Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-12-09
ARP READING EPITAPKS.
Visits an Old Cemetery Where
IDustrtous Men Were Rufed-
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sernss 10 he founded on facts They are
distributed from all the hotels and are
pleasant reading on the train !; tells
all about the health and climate and
altitude and business resources and
public morals. but what amazed and
impressed me mos: wss the circle map
that shows the number of cotton mills
within radius Of 100 miles from Char
lottc ON this map are black dots num-
bering the mills at every town and the
aggregate is 30. or about 90 per cent.
Of al the mills in the south. These mills
operate i.s2i.O0o spindles and 1900
looms ard are capitalized at $1,000 900.
Thi. little book contains tabular state
meat Of all these mills by name and
-apaciiy. Charlotte has II OF her own.
Now. I was Eliminating about this in
connection with fve-cent cotton. And
there j. some comfort in IL. for we keep
n home all the profit there is in manu-
featuring and We give employment to
thousands Of our poor and dependent
neople. suppose that every township
"a Georgia had a cotton mill and that
I'll it, earnings were spent and scattered
IN the community. then we wouldn't
feel 30 bad over the low price Of the
great staple. wewouid indirectly share
Ia the profits OF manufacturing.
Once again visited the old iimc-hon-
ored ccmetery-the first graveyard Of
old Mecklenburg county. | was sorry
20 sec that IL has Of late been neglected
aud has grown up in briars and weeds
took note of some % the old insrrip-
tions ani this one especially attracted
my attention;
"Oh. Croux-ave sres unica-
Sacred to the memory Of Patrick Harry.
Who was born IN Tippersry. Ireland
1T Is a hoy and wholesome thought to
pray for the dead that they may h< loosei
from their sins Ill Maccabees 4. "a
There lies a good Roman Catholic.
thought !. lie went to purgatory and
the priest prayed for him. Then
ruminaied about Maccabees no, being
in the sacred canon. but was in the
Apocrypha. and the Apocrypha was
rulcsi out of the King James version in
Isss Then ! turned TO an old Bible
that had the Apocrypha and found that
the twelfth chapter Of II Maccabees had
only IS verses. but the last three had
the same injunction 10 pray for them
who are dead. and Furthermore. that
Judas Maccabecs raised among his sol
diers 2.oo0 drachma as a sin offering for
those who were stain. make no com
ineni on this. Martin Lu;her translated
the Bible and left in il these two books.
aS he said. for human consideration.
There = another tombstone at Cheraw
that interested me. for il marks the
grave OF no man or woman now known
II reads as follows:
Ny nsUe-my eountry-whAi are they TO
thee
what-whethsr hiEh or Low nv pedigree:
i'srhaps far surpassed all other men
/ Perhaps fell below them zii-xhat them
Suffice u. stranger. that thou s@esg a tomb.
Thou snuwest is 1Se-it hides 20 matter
whom
The other morning about daybrcak
l left Charlotte for Lumberton. on the
Wilmington rUad. The breakfast house
was . miles away at Hamlet. and " hen
we got there I heard the conductor say.
Twenty minutes for breakfast But
! didn't hear him say change ears for
Wilmington and points this side You
see ! am getting quite deaf in one ear
and can't hear at all out of the other.
but my wife says il is astonishing how
/ quickly | hear the breakfast bell We
had splendid meal. and l regained my
seat IA the same car. When abou; a
mile from town the conductor called
for my ticket. and recognized me as
bound for Lumberton. He franticaIIy
/ pulled the bell cord and told me 10
get of and hurry back. for maybe |
could catch the Wilmington train.
/ Right then | WAS distressed. for knew
/ there was no other train that day, and
] was billed 10 lecture that night. The
sand was shoemouth deep. but gripped
my baggage and foxtrotted about COO
yards and suddenly discovered that |
would have to put on brakes, for nv
wind was giving out. Another hundred
wards and had TO stop and blow. for
my heart was humping like a bass
/ drum. and there is so much heart fail
IRE nowadays that ] got alarmed and
/ put down my vaiise and sat on il. just
then ! saw my train steaming away like
a snake In the grass, ard involuntarily
cNclaimed: Farewell. vain world, I'm
going home" So took my time and
made haste slowly. and when | reached
the station was the picture of disap-
poiniment and despair. What can old
man do but die?" murmured. Wish
Low | had my photograph as l was
ioNirotting through that sand. and then
another as l saw that train steaminc
away without me. But alrs well that
ends well. found freich. train that
was going TO leave for Lumberton n
IL O'Clock. but the conductor couldn't
say when il would get there wired
my friend that ! was left, but 10 hold
the fort. for WAS eoming-and he did.
II was only ~ miles, but il took us over
eight long hours TO get there. had
only time to wash up and brush up and
eat supper, hut I found n good house
full awaiting me. Ny subject was:
The Cracker and the Cavalier and my
friend introduced me by saying: La
dies and gentlemen. have the pleasure
of introducing TO you the distinguished
Georgia cavalier who will now proceed
to address the North Carolina crackers
Well, this brought down the house to
start on. and put everybody in n good
bunor. especially when apologized for
my delay and portrayed my trials aud
fluctuations Lumberton is 4 good old
town, and has the best waterworks that
] have seen anywhere They have four
blowing artesian wells for public use,
and many private ones These public
ones. including pipes and everything.
Soss less than $1,000. and l know of
many a town that would give $4,000
for similar privileges Lumberton does
not realize what treasure that water
is. for il is cold and pure.
The next stop was at Weldon. in Hail.
fax county. don't know what those
people have done to Mckinley. but he
has already appointed eight negro
postmasters in the county and six OF
them have accepted and are in Office.
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