The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-03
ARP'S WEEKLY BUDGET.
Another Letter from the Tar Heel State.
IN D., po,,.yS,,Y;ou

At1a',:s Constitution.
Everything is lovely All nature
| is dressed in living green and adorned
! with flowers. She has banged her hair
| with blossoms and fringed her pantalettes
and clustered her swelling bosom. 1t is
| full and gorgeous costume, not too short
| above nor too long below, but modest
and bridal and lovely. No decollette nor
line of demarcation, such as Miss Cleve-
land and other women are writing about
and trying to explain. never read
about this decollette business, these low
neck party dresses, but the word decoy
seems to fit right we'll, for they are made
to decoy somebody and set snare. 1t is
a poor, pitiful business when ladies have
to take measure for the line of modesty
and discuss in the newspapers where
modesty ends and immodesty begins
But then these fashionable folks have got
nothing else to do, I reckon.
North Carolina is excited now ana
| th ere is fire all along the line. Prohibl.
tion is the question, and you can hear OF
it wherever you go. A hundred times
have I been asked how it works in Geor'
gia. 1 met Governor Colquitt on the
train. He was just from Washington
and was going to Raleigh to speak on
prohibition, and from there to Durham.
Raleigh was excited, and so was Durham
and Goldsboro, for the friends of temper
ance have become bold and aggressive.
Everywhere think they will be defeated
in all these places, but they will rally
and fight again until they do succeed.
Public opinion is gradually drifting that
way, and sooner or later whisky must 60.
1t may be that wine will come in as a
substitute over here, and it will be a hap
py compromise if it does. Domestic
wine is the best thing to fight whisky
with in North Carolina, for this whole
country is planting vineyards. Acres
upon acres may be seen from the cars all
along the railroads, especially the Raj
eigh and CASTOR railroad You are hard
ly ever out of sight Of vineyard. Most
of these grapes are grown to sell and
ship, but there are thousands of gallons
of wine being made, pure wine, and it is
found to be more profitable than anything
else. visited Captain Garrett's vine.
yard near Enfield, and was amazed at its
extent. Just think of ninety acres in
Scuppernong grapes, all arbored over,
and as you stand on an elevation and
look down it seems one luxuriant carpet
Of living green. Captain Garrett makes
$4,000 gallons Of wine every season, and
sells it in New York for net price of
one dollar gallon. Besides this he has
twenty acres in other grapes that are
made iuto sherry and champagne. The
process does not seem to be complicated
or difficult, and anybody can succeed il
they are reasonably intelligent and
watchful. This was model farm visi-
ted, for while grapes and wine were the
main thing there there was splendid
farm in high state of cultivation and a
number of silo pits that Captain G. says
is the salvation Of his farm. There was
fine herd of Jersey cattle and dairy,
and above all there was an elegant re.
6nement in the household and a welcome
hospitality that makes one feel like he
was living again in the days of the old
planters and patriarchs whose beautiful
homes adorned the hills and the groves of
the South some thirty years ago. The
diversified agriculture and horticulture Of
Eastern North Carolina is bringing their
people to the front very rapidly. 1t is
not all cotton now, nor is it all turpen'
tine, as it used to be. Why, even the
small fruits are realizing a handsome
return for their cultivation, and you will
see at every station on the Coast line
large stacks of strawberry crates awaiting
the express train for the Northern mar
kets. Tobacco is now leading product
f and every town has its warehouses and
auction houses that buy and sell and store
the weed. The town of Durham has
now 5000 inhabitants, and the majority
E are in the tobacco business. Ivisited the
immense establishments of Duke & Sons
and Carr 4 Co., and was bewildered al
the extent of their business. There is
now in Durham ten million pounds o1
leaf tobacco awaiting manufacture, and
it comes in every day by the train load
from all the surrounding country. The
tobacco manufacturers of Durham pay
to the railroads over one million dollan
a year for incoming freights. They have
over 1000 operatives, more than half O.
whom are girls. I saw five hundred girls
j, in one factory. They were all setting a
9 little desks making cigarettes, and they
e we're singing one of Sankey's songs wher
D we entered. Cotton factory girls lool
i pale and measley, for they have to stana
8 up all day, and the poor things do ge
t tired, awful tired, and they look careworr
}. and weary. They can't sing for the soune
Y of the machinery; but these girls looked
g rosy and neat, and were as merry as larks
J. The doctors say that the tobacco business
!. is the healthiest business in the world
s and that these girls are never sick. The!
IS all work by the piece, and many of then
d make two dollars every day. Mos
!. of them make one dollar and fifty cents
!. and even the little tiny chaps make from
}, seventy.ive cents to dollar. The girl
d can beat the boys at this business, TO
e their fingers are more delicate and MIN
r BILE. They make 100000 cigarettes ii
a one day in the Duke factory. Just thinl
e of it! Nearly million And all to b
J. burned up into smoke and ashes. cas-
j. ually inquired where all these cigarette
/: and all this smoking tobacco went to, AM
= tho general manager handed me q lot O