The, ; CentraiI Times. :
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. K. GKANniAM. Editor.
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$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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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,
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