THE TIMES - IEECMC5H0 VffiaT TIKES STEAM BOOK AND JOB OFFICE e kee? ca bati a foil rVock of LETTER HEADS,. NOTE HEADS, STATE MENTS, bil jods, EXVEL- C?ESS TAGS, YiSnK3 CARDS WED KNS IHYfTATKfS'S, ETC, ETC GpOD PRINTING ALWAYS PAYS UTitutNto tn itrt. SLOOa, Yezr.la Adrzzct. 1 Volume XX. Concord, N. C., Thursday, December 18, 1802. Number 27. I I I I I I I I J - r f I . I XX If A I I Jill V f I I IV ' f f V jl rue, vajivajmjlj i nviJii5o - " ' " ' " . " w " ' - -' ' " ' ' ' i : - . - " ' ' fsm ""i'' niilwi i.i. i 'I f if v . m. f Hisciaas are calling attentioa to the fact that inSiienia or grip has come to star. la the largw ciues there has been a niarte-j increase in diseases affecting Use orjraas of res-pi ration, which increase is attributed to the prevalence of infin enxa. Persons bo are recoetiag frotn grip er infisenza are in a weak condition and peculiar! liable to pulmonary dis " "ease. - : Dr. Kerce's Golden Medical Discovery cares coughs bronchitis, lung "tremble an-i other diseases of the organs of res piratkm. Itr is the best-tonic medicine for those whose strength and vitality have been exhausted by aa attack of trip. 'It puriie the blood, cleansing it of ' the potsoaaoos acctnnnlations which breed aisd feed disease. It gives creased ac tivity to the blood-making' glands, and so increases xbe snpply of pare blood, rich wiih the red corpuscles of wltti for toot 'Go5de Medical Din err." wrtjy Mrs. E. A. Bender, ot Keeae. CasiartsCoL, Oiiia. We Hare born asms it a asu'.T diciae Corioare Uxu fomr nmra. A a ctTcei i-Bie&T- aad baod-pariaer there it twti ca hetttr. asd wAer Mi the rrrp Dr. jlerce Gopea Mniical DiscontT is osl the Tig'in. medjelse far a compete tnoi; apt. Accept no sabstttite for "Golden Med ical DiscorerT. There is nothing "jnst as good- for dtsfases of the stomach, blood, and langs. The slng0sh User is made active bv the tise of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant PeHeti FROFESSICFSL CARD?. DR. H. C. HERRING. DENTIST Is do on the gromid &or of the Utaker cotrcoss. ir. c. Dr. W. Houston Dentist, oscoaio.st. c'; 1 prepared to do aS kinds of dentaj work tn ae moft apprcTed mincer. O See over JohnsoQ Drug Store. 1 Residence "Phone 11. U-Sce 'Phone 42. LI T, HARTS ELL,. r: AttDpneHt-Lai, CONCOED, HDBTH CASOUHa. Proaipt attention riven to all bastaess OStx in Morris building, opposite the court house, Drs. Lilly & Walker, oT-r tbelr professional serrices to th clti x -us of Coocond aad surroon&ins country. Ci.il ppotaptiy atteade day or nieht. w, ;. atosreoiTKBT. . IJCKOBOWKLT MOITGOMEST 4 CHOWELL, ittoniejs cd CoasssIors-at-Lii, As-partners, will practioe law tn Cabarma. FljtniT and adjoinios eoonties. to the Supe rior and Supreme "otirta o I the State and in the Federal Coorts. OSce ia court hoase. " Parties desiring to lend moDey ean leave tt with ex or pta-e it Lu Concord National Bank for us, and we wlil (eiid it on geod real es tate seenritr free of charge to the depositor. We maie ttxjronrh examination of title to lands oered as security for loans. Moriz&f es foreclosed withont expense to owners of sjim . The Tourist Season . - - . - .. Opens with the Month of June, AXD THE 7 SOUTHERN RAILWAY announces the sale of - Snimmr Eicnision Mets Fki M SilisrrPfiiil. To the deUsttfal Eesorte locate 1 on : and reached Tia its ijnes. These tickets hear final limit October 31, 1902. That section of Krth Carolina known as the "THE LAND Or THE SKY," AXD THE " SAPPHIRE COUNTRY," I partKmiarJy attraetife to those in search of mountain resorts, where the air Is ever - Kii and iuvytoratiner, and where accommo 4a i Sons caa lie had ejtner at tne tointortabie aud eil kept boardJuff houses or the more expensive and ap-to-date hotels. ADOITIOXAL $LEE?IXG CAU5. Piat-ed !n Sereice f torn VarJoa Points to I'rlncspai liort&, tima aSording. GREATLY IMPKOTED FACILITIES Fcr reachins those Points. Partleaiar attention is directed to the gant UmiDg Cur -rvjce on principal through trains Soi,thprn Kail war has Inst Usaed Its hand some Kesort Folder, dest-riptireof the many deUa-hffol resort along tne line or lis roaa. 1 his' folder also gives the names of proprie tt.ru at hT-is and boardins houses and num- -r of truesL-ithey can accommodate. -Copy can he bad upon application to any boatnern Hallway Agent. : " W A TT-ISK. S.H. HARDWICK. Pass. Traffic Mfc-r. : Gei H Pass. Agent. j Washington D. C . r AGENTS WANTED. i jfr nv T. TJKWITT TALMAGE. by his son, liev. Frank DeWltt TaUnae and asso ciate editors of cnnsiidn nenua. uoiy wu endorsed by Tlmage family- Enormous proflt for aeents who aet oofckly. Ontnt ten cents. Write immediately Clark & Co.. 5. Uh tt-, Philadelphia, Pa- Mention this paper. . .- ' " - TtT WAWLJIK.U.V EXCH15GK. A rr 1 -Kwterwrt at Kaaterm hiw ! Tlrrlvln. ?peial to Baltimore wua. Osascocic, Va., Dec 12 A ebxKt time ago The San published i Special dispatch from Onancock, Yju, staling that the Eiitern Shore of Virginia Pro dace Exchange had jtut declared a dividend of 70 per cent. The fact thai a concern-away from a large city coald do a thing like that caused widespread attention and has led to an inTestiga tion of the busineas methods of the ex change and cf the men who ran it. These men, like the goodtlhey handle, are prod ucts of the Eastern Shore, and are proud of it. The men whom they represent are their friends and neigh bors, . farmers of " Acoomac and Northampton counties, and their ex change is one of the best possible ex amples of a farmer's organization.' It grew oat of a disastrous condition of affairs. It reversed these conditions and brought prosperity in the place of depression, and showed that in spite of all the statements to the contrary farm ers could organize for the protection of their interests, stick together in spite of of discouragements and maintain their organisation. The territory which the exchange claims for its own are the two Virginia counties at the end of the Maryland Delaware peninsula Acoomac and Northampton. ; The population accord ing to the last census was 46,340 that ot Acoomac being S2.770 and of Northampton 13,570. It is 75 miles long, an average of 12 wide, and con tains 900 square miles. Its population is almost entirely American, and until about 30 years ago the two counties were without railroad com mnnication with the outside world. It has great resources and natural advantages in its thousands of acres of oyster and fishing grounds, on both the sea and the bay side, and in its fertile lands. Many inlets and creeks make it from the At lantic and the Chesapeake down both coast lines. Id these hundreds of thousands cf t-usbels of oysters have been planted, from which millions of fish are caught annually. These in dustries of themselves support a large part of the population. . . i The exchange is a combination of about 1,500 of the most successful fanners of Acoomac and Northampton counties. - By special provision of its by-laws, which permit tenants of stock holders to market their products through the exchange, it has the pat ronage of about 2,500 growers. Its organization was brought about by the ruinous prices at which the staple crop of the peninsula Irish and sweet poLatoes-T had sold for several years ' prior to the organization of the exchange. ' The thoughtful realized that some thing had to be done to better the con dition of the track growers, whose sac cess or failure so titally touched the in terests of all business men of the lower peninsula. The condition of the farmer was deplorable. His potatoes wtre llicg at 25 cents a barrel, and he was in a quacdary as to how he was to pay his rent, his fertilizer bills and to clothe and feed bis family. A dis cussion of these matters resulted in the holding of a mass-meeting at Onley, Ya., in August, 1SS9, at which a com mittee of 12 influential dozens was ap pointed to recommend some plan of marketing the products of the farms. This committee, after several meet ings, drafted a working plan for an ex change to be run on Mr. Morgan's ' 'com munity-of -interests" plan. This report was unanimously adopted by a convention of farmers and busi ness men which met at Onley in Octo ber of the same year. Its chief officers were elected and a solicitor pot in the field -r to secure subscriptions' to stock and to organize the farmers into separ ate local divisions. Thus was put into motion the force which has practically revolutionized affairs of the farmers on the Eastern Shore and has accom ptiehed results of which the most san guine never dreamed. A charter was secured from the Vir ginia Legislature in January of 1900, and by the 20th of June in that year, when the crop of Irish potatoes was ready to be marketed, 14 local organi zations .Had been completed and were in "working shape. . A general outline of the plan is as follows: The farmers and those inter ested in the movement at one or more shipping points are grouped together under what are known as local orgam zations. These respective organizations elect their local board of directors, a local agent ad a local inspector and at the same time one of their directors is designated as a member of the gen eral board of directors. The general board of directors is thus composed of as msnv directors as there is local or ganizations, which now number 28. They cover 40 shipping points, these ' being nearly all the railroad stations and bayside steamboat wharves. The Eastern Shore is now well sup plied with transportation facilities. The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad runs directly through the.cen ter of the peninsula and provides trans portation for produce from the seaside and immediate center, and northern part of Accomac, which now has no steamboat line. Produce shirked br this road usually goes directly to the Eastern markets Boston, New York, Providence and Philadelphia. The Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic BaSroad Company runs a line of steam ers from aS the leading shipping points on the bayside to Baltimore every day. of the week. The produce for the Western markets Chicago, Gnonatati, Cleveland and 6l Louia-4s usuallv shipped by this route, about 24 hours being gained thereby. AH product shipped by this route are consigned to the order of tie general manager and are shipped out from Baltimore the next morning. The general manager, Mr. William A. Burton, is the execu tive of the exchange, and he keeps in close touch with all shipments, seeing that no market is overstocked. As a result of this policy the prices to farm ers have steadily increased, and they are now able to sell their goods at a profit instead of a loss. The general exchange is located at Onley, which is a central point between Cape Charles, on the south, the termi nus of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad, and New Church, on the line between Virginia and Mary land at the north. The general office is connected by a special -private tele phone system with all the local offices- and shipping points, so that the large business can be conducted with system and proper dispatch. The growers haul their products to the depots and wharves, and after they are properly inspected by the local in spectors and branded according to their merits they are then turned over to the local agent, who makes a record of each shipper's goods and then makes his report to the general office by mani fest sheets giving shipper's name and quantity of goods and the car's num ber in which they are loaded. The agent then ships them on consignment or on orders from consumers or jobbers, as he is directed by the general office. On the inspection system and proper grading of goods handled by the ex change has largely hinged the success of the movement. This has been ap preciated by the trade as a great im provement over the old slipshod method of packing. The exchange has one or more sell ing agents in the great distributing markets, such as Baltimore, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Providence, who look after the goods consigned to these markets, and when sales are made report the prices received for each ship pers products to the general office and make returns fcr these consigned goods direct to the growers. The great idea, however, of the movement is to sell the goods on an "I. p.'b." basis that is, on orders eent direct to the exchange, the goods being sold when delivered to railroad or steamer and by judicious distribution prevent any market from becoming oversupplied and thus break prices. By this system of packing and the wide advertisement of its brand the consignment of potatoes on a commis sion basia is almost a thing of the past. Fully 95 per cent, of the entire output this year was sold free on board at shipping point. f The growth ef the exchange has been steady from its organization. The number of members is increasing and more produce is put in its hands to sell. The first year pf its organization W&3 a trial year, and the profits and the cost of management and the 'other ex penses were about equal. . But in 1901 the people had gained confidence on the management and saw the benefits resulting from the proper distribution of products, and a business amounting to about $750,000 was done on a capital of a little over $6,000, each member being compelled to own . one share be fore he is allowed to ship through the exchange That year a dividend of 150 per cent was declared, 50 per cent cash and 100 per cent, in stock. The year 1902 has been the most suceesfcf ul in its history, the business having in creased over 25 per cent, over the pre ceding year, amounting to about $1, 000,000. A dividend of 70 per cent. was declared by the directors this year 20 per cent, cash and 50 per cent, in stock on a capital of over $16,000. The entire business of $1,000,000 a year , is managed by three officers William A. Burton; general manager, Edward E. Miles, assistant general manager, and Alfred J. McMato, secre tary and treasurer and two bookkeep ers and stenographers. All bills and correspondence go out and money is received for the sold goods through the general office. All telegrams are also sent from and received there, and thus it is in dose touch with the conditions of markets all over the country. In UtrJKntJnTi uus -J ; of its goods be made on the various markets and better.: results obtained m&TKeis anu ucuci. icnuic vuuuu. than could possibly be done by leaving the movement of their goods in the bands of individual growers. A special telegraph office is main - tained in the exchange, and nearly $2 000 "was paid to the companies for f.JUVMnC trails filial TMf Vitrn Shore potatoes are sold as far North as Port- lftS:sii avss-a s-ia j - land, Maine, in the United States and many are shipped to Quebec, Montreal and Torosto, Canada; as far West as Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., and aa far Sooth as Anniston and Birnainghaa, Ala. The total number of cars of sweet potatoes, 190 barrels to aa average car, haedkd this year by the exchange was 1,900, and of Irish potatoes 675. Potatoes are not the. only crops handled by the exchange, as thousand of quarts of berries and baskets of peas are slipped through it The exchange's officers are ever on the alert in widening its influence, and are now reaching oat after new batt ues. Next year the exchange iU be a strong competitor of New Jersey for the business of "doable-beaded tweet;" that ia, sweet potatoes packed in double-headed; barrels. Already plat forms and packing sheds have been erected for this method of packing, and it is expected that a large export trade will be worked up. Even now the United States Government buys from the exchange weekly and ships to Lon don, En gland J a small lot of "double headed" Eastern Shore sweets. These potatoes are selected and packed with the greatest care and hare given gen eral satisfaction. Exchange officials think of sending a representative to Europe to in trod ace these potatoes on a more extensive scale. General Manager Burton . this year has many times stopped the farm ers from v digging their sweet potatoes and paid demurrage on cars to allow the market to clear up, but a shipment of 500 barrels weekly on the large liners to Europe would greatly jelp in the distribution. I The advantage of packing sweet po tatoes in double-headed barrels was dis covered by a 'traveling man of the ex change. He was in a large commis sion house in Chicago and noticed some nice sweet potatoes marked "Jersey," and asked the; merchant where he got them; He afterward found out that they w(e Virginia sweets and that the merchant was repackiag them " and shipping them to Minnesota as Jersey sweets in double-headed barrels. The exchange man took the next train for Minnesota and the people of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth told him they would be glad to have the "doable headed sweets1' from the Eastern Shore nfrfyear. j . " The Eastern Shore is alio finding a ready market for; its second crop seed Irish potatoes, which, it is claimed, have been demonstrated to be superior to Northern and Western grown seed. The exchange is helping its growers largely along this line in finding pur chasers for theee seed and" has sold some 10,000 month. barrels within the last The jnaat Backed Oat. Albemakij Dec. 10. Some time ago a young woman operative in one of the cotton mills htre got up a correspon dence with a j young Nebraska farmer though the medium of a matrimonial paper published in Chicago. Photo graphs were exchanged and their letters assumed such an affectionate nature that tLey decided that they would unite their hearts and hands. Accordingly the man in the case made an appoint ment with his lady love, whom he had never seen. jHe arrived here last Fri day but the marriage that was sched uled to take place did not occur. The man on arriving here saw so many girls that he thought so much more likelier and handsomer than the one he had i been corresponding with that he changed his; mind. And as yet no marriage has' taken place, j The wculd- be groom is ' stopping at the boarding house of the would-be bride and they have had several 'confidential talks, but it is giveu out as official that no mar riage will occur. The man is of good appearance and claims to own a farm about 300 miles from Lincoln, Neb. He is still here and as his ticket holds good until Christmas he says he ex pects to stay here until that time, view ing the country. He never saw a cot ton stalk or pine tree until he came to North Carolina. They Pall Together. Deacon Jones I know of three brothers in a neighboring town that would afford excellent material for a sermon ''on the theme of "Brotherly Love.":' :K"rV;:v W Deacon Brown I'll make a note of it. Jeume more about them, deacon. Deacon Jones Well, John, the. eld est, is a physician; Thomas, the second brother, is an undertaker, and William, the youngest is a marb cotter. : A Ctly mistake. Blunders are sometimes very expen- - ots - Xwa n tn iTl v Ivta iroaTalr ism ram rtsnm Qf & 1 never be wron TOa take Dr. King's New life Pills 'for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, j Headache, liver or Bowel troubles. They are i gentle yet thorough. 25c at Fetxer's drug store, r . i Algie The vulgah fellow said I looked like a fool in the pwesence of j hawf a dozen ladies, too. ! ! Jack He shouldn't have1 done that. "There was no necessity for his say- ing a wude thing like that, was thexeP ! "None whatever. He must have t thought the ladies were blind." B1LS. AM AELaata Cotastitatioav Septimo Winner is dead. I eTrt,UkWt afiTil mmmg mommei& kaW.iV! rltm 1 Vkftl tWaS ArKsW wife 1 a at a. heard of him astil the other day, when a brief notice in a New 7 paper at tracted my attention. Fc itiy years he was moaical composer and a writer of songs- lis was the author of many of the sweetest pieces that ever charmed oar hoaaeholda, and yet we never, heard of, him. 1 Fifty years ago my wife osed V) play, "Come Listen to the Mockingbird," and I accompanied her on the flute, and was proud of soy kill. Then there is "What Is Home Without a Mother and "Whispering Hope" and "How Sweet Are the Roaea. lis made over 2,000 musical compositions and published books of instruction for every kind of musical instrument. After the seven days fight before Bkhmood. McOellaa was re moved because of his defeat and Hal leek was pot in his place. This dis pleased the soldiers very much, for they were prood of "Little Mac" and loved him, and so Winner took op their grievance and wrote a song and composed the music, "Give Me Back My Old Commander.'' The air was simple and the words pathetic, and it soon was caught by the army of 80,000 men, and coald be heard for miles along the line and in the camps. It was inspiring and significant and made Stanton mad. He said it was demoral izing and an insolt to General HalWck and must be stopped, and he issoed an order to that effect. Of course, the boys stopped singing in the da j time or oq the march, but away in the dead of the night a whole regiment would break out, "Oh I give us back our old com mander." Then Stanton ordered its publication stopped and threatened to arrest Winner. But Winner had sold the copyright and couldn't stop it A famous singer dared to sing it on the stage in New York city, and she was warned not to do so any more, but she repeated it, and Stanton had to give it dp and let it wear itself ouL, Winner was the winner of that fight, and Stan ton made a fool of himself. Stephen Collins Foster was another composer who was very dear to us in his dsy, and charmed millions with his exquisite melody. Wei old-fashioned people still call upon our children to comfort us with "Old Folks at Home." Uncle Ned," "O, Susannah," "Old Dog Tray," "Nelly Bly" and "My Old Kentucky Home." The royalty on this last piece made him a good sum of money. What would the traveling minstrels have done without his songs? But in his last years he aspired to a higher plan of composition, and wrote such beautiful pieces as "Come Where My Love "lies Dreaming." He was a man of fine culture and familiar with many foreign languages. He, too, is dead and there has no one come to take their places as composers of these sweet fireside songs. Shakespeare says, "The evil that men do Uvea after them. The good is often interred with their . bones." Well, it is often, bat not always. Isaac Watts has been dead one hundred ana fifty years, but his beautif uLhymns and his cradle songs are still familiar to every Christian household- "Hush, my dear, he still and slumber," has soothed to sleep thousands of little chil dren. "Let dogs delight to bark and bite," is the first little speech of child hood, and next comes ''How doth the little busy bee." The hymn books of all Christian churches abound in his beautiful verses, such as "When I Can Read My Titles Clear," "There Is a Land of Pure Delight" and 'While the lamp holds out.to burn, the vilest sin ner may return." These were not in terred. with his bones and will live through the ages, i Sometimes the man or woman who did the good is forgotten, but the good remains. Not one church member in a thousand in this country knows who wrote the Doxology that is sung all over the world, "Fraie God from whom all blessings flow." Thomas Ken has been dead two hundred years, but those four lines will live and doubt less he is in heaven and hears more of his own verse and music than any saint around the throne of God. Shakes peare might have said with more truth. 'The good that men do lives after them." Our venerable Judge Warner went north in his old age to revisit the home of his youth and found the town adorned and - shaded with beautiful elms around the churches and along the sidewalks trees that he planted half a century before and had never seen since he came to Georgia to-teach school. The high tops of these trees seemed to reach the sky and men and women walked and children played un der their shade, bat not a human be ing in that town remembered him or knew who planted those trees. He found one old schoolmate, bat he was blind and in the poor house. Fifty-five years ago when I first visited the Utile town of Borne 1 noticed a good old man by the name of Smith Johnny Smith he was called and he, too, was planting little trees around the church es. He was a lover of ornament and he was doing it without pay, bat not without reward. They grew apace and shad before k &t4, aad kept M growieg oaia they, iao, al moat reached the akr anJ a xia iac gooa Ota sams. IfcU who know who taWrd.thesft who bm&m sy- riff And there is my old friend aad rartaerr Jedf ; Branham, who tot tweaty-flvw year ea bee wcrtieg on that beanuful cemetery oa M;nk Hi3 making new walks aad grading these, laying off lots oq the aew tairrhase, building vas oa the steep slop?, planting trees aad flowers aadia saaay ways craaa&eatiag and bnuatifrieg the aty of the dead. Within a few asore years he wiQ to one ef Its sleep b citi sens and later on another generation wi3 frequent the romantic place and wonder who shaped it into twenty, aad nobody caa teU. Dr, Johnson aaud that every man ought to plant a tree or write a book or do something for the benefit and comfort of those who are to live after he is dead. fOur forefathers did much for as," he said, "and we most pay the debt." Lat week our school girl wanted a Lpeech. He, mother knd I ransacked the books for one that was short and sweet, and we selected choose from. There three or four to Mrs. He- man's beautiful poem on "Death:" '- -Lea res save Uelrtim to fan. Aad Bowers to wlthr at! the north winds kreat.' Then there was part of "The Fisher man's Prayer," by Jean Ingelow, and "The Last Leaf," by Oliver W. Holmes, which was not so solemn and I liked it the best. It just fits a man I know and I never see him bat what I think of those sad and humorous verses. MI itw hla ottos btfor-HU b passed bv door -. And -alB. Ta paring stones rssoand as he totters or the zroond . With his csne And now he walks ths street and looks at Sad and was; And as shakes his feebls Im4 and tt j as if bs said: "Ibey are gose The moay marbles rest on th Upt that Is In their hkmm- And the names be loved to, bear tus been i carved for miny a year ; On the tomb." " j" . Oar old man is in his ninetieth year and has seen trouble. IHe is a tell and stooping and steps short and sure. His friends are all dead, but be goes shod with a long cane and looks hard st you when you stop to greet him and then he tries to smile, if be Knows you. "when he was In his prime r Um pruning knife of Tims Cut him down Not a better man was found by the crier on bis roand . . ' j j Throngti the town;! - ' Bat bow his nose is thle and tt rests npoo his ; chin t Like a a La a. And a crook m tn bis back and a maiancboljr crack Is in his Uogh " Then the poet repents and says: "I know it Is a sin tor me to ait and grin At him here; f But his old-tashionsd bat and bis breeches and all that, Are so queer." 1. And now it becomes; me to anoloeize to the readers of my last letter and tell them that a friend from Augusta has supplied the missing j links in my his tory of the presidents, j Franklin Pierce's mother was Anna Kendrick. ' James Buchanan's mother vas, Eliza beth 8peer. jf; rteniamin iiarnson mother was Elizabeth Irwin. j Millard Film ore's wife, was Abigail Powers. . i Buchanan was the only bachelor president. j And Alfred Irerson was United States senator in 1861 instead of Ben Hill. . j , j' ' ; When I wrote my last letter I was la' boring under some little excitement, for that morning about 4 a. m. the burglars got into oar house and perused the front rooms and hall and upstairs and found nothing they wanted. There t i;-t . i -J t J . 1 i was av iwuw ukui iu uur oeuroom ana they could see my pants from the window, for they hung on a chair near by, and they wanted the money that wasn't in the. pockets. They cut out the lower slat of the blind and un fastened it" and raised the sub, but suddenly got alarmed and departed those coasts, for which I am thankful, for I had no gun or ptstoL "But I dare them come again. My wife never screamed or waked apt Bnx AKP. A.': j . BCVSlllISB lislBICSl. A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble, in your system is ner vousness, sleeplessness, or stomach np sets Electric Bitters will quickly dis member the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regu late the kidneys and Bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. Bon down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish un der its searching and j thorough effect iveness. Electric Bitters is only 50c, and that is returned if it don't give per fect satisfaction. Guaranteed by Fet ter's Drug Store. j - "He's quite a star as an after dinner speaker, isn't hef' "Star? ' He's a regular moon. He becomes brighter the fuller he gets." Success is not sal va ion, but salvation is success. rave some aaat sasscs karrrmss. i$anMMaa WtL ' I left Gekwfathe ts4..t t Js? ft . SW traveled - acMtta est tfe Cwlaaas halted tattg fW asw stSwia aadrsch4 aosae the of thi n&, ie tita for the IWks- ftHef diaaer,. last b ssJ lkWj, I sad aota Utecf diarf 'Waii "l i ThAakfcfivi&x day passed cf euii saach tea far ae bat t was tfct&i fat fos the balance of haaaa&ity jut tm a biatter of , fftHawiple, Bat I am t loot today, and thaakful that I ' J visited the efikf vt the city Utf kfetor today and pall ay Uv a,i walked out of bis offios tost-d. Now comes oa the state and ttjttaty, 1 t4 roll oi my sieve and go to wort t4 meet the tax eoQector again ia a' few days. Happy is the man who pta pay his Uses ia Bartow county - thf jrar, if it does bust him to do so. ivWrnUr the hardest month ia toe year f a fellow to get through naandaUy.i. AU bills are due aad payable that muuih. The banks want yoo to srU,th Uer chants say you must settle; the dor- tors bills to pay; in facC everything must be settled ia December or ; t4 law must be carried over by hi cjieAi tors, r Aad I don't kvt to be c That's a sign a fellow ts crippled of ia firm; it is a sign that ajmetbjog'sj the matter with him. The mercaanu! run the farmers daring the summer sod catch them .about IVeemlw, Sod shoulder them and carry them' oVet into the next year, and dump ' them down andrun them again. ,They chase a farmer half the year and jrte him the balance. They bave.ru4.jtbe farmer until both of them are sUut bellowsed. I heard sv good BarUw county farmer today say that he Jsst mads enough cotton to pay for the picking and guano and had to tairrow the money at the bank to pay iheftner- chants. It is an awful condition of things when cotton pickers snd guano houses get all the cotton. It is not al ways so in Bartow- county," but tuiaj year we have had the shortest cotton crop in the history of th county. The farmers in this section are ta as bad condition as I hsve known them in tea years. ; And yet I spent a few mina'e down town this morning and the town square seemed full of coltoa wagons; the streets and stores full' of peo4e; and things moved on just as if 'every thing was all right. And yet it was right in that crowd that the gentleman, one of our best farmers, said to me, that he had just made enough cotton to pay the pickers and pay for bU guano." More than $100,000 of buildings have been put up at Cartersville this year, and but for that1 fact our merchants would feel the short crop much more than they dp. Has the legislature adjourned T I ( so; when did they adjoumf it is the dull est crowd we ever had in Atlanta called a legislature. It most; be tight down to business, or else it is a nondescript crowd. There have been introduced in the legislature some bills that were very wise and ought to pass. I ani a little surprised and yet much pleased at Governor Terrell's attitude on some questions. I believe I like Governor Terrell as governor better than I aid Joe Terrell as candidate. pTo kick coming from me opto date. I was glad he appointed Brother Warn r Hill aa railroad commissioner. , War ner worked hard for him and deserved the position and will fill it with honor, for I believe Warner Hill is an all 'round good fellow. I see some of the friends tuggetting Our neighbor, John W. Akin, for gov ernor four years hence. There is no better equipped sod qualified man in this state for governor than John Akin. He is safe, sound and soiiJ success every , where Le has been hitched up. Some previous candidates will have to be side-tracked if John Comes in. It is not down on the lie for bint to be governor four years from .. a a a now. it you amn oeuevs me, you ask Joe. But slates bare been busted. I met Major SmitV (BUI Arp) this morning oq the streets.; I wss glad to tee him looking so well, though he told me be spent a very bad.nubt. His new book is in the hands of the publish' rs, I understand, ' now bis biography. I know jt will be rich, rare and racy; and with thousands of bis friends I am eager for the announce ment that tt is out Bill Arp is loved and admired by thousands snd thous ands of people, and nowhere is he loved and admired as he is in bis own town. I leave tomorrow for Pennsylvania Pittsburg and other point; thence the following two week I will be in. Texas. With the hope that a good way through December will be found both for debtors and- creditors, I am yours truly, Bax P. Jose. . A rrfgateaeal Hers, Banning like mad down the street damping the oocapanta. or a hundred other accidents, are every day occur rences. It behooves everybody to have a reliable Salve handy and there's none as good as Bocklea's Arnica Salve. 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