The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-09

Nious Joan de Arc q poor but brave
French girl. had mounted 4 horse an
had gone TO the front when France
an England were engaged in a dex-
perate struggle. The English troops
had surrounded an for weeks had
been tryin' to capture q Ieadin'
French city. Orleans Alone an un-
aided the girl travelled on horsa-baek
to this city. No man. no thousand
men. could hev entered the beseiged
city, for the English troops had IL sur
rounded completely But that girl
rode between the English lines az cool
az cucumber. She didn't seem TO
be in any hurry. Twenty thousand
English guns mite nev pronounced
her doom: 10000 strong hands
could hev seized the brave girl an
held her az prisoner, for hit wuz no
secret that the Maid of Orleans"
wuz a volunteer soldier. But our
English ancestors were too brave to
do that. an they had some curiosity
to learn what the Maid of Orleans"
could accomplish in actual war. They
didn't hev to wait long Joan de
Arc didn't keep anybody waitin'.
once inside the beseiged an starvin'
city. for the food supply wuz about
exhausted, she reported to the gem
eral in command. He told her she
wuZ brave, good girl, an that she
needn't hesitate to ask for anythin'
needed. But what does this garri-
son need?" asked Joan. Food, food
food" quickly replied the officer.
Then give me one hundred wagons
an az many soldiers az you can spare
from the fort for a few hours, an
food, food, food" will come into the
fort ere the sun sets. An hit did
Joan rode in front ov the foragin
terms on the way out, an bein' a
practical girl, for she had been a
cook" for family in her home viii
lage up to this time, she knew what
food stuff looked like. Did the Eng
lish interfere, did they halt the wag-
ons laden with food? No; they were
so brave, an they admired real brav-
cry so much that they refused to fire
a shot an the famished French SOL
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food. Ov course | related this re-
/ from capture, the women an chill
dren, all near the starvin' point, had
markable historical incident in a re-
cent article, but hit il good enough
to tell often, an liz proof ov my con-
tention that one real man, ov even
woman, IL worth fifty pieces ov men
or women at any critical period in the
life ov men, or life ov nations. M.
Necker wuz the man to save France.
But he couldn't stand the venom, the
ignorance ov the politicians, headed
az they were by King who had miss
ed hiz calm.
Fortunately the revolution didnt
last long. 1t mouldn't, because hit
wuz unfair, uncalled for, an no good
could come ov hit.
One trouble in France wuz too
much nobility. Mobiles were at this
time (and later, l guess) exempted
from taxation an other burdens, or,
nearly so. They paid tax on personal
property, but that wuz subject to aw-
full sorts ov theories az to actual tax
able value and the result was practi-
cally no tax paid. The furniture, for
instance, ov a French nobleman mite
be assessed at only few dollars
, when hit wuZ really worth thousands
. ov dollars. Mohean, an eminent
French statistician at the time, etsi
mated that about one French noble
man ov some degree. THAT wuz ter
rible," did l hear you say? Well
, hit wuz not any worse, if az bad az
hit liz in America to-day. The coun
, try liz full ov politicians an would
? be politicians, an they are twice a.
, tough az the French mobiles. Abou
40 per cent ov the dymakrat party
headed by Bryan an tailed by Jose
plus the First, air politicians. Abou
, ten per cent ov the Republican part!
in North Carolina il actin in the pa.
y ov the dymakrat party. Ov course
hit only gets promises, I mean thi
I Republican faction, but some ov tn,
big bosses who manage to herd up
Republican faction, probably get pay
good pay, an the Democratic Office
holders ov North Carolina, many o.
y them at least, foot the bill. l be
lieve that there liz a regular dymakra
assessment every campaign year an
that much ov hit il used to produce
discord in the Republican party. Asl
Simmons, ask Daniels, an don't for
get the Statesman from Cartere
q County" one political croker" call
, ed Duncan, for he may know mucl
about the ways and means" used il
o rotten political manipulation.
The so-called French nobility fin
:, ally got things in such shape tina
they didn't allow a poor farmer t
o own a few tame pigeons or pet rab
bits. The farmers ov North CAROLYN