The Delta independent., 1895-06-12
A LIVING SHADOW,

A LIVING SHADOW.
REMARKABLE TRANSFORMA.
TON OF A NORTH CARO-
LIMA MAN.
tr.nse. but True. Story from the Lum.
Der Regions of q Southern State.
From the Greenville. N. c.. Reflector.)
The following interview has just been
Itven our reporter by Mr.. G. A. Baker,
he overseer at the farm Of Col. Isaac A
'uGg Of Greenville, N. c. 1t will inter
ut any one who has ever had typhoid
ever. Mr.. Baker said in part:
I was living In Beaufort county. and
n the I'd day of October, 1893. was
trtcken down with typhoid fever.
lad the best physicians to attend me
md on the 18th day of January. 1894.
Vas allowed to get up. was emaciated.
weak and had no appetite. / could only
lrag along for short distance and
would be compelled to sit down and
est. This continued for some time and
began to give up hope Of ever getting
veil. lost my position in Beaufort
ounty and having secured one in Pitt
ounty, clerking in a store. l undertook
I, but was SO weak / could not do the
Fork and had to give 1t up. The disease
ettled in my knees, legs and feet. I
vas taking first one kind Of medicine
nd then another. but nothing did me
valley OF IONSuetRtuY 1 Inv Y=rpirited d..
ing upward to the Grand mesa rt t
soft velvet ribbon between the a
bluffs, and a short coast down tho
and past fields OF sweet scented d.
in bloom brought the scribe to the P.
ant home OF VIM. N. Kennicott. +
After refreshing glass OF ice Hn
trip to the field found Mr.. Ken{.
busy putting up hay, nine men Is
hard at work on the 35 acres of alF..
In response to queries Mr.. KenEI
said that last year he sold 500 wort
hay from this fed besides what hes
to his own stock. He has "A acres
&C Slack returned from his Wis,
his family in Nebraska last Sunday
chard. 4 acres OF which is FIVE years
and in bearing. His cherries we're
ripening, and trip through the
part OF the orchard shows that t
will be fine crop this season. He
enough small fruit for his own USE,
has IS stand OF bees from whici
sold 800 worth Of honey last year.
E. +. Grove. postmaster at Cory ?
the next place visited. He has in q,
Of oats. . OF alfalfa and IL acres o.
chard, 10 OF which was set out this
son. He has ! acre in strawbeI
| ,nI rira yirav,r1
J. c. Irwin, on the lower end OF !
face creek mesa has 3 acres OF Pota
% OF squash, . Of sugar beets. 4
rutabagas, y in peas, beans and 8
ach. p Of alfalfa, 8 Of oats, 1 Of whe,
OF old orchaId and OF new. II,
o know in what forms the property Of
lur colleges. amounting TO a hundred
million Of dollars, is invested. In pre-
senting the facts | make use of report:
sent 10 me from between 100 and 200 o.
he representative colleges, and also o.
he reports of presidents and treasurer
II these colleges. From these reports
infer that at least four-fifths OF all th
productive funds of colleges are invested
IN bonds and mortgages. Few colleges
And only few, have part of their en-
dowment in stocks of any sort. A few
Of them, notably Columbia and Harvard
have Invested in real estate. The fact
as 10 certain representative colleges ar
Cornell university has abou
81 600, 600 in bonds and about 50 .00O. 90
in mortgages; Wabash has property o
$362, 900, of which $4,000 are in build
lngs. S2l 900 in bonds, S323, 600 in mort
cages: the University of California ha
more than 100000, equal
divided between bonds and mortgages
Wesleyan university has 81. .125 900, c
which $4,000 are in real estate, $500
600 In bonds, $1,000 in stocks. S6S6.OO
In mortgages and the remaining millio
is, as the treasurer expresses 1t, 81
other values"
Harvard's immense property is chans
ed In the forms OF its Investment NOR
frequently than the property OF man
colleges: but OF its eight or more million
bonds and real estate represe
the large share, the amount OF bonds eI
ceeding the value of real estate College
have few United States and few mum
cipal bonds; but they do own lars
amounts of the best railroad bonds an
of the bonds of water works compaDie
somewhat also OF the bonds OF sire,
railways, and also small amounts of Il
bonds OF the counties of western state
As my eye runs down the list OF secur
ties OF Cornell university find recor
of county bonds in several western state
as well as railroad bonds, but count
bonds seem to predominant. Turning I
a college of quite different position an
history, Washington and Lee, in vi
ginia, l find that out of SGO0.oOO S23i
600 are invested in securities of the sta
Of Virginia; that town and county bono
are represented by few thousand do
lars; that the railroads in the south re
resent the larger part of the balance.
college of a different environment an
condition is Rochester university. Ne
York. OF 81 1,2oo,ooo, S335.OO0 are in raj
road bonds.