The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-19
Office = doors abore Simpsons Drug Store.

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the State Association.
The Milton Chronicle says there is a
general desire in that section to hear Judge
Fowle speak on the political situation.
DIR. Worth, Col. Kenan, G. B. Aye
cock, c.. H. Brogden, and the Republican
Elector, Robinson, had a lively tilt at Gran
than store, Wayne county on Monday.
MIR. W. j. Best, with Mr.. Caddagan,
his Secretary, passed up the Western n.
G.. r. r. to Asheville on Thursday of last
week. Something definite, we suppose, will
soon transplre.
As a general thing, the current "Wit
and Humor' of the newspapers is very sad.
We nave just read a column of the article,
so-called, in Harpers Weekly that is sad
enough to make a man get down on his
hands and knees to weep. Like folks do
when they are sea-sick.
Maj. Jno. w. Scott, one of the solid
men of Chatham, came in last week to paw
his subscription. He says the interest in
Lennon Springs increases every week.
He has had as many visitors as he could ac-
commodate this season but will have every
thing ready for next summer. 1t will be-
come a family resort for Raleigh and round
about In time.
From a communication in the Neec5ern-
ion, signed by John W. Pelletier, President
of the dormant Midland Railway Co., we
learn that a proposal will be made the stock
holders of the Atlantic r. r. to lease the
road for 40 years then revive, or re-organ-
lie, the Midland as a new company extend
the Newbern road from Goldsboro to Fay
%ettevile and form connections with the
Cape Fear & Iadkin Valley r. r. This
looks well. 1t would make a great Midland
Trunk line from the mountains to the sea.
But we have not much faith.
Witt a true man, a true gentleman, the
receipt of a kindness entails an obligation,
great or small and the obligation opens a
a bank account between the two persons,
wherein the deed stands as a Delft due
the donor. And thus it must stand forever
unless counter balanced by "Credits" of a
similar character. And even after the ac-
count is squared" the entries remain ON
the books indelibly. Unbappily many men
after enjoying a kindness for years, are apt
to forget In settling it that the Interest" |
almost equals the principal; SO that a mere
return of a similar favor does not at all square
he account.
II am not that feather to shake off
My friend when most he needs me.
x = x L do know him
A gentleman, that well deserves help,
Which he shall have.'
Success and honor, in this country. and
In the present generation, depend upon the
faculty of being able to think standing; and
to gracefully, or at least strongly, mouthe
ehot you think. Every day of our lives we
all see men of small calibre making a very
loud report, and rapidly acquiring both the
fame, and the substantial success, of big
Guns" while men of mightier intellect, and
for more manliness and character, are never
that is, of course, you know, ''hardl'-
&c. heard from. If, therefore, any proud
''pa-ri-ent" desire his small son ("of a
gun'O to make a noise in the world, let
him begin, when the boy is four years old,
to train HIM to speak off-hand, and on his
feet. Put him on a table, and make him ex-
te porise upon s ) me subject, however trivial.
Teach him to speak clearly and distinctly.
Keep up this training for three years, and
it he have any kind Of ~talert, he will take
the lead among his school mates, take the
lead among young men, and take at least a
prominent position among men. Such an
education, joined with good physical habits,
is worth more than an university course. or
a fifty thousand dollar fortune. The Gift
Of Cab to use an homely phrase, is the
lever that moves the world nowadays.