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THE ONLY WAY OUT
The history of the full of nations
and the reasons for their fall makes
the question, "When and why will
America fall" of vital importance to
our people. It is a fact generally ad
mitted that we are rapidly coming to
the place where fewer people are
making and more people taking the
price made; and we are rapidly reach
ing the place where we are depend
ing more largely on others than in
any: other period of vur .proud his
tory. (
The boy borntuflay will be a job
»t_eker and not a job maker tomor
row. There will be no lield for him
U set his compass in.
There wag a day in which man
might venture forth without fear of
being choked out. It was a day when
lueli might blaze their own trail in
i'.ny litie of business on equal footing
with all other men. There were no
combines to crush him and no finan
cial masters to make him afraid.
Today we find every worth-while
modern invention tied up by patent
rights and dominated by special priv
ileges.
The advent of the steam machine,
the use of gas, and the discovery of
bounded opportunities to help and
please humanity. The world has be
come intoxicated with these rich bles
sings, and while the bulk of the folks
have been suckling from these foun
tains of pleasure there is another set,
the far-seeing, those who are seeking
for the power of wealth, who are daily
tieing the folks hand and foot, with
tne result that the big wealth of this,
Kf well as many other countries are
not only bossing practically all the
businesses, lijjt they are throwing the
yoke oli the necks of the people, and
they are. now in a position to say go
or stay.
They rule politics either through
patronage or with money. An evi
dence of tlus was shown in the re
cent Pennsylvania primary, where
millions were spent for the purpose
ol procuring a Senator that is will
r.g to do more for business than he
is for folks.
The only thing that will change
such a condition is to educate all the
folks alike. We have increased our
dependence upon other people rather
than grown independent of other|. We
do not ride nor walk, eat nor sleep,
nor see many things during the day
that we do not depend on others for.
W'hen we have to depend on each
ether, it becomes highly necessary
that we know as much as the other
in order that we may take care of
ourselves in the trade. *
Education may cost a big price, and
no doubt it is costing far more than
it should, but it is the only way out.
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"THE NOTES ARE GOOD IF IN
DORSED BY THE DAIRY COW
By G. A. Card well
Fred H. Ygnng, of Florence Coun
ty, S. C., with two world-record cows
cows developed on his farm, has
brought South Carolina into promi-
MBM ,n the dairy world. The two
eows, Sanation Mikado's Millie 548901,
and Blue Fox's Eminent Queen
409 M1, in the only world's record
ever grown and developed in the
Sooth. Whan a two year old, Millie,
0» tort for MS days, fart 18,308
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THE COUNTY HOME DEMON-
H STKATION AGENT
s Martin County women now have a
11 golden'opportunity. People coming
o to u county generally come to be
- helped. This time it is different. We
0 have a lady who has come to us from
e the'other side of the Blue Kidge, w
v way over in Tennessee, and she lias
- come to help us.
Of course, she can not help all the
11 folks, it would be hard to reach them
" all. Then there are some who do not
need her help—they know enough al-
L> ready and are quite able to paddle
- their own canoes. But there are a
ii bout 10,000 good women and girls
who really do need help, in some
u ways at least; it may be in better
f cocking, better housekeeping, better
ii community life, or in a thousand other
ii ways.
1 It makes no difference where we go
0 or what we (I t, it becomes more nac
- essary every cay for us to be able to
take care of t urselves.
e The farmwife has-to know how to
t uo more things than any other per
" sdfl on earth. And of all people who
should be helped to make her more
!, efficient in the duties of life, the
f housewife is that person. She may
d cloth, she measures the flour and
'- slices the meat every day in the year;
- and if these things are to make the
s race healthy and strong, they must
- be prepared in the best way known,
~ which the experience of the past com
I'ined with the science of today
/ teaches us. .
1 Women who do not know how to
i play scientific bridge make just as
s'good wives as those who do, but a
1 woman who does not know how to
3 cook and keep house is a failure as a
i wife for a poor man.
» It may be thrit there are a few
folks who are so,"stuck-up" that they
i do not care to know about such
■ things. If so, great is the pity. There
' are those who do need the assistance
' of a teacher who can help them with
f the problems of life. All such per
son should cooperate with Miss Trent
'■ ham and put a great work across in
the county. If we do not cooperate
! 1 Mid help the work, it will not be worth
1 the small amount it costs. If we do
' our best and help to carry out the
program until it reaches a large num
-1 ber of our women, then it will be
, worth many times its cost.
pounds of milk and 850.8 pounds of
butter fat; while Queen, also a two
year old Jersey, in a test of 805 days
gave 11,848 pounds of milk and 642.16'
pounds ot fat. This is a lot of- milk'
and fat; in fact enough to make these
animals world's champions, one in the
senior two-year-old class AA, and the
other in senior two-year-old Jersey
class AAA.
Mr. Young's success—a remarkable
accomplishment—has caused him to
be showered wijth congratulations
from all over the country, and wttn
i ii.quiries for information as to, how
; world champion cows are produced.
In a recent newspaper interview he
told the story of his success with
Millie and Queen somewhat as fol
low*:
"One must have a real cow to be
i gin with—one embodying all of the -
, essentials necessary to dairy type,
i I and she must have a wonderful coistt-
Thi rigs To
hink About
By JAMES D. TAYLOR
PICKING FOR FLAWS
One of our greatest weaknesses, is
the picking for flaws in others. None
of us are perfect and tltose who are
in the hahit of finding fault in others
are the less perfect of all.' It has
been well said that there are only two
classes of people who never make mis
takes: The dead and the unborn.
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Y'ou can not dictate the terms of
your friend's destiny by always tell
ing him of his faults. You can help
him and yourself by seeing the good
anil keeping dumb about the bad.
Sometimes a word of advice is needed
but often this can be given in ways
other than by words. It does not take
much searching to find flawp, but the
good is not always sp easily seen.
There are so many good things that
are npt observed without searching.
I,earn to search for the good in oth
ers; and when you have acquired the
.babit, you will change from a fault
finder to a well-wisher, and a fellow
helper.
Did you ever stop to think that
those in whom you find the most
faults nre your superior? One of the
quickest ways to make those around
you unhappy and to become unhappy
yourself, is to look for flaws. The
best way to be hpppy and make oth
ers happy is to look for the good.
We are almost always with people,
for we belong to one another. It
takes all kinds and classes to make
up this old world, and if we would
make this place oh earth a better
place in which to live we should play
well our part in the spreading of good
i Beer-
There are those who seldom see
good in anything. Recently I heard
an old grouch say that the movies are
u * ' ' "'h ,»wv.n h vw itcu. It C 1
am told that the movies have done
t
more to decrease alcoholism among
Trench workmen thjtn any other a
gency. It is said that young work
men drink less than their older crafts
men because they have formed the
habit of spending their evenings in
the movie houses instead of saloons.
If this is true, the movies are good
in that respect.
If we train our thoughts to think
of the good and allow our words to
be in accord with our minds, there
will be little time for the picking of
flaws. Where there is a wrong there
is a remedy, and the best way to cor
rect bad conditions is to crowd them
out by the sowing of good seed.
tut ion. She must be a good feeder
and able to consume, digest and as
similate feed three times a day dur
ing the whole test period to enable her
to produce an enormous amount of
milk, and naturally the milk must be
very high in butterfat content
It is an- extremely vital point for
the cow to be fond of and have con
fidence in the one whb milks and
cares for her, otherwise there is no
chance to make a world record."
The writer has often heard it said
that our lack of success with cows in
the South was due to the fact that
negroes do not know how to care for
dairy animals. If this statement is
true, Herbert Jackson, a colored boy
or. Mr. Yaung's farm, is certainly a
exception, for both of the
champions were fed, milked, and cared
for during their long test periods by
Herbert. It can therefore be said
with propriety of this colored boy,
"well done, thou good and faithful '
servant."
Mr. Young's sensational success
coming at a time when an earnest ef
fort is being made by southen agri
cultural leaders to lead our farming
population conservatively into the
dairy business, by the '.family cow
route," is most fortunate. It disposes
-.of two bugaboos, flrst "the climate is
too warm," and second, "the colored
labor problem,' and proves that Sou-
THE ENTEKPtaSE—WILUAHBTON, N. C.
History of Rise and
Fall of This County's
First Steam Railroad
Editor Sketches:
Thinking that railroad building in
Martin County of some his
torical interest to your readers, I am
sending the fallowing:
The first iron rail for the purpose
of a track for a steam locomotive to
run on in Martin County was laid on
the banks of the Roanoke River-at
Jamesville about 54 years ago (do not
know the exact date) on the line
known as the Jamesville & Washing
ton Railroad, which was chartered by
the North Carolina Legislature. This
was the beginning of a 22-mile line
of railroad connecting the Roanoke
River at Jamesville with the Pamlico
River at Washington.
The road was projected by Pennsyl
vania Yankees, under the leadership
of Francis Lightfoot, a lumber mer
chant and civil engineer.
English capitalists furnished money
lor the road, which amounted to $300,-
(K)0, in the form of 8 per cent first
mortgage bonds, which are said to
have been the first bonds, ejther pri
vate or public, issued in this county
for any purpose. ' .
The railroad operated steamboat
lines to Norfolk and Edenton, also to
■Williamston, Hamilton, and Palmyra.
The head office was at Diamond City,
where the company established what
was, in its day, the largest lumber
mill in eastern Carolina, and where
thern are favorable for
dairying.
•Every farm in Virginia and the
Carolines can not have a world-record
cow; but every farm can have a bet
ter cow, a higher producer. Good
• * -.1 mill rrtvp
good results.
Let's do away with the scrub and
start improving our herds through the
use of good registered sires. The
butcher is the only individual can
afford to use scrub bulls.
INDIGESTION *
North Carolina Lady Says Ska
Had Aa Awful Tine With
Indigestion, Till She Took
Black-Draught.
Pilot Mountain, N. C.—Tor sever
al yean I suffered with a bad case
of chronic indigestion," says Mrs.
Sam C. Tnrrv.n of thi« place. "I
had bad spells with my stomach.
At times I had sever# pains in my
right side. My stomach would get
upaet and I would have an awful
time. It seemed like everything
1 ate disagreed with me. I was in
pretty baa shape.
"My husband had been using Hied
ford's Black-Draught for some timn
for indigestion. He had spells of it
too, so ha suggested that I try
Black-Draught I took some from
his box, )ust to see if it would help
ma, and I found it was the very
thing for my trouble. It did me a
great deal of good. My condition
waa brought qn by a chronic case of
constipation and, by getting relief
from this, I found try general
was much better.
"We keep Black-Draught in the
house aO the time. Whenever I
find I need it, I take several dosss
and thus avset a bad spell of in
digestion It is a splendid medicine
and I am glad to say aa"
Said everywhere. NC-173
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- 666
is a prescription for
MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER,
DENGUE OR BIUOUS FEVER
jit Kills the Germs
CRUSHED BARLEY MALT
One Hundred Pounds ... 93.50
Hop Flavored Malt Syrup, per
dozen cans $5.7 i
AMERICAN MALT «0.
Albemarle, North Caroliaa. j 15-20
' -J., i .1 ■ -IJ-JU 1 mil 1 j
£ood Fresh GE6k6IA PEA£HLS
$2.59 Per Boahel Crate
Much Lower Prices ia S-bashel Lots
'Now shipping Elbertas and Car
mens. Buy a crate for your sum
mer ics cream. Write for quantity
prices te
GRIMES BROKERAGE GO.
Room 429 Kimball-House
my 26 Atlanta, Georgia got
the most up-to-date machinery that
could be bought was installed.. Includ
ed in the machinery equipment were
a number of upright gang saws,
enough to cut a large log into inch
planks at one run through the mill.
Although the 40,000 acres of timber
lands then owned by the railroad was
covered with the finest virgin long
leaf pine, cypress and juniper trees,
they failed to make money in the mill
business.
For a time the railroad flourished,
doing a large business. Negroes
flocked in from everywhere to do rail
road and mill work. The population
of Jamesville doubled And Diamond
City, the home of. the company and
center of activities, had grown into a
town of several hundred people. The
population was chiefly composed of
negroes, some white Americans, and
with a few each of Irish, English,
Swede and other nationalities. Money
was easy with the new company,
which was spending the $300,000 bond
money. Things looked almost like a
big road-building project or some oth
er public work in this age.
It was apparent after a few years
operation that the road was short in
management but long in interest
charges, causing financial embarass
ment. A change was found necessary
ijid the reorganization put the late
Abraham Fisher, an English-Irish
man then in South America, in charge
of the entire property as general man-
Special Low Prices
For 10 Days
BEGINNING
Friday July 9th
OVERSTOCKED ON NECKBAND SHIRTS
We will sell all neckband shirts at ONE-HALF PRICE, except
plain white. This is the biggest shirt value we have ever given. Be
sure to come in and look them over while these prices prevail
One lot of ladies' and chil- One rack of ladies' voile dress
dren's oxfords to go, white they es to close out at HALF PRICE
last for.., 98c pair .
lnis is the best bargain you
We have all sizes of some of will find this summer.
the styles, and to clean them up
quick, we have made the price One lot of men's dress straw
very low. hats, to close out at...... 50c each
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One special lot of ladies' high- One special lot of men's nice
grade slippers, in patent, tan, dress straw hats to go at.... 98c
white, to close out at $2.98 pair _ K t u * u
H Never before have you seen
One lot of voile, assorted pat- bargains like this.
terns, to go at 25c varH r\ . . ,
— One table of men s high-
One lot of plain and fancy • g , rade oxfords > dean up
gingham, to go at 10c yd. 75: * 1,98 pair
~ 7" " BUr e to come in look them
One lot of yard-wide yellow over—this is a value that you
homespun to go at 10c yard have never heard of before.
Special Lot Men's and Boys' TT„lf ¥)„• A
Suits, to Close Out at . . -HSIII AIICC
This Is a Special Lot to Close Out
You will find lots of special bargains all through the store, and
we hope you will be sure to come in to see us.
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Harrison Bros. & Co.
WILLIAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA
ager. Mr. Fisher was a well-trained
business man, so far as accounting and
general knowledge went, but was im
practical when it came to procurng
business for a new railroad in a new
country. Things grew worse and he
resigned, leaving the business without
a head.
The railroad was leased to William
Bissell, who continued to operate it
until the bonds, which had accumu
lated a heavy amount of interest, be
came due and the road went into the
hands of a receiver. The last run of
its passenger schedule was made on
January 25, 1892; and then the com
pany was permitted to surrender its
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charter and take up its tracks.
The railroad company, which had
considerable property at Jamesville,
also at Vv ashing ton, where it owned
a hotel and considerable water front
age, was sold for only $20,000, in
cluding the 40,000 acres of land. The
company had purchased, in September
1869, 39,630 acres of land for the
sum of $250,000.
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It is interesting to note the his
tory of this tract of land, which Was
granted by the State of North Caro
lina, in 1792, to John Gray Blount for
the sum of $5,000. It then lay as an
unused swamp for more than half a
century, used principally as a free
hunting ground, and a public stock
range, where Wild cattle thrived, and
deer, bear, and other animals roamed
in droves.
When the new railroad and lumber
mill scheme was presented to tyie
English lords and noblemen it seemed
to tickle their get-rich-quick ears just
as much as the waving moss of the
I'verglades painted on a billboard a
long the roadside does the eye of a
Chicago gambler, or the bluffs of
Morehead painted on the side of a
Beaufort County barn swamps the
reason of many North Carolinians,
and these peers paid $250,000 in good
hard coin for the 40,000 acres of
swamp land; and that was away back
in 1869.
The next price made on this big
tract was made by a courthouse crier :
which always carries a feeling of
fright and drives enthusiasm down to
a low ebb, and prices go down with
enthusiasm. The price them was on
ly *IO,OOO.
The business barometer rose just a
bit, and the same property sold in
June, 1904, for the sum of $28,000,
more than nine times less than the
sale made 45 years before. In order
to bring comparisons up to date we
find the same land, on which the tim
ber had been cut since the 1904 sale,
selling again, this tme bringing the
fancy aum of $377,138.40 on January
1, 1921, which is 13 1-2 times as
much as at the sale made sixteen and
a half years earlier.
Since that time the Standard Oil
Company, through its subsidiary com
pany, the Interstate Cooperage Co.,
has loaned $300,000 on the timber on
the same land.
The little half century history of
filings around us proves that wonder
ful changes may happen to things we
call staple.
The history of the Jamesville ti
Washington, our first railroad, might
have been different if it had accept
ed the offer which was made by the
Atlantic Coast Line to buy its line
and connect Washington with its pres
ent line at Jamesville. If such had
been the case, Parmele would never
have appeared on the map, and Dia
mond City, now inhabited only by
bears rattlesnakes and wildcats would
be 'a flourishing village.