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A.AAi..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1aaaaaaaaaa AN OLD : " I: CHARGE ; OF? THE By Alfred 3 :THE charge which Tennyson has" made the subject of his well known poem printed below was :that of Balaklava. ? The charge took place Oct. 25,. 1854. f Through a misconception of orders Lord Lucan, - com j fflander nt iTiA Tn o-i I o Vi no trains a t . t i x. brigade, to charge the Russian artillery v "With a hattery in front and uu wwu Biue, ixie aiignt nrigaae newea ltst way- past tne gun in front and routed the enemies' cavalry. ' Of 670.. horsemen engaged, 198 I AX.P a league, half a league - iiair a league onward, v . All lnxthe valley of death JKOae the six- hundred. " "Forward, the Tie-ht fcHera'ilit , v;narge ior tne guns!"; he said. r Rode the six hundred. V- i - Tprward, theTUght brigade!- h "Was there a man dismayed? - Not though the soldier knew.,' v - Some one had blundered;, Theirs not to make reply, ; V i Theirs net to reason why, , v -Theirs but to do and die. , j s ; . ' Into the valley of death 4 - 4 - 'Cannon to right of them, ;: Cannon to left of them, ! Cannon In front of them, : Volleyed and. thundered; i ' Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well; ! . Into the jaws of death, ':' , Into the mouth of hell," ' - " Rode the six hundred, ' Flashed all their sabers bare,- ; Flashed as they turned in air, . MOL I 1 f f f?f ff?7f ff f f f 7TVTV7TVyTVVV777777T777f .... WE ATDEU PREDICTIONS. . The twelve 4ays after Christmas irid! - cate the weather for the following year.' Each iay in order shows - the weathesr for one month, L-'-Tt r !: : ; Blow out a candle, and if f the-wic z continnues long.to smoulder, look , far bad weather. If it goes out -quickly, ; the weather will -be fair.5 jj ' ? When it begins to snow,; notice - the size of the flakes." f If theyX are veary fine, the storm will be a long one; , if large, the storm will soon-be over. ' - 'After the frogs begin to sing in theJ - Spring, if they , are Lfrozes in three times you rnaybe jure that afterwards you will bave warm" weather. : . f It it rains on the first jdogday, it wi I rain, on each of the other thirty-nine . If on the1 other hand, the first dog-da; r u is dry, all the rest will be dry. -t- 'When yousee a cloud, in, the, eky that grows larger, it is going to' storm. .When you see a cloud growing smaller I. and melt away, it is going to be fair. J the chickens come out - while it rains,' it is a sign that. the -. storm is to .be,a long one. r lfi they stand around . under the ; shed, ;l the . storm , will be . short. " - - As tne ola woman - said, l never - knew itio-begin in the mornin' an rain all day in my life. But I've known it tr Knmn at vrsr v on voir " oil latr . lots of times. ' , w--If the - breastbones of the Thanks l - giving chickens are lighter in coloii : tnere wiu oe a gooa aeai oi snow in tne - there will be little snow - ; . When a person kills a snake he does well to consider what kind- of iweathet he would like. If he hangs the snake up, it .will rain: . if , he buries it-, the weather will be fair. .' " v J ,: When the cattle lie down as soon ai they are turned out to pasture in the morning,7 it is because -they feel a Tnfinmfttift . wpannfisa in tnftir nonPHi ' and you can look for a rain soon. " - When a night passes and no dew falls : it is a sign it is going to rain. This; : s omen loses much of its mystery wher one remembers that dew has not fallen . because the night was clouded. X"r - If the, melt of the hog- killed in - th ,-Fall is big at the front end,' the -.Winter r . will be sharpest at "the beginning. I: ; the melt is biggest - at r the 7 rear, th . Winter will be coldest in the latter part. -When you see thesan drawing-watei at night, know that it will - rain- on "the morrow: The sun is said to be draw- j : ing.waier wnen its rays can De seen " .shining through rifts in distant clouds v: ,.; In Winter when you see the' wile - geese flying south, expect cold weather. They fly south because the - ponds tc S the horth are frozen over. When- the - geese are seen flying north, warm weath er is to be expected. - . . . v . ' ' If the sun sets in a cloud, it will rainl .on the morrow. The person who takes this saying as literally true " would- dot weii to rememoer mat unless tne ciou - mat maes me sun irom. ms sisrat ,i extremely large,-' a spectator a, sho : - uisutuce iu me uorui w syuui wo.uiu au ;me Bituit; uiuuieijx see uit suu eei , iu clear sky.. ;v .. - " t . ' i ' : . Dattcrmenti on tne Seaboard. - lot of improvements on the line be-1 tween Hamlet and Atlanta, when com pleted, will make this piece of roadbed one of the finest in 'the south. ". ; " ' ! .. ' On this line there are a number, of 'A It 3 - A A 1 . 1 ' long iresues over ary streicnes oi low country. Wherever there is not danger, of a preat flow of water after - heavv' raina these trestles are beinfi' converted' ; into fills. The trestles are not being I . J 1 L il ll 1 1 111. ' Ull II 111 IW II. II1IL I.IIK HUM HTM I tt I 1 1 V up of dirt dumped, from trains on the trestles ! i a tha tmsstlod ora Inft ota rlrl- ; ing ther fill be no weight on the' fills I: until the dijt has settled down, as - hard as natural earth. " V ; , . 'jLms work is being done preparatory to the laying of the eighty-pound rail with which the Seaboard is to equip all its main lines.' A" large order for these rails was given some months ago and the work of laying them" will soon ;be gin on the Atlanta and Hamlet line. The henpecked man who has to mind the babies doesn't.believe that the hand that rocks the cradle is the "hand that xule3 the world. . . , : FA VORITE: LIGHT BRIGADE Tennyson . ...'"-: "--- Sabering Jthe gunners there, t . : Charging an army, while .-i - '!":V All the world wondered; -PlungedTIn tne ba ttery--smoke,- Right through the line they broke; - Cossack and Russian .': ;. Reeled from the saber stroke,' ' L ". - Shattered and sundered. ' ' I -Then they rode back, but not-j- - r Not the six hundred, v ;t . Cannon to right of them, j' ' Cannon to left of them, -' Cannon behind them , y i- Volleyed and thundered;- Stormed at with shot and shell, - While horse and hero fell, -. They that had fought so well v -Come, through the jaws of death Back from the mouth of hell, - 4 All that was left of them, y Left of six hundred: : i ;i , When can "their glory fade? Oh, the wild charge they made! All the -world wondered. 4T." Honor the charge they made! - - . Honor the Light brigade, - "- Noble six hundred!. - , - ... .... . .... A "SOU IHEBN ' SECURITIES' COItIPAPi. - 1 1 Baltimore Sun. 'k - . On the strength of the fact that the Louisville and Nashville Railway accepts a charter under the present Constitution of Kentucky,, renouncing one granted in the fifties, the Courier-Journal sug gests that there is to be a. combination of the Louisville and Nashville and Southern Railway, ; the latter absorbing the former, or each absorbing the other on the "commumty of interest' plan. Whether this will be done; or howitwill be done, depends, our contemporary euesses, upon the issue pf the legal pro- hceedivLgs iot , the vdissoluti6n " of the Northern Securities Company. r If this scheme if of operatine " different " and competing companies together is decid ed to be valid, men, it is alleged, a Southern Securities LCompahy" will - be formed to. hold and manage the South ern and the Louisville and Nashville. State laws forbid their consolidation, as State laws forbade the consolidation of the Northwestern railways. But a com pany holding both; if lawful, will effect all that is desired, which is the suppres sion of wasteful and cut-throat compe tition. It is not clear, however, how the Louisville and Nashville's accept ine a modified charter will further Mr. Morgan's supposed scheme of a South ern" securities company. Something has been said about the Southern get- tine control of its rival by buyme its stock,- but common stock of the Louis ville and -Nashville at 150 1 is hardly a desirable asset, since ' the! present net earning can hardly be expected to con tinue after the boom is over Just how the net earnings may justify sucn" a price as $150 per share, bttt that figure isa poor basis- for a permanent invest ment. It will be recalled that the pro posal of the Louisville and Nashville to build into a territory already - served by the Southern was soon followed by the coup in Wall street that put the control of the former into Mr. Morgan's hands. f Peaceat an price" appears to be the motto of .- our present Napoleons of Finance. Still, . peace i bought at ; the rate of $150 a share seems to lack the element of- permanence. C ,- Famous Old Bear Hunter is Falling. A special from Asheville says: A report - comes from Black Mountain, not altogether direct, but none the less credited, to the effect that the health of '.'Big Tom' Wilson is failing fast. ; Big Tom, whose fame as a bear punter has long since broken through statebounds, proposes to act as guide for President Roosevelt should he take jart in the prospective bear hiint : this fall which be has talked over interestedly ' with Senator Pritchard. There are those who firmly believe that the president really means to make the trip, and to all such persons the report concerning Big Tom's physical condition is a source, of alarm. They f ear J;hat in his enfeebled state he will not be able to keep pace with the strenuous strides of the chief executive. The president' sexpressed desire to chase Bruin on the, lofty Black has given rise to a number of suggestions, some of which are perhaps more amus ing than valuable." One view is" that the president should enter the Land of the Sky between two days and imme diately make a brak for tall, timber; otherwise he would be hunted down by office seekers and not get a shot at any sort of game without killing a score or more of the class of gentry referred to. Others scout this view, contending that no-one would be sd lacking in a sense of the eternal .fitness of i things ' as r to importune! the president under, such circumstances. Those who, hold this opinion,;' and "thev are in a decided majority; say the president should first come to Asheville for a day's rest. 4 Maetodoii Dog In Texas. ; Dallas, Tex.,' July 26.-rWorkmen excavating in a gravel pit. twelve ; miles south of Dallas ; today unearthed - the remains of a mastodon. JL. :The jaw bones were 8 - feet long and perfect, but crumbled when exposed to the air. The - teeth remained intact. The molars are 14J , ; inches long, 7J wide and weigh : 15 pounds, They will probaply be sent to the State University at Austin. - . CILL AIIP'S LETTGa. Atlanta Constitution. , s - " .A few months ago some -doubting correspondents hinted that the story of Nancy Hart was probably "an exagger' a ted romance of a handed down adi tion or maybe a myth. y. It is fortunate that the- doubt was - published, for it awakened and aroused the. , good old people of Elbert and Hart counties and brought to light facts and records ?eon cerning the old - lady that; might haye passed into, oblivion.- - -That the story of her heroism is true:- is now;- established as clearly as it was when t Hart county was cut off froni-bert anil named: for her, .the only , county in s Cjieorgia, that was named for a woman; While this newspaper controversy was . going on down in Georgia there was a great strap-' ping Virginian named Tom Lee, 6 feet high and large in proportion, operating the passenger department of the Lacka wanna rrailroad." He is the great-grandson of Nancy Hart, decended from her in a bee line through ' .honorable Vir ginia ancestors.', He; knew nothing of mis controversy: concerning his mater nal ancestor and said recently when speaking of her that it was the sorrow of Ids life . that he was not personally acquainted with her. . -, iom jjee is a great lavonte; among the railroad officials. Very recently he wished to try the work and speed of new ; monster ' locomotive and invited the presidents and superintendents of several railroads and forty-three editors and newspaper men to go with kim on a. special to Pocona - mountains and back again. On the, northern roada the superintendents now have an indicator or Dutch-clock in their private car that registers the speed, f V What .do vou want?" saiATom Lee. Well, about 70 miles, '-' said the editor. The speed was then 55 miles an hour, but quickly the clock registered 56, 57, 58. 60, 65, 70, where it remained for several min- utes wnue me engineer was ; noicung her down to an even steady pace. A glass full of water , on the floor would not have spilled a drop. Tom Lee said: "I would have given you 80 if you had asked for it.' After a while they stop ped at : the Swif twater house, where Washington and Lafayette played cro quet after the War was over and ' where Joe Jefferson spends-his summers. Tom Lee knows his lineage and that his parents were Virginians and nearly re lated to the Harts, . for .whom Thomas Hart Benton was named. For the sake of many children who have .never heard the story, I will briefly relate that during the dark days of the revolution five tones came to her cabin and order her to get dinner for them She did so and while they were eating and drinking and their guns were set up' in the corner of the room she quietly took them outside, and standing at the door with one in her hand . she. drew aim on the leader and ordered them to surrender, or" die.: One man started toward her and she shot him dead And seized another gun and shot another who had risen from the table. With another gun she kept the others quiet until some neighbors came and they were taken prisoners. No doubt this is a true story and a man had better not move to.Elbert at Hart county and ex press any doubts about it. I have been there and know. Borne years ago 1 lectured inlHartwell and from there journeyed to Elberton in a buggy with a preacher.. We " got a late start and the preachers horse wanted to slow up - ' n ' - at everv wnere mere was a woman in sight, and when we got to the river the ferryman was away and we had to wait an hour for him to come back. So it was dark" when - we- reached Elberton. The court - house was lighted up and seemed full of people and the boys were rapping and calling for "Arp," "Bill An." The preacher - unloaded me near by and told me to go up stairs and open the ball while he went home to nut uo his horse As I hurried in the door. the dobrkeeper stopped me and said: "Hold on, my friend, you haven't paid." I modestly told him that I was the speaker. 'Oh,' yes," said he. Maybe you are and maybe you ain't. Several other men have tried to pass on that schedule. I reckon you had better pay." sol paid a nan dollar to go in and hear myself talk, but I got half of it back when we divided proceeds. " Now, I don't know that Nancy could read or write, but she could shoot and in war times mat . is oetter. At any rate Georgians are proud of her and her great-grandson, , Tom Lee, has never tarmshed the. name or fame of the family. ; When John Randolph boasted of his ancestral blood, Tristam Burgess, of Rhode Island his bitter enemy, rose up to say that good conduct in posterity was of more t consequence : than good blood in ancestors.: "I have; great re spect," said he,, "for the gentleman's English blood- and i his Indian blood, but he should remember that he is re moved from them: by several genera tions and - that only one : sixty-fourth part of Lord Rolf e or Pocahontas blood flows in his veins. . That is not much to boast of. -The rest is widely. scatter ed, diluted and -degenerated. 7 , Bur gess and Randolph had many spats like that, but they never came to plows. There never was a time in the south- land whefl so much eager interest ' was manifested in tracing up ancestry line aee. " I receive letters almost daily from good people, fronv Carolina to Texas, asking for help to trace up ana .prove their claim to join the Sons or Daugh ters of the Revolution or to service of heir father or grandfather in the civil war of forty years ago. Ihe genealo gical department of .The Constitution and George Smith's weekly contribu tions to The Journal are doing valuable and interesting work on these lines, v There is one other hne mat has peen shamefully neglected.' From first ,to ast there were near yu,uw yeorgia boi- diers in the confederate army, and yet thfiTfl ia no record of them neither in the. counties nor the state nor at Wash- j . eW ww-ww - v - ... - ihgton. I do not suppose mere are ieu l in a hundred of these rsoldiers .whose children or rand-children: or near rela tives can .prove themselves. Colonel Averyr;did the hest" he could, to make up a roll of. each regiment and name the - officers and the s captiain - of the companies, but there is no roll : of the men nor a record of r who was killed, Some companies changed their captains from three to eight times, but what be came of those who droppedjput? Uor. Averv ' savs : - lhe - following - list - is painfully "imperfect, j It was taken' from the' confederate war "records at Wash ington, D.- C.; and fiom the meager documents in the;Georgia archives and such ifersonal information ai could -'be had.. . The department of " the - cohfed eracy', was most " loosely . run. - Regi mental muster rolls were mmgled and confused: ' the - constantly t occurring changes were not noted." rNow, ask any old -soldier, , can you prove your service by -any Undoubted evidence ?,.JTwo .years " ago .Governor Candler alluded to this shameful neg lect in his message and urged : the ap pointment of-some one to gather -up and make a record f pf these Georgia soldiers before the witnesses are-.all dead, but? nothing was done. :. Why do not the veterans demand it? It would cost but little- perhaps the salary of good man I for a -year.:- The. children and grand-children of these soldiers are interested and have a right to demand the preservation and record . of , their father's or 1 grand-fathers's honorable service. Why "not ? Will there be enough veterans or patriotism in ; the next legislature to see to this and have established a muster roll some kind of a roll that the humblest citizen can point to as his hall of fame? , . r . ; . BlllAbp. The Folly f Texai and If ortn Caro Una In BeaflJrmlBg; the Kanuu City Flatform. New. York World.' ' , i The Democratic State conventions in North Carolina and in Texas ?have re affirmed allegiance to the Kansas City platform. '. : ; . . This is an act of '. asimne folly for which there is no excuse either in the precedents of the past or the obligations of the present time. Democratic as cendancy is sq secure in those South ern States, owing to the negro question, that the election of the party ticket would not be endangered by any plat form that common sense could suggest or policy dictate. For this reason the Democrats of .these States are all the more blameworthy for yielding tb Mr. Bryan s egotistic insistence, instead of ignoring it, as the party has done " this year in Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Minne sota, . Mississ ppi, Georgia, Pennsyl vania and other States. The party in Texas and in . North uaronna will be neither helped, nor hurt by. proclaiming itself still bound to the "body of death;" as Mr. Cleveland very accurately styled the Chicago-Kan sas City platform; But in the doubtful and the essential r States, 1; where the Democrats are trying to retrieve the disasters of the last two campaigns by abandoning dead issues and falsa doc trines twice overwhelmingly condemned by people, these exhibitions of an ob durate and brainless Bourbonism will tend to make the Republican campaign ing again easy. . ; ; : ' The South once : had a courage of conviction.; and- a - genius for politics which' are now sadly lacking in many of the States of that section. Sermon 27 (Fords Long, Hougllton. Mich., Dispatch. . Twice requested to mate his sermon brief , Rev; . Henry Gillingham, pastor of the Atlantic Methodist ? Church -of Atlantic, & village near -Houghton, preached one of the shortest sermons, if not the shortest, on record. At the cbse of Sunday school one of the church officers said to the minister 'It is very warm, and . 1 hope you will make the sermon short tonight." The pastor accepted the wish in good humor. He went to the evening service prepared to make a 30-minute discourse. -As he entered the vestibule of the'ehurch, however, he met another prominent member of the congregation, who accosted him with: - ..--. .'.'Very warm tonight! Hope you will make it short!" - Mr. Oillingham changed his mind about the 30-minute sermon. During the opening exercises he prepared another which he thought- would be suitably .brief. When -he .-arose to announce his text he remarked that he had twice been asked to make his ser mon short and he would try to do so. If this should seem too long, he would stop next time with the text: " Then he delivered this sermon: 1 ' - - Text: Luker 16-24: "And he cried and said: 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water ; and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'" . - ' Three persons Abraham, " Dives, Lazarus. . It was hot where : Dives was. He did .not like it: " He wanted to get Out. So do we. r Let us pray I . That' was . the whole . sermon.,'' It made a hit." ' ' " 1 t Voa Can't Down tb YoODgater. -A Sunday School, superintendent, says Harper'.s Magazine; in talking to the children about cruelty - to animals, said :-' 'Only a coward would abuse - a creature that has no way of" protecting itself. Why, children,' said he, "I once knew a little boy who cut. off a calf's tail ! h Think of it children took a knife and cut-the tail right off? 'Can anv one tell me a verse -in the Bible that would have taught this cruel? boy that he should not have cut the' calf's tail? After a moment's silence, a small bov. with a '.'happy thought" express ion held, up his hand. ''What is it my boy?; asked the superintendent; hope- fullyi w"-What Uod has joined together, et no nian. put ' asunder," responded the . small boy. - The superintendent .. .m . Wi . . -r . , .,, ...... t -m . w.nujt.wD---- . r r - his own verse to ilight. fiOVKZlNCri TIFT. TX2Q VATICAN . ANOTnBFBUBS. ; Presbyterian fitandard. " - - ' The situation in ; the Irhuippines so far as it relates, to the -Friar? can be j briefly exoressed r Under v the union I that existed between church : and state, under the' Spanish regime, that is ; be- j tween the Spanish government and the Catholic church, the church was really the: mistress of the situation. The dif ferent orders of. "Friars Franciscans, Jesuits, of which the Jesuits - were said to have been -the best, : indicating what the other must have been, where the real rulers of the -country, the petty magistrates everywhere i with power of life and death; and thus the power over the property and the persons especially me lenuue persons ui me, jDiupinos. Any. adequate description of their ty rannical, t oppressive, : murderous and lustful rule would be unprintable. mere Beems -u oe: ntue aouDt even from Catholic testimony that the Friars were about as unsavory a lot of priests as ever cursed . & people,: by . their pre sence and example, v . ' - kjMow me fiupino . insnrrection was very largely directed " agayist : these Friars, v They had wrested some of the best lands of the Filipinos ' from them and the people were being ; reduced to the position ol helpless . tenants- and serfs. There was the feeling that these lands, by fair means or foul should be restored to the people fronv whom; they were unfairly, and foully wrung. ; :.And the hatred against' the Friars for their outrages of Filipino homes had - grown to an intensity of feeling: that -thought of nothing but revenge. The Spanish soldiers who fell into Agumaldo's hands were kindly treated, v The Friars ;;were killed or horribly mutilated, after a sort of rude babanc effort to make the pun ishment fit the crime, t. And then the United States Government took posses sion and. the Friars flocked to - Manila by. the hundreds and thcusands. to be under protection of a Protestant power rather than to; be left to . the vengeance of their r oo-religionists. . . With ' the establishment of order 'in the Island? it is found that the Friars cannot go back to their, lands, for; fear of the . people But by the Treaty of Paris their lands are hot to be confiscated, as the Filipino Government would have done immedi atelyrif .it could have been established, and 'their persons .are to be protected, so far as such protection is afforded to any of the inhabitants of the Islands. Meanwhile it is acknowledged that their very presence is a danger to order ahd'a menace to the established government. And now the President of tne united States makes the proposition to : buy from these Friars at a fair valuation their lands and to hold them as : public lands for the ' people; from f whom they were undoubtedly , unlawfully - extorted at first. At the same time, since the Uuited States has nothing to do with the matters that have made these Friars SO unpopular that their lives are con stantly in danger, the Vatican as their authoritative head is asked to recall them with full liberty : to send others in their place, if need : be." The proposi tion is a fair one. ; : More that one Euro1 pean country, and.iisrazii, for one among South'American countries, have cut ' the ' Gordian knot by. passing . a simple. edict of banishment of. every memer of . the obnoxious order. But the. United States does not do i business that way. .Its doctrine' of the separa tion of church and state - tolerates the Jesuit or the Franciscan, until thev become criminals in the eyes of the civil law. ' -1 But the President has the whip-hand, nevertheless. If - the offer .to the Vatican is finally refused and the recall of the Friars is not ordered, the Friars are still afraid to take; possession of their lands or to have any communica- tion with me tenants who now occupy them. They can be condemned for the public .. good, on the most '"obvious grounds of necessity and the ' owners paid what they are deemed to be worth by the appraising board. And then they can look out for themselves The United States governments not going to send a bodyguard out - with every Friar who wants to get beyond the police protection of a city. It wills try to punish : his murderer if . his death ensues. He is no longer a civil magis trate and his ecclesiastical position does not give him one whit more importance in the eyes of the law than the Filipino that he used to rob and plunder. - It it reported that the Pope is willing enougn iorme lacas to: oe : purchased -.am m ' ' but is unwilling to order the recall rof the Friars from! the Philippines. - Of course the proposition bears on its face more or less humiliation, for the failure of a supposedly Christian - Church to have recalled them long ago on its own initiatives But ' the humiliation had better be less than the more that it will prove to be under : public discussion. And we throw out " words i of : warning here to all whom it may concern,:; poll iticians or ecclesiastics. Bettter net make a : political issue of the .Friars. The purchase of their property is more than they - deserves historically con sidered. . - - ' ' : ff'xVsffi Besides this, the President is a Pro testant, and there are more Protestants than . Cathohes : in America. ; They habitually - divide on : governmental issues ix wouia do disastrous to me opposing party to ' unite Protestantism preponderatingly on one side. : t Stonewall Jackson, according . to the late Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Richmond; asserted; while the Federal army was re treating from Bull Run: "Give me 10,- 000 men and I will take : Washington tomorrow. tr The man who has made a fortune has a profound contempt -for the man J wno nas innenteu one, anu vice versa. r- A cynic is a woman who' says 'disar I greeble things because it's the only way I hs can set bis remarks noticed. I POINTED PARtr.niPQS, Chicago News. ; ' ' Nothing hurts , a like being ignored. 8el;'-aiade - martyr There are times when it be never than late. is better to Much of the milk of human kindness tastes of the pump.' - If a miser leaves a will it's mprpW a dead give-away. . Some men become sadder without becoming any wiser. Experience makes a man wiser and poorer simultaneously. Social training enables one to appear interested when he isn't. ' A man growls, a woman smiles and the latter gains her noint.' I ? Some men liketo fish because it's the i next thing to doing nothing. . -Even the. woman of few words ig con tinually warmmg them over. When the money r-qme people converses u usesa me; ve. Expect every ; v? duty- then expect to be disappointed . Any pretty woman's jaw is a thlagLof beantv- iwhfin'it ir't wnrkintr. rwn. . . ii : a ' . r i n wn v rT met rmnaoTPSsnr ia in. quently paved with gold bricks. It is one thing to do a good act and it is another to say nothing about it. ' , The - more- - shiftless a man is the oftener he shifts from one job to an other. ' - A. successful business man is one who induces other people to buy what he dosen't want. . ".. One of the greatest pleasures in life is to be found In couating ; the money we expect to make. It isn't the little a man has but rather a desire for more that puts him in the poverty-stricken class. When, a girl of 20 marries a man of 70 there may be extenuating circum stances in the shape of wealth. The wise small boy throws his moth er's slippers after his big sister when she starts on her wedding tour, i The wise man formerly, built his house on a rock, but now he builds it ' on the sand and call it a seaside hotel. Even the minister whose sermons are of the long-drawn-out variety is prefer- able : to the sensational grand-stand parson. -" . i , , The south s professed friendship for the north is apt to be questioned shortly after the first shipment of early water melons.. . v- .".::: - k. :.'::-V The average woman dosen't care any more for the privilege of. voting than the average man does for privilege of putting a baby to sleep. Finer cotton Goods. r Walker Richardson, a former South- em man, put now engaged in the cot ton business in New York, has. given out an interview in Charlotte, on the cotton situation. Speaking of the product Of Southern mills, Mr. Rich ardson says: "1 think some of the mills-had . better improve the goods they are now " turning .Tout. Some of the yarns being sold are - rotten, : and when time comes . to settle up these mills will likely.be' at a disadvantage. This, however, is due to the class of labor employed and to the bad man agement. - K. ' . ; - "It would take several years for a Southern mill to make money on fine cloths, for it would require that time to get the operatives trained sufficiently to be able to make , these goods. Up in New England mill operatives have been working on these good for many years, and you might say that the required skill had become hereditary in some instances, but just put a Southern mill on fine goods with the present class of help and it would be in a - hole in a mighty short time." ' '. xascussing .tne merger scneme oi Southern mills, Mr. Richardson express ed it as his opimon that this, could not succeed.' ' Among the objections ' urged are the questions of what to .do with the mill officers, the deterioration in the value of stock, the fact that the mills can now get advances of about 75 per cent on their yarns from com mission houses and also the unwilling ness of the stockholders to enter such a combination and the complete loss S of individuality or personal interest and authority under a merger. , Scandal In Greensboro. Greensboro, July 23. Mrs. -Ida Stafford, wife of John E. I: Stafford, of Greensboro, eloped last night with J. E- Harding,"a book-keeper at the Rev VittAtt Wfl ilia ' I t- a tAtmlA olution uotton Mills, lhe couple pur chased tickets for Washingten; but it is thought that they .got off at Lynchburg, Va., and went West. - , - - - Harding,' who is unmarried, has been boarding at the home of the Staffords for some time, but no undue intimacy had been noted between him and Mrs. Stafford,' and it is believed their elope ment was the result of a Ridden infatu ation. ' :,;-;,: i Mrs Stafford is a - handsou e wniarfan of 05 Ct.i40 years of age i3 the mother of fourthe C7icf of whom is 17 years of age. V l : iThe pair did not take anything w?tth them belongmg, to ; Mr Stafford. On the other, hand, Mrs; Stafford, left all her jewelry. in the house, with the" ex- ception of her engagement ring, which she mailed to her ., husband last , night through the Greensboro postoffice. The. husband of the runaway woman to-day call on Solicitor Brooks for advice..'.; He is giving the matter full publicity, and it is said will probably offer a reward for the arrest of the ..i Later: The eloping, couple were ar rested at Norfolk on the evening of th'e 24th as they were about to take a boat for Baltimore. Mr. Stafford left at once for Norfolk," and says he will get his wife or send Harding to the peni- tentiary. Blobbs -Since the s Johnsons came back from abroad they spell their name Jonson: Slobbs Yes; they think it is quite English to drop their h's.
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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July 30, 1902, edition 1
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