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CHARLOTTE DAILY-OBSERVER, HAY 17, 1C A Jaunt; Through Eastern Worth Carolina T THIRD LETTER. BY COL. FRED A. OLDS. -if It fa a very ' pleasant sort Of a thin on "a , fine May ' day.' with the vegetation at Its .freshest and best, and after an ' agreeable shower tof rain Iim made It the fresher, to travel en any klnd Of conveyance. but" there Is an element of -plctur-eaqeeneas on ' a trip on one of the little rail war, one of the kind which the Uxt Legislature sought to foeter, acting upon Governor Glenn's meet kind -suggestion, -v I had been lavit ed by the rood people of Fayettevllle, through lta chamber of com mere, to make a talk to them and to take part in noma decree, In the- new lift which has come to that place, union , during- no many years wm spoken of u 'fleer old town," ana tnai sor. of thing. Fsyettevllle has plenty of memories behind it and as rood peo ple as the world afford and has not hurled Its past at all. hut 1 innnue v ' ly proud of It, yet it is awakening. realises that this la 10I. has "caught ' l on to the trolley" and is moving. Mr. . . John A. Mills' road, the Raleigh A " South port, has had a hard time; many ups and downs and many Jolts, but ho hangs on and is certainly -a . man . who deserves well of his section and of his etate. He is in truth a cap- - tain of industry and one of the right - kind; not one of those who .let other , people work, . for it can be ,sald of Min that. thephra-er'Every body . works hat father," does not apply ta his household at all. for all of them are rtgHt there- even the very tiniest ,v . boy, when it comes to railroading. Mr. Mills can get in an engine and run It tike a veteran and can do al most anything else. The hard timet hare hit these little roads as well, as the big ones. All are In the same boat. Mr. Mills, who is the life and soul of th Raleigh A- South port, hat ' put his money, as well as his heart f and mind into It, and he deserves every compliment that may be paid hint and all the success which kind fortune may have In reserve. ' " , To tell the truth the men who have built up these little roads in North ' Carolina have done a. world of good. They have been very quiet about It,. Ilk a good doctor or. a good preach er, but their work goes op and will live- after them. Mr. Mills needs ' now rail and heavier,' too, on .the Ra lelgh end of his line, and when timet : ret eV ltttie better he will put It down. , Meanwhile he baa suffered from va rious and sundry wreaks and we had , an example of this sort of thing when :bont half way , to Fayettevllle. for the tender of a mixed train had the ' day before left the rails at a sharp , curve and as a result there was a fln mess and mingle of cars loaded r with, lumber and various other-things, . The roads have a hard time in connee tloa with overloaded cars oftentimes, notably coal cars, .for eomethlhc gives way, and then there Is a smash, for which the hauling road has to pay, slowed up 'a little and taken the mall from his hand We crossed the Durham A South" em Railwav track, this beta the road built by the Dukes and Anglers,' of Durham, to Dunn, to give a connec tion with the Atlantic Coast Line. On this 'road' there are no' Sunday trains and this Is also the case on the Aber deen A Asheboro and the. owners of the two roads let this fact be known very plainly Indeed. ' , y : Near Uttle river, which, y' ' the way, is a beautiful stream, blatk and swift and looking like there ought to be a lot of Ash In ,- it, and wHh Its banks bordered by exquisite kalmia, now In full bloom (popularly Known as laurel) there la a tiny pono from which a raceway carries the wa ter-power to an equally tiny mllL On the train was a little t white girl with less tnan nair a ousnei or corn in sack. 6he got off at the mill, as the train stopped at a w&tertank there and took with her the grist. It was quite a -novel arrangement, .this rid Ing on' a train to the mill,' but the little country artrt did not think It odd a bit. I paid particular attention to the lumber plants along the line and sure ly the lumber Interest must be looking- tip again, for all of the plants ex cept one, in other words seven-eighth of them, were at worn. This quite. In contrast with what I had seen In the eastern part of the. State pHrny ApTttJ3ouroeyfwfaewnt a single plant was found to be In oper ation If there is one thintr which a very large area of North Carolina heeds it Is the stock law and the -particular area which needs It worse has, per hapa, Rss of It than in - any other part of the stage, this being the long lest pine region. "lc- up an old geography and it will tell you that North Carolina Is noted for tar, pitch and turpentine . This 'was true half a century age and . something later, but It Is not true now and our ren tal; 'if somewhat learned friend) the razor-back hog Is very largely respon sible for the change. '. This hog Is a connoisseur, by the way, and we saw some noble specimens of him along tne Kaieigii A Bouthport Railway una, One raunt beast stood In a Held look ing at the train, his legs propped wide span so that the wind would not blow him' over. He was so thin that he cast but a alight shadow and one al most prepared to believe the state ment made by a passenger that these hogs can take their talis In. their teeth, hump themselvVa into a: circle, roll over ana over and cut right through a barbed wire fence, or another story mat alter they dry . ut and die tne head and tall can be strapped togeth er and a very servlcabis circular saw be the result. It has been further stated that their heads can be used for plow points and if you see some of .their rooting work .In this State tms story, will go stand all the annoyance and, loss. 14 other ways As we went out of Raleigh we pass ed through the splendid farm of the Central Hospital for the Insane and after passing Walnut creek struck a meadow In which many convicts were at work retting out clay to be used in brick-making In the penitentiary. Many persons wore observed o be f work on the fsrms and the tilth of ' the latter seemed -. to be better . than usual. Cotton and corn were com ing op welL .-Down near Fuquay Springs there was teen rather a nov elty, this being a gasoline car, about 'the else of the common trolley car, and being need for passenger traf- moment. Added to this is the fact that Fayettevllle is the most westerly place in the State having water trans portation. From it in the old days North Carolina got a great "part of it tuppllet and the late State Treasurer Worth once told me that he had seen over. too wagons there at 'one time from the up-country,, some from as far as Salisbury. ; v ' . J Wo were driven op . on ; beautiful Haymount "and from that . height, where there are so many handsome homes, looked over ths town, which is set in a mass of verdure like a picture In a beautiful frame, and we. saw far beyond the river which links the place with the ocean; that river which the United States has spent three and a quarter million dollars to Improve and a like sum to guard by the great forts at its mouth. Up on Haymount, the ' finest residence portion of tae town, there used to - be the , United States arsenal, but only one building of tbU now , remains. The--United States hat sold the property and pri vate structures are going up. though much space yet remains of the old site.-; Dropping down from Haymount we rot a peep at the bid life: at great warenouset with rotten balconies, where In the days of yore business used to be transacted on the ground floor while people lived above. There .were vast openings In' the front of such structures, through which the ig --white-topped -trwsgong, - f pratrte schooners, as they used to call them out West, were driven Into . the camping- yards In the rear. It would . have perhaps been . .well to preserve one. of these bulldlnn In tact, but they are going fast and soon wllj-be a memory. Fayettevllle is 'to hare a postofRoe building, on a very good site, and the Methodists and Baptists are buildlnr churches, each to cost some MO.- 000, of which any place in the. State might very well be proud. . 1 - ' The chamber of commerce thera la taking up, matters very actively and the women 'are co-operating.', These are two vital forcea - for It Win ' be' found that such organisations, even though with relatively few tealouf and active members, can do more for a place than any ether influence. This Is the case at Raleigh and It will be found so at Fayettevllle. - -f , , The' latter- needs a park and a street railway system, which will go everywhere At. present there Is a mile of street railway and gasoline Is the motive power, but this. Is a mere stepping stone to better things. Fayettevllle it in the list of placet neither dead nor sleeping ' and Its people, Its new life. Itt home, and its manufacturies and wholesale ' houses show this. It Is rather a return to some at least .of. the oil prestige si a distributing centre. - down. too. Thle ra it nT. sTTh. iim. timiartlculr brd of . hog care, nothing and it must also at he same timed fop 4h. .,, . nv v, th for the roots of any . tree except the long-leaf pine, which are tweet. He turns up that nose of his at the short leaf pine and will have none of It, neither mast nor roots, but give him the long-leaf pine every time. - So he plays havoo with the timber. If he were exterminated, or Improved as to hunger and taste by being kept at home. Instead of being, allowed tq lead the life of a savage, as at pres ent, the result to North Carolina's pins Industry would be enormous. -The lumber . man, ' the turpentine getter and Are are bad enough, but the raaor-back Is the limit.. The man who will hsve the stock law passed for the whole State will deserve a monu ment, for then a Vast stretch ef coun try will be reseeded and the fong-leaf fie and pleasure trips by K. B. John son, who has a lumber line. , This I pine, which Is the prince of the South orougnt to minu tno tact mat a great ern torests. will be restored. deal of pleasure can -be had out of I The route Into Fayettevllle leads sucn cars on we nine, roaos. infjrioeiow tne foothills of the rlvor, these oo away wim ausi ana cmaers. ne roeing very bold Indeed - with tnmh. Cheap automobile Is also coming along I ling streams, deeply set In the lind; THE jCOTTON HILL SOUTH 6TR1KIXG C1LO GKS IX A DECADE A Sort of "yarrow Revisited" Reflec . Xlon of a Itetorninr Soutlt CarollBd an The Wanton Destruction of the ' Woods Not Evident to the Inhabit- aat The Lack of Taste as Shown In i the -New Sonth's Dwellings and , Street Colors That - Swear and . Stun Bht the Bis; Thinr Is the Ev- erywhere-Preeeiit Proof of Pros- perity The IdUug Jfegro Group and , tne Yoked oxen No Longer Been Nor Are Tliere Signs of 'Race An- tasjonlsm or ; Restlessness The ; rroWcm" Absent. t Thit article, which' It the first cf a series of five, was written for The Boston' Transcript by Rev. Dr. P., H. Goldsmith, minlater ; of the First church, Salem, Mass., and is repro duced -by permission of CThe i Tran script, .Dr. Goldsmith Is a south Car ollnlan by birth and recently visited hit native State,' after long absence, to , Investigate ' the conditions . prevailing in the cotton, mill settlements.' J Hit conclualont art Interesting:. , 'j t h' f ; f 'L.' '. ' ". The fine euroose for which the an ti-child labor committee was organis ed and the splendid campaign which It is earning on .In Southern cotton mills impelled me. a native of the South, to . Invettlcate conditions in those sections of the South where cot ton mills are abundant I wished to know something of the great indue trl at . revolution, -which had come over the south in the. aacaaa since i.na really known that region and to make Judiclout comparisons .with affairs and life In the North. My bases. Of comparison seem to me to - be excep tional and my deductions may be more Interesting and perhaps better worth while than the next man's Pardon, then. , a bit of autobiography. T was born in South Carolina and schooled thers and In Kentucky: and m these two States and Tennessee I lived un tn ' lll.- -Three years " thereafter spent In the Republic of Mexico, eight in Philadelphia and the remaining Ave and a fraction In Massachusetts, bring me to. the present time. . Furthermore. I confess to having spent a longer or shorter period of time la every South em State except' Florida, though' dur ing the last fen -years my acquaint ance with the South has been limited to a brief visit to South .Carolina In ltOl, and a trip -from Maryland to Texas and return in 1I0S. ' Much of my life, therefore, has beenspent In the North and I have been a practical stranger to the South for the last de cade, a period of supreme moment tn It Industrial history, THE PURPOSE OF THE " SERIES. - In; that time.-through the medium of reports and opinions current. la "Altogether, the South's f ore.t pro ducts are prob"y now' yielding ) gross (annual) l. como of 1300.000, 000, more than any' field crop except cotton, and approximately twice as much as is obtained from all its mines and qaarrlea . lie further stated that the area of the standing forests of the South is seven-eighths of he forested area of the United States; and he es timated the standing timber at 700, 000,900.000 board feet. He believed that "the present supply of Southern pine will - be exhausted - in - twenty years." Anyone 'w.ho has been ac quainted .with the South, and returns to It after an absence of ten years wilt readily concur with this estimate. The destruction of timber teems to be pro gressing with even more rapidity In the South than elsewhere in the Unit ed States, and' it it a fact of startling significance, and one which seems not to have deeply impressed its own cit-i liens, Judging by the replies which; usually met my comments on this sub ject Repeatedly at I rode through the country on the trains, or was driv en about In carriages or automobiles, t came upon - open and cultivated stretches of from Ave to 4en mtlet in extent, where, fifteen or twenty yeart age nopie .rorests of primitive pines, oatts, Hickories or poplars had stood. WHAT COTTON'S RISE HAS DONE But the big thing hat strikes the visitor after tea years . la increased prosperity. This is "due in . ths main to the high price of cotton, and the phenomenal industrial ' development In the direction of manufactures.; A rew years ago, when the price Of raw cotton had declined to five or six cents a pound,' ths farmers ' were either losing on each crop produced, or were being actually bankrupt The energies of the South were para lysed; -business -was .. at a". standstill. When the price of cotton rote to from ten to twelve tents the South began to recover. A fairy -wand seemed to have been passed over a region of desolation, Thus the South of to-day is a twentieth- century phoenix; and while it. in common with the .rest of the country, feels the stress of the present hard times, it Is enjoying such prosperity as it has not known since the civil war. and, Indeed; such, as it hat never known, for all have shared in the blessings of the recent years, , . WONDERFUL EVIDENCES OF ' " ,i , '.THRIFT, . ; The farm houses in general are In calculably better than I have ever teen them. Few of them are permit ted to remain unpalnted. and many of them are large And sightly. ' Good outbuildings, adequate and attractive furniture and ' dainty curtalna are common. Vegetables and flowers, nursery' fruit .trees, shade - trees,-- fat poultry, pigs and cattle, handsome horses and large and sleek . mules, strong and new r recently painted wae-ona and - Improved ploughs and other farming implements, with good harnesssand gears, and well built and oomfortable carriages and bugsles the surest tokens of prosperity in an The log: cabin of revered memory in romance and ballad has all but disap- peared. Indeed, during this trip I through Maryland, Virginia. ' North and t South Carolina and Georgia, I was able to discover only two log cabins actually serving as human ' dwellings. Instead of them havs aris en wooden buildings (framed). I'de.i not recall seeing any of these with loss , ' than two rooms, and they often have v three or four or more, and two storles.c-. Not uncommonly they are painted and-'-' well kept What I said regarding horses, cattle and vehicles renerall' ' is quite true of those that, belong to the negroes. Besides, they are well clothed and contented looking, y r Moat striking of all is the fact that , I saw none of the idle ones loiterinr f about the street corners of the Cities and towns which I visited. In Green vtUe which is In upper South Carolina a Btats "where the negroes consider- books and periodicals, I had learned somewhat of the changes going on (agricultural community are. the rule and now I planned to spend ' some! and not the exception, to fact, I did I say this last nd :,-v:y; for Aflanta, in general. Is a surprise and a delight It has one suburb avenue Peachtree street -which, in mllas . and miles long,' wide, undulating and welt shaded, and looked upon from right t left by houses of rars variety and tumptuousnesa. All this, however, is a digression, and by way of establish ing exceptions, as a rule, the New South is an architectural and civile disappointment Money is not lack ing, ut thought Judgment, taste. I saw almost no reproductions of South ern' colonial houses, of which . all these States possess many good speci mens,) and of which a few exist at the present time and might serve at models. . '.. "... Naturally enough, almost all the houses are of wood, and this Is not necessarily an evil;, but in form they are, of a badness which it only sur- fassed by the. teas h ore ( cottages of he New Jersey -coast, and there is some excuse for the latter, as they I ,bIv mtllnn,h4: V. " lfJ,I " Il"T. T ' ' ' r?..,-o.r 0n'r.two .f. th n.thf saw upon the streets ordinarily-- two - ; t peaked, excessively bewlndowed. over- ". h.r.elrwhlt pr,ona to J painted, llghtnlng-rodded. tin-roofed J!?pia1blJr la raewht th , 1 ' ? cottagee,- with veranda supported by b,e"ce floons, which were aiwaya V w meagre posts (not columns) it , in- the bane of the more ignorant ne- escapable. The two-story houses are tToet, but doubtless more to. the bet- . ' commonly oontructee on the same ter wages now .being pald upon the . v '-a lines, only the. lines are lengthened, farms and to the fact that negroes are : , ' Simplicity,-which a predictor would acquiring land, ambition and eduoa-, . tay ought to be natural, appears, to tlon, Owlnr to the immense develop-', ' j i be one of the last acquirements of menta In the cotton manufacturing in- , "'' ' ths highest ' Intellectuality and Aes- diiBtry. In which white people alone ' - thetlo taste and the merit of it it are employed, white laborers have al- most, disappeared from the ' farms, slther as tenants or . hired hands.. - - One might say that the withdrawal of V ; this class of labor - from agriculture hat created e. vacuum upon the farms, and Into this the negroes have been, tucked, to - their ' great advantage. wages are increased to such a it extent, -and 'labor, is so scarce under normal 1 ' conditions as to render the lndustrtoua " and honest negroes .extremely Inde pendent and prosperous. Fifteen or , twenty years ago farm hands In upper . South -Carolina commonly ' received'-')' usually overlooked in the newer por tions of the South. . The New South has been too busy recovering from the past to Imagine that It ' could spend much time over the unessential considerations of life. Many of the houses seem to be temporary struc tures, at also the bridges, shops and churches. The evidence of cruse and careless haste is . unmistakable. A farmer buys a piece of forert land. In It he makes a clearing. There he builds a house, hurriedly, inartlstloal ly. Oftener than not he leaves no shade trees about the site where his hons la to stand. If ha ever has I from s to 10 pr tnentn, witn fiouse. them, he must grow or. transplant I wood, rations, etcv; . To-day.- In . the them. ' This accounts for the bare-1 same locality,- they can get from It neaa of manv of the country homes. I to I LI 5 ner day... ' Uttle things ara everiookea. otten pretentious houses are surrounded by uncouth board fences, or worse yet, wire and rail monstrosities of hur dles, which smack of the plaint and ara about as nroner In these sur roundings 'as, xlg-sag fences ,wouW OAUDT. COI-ORS, ; . -.' The co'ort which are In high favor LITTLE RACE ANIMOSITT APPAR- ' ENT. . : : - ... ' Animosity between he white peo-, pte and the negroea of the South, to which allusion is so frequently made, may be present, and It must be so la .. certain localities,, else the reported atrocities could not occur; yet, speak ing solely of what I saw and heard, I declare that I obtained no evidence ' i- and that Is going to be a good thing for farmers and everybody else. : ' I was the guest for the trip of Presi dent John A. pates, of the Fayettevllle chamber ef. commerce, and he made tt very interesting indeed.. He has! town been at Raleigh a great deal this year, with waterfalls, gorgeous flowers, et?.. and such high hills that they are like mountain foothills' almost; by the flank of Col.. Wharton J. 3re-n' fin e-fate, Tokay, arid to-along Into the A 4,1-m . . ' . . .!. . . . I. ... - .- . . . ,w- ."" - " lane u ir . . .i S i . " "iover in piape an we drove to the oia cny hail, whlcn used te be a mar ket house but which Is now transfig ured Into elmply an open building. With A enitnfciln I h U .- . U . town hall above being transmuted In- ( io a mama- room ana nnrarr and in the charge of the ladiee of the place, who have established a verv natriotto iTw iir.Hur. anu we next looked al me new tneatre and market building, State Anti-Saloon League. He spoke about the saloon In North Carolina, remarking that there' are only about two hundred saloons In the State., If each of these gets a contribution from the National Liquor Dealers' Associa tion it means that a lot . of money has come Into North Carolina to preee - that side ' or the question: - There are only two placeswest of the Blue Ridge where liquor-tt sold, these .be, lor. whirh. th .-- .. . i' nr Warnesvllle and Marion, and at Indeed. Quite near this Is tue Hlrh. SJ,e" .i8t. .k "!, hlch any place i' -uiismi hikn vaie aro juj yu vtssiiru i in snn k mi m rnf taA 1 1 tss .- -,. a list of the rreat numbeP of speak- Many things about Favettevllle are era put into the field by the league. This list- contains two 'thousand name. - He spoke of the vast number ef volunteers for this service and said that at Ashevllle alone twenty five lawyers bad volunteered to speak very quaint and there tt a striking blending of riew" and 'old on hand. Th town would da give away a few tumble-down build li on lis princiDBl street and n- doubt -the bond Issue of - $100,600 was never anyxning use-tnis wnirh It has Just voted and which In North Carolina; not even In poll- win he tited in Improving this thor- tlcs. Think r two thousand speak- ourVare flrst of all, will lead to not ers all at work the same day! a few much-desired eliminations of As we passed through Harnett county Mr. Oates remarked that Mr. J. A Campbell had done more for that county than any man who had every lived In It He it the man who founded and yet has charge of viuer creek Academy, wnere there are Ave hundred students enrolled: these coming from all parts. Of. this Btate and irom many other States. snacks'?- which -now detract-, from everything, and with the departure of wiese win go tne unsightly row of big puiea aown me centre or rn hroaii thoroughfare. , , j i . ; .. The 'rood Scotch DeoDi-. who -ot- tied Fayettevllle. knew what th. ur- about. Of course, like all.th ef that -day they started at the river, for the people of that generation did - - i. t vii w Mir riw. w . . . Campbell had charged the whole lif ir one mean- of settln. -hartEm!' f that county by the powerful etlm- ? be The ti f v th ulns he had given the people to this Im!.1 ' fc.T.h" br. ,h"r'ef- great educational work. It 1. a uin '.,7.. "frtZ"'Z"I.. " ompiiment which any man might cirrnsa. woe can see some strange sights en a little r J, and at Cardenas, a oenlet which brlnrs an memoriM at the Spanish-A inrrican war, there' was certainty en amusing - . . . . We went - out to see the ominn mill settlementa . Fsvettevllle wa- mllt town before the tvtl at Hope Mills, seven miles a may. there was then and It now, another notable mm semement., ueneral Shermai I -i" nwnL: -c - rvr iv x . t v. r-a-: ;-' . at cresent in the rural- regions or I of it Nothlnr rave me the impres- the Southeast are doubtless from . ths I alon that I was tread in a UDon a seeth- same sources as those which one en-ljBK volcano of facial passion t nor did counters in the country throughout either race seem to ba laboring u it New England. The present prevail- der the consciousness of the menao-'" Ing fashion in colors, as it seemed to Ing negro problem which so, deeply, me. Is for gaudlness and variety; blue, dlstresset some Obseryera - Not once green, yellow and maroon belnr steady did I witness an act of injustice or favorttea , Among the more Intelligent ruthiessneas: not once aid 1 near an. ' people In the cities and occaslonaUy In unkind word-trom either side. The ths country. Ivory white, cream and negroes are necessary to ihe well-bw- ; various shades of gray are being used ,n the South; and as such thiin Iffwve?rfna these coTor. are espec- utually accorded their meed , of , Ully to be commended for the South, opportunity and appreclal on. when ? asthere Is often little coalmokt to "?T"iJ?ZJ?.. Douiovrq cuunir nwivvm -mrw wt..a . ; They are usually happier . Hun occn- , stona visitors . among thm rtco-. . nlxe. J As a rule. I ellev. they turlth- , ( er refcllie nor resent' their ostrm'awi ' . They have neve. -known t anything . else, and the uneducated one n.t n-t-, aspli-g to'aush'. hcj'ond the. oppor-. tunlty to, live, enjoy their creature; tomforte. their h Jin-i Uusfr friends i: and companions and, their religion, rt which, however 'ma'.lnai 4Ud super-v . ,, tlti'MS It may be, plays an -important part In their JKes WeH-nwan. . Ing phllanthroplitj vu.foe rU,wlousi,. . for the field negroes what they them selves de ndt even comprehend. Most of them seem not . to suspect ' that., there is any problem connected ,wlth themselvea They are not as a genr eral thing, aware of their, misery un til it is pointed out to them and glv-. en a name.;,. The negroes: who really endure the tortures of social 'ostra cism and baffled ambition,, and to whom all my sympathy goes out, are the well .educated, i who usually live ? In the North . or in, ihe large cttlea of the South, and. either because .of rm. admixture" of white-blood in their veins, or an -occasional rare AJV Mean ehdowme.it-are ambitious and :; sensitive, and therefore galled and. distressed by the stigma and llmlta- ; tlons under which .hy arf doomed to pass thetr Uvea, , .'", v i ' V' INDOOR LIFE BAD FOR NEOROES ; Owing- to the Increasing - interest whlc 1 have -felt -in -the negroes,- I maaa sucn inaturv as i was aoia. l to brief a'vUlt Concerning the phytl cal effect of education and- eomfori able aniL reflned aurrroundtnga upo: the people of this race. While 1 ad mit my data to be limited, so that my opinion 'may need to be revised, there teem to be evidences that many ne groet cannot thrive when removed from the open eJe and sunshine. - A number of physicians who have had ' lonr experience in the treatment sof, negroes leaned to the opinion that' few of those who grew up on farms can aurvive a prosperous city life, with rich andrerular food and in door occupations., -If this is truet at tention must be riven 'o the fact in ,y.i Iho picture shows the students of one of the new al WghC schools, -this' one being located in Granville ZZtu "comity. Twenty-nine of the young men and women in the group, assert that but for this school . they would THE ijEOR2?5??,:'SM F?.yxr': , - .' " , i " :. "J v . .-'' , -'. 1 1 , - . ' ' ' . ' ' . - . - - i ," . . ..-'. . . ". v r. ' v : . ' T- SOwV A15,,. . . 1 1 . , - -y.' . h-fn hA.n'tinaKlA tA AAnlllttA.! thA:r hi-liAii. Aiii.AniiAM ikn - -A- ' ;nAn. ' riL.. . t 4 - -1 1 1 1 S. 1 J 1 . . ' ..... . . . . iiaj mui cii uuayw-:tu .nmi r iuc wgu cuutauuu iuc jiu w juaacoa. X ue - picture , speith.ls yuiUHJcS .I0r IH1S i ftwM'tifA mntramrtYif oIaiii gA iirtati rtt-foT "Hvina "T l'h?a-r-t "A ili; -.--.4 --A-- '-.-.C 1 ' 3 ? x 1 i , the county of '.Granville 'and the JState '4 " -- - ! o f -:: ' -ff'S C Cv'- 'i using one. There d.treMd am- C .,ir"""i env town ut n' iht . it.t .r:r M """r,r mt mall m. 7"Zr?2 lm'lm l. nv tne slg L - "1" " water is very agreeable to Vlsitora -i.:rr,-r,r",nl,rn? Wrnt on a high hill to see th. bis n awiwur-r mi'm.. rrwiTD mine ika I . ifj.i u eatrolng malt n must I IU KfHMl K IJTril . Tne Vi a . -.a e I . . . the V hrh 7. J-"-L" S Jn Df ''ectrtc power, which It . ' -. , . 1 1 i UT I DrniiM rrAm Hiu.bh,ti.H vu . . ... . . . . - i - - v. cans, rmj -two mills mora. Ra- dred vard. of . t. "'r el nar Of tblt b . i, TmfiXi rm l vald 1 WM very much struck by a remark !f' . "reminded me somewhat of mad bv u, r f. k- .V- . w . iTAprTth eonnda for at two places Jvnif, 2! w.hi5h. 9 "0 horse power of this crew, wearlnr very hlg Rubber boou e -aid: "If yea f are waded from the boat to T the I1 drv,n.? lctncJty yon areulrlv- leiivered the mall and got the return J? . . u very tru8 remarlf. pouch. - It was a very funny Vlrht Th.T popl of "V"tteviie are wend-r- -to eea..hlm maklne Jha y..--y -i.w fuily lucky in two things; in having the water almost runntne- av.. Cape-Tear Titer and-havtnr this elec tor of his boots. At another sta-I trtc P This river Is the keynote ""T f ' Rrh ' A Sosthport u the,r It "ok them with the -iju-s, vTiaiyo-'ste or whatever wura larj are reauy as Indepen- ft waa we saw anoth-r funny sight deBt ' the rallwajt as the traditional In this connection. jB the door of a wood-aawyer; Is other words Cils store stood the oostmast-r same rivar rlM - ikm . .u. I ' i. . .. . . .., cin .i 1 1: power and It affords there the meant Tl-e Call of the Sooth.' : Norfolk Landmark. : , ' ' In the publishers' notes accompany. ing this good-looking novel the theme it described as "the danger from miscegenation and the encouragement it receives In the social amenitlea (extended to negroes of distinction by persons '. prominent n politics, philanthropy and educat tlonal endeavor.".. Some of us do not find It easy to reconcile the purpose of the author, as there stated, with his courie as a trustee of Trinity Col- j lere. In which capacity (again the information comes from ths pub lishers' notes) he voted to - retain Professor Bassett after the latter had wrlten hit Inflammatory ;-; article In Ths South Atlantic Quarterly. How ever that may be. there, is a possi bility that the .'-circulation- of. -this ttory In the North and West may do good among - those people who,- In Ignorance or folly, advocate social equality between the racea The. pur pose of the novel receives special emphasis at this time rrom the, recent Cosmopolitan Club dinner , In New Tork, where' persons v of supposed culture and Intelligence- but not really representative or Northern opinion brought - notoriety -upon themselves by Ignoring the - racial dead-lipe. - Perusal of ' the 1 story ought to benefit .these fanatics and all who are misguided ' by them as mucn as it sickens . tie. There Is strong writing here and there tn the book, and the - climax is dramatic. though repulsive, --r ,-..,. h'.m wvnt th mail carrier and rare r'm r&e snail, making ths usbsI sx-I of getUnr freight cheaDtv Voooxhl eriYTwin! TM ?2 "V' ,4rt' and w. 'reaemmend H a. a Aril to The train tW l.fPe'!ht 't ,nd thl bi ron-j remedy for children and sdulta F ytr to the train, which could hare j aMeration. at anybody will tee in a -erdaa A Co. ahd W. U Hand A THE NEW PURE FOOD AND , DRUG - , : isAvr., -. VT$ are - pleased to announrt that Folys Honey end Tar for coughs, colds tnd limg' troubles Is not affected by 'the i tlonal Pure rood ' and Drur law aa So it is, it contains no opiates or other harmful safe R. 1L Ca. weeks in South. Carolina, and OeorgU studying cotton mills and the life of operatives In mill villares, general la bor laws and. conditions, prohibition. particularly in its bearing on the In dustrial situation, and finally the rela tions ' between' the - white . people and the negroes In these two States. At I thall deal, with these matters more la detail in subsequent articles. It Is my purpose in- the present -one to re cord the general Impressions and re flections which naturally came to me upon revisiting scenes and localities with which I wat formerly familiar. Flrat let roe say that the spring Is the best season' .in. which to visit the South. In the summer the heat Is toe great, id ths autumn people are too busy, as the exacting season for most visitors it just ahead, and, alas! In the winter the most of the Southern country Is at its ugliest. , It is-na tural for the visitors to go there in the dead of winter, as it it a retort for those who seek to escape the rigors of. a colder climate. I Nevertheless. Jt It unfortsnate. both for the vial ton an'd for the -South. ,- No land Is more forblddlnr in winter than the South, othtr than Florida.- Louisiana and the blue grass regions of Kentucky and Tennessee. ; . Without doubt,. the two-score days which follow upon .the v openlnr of spring are the most charming period rosa visit to this part of the South. Tourists, however, go to the South for the climate, and not for the scenery, and they thus lose one of the best restitree of their trip. THE APPALLING DESTRUCTION : ... OF THE WOODS. During my recent visit I wat pain fully reminded of the melting away of the South'e forest a The southeast ern States are rapidly being denuded of their timber. - The whole aspect of the country it changing. A writer in World's . Work, commenting "on the! resources of the southern States, said: not see, a. thin horse, mule or cow. nor an ox drawing a wagon or a plough,' nor a ruinous inhabited house while I was In the South. ' The meth ods of farming art markedly im proved. Intelligence la exhibited In the choice and treatment of soli tor the different crops; The agricultural colleges are' probably responsible In part for the change. The ploughing la deep and thorough the rolling lands . are Invariably . terraced, In North and South Carolina and Geor gia to prevent - the washing of the toll by tne heavy rainfall during the season of continuous, cultivation. The "hedge-irowa - to , common a few yeart ago, are no longer left at the ends of the rows, for the ploughmen turn" their animals in the reada, thua utilising all the arable soil, in many cases the terracea which Ilka - the furrows, run around ths hilla are set with fruit trees, both to strength en these barriers, and also to make them, like the rest of the ground. irl-M titF mwttim nf rttit1t. . mJ THE NEW SOUTH ARCHITECTUR- 4 - -ALLYMONSTROUS.. , la spite, however, of the fact that ths general appearance is generally Improved over what it was a decade ago, and that ft Is generally sugges tive of prosperity, one 1st impressed by the lnharmonles of Southern land scapes and the disagreeably modern-! and unfinished loqk of many of , the towna and cities.' In part. . this la only natural, for much that one be. holda is of recent origin. - Wilming ton, Raleigh. Charlotte, Charleston, Columbia and ,Tlreenviiie. however, are of respectable antiquity, and each of thtse elles contains many fine streets and attractive residences. Also Atlanta, though a comparatively mod ern -city, is la some respects almost pecrle-s. Rut Atlanta Vot only hat vim and wvement and noise, long rowa of solid buildings, and evenly and Substantially pav,yt streets, but it ras enoutrn skyscrapers to spoil any but a superlatively graceful city. Another suggestion which 'came ;to . ma recently . Is that there is nothlnr , inherently unaolvable fh, the to-called -negro problem. Why may not, tw . ; races at unlike as the while people . and the nearoes live tocether side spoil the paint, and the contrast whirl! by side, in peace, and with "mutuary they afford with the red or yellow clay respect and renuine co-operation, yet ( of the roadt and streets It pleasing. keep to themselvea racially and so ' ' A TRANSITION PRRinn ' daily T For hundreds of yeart peo- Doubtleaa in m. tyZ IS?' V Plo.of Jewish blood have lived amon of the! win awak to .! P ""V nations, thriven and : enjoyed , ctetion of thl ilaff to-,efPP the blessings of tht-earth, yU main- ; Prists Then the? wm hJ.M Ppr, Mn n alnfost complete seps ration ArchiVure .nJ LZ?1 !mn,1Jr- from them., and this too l the face ; etthaoShrT 72 !YinatM ' tb aPt n ruelest prejudice, w th eurroundinga . In that day they t see nd Teason why, with the in-i will set out more shade trees and de- creaM ,0f education an- moral re velop a luxurious green-sward, which Anement on both aides, arid the ad la possible anywhere In the South with lustment of the p.Utlcal differencva sufficient Irrigation and shade. " Then, whtch are the main causes of discord, too, win they pull down the overhead amicable relations may not ultimate- -T wires and upset the telephone poles, ly be established and maintained be kill off the bill-posters and bownrt th- .- thtf Southern whites and ni- . f-establish menu that once desecrated I groea who are so dependent .upon y nm earui witn tne nideout advertise- esch other tor prosperity ura napii ments that formerly rave them occu- : ' f . . i 1 ' pationa About that time the people ' Dlscustinc the Southern negroes rt- will bestir -themselves and remove the minds me of a story I heard On my dead branches from the shade trees- recent trip, which I should like, to - they are not afflicted with our-peats, relate, betore closing; this article, Jt - the gypsy and the browntall moths is a story with a moral for those whoV , clean up the streets, turnpike, the are disposed to put too great strain roada'set out heda-ea anil v on their thinking machines. A very trimmed, build stone walla fences old negro, remarkable for his youth--; and bridges, and last of oil aa mi. minatlon of aesthetical endeavors, they will banish to the Mammoth Cave the lertiuser factories . until the end of time, . r. ... s, - - In the meanwhile the svmnathetie observer rets the Impression thst to- day the South Is at work. It it doing me cruae, mignty. essential things out fui appearance, was asked as to how L - ...J 1,-.-. M.1K, -W.ll he sard, "I .works when 1 kin, nn sometimes I Jes"- ses n' thinks, an' sometimes I Jes eeta",.' . ;r ; A Practical Farmer. Klnsten Free Presa , - The Free, Press has put Itself on' HVi'2.Uwt,(vU,b0,lt nd.r record aa favoring the. nomination of -ultimately lssuea The larger part ofl.. .... -, , ... gu. t , a.wt9 &vi vvuiuitooivuci aa..' tne south it as new at the newest West, and It is Ln the making. Ohe is, reminded every moment that all that is needed to produce harmonious ly beautiful rural scenery,-clean, dur able and graceful cities and a civilisa tion whose future average shall ap proximate its srtual beit Is time! THE LOO CAE IN AND THE IDLE DARKY PASSING. . The proitDerltv of the gnuth hss if. fected none jnore l-an the negroea Agriculture for several reasons. We ' like-te-see -honest- effort end true worth rewarded; and we want, to see the North Carolina .. Department ol Agriculture put la the. hands of a man who heart end soul Is bound" up with tM interests of agriculture nd who Is a man of such wide prac tical experience ln the agricultural world as to be able to make the cir.re of Commissioner one of rreat benefit to all c'a?s cf our people.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 17, 1908, edition 2
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