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r , r" J ' M i T: C3 0tDl2, v v a v V ' ' vj.s.,Si i IS' THIS STATE A NURSERY ? ME2ELV A "PLACE TO GROW VP IN?" One-Seventh of the Living Tarheel Hare Left the 8tat Eighteen of th Twenty- Two Agricultural and Maouaslcat College Ontdwtn Last Tear Have Gob Beyond 1 Oat Bordew-The State'! Lou by Eml rratloa for This Generation Alone, a Quarter ot a BUllea DoUane-vfhy are Tsaas Thine 8oT A Problem Worthy of Oar Beet Thought. ; ; :; J . v . Written tor Th ObBewr ; ' T ti.M. ,hl. ki.nt Anrui I. i tn.MT - M .irr- tr- ', 4.:g-gii, -rr-lryr-. t whether1 nny one has ever said It be fore at sny rale, it It a big and indis putable fact: " r J'EmlgTfttionr has- been-the bane-rf North Carolina." . This has always been true, ami I should not be surprised to hear that. the sentence la found In some address much older than ' the writer. Nearly fifty years ago in 1855, to be - exact -Dft' Calvin' H. Wiley, then Su perintendent of Public Instruction." had this to my as to the matter: n ci "Efforts to promote the low of home in the plastic feature of childhood are ' peculiarly becoming in North Carolina, . a State where the want of this attach ment and ita ruinous effect are ? elo. ' quently recorded In deserted farm, In wide' .wastes of guttered sedge fields, in neglected resourred. In the abaeace of improvements, and In the hardships, sacrifices and sorrows, of constant mi gration. Our State has long beew re carded by its-cItiEens as a mere iror aery to grow up In." -r- j JAt another time Dr. Wiley said that ' it was no exaggeratloi to way that "the , State was ft great encampment while Jthe inhabitants looked on themselves as tentea oniy lor a eeasont" tie corams , uea; naye neg enen tw rwum,,!,,, eet their cotton mills all going. . Jand instead of making a thorough ex-fay Dr.j Holmes eta his roads built. ami nation of the advantages and eapa- . biHUes of that part of God's creation - on which we have been planted, with .fostering skies above tta with, a health 1 ful climate andentlclng scenery around -ur, we have been attaining oteyecr to far distant lands, and teaching our children that North Carolina was not their home, but a nursery from which they -wpre to be transplanted to other reslons.'' ' . ; And down to this day North Carolina Is regarded by many of ' her bravest ' and brainiest as "a mere nursery to tlon. but a fact to which census atatis. tics bear Indisputable testimony. They Indicate ithat every year for a hundred years North Carolina has sent more 'sons a"nd daughters to the other States than the other States have sent to her. Int 1190 when the firs census was taken. North Carolina had a larger population than New York. We ranked third In population, New York fifth. "From 1800 to 1820 we held fourth plaoe; In 1830. fifth: in 1810, seventh; In 1850 'tenth and so on down to 1900 when we ranked fifteenth.. (Let is be said, how ever, that this Indicated some progress us we were swieemn in issw.j Nowhere have I seen the harmful ef fcset of emigration on the State more correctly or forcibly set forth than in Dr, Walter H. Page's address on "The ' Forgotten Man" delivered at Greena- fboro in 1837. Taking up the fact that. 'according to the census of 1890, North .Carolina had sen out $93,000 about one-eighth of her children then living, ; while only 42,000 persona had come to Jer from other -States, he said: "If a slave brought $1,000 in old times, It ought to Toe safe to assume that every emigrant from the' State has an eco- 'nomJc value of $1,000. This emigration therefore had up to 1890 cost us $293, 000,000 fact that goes far to explain wtiy we are poor. To take the plaice of these 293,000 emigrants after twenty years of advertising and organized ef fort to secure immigration 62,000 per norm bom in other States had come here, a large proportion of whbknv of course. . had come for health. But counting the sick and dying at $1,000 each, we bad still lost $241,000,000 by the - transaction. This calculation glves h ' Blight hint of the cost of ignorance and ' the extravagance of keeping taxes too low." It me add, parenthetically, that When Dr. Page says the. emigration ,?'had UP to 1890 cost US $293,000,000." It I clear that he means the cost bad been thRt for the generation living in 1890 alone. The estimate does not take into consideration the loss the State "had sustained by the emigration of per- twig not living In 1890. Not less startling than the 1890 fig ures mentioned by. Dr. Page are thoae ' given in. the. 190 census report, which f I have had the melancholy pleasure of examining within the last few days. r Before getting to aggregates, let ts iuwivee niiuiv tu iuu ukuicb iu ueiut, : Uklng up those States in-which 5,000 Morw native North CaroJInlan how I live, r Thtre air fifteen States In- this f clasis, while only Virginia, Tennessee find South. Carolina have sen); ., more Sthan 6.000 to us. f V To Alabama North Carolina has sent 12.102 persons: Alabama has sent us "27. -i . i .- Twenty-thousand men and women have gone from this State to Arkansas; 300 Arkansas travelers have come to ua Over 13,000 imtlves of North Carolina now live In Florida; Florida has senit mm only 888 person, , ..'"'V k Thirty-two thousand Tar Heela are In Georgia; we have within bur borders 6,617 crackers".' ;, - : In Ullnola are 5,888, natives of our State: we have 454 persons in. return. : Indiana ha exchanged on a basis of . 11,310 North CarollnlaiiBfor 488 of her cltiiens. ;:.. ., Mississippi hns 15,639 living sons and daughters of North Carolina; w have .678 natives of Mississippi. More than, 10,000 persons have gone from this State to Missouri; only 358 have come from Missouri to us, - fi t ;i: 4 ,f Some of New York's strongest mien SttNi: S'are In the ranks of the 8,771 we hava i sent her: she ha sent us 1.740. ; vwft'.".'. Our exchange with Pennsylvania has Kttieen at the ratio of 6.741 far 1.749. ' 1 .' South Carolina' Is the only Statte of my llsUhat has toted fair with ua W T!lhv $LSil of her"'Cltlzen . and : have ii sent her only 25.821tf out in return, Tennessee has profited at the rate of ,;; ';. '28.405 for . - -- U j! Texag has Ukeh 23,065; we have from : the Lone star State only 386. ii ' ii i Iis4--falli-Vtrglalaf " 4 He r Which most North Carolina exiles live .J HS,238 ,of them: and of all States, with .'Si.hM ent most to ua25.619. 'M'M Now" for -aggregates. . Altogether (to these-fifteen State and to the others having less than 8.000 native Tar Heels) North Carolina has sent out $31,258 of her sons and daughters now living1- one-seventh of the total number while vwe have within our border only. 15,290 ; persons bnn In other ! States. - This ahowi net loss to us of r 245,968 ' per sons, meaning a cost to the State of a quarter of a , million dollars, a Dr, ' rage would say :&jwH- And as he would say, -l furthermore, - "when we remotn bee. that almnet everv pne of these emigrant went to States ' where taxes were higher and schools , were more numerous : and better, and where competition is fiercer, and when we remember that they went from a Sute that is yet sparsely settled and richer In natural opportunities than the States to which moHt of them went" the fact that something; 1 wrong some .vhere 'becomes tragically obvloua" The writer has been pondering this 'i matter ever since Mr. Paul Collins an nounced at tne last a. ana m. txuiege cemmencement that 18 of the 22. young men who graduated there last year now hold positions in other States. I could hardly believe lt. Here in the midst of this industrial e.wakeninr la .North Carolina over SO per cent of an- A and m M. graduating class leave the State Wllt ft. ' plana t 1 am not blaming this excel lent JnntltMton; I am sure it has not encoucaged th exodus. But I mention the fact because U la such a striking Illustration of tM drlf f of our young manhood to other states because It speaks loudly enough to bring the mat Ur to the attention of all our people. Our greatest resource Is not our farms or forests or factories, but our educat ed manhood, and It Is perhaps .not too much to say that North Carolina could better have lost A dosen of its cotton factories or a hundred of Its saw mills than these eighteen well-trained young men who left onr State last year. And all this emigration in the face of the fact that no young man who wishes to find great work to do or great move ments to 'aid or great resource to de velop need go beyond" the borders of North Carolina as is very weir set forth, for Instance, in this paragraph from a recent number of The Biblical Recorder: ... - . 'Think of it, the Governor staid tt, North Carolina Is the poorest and the mret Illiterate State! But when Mr. John Small gets his water-way con structed, and Mr. D. A. Tompkins) and thai Mann liVloa Ihn Fin V cm aiut th and Dr.; Holmes gets his. roads built. and Governor Ayorwk gets the schools running elsrht months, and Judge Clark gets our history written) and known, and Editor Caldwell gets men to think ing in politic instead of fighting why. we shall have the richest moat Intelli gent and best Sta-t in the round world. And all Is to come before the young men and women who graduated the other day shall be old men and women: and much of it is to be done by thenv- and not less by some who did not go to college. Was there ever such a time to come rorth m North Carolina? But It Is clear that the great ques tion is whether or no The Recorder Is right in thinking that our young men are going to stay here and do the work, At any rate these questions will not down. r What is the matter with our State, or what is the matter with her sons? In it not true that there Is a great work here for them to do? If so, how can they be made to see it? Are these con ditions that form a barrier to progress? If so, what are they and how can they be remedied or removed 7 Here Is a problem big enough for our public men, our editors, our speakers, our thinkers In every sphere of activ ity. , It is high time for us to see why it is that we must stll sorrowfully confess, as Calvin H. Wiley confessed fifty years ago. that North Carolina s re- garded by many of her best people as "a mere nursery to grow up In." CLARENCE H. POE. Raleigh, N. C, July 16, 1902. THE SCENE OF THE CONVENTION. How the Little Arch-Traitor" Man Took On, and the Reception That Boy den, Keeiler, et al., Accorded Him. Editor W. F. Marshall In Gastonia Ga zette. The reading of the minority report was received with a great ehout and groundswell of approving welcome. It was up to the majority and they were keen enough of vision to discern the desperateness of the situation. One of thftjcommitteemen, a little fellow weigh Ing about 110 pounds, quite young, and in white duck clothes as we now recol lect, hopped out into the arena to spill his last drop of blood and spend his last expiring breath in the cause of the ma jority report. He came pretty near spending his breath, too. He ripped and charged and gyrated and gesticulated and went through a catalogue of mo tions of a speed and character that Bug' gested the performances of a 11 horse power vertical Kosollne engine that we set to running once Without having It bolted to the floor, This engine in its exertions to do its regular' high-speed stunts did a great many other stunts equally as well. But , the speaker he formulated a climax, drew himself up into a bunch like a baseball pitcher going to deliver an in-curve and ex Ploded vociferously with ' that arch- traitor to the Democratic party Grover Cleveland!" Then it was that some thing broke loose. It was worth six years of dull times to any good Demo crat to have been alive and present at that moment Whoops and cheers for Cleveland shook the building. Two men cussed one of them, though, could out cuss the other, and did it. They were not uttering .imprecations upon each other; no, no: Both were directing their attention to the young gentleman wno was doing his anti-Cleveland stunt on the. stage, A distinction is made here we do not recollect hearing any profan iiy any lnrraction 01 tne mira com mandment It was Just plain, artless cussing; It was not lurid, not pictur esque, and not In the form of discourse known in the Latin grammars as oratlo obllqua, It was the unfrilled, rapid Are, straight-shot tklnd. One was Mayor Boyden, of Salisbury, the other was Mr. Keesler, of Charlotte. The Charlotte man had the vigor in his all right, but the fluent Salisbury man was a little heftier at the business. We do not say that we enjoyed hearing them express their feelings of exasperation, for we ao not enjoy hearing anybody cuss. But the remarks of these gentlemen were so nicely, adjusted to the requirements of tne occasion which called them rortn, (that they belong to the realm of real where,; we believe, it is lawful to aamire the art in cases where tne pro Auction does not otherwise command our nnqualliled-aporobation.-. The little man on the stage went hack and Sat; down amid great shouts that nad long before reduced " his perform Id Weffftonilmerr Chicago Dispatch. 17th. v A 'Koman'i lost bag?" containing papers nd currency valued at $40,118 to-aay, and when they ; were: returned to. her she rewarded the finder with 10 cents. ' He.was unable to reply or to learn her name ; before ..she : hurried away, but later he recovered from the shock ana placed the dime In a. gilded frame. ' M HK. 5- , ' . She left the bag on a seat in a South Side elevated car. It contained $118 in cash, besides mortgages amounting to $40,000.. ,The man who -1 found It was Charles A. Stuckrath, ft guard on the Union Loop at Madison street and Fifth avenue. Now the framed reward, hangs on tne wau 01 mucitrath'i home. OREUJN Vsl;kro labor. WntKEIJ THE FOREIGNER EXCELS. Ha Has That Which Is Dtolred la Labor, AmbtUoa for Iniproremeai-Not All rr lgnrar lotnwUble, and Thaeo That are Iniprove Tbe sontb Hmi Labor fa ion They Have Ipiirud Labor in Anw Ira-Aa lateraetlng ' Letter from Mr. Frank K. Robinson ot Detroit. To the Kdltor of The Obwvcn"r - " The Chattanooga Times says: . i ''When the farmers and planters of the South come to the point of exchang- faithful negro for the restlewi, quarrel soma, and exacting foreign laborer that may come In to take his place, they will leara -to appreciate present condi tions." ' On the foregoing The Observer com ment: - This I a 'great truth tersely told.' The negro laborer is at present one of the greatest resources of the South and none wh knows him would be willing to hftve him replaced by ft foreigner. He Is naturally tractable,, his good, quali ties As a rule outweigh the bad, which cannot be tuid of the hordes of aliens which rwerm to America. It will be a end day for the South when the negro Is no tomrer seen In the cotton neld and one which it is hoped Is far distant." Both the comment of The Times and that of The Observer reveal so com ulete a mtsarwehemdon of the so-call ed foreign laborer that I ask leave to submit wbhtl believe Is a fair correc tion. Let m preface my remark with lie Derson.l statement that I have ob served labor both South and North, and studied both with precbwly such, critl clsnw In mind as The Times and Ob server make. What is desired in labor merely in- telllaence enough to do the work, or something higher and constantly striv ing to move upward ? The question an swers Itself If we consider the interests jf communities ns a whole; mi the case North csu-qiiiw, tor- nmance, we Commonwealth.' Hence It does not meet the necessity If we have merely contented Hbor that Is a laborer who Is contented with mere existence, his dnlly wage, and enres little to better hie condltlm, to aid in building schools. to acquire a home, providP-an eauca- tion for hln sons ana flaugniers, snow an intelligent Interest In at least local nolitlcai affairs, and. generally speax- Inir. add to the material wealth of the community In which he lives. The sei fmh individual employer of labor might wll be sat tetfed If he had a ooay or m- lr that was content to let him fix the waire and the hours of labor, both on a standard that forbade the employe ever necurlng an independent position in life, liking to possible betterment of his situation. But that employer is not the Ideal one; far from it. 80 far. 1 take It. there ean be little difference rtf opinion between The Times and The Observer and myself. Does the negro meet the desired standard of the iborer in this countryr is no a nome ouilder? Has he cWic pride? Has he us a rule an -intelligent conception 01 urremt politics? Is he ncyr restless, quarrelsome, unreliable, Intractable or unfaithful? Is he a better laborer than he was ten years ago. twenty years ago, thirty years ago? Does he earn hla money a? compared to the return miode on an Investment In the so-called foreign laborer? I do not think The Observer would aiter.very much with me in answer to thse questions. . Now b tn the foreigner. The fresh Importations, and some of them for years thereafter, are often Quarrelsome and intractable. Put thousands of them arc not. The Swedes are not: the Ger mans are not The Irishman loves a fight, but he cannot be said to be a quarrcloine laborer, and his capacity far work is something to wonder at. The Danes are sometimes quarrelsome among themselves: so al the Huns, the Italians and the Poles, is tne na tive American always at peace? I speak from observation. Some fif teen years ago the I'olen of Detroit were the cause of riots In the streets; rath, they rioted and for a time bore a bad name. After ten years of ab fmnce I return to find them far less giv en to forced appearance in the police courts than the negro. I And them n body of excellent labor. I And them paving a lame proportion of the taxes. I find thorn builders of homes. I see tlwir ohIMren next to my own In the schools. I And them serving the city well in public offlee. They are respect ed. There Is no quieter city in the conntry than Detroit; few are governed better, or ao cheaply. And yet Detroit Is what the Southerner would call a foreign city. The foreigners and their deiKlantc here number perhaps 100, ftOO. Rut nothing is more certain than that they ure Atn?loan'devote4 to the country, and? belngrfeoundi1 it 1st they who are to possess the earth Jiereabouts in the next generation. Do not understand me to say that I am in favor ot unrestricted immltrra Hon. We have heretofore let in too mucn or me "scum or Europe; ' vvnat I do jjay is that In the main' the trans formation of - the foreigner, into . an American .cltlzen-of whom the whole country has a right to be proud la" won derful In tho sjKped with which-It is done; wonderful In Its Inculcation of th? patriotic spirit: and valuable rn, its material results. ' One generation from the stunted Pole who builds the sewers, easily the equal of the average South ern negro laborer, and what have you? Generally a self-respecting, property flwning citizen. One generation from the negro of a generation egomnd have you something as much better, than the 01 1 as tne new oie is better than the old Pole? Reflect on that; -point Re member, too,' that there are" over 10, 000,000' foreign born per"Ot in the United states, , and ' million! ; roorf at their descendants. Altogether they ecme hear.j to being the. people of the United -States. y. ? But lama, little off the track, it ! the Joreign laborer that the South does not wish because he is restless, quarrel. some. and exacting. Where? In i the Unions.'-' I say instantly that the South needs labor unions And needs thenvbad- ly. But first the South, must have the quality of labor that sees 4h strength there Is in unity; and thai It has not got; and it la that which The Times ftivj Oljaei'ver du not wish."' rrtoTrrfiP, "j but then the Soutlndoes not wish labor cf the only kind ft republic should have. Granted, that the Northern labor un ions make lots ot unnecessary trouble srantcd that their exactions are now and then wholly unjust,' What remain (a . that on th whole aiw In- -the 4-lpng run the union make, for the- general good 01 trus common -i people, s mejm& : Hz-.w thevr. miikn Jar ! tha. ffenernt good ? P.ecaise they lift dtae laborer through securing shorter hours of labor and a fair share of the Dront on his work,' He is thus a man .witK some ttme for his family, feinaent-iere-i titton, ror seir-tmprovement. 1 why. in my own day the up-llft of the unions of lahw in many or tne trades haat been plainly, noticeable, Their . influence- n this, State on legislation in preventing dangerous and cruet exaction 1 on the part of Individual employers of Ubor h been great. Thousands ot lives are saved yearly by mine and factory in spection, secured by, the labor vote; thousands of lives have be length ened liVith c-ljtht end ten hour day, se cured by the lubor vote: taxation has beon-'-mre:.eqntably:.;;iaistrlbut4.ty means of-the labor vote; and It to some cxteiit haa an Influence in preventing uoriwratlon rrom carrying off - the earth and setting it up elsewlwre for thir ew Kislve toeneflt ; k . Had t ns time forlhla letter 4t wrrnld hovs been shorter. .Rut It Ii written in th eplrlt of one who fm frequently thinks of the South with, he Of MQvIn Hrw " iiwi'siwisji 1sWssrTWisWr be lie-excus for the Intrusion. -FKANK KrltOBlNSONi DeirolV Mich., July 15. HlTftEMK COIRT UKCISIOMH. Reported" for The, Observer by Jos.'.L, 8ea well. ,-. : 'k-r-s- ---i STATE vs. N15V7, Appellant. From i Sampson. Km. . . A road overseer cannot exercise an untorldled dlmTctlon in rutting ditches through private property to dmln mud holes in the public road which he may easily fill up, , - STATE NVIsLmaN, Appellant. Vwm Mitchell. " No error. Where, Iff an Indlctmetiit for fornlca tion and adultery, a no) pros was en tmed os tn the feme defendant ( a mar ried woman) her husband was a com petent witness against the male defend ant lo prove the adultery of male de femlunt with witness's wife prior to their marriage., v h . MOORE vs. MOORE, Appellant. From Alexander. No error. A wife may maintain nn notion for divorce in this State where It apiwnml that she came to this State in Ixhh with her huabend and 1 acquired mldenee here unrt In I8 left the H1te temixir arlly with- the: Intention of returning and began th adtloft two yeat ufteH acqulrtiw resluence ana 11 was round hh a fact that she had not acquired res Idence elsewhere and did not Intend to abandon her mwence here. The amount of alimony pendente lite is discretlorBrs. with the trial Judge and Is not reviewable unlees there has been an abuse of discretion. After comolalnt tiled there Is no reas on Why, upon notice, the moAlon should not he made for alimony pendente lite before the return erm, ' f . y 'ill i 1 FAULKNER. Appellant vs. KING, et a 1 . From Wake, v Error. Action to recover a horse. Defendant brought a former action agairwt plaint iff for the horsejon the ground that $50 paid plalniiff lOr another horse had bevn lost by reason of defective title and the horse was surrendered to de fendant. Plaintiff claimed that the surrender was ; Urtder, coercion of the mngistrale and k defendant claimed plnlnitiff had admitted buying the horse In dispute with $40 of that money. In charglug the Jury the court stated that in passing on plaintiff's credibility the Jury should consider the fact thut he had $50 of defendant's money In his pocket ana refused! to give it up and thut h was insolvent; Held, error un- d(- 413 of The Cbdi Held, further, than It was error not to admit in evidence the record in the for- mvr action. HARPER, t al ANDERSON. pellant; Front Edgecombe, Error Where a testator owning two adjoin Ing tracts of land which he had pur. chased at different times and which were known by distinct names, devised them to hie, Children, designating the tracts by the names by which, they wer known, and it appeared that sev eral years before his death he hod put each child In poaseiwlon of the tract af terwards devised to him and had es tabllwhed a canal as a boundary he tween the two tracts and treated the same a: a boundary between their ios- sessions and that the boundary estab llshed by the testator differed from the original boundary called for In the deeds conveying the land to the teata- tor, it was Held, that the question whether tne testator Intended the devisee to take according to the boundaries of the tracts called for in the deeds under which he held or1 according to the boundaries he had established must be determined by the lurv In such case a survey and plat under partition proceedings showing a dlvls ion of one of the tracts between two of the devisees (plaintiffs) was inadmlssl ble, as defendant wus not a party to the partition proceed in;. irOOKRR, H nl. Appellants vs. TOWN OF ORBKNVILI.H. From Pitt. Er Section 8 of chapter 49T of the Public Ijiwg nf 1901 "to establish i grd'd schools In the town of Greenville.' providing that ' If there shall be so few children of either rate in any of the scrool districts (provided by said aot) thttf the board of trustees shall deem It Inadvisable to otRiinlze a school for that race, then they phall have power to arrange tmr the children of the race which shall be so represented to receive their pro rata proportion of the funds raised by the special tax provided for t-i some other manner, or they may give such pro rata proportion to the public schools for I ha t race adjoining the 1 oifcrrict herein described." etc.. held to be an unjust discrimination and Hi violation of article 9 section 2 of the corostitntlon of North Carolina. Chapter 47 of the public laws of 1901 Snd chanter 121 of the private laws of 1901 arc held to be unconstitutional in that they, were nnt read "three several times on three different days" in each house of the General Assembly and the yc's and nays pn each reading recorded in the journals. .' Ilricklayloc by Machinery. New York Herald. J Aiifcanadku! has Invented a machine for laying bricks whleh does the work ot six- or seven skilled bricklayers and costs $500,' In common house walls bricklayer, with a laborer to keep him supplied with materials; Will lay on an average about 1,500 bricks In e day of ien hours;-- In the neater 'outer, faces of boos; building -b-wUi. Jay- WWi mrood, ordinary street fronts, 800 to 1,000, and of, the very finest lowers story., faces from 150 to 800 depending on the num ber of angles, etc. ln plain massive engineering he should, average about 2,000 a day. The new machine la adapt ed only, to plain work, and should lay from 1,000 to 12,000 bricks day. Two men and; lad are required to operate S;.:ACTS Immediately.;'- I Colds are sometimes morev trouble soma la sumnrer than in win terv it's so nara to geep rrora aaaing to tnem wnue cooling off after exercise. One Minute Cough,; cures aft oncer Absolutely safe. Acts , . Immediately. . Sure ure ' for coughs, colds, croup, throat and lung troubles. - 1 SHEER RAISING, IN IREDELL. LOCK Or riNEST MERINO ITUCK. Mr, Saninel Archer, a Life-Long Sheep- Hreitder, Ulvs the HUtorj ef Sherp RaUlag loTntmeot by UteUl Oentla men The Ktkln Mannfactartng Com- pany Takes the Wool at Quod Vrleet-A 1'rolltahl lailnitrf Thai Southern gar tors Should took lata, ", ' ; -.- wriuen for The-OUmrver. " . . Several times have I taken my pencil to report for The Observer the pro it re our snecu business is maklntf but as often had to drop it ilnlloJhI o4 ac count of alvliig Jiiy personal attention to the nock and other duties. However can now give a-much mora full and interesting Rrfcount, f or wo- hve had a imnh year's exiienence with the sheep here, for that; part of the yar( f too. hluh is the hardest on a nock of ewes. 1 feel urgd to write you fully and carefully ail the more when I rtmem br the kind notice you gave us when sturted North in ; March after the heep. The American Sheep Breeder nd UoHt neconl, of Chliutgo, which l decidedly the lending Journal relating to sheep and goats in the world, quoted your entire notice of jyhJch the follow ing is the closing sentence: "At all events it will be interesting to wutclt the progr& and results of Mr, Archer s enterprise. : i nn euitor ot neep tirecu er then says: '."The above paragraph la quoted from The Charlotte Observer, one of the most Influential papers In the Cnrollnns and shows clearly that our old ft tend, Samuel Archer, is really awakening a, deep Interest among the Southern people in sheep husbandry. Mr. Archer Is nn expert sheep man end we are clad to note In the above paragraph and from other reliable sources of Information, that he is real ly tuktr-tr hold of the sheep Industry In a way to commend It to the prttgraslve farmers of the South. If the Cummins wuuld only consent to give up their dogs and ubstituiie thetn with Hweo and grow less cotton and more puMton, corn and other sheep crops, It wouldu't take Mr, Aroher and his friends very many yean to demonstrate 1lw great er profit of wool and mutton production os compared with the growing of cot ton, and the still greater advantage to the Carolina of restoring their old ml worn out lands to a state of fertll Ity and productiveness, such as tho country l;us never known, even In Its pristine nusnanury. - ies, mr. Sum Archer Is a mighty -good man for he South and If the Southern' peoplu will stand by him he will help them t rejuvenate the old farms wnth the gold en noot. Me is an old and very calla ble hecp man whom we have known well for a quurter of a century or more, uud the Southern people can safely tol low his lead. Kd." In another paragraph he says: "Mr. Samuel Archer, widely and favorably Known in tne oiu jueiino nays as breeder and fancier of Merinos In Penn sylvanlu and Missouri and an Influen tial worker on w ool tariff schedules, nonorea sneepmen s headquarters with recent vlt.it and talked In, glowing terms of the outlook for hep Ii the South. He spent u Week with Iu Peck Sons at Geneva. 111., and nurchnssd 2m select owe from their great Merino stua, which he will ship to Statesvllle, n. K. where he is now giving object lessons In practical and progressive sreep Keeping lor tne caro Una olunter Air, Arcner believes that sheep keeping wui graauauy suppisnt miuo mwmU enrich the worn out and sterile cotton ileida and bring bloom and fruition and wcaiui to the beautiful and sunny lund of his adoption. As an expert handler of sheep and a gentleman of broad and uueiai views ana sterling manhood, we iiwutlly commend Mr. Archer to the planters ot the South, and wlh him no tnd of KO'td fortune in the work he has undertaken." This brings your readers to we where 1 bought the sheep and to put the whole matter on record In The Observer, I will give you a statement and the papers In inn. Mr. l'eck was a Vermonter who took up SU ai res of land 25 miles west or ( 41 lea go about 60 years ago. Keep ing sheep has been his main business und on them tho family made nt of their money, though they wero told at nrst mat heep would m;t do well In that level, rich prairie country, but as mr. lieo. retic ouietiy remarked. "We ,vere ready to buy all the fainim that at mat joined us and pay for them as fast as they Were offered for sale. They have now 2,200 acres all In the r.iifhcM stete of lulth'utioni worth easl ly Mil pel acre average. They have 11 d-ilry of '.'50 cows, a horse stud of m-ar- ly 100 horses and an abundance of rotiKhnespand grains (some 20.000 buMh els) after wintoiMs overr storied away in K?e:u oarns mat amply shelter every head of stock kept on the 'forme, be sides over 200,000 pounds of wool from several clippings that thw. have not cared to sell at the low prices that have prevailed, which are now fortunately ior mem getting ix'tter. Their lock of thoroughbred American Merino sheep including Inmbn now numbers over 2,000 head. From this Hock with It lone hla record in cheep history I selected some among its best nfld average. 200 ewes mostly in lamb and three of my choice from their earn lambs (yearlings) that they priced at $100 each and the ewss at $12, as the following papers show. BILL OF SALE. " Be it kr.own that we do hereby sell and deliver to Samuel Archer, W. it. Adiiholdt find W. B. Gibson, of States vllle, N. C, the following thoroughbred Spaulsh or American Merino sheep from our flock, which are numbered by ear tabs fastened In the car, are regis tered in tne Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders' Association Retlster ami trt In the National Merino Sheep Register wnicn we transfer to above purchasers by certificate from the secretaries Of ald records according to numbers on our record books for the sum. of $2,600. The ; ptircha Re feci ng JOO head of. (select eWea, supposed to be In lamb and three choice ram iambs. (Signed) 1 E. PECK & SONS, Geneva. Ill,, April 14, U)02. Witness-Samuel Archer.' -, V . Since thai time wa have received the onciai record papers irom the secre- tary omcero above referred to. I was seven davs on the rallndad ret miriimnK inirW aayTW-man nee'. ewsary) loosing one killed, on the way and one, more mmran over drive and we have from various causes, lambing. etc,., lost seven others, (9 in all), up to this, time 3 months-Hind have nearly 65 pertceut. (125) of lambs and both ywtng and old ones : doing well and looking healthy. - 4 After my purchase of the sheep, as J believed .they would ship better, I sold m fleeces of wool at $1.75 per fleece, the purchaser being at expense of feed ing and shearing the , ewes, Having brought 16- ef the heaviest shearing ewes and thefhfee rams home to sheaf; the ewes averaged near 15 pounds and tho rams (yearlings) shore 171 pounds. 26) and 79 pounds, and weighed with flee':m,':12a'tn4",14S-STKsunda''re epectlvely, They will weigh over 200 pounds carcaa at maturity and shear over $ pounds of wool. For thin-near! W pounds of wool we have here thj Chftthom Manufacturing Company, of rcikln, aro to give us (nut yet delivered) 18 cents rr wund. With 10 pound docked for heavy ram flen-es, (which is customary In buying vry hnavy rem ttceces sold unwashed) thus we rr allxed over 3,800 pounds of wool we count at nearly $4tt, or, over $125 pet head for the whole flock,for wool, This, Mr, Rii- wr,' you may remember rsther excetls the first year amount I mrtde out for The Landmark estimate for- Ave years wnitn you rererrea to, . ut these are higher priced sheep than In that csti mate, My friends (Inslly Inatnn ted me htgherxrlceTLnd tTlid sov" The American Merinos are not the! litVgest sheep but they have "bes the follows abisst th Wllmlnrti. f -fbtirldlfor heaviest; Aeeces of clean .doa Ralhrond:. ."tn the ltiik t" " wool awtirdlng to Avclght of body and IMs, the ewmtany was orc.-.r.- . 1 , they have adapted themselves to and bewome acclimated ln-very civilised nation and In every cllmaba under the smu: ?,,.-.' ??.:i:-mK.;immnm on the- KCtn er t : These nrs the reasons whv we want. ed -this stock of sheep as the basis or foundation or our nrst nocK. -,s-- Mv frlemls here manifested consider able buslnwis nerve ami ententrlse tnb starting out with a, flock of such excel lent sheep, but it is a Hock thnt will raise stok sheep that can be sold in Texaa or Australia If the touih. ; here should, mit want them, v The lowners here are so well satisfied Unit they pro pose to build large sheen barns, exclu sively for rtieep on the modern plans with silos, weir water with winumin ind tanks, etc ?In these tlwy will save nnoNt nil the nmnure which la a very valuable element lit the sheep husband, ry bualiietba. .fax I visited one of the great feeding eta tlons west of Chicago, where tens of thousands of Western sheen are annu ally fed for market, 1 found In connec tion, with It n fertilising faotory which toctg the sheep manure from the pens. dried end cut it fine and sold It at $10 to 70 per ton. From invmlgatiwi of thatp1nt and from' my past expert ence with sheep manure, I muMt repeat what I said in former articles, that Southern farmer and planters, by hav. Ing sheep Imrne and keeping sheep and composting their manure properly can have It worth to their lands annually $1,50 per head for every sheep kept; and under good management they can keep at least one sheep per acrs on the av erage farm, for every acre owned. From president Indications It Is likely there will Its more sheep bought - and brought In here this fall before frost comes. : fV s s if you care to have It J may oncallow- ally give reaulta wttatraal wljh these flocks; in fact I would write more of what I know about sheep for The Ob- server If I thought your reader cared to read It: for I believe that sheen hu- bandry Is now the greatest and most profitable industry, that the whole .uiiHiriui uwmie m me larpr portion oil the South can engage In. .This will not make the aggregate cotton crop less, but greater from less than half the land now fatmrd In It. Sheep will thrive on nny lands that are suitable for xorn, cotton and wheat. When I went up Northwest after an I absence of 12 years and observed the great change thnt hn taken place I was astonished at J he wotidrful growth of the mutton- market. The Americans are rapidly becoming a mutton eating people. It Is certainly well so for thern. Then the United States raises but one- reverth of the wool grown In the world, thnnirh .he mniuifaieiiima ntujrmirth f Will our great and beloved Southland with nil her wondrous sheep advantages stand and idly gase on the situation presented by this great Industry while the Yankees of the North and West ab- sorb it all. and then growl at them be- ciuse they have taken it? I think not If so, I will say of the South like the uoctcr or tne patient, "tt is on emer gency case and needs a blister." or even worse than that. "It Is appendicitis: there must be a hole cut In and a piece taken out nerore tne patient will be come healthy." However, the great hin drances of the South are now being rildly,overcome and I know the peo ple, I think, well enough to have confl demre that they will not do so and this Is why we are so earnestly working at the sheep business. SAMUEL ARCHER. - Ptatewille, N. C. 1 TUB MULHKHKY PICNIC. It In, to be Held Nett Thnndsy and Qood Mpeskar Have Heen Necorad Former I n cliieaU Keealled by Mr. High am. To the Kditor of The observer: "There will be a Sunday school picnic at Mulberry church, Thursday, July 24th, Several good speakers have been secured and It Is' hoped a large crowd will be out to hour them. The nubile Is Invited. Come, bring your baskets and enjoy a feuat of reason and flow of soul." The above Item reminds me of the day Prof. Uraham, ot Charlotte, mlsseuVhls dinner. Not that the pro feasor or the dinner was not there no not that. It come about In this way: the farmers around Mulberry are in the habit of taking; the midday meal sbout the noon hour, which custom doesn't vary much even at a picnic. Prof. Graham, who, since he has quit farm ing and gone to teaching school, it seems, has dropped back two hours In repletlng the inner man, so that when the noon hour dinner was announced the professor's gastronomic apparatus, to use. his own language, "was taken by surprise," and would not work two hours ahead of time. The professor in hereby forewarned and must take hlB meals farmer fashion this week. This reminiscent mood has called UP F. H. McNinrh, Esq., of Charlotte, end County Surveyor J. B. Spratt. I believe It was that seir-same day. They were known then as Frank and Jim and I can see them yet, as they stood with their toes at the mark waiting for the hat to drop. The picnickers were begin ning to yawn for new fields of enjoy. ment, the nice stretch of road was in vitlng and some one suggested a foot race and the game was on. Frank end Jim, whose running gear had given satisfac tory stride in chasing Junebugs out of school hours, were eager for the fete, The Judges signaled, the hat droDDed nowuig graceiuuy in the shimmering July sunshine. The Judges declared Frank came out a quarter, ahead,, but Jim avers to this day that it was all be cause his foot slipped.' . It i hoped that ope of ' the leading lawyers of the Charlotte bar and the surveyor of one of the- largest counties in the State,1 will come back, doff their dignity and run that race over again. J. N. BIGHAM. Women oa tho Stump In Taxn. . . nocftoaie, .e mwtnm,. A novelty In this year'a campaign In Texas will be ;women on .'the stump. There will be five, women . In the field representing the Prohibition ticket. No man. will dare propose ft joint debate, for well It is known ft woman will have the last word, , 1 , T ' T IVf! r.r. - .HM'.i. , The DUtriSititf-.il tit : " W bit and fi : I f ' scarce, 1 honed ttn r ,Wb Will l' rt,r. ..Won A. Vi uu l ! t is : .rate and atnU tmr , Psrarrsph from as CM I , r. Corresponden'. of The Otn-rv Ralelsh. Jfulv 19.-Mr. J :. 1 V. ths general snperintend-tit f t tmrrtonit't,inir1ins rca t. ' artlcln In Ttie Observer on t!.o r In North (krollna, and writ, 3 i uen. r, 11. iudiey eiect 1 fnvml Mr. O'lynn, chief encner i survey commenced. The 1W8. on tnn north bunk of i ... H miles trtm Wtlnangton. srst, ennvettui ox enruv was remove 1 ty "en. uudley.r in the following O.t.,1 r cars wore running over n mius f roaa. ana on we 3th or March, mo, V lat aplke iaslriveaOn thssth of t:.e mh month, the locomotive New H m- over;' psiwed through the Ilt to Wei- uoi. andthe Jocomotlve "Prunswkk" from the Ronnoke river to Wilmington.' Itie style of . rails was known w "tut bar," laid en, stringers M Inches." , " i. if j, ; There are some people who hope to ste a eonstltutlonnl amendment pre sented for ratification, which wilt apply "white mewy to white schools end n gm money to negro schoola" The ad vocates of th Is measure say that the negro money would not be enough to keSp them from barbarism and that therefore ttie white people must surr le nient it They add that such supple, mentlng must be voluntary and argus that It would be liberal at nee the whitei have always been liberal to the w-cro Mhoola 'iTia x fittprenM .4Court ' tayi school money must be distributed per cupiift, and ntnt a needed.. In one county m the State the money was used sa needed; that Is as th negro schools cost less than those for the whites, they were given less.; This sort Of division was in violation both of law and rul-i lugs. ' :StMi-'.-.r-;;' -. . r: Se H ;vi In looking ever a Raleigh Reglater of )31. the otherday, a parsgraph reprd. "h " isiiaiur whs WHii-ea. ne t-tt'tiol-ttMonjA !..!Jl!,? ;I5WJ t; "nullifying" the United UWtes tariff laws. The Senate 'M adopt the resolution: It appears frotfl lack of time than for any other reaeotv Two Senators eej f!1" any such resoluUon saying that " ..n . ""..i"". , ' ' ' " .S;:'"!r;V!f!?:;';;'-v In the same Copy of The Register was a report of a debate on ft bill to forbid the teaching of slaves to read and write. Two 1 Guilford - members protested against this,' saying a If person ouht to be able to read th Holy Bible. Lut the other side contended that tha slaves would read anti-slavery pamphiatsv and sti the Guilford nieir wer toted down : overwhelmingly. IOn of the 'support. en of the bill exhibited an anti-slavery "tract" while he spoke; ' ' ' " ?a s),,,;-,:i. ' 'i,;, w "in '....i- Th North Carolina baseball lear. !?Taf,Jb!Jl,uiW.l,uJ ?tanW"ad. bu U ,1s qulle probable that "n. - .fiT g" iif.'..!' 1XtZ Mv ThW,f J Ji flffin 5rtpea WHtblng along this Una will be I'fi v'Sⅈ-:: . The writer win Iplace In the irjall of . History tn the State Museum his pri vate collection of Confederate and ' North Carolina currency; Only eight Confederate bills are missing and bo , far as known, only one North Carolina bill. , The latter Is ft $100 bill Issued In 1M3 or 1864. . If any one knows of the whereabouts of such ft bill anr Infor mation concerning it will he valued. ' - It Is really very remarkable how few persons In this. State are bitten by snakes. Yet In the mountains and In the east there are the rattlers; t in the east the black water moccasin or "swamp Hon" as some term it and some of the "rotten mouth", snakes; wldle all over the State Is the highland moo- rosin, which Is as deadly, eft) any of them. Yet not a dosen cases of snake bite are reported a year, and perhaps not a death In five years. A little white boy was bitten here the other day. lie and bis father were moving some lum ber. In this were two highland moc canine. one bit the .boy on .th foot Only one puncture was made. Swelling began very quickly. Expert -'.Herbert Rrlmley arrived ,-; at 5 once u bathed the foot in ammonia and then sucked the Wound thoroughly twice or thrke. it was an old remedy but It did the work. The boy was alt right In ft few days. ' ;:,!-'''';i;:'?K;-;i' : State Veterinarian iTatt ' Butler 'Is right in advocating the teaching of ag riculture In the public schoolnv He looks for It to be done in a few years. Jt Is. he contends, the true way to fix. the right principles in the minds of the .children - prass Is trying to grow all over the State and tha farmers are try leg to kill It, often to raise a miserable crop of cotton or corn: v whereas the grass cut and cured as hay would bring thrice the money and also feed cattle. Hay can be sold as hay or It can, bet ter still, be turned into beef. Dr. Cut ler while out driving with the writer. ' pointed to fine meadow land rank with bushes and weeds, but with Johnson grass, in head, over four feet high. He said with a little care .it would make 3 to 4 tons to the acre, worth $10 to $l2.r,a a ton sold as hay; and more If put into beef, - , . (, . -,1 f t - - , ;,t -' . How long will it be v before there Is' compulsory education in North Caro lina?; Will It be In years? Principal Walker, of the South Carolina, lnstitu tlon for deal-routea and blind, At fpar. inuuurif, says se tntnxs ma nate w;:i Have that law In 5 years. . Farmer i, chahlcs and teachers declare there is an overwhalmlng call for such ft Uw for1 North Carolina,. ' - - - Tt- t,'f.: f ' , f WB A. OLD3. 1'- The Beat Medicine Ever rut I i a , s ,' Bottle for Chill and Fcv: r. j The best of all. "I came her v my wife and five children. , Tha 1 year , my family . were all dowrr v cnius ana lever. 1 mea an tr 1 Hurhes' , Tonic, which f , them entirely. I have k t t erne In the boure ever f! Torulo is the best pv'l' a bottle for chills and t drusrtrlida--50 ccnti anl , l . Prepared bv i:..:.i! I (Inc.) LouUvK.j ' it 4 h v. H- i
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