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JL I i CABNESVILLfr TRIBUNE
K I SHED
> I
‘WHO STRUCK
BILLY
A FAMOUS MYTH.
3 WILT.
With t issue, we reaqru.e the
cti Billy Putt ersons will
i i „ _ i.ii.
rm <i fi go ; , but haS beon
1 time to time:
i 1 ccS and bequests
t o tne child or
r of y four sons,
orgo and I '
ii Isons, Win., son
.1 r* Napolean l»ona-
y will and
i child or cbi’drer#
in the life time —i I.ia oj
■
wit leavin^ b.wfu
h i-'time of i’i c-a '
r t r father the share
to such child er
ll V * ' J all go to
j and si ■% of
r llld ;U Ot
of and ■ their
y inch child or
v- in t U UiO of
cm a aws
j 1 tune of the
l- of feuch child
i'-:uo is to stand in
f and have the propor-
w ouid bare belonged
1 child if hucIi child had
1 l.i.s or her father, but the
t contained in this fif*
th agr q.li of my will are not
o apply to the bequests
ined in tl fourteenth para-
o t> any part of them .It
ay intention, to 0- ivo all the
mentioned in — said fouv-
itrogr.aph of this my will
iin na.oed absolute-
s furever, Btibjoci only tu the
li "id < ■< > m that, pura*
u rangements I lac.
by thi • my 1 ;st will an
1 have taken into co n*
i i the property already giv*
made in r-vmey
I i cl;is drew, and
in v. i«ich they r
c t * pr^p I'ty and money
is. ft. is therefore my will
-.‘■ire r~^ - it everything charged
1 -i or otherwise against
iv of them situ; 11 C* rs consd-
11 ] Cj C-. up to
his my will, except cnly
I have or may hereaf-
of my s 11 . Hen*
t and
hall of the ship
'of the
ii concern I
in i oi his
rvices in assist-
Utoichil biiviiosp,
s " \ vl
e ‘-.i t. ty. -ndn? u ty
dness has not I com
some years, bat 011
has been attended
b.4 •, it is there-
v w and , intention
g who hare been
r c ncorned Wit!).. me
ness shall be subject to
»'•« I ' ccount - l ut th » l
g as re! uS tl> ^ U ‘ m <n '
'' i ‘ ‘ 0on: ‘i 1 hu'ed ,
"* 1 1 f s eUicil by the ai
ut- i now m do- Iqy tills my
ai dte-ta ment^ -
.;iei t-ie most
n il and ecHoideration
of my estate and
Appears to :ne reasons-
I pro; or,and I hope and
; 1 fy i > -Jio satisfaction of
y family are as may be in*
It however, more than
that I may have commit-
errors or :n forma titles in
:p and expressing my will
liv.iii and should this bo
r IS my most earnest wish,
» request,that no advantage
ken by ail or by any of uiy
I .ny suck errors or informal-
t they :.„d ,aeh of them sha.,
ver e-s stand to and
ill and t-sta.
it u Innately any difli-
lorstanding should
ec.iag this my will, that
.
each of them wi). under
.
nbmii all
- : me to the vbi‘rati 0
- i-.-.u. and Dual award ot three
r-reasonable, hooeet m eu and
JkRNESVlLLE, FRTNKLIN COUNTY GA. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 1891
no ac ouut »o app’y to the law
ter; red rest* (a tlung 1 have endeav*
< uiod to keep clear of all life and
bij
-stiil it has cost me a fortune] yet
should any of my heirs be so far dis-
| satisfied and unreasonable as t> at..
tempt to break and undo this mv
will, then and in that ca»e I do here-
by. evoke and *rn« all an* every
ecy beqwnat and d««re in Eav.-r of an
or of au) siv .1 1 ■ u ,r P
]• Inrtber Will ami lev.w that a
and every the share or shares r
*
herein, intended for him
her «>r them, ti.all be forfeited and
the same shall be divided equally
among such of my other heirs who
m;jv 1 e ready and willing to abide bv
and comply wi;h this my Inst nil;
rti 4 totsraent.
! 38th And iastly, I do htivby con-
otuute my thro# *ons, Joseph, Ed«
ward and George to be executors
tin re v. 1 a -1 wi 1 and lest-.ment, and 1
l*. of the death of any f mv !
: r. e soi a, the i and m ihat
ca © I do hereby appoint my so-*
nry ui place of t : e deceasi d, here-
by m’ol.ing and annulling all otbei
md former wills heretofore mad©
kv nnN'i atiiying and confirming this
as* my !a«t will and testarnsmt. It
i v.iy wit', intention a d desire that
m v :,ai 1 fixsentora sba'l not be ro¬
quiicd to give any security whatever
to ' : c offices of the orphan's court
for the ad mil) i-it ration, management
and settlement of my estate, nor
.-ha I they be compelled required
to rend; r any schedule or list of my
e-slate and property. And as my
executors above named are to have
the reversion of iu}- estate and prop*
erty it is unnecessary and can not
be presumed that they will make
any charge whatever for sett ing
and winding up my estate In wil-
ness whereof, I, the said te.-taior
Win Patterson, have hereunto sit m<
hft „a and seab.Jtt tlie city of Palti-
m ore,in the state of Marylan-1, this
iwentii-th day of August in4!io }«'ar
>i our Lord one thousand eight hun*
dred aud twenty-sevcn( 1827.)
AY ru Patterson
Signed, sealed, puhlishtd and pro¬
nounced by the said Wm Patteison
the testator as and for his last will
anl testament, in tho presence of us
who have hereto subscribed oar
names as witnesses at his request, in
his piesence and in the sight and
presence of each other.
John B. Morns,
R, Wilson .
Ham.lion Orahaui,
j S. \*. Solomon.
Baltimore county: On the iiMi
- of February. 183b, came
Wilson, Hamilton Grab un, amlS. V
s 0 b >mon, three ed ti»e mover.bin?
witnesses to the aforegoing last id
and testament of Win Ihatt- rsoR,
te of raid county deceased, and
nuide oath-cn the holy evangely of
Aludghty God that they dt l »eo the
testator sign aqd seal this will, liat
they hoard him publish, pro ounco
declare the same to be h^ m-t
wilh'tnd tcstaipent, tliat at the time
of Ins so doing, he was to the best of
then apprehensions of sou ad and
disposing mind, memory and undeiv
standing end that they, together
with John B. Morris, the other wr -
ness tboroto, RulMCtibed Iboir names
ajj witnesses to tins will in Ins pres-
once, at his request and in the pr*.s-
ence of each other,
Sworn to m open court,
Testimony of D. M. Penne, regis»
0r . o £ A -m s f or Baltimore enuty.
Since the execution of mv for‘go¬
i D g la.st will and tfstaniem, dated
day of August 1827, I have
thought propar to add this codicil to
w jjj
(Continued|next week*)
Bernaare.t., wha op-yvjy .»;cpn* ?;%] her
contempt for Amur: us to a reporter
uotloMEiDOf gn‘i^on. u-»f ", .....^ »kj
the £ow4 .how
people who come us. get ell the
CVerJO! '
0 . .w then *,0 a.va> an-, noicate us.
suffers every time she vUita America by
^Uou *»-
b V 9ut **?* her fyi#Qis *“ T * a t«ll her ■
?-:s has caught that bomd “Yankee
tree what the ethers ^ W.
118 ^ nd of both our nasal twang and
^ is about time. Shall.
free am! mdependent, Anarinreu
with plenty of money be as reined and
^ve aa aweet voire, aa anybody else?
;THE LON £ ST/IB
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SENDS A GARLAND TO THE
GRAVE * OF J ‘ \MES ‘ S ’*
DORTCH. >
A Loyal Tribute From
Mown Iron:*.
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Tha following lel'er; ibough a pri- 1
vate one to the editor . of - the . ,,, I
rib-
une, is sc eloquent, so full of tender
pathos, and is such a beautiful and
loyal tribute to a noble man who is
dead . from one of iho most
writers in the south, tfia' we give it
to our readers:
-I am a 1 alone in my chamber now.
And the midnight hour is near,
And the fagot’s crack and the clocks low tick
A re the only sounds I heat.”
I begin with a quotation as you
see, from Bishop Doane’s tender
and beautiful poem entitle.!, “The
Little B«y That Died.” My little
boy, Morgan, has been very low for
four long weeks with typhoid fever.
It his oecn an awful time with mo,
— a time of suspense and fear indes*
cribable. From the brightest aud
healthie-t of our little ones he has
waste# to almost a ske’eton, and can
not now raise his head fiom the pil¬
low. But I am glad to tell you that
the doctors say he has passed the
cri*i# and that wills ex raordinary
care, he will recover.
y;ince tho common moment of my
little one's illnes-a, such . < cm- , os th e
one I quote from , heir-1 o oa in the
family t-f the heart’s soov •• i S, Il Vo
often lv-curred to me. lu the days
of cur prosperity and sunsM’ e such
leaves in our scrap-book are too apt
t > lie ignored and slighted. But lot
i ho s orm c une and the shadow
creep to the hearthstone of borne,
then the stricken i cart goes back
with a bound to the songs that t well¬
ed it with a tender sadness in the
days of its youth.
Strange that mehir.chdy verses
are most appreciated m e rly you'll,
anl longest remembere 1 in man-
l o d s and wo naidiood’s yens! But
ii may be a sort of poetic 1 ins’ght,
because* such Kentime tsst-il e a sh
lent chord within u*, a chord that is)
so often to be awakened in the
years that arc to ionic. Alan, n<
best, is a ‘child of sorrow and of
woe.’ \ fine writer has said,‘to
live long is to he a mourner over
many tombs.’ It has certainly been
so with me, and it is c.ready Login,
mug to be so with you in the bloom
of your youth and beauty, O my
.u ntie friend! But we must rot
1 God, the divine father
an “ friend, knows l est And lie
l;as ord ined bis own means by
whhh to arr-i•. ! is belovel children
tor tho life that i. vnit* them i the
ages to dome. At all events L is «a
noble philosophy, that bind with
glorious fai:h, teaches mbmission
and pat erne to ihe b t tliat we can
not alter.
1 have been in luced o wiile to
i you by rjad'og your delicate eom.
pliiiient to myself ir. your last week’s
paper. I write to thank ymi for it,
and to assure yin that I appreciate
it a!i th-’ more as coming tforn the
sourae it did. Indeed, for some
time I have felt it my duty to write
to you , and try to say something to
assuro^y u of my siniere sympathy
in 3'oui ui toward ; ffliction an 1 ir*
reparable loss m the death ot your
noble father. ‘lie was my friend,
faithful and just to me,’ and I would
bring the brightest and freshest gar
lands I couhlcu’l from t he
lands ot my life o,™„i J,
around >be tombs one tha* ma,ks
:i e hallowed spot where his ashes
repose. I knew your fa her in'ima’o
and well, and I unhesitatingly
>:iy dia Le was one of the noblest
men I evar met. In the fine language
0 j- Pericles,he ’ was one that “never
caused a fellow mortal . . t to put o n j
monming.’ Bich and ram were the
tvems of learning that he had gat',s
ketl into tbe capacious sioreliouse ord*. of
his mind, and from his lips iu •
na.v convers. with Ms friends
nev*r failed to come words t:ia
were-.(east of reason and a flow
of soul.’ Nor were bis intellectual j
L )ewe ! s his onlv possessions that were j
-.n^are.* »’mid radiant and
' noble
U» hvart was as a one
rare. mortal besom. He
a s ever beat m
wou!d have cheerfully divided bis
b ., cui t with a need vfel'.own.or.
^ rdWh0 common b disposition ~ 1Jaui to ag» !c
| giavate spoke a neighbor's of his faults. admiration He
ten to me f
' the beautiful and noble lines in
j FV-pe’s Universal Prayer,
‘ Teach Hie to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I fee.
The merev I to others show,
Tbat mercy show tome.’,
I Bul ho hasg0DC ., rora
among ns.
mid wfc‘are ^widened and mbduO.
In tbe summer lime o£ roWlie man-
, hood .. he nas . been , called „ . aw and
j v,
his loved ones must mbs him f«r-
evermore. And hi frien I , tbo?(
T»diok -e \ him but *u iove bi n, ice
his h>-- an l Ucl t x> t hat Ii c -io- ti:.
--
his mem cry will e to th:;n,as toy- u,
as soft and swee‘ as il e i tpp4 < f c
stream'that flows by ha tomb • f the
lost an i loved il:a he worhl can no
res'ore.
Mv dear yc, i.£ friend,to you ;* j
•be other bereaved cries «'-f us k '
on h -nsehold, permit, me S ! i il
elusion. Le your fai k b ar ycu on
i s'snowy ’>\i g3 t b Jic baso;r. oi Eter-
ua> \j -ve il here ycu may res’ with
your dear Papa, and where the
glory of the realm is the smi;e o i
the Lord. Ae ever,your friend
AI orgax Loon r v.
A Hew Cooperative Community.
Il Is often charged that nil attempt© at
co-operati.vc industrial colony making
have ended in failure. This, however,
is not literally true. There are at pres¬
ent two such wttlomonts—ono in Ore¬
gon, another at Kaweah, CaL—both of
which claim to be worlring satisfactoiily
and prosperously. Thcro have been re¬
ligious communities that succeeded re¬
markably as far as amassing wealth is
concerned, notably the Shakers aud the
Economile brethren of Pennsylvania.
The trouble with these, however, is usu¬
ally that there is no cohesive idea among
them strong enough to hold them to¬
gether after the generation that knew
the founders and were kindled into en¬
thusiasm by them have passed away.
Tho young generation find their fathers’
faiths irksome and lapse to tho world.
Still thcro is one of the
co-operative religious community always
bofore tho world. It is the Roman Cath¬
olic monastic establishment. In the'r
respective institutions both the brethren
and sisters constitute perfect co-opera¬
tive communities. They share the Y-
bovs exac tly alike and have all tilings in
common. They are constantly recruited.
moreover, from” the ranks of the world.
A new community of world's people
hope# to perpetuate Itself in an indus¬
trial colony that is forming in Lake
Charles, La. lire members go from Des
Moinoe, la. It will bo in some respects
a Bellamy organization. The members
contribute each to the common fund
$500. They intend as far as possible to
have a world complete in itself, where
“tho savage, foolish and wasteful system
of competitive industry shall give place
to the kindly, rational and more eco¬
nomic system of co-operation.” No
wosnen will be allowed in the commu¬
nity. No member can dispose of • his
stock without consent of the company.
It is expected that here each will work
sufficiently to .contribute bis share to
the maintenance of the community, with¬
out Imposing upon any tho long houra
and exhausting labors that are necessary
to beep one's head above water among
the world's people.
Among the nim9of the community are
the following: “The production and dis¬
tribution cf wealth; the collection, and
extraction ©f raw material* il* Zon¬
ing, by handicraft and machines raft, into
commodities; the culturo of both »:*-
mal and vegeteiide prodnets; the yzp.-
du.tion of food, clothing, cheltor, ma¬
chinery and aU articles of oonvetiienc*,
becesfirty or of luxtiry; the eetabliiAment
cf proper methods of distribute os, trans¬
portation and storage; the satablishsjient
of just and correct systems of credit, ac¬
count and Malum#*; tlie building at
houses tor c.nreelvc?s a«d famlliec; the &r-
bitration and Jt*t ^tleomit cf dkpntes
between oursalves H5 d the practice
a ^ non o onrs*Jv«s cf Jim* syrtemi of bo-
^ the edncati©:i cf our-
tistica! to improve ihe health, se-
cnrf> ti<* »:nnpin«s3 nnd perfoct the vrell
b° lr A'< : • v.-:y member, and z* well to
cnS-n - ■« '■ ^extend c-*«e»,la. In th- world j .;t co- at
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Tb©fcrosloba*ofia«Uyoooqapre4 ~ , . vr* .
fa Wr “aba* *«*•*•’ cf Rasie, which, clou*
ttnoil tlac-.-*# r.ow- allo-N-sthem to mtvrieo-
wor^tii ^ oi7b*
m.t the p-.rtals
M>* Julia Srhrefaar, tfc* rv-r.- b«<uUyof
was » ! L n*o^ York, but
** of :*«■ in Pari*.
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POTATO CULTURE.
JJ\ 1 HF’cO UTil LAi\
THE SWEET POTATO AS
, FOOD CROP.
Thousands in it For lie G.*o
Farmer.
ii : was asked to name, next to
• a i corn, the most valuable food
mid-act U t the Southern States,
hi)-:, m w: and beast, I woul i uu lies-
it in giy answer the sweet
An - s?-i n. wore I a*.ted to name
n xt t ■ ro io , the best money c
for the southern pi. n er, I would
quickly answer, the sweet potato.
In regard to my first proposition:
j The sweet potato* a? a food j
in the South, holds the same place
asilsc usin the Irish potato, bold 4
in the Not th Our Northern friends
C '° U n -°^ S et Utong without their
fla,l . V rations of Ir ; sb potatoes, But
sweats ‘ L ^ ,1|, Ihetn< in j t8 well know that our
arc, comparison to tneir
f'-ish, as biscuit is to corn bread.
The Georgia yellow yam, fried or
as tod. and served with butter and
s ago I- ; is good enough t-3 sa’i-fy t’ue
pal-.'tn of the most xaelir.g epicure
Then, he s weet potato cuUaidpivide
rich with < ream, but'er, sugar, and
flavored, wilh demcn well baked ami
st eked no a d left to ool an i
svvc 'ten a day or lv,o, Give gods,
what eating? tnd Ju;t !■' >k at that
Gestgiu boy, as fie Mi s around and
3'e.tff irit<> tlu> s: f and t hr.f
stack of'custav M Abo ! Ini we -r
pot at-' pudding , made f om grated
potatoes,and mixed with the V-rop r
seasonings andeendinrent 4 , of which
it has been said,that when one ca’s
too much, if will 'cause his tee -nails
to come off! meaning that the eater
is so fond of the dish that he gener¬
ally founders himself on i- before
he can qnit. Then there is the uni
ver-al ‘'slice pocuo pie’’a gi\; u
iavcvite m t-very. Southern- Fa mi y.
and made like a chicken pie with
a bofom and t.oii e u-r. and sliced
boi'od yams put in the midclo t*.-
gether wi'h l.ut’er, sugar r.nrl nut-
tneg, then baked brown n f , gi t-
ting*- ; o [>ut in enough ucli SWcct
milk or cream to make it juicy.N cr.r.
we introduce sweet potato b:*cal,
made by mixing boiled potatoes w - I
mashed, with either ledum meal or
flour, about one par' potatoes to two
meal, u ins; the usual a nount of st a»
sonings. i’hi yn ikes a v wy^soft and
very ^palatable bread, ;,nd cannot
be too highly recommcu-viei fur gen¬
eral use,as it will greatly ad i t > the
bread supply of the farmer, and at
the same time give hun a in .eh b. t-
ter and more wholesome article, as
go< d when' co’d as wh n ho*. Baked
mdwoasted sweet-are use! In
mo -t every .Southern home, and
anion r ihe farmers arid laboring men
many bushels of grain are saved * by
the general use of potatoes. Cuflfy,
eH-ecially can do first rate on sweet
potatoes, with an occs'oni! ’pos-
sum thrown in.
And now, before dismissing ibis
part of our subject, we wish to say
to our good Yankee friend-: when
the leaves bc^in to turn brown :n
September, our potatoes are np ■;
then come South! co.nd Soutii!
an , ° u et ^ pUt V0U 1 fau g h a regular
'
-
<0U1s ° sweets, and prove to you
iha ^ ’bey are five times belter in
‘T T ““ ^.W«Iri»h.
b ldtSthe S rei1 vaIl ie of the
s ' ve ®^ p°t a t° as a f°°d for man, ills
s, -' Rr celr less valuable as a food for
kiads of stocky There is not a
«3omestie animal but that will
f»‘ ©rive on sweet pout, es. As
a ho g food, them is no’hing that will
beat ucat ■- “ en pit* o T i Have hava as «<> an exp-nment •
latteni-tl hrg. several times aU
! exclu.-uvely on them, an 1 two
w«»s «» com to haidon up C.e meat,
‘ sen °wgh. One acre m potatoes
enough to fatten nteat f° r »„ y ordt-
* an ' 1 J» ba- ms of
*
*o Ani-,, c! , For
“ **' theie 13 nothin-’ better
tnan , ^o:h the vines and tub and
-i-s:
|f ^ .vun w.sh toetart np an ^ ; poor for
-
three times a day, to-
with a half. ration of other
food,»nd yon will be surprised a", the
result. : . Continue - - .me the eine-iment eapc.ment
VOLUMN XVI
for a month, and Hie next spring
you will be found increasing your
potato patch threefold, Some
! ago the writer traded for a
1 Kentucky mule, which had been run
down by negroes until he was
poor to look at—he would not
had -hanpus,’ and was altogether
most hopeless case. One day,while
pas dig the stable with a basket
p it itoes, old jack was thrown a few
of the large ones,which he eagerly
dispatched and nickered for more.
The mule was led regularly on
pnatoeg for a few weeis,and every¬
body was surpiised lo sec how he
fattened—his appetite was restored,
and he s on became a sleek, fine
m ule
Xi xt, the sweet potato as a
ey . rop for the Southern planter.
A few years back I was at Mem
|»b's, Venn., in the month of Febru¬
ary, when I saw hu idred-* of wagons
coming into the city loaded with
sweet potatoes pat up m barrels,
and on investigation, I found that
the farmers for miles around
shipping their potatoes up the river
to St Louis and other cities north,
and were finding a good market for
them. Some were selling to dealers
in the city at 00c, per bushel cash.
One farmer near town’ I was tcld,
then had 4,000 bushels in liis cellar,
and was expecting to get $l.2 > per
bushel for his entire crop by holding
them one month later. The States
of New Jersey and Delaware have
for n; tiy years furnished the East-
e.n cities with sweets at remunera¬
tive prices. Now, the point I wish
to impress is this, that while the
Mississippi valley and the Atliniic
eons', have been doing a c maideras
hie bu-i ess i 3 this line, yet the
amount tl.ey furnish, in comparison
:o the art o mt ili.it ought to lie Pud
can b - s< Id anna illy in the north
doe not amount to a drop in a
bucket. The New England states,
and a 1 that country lying north ct
the Ohio river, and the great North¬
west a-e to-day practically doing
without sweet potatoes, and are for
the most par., ignorant of I he fact
th It ibis great sou hern product is a
much finer and more nutritious f .od
for man thin the Iiish potato. The
Nor. he n farmer.- do a big business
growing and shipping their potatoes
,o all parts o! our republic, and why
not the Southern fanners exchange
compliments with their Northern
brothers, and ship them all the
•s \ eets they can consume? As soon
il.S the Noithera pilatj is edu¬
cated to the use of our u-c . in
»wee‘>-, and their merits full} unders
stood, the dem md will be enormous,
and the south wi 1 reap untold mill¬
ions from this m w industry, and
thus score another victory in the
rlevel >pment of her matchless l*e*
< > r os.
1 fie e are lw.» things which, in the
,a f some, will be considered as
o r it* s to this industry: the uneer*
ta itty of keeping the crop through
th i winter and the danger of the
put ttoea getting frozen and bruised
in fan-it so as tj make them rot
vt ry saon after they have reached
th -Northern markets. Thi- can all
be avoided by proper care of the
growers and tiansportatior. compan¬
ies, and as soon as the business is
t'uoto ighiy understood by all eon*
cert e 1, there will be no trouble,and
oar potatoes will reach their dosti -
nation b lght and s^und.—Southern
Farm.
Rjauceci Rates to Piedmont
Expos L on, Atlanta, Ga,
For above occasion the Richmond
D a nvi!l e Railroad wi!! se!l round
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CARNESVILLE.
INVADED
By*Hard Times’ Evan
gelists.
ALTAJRING PICTURES PAjNT -
ED BY THE BOSSES
ASmallGrowd We'comad The
Educators
It was advertiaed several weeks
ago that J B. Robhins, on© ot the
luminar'es and lecturer* of th© farm-
er’s alliance, would address the breth¬
ren of Franklin county at the cour-.
house in Cam Seville on the ‘2IH.U ol
October.
The 29tli of October wa» looked
forward to as a red letter day by
ancemen who were “gwine to town*
on that day to he educated .
But after all the advertising an.!
talk among the bosses, considerably
less than seventy-five allianctmen-
greeted Mr. Robbins at the court
ou hast Thursday morning.
Mr. Robbins is tall, lean, lank r
and has the restless, dissatisfied look
of a man who is seekiug to betray
hie people for the sake of pecuniary
gdn. When be commenced his hard
times sermon in the court house on
list Thursday inormug, Dr. T. G.
Umh rwoOd occupied a seat in tna
as chief mourner, there was a
small spriukling of mourning bosses
up in the amen corners. A happy
expression flitted over the face* ot
iho chief mourner and the bosses
when Brother Rollins rose to speak —
expression winch seemed to say,
we will hear mcontrovertable
argument.”
The speech was a rambling talk
about the hardships and opo e.-sion*
of the poor farmer, tho hard tunes
caused by iniquitous legislation, and
the beauty of ihe Ocala platform on
which tbe farmers were to vide from
the desert, of hard time-- into the
green pastures of peace and plenty.
The speech was largely interr-per?-*
ed with side-splitting anecdotes. I
the tanners came to Carnesvillo to b*
educated in the line of story te'lin
they were satisfied, but those wht
came to hear argument, went away
disappointed.
The whole discourse was a labored
effort to create distrust of old par*
ties and leaders, without openly ad¬
vocating the causo of the People’s
party. In one breath he ridiculed
the Democratic party, our trusted
leaders—even that grand old Demo¬
crat and tariff reform advocate, Rog¬
er Q. Mills, of Texar, and Giover
Cleveland, came in for a share of de¬
nunciation—and m the next breath
declared that the Ocala platform Is
Jeffersonian Democracy. How the
Ocala platform can be Democracy
and also the platform of the People’©
party is an enigma Mr. Robbing did
not endeavur to solve.
In on» part of his discourse Mr. Rol¬
held the government responsible
the ‘hardfime?,’and in another pai*
declared that the only reforms that
could insure the prosperity anl
: .nes3 of the farmer woul-J be such
agricultural reform as he inati'ira'ed
his own farm. The speech was soph
is’ical from beginning to enl.
Mr, Rollins spent some time tnleav*
oring to convince the tanners that lack
of economy, intensive farming, diyersitr
of crops,overproduction etc, is not the
cause of‘hard times.’ ‘Why.* be svd,
warmiDg up to his speech, ‘there can
never be au ever production of food as
long as lh-re is one hungry person in
the world. There can never be an
overproduction of cotton asloDgas there
is an unproperly clad person in the
world You might as well talk of a mao
growing cold sitting ©n ice as to say
that he grows poor from overproduc¬
tion.’ At this point of the sermon a lu¬
minous smile overspread the faces of tho
bosses, who seemed to consider this
argument a clincher.
Tne sopbi^ry of such reasoning is
very clear. The man who would get np
and declare that there could never be
too large a circulation of currency per
capita as long as ihere is a penniless
beggar in the world, or that there .an
never be too much rain in th e so ,th
i s long as there is a f y river in * ie
world, woul3 be considered a fool, a 1 1
ye 1 he would use the same line of ar¬
,
gument used by Mr. Rillins on 1 «st
Thursday.
Disinterested friend i cf the farmer,
men of biains and patriotism, have *\id
this iegarding tbe present 8yst 3m of f lr<
ming in the south— so long aa_the soo h.
CONTIHUBD OX 2XD G E.