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Pullman passengers may save their
tips. II the attempt of the Pennsylva-
mia lines west of Pittsburg to curtail
the humble quarter be successful. but
how about the shiny shines and the
wisp broom act at the end Of the jour
ney? Won't they go. too?
The Washington times., 1903-03-16


she grows older and older insists on ap-
pearing in male parts? AS werther. she
wears brown velvet, high boots, a
faxen wig and the sweetest smile"
But Werther was a weeping Miss Nan
cy-"Slob" is the word-and why should
Sarah wish TO impersonate him? An
other paragraph for the thick book on
the alterations of genius.
The grisette Of Paris romances passed
away years ago Lisette left no de-
scendants. The grisette was dying out
at the beginning OF the second empire,
and when Baron Haussmann made way
with the narrow streets and the paving
stones. the grisette went with them. She
was never a class: she was a type. A
hardworl1ing girl. she was in a shop,
sempstress, a maker OF artificial flow
ers. She became a grisette by her
clothes and allure"
| Mr. Adolphus described her admirably
some years ago: The grisette OF Louis
Philippe's time (which was the epoch
OF her full expansion) wore In the sum
mer-the true season 10 judge her-a
! short cotton or muslin dress. always
newly ironed. fresh, and crisp; a silk
/ apron: a muslin fichu; white lace cap
| trimmed with a quantity OF flowers: del
icate shoes and stockings (buttoned
boots for women were just invented,
but the grisette would have thought her
self disgraced forever II she had come
out either in boots or a bonnet: and on
Sundays straw kid gloves with the one
button of the period. With her spright-
| ly step the buoyant carriage OF her
| head. her usually slight figure and pret-
~ feet, she lighted up the streets like
sunshine. and spread around her an at
mosphere OF brightness. she. too, did
her little best 70 be CONNIE il faut. for
/ that was the rule of the time. and real
/ Iy. in a sort of way. she sometimes got
very near it."
George Augusta Sala hunted her in
1 Paris in 1878; but he did not find Lisette
See the chapter. The Ghost OF the
Grisette." in sala's Paris Herself
Again"
Mr. Carnegie's gifts are not without
danger, although he is a Scot and not
Greek. Not long ago in England,
Mr. Kohnfeldt looked through Crock
/ ford" and Who's Who" at a free Ii
brary. He wandered through the BIS and
chose two men who We're at a universi-
ty together and are now living far apart.
! He assumed the shape OF doctor and
wrote to one OF them asking for money
| toward the support OF his sick friend.
/ The scheme worked beautifully for a
time; but just at present Mr.. Kohn
! feldt is denied by a stern jailer the
free use OF pen and ink. and is able to
frame masterpieces OF piteous entreaty
! only In his head.
J The word itself is a diminutiye of
/ girls" =" and IL meant IAN inferior gray
dress fabric. formerly the common garb
of working girls in France" Both Swift
and sterne paid tribute 10 the girl that
wore this dress.
The Washington times., 1903-03-16
Clear Field for Carter.

AS a result of the Democratic prima-
ries in Chicago. the Hon. Carter II. Har-
The Washington times., 1903-03-16
THE BEST THINGS FROM OTHER NEWSPAPERS.
SHAFTS OF mT AND HUKoR.
Dialogues of the Day.

Dialogues of the Day.
Ex-President c1eveland-wsll. you have shown
Mr. Roosevelt what it is to have Congress On
his hands.
Fiftv-seventh Congress but that's moth
ing to his showing Us what II is 10 have
President on our corns.-New York EveninS
Pest.
The First Introduction
Madam.
I'm Adam;
You're Eve,
J believe.
Worse Stin.
Although IL makes me mad wien men
Talk shop" It makes me hopping
To be among the women whoa
They start in talking shopping
-PhiladelPhia Press
Incorrectly Quoted
First Political observer-I see that Grover
Cleveland says that the newspapers always
quote him incorrectly.
soQ3a siE rGltiqs .oSs oSS5yef{e I5 'hey Quoted
politics 10 stay--New York Evening Post
The Limit.
The man who says
-
is
me-
viii always have my sympathy
But he who says
'-Sez,
sex
he
From him. o lord, deliver mel
-Pittsburg Dispatch
The Washington times., 1903-03-16
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

The Sultan OF Turkey has just bor-
rowed $500 .Ooe from a German bank
The Washington times., 1903-03-16

George w. Cable, the author and lee
turer. Is a visitor in New Orleans,
where he says he has gone TO gather
material for a new romantic novel.
The Washington times., 1903-03-16

The word itself is a diminutiye Of
girls. 4" and II meant IAN inferior gray
dress fabric. formerly the common garb
Of working girls in France" Both Swift
and sterne paid tribute 10 the girl that
wore this dress.
The Washington times., 1903-03-16

George Augusta Sala hunted her in
Paris in 1873; but he did not find Lisette.
See the chapter. The Ghost OF the
Grisette." in Sala's Paris Herself
Again
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER.

Last night I read to my family pOT-
tions OF long article by u preacher
describing the sad condition OF a pcople
he has recently visited. Out OF one hun
dred and sixty-eight towns in the state
he visited seventy of them that are of
from the railroad, and all Of these have
decreased in population since 1880. None
Of these towns have settled pastors OF
preachers and the churches are abandon
ca or have preaching at irregular inter
walls and the attendance hardly ever eX-
ceeds twenty-five persons The Sabbath
schools are equally deserted The once
busy plants of small Industries are dead
and the people farm only Tor the bare
necessities of life. Houses, barns aEi
fences are going to decay and the little
mills that were on the creek have
tumbled down and the dams have wash
ed away. Here and there you viii see
a stately mansion sheltering some de-
generate family in the back rooms while
the vacant front greets you with the
silence Of the tomb Sometimes you will
find an old man and woman alone in an
old ancestral home. ! found mother
and her two sons and two old maids in
one house not one OF whom could read
The intermarriage Of near relatives or
rot marrying AT all Is common anu
bachelors and divorced men and widow
ers have housekeepers and they un
blushingly cohabit with them and young
girls become grass widows By the time
they are sixteen.
"Whcre is all this2" said my wife. Il
don't believe word Of il. II is some
newspaper l:a-a fake made up by some
reporter I read on. In one town |
found the usual Saturday night dance
going on in an old vacated tavern and
they danced and devilled and drank until
Sunday morning. SUNDAY IS no moro OBJ
served than it is tn Chicago, for they
hoe and dig and gather hay all the same
q s on week days Illiteracv. insanity and
imbccility ere very marked I found one
family in which both parents were IDIOTS
and had raised up a family of idiots. Ia
another home or house I found poor
| old father taking care of three mother
less children, all idiots.
4 don't believe a word Of it,. said my
Wife There is no such people in this
country. What paper are you reading
| from"
One can hardly conceive of the fifth
| and vice reigning in these country places
, called homes-a barbarism differing from
the city slums only in its stagnant iner-
tia and touched as little by church in
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The one straight road 10 success IS 10
love your business. said James Bulh-
anan Duke as | sat with him two days
ago. \ man must love his business
better than he loves anything Else i
he would make success sure II is the
true, the only way. We employ more
than a hundred thousand persons in oar
vast tobacco business. and as the direc-
ter OF this force | never fail 10 observe
that the man who works only letaus.
he is paid 10 work has no chance ia com
petition with the man who works be-
cause he would sooner do that than amy
thing else. II IS the practical secret ot
success. This tobacco business is my
pastime. rs We'll as my duty / never
fish or hunt Those things moan hard
work, and there isn't as much fun in
them as there is in business.
There is the utterQnce OF man who.
at the age Of forty-Six years stands at
the head of the mighty Tobacco Trust
a multi-millonaire and captain Of in
dustry, whose power is felt in many
lands beside his own.
"A man can do best that which IL
loves best" he said If he has started
in a business which he cannot learn
to love, then he should 20 into some 9th
er business. He Will never succeed IN
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huencas a if in tho heart Of Africa. The
country people al over the state aTo
generally without ambition. InproFideaa
ignorant, not able 20 read Or write, lgosc
in their family relations. socially cor
rupt, given TO drink and some 10 tire
opium habit And these are the towns
where, half 4 century ago. lived the best
families Of the State. Among them the
Fields (Cyrus and his brothcrss). the Nh-
botts. the Barnes ana Donald g. Mitchell
ana others
And nov let me tell you. nay dear wife.
! am reading from the Hartford Times
and this is only a short portion OF the
report read In New Haven recently ~
Rcy. Mr.. IIutchins, a Bible eolporteur.
Of Connecticut
This report is fully accredited TO De-
true ana the editor Of The Times tries
la tone ii down by saying Tho same
conditions described By Mr.. Hutchns for
Connecticut are common 10 all the older
States" Rev. George Horr. Of Maasachu-
setts, is also a Bible colporieur FOR that
Stat and he said in Boston the other
day: Il have driven all over %e~ Eng
land with my own horses and nay con-
Hicjion is there is no immortality n any
western mining town that VIII compare
with what you find d few miles from any
New England town. Mr.. HutchIna' oh
servation corresponds exactly with my
own"
Coed friends. kind friends. what is 70
be done about this. But the editor ~
The Times is mistaken when hc says the
same conditions are common 10 all the
older States. We have no such people
in Georgia In some of our mountain
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centrated to a very high per cent of re-
cOVery.
Mr.. Duke owns about 40 acres, and
has mineral option on a great deal
more adjoining his property. He has
one shaft 108 feet deep; one 10 feet;
one 7o feet; and 1G0 feet the latter be-
ing the most actively worked. At this
shaft there is not a finer shaft house
in the belt. 1t has high well-made
gallows frame, and is equipped with
boiler, engine and up-to-date machinery,
steam drills and air compressor. This
shaft is timbered in modern style with
two cOmpartmentS-one for hosting and
one as Il manway, air pipe pumps, and in
fact everything is arranged and done IN
modern miner manner. The shaft Is
100 feet deep, with one station about
100 feet and another below that 60 feet
Each station drifts out three directions
and a cross cut has been started to run
III an easterly direction to cut adjacent
parallel veins. The veins run northeast
and southwest. The work IS being rapid
ly pushed. One drift is now rs feet in
length. Under the management of Mr.
Thomas Maroon, a practical and ex-
perienced miner from Baker City, Ore
son, Mr.. Dukes mine has been brought
up to a fine state Of production. and
is destined to be one OF the richest
mines in the belt.
On this same belt, about eight miles
north of the Duke veins, is the Per
son Consolidated Copper and Gold
Mines Company. This mine is equipped
| with an S0-horse power hosting engine
and cage; also 50-ton concentrating
! plant. [ am informed that they are
| now turning out three tons of ore q
day, averaging over fifty per cent. cop
| per This does not include higher grade
ore, which is sent direct to a smelterer
| The Rockefellers are Interested in this
| mine.
Other important mines on this belt are
| Holloway mine and the famous Yancey
| mine all about eight miles distant from
| the Duke mine, which form inter
| esting and active copper mining district
! in the Old North State. Interested il
I these mines other than the Duke, are
| New York and Boston capitalists, and
such copper kings as Senator Clark, Of
Montana, and Thos. Lawson, of Bos-
| ton.
The assay of ore in this North Caro-
lima belt, as described above, averages
from 35 to 40 per cent. per ton.
Future developments will most as
suredly establish the fact that North
Carolina is destined to come to TIE
front as a mining State-and especially
| III the product Of copper. Her vas
wealth in this particular is little knowT
| outside of those interested.
JAS A ROBINSON.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
THE MINING ON COPPER
IN NORTH CAROLINA
he Rich Copper Belt in Person County, Rockefeller
Lawson, Clark of Montana Interested in
These Mines.

Durham, n c., March 2S-But little
is written in the papers concerning the
copper mining industry of North Caro-
Tina, and few people are aware of it's
Iuagni Cude and possibilities. The grow
ing demand for this metal has greatly
increased the interest in It's mining, and
the future will reveal that North Caro-
lima is rich in this ore. Some of the
developments already made would if the
location was in the west. create a min
ing furor equal to the early days of min
ing in California and the territories.
There is a copper belt in Person coun-
ty. that extends over and into Halifax
county, Virginia, supposed to be about
twenty-five miles in length, possibly.
and some three miles III width. Tho
most active points are about eight and
ten miles, a little south each from
ron boro. The country is covered prin-
cipally with pine timber and hardwood,
is rather undulating and sparsely set
tied. I am told by expert miners that
this section abounds in this mineral
wealth that will compare fayOrably with
many of the best districts in the west,
and the future has much in store for
North Carolina along the border line OF
Virginia. Much, if not all of the land
in this territory has been bought, or
the mineral privilege leased, by those
who are interested in mining for copper.
1t was the writer's privilege a few
days ago to visit the mines Of B. l..
Duke in Person county, some eight
miles east of RoXboro. 1t would be a
revelation to those who have paid little
attention to the subject. as little has been
said about in our newspapers, to see
the developments made and the progress
Of copper mining In that section in the
past few years.
For perhaps lorty years or more min
ing for copper in that portion of Per
son county, has been carried on in q
desultory way. Lack of the proper knowl-
edge in mining methods; the long hauls
Of the ore in wagons TO railway lines;
end the neglect of publicity has made it
difficult to establish the Importance OF
the copper products of the Person coun-
tv belt. Now practical mining men have
become interested and results are being
achieved that promise to place that belt
among the most important copper pro
ducers.
The veins are of the fssure type ant
many OF them are prominent and strong
Some have been prospected to depth o.
from 10 to $50 feet. The vein aterial
or vein-flling, consists of hard but friable
quartz. altered slate, epidote, calcite anc
massive copper ore. Developments have
demonstrated that the ore is there IL
abundance and experiments and practica
tests have proven that it can be con
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honor"
whats your word of ilonor?" asked
the superintendent, cutting into me like
a hatchet. 81 don't know any more about
your word of honor than do about you"
What could l say There were men
who did know me, but they We're a long
cry from the Rocky Mountains and the
Headquarters of the Mountain Division.
I glanced about me from his face, gray
as alkai, to Allbers, shuffling on the
carpet and to Morrison, as steady as d
successful liar, taking my job and my
reputation at one swallow and to the
passenger conductor with the glossy
black whiskers; but he was looking out
the window What do | know about
your word OF honOr?" repeated Rocksby
sharply "Allbers take your man and
get your time
A wave of helpless rage swept over
me. The only thing l could think of
was strangling the lying operator in the
hall. Then somebody spoke. SHOW your
papers, you damn fool"
1t came calm as sunshine and cold a
northwester from the passenger conduc-
tor behind me, from Dave Hawk and it
pulled me into line like a bugle call. |
| felt nv English all back at once. Every
| BODY heard him and looked my way;
! again it was up to me. This time l was
! ready for the superintendent, or, for that
| matter for the blooming Mountain aDivi-
| sion. | had forgotten all about my papers
| till Dave Hawk spoke. [ put my hand
| shaking into my inside vest pocket fo1
| a piece Of oIskin-it was all L had lett;
I was a coed way from my base that
wear | laid the oilskin on the super
intendent's table, unfolded 1t 1ealously
and took out a medal and letter that,
in spite of the carefulest wrapping, was
creased and sweated. But the letter was
from my captain, and the bit of bronze
was the Cross Rocksby picked up the
! letter and read 1t.
Have you been in the British army?'
he asked curtly
"Yes. sir"
| He scrowled minute over Picton s
scrawl laid it down and gratified his
curiosity by picking up the medal He
| studied the face of the token locked
curiouslv at the dingy ribbon, twirled it
Continued on Page Five.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
Distribution Of Crops in
NOrth Carolina.
By c. Won HERMANN.

The 18th Census OF the United states
is a mine of information in regard 10
agriculture in the various States OF the
Union, but much of the material is not
presented in a way to attract popular in
terest. However, by calculating the per
centage of the total yield grown in eacn
county for some OF the most important
crops in North Carolina many yalua BILE
facts in regard to the distribution o.
the staple crops have been ascertained.
Extreme diversity In crop production is
characteristic Of the State, as might be
expected from the variety OF climate
from continental to marine and accord
ingly Of all the crops mentioned in the
18th Census excepting tropical fruits all
are grown in North CaYoIina exert
chicory, hemp and sugar beets. North
Carolina produces larger crops OF sweet
potatoes and of peanuts than any other
State, and it ranks only second in the
production of tobacco. Kentucky is cred
tied with 314 million pounds of tobacco,
North Carolina coming next with 1t
million pounds GS99).
The most important commercial crops
in North Carolina are corn, cotton and
tobacco The most universally diffus q
is corn Every county in the State grows
tillS llHpol ldHl gram, YET not q oliis5 =
county produces over 2 per cent of the
total yield. The three largest produc-
ing counties are Buncombe, Randolph,
and Robson which together harvest {
per cent Of the total crop. The yield in
these three counties WAS over two mil
lion bushels in 1899.
The production of tobacco is as fol
lows:
Seventy-one counties each produce
less than ] per cent Of the total crop
and all together they yielded p per cent
of the total crop.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

thirteen counties produced from ! per
cent to per cent. and together pro-
duced p per cent Of the total crop
Seven counties produced from 3 per
cent 70 per cent, and together 2S per
cent of the total crop.
Six counties produced from Per cent
TO s per cent and together 80 per cent
Of the total crop. There are thirteen
counties which together produce Go per
cent or two-thirds Of the total tobacco
crop of North Carolina The largest
crops are raised in Pitt county 6 per
cent?, Rockingham Ct per cent?, Nash
and Greene C per cent?. Granville and
Stokes 6 per cent?, total for six coun-
ties SO per cent The production in
Pitt county in 1899 WIS over eight mil
Hon pounds.
The chief cotton region of North Caro-
lima extends through the central section
on equal sides of a line drawn from
| Richmond county northeast through
+. Johnston to Hertford.
Thirty-two counties produce each less
than l per cent Of the total crop; to-
gether II per cent.
Twenty counties produce each from / to
2 per cent; together 80 per cent Of the
! total crop.
Eleven counties produce each from tC
/ per cent together 36 per cent Of the
/ total crop.
Four counties produce from to pei
I cent each; together 20 per cent of the
! total crop.
Fifteen counties produce no cottor
whatever. The largest producing coun
! ties are Robeson C per cent? Meckian.
/ burg and Wake g per cent?. and John
! ston G per cent?. Together these coun
ties produced $4,000 bales in 1899.
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~ ->." fef" ""'t@f
competition trom within Oh u.shaut 4w
ruhae opposition au rf..a.. rivalry
mottrs hut an!v ra4r ..tH-t4 .tr ,A... 49,.
ual world ~ iatuat.. ana ..rrt,4.,...
four incompatible. ,~aa..,. rs4.,.ya.l..r-
ers AMI merchants
John - Roekefallcr-
tIlrgH Carn.e Sti
IL O Hayeusx,r SUGAR
James y Duke Tala.e,
The youpe,4 a. these S. }a.st. If.ssa
to III, public. ANA yt p. IS Ia ra.s,
respects the np. wonderful ora-. #.
the four
Al Duke IS man of ha.lr ,t.s.aae
Ills head ana fae. aua tAse..eet f.rs-.
remind one Of the tyfl.al Ye.A shsr, ftr.
uer. H5s English ancestry shows -tra.s.
Is in hi lody anu Ills m.na re. fsrgr
head broad. fan brow stra.eat mos.
long upper Ill. spoa-natur,A month
round fresh -color,a fa.e. steady .lr..,
blue eyes: powerful neck Hc,p chest ar1
sturdy hearty type In the emughs 90 ar-
ricnltural ENGLAND IL tall,s Ia Simple
phrases and is absolutely devoid or wan
ty in dress or ia manner. tho plalueat
and NEST direct man imaginable
lie WORKS TEN HOURS 4 DAY
This master of mon and affairs works
7 ten hours a day regularly Tue fact
that he owns tens of millions of dollars
ana mas armies oi assistants upon whom
Il
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

this age of competition unless he can find
real pleasure in his work Inc making
of money is not a sufficient incentive He
must fnd his highest enjoyment in the
task itself. No man who works along
that line can fail That is my judg
ment, based on my own experience and
my observation
In these times OF gigantic amalgama-
tion Of industry only four men have
been found thus far with brains big
enough to keep themselves and their
enmillioned combinations ahead Of all