The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-31
Talk of the Times.

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the base ball game Sunday. She had won
his enthusiastic heart understanding the
game right off, and he loved her more
than IL she had been his sister. ut re-
minds me OF the household he said:
-the plate, the batter, the fouls and the
fies And it remindsme of marriage,
she added: First the diamond, where
they are engaged; then the struggle and
the hits, when the men go out: and fin
ally the difficulty they have in getting
home. Then he sat and thought and
thought.
Missouri paper gives the following
description of a good citizen: A good
9tlzen is man who takes pride in his
fiome town, pays his honest debts, speaks
well of his neighbors, takes his home pa
pr and pays for it; who doesn't squeeze
every twenty-five cent piece until the
agonized scream of the eagle can be
heard for mile. He will measure
twelve inches to the foot every way, will
bhthe and change his shirt once week,
and will see that the woman he loves
does not have to use hedge fence for a
clothes line or break up ash barrels for
fpel.
Colorado farmer is advocating the
organization OF farmers association,
with dollar wheat to follow. He has fig
ured out that the United States will con-
SHINE 500,0OO,000 bushels Of wheat for
food and seed this year, besides sending
1OOOOOOO0 bushels abroad. The 1901
crop was 100000 bushels shy of the
1903 crop. While the worlds population
rs steadily increasing, the wheat produc-
tion is steadily decreasing. The average
yield in this country for the last ten
years has been 5S0,0O0,000 bushels. The
average export for the last ten years, in
Guiding -four, has been 1Sl 100000 bush
els. Tne average cash price in Chicago
for the last ten years has been 7S cents.
"A great many OF the country mer-
chants put up II great talk about the
mail order houses in the cities which are
getting their trade away from them, but
with all this outcry they are doing moth
ing to prevent it," says an exchange.
"You can't prevent people buying
| where they can buy the cheapest simply
by use of invective. The only way coun-
try merchants can expect to compete
with mail order houses is by meeting
them on their ground-by advertising.
There is absolutely no hope for the vii
lage merchant until he corrects few of
his time worn views about Advertising
Advertising is simply telling what you
have TO sell and the price of it. The ar
gument that you have been in business
a long time and the people know does
not suffice. The people care very little
pbout you personally, but it is your goods
aid the price at which you sell them
One boys idea of newspapers: "News-
papers are sheets of paper on which stuff
to read is printed. The men look over
the paper to see if their names are in it
and the women use it to put on shelves
and such. 1 don't know when news
papers came into the world. l don't
think God does. The Bible says nothing
about editors and never heard OF one
being in Heaven. ] guess the editor is
the missing link them fellers talk about.
| The first editor that | ever heard of
was the one that wrote up the flood. He
has been here ever since. Some editors
belong to church and some try to raise
whiskers. All of them raise the devil in
their neighborhood and all OF them are
| liars, all that | know, and / know only
one. Editors never die; at least l never
saw dead one. Sometimes the paper
dies and then the people feel glad, but
some one starts it up again. Editors
never went to school because editors
never got licked. Our paper is mighty
poor one but we take it SO ma can put it
on our pantry shelves. Our editor don't
amount to much, but pa says he had a
poor chance when he was boy. He goes
without underclothes in the winter and
wears no socks, and has wife to sup
port him. Pa hasn't paid his subscrip-
| ton in five years and don't intend to"