The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-07

Especially Is This the
MANY MEN the case il you have
WITH VERY what the slangster
MANY MINDS. calls a lead pipe
cinch' on something
which you consider a good thing" and
there is no one who looks on it with the
same enthusiastic eye of approval that
YOU do. If others did they would be try
ing to butt in and push you away from
the position which you hold, and to
which you have glued yourself. 1t IS be-
-auSe men have various ideas OF what
| they are after that one is enabled to lind
a little spot of his very own, and can dis
play with impunity to the others the
sign Keep off the Grass for the reason
that others do not care to Chamber on.
Diversity of talents. diversity Of occu-
pations, and diversity of desires is the
enacting clause, as
MORE COWS the law makers say,
! THAN ONE 0 which permits US to
THE OLD WOMAN jog along in somewhat
a peaceful condition.
+, If every woman had the desire to kiss
the COW" about which we have so often
heard, the cow would get out of the way
in a hurry for there would be such a
scramble to get to her that she would
undoubtedly be in the storm centre or a
small sized riot. But as luck will have
it there are so many other things to kiss
besides cows that what would be a ma
tional disaster is averted, and the old
woman whose chief aim is to hold an
csculatory seance with the cow has the
right of way.
And these observations lead up to the
.-;Il - +1o aonOonrt vrhiol1 iC hoino
sought for. 1t is that
RIGHT NOW we have in North Car
THINGS ARE DINA so many ways of
IN COOL SHAPE making wealth that
there IS a chance for
every man to select his own COW, or in
other words he can pick out the avoca-
tion which he thinks is best to his liking
without trcading on the toes of some one
else. Here are the treasures of I'M
touched and fertile fields, here is a land
in whose bosom is hidden the valued
gems of the world, here grow forests
teeming with the woods that are in de-
mand ard all about us are unnumbered
! opportunities for simply reaching out and
with energy Selling on the chances for
getting to the top in almost every line.
4 y 4
But this happy state of affairs in dear
IN ~No4 II q III > " Shd. fhALi
the cause of the terri
But CLOUD bic catastrophe which
ARISES ON is heading our way
OUR HORIZON. with automobile speed
is nothing more and
| nothing less than the clucking hen which
is the Joy of the housewife, the do
nestle fowl. which alive or decapitatcd is
Of the greatest value in furnishing pro-
vcnder to the featherless biped who gent
ly asks for his eggs soft boiled, or fried
on both sides, or fixed IN some other way,
or who emitting his desire for the fruit
of the hen, is ready for a leg, or a wing,
or some other part of the anatomy of the
fowl itself.
And this destructive period which is
by a great railroad
THE HEN system, none other
THE EGGS, than the Scaboard Air
THE POLITICIAN. Line. True, it did not
intend to do so, but it
has and there's the trouble. There is
another besides a hen. and a railroad
system in this matter, and this is a
politician, and a politician of the Popu-
list brand. The reader will see the juXta
position of these three when I mar
rate that it is in the matter of eggs that
trouble is brewing for the North Caro-
linians. and as an exhibit there is intro
duced the eggs of the hen, an agent of
the Seaboard and q one time Populist
candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
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1t was in Western North Carolina that
this matter started. The agent was
there, the eggs were
II RAILROAD handy. and SO was the
THAT STARTED politician. The agent
The laid hands on the
eggs gently and then
laid the aforetimes mentioned eggs vio-
lently On the person of the politician. Re-
suit a mixture of eggs and
politician, a condition which the eggs did
not resent, but which the poll
tician did. Whether the eggs used in
the case referred to were OF
modern Or ancient setting. no one has as
yet deDosed. but the inference is that
they were of ancient, very ancient, vint-
age, and while this was a good reason
why the Seaboard agent should want 70
get them out of his way. the politician
can not reason that it was necessary to
make him an absorbent to carry them
off on his clothes.
But he did carry them away, and in the
fluid state. This not being, at that time,
an occupation for
AN ADVANCE which he fingered, he
IN PRICE OF asked that the Sca-
ANCIENT EGGS. board pay him for the
services rendered. an.
the jury to which the matter was refer
red said his services in acting as an ogy
breaker was worth 1850. This was
highly gratifying to the politician, aud as
he cashes, in imagination. the check Tor
| hIC n r1nt,,f 10 49,
thinS for him that he got in the path of
the eggs and that he was not so soft and
juicy that the eggs declined to break on
him. He finds now that eggs, even without
the shells. be they ever so ancient. ara ,
splendid addition to clothing and he i;
perhaps ready to break the flight of
more Of them.
Now comes the serious part Of the mat