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The Free Press will take its Place nt the head nt tlie list of newspa pers in North fm-olinn. It will be live, progressive, nnd asks for sup port purely upon i!h merit. Thin Hectiou in the centre of the Iihiioiih North. Carolina Frnit Interests, fumed alike for its geuiul eliiniite. JSnccess Comes with Advertising. X Tluit people huvf fnitli in the bus- FREE PRESS. incKH-oriugtug resiius in Hiivrrits ing iuTIIK l'HKL' I'llKSS.w dem onstrated ly its well tilled adver tising columns. SensiWe Business Men Wouldn't continue In 8icHil vns Minis of money in this way year lifter year where no proportionate returns are Keen. Thus c know Hint It Pays to Advertise - pure atmosphere nuil the heuhnir. 2 hciiltli-givjng ozone of the "piney 4 woods" region, and we wish to Advertise it to tbe World; Subscription $t.oo a Year, Cash. D. 0SL1N, Editor and Proprietor. ' THE OLD NORTH STATE FOREVER." SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. NO. 13. VOL. I. HE Southern Pines Sanitarium. Gorner N. H. ftve. and Railroad St. roMU'CTKI) BV : KnIN(H,Al'Ht)N, M, 1 Jloilein Apparatus for Throat Treat ment. Offlce treatment Slower month and upw ds Telephone Ji. B"' WM. LASKER, M. D. OlTItT.OVKK NEWS DKPOT. OFFICE H0UR5 ( to 11 A. ,2 to P.M. Dr. Hugh H. Atkinson. Special attention given to the treat ment of Diseases of tbe Respiratory Tract, Nose, Throat anfl Lnnis. Office at PINEY WOODS INN. toff-Telephone connect ion with tho village Office Moors -m"' J. E. JUDD, D. D. S., Southern Pines, N. C, Offers his professinnal seivices to the people 01 Niuinern nncs aim suiimmuu country. 1-ifOttice over Towell's Furniture Store C7T- HAWES, Dentist, Permanent Location, Southern Pines, - N. Carolina. Office over News Depot. Opposite Ozone Hotel. Southern Pines Bakery. Bread Cuke, Biscuit, and Pies of all kinds baked tiesh every day. Brown Bread and Baked Deans every . . . S.VIT'KDAY . . SOUTHERN PINES BAKERY, W. D. BRUM, Proprietor. Kingston Cottage New House and New Furnishings. New England hoard and lmusekeei.cn!. and pleasant sunny rooms in private f,cn lly. Terms nioderato, Kingston Cottage Is situated In the pleasantest part of SOUTHERN PINKS, across the railroad on the hill amongst the pines. For pleasant and homelike hmrd ni.ib lodging upplv to KINt's f.'l , j Jii'i' "4 '4 - s S ! Keep warm.' Our UNDEKCLO I'll LNli both for ladiei and gentlemen Is ilicliost value fc the money to TieToid . DRESS GOODS n all patterns, ijualiliei and prices, Hats, Shoes, Silks and Rib bons and Dry Goods of all kinds. Huffines & Moore. L. B. GOODRICH, DiAI.EIt IN FINE AND STAPLE GROCERIES, 4 . . . , Makes a Specialty of . . . HEALTH FOODS. . . Bread Baked Fresh Every Day . -Goods delivered to any part of town Fruit, Provisions, Confection ery, and Milk. L. B. GOODRICH. Subscribe for the Only $1.00 a Year WHITHER DRIFTING? ARE Wl- IN THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE GENTILE AGE? Evangelist V. P. Fife Convinced That The Rapture of the Church is Likely to Take Place at Any noment The Second Coming of Christ and Signs That Point Thereto. (Correspondence of Charlotte Observer.) I notice in your editorial of Jan. 17th, "Growing Scepticism as to Im mortality" yon use these words: For some time past the New York Sun has held that there is nt this time a remarkable departure from the old landmarks in religion. This is being evidenced not only by scepti cism and infidelity of the world at !nrge, but also by a decline of faith in The most orthodox branches of the Church itself. In this discussion of immortality the papers lind added evidence of its oft repeated convic tion." The Olisirnr well says the Sun argues convincingly, and its conclusion is a matter for serious consideration. I agree with you fully w hen you say this is a matter for serious consideration. Let us look at our Bibles and see whether we cannot lind why this is the case. Are we nut in t lie days that must precede the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ? I have had the privilege of hearing a great many of the leading Bible teachers of Kuropo and this country for the past tour years, and every one declared, ac- COI'UlUg 1U Wllill I 111 V cull Oliuei nuuni . . ...i. . . ,i i ... ...i from tho Word, that we are in the! closing days of the (ieutilu age, and j that the "rapture" of the Church is! likely to take place at any moment. I Let us see what St. Paul says in re- gard to the days that must precede j the coming ot the i.orn. n iocs. ; 2:l-;l: "Now we beseech you. brethren, i by the coniinir of our Lord Jesus, and i by our gathering together unto Him, ; for that day shall not come unless there be a falling away lirst." Is the world to be converted in tins age. No. Acts, l.V.ltj-li: "He is calling ; out from among the Gentiles a pen- pie for 'His name. After this he j will return and build the tabernacle j of David, which was fallen down. ! that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, j upon w hom my name is cancu. i uc apostle also says in I Tim. 4:1-:.': "Now the spirit speakest expressly that in the latter times some shall depart f l-i .in the faith, giving heed to seduc ing spirits, ami doctrines nf devils, speaking lies ill hypocrisy; having their conscience seared as with a hot l'-on." St. Paul continues in II Tim. "Tills know also, in the last dav-. perilous times shall come when noil shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, iWlhankfiil. unholy, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of Cod. having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away," and 11 :1th verse "Hut evil men and seducers , I shall wax worse and worse, deceiving' Zand being deceived." II Tim. 4:5!-fi: ; lllis Command to Timity, "Preach the jEWord, be instant in 'season, out of jgseasoii; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with ! ?all long suffering and doctrine, for fillhe time will come when they will i Snot endure sound doctrine; but after j Jfjtheir own lusts shall they heap to! themselves teachers, having itching i Incurs: and they shall turn away their; theirs from tho truth, and shall be turn- j 'o I unto fables; but watch thou in all : 'Millings, endure afflictions, do the work j , of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ,i ministry." St. Peter says in II Peter, 1:1(1: "For we have not followed cuu-j jjly devised fables, when we made j known unto you the power and com-1 nig of our Lord Jesus Christ." Ihl-l.'l: lint there were raise propueis aiso among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shnll bring in damnable heresfes, even denying the Lord that bought them, anil bring upon them swift destruction, and ninny shall follow their pernicious way.-.; by rea son of whom the way of truth shall be evil-spoken of, and through eovet ousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you; whose judgment now of a long lime linger eth not, and their damnation slum bereth not." I desire to ask a question; Are wo not in the "days of apostacy?" Are we not in the days of peril? Are we not in days of turmoil, strife, con fusion, not in this country alone but all over the world? Are we not in days when men are departing from the faith once for all delivered to the saints; 11,000,000 adherents of spiril- ualism in the world to-day with" thousands that belieye in Christian Science, and hypnotism and other forms of demouology; thousands that deny the divinity of Christ? Whither are we drifting?' Christ Himself says in Luke, 18:H: "Nevertheless, when the Son of man Cometh shall he lind faith on tho earth?" Do wo believe (iod is able to save our souls? Ho wo believe lie is able to save from the power and dominion of sin? Do we believe Ho is able to save our bodies from sickness in answer to prayer of faith? Jas. fi:l 1-15, with Isa. .M:Fi, margin of new version, with Matt. :ltl; Do we believe in the literal ooniing of our Lord Jesus Christ? I Thes. 4:111-17-18: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with tho voice of an archangel and with the trump of (iod; and the dead in Chi rat shall rise tirst. Then we which arc alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in tho clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord; wherefore comfort one another with these words." Is this a comforting doctrine to professed Christians to-day? I have no doubt I will have some friends that will be sorry that I wrote this article, but, like the grand old Apostle to the Gentiles, who said with humility I must say. "That I must know no man after tho flesh." I write because 1 believe my Master demands it. 1 write to jjet people to stmlv on these lines, I write after praying most earnestly that tho dear Lord vnmlil (itreci. l write ior me irlorv of id v "coinine Kins'," nothing else.' K amieust W. P. Kike. JOSIAH TURNER. An Almost Forgotten and Neglected Hero to Whom North Carolina Owes Everlasting Honor and Gratitude. (0. W. lSlackmtll In News and Observer.) I never expected to ee the day in which North Carolina should need to bo told who losiuh Turner was. But such is the sad fact as evidenced, by a recent utterance of the AVm's aiui Ohscmr. North Carolina owes mora to Joe Turner than to any other man of the post-bellun period", Zeb Vance not excepted, lie was the Patrick Henry nay, more than the Patrick Henry of that pregnant period, for to a pen and tongue that lired the souls of men against wrong and oppression, he added the courage of a hero. When the doors of Federal prisons viiwned for our manhood; when j j(,lili'ii, backed by Federal bayonets, and impelled by Satanic malevolence, against our truest and best, held the Stale in the hollow of his hand; it was Joe Turner, and for a long time Joe Turner alone, that bore tho brunt and with matchless eloquence, in vective, sarcasm and iron resolution and courage, beat back the foe and inspirited his despairing followers. For months, between the halter of i . . p l(hlen Irum-head court martial and the bullets of the mob, his life was not worth a moment's purchase. When many, afterwards held in high honor, were weak-kneed, he stood like a rock. With his old Cult's six- i shooter I have seen him standing 'alone and unaided put his back to a ! tree and defy a sea of carpet-bag. ! scallawag seoundreldom, and their ! negro minions, seeking to take his life or frighten him into silence. ; Hut his courage and genius rose with I the danger, and Huldenism. the great jest peril that has ever menaced the ! State, met its Waterloo, j The war fought and won, white supremacy established, the old war ; rior cast in heroic mould, lacked the tact and suppleness to walk the prim rose oaths of peace. He saw wrong i w here perhaps at lacked those it did not exit and whom probably he !iuiL'ht not to have attacked. Men forgot his great service to tbe State, : ami left him to his bitterness. But a more fearless, heroic soul !than Joe Turner's never animated i mortal clay. If his ways were not j the ways of other men. so much the ! worse "lu many respects for other men. ' The Statf owes to him a debt it 'owes lo tu" Ho- was our uciruG 'champion hi the great struggle for I white supremacy. I wish that the present Legislature, created by and symbolic of this great cause could in some marked and uniipie way, show its honor and respect for this man, but for whom North Carolina history could not have been the same and must have been darker. In a little while lie must. In the course of nature, pass beyond the borders of time, and North Carolina will honor herself in honoring him before he goes hence. Played Out! (Spin tanbiirg, S C, Herald.) Senator Marion Butler is not only politically dead, as he deserves to be, tint he seems to bo suffering from weakened mental faculties as well. His motion in regard to pensioning Confederate soldiers was strangely out of tunc with the times. It was calculated lo upset the cordial feeling ! tluit wfw slpMililv i-rmvino" between - ' . n the two great sections of this country that promise to become once more united. Hut Southern soldiers were not slow in making known their want of appreciation of what this renegade .North Carolina Republican proposed in their behalf and he had to drop his scheme. He managed, however, to allow his amendment to remain in Congress long enough to get olT the labored speech he had pre pared to prove that South Carolina had a right to withdraw from the I'nion and North Carolina did not se cede until the war was forced upon her. This is about the deadest issue a dead politician could possibly hit upon. It has been settled by the highest of human courts and while the world gives tho South credit for honesty of purpose and upright in tentions, it. has been decided that we had no right to withdraw. A far more prnlitaido study just now, is not whether hi 1XB0 South Carolina had tho right-Jo withdraw from the I'ulou, bur's fVright in 1S9!) to take Into tho Union a lot of uncivilized islands on the other side of the earth? "Imperialism liniis tho inspiration in dollars, not in duty. . It is not our duty to burden our people with in creased taxes in nrdttr to give a few speculators an opportunity for ex ploitation. It, is not our duty to saeri tii'O the best blood of our nations in tropical jungles in an attempt to stifle the very seutinients w hich have given vitality to American institu tions. It is not our duty to deny the people of the Philippines that for which our forefathers fought from Bunker Hill to Yurktowu." Wm. J. Bryan. The man who cannot pay at least a poll tax who cannot contribute this much toward the support of the gov ernment that protects him should not only not Ui allowed lo vote but should get oil tho earth. When this country was young there was a great flurry in it on tho injustice of taxa tion without representation, and be causo, largely, of this injustice it wont to war with the mother country. The pendulum has swung the other way and now wo are having entirely too much representation without tax ation Charlotte vonrver. GOOD ROADS. WHAT NORTH CAROLINA IS DOINO IN THE MATTER. An Important Subject Upon Which In terest Is Gradually Awakening Twenty-three Counties In The State Now Working Their Roads Wholly Or In Part by Taxation. (Southern Farm Magazine.) In North Carolina twenty-three counties are now working their roads wholly or in part by taxation. In the work of macadamizing and general road Improvement, Mecklenburg county, the pioneer iu that line in the Slate, still leads, and has nmv nearly seventy milos of excellent macadam road. Wake county has also made considerable progress Durham. Rowan, Cabarrus, Guilford and Alamance counties are alsc doing some exceedingly satisfactory work in the wny of macaiiamizing while a number of other counties are grading and re-locating roads under recent satisfactory legislation. These facts are obtained from a letter of Prof. J. A. Holmes, State geologist of North Carolina, to tho Southern Farm Mitqnzine. Prof. Holmes has been an advocate of irood roads for many years. Ho is tho author of the ri ort to the Cniteu states Agricultural Department on the subject of road improvement in Mirth Carolina, from which the following facts have been derived: In Mecklenburg county the gen eral plan adopted, and which has been adhered to, was to start at the city limits of the county seat and to grade and macadamize all of tho Im portant public roads from this point out toward the township and the county limits. Those roads have a width of 10 feet for the lirst 2 miles from the city limits, and beyond this point a width of thirty-six feet. They nave n maximum grade of four feet to one hundred. For crossdrains sewer pipes are used In all cases where practicable, and strong wooden bridges with stone piers have been put in wherever needed. In attain ing tbe above grade in places where it was impmoticlo to change tho location of the road cuts through the hills have been made to a depth in places of from ten to lltteen feet, and tills have been made which in places have a height above the ordinary ground surface of from ten to twenty feet for a distnncc of a few hundred yards to half a milo. In macadam izing tho following general plan has been adopted; L'pon the graded and settled earth surface a macadam rood twelve feet wide and about nine inches thick is constructed, usually in the centre, though in places on one side of tho road. An excavation from fpur to six inches deep is madi lu the earth's surface, and tho hot- torn is then carefully rolled with a steam roller. Upon this excavated surface is placed a layer of field stone about four inches thick, and this is then thoroughly rolled. Upon this surface is placed n three-inch layer of stone crushed to from one to two inches in size, and after this lias been thoroughly rolled there is placed u third layer about two Inches thick, of tincly' crushed stone, in cluding screenings, and this latter is in turn thoroughly rolled. The average cost of these roads, including the macadamising and grading, is about ft 000 per mile. Much the larger part of the work for the permanent improvement of the roads in this county is done by con vict labor. The average number of convicts, employed is about eighty, and the average cost of this labor per convict, including their food, clothes, medical attention and guard ing, is from twenty to twenty-two cents per day. In charge of tUe work is one superintendent and one engineer (during a part of tho time) and six guards.. Usually the couviets have worked in one squad; at the present time they aro divided into two squads. Tho rate of taxation in tho county nt the present time Is eighteen cents on tho 100 worth of property, and the entire amount raised in this way for the support of the convict force in road improve ment work during tho past year was about flH.OOO. In addition to this, each township levies a tax varying from seven to lifteon cents on each, f 100 worth of property. Mecklenburg, as stated above re quires all able-bodied eiti.ens along the public roads either to labor four days of each year on tho publio roads or"to pav the'sum of fifty cents per day iu lieu thereof. This class of labor is used upon the roads In dependent of the convict force, nnd principally in the work of grading or in tho general repairs of those rqads or portions of them upon which the convict force is not engaged. It seems to bo a legislative per plexity how it is that Virginia can derive revenue from its penitentiary and oyster industry, while both of these iiring tho North Carolina co pjo in debt. We would supposo bad management was tho explanation on the part of this Stato. Timo and ai'ain wo expressed wonder at the failure to develop in our State a large nnd money making oyster crop. With the great advantages possessed by tho people living in the re markable watered section in Flastcru Carolina there ought to be now an oyster product of not less than $'!, 000.000. It is but little more than 1100,000. We mentioned not long since that little Connecticut had not an oyster sovoral years ago. It sent Its vessels into Maryland and Vir ginia waters, obtained the oyster seed nnd planted them in Long Islang sound. For several years its oyster product has varied from 000,000 annually and up. Wilming ton Mesnenijer. Doctor For dinner take forty min utes. Patient What's the matter with some meat and vegetables? WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW. (New York Times.) Thfcjooms are hu-hed. the lights are low. I mi and listen to the wind That comes from out the distant hill; It comes and croons in an undertone Of alien regions vast and lone, Of pleasures lost In a land unknown; Then steals away and all Is still, "l is good to listen to the wind When rooms are bushed and lights are , low. When those we love are come aud gone, 'TIs weary to be left behind, To miss sweet eyes where late they shone, To look for what we may not Bnd, Long-cherished forms that haunt the mind, Soft voioes that were once too kind; To live and mbs them one by one Is weary work. Who'd stay behind When tense we love have come and gone? HOME EMPLOYMENT. The Tonic Value of Work and the floral and Intellectual Benefits De rived Therefrom The Position of "en At Bread Winners. l low of the tonic value of work 8ni( ,he valuable moral and intcllect ualj3nolits derived from regular oc cupCtion in some useful art or pro fession, the position of woman in the modern world, according to tho Textile World is decidedly unsatis factory. Time was when women of every class were engaged iu produc tive industry spinning, weaving, dyiiR or other domestic work that created values. Modem machinery has destroyed women's former em ployment to such an extent that "spinster" is regarded as an odious epithet. By common consent it is deciled to be hopeless, if not foolish, to try to manufacture at home the yars, cloth, candles, soaps, etc., that can be bought so cheaply at the sto-. Half of the homo "force is thif idle and the burden of sup poi tp'T the family Is too often thrown on 'f i?ualo bread-winners. Time is .v .y to the men folks and their vhv cxistenoe is given to business, Put CO orne there is a glut of timo and all Mrts of devices are resortea to in order to kill it. Dressing and pre paring to dress become the chief oc jnmition. Surfeit of idleness incites to crazy patchwork, piano practice, church fairsi. croquet, charity organizations, acrostics, bicycling anything but productive labor. And wasteful idle ness'extends not only to tho wealthy, but to the families of the poor. "Ma chines.' says the Textile World have taken awav a great proportion of the work which made cottage women busy. These latter spin not, thev weave not, they make not, they mc:id not, and the bakers, soup kitchens and schools take away the other occupations of baking, cooking ami. looking aftor their children, whii'h used to form so important a ituret. their lives There is, no Vjdowl!, s'ime'where or other, a plethora iif wash ,i-women and char-women. Wlt, one always falls to lind them, anil' ii he uual cry of women in their horuies is tho dullness and lack of lu teret which necessitates amusement either In tho milder forms of village gossip, or, in some sad homes, of novel reading, drinking and evsn gambling. Now it is just this waste of valuable time, of still morn val uable human labor, energy nd in telligent activity which places us at a manifest disadvantage." There is, therefore, a large deduc tion to be made from thu advantages of the present age of machinery. The family is rendered less stable and comfortable by Ihe unproductive character of female labor in tho home and by reliance upon tho males ex clusively for income, Tho domestic arts of fifty years ago "saved" many a penny anil "n lieniiy saved is a penny gained." In recent decades many familios farmers' families particularly havo sulfered decay cwiBg to store bills and mortgages, that ivotild not have been contracted uudcr the old order of things. No doubt the balance is being redressed to some extent now by women leaving the home for employment in schools, stores, olltces, arts, professions, etc. Away-from-honie occupations gain for woman the money that was formerly gained by them in the home by sjHUiiiug, weaving, etc. This is desirable and, no doubt, inevitable under tho circumstances. But to those who thiuk tho homo tho test place for the development of the qualities that make a good wife, the exchange of homo liilwr for tho noisy occupations of the outer world must seem almost a calamity. Probably character, if not injured, Is improved often by this way-from-homo work. It has its compensations. LIKE BANCO'S OHOST. Maximo Gomez, reported dead a few weeks ago, has eomo to life again and written a long letter to a friend in Havana, in which he says that he feels deeply hurt by the curt treat ment that ho received from the American officials. Deejily hurt? The old bandit has been paid tho $10 a day wages for which he agreed to make a pretense of fighting in Cuba, and what more does he want? His claim that ho ought to be recognized as tho Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Army, equal in rank to tho American Commanding General is preposterous. There is not and it's doubtful if there ever was a Cuban army. For years Gomez and tbe Spanish ofllciais have been playing at fighting, oppressing the farmers and planters, dividing the spoils, and taking good care that nobody except the xor Cuban residents were ever killed or wounded. When our army appeared at Santiago and he might have been of some use Gomez mado no sign, because nobody offered to pay him for a demonstration. Ho is one of the many humbugs exploded by the Cuban war, and the sooner he drops into innocuous desuetude tbe better for Cuba Felicity (Ohio) Times. Every man is our neighbor who needs our compassion and help. Adam probably New Year s F.ve. nuver forgot his ARKANSAW TRAVELER. THE STORY AS TOLD BY "SANDY" FAULKNER, COL, The Author and Personator Who First Made it Famous AaUnremembered Explainer Again Brings it to the Front With an Introduction A Great Favorite Years Ago. The following introduction by an unrememberod "explainer" tolls tho story of tho "Arkansaw Traveler." Colonel Sandy Faulkner, the origi nal Arkansaw Traveler, was born in Georgetown, Scott county, Kentucky, March 3, 1803. Ho came to Arkan saw in 1820 aud settled iu Chichot county, on the Mississippi river, as a cotton planter. Later Colonel fauiK ner, (with his ather, the late Nicho las Faulkner, a Virginian by -birth,). took up his residence in kiltie hock whero he died August 4, 1874, at tho age of 71 years. It is well known inrougnoui uio North-west that Colonel Faulkner was the original personator of tho Arkansaw traveler. ji " "is nrido to be known as such, the story, it is said, was founded on a little iucident which occurred in tho campaign of 1840, when he made the tour of tho Stato in company with tho Hon. A. H. Server, Governor Ful ton, Chester Ashley, and Governor Yell. One day in the Boston moun tain the party "approached a squatter's for information of tho route, ami Colonel "Sandy" was made spokes man of the company, and it was upon his witty response the tune and story were founded. On returning to Little Kock, a great banquet was given In the lamous "oar room winch used to stand near me aiiuioiiv House and Colonel "Sandy was ailed uDon to play the tune and tell the story. Afterward it grow into popularity. When he subsequently went to iNew Orleans, tho fame of the "Arkansaw Traveler" had gone ahead of him, and at a banquet he, amid clinking glasses and brilliant, toasts, was handed a violin by tho then governor of Louisiana, and re quested to favor them with the fa vorite Arkansaw tune. At tue oui St. Charles hotel a special room was devoted to his use bearing in gilt let ters over the door, "Arkansaw Trav eler." IIIAI-I HUE. Traveler Hello, stranger. Stranger Hello, yourself. T. Can I get to s'tay all night witfi I you? S. No, sir; you can't git to T. Havo you got any spirits here? S. I.otsuv 'em. Sal seen one last, night by that ar old holler gum, and it nearly skeered her to death. T. You mistake my meaning; have vou got any liquor? S. Had some yiSstcrjtay; -but old Hose, ho got in ni4l laMl all of it out'n the pot. . . i T, You don't understand; I don't : mean pot Honor. I'm wet and cold , and want some whiskey Have vou got any? Is. im, yes k iirtinit uiu i.isi. this morning. T. I'm hungry; haven't had any givo thing since morning; can t you me something to eat? S. Hain't got n durn thing in tho house. Not a moufful ov meat, nor a dust ov meal here. T. Well, can't you give my horso something? S. Got nothiir to leeu nun on. T. How far is it to the next bouse?1 S. I don't know, I've never been thur. T. Well, do you know who here? S. Yes. sir! live J T As I'm so bold; then, whatll might your name lie? S. It might be Dick and it might be Tom; but it lacks a right smart of it. 'I'. Sir! will you tell me where this road goes to? N. Ifs never gone nnywhar sinco I've lived here; it's always thar when. I git up in the morning. T.Well, how far is it to where it. forks? S. It don't fork at all; but it split up like the devil. j', As I'm not likely to got to any other house to-night, can't you let. me sleep in yours; and I'll tie my horse to n tree, and do without any thing to cat or drink? S,lMy house leaks. T'har's only one dry s(h1 in it, and mo and Sal slee'ps on it. And that thar tree is the old woman's persimmon: you. can't tie to it, 'cause she don't want em shuk off. She lows to make beer out'n em. T. Why don't you finish covering your house and stop the leaks? S. It's been rninin' all day. T.Well, why don't you do it in dry weather? S. It uon t iciik men. T. As there seems to bo nothing; alive about your place but children how do you do here, anyhow? S. I'iirty well. I thank you, how do you do yourself? T. I mean what do you do for a living here? S. Keep tavern nnd sell whiskey. T.Well, I told you I wanted some whiskey? S. Stranger, I bought a bar'l' mor'n a week ago. You see, mo audi Sal went shnrs. Arter we got it here we only had a bit between us, and Sal she" didn't want to uso hern fust,, nor me mine. You see I had a spigen in one eend, and she ono in 'tother. So she takes a drink out'n my eend, and. pays me the bit for it; then I'd take one out'n hern, and give her the bit Well, wo were getting along fust-rate 'till Dick, a durn skulkin' skunk, he. bored a hole in the bottom to suck at,, and the next time I went to buy a. drink, they wan't nono thar. T. I'm sorry your whiskey's all out, but, my friend, why don't you. play the balance of that tune? S. It's got no balance to it. T. I mean you don't play tho whole of it. 8. Stranger, can you play the fiddle? T. Yes, a little, sometimes. S. You don't look like a fiddler, but ef you think you can play any more onto that thar tunc, you kin just try it. The traveler takes the fiddle and plavs the whole of it. S. Stranger, tuck half dozen cheers and sot down. Sal, stir yourself 'round like a six horse team in a mud hole. Go 'roun in the holler whar I killed that buck this mornin', cut off some of tho best pieces, and fotch it and cook it for mo and this gentle man, directly. Knise up the board under tho head of the bed and git the old black jug I hid from Dick, and gin us some whiskey; I know thar is some left yet. Til, drive Ole Bose out'n tho bread tray, and climb up in the loft, an' git the rag that's got the sugar tied in it. Dick, carry the gen tleman's horse 'round under the shed, and give him some fodder and corn, much as he kin cat. Til Dad, they ain't knives enull for to sot the table. S Whar's big butch, little butch old ease, cob-handle, granny's knife and the ono I handled yesterday: That's enull to set any gentleman's table, thout n you've lost tun. Durn mo stranger, of you can t stay as long as you please, and I'll give you plenty to eat and drink. v ill you have coffee for supper? T. Yes, sir. S. I'll bo hanged if you do, tho', we don't have nothin' that way here, but Grub Hyson and I reckon it's mighty good with sweetening. Play away, stranger, you can sleep ou the dry spot to-night. T. (After two hours fiddling.) My friend, can't you tell me about the road I'm to travel to-morrow? S. To-morrow! Stranger, you won't git out'n these diggin's for six weeks! But when it gits so you can start, you see that big sloo over thar.' Well, you have to git crost that, then you take the road up tho bank, and in about a mile you'll come to a two-nere-and-n-half corn patch. The corn is niitily in tho weeds but you needn't mind that, just ride on. About a mile and a half or two miles from thar, you'll come to tho dampest swamp you cv r struck in all your travels;" it's boirirv enuff to mire a saddle blanket. T'har's a fust-rate road about six feet under thar. T. How am 1 to get at It? S. You eao't git at it nary time 'till the weather stiffens down sum. Well, about a mile beyant, you come to a place where there's no road. You ean take the right hand of you want to, you'll foller it a uiilo or so, aud you'll lind it's run out, you'll theu have to come back and try the left, when you git about two miles on that you may know yuu'ce wrong, fur they' ain't any road Jhnr. You'll then think you're mity lucky of you can find the. way Imek to my house, w har von can cum and ulsy on that ar tuiic as long as yOf! pleas. AN AS rONIS tlED DIVINE. The Minister's Experience With the Tough Walter. "Ahem!" remarked 11 clerical look ing gentleninn as he carefully de posited a well-worn leather grip on the Hour nnd gingerly parted his coat tails preparatory to seating himself on a stool in tho restaurant. "Ahem, waiter! you may bring me a collide of eggs fried on both sides, a plate of buckwheat cakes and a cup of coffee. And hurry, please." "Yessir," replied the white-aproned functionary deferentially, then, to wards the kitchen. "Two in the air, a stack of bucks, draw ono in the dark and get your skates ou!" The clerical looking gentleman was visibly startled and glanced dubious ly at the waiter. ' "Just nt that moment a rough looking individual to his right sung out: "Gimme one of them A. P. A.'s, will you?" The man with tho Prince Albert mill white choker looked nervously at his companion and then towards the door. He scorned relieved, how ever, when the waiter picked out a little round coffee cake and passed it over the counter. "Plate of hot devils hero!" roared 1111 individual near tho door. The clerical-looking man gasped and reached for his grip. "Dats do guff fer a plate of deviled crabs," volunteered a weather beaten chap on his left side, who had been sizing up his dignified neighbor, with an amused smile. "But surely such awful jargon is not the language commonly used here for such edibles," ventured the conventional-looking personage. "Well, dat depends on who you are," responded the weather-beaten chap. "I don't suppose a gent like yerself would jiss catch onter what is meant, but most of us here are on to th' spiel all right. See them san'wiches over there them big, heavy ones? Well, them's 'boxing Moves'. Dat feller over dere at fend is eatin' 'scrambled' eggs dat's liiiiwrnck trees'. Dat truv nex' t' him is iillin' his face wid doughnuts 'sinkers,' dey calls 'em here, -n some times 'life-preservers'" At this moment a sepulchral-looking chap with tuberculous whiskers, who has just come iu, shouted out hoarsely: "Gimme a gravc-yard stew, Bill! .nw diit still wants er plate iiv begun the milk toast, partner, wealherstaincd chap. But tho clerical-looking gontleman had seized his grip and with horror stricken features was making for the door. I "You young scoundrel," 9aid the 1 father, seizing his disobedient son I by the hair, "I'll show you how you ought to treat your mother." And ho gave' him several bangs on the ears, and then shook him till his : hair began to fall out. Chicago Jour- mil. Nothing great was ever achieved 9 without enthusiasm. CHAS. E. VALE, .Photographer. Characteristic pictmes of the surround ing country, and of Suuiheru scenes in i'laiuiotype. Southern Pines, N. C. Post Office Box 26. People's Cash Store, Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Fruit and Confectionery. F.verything at LOWEST CASH PKICES Fredi new stock in all lines. Our molto is Quick Sales and Small Profits. Trade solicited, satisfaction guaranteed. People's Cash Store, A. WINRSTINE, Proprietor. WE SOLICIT YOUH TRADE PATCH & WILLIAMS, DEALERS IN- General Merchandise. Leading Merchants of Southern Pines. ROLL A STRING of caudle or ten-pins lu STRINGER'S BOWLING ALLEY or PLAY POOL for amusement and recre ation. Everything lirst-class. Nothing ob jectionable allowed. IlAKISKl; SHOP In connection. WKDNF.SDAY IS LADIES' DAY. S. STRINGER. SOUTHERN PINES LAUNDRY, H. S. R1GHTMIRE, ProD'r. Strictly a HIGH GKADKnf work at all times. Hieli Gloss or Domestic Finish. Goods called tor and delivered. jUirCleniiipg and Pressing of Clothing promptly attxned to. Irving L. Hamlin & Co. If in need of rough or dressed lumber, laths, shingles, flooring, ceiling, siding, finish, sewer pipe or window weights GIVE US A CALL. You propalily need some irons or L'rate for your tireplaoe. Call anil see what we have. Stove wood, coal and ice ntomntlv delivered to any part of the city. floents for flermotor Wind Mills and Sup plies. Telephone 15 o Southern Pines, N. C. H. F. Powell & Sons, Furniture Dealers Fiim KfffK "Embalming a Specialty. Is ol handsome design, good workmanship, and moder ate price. Call on Us. II. II. POWELL & SONS You're Not so Warm! Still you might just as well be so if you will let us put you in one of our ini-.f ved AIR TIGHT HEATERS. YVc will be glad to show you the different styles we have and quote you prices. KEEP WARM. We're anxious to help you along this line. A. S. & L. P. RUGGLES. 8. 8. Thomas DKALKK IN HARDWARE, Notions, Crockery, Glassware, Stencils, Powder, Shot, Shells, (iun Fixtures, etc, etc. WE HAVE BARGAINS JN STOVES. Wilson Heaters anil Cool Stoves Call on us-biv "ROOT & WAKEMAIM invite your attention to their new fine stock of nu4 ! Fancy and Staple Groceries. ! Fruits and Confections, , CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Austin & Nichols' Fine line of Groceries a Specialty. You are cordially invited to. visit their new store opposito the Depot, Southern Pines. NOTICE ! Siutiiern Pines, Jan. II, Wi I To Whom It .V.iy Concern: 1 Public notice Is hereby given tlm appli I cation will be made to tbe next General i Assembly of Nnitb Carolina to smend the I ....( 11,0 1, ,vin nf Southern Pines. """" l.L. HAMLIN. Town Clerk.
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