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: ' ? All the men in this community who doo*t best their wives witf please pSy op their subscripts n at once. We met a.man wbo was look , log jfotgood-ferasiog tend|i*i&?& Slate, and we told him where it * was. i&Mii A child is a tender Jhisg, but he can "Sand a considerable hic kory without cracking under the arain. ? : This is the dory of the man who wentshopping and foundhe was broke. This is the end "of the ?ory. . The my&ery otihe future can be solved in the intelliggnceof the pa& and the experience of the presence This is a good town to iive in, and we are surprised that other people have so little knowledge on the subjed. ) V j i i- ? | ii V?i mm ? < ? fmm What the American people need more than anything else is sober, serious thought. They Tiave enough comic papery, joke Jiooks a&d girl shows. \Vhen children get to be about fourteen y?ars of age they begin to walk about ten feet in the air, but they come down much harder than they went -up. tinted at ? * Bgjfj The independent owners were eoor* mously encouraged by tb$ir legal vic tory over the Amalgamated. Some of them believed the octopus had shot its bolt; bat these reckoned\jrithoat. their obstinate host, Rupert Holmes. . While compelled to accept the ship ments of lumber offered by the inde pendents, Holmes and his myrmidons succeeded in rwq^tng things mightily unpleasant for the customers 4 pol icy of obstruction was pursued. Where a hundred, cars were ordered, only tea would be forthcoming. Where ten cars were asked, one would be furnished. This premeditated delay of shipments brought prompt protests from ship Pew- ' Threats of cancellation became fre iiuent These were nwt Witt expla nations of the causes of delay but the mill men wanted lumber and not ex planations. <>a ee more th$ independ ents were confronted with heavy losses through the machinations of the trust It was in this crisis that Helen Daw son came once more to the rescue. She had askedCIancy, the railway agent at Dawsonv&fe for a days-leave of ab sence to make a visit in Big Falls. When she returned that evening she sent for Michael Morrisey, leading i thought mm to the Amalgamated* cl way, Mr. Morrisefcdi that charter * replied Morris honored me with a eq Holmes, he did n cance of It at one ''v- BRSrBSW ?35e9!9 ; The next Jolt fi crowd was admtol ine Monday eveoli Shouts burst tatc BiU^Behrens to 1 like a Cossack wit ? Wbuft the-tU F. D. N<t 4, Alma, Aik., } I- CVCl VXJU, Cardui fod? dealers. will be Its own Incentive to majke it increase, ?Lg
The Farmville Enterprise (Farmville, N.C.)
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