Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-01-28


ter,' he continued "can't get more'n twent
| cents for it nohow. Leastwise l can't-ca
you2"
I explained to the man that there are som
| people in the world that aren't in the butte
selling business, and that am one of them
| ''Then you must be a stranger" he said
| opening his eyes very wide. 81 live in Ohio.
"Whew!' he repeated very deliberately
| while his eyes grew so large and his moutl
! dropped SO wide open that was afraid tn
unnatural strain would cause something t.
rupture, GIVE heard tell on that place
| My it's long bit from here" had no ide,
| there were any rustics rustic in the whole
| country, but am told that if you get bacl
| from the railway you will find people who
never saw newspaper, and don't know who
| is President.
My seat was shared in the train going to
Asheville by bright young man from Bos-
ton, who said that he was just going to cast
his lot in this new country. He saw a squib
in a newspaper telling of the prosperity of the
town, gathered together four or five hundred
dollars and set out. His hopes for the future
were based entirely upon this newspaper waif
and talk which he got with man in charge
of the agricultural bureau at Raleigh, touch
ing the resources of western North Carolina
He appeared to be a young man of grit, and
1 have no doubt he will be rich ten or fifteen
years hence.
The choicest grades of tobacco are grown
not far from Asheville. l was shown fields
that had produced $500 and even $500 to the
acre.
Leaving Asheville, the train started up the
Swannanoa valley, climbed the Blue Ridge,
reached the water shed dividing the waters
that flow into the Atlantic from those that
are tributary to the Mississippi, and then
began the long steep descent, shooting
through tunnels. gliding over bridges, and
twisting and changing its mind constantly
=, I, -. f.II,
Of the best engineering on the continent
characterizes this portion of the road. At
Black Mountain station glimpse was afford
ed of Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak
east of the Rockies. At Round
Knob was an artificial fountain that played
268 feet high. The rising Syoung tobacco
metropolis of Statesville was passed at mid
night, SO that I could not get view of its
large warehouse, and its medical herbarium
said to be the largest in the world. Arrived
in the pleasant but somewhat dead old town
of Salisbury, ] took a5oaslon TO call upon DR.. D.
Eames, northerner whose profession as
mining engineer has posted him AS thoroughly
as any living man on the mineral wealth OF
The State of North Carolina. He remarked
rs l was examining his SPLENDID collection
of specimens: 1.-The mineral development
Of North Carolina, like the development of
the State in other respects, has been marvel
lous, but almost unnoticed. When I came
1tIS III 1O4 lueES were Only Two gOlQ mines
being worked in the State; ROW / suppose
there are forty. I have yet to learn of
u mineral or precious stone of Importance
chat I cannot uneaIth here, and there are
great many minerals and gems found no.
where except here. And yet North Carolina
is terra lnccgnlta'
At Charlotte, one of the principal cities
in North Carolina, place about the size of
Raleigh, but with twice as much evidence of
business push, l stopped off to examine
among other things the cotton seed oil works
that have been planted there by northern
capital. 1t is marvellous how a thing so
valueless as the seed of the cotton
plant may be utilized, several distinct pro-
ducts being evolved from 1t. This is the |
season when cotton seed is being sent in, and
he mills work from 1 o'clock /
Monday morning till midnight of |
Sunday is devoted to the cleans !
ng and repairing of the machinery. The |!
seed is purchased at tbs late of eighteen |
:ents hushal the FACTORY advertising in the |!
t at that figure The seed is first subjected |
% re-ginning process whereby fifteen huge |
1ales of cotton are obtained from it per week |
Then the seed is cracked, .hs hr3sks being
aved and ssla AZ the rate of 81 per |
on for horse bedding, bedding about
ender plants and trees, etc. The meat of |
he seed is then cooked by steam lit is of a
mustard yellow color and then subjected to
,reat pressure in order to eytraot the salad
md sardne oil fnT T...oh the factory is es-
ablished. The pressed cakes, which are |
low hard bricks, are next run through
powerful grinding machine and converted |
nto yellow powder which eawa wont
o regard aqllacy. This meal sells at |
i 25 per hundred weight.
/ believe the Incidental products which are
developed from the seed in extracting the oil
more than pay the running expenses of the
Verify cotton is utilized in
bout as many directions as is :iee in the |
BRENT. have not heard Of cotton paste |
owever, OF of any beverage distilled from |
Otton analogous to the Japanese LIQUOR |
axe.
L can almost always tell when the train /
ulls into one of these southern cities where
be institutes and colleges for the colored are
'cated. As rule they occupy command
lg emineneea in the suburbs-just, |
ldeed, as our principal schools il foreign |
.nds do, including notably Roberts college
Il the Bosphorus and the Syrian Protestant
ollege on the bluffs at Ee.erout. In the
outh, also, as i. Foreign lands, the mission |
shool edifces are usually the finest buildings
l town. Biddle university at Charlotte is
o exception to the rule. The main building
Il noble structure en- the summit of a pic |
lresque knoll mile north of the city, sug-
esting somewhat the relation of the Mount
Olives to Jerusalem. At least there would | {
? strong resemblance if the country about | !
harlotte We're stony and barren as that
)out the Holy CITY
Bittdie was interesting to me as the first !
college for the negro race which | :
ave encountered. 1t is the first such college as
III descend the Atlantic seaboard. eXcapt
erhaps Shaw university at Raleigh. 1t is the |
lly Presbyterian college IN the South for |
e benefit of tie G3gro.
Only young men are educated. the Presby-
rian school for girls being located at Ches-
7, twenty miles north. OF the 1S1 stu
9nts reported last year 40 were Christians
I'd 63 were studying for the min
try. Doubtless we wsns all kinds of
hools IN the Soath, but it strikes
e that the sphere of usefulness filled by
ch q school as Hampton is broader than
at of Blddle. Such long rigorous courses |
ay, in my opinion, sometimes l.enation-
lze the student, and that process is attend
with loss o. influence when the student
IDS himself ultimately ready to teach OF
each. have heard some long, sonorous
ayers by these negro theologues that would |
scount the old school prayers of half cen
ry ago, when Chas. G. Finney began
$ memorable history, Yet admire Bid
e, and Sc far IS there is no tendency to dry
} the juice of African nature, sympattinize
artily with its work. Even il there were t
work of education conducted there, who | il
all estimate the good done in bringing SO =
any young men up out of squalid, unwor- e
y homes and putting them in such al ele- I
ted home atmosphere that which per s
des the thoroughly organized and equipped p
arding department.
From Charlotte I journeyed in less than
e hours to this capital city of Columbia. |
lture has seemed to mark the boundary
tween South Carolina and the old Tar
el State. y The transition is from red clay | S
an essentially sandy soil. such as just ex-
IS in growing monster sweet potatoes.
lumbia itself is revelation. It's streets Il
, the widest and the best shaded that l
We seen anywhere on this continent, I
ink. Barring the clim4se, Columbia must -
supremelF pleasant place in summer.
EMILE. /
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