The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1907-03-13

toned, while others are keeping store
and respected by all. I have been
teaching 20 years, and not even an UNI
brella laid up for rainy day.
To compare members of the same
family and how much they accumulate.
| | have a brother who makes no claim
to being we'll educated. But he is one
of the best lumber inspectors in the
United States, and is paid $3.50 per
month and all expenses. He wears dia-
monds and tailor-made raiment, while
/ wear corduroy and use wart for a
collar button. He rides in Pullman
cars, and bump along in smoker or
in caboose of a freight. My only
hope is when become too infrm to
teach that The Observer, Yates Webb,
Bill Crawford and the Kitchin boys will
see that get pension don't ex-
pect anything very princely, but GER
tainly ought to have something If /
did have few millions, I'd certainly
endow home for superannuated teach
| erS.
The army and navy retires its SER
wants with good pay, the North and
South each have soldiers homes, and
the churches retire their superannuated
ministers with fund to meet the chill
perjury of cd age
AS have never be en- stingy with adj
vice, allow me to air my views on the
railroad question. 1t has been some
time since owned road, or even had
controlling interest in the shares of
stock, | tried to tell a railroad magnate
once how to operate his road, and he
rung me off with the remark that his
time was worth $50 per minute while
mine was dear at fifty cents week.
MY opinion is that roads in North Car
DINA could carry first-class passengers
for 2 IL cents per mile. and school
teachers and other second-class passen
gers for 2 cents. But am further in
clined to believe that railroads frequent
ly have to pay exhorbitant damages.
When they broke my seventy-five cent
corn shelter, felt that they ought to
pay me $4,000 for breakage, and $1O,-
600 for mental anguish. But had no
money to put up as retaining fee, and
have since bought corn shelter at
home. The merchant from whom |
bought it said he didn't know what in
the devil wanted with it; that it re-
minded him of buying pocket book on
time. The crowd around seemed great
amused, but l saw nothing funny about
it.
Speaking of railroads and corn-shell-
ers naturally suggests cotton and the
Southern Cotton Growers Association.
While some papers, captains of in
dustry, mill men and pack of BANKED
fools that know nothing and, therefore,
talk more and talk louder than anybody
else are inclined to wax merry at the
granger, believe in the fight that Har-
vey Jordan and his ieutenants have
put up. Cotton is certainly king and
Ii DIS the nations over to keep the
peace. To decry all rich men is arrant
foolishness, but no reasonable man can
object to farmers getting good price
for their labor and in products. Since
cotton has been from 10 to II cents
farmers have bought more machinery
for tilling the soil, purchased better
horses and mules and more of them,
built better and more elegant houses,
bought more books, musical instru-
ments, sent more boys and girls to
academies and colleges, and taken more
interest in popular education and good
roads. AS consequence mill men,
bankers, merchants, and, in fact, all
have prospered. If people have money
they will spend it for the comforts and
luxuries of life but when cotton is FIVE
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