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Newspaper Page Textivol. xvm. ATLANTA. GA« TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 2 1888 PRICE FIVE CENTS Our Story Corner A TEXAS SHERIFF. Cutolla <i * sci*!i Kiwu, or rather village, In southwestern Texas, of some 400 or S00 Inhabi tant*. It lath* coo ary toot of one ot the border counties, and probxMy dorires lfe none from (onto lino mineral springs to the vicinity. The country around U ta •iciotively a greater country, all the land being taken up la large ranches. The population Is spine, aid la new a practable nod law-abidlug people, hut at the time of which I write e very lewlese element preTtlled, Cettle tblt-ree end horae thterei nbonnded, and deaperadoea ware not soir-e. The dose proximity or the Uexlcan line of fered an irratisUbls temptation to the light dngned gentry, and e eaporahoadanco of cheap whlslty to tho wild yoong bloods of the community. It was no uncommon thin;; to sea a pasty of thee* racing their horeaa through tho streets, shooting off pistole and yaUlog, “Cloae op, close up,” white the terrified inhabitants ran to dot heir blddtog. Cooipiensos among them were the Bnrloann boys, Thoir father tree the wealthiest atuckman fat the country, and they eonld have tad eraiy advantage of education and secioty bad they so chosen, bat they preferred tho wild, fra* life of tho ranch and tba prairie, and grew no neither better nor worm than other cowboy*- crack shots, desperate rider* and by no maani as tempwate as Father Uathew. Each wet the «Ut* of things tn Osstolla when ■Joe Thomas was elected sheriff of tho county. A small, spare man, bottom and quiet to a fault, with palo grey eyes that rarely looked you equate In tho face, bat modet'ly sought tho greand wbonover their owner was Inter viewed, either by sti anger or friends Yot small and quiet as bo was, and though ha hooked aa narek as Korea, many were too talcs of desperate dtrlog current about him, ouid numerous the desperadoes who receive! thoir quietus from his unerring eye uni hand. A notable contrast ho was to nit wife, a tall, tig honed virago, who. if she had been put in breeches, would hurt lucked twice tho man her hatband did. Bur, though celebrated through tho village for htr tongua and temper, when ever Joe looked «t her m hi* placid tray, or spoke la hla lausutd monotone, the weakoood immediately. She was asked cure how many men her hntbaud bad kliltd, and her answer was, "That’s tlx yonder la tho burying ground, an' Lord only knows how many In the brush." In troth, the lifo of a Texas ahorlff, in that particular locality and at that -particular time, waa far from being a bed of rorca, aa tho tallowing lociilcuta will ahow: 4t ouo timo Juu trad made largo collec- -aiuen, and wbiiu Wat i- K an opportunity to irausmlt she mooi^rv; --iPvrretc-treirei-.**i foricd'to’kro-p Tt in bus home, Caarcllu not being btcaiod with a bank noreven an Iron safe, ho tried to keep tho money aeciot nroa from dhe wife of his bntom, hue having no safer place to deposit It than under tho hetd of tho bed, and hire. Thomas bring a qotsblo house- wife, specially addicted to turning up and boat- leg niaitrciica, of ooorre la waa aoon discover ed. And equally, of miss, abo blabbed it In at full conctavo of all tne old women la tho -village. Needless to say tt apread like wild fire, and a night or two after ward Joe reaped gho consequence!. . , . Tho abeilff’a mansion was of the usual stylo «f architecture In that country, 1. e,a Hottest hacal, bulllof upright sticks, chinked between with mud, and wltn a blanket fur a door shat ter. Too see* tblsf would not find much diffi culty in effecting an entrance; but, In the caso of a man like Joe Thom is, hla dtffl.-uWtea would bo apt to begin as soon a* ho had en tered. It was tbo dead of night, and Joo and hie family wsro sleeping tn* alsep of tbo fast, -when tbo blanket wos raised and thro* Halt- cans softly glided In, intent on appropriating to thoir own ns* tbo funds destined for tbo wtate and eonnty treasury. Luckily for Joo, ha slept like a cat, and busrevar stealthily tho gn Id night maiandeta moved, ho board, or fan cied he heard, a sound that roused him. Broad awlkl on the Instant, ho rtached op his band and nobcieasly took down a revolver that hug, ready loaded, over bis hud. Casting his kcon eyre round tbo mom, ho noticed on root where tbo general darkoee* seamed Intensified into a blabber shadow- a shado w that saomod creeping vary slowly toward hla bad. Ceaokl went tho unerring pistol, and with a fierce yell one of tho Msxioaaa sprang la to tbo air, and fell piano on tho dirt flo» with a ballot through hit brain. Both tbo others rushed forward, bat Joo had sprang oat st the foot of tho bed before, they reached and stabbed with thoir long knives tho place whore ho lay but cur install before. Than commenced a hand-to hand straggle, nil tho more terrible that it was carried on In tho dark. By the time Mr* Thomas, who, bold woman as tb* was, was shaking from head to foot In tbo sodden terror of tbia night attack, bad klndlad a light tba three Mexican* were stretched dead upon tba floor, while Joo had escaped with a knife threat through hla £m ..“. deep gash In hit right hand. Next day three new grme were added to the l!i al ready mentioned, and tb* flame of Joo Thoms-, the fighting sheriff of county, spread far jgd tt 13 0. Ho bad held the office for several yaare, having bun twice re-elected, and bad mad* a notable change in tba moral status of thecom- inanity. Bon* thieves and cattle thiorc* won rapidly thinned out, and desperadoes no longer painted th* town red at their own -tweet will. it was tn the dfth yoarof BherfffThomas’aln- ■cumhenry that an affair occurred long remem bered In th* county. Thor* were many Maxi- -cansscattered about among th* different reach- «, and among thorn waa on* Han awl Gird* who waa well liked by loo gringos ao a polite, (inlet fellow, more industrious and reliable than hia countrymen gonorelly. tomnerat* tn hla hahlta, and never In a fan. One night, early In the spring of 1670, this harmless ■aid SI Hawkins, a typical cowboy from a neighboring ranch. "What d'y* mi an by that?" asked El, sharply. “Wnat I Mg." dr* vied tho other. "Tor dot- lota hits tbar mark av'y time, as duos yer bal lets, tven in tber dark. An’X did-hasra toll rz Sheriff Thotaa* her boon lookin' far yon, long er them Incky ballots or you nr.” ‘‘Ho won’t bov ter look far,” oriel tkoyoaog n an hotly. ' I’m gtoerolly ter ho found by them es looks for me, fthoat their seaoUta’ like they wus lookin’ far a noodle In a hoy. Mack. Sheriff Thomas can dad m* when* for ho wants me, an’ mebbo when ho doss dad mo he'll wish ho hadn't." "Fltd ho'* cotohed or Tartar, hay? Waal, howsoever that mebbo, I’low es jeer'll bo wauled Toro long fur that lectio affair ar yourn las' spring.” "What leatl* affair? I dnnno what yar talkin’ 'boat, 81, an’ I don’s b’loiv* yer know yersolf." “I mean ther JS-.h or I**’ April, when Usaaol Garde was font-’ dead In Iter brth. an’* hla swsatboait removed that ammo night, aa’a never hern beared of sines.” "1 never killed Hennol Garda, If that's wbatyar memo; an' if Jo* Thorns* trios to 'nit me for that, h.M find htmaolf mistaken, that’s all." At that moment, 1 Throw np yonr hands, Ed. Bnrkaon,” said a quiet, but item voico behind him. Ho looked round. Thar* stood Jo* Thoms* covering him with a alx-ahouwr. To yield or die were tb* only altera tsiroa Be chose tho former, threw np hi* ban It, and sullenly tar- rendered to th* law. "What'* tho row abont, Joe?” ho askod, carelessly. "What yon Testin' me for1* . "For ih* murder of Hanntl Garoia," replied the sheriff, quietly. ' I never done it! an’ yer slot got no lhadder er proof agin too." "Glrl’a tamed up,"said Thoms*, slgnificsut. ly. Fnrlwon'* bronzed cheek blanched. Bo opened hi* Up* to apeak, but Thomu stopped him. "Brit suy nothin’ ’bout It ter m*,” he ad- Vlttd. "Lean said's sooneat msndod. yer know. Tsln’t my bnslnee* ter *ay of yer lanerevat or guilty. All (hod tor do was tor Teal y or, ao’ thet’adono.” “I t’pcao ycr’ll carry mo ter Laredo?” asked liurleton. ' Conn*. Thar ain’t no jail nnr lock-up Mr* rail bold yor, an’ ycr’ve too many frlon’a In these dlggln a An* It a high time wo waa off; to Jet* bustle yor bcooo or little, will yer? an’ leas he movin'. I got yor hots ready nor* with mine, an’ thcr sooner wo etart ther scorer we'll git thor.” "I atnt In seek an all-fired hurry tar git jailed,” said the other, sulkily, “but what mui’ humus’, It'po**.” ’’Han’ over yor weoponr, then, an’ wo’U start." With manifest relnctinco six-shooter oufl koifoweropetard over; tho crowd mein while s'hr dirglq Mid passing ronppiants on tbo pro- tM-’-Bfi o.-’/er.!MijrVc '' mannes-ofrUluvrds,' A . lSk*?»l!TSj D .d ES pWR? -it.d'*aV.»y tope: her Bnrfeson turned and illrcotcda quick lock and significant gesture of head and hand to two men who were standing nearby, and who immediately withdrew from tbo throng ard walked away together. They ware tho curio and brother of the prisoner, and wonld probably not have tnbmltadao qnlstlyto hla uir- st bad thoy not boon oyonwod by tho inniiorprcront who wonld b* anrotq tide with tho sheriff sboold a rescue bo attempted. "If* glttln’ latr,” romarkod Joo Thomas, as hr, his prisoner, and hla pous, consisting of ole ruto, Si Uawktns, redo out of town. “Wo shan't git to Laredo ter night.” “Why roll” naked tho prisoner; "wokin git thar If w* rid* all night ” ”i thought yer wsrn’t hankerin’ tor b* Jail ed?" rrmtrkad Joo, dry ly. ‘ I ain't, hut X might’s wall bo In tall as tidin’ ’long hero wltb yon when I want tor bo somewhere else, dod born It all! Wnora’ll yor stop, that? camp out? ••Kttheralrish far that. No. I rockfn we’ll S ttoolo Mis' Hawkins’, 8l’s mother’s, 'bout nk an' we’ll atop thar far thar night. I rcckln she'll gin na ar abaka-down an’ *r bit* er snmpnn feat.” "’Conn*," said 81, hospitably; "an’glad ar ther chsaco." It was a diaolato spot where they drew rein ahorlly after dark. A dilapidated hare] stand ing In th* weed-grown aoddtned margin of a iiltl* lonely lake, it* slanting trails and graas- ecvend roof giving tbo only Indication ol hu man habitation In that wilderness. Mesqnita and caclna grow close np to the shnttorlsos door, and th* eblrplog of night Inoocta In the BILL ARP’S LETTER. A Visit to Hickory and What He Itv Tun-TM Scan J» ot Bmsli lotuwfB-Tno KornrUaf of ■•lam—A Cematarjr Without VdauDinta Wlaaton and Ita Tobacco Taotorloo. £ <rcatnrc, who waa not supposed to htr* an -enemy in tbo world, was shot down by tom* nnknown assassin a* ha was returning homo from educe. At first, tnapieloa pointed to hla countryman u th* nrantsrora, but it toon leaked out that tb-re waa a woman in tba cats, and th* evidence now scorned to polot In an other direction entirely. But whoever tho lilly party might U, it sreo known that Jo* romu had two! a to bring him to jostles aud non* doubted that he wonld, soon or or lator, keep hla word. ..... It was Christmas tvs, and, at usual at that •eaten, there waa plasty of liquor going. Tn* •herlff ns abaant on tom* esnnty bails*** and the Boslasoa boy* and other* of that ilk had tats advantage of tha fset to make thing* lively la tho little town. Hoe* or lea dial nr banco bad been carried on all day, p’ttol sheet log, yelling and quarrelling, bat "nobody hart” as yet. In tbo afternoon tb* boyi *U collected round alter* on th* pluzi Car tho Intellectual amusement of pitching dollars. Ed. Burleson, a msgolficont tpeelmen of a WfStTcjan.was tb* look lest or moot akiUfol pUcbor, and hit dollar catered the halo ovary /lEd'a cs lucky with his doll tract his ballots,” trees, the melancholy crooking of frogs la tho pound, were tho only soanda lnvaltng th* •ilruba. Inside, howover, things looked more cheer ful. A bright fir* waa bluing In th* caramons fireplace—mesqnite, If fit for nothing olio, mtkea capital foal—and n hot snoper aoon smoked on the table. Altar thoy had dan* fall Jaittca toll, Ih* man drew their hldo-bottomod chairs toond tb* fire, and became, to all ap- wsraoea, u cozy and comfortable as If they rad bean three friends in n camp hoot Instead of offirora of the low and their prisoner, arres ted on charge of minder. “Fa it air Christmas are, Joe,” said SI Hankina ’Irrckto yer won't any nothin’ agin er laa'l- il-ktr, art' I know El won’t lAcal option don’t bonder or man non* from havin' hla Jag as' treat lo’ his frirads.” Th* jngwu accordingly bonded act from under th* bod’ and a cricked tamblerani two cup* being prod need, they wore ipaodily filled. "Ben’s yor health, Ed,” said HI, politely, "an’ wisbln' yar may git elar off whoa yer bn ngbt ’fore ther court.” Whist bong! th* glass fall In fragment* at hla fact, sad blood, mixed wltb tho whisky, running down bis arm. "Bet a reacnc.’” cried th* sheriff, and hit ever ready pistol covered Burleson. “I’m cr deed ■ man. l'sposv,” ha added, quietly, “bat I'll hold my priosoor.” With tb* last word tho pistol went off, simultaneously with a volley from without, and officer and prisoner foil together; one dead, tho other dying. Th* uant moment the rtsensra inched into Ur* room whore tbay found nothing bat th* dead bodies and th* Irrnf td old woman. 81 (tewklni at the first shot mad* for tb* back door, tumped Into Oh* lobe, and swam to th* other shore. Groat was the const motion of tho racoon to And thoir a t mptad deliverance had resulted ao <1 least- . ronsiy. Tb* fallnr* was attributed to th* pro dpltoaey of Bob Burioson, who find before tttfs'gnal fur a general foillada eras given, and in his flnrrj failed to Indlol death. It waa ron.v con: station lo tho friend* of th* nnforta. rate boy—b* waa bat nineteen—that hft « id- <’» aid violent death porbape saved him from a more shameful doom. Mach more widely. • pried regret was felt at tha death of Jo* Thomas, and It waa tong an th* connty owned •netherahcrlffaneh Mho. A Ufa o? Tonooy. Frcm th* b’ew OrlriM Times Democrat. Colonel John W. Do boo*, of Birmingham, Ala. labney preparing lb* Mogrephy of Ih* lain William t. Yancey, af Alabama. Tba week wae fnt placed la tb* hands of Wm. P. Baaford. of Opelika, Mr Yancar'e life long friend. HU health haring failed, the pipers were pleeadfa the hands of tb* 1st* Boa. C. a Stag, of Alabama whodlod evtikoat making any headway with tho work In “Hlokory" is not much of * name for a town. Nobody would choose sank a name sow, but a long lime ago there was an old fashioned crossroads tavern tbore with a tittles sign swinging on a post, and It said “Hickory 'tavern; entertainment for man and beast,” Than waa a little grove of hickory trees atonnd it, and banco the name. It it not a connty scat, and la only fourteen years old. In fact, it 1* ooly abont fire yaare old, for daring th* first nine years it was a little orphan, being relied on the bottle,and wgs puny. Built seemt that two or throe entorprislug mon saw something good in the child and adopted It, and now Blckory has n thriving popnlaiion of twenty-fiv* hundred, of whom throe* fourths ora white. 1 have long observed that If a mu* town has the good fortune to have a leader in whom tbo cllizsna baro confi dence It will go ahead, hot where there la none and the people do not work together, bat tom* pall haw and *om* geo. and soma poll bask and some don’t poll at all, and all want to ride, te makes no progress. To* people of Hickory bad a Mr. Hail to move there. He had bnt a few thousand dollar* bnt ho wu orim fall af life aid energy, and pooiessad s wise haad and plenty of nary* Uudor hla indoano* Hickory is fast growing Into importances* a manufac turing center, and Ita progress Illustrates most forcrhly what on* mon eon do fire n town. If Its location hi* a slngto natu ral advantage over my own town of Cariaravlllc, lean't as* it. Indeed, Carter* villa la In a richer country, snd has a fino mineral region to back 11; but Carteravllto la away behind Hickory In manufactures anl In poshing anorgy. Blckory now has a score or more of aplcudld store* that present a stylish city appcareoco. It haa a bank, a wagon far tory that work* ouo lundied hands, and taros lint len beautiful waaoua ovary day. Is la called Iho Piedmont Wagon company.ann Mr. Hall la it* president. It employs white labor, and ita pay-roll 1* (600 per week. The timber from which the wagona are made Is superior, in some respoett, to that of whtoh tho north ern wagons ere made. It is thoroughly Ma soned by mechanical contrivance, and h t vo years from tho stamp before II is ase-,1. Tiffin Is no (oft whll* pine In tho bads, anchu tiffin is in all northern wagons. The fi-ijah, in all respects. Is at (cod as nortLnn wagons. Tne prlco fs as low if not lower. Tqp i-XFOnmcntisasucreae, and tho ci-isctty. at am* f ovary.Ton — r • - -f. v tits’ 00-1. ; r.ii-ama as'inr - uMi in-. oiherday forll.000. Now tho moral of all tbia la to ahow tho lack of nervo which must of oar sonthorn peoplo have, fur wo arc send ing up north every year five millions of dol lars for wagona and es much more for .haggles and carriages. Ob, tho pity of If. Giorgio aiono sands nearly a million,and boro are hor yonr* men with strong arm* and good me chanical talent hunting around for aourothlng to do or woarlng thoir youth on os dram- mats on th* railroads. No horn*, no reiUog place, no ptotpaote exiopt to keep on and on in the tamo lino end seldom so* fathor or mother or tho homo of thoir youth. But Blckory haa another extensive mans- factoring company fur task, doors and blinds, sfslr reset and corn ices, snd It* work goo* to Ashriiia, Warm Spring*, Waynesboro and 8'atwrilte. at* It tmployt forty white hands aud Is. making money, Tneu Ihorela an ox- toe siv* steam tannery and a largo dour mill with patent roller*, and anothar one without tbo roller*. Than la n* tobacco facto-y that works 70 hand*and onosmoklng tobacco fac tory and two cigar factories. Thera Is a fa- male college that coat fifteen thonasnddollars, and a high school for boys that a at tlx thousand, and a Ca'h- o lo convent, and everybody . sooma at work and prosperous. Mr. Hall Is th* a few mile* for tbo shook was not to at Charloitonaa ll waa higher opto- _ the Hcdmont conntry. Maybe he la hm tin* a good place to blowout a chimney for hit faict-c, atd w ll giro at a voictno toon. I bop* so. When hit fires have rent theta (htiin.-m aud qnaklngs will stop. I mrt Oolonei Pulk, of Wmtton, at Hickory. HoiOTae farmers’ man and rnns a farmers' payer, and la now stomping the state to srooio them to action. Bela eloquent and brtoing sail Iho people like blm. Ho la urging thorn reform riant In every settlement—not graogot with tecrat proceeding* bnt olnbo foe open handed improrrm-nt. He luroilheo tlem with printed forms oood talpleg organization, constitution add by-laws' Be say* there are on* hundred thousand farmers in North Oirollnt, and they are th* hope and th* strength of tho state, and yat base so eo operation, no head, no Inin- ci.co in legislation. Bo tolls them abont G Mr- gla and Alabama and HlaUsstpp', anl tho in- torca they taka in tbolr atncnUnral depart ment* and colleges, and wants them to wako np tr.l do likowls* He took* for tn hour to a sis! ding crowd, and whan about to clou thoy urged him to go on, aid ho went on. Bo get* f. il of his subject, for hit heart la In it, snd,B*8em Jonsiaay* ho juatpulla out tho liunjuiad lets her rip. Be is inoooodlng well in Ml mlitionary. effort* bat tbar* are many bid fashioned peoplo atonnd bore who era hard to mov* Thoy uo wedded old ways ani the old lima* tlitm belieto ovary naw thing la a trlrk, and shako Iholr heads suipldous- ity talk abont tho good old time* bsfoio ' with an unction that la tonohlug and tv* A northern tourist stopped to stay it with one of them, and as taey sat on tho tourist went Into raptor** over fnl moonlight that was shining, and that tbo moon did not ahta» that are be lived. The old farmor knocked i tut of hla pipe and said with monro- Itt "Ah, atranger, yon ought to hav* ire to have soon that moon bsforo th* don’t ablno now like It did then.” in SALEH. - WelL I am In 8*tem now, tbo venerable anil vencrtird place wbcrsthousandaof tbadangh- mi of the aonth were educated. I hav* long wlahtd to ito this Moravian town and hor tropic, Sid ao I catno through Winston down mo Halo bouse, and was welcomed _ Bi lo on ono good log and one of i(:h last ho swapped lot during the ms Moravians are a psaooablo people Quaker* bnt thoy will fight when [crplcxed, and this shows to what .Month was opprrsrad. Thaoaptala or of the well known odltorsmf pro- tbo Uslvcaton Nows. I wasqutis ornlng 1 arrived,and fait jaatilko op tho spengo and going homs.whsrs 1 luold.) i around and grant and bo named a»d pejud, bnt my mail wts brought to ap and 1 ''tightened np when I saw tbo super- ’crui_i%' ' duo lotter, and I uncoalciuujly mayor, and it th* leader in most ovary on* of three enterprise* and they began with but liltle capital, and have been built np and en larged and establmhsd from their own profile. Laud that waa worth only ten dollars aa aero fuor tears kgo la now worth two haudrod. Tb* farmsts In tho vicinity have a homo market for everything they can reraa. A farmer who happtnM to have some late corn brought in n load of roasting isra while 1 wu then and sold the toad oat In n fowmtnatst for ten dol lars which was abonttwo dollars a bushel. I con well imagine what Oartererillo would bo If the had a thousand mechanics at work and their families to feed, and ah* could hav* Item If th* had tba nervo to fnvootln maehln- <ry. Town property wonld bo worth some thing and oar form* lncroaao In vain* Wo an dratroying oar valuable timber ostry year to maka room for mor* ootton. I saw a wal- riottrockonsfUtcar going by Hickory np north, nod waa told it told for sixty dollar* Coltret Lands of Watauga, sold tho wild cherry oa bis firm for twentj-ftv* hundred dollar* Thera wu 'an ranting cast triad bar* tk* other day. Some smart fell* we from np north won penning around for timberand bappined npon an old, unsophisticated firmer and brought from him forty walnut treae for fit* dollar* apioe* u they stood. They paid tbo money and took • killOf tale, hod the old man fait rich. Whan iba old woman came him* ho told hor wbat a bonanza ha had struck. Hh* wu tnrpilaad, hot wu not aatit- fitd, and said it wu a yanks* trick. In a few dty* anothar foliar csmoaloag sad offered teb dollars a tree, and ah* mala tn* old man sign and ah* signed, too. Tho me neywu tendered task lo the first pnrchuu, but ho refused to tab* it aud nod for tb* timber. Tk* court held that treu not cat down wen part of tho realty, and realty coaid not b* toll without th* wthb signature, so tb* sharpen lost their timber and their money too. They are aa old fashioned peoplo around Blckory. Till Piedmont region wu uttlod by the batch more than a century ago. They ua not Dolch now. for thoy hav* mixed and married with our oort of people until they bmvtbccom* anglicised, and yon can’t tell '' emspartonlylonrao. They ar* o ple’a, meet, indnstrlon* uving people, tad th* beat f* rotors la Ih* eoontry- Bow in th* world they hav* menaced to break np th* lead and pulverize It daring this long drought of saves wt tkt I don’t know, hat they have done ft on lay loll and towed their wheat and th* fields look u smooth •• a garden. I ns on* exhibit of wheat ntth* Hickory fair that was will rertffied to bar* mads 42 boabals to tba ten °°Bat "have arid farewell to Hickory. Mar •ho lira lesgand proper. The last 1 aaw of Mayor Hall b* wu in tba strest try log five or oxoffudsn forbad conduct. Hojutetoppod I ng enough teaoy to th* mantis': ’ Two dol lar* aid a half and cuia,” and wanton to look after blsftr thing* ...... Aa "scarceby SteleovtUo abont 3 o'clock In tb* afternoon th* cartnqrok* cam* along sod A* psofi* out of th* rtoilhoerr. Old Volres, or who over Whin I op< ned it I saw the fl rat eniloarlng word! were “my dear old man.” Juit thiok of it I “Old man I" It is tho firit lime that uy loyal member of my nuoicrens and lovoly wif# and offspring over O’ii'oJ mu’old man” tomyfaco. -Built Is all right I reckon, furl am old. Ono extreme calls fir another, though, and to when I wrote back home again 1 began with "my blushing bride.” ll hu been nearly forty years ainco 1 need that ex plosion, and 1 rtekon It will bo forty m ire before I nao it again. Btlcm la not to much unlike other towns after all. Is has boon very ranch modernised ainco tho wor. Yon can’t MU a Morarian from a Wmstonlan neither on tb* atreetnor in thoir htmea, qnltaoth* fellow la drunk and then you may know ho la not from Balom. Th* only ressen why thou twin oltloa have not consolidated are Ih* qnaatioa* of taxation and prohibition. They art both prohibition tone* now, bm Salem hu no guarantee* of what tboftrtnre may bring If abo consolidate* Salem’s prohibition la a oentnry old, and abo feels sc ear* Salem’* rate of taxation la oil/ one-fourth of on* pot out, whllo Winston's la twin at mneb, and will have to b* lucres red if their public improvement* keep pace with th* rapid growth of the town. Salem la rich, that la bar public Institution* school* churches and charitlu are all well endowed and Independent. She bad originally seventeen thousand acre* of bnd. bho hu sold off a good deal bnt hu still a large reserve which ieyearly iacross!ag in vain*. Bor ullage buildings are not splendid hot they era substantial and oom- mtdloo* I attended church at night in a aiacioos and beamifol chapel that wu built in rhayasrlhOO. Tho walla ar* three foot thick, and It it said that no such careful work la don* nowaday* Th* chapel seats ah rat right hundred people, and It waa quite fall. Tb* servico was very Ilk* tho Preibytartan, br t in tbo morning more Ilk* tb* Eptaoopollan fur they have a litany. Tho minister, Dr. Iiootbalar, who It also la charge of th* fomate eolltgr, la a man far above tho a to rags of ittalettr* Indted I never Itetenod to a eor- mon I hat impressed me more, for lit eloquent teadtincto of thought. Who eonld help lov ing tnek a man? Bow fortunate la tbit ooos- mnnliy In having reared inch aa on* lo load tbim and their children. No wonder that Salem college hu inch a good name abroad. There are abont 500 pupils bare now, nod every ecuthcrn slate is npnstnted. What a aoncerfbl pcopl* ware they who aotabllahod tie morals and tba industry and philanthropy of Ihfa community. Thor* are ao laggards her* They could not Uv* her* They would Unbiased. Everybody work* II tn* cook qoita they do not care. Maoy of them owned •lover, aid whan freedom earn* It wu no check to than. They smiled and said, “go. and pane* go with yon" I am told there la not a yoong man within hnrllmlto wkadriska intoxicating Honors orwbooror think* of inch* thing. Iterate a homo for the poor wtdowi where they her* comfortable quarters ai d kind attention. Another homo fur the orphans, aid uoihar for th* ogod and afflicted. Where ate* can yon flod such a peo ple. Tb a cemetery it bordered by an nvauno of crtm. mm*too cedars that ar* * coatary oldatdmaayol them thro* hot in dftmatar nail eighty hot Ugh. Thor* are no mono- mtLla In this horn* of thadcad. This leone p’see where th* ptoper wu u good as th* prince. Thar* fa neicacr haad turn* nor foot- ah no but on the breast of oeeb Iiltl* monad is s itbltl of stoe* or nuubio with th* name snd Milk piece and date of birth and death. Tbo oiltapha ire brief, goner ally a lice from some von* of Scripture. Tat moth ers are ail ild*by aide lo long uniform row* lb* maidens ar* all la anothar plat; the ftiben In aaotber and tb* ealldroo to thorn- sdr* a Ttastmpte heidiog, “Oar dosrmother” or "Oar dear father" la all that tell* tba parent Many of these tablets are a eastary old, and sieEotnnltk* tbuse pot there near osouptio lautnsf* and lettering. Must of thorn art 16 by 24 tmhaa and tba grit" hav* bnt two few apse* b t wt ao them, astf all are corarad with gr,s* Tas Christian name* of thouniopU ateoi cnifuos bow. In so* sow 1 found fink, Christ. David, Abraham, Saosasl, Bonlsnia, Nathsaiel. Ja ob. Solomon, nod I foe nd OorisUaa sevrn time* (a an other row I fnond Christiana •»vst Mum Timpfranee. Lydi* Zuleika, Carolina and Curntlia. Their were twin children In ono grave and their names wore Beat* and B <*toe. The air nature wore snub as PTohl, Frits, Foils Schuliz Schmidt,Suidor and Aker-uio. It la a tweet place to go to, mud although I visi'ed It Infers broskfsst, I fonod mother* sod listen there with freih flowors and wa tering polo paying willing tribute to thotr luitd one* 1 found the tamo at two other cemeteries that I hav* recently visited and tbo thought tnddonly camo over mo that b* navtd mothers and sisters alt over thisbroid Isr.tf could be found every day in avary ally of tbo dead wltb flower* In toalr hands and grief in tbelr hearts, bnt where am tbs father* aid III others. ’Tie woman’s tenderaats tbit wafer, all hunnn love and ksnpa the haavanly tdant alive. On Monday Eight I viallad tbo ttll’ge and was prt looted to tho girls In tl* tollcgochspel, where they bad auombted for evening prayers. Alter that service I WM M- coiled by th* seniors through every depart* tutnt of the Inatltntlon. I wish Mr* Arp cold hav* seen her “old man” pr toeing «toond with thirty atract girts after him. The riceping apartments Were a novelty to me Tboy ate not rooms nor dormltorie*bat more like iptcloos halls with rilding cnrtaiu that a*] aiate iho heda In pair* Tnoy aro berth* and ovory bed wu mode np In (ho some way and all ware snowy white and beautifully o can. Then wen no garmoate laying around hill* Everything wu In perfect order, and thegiilsdfdir, not tbo hontokoopor. Notloog Bp• 1 wu fo'd tf a yenng ltd? who bossted that abo novtr made up a bod norclcsned np a room in her life. Well, of aoaisc, she wu not educated in Seism. These Salem girls are happy. I know thoy ar* Tselr bright, Intelligent, Mger faeu chow that they ua now living a lira of noble ambition to acquire Xnowiodgo ud to do good In tho Stlem hu extensive cotton mills and a wonhn mill Ihttls older than I am, and still mikio tho tame honest goods that I used to ■ II forty lire you* ago whon 1 wu my father’* dork. _ But what of Winston, that phenomenal city of eight thousand peoplo, that had lou than eight hundred twolv* years ago. Hbs now hu thirty tobacco factories that amploya and rapreunte over threo million dollars oipltal. More ping tobacco Is mad* at Winston than In aoy town In tho world. Tnoy omploC time thousand banns and pay out sixty Ibon- sand dollus a month for labor. Threo fourth* of this threo millions wu aade’hor* la Win- slot; ltwM not brought her* Itwumado by live young men. But few of them are over thirty-five yearn old. Tho yoong men of Wineton work—they all work, Esamolo la lira thing; It Iscatohlna. Why. yon might bring a Caitoiavllte - boy here, and ho would Celeb tho dl'easo and go to work. Winston hu already expended over thirty thousand dollars In public school buildings. She did not l-G'.io bunds, but aito piiil the n.ouiy. 1 \ i,ite<l her immense toil toco LuluiMand warehouses, rsi us tho weed in t’1 i!’ *ulu, C. .JY. r. 'oj’n.tticaUi. Notg, Irag- u.tiit id loot, fui 1mnr toil sirii, tSat Iuilt liao iittlo bundles of biaekenod awitoiiea, are baiud Up and shipped to Brcmon, where tboy are n edeintotniuli'ui d rent bucklbusai H’oton orMacmboy. Well, It la is Blngular apputito ti at tho norld lire got for tobacro. As 1 sur- viycd Iho thousands and llionsindi ofiiaxos that aro dally piled np hero tho thought and- dinly strnck mo that this wu aU fur the moo. The woman hav* nothing to do with it. It la a onesided thing gad Hall ends In what? Spittloabdamokef Split!* and amok*.’ And tin so two words are still ringing in my tail There la good profit tn tb* hull- nit* It haa enriched. Winston sod lattlil enriching. Her market Is all over th* soath, at d a man can hardly taka a chew without appropriately saying, "Lot'S tlko a ohow of Winsion for Winston's toko." Wnothoy thoy' a-y ll or not, Winsion gels a ml to out oftvory mouthful and Durham a puff from ovory l'clltici Is a cclsnot her* Jolt Ilka It ll In G sot gla. It b red hot now, and moat avary* hi dy who hu nothing to do la ronnlog for something, A win chap from Coon Hollow, w hose name wu Wiggins, cam* to town th* other day, and told a candidate that If ho wonld gift him fir* dollua to (root on b* ■Id cony every vote In hla boat. Of coarse gave tl to him. When th* candidate h-ppaned over there tut Saturday ha f. and Wiggins jut saturating th* boys with wbltky and hunt him ray, "Coma op. boy* Come upend help jonrsalvs* This here la Wigginses whisky. Whon Wiggins art a ruinin’ ho don’s forgot hi* friend*” It taraod out that Wiggins wm a candidate for const*- blr, and took that method of raising th* wind. Hi ntvot told a word forth* man who furn- I bed th* money. There h * Dutchmen runnfrg for the tegbiatoro fn thou parti who i* not I killed in politico, and whon ho fonnd * few lovarclgst la ono but who wore •ralnit th* Block law, ba chimed In with ttim and laid that It wu an ootragu and so forth and thoold ntvtr bar* hit tapptri. Next day ho mot bis opponent over In another hi at where thcr* war* Iota of voters gathered si.d every one to a man wu In tivor of lb* slock law. B* wac chiming In w ith them unanimously, when hi* opponent, who wu np making a speech, tald: “Now, rkldilrb, dldent you tell tho boys at Bog wal low ju teidsy that yon wu agtlnat tho dock law;dldent)oof Deldrlch wilted and arid lathing. Blsoppoaent con tinned laathsa- dertng volec: "Doldricb, what ore yon for to day, and what will yon bo for tomorrow?” hctdflch caw that ovory eye ire* upon him, a, d he ntrvonaly ccntcbed hts hud and cold, In half Dolch and naif English: “Fate attssn, I lab for— for— far 'eeo no my,*” wbteh wu hl> Dolch for oeonomy. Thoy uy ho wilt b* kit. Vi rite, politics b * hard road lo travel, and th* way of tha undidate la hard. Bur. Ate. the Mmrmiuoim cavk. BETSY HAMILTON. THE LONO LOOKED FOR RA COMES AT LAST. Batts's Muslin JTrosk sat a Cold, oalllx Etta a*m* In Oouisoi, as* te* tvaax c-ui.a ua tkv Vira for Esiitf- lair an* uosali risk Hava a oaod n« EroUokiag. lu. it la, attnuile hav* rndved Ua aohlamaota .tad Mtddaiicr, SalraUh, Uertiaio, Il rotny, From tb* Albans. G*. Banner-Wslofcmu. y> tterday Mr. Andonon wm lo tho city, and gav* ao accurate account of th* flora men tioned aototal day* eg* Mr, Aodaraon toys it is on Ibe farm of He. Jim Thompson. Th* covr. or whatevu It 1* U in a field, with n bianch on lithsr aid* Th* land hu btan ciiartd and wars out thro* lima* bnt tbo pan- tralloM who tilled thafiild and plowed over this sink had no Idea that snob a eara wu bo rn si h them. It was list discovered by Ur. Thompson himself, hla mate’s hind fell break- It a through Ih* croak To all appoaraacu the earth wuu solid and oompset Uara at anywhere else, Mr. Anderson my* ho ha* seraralMmao vlstlsd tbia cave. Mr. Thotnp- sen dial triad to fill tt ap ky throwing fewra rati* and rnbblsb down th* uaatb, bat they wrnt hr oal of aif bk Aa Iho month kept en larging, tb* owner finally bnllt * pan around the hoi* to keep bis stock from falling lo. Mr. Andtrsoa asyathapitls qnltedark.bat by Itcopteg fox tom* time over tk* abyss and nrartng Into lit depth water eaa b* saan at It* Io-nom, white tb# nth of an nadorgroaad ’trials la distinctly beard. The cave It ship- cdztmcibing Ukaa clrtorn. No on* u yak bta attempted to explore this singular hoi* It la evidently a natural formation, bnt wbotb- *r it it. Iho month of * carom or timely a isnkra plan* la tho with hu not u yot boon tavtoiw, Bits dono aot Into rainln ot test and driv as all into th* hoaro to tk* dr* bat It betel cold; we jbt kindled n fire to dry ooui olothrd. Boro It 1* the test of Odtobor and mo and Cousin rink still a wurln of onr muslin frooks and a fennln Ilk* metlln folks In Joly. This her* rain will bo bad on tb* oottoa that’s 0|tn In tbs flcl’; bnt folks halnt got na room to grumble, kua tbey’vo don* had plenty of time and pretty weather to git ft all out U they’d cr picked lk Some* a gwln* to growl anyhow, hits th* humeot natur that* la ’i m. As for ma I’m mlty glad to aw tka rata lay tb* dost If nothin ala* Onr fislkl waa over thar to tha vallay tother day, and eonldn’t akaacly broatho for the dost; w* com* through Talladcgy town and onr wa;- gin rlt aich a dust folks couldn't era thar nax nabor'a house, snd avarbody was atnauia'and a hitm' of the gilt and a wlshln' ’twonld rain. Thafirecomp’ny taken pity on tha town and tnra'tontandapilnkled tha street!, I novsr seed felko tt proud of anything la my life as thorn town felko Is of tho now wslor work* They am all a braggln'povcrftil on Mayor Eksgga and say thoy wouldn't er nevor had ft If ft hadn’t kata Mg him. Evoriuily's a imin. to’of a bathroom; yon can’t hoar nothin' bat •awin’and hammerin’ from enn uptol aua down, all on arconut of tho walor worst. Tha big tank la tho fe*’ thing yon see. long afore yon git to town, a aiandln’ out agin tb* sky, away np ynndrr blgbcr'n tbo rriiberteen ehurch steoplo and J. M. Louis's fino boats. When old Mitt Strong sood ft iho lowed: ' Why, my stalls I my stain 1 what sorter cbimblyUthat? They sholy air attirin'to pot np a monalrons big honss to sjob » tro- mcrjlona ohlmbiy as that; I rock in as how hit's some big rich man, don’t know wbat olio to do with hla money.” Tho water Is pumped Into ft from tho big town spring, and ils clean and nice and good, and cvcr'hody’a got It te tho’r yards, sod the Chilians don't do nothin’ all day bnt shoot the water snd git ringin'wet and kolch a whip- pin', and pot on dry elolhoi suit git wet again, and koteli another whtjqiin', Tboy aro aurtor osad to whippliti yon know, hut tho waterworks Is s ucw thing. Thar's a heap of Eow.-tkjngv !o. TallnCr;;. Or.o of ’em In rho n, w‘ -uMic feboolilhi /taj Ha'. a gwloa _ lo have it built, too, and thoi" aroa gwinw SO lay tho corner atono next Wodues-lsy. fno now brick warciiouro ia a gwiuo up f nt, aul o heap of dwellin’ houtcr, nnd thir’a Al-x Barcry’a new, lino liooso and Hr. Toolo'c now, fino hoflao,and moot over body !« a hivin'of tbelr houses nalnltd aul fixed up to look now, aid acme of >ma got new carriages ami a ilia around and looks rich, and aoma now felkc bus moved lo town, and tbar’a talk of auothor now railroad a cornin’, and a right smart chance of new MMra la don* com* to town and theolrona Ic a cornin’ a Buddy, and alwgcthex ita a lively town. Fop ho tows than folks over thar that mod to be po 1 u October peaches, la got a plenty now, and tbo bottom nil ’pears to bo glttln’ on top. Bit shows wbat working 1 and uvln’ of yonr money will do. Ilovotosoo folk* git rlib: money is a powerful good thing to have, and Jlamosstrcnall convenient to bo without ik It fetchis happiness to loruo and a light er misty to totben—mrlabowlt era fetch two things that is ao different—bnt Ha like fire, ton got to he koerful how yon on It The .-fch halnt tilers th* happiest feik* Folk* tbata got a little money la aumellrnct happier than Hum thatagot a hrap, and aometitnoiite tolfcrr way—Hum (ball rot a heap li the hap- pliat. lllta owin’altogetuor to tho fulkt and not tho money. You'll hear fulka abuaomoney. Ih>y nrtdn’t aay nothin agin miner- A chile cries fur s chter and plays with-t and glia hmt, then beats and whips tha cheer. Ab tew t’ointtbo cbto’ra fault. Oa* dollar la u good u lotherlet’n one hap pens to gU Into* had hand. Moaiy makes a fool ar some folks—In per- tickler them u makes ft all of a sadden t,want ■hey halnt bran raised np with It. Itblkes 'an opbr/ont they selves and Urey plant target all about how thoy felt whon they wu px* Ftp Iowa ha’d Ilka to try ft nwhllojlattu too bow he’d fool, fdont know wblca is to b* Homo folks hu gat a plenty of nionoy and far all th* gcod ft does ’era they Jut aawoll netharanoa* Thoy ar* a*’rich folk* Now than old man Bonspart* Westbrook so rich ho don’t know bow much money he's got—lots Ms wife do tho cookin’ and dress Ilka acorn 11*1’ nigger, and ho talk* all tho Umo ltko ha wso Shared they'd starve k> death. Thar’s Jaff Fsfittlon’a talks fifes high, drosses fine and lives on the tat o’ too Ln’ aid evorhvly a woedetin’whar tho money comes from, aud strangers a thlnkin' they are rich;—ibams "rich pd folk*” If felko can k<ep oot’a d-M, thai'a tha bast way tollvof rcokte, toast way* MU bet ter than ravin' np yonr money not to do yoar- h 'P not nobody oleo no good. Pap ho Iowa that “rleb po’ folka” la a soriar mlxtry of pride and poverty, and whar you find tho mix- tryyao don't inglnnrrly find happlnaaa, and ho Iowa "pci rich folks” halnt paltered with bo icrtit prlato I bln a Ilyin' aroon’powtrfel hereof Iste a frollciin ao mneb— m* and Cousin Fink-wo hsint made us no winter clothes, and pap and buddy’s all out stlhaknau and pap be tewed of wa gala dllnT atay at homo a white and maka.. him. aoma new breeches ha’d J 1st alsaokly bidder go to bod- snd Twu a toe, to whon wo'ans wu np that it town tothsr day w* rent alter Tiik CoiwirnmaM lowin' maoblns. W* wu afoard it wu so cheap it sronldn’t be no seconnt. bat on eonld us th* pllia and piles of work ms _J route link’s dona on II, and sen pap dikad out is hla saw leans breeches, and J, ana la baidtosew With yonr fingers, and if yen cooM ar ntd bn» - uy w,uh1i’m«i that maehln* yon'd brag oa It, too, umo u u* and route Pink dm A body’s got to row awhile with a noedl* and git tboy fingtrs all pickod and a bloodin’ d git along at a snail's gallop fore they know ■w glad they’d be to git a now sewin' ua- ablaa (Xnsin Fink aha can't talk abont nothin' els* but Uw maehln* 8h* towed ehe was a seals’ all night ioog. Jolt like yon ar* glttln's blla all night alter yon go a fiahln’ that day. They »*y Oossin Fink ft Bate' to rlt mar ried. I can't tell yon nothin' about It. haul promhed her I woold'nt, ard I'm l'k* old Mis’ Fiuhcnr* ‘ I'm a ’urnai that dou . talk, nod I savor fells nothin’ that nobody »x<* m* BO»losayB*Ute’abonk"a«f aoatomf hotter hash afo * I loll It Bwrar Rxhilvois. 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, November 02, 1886, Image 1