The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-11
The Value Of the Carolina Pine.

Nlusing over matters and things in
general, memory reverts to an illustra-
ton contained in q number of Harper's
Magazine, issued few years prior to the
late war. The artist, who was evidently
meandering in the shade Of some cool
and pleasant maple grove, suddenly be-
thoug hit himself of his monthly task, and
after surreptitiously quaiIing draught
of the refreshing maple juice seated HIM
self under the protecting foliage of
friendly sacclarine tree, and, taking his
surroundings in part for bis picture, drew
for the balance upon his imagination, and
gave to an ignorant but inquiring world
cut misrepresenting the method by
which the life blood (vulgarly called
turpentine by the unromantic Tar Heel
is extracted from the lascerated, uncom-
planning mournful-looking, slowly-dying
pine. Our artist with refreshing sim.
plicity, simply inserts and ordinary fau-
Get into the bark, and from the wounded,
bleeding tree pours in copious stream
the turpentine. making glad the heart of
the grinning Ethiopian, who sits lazily
by, watching the rapidly filling BARREL
Close by another dark bone of contention
is lovingly picking King Cotton the
royal staple is supposed to thrive under
the shade of the martyred pine. The
whole picture is so simple, so easy, so
happy and so untrue, is it to be wondered
at that such imaginary pen and ink
sketches and illustrations of American
scenes and customs, by untraveled ar.
fists, should have helped to have made
the late war possibility, ending in
terrible reality?
But many are thoughtlessly ignorant
of the many uses to which the yield of
the pine, under various names and COM
binations, are put. The following are o
few of the industries in which, in some
shape, it is used: In the manufacture of
soap, varnish, pitch, fluid, oil, printers
ink, oil-cloth, gas, glass, paper, lager
beer, rope, tar, camphene, paints, roof
ing, axle-grease, lamb-black, salves seal
ing wax, cement, charcoal, patent pave
ments, for japanning, etc., etc. The
medical and chemical uses to whichs pirits
turpentine is put would swell the list to
hundreds. The sailor in his ocean home,
built of yellow pine, the seams of his
noble ship we'll cemented with pitch, the
rigging made tough and plant with tar,
sinks to rest with a feeling of security in
his we'll vanished quarters, and dreams
of Mary and the little ones on land. The
raiser of sheep, on his lonely Texas
ranch, keeps always a supply of Carolina
tar on hand to apply to the noses of his
woody family as preventive of disease.
Mary would now be sad little girl had
it no been for tar, for
Mary had little lamb,
Its pulse was weak and slow;
A daub of tar upon its nose
Made that lamb get up and CO."
How often we have been soothed to
sleep by the dirge-like cadence of the
swaying pine tree tops, and how often
we have been aroused from quiet slum-
ber by the terrible wailings of love, hate,
hope and despair of MIR. Thomas Cat
who, on the neighboring wood shed,
made night hideous by the expression of
his ardent courtships; but how few of
us, when thus aroused, have kept our
tempers and our boot;jacks, and calmly
reflected that by the application of rosin
to the dried intestines of Thomas Cat is
produced, in part, the merry music to
which in early youth our light hearts
and nimble feet kept time. Oh Won
derful combination of the animal and
vegetable kingdoms which has enabled
Ole Bull to live so many centuries, and
| which will hand him down to ages yet
to come, to scrape his last farewells to
our children and our children's children.
The question naturally arises, why the
country possessed of so valuable a tree
is comparatively poor2 The answer is
easy, viz: the wasteful prodigality with
which the tree has been slaughtered,
causing overproduction. One of onr
leading and most able merchants, and
President ofthe Produce Exchange, in his
annual address to the members, q few
years since, called attention to this in
terse and decided language. The con-
sumption of the world is about so much,
and the consumers can be made to pay
40 cents for spirits, S2 for corn, and from
S3 to Sc for the better grades of rosin,
and these prices are not exorbitant
The industry is now comparatively in q
healthy condition is there not danger.
with the virgin forest of Georgia to worl:
upon, that it will be overdone next year?
Picture the pine regions of the Carolinas
and Georgia if turpentine was tended as
surplus production. The producer
having his fifty to one hundred acres in
corn, his vegetables. poultry and hogs,
and his patches of rice and cotton, be
would then soon be in O condition when
the consumers would be compelled to tele-
graph and cable us, "What will you
take?" not as now we continually tele.
graphing them, "What will you give"
The surplus stock being held in this
country, until called for by the require.
ments of the trade, the pine regions of
the South would become vast and pay
ing bonanza. Were the pine trees in
digenous to the soil of New England,
there would be millions in them.- VIZ
mington Star.
"Nor IF 1T WERE My Boy."-Somc
years ago the late Horace Mann, the
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