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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-03
Al.P:.RlO'IIN'O.UN,CEDI. !: |. I !
MAJORITY. 4 I
WAS III g n y PR oPosl:
ON Il y . tn E clTY II
I'm. i.F Or + stso, 900. \, Il u wa II
tItt7i,s;:sFo.RF:5AND 10! !4ss AiNsT--AsoU OUT
h, &; TN, o,,THl 4 RDs VoTE 81 Si II
P o II ED D /. 5lE D. Isg

az ~, r,he action of the council 33tlse
bond l,ial ordinance received an over
w.ellm,ing ratification at the hands Of
.t'i'l .Ft'iailrmont's citizens Yesterday About
aIs!tr,woee,thirdsiyote oteswas 3polled, land most
nf tho voters voted openly, SO the poll
clerks sw.e,resable 10 give figures to5the
Vest We Nirginian's representative at
three lal' o'clock that proved No. be rot
far from the mark. ms ,353S
IA cor compa|rlsong Of the tnguresSin The
e table lLlt given below viii show that over
9Ggper p \ cent: cen Of those voting yesterday
were ''1t,, In favor Of the measure. Sci;
dom dom indeed does a proposition of$thls
nature ~ sWlthgsnch favorable treat.
ment,} and the members Of the council
are are much ~ gratlaed at this practically
unanimous Evind!cation8 ofStheirs action.
.ss| The vote Upwards was as folloWs:,,
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THEODORE sg TRANSFORMED
FROM PRE- sDENTsaY aNcEflRTo sPREsis 8s
ctIoicE
EVERYTHING READINESS FoRTHEsale OCCASION
TO BE MOST sRLLlAN cEEEBRAToN EVER
NATION
DENT BY c HolcE.

q. 54
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II the shado doTs OF the Gallowss,,,sl
at the Grand q operaS House tomorrow
night is q; melo odrama Of the sensa.
tional order and II you 81 expecting
that sort Of attraction YOU VIII be;
pleased
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-28

with tragic interest to the older peO-
pie of this community, VINO wildly
recall that, in the political arena OF
those trQublous years from '65 to 50,
Judge Tourgee was a daring and
spectacular gladiator.
Here was his home during the stirr-
ing times of those stirring years. Here
was the scene of his labors and the
field of his battles. Here was gath
cred the material for his splendid
work in the literary world. Here was
his Bethel and here was his Appomat-
toX in the struggle royal for the es-
tablishment of his political ideas.
Here, too, may be found the most cor
rect estimate of the man. 3 his charac-
ter and his work during the sixteen
years he fingered with his carpet-bag
in North Carolina. Here, too, among
the older members of the bar ana mis-
old ncighb0rs may be heard the
Warmest tributes TO some of the finer
traits of his character and the better
impulses of the real man.
His was 4 striking personality, and
none the less so because OF the fact
that he was Tor many years the most
thoroughly hated man in North Caro-
lima. The cOEcensus of testimony
from these cOurces shows that he was
not a mean man. lie was open, bold
determined. fearless and self-reliant.
He neither asked nor gave quarter
He never betrayed his party nor sold
a friend. He was neither n toady nor
a humbug Eie had convictions, and
with them the courage and the re-
sources with which to proclaim and
maintain them. He was c1ean-handed
and clean of life. The bittercst foe
in the darkest of those dark hours
never charged him with participation
in the robbery Of our people His
supreme effort to make Northerners
out Of Southerners was well meant,
but if was more than a human task.
With full knowledge of the dangers
attending his mad course. in the face
of the dire threats that were daily
thrown in his face, consciously aware
that there was dynamite under every
foot OF earth he trod, dreaming only
OF death as the night winds whistled
through his humble. unprotected cot
tage, knowing that he was surround
ed on every hand by men who were
as brave, desperate and as reckless Of
life as they had been in the white
heat of battle and ready at q moments
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signal to tear his body into shreds
with the cold lead Of death, he lis
played the nerve OF martyr in his
wild, mistaken attempt to make an
Ohio of North Carolina. Calmly, te-
naciously and boldly throughout the
darkest Of these years, he persisted
in the advocacy of ideas wholly and
extensively obnoxious to our people.
Fcariessly and loyalty he stood by
his party in support of all these poll
cies which to the Southern mind
were wicked and cruel.
Stung by defeat, embittered by re-
construction legislation, Inundated by
the insolencc resulting from the privi-
legCs accorded the negro and other
causes, the Southern mind rebelled
against the importation of every
Northern iGea, and was hot enough 10
so to death and hell for the suprem-
acy Of Southern White blood and
Southern ideas. This was the volcano
over which Tourgee slept for q de-
cade. 1t was doubtless these very
clements of opposition which deVel-
oped and called forth the exercises
of his wonderful resources. His ca
pacity for work exceeded that of, any
man the writer ever knew with two
possible exceptions: Chief Justice
Walter Clark and the late DR.. BraX-
ton Craven. There was not an idle
hour for him during these years. His
only companions were his faithful
wife and his books. His wife was q
real heroine in the constancy and the
stcdfaStness Of her devotion in her
lonely and ostIacized life. Neither
knocked at the closed door of social
life in this State. They were too con-
scious Of their strength to play in the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-28
HuguenOts Master EIe-
ment in South Carolina.
HOW THEY WROUGHT
A Coalition of Two Dominant Southern
Centers, the Palmetto State and
the Old Dominion and the Con-
trolling Force in the Union
Which Resulted.

Charleston, S. c., May 2S.-To visit
Charleston is to study American his
tory and politics; it's streets bear the
names Of men whose fame was once
co-eXtensive with the limits of Amer
lean power and -Moultrie.
Pinckney, Calhoun and Rhett are but
a few of them. And over this net
work of historic highways, all dotted
with monuments and statutes 10 the
heroes of the past, presides the mag
niticent bronze figure of Calhoun
the great Southern Puritan whose
genius vet lives in every part of this
commonwealth and whose spirit would
seem to brood over the fortunes of
his beloved people whose destinies
have been SO fearfully changed be-
| cause of the doctrines he instilled into
them.
The South. the old South, does not
study history i'm the sense that the
! rest of the world does; 1t lives it, the
social and often, in these days, the
political status Of its citizens. depends
upon a historic name or upon the in
breeding OF the events of a great past
and whosoever violates this his
toric sense or tramples upon tradition,
whether he be right or wrong, is
apt to pay the penalty-of social os-
tracsm, some times of persecution
There are, however, two Souths-
the old, and what Henry w. Grady
styled the new. 1t is Of the old and
more particularly of the lower south
that the writer purposes to speak
rather cursorily i'm some rambling let
ters to The News and Observer during
the coming weeks.
This old South has been the sub
of oh Esas ~ fFfn
writing and speaking during the last
few years. Indeed from the very
inception of the American nation this
part of the country has been the sub
ject Of much comment and multtu-
dinous criticism both fair and unfair.
The people grew sensitive then mad,
and finally struck the blow which was
expected to bring Independent politi-
cal existence. Failing i'm this, after
a gigantic effort, they wrapped them
selves in the mantle Of what all agree
was not an unrighteous cause and let
the world go on it's way without very
much of concern from them-they
are like the English Dissenters of our
day, the most inveterate of passive"
and sometimes active, resisters. Their
loyalty to their past, TO their fellows;
their contempt OF many modern ma
tions and their stubborn conviction
that they know how to settle their
own difficulties, constitute the pro-
blem. / was about to say the Irish
problem OF American social and po-
litical life.
South Carolina, and peculiarly the
City of Charleston, was the Gamalial
of this lower American country From
her went out influences, teachers, mis-
sionaries. whose zeal was a flaming
torch and whose persuasiveness all
but won the cool, practical Puritan
Of the Northeast. To answer this Is
to explain the present solid" and in
vincible South Of which the world
has the idea that it IS mysterious.
South Carolina, it must be borne in
mind, is the Offspring Of the same in
CONTINUED on Page Two)
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Chadbourn, N c., May 26, 1905
The industry of growing strawberries
for Northern markets is not a new one
for Eastern North Carolina, but at the
same time it is not an old one. For
probably twenty-five years the indus
try has been in existence on the Will
mington and Weldon Railroad, but it
is only within the last few years that
it has attained such proportions as will
stagger the belief of the uniformed
and arouse the doubts of the most
credulous. Few people in North Caro-
lima outside of the strawberry belt
have any conception of the enormous
amount of business that is transacted
and of energy that is expended within
the space of thirty days every spring
to harvest and market the crop upon
which the annual prosperity of a large
section of the State is chiefly depend
ent. The greatest problem that has al
ways confronted the strawberry grow
er is that of transportation of the crop
to the Northern markets in such con-
dition and within such promptness as
will insure the best possible prices,
for with heavy freights and low prices
the grower realizes that his business
is losing game-and good prices are
almost entirely dependent upon the
condition of the berry when it reaches
the Northern markets. The first
method of transportation was the reg
ular box car which proved inefficient;
then followed the express car which
has not been entirely abandoned yet,
but ii is not used extensively; and fin
ally the refrigerator car solved the
question and fulfils every requirement
of the business when properly iced
and promptly transported to the
Northern markets. The pioneer grower
who has followed the business through
ali it's stages from it's infancy, has
fought for reduced freight rates and
better service, has seen q few crates of
his berries start on a three days trip III
an open box car, and finally learned to
expect hundreds of cars to be handled
daily and with promptness, has for the
first time in his life faced a proposition
that shakes his courage and causes
him to hesitate-the refrigerator car
shortage. Usually there are two classes
of trains that move the berrieS-the
cannon ball" and the pick up"
There are supposed to be on every side
track and at every depot refrigerator
ears properly iced and ready to be
loaded and as the berries are picked
and brought to the railroad they are
unoaded from the wagons into these
cars and the doors closed so that The
refrigeration will be perfect. Every
morning these loaded cars are sup
posed to be taken and hurried on TO
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PROBLEM OF GROWERS

When This, The Transportation of the
Crop TO Northern Markets With Such
Speed and in Such Condition as
Would Insure the Best Possible
Prices, Seemed to Have Been Solved,
the Famine in Cars Overwhelmed
the People With Sudden Disaster
Figures That Show the Magnitude
of The Business and the Losses
Through Lack of Transportation.
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The TRUCKER AND
The CAR FAMINE
The Conditions That Confronted the Strawberry
Grower in Eastern Carolina and the Losses
Recently Sustained There.

their destination and these constitute
what is known as the cannon ball"
train Later in the day another train
of refrigerator cars follows and 'picks
up all the crates that have been
left at the depots or have been deliv-
cred since the loading of the other
cars and this train is known as the
pickup train. Both Of these trains
are supposed to move every day all
the berries promptly as they are de-
livared at the railroad. The magnitude
of the business can be best gathered
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and accounted for it would amount to
fully 5000 carloads, or 800, 600 crates.
This estimate is very conservative, be-
cause on account of the scarcity Of
cars more than 400 crates were crowd
ed into a car instead of the usual 800.
AS long as cars could be furnished
berries sold readily at the stations
along the railroad at an average Of
$500 per crate net, and this continued
when the bulk of the crop was being
put on the market. AT this price the
100000 crates were worth $1,S000
and if we choose we may reduce this
Continued on Page Two.l
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from a tabdlated statement of the
shipments during the season, which
comprises less than 80 days-from
April 22nd to May 18th. The following
table only takes into account the num-
ber Of refrigerator cars that We're ac-
tually loaded and shipped, and the
record is made as the cars pass
through Rocky Mount the berries
from the Chadbourn section passing
over the main line of the Atlantic
Coast Line by way of Fayetteville and
those north of Wilmington passing
over the w. & w. Railroad. The num-
Der of refrigerator cars shipped from
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The usual carload consists of 3A
crates and it is estimated that 45,00N
crates were shipped by express and
$4,000 crates dumped after they had
rotted for want OF cars, which together
would constitute 400 cars not account
ed for in the foregoing table making
the total of not less than 2.537 car
loads of berries produced this year,
and if all the crop had been marketed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-28

the strawberry belt" with the date of
shipment is as follows
April 22-No refrigerator cars. 80
April 23-No. refrigerator cars. 70
April 24-No. refrigerator cars. 70
April 25-No. refrigerator cars. "a
April 26-No. refrigSrator cars. 81
April 27-No. refrigeEator cars 80
April 2S-No refrigeNtor cars. . 141
April 29-No refrigerator cars. 1876
April 30-No. refrigerator cars. 1877
May NO refrigeratorNcars. 25
May 2-No. refrigeratorA ars. -. 161
May 3-No refrigerator Ntrs. So
May 3-NO. refrigerator drs... SO
May NO. refrigerator cArs. 76
May 5-No. refrigerator cAs.... 80
May 6-No. refrigerator caN... 103
May NO. refrigerator caK - LOG
May 8-No. refrigerator cara 27
May 9-No. refrigerator carA< 168
May 10-No refrigerator carAe 90
May 11-No refrigerator cara 65
May 12-No. refrigerator carsN 76
May 13-No refrigerator cars ~ 63
May 15--No. refrigerator cars 63
May 16-No. refrigerator cars GA
May f7-No. refrigerator cars. y 80
May 1S-No. refrigerator cars. " IS
May 19-No. refrigerator cars. N13
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-03-23

o. G. B. NJ, gave an illustrated lecture
at the church Wed nesday night. The
stereoptican views were good. Pro-
ceeds for the benefit of the Christian
Church at Blanchester.
Sprinkle shaffer and family who
have been visiting relatives here have
returned to their home near Marion,
Ind
Miss Inc Stroup and Joe and Ralph
Roush are suffering with the prevail.
ing epidemic, sore eyes.
Preaching next Sunday.
Miss Pearl Handley is visiting Miss
Rosa Trop, at Hoaglands this week.
The Traction people are working
just west of the village.
Scott Tedrick and wife have move d
to the Barnes farm near Russell.
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SINKING SPRING.
March 20, 1905.

MoLSu SVS ioVo'
Clarence Mcclellan and nephew,
Harold Fry, are visiting friends at
Washington G. q.
Mesdames Ann Hiser and Ethel
Hughes have returned after spending
three months with relatives at Ander.
son, Ind.
VIM. Moorhead, of Idaho, spent
few days with his mother here.
Misses Emma McKeehan and Bessie
Gall attended the Teachers Associa'
tion at Hillsboro Saturday.
John Butler, of Elmville, and James
Burnett, of Marshall, we're calling on
friends here Sunday.
Jos. Copeland, OF Locust Grove, was
visitor here Sunday.
Messrs Reynolds and Mason, OF
PEBBLES, were calling on friends Sat-
urday evening.
Willie Butler, of indiana, is>the
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Butler.
Mrs. E. X. Mount and children are
visiting friends and relatives neal
Hillsboro.
Mrs. Eylar and daughter we're guests
of friends at Locust Grove Monday.
G. w. McCoppin, of Carmel, was a
visitor here Saturday evening.
Miss Bessie Gall, who has been tn {
guest of her parents for several weeks
has returned to Portsmouth.
A number of young people we're en-
tertained at the home of Miss Dottie
Hammond, near Elmville, Friday
evening.
Quarterly meeting will be held here
Friday, March "a.
Miss Ruth Eylar, of Locust Grove
was the gvest of Mr.. and Mrs Oscar
Eylar Thursday.
VIM. Taylor and Jasper Kesler at
tended the Teachers Association al
Hillsboro Saturday.
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ENGLISH FARMING.
CONTINUED From First Page,

neglect all that did not make bread
and put butter thereon. I wish all
Gazette readers might see England
and-live! Live to develop the natural
beauty of their own land. Joy comes
not from eating and drinking much,
but of seeing beautiful things and
helping to make them.
Agricultural laborers in England
have less money and more of some
better things than ours. From II to Is
shillings week with good house
and garden and the privilege of living
in Eden Is their recompense. They
are faithful fellows and content, for
there is no hope of their rising to any
other station. We pay more than
double their wages, but my men with
the tools we give them will do easily
double the work and maybe three
times as much. That Is in field work
Where the cheap labor counts is in
doing little things, like keeping gard
ems and lawns, grooming carriage
horses, trimming hedges, maintaining
roads. We have four regular men on
Woodland Farm. They never lift
their hats when they see me coming.
1t Is, "Hello Joe, how are you?" They
may even be too busy to see me come
at all. But they feel right towards
me l know, and they put in their time
trying to see how much work they can
do. They do not call me "naster," !"
and am glad of it. They know they
are as good as | am, and am sure of
it. They have good brains and they
use them for Woodland Farm. A man
who did not understand these men of
ours might not keep them very long ;
they are of the Thoroughbred type
that goes free, but balks or runs
away If struck with a heavy hand. ]
confess that love the type and the
men. 1t is glorious to me that our
land brings out the best energies of a
man. would like to see each one of
our men end up by owning a farm of
his own.
Where England has the advantage
Is in her trained gardeners. Our
places lack so much in beauty. Our
roadsides look ragged and weedy.
Here is the remedy: Make lawns
wide and open so that they may be
mown with horse lawn mowers. Put
shrubs in masses. Clean up roadsides
at leisure hours SO that they too may
be mown with moving machines.
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DANVILLE.
March 20, 1905.

MoiSh 81, ioVo'
Mrs. Geo. Tedrick is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Ida Clements.
Mrs. Bruce Jones and children spent
Sunday with relatives at Pricetown.
Edward Setty, who has been in Gin
cinnati for some time, is spending a
few days with his parents.
Lewis Pence and family we're pleas.
antly entertained by Wesley Fawley
and family Sunday.
Miss Mamie Miller spent Sunday
with Geo. Shaffer and family.
Uncle Geo. Mann, who is noted as
one of the best nurses in the county,
was called to the bedside of a Mr..
Roads near Buford, who was stricken
with paralysis.
Mrs. Geo. Pugh, of Hillsboro, visit ed
her parents at this place last week
L. G. Stockwell has made quite an
new fence around his dwelling.
Rev. Hawk, OF Heidelberg College,
Tifiu, will deliver a trial sermon at
the Reformed Church next Sunday
evening, with view to becoming the
pastor at this place and all are in
vited to como and hear him.
Dick Brown was a caller at Buford
Sunday evening.
Wm. Stoe kwell and wife entertain
ed Mrs. Elizabeth Cochran, Mrs. Allie
Roush and son, Hugh Sunday.
Mrs. Eliza Pence, spent Sunday with
her sister, Mrs. Milton Shaffer, near
Pricetown.
Kip Vanzant and Ira Pence we're
in Hillsboro Saturday.
Cyrus Shaffer and wife entertained
Chas. Cadwallader and wife and Joe
Cochran and wife Sunday.
On the sick list : J. N. Knauer, Mrs.
Ida Clements, Mrs. Eliza Wilkin and
Johnny DeHass.
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FORT HILL.

March ~, l9O0.
Mrs. Mollie Roads, of Sinking
Spring, was entertained last week by
her sister, Mrs. Mamie Odonnles.
James Everhart, of cambridge, was
the guest of his cousin, James jenkins
last week.
Mrs. Mary Ann Countryman visited
her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Patton, at
Dallas, last week.
Mrs. Brown, of Rainsboro, was a
visitor in this vicinity Friday.
James Irons and wife took dinner
with John Mace and family Sunday.
G. A. Rhoads and mother and ]. ].
Butler and son, VIM. Of Cedar Chapel,
we're guests of /. w .stults Wednesday y.
John Reed and Grandpa Harter
were entertained by friends at Sink
ing Spring Thursday.
Mrs. Rebecca stults and grand.
daughter, Miss Grace, spent Friday
with /. w. Stults and wife.
Mrs. Mamie Odounles called on Mrs
Charlie Freeze and family Sunday.
Hon. B. w. spargur and wife, OF
Carmel, we're in our vicinity satur'
day.
J.L. Butler and wife and daughter
Miss Nellie, called on Daniel Butler
and family Sunday.
Arthur Reed vas the guest Of hil
sister, Mrs. @. !. Freeze, Sunday.
Mrs. Maud Butler and sister, Mrs
Q. D. Aattison, and con BTanson, were
pleasantly entertained BY Ars. MAJ