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THE COUNTRY EDITOR'S DAY.
Many Varied Calls on his Time, bat
he Meets them All.
, The duties of the editor of a live
country weekly with a circulation of
5,000 and a working force ot fiiteen
or eighteen are as the sand swept b>
the tides. There is no end to 'em.
At 7:30 a. m. Saturday morning
such an editor was seated on his high
stool at the long desk in the front
pari oi xiis prim suup ciniug u^cu
his mail. He checked off the renewals
on the mailing list to his right,
handed the foreman the complaints
k from patent medicine advertisers and
their changes, and with pen and ink
attended to the letters that required
answer. Then he rolled up 150 papers
in single wraps, marked each
one "sample copy" with a rubber
stamp and addressed them to possible
subscribers and advertisers.
Between 8 and 9 he refereed a controversy
between his foreman and
V one of the job printers, helped a
printer girl to decipher ten pages
of badly written penmanship by "Old
Subscriber" and entertained a committee
of women seeking assistance
for a church enterprise.
It was 10 when the editor began
making out some bills for the collec
tor who stood Dy waiting, a sman
gentleman wearing spectacles came
in, deferentially removing a rusty
still hat.
"I have some poetry," he said, producing
a paper.
The editor looked up apprehensively.
"I would like to read it to you if
you could spare the time," the visitor
went on, getting closer.
"There's a man in the front room
* who likes poetry," said the editor.
"Read it to him."
"But you're the editor, aren't
you?
"Well?yes?but?"
"Then you are the proper party.
It won't take long."
"This is Saturday and I'm awful
busy; couldn't you come 'round Monday?"
"I will not be in town Monday. I
t live in Iowa, and I'm here visiting
?Tawi Tnnoo Mr .Ton PR
my ueyucw, ivui uvuv?.
takes your paper."
"Oh, he dees? Well, go ahead and
read it."
The editor settled wearily back in
a chair, and the collector left, saying
k she would return in the afternoon for
the bills. The poet got out in the
middle of the big room and read in a
tragic voice. The printers, thinking
? it a free entertainment, quit work
and gathered around. There were
ten pages of the poem and it took an
hour to get rid of the poet.
* Then the editor began again on his
* bills, finished them, and, the collector
having gone, he started to go out
with them himself, when another
caller was ushered in. He had a
t frown on his face and the editor saw
trouble in his suppressed manner. He
wanted to know if the paper meant
to ridicule him and his family about
> a cat and a parrot story it had printed
in that issue. He said the parrot
was worth $250 and that he couldn't
see anything to joke about when the
cat killed it.
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me eauor iiiauiuuj a^umvu
blame for the story which had been
written by a reporter, insisted no
harm had been intended, and that he
would be more careful in the future.
> When the visitor left the frown was
gone and the editor had another dollar
for renewal.
Directly after dinner the editor
was summoned to a private meeting
of the county's lawyers and a few
citizens to consider a threatened
move by certain persons who held a
large number of bonds against the
county and whom the county had
been litigating for thirty years. It
was a serious and important meeting
> t and lasted until late in the afternoon.
When the editor got back to his
office he found the collector had been
there, waited an hour and left in disgust.
Then he took the bills and
went out to collect from the merchants
during the rush hour of the
busiest day in the week.
He hated to do it. but he knew at
5 o'clock the breadline would form
by that long desk and that the ghost
had to dance whether it felt in a
frolicky mood or not. As the clock
was striking the hour the editor, a
bit tired, but with light of victory in
his eyes, was on hand with the
goods.
When the last toiler had passed by
the long desk the telephone rang. It
was a call from the superintendent
of the public school, twelve miles
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tendent said there was to be a declamatory
contest at his school that
evening and that the board had det
cided to have the editbr act as judge;
he knew the editor would be delighted
with the honor and they would
look for him by 7:30 sharp. As the
paper has a large subscription list
at that point the editor had to go
y ' and umpire the proceedings which
lasted until nearly midnight.
Next morning at 9:30 sharp the
* editor was on hand at the Presbyterian
Sunday-school, where he taught
a class, and not long thereafter
smiled indulgently as the late arrivals
excused their tardiness on the
i grounds of multitudinous duties.
, Girl Burned to Death.
Winchester, Va., Appl 4.?Miss
Virginia Carter, the young daughter
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or tteese tj. ^ariw, v?ao uuiUvU
death this morning in a fire which
* destroyed her home, "Yellow House,"
at Rest, this county, one of the most
historic structures in the State. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Carter were badly
burned in a futile effort to save their
* daughter. They are expected to recover.
"Yellow House" was more than
200 years old and was the scene of
many notable events during Revolutionary
and civil war times. Gen.
George Washington stopped there
while on his way to Braddock's relief
at Fort Duquesne, and during
the conflict between the States it was
the home of Miss Rachel Wright,
whose information to Gen. Sheridan
was of such value to the federal army
during his valley campaign that congress
voted her a gold medal in appreciation
of her services.
The origin of the fire which destroyed
this historic pile is unknown.
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HIGH WIND PLUCKS DUCKS.
Missouri Storekeeper Says he Witnessed
it with his Own Eyes.
To doubters of his story, Jules
Buermann, constable of Meramee
township, shows his broken store
window. He was sitting, he says, in
the front part of his store watching
the approach of a storm, in which
the wind was blowing with great
force when he suddenly noticed a
flock of ducks blow over the large
lake in front of his property.
The ducks were driven onward by
the fierce gale, and as they neared
the Buermann store the constable
noticed feathers flying from them.
Then there was a crash,/and three of
the ducks were driven through the
front window of the store, falling on
the floor, almost entirely stripped
of their feathers by the wind. Buermann
said that all he had to do was
to draw and cook them.
Buermann found two more of the
flock of ducks minus their feathers
hanging on a barbwire fence back of
his store. The ducks had been driven
into the fence by the wind and killed?New
York World.
"Megaphone Method" Bonaparte's
Choice.
New York, April 3.?Former Attorney
General Chas. J. Bonaparte,
speaking at a luncheon at the City
club to-day, expressed himself in favor
of the "megaphone method of
governmental administration" ^ as
compared with the "whispering
method."
"Wherever you find any one," 6aid
he, "who wishes to discharge his
duty in corners, in whispers and in
darkness, or at least in twilight, you
have the man who wishes to run his
own business in accordance with
other than civil service principles.
"Personally* I am more assured
than ever that civil service is absolutely
necessary to proper conduct of
our government.
"Is it not encouraging for one who
wants to get good things," said Mr.
Bonaparte, "to find that he has to
fight it out with senators, the
grounds for whose recommendations
to office are not always such as to
commend them to a gentleman who
is tainted with civil service?
"It is not always for us who think
of the judiciary as we should in this
country to find out motive animating
some senators in recommending the
choice of some judge, and to conjecture
from what we know of those motives,
what motives ruled in the selection
of others.
"I remember one case before the
administration which I served under,
when a president- could not get a
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unless he agreed to give a certain
senator's wife's son-in-law a position
for which he was absolutely unfit.
Accordingly, a good appointment was
held up."
FLAMES SWEPT FT. WORTH.
Property Valued at $450,000 Sacrifice
to Blaze.
Fort Worth, Texas., April 3.?
Starting in a barn, presumably from
a carelessly thrown cigarette, fire
this afternoon burned over 20 blocks
in the residence section of Forth
Worth, destroying four churches,
over 200 residences, and the round
house and machine shops of the
Texas & Pacific railroad. To-night it
is impossible to secure estimates of
losses and insurance which are in
? -4-~ waoa/vn
any degree accurate, 101 mc
that those who suffered scattered
widely, seeking shelter wherever they
could find it, and it will be a day or
two before the full extent of the personal
losses are known.
Texas & Pacific railroad officers
place the company's loss at $250,000.
The losses to church property include
the Broadway Baptist and the Methodist
churches, their losses being estimated
conservatively at over $200,000.
From Annie street on the south
between Jennings and Calhoun
streets, everything was swept clean
to the Texas & Pacific railroad reservation.
Here a strip of unoccupied
territory about 700 feet wide checked
the flames and saved the business
section of the city from destruction
as the flames were fanned by a stiff
wind and all efforts to stay the progress
of the flames haa been unavailing.
At least one life was lost and it
may be that others were caught in
the fire. Six people were seriously
injured but they will recover.
Otts Appointed Solicitor.
Columbia, April 1.?Gov. Ansel
has appointed as solicitor of the
seventh circuit to succeed Thos. H.
Sease, elected circuit judge, Senator
J. C. Otts, of Gaffney. The appointment
was announced to-day and Senator
Otts will take office on April
15 th.
This will necessitate the election
of a senator from Cherokee to succeed
Mr. Otts for the unexpired term
of one year.
It will be recalled that on the
resignation of Y. J. Pope, of Newberry,
Justice Ira B. Jones was elected
in his place as chief justice. This
vacancy was filled by the election of
Judge U. E. iiyuriea., ui oyai iauburg,
and Judge Hydrick's place
was filled by the election of Solicitor
Thos. S. Sease, of Spartanburg. This
left a vacancy for solicitor.
There were several names presented
to the governor, among them
being Messrs. S. J. Nicholls. of Spartanburg;
J. B. Bell, of Gaffney, and
J. C. Otts, of Gaffney. The term is
for three years, Mr. Sease having
been elected last fall without opposition.
'
Senator Otts is well known in the
seventh circuit, which consists of
Spartanburg. Union and Cherokee.
He took a prominent part in the prohibition
fight in the senate at the
last session, being one of the authors
of the State-wide prohibition bill.
Afterwards he agreed to the Ansel
plan for a vote in August on the
State-wide prohibition, thereby giving
each county the right to vote omt
or retain the dispensaries, although
he wished the enforcement, although
to be incorporated, which was not
done.
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, DRY.
Prohibitionists Won Out by Only
Eleven Votes.
Springfield, Ohio, March 30.?
Clark county goes dry by eleven
votes.
Returns in the election from 48
precincts show the heaviest vote in
local history, with a wet majority in
the city of about 1,950, but the heavy
dry precincts in the -country overcame
this and gave the county to the
"dry" forces by narrow margin.
With the break of dawn yesterday
the wet and dry forces of SpringJ
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busy preparing for the battle. The
city was quiet and there was no serious
trouble, as the saloons had all
been closed since Saturday night.
The two breweries are owned by
an English syndicate.
Clark county is the largest county
in the State that the "drys" have attempted
to carry, the county having
about 65,000 people.
More than one-third of the vote in
Springfield was polled by the wets
and drys by 8 o'clock.
Everybody was up at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning, the women and boys
were aroused by alarm clocks. They
hurried to the various booths,
where the women took up their positions
as guards, they being stationed
on all sides.
If any of the wets stopped to talk
to a man approaching the booths the
women slowly sauntered up to them,
and as a result the crowd separated.
Women guarded the front and
rear entrances of the saloons and the
alleys and adjoining buildings to the
saloons were under surveillance.
Besides detectives sent to Springfield
from the other cities by the
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force and deputies were on duty at
the precincts.
Required Explicit Directions.
"Bill had charge of the animal
tent," said the old circus man, according
to Tit Bits, "and among his
pets was a leopard, the only one we
had with the show, and quite
enough, too. This leopard gave Bill
more trouble than all the rest of the
menagerie put together. It was certainly
an ugly brute.
"Well, one day, when we were
showing;in Midlands, I had come up
to London to arrange about some advance
business. I was eating my
dinner in the hotel when a telegram
was handed to me. It was from Bill,
and read: 'The leopard has escaped.
Prowling about town. What shall
I do?'
"That was just like Bill. He had
to have explicit directions, even in
an emergency like this. He didn't
want to make a mistake.
"I immediately wired back to Bill:
'Shoot him on the spot.' I didn't
think any more about it until a
couple of hours later, when I received
another telegram from conscientious,
careful Bill, asking, 'Which
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Calling "Lie" Causes Trouble.
Mayor Wagnon had an unusual
case to come before him this morning,
when two ministers, Rev. J. G.
Farr, of Green Street Methodist
church, and Rev. E. G. Mays, of the1
Holiness sect, who had a little altercation
on Saturday night, the formal
charge and disposition of which case
is referred to in police court proceedings.
. This morning Rev. John G. Farr
saw a Progress man, and asked that
a statement from him be published.
Mr. Farr said in substance, that on
several Sundays ago in the course of
his sermon he referred to the duty of
Christians to affiliate with some
Christian church.
It seems that on Saturday night
Rev. E. G. Mayes, of the Holiness
faith, was in L. E. Fike's store, discussing
with several men the ques-j
tion which Mr. Farr's statement in
the pulpit had aroused discussion
over.
While the men were talking Mr.
Farr happened to go to Fike's store,
and while there one of the men asked
him as to the teachings of the
Bible, about establishing earthly
churches. After a few remarks Mr.
Farr says he left the men, and as
he did so, he heard Mayes say:
"He has lied and he knows it."
Mr. Farr on hearing this, then
turned back and asked Mayes who
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"You have preached a lie, and
you know it."
This so aroused Mr. Farr that with
ai lightning-like movement he implanted
a stinging blow under Mr.
Mayes' chin, and then bystanders interfered.
The affair coming to the attention
of the city authorities, both men
were brought before Mayor Wagnon
to-day.
Mr. Farr pleaded "guilty" to the
charge of disorderly conduct, and
making clamorous noises, and was
fined $5. Mr. Mayes pleaded "not
guilty" and was fined $5.?Union
Progress.
Quite Sufficient.
A child-loving man was on his way
to Denver to transact some important
business. During the afternoon
he noticed, in the opposite section
of the Pullman, a sweet-faced,
tired-appearing woman, traveling
with four small children. Feeling
r? iv? Vio cnon made
sorry xur mc mumti,
friends with the little ones.
Early the next morning he heard
their eager questions behind the curtains
of the berths, and the patient
"yes, dear," of the mother as she
tried to dress them, and looking out,
he saw a small white foot protruding
beyond the opposite curtain. Reaching
across the aisle to took hold of
the large toe and began to recite:
"This little pig went to market.
This little pig stayed at home;
This little pig had a piece of roast
beef,
This little pig had none;
This little pig cried 'wee-wee' all the
way home."
"How is that?" inquired the eager
man.
Then the foot was suddenly withdrawn,
and a cold, quiet voice said:
"I should think it was quite sufficient."?Ladies
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Masons IS
and Their >|||
Friends &
The firm of Chas. M.
Stieff and their Southern
Manager have donated
a magnificent world A $2
renowned Stieff Piano to
the Masonic Bazaar to be , ^
held in the Charlotte Auditorium
April 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 1909, Charlotte, N.
C.
The money derived
from this Bazaar will be
used in the erection of a
Masonic Temple, a buildinor
tViat tt7i 11 Via a nrfHo trt t jGsU
VAA?W nill MV U |/A A\4V bV " ~i 'iTfc
every Mason in the Carolinas.
Don't
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Visit Charlotte during mB|
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ADDRESS
0. H. WILMOTH >f ^!J|
Ch. Music Committee
Masonic Bazaar
Ca*S. M. STIEFF
Manufacturer of the
Artistic Stieff Shaw and ^B|
Stieff Selfplayer Pianos
Southern Wareroom: y
5 W. Trade St. ?y||S-j
Charlotte, N. C.
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Manager.
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market opposite The ; %$?
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street Onr drices are
right. We also buy
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hides, chickens and : ?
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Brothers Shot in Street..
Hazelhurst. Ga.. ADril 3.?Eugene . '*M
and J. L. Williams, brothers, were \ ' ^
shot down on a street of this place
to-day by V. T. Stowers, formerly of
Conyers, Ga., J. L. Williams being
probably fatally hurt.
The brothers are members of the
firm of Jarman & Williams. It was
stated that Stowers had given the ,
firm a check the bank would not
honor and that Eugene demanded
the money, a fight resulting. J. L.
Williams went to his brother's res- 'jS
cue, it is alleged, when Stowers drew
his pistol.
Eugene Williams was shot in the
hip, but the ball has not been located. *y|
His brother received a bullet in his '
breast. Stowers was caught and
rushed towards the jail at Douglas
as great excitement followed the .y&g
shooting. <;
When you can't think of anybody .^jgj
else to find fault with, why Just /.^g
blame the newspaper man. He is
used to it and can stand it. And yet 1 n
how many people are under obligations
to him? 1^3
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