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Published Saturday Morning, Twenty.flve
Weeks In the Tear, November to May, at
Plnehurst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tufts)
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I4TUUDAY, APnil 1, lOOO.
Syinptouia.
Eliza Jane, this mornin', didn't have much ap
petite Her eyes was kind of restless an' they held a fe
yered light;
I talked about how pretty it is gettin' out of
doors
, An' mentioned that there seemed to be big bar
gains at the stores;
I couldn't interest her an' I can't divert her
mind
House cleanin's on the program, an' I've got to
be resigned.
She looked at all the curtains an' she muttered
with a frown,
That they were simply awful an' she'd ought to
take them down;
She kicked the parlor carpet an' she raised a
little dust,
An' then I heard her whisper to herself : "Well,
I just must."
She went all through her breakfast with a sort o'
worried air
I've got to be a martyr, so I guess I'd best pre
pare. She went across to Simpkinses an' talked with
Mrs. S
I didn't hear them talkin', but it isn't hard to
guess
That they was plannin' trouble an' the carpets
will come up
An' I'll be flndin' brads among the coffee in my
cup,
An then my flapjack butter will taste mighty
strong o' soap;
She's showin all the symptoms, and I've given
up all hope.
I s'pose about tomorrow if she waits as long
as that
When I go home I'll find her in an old worn-out-
straw hat,
Her sleeves up to her elbows, an' the chairs out
in the yard,
An' brooms an' dusters layin' round to catch me
off my guard.
She's showin' all the symptoms, an' there's
trouble comin', sure
House cleanin's on the program; I must suffer
an endure.
Chicago Tribune.
Foreboding:.
We sing the Panama Canal
In strains somewhat diminished,
And marvel if we ever shall
Observe it truly finished.
While all the sad world queries: "When?"
I think 'twill be conceded,
Air ship's will be in full swing then,
And no canals be needed.
The Prophet, in Smart Set.
AMERICAN PROSPERITY
O enormous, says the
Knoxville Journal and
Tribune, wa s the product
in 1905 of our farms,
mines and factories that
had it been moved at one
time it would have filled 33,184,857kfreight
cars, or more than 4,000,000 more than
would have been required to move the
products of the prosperous year 1904.
Thirty-three million freight cars, if made
up in one train, would extend for a dis
tance of 224,000 miles, or would girdle the
earth about nine times at the equator.
If this mythical train, with the 825,000
locomotives which would have been re
quired to haul it, had traveled out into
space on a trip to the moon, the leading
moguls would have been putting through
the valleys of the earth's satellite before
the caboose had rumbled out of the freight
yards at the starting point. Merely to
store the cars and engines in such a train
would require the use of nearly all the
railway mileage in the United States.
In the grain trade Americnn farmers
are still increasing their output yearly,
and adding strength to our claim to be
called the grainery of the world. In 1905
750,000,000 bushels of grain poured into
12 primary grain markets, to be distrib
uted again to all corners of the globe.
American grain is to-day lighting to sup
plant rice among the Asiatics, and has
already partly displaced rye as the food
staple of the peasantry of Europe. In a
few years loaves made of American grain
will be indeed the staff of life in every
country of Europe.
On the Pacific coast 50 years ago only
a few gold-made prospectors; today
thriving, hustling towns and cities and
thickly settled farming communities.
The huge lumber traffic of northern Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington is a great
attest of American prosperity. Annually
for the last three years more than 1,000,
000,000 feet of redwood, pine and fir has
been taken from these almost inexhaust
ible timber tracts and shipped to Califor
nia coast points, and more than 200,000,
000 feet sent abroad.
America's coal resources, both an
thracite and bituminous, are among her
greatest assets, and have contributed
more than any other single product to
make the United States the leading in
dustrial nation of the world. It needed
01,000,000 tons of anthracite to keep the
wheels- of American commerce spinning
in 1905, while only 57,500,000 tons were
needed in 1904.
Figures of the expert trade in raw cot
ton last year show that 86 per cent, of the
crop sought foreign markets that is 86
per cent, of the entire crop of 10,271,612
bales.
Different factories contributed toward
the era of plenty in 1905, as in prior
years. The first is undoubtedly our
marvelous natural resources marvelous
in variety and marvelous in quantity.
The American railroad is another factor
in our country's abounding prosperity.
By increasing settlements our railroads
"have caused two blades of grass to grow
where one grew before." Climbing the
Rocky mountains and stopping only at
the waters of the Pacific, and then load
ing ships (foreign ships mostly) with
American farm, mine and factory prod
ucts, our railroads have performed Brob
dingnagian feats in the accomplishment
and continuance of American prosperity.
WATEItCHESS I1Y CAIIIOADS.
Sw amp lu West Virginia Made a For
tune for a Poor Man.
"That fellow over there is the Water
cress Croesus," said the hotel clerk nod
ding in the direction of a well dressed
man. "But fifteen years ago, he was a
poor devil down in the mountains of
West Virginia, with nothing but what he
could earn as a laborer and no prospects.
One day he went to Baltimore as a care
taker, with a load of cattle.
"There he dropped into a barroom and
saw a plateful of watercress on the bar.
He made some inquiries about where it
came from, what it cost, etc., and went
back to the West Virginia mountains
thinking.
"He knew a piece of swampy ground
where watercress grew abundantly, and
he figured that there might be money in
shipping it to Baltimore. He made in
quiries and found he could buy the ground
for $5 an acre. It was only a few hun
dred feet from the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road, but the nearest shipping point was
four miles away.
"He talked the venture over with the
cattleman for whom he worked and got
his promise to help him. On his next trip
to Baltimore a deal was closed with a
commission merchant to handle ship
ments of watercress, and the cattleman's
influence with the railroad people was suf
ficient to exact a promise to put in a siding
long enough to hold four freight cars.
"On returning home the cattleman ad
vanced $100 and the whole swamp was
bought. Within a month the railway sid
ing was in and the watercress Cra'sus
was gathering and shipping a carload a
week. Crcesus repaid the cattleman be
fore six months.
"The next year he put up a little shop,
where his crates were made. He soon
cleared out all the other growth in the
swamp, planted more watercress and in
another year had a solid bed of 20 acres.
"He found that by building a dam he
could extend the swamp over nearly 100
acres further down the valley, but he
didn't build it till he had got the ground.
"Watercress requires no cultivation and
no replanting nothing but water and
harvesting. It produces throughout the
year, and costs nothing but the wages of
the men who gather it.
"Crcesus soon extended his market to
Philadelphia, New York and other cities
and his fortune was made. Now he has
nothing to do but spend his income and
let the watercress grow.
"No he is not the only watercress pro
ducer, but I guess he's the only one who
ships it in carload lots and to all parts of
the country."
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