The, ; CentraiI Times. : i , : . - ; " " : : 1 ' : : : il . ; : : . K. GKANniAM. Editor. Render Unto Caesar tho Things that are Caesar's, Tfnto God,. God's- $1.00 Per Year. In Advance. VOL- III. DUNN, HARNETT CO., THURSDAY, JMAEOB 30, 1893, NO. 3. . ARFS REGULAE CHAT. TIIC PIlILOSOniEU S VISIT TO TnE'OLD' NOKTII STATi:. : Jf an) old man lias treasured the impressions' or his youth- about old North Carolina it' is time he was waking up from his Hio Van Winkle dream. There was a time when the geography that we studied asked the que lion, What are the products of North Carolina?" and the 'answer -was Pilch, tar and turpentine." There was a time when the priruitiv set- tier, on being. asked what he raised for market said: 'Fruit arid live s'ock and lumber," by which heraeant pumpkins and 'pn9sums and hoop-J 'm . I poles, There was a time when the natives were called "tar beefs,", and if one of them emigrated he hardly dared to own his state, ami if he did ho tempered the discredit- br saying he was born "purty close to 4he.Vtr ginny line," If these things were ever true they are not true nqw. Old North Carolina has long since awak ened from her slumber and is now . rapidly foregoing ahead. My recent visit there and the beau tiful handbook sent me by Mr. Rob inson, the commissioner of agricut ture, constrains me to tell yOur read ers some thing thay do not know and will be surprised to learn. This handbook of 33(- pages is published in best style of typography and illustrated art, and would be a good model for other states to imitate and emulate. It has forty-five beau tiful full-paged photographic views of notable features that illustrate the 1 mountains, forests, vine3rards, fisher ies, farms, factories and railroads of the state. It is a book fit for Chica go at the World's Fair. I wish that Georgia had one, and cyery other Southern State, for I am sure thai no stranger can read it but who will be atlracted to North Carolina as a most won lerful and ptoressive State. It is juit 500 "tniles froua Cherokee to Roanoke island," and fvery portion from the fihries of Albemarle to the land of the sky has something peculiar and desirable to boast of. We have long since been boasting of our cotton factories in Georgia, but docs Georgia know that there are one or more cotton mills in forty-three counties in North Caroli na; that there are nineteen . in Ala raance, seventeen in Gaston, twelve in Randolph, nine in. Mecklenburg, eight in Catawba, eight in Guilford and 140 in the Stale, besides a num ber in construction. That in these mills are nearly 10,000 looms and over 500,000 spindles, and they con sumed last year 165.200 bales of "cot ton, besides these there are thirteen woolen mills that are turning out the best quality of jeans, kefj?ejTcas"si mers and blankets, and there' are ight knitting mills, some of them being operated day and nigh, and all declaring good dividends, There are fiftj'-seveh factorial that make car riages and buggies, thirty-two that made wagons, twenty-five"" that make furniture, six that make hubs and 5poKes and twenty four that make sash, doors and blinds.. Quo of these works 125 hands. Tben ' there arc hundreds of sawmills and turpentine distilleries. There are " twenty .eight canuing factories for vegetables and fourteen for oysters; there ardour teen cotton oil factories, forty-four fertilizer fac tones and quite a number that make jbayejls ad crates and baskets and lipoma. But on the high top of this pyramid re the tobacco factories that far ex- ceed in number aud capital those of any state in tho union - There ate 110 that make plug to- bacco, nina that make smoking to bacco. Durham alone sold 11,000, 000 pounds last year and paid to the government .for stamps $510,125; Winston paid rsore than that and A sire vi lie sold over 5,000.000 pound? of leaf tobacco. These are onlv the principal tobacco markets, and the aggregates of the production increases with-every year, .Then there are the rice fields and cranberry meadows and the immense truck farms that extend all along the coast and find ah eariy market in Washington, Bal liimore and Philadelphia. At New- berno alone there were shipped in one day 23.009 barrels of Irish potatoes and 1&.000 boxes of beans, and this an ;e very day business, and does not include' the peas, .tomatoes, aspara gus and cabbage, . Indeed, the pro duotions of this coast region seem in credible. Then there are the fishcr ies.Jthat employ 6,000 persons and 3, 000 boats arid ship 30.000,000 pounds, of fish in a season. Next comes" the medicinal, herbs, of which one firm in Statesvifle shipped in one .month 118.000 pounds, They employ 300 agents to collect these herbs, and dq. by far more business than any simi lar firm in the world. We have in the mountain region of Georgia and Tennessee the very same botanical plants, but nobody gathers them. Now, I have said nothing of the mineral f.pringo or the vineyards or the small fruits nor of the tuberoses that are shipped from very large towns to the northern dealers This is a wonderful state and a thrifty, industrious people, More great men have been born or educat ed .within her borders than any of the southern states. In the long ago my father taught me that Nathaniel Ma con was the greatest of all our states men, even though he d'd weather board his house on the inside and had the laps up instead of down, so ibat he could pour hot water in the cracks and kill the bedbugs. From"" bis d.ny down to Zcb Vance the state has not lacked for notable men, end it is safe to" say that no one man aer lived in a state who was so universally esteem ed and loved as Vance is by his peo ple. No one man . was ever such a coat of arms, tuch an ensign, such an emblem of his commonwealth. Vance is NortluCarolina and North Carolina is Vance. This cannot be said of 'any o'thermau in airy other state. Now, what will Georgia do when she considers this record ? How much longer can sho claim the honor of being called the Kmpire State of the South ? '"We have a splendid re cord for the past, but what are we do lng now ? Here is'my country that ranks all others in the state in miner al and agricultural jJteallh., and yet there ic not a. cot ton or woolen mill in it. and hardly a wheel turning any kind of machinery. Where are our cotton factories, save those in Augus ta and Columbus and half a dozen more that make up the list? Arc there half a dozen canning factories lh the stato ? What is .ho matter mith our people, especially the farm er;, who could put their money to gether and have a little cotton roil 1 in every fertile valley a mill that would spin their own cotton into yarn or knit it into hosiery. Eight. or ten thousand dollars would build such a mill and give employment to all the poor children in the neighborhood, Will wc never wake up and get out of the old rut3 ana loarn a iesuu j from North Varolina ! , j - I smjow spending my leisure in ! writing a hstory of my ttate a his-1 tory for the young people if thevj '.chaos to read it, It is a labor of, j love with me, and my best ambition - j I 1 is to found it upon the tmth -"nolli ing to extenuate nor set down aught in malice." Some things I will write that have-not been written, for my heart's desire isto hand down to our children, pure and untarnished, the honor and intfgrity of our fathers. I hare been frequently urged to write such a book, and hafce got my, own consent not to compete with others that haye been written; but' rather to sar something that'has not been said, but should be. The time is short, the landmarks are passing awaj but there are still a few men left who are ncn in memories, rsotame men, gifted and true meii like Judge Richard H, Clark and Henry R Jack 3on and Dr Miller and Chan C, Jones and General Long3treet, with whom 1 will confer for fact. "Will your book be sectional?" said Profes sor Robeson to me. "No," said I, but it will bo Georgian, and if that maLea ii southern I cannot helpi4t. Whatever the truth is the book will be." Kill Aup. Much has appeared in the news papers and the agricultural journals, and' much has been talked tho past few 3'ears for and against farming as an occupation. And though there may be truth in many of; the objec tions which have been raised, - still wc cannot but feel jhat the fault is not so much with the occupation as with those engaged in it, kiThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we art underlings." Let us consider a few of the chief objections which havjs" been brought forward : "There's a lot of hard work about it," says one. "There's no fun in it." declares another. "And there's bo money in it," chimes in a third. And that's so, we might add, if 3'ou make it so. For farrring, like most other oc cupations, is just what you make it. There is hard work in fanning. The time is long past, if there ever was a time, when a man Cvukl make - a comfortablediving in an honorable Cilling short of hard work. The suc cessful men in an3r honorable occu pation are worked men, The S'-hool teacher witu his soft hands and short hours is sometimes envied, but if he is a success he must labor, if not with his .bands he must with his head, and we can tell vou mental labor is the hardest of all labor. We have taught school, but have studied till we ached all-over with worse aches than frorn ever holding the plough handles, or mauling rails, and many a time we have wished we could quit it&nd haul mud or dig stumps for a rest. What we must do in farinng is not make muscle doit all, not depend on sheer strength and awkaredness, but hitch up mind and muscle together, and we Gnd they make a strong team and lighten labor wonderfully. -So far from being a slave, the farm cr is the most independent man to be found in an3T occupation. He has no customers, no clients, no patients please. He may express las views fearlessly ori any question and it will not in the slightest" degree effect the growth of his crops nor the prices for these realized in the market. By little forethought he may take a holiday when be likes, and as often as he likes and not feel worried think ing his trade will leave him.' "N'o fun on the farm." eh! Well, i farm ing is just what you make it. What, we might ask, is one of the first re- quiets to et.joymeut ? And wo think the majority of those who know best j majority OI luoss wi;o khuu is-. would auswer "G6od Health." How much happiness tnuld all the wealth ' of VanderbTh or Astor buy 3ou with lout gotd health ? And what calling is mor conducive to good health than farming ? The farmer has plenty of out door exercise, plenty of fresh air to breathe, pure water to drink, the freshest of earth's products.to ea ; all of whidh contributes largely toward the developments of a sound mind and a ound body, Dneiof the pleasant features of a farm life, especially for young peo ple, isf that it brings us in close con tact with nature. Get acquainted with the horses and cattle the buttor flies ajid flowers, and you will find them Inmost delightful companions. That is not all sentiment, but fact. Within" the' past few years this writer has taken more solid pleasure out of the study of animals specia'ly cat tle than we once thought could be had in the whole realm of natural history, Let us learn from nature and adorn our home surroundings. Lay out a nice lawn and keep it nice; plant A few trees and shrubs about the h(use, Cultivate a few flowers and afcontentcd frame of mind and see ifflhere is no sunshine in farm "But there's no money in it," you say.1 l"A ye, there's 'the rub," Let .'J.I' us repeat again, farming is just what you make it. We admit that farmers cannot make money quickly. Thejr cannot by honest means roll up large fortunes in a short time. But the risk in farming is less, and the cer tainty of success far greater than in mostf other occupations. And not withstanding the mortgages and grumblings, the farmers of North Carolina a:e mad for man worth more; money tb-day than any other elassjjn the Sta'e. That many farm ers are not better oft than ' they are, they !jbave themselves to blame. If unjust laws with special privi leges to other classes is one cause of the trouble, the farmers are to blame. For if numbers count for anj'thing, thej have, and always have had, the powr to control the government which enact such laws. But we do not believe the trouble is along this line,! If, however, it is because you do iyt thoroughly understand the business., and we fear this is too of ten,the case, the sooner the knowled ge is gained the belter.. If want of push .is the great hindrance you may as Wftjll get otf the fence, roll up-your sleeves arid go to work, for although the world majT owe you a living, she wilHiiCver pay it unless you dun her for it, and keep on dunning. There is a; good living in farming and mon ey, too, if you only use skill and in dustry' to get it. Then cease to find fault of your occupation but be proud of if. Don't feel insulted but compli- montoil wlipn somp nnA N !l vnu a f.rlm(r: Remember it Is the man wh( dignifies the ofl3ce -IfQnor and fame from no condition 1 S : i Irise, . Actf'well your part, there all tho honor file. Remember loo, farming is the most important of. all ,' occupations, A hungry world looks up to the Great Father and cries, "GJvh us this day our dally breads ,1; ' " v. l This the impression of an univer sal want. To anawex this prayer is the? farmer's musion. He is the al moner of Gods great bounty, -He is fine medium through which the w(jrld is led. Therefore, we claim, tht of ad callings which engage jtbe minds or hands of men uone is more ; ueaevuicuk iu w "i s. - ficial in its results. bainpson Deaa- ' ocrt. 1 . CENERAlNEVS. . If that Forsth county man wbo accidental swallowed a silver dol lar, fai's to hav it remove I. there is a collector in this city who can get it out of him Star, One of our Republican State ex changes speaks of receiving a letter from a postmaster who declares be is "the same old Republican yet, whether in or out." This seems to confirm the theory of total depravity, that there are some men for whom there is no hope of a change of heart, Star, J : 9 . .. Seoators Vance and Ransom have been giren several chiarmanships in the Senate. The North Carolina Senators exert an influence second to none in Congress. They are men of considerable experience and-are well versed in public affair. Senator Ran som is now serving his 22nd year in the Senate, and is the oldest man in 'hat body, Express. Does he drink T is the'first ques tion asked 03 Mr. Cleveland concern ing applicants for oflice. It seems that he proposes to give no one .of fice who is addicted to strong drink. Mr. Cleveland's course in this matter will be heartily approved by many of the best people in the country. San ford Express. - A weekly paper called the Snap ping Turtle has been started in At lanta, It is said to be edited by members of the newspaper fraternity in that city, and the object is to crit icize anything and everything, make exposure, etc Now why - don't those editors do that through the pa pers they edit every day ? Why start another paper ? Proreisive Farmer. To show how easy it is for a wo man to travel by rail in. this country, a young woman has just left Chicago for the Pacific coast and proposes to take in Mexico a d the Atlantic States on her tour without getting foot oa the gronnd. If she is a Chicago wo man the people about the raijroad platforms will be glad of this, for a. Chicago foot requires an immense: amount of gronnd space. -Star. The republicans and third partyites appear very much concerned about the democracy of Mr. Cleveland. It is quite amusing to hear their expressions that he may riot serve the democratic party loyally. The President has a mind of his own, and this is what men of courage and sense admire in anyone; When he turns bis attention to North Carolina, as he soon will, the republicans cow in oflice in this' State will then un derstand Mr. Cleveland's democracy. He who strves his country best is most loyal to his party principles. Chronicle. Mr. J. B. Holland, deputy, U, S. marshall, and others yesterday cap tured two illicit whiskey stills near Mr, A P. Hatcher's residence in Beulah township. They arrested Mr. Hatcher and a negro man and brought them here before U. S. Commission er, D. W", Fuller, for a bearing. The trial was set for next week and the parties bound in the sum fiye hun dred dollars each for their appear ance which bonds tbey failed to give and they were, commilteed to jail. Mr. Hatcher will probablj' give bond to-day. We are surprised at men go ing into the wbUkey making. All of them generally come U grief. The officers should keep on the watch so strict tbatgtbis illicit distilling should be stoppej. A law chiding peo ple should respect the powers that be. Smithfield Herald, i Ii 1

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