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Tacts and fancies for the Tireside
“A feature of the Alabama State
Fair of 1890, which was held at the
present fair grounds,” said a news
paper man, ‘‘was a wax figure of
Rube Burrows, the train robber, who
had been killed but a few weeks be
fore at Linden, Marengo county, after
he had made a sensational escape
from jail. A showman named Bar
num—not the original P. T. —got up
thq exhibit and had it in a little stall
on the second floor of the main build
ing. He charged a small sum for ad
mission to his booth and also sold a
copy of the life of the outlaw, which
was simply a compilation of newspa
per clippings.
“Barnum was a pretty shrewd fel
low. I was in his confidence and re
call how he got up his exhibit. He
had never seen Burrows in his life,
but he secured a fairly accurate de
scription of him, and then had a wax
man made like Burrows, with whis
kers and other embellishments of the
deal outlaw. Barnum made a trip
over to Lamar county and tried to
obtain an old suit of Rube’s clothes
and his pistol, but failed. Burrows’
kin-folks drove away the showman
and threatened to do him bodily
harm.
“Failing at this, he managed to get
an old suit, such as outlaws are sup
posed to wear and, buying a murder
ous looking old pistol from a junk
shop, he rigged up his wax man and
placed him in position in his neatly
curtained booth. Then he employed
a good speiler and the shhw was
opened.
“You would be surprised to know
how many hundreds of people paid
their dime to see the wax Rube Bur
rows, and many a countryman we
away believing that he had gazed up
on the real Rube. All except those
who were conversant with the facts
believed that the rusty old pistol was
Burrows’ faithful shooting-iron, since
the men in charge did not hesitate to
insist that it was. Barnum made a
neat sum of money for his trouble,
and his feature proved to be one of
the attractions of the fair.” —Birm-
ingham News.
CLARIBEL!
Claribel, Claribel!
Do you know adown the dell,
Where Lc-ve’s min’string spirits
dwell,
Dearest one;
Trills the June gale’s welcome note;
Shines the humming bird afloat
Like a flashing, golden mote
In the Sun.
Claribel, Claribel!
Shadows lengthen, and the swell
Os the night wind sounds the knell
• Os the day,
’Neath a pall of purple cloud,
Mists of amber for his shroud,
Lies in state its monarch proud
Far away!
Claribel, Claribel!
Will you listen while I tell
That old story conned so well,
While afar
Glows the twilight with the mirth
That illumines all the earth
And the heavens o’er the birth
Os a star!
Claribel, Claribel!
Ah! the glamor and the spell
Os rare odors and the smell
Os the musk;
Droops each dewy blossomed stalk
Just to listen to you talk
As with dallying feet we walk
In the dusk!
Claribel, Claribel!
Not for years of asphodel
Bordered Eden would I sell
One sweet hour
Os enjoyment such as this
With the burden and the bliss
Os my lady’s tender kiss
In her bower!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
TEACHING AGRICULTURE.
With its Agricultural and Mechan
cal college crowded beyond capacity
by students and with scores of oth
er clamoring for admittance, Texas
ought to be extremely interested in
the bill introduced in the House
of Representatives last March by
Representative Charles A. Davis, of
Minnesota. The President referred
to this bill in his recent speech at
Keokuk and commended the plan of
federal assistance to state govern
ments for the promotion of techni
cal and agricultural training.
The principal points of the Davis
bill provide:
Payment by the government of a
total sum equal to 10 cents per cap
ita of population for each state and
territory, for the maintenance and in
struction in agriculture and home
economics in agricultural high schools
of secondary grade and instruction
in mechanic arts and home econom
ics in city high schools of secondary
grade.
That each state and territory ac
cepting these funds pay the cost of
buildings and lands necessary for such
instruction and for instruction in all
general studies required to make well
rounded high school courses of study.
That there shall be paid to each
state and territory for the mainte
nance of bianch agricultural stations
now established or which may here
after be established, $2,500 annually.
That each agricultural high school,
city high school and branch experi
ment station shall make a detailed
annual report of its operations to the
governor.
That the secretary of agriculture
shall certify expenditures to the sec
retary of the treasury and that the
secretary of agriculture shall make
an annual report to congress on the
work of the schools and experiment
stations.
Undoubtedly the Davis- bill will
corns up again at the next session
of congress and its course will be
watched with interest.—Ft. Worth
Telegram.
When the average man can think
of no <'ther reason why women should
not be permitted to vote, he cites
the fact that they have a habit es
getting off a car backward.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
TOM WATSON.
When the rural mail carriers met
in Atlanta last week they and the
people who had charge of the program
showed how incapable they were of
appreciation. The man who has in
time past done more for rural free
delivery than any other man in the
United States, and the man who is
really the father of rural mail, was
entirely forgotten, absolutely ignored,
and during the entire convention his
name was not mentioned. Others
were present to address the conven
tion who had nothing to do with se
curing to the farmers the daily mail,
but Tom Watson was not even invited
to be present as a looker-on. It does
seem that the ones in charge in not
inviting Watson, or asking him to .ad
dress, or in some way take part in
the exercises, was a bold and daring
affront, and one which only people of
the type who know no better conld
be guilty of. We hardly believe the
carriers themselves were responsible
altogether for this, but they are no
doubt in a measure to blame.
Whatever may have been the mo
tive in treating Tom Watson as he
was treated, the fact still remains
that he has gone on record as the
“If we (the South) begin NOW by supporting HOME INSTITUTIONS
of merit it is hard to estimate the benefit that will accrue fitor* such a policy
in the next ten years.”—Richard H. Edmonds.
Cbc Georgia THome
Insurance Go.
of Columbus, Ga., is a HOME INSTITUTION
ORGANIZED 1859 NEARLY A HALF CENTURY OLD
Total Assets Over One Million Dollars
Surplus to Policy Holders Over One-Half Million Dollars
Losses Paid Since Organization Over Five Million Dollars
Patronize the Georgia Home and Help IT to help YOU Develop
the Infinite Resources of Dixie Land.
AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Phinizy & Co.
COTTON FACTORS
Augusta, Georgia
HIGH CLASS SECURITIES I
Among others. we mention a small block of stock In one of the largest and most conserva
tive banking institutions in the ►outh. which will increase 150.00 per share in the next year.
This is of interest to large or small investors and will be on the market but a short time. You ■
wi 1 find this a genuine banrain. Call or write
CHAS. E. THOMPSON, Stocks and Bonds, 204 Equitable Bldg., Atlanta. Ga.
father of rural delivery despite the
claims of many to rhe contrary.—
Oglethorpe Journal.
The trusts are all a» interlocking
system, fighting one does no good.
The way to relief is in fighting the sys
tem upon which all of them are based.
The people of Georgia have recently
found that out. The price of stoves,
which are manufactured in the South,
continued to rise. The manufactur
ers said it was on account ofi high
freight rates. The people and the
manufacturers got the legislature to
reduce the rates 38 per cent, and the
Supreme Court sustained the reduc
tion. Then the manufacturers, in
stead of reducing prices, raised them
5 per cent. The truth is that the
railroads got the greater part of the
extortionate price before the reduc
tion, and now the manufacturers get
it. The extortion remains the same
or greater. This time it is the tariff
that the people will have to attack.
Let there be free trade in stoves and
the price will soon come down, pro
viding that freight rates continue to
be regulated. Regulating the tariff or
freight rates singly will not do it.—
Investigator.
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