Ne&rty. ol- quftfe Thirty . years ago,
■ ‘IShaftes Hdlf»es Uerty invemea \kb
'-rutpejitftie 'nap tCRffeh 'Slffntnatted tfcfe
"necessity for ,<%fexiqg” thefyfhes theftr*
-Selves. $&e irivmUtito. ■%aifee too iatq ?1&
?*wve effect %p<fei the t ptae forests
df North -OaroMna. In ISeOBsria, Alkbama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Toxas, it*
Saw mffl followed too olcsely after tee
furpentfrie ^‘tot' the Invention to have
- Wnfch "effect in those Statfeslh presemif£
tfcte’lofhfcsifcaf pfrtes. "...
■ ■Qvm decently, the same fc£ntten*Oa
has, radtfe -a dtecoVery>IthS't enables l»l3h
to declaim that theyoung long-4eafpln»s
are available for palp ‘Wood for parser
making. Thef discovery, proved by
chemical analysis, Is that the healthy
or uninjuihed long-Ieatt pine hits no tur
pentine in ft While growing. Bite t«r
•ipentine is remedial preparation 'on
the peat-6f the 'tree to tare injuries. ‘Ac
eordingiy, >a beeflthy uninjured growing
pin© ben no'more turpentine +rf it than
a man's Wood has the1 gristly substance
In it that proceeds to accumulate''at the
point iff fracture Of a "bone. Both are
creations for healing purposes.
tSWWn Pities For ^BdpeMMfckJhg
, PrOf. Hetty, in accordance with tils
•discovery, advises that the long-leaf
Opines must be used immediately after
cutting for paper-miaking, since the dot
pines, still full of sap, would undertake,
-So long as this sap lafets, to hSal what
they do not know to be fatal Injuries.
TThus pipes allowed to dry out, aceotffl
• ing to Brof. Hetty’s View, Would have
produced con sidernttoe turpentine dtirtng
the dying procses, and ‘ thus have Vaifft
/ ted themselves for use in making paper.
Also, Mr. Herty discovers that the pines
are considerably advanced in growth be
fore they have -stay great amount df
heart Wood, which the scientist seems
to consider unfit for paper-making. Ac
cordingly, young long-leaf pines only <Sah
be used for phlp wbod, and must tob jso
used • Immediately after they have beGA
felled. J
The vrtfftn «t tM nm
For many years, the Editor of ’the
State’s Voice has Veen interested in* the
lorig-l«al, hr asmore generally called-1c
ft*; ptoe •’belt, the lonr-bTRtWed, W*ei
Reared among ttttto, be always tfcfcls
that •» rn to Ms Cbwn- - ttontory 4*&ti
amottg ttre'tong^sa'f ptoesTfSteoails h«v
he feft ®ke sifoettog “fi-hen, ’after tfttafer
in the monntainbus • section -of OreSte
vilie county,* S. C., for two years .and
having driven down the -ridge road
through <3Wnton, Lattfehs, artd'tfeWbeft'y
and acroasthe Saluda to the right %e
came upon a clttttp * of PtaTwart Sobg
leaf pbnes as ife dffmbed the MSI from
the SaifcSia.
. The Primeval Ptoes
Scarcely <a mm Hvingln N«rth €Jaro
lina baa ever seen the ptaes in hhefr
glory In this state. The writer Bad ‘ the
privilege of reafehtog Louisiana in tittle
to, see the Woods in their pristine febim
deur. The turpenfctoe and the saW taftl
man were 'fast making a barren 'Of tile
woods and it is "presumable that the
work of ruin has been almost cenaplet
ed by this time, put 20 years ago there
were untouched areas where one might
look across the Woods, ohhfndebted by
undergrowth, till the Very boles of the
pines cut off Mb View. Those ■ Louisiana
views have enabled the writer to envis
age eastern North Carolina as John Law
fion saw it, or as “Horse-Shoe Rohtn
•son” in his notable journey across the
state, as recounted in that once famous
story.
/ Short-Leaf a LltePCbrtfer
^'ith the passing of the long-leaf phte
in eastern Carolina the short-leaf varie
ties have occupied the held except to
the sandhill scetioftS Whete there we’re
few short-leaf seed trees. “In truth ohe
might Jpdge, on viewing “the landscape
n°w, that they were the primeval Va
riety. But all the circumstances in^i
cnte that they are Invaders of a field
long pre-empted by the long-leaf varie
ty. When tfye short-leaf Variety reached
the long-leaf “belt ail the, 'dry lands,
upon which only the long-leaf Will grew,
bad been pre-empted "by the-first*eomer.
r,’be Interloping shortr-leaf >*set; s'entftwia
in the Swamps and marshes, ■ biding their
opportunity. It came.*fields were cleared
worn cut, and unfenced. From the long
waiting, but vigdibus, ®6ntfnel in fhe •
swamp 'oaime aNsi&mt b'f tiny wfttfet
which* seen pratfaesa ta totsataae asf
“oM-ffleM*’ pines. *pt* if the ferrfce had
been ^-ltept wp; after rietfitivation -MJ the
field had ceased/ flie interloper didn't
Cccupy, blit the long-Ie&t faHetfr.
: A Notable Illustration ?
*Phe recalls « "Mttteflig
tiKSn Oi'fcoW fences detelfiifeea «he %a»
*ietf t* |Jtoe that should ocbe&y -the
-wdm«out field. $T*0o s&eiBs Httjfr ’bide Si#
Wflde. Both were infill oat. J$fce :«■» tost
Its .fence; the -other retained its. tbs
“fCHtoer field had % magnificent stand of
'ttfng-lbaf tflne; the latter a Bftckly set
**taad hf -shoftSfefif. The
Hd SfctKtffrb vghettgfe,
"coofse iWfeht almost have been deter
InMsea by " the ■division >ifl*e b>Cw«te vOfce
■.two !kinds ofifitnes. -
The -Key -to She Phenortietien
rfettfre "had sown seeds of both state*
ties *«i 1)001 ielis, it ts hatua£iio%s.
<sttmfe. *The ^pfrK^tvod&s Wftdf* hSd
tS&MEen the iong-leaf mast that foil In the
wife need field, 'or rooted -'the •5%w^r
Rifles, fOr the hog relishes Ob© scp of
the long-leafs roots. The «hort«teaf mast
-occupied, for it is too little to be easily
Tottnd Or greatly ireliSfted by bogs. -ill
‘the fenced 'field, the more vigorous -Mt
tihg of \long-leiif, evidently, Overcame
and suppressed the Short-leaf -seed
lings.
'Whence The,. F4r*t Seedlino
ft is interesting to speculate upon the
source Of the "first seeding of the long'
ledf pine. The coastal belt, the habin-at
of the tree, *• fs declared by geologists to
be one Of'the latest sections of Amentia
to-rise -above the sea* The red bills -of
Chatham seem to have -stood out Ages
before the sand hils “of- westerprHar
nett and of ModTe county^ofiasOd to‘ be
sea beaches. ’When the coastal bfelt ’did
become dry land there ■was ho dohgr-leSf
pine to the; trosttvard to Utettiffch tho
mast for the primeval #ifenth& t5f ihe
lOng-'Jeaf forests. Yet the flc&tg-'-hsaf Cttaae
and occupied before the short-leaf could
i£et setfrom tie hill - lands to' the .-west
^ward. The'long-leaf, with an evea-hftffr,
can chaster thte shWrt'-KSSf, 'fts Indicated
•by the two ffiftta TftehtleWed 'hcWTe. "fes*
If the short-fedf iMfd'lwt Wfco
earlier, it Vosiahfcveieft woT00*ft1ier
^e •itttdridt&f tb **- a JM&kg foettwrid.
*Mr She shCtt-leaf pine occupies both wet
«ad 'd*y tonds. The hhort-ieaf weeding
afeeiiA^eh'ditive proceeded 4irom. tKe TtfSBt1
ward; .the 4ong-toaf frMn ISA ^h&IWWd.
•When -they feftt, the <h»te4<Sfc '***f
Btai fprbeMa to "eci&py *h* bteocks -»»
• the WWttfiiite, WWe tb^tfwait^bfceir^ppdif
ttfbfty. feet thfc^tcwr^ieaf ha^ wot^tbahe
^ 'ter fcfnong the ilhardwoodl forests
pdedmont hills, where the short*
leaf #he already -estabBstyd. i$ftt o%
did t the preoccupation. 'fbflSft, ^IStit
harder Sbll wbald hina^-TaA
the seed that bright drftt iifto'few
occupied territory. Afccerdhsgay, tfc*
,WeMWard boundary of the&Hg<4eaf pine
bOlt ahttdtit necessarily oe-ihcldes wfth
ttte hosWripf the C«Saht41bls®B- i
*Psw ^WgHfc bf ^he*W*e f
A r fit. pine 'fcttdrtp hr ^aimk
tng; so is a Sat tog &£ h "ntfKtvebbif
hnot. trtrty fire wiH destroy dMoe. feat
'(the fa« tainted out by Prof. Herty’s
ftii&tfvery, ®iat ?there. is no turpentine da
a healthy tree i permitted sUch vigdWmd
pines in the early dSys hs Were dWefr
whelmed by attains or strtcken' by light*
ining to rot as' readily as *h oafc It®
•would. Even if the tte did cohiiSi tur*
pefrtine Enough to preserve' it agdinst
decay/ thefires -ofthe cerfttfries finally
left novesftige of It. As the trees 8Tew
Only «m ‘dry land, there was little oppor
tunity for them to bedbme petrified oi
povered with s6il so as'to befcrotecfcSd
against fire. tfoWefer, the Wfteir defi
nitely recalls a fat pine • log • discovered
under three or four feet of sWamp ttiUck
when a ditch was being out. This would
indicate that there was a long success
sion of pines, for it required many cen
turies, "presumably, to build "up that,
depth of Boil Tn the creek bdttbSh, a sofa
consisting wholly of decayed vegetation.
The leg toy upon the • white •'sand nader
|ying the muck, and may haire grown
where it toy or may ha>e Keen Whisled.
down the vaUey by waters before the.
blackgum growth had got set and be
gun its Work 6f mu6k building.
' The “Yellow” Pine
The mature pine, like the ■ mature
cedar/ has very, little “hap.4&ne can todfc
atm, load df cedar polds -ete-iito brought
into Pittsboro ^gnd tell at a-glance which
were practically, no longer growing and
Which were of sdgSfCUs gtirtirtii. ^fegihe
vOTy ^naH poles arfe Tfearfy WH red hegrt’
wood. "With scarcely a' hsflfiSnch :thftkf.
wess of the white «a# <x>tt«*s Cate
nearly all aap. glmilaMy with the t pines.
But our Others, and grandfathers mis
:£./;/ •/; //
took the?great old heart trees
tusa:^&'them
‘Rrsp*’ 'W11®; "Srhfoe the vigorously -iiHSW*'
i&g- st&en wore *i«w*sa “pitch” pines.
mm tthe ‘^tt<^'pJBe, i|flmDBt all hearty
tittle turpentine could be got.' HenCfe ^he
distinction. Bot'tbase yellow
ifae taoet aged of the
%kry .siirsereas men u» *»y father's -day.
jfce
rn&h, the ■aartHrtfft nahn, or the rali-spltt
*«■. «9# i! living KoSrth
?*t%Bhi*ne -tiOeeWeeh anaiiny nf Jthe twM
ly ^pWnwvoa pines. ; #rolMibly «ie 'nrtafcaet
•the 'turpentine ; trees had ..grown kip wince
>.<the first SSngWsh settlement in eastern
Observations ^Orifirm 'Iftelty
f& the mtoe* b8&:ke%n aS®& ;
years ago ‘If the ie»g*-«fiSf pine, vigor
•Wus '*&Sk in
^‘W^rr«iifiBy:<Ktft«e answered ^thehtw®*
ftion fUSoa '^Mb -WTro obertWatioae. ^Wshbh
hie mind M turned to .the. hitherto Ineig
sKftattt facts evtoeed 4>y many obser
vations, it is Gfeafc that it muia«aye
't3&eh hb hBeft’fsft's '‘airtftysis to cbrtviiKfe
*tm $mt the *rh»e
f**OUB health JttKi unctit has lfc trttfpSU'
^Jnb -<hj ft, Hind that each «. 'tree “When
tait down wM *ot as readily as wfll an
«oak log: or a short-leaf pine log, cleaving
only a few tJhy knbts of fat pine. 'These
knot®, tnridbr the Hferty theWy, Became
^turpentine -Sos!fced‘ vfrhen th$ tree veas
protecting Itself against She -deefiay hr
■’disease which caused *the Hiss of the
: llrrfb that --grew frOm the knot. .
You • may split a limb or knot from a
vigorous pine when out down and find
no evidence Sf ''fat” wood tn it. ‘AM
the Births teft will -tot Vithout ‘ leaftteg
*a vestige Of ?ttt” Vodd. On the other
■ . fir i i ■ ■ ■ ■«■»!■ ■ mi ' 11 ' lMlir
' V'
-*ue«, Wfcfen ft
iivatXtd, ■ M a, tree <bae 1 been ^diseased ami
the fight M’Ute' hUsiWte^cfratih
*H&a>iy (fifes -Wer* fimb on
"«*** i*«r*uld *ie light- :
wood bote will stand tor aaaay years; *
wSflio&t decay. Similarly, a diseased limb
♦«h *1fefc »ln*affe ifcbht '•behrS'the vigor— .
'''soils «*■» i+iihm. wwi—Mom* -m .!
wfil^Wove to be “fat” when the treat'
IkisR.
: • • - ■ ••'• ; . H
•*« ..
of similar import, bear oat 4*rof .^Ker-t
Jt5rts proBaaneemefct that <a . vigorous fifhei
has saoturpentine 4a Ihe :m&s& :!&ML ■
And one iaaygo ftitt^er^d ^e<^rfe thajt!
tfcfffeiffihe (a
•'irtatltSfb free tfc at'fiats tt6Vw1seefe'*H8Nf
mw&l ^-taim^f&^y’swa'y.
are i few: whlfch. *S«ate ^-fogg -IhjilWt
itmmaam' ■ t&'&mt-frihim. m-iwimter* ■
6aWe <*afatt, *havbwtit ilftseitt 'SU|9N! ;
layered. or*which &ave not been ®a«p&-«!'
;|ess aife6ted,by fhedlfcease, or
*my mutton vt m. *»mL ■ ■ -
?5?be 'fta&si nofcifcbea fl* %o«te ;)
"Tfcw i’Jtghrtwftda* *ia-i$iainy times ’6» "life : ^
-writer MitS in Mb boyhood «ain rdfctfHijSe
decayed trees wSth’tfae everlasting *ate*B ;
left and the thin fat flakes imfceddWa
'throughout the decayed mass of "the bS3^r; W
•of ‘the fm. Tie -v«n-%b»6 T&tm wm>
logs that were aHfat. _3
?«o' dBe hiayhet taittlh; tfee^fand-t ;
liter hf Tierty,; tiut a»ay,-^w4th IrttWr;
•full assurance, -declare that ■ the
iptne Whichforgenerations f uratehed rtfai
^Eights tor coaetAl-beit families ao$l 'wa» f
th'e'scrtrrce "fof the hias^lfeil 'far iiiof iPsS'H
teeeHa Hfas •«b#secfir«»fce df' diseiu3& '!*$*
frifttis "of the itohgr-teitf:^pfAfe. f-0.
■-■«•■■- ■’« -■ ■:■-■■■»<-» •■» ■»■■ - it.<
By "Wiregfcass”
not ^rrass Watt "grow 4n the •'ptaywboto
■ot i We coastal belt, bind not -s®«aauda
grass, -as that grass 4a frequently jaia
haiiiOd in htofthvCato’Tfha.
jVfrirtrdrtt* Lfke J^cWzedek
f ifrirPgraBs^ehiirtobe HKe iefeifcldfc'e*
*ms.&W&itit&a Wfend.'Wbo 4s-^eefetfed*'W
riidt^ «bi»efel»»ln«'0br end. 5*fe*wt’itfe’r %
confident that «he -«tver akw a ywHts
bhnch'of wiiagrass. 'JtJe co»«ae»Qy be
lieves" that every bunch of twiregrasa In
',$R>ah Cafbifta “has 'e«6ted fflaehMte’lfc.
When* Wfceirass \*ebt
Ike s&a^ietM WbseqSa «^ ?the grass oiw?0
ila<ssl#by«a, -'there :is hO-itnore wiregrass
*>n 'that flfoid. The -wbdds may ty8fta lift
the grass be WwMd^witli the root dump,
but out it comes again and Jby the Ifid-.
lowing.tall Is-apparently thO fcdfne btfiRSi
ttf - Wife&HSft. Th f«bt, wireg*fcSa ’faWifijlr
%H tirt 'efiiSy pafctm in eaS^h 'NOHh
XUrfoKha fa ■ the -eartftSr 'days. JtTBife ' Wbbtfe
’would be --burned H>ff s in the'wtoter and
We wiregbass would shoot »p £ts tenffifir
strands, upon which clft'tle could feed
till It grew tdtfgh, tft afcObid Wfth Its
fctfprOpHirtO nafcm 'Wire <grass.
the wilWris dohfidfent- tttfct % *y^t:3^
the bid teuCkborh faim -to Satapson
"would repeal the ^fery'HSWtme 'clusters ^of
wirgerass that he knew 'as1* 'boy, -b»d
without noticeable increae in aize—tbPse
and no others. An ant colony tjiay de
stroy a tussock bf 'wfregWss.br Onfe m&y
be dug up And 'defctroited. Btft, -*s h, Hfiesr
eral fecfhdiPion, ah uhfciesft'ed piece id®
WSfegrsss Woods n»w baa hpdn i it the
same tussocks of wire grass-bfeat 'were
noon it before the Confederate War,- and
perhaps, a thousand years ago* .
"The UevTPii TraWpthfl (iptfuncfV
In scfuthwest&m Chatham Is ^h&t 'ts
fcfloWh as the devils stamping’ ground,
Or' names of similar hrip&rt. liittPe ds *
Oii&tflar path 'With what .tee “ WWieS1 Site
(been >informed is the coastal twit'Wire
grass grewirig on each side of it Hut mo
where else within or without the circle
enclosed by the ■ path. 'This condition
seems to have •' ‘existed ’ftoht tifflee1 fin* *
memorial. :•■■ :./T ^7%.. v ■:'>
An iwaihh .“Sftdtwhwttfi* ^'
,: The Writer has conceived • the; tipfel©f to
he a relict of Indian ?days. It is prMritbly
a .place of -former religious rites "•and
the wiregrass Clusters hedging' each side
of the 'path have formed as definite and'
almost tra •■‘permahOnt -a "memorial bf the
days of {he rites as tee^gibat iftbnos
at stoifehenge, England, of am tomm*
iigrfaays? of the-lhwias.- If Jt;fs'rifc8rtigwtifr
<the Writer ‘ has ,-sfcHI failed to .make *a
long contemplated visit to the.;spotl,-#t'
is presumable that the Indians <ddg tip
fee blvtittSki M W&s th/the wttegriisa'
woods ofrly -a he# *n®Os distant, in
i*ocfre-hotttftr, iahd ttfiSt^temted iSwtei
&bt#ut*«fO»r t5ircie. ;*
The faet that therefore* no> nwW vpiMts.
of' the same kind near tbe anoient blr
. . - -i.. ~ ■■■ • ••••••* '*-.*«*
iasss'm ■twfe li&sfeiy yg
avvfcaSt- tt^Ste piMfcMIkE,^
■it fs thfe**«dfcat*J 4ft*tes ^k^Sreee.*«-Wo.
.the ilaet that .these iffiftfBO jww qjtaattt *
Me ’WSrfetl^a *fldea
■•. “=W«ttiler »» 3&r «rtftj^e $4te«fc *MSfc'4Wr-*.:/
r-tMftve r*tat»fr aiWeg^ ;
;TittWL :iKmm6^0^mH^mam*
r»fftV*fluction. Wft. shotSi he’Sgiaii to -bo
y -'y^ - j§
; m*m mmftmm •*
«eww»"et© man
: &fc of i ;
Wt»vMW'
toilet-the ■VoiC6,'*0|Ht'tifc©'^l»t' &&y •MTmWM; yg-;
^AO^hS'%«l)Srefl8iia*«f»3Wi©
tardHa^^ jk^i *«ra ma, tfctft. %. '
*©f '3*aaafcHgk
VWNte. rWfe hOjffe C&t^n ^Aiaie .m*y’#•*>- |
•This -VWWS. *At .42 he flfeesGw g*d8 ‘fe»m • .
'bah&rsa. His icicle folIo*&:
LfifeSr Mr. S*et«h: J
f’fcsrs© m m caflfl ycfefr .... ...
file* fleets &<*>»&**
«te$t*s oH^ai cw
W0».
^pddti^ ■yk8S&&$& ,y
%rottty^ii k. xdorfeft-dSfbl-yK
mohey \<di tthe «OBatwanlty • is -looked -ftft,' *_
and may all be- expended inlaying aoMaa
IdlfrJt'the hank ow%s in “ Ne% "S’c&k* &&,
■'•whfte ‘the 'feabbn "for
bafck ' Was feirt it fcrfiiift ,b«f*e ttfe '.
Jflftadty. ■ '
TOe-«te*aey'fe‘ttBl^ufts '',
for. their own d&ae. ^When -.a' h»«k .-oiosifti;,, 'r
there ehontd Afe-a 'Me«, by 'aot of the^n
Oral Assembly, in favor of the depositors ;
upon fee the vkiAS^t v
««d the ‘SahWng EWpdrtiffetit fchdtrtd 'tte -•
to >trt nit‘<*tobe5r 4h fearfgre, -' Wffei: i;
Mi&mheto ;«*«£%
cash ■mtiotip the stockholders <proba*®r
«teafet 4o * be - dopes#t ors^SScU. Why not?; ,
Besides -thatmatter- of-the-protection- ®S
depositors,. X would tote to- «pe the ttrSfe t.
sentence of‘'Section,'—, of 'Article II 4
fee ie^tfStftutfdh changed by strifctrrg-tftft;
fee tfrdfd “Only, «nd at fee ehd'bffefe
b^endn *hddin«':th» words': •'and *ti&£
•Other •grebentramfiis '4s fee *4gt8l««fb ;
■--Tf-wo hedfeetWiipjMng post, matey' Of
fee horrible crimes feat '- now - disgrace
pur state woitld- cease; meji and bP3*s
%t>iSda be deteired' ftoita feOse. ‘crttoeB.
Again, I 'shotrtd'lffire. iosee%very~ifc&n .
a job htafttdd to- ^rtrk fe&Wng
his own li^Eag^on farina.
' i: ' iw
iTar j#aw ' -;-;v ?.
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