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VOL. I.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1905.
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A GREAT INDUSTRY.
Caralelgh Phosphate Works One of
Raleigh's Manufacturing Plants
that Has an Enviable Reputation
and is Growing Every Year.
Fifteen carloads of the products
of Caraleigh Phosphate and Fertili
zer Works leave the factory every
day. That means an output of
ninety car-loads every week.
It means more. It means that the
owners are getting a good living out
of the business, that many people are
employed, and that the farmers are
getting first-class fertilizers.
About thirteen years ago the com
pany was formed and the plant was
established near Walnut creek, about
two miles from the capitol. The
Southern Railroad Company built a
spur line to the factory and to the
Caraleigh cotton mill. The fertilizer
factory suffered a serious loss by fire
a few years ago, but was rebuilt at
; once.
The officers are:
J. II. Chamberlain, President; Ash
ley Home, Vice-President; Charles
V. Albright, Secretary and Treasure
er. Directors: J. R. Chamberlain, F.
0. Coring, Ed Chambers Smith, Ash
ley Home, S. R. Home, J. W. Bar
ber, A. Q.Holliday.
With those men behind it further
recommendation is hardly necessary.
Within the past few months the
same company has purchased a cot
ton seed oil mill and established a
branch fertilizer factory at Wilson.
Mr. F. N. Bridges is in charge there.
The Caraleigh Phosphate and Fer
tilizer Works manufactures fifteen
brands of fertilizers, suitable for cot
ton tobacco, wheat and truck farm
ing. Up-to-date machinery is used,
both in the manufacture of the mate
rials and in mixing the goods.
In order to build up a large busi
ness in a commodity like fertilizer,
it is necessary to have a good article.
The success of the Caraleigh Phos
phate and Fertilizer Works ought to
settle it that the goods are high
grade. It is a home enterprise and does
not belong to the trust, hence it
ought to be patronized by North Car
olina people in preference to any
company in the business.
Many Wake County cotton and
tobacco growers use the Caraleigh
goods exclusively. This is as it should
be, and we would be glad to see more
of them follow the same course. We
know the men who make the Cara
leigh brands, and know that our
farmers will not waste their money
when they buy them.
The Terrors of a Snake-Dance.
The following description of a
Moki Indian snake-dance appears in
the March Woman's Home Compan
ion. The writer thus describes the
most dramatic part of the ceremony:
"Then came the snake-priests, who
made a most dramatic entrance.
Their bodies were smeared with red
paint, their shins blackened and out
lined with streaks of white.
"Four times they marched around
the plaza, chanting their weird, plain
tive music. Suddenly one of tho
priests dropped to his knees before
the kisi, and reappeared with a rattle
snake in his mouth, holding the body
midway between his teeth I This
feat was performed by each, man in
turn jn the march around the plaza,
dropping the snakes at certain points
to gather fresh ones as they passed
the kisi. Then a group of little half
naked lads from five to ten years of
age, who were being initiated, were
made to prove their bravery and cour
age by holding the snakes, some of
which were so large that they hung
to the ground as their wriggling
bodies were held by grasping them
just back of the head.
"At the height of the excitement,
when the ground fairly heaved with
snakes,' that repeatedly coiled and
sprang at the ankles of the dancers,
and while those in the mouths of the
snake-chiefs made ferocious efforts to
strike, and turned themselves, twin
ning around the necks of their cap
tors, gasps of terror from the over
wrought nerves of the women tour
ists awakened me from a trance of
horror. Just at that moment, as if
in answer to the petitions which the
snakes are supposed to carry to the
'under world,' a rain-cloud swept
down the valley, and a rainbow of
promise unfolded like an opalescent
ribbon across the wonder of an Ari
zona sky."
A Squirrel House rioving.
The beautiful gray squirrels in our
large parks are a constant source of
entertainment to children and
grown-ups as well. An exchange
gives this sketch of a harrowing ex
perience in squirrel family life:
A large oak tree had become rot-ten-with
age and was cut down with
considerable labor. In one of the
hollow branches a squirrel family had
established comfortable winter quar
ters, and their consternation when
the blow began to fall upon the base
of the trunk was pathetic. They
raced back and forth in wild proces
sion, jumping from tree to tree along
the row and back again, as though
fully conscious of what was going to
happen. After the tree was felled,
an investigation of the hollow re
vealed a prodigious and snugly con
structed accumulation of cotton
string, saw-dust, leaves, bits of wool,
wisps of hay, probably taken from
a nearby barn, and a quantity of
nuts and acorns. Later in the day;
after the workmen had gone and all
was quiet, these stores were diligent
ly removed to another tree hollow,
all the members of the family assist
ing in the removal a curious and
interesting sight which was wit
nessed from several houses near.- -Exchange.
Dresses for Babies.
In making dresses for children
from six months of age up to five
or six years more elaborate trim
ming and designs may be used than
for baby's long clothes. Even with
these short dresses, however, sim
plicity combined with good material
will make the daintiest and prettiest
dresses.'":
"Materials for such dresses may be
what the purse will allow. Wash
chiffon is a material that despite
its name lends itself well to the needs
of little people. It comes forty
eight inches wide, and costs but forty-five
cents a yard. By making a
dress the wrong way of the weave
(which wears just as well as the
right way), one yard will make a
very plain dress, and one and a half
yards will make an elaborate one for
a child one year old. -March Wom
an's Home Companinon.
A NEW EMANCIPATION.
Speech of Mr. C. M. Bernard at the
Tar Heel Banquet on the 22nd.
Mr. Bernard said :
"The subject assigned me is so
pregnant with thought and covers
such a wide field for discussion that
it is difficult to touch just the right
spots in the few minutes at my dis
posal. "Before the great civil war there
existed in North Carolina and the
South three distinct classes of citi
zens. '
"1st. The aristocrats, who were the
large land and slave owners and con
stituted the politicians and rulers.
This was the autocratic and domi
neering class, whose authority and
edicts in political management was
as supreme as their power over the
slaves on the cotton farms, rice fields
and sugar plantations.
"2d. Were the merchants, trades
men and manufacturers, a highly re
spectable citizen, but who dare not
antagonize or stand in the way of
the wealthy slave owner in his politi
cal ambition. '
"fld. The white laborer who neither
had the nerve or the intelligence to
enter the political arena against the
two other wealthier and more intelli
gent classes. This "caste" of South
ern society and citizenship was as un
bending and unyielding as the laws
of the Modes and Persians, and the
direct outcome and result of the
slave-holding custom of the South.
These were the existing conditions
when the war came on and at its end.
Behold ! old things had passed away,
a new South had been born. Old
barriers of 'caste' had been broken
down and swept away, and brains and
brawn soon forged its way to the.
front. The door of opportunity and
hope had been flung open to every
man in every walk of life, and we
find ourselves again a State in this
great union of States, under the
broad republican principle of equal
ity of citizenship. And many of us
who sit here tonight around this fes
tive board, the sons of slaveholding
parents, who were taught that the
'Lost Cause' was a great calamity,
have long since learned that it was a
blessing in disguise, the greatest
blessing that had ever come to our
State and her pcovle. The proclama
tion of Abraham Lincoln broke the
shackles of four million slaves, but
the result of this war did more, it
broke the shackles of intolerant con
ditions surrounding the life and
home of thousands of white men in
the South and in North Carolina.
And, as a direct result of these
broken conditions, we see today our
great State developing every branch
of industry, power and prosperity.
As we look abroad in this dear old
State of ours today, we see the son3
of the aristocrat, the sons of the mer
chant, the sons of the laborer, all
working side by side with each other
on the farm, in the shops and facto
ries, for the upbuilding of our State.
Today in North Carolina true merit
wins, whether in the son of the lord
of the manor or the son of the peas
ant. Under these changed conditions
it has become possible for the sons
of laborers to be the owners and
managers of great industrial plants
and cotton factories the sons of
that lovable old man who now lays at
his home in Durham calmly waiting
the summons to eternal rest, to build
up a tobacco business whose impor
tance and magnitude has startled all
Europe.
"The plow boy of Wayne bacame
the educational governor of our
State, and the obscure youth of
Franklin County is now vice-president
of the greatest railroad system
in the South, and every day you may
see the son of the aristocrat pull
open the throttle of the engine at the
signal of the bell cord in the hands
of the son of the laborer, and in every
avocation in life, as president of
banks, in the pulpit, at the bar or in
the stores and shops, mines or fac
tories, it is merit and not ancestry
which now wins in the great battles
of life in our State.
"And last, biit not least, these con
ditions have made it possible for the
boy from the huckleberry swamps of
Sampson; the apprentice printer boy
from the State of Tennessee, to be
come United States Senators from
our State, the highest office save one
in this greatest country the world
has ever known ; and the barefoot boy
from the mountains of Ashe County
has twice been elected to Congress,
and is this evening our honored
toastmaster. All these blessings have
come to us as a State and their peo
ple as a direct result through the
great, broad, patriotic principles of
the Republican party of the nation,
which has taught us that we are one
nation Under one flag, whose greatest
cardinal principle is the equality of
citizenship."
How to Treat the Old Folks.
One reason why old people some
times grow difficult and perverse and
hard to live with as years increase
is that they feel themselves of little
use, and are afraid they are in the
way. They need to be entertained.
The cheery optimism of twenty-five
is natural when the blood bounds in
the veins, life is a pageant and you
cannot count your friends, but to be
gay at seventy-five is harder, for the
lonesome years have found you out.
I would give the old lady or the
old gentleman the brightest, coziest
room in the house, but I would not
expect him or her to stay there. Nor
would I be on the alert every moment
to save steps for the aged mother or
father. They resent the best-meant
endeavors to save them from fatigue,
and don't wish to be cared for as if
they were children. Also, these gentle
and pleasing attentions suggest their
feebleness. It takes a good deal of
tact to keep old and actively inclined
people, who have no longer strength
to be active, in a mood of content
ment and tranquility. But as we all
shall, if we live so long, arrive where
now they are, it is worth our while
to be good to them good and patient
and jolly about it. Mrs. Sangster, in
the March Woman's Home Com
panion. The prohibtionists can claim, and
perhaps with truth, that it is no worse
than when we had the open saloon.
Durham Herald.
One can imagine the shade of the
Little Corporal standing at Oyama's
elbow. A people ho reckoned not
have revenged his bitter retreat. And
queer changes occur on the mili
tary chessboard in a century
France is the only friend of the de
feated! Columbia State.