n.,ic- pixNeiiurstT c ffTTTo.. r "
u ' ttjti- 1Q 1899- price three cents.
11 V OKOKUK KI.INOI.K.
Vi'iuciiiilo sure
That He will Kvt tlieni hack bright, pure, ami turn 145,000,000
beautiful
We know lie will lt keep
our own and Mid until we fall asleep.
We know He loen not mean
To break the stranda reaching between
The Here and There.
He not menu though Heaven he fair
Tii rhaiijfe the spirits entering there, that they
forget
The eyes upraised and wet,
The lips too still for prayer.
The mute despair.
He will not take
The spirits which He gave, and make
The glorhied so new
That they are lost to me and you.
I do believe
They will receive
I s you and me and be so glad
Tu meet us that when most I would grow sad
I just hegin to think about that gladness
And the day
When they shall tell iw all about the way
That they have learned to go
Heaven's pathways show.
.My lost, my own, and I
Shall have so much to see together by and by,
I do believe that just the same sweet face,
Hut glori tied, is waiting in the place
Where we shall meet, if only I
Am counted worthy in that by-and-hy.
I do believe that (;i will give a sweet Burprise
To tear-stained, saddened eyes,
Ami that His Heaven w ill be
Most glad, most tided through w ith joy for you
sr.'itr -if- 'l rnn aaa i
norse power. If the
wi.oieottlus were employe,! in eotton
manufacturing ir, would be adequate lo
pindles. The wat.
Dower of Vm tii .,.... i: ... .
' y 'I'onnji wouia manu
faeture tliren tim,o
nniie voi ion crop
" me country, whereas all the mills on
the eonlinent now in operation only spin
owie-quarterot it, and, putting the croi
or the state at 400,000 hales, it has water
power enough to manufacture lift v time
that quantity.
.North Carolina lias a greater variety of
minerals than has been discovered in anv
territory of like extent on the globe
i' ... l i
i mini om aim precious gems to the
olnln-iti.il M....1- :.l ...
v,,K"""v" " omiii' magnetic iron ore
of Cranerry, and from the finest porce
lain (day to marble of exquisite tints and
granite of many colors. The state ha
inexhaustible forests of hard woods
white and yellow pine, and a greater
variety of medicinal plants, roots and
herbs than any other spot on the conti
dent.
Its arable lands are suited to every
product ot the temperate zone and to
many grown in sub-tropical countrie?
Noted in the geographies of fifty year
ago for nothing but tar, pitch, turpentine
and naval stores, North Carolina has
(luring the present decade, become so
famous for other things besides these
and me,
As we have s uttered most. ;i never made that but for the fact that her people are
nt lor spirit, answ ering shade for shade, led "Tar Heels" none would reinem
And placed them side by side
So wrought in one, though separate, inystilled
And meant to break
The "inhering thrca.ls between. When we shall
wake,
I "in quite sure, we will be very glad
little while we were so sad.
That I.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The
Xoilh
Nitiih
Labor
ber her ancient celebrity. This state has
gained a world-wide reputation for it:
tobacco. Wherever men smoke, in civil
ized and in barbarous countries, there the
fragrance of this peculiar plant grown in
North Carolina rises from their pipes
Corn, cotton and rice are now much
neater staples than naval stores, but
on lumber more than maintains its old place
the in the industries and exports ot the state.
"'lowing interesting article
Carolina was taken from
Vniiual IJeport of The liureau of It is not limited to pine and oak as in the
past, hut comprises black walnut, cherry,
''One of the m,,st rem ark ahl esortimis nf i.,iil:ir. hickorv. locust and a great many
ll'e Allll'lil'l n I't.t.v. v ! ... 1 .1 ,.f tn-it imnrtll illl-
....... uiiiiril !.- UNIL roilllll IM'U I OUUT a I ICI lirs i iw.v.-i ,1. '..,
uilhin the boundaries of North Carolina, ployed in the industrial arts.
This si;
who
'!' may be described as a
slope,
ose Westioii I.-. I i...
'"'Uilil.ll, UltT gllill
s"'ly Mountain Kange, has an average
' wilion of ;,000 feet, and by an easy in
1 1,110 Caches a dead levid homi- tli. ,.,.nr
Kilt
The people have learned that every
item of labor employed on raw material
i.l.u more than cost to its marketable
value, eoneouentlv saw and planing
mills, spoke and hub, tool-handle, shuttle
easi of this ir,.0at ,...,,., Jimi ........ibd .-i ml furniture factories have been erected
uitl it are ili. i,i,n,t..:., .i... im.J: n llih Point has fourteen
an equally great watershed on furniture factories and manufactures all
"huh are the sources of many streams kinds of furniture, and the profits derived
(lowing across either North or from this industry have added largely
';,,ulHarolina, pour their Waters into to the general wealth. The state will
tn Atlantic. goon 0ease to export raw lumber and will
T,1,s' principal rivers and their numer- send out the finished goods. This is now
0Ust''l,ularies, because of their elevated true in coUon-we manufacture as much
W'sand the continuous slope, have, as we produce. The possibilities ot this
)Ut,luul eeption, strong and swift cur- department are Indeed great, for through
lt',uS-'nofwhieh,i,vbn .b;,,-,w,l to ir, North Carolina can be placed before
"laifsi,.,. . . . ... i ..!..i. ...inor.-il wealth, with
v ui s (iiipii . in thi sr:iif t lie world I icu i"
u- ,..,. 1 " " '
'"we i
'ecau
locked
MM un.:,!.;.... ' Mrt" T : ... tiw world, while water from
"mil" .iiiii nwivimnoii'n lwturdr i viiiiiuicn wi. 7
Kerr ' L ... ' mineral springs of the mouutains, to
entry in this state, the world nen m uii.
ams rarely diminish noble forests, from walnut of the mouu
t,, and are never tains to the cypress of the coastal plan
i winter bv i..o n:,m.-. water-courses able to wnm mc
luniailinir i . L.a.,,11 ,,f the world, while water
it n "u iiiuxpeusivu pwci. spiui"-" "
'',nmtain stre
or drought
188D e.
(State Geologist, in January,
"""ted the water power of the the deep artesian well of the coast coun
ties, invite the thirsty to drink and rest
Ihe vastness of the tobacco industry
me gieainess ot our cotton manufactur
big establishments, unrivalled fruit from
the mountains of the west, all can the
Old North State set before the world
(ilancing through the data concerning
the employes of the different Industrie
of the state there will be noticed a de
eided improvement. In the entire list em
plovment is more regular than in 1800
and many of the industries of the state
have advanced the wages of employes
.Miuiumus mines long idle are now re
opening, and next year promises to great
ly increase the mineral production of the
state."
Willi (ieeMe in the South.
In many parts of the South wild geese
breeding is carried on for the benefit of
sportsmen, especially along the reed-
bound shores of Hyde county, X. C,
where vears ago some one wounded a
goose, bred from it and spread its pro
ducc inrougn tne district. Here are
goose yards, and as soon as a hunter
enters the yard the inmates know, like
dogs, that they are going hunting, and
squawk, fight and struggle to be the first
to be taken out and placed in the coop or
bag in which thev tire carried to the
grounds. Pieces of green tough-rooted
turf are cut and staked out in tour or five
inches of water, and a goose is tethered
to each stake and allowed to stand on
the sod. Thus placed the goose has the
ippearance of resting. The hunter re
tires to his blind to watch, not the sky
line, but the tethered geese. Suddenly
one stirs, another follows suit, a mullled
sound is made bv one, and then awav off
will he seen a streak of moving gray dots
which quickly develop into a flock, gan
der and goose in the lead, goslings to the
rear. The birds drop well out of shot,
to see if the quality of the geese on the
Is permits a visit without loss of caste.
The goslings, heedless of social forms,
gaylv start forward to gossip with the
decoys, but the parents head them off,
colding, cackling with many modula
tions and much emphasis of tone, gab-
bliny wise saws and modern instances in
numerable, as wise parents have done to
hildren since the world began, until
oradually the gander himself yields to
the clamorous gabbling of the deeoy
tlock, which has kept up a flood of prais-
of the choice feeding ground. He
lowlv drifts down with much import-
ince, his females behind, the youngsters
in their train. His eye is giueu on mat
patch of reeds, and even a man's eye at
the opening no bigger than a dollar, a
bright coat button glinting in the sun,
the gleam of a diamond or tne iock or a
min, even the awkward flop of a tethered
o-oose rrom on us
end them away bag and baggage, and
ood day, to them.
V curious feature of these live decoy
. .i. ... .).,. muz- twit lio sliot nvpr
eese is inai iuc hju-i.
l'he hunter
is warned that, no matter
what happens, he must wait until the
strangers paddle to one side or the other
of the decoys, and, failing that, he must
let his eh nice go by, for if once he fires
directly over the tethered birds thev get
nervous, and at the approach of stranger
flocks remember what happened, and,
showing fear, disturb and unsettle the
strangers. Firing to the side they do not
appear to mind, and the older birds who
have been out one or two seasons, when
they see the gun go up, "down charge"
like a veteran setter or pointer, on their
pieces of sod, chattering like parrots
after the wild birds are dropped. Tamed
geese have been used on Long Island and
other places, hut not so generally as in
Hyde county.
On the great South bay. Long Island,
the geese are shot from quaint boats,
which are so designed that they will float
on water or may be pushed along on ice
by the occupant, having steel runners
underneath. When the geese are around,
the hunter in a while oversuit pushes
ofl' from shore and paddies over to the
floe, his impetus carrying him onto it.
Then with the iron-shod oar he pushes
over it, across the next open water and
the next floe, until he gets to the piece of
open water he aim.- at, far enough re
moved from the shore. Then he places
his stales, draws his white apron over
him, and, with his gun across his chest.
lies back in his boat to freeze until the
geese come, it any are around some are
generally bagged, but it is cold, hard
work. Nevertheless, the grounds could
not be reached by any other method, the
ice being too treacherous to bear an ordi
nary blind. This the geese appear to
know. t'h in i yo In tcr-On-ii n .
(jetting; Extravagant.
A man went into an Auburn store the
other day and said that he wanted a
whip. 4il want a better whip than them
I've got lately," said he. "I've been
buying 10-cent whips, hut now I want a
good one, a more expensive one."
"All right," said the storekeeper.
How will this one do for HO cents."
"Well, I dunno," replied the customer.
1 guess I'd better have one a little
cheaper than that." Then the store
keeper showed him one for 20 cents.
Xow, if you'll show me one about half
between this and a 10-ceuter I guess it'll
be just what 1 want," said the customer.
l'he storekeeper did so, and the custom
er bought it. lie went off well pleased
with his "more expensive" whip.
Lein.it on Sun.
A Courteous Client.
Customer I haven't any change with
me this morning; will you trust me for a
postage stamp until to-morrow '
Drug Clerk Certainly, Mr. Jones.
Customer Hut suppose 1 should get
killed, or
Drug Clerk Pray don't speak of it,
Mr. Jones. The loss would be but a
t rifle. Ch iratftt Xrirs.