The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-08-13

fast as possible The late corn that
we banked on is beyond redemption.
Half the yield of hay has been cut
of, for it is now too late for the sec
ond cutting to make anything, and
that which has been cut is rotting
in the stock. or will be so badly dam
aged that it will be unfit for horses.
Hay has been high for a year or more
and will go higher next winter. If
you are short, now is the time TO
buy Mr. Farmer. now is your time
TO begin to husband your corn. Util-
ize everything in reach and save
your corn, for this soil will be scarce
another year. If we have a season
able fall, the sweet potato crop will
be fine
l failed to attend the encampment
at Columbus on account of things
getting in a jam. | got into a jam
with a snuff bottle of jam. Mrs.
Johnnie had jammed up for winter,
and the broom handle got out of the
chimney jam and jammed against my
head, and l decided before I would
be jammed in any such way l would
be jammed before | would go to the
jammed encampment.
| went down to town the other
day, and in passing S. Loeb's store
noticed a big crowd of men stand
ing around the south door. l asked
what was up, and found they were
waiting for Hugh Hairston TO wait
on them. At the other door I no
ticed lot of ladies who were quietly
waiting their turn to be served by
Mrs. Brock. Did it ever occur to the
merchant that their customers had
a preference in clerks and would wait
an hour to be served by clerk who
was wise, clever and accommodating
one who would try to show a Gus
toner what was wanted, and not try
TO palm off something else that was
not wanted. 1 have seen more than
one clerk worked to death in Colum-
bus by being a favorite of the public.
When w. c.. Beard was a clerk in
Fl. S. Merritt's store everybody want
ed to trade with him. When John
Williams wrapped bundles behind
the counter for Capt. Dan Richards
every hill billy in Beat One wanted
to be served by him. Just notice any
Of the big stores and you will soon
see who the favorite is. Notice Tom
Harris, Jack Cox, George Ezell, John
Henry Morris and others too
numerous to mention. l don't know
about the wages of any of these
clerks, but / often wonder if they
are paid in accordance with their
popularity and the patronage they
Draw. L have seen stores lose thou
sands of dollars worth of trade from
accommodating clerks. | have seen
of negroes driven from
stores by clerks who would curse
1t them and try to force them to take
shoes and other articles that didn't
'uit them.
This auditor business on the rail-
.oads is working quite a confusion
4 the handling of passengers and
baggage. Half the time the auditor
loes not inform the conductor how
many passengers are to disembark at
station, and the train is allowed to
move on before the passengers are
IF, which is a great risk to the lives
md limbs of the travellers. l saw
/ man present d check for baggage
% an NJ. & o. baggage-master, and
he train pulled out before he could
cad his own address on an envelope.
4 family boarded a train at Porter
lille last Friday, and by the careless
ness of the station agent their bag
gage was left on the tracks at the
station, while the mother, with her
title children, arrived at their des-
ination without a change of clothing
md remained so for days. | notice
often the conductors do not place
he foot stool for the ladies to use,
because the auditor has not notified
hem that there are ladies to get off.
Two men can't drive a wagon at
once, and from what | can see neith-
er can two men run a train.
Glad to have Venice with US again.
We enjoy the sharp point of her pen,
even If it does puncture.
It is learned through Maj. Rowan,
who is just home from visit to Cal
adonia. that our old friend, BAL
Vaughn accidentally killed one of
his fine sows recently. The hog had
been missing for some time, and he
had given her up as lost, but while
cutting a beet that he had left for
seed, struck the hog with the blade
Of his axe. The hog had eaten a
hole into the beet from the opposite
side OF the beet from that on which