The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-06

keeper from Henderson n a morse
trader and his wife who halled from
the state Of Surry.
one VINO looked on thought better or
the ~Vanderbilts and better sun OF tne
people who, apprtsed or their person
aIfty. had the good taste and the IN
horn spirit q gentle hospitality 70 lei
them enjoy themselves u~nencunbeFed
by the knowledge OF their money. Anu
one remembered By contrast the re-
cent riot III a Western city Wfen Johh
y. Rockefeller blocked traffic for an
hour by simply showing ms ace III
public.
John D., who is a virtual prisoner
IN bfe dollars and q mountebank by
reason Of his wealth. IS cited 70 James
town as a place where he can receive
courtesy and avoid impudence.
Tire crowd on the war Path.
It is the character of the crowd that
makes the W. Path" different. IN
trinisically it IL much the same GoL-
lection Of the ingenuitfes Of INVENTOR
Of wild animal shows. Of the curious
c~ontrivances BY which the American
public is tickled to its depths and re-
lieved Of its dollars In order 70 oD-
tain a series Of physical shocks, OF
dances, trick horses, spectacular SHOWS
and restaurants Withou number.
These things the jamestown crowds
take in the vein of ''all in the days
sport" merrily but Without disorder
Occasionally a big captive balloon goes
un and hangs silently over the GROUNDS
with q solitary VOyager or so. Inc
balloon is not popular, however, and
its consumption of gas is out of all
nroportiOn to it's income. The James
town visitor is willing to get IN a BOAT
and burrOw underground with a mag
nifcent assurance through all sorts
CT weird experiences, to go IKE an
express train through the air or be
whirled uu-side-doWn in a loOp-the-
loon. He draws the line at trusting
himself TO a gas bag and a cable that
might break, hoWever magnificent the
view. This limit or darn-foolishness
is also significant.
Do not suppose, however, that the
crowd is not cosmopolitan. Ten min
utes stand on the War Path will re-
veal the nations of the world in re-
view. In front of a large village
restaurant stands a spieler rolling his
"rs" and inviting "r-r-r-right this way
for-r a GLASSES of bee-r-r for five
cents"
A jap comes by in the crowd and
the spieler's Invitation Is changed TO
"Fugi wage the Japanes-s-se beer.
A Mexican gets the invitation IN the
patois of his country produced by a
gentleman of Dutch purport and Irish
extraction. A shutting Turk finds
warm welcome to come in and cool ms
blood ~thirstyness with Pillsener. In
side, Swiss maidens from dis
course Alpine songs and a Yodler
with a pug nose, a long upper lip n
twinkling blue eyes runs his fingers
! through his black hair and gives the
evening call in German such as they
speak in Tammany HALL Around the
tables, in the open air, the choWds sit
t - 49, I~i ~
their draughts in an animated scene
and with a merriment that never
verges onto what is called "convivial-
ity." At other restaurants there are
served the 'hot o beef sanwiches
where the food is cooke before your
eyes and where also, the many who
walk about with their lunches in
boxes are invited to come in, sit down
and avail themselves Of the tables of
the house without moneys and with
out price.
BattIeships In Historic Birth.
Out in the harbor today are lying
the Brooklyn and the Texas, other
modern fighting ships being at pres
ent in dry docks at the navy yard.
Launches running from the not yet
completed but magnificent government
pier plough out to the waiting ships
every half hour, d~ischarging their
loads of sight-seers and returning until
the last visitor is landed back at the
grounds. The big Brooklyn is, per-
haps, n of the most profitable of the
ships to visit. 1t is rot yet antedat-
ed although it has been in commission
for eleven years. 1t is open to the
jamestown visitor from engine room
to fighting top and the crew seems
untiring in it's efforts to please and in
terpret. In the ward room is framed
the photograph of the Spanish cruiser
Chrlstobal Colon, set in q punctured
plate from the B~rooklyn's .armor
through which it sent its shell on the
third of July, 1898. On board are one
or two inVeterate gunne who were
in the fight and garrulous in their
"reminiscences. For the most part
howeve r, the personnel that fought the
! Brooklyn is gone as slowly, as the big
ger ships are built, the Brooklyn i:
going, Nothing can take away from
it, however, the record that the crew
will point one to of Schley on the
bridge in preference to the coming
tower and of the death of the Yoe-
man beheaded at his side.
Where the Brooklyn and Texas art
berthed is about the spot on which was
fought the first battle between iron
clads when the Monitor and the Merri-
mac changed the history of the navies
in a day. This incident is reproduced
in one of the War Path shows that is
q marvel Of ingenuity Of effect and
clycloramic is perspective in which the
engagement represented with change
Of morning and night, with storm
and sunshine and in which the ships
fight it out, sink, burn up and m
vre before ones eyes. Afterwards, ir
the Roads. one looks about him and is
almost stunned with the fa~ithfulness OF
the setting of the spectacle to the facts
of naturei
1t is all here. down to the Esquimos
and the Filipinos. said a little boy
when the Esquimos appeared before
the entrance to their village of snow
houses with a little girl in the middle
of the group-"Annawannakanai
Who would have thought that there
was really art in a comic supple
menti
The Blue Blooded Moro.
The Filipino chief is a gentleman OF
a dirty hide who drinks deep, sleeps
long and smokes always when awake
You may watch his sleep. but you may
I! not converse with the chief-who is 6
prince" Blood is everything and the
Prince has a small foot and a high
inStep that would grace a ladV O1