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VI HE Vol. XL-No. 67. REIDSVILLE, N. C, FEBRUARY 6, 1900. $1.00 per Year. II E .1 Jl.-JW RE IBS REVIEW. Traylor, Peterson & Motlev, LEADING Hardware Dealers, MAIN STREET, DANVILLE, VA. Carry 1ti :; ia : First-Class E&rdwars Send Us Your Orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed on Everv3 Article We Sell. Iff pay Telephone charges and will be glad to have our friends use the 'Phoxe 'reel! at oar expense. TILLY LOR, PETERSONS' MOTLEY, gents for Howe Scales. GREENSBORO NURSERIES, OKIiKXSUORO, N. C. For All Kinds of Fruit, Shade, and Ornamental Trees, Vines and Plants. It is our aim to produce the best in variety and grade of stock regardless of cost, and we sell as cheap as any first-class Nursery can do business. Your patronage solicited. Agents wanted. Greensboro Herd of Registered Poland China and Mammoth Black Hogs. This herd is composed of premium stock, and every pains taken to keep them up to their high standard, and I sell at about one half the price that such stock is usually sold for. Single'pig $10, pair $15, f. o. b. cars here. JOHN A. YOUNG, Prop., GREENSBORO NURSERIES, Oroonsboro, 3J". C. ODELL HARDWARE CO., plumbing Department, GREENSBORO, N. C. Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting, Steam Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. The Most Approved Fixtures. All work clone by competent men under the supervision of one of the most practical and experienced plumbers in the country, and at prices as low as good work and satisfactory service will admit. Estimates Furnished Promptly. m- WE PAY TELEPHONE CHARGES. R. G. GLADSTONE. v v. 1i ment and that our work will prove entirely satisfactory. R. C. GLADSTONE. In buying stoves, as in all things else, there is one thing that should interest you above all others- to get the most for the amount of money expended. In offering the "Southern Queen" to the stove-buying public v:e offer a standard ar ticle that we have no hesi tancy in recommending and guaranteeing. If your Stove ha9 outlived its usefulness, or if for any reason you wish to replace it, let us show you a "Southern Queen." If you want a stove you will buy. ..PLUMBING.. In all its branches. We guar antee to meet all the require 'TUB MESSAGE TO UAttClA." McKlnley Gave a Letter to Garcia; Howan Took the Letter, bat Did Not Ask, "Where Is fie AO" Many Ways of Carrying "Message to Garcia." Elbert Hubbard In Philistine Magaiino. In all the Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba no one knew where. No mail nor tele graph message could reach him. The President must secure his co-operation, and quickly. What to do ? Some one said to the President: "There's fellow by the name of Row an will find Garcia for you, if anybody can." Kowan was sent for, and given a lettter to be belivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oil skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat; dis appeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile coun try on foot, and delivered his letter to Uarcia, are things I have no special desire to tell in detail. The point 1 wish to make is this: McKinley gave Kowan a letter to be de livered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Whore is he at?" Bv the Eternal! there is a man whose form form should be cast in deathless bronze, and the statue placed in every college of the laud. It is not book learning young men need, nor intruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the ver ebne which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, con centrate thir energies; do the thing "carry a message to Garcia!" General Garcia is dead now, but. there are other Garcias. No man has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average mau the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man suc ceed, unless by houk or oinuK, threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him, or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an augel of licht for an assistant. You are now in your office- six clerks are within call. Summon one and make this request: "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief mom orandum for me concerding the life of Correggio." Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go to the task? On your life be will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye, and ask one or more of the following questions: Who was he ? Which encyclopedia ? Where is the encyclopedia? Was I hired for that ? Don't you mean Bismarck ? What's the matter with Charlie do ing it? Is he dead? Is there any hurry ? Shan't I bring you the book, and let you look it up yourself? What do you want to know for ?, And I will lay you ton to one that after you have answered the questions and explained how to find the informa tion, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia and then come back and tell you there is no such a man. Of course, I may lose my bet, but, according to the law of average, I will not. Now, if you are wise, you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the Cs, not in the Ks, but you will smile sweeily and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself. And his incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this in firmity of tb.6 will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves what will they do when the beneSt of their effort is for s'l! A first mate with knotted club seen necessary; and the dread of ettir-g "the bounce" Haturday niht hold: rui-.uy a worker to his place. Advertise for a stenographer, end nine out of ten who apply csui neither spoil nor punctuate and do not think it necessary. Can such a one write letter to (larcia? "ou Bee thai book-keeper?" said the foreman to mo in a l;go factory. "Ye; what about bim ? "Well, he's a fine accountant; but if I'd Bond hita uptown on aa errand Lo might accomplish the errand all riht, and on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and when he got to Main street would forget what he had been sent for." Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia ? We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the "down-trodden citizen of the sweat- searching for honest employmfnt," and with it all often go many bard words' for the men in power. Nothing is said about the employer ho grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsy ne'er-do-wells to do intelligent work, and his long, patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding out process going on. The employer is constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues; only if times are hard and work is scarce, the sorting is done finer but out and forever out, the incompetent and unworthy go. It is the survival of the fittest. Self-in-t rest prompts every employer to keep tue best those who can carry a message to Garcia. I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a busiuess of his own, and yet who is absolutely worthless to any one else, be cause he carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that Lis employer is oppressing or intending to oppress bim. He cannot give orders and he will not receive them. Should a mes sage be given him to take to Garcia his answer would probably be "Take it yourself." To-night this man walks the streets looking for wort, the wind whistling through his threadbare coat. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular fire-brand of discontent. He is impervious to reason, and the only thing that can impress him is the toe of a thick-sole No. 9 boot. Of course I know that one so mortally de formed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying, let us drop a tear, too, for the men who tire striving to carry on a great enter prise, whose working hours are not limited by tho whistle, and whose hair i fan turning white through the struggle to hold in lino dowdy indiffer ence, slipshod imbecility, and the heart less ingratitude, which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless. Have I put the matter too strongly? l'osiihly 1 have; hut when all the world has gone a-ilumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds the mau who, against great odds, has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds there's nothing in it, nothing but bare board and clothes. I have carried a dinner i .an nttfl worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something tJ be said on both sides. 'there is no ex cellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation, and all employers are not rapacious and high handed, any more than all poor men are virtuous. i My .heart goes out to the man who i does bis work when the "boss" is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, who when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive without asking any idiotic questions, and I with no lurking intention of chuckling it into the nearest sewer, or doing aught ; else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," i nor has to go on a strike for higher !wages. Civilization is one long, anxious , search for just such individuals. Any I thing such a man asks shall be granted; j his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cne out for Buch; he is needed, and needed badly the man who can carry a message to Garcia. Not a Itlnttvr of Morrlianrilsp. A man was walking with bis little boy at the close of the dny, and in passing the cottage of a Gorman la borer the boy'sat tontioii was attracted by a dog. It was not a King Charles nor a black and tan, but a common cur. Still the boy took a fancy to him, and wanted "pa" to buy him. Just then the owner of the dog came homo from lii.i Inborn and was met by the dog with every demonstra tion of joy. The man paid to the owner: "Mv little boy his taker, a fane to your dog, and i vill buy him. Wliai. tlo you iw.k for bin, ?" "1 tan't sell that teg," "aid the Germs.ii. "Look here," said tlm '.Tin, "t',.ai is a poor dog, anyway, Lt tu ):;' boy wants hi:.i, 1 will u him." "Yaaa," uaid th-O- ,ve .1 vij lo: "I .v OA be i.In't ; I'll Vll'l 1 can't bin tail he is a very por-r v-,', wor't i,h,iot nottiu', i iiiid X ib : lntlo di.ig r lit ii:u ihi' VJt sell I cjtj't '.:ll ;'e vf ' i ven I ec.e.,1 bo.t o at night.' :rilei tor Kr.n-lna Vacc7r'i. Wi'CTON-BALE;r, Feb. 1. Mr. A. Savery, a bussinosa man of ViiK ti , was tried the secot.d time this ufte. noon behre tho mayor for refusing to comyiy with the compult:o:y vaccina tion ordinance. He was flood 550. His counsel gave notico of appeal, but the defendant declined to give $250 bond, and was committed to jail. There arc several reports current; one that Gavery has a certificate excusing him from vaccination, and another that he will bring suit against the city. "George," she Baid with considerable. severity, "this is the last time I snail wk. you-ioi iaoaey-to-got-my walnkin coat made over." "Good," he exclaimed. "There's another matter out of the way that has been worrying me for a long time." Dally. I One of the most interesting publica tions of the century will be the Chris tian daily to be edited and managed by Chas. M. Shfldon, author of "la His Steps, or, What would Jesus Do?" and a half dozen other widely read books. Over 3,000,000 copies of that book have been sold in Euglaud and probably half that many in this country. In his most famous story he gives a large place as to how a Chrjstain daily newspaper was established. It is his hope and dream. At the Detroit Chris tian Endeayor convention last year, in a speech received with applause, he asked, "Who in this age of magnificent endowments will give $ 1,000,000 for the establishment of a great Christian daily newspaper?" Through requests of lead ing citizens the Topeka Capital will gratify Mr. Sheldon's hope by turning oyer its plant to him, March 13 to 10. He has accepted the offer and will show the world his ideas as to what every Christian daily should be. The Union Gospel News, Cleveland, O., made specials arrangements by wire at a rate that allows it to offer the To peka Capital for the six issues edited by Mr. Sheldon, and the Union Gospel News three months, 13 issues, for 40 cents, a few more cents than the price of the Topeka Capital, which will be 25 cents, ami during the three months you get the Union Gospel News, it will con tain Sheldon's most tragic story, "The Crucifixion of Philip Strong," to be handsomely illustrated for the first time by original photographs. Remember you get the six issues of the Christian daily, 13 issues of the Union Gospel News, and Sheldon's most tragic story, all for 40 cents, sent to the Union Gospel News, 1 J-J Seneca St., Cleveland, 0. In remitting ask for coupons, by which you cen et your 40 cents back several time over. Seven Times a Hltf it 1IU W ile. Willie Stout, the Texas fat boy, is tin biggest man in town, and he claims to be, and probably is the heaviest man in the world. Willis is only 21 years old, says he weighs 712 pounds. His meas urements areas follows: Height, G feet ; thigh, 30 inches; girth 84 inches; bi ceps, 27 inches. He wears No. 8 shoes, No. 8 glove and a No. 7 J hat. He was born on a farm in Denison, Tex. At birth be weighed 10 pounds. When he was 6 months old he weighed 45 pounds, and wueu 10 years old he weighed 330 pounds. He has been in creasing in weight constantly, and if he keeps on gaining tlesh as rapidly as he has in the last two years he will soon weigh a thousand pounds. When asked bow he accounted for hiH great weight, he said that ho at tributed it to his good nature. Willie's father weighed 280 pounds, but his mother never weighed more than J00 pounds in her life. Liko most fatmon, Willie has a small wife. Mrs. Stout is not stout, but a petite woman weighing only 110 pounds. Willio said that he was about seven times as heavy as his wife and about seven times as good-natured. A Boy's Fatal 1'hinw, Washington, N. C, Jan. 31. A terrible tragedy occurred in this town this morning, and aa a result olo of our most promising young men is dead. John Williams, 15 yearBof ago, went to the Old Dominion whfir'. to sample cotton. While in tho act of perform ing this duty John L. Cordon, 18 yesrs of ago, passed and slapped him on the back at a point whore Williams was suffering from a boil. Williams imme diately turned and throw the knife be had in his baud and it struck Cordcn just behind the left kie:", severing the popuetial artery, with the rftfuit that he died this afternoon, Both of thoe yuiin" men c.o from our best families and ;ir,r ;t a! rc;:rot is expressed at thisi sad affair and sym pathy for the relatives. A school tenohef in the- Nor'b of England, bavin,? institv. vJ ? il to buy a grammar, t'.r. tmt d.. . i(.v..":i a not", tr. s wcvJod, tl, i '-ill's irotr.rv: "I do ncx dc.i.w fo. I.ali r,L:,ll ir.f-..;o hi -in-T-a1"- , 1 yx-A-t iiihi,rt n yi.ofnl Ktt.dL.:, r.:i(' c.n !.- i i'Cr '.ion tc.s; ".le ' v?rite lvop (ily myaolf. I h.tv- wno' thiOi'.;,!; l.vu grpmuiaw, tvA cn't myM ttiey did mo no ;'eod. I pr' be. ieiin (ler rr an ,;rv; dicing tad vcliai music on tLof:.:o." Slrjjro Vavf'g"O09 U'VmsfM. FiTTnuii, Feb. 1. VaUoi' E. Bil lows, r colored attorney of th city, en tered suit tcdiy p,'iinst Wni. It. Mc C;.tl y, pror.unont rusUUiaat mi.u, for $-0,000 damans, for rofusins to eorve Congresam.'.n George H. While, of North Carolina, And hiraself, with din n.Hr. Billovs claims that LlcCarthy of fered to serve them elsewhere than in the general dining r.om, but they de manded an equrd footing with white persons and hft tho place. Tommy's Plaster Tommy had been suffering from a lame back for a day or two and his mother bought a porous plaster for the same and prepared to adjust it. As the ay pif nf itiln Miihfll fnll tipfip thfl pfinfv tured square she exclaimed : "Oh, mamma I What are the holes for?" "I know," interjected Tommy." "They're for lettin' the pain out." A "What Would Jesus Do I' Acts gently on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels ClAnses the System r,.aEFFECTUAtlY. NtuaicStipation PERMANENTLY ,T5BrSEfTs. lfvRN1A ffC ,SYRVP(S foa uu situ rxuwsrs rwu soi nit wni. A GUARANTEED CORE ! GARDNER'S Almond Cream Lotion. Curt-H Omiiptnl Taeo, Hands anil Lips. Hill, U AND (UJARANTEED 11V V. S. ALLEN, - Druggist. J DILLARI) PANNILL, " ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office at Went worth, N. C. l'rompt und careful attention given to all tmsiiioss. Practice solicited In Htate and Federal courts. Will attend trials bofore .liiHt.Jces of the I'uaou In any part of Rocking ham comity. In lit'ldsville evory Saturday. lE.H.Brooks, Oilers bis professional services to the people of Kcidsville and vicinity. Special attention given to SUEGERY AND Diseases of Women i:l Childrea Okfick Scales Street, opposite P. O. Tki.ki vionks- Residence 82 ; Office 46. Oi- i' lcic 1 lot ks D to 11 a, m., 2 to 8 p.m. QJICK CURE FOR CG'JCHS AND COLDS, PYf'Y.PECTORAU Tho Cai.-dlsn Rsmtdy lor all Tin.. J LOlie AFFECTIONS. U . Villi t. La(..; j Iottlbb, 2Q ore. $ tvA ' f 'Li J. -!.- A M ( Psjp-j r-ir DvU' Pain-Kiuir. rv.7 SALM BP VANDALIA, N. C, nv. . "Ti.agnoco. You ."an find all kinds of Fruit, Ci.sc do Qiid Ornamental t'1 LI Small Fruit, Hut Bearing Trees, Etc. Trees graded to high standard, and at as Reasonable Price as such trees can be'grown. Catalogue Free. C. L. ANTHONY, PROPRIETOR. L La tia & D v
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