Times-promoter., 1902-12-12

start on ana gave tnem phrC Oh tAo
seats in the park. Then the clup
/ gave an oyster supper and made
| good little sum. Later on they held
bazar, and later on a concert, and
after awhile another supper, ana all
along at intervals they smiled at the
merchants and others and got some
more money and when they run
clear down they assess themselves,
and we husbands and fathers have To
shell out. No, you don't need Car
negie, but if you have one great, big
hearted man and his wife in your
community like we have, you will not
become bankrupt. Where there is
a will there is way. And my OBJ
seryation is that womea can do any
good thing they combine on.
A thoughtful man who witnessed
the laying of the corner stone said %
me: This is the best work that has
ever been started in this town, and is
doing more to uplift aud encourage
our young people than everything
else. God bless the women"
Lord Bacon said: "Knowledge IS
power" 1t is a force. 1t is money.
\ good library is better than uni
versity. DR.. Johnson said: "knowi-
edge is the wing with which we fly
to Heaven" One of my boys (Frank)
is a civil engineer and built two
plants of water works in Ohio for Nj.
Huntington. One day the pump at
London got out of order and he went
down in the deep well to fix it, bur
failed. A second time he tried it, but
it would not work, and the water in
the reservoir was getting low. He
| telegraphed to neighboring town
for an expert to come by train. He
came and fixed it in half an hOu".I
Frank felt relieved, and thanked him
and asked him for his bill. Fen dol
| lars" he said; ''tWO dollars for rail
road fare, three dollars Tor fixing the
! pump, and five dollars for knowing
how That's it, knowledge is money.
Some time ago l advertised for Il
copy of Gen. Henry Il. Jackson's fa-
nous speech on the "Wanderer," and
also for copy of Daniel Webster's
last and greatest speech made at
Capon Springs in June, 1851, in which
he qualified all his previous declara-
tions about the right of state to
withdraw from the union under cer-
tain contingen That speech was
.,4 Il,
found in his published works.
Well, [ have been favored with
boeh. Senator Mangun,, of North
Carolina, heard the spec ch delivered,
and he with other southern member!
of congress had it printed in pamph-
let form, and his grandson, Wiley
Mangum Turner, of Gree nsboro, n. O.,
! has found it among his srandfather's
papers and sent it to Inc. My friend,
Mr.. Ed Holland, of Atlanta, Ga, has
had both speeches neatly printed in
one pamphlet, together with brief
biography of Gen. Jackson, by hts
friend, Joseph NJ. Brown ard this in
valuable pamphlet will be mailed to
any address on receipt of rs cents.
1t will be sent to students of col
leges at the cost of publication. Adj
dress Ed Holland, Atlanta, Ga.
And now here is letter from an
old federal soldier living at Live Oak,
Fla. His name is F. W. Angus, an1
he belongs to Gen. Sicllles' brigade,
and two days after battle in Vir-
ginia, in 1862, he found in the woods
the dead body of confederate soldier,
! and he and a comrade dug a grave and
buried him. In his pocket was
found a pass from Col. John S. Reid,
colonel commanding Third Georgia
regiment, and the name of the sol
dier was d. 2. Williams. Also another
pass from Capt. d. B. Langston, com
manding company X.
l find in Gen. Ayery's roster the
Cames of both these officers, and if
Private Williams has any surviving
relatives and would like to have these
passes, / will send them.
1 wrote in a former letter that the
bears of Mississippi had held a con-
vention and resolved not to come out
of their dens to be shot at by any
priest or president who slandered Mr..
Davis. l am pleased to read that Gov
Longino did not invite him there, anl
that the veterans of Memphis will not
attend the ovation that Memphis has
promised him. After denouncing Nj.
Davis (who was deaO as the arch
traitor and repudiator, it seems to
me to be the most unblushing impu-
dence for him to put his feet on that
hallowed ground. He says in his So
called history that when Mr.. Davis
was governor he vetoed the bill that
was passed to pay the repudiated