The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-13
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
THE SONG OF THE SIREN CAN
NOT TEMPT US AWAY.
I A Description of the Boomers of New
Towns With Some Large and Phi.
lnnthropic Refectinns and HumOr-
ous Touches.

lnnthrOpic Refiectinns and HumOr-
ous Touches.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.)
| started to begin this letter in this
way: "Thinkiug that your numerous
+, ,aders would like to hear'-but l will
not. because | don't think that do; and
besides, my real i1ea is to write letter,
and thereby compel a great many peo-
pie 10 reluctantly read after me- It's the
vanity of all Of us who have never done |
much in the world to contrive to be IN |
sight one way or the other, or we might |
get overlaid in the litter. What | want
to get at, after awhile, if the patient
reader will allow me, is to tell you about
trip to the booming towns of South
west Virginia It's worth taking-the
trip is-you get dead oodles of knowl-
edge, if nothing else, and Solomon set
great store by that commodity, if the
ANYBODY can GO Summer excursion
rates are so cheap either by the r. & D.
or S A. l.. lines that you lose by not ac
c}pting their iuclous and seductive
offers.
You will pardon this delicate bit or
It'd bit of advertising 1t is not paid for
q but the editors and writer will all go to
their exceedingly prim and badly drain
ed graves in Oakwood thinking that 1t
ought to be, and that too, by whole
deck of complimentary cards inviting
them to seize the centre seats on the
shady side of the cars, so that the poor
pay passengers can bask IN our Southern
sun But the rates are all marked
down. There Is a great hunk Of philos-
ophy in this mid summer marking down.
A man travelling on the frivolous occu-
patton Of making food and sklmp raj
N ment for his family ought to be made to
pay the top Of the market for the priv
iege, while on the other hand the tired
and overworked husband who is coun-
selled 10y his faithful physician to leave
the charms of hot and fretful
households to WOO the balmy widows
a1d miscellaneous girls at the sea shore
or in the crests Of the mountains, and
to llirt with the salt or fresh breezes as
that topography of the occasion may
make proper, is entitled to the lowest
rates known to educated consciences of
the most religious passenger agent. This
gives the wicked fighting chance. Ii
the reader will only bear one moment
lust one-cheap as the tickets are they
a nave to be paid for in the present insult
iicient gold basis non-sub- treasury
money All you have got to do therefore
is to borrow the money That's the way
20 go to booming towns or the sea shore.
/ nerves you to put on airs and give
offence to the pitiful and plain people
who practise the old time virtues of mod
esty and economy. Then too, when yor
are successful, you can join the grea
congregation of liars, "who came int
this town without a dollar in pocket
For fear of judgment days arrival ant
cutting in on these lines, We will just
pass right through the endless whlt'
sunshine and showers of black cinders
and clouds of dust, ,and consider Ourselve
as swinging along the base OF the Peaks
of Otter which Christian calls the "Belle
of the Virginia Mountains" at the rate o
40 or so miles an hour, ant
then bringing up with smart
sharp, agreeable jerk and bein
hustled out into shed and We are il
Southwest Virginia town. They ar
all booming. 1t would be worth you
while and great deal of it to sugges
that any way station on the Norfolk an
Western railroad was not on a fin
healthy well formed boom. If they al
not, your senses deceive you; because tn
fat clover fields are all scarified by tn
painful, rectangular streets that checke
hoard the whole face of the country
The word road has fallen into ths
harmless disuse that the great archite'
of that phrase now enjoys, and mai
street usurps the old macadam roa
from Lynchburg to Bristol. Alon
this thronged Boulevard you can bu
lots at 80 much per front foot either
an actual physical village or in pure
hypothetical city as the imal
nation of the sellee, aided
the veracious and voluble aojectives
the seller may elect. The real esta
dealer travels incognito now, not by pr
ference, but for revenue. You may val
ly think you are holding converse wi
one Of the Old Dominion's most dist
guished scions; he will charm never
sweetly IN his patriotic praise of exhau
less resources-they are all eXhaustlt
except an occasional one that is inc
haustible but deep down in his pocl
he has got lots to sell. If you are go
listener it won't take him long to get c
his Blue Print. That is the worst sta
Of the dsease-the blue print no m
ever recovered from it after he has
come habitnated to the use of cerulean
preston. Another marked peculiar
of this new profession is clearly def
ed disposition to ride in "Surreys"
will drive you over the Continent to sh
YOU lots. | fell victim to the bl
dishments of one of these Sur
friends. In vain | protested t
/ did not want to view
land scape, that had no funds-fu1
are more indefinite than money-tha
agitated me to ride He knew bet
He had heard me fippantly say t
land was selling as cheap as dirt and
marked me at once as his meat r
until I got timid. l feared 10 Il
upon man for fear he would seize
for cruelty to animals connected with
accessory to surveys and lots. After
had traversed few farms, plantat
or two and few ancestral estates, e
one of which he christened with sc
succnt anne like 1.-THE most Enchant
Sub-Piedmont Land, Loan, Trust,
vestment, Building and Insurance, liz
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