The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-02-27

freedom and the struggle for liberty
Here | am AZ Clinton harricaded ambus-
caded entIaded and any other distressing
thing for there IS q wreck seven miles
away and they say It viii take all day
70 remove it. And 80 | can't get home
tonight. Oh. the pity Of il, for | am tired
and holnesick. l am moi calm and serene.
l was at Laurens last nigh, and found
good friends who made the lingering
hours peasant, but all the time ! was
conafrted with the thought that it was
ny 4aet day away from my
wife and children and grandchildren. !
left the hotel at ) O'clock this morning
and walked at a lively gait down to the
depot TO take the early train for Clinton,
where | was 70 intercept the Seap,aru
for Atlanta L then for home. But the
train for Clinton did not come and no
body knew when IT would GENE. l wait
cd until ha1f-past I uclock-aud time
was teetlng; went back up town, hired
q livery stable man TO drive me- over To
Clinton by $50 O'Clock to catch the Sea
board. The road w.s awful, but the
horse was Il good ont. and | knew he
could MAKE the ten miles n two houcS.
and l feit happy ON the way- We did
make II and as l stepped on rhe platform
l I"lt PROUD that 1 mad not waited OH
that belated train. But, OH. whar 4 fall
was there, ny cuuntry1nen. when tn.
agent told ME the Seahoard was in q
wreck and could not get here until late in
the day and perhaps later.
Well. here / anl-no garden TO dig in:
no children TO frolic with and nothing to
do but Illuminate. Yes. Illuminate upon the
trials and crosses and disappointments Of
this ~sublunary world, and / md my>a!:
h~uInnRng thar p,aintiv,. CID song, PITY
ne SorroWs OF a Poor Old Man" But
tins preface Is the shadoW-tLe dark side
OF the picture, and now l viii brighton up
and look at he other side and feel
ashamed OF myself, for after all my dis
appointment is only for a day and it
Is not as bad as war or sickness or
death in the family. And. besides, | am
at Clinton, the l~orelicst village Of the
plain, Yes, Clinton, where l have a host
OF kidd friends who are CHAD to see me
and oukn te sorry that | am belated
here Ii was not SO sorry for myself. /
was here two days ago and had a real
ovation, q large audience and q love feast
after the lecture. In this little town of
900 people / had 400 out to hear and 20
greet NE, and many Of them were rom
me country and some came several ull.s.
Tor the night was lovely and the full
AAI'Nii hAEtlcu upon every DOQy anu every
thing The women turned out -in force,
for they do love to see and hear q man
who has been sublued by matrimony and
does not claim to be one Of the lords of
creatIuaf-it maj who helps his wife to
muse the children and plant the flowers,
q man who, way IN the dead Of light.
VIII let his wife rest and sleep while he
walks the room in his might gown with a
teethdng child IN his arms and sings his !
httie songs until his eyelils droop and .
his legs get weary and his thought say.
on are 4 little darling and / wouldn't :
take 4 million dollars for yuu-bur ,
wouldn't give a nickel for another. \ !
ohi father has none 10 sell. bur doesn't f.
want to buy, but a true mother gives glad !
welcome to ali who ccule and r, even q
happy. in the prospect. /
Nhlle ID Clinton I WAS the guest nf =
Ar. barley, the banker and TN, mill man. l
a Model gentleman OF the old school :
whose maxanls are truth and honesty, '
whose sons. and daughters are like. olive u
piallts around his table and have never "
given hin q moments grief or anxiety. Q
now chat they are al grown ND and
IN. their own business. h. has Il
several hundred factory children 2
ana Us Delighted every day to visit them II
the cotton mill and place his hand d
ifndly and, gently upo their heads as be -
passes them AT the spindle or thu. loom a
he mas banit for them a church and en-
hoEed a preacher and established Il Sun ~
Lay school. and it has mwakned in his
)osu1n a new love for his fellow rreatur.e
md ne Ia growing Young again. This cot
on mill runs 5000 spindles and 40
oon1s and has prospered ever since 1897
Fnf'n II was completed. The stock IS nj
premium or 50 Per cent. and its surplus
afilllgs are al invested liz enlarginr it, IT
capacity and increasing its lro1,crs ID
think Of it. Here is a mill that I
IA n'lracturers only a fine grade Of cloth Is
M consequently only consumes about ~
W. bales OF cotton. He has now op Z
and enough cotton to run until next &c
December and it was all bought for : ia
ents per pound. He has orders ahead T.
I hXed prices for all tn. goods H. can 81
thus year. His goods are already Sc
pld AT oti cents a yard and it takes ~, so
aIds 70 weigh q pound. Now counting ar
u loss III weight Of 10 per cent. he es
; getting 70 cents Il pound for The cot 81
Gu t.lat cost him I cents. Labor aud fr
does the work and the cost Or
I that depends upon the man and the tn
ana SeIlent. The mill owners can grind to-
LAT iabrT dow to g starvation price if Gu
hey choose to, hut Mr.. Bailey assures tes
le that It is possible and practicable to at
~ these operatives good living prices IN
~ provide good. comfortable cot1ag4x T.:
~ i garden and fuel and AL the neces- II
aries and many Of the comforts Of life Ri
no stlli have a good profit for the stock W
elders. Now why can't every town IN ne
'eofgla do likewise? The Traveller *
ard1E ever ont Of sight OF a ~smukestacl
yer here III Carolina. / am lust from,
4. good old town Of Laurcrs only To-,
lies away, and they have q mill tb.r., !
I'm oo,NU spindle, aud 500 looms an
men every County spins and weave. lie
tue cotton 1t grows thc1, viii the nj
plith be truly independent. Jul
i''it the most beautiful feature Of Gin. Of
N Is the orphanacc-the T~nornu.u ~ DE-
1aiiase-that in twenty-five vears Ia. me
eFraoEeN1 from a little plain binding e.1
~ rooms Tor twenty orphans into \ St
vlilaS" of rock-built. solid. hand