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The Globe-republican., 1895-02-01

Soule College has twenty-three
thousand acres of land for sale, not
very far from the College. It lies in
one solid body, is level, rich, beauti
full, and ready for the pillow. It is the
purpose to sell it in small farms of
40, 50 or 16O acres each, to actual
settlers of good moral character.
Part of it, lying in the river bottom,
is now worth $40 per acre and will
soon be worth much more. The first
five thousand acres is to be sold in al
ternate quarter sections or fractions
of sections, and the price is $1.25 per
acre, spot cash, for all Of that amount
that is sold before Sept. LIST, 1895.
After that date the price will be in
creased, or it will be withdrown from
the market. This climate does not al
ways cure rheumatism but for most
other troubles, and especially for
diseases of the throat and lungs we
think it probably has no superior. 1t
is dry country and can not be de-
pended on for general farming pur
poses except by the aid of irrigation,
but this is now being success
fully done, and il very profitable, 10
acres properly irrigated and cultivat-
ed will support family in comfort,
Those writing must inclose stamps
for reply.
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ABOUT STREET PAVING.

Probable Expenditure for the Next Dec.
ade Over . Billion Dollars.
It is only in American cities having
population of more than 10000 that
less than one-third of the total length
of streets has been paved in any man
ner. If the construction OF new pave
ments on the remaining "a, 1888 miles OF
streets in such cities proceeds as rap
idly as now seems probable, the ex-
penditures for this work for the next
ten years will aggregate upward OF
81, 900, 600, 900. It is doubtful ii more
than 60 per cent. of the streets of these
cities would then be well paved.
All calculations of the economies
and profits of paved streets fail to en-
compass the sum involved that Is tan
eible in character. The benefits OF
better sanitary conditions, with tho
consequent productiveness resulting
from good health, the saving OF ex-
penses for medicines and the profess
sional services Of physicians; the pro-
longing in some cases OF lives that
might succumb to the deleterious In
huences inherent in bad streets-au
are incalculable; nor can be estimated
the far reaching results of the retsrd-
ed development of city, due to fall
ure to provide good streets.
The common mistake of regarding
the cost of street pavement as mere
ly luxurious expense. rather than as
profitable improvement, has. more
than anything else. deferred the work
of putting the roadways of our Amer
lean cities and towns in proper condi'
ton, and. it should be added. has him
dered progress and prosperity I'M
measurably. It has also had a mis-
chievous influence, when coupled with
false ideas of economy. in causing
more cheapness in cost to become with
deplorably large number OF people
the main desideratum when they find
that paving cannot longer be deferred.
A record of the failures that it has in
evitably led to, since the beginning OF
experiments in road-raking, would
tell about all of the history of paving
that is worth knowing. - Landscape
Architect
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portant that we should constantly
make progress in the method of build
ing roads, not only for the sake of bet
ter state highways, but also for the
purpose of giving advice and instruc-
ton to county and municipal road sur
veyors.
At present there appears to be q
great waste of energy and substance
in patching up road beds. The tenden-
CIV in most towns is to expend their an
nual road appropriation in half re-
pairing a large amount of highways,
without ever constructing even a small
amount of really frst-class road.
We have already made beginning
in the direction indicated, and con-
slider it of great importance that the
problem should be more carefully
studied, and that such legislation shall
be enacted as will contribute to
broader and more comprehensive de-
velopment of all of our public high
ways4-Gov. Frederick I. Greenhalge.
in Good Roads.
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ANCIENT LANGUAGES.
E. T.. V.

"The proper study for mankind is
man." Modern nations and their
customs may be studied by direct
association with their people, but we
may become acquainted with the
ancients only through the monuments
and manuscripts which they left be-
hind them.
To some it seems an extravagant
waste of power to spend the time
usually required in our College
courses in the study of the dead lang
uages. The profit of the study of
the ancient classics is often question
ed but it will scarcely be denied: that
it is of great Importance to become
familiar with the life, languages, and
literature of the nations which have
been prominent factors in the pro
gress of civilization. None have
played more important part than
the Greeks and the Romans. Among
the names which are engraved in the
temple of fame the names of Greek
and Roman poets and philosophers
lead those of more modern periods.
Where in the ANNALS of later times is
found the story of a greater man than
Caesar, the historian, the legislator,
the general. Cicero is the orators
model; Homer the teacher of every
poet, while every true philosophy has
for it's foundations Plato's Immortal
ity of the soul.
It is not worth while to read such
productions, not as translated by
another, but as they are in the au
thor's own words. To the wisdom
sealed in the tomb of AN unknown
tongue, modern research and dill
igence utters the "come forth" which
brings to life the dead. What was
once a veritable hill of difficulty in
the study of language is being ad
justed to the needs and powers Of the
learner. The truth and beauty OF
ancient philosophy and poetry lie be
fore every young man and woman of
America as in no previous time
and in no other country.
Shall we not fulfill the pur
pose Of our lives by improving
every opportunity of attaining know.
ledge and culture?
| E. II.
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uCuSC 6IOWtu VI ass "usCu NAuS V0S
and half to two tons of hay, twice
year, which sells at IS to 81 ton. A
noble industry for a northern man.
Society is good here. and there is
proper regard for religious observance,
and schools are found In every settle
ment. Morality is above the ordinary,
and saloons are unknown to many OF
these settlements. Texas has Il local
option law.
The atmosphere is pure, as we must
admit, for saw fresh meat hung in the
air day after day. Buzzards fly in per-
feet security, for there is apenalty of $40
prescribed by law for the killing of one
of these thrifty scavengers. The buzz
zard plies his vocation with greater
degree of energy than the common
laborer of the south. The climate does
not euervate him like the tired white
man or the lymphatic negro. The
Texas buZzard sits on the fence waiting
for carcass. If he spies departing
long horn or other form Of diseased
animals, he idoes not consider the pro-
prieties due peaceful dissolution of the
animal. He hastens the demise of his
promised prey by extinguishing the eyes
of the expiring gulf coaster. He does
not wait for the animals to exude
stink. But while this statement may
be one of those provincial yarns with
which the denizen of the Gulf delights the
tenderfoot'S ears, imagine it may have
some grains of allowance; for on the rail
road track lies the body of jersy COW
killed by the locomotive yesterday,
which the buzzard has failed to see. 1t
is probable that the faithful buzzards
are waiting for interested parties to come
and assess the damage, or adjust the
"claim' of the owner, before the devOur-
ing process begins. At any rate the
carcass will soon be disposed of.
The settlers have the privilege of
using the falling timber in the woods
for fuel and this free gift isa boon but
not so much as were the woods located
in a colder climate
In the skirts of timber surrounding the
creeks and waterways can be found al
most every known variety of trees. |
notice the red, live, black, and white
oak, cedar, mulberry, wild cherry, mag
nolia, dogwood, sassafras, hard pine,
cottonwood, pecan, ash, walnut, syca-
more etc.
write in a general way for the in
formation of your readers who want to
know something of the Gulf country.
There are many things which could be
mentioned, but which should be made by
personal observation.
Politics Is not discussed as have OBJ
served. and l am told that there is free
ard untrammeled privilege accorded on
popular beliefs in matters of state and
government.
Texas is enterprising and wants en-
terprising people, and questions of po-
litical and religious faith are no bar to
prosperity, no intolerance in any re-
spect.
Houston is one of the most progressive
cities l have been in for long time. 1t
aspires to be the Chicago of the south, a
claim it is striving to make good. from
its natural advantages-its fourteen rail-
roads, and by the energy and industry
of Its people. 1t is a beautiful city of
GO, 900 inhabitants, whose people have
the true Southern civility and hospital
ity.
n. B. kLAINE,
Webster, Texas, Dec. 10, 1894.
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MUSIC.

Music is companionship, educa
ton, culture. 1t upbuilds furn-
ishes and beauties the soul. It
develops confidence and cultivates
grace. The knowledge ofgood music
''is the food Of youth, the delight Of
age, the ornament Of prosperity. the
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E. V. LANTS,

ATTORNEY AND COUNsELLOR-AT-LAw.
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Experts Build Roads.

All will concede that if our road
taxes were paid in money. and judi
ciously expended under the direction
of experts skilled in the art OF maxi
ing roads, much more could be &C
complished than is now done.-Hon.
Horace Boies, governor of Iowa. in
Good Roads
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comfort of adversely" It is the open

comfort of adversely" It is the open
door to the best society. These
things being true, it is well for every
body to know something of music.
In the study of it one must apply
himself with all diligence. A good
instructor, regular hours for practice,
and applications, are absolutely nee
essary for success in this line. Es-
pecially must the fragments, or odd
moments of time, be utilized for short
exercises in technique. Little and
often masters the most difficult COM
positions.
Music is one of the greatest charms
in the home. It attracts people of
taste and culture. It develops talent
in the young. It brightens dull
days, and gives strength to the weary
hearted. It is a panacea for many
an ache and pain. In short there
are few things that are more desira
BILE or bring greater returns than
music.
IN m
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Good roads as well as frequent and
regular mail facilities mean . more
rapid settlement Of the country and
enhancement of values, and . local
and widespread prosperity.-John
The Globe-republican., 1895-02-01

The fragrance of the flowers, the warm
and genial sunshine, the work in the gar
den indicates the southern winter in all Of
its elegance, purity, beauty and lowell
ness.
The commercial importance of this re-
giOn is evinced by the rapid growth of
Houston and Galveston-the one for its
increasing railroad facilities, the other for
its rapidly developing ocean traffic. 1t is
one of the events of the future-the
growing up of this country and their
towns-that Kansas will look iongingly
for the western products will here find
an outlet to the sea, and for export to the
markets of the world.
The busiest railroad in Texas is the
link of 80 miles between Houston and
Galveston. Trains are almost constantly
on the run to the waterway.
These lands have been held for years
by large cattle owners and no induce.
ments have been offered to settlers
The exigencies of the rapidly growing
country demands that the lands he pul
in the hands of the fruit raisers ani
vegetable grower. But be vii! have L
overcome some of the hardships inciden
10 the transformation of new countries
care not how propitious the outlooI
may appear.
The lands here are covered with
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/. S. d. AuIls, owner Of said bank.
do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true to the best of my knowledge and be-
lief So help me God. 8. d. AULLs,
Owner
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
I'D day of January, leQ6.
n. W. s. LAWRENCE. Notary Public.
Commission expires on the 18th day Of jan
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STATE OF hANsAS, "a
FORD COUNTY,
1, A. Russell. Treasurer OF ford
comfy. Kansas. hereby certify that the fore
going staten ent is true and correct 70 the
hest of my knowledge and belief
A. RUSSELL, County Treasurer.
sworn and subscribed to before me. at
Dodge City, Kansas. this % day OF Jahu-
TS'1 j. H. LEIDIGH. County Clerk
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QUARTERLY STATEMENT.
A. RUSSELL, County Treasurer, In account
with fOrd County, Kansas.

Statement for the Quarter Ending January
e, A d. 1895.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

Mr.. Rhyme has recently re-entered
partnership with Mr.. j. A. Aber-
nathy in the building and equipment
of the new Lincoln Cotton Mills which
are just completed, equipped with the
best English machinery, and about
beginning to spin very fine yarns, 2
ply, numbers 40's to COS from long
staple Peeler cotton. This is some
thing new among Southern cotton
mills, but in the hands of such practi-
cal, successful men as Messrs. Rhyme
and Alternately success is sure.
Dan Rhyme, with his grit and his
energy, has done much during the past
twenty years toward demonstrating
the fact that North Carolina is the
best place in the world for young man
who is endowed as Mr.. Rhyme is en-
bowed with those essentials of success
in life-Push, Pluck, and Perseverance.
When in the future some trenchant
pen shall take up the task of paying
Just tribute to those men who did most
for the State in material and indus
trial development during this decade,
it will dwell at length upon the achieve
ments of A. +. Rhyme and Daniel E.
Rhyme, two sons of old CASTOR, who are
every day rejecting greater credit on
the county that gave them to the
New South.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Citizen says:
peanuts will be very short crop
this year, according TO the reports
from all over the South collected by Il
central handling house in Cincinnati.
The great heat and long drought dur
ing the late summer and early fall seri-
ously impaired both the quantity and
quality of the crop. The Virginia crop
will most likely be but half the size of
last years, and'in quality will be much
below the average. The Tennessee
crop will be short, but the quality of
the nuts is better than in Virginia.
But in the face of this depressing news
concerning great American staple, it
Is re-assuring TO know that successful
experiments in raising peanuts have
been made in many parts of the coun-
try hitherto considered inhospitable.
Washington and Oregon farmers have
raised good crops this year, and a
Biddeford, Me, farmer tells this week
of having just harvested good though
small crop"
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LABORATORY MILLS
ONE OF LINCOLN COUNTY's
LIVELIEST AND BUSIEST
INSTITUTIONS.
MR.. DANIEL (. RHYME.

The Sole Owner and Manageable
Wears Hats, Builds Mills, and Does
Things Generally According to His
Own IncIinations, and Great Sue
cess Has Crowned His Industrial
Eforts---He Started at the Bottom
but Has Climbed to the Top.
Just two and half miles from Lin
colnton, in Lincoln county on the
South Fork of the Catawba river, is
located a cotton mill and cotton mill
man. The man is the builder up OF
both himself and the mill. The mill
is the laboratory Mills, and the man is
it's sole owner and manager-Daniel Il.
Rhyme, but known among his friends,
and everybody for that matter, as
simply "Dan Rhyme" a plain, honest,
unassuming North Carolinian, native
of CASTOR county, and one of the most
successful cotton manufacturers IN
the South. He began life with but
little except pluck and a natural de-
termination to keep everlastingly hit
ting until he had made a fortune out
of the opportunities that surrounded
him.
Mr.. Rhyme is a genial, jovial Tar
Heel. He wears high silk hat, some
times-his friends say-with short
sack coat or in his shirt sleeves. If,
in the activity of his daily life, he gets
a little ahead of his hat and leaves it
sitting on the back of his head-it is
all the same with him. If the style of
the hat was fully ripe, and duly pulled
three seasons before, it is just the same
with him. If fastidious friend or
acquaintance fails to admire his hat, it
is just exactly all the same with him.
1t is said that on one occasion two
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pluenE6a ENamuEa@Gnrnm Q2@mpan and laboratory E6ls

has descended from father to son, and
this same high tone of morality per-
vades the whole community.
This historic ground, as across the
river from the mill, tradition says that
Col. Edmund flaming rode down the
steep banks when fleeing from his
pursueTs.
The original name of Randleman
factory was Union, il was built in 1S4S
by Jesse Walker, William Clark, Jo-
seph Newlin, James Dicks and William
Hinshaw. And operated it for ten or
twelve years, when it changed hands.
Many of the descendants of these men
still reside in North Carolina and are
numbered among our progressive cit
liens. William Clark was the son of
Dougan Clark, a model preacher of the
Society of Friends. He removed with
his family of twelve children TO Indiana
in 1860 He was an honest and intel
ligent merchant, a man of genial and
social disposition, foresighted as to
what was best for his children, he sold
out his interests in North Carolina
and invested in Western lands. His
descendants number over sixty. He
married Louisa Worth, sister of Gov
ernOr Worth.
RANDOLPH.
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BEGINNINGS OF THE COTTON
MILL INDUSTRYNIN RANDOLPH
COUNTY.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
RALEIGH. N. O., Nov. 20.

RALEIGH, n. c., Nov. 90.
1t was at Cedar Falls Factory
that the first cotton mill was built in
Randolph county, in the year 1886, by
Benjamin Elliott Phillip Horney, AL
fred II. Marsh and Henry B. Elliott.
Some of the descendants of these men
are numbered among our best citizens
of the present time.
The citizens of this picturesque lit
tie village may we'll be proud that they
live on such historic ground. Herman
Husbands once owned the land on
which this village is situated; he was
man of considerable natural ability,
and the people being grievously OPP
pressed by the affairs of the govern
ment under Tryon, the Royal Govern
or he prevailed on his neighbors at
Sandy Creek to form an association
under the name of the Regulators to
protect themselves from these wrongs,
and though vanquished by superior
force and discipline "the great germs
of right and liberty were firmly plant
ed in their minds and few years later
bore the fruits of victory and indie
pendence." 1t can well be said that
the resistance of the Regulators was
the beginning of the Revolution. The
first battle was fought at Alamance.
Had the Regulators been successful in
this battle Alamance would have been
the rival of Bunker Hill and Lexing
ton, and Herman Husbands the rival
of Gen. Putnam.
The second cotton factory in Ran
dolph county was built at Franklin
vile in the year 1888 by Elisha Coffin,
Henry Kivett, Henry B. Elliott and
John Miller. The superintendent was
George Makepeace, of Massachusetts.
The fine tone of morality that per-
vades this manufacturing town is due
to the efforts and example of this good
man, whose every thought was for the
welfare of the company, and at the
same time showing justice and mercy
to the operatives and treating them
with respect and making them respect
their occupation and themselves and
to be contented, encouraging them in
every way, to advance education and
to save their money and buy them
selves homes of their own. Many of
these villagers are the grand children
of men and women who went into this
factory as operatives so years ago,
thus showing that spirit of content
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He is a native of Montgomery county,
unless / am mistaken, and was sheriff
of that county some years ago. Cleve-
land rose from being sheriff to Presi-
dent. Mr.. Watkins has come up to the
head of great manufacturing estab-
lishment, the chief citizen of mo mean
city," useful leader in church and
State. Such a man does not hold SO
prominent place in the public eye,
but if he conscientiously discharges
his duty in the fear of God, as Mr.. Wat
kins does, he is quite as useful as the
highest official in the world.
The superintendent of the mill,
Mr.. W. T. Hurley, is capable and eff
ficient officer, and enjoys alike the
confidence of owners and operatives,
and the whole community holds him
in the highest esteem.
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so-day,
McGreggor's foot is on his native
heath
81 knew almost every shoal and pool
and rock along this splendid stream
long before those grand men that
started these Improvements ever
dreamed that the roar of spindles
would be the noblest music of the
river. They were splendid men,
worthy TO found great manufacture
ing interest known all over the
country, and worthiiy followed by
Others who have gone beyond the hope
of the founders"
In 1879 the present owners bought
Columbia Mills. 1t then had 26 looms;
to-day it has 245. Then the population
was $50; now it is 1000. These fig
.ures tell more eloquently than words
the story of well directed labor that
has marked the last sixteen years
history of the Columbia Manufactur-
ing Company.
From time to time there have been
.enlargements of the mills, the intro
duction of new machinery, and such
other improvements as progress and
success dictated. There are now
9,400 spindles, and employment is
given to 200 operatives. The capital
invested is $4,000. No stock has been
sold and none is for sale. The surplus
is spent for new machinery and other
Improvements. There are only seven
stockholders, the principal owners
being j. S. Spencer, president of the
Commercial Bank of Charlotte and
president of the Columbia Manufacture
ing Company; w. III. Watkins, who is
secretary and treasurer of the Column
bia Manufacturing Company, and Mr..
A. w. f. Capel, proprietor of the
Ramseur Chair Works, one of the lead
ing industries of Randolph county.
The daily consumption of the mills
is twelve bales of cotton, and the char
.acter of the goods made is standard
four quarter sheetings, three and a
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w. III. WATKINS,

Secretary and Treasurer Columbia
Mfg Co., Ramseur, n. c.
1t is built at the birthplace of the
late Braxter Craven, d. D., Ii. d.,
President of Trinity College, who,
when boy, plowed over the hills of
the site of the present town. Allud-
ing of his birthplace, in his sermon at
Randleman dedicating Naomi Mills, DR..
Craven spoke thus of the spot on Deep
river where Columbia factory is To-
Gated:
81 confess myself strangely moved
anu seem to hear voices from the long
ago and feel some thrills of heart that
/ once knew in my boyhood time.
Some twenty miles below this place
(he referred to Ramseur) / was born
within a few hundred yards of this
river; during all my youth i lived
in sight of it and was rarely too far
away to hear its roar. Hence again