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Volume XX.
Concord, N. C., Thursday, December 18, 1802.
Number 27.
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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
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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
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"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.
Barns, Cats, Sores, Eczema and Piles,
disappear qoickly under it's soothing
effect. 25c, at Fetxer's Drag Store.
IPM(o)lFlJ7j
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inner. Wrcrj feeding U
T h cy? ;M i kU t c f mtict Vsss.pt
hit feed hh coTsri ta gvt
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the tiuni Mfk, Kt hcrtt to
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IU;t how si ut the thiUrtrn?'
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