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J fV TT MM I i I; Vol. VII. LINCOLNTON. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1913 Ho. 21 S ft "TARHEEL1A IN BLEASEDOM." Former Lincolntonian Writes Interestingly of The Old City of Charleston And Incidentally Takes a Shot at Lincolnton Fashions And The Daughters of The Confederacy, There should be a long dash af ter the word "Charleston" and that dash should stand for much argument in the mind of the writer as to the ad visibility or otherwise of.adding to that word "S.O." To make myself clear I think I had better give the line of argument as it passed through my mind before I finally added those two insignif icant initials to, 1 'Charleston. "How absured to add 8. C! States are added to the names of places too unimportant to be otherwise lo cated. Does Charleston come un der that head! Certainly not ' There is only one Charleston in the United States, only one Charles ton in the globe. But haven't I heard of a Charleston, West Vir ginia? I think bo, but that one dosen't count. No Charleston any where could possibly count. Yes, there is only one Charleston on the globe, so I shall not add S. D. But then, if this sees the light of day, it will do so in North Carolina print. I am a North Carolinian. North Carolina has been described to me, since my residence here, as ."a valley of humility lying be tween two mountains of conceit." Humility indeed! Yes, there are a number of Charlestons, I am sure, and in order that people may know just which one I mean I shall add "S. 0." and I have done so iu true North Caroliua style! But you cannot live long in this atmosphere and not imbibe some feeling of the importance of the place in which you are residing. It is so impressed upon you that you undoubtedly are impressed by it, and that is why I am writing to the newspaper I had recollec tions of certain traveller's letters appearing in these columns at different times, and I at once be came ambitious. Someone went to Cuba and wrote of things seen there, while another gathered items from the West. Europe and the Holy Land have been written of, but Europe and the Holy Land shrink into insignificance in com parison to Charleston. If anyone doubts me, let him consult a Charleston ian. Thus am I justified in a traveller's letter. Well, I picked up my pen to describe Charleston, and I find that Charleston is indescribable. My mind has run the gamut of adjectives and none of them apply, none save the one word charming and, who can describe charmf You cannot liken it to any other place nor its people to any other people for they are utterly unlike. -You would "recognize a Charleston ian in the Desert of Sahara, yet you couldn't tell exactly why. Nevertheless I shall attempt " to differentiate. The children, the younger ones bask in the - sunny hours of the usual winter day, on the battery, accompanied by their old time black mammies. If you have bo other way of telling a Charlestonian's offspring from those of a plebeian outsider, you have only to stop for a moment and listen to its 'prattle. If the child addresses its nurse by a given name you may feel at once justified in turning up your nose at it. A Charlestonian's nurse forsooth, is always addressed as "Dah',f and "Dah" she is to every member of the family-a conspicuous figure as she sits in .company with several other "Dahs,',' gowned in big.white aprons and nurse's caps, as the children play pnthe Battery, Father and mother, papa and mamma, acccented on either syllable are common words no Charleston child would be guilty of using. It is for their exclusive use the original, august, and otherwise unheard of words, "pap er" and "mam er" have been instituted. To give the latter word the proper pronunciation you must first say "bah," like a sheep, and then make the fist syllable rhyme with it. If you have accomplished this, then you might go marketing. If you hear a woman at a vegetable stall asking for fomatoes (long a) or tomatoes (broad a) you imme diately conclude she is an ignorant person and doesn't know what she is about. One thing you must learn when you come here is not to ask for tomatoes in your native tongue. You most ask for "tomatters" if you wish to be treated with re speck " ' ": " , Just at present Charleston has taken . on a more cosmopolitan air than usual and a stroll on the Battery or a walk down Meet ing street brings you face to face with many different kinds of peo pie. There is the tourist element, always interesting, and just now, a large number of outside people here for the races. Here and there among the passers are the well-to-do, modern Charlestonians, too conventional to be interesting, and whose street dress of a fashionable cut is off-set possibly by the next passer by whose dress wrap and hat, of a by gone style bespeak the pathetic attempt to hide poverty and hardship a not in frequent figure representative of old broken down Charleston aris tocracy. One is struck with the number of very old women of the place and apparently the older, the more active and one not infre quently meets what could" best be described as a very animated bun dle of wrinkles, which if you hap pen to meet personally you discov er is accompanied by a very bright and intelligent mind. Charleston, the place, is equally as interesting as Charleston, the people. There is, of course, the Navy Yard, the old market, the Museum and other places of gen eral interest, but the quaintness of several of the old historic churches, strikes one particularly. St. Phil ip's and the Huguenot church are interesting as is also St. Michael's. If you cau appreciate St. Michael's, the old Charlestonian will look upon you with approval. Here all of the little Charlestonians whose "pap ers" have made good money on Broad, street and whose "mam-ers" have social aspirations, learn where they came from, and how to behave while in Charles ton,! with, of course, proper consid eration given the place where all Charlestonians, properly born, may expect to go. St. Michael's is noted for its chimes. -These chimes ring each quarter of an hour of eyery day in the year, with a special dispensation of mel ody, somewhat cracked with the age of the bells, on Sunday morn ing. There is a clock in the tower which, being also somewhat aged, gets frequently out of time. Nev ertheless, if you know what is good for you, you will conduct your going out and coming in by that clock, even tho' it stops for several hours. :- It fell my lot to spend one New Year's night with in a half block of St. Michaels. As is the custom, a number of the church bells of the town pealed forth the hour. There was a great jubilee of melody over the birth of the new year, waking all in the house for half hour or so." I soon dropped back to Bleep, think ing all the noise was over, and the New Year well born when lo! St. Michael pealed forth, full half an hour late, "Asleep in Jesus" and sundry, mournful - melodies, bursting finally into joyful notes over the New Year. Everyone be ing Charlestonian, I kept discreet silence at the breakfast table, next morning, while the lovely chimes were being talked of. I could on ly recall with intense amusement how St. Michaels came in a half hour late, and treated the whole matter in utter disregard of Uncle Sam's time, just across the street at the post office. But poobl What is Uncle Sam to St Michael! Therein lies the charm of it all. A description ot Charleston would not be complete without reference to the Charleston dar key. ; Charleston is one of the three cities, I believe whose negro population exceeds its - white, an item of intelligence - you do not have to go to the city records to grasp, for your-first walk down King St., southward, to the Bat tery, will find you lifting your skirt and dodging pickaninnies, playing mumbly peg on the side walks, much as you would a swarm of the all-to-friendly flies, also to be found in large numbers. Your first impression of being in a place quaintly different from all others, is brought you on the first morn ning after your arrival, when you are aroused from your slumber by the sound of a remarkable darkey voice coming from the street below. You rub your eyes and wonder whose colored man has lost his mind on his way to work, an idea that is quickly dispelled as your curiosity takes you to the nearest window and you see the darkey in VIEW OF SECTION OF THE EXPOS SE1VATIC ' EXPOSITION, KNOXVI question, with a flat board ou his head, covered over with a piece of old toe-bagging. I can't begin to interpret what he says, but I afterwards learned - he was the "shrimp man." Having this in troduction to the street vender, you think you will not be so dense next time and catch for yourself what is said. So when the next crier comes down the street you prick your ears to be the wiser of his lingo. This one happens to be a woman and on her head a big basket of vegetables. "Soopum, soopum," she calls and you rack your brains to know what she is saying, but in vain. Expecting to hear of some new vegetable indi genous to Charleston soil, you turn to your hostess for enlighten ment. The "Soopum" turns out to be the island darkey's twist of tongue tor "Soup bunch" a fav orite way of selling a small collec tion of various vegetables suitable for boiling ia soup. As yet, I have not -encountered but onA Charleston alsh I cannot learn to like, and when I decline it I am looked upoa as a rank outsider and not at all to the manner bom. It is a dish ia which is centered all of a Charleston housewife's pride, and you must needs suffer insult for declining it The dish in question is a mixture of rice and brown peas, familiarly known and affectionately designated as "Hopping John." f On first tast ing it I made bold to enquire Of what it was made. "What! Nev er heard of Hopping John!" I was asked in shocked amazement. "No," I laughed, "I am from North Carolina." "I thought so!'.' was the squelching reply. I have since learned to decline that dish On the grounds of"poor appe tite rather than of poor' taste. Rice, you know,' is the South Car olinian's idol. As typical of the place it holds in his heart, I heard a Charleston man, not long ago telling his wife of an elaborate stag dinner of the day previous. "And what did they have!" his wife asked. - "Oh, everything rice and everything," he declared, in a manner that showed he had done full justice to the description of that dinner. Charleston's out of town attrac tions are also delightful. There is the Isle of Palms (the proper pro nunciation of which is "Oil of Pa atns") much more to my liking in midwinter than midsummer. In the summer you are confronted by the throngs of people who go there for a cool breath of ocean air. In winter,save for a straggler here and there, you have one vast, deserted beach with the ocean, fathomless and wonderful, for your -companion. Then there are Forts Sum ter and Moultrie, as well as other place ' to be eDjoyed by a. water trip," among them the famous "Magnolia Gardens," the like of whose glorious flowers it would be hard to find. Summerville, anoth er point Of interest is reached by rail, 22 miles out of town, a delightful spread out village among the long leafed pines. Be ing strictly a resort town, it is very cosmopolitan, and in living there one has the unusual experience of country town life coupled with freedom and breath of the city; and all because the natives have learned through contact with the outside world of tourists, what the. usual small town does not have the opportunity of learning; that there are others in the world than those of local life. Here you have TION GROUNDS, NATIONAL CON- LLE. TENN.. SEPT AND OCT. 1913. the privilege of wearing a Paris hat or a ten cent sunshade a short skirt and sweater or a gown from North, without comment. You can go duck hunting on Sunday or sing psalms in church; be good, bad or indifferent and nobody cares, because everybody is wise as to his own place in the world. There is only one person I know of who would not feel at home in Summerville, and that is Madam Grundy. Speaking of costume, I am mindful of the amusement of a Wilmingtonian on a visit to Lin colnton, some years ago. It was the season of overskirts and "tur ban" style of hair arrangement, as set forth for the edification of the village ladies by McCalls Mag azine. The visitor returned to her boarding place after a morning in town, greatly convulsed with laughter. "That is the funniest place I ever saw," she declared, "Why every woman I saw had a turban in her hair and an overskirt on -and they all . looked as if, they were cut by the same pattern!'.' This is not poking fun at my : na tive burg but simply to illustrate how' (prone the villageite is to think that not only garments but life itself, must be all cut out by the same pattern. I remember hearing one of these ladies of the McCall overskirt type come broad ly out and denounce another for wearing a Paris hat, ludicrous to the overskirt lady because not in keeping with the styles shown in the Lincolnton shops. Speaking of Lincolnton ladies makes me wonder if the Daugh ters of the Confederacy there, have any conception of what the war they are immortalizing was really all abont . I used to think it was brought about over the freeing of the slaves, or, possibly, a ques tion of principle," involved -therein. But J have since learned bet ter. -It all happened because some unsuspecting Yankee Congressman bucked up against the opinion of a Sauth " Carolinian! Being native born to the Old North State and, therefore, distinctly Southern in birth and breeding, my personal regard of the man north ' of the Mason and Dixon line used to be anything but flattering. But a residence of many moons in "Char leston and vicinity makes one won der a bit about things pertaining to the war between the States, which wonder becomes ripened in to conviction, so strong one finds oneself longing to shake hands with i every Yankee tourist one meets over the outcoae of the Civil War. Tab Heel. Lincoln's Eoai Commission are Shown --Over Cleveland' Roads. . '. ,' A delegation from Lincoln coun ty was here yesterday to look over No. 6 township roads, Lincoln having voted $200,000 in bonds March 4th, for good roads. Those who came up were J. A. Aber nethy, Eobt. Nixon , G. M. Shn ford aqd Mr. Houser of North Brook township. They constitute the high commission and expect to begin work right away. Mr. Nix on is a man of considerable avoir dupoise and will serve as part of the machinery, possibly the steam roller to pack the road bed. Our commissioners, L. A. Gettys and J. F. Roberts, with Haywood Hull, son-in law of Mr. Abernethy, took them out over the road. Cleveland Star. Claim and Delivery papers for sale at The News office. UNION STANDS FOR. Not In Politics and Is Working For The Uplift ot the Man Who Tills The Soil. The Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of North Car olina is five years old. This or ganization's intention is to edu cate the farmer in the process of marketing and distributing what he produces. To assist its mem bers in buying and selling, to dis courage the credit and mortgage system. To apply the Golden Kule. To secure equity and es tablish justice among themselves and ail mankind. This organiza tion has accomplished much and is strong enough to do much more with a proper spirit of co opera tion. It is non-partisan in poli tics and only asks for a square deal for the class ot people it is composed of. As an organization it cares nothing for partisan poli tics or political parties, but is greatly interested in the affairs of the government of this country and it's wish is, to see it prosper. But it stands for equal : rights to all and special privileges to none in the affairs of the government of the country. Just now the Union, with all the rest of the world, has its eyes on the new administration that has just come into power and the new Congress that is to reduce the tariff at its extra session. It is to that Congress that the far mer should appeal for a square deal. For the manufacturer will be there to have his goods protect ed, Jbut he will want his raw ma terial admitted free; the cotton goods manufacturer will want free cotton; the iron and steel manufacturer will want free ore; the farm implement manufacturer wilt want free raw material but protection on their goods. The great sugar refineries will want free raw material; the jute bagging man ufacturer will want his raw mate rial free; the woolen manufacturers will want free wool; the miller will be there to have his" flour pro tected, but will want free wheat. So all these people will deluge our next Congress asking for pro tection and free trade at the same time. But will the organized far mers be able to get Congress to give them a square deal in the re vision of the tariff. If his corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, cotton, hogs and cattle, his chickens and eggs, his beans peas, cabbage and every thing else he produces on the farm is put on the free list, then ought not all the farm tools he has to buy, his clothing and shoes be on the free list too. But if those things have to be protected for the prosperity of the country and the benefit of the manufacturer, then every thing the- farmer- produces ought to be protected for the pros perity of the country and the ben " efit of the farmer. . In all Europe they can not raise a bale of cotton. But they do ) have millions of spindles to spin our cotton, and must have 8 or 10 million bales each year. Now would it not be just as fair for this government to tell the cotton man ufacturers of the other parts of the world that if they get any of our cottou to manufacture they must pay the farmer 12 cents a pound and 3 cents a pound to this gov ernment as a export tax. We ask if it would not be just as fair as the present system of handling our cotton. Now they buy our cotton at any price they can get it in a free market. But this govern ment says they cannot Bell it back here without paying a duty on it. And in collecting that duty the government taxes itself for the people of this -country that-buys these goods pays that tax and is the people not the government. In the above proposition the farmer is protected with a guarantee of 12 cents a pound for his cotton and the government would be get ting its 3 cents a pound export tax from Europe and not be suck ing it out of its self. There are many other farm products that could be done the same way. We go to Germany for nitrate of soda to grow our cotton but that gov ernment makes us pay a tax be fore we can get it. Why not this government protect its farmers like Brazil protects its coffee far mers. That government sets a price on coffee aid we coffee drink ers have it to pay. If other na tions can collect an export tax off of what the people of this country has to have, then why not this ; WHAT THE FARMERS' A DCVN THE PIKE WE GO. Mr- A Q. Kalt, of High Shoals, to fcrtct Handsome Building On Depot Street-' Modern In Every Respect. The News predicted some time ago that there were great things in store for Lincolnton. Backed by as good country , as we have and a people who are of the best we just can't help but move along and overtake our sister towns. We have had a lull in the building line for a couple years but that couldn't be helped on account of the panic that existed among the mills, thanks to the Radical party. Under the steady hand of Wood row Wilson our country will grow and prosper and we are going? to double up and swine right ia with the tide of progress, and go down the pike. That admirable move on the part of our citizenship in voting the good roads bond issue was one of the best things that has hap pened in some time and before the road work is finished we will be going at even a livelier clip than now. Mr. A. Q. Kale, the affable man ager of the High Shoals mill who knows a good thing when he sees it, has given the contract for a handsome building to be erected on his lot just below where "Pid- her" Lawing will build his. It will be a two story affair. Store rooms with handsome pressed brick and plate glass fronts will take up the first floor and offices will be arranged in the second story. The plans call for a mod ern building in every respect and as the genial manager of the High Shoals mill never does things by Halves, we may expect something iMnm nn ; Deserted From Army,.. Archie Sanders Held by Forest City Officers. Forest City, Maich 10. Arrhin Saunders was taken into custody here Saturday afternoon by Chief of Police Manning charged with deserting the army at Fort War den, Wash, in September. Ar- chie is one of Forest City's former boys, his step-mother is living here at this time. He enlisted in th army four years ago and has been stationed in Washington State since, he re enlisted one year ago under some excitement and later decided he would desert to come home. Since his desertion hR has been in Canada and has been at this place only a few davs. He seems very optimistic about the punishment which is likely to be metea to mm. ERROR IN CROUSE VOTE. Dear Sir: The report of th good roads election from Crouse Pricinct in your paper last week is wrong. Duly two votes were cast against Eoad Improvement here, whereas the published report is twenty-eight against it. G. T. Heafner." At the Saturdav meeting of the Mecklenburg division of the North Carolina Farmers' Uuion, the county business agent, Mr. W. 0. Crosby was instructed to negotiate for the purchase of 1,000 tons of commercial fertilizers for use by members of the organization. The purchase which was ordered will be made under terms of a contract that has been accepted and ap proved by the business agent of the State organization, time and cash payments both being pro vided. The contract for the State azent was made on a basis that 100,000 tons be bought and the Mecklenburg order is the contribn- 4.1 A c .u : .. 4. .l ... wuu ui tins uuuuiy m me general contract negotiated.- Charlotte Chronicle. Easter Cards At Houser's. government collect an export tax on cotton and other farm products that other nations has to have. That is what the farmers' unions of this country would like to see done, instead of taking the money out of their own pockets to pay the foreign manufacturers taxes as they now have to do under the present tariff system of collecting taxes. The Farmers' Union is an educational organization and through it the farmer is learning more about his own business and the conditions that keeps him down than any other school he ever attended. B.
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