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NORTH CAROLINA By Associated Press The beginning of North Carolin history is identical with that of Eng lish empire in the western world The name of this state is inseparabl; linked with that of Sir Walter Ra leigh, who promoted colonization ex peditions that attempted settlement here. One of these expeditions, commend ed by Philip Adams and Arthur Bar low, landed on Roanoke Island on s date that was afterwards to become memorable in American history— July 4, in the year of 1584. The new land was taken possession of in the name of Queen Elizabeth and named Virginia, in her honor. Adams and Barlow spent two months exploring. During that time they were in England as having made friends with the Indian natives they found here. They took two of these back with them, as evidences of their claims—Mantzo and Wanchese. A colonization expedition of 100 men, under Ralph Lane, was then prepared by Sir Walter Raleigh. This expedition landed on Roanoke Island, July 26, 1595. Lane’s experiences with the natives did not coincide with tho -e described by Adams and Barlow. He is said to have incurred their enmity. This handicapped him, in that it kept him from securing good, wholesome food. Majority Of Party Died Lane is described as having spent most of his time in search of gold which was supposed to exist in the ground of the new world. He enter ed a hard winter without having raised any provisions to carry him through the hard season. As the result, the larger portion of his party died. The others w-ere discouraged. Lane and his companions abandon ed the proposed colony in 1586 and returned to England, with Sir Francis Drake, who called by at that time. Soon after Lane had left for Eng land, Sir Richard Grenville came jyjth supplies and reinforcements. He left a ppgt of 15 men, in order to hoW the position. Those were never ^eard from after that time. Although Lane’s attempt at coloni zation proved futile, it produced the following results; An extensive study ^of'the section where the attempt was "made, and the introduction into Eu rope of tobacco, Irish potatoes and Indian Com. It also convinced the English that the coast of what is now North Carolina wras not suitable for settlement. Futher, it was de cided that the next colony should be an economic and social unit. .liiuiuci niicmpL Sir Walter Raleigh, determined in his colonization plans, then fitted out another colony of men, women and children and equipped them with cat tle and such implements as were nec essary to begin farming. This col ony, under the leadership of John White, was instructed to settle some where on the Chesapeake Bay. How ever, the commander set this colony, too, down on Roanoke Island. They came to grief in much the same man ner that Lane’s colony had, and it was necessary for them to return to England for supplies. Drake was held in Europe for two years, on account of the war then raging with Spain. When he return ed to Roanoke Island, his colony had disappeared, leaving no traces, ex cept a few pieces of broken armor and the word “Croatan,” carved on an oak tree. Virginia Dare, the first white child bom on the North American conti nent, was brought into the world on Roanoke Island, August 18, 1587, be fore White left his colony. Sir Walter Raleigh failed in his personal attempts to settle the new world. He lost his fortune and, later, his life, but never, it is said, his indomitable spirit. Then came the settlement at Jamestown, in 1607. The Jamestown settlement expanded southward, to the Albemarle Sound, now a part of North Carolina. By 1663 there was a small settlement at the mouth of the Chowan river. Although this settle ment was at first a part of the Vir ginia settlement, it fell into the boundaries of a grant called “Caro lina,” which Charles II, in 1663, gave to eight of his courtiers. This settle ment became a nucleus around which the Province of North Carolina grew. Carolina a Big Territory < “Carolina” was a mammoth grant. It extended from Virginia to Florida and from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as land in the new world went. The lords proprietors had many theories of government. They plan ned to set up eight separate units. However, the course of history moved against this plan. Around Albemarle grew a settle ment that eventually became North Carolina. Around a settlement on the Ash and Cooper rivers grew South To the south of this —w Georgia, eventually ie lords proprietors were unable to the satisfac Iring and par V»yj • 'French came in about 1711, the from the Piedmont to the Atlantic ocean, remained in character Eng lish. The second great element was {' the Scotch. By 1739 thousands^ Highlanders had settled on the Cap* Fear river and in the sandhill', country. About the same time the Scotch-Irish came pouring into the central and western # portions of North Carolina. The third major ele ment consisted of Germans from Pennsylvania. They settled largely in the western portions of the j province. j Slavery was introduced into the : colony at the very first. In 1760, the population consisted of 45,000 ■ English, 40,000/Scotch, 15,000 Ger ! mans and 31,000 negroes. How Population Grew ! From 1790 to 1920 the population of North Carolina grew as follows: 1790 . 393,751 1800 . 478,103 1810 . 555,500 1820 . 638,829 1830 . 737,987 1840 . 753,419 1850 . 869,038 1860 . 992,622 1870 .1,071,361 1880 .1,399,750 1890 .1,617,947 1900 .1,893,810 1910 .2,206,287 1920 . 2,559,123 Helped Settle Other Sections. North Carolina, during tha his tory of the American republic, has furnished settlers to many other sections of the country. In fact, so great was the emigration to new sections in the period between 1800 and 1830 that this state’s population grew very little, Nine hundred thousand heads of j families are estimated to have gone from North Carolina to other sec j tions. North Carolina, although promi nent in its part in the American ; revolution, was among the last j states to ratify the federal constitu j tion. Although next to the last state | to secede for the civil war, it furnish- ■ ed more troops than any other state [ ! to the armies of the Confederacy. The year 1900 is described as be- j ing the year this state entered a new j era, following reconstruction and its! various effects. During the world war, this state gave §180,OOOr9QO in liberty bonds and war savings stamps. It gave over $3,000,000 to the American Red Cross and kindred organizations. Its citizens made more than 2,500,000 articles for the use of men in the various camps and at the front. In the army, during the world war, there were 84,577 North Carolinians. There were 7,317 in the navy and 621 in the marine corps, making a grand total of 92,510. HOME MIXING OF FERTILIZER Many farmers find it possible to ' I buy raw materials and do thier own , mixing. This seems a sensible thing ! to do, especially when the farmer un derstands the requirements of his soils and crops. With the raw ma terials on hand, he may vary his fer tilizer formulas without much trouble and apply to the various types of soil hn his farm the proportions of plant 'food that will bring the most profit able yields. He also has the advan tage of knowing exactly what mater ials go into his fertilieera. One disadvantage in the home-mix ing of fertilizer is the fact that some materials, if mixed several weeks be fore being used, have a tendency to harden, making it hard to distribute | them when planting time comes. This trouble may be avoided by waiting until a day or two before planting time to mix such materials as nitrate tof soda and muriate of potash.—The Progressive Farmer. Not Extravagant After All The ability of the country to own and operate so many automobiles, according to the Gastonia Gazette, has often been questioned by those who have lived through the old horse and carriage days. But some light on the cost of owning and operating car riages is cited to show that even this method of conveyance could not be owned and operated so economically. Carriages and harness, according to the Baltimore reminiscencer, cost about as much as automobiles do to day. Fine carriages and coaches cost as much as $2,000 and a fine hand made set of harness would cost as much as $1500. However high may have been the cost of carriages and harness for the rich, it is not recalled that many peo ple in North Carolina had to pay and did pay such prices for buggies and carriages. SAVE THE BROOD SOW Faced with the shortest crop of corn in recent years, farmers of the midwest are selling their hogs so rapidly that there are not pens enough to hold them in the great markets like Chicago. During the first week in December 883,000 head were sold in Chicago alone and in the eleven largest markets £106, 000 hogs were sold. All kinds are being sold, runts, sows, unfinished pigs—the sole idea toeing to get rid of them. “This means but one thing for the North Carolina farmers,” says W. W. Shay, in charge of swine extension for State College. “Save the brood sows and breed them next April. Any man who has a surplus of corn can afford to breed every sow that he can support during the next summer.” learn to think of the hog as a good medium through which to sell com. He has not generally advocated an increase in the number of hogs for North Carolina, but rather has urged the better feeding of those on hand. However, things look too good now ^jot to advocate more hogs and so hdvUrges that all good brood sows be s^yed and bred for pigs next fall. Two carloads of lambs were shipped; last week to porthern markets from; Edgecombe county. Various Devices to Test Precious Stones With Increased facilities for faklag diamonds and other precious stones, the traffic In Imitation goods In tbil line of business is increasing to an alarming extent, and dtaffipnd mer* chants and jewelers nowadays have per force to devote a lot of time, and often expense, to the detection of the frauds. When once a jeweler suspect! the genuineness of a stone, he subjects It to various and sometimes very severe tests. When a stone, for Instance, la placed In clear water, and starts to lose Its brilliance. It Is Immediately discarded as being spnrious. Another test Is to place a drop of water on the gem. If the globule breaks on be ing touched with the point of a pencil, the stone Is an Imitation. Sometimes a black dot Is made on a piece of white paper, and the pre cious stone held In front of it. If the dot appears blurred, the diamond Is faked. Another determining factor Is the hardness of a stone. As is well known, a diamond is one of the hardest-known substances, and may be filed without being scratched. An imitation dia mond. on the other hand, will crack and probably break up under the weight of the file. Really Seemed Mother Might Have Done That Johnny was told by his mother not to leave the front yard in his play. A few minutes later a chum came by and asked him to go kite flying. Johnny went to the gate, but remem bered his mother’s admonition and re mained in the yard. Shortly after another chum with a red wagon asked Johnny to go to the hill to play. Johnny walked through the gate and out on the walk. Then be remembered his mother’s warning and returned to the yard. Some time later temptation ap peared again In the form of another chum with two goats. He left the yard and was almost to the comer when his mother called him. “Johnny," she said. “I saw you each time you started to leave and then saw you when you did leave. You remember what I told you—not to leave the yard.” “Then, mother,” he said, “if you saw me each time, why didn’t you tap on the window and help a fellow when temptation was so near?" The Witty Widow An Irish sheriff had to serve a writ on a clever young widow, and, on com ing to her residence, said very polite ly: “Madame, I have an attachment for yon.” “Ton have?” said she, blushing. “Then I may tell you that your affec tions are reciprocated." It was the sheriff’s turn to blush, and be explained. “Ton don’t understand me, madame. Ton must proceed to court.” "Well, I know It’s the year after leap year,” she replied, “but I’d rather you did the courting yourself.” "Madame,” he said sternly, “this Is no time for fooling. The Justice Is waiting.” “The Justice? Well, I suppose. I must go, but It’s all so sudden, and, besides. I'd much prefer to have a priest do it,” was the final answer. Warning to Jay-Walker a Professional story tellers, hired by the government, are spreading warn ings on the Shanghai streets to cure the Chinese of Jay-walking. One of these stories follows: “Now the swift motorcar and the clanging street car are Just like tigers, and if you do not care to watch the policeman at the corner and obey his signals you will not live to grow up and acquire many sons, too, so that your ancestral tab lets will be untended. The road Is like a tiger’s mouth; from Its center keep away.” Insist Skall la Human The famous Plltdown skull, which has been pronounced prehuman by some anthropologists, Is most assured* ly human, according to Sir Arthur Keith, probably Britain’s greatest physical anthropologist. In the latest revision of his chief work, “The An tiquity of Man.” His latest computa tions on the skeletal fragments indi cate a brain capacity for the creature of about 1,800 cubic centimeters. He holds that 1,000 cubic centimeters Is the lowest human level. Catting Rid of Germs Daddy was confined to the house with Influenza and mother Was busy sterilizing the dishes which had come from the sick-room. “Why do you do that!” asked four year-old Donald. - “Because, dear, poor daddy has germs, and the germs get on the dishes. I boil the dishes and that kills the germaf '* . Donald turned this over In his mind for several minutes, then: “Mother, (By Beryl Sage) I number among my acquaintances a great-aunt and her niece. Sometimes they entertain me with accounts - of their education. The methods are strikingly dissimilar; likewise the re siiitp 1 ' f7\' At the age of 5 Aunt Sophia be came a pupil at a dame’s school, which was the scene of her entire scholastic career. Already she “knew her letters” and could spell in easy syllables. In consequence of this achievement she was promoted direct ly to reading, and went trippihgly through such sentences as “No / man may put off the law of God,” “My joy is in His law all the day.”/ At 7 Aunt Sophia learned to write, at 8 she could do simple suths, at 10 ; she was inducted into the i/ysteries of grammar and geography./ At 14 Aunt I Sophia had passed her Xvay through Young’s “Night Thoughts," Thom son’s “Seasons,” and “.Paradise Lost;’’ j through nearly every book, in fact, that she could lay Her hands on. She had made a fine liiien shirt, she had worked a resplendent sampler, she; could knit and bake, she could dance and write lettejrs without misspelling a word or transgressing a rule of grammar. / Her niecels education is marvelous ly comprehensive. She attends an expensive school'Amply provided with charts and maps and scientific and physical culture apparatus. Yet she was three years In learning to read intelligibly. Still, she continues to probe ab struss subjects, she speaks in strange tongues, practices gymnastics and plays games. Certainly her advan tages have been very much greater than those of her great-aunt. But, somehow, the result is not ex actly satisfactory. Aunt Sophia left school with a mind hungering and thirsting for knowledge, and this hun ger and thirst have endured through life. She has mastered three foreign languages and at 80 her interest in all questions of the day is keen. She re tains, too, a firm grasp on mathemat ics and was able the other day to dis comfit a man who, taking advantage of her age, endeavored to beguile her into an unwise investment. The niece cares for few B6oks, and those few are not of the most desir able character. In short, she has no literary curiosity and no time to grat ify it if she had. As to calculating the interest on a mortgage, one might as well ask her to settle the problem of Mars. What is the matter ? Has the niece not had enough done for her educa tion, or has she had too mu&i done? Has she been so constantly trained and cultivated that she has had no time to grow? Has she been kept so busy doing something that she has had no time to be anything? THAT TIRED FEELING This is the season of the year we hear so much about spring fever, or that tired feeling. Whatever may be the cause of the tired feeling, it can’t be cured by filling one’s self up with patent medicines or spring tonic put up in bottles under a high-sounding label. Here’s what Mia. W. N. Hutt, editor of the Farm Woman’s page in the Progressive Fanner, has to say about spring tonics. I Why buy spring tonic from the drug store when the hens are working overtime to produce an abundance of eggs which are far more effective as a source of iron Egg yolk heads the list of iron-rich foods and is one of the best possible means of supplying ■ the body with this valuable mineral. It contains phosphorus and calcium, too, elements needed to build bones, teeth, and other tissues. The white of eggs comes very near to being pure protein which is one of the chief substances of our bodies. Taken all in all then, the hen beats the doctor as a giver of spring tonic, for she combines minerals with other valuable foods in a form that the body winds particularly useful. The Mocksville Enterprise sensibly says that Mrs. Hutt might have added greens as a valuable spring tonic and an abundance of pure fresh milk. Ground has been broken for the erection of a new $165,000 hotel at North Wilkesboro. For the benefit of various building trades active in and around' Pine hurst it is planned to construct a model home completely furnished and finished to be placed in charge of a caretaker and open to the public for inspection. The various building trades will have an opportunity to display their handicraft and the people will be enabled to inspect a model hornet already built New Champion Paul Berlenbach of New York who won the light-heavyweight title May 31, by defeating Uikt McTigue in IS rounds. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ OF LAND AT AUCTION O F ! 100 REAL HOME SITES 100 AT KING TUT PARK ASHEBORO, N. C Saturday O 74-U 1:30 June & l Ul, p. M. IThis property is located just two minutes drive from the hearf of Asheboro on and between the hard surfaced Highway on North Fayetteville Street and State Highways Nos. 70 and 6Z and is what is known as the Bailey and Wimpey Properties. The Streets and Highways all around this property are dotted with beautiful new bungalows and several other new houses are under construction now. .Property on these highways is doubling in value almost overnight, and very little for sale at any price. Make a wise invest ♦ ment and own a few of these high class lots. Get in on the ground floor of Northern Ashe 4 boro’s prosperity. Make your plans now to attend this sale then. Don’t forget the date. This ♦ property has on it a four-room house, good spring, orchard and grape vines. BAND CONCERT -l£»
The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.)
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