The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-05

is source of much JOY to other men.
Especially Is this the
MANY MEN the case if you have
WITH VERY what the slangster
MANY MINDS. calls lead pipe
cinch'' on something
which you consider 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-
cause men have various ideas of what
they are after that one is enabled to lind
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 FOR which permits US to
THE OLD WOMAN jog along in somewhat
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 hurry for there would be such a
scramble to get to her that she would
undoubtedly be in the storm centre OF
small sized riot. But as luck will have
it there are so many other things to kiss
besides cows that what would be ma
tional disaster is averted and the old
woman whose chief aim IS to hold an
oscuatOry seance with the cow has the
right of way.
And these observations lead up to the
milk in the cocoanut, which is being
sought for. 1t is that
RIGHT NOW we have in North Car
THINGS ARE DINA so many ways of
IN GOOD 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 treading on the toes of some one
else. Here are the treasures of un-
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
oSeSiA5 ~ thC tOp III diHiOot CNtly lluc.
- es-t
But this happy state of affairs in dear
old North Carolina is about to end. and
1.-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 decapitated 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 Il leg or a wing.
or some other part of the anatomy of the
fowl itself.
And this destructive period which is
fast coming is being aided and abetted
by great railroad
THE HEN system none other
THE EGGS, than the Seaboard Air
THE POLITICIAN. Line. True. it did not
intend to do so. but 1t
has and there's the trouble. There is
another besides a hen. and a railroad
system in this matter, and this is /
politician. and a politician, of the Popu-
list brand. The reader will see the juxta
position of these three when I mar
rate that 1t 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 a one time Populist
candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
IL was N Western North Carolina that
TINS matter started The agent was
there, the eggs were
TIE hAlLhOAD handy, and so was the
IHAl STARTED politician. The agent
THE TROUBLE. laid hands on the
eggs gently and then
iald the aforetimes mentioned eggs vio-
ientiy On the person of the politician. Re-
suit mixture of eggs and
politician, a condition which the eggs did
not resent. but which the noli.
tician did, Whether the eggs used in
the case referred to We're of
modern or ancient setting, no one has as
yet deDosed. but the Inference is that
they were of ancient very ancient yint-
age, and while this was a good reason
why the Seaboard agent should want to
get them out of his way. the politician
make him an absorbent to carry them
OF 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 Sea-
ANCIENT EGGS. board pay him for the
services rendered. AMI
the jury to which the matter was refer
req said his services in acting as an egg
breaker was worth $4,000 This was
highiy gratifying to the politician, and as
ne cashes. in imagination, the check for
TINS amount, he agrees that it was good
thing Tor 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
MN. he finds now that eggs, even without
the shells, be they ever so ancient. are
splendid addition to clothing and he is