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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
TIE TRUCKING INTERESTS.

That is good news that comes from
asparagus, lettuce and other early crops
have been fine and have brought very
satisfactory prices. The strawberry acre
age has been increased five per cent,
the promise is of a splendid yield and
good prices, and by the first week in
April the shipments will be made III
great quantities.. Last December when
some Of the vines bore fine fruit there
was a fear that the warm seasons would
nilitate against the regular crop. But
this fear had no foundation.
The development of the trucking in
dustry IS the most remarkable agricul-
tural growth in the history of the State.
Twenty years ago it was in it's infancy
and very few men We're engaged in ship
ping early vegetables and berries to the
Northern markets. Then the freight
business of the town of Wilson alone was
worth more than the freight business of
all the towns on the Atlantic Coast Line
south of Goldsboro. All that has
changed. Now the trucking business is
by all odds the most profitable indus
try in all that section of country. With
new branch railroads and steadily i'm
proving refrigerator and express service,
we'll Informed men believe it is still in
its childhood, and that twenty years
hence we will look back On what we
Tow regard as immense crops, as only the
beginnings of the giant industry into
which the North Carolina trucking in
tfrpSt will grow
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
Spirit of the e
HOW To SUCCEED.

| Russell sage. u New York American
A young man to succeed must necr>
sarIy have 4 definite idea 81 what he
wants to DO. and must continually keep
II before his mind He must work a
hard as he can 10 accomplish i. AM
must not be dssmayed or turned from
his course b dlscou.agrment What
! measure q success may have been
| reached in ny long lie has been d
almost Entirely 70 these four things
has, been i very busy man for AL
most Ed Years. and | am absolutely con-
v!agel that a young man Who makes
up his mind 10 succeed almost Invariably
viii DO 50. II he IS made Of the right
material and concentrates all his Efforts
with. the one purpose IN view.
have one sincere word .. advice for
| any young man Hho desires 70 succeed.
and ii is this. That under no 1ircum-
| stances should he yield TO the tcmpta-
ton OF gambling in stocks. No. ! 90
not mean by this that he should never
seek success through the Medium OF
| speculation. but rather that he should
always observe some business method
in all his dealings. When sound, good
| paving stocks are low. he might 10 we'll
10 buy them. as an investment only.
but not otherwise. The fever OF specu-
| lation has been the ruin Of thousands %
| young men 3nl the wreck Of many for
| tunes, and It Will continue to cast wrecks
by the wayside as long as most OF Us
are mad to get rich quickly.
4 young man who really and earnestly
| desires 20 succeed should never waste
| any time in dissipation. lie should, OF
course. allow himself the necessary
amount OF recreation and rest, and he
| should try to live a healthy. regular life,
| He should try to acquire regular habits
| that is, sleep ana eat at the same hours
| each day and night, so as to keep In
| perfect physical health. Then he should
make a rule 10 put by a certain amount
! Of his earnings each week, and acquire
| the habit of saving. There are very few
! men who are not able to make a dollar.
but the making Of q dollar is not tho
| most important thing. 1t is far moro i'm
| portant to know how to save it.
All a young man has to DO is to work
hard and save money. That may sound
every easy, but it is the main point. 1t
is not saving alone that counts; 1t IS
| knowing how to save. No one should
stint himself of anything really need
| full. This is the great art Of saving. The
| fault Of most of our young men of today
| is that they do not stick close enough 70
| business. The man who always tries to
get off as easily as possible, and when
| working for others does as little as pos
| sible for the wage he receives, VIII never
| get ahead and never amount to anything
in life.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
LAW AND BUMAN PROGRESS,

We publish elsewhere to-day the ad
dress on Law and Human PROGRESS
recently delivered by Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark, of North Carolina, before the
Kansas State Bar Association. The ad-
dress will be read with interest and
profit by the business man and farmer
as we'll as by the lawyer. Only a few
days ago the Dean of the Law Facult,
of Belgium wrote to Judge Clark fol
synopsis of the address in a Paris jour
nal, translated from some Kansas paper
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
The Greatest BenefaCtOr OF
Man.

To the Editor What greater uonu-
ment can a man erect for himself than
the establishing and donation Of Il SPLEEN
did school for the education Of all the
children in his community?
Fifteen years ago, at the age Of a..
Mr.. Sidney j. Bartholomew, of this place.
came out Of the public school here amt
began his business career with ten dol
lars in money. By merchandising and
farming he has accumulated an estate u.
several thousand dollars. He has La'
lost a day from his work during this pr
riod. But what we intend TO specially
mention is his great love for universe.
education.
In 1893, laughed at by some Of his
neighbors and discouraged by others, be-
donated grounds and erected a handsoM-
school building witt four large rec.ta-
ton rooms, T. furnished them with '-
most modern school furniture. He d
now erecting on the same grounds. FL
splendid dormitory for the -aecoIa0-.4a
ton OF the boarding patronage. WHOM
this is completed he VIII have given ta
his community school property To the
amount of $4,000. This money has be- 4.
made by the sweat of his brow.
A quiet and an unassuming man, who's
| good deeds would never be known out
side of his community unless some oa
else tells them.
This year he has r~ejoiced to see III.
children enrolled in his school Tho
who opposed are now among the D@a.
and most enthusiastic patrons
With a man like Mr.. Bartholome" in
every community, how long would II be-
before the large per cent Of the illlteTai-
children of this commonwealth would be
In a good school?
Yours very truly.
r. II. BURNS.
Castolia, n. c., March y.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
THE EMOTIONAL IN METHODlSM
chmon Christian Advocate.

Richmond Christian AdEocf'e.
President Eliot, of Harvard University,
in a recent address before a mpan OF
Methodist ministers in Boston, under
took to c~riticise the emotional IN Metho-
dsm, which he thought had probably been
INDUCED in at the expense of the intel
~lectual. 1t may be that the atmosphere
of Boston condoned the indelicacy OF TINS
criticism. Everybody there is supposed
to stress the intellectual above every
thing else. 1t is no discredit 10 Meth
odiSm that it has been noted from the
first for its religious zeal and ferVor'
The great Chalmers designated 1t chris
tianity in earnest" The enthusiastic ar
dor it has infused into all its movements
has under God, been largely the secret
| Of its phenomenal success. 1t has i'm
PEELED it along lines Of aggressive and
evangelical enterprise that have placed
the Methodist church numerically, and,
in many respects, potentially, ahead OF
all other Protestant denominations,
though much younger than most of them.
If in times of great religious excite
ment the emotional has run into extrav-
agance, it has been only the exhuberant
overflow of that which is essentially vi
tai to all true piety. The danger in this
day of WorldinesS and Journalism is not
to excess in this directions, but TO the
other extreme.
In proportion as Methodism declines
in religious ferVor will she decline in
spiritual power and effect.
Nor has she neglected to cultivate the
intellectual side of mans nature. No
church has, from the outset. done more,
or is doing more, for the cause Of edu-
cation. In this respect she may safely
challenge comparison with any of her
, sister churches.
The best reply we have seen to DR.. Eliot
is in a secular paper, the New York
American and Journal. 1t is put in this
pertinent and pungent form:
president Eliot, Of Harvard Tniver-
sity, has been lecturing the Methodists
for being to emotional.
Lets see. President Eliot belongs,
we believe. to that pre-eminently re-
spectacle company of Christians known
as Unitarians.
Unless we have been misinformed
the Unitarians and Methodists began
bushes sat about the same time-that
is to say, about one hundred and wen
ty-ive years ago.
And here are the results, which speak
for themselves:
churches. with $685. ministers and 1856
600 members, and a property worth 1902,
GIG, 600.
The Unitarians have 453 churches
with 544 ministers and 1000 members
and a property worth 80, SOC, O00.
The Methodists have had the emo
ton, the Unitsrians have not had it
and the result in the two cases needs nc
comment.
president Eliot would do we'll to point
out some other Methodist defect"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
THE MANN LIQUOR LAW.

The main feature of the Mann liquor
law, which passed the Virginia State
Senate, is that it changes the policy of
that State as to granting liquor license
in towns of less than 500 inhabitants.
The burden of securing the license is
placed upon the applicant, who must get
a majority of the registered voters in
his district to sign his petition before
he can obtai license. That is the same
feature as prevails in Mississippi and
that was incorporated in the London
bill, except that they applied to all
towns and cities, whereas the Mann bill
applies only to towns having a popula-
ton less than five hundred.
The Mann bill had already passed the
House. 1t was amended in immaterial
particulars in the Senate and will now
go hack to the House for concurrence.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
A LOGICAL L
Duplin Journal.

Duplin Journal.
The recent legislature not only grant
ed a charter to a small town in Bruins
wick county for the purpose OF the man
ufacture and sale of liquor but also gave
the county permission to issue bonds TO
the amount OF $4,000 to build a Jail and
county home for the aged and infrm.
Jails and poor houses generally follow
III the wake Of liquor and Brunswick
IS evidently no exception to the rule.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

The Richmond News-Leader has a
whole column editorial on The Unspeak-
able Tillman.' Whatever else he is or
is not, Tillman should never be called the
'u~nspeakable,' for when he is not speak
ing in the Senate or on the hustings he
is speaking on the lecture platform
There is no such thing as the 'unspeak-
able TiIlman."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
Monument to Hon. Georpa
Davis.

To the E9Itcr. The r-oe--s
v-,~rr.o, nsuyht.~- ~ ,r.
49, b,~ar..~t..o
ri-.hf. <o,rhcr. ~, .e-.e
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non aag in bfs own 4.--fa, nd.
,-4 - ~. 4.on1. 81 tr. cs..
,o-. III. memory NOR. .-
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It had occurred 10 Me-"h" ar #
Davis $ Younger friends when 4 a.
many years ago, ~ Wilmington
that city would render 10 III MsH
or its late citizen the highest
Sible tribute II II would lay The toa#
tion II once or a local college au,
professional training school for the Eau..
Of the Capo Fear region and ~ the e..
tire south Atlantic coast such an #H-
stitution. ii endowed. would confer "a
greater blessing than almost anything
else that could be established there .|s
should be comprehensive III Its scoE.
teaching all that the practical want
of the times exact, but laying the toaa-
dation deep in principles, moral aHl
political. without which learning ana H"
complishment 20 Tor httle. lher" sho"..
be a business SchooI' Il ia" 9~h.o'
school oil medicine ana aho'htf OF '.."
meal - one OF ''~""''a'
industry-ln addition 10 the at1'.'i.
departments proper This institution
might be superimposed either On i.'
public school system or upon an 'Nz-iH-
private academy. When was III VIII
r1ington there were the cape rear Ao"@
envy and at least one other And 'h"
name Of this semlnary, IN order I'D go
full justice to the intelligence and graft
tude Of the citizens, should be CONE
pounded OF the names OF the TWO si""|
characters who have Illustrated IN TWO
revolutions the virtue, the patriotism.
the statesmanltke, the social sracss. the
culture and the accomplishments 81 me
Lower Cape Fear ana adorned the annals
OF two great Cohr"defaele7 a. ~" OF
their greatest leaders nave ever a1'ih'i
them. | simply give the names OF LOT
nelius Harnett and George DAVIS, MN
gled into a hyphenatlon ana placed as
the fore-part OF a fun ttie-l'afis-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

-Four divorces We're granted in Bun
ccmbe Superior Court in one day this
week-and it wasn't a good day for the
divorce mill either. South Dakota's lax
divorce laws can no longer be denounced
by North Carolinians. Our own legisla-
tors have let down the bars until our
divorce courts are a disgrace to our
civilization.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

Think of five solid cars of lettuce.
bringing $3.50 per basket, being sent
from Wilmington in one day to North
ern markets, That means big money for
| Wilmington and spells prosperity with a
great big P.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
NEWSPAPER FAME.
y II III LIN I I'M Z.
New York Press.

Your great man shines before the
populace in vain-without the newspaper.
He spread eagles the constitution in
the newspaper. His clarion
voice wakes up the universe in vain
without the newspaper. His scientific
researches and achievements are vain
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

The North Carolina Baptist has been
enlarged from eight to sixteen pages
and every page is crowded with excel
lent matter. That paper was the pioneer
in temperance reform and has lone a
great work that will live forever.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

a great and successful fight for prohi-
bition in Statesville, says that after
July 1st there will be only one place in
the Eighth Congressional district where
Whiskey can be sold or manufactured
the town of Salisbury. 1t says there ara
over one hundred registered stills in the
rural districts which will go out of
business under the operations of the
Watts act on the first of July.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
A BIG FIGHT ON.

The passage of the Watts act and many
local temperance acts by the Legislature
was but the first gun in the battle to shut
up the saloons and dry up the stills in
North Carolina. a great Anti-Saloon
State Convention will be held on July 7th,
and plans matured for a vigorous cam
paign in scores of towns in the State this
summer and fall.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

The Fuller bill is enforcing itself. The
Southern and Norfolk and Western rail
roads have agreed upon building a suit
able union depot in Winston-Salem. In
Durham the railroads are holding con-
err A good law on the statute books
often enforces itself.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

A writer in Medical Talk asserts that
says he Will stake his professional repu-
tation on the broad statement that f a
person eats lettuce daily he or she will
be immune from that disease. This Will
Eastern North Carolina.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

The papers for the past week have
Club banquet in New York at which swo
negroes were guests. That didn't cause
much comment in itself, but the fact
that two members Of the Southern and
General Education Board-Mr. VIM. H.
Baldwin and Mr.. IWalter H. Page-are
said to have been present has opened
the door for a vigorous attack upon the
work of these boards.
AS to Mr.. Baldwin, he is a Northern
man by birth and it may be he did not
know any better. AS to Mr.. Page, who
have known better, We have been hoping
he would prove an alibi, or say he did
not know the negroes were present at
the table. But, we fear that he was
present and that, instead OF being
ashamed of it, he will not admit the Of
Tense he has committed, or apologize for
it.
We have observed that when Southern
men go North one of two things hap
pens: J.. They cherish the traditions and
civilization of the South sacredly, and,
while not asking others to share their
loyalty TO it's faith and creed, they make
it their lares and ~penates, or 2. They be
gin to criticize the faith of the South, be
come skeptics in religion. mugwumps in
politics. and seem to think they are never
getting broad until they trample under
foot every tradition and sentiment of the
South.
Mr.. Roosevelt had a right to dine Book
er Washington and Mr.. Baldwin had .
right to dine with the negroes in New
York-bad as such taste is and reprehen-
but Mr.. Page had no right to initiate
their example. They are Northern born
men and had different instruction in
their youth. Mr.. Page was brought up
to believe in complete and thorough sep
a~ration of the races. If it be true that
he sat down to dinner with the negroes.
it can be explained only on the theory
that he has been ~hypnotized by Roosevelt
and Booker Washington. No other ex-
planatlCn would excuse q Southern born
man. We have observed, with genuine
regret, Mr.. Pages successive steps to-
ward complete departure from Southern
sentiment. When a Southern man and
free trader lapses into Republicanism and
supports the apostle Of protection, h.
has lost his anchor. Since Mr.. Page
made light of the preachers and the gooi
women who hold fast to the old land
marks and became a disciple of Mckinley
and Roosevelt in politics., and Lyman Al
bott in religion, we have feared this last
step. There is a very narrow margin
between voting with and voting for ne
groes and eating with them. The only
~safety-the only hope of good govern
ment, peace and concord in the South,
as we'll as the very mud-sill Of Southern
civilization, is in complete social and
educational-aye and political, too-sep-
aration of the races.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

Linney's son-in-law. w. D. Deal, wins
in the fight for the Taylorsville post
office.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

1t is absurd to say that, because two
members of these board. as individuals
and not as members Of these boards. at
tended a banquet in New York to which
two negroes We're invited, the purpose
OF he Southern and General Education
Boards is to dominate Southern senti-
ment and control the educational policy
of the South. The Southern Governors.
State Superintendent of Schools, college
presidents and professors, teachers, edi-
tors and others, who are sincerely in
terested in lettering the public schools
of the South, are to be trusted to be
true to the Southern ideals. While they
make education Of Southern youth para
mount among Southern problems, they
would prefer ignorance to education
based upon loss of self respect or the
abandonment of the Southern view of
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

It may be easier to coax a woman than
,, &c IA drive he's. but it's more ex-
pensiVe.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

Some newspapers, already hostile, have
used the break Of Mr.. Baldwin and
Mr.. Page as an excuse to renew their
warfare against the educational work
General Education Boards are seeking
to second and promote. The Southern
people, who are glad to nave the CO.
operation of all who are interested in
the accomplishment Of the great work,
nave not and will not abate one jot or
title of their consyictions as to the
methods and plans of their educational
policy. The two boards that are helping
have not sought in any way to change
the policy which any southern State has
adopted. They nave desired to cooper
and they have not been actuated by any
desire to change the views of Southern
educators or Southern youths. Most of
these men are animated by a patriotic
to lend a hand in fastening the abolition
Of the curse of illiteracy. Instead of re
ceiving them in the spirit Of criticism
and suspicion, they have been received
as co-workers in the accomplishment of
the hardest task to which any people
have addressed themselves since the
French people began to rebuild their
fortunes after the war with Germany.
The South did not ask aims. 1t did not
solicit the cooperation of these excel
lent gentlemen who are giving their time
and money to advance universal educa-
ton in the South. God fol- bid! But just
as it received the liberal gifts OF Mr..
Peabody, Which have been Of great help,
progressive Southern men have welcom-
ed the cooperation of Mr.. Ogden and
MI. Buttrick and their associates.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31

Castolia, n. c., March y.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-01-03
TIE ART OF READING POETRY.
Lyric Verse Cannot Pc Devoured Like
an Ordinary Novel.

While a pedantic niceness is fatal
to any intelligent enjoyment Of liter
allure, there is a different measure OF
attention to minutiae demanded by
most prose and the finer poetry.
There is prose, indeed, like Charles
Lambs, OF Landers, OF Sir Thomas
Brownies, which approaches poetry
in its search for the choice word,
the inevitable epithet, the final
phrase; but, as a rule, prose is the
coarser medium. Thaekeray wrote,
perhaps, as fine prose as any man Of
the nineteenth century; yet to lin
ger over his separate sentences would
be to lose just that illusion Of real
life recorded which he prominently
conveys. George Meredith's style is
bad for a novelist precisely because
we forget his people while we litter
at his epigrams. The best prose is
transparent; we look through it to
the idea it conveys; Of itself we
should not be conscious. 1t is not so
with poetry. There language itself
is studied, measured, refined; every
word, phrase, or cadence is the result
of curious art. Who runs NAV not
read poetry. 1t must be read and
read again, spoken, savored in all its
niceties. Unjust creep into the mem.
ory-not through mechanical repe
tition, but by spontaneous recollec.
ton. This is a slow process; and
indeed, the wise book-lover will reaC
volumes Of prose to pages, nay, lines
of poetry.
/ Particularly is this true Of lyrica
poetry. Narrative, or descriptive, o
dramatic verse may be read more near
! ly as prose, currently, from cover t
a cover; but to plunge headlon
( through a collection Of lyrics is t
enact, in a sense, the role of a bull i
a china shop-you break the spell a
every step. A lyric poem is the in
5 ~passioned utterance of a state c
! mind; by the associations Of his choic
D words, by the melancholy or rims
ing cadences Of his phrases, no lie;
than by his plain meaning, does th
n lyrist make his mood yours.-Jefe.
son B, Fletcher, in Success.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-01-03
Death Of Mrs. Barnes.

Mrs. Tabitha Barnes, aged rs
years, died at the residence of her
son, Frank C. Barnes, near Lexington,
Saturday evening at s clock
paralysis.
Mrs. Barnes was born in this county
and had lived here all her life. She
was the daughter Of James Fletcher.
Her husband, T. W. Barnes di, d
about three years ago. OF her seven
children, four are living 10 this county
William, Frank c., Mrs. Clarinda
Moore and Mrs. Arthur Young.
James Barnes lives 10 Colorado and
Mrs. Julia Worland in Oklahoma.
Mrs. Mary Worland is dead.
The funeral services were conducted
at the home of her son, F. G. Barnes
Monday afternoon at two O'Clock
Rev. r. D. BrineY, Of the Christian
church, of which she was long
member, officiating. Interment tool
place in Machpelah cemetery.