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Published Every Saturday Morning, During
the Season, November to May, at
PInehurst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tufts)
Herbert K. Jlllnon, . - - Editor
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Saturday, December SO, lOOO.
The Dying- Year.
The good Old Year hath run his race,
And the latest hour draws near;
The cold dew shines on his hoary face,
And he hobbles along with a listless pace
To the lonely and snow-covered resting-place
In the Northern Hemisphere.
See how his stiff joints faint and shrink
As the cold breeze whistles by;
He hath a bitter cup to drink
As he watches the sand in his hour-glass sink,
Standing alone on the icy brink
Of the gulf of eternity.
He reels he slips no power at hand
To check him from tumbling o'er;
The hour-glass clicks with its latest sand,
And each movement falls like the stroke of a
brand
On one already too weak to stand;
He falls He is seen no more.
And, lo ! in the cast a star ascends,
And a burst of music comes;
A young lord, followed by troops of friends,
Down to the broad equator wends,
While the star that travels above him bends
O'er a sea of floating plumes.
Charles Graham Ilalpine.
I DOUBT very much if ever before in hotel
history, has there been a Christmas observance
as unique as the one held at The Holly Inn
during the week. First of all, the idea of
having a tree upon which every guest of the
hotel was remembered was a happy one, but the
plan of having almost every gift accompanied by
an original verse was certainly new, novel and
entertaining. Most of the verses were sly
pokes at personal peculiarities, full of spark
ling wit, but there was just enough Holiday
sentiment intermingled to combine happily.
When one stops to think about it, the under
taking seems stupendous, but all obstacles were
quickly overcome by a committee of young
people and in a comparatively short time some
seventy jingles were composed. That they
amused not only recipients but others was
evinced by the laughter and applause which
they evoked, and The Outlook takes pleasure
in printing this remarkable collection in its en-tirety.
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Visitors who attended the annual Christ
mas trees for the poor white and colored chil
dren, in the Village Hall, rejoiced in having
assisted in making them possible. The joy
written upon youthful faces, whether white
or black, was contagious, and always there was
consciousness of the grim fact that these little
ones would have not known the happiness of the
day except through the kindly interest and
effort of others.
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NORTH CAROLINA
IIVDUSTJIIES OF THE STATE.
Comprehenaive Treatment of Subject
by Secretary of Agriculture.
Note In line with giving the visitors
definite information regarding the State
of North Carolina, the editor has secured
several stories of which this is the lirst
to appear.
GR1CULTURE still leads
in the production of
wealth in the Old North
State ; in figures the agri
cultural and stock inter
ests approximate $1,000,-
000,000 annually.
This is to be expected when the area of
the State about 53,000 square miles is
considered. Much less than one-third of
this area is in cultivation ; another third
is open for settlement by good farmers,
truckers, dairymen and orchardists. The
remaining third is in sounds, bays and
other water courses, and in the precipi
tous sides of the higher ranges in the
mountain region.
For many years North Carolina made
but slow progress in manufacturing. As
late as fifty years ago only about 14,000
persons in the State were engaged in
manufacturing industries, while this
year (1906) more than 100,000 find em
ployment in the production of articles of
commerce and trade. These persons are
engaged in the manufacture of cotton,
wool, silk, tobacco, furniture and mis
cellaneous products.
COTION FACTORIES.
There are now operating in the State
about two hundred and sixty-three mills.
Their combined spindles amount to ap
proximately 2,300,000, and some 51,000
looms. They consume, in round num
bers, 600,000 bales of cotton, or the entire
normal cotton crop of the State. This
interest is still growing rapidly and
gives promise of becoming still more ex
tensive, being now one of the greatest
sources of wealth in the State, ranking
first among the manufacturing enter
prises, with an output of more than $30,
000,000 annually.
There is not much choice between
water-power and steam in the operation
of these factories; the choice is deter
mined by the comparative economy in
the use of either. When natural condi
tions favor it -the choice falls to the
former. Elsewhere steam offers itself
as the ready and economical agent. There
is much water-power still available, and
when opened by our rapidly building
railroads so as to become easily accessi
ble, this will prove an economical in
centive to the development of other
manufacturing enterprises.
The by-products of cotton cotton seed,
meal, oil, hull and short lint, all con
tribute to swell the value of the cotton
crop. There are some twenty establish
ments for extracting the oil and prepar
ing the meal for fertilizers and for stock
feed in North Carolina, and their output
is valued at more than two and one-half
million dollars annually.
LUMBER, TIMBER AND FURNITURE
FACTORIES.
The manufacture of timber and lumber
is one of the large industries of the
State; there are something like twelve
hundred establishments, engaging about
12,000 hands annually ; the products
produced are valued at about $15,000,000.
The furniture factories, in addition to
the above, some forty-five or more in
number, employ about 2,000 operatives
and produce products valued at nearly
$1,500,000.
WOOL AND SILK.
There are nineteen woolen mills en
gaged in the production of yarns, blank
ets and cloths ; they are all in prosperous
condition, but no statistics are available
regarding the value of their products.
There are six silk mills producing cloth
in the State ; they are also reticent as to
the amount and value of their output.
TOBACCO.
The manufacture of tobacco ranks third
in the value of the State's products. The
State ranks second in the Union in the
number of pounds of the weed produced,
and also second in the value of the crop.
The principal points of manufacture are
Durham, Winston-Salem,Reidsville, Hen
derson, Wilson, Mt. Airy, Statesville and
Oxford. The products include chewing
tobacco, smoking tobacco granulated
and fine cut cigarettes, cigars and snuff.
There are nearly two hundred establish
ments, and more than seven thousand
wage earners. The total value of these
commodities closely approximates $15,
000,000 annually.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES.
Besides the enterprises above enum
erated, there are nearly fifteen hundred
miscellaneous factories, mills and indus
tries, of more or less importance in size,
which materially swell the annual value.
These small industries include brick
making, ice factories, mattresses, brooms,
flour, meal, trousers, shirts, vehicles,
iron casting and machinery, barrels,
crates, baskets, coffins, helves, shuttle
blocks, fish scrap, fertilizers, tools, im
plements, etc.
The chief manufacturing centers are
Durham, population 7,000; Winston
Salem, population 14,000 ; Charlotte, pop
ulation 19,000; Wilmington, population
21,000 ; Raleigh, population 15,000 ; Con
cord, population 8,000 ; Asheville, popu
lation 15,000; Greensboro, population
11,000; Newbern, 10,000; Reidsville,
3,500; High Point, 5,000; Goldsboro,
6,000; Salisbury, 9,000; Fayetteville,
5,000.
FISHERIES.
This industry includes shad, herring
and menhaden or fat-back (for oil and
scrap), oystering and deep-sea fishing for
food and fishes. The industry engages
the time and labor of several thousand
men, and the value of the catch, includ
ing, besides the above, mullet, weakfish,
striped bass, bluefish, Spanish mackerel,
pompano, clams, scallops, soft-shell crabs
and shrimps, amounts to between two
and three million dollars annually.
INDUSTRY.
This includes the growing of early
spring vegetables and small fruits. The
output of the berries strawberries, dew
berries and cultivated blackberries is
more than 20,000,000 quarts annually;
the average price received for them is
nine cents a quart. Vegetables from
Wilmington and vicinity amount to
5,000,000 pounds. Newbern and vicinity
raise 188,000 barrels potatoes; other
vegetables 600,000 crates including
beans, cabbage, beets, lettuce and aspar
agus. Wilmington and Fayetteville are
the lettuce centers ; Chadborne and the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway territory the
centers for berries.
T. K. Brunner,
Secretary State Board of Agriculture.
TI1 WHISTLES FI11ST.
T. 11. Newbold and A. I. Creamer Win
Trophies in Opening: Event.
The Tin Whistles opened their tourna
ment program informally Wednesday
with an eighteen hole medal play handi
cap, T. R. Newbold of the Chevy Chase
Club, whose handicap was the "unlucky"
thirteen, carrying oft' the first prize, a
silver medal, with a net score of 73, and
A. I. Creamer of Charlevoix, Mich., (10)
winning second and a bronze medal,
with 81.
W.C.Johnson of Philadelphia (22).
scored 82; F. G. Dodd (15), 86; C. L,
Becker (6), 89; T. S. Lippy (6), 91 ; W.
C. Johnson of New York (11), 92 ; Cyrus
A Taft (15), 93; and Dr. George S. Hill
(19), 106.
Muting ot the Gtentle Cjnic.
A safe bet is the one you were going to
make and didn't.
He who realizes his own folly acquires
just that much wisdom.
The fool and his money are generally
divorced without alimony.
The kitten has its eyes opened in nine
days, but the fool has to wait longer.
Many a man looks everywhere for his
worst enemy except in the mirror.
Some fellows never know when they
are licked, and others get so used to it
that they don't mind.
Some men's idea of giving to the Lord
is to buy a cushion that will make the
church pew more comfortable.
The great trouble with the artistic
temperament is that it generally wants
to borrow money for breakfast.
You can lead a horse to water, but you
can't make him drink. On the other
hand, you can lead an actor before the
curtain, but you can't keep him from
making a speech.
JPool Tourney at The Inn.
A handicap pool tournament is in pro
gress at The Holly Inn, the drawings
and handicaps being as follows :
Creamer vs. Newbold 50 to 40
Fleming vs. Hall 60 to 38
Bunzl vs. Simpson 50 to 50
Gorton vs. Ilerr CO to 35
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