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Th following is the pom read by Mr.
Jerome Dowd at the session of the N. C.
Pres3 Aasociatioa in New Berne two
weeks ago.
Some poets are born and Its suspecttd.
Others "get there" by being elected.
I'm chosen to tire this occasion,
With a poetic scintillation.
You may think I'm no poet of creation,
Hut I'll far exceed your expectation.
I will write a little poem,
Pull of syllabub ind foam.
I will prove that I'm inspired,
And rhyme till all of you are tired.
T am as much of a poet
Asa sheep is a goet.
Talk about the potms that Shakespeare
made,
Just watch me lay 'em all in the shade.
And what my subject now shall be,
If you will listen, yon. may Bee.
I had thought of Washington
The greatest the sun shone on.
I had thought of Alexander the Great,
And the Kansas crank with no socks on
his fate.
I thought of all the Georgia llama,
Of Dink Rotts, Dismuke and Stanhope
Sams.
I raked the past and all the annals,
Thought of Hoke Smith and Joe Daniels.
1 thought of Kingsbury, Kerr and Ashe,
Ttien mv rymes all wenc to smash.
I thought of Caldwell and grew quite
rash,
But couldn't do justice to bis red mous
tache.
1 thought of Scott and his lonesome
nights,
No one to sew buttons on his shytes.
I thought of Mr. Harper; he wouldn't do
He looks like the ad. uf the Douglass
sh?e.
I thought of pyramids and the Eiffel
tower.
Dreamed of ihe bank account of Roscow
er;
I thought of Wilkesboro where orator
Deal .
Gave us the stuff that mad a us reel.
I sized up Marshall, then thought I was
in clover,
When I settled on McDairmidx who
laughs all over
I turned to Latham with his chivalrif
dash
Looking around to make a mas?.
I recalled the fail of Prof. Cook,
Who3e vows of elibcy. he basely fors
SCOK.
I thought of the lucky editors who'd got
government pie,
Leaving us fellows alone to "root hog or
die.-'
i named overall the Kiilghts ot the quillj
But none of them would till the bill.
I thoiifiht of Peffer's gigantic mind,
But feared it grew on a pumpkin vine.
I thought of Mrs. Lease and the political
wrongs.
But she reminded me of an old pair tongs,
She can inspire when all else would fail,
But I rotuse to make her the head of my
tale,
I contrasted the women who matty fof
roctcR,
With the Maud Mullerkind that darn the
socks,
Thought if ever I had a wedding day,
I'd prefer the kind that rated the hay.
I imagined I sat uuder the silvery moon
With a New Berne girl that loved to
fpoon.
But then I felt a sudden fright;
Heard mosquitoes chirp in the stilly
night.
I thought of Baby McK.ee and little Ruth,
I imagined they were cutting a tooth.
Then mv thoughts went up in the kie,
VV here editors go that do not tell lies.
A very good place for eagles to go,
Thought editors more at home below.
Then my mind came down with a scoop
And lit at once on th crinoline hoop.
What a s'ght forgiris to put on aire,
As they go ''climbing up the golden
stairs.'
i began to get weary of my fruitless
search,
But couldn't afford to be left in the lurch.
I put up tny 5encil and lav down to rest,
Dreamed I was in the sea, dressed in my
best.
Dreamed I wa3 a poft,
But folks didn'4 know iU
Fhymes came to time,
And poetry sublime,
I pulled oft' my coat,
And I wrote and 1 wrote.
My ideas got big; 1 thought I'd blow up,
But I took a little Window's syringe
syrup.
The poem was grand as grand could be
Writ by an editor at the bottom of the
sea.
It was a rich, rare and interesting tale,
But alas, ilas, 'twas swallowed by a
wi.ale.
The whale said I was too tough to chew
And refused to grant me an interview.
Abmit this time 1 woke from my dream,
B it I heard the midnight o-l s?rm.
There came in the room a leather wirg
hat
And 1 hirdly knew "where 1 was at."
I knocked him down and went back to
bed,
I heard cats righting on the back shed,
I put my clothes on and sat down to
write,
I told all that happened that very night.
It is sad to relate
At this late date,
The draughts I've drank
From the poetic tank,
I hope I'm excused
For having used
So much of your time
A hunting of rhyme.
Now my poem's about to close,
I'm getting tired under the nose.
The best of vhymes must end, you know,
And I'm coming nigh the end of my row.
I must close by mentioning the James
City war,
Which is the silliest thing I eyer saw.
How foolish to call out the military
bands
To oast the "poor niggers" on the Bryan
lands.
SCOTLAND NECK,
If the Governor would order me to read
them my verse,
You bet all of them would quickly die
perse. Don't elect me poet again I pray,
I'm joing out of the business to stay.
The man that rotes for me again
I'll fly at him like a setting hen.
I'll jump on 'em with a terrible whoop.
And drown him in tomato soup.
Now I're had my little say.
I've ended my poetic bray.
When I muse agio 'twill be a rainy
day,
Tra-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.
Jkbomjc Do wd.
NEW BERNE A17D VICINITY.
IU Principal Indmtrin and
Immtme Reiturcts.
TRUCK SHIPMENTS IN THE YEAR 1892.
New Berne Journal.
The following are the statistic
of track raited in this vicinity of
New Berne, and eent abroad via
railroad and steamers:
Upon enquiry at the office of the
A. & N. C- Road I find that tbn
amount of truck tent by road was
98,000 packages of peas, beam, cab
bages, tomatoes i strawberries, etc.,
etc.
The Old Dominion line shipped
per steamers 50,000 packages ot
truck of the kind specified at above.
The Eastern Dispatch lint) shipi
ped per steamers 10.142 boxes of
peas, 18,095 boxes and barrels of
cabbage, 25,370 boxes of beans and
cucumbers, 32,894 barrels of pot
toes and canteloupee, total 86,783.
Total amount sent abroad was 234,
783 packages. Ot this amount it
can be safely asserted that the
quantity ot potatoes in the above
estimate would approximate 80,000
barrels.
When we stop to consider that
the cultivation of truck as a pecial
ty in this vicinity is comparatively
. peaking a new business, that from
very small beginnings a few year
back It has now assumed its pre
ent huge proportions, one is almost
lost in wonder and astonishment at
its rapid growth. This wonderful
change can be easily accounted for
it is owing to the situation ot this
section. The cold winds and the
great heats are seldom cf long con
tinuance, being both modified by
its proximity to the ocean; the soil
is generally a light sandy loam,
easily ouitlvatedj tb climate Is
mild, changeable it is traPj but the
crops are less liable to bt cut off, by
either frost or heats, than in South
Carolina, Georgia or Florida, the
positive certainty of raising three
crows per yearj fhn facilities for
shipment and rapid trausit ari
great and fjonstantly improving
the A. & N. O. railroad are now
making special effort! to increase
their facilities to the extent of four
trains per day during the buoy
season if necessary; both of the
steamer lines will be well prepared
for a laigrr deyelopment of busi
ness. With all these advantages
no one can doubt tbafc the Neuse
section ot North Carolina is the
trucker's paradise, aud it can
scarcely be wondered at that our
Und should eo rapidly appreciate
m value, and that an impulse should
Ue given to the establishment oi
barrel and box factories and the
manufacture of fertilisers, and
thes are all worked to their fuli
capacity.
Lands in the vicinity of New
Berne that twenty years nince were
deemed ot but little yalne, now have
been cleared, drained, ditched and
fertilized until they are of wander
ful richness and bear huge crops,
and bring, when sold, high pricesj
and there are thousands upon
thousands of acres of good trucking
lauds yet in primeval forest, un
touched by the woodman's axe.
waiting for extended facilities for
transpoitation to be brought Into
cultivation.
Give this section an outlet west
and northwest lor her productions,
of which outlet she has be?n de
prived by bad and viciona railroad
legislation, and no one can estimate
her future greatnesa as an agricul
tural region. While the great West
is wrapped in snow aud ice, this
highly favored land is groaning In
the abundance of fast ripening
crops.
Trucking on a large scale is un
doubtedly a hazardous business,
though at times, an exceedingly
profitable one.
There is, iu the vicinity of New
Berne, abundant testimony of the
correctness of both assertions, those
who hare followed the bueiness
with persistency and untiring in
"EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO.
N.U.. THURSDAY.
dustry aud taken the good with the
bad, have in tbe iong inn, aebleved
success with goo! prices, the profit
are at times enormous. Toe writer
knows of an ioM'.ance ot 125 bbls.,
of potatoes from on acre of ground
lor which the owner received $450,
and there ae mauy instances ot
like kiud well known to our truck
ers.
Trucking is a powerful factor in
the development af rail roading
though short sighted Legislators
sometimes are unable to see it, as
was evidenced in the last Legisla
ture, which refused to graut a char
ter to a road running parallel! with
the A. & N. C. rft.lroad, such a road
is now and haa .always oeen nec
essary since the advent of railroads
in tut btat . in ail trucking re
gions rail roadtng is profitable, one
acre- in truck will load one fiefgbt
car, whil it requires from 30 to 40
acres in cortou to make a car load ,
FISH INTEREST OK NORTH CAROLINA.
ThiH industry has assumed such
large proportion am to almost sur
pass belief.
Tuere were during the year 1892,
sut from New Berne and Moro-
head City 02,000 packages ioclud-
iug oarrela aud boxes, of fresh fish
packed in ice. .
No other point of the known
world can show as great a variety
of edible fish a our waters, there
balog over seventy varieties.
This quantity of fish requires im
mense qufiitirits of Ice, consequent
ly an ice factory has been estab
lished in ISTew Berne which is woik
ed to its fuli capacity, 20 tons per
day, besides, there are 2,000 to 2,500
tons imported to this city and
Morehesd during tbe year, to eay
nothing of tli- larj.'e quantities
tiken from the cieeks and rivers iu
old weather, by far the greater
part of this ice. is used in packing
i-di.
The number of persons in this in
dustry in New Berne and Morehead
will not fall short of two thousand.
The quantity of lumber used iu
uiauing packiug :Kxe wiit unring
a year approximate one third of a
million of feet.
Tbis service requites at least of
boats of all description, from a
small canoe to tte large decked
sharpie capable of withstanding
toe rough weather of tbe wide wa
ters of Pamlico Sound over one
thousand,
The above Htatement does not
loc.'ude the Menhaden Fish Indus
Cry, earned oo at Beaufort; tbis in
dustry has upwards of a hundred
thousand dollare ot capital invest
ed aud neeensitatee tne employ
meut of ft large number of persona
two steamers of considerable ca
pacity, aud also a large number of
eJiling vessels from 15 to J5 tone
eich.
The fish business has grown in
a few years to its present huge pro
portions from very small begin
nings though the parties engaged
in it have been encompassed on
avery side by almost insurmount
able difficulties; want of appliances,
want of ice, bad legislation and
Imost prohibitory freight rates
fiom it inc-'pieucy higher than
Irom any aoa poit in the United
States. Nothwitbstarding all these
difficulties, the business has bt.en
pursued with a aoch intelligence
and energy, that New Berne and
Morehead, re now known as tbe
grt-at flab markets of the South,
and the business will, in the near
future, quadruple itself, unless
nine unfortunate difficulty should
arise in a fair and proper adjust
ment of freight rates that would
place o upon an equality with
new competing.
THE LUMBER INDUSTRY.
This industry in the pat few
years has been gffiatly increased.
Vast tracts of timber is ad hsvt
been secured, and are now penttrat
e l L. every direcMoo by light iron
tramways. New rnllU of hue ca
pacity beve been erected with all of
tbe late improvements in machinery,
drying kilos and plarlng machinery,
to every mill. Tbe lambtr dressed
is sent at far North as Chicago and
as far east as Forllana, Maine; tbe
demand i& great and increasing, and
all of tbo mills are marked to their
fall capacity.
Bat a few yeare ago the only kind
ot pine for which there was soy de
ro&od was the long leaf or turpentine
ome. Now for all kicde, there is a
hce market, to say nothing uf other
varieties of wood.
The kind; of pine known as
swamp, rosemary and old field piece
are now in great demand for (he in
MAY 11. 1893.
ternal decorative of boiliiogs. owior
to tbe soft and smoo'b texture '.r,
tbe wood; these varitties bavs tskn !
the place of ihe wbile pine of th
North, owing to the xbaaetico of the ,
Northern pine foreta. We Lrnvrj
also in this section large and vilt-i
able forests of gam and cjpre".l
woods that haie onlll recently not
been properly appreciated. Of otber
kieds ef woods Crivm county hat
125 known varieties.
There are now in the City of New
Berne and in sight, twelve aleam
aw mills, wboe turnout CO mill
ions of dressed and andrsteed la so
fts r per year.
These mills are known ae ihe
CcngdoQ Lumber Co., Trent Lumber
Co., Blale Lnmber Co., Clark Jk
Blade Lmmbsr Co., Z. F. Pretty man
Lomhr Co., Stimeon Lumber L.,
Hauiillon Lumber Co., Moody &
liobertt Lembsr Co., Warren Kllis
Lumber Co., A. Lee & Co. Lumber
Co,S. E. Sullivan & Co. Lumber
Co.
Beside these in New Berne, there
are qatte a number of mills m tint
ectioo, some of them of huge capac
ity whose turnout of lumber will
exceed 50 million f feet per year.
This ast industry requires ?ry
many operatives, also many mills of
iron tramwtv. snd a fleet of tags to
r
iow the rafts of timber on the water
coarees and employe thouannds of
tone f thlpping, ro trareport their
dreesed lumber, say nothing of tbe
immense quantity sent by A. & N.
C. R. R., yet notwithstanding tte
great increase ot operating mills,
and the vast qaantity of umber re
paired to furnish them, there seems
to be no oimmat'oe in quantity, ice
supply eqaalt the demand.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
Toero is alto a large and success
ful fertilizer factory in Nw Berne,
wbich supplies e?ery description of
crops throughout this country, and
saves oar farmers a great deal of
money in transportation end other
direstioBt; &i?o establishments for
furnisning boxes to the truckers,
and a knitting fctorv. which al
though recently started upon & small
scale, it doing well and promises
are a l success at an early day. We
have alo a number of factories for
tbe maktug of buggies and carriages,
whose strong and elegant work is
being dons continually, which find
ready sale at boaie and abroad.
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fifteen cent in postage stamps, we
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Portfolio ef tbe Worlds Columbian
Exposition the regular prise is
Fifty cents, bat as we want you to
have ore, rc make the prlee nomi
nal. You will find it a work of art
and a tbiog to he prieed. It contains
full page views of the great build
ings, with descriptions of same,
and Is execnted executed in highest
uyle of art. If not satisfied with
it, after you get it, after you get it
we will refund tbe stamp? and let
you keep tbe book, Address,
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Chicago, 11.
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Wrinkled foreheads in childrer
botokens consumption, rickets or
idiocy. Vertical wrinklss of tbe
brow come etrly to men who do
much braia work. Arched and
crossing wrinkles about the lower
mlddl of the forehead betoken phf
sleial r mental tutTaring. Fine,
close-meshed wrinkles which cover
the fare, tigns of age and decrepti-
tude, are caased by lots of contrac
tile nervous force, and are prevent
ed by t bathing, friction and elec
tric! tf.
I depire a hypocrite." So do l.v
'Now tskt Johnson, for sxample;
h: u the biggest hypocrite od
earth
I despite ht man." Hat yoa sp
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it pays better in the end.
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the Citv of Toledo, County and State
nfl tht saii firm will pav
the sum of ONK HUNDRED DOLLAR-
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that cannot be cured by the use
Ball's Catabbh Cube.
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Dated Jen. 20. 1893.
Daily ex. Tiun.
Daily pi. San
Nortl Mound
Tralnti
South ltoun&
Trains.
Stationb.
No. 103 No.
23
M.
No.
73 No. 101
M. A.M.
P. M. A.
P.
m Cooper MirtM'fforlis
3 10 9 15 Lv Norfolk Ar. C 00 10 25
2 4C 9 40 Pinners Point 6 3ft 4 t
2 58 10 07 Drivers 5 11 Q
3 28 10 22 Suffolk 4 57 S 51
3 49 10 58 Gates 4 ld.3 K 31
4 10 11 19 Tunis 4 05 8 15
4 21 11 37 Abokey 3 45 it 33
5 02 11 63 Aulander 3 31 7 58
5 2f 12 32 Hobgood 2 54 7 I'l
5 57 12 54 Ar. Tarboro 3 35 G 55
Ar. Lv.
5 57 1 25 Rocky Mount 2 05 i) ;r,
P. M. P. M. I'. M. A. M
No 23 carries pullr.ian parlor ci Nor-
folk to Itocky Mount an-1 connoct i't.
A (J L Train 23 lor all i.oir.ti Mouth.
No 103 connects at Unbend ff r a.
eastern Carolina points, aNo at Kock
Mount with AOL tram 27 lor all pomu
south.
So 78 carriet pullroan parlor car Jlock;
Mount to Norfolk an! cennects f ,r ei' I
poinU north. j
ror all informatron tcheJuleH can on ui
address
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Gen'l Manager. Sup't Trains.
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