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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

LUxURIANr hair with its youthful color assured
by using PAEKERs HAIR BALsAM.
HINDERCoRNs the best cure for corns, Is cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

There are probably good many persons
who are opposed to cremation through
some kind of instinct that fire after death
is not very comfortable thing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

For COUGHS, ASTHMA AND THROAT DISORDERS
"BTolCYls Bronchial TrocheS" are an efectual rem
edy. Sold only in boxes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

1t is going the rounds of the press that the
Sultan's expenses are $50, 100000 per annum.
The press seem to forget that the gentleman
has more than one wife living with him.
Houston Daily Post
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

In retiring from Corinto with promise
that Nicaragua will pay the indemnity de-
manded, the British may be said to retire
with everything except honor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

It will not be until irrigation has been
generally resorted to that horticulture in
California can free itself from meteorologi
cal moods.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

A pavement of basalt blocks set in con-
crete would be a great advance on such
blocks with rowing commission in sand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

A Cincinnati firm exhibits chicken with
two pairs of eyes. The chicken with four pairs
of drumstieks and no liver is familiar in every
boarding house.-New York Recorder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

If present prospects hold good the Dem
ocratic party will vanish from National
politics in 1896 in a whirlwind of faction
fights.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Although the mines of Trinity County
are yielding handsomely, we can imagine
how they would boom if Eureka had a
railroad to San Francisco Bay.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Great Britain may as well take notice
that the Monroe doctrine may be allowed
to sleep during this administration, but
under the next it will come forth like a
giant refreshed by his slumbers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Tipple-Had you known your husband very
long when you married him?
Sibyl-What q foolish question: Do you
think I'd have married him if had?-Truth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Some men," said Uncle Eben, "hab er way
OBJ maxim yer think dat yoh lacks in compre-
hension, when de real TACK is dat dey is con-
cealin' dab own Washington Star.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

While we are building railroads and
holding flower shows the Eastern people are
talking politics; but ours is the most
polite plan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Billy, the Goat-That manuscript just ate
has given me an awful pain.
Nanny-Yes, dearest; that's called writer's
cramp.-Harper's Bazaar.
1t doesn't make any difference how good the
theatrical business may be, the ballet girls
always have to kick for their pay.-Philadel-
phia Record.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Connecticut Democrats propose to hold a
State convention for the purpose, we infer,
of trying to find out what Cleveland meant
by sound money.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

As Buffalo desires to entertain the
next Republican National Convention, the
inference is she wishes to atone for intro
ducing Cleveland into politics.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

This is getting to be pretty hard age
when Romeo and Juliet" the prettiest
love story ever written, is deemed fitting
subject for burlesque.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Street improvements are always in order
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

1t is good sign of the times that the old
familiar phrase about the maintenance
of parity has lost its efficacy as dodge
on the silver question.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

1t would be great misfortune to ap-
point as Health Officer any man who can.
not come into the official post with clean
bill of political health.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

It's shame to go abroad with ready cash IN
these stringent times to purchase an article
that might be produced at home as WE'LL
Eureka Nerve.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

NJ. Jules Verne, though in his 10th year,
works for five or six hours day. He is now
engaged upon story for 1897, but he has FIVE
manuscripts ready for the printers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
Don't forget the roses,

There is pleasure at the flower show.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street

PLAIN mixed candies, loo lb. Townsend's..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

AS wise mans day is worth FOOLS life, SO
are few good, reliable, energetic men worth
more to any community than as many hun
dreds of idle takers. The former will have
worthy enterprise in active operation while
the latter are preparing resolution setting
forth its numerous advantages or hunting
around to find somebody else to put the thing
in motion.-San Diego Union.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

We Americans go to Europe to spend our
money on Continental pleasures. The titled
nobility of Europe come to America for revenue
only-Nisalta Times.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

General Trochu, the military governor of
Paris during the siege of that city in 1871, is
reported to be very feeble and near his end. He
is living in retirement at Tours.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

By working together as a community more is
accomplished in six months than in ten years
of waiting for outside capital to come in by
reason of our GLORIOUS prospects. coronado
Mercury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Mrs. Castellanes income is paltry $500, 600
year, and on this miserable pittance she and
her husband must subsist go to the poor
house. Everybody in this world has troubles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Rudyard Kipling's father. John Lockwood
Kpling, proposed to his mother, Alice Macdon-
aid, on the shore of Rudyard Lake, England,
and was accepted. The author was named
Rudyard In honor Of that romantic episode.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Muskogee, Venita and Tahlequah are all
striving for the honor of furnishing place OF
residence to ex-Congressman Springer, Judge
of the new United States Court in Indian Terri
tory, on the theory that the successful town
will become the metropolis of the district.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Saint-Saens has been making an extensive
tour of the far East, and 1t is likely that he will
give the world some Orientalized music in the
firm
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

Signor Demetrio Alata, telegraph operator
in Milan, claims to have invented a method of
transmitting musical notation by wire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04

When the poor man goes to buy coal oil that
he may not be surrounded in darkness at night
and finds that under the great Wilson free
trade tariff it has greatly advanced the echoes
of the Democratic stump-speaker's voice rings
in his ear OF course the rise is due to combi-
nations and trusts, but Cleveland, Wilson ct al.
were going to abolish all trusts with their little
free-trade scheme. Rahl-Hanford Sentinel.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

He proposed to teach me how to color
cotton yarn if / would pay him the
sum of one hundred dollars and give
him his board. / persuaded my father
to allow me to accept the proposition,
and Immediately went to work with
such appliances as we could scraps up,
which were an eighty-gallon copper
boiler (Which my grandfather used for
the purpose OF boiling potatoes and
turnips in for his hogs, and large
cast-iron wash-pot which happened to
be il the store on sale at the time.
With these implements / learned my
A b C's in dyeing. AS speedily as pos
sible we built dye-house and ac-
quired the necessary utensils for dye
ing The Frenchman remained with
me until / thought | could manage it
myself. | got along very well, with
the exception of dyeing indigo blue.
Afterwards an expert dyer in blue
was employed to come out from Phila-
delphia, and he taught me the art of
dyeing in that color. He then put two
negro men to work with me, and side
| by side ] worked with them at the dye
| tubs for over eight years. We then
put in some four-box looms and com
! inenctu the IDdUuIdCLuTe Oh iHe cldSS
of goods then and now known as Ala
nance plaids."
! I am reliably informed that up to
that time there never had been a yard
of pIaids or colored cote" goods wo-
ven on a power loom So~cn of the Po-
| tomac River. If this be true-I am
entitled to the honor Of having dyed
with my own hands and had woven un-
der my own supervision the first yard
of colored cotton goods manufactured
| in the South.
While working in the Dye House
wore over-alls made of Osnaburgs anc
died in an Indigo Vat and it may be
out of place in this connection to re
late little incident tina occurred
about this time. A few months aftel
my wife and myself were married
some of her lady friends from Greens
boro were on visit to her, and one
afternoon they concluded that they
would drive down to the mill asd Sc,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28
THE SOUTH LEADS.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

The spindles of the world increased
from nearly 100000 in 1883 to little
over 94,000,000 in 1895, Great Britain
gaining less than 1-12th on $4,000 900:
Europe a little over 18TH on 22.50O 900;
the Northern States little more than
18th on nearly 12,000,000; India nearly
doubling its 100000, and the South
ern States gaining nearly $50 per cent.
on 100000 spindles. The same rate
Of gain continued for "a years would
give the South more than double as
many spindles as India; rs per cent.
more than the Northern States; over
so per cent. of the number in Europe,
and within so per cent of the number
in Great Britain.
The hammering down, artifcially,
by means the bears understand, of the
price of cotton, has hurt the South
some, but not much. When prices
fell the people stopped sending for
ward the bales. The fall was wholly,
absolutely artificial.-The Tradesman
The Self-Threading Sewing Machine
Company, of New York, is moving it's
plant to Roanoke Rapids, N. c., where
they will manufacture machinery of
all kinds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28
T5EIa7NE7Na of TT7E FG AUD INDUSTRY ON THE STATE

fall, 11.71; winter, 1877. Under these
favorable conditions manufacturing es
adjustments have been springing up
rapidly during the last few years, and
are certain to increase in number, mag
nitude and variety in the near future.
There are in this state 175 cotton mills
located in forty different counties, OPP
Grating about $4,000 looms and more
than 600, 900 spindles.
The profits arising from many of
these mills range from 10 to 25 per
cent. on the capital invested There
are thirteen wooden mills, operating
100 looms and over 10000 spindles.
In the golden tobacco belt are many
large factories doing an immense for
eign business; 10 plug and nine smOk-
ing tobacco factories, the aggregate
business amounting to several mil
lion dollars per annum There are
tifty-seven carriage factories, thirty
two wagon factories, twenty-five furn-
iture factories, six hub-spoke factories
twenty-fOur sash, door and blind fac
tories, three paper mills, eight knit
ting mills, forty-two canning estab-
lishments, including vegetables, fruits
and oysters: fourteen cottonseed-oil
mills, sixteen fertilizer factories and
a considerable number of miscella-
neOus establishments. The greatest
progress has been made in the cotton
factories. During the past year
many new enterprises have been star
ted, and the investment of Northern
capital has been productive of much
activity. We invite the manufactur-
ers of the North to visit our State and
see for themselves. / am satisfied that
big enterprises could get liberal offers
from many towns and cities of the
State for sites for factories and ex-
emption from local taxation. Our
Jaws are just and equitable and in
keeping with the conservatism which
has ever characterized the "Old North
State" Strangers are welcome and
are received with appreciation due
their merits. New cotton mills have
just been built on that powerful water
supply, the Roanoke river, which can
furnish $1,000 horsepower, and is in
the midst of the cotton belt. There
are other water-pOwers equally as
good remaining as yet unimproyed
and unused for manufacturing pur-
poses. If it is true that in the midst of
the cotton belt IS the PlsS@ ffS- c2ts1n
factories, and where labor is cheap
and efficient, fuel at hand, and with
a climate unsurpassed, not too hot to
be cnervating, and not too cold to pre-
vent work at all times, almost in the
open, fields, the year around, then
North Carolina offers to the manufac-
turer an ideal country for investment
in the cotton manufacturing business
IF such country is desired / invite
capitalists to visit North Carolina, for
believe no section of the South could
be more advantageously situated from
a business standpoint than North Car
DINA.
ELIAS CARR. Governor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

ride mile and quarter TO his home.
In the morning he would eat his
breakfast by daylight and be at the
mill by 6:30 O'Clock to start the ma
chinery going. He kept this habit up
for several years and until his mill was
paid for and in the meantime he en-
gagged the services of a bright young
man from the country and taught him
how run the mil. After this young
man became competent to run the
mill, it was turned over TO him and
run by him under the supervision of
my father.
Edwin M. Holt was a strong parti-
zan and an enthusiasts Wing, but he
would never accept office, although
his friends and neighbors often soil
cited him to do so. In the year 1845
there was small cotton factory built
at Haw River, \. c., having only 528
spindles and in 1858 the company own
ing this mill failed. My father and
myself purchased the property at an
execution sale, made by the sheriff of
the county, and in 1861 bought his in
terest in this property and moved to
Haw River to live. From time to time
and as fast as | made money, / invest
ed 1T inmachinery and at the present
time there are 1866 spindles and 636
looms in full operation we are now
| building n new mill. When this mill
| is completed we will la. e in operation
at Haw River 22,834 spindles and 94(
| looms. All of these looms are and will
| he running on colored goods OF var.
! ious kinds and the whole of it had its
origen and beginning in the small start
Elade with the copper kettle and the
wash pot, and / attribute the success
which has crowned my efforts in man
ufacturing in great degree to the
early training and business method:
impaired to me in my boyhood by nay
| father
Respectfully,
THOS M HOLT.
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this process of dyeing yarn--it being
something new at that. time. They
walked into the dye house and | OBJ
served that my wife did not recognize
me with my over-alls on-so slipping
up beside her, I threw my arms around
her and kissed her. She very indig-
nantly drew back and catching up a
"wringing stick" (which is about the
size of mans wrist and made out OF
the best and hardest hickory wood)
made for me and but for my making
myself Immediately known would
have paid dearly for my kiss.
When Holt and Carrigan started
their cotton factory hey began with
528 spindles A few years later Is
looms were added. When / left the
mills in 1861 there were in operation
1900 spindles and 9G looms and to run
these and the grist mill and saw mill
exhausted all the power of Alamance
creek, on which they were located.
My father trained all his sons in the
manufacturing business and as we
grew up, we branched out for our
selves and built other mills, but the
plaid business in our family and | may
say ia the State of North Carolina
rose from and had its beginning at
this little mill on the banks eff Ala
nance creek, with its little copper ket-
tie and an ordinary wash pot.
| am glad to be able t. state that my
grandfather, who so bitterly opposed
my father in the Inauguration of his
enterprise and from whom he would
never borrow dollar or permit him
to endorse his paper-en account OF
his promise in the beginning, that his
father should not become involved in
anyway on his account-lived to see
and rejoice in the success Of the en-
terprise. When the machinery for
the cotton factory arrived the max
ers-Messrs. Goodwin, Clark g. Co., Of
Patterson, n. j., sent an expert along
with it to put it up and run it Until my
father became competent to rus it
himself. This expert remained about
IS months and in the meantime nay
father learned how to run it himself
be taking charge of and managing the
mill and his partner, Mr.. Carrigan, the
store and the keeping of the books.
The mill ran IL hours day. I was a
little fellow, (only six years old, when
the cotton factory started and well do
i remember sitting up with my mother
waiting for my father to come home
at night. In the winter time the mill
would stop at z O'Clock and after stop
ping he would always remain in the
building for half an hour, to see that
all the lamps were out and the stoves
in such a condition as there would be
no danger from fire and then he would
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28

nosed to let him have his water-pOwer
on Alamance creek and to become his
portner in the enterprise The latter
part of the proposition was declined
on account of having previously told
his fathre that he would not involve
him for a cent. The conversation with
Chief Justice Ruffin was then repeated
to his brother-in-law, William A. Car
rigan. who thea consented to cater
into the partnership and join in the
undertaking. They bought the water
power on Alamance creek from my
grandfather at a nominal price, put
up the necessary buildings and started
the cotton factory during the panic OF
1887. The name of the firm was Holt
& Carrigan, and they continued to do
business under this name until the
year 1851. About this time Mr.. Carri-
gan's wife died, leaving her surviving
five sons, the two oldest of whom were
graduates of the University of North
Carolina, and these two yong men, de-
string to move to the State of Arkan-
sas, their father decided to go with
the3n, and so sold cut to my father his
interest ia the cotton factory. / was
then living in Philadelphia, and my
father needing some one to help him
in his business affairs, brought me
home and went to work with him, en-
tering upon my duties en- the 18th day
Of October, 1851, and continued in his
service for ten years. In the year 1853
there came to our place of business on
Alamance creek a Frenchman, who
was a dyer. and who was hard up"
and out of money, and without friends.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-28
ut TO Manufacturers.

State, and this population has become
assimiated and thoroughly Ameri-
canized. Strikes are unheard of in
this State. The location of our mills
in small towns, and not crowded cities,
has beneficial effect upon the oper-
tiyes. Our laborers, as a rule, are
honest, thrifty and industrious, and
when kindly treated make the best la
Dor in the world; they are of hardy
stock and do their work willingly and
energetically.
Third Question-'What is the lilteli-
hood of the enactment of any laws re
stricting the hours of employment, or
in any way interfering with the pres
ent freedom that exists in most of the
Southern States in the operation of
cotton mills?"
Answer-The question of the restric-
ton of the hours of labor in cotton
mills, etc, has been somewhat agitat-
ed, but thus far without any effect,
and the employer fixes the hours of la
Dor. Our manufacturers are voluntar-
lily coming to the eleven-hOur law,
and the relations between employer
and employe are most pleasant; the
principal object is work and pay for
the work when done. North Carolina
is a splendid field for the investment
OF capital in all manufacturing bust
ness, and especially in the manufact-
ure Of cotton goods has North Carolina
| advanced more than any other state
The numerous streams, which, as they
pass across the state, descend from the
mountains and hills to the lowlands
| furnish water power here and there
which, in the aggregate, is estimated
TO be equal DO 100000 horsepower
The abundant supply of wood furnish
es cheap fuel to supplement coal
but in the central portion of the state
| there is an enormous supply of native
coal suitable for fuel, and cheap.
Labor is cheap and satisfactory, and
the climate mild enough to allow unin
terrupted work. a great advantage
claimed, and justly SO, for our water
power, is it's uniformity, owing to the
regularity of the rainfall, being il
spring 1864 inches; summer, 1897