeks ago a well-dressed stran
ger appeared at the Badeau resideuee
and claimed to be a distant relative
of Badeau. He cave his name as
Benson and said he was tracing up
the Badeau family records. Badeau
invited Benson to spend a couple of
weeks at his home and the invitation
was accepted. On Saturday last as
Badeau and Benson were walking
along a country road, near a strip of
woods, a' man disguised as an Indian
approached them. He muttered
some unintelligible lingo, and pre
tended to be hungiy. Benson told
Badeau that he could converse with
the Indian in his own language.
The two entered into conversation,
and then Benson tald the farmer
that the Indian had ruu away from
Arizona with a chunk of gold, aud
was on his way to New York to sell
it He wanted $3,500 for the gold.
Benson had only a few hundred dol
lars, but he appeared anxious to
speculate. He and Badeau agreed
to have the gold tested, and if it
was worth more than the Indian
wanted for it the farmer was to draw
the money from the bank to buy it
At Benson's suggestion they came
to Kingston, where an alleged Uni
ted States assayer was stopping at
s Eagle Hotel. This man said
the gold was worth $5,000. Badeau
drew $3,500, paid it over to the In
dian and took possession of the brick.
Benson disappeared next day, and
Badeau ha3 just discovered the
truth of the old adage that "all is
not gold that glitters." The police
were today notified of the swindle.
The accomplice who was intro
duced as the United States assayer
registered at the hotel as L. T. Slo-
cum, 01 JNew iorK.
An Old Farmer's Advice.
This is the advice cf an old man who
tilled thesoil for forty years:
I am an old man upwards of three
1 !
score years, during two score or
which I have been a tiller of the soil.
I cannot say that I am now, but I
have all that I need, do not owe a
dollar, have given my children a
good education and when I am call
ed away will leave enough to keep
the wolf from my door. My experi
ence taught me that:
One acre of land well prepared
and well cultivated produced more
than two which received only the
same amount used on one.
One cow, horse, mule, sheep cr
hog well fed is more profitable than
two kept on the same amount neces
sary to keep one well.
One acre of clover or grass is worth
two of cotton where no clover or
grass is raised.
No farmer who. buys oats, corn or
wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for
ten years, can keep the sheriff away
from his door in the end.
The farmers who never reads the
papers, sneers at dook iarming ami
improvements, always has a leaky
roof, poor stock, broken down fences
and complains of bad seasons.
The farmer who is above his bus
iness and entrusts it to another to
manage, soon has no business to at
tend to.
Aslor Searches for a Dime.
New York Sun.
The following story illustrating
the Astor philosophy in money mat
ters is told of the late John Jacob
Astor by the man who was the other
actor in the scene. "I went to Mr.
Astor," he said, "with a business
proposition which demanded an in
vestment of $100,000 in his part.
While listening to the plan he kept
groping and feeling about or. 'the
floor for something he seemed to
have dropped. When I had finished
he said readily: 'All right; go on
with the affair; I'll furnish the
money." At that instant a man en
tered to tell him that one of his
buildings had just burned down.
" 'That happens nearly every day,'
he said, with the utmost unconcern,
and went on feeling about with great
care for that something on the car
pet "I finally asked him what he had
dropped.
"'Why,' he eaid, raising his head
and looking as woebegone as a small
boy, I dropped ten cents here a few
moments ago aud I can't find it If
a man's buildings burn down, they
are gone and he can't help it and he
is bound to let them go. But a man
who deliberately throws away ten
cents because he won't take the
trouble to find it is not to be for
given. Johnston County, Ga., Alliance
has eta!bished an Allianeo store at
i Wrights ville.