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The Cartersville Courant-Ainerican.
VOL. IX.
THE PERPLEXITIES OF LIFE.
Bill Arp Makes a Purchase of a
Pig For a Pet.
An( l the Little Piggy Enjoys* ltreak fast of
Lanjfshan fees it i oundin a .Setting
Hen’s Nest — Hill on a Tear,
Atlanta Constitution.
When will this tiling stop? Inm not
calm anil serene. It is not Friday, but
it looks like everything has got wrong
side up. 1 bought the children some
fancy chickens* from Will Henderson —
some beautiful black Langshans whose
forefathers and mothers were all the way
from Asia. They had laid fourteen eggs
—large, beautiful eggs—and the hens
were happy, and the rooster and the
children, too. But, alas for human
hopes and Langshan eggs! My wife told
me not long ago that we ought to have
a pig. a nice, clean little pig to eat up
the waste and the scraps and all the et
cetera and so forth, and she mentioned
that neighbor Freeman had one that
cost only a dollar a few monthsago, and
lit had grown and fattened and flourished
until it weighed 200 pounds, and he sold
it for twelve dollars and gave his wife
the money, and he had bought another
pig to do the same thing over, and it
was a matter of economy, and so I
bought a sweet little pig, and it was kept
in the cow lot, and Carl made a trough
and it wallowed in the buttermilk and
was behaving splendid until last night,
somebody left the gate open and the
sweet little spotted thing came out and
meandered around and found the hens’
nests and gobbled up the whole concern
and wanted more. It made the children
right sick, and they wanted to kill the
pig, and about that time I came out to
my favorite seat in the front piazza, to
ruminate upon the rise and fall of sub
lunary things, when suddenly I missed
the beautiful vines that had been mean
dering up the cane lattice that I had
built. Oh! my country! One day while
Mrs. Arp was gone I built that lattice to
surprise her and revive the smiling sun
light in her eyes. It is a beautiful lattice;
made of long smooth canes that reach
T om the ground to the upper piazza, and
they are interlaced crossways like bas
ket work with other canes, and the ma
deira vines and morning glories had
already climbed every cane nearly to the
top and were spreading their leaves and
tendrils and closing out the sunlight;
and I had left little openings along for
windows so that we could peep through
and see who was passing along the street
or who was coining up the avenue to see
us, and most every day I bet with the
children, which vine would grow the
fastest by next morning, and now here
it is. Oh, my country, the calf got out
wheu the pig did, and while the pig was
feeding on Langshan eggs at two dollars
a dozeu the infernal calf was stuffing his
maw with madeira vines and morning
glories, and then, went off and laid down
right in our sight, and was chewing her
cud, a cud made of the vines that were
our hope and our delight. When will
this thing stop? I ripped and 1 raved,
ind I walked the piazza backwards and
onvards and r>ut on nil the agony I
:onld raise. I confounded the pig and
:he calf and the gate and the unknown
ndividual who left it open. I knew that
drs. Arp would find out from the chil
Iren what was the matter, and so I
van ted to out Herod Herod and steal
ier thunder, for she is a prudent woman
ind never gets on a tare when she sees
no on a fare. And that’s right. When
Ire. Arp is on a tare I am as meek as a
amb. It is like playingseesaw when one
lup the other is down, though 1 some
mes think I don’t get my share of high
iding. But 1 rode high this morning
nd the next thing I heard was Mrs. Arp
t the piano and she was playing Araby’s
aughter, and her low sweet notes came
ver me like the sweet south wind broath
>g upon a bank of violets. By the time
be breakfast bell rang I had mellowed
own smartly and Mrs. Arp said she
bought that the vines would snrout
gain from the roots and we wouldn’t
>se more than two weeks but that I had
etter send the calf to the country.
It does look like there is always some
rmg to prey upon something. The bad
mixed up with the good and we have
> fight the battle of life through tribu
ition and vexation and aggravation
nd all the other at ions.
After breakfast I had to go to town
nd help to wo; k on the citizens to raise
>ouey enough to buy the land for the
thread shops. The committees had
ecu working on them for three days and
ad a whooper-up meeting every night,
nd still were short about a thousand
•liars, and the committee got sick and
eut to bed, and had me put on anew
anmittee as a relay—a sort of last re
ort—and it was the hardest work I ever
one or will try to do agaiu. I had
ather stand up hill and grub down
wards, or dig post holes, or weed onions,
r skin a cat backwards all day long.
It takes so much explanation and ex-
aggeration—so much persuasion and
evasion, and the whole thing is so mo
notonous, and every man has to be
talked to as gently as a sucking dove—
but after awhile they surrender and put
down for about half they ought to, and
you heave a sigh and go on to the next
man. “They are asking too much for
that land and m.v money shan’t go into
no such extortion. When will Colonel
Ball build the shops? What kind of
shops is he going to build? What does
he want with so much ground? No,
sir, I’m not going to befooled again.
I ain’t forgot that furnace yet that
swindled us out of our money. What’s
become of them furnace fellows? 1 put
twenty-five dollars in a car factory once
and Bill Noble come up here and toted it
off to Anniston right before our eyes.
Don’t you reekon this is all a trick of
the land company. If I wasn’t afraid
them shop fellows would vote whisky
back into this town I would subscribe.
The shops ain’t going to help any busi
ness at all, for more people will bring
more stores and the new set will cut un
der and get what trade I have got. Col
onel Ball is going to put the shops here
anyhow, and 1 know it. His railroad
folks are them rich bondholders in New
York, and I say let them buy their own
land.”
One by one they would take the list
and look over every name on it and talk
about this man and that man, and it
would take from ten minutes to half an
hour to get through with a man, but we
generally got something before we left.
One man from whom we didu’t expect a
cent, spoke up promptly and said, yes, I
will give youfiifty dollars, and he treated
us to cigars in the bargain. Another
inau from whom we expected a huhdred
gave us twenty-five, and so we kept up
the equilibrium and raised the money.
What curious creatures we are! I have
heretofore been round with a church sub
scription to raise a thousand dollars for
the preacher, and it takes thesame hard,
patient work to succeed at that, and
after you have succeeded it takes the
same kind of work every month to col
lect the monthly dues. Our deacon is a
plasterer and works hard at his trade,
but he has to lose about two days in u
month begging the members of the
church to pay their dues. But, all this
work and patience and forbearance must
be endured for the good results that are
to come. The good is more than the
bad, and I feel easy and grateful now ex
cept for the calf and the pig. When 1
think of them I go out in thegarden and
pick a bowl of strawberries and put some
sugar and cream all over them and take
them to Mrs. Arp and that satisfies me.
It is a fact that we have been eating
strawberries from our garden every day
since the 14th day of April, and we had
them for dinner to-day. Who can beat
that? And I plunted every plant my
self last spring was a year ago. Last
fall I covered the ground two inches deep
with cotton seed,and I advise everybody
else to do the same. I have only four
rows a hundred and twenty feet long,
and we gathered berries by the water
bucket full. 1 never saw as many in my
life on the same space. They are the
Charles Downing and the Sharpless va
rieties and have given us more comfort
and used up more sugar than a little.
Confound the calf and the pig.
Bill Am*.
Interesting Commencement oi: the Soutli
c*rn Female College.
Special Correspondence.
LaGranoe, Ua., June loth, 1889.
The closing exercises of the forty
seventh session of the Southern Female
(Cox) College began Friday, June 7th,
with public examination in the prepara
tory departments and original teaching
exercises by the Normal students. The
Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Dr. Lan
sing Burrows of Augusta, was remarka
bly fine. The Juniors on Monday morn
ing discussed Longfellow.
In the afternoon came the elocution
contest, followed by art and industrial
display, reception in trie elegant new
science hall, where numerous experiments
were performed by the young ladies, and
inspection of the handsome museum and
well equipped library. The contest for
vocal and instrumental medals at night
was exciting.
Eighteen eclectics and six regular
graduates treated respectively, Coaucer's
Prologueto the Canterbury Tales and
Color.
The Choniau Literary Society debated
at its celebration the unique question,
“The hen Scratches where the worm is”
versus “The worm is where the hen
scratches.”
The annual concert attracts attention
because of the high musical standard of
the college. It employs seven finished
teachers in this department, and has a
ladies orchestra of twenty-four per
formers.
On commencement day, the first two
full graduates received their diplomas.
Endorsements of their examinations
were read from professors of University
of Virginia, of Johus Hopkins, etc. Ex
cellent addresses were made by Clem P.
Steed, Esq., of Macon, and Prof. Cox.
CARTERSVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1889.
ANOTHER BIG ENTERPRISE.
Bringing in Money to BuUd upOur
Growing City
Houses for a” Through tlie Htlnof a Geor
gia Building and l oan Association—A
Great Financial Institution.
Iyearning that Capt. Laird, manager
of agencies of the “Southern Mutual
Building and Loan Association,” was in
our city, and knowing that our people
appreciated the advantages to be ob
tained from these organizations, we
sought an interview with that gentleman
for the benefit of our readers. In reply
to our remark that we had noticed much
favorable mention of the plan of the
“Southern Mutual” by the press of At
lanta, Caht. Laird replied:
“That is a natural consequence, as
thirty-three per cent, of the residences
which ornament her thoroughfares and
bless her citizens with homes, is the
grand milts of building and loan asso
ciations.”
“What class of citizens carry stock in
associations?”
To which this gentleman replied:
“About forty per cent, are investors,
while the other sixty per cent, of the
stockholders are composed of salaried
men and mechanics who are renters.”
“The former class ” he continued, “is
largely composed of clerks and book
keepers, unmarried men and young la
dies, who seek the investment feature,
while the latter class carry the stock to
borrow and secure homes for their fami
lies.” Continued he, “you would be sur
priseed to know the vast number of
young men and ladies who save their ten
or twenty cents every day, $3.00 or
8(5.00 per month, put it into a building
and loan association, and, in seven
years, draw their five hundred or one
thousand dollars in cash to enter into a
business of their own choosing, or pur
chase a home for themselves or a wid
owed mother.
“All men make money, remember, but
the man who saves, accumulates, and he
who accumulates stands in the commer
cial world as a success.
“That is certainly a great advantage
the cities have heretofore enjoyed over
the smaller towns
“In 1831,” said Laird, “Philadelphia
organized the first building and loan as
sociation in America, and, to-day, no
greater compliment can be paid her en
terprising citizens than to call her the
‘City of Homes.’
“The right,” continued he, “of every
man to own the land he tills, to
buy and sell and improve it, more than
anything else, has made America glo
rious.”
“I think I understood from you that
the ‘Southern Mutual’ does not require
the borrower to bid for the money ?”
“That is one of the great advantages
a stockholder enjoys in the -Southern
Mutual,’
“We have,” continued Laird, “adopted
a uniform premium of 50 per cent., which
means for every twenty shares held the
borrower will be entitled to a loan of
one thousand dollars in cash.”
“That is quite an improvement; and
what, may I ask, is the rate of interest
charged?”
“The rate,” replied Laird, “is six per
cent, on the cash borrowed and there
will be no commissions, attorneys’ fees,
or other extra expenses charged the bor
rower at the home office.
“All that will be required of the bor
rower is. that he pay the interest and
the monthly installments on the stock.
When the stock mat ures the loan is paid
off and the note and mortgage cancelled,
and he is the proprietor of his own domi
cile, with but little more outlay in cash
than he would have paid for rent.”
“Cognizant of the fact that there arc
now thirteen local building and loan as
sociations in operation in Atlanta, I
imagine the readiness with which your
stock was sought was quite a compli
ment to the‘Southern Mutual?”
“Our people,” replied Laird, “appre
ciate our stock as an investment. Thir
teen of our lending banket sand business
men took over one hundred thousand
dollars the very first day the books were
ooened. and here is a telegram just re
ceived from the secretary, which is addi
tional evidence:
“ ‘Atlanta, Ga., June 18. 1889.
‘Capt. L. .T. Laird, Cartersville, Ga.
‘By-laws in the hands of the printer.
They provide for the loaning of seventy
five per cent. (75 per cent.) of the value
of real estate. One party took three
hundred shares in the ‘Southern Mutual’
to-day. W. C. Hale, Sec’y.’ ”
‘ From the favorable mention by our
citizens of the plau of the ’Southern Mu
tual,’ 1 presume quite an extensive local
branch will be formed in our city?”
“I would not be surprised,” replied
Laird, “to have your people apply lor
from 500 to 1,000 shares of stock. They
apareciate the fact that capital is a po
tent factor in building up a city, and
that the strength of the ‘Southern Mu
tual’ lies in the fact that a large propor
tion of our stockholders will be composed
of investors, who reside in localities
where interest is low and money is abund
ant. This will enable the Association to
aid as a distributor of funds and an
equalizer of rates among the members.
The possibilities of this state of affairs,
taken in connection with the usual
sources of profit to be obtained from co
operation, are obviously patent in dem
onstrating the possible future of the
.‘Southern Mutual.'”
Hon. J. \V. Harris at Dalton.
The friends of our brilliant fellow
townsman expected him to acquit him
self nobly at the above place and the
following special shows that their expec
tations wei* not in vain. We congratu
late our friend on his brilliant success:
Dalton, June 12.—Tin-commencement
exercises of Dalton Female College were
much enlivened by a literary address
from Hon. J. W. Harris, Senator from
the forty-second district.. The universal
verdict- of the large and intelligent audi
ence was that no greater treat has been
or will be offered any assemblage in the
State during the commencement season.
Col. Harris is a graceful speaker and
captivated the audience by his elegant
diction, chaste thought and flights of
eloquence. The institution is in u flour
ishing co- dition.
Reunion ,>f the I tit It Georgia.
The eighth annual reunion will be
held on the 24-th and 25th of July at
Conyers, (Ja. This will be the first two
days’ meeting we have every had, and
out of the five companies composing the
regiment from this county we ought to
have a good delegation to attend this
meeting. The people of Conyers will do
their utmost to make all who attend
enjoy themselves, and a good time is in
store for the old survivors of the 18th
during these two days. Let us get up a
big crowd from here. The more that go
the cheaper the rate. Give me the name
of every one who intend going and aid
mein getting a reduction of rates. Do
this at onto. Geo. M. Maddox,
Emerson, Ga.
Egyptian Remedy. Do not
suffer the pangs of Diarrhoea
and Dysintery, when you can
reli<*vejt ,instantly l>y the use
of this great remedy. A cure
guaranteed. Price 50 cents
per bottle.
A Chicago man sent ten ear loads'of
walnut logs last week to England.
THE CARTERSVILLE
Improvement, Gas and Water Company
BOSTON DIRECTORS. * CARTERSVILLE DIRECTORS.; OFFICERS.
Hiram Blaisdell. r ev Sam P, Jones. President— Hiram Blaisdell.
Elisha I hay r, John T. Nobris, Secretary— Geo. 11. Drew.
l. hl T'V * ' ir ’ Col. Chas. P. Ball, Assistant Secretary— John H. Wikle,
Geo. W. Lear.yard, ’
Edward H. Mas in, John H. Wikle, Vice President— Elisha Thayer.
Geo. H. Drew. R. M. Pattillo. Treasurer— Peter W. French.
Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Cartersville that it is
PREPARED TO FURNISH GAS
To citizens along the lines of its pipes. It has opened at its works on Cook Street, a
General Plumbing and Gas Fitting Simp
For all departments of stch Lb t and is rremred to pipe hons-s for both gas md w ter on short not c•. At the C mpanys
office, on Main Street, a large sunply of
GAS FIXTURES AND CHANDELIERS
ARE ALWAYS ON HAND.
The Piping will be Furnished at os t, to Intro luce the Gas,
until July lotli.
All piping done for gas must oe apnroved by the Gas Company and superintendent aad man are provided with passes, for
prot ction to citizens, and no persons ctaimiDg to be in the company’s employ should be admitted to residences without a pass,
Leave all orders at office on Main street, over Satterfield’s building, or at the works.
HIRAM BLAISDELL, Pres’t. THOS. M. GRIFFIN, Sup’t.
PORTER & VAUGHAN
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
talftsi life Sftipieit if Sims,
Representing all the New Styles and Lasts.
* i
Porter & Vaughan’s 82.50 Shoe for Ladies,
Made by Clement & Ball is by far the Grandest Bargain iu the Citv. Sec our new line
Ladies’ Oxford Ties and Slippers
New Styles, Nobby Goods, Lowest P.riees. Just received, another shipment of
PORTER & VAUGHAN’S $4 HAND-SEWED SHOE FOR GENTS.
Every pair sold undei a positive guarantee and equal to any $(5 shoe in the market.
A grand line of
J. F. Swain & Co.’s Fine Shoes for Boys, Misses and Children,
All styles and grades. "Positively guaranteed. Porter & Vaughan’s
SHOE DEPARTMENT
Is fast taking the lead. Qur shoe sales are immense. Porter & Vaughan sell strictly
first-class shoes and guarantee every pair. We have determined to close
out every dollar’s worth of summer fabrics in our house.
CUT PRICES! CUT PRICES!
Bargains that are Duly tempting now being offered at Porter & Vaughan’s.
I 4*
Parasols at Host!
Straw Hats at Cost!
Great Reductions in
Satt-eeens, White Goods,
Muslins, Laces
and Embroidery
WE AUE HEX IXiUA LITERS FOR
Black Dress Gfoods!
See our line. Fine TRIMMINGS to matc^.
PORTER & VAUGHAN.
Leaders of First-Class Goods and Lowest Prices.
NO- 3.