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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

of boundless truth. The man who writes
books for money cannot be a great au-
thor. Salary is the smallest thing in
the scholars life and work. The min
istry offers no pecuniary inducenlent, but
it does require scholarship and promises
reward by useful service and extended
influence for good. This keeps the pull
pit sincere and the gospel bold. This
does not discount the value OF money,
nor the capacity to make it; it simply
seeks to remove the sordid ideas from
education. and to inspire in our people
the true meaning Of education. It's aim
should be higher than mo~ney-1naking,
though education does lie at the founda-
ton of all wealth producing States.
Through a recent Biographical Dictionary
it has been discovered that Of II sol per-
sons $3.50 furnished details. of their edu-
cation. Thus $500 of the $50 or 81 per
cent. had some sort Of higher education.
In addition, 2S2 were educated privately,
1,249 We're trained in academies, semi
%naries, normal schools and high schools.
That leaves only 81 out Of 900, or 3
per cent, with no more than the c0mmOn
school education. The college bred peo-
pie constitute 4 very small part of the
population of this country, yet it APP
pears that they furnish 81 per cent. Of
the men and women who become prOmi-
nent for doing something, while the vast
majority without such training furnish
only 3 per cent. of those distinguished
for doing something worthy of mention.
1t is true, therefore, that while educa-
ton does not train men to make money.
nevertheless they do. The great electric
plants could not operate as they do,
had it not been for the schools that have
investigated and experimental with this
force for SO many years.
The church college stands for full edu-
cation, and is unique in our modern
civilization. Elon has awakened the
spirit Of intelligent aspiration among US,
and created a demand for larger men. 1t
has not only trained many young people
itself, but it has turned the thought of
our people to education and many of
them nave gone to other colleges and
to universities. In fact we now nave
more preachers with university degrees
than we had with college degrees be-
fore Elon was founded; and these de-
grees are in addition to college degrees.
Our constituency is 1000 and. counting
; 10 a family. it would represent 5000
families. Estimating one college student
to every three families would give 1000
who might be in college, if they had
the chance. AS a matter of fact, we
nave about 100 in college classes. 10 per
cent. of the whole number. Estimating
by the same rule. the State of North
Carolina has only . per cent. of her col |
lege students in college, and that
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
Brother, Sister and Cow.

Yesterday morning a colored woman
started to 0rive a COW from here to Dur
ham. Thereby hangs a tale. and this is
it: a negro named Ben Oldham, resi-
dent in Durham, had a sister who had
a very fine COW. Now it came to pass
that Ben wanted very badly to go to
Norfolk. Not having the necessary
funds wherewith TO consunmate his de-
sire, he bethought him to sell his sis
ter's COW in Raleigh and reap the fruits
thereof. So he started with the COW for
Raleigh; but a message from Durham
reached here first, and then telephone
messages We're sent out to points along
the line. Soon answering messages told
Of Ben's approach, and Officers McRary
and Lumley sailed forth, met and ar
rested Ben Oldham. He was taken back
TO Durham by Constable f. T. Lee, and
his sister arrived yesterday morning and
started back on her long walk with the
COW. She said her brother had already
served one term in the penitentiary.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
Bill Arp's Letter.

for Cicero, but they have got new Ways
now and ! don't know where | am at.
Vesuvius has been cutting up for more
than two thousand years. II has had
nine bad eruptions, but there are still
people living on it's slopes and cultiyating
hem. Its enormous crater is , miles
around and Toto feet deep, and the ac-
cumulatcd lava sometimes raises its
brink 800 feet during an eruption.
When Spartacus. the gladiator. was
besieged by the Romans ne with his
little army Of seventy men took refuge
in ;hS crater. for it was quiet then. and
killed 5000 Romans who attacked them
on its brink. The great orator, Cicero.
had a beautiful villa at its base, but in
the wear - A.. y. old Vulcan fired up
his furnace and belched forth fire and
smoke ard lava and ashes and buried
those two cities sixty-fye feet deep and
changed the sea shore and the river so
that their sites could not be found and
when found by accident they were two
miles inland. For three centuries ex-
cavations have been going on and Of
late with great energy. and the veritable
homes of the cultured people have been
found filled with ashes and cinders that
have preserved them all these centuries.
These homes and halls and churches
and temples have been cleaned out and
even the paintings on the walls have
been restred and the beautiful marble
sculpture cleaned and renewed just as
ii was when the awful calamity occurr-
ed. The celebrated sculptured figures of
LAGOON and his sons strangled by a ser
pent was found there in perfect condition.
In some Of these beautiful homes of the
wealthy the tables We're set for a feast
and in the temple We're found the gold
and silver ~2dornments that are usual in
such places. In the Temple CT Juno there
were the corrses Of 300 people who had
fed there for safety, but Juno was pow
erless and they all persisted Just as did
the 5000 at St. Pierre who fled into the
Roman Catholic cathedral.
The fate of all these cities was very
similar. for it was not lava that destroyed
them. nor at st. Pierre, but a shower Of
cinders and ashes. and these are pre-
servatives of anything that they encase.
When we consider all such calamities
a grateful and thoughtful people Will be
thankful to our Heavenly Father that We
live in a land remarkably free from ca
lamfty or affection. No volcanoes hang
their threatening peaks over US or near
us, no cyclones visit US. The noisome
pestilence does not visit US by day or by
night. CadaverOuS famine does not dar-
ken our households with its awful dis
tress. but we live in peace and in plenty
and the lines have fallen unto US in pleas
ant places.
1t is a fitting time now for those who
like to read romance that is founded on
fact to take up that good old book OF
Bulwer's The Last Days of Pompell,
and read it again. BILL ARP.
have Just received a pleasant letter
from a North Carolina friend asking me
what | think Of CARROTS book, The
Negro 4 Beast and he asks, do lou
believe the niger is q boast?" answered
at the bottom Of his letter, (which mig
gcr?" r.. 4.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

nosted IS the lawyer who will be busiest
in his work. The Capitol at Washington
is one of the grandest piles OF achltec-
fure in the world. Massive dome. grace
full pillars. with Corinthian capitals,
broad steps leading up to splendid nails.
and pleasing TO the eye aud lmpreSsihE
the mind as a great piece OF archlt''
ture. At the east front are TWO Sets oi
massive doors. with bronze panhelS' one
set of p~annels representing scenes IN
the life OF Columbus: the other in the
life OF Washington. The p~annels last
named were cast in Chicopoe. Mass
from ~rigina designs by Crawford. When
they first came from the foundry they
gave little sign Of grace OF elegance oi
design. They commenced the work or
conforming PANELS 70 the original mo
dels. Skilled workmen trimmed. cleared.
filled. polished. latored With the patterns
by their sides. DO YOU ever get
through" asked a beholder. Never
till they are taken from Us, was tac
reply: such WORK IS never perfect
So ne keep on with orr work Till il is
taken from us. or we are taken from it
Education goes on till we are taken
home. and il may continue forever. Work
is the end 81 education. The false cons
ception of education abroad in the land
is hat education viii enable one to
live without work. TIE only way 70
live without work is 10 be an idiot. and
then no one Will expect service. Jesus
said; MY father worketh hitherto and
| work" All nature is a disclosure OF
divine activity; the ceaseless motion Of
the ocean. the si,eat curse Of the stars.
the flowing OF the streams. and repro
duction OF food for man all tell of Gods
active love for man. The heavens de-
clare the glory Of God and the Ornament
showeth His handywork." Christian
civilization is the busiest Of all tac
ages because most like God. rhe church
needs the activity Of the world III All
of its enterprises. Go work today in
my vineyard
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
BUILDING OF MEN, WOMEN
Never a Time When Educated Person
Had Such Opportunities.
EDUCATION PREPARATION fORllfE WORK
The Possession of information is Not Education.
Without Character Education IS Nil. The
More Men Know, The More They
Have 10 Work.
Have 10 Work.

The following address delivered before
the southern Christian Convention at
Ashehoro by its president. Rev. X. ".
stalpy. D.. D.. is printed in full, accord
irg TO a resolution passed by the con
ference:
Education has been secularized. in this
money-making g 10 the loss, feal,
Of its real meaning and purpose. Educa-
ton declined in Greece, the ideal classic
nation, when teachers began 10 receive
pay for their services. Education has
it's secular side: but ~full-rounded intel
ligent manhood and womanhood must
be the end Of all true education. IN
fact education. in the higher sense.
must be above the secular, inasmuch as
it deals with mind and spirit as we'll as
matter. Special education, to the eXclu-
sion of general education, is one Of the
fruits Of this secular spirit. 1t is the
lowest form of education. and its aim is
money-making. Character is not in
Guided in its training. It trains the hand
and mind only, and results in a human
machine. useful only in the world of
work and business; it has small value
in misunderstanding and Christian civil
ization. Broadly considered, education
is the building Of men and women. The
statesman may be poor: Henry Clay
could not pay his debts without the help
of his friends. The lamented Mckinley
had to be assisted in the same way. A
Presidents grave in Hollywood remains
unmarked, unless done in recent years,
at public expense. Authors may spend
fortunes, as Ruskin; and Painters may
die without reward. The worlds Savior
made no estate. yet He was the wisest
and greatest of all. The truth is, that
education is the field of benevolence.
Educational Institutions do not have
earning capacity. They give more than
they receive. and are themselves objects
of charity. If it were not SO, colleges
would compete for place in the world of
affairs. Culture implies plainness in
life habits. Culture is modest, because
it feels its own littleness in the presence
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
A GOOD FARMER
Farming Can be Made a Profitable Business
With Very Small Capital.

To the Editor: A good farmer IS one
Who makes enough to live on and has
a surplus to sell. He does this, making
his land year by year, not poorer but
richer.
There are more mel. engaged in farm
inc than in any other occupation. But
there are bat few really good farmers;
that is. there are but few who make
money farming. A majority barely
make a living: many are always bur
dered with debt. A good farmer, haV-
ING fairly good health and ordinarily
good seasons need not be in debt, unless
it ne for the purchase of land or for
necessary farm improvements: and these
ought to be made to pay for themselves
very soon.
4 horse, COW or hog will never pay
for keeping unless they are We'll fed.
And so a farm will never pay we'll I'M
less it is fed With fen tilizers. The best
farmer is the one who makes the largest
quantity of homemade fertilizers and
who buys the smallest quantity Of for
ei2L fertilizers; and we enricheS his
land most by sowing clover, peas, etc.
A good farmer will not undertake to
cultivate a large quantity of poor land
with his own or hired labor. Ii he knows
any thing he knows this will not pay:
but he runs a small farm, makes it rich,
cultiVates it we'll, and gathers paying
crops. But few farmers ever made 4
fortune farming; but thousands of them
have made an independent living, and
thousands more could if they would
learn to farm wisely.
Put many say: 4 am poor, I cannot
farm like | want to-"
Go to work or q small scale. As soon
as one crop is gathered, go to work to
prepare for another.
Spend time and labor in making farm
pen and compoS manures. Make two or
three acres of land rich each year: and
in a few years you will have enough rich
land to make enough and to spare.
Farming can be made q profitable bust
ness. 1t can be done with a very small
capital to begin with.
1t is the most quiet, pleasant, indie
pendent, secular business in which a
mar can engage. A good farmer be
comes deeply interested in his work. He
loves to see his growing grain. grasses
and stock. He realizes that his is the
most important of all secular employ
ments. he has to feed and alothe all
others.
The professions and every kind of
business are crowded: but there is a
bright prospect for coed farmers. All
farm products are in demand at good
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
GEORGIA MILITARY AT WRIGETSvILLE
The Fifth Georgia Regiment Looking Out For
Encam ment There.

IT seems possible that North Carolina
will have III unusua distinction this
year. ana this possibility is made so be
cause Of Mr.. w. +. Christian. Assistant
travelling Passenger Agent Of the Sea
board Air Line.
While IL the city yesterday ne said
that 2 committee from the Fifth Ceor-
sia Regiment would reach Wilmington
last night, III order to Visit Wrjghts-
Vile ard Namin it with a view of hay
ir@ tho regiment encamp at Wrights-
vile Beach. IN the committee are capt.
Harris, Mayor DUnWoddy and Surgeon
B.5sell, and they are in charge OF Mr..
w. {. Clements, the Travelling Fassen-
AGENT Of the road. and their visit is 10
be made pleasant.
Last summer. through Mr.. Christians
influence, q large party o. G~corsians
visited Wrigntsville Beach. He Knows
now attractive it is and does not faII
70 tell the G~eorgians of it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

II is a fitting time TO think about vol
canoes. earthquakes and other internal
ana Internal things that are going on in
the bowels of the earth. We can see up
ward and outward TO the stars and
pianets for millions Of billions of miles.
hut the inside Of this little world is all
unknown. We live upon its crust and
eat and sleep and dance and prance and
fight and talk war and politics and trusts
With no thought Of how near We are 10
,he fires that are burning under us nor
when they will break out and consume
lis all. as they certainly will some time
according to Scripture. Those internal
fires have been burning for thousands
Of years, ana the mystery is, why they
have not burned TO the surface long be-
fore this. Where does the heat all go,
and where are the cscapes-the chimneys
for the smoke and the ashes and lava?
Surely these few volcanoes cant dis
charge it all. The word Volcano. or vul-
cano. as it used to be called, comes from
Vulcan. the god OF fire. and the an"ients
believed that the Old fellow had his shops
ana furnaces down there, and sometimes
when he bowed the bellows too hard the
fire bursted out through a hole in some
mountain and the melted rock Spouted
~ and ran over the tank and washed
down in the form of lava, which is an
other Latin word and means to wash.
Volcanoes are Vulcan's chimneys. and as
far back as we have history sacred or
rrofane these chfmneys have had their
periodic discharges. Some writer's be
lieve that there was one Of these not far
from Sodom and GomOrrah. and those
cities were destroyed just like Pompeii
80 TJl-,,,l,~y,,,,, or 111nrn fnaanflV like
st. Pierre in Martinique.
A few years ago two Of my boys took
q sea voyage from New York TO Trinidad
and stopped at all of those little islands
and historic points. They told us Of
Martinique. where the Empress Josephine
was born and lived until she was i
wears old and whose beautiful monument
they saw. Unhappy LADY, The world is
still weeping FOR her. They climbed the
heights Of this same volcano and looked
down iato its crater. for it was quiet and
peaceful and had not had an eruption for
fifty years. The island is small. very
small. not quite as large as Barlow
county. but had a dense and mongrel
population of $50. 600 people-chieiy IN
dams. negroes aud Chinese. The whites
numbered less than 0 5000. Of whom only
/ go were French. just think of it. Our
county is about - miles square and IS
cutie thickly settled and has $4,000 reo-
pie. while Martinique has seven times
as many and most of them are negroes.
These negroes were all slaves until 1913.
They live chiefly on fruit and anything
they can pick up or steal. My Boys
amused themselves throwing dimes into
the water that was from 20 to 30 feet
Ceep and the little negro boys would
plunge in and dive to the bottom for the
money and always got it.
Then | got to eliminating about Nesu-
vius and Pompeii and Herculaneum. L
used to speak a speech about ancient
Greece and Rome and Thebes. and | al
WAYS said Pompyeye and The-bees, for
that was right then, and 50 wa Slsero
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
HANDSOME ~OIL.PAINTING.
Portrait of DR.. 7. E. Skinner by Artist Jacques
Busbee For Wake Forest.

Mr.. Jacques Busbee, of Raleigh, has
lately finished a handsome life-sizei oil
painting of Dr.. T. T.. Skinner. 1t is but
another proof of the talent Of Mr.. BUS
bee. who is rapidly Winning for himself
high rank as a gifted artist.
This picture has been for some days If
the art store of Mr.. j. c. Ellington, on
Fayetteville street, and 1t has been
greatly admired. 1t Will he presented
to Wake Forest ard this viii be most
appropriate, as DR.. Skinner mas done
great service for the college Ivy his
earnest work as chairman Of the Board
of Trustees.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
A BIG CIGAR FACTORY.
Trust to Establish One at Greensboro Giving
Employment TO 500
Especial to News ana Obserypr)

Especial to News ana Discovery
Greensboro. y. c.. May 24-Ners has
been received here today in a letter from
Nico-president Cobb. Of the American
Tobacco Company. in New York. that the
American Cigar Company has finally con
cluded to establish a branch factory at
Greensboro. and that the superintendent
Of machinery and buildings is on his
way here to be gin the necessary changes
i 1.-THE factory buildings which had been
offered the company free Of rent for TWO
years IS an inducement to have the inn
lhense business established here. The
factory will give employment to five hun
dred girls. boys and men from the start.
end it proposes to have two thousand
at work within six months. None but
i hitr hcl9 Will be employed.
The Water and Light Committee Of tho
City Council have about concluded nego-
~ti&tions for j 200, 600 gallon steam water
stand pipe, and the fiItering plant ar
ranged for some time ago will soon 80
completed. On this last contract. it is
said that the city saved nearly $4,000 bv
having the work lone under municipal
q against private supervision and viii
have 4 strictly up-tO-date settling basin,
modern ana complete in every respect.
Mr.. A. Slavery, Of Winston. dropped .
luIso containing 81, 600 and . new rail
road mileag &c book il the sink OF a toilet
closet yesterday. The Journal offers to
wager that Winston row has more money
ii its sewerage than any town in tEe
state.
a thief Yesterday went in the resi-
deuce q Mr.. D.. T. Foust. living about
fftcen miles distant from here. while he
was away attending church, and stole 4
lurs cCnt2iling 5000.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
SALE OF LAND FOR PARTITION

North Carolina-Wake County S1nor-
lor court. before w. NJ. Russ. Clerk or
superior Court; w. L. Nipper. and other
eX parte.
By virtue Of authority confined on IL
'ne Undersigned commissioner by decree
u court III the above, entitled sDecial
proceedings, we Will on Monday tia
TN day OF July, 1902. on the nra,nieos
herelh described. offer for sale AZ MINI.
outcry 10 the highest bidder for cash ar
on such terms of credit as NAV no IN
houhced at the sale, all that land or na,.
cel OIL iand IN Wake County. North Caro-
una IN Karton's Creek township adioin
ing the lands of w. H. Raw. r a Saint
sing, A. 1. Byrum, R. H. Hedganatb w
L. Nlpper and the heirs of Tob1 p1oI
soc deceased, containing 81 acres NOR =.
iess' belng the land whereof DoIi,oh
upper dled, seized and possessed ana
more 1uiiy described in tho comr,m1
"hu apers in said proceedings.
d. c.. BECK.
w. j. PEELE.
& MAYNARD -
Attorneys fer Petitioner
l-w. 5 wks.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
Lost All by Fire.

Mr.. Sion Smith, a resident of House
Creek township, was in the city yester-
day and told a story that elected much
sympathy. 1t seems that on Thursday
evening his house caught fire and burned
down. causing the loss of everything Mr..
Smith had in the world. clothing. house
hold and kitchen furniture. He and his
wife barely escaped with their lives. and
succeeded in saving absolutely nothing.
There was no insurance on house or
furniture Mr.. Smith is a justice of the
peace in his township and a leading citi-
zen.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27
Died at Falls of Neuse.

The funeral services of Mr.. ". J. Llovd
VIII take place this afternoon at his homo
a. the rails Of Neuse. The interment
VIII De IN the family burial plot uear ths
residence. Mr.. Lloyd died on Friday
night lie was seventy-seven years Ola.
ana mao resided in Wake county all his
life, highly respected by an who know
him.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

prices. 1t would be wise for more
young men to so to farming.
Oxford, n. G.. J. \. >.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

The friends of Mr.. w. R. Crawford will
regret to learn that he is confined to
his home by sickness.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

Mr. Frank Hunter. Of Warrenton. is in
the city.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-25
THE EARTH is TREMBLING.
The SOuffriere Volcano Is Emitting
Sounds Like Thunder and
Creating a Panic.

Kingstown, st. Vincent, Friday,
July 1S.-Several shocks of earth
quake were experienced here to-day.
There was terrific one at
9:45 in the morning. 1t was
accompanied by loud rum
bling, explosive sound like thunder.
Furniture was set in motion every
where, bottle and crockery were
thrown from shelves in shops, and
several buildings were damaged.
There was no loss of life, but great
panic prevailed. The most severe
shock lasted only ten seconds. These
shocks were probably caused by sub
terranean gas or steam explosions.
4 few days ago it was reported that
the saddle between the two orators
of the Souffriere volcano had col
lapsed, resulting in the fall of thou
sands of cubic feet of sand and
scoria rock into the funnel, thus
blocking the throat of the crater,
and it is now claimed that the gas
and steam, failing to find an outlet
by the throat, or funnel, caused in
ternal explosions and intense concus-
siOnS.