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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02
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at a cost of over $4,000 600, and not
outstanding all this, left a big fortune
to her descendants.
Parsee NIilIionaires.
These gifts suggest the wealth Of
the Parsees. The Petits might be
called the Rothschilds of The country,
save that they are by far moe gener-
Gus. One of the men of the Petit
family, to which belonged the girl who
has just donated her jewels for a girls
O~rphanage, founded q boys orphanage
to perpetuate the memory OF his son,
who was cut off in his prime. These
Petits have made their millions in cot
ton. One of them erected the first
spinning and weaving mill for India
This was over fifty years ago. 1t was
a great success, and its founder added
others, so that ne became the cotton
King of the country. A large part of
the Wadia fortune was made in cotton,
as were also those of the Tatas and
the Jeejeebboys. Other rich families
control the Parsee banks in the vari-
Gus cities of India and in other parts
OF the far east, and q big steel indus
try has just been started by the Tatas.
But of this I shai write in the future.
n Religious Trust.
Before mentioning some tenets of
the Parsee faith l want to tell you
about the Punchayat or religious trust
Whlch 1t. This controls
more property than Trinity Church in
New York. 1t has charge of all the
church funds, amounting to more than
two million dollars, and other hold
ings in real estate which are Of great
value The Punchayat has recently
figured in some trials here at Bombay,
which have created great excitement
throughout the Parsee world. The
Parsee church is q close corporation.
It's members are liberal to a fault, and
give more to their faith than any sect
l know. At the same time they are
conservative and want TO control what
they give by keeping out of the fold
converts who are not of pure Parsee
blOod
Not long ago or of the Tatas, q mil
liOnair member of the community,
took unto himself q French wife. She
became converted to her husbands re
ligiOn, prCfeSsed the faith OF Zoroaster
and was taken into the church. There
upon the bigots of the faith objected,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02
FIRE WORSFIIPERS OF INDIA
By Frank Z. Carpenter

by the women as we'll. They have
rich widows who in their
Sits with Mrs. Russell Sage, and girls
who might stand side by side with
Helen Gould. OF the latter character
is Miss HANNIBAL Framji Petit, who
has just given her jewelry, valued at
1,200, 600 rupees, for founding a Par
see girls Orphanage, where it is pro-
posed to teach the various arts and IN
dustries, 50 that the graduates upon
leaving, may earn their own living.
Miss Petit has given this money over
to trustees, and a OF IN
fluential Parsee gentlemen are now
laying out the plans for the institu-
ton.
One Of the Parsee givers Of the past
whom we might compare with certain
of our millionaire widows was Mrs. Bal
Motlibai Wadia, OF the same family as
the man who has just left the 5000
600 gold dollars. She was the wife
of a millionaire PaISee of this city,
whom she outliVed more than thirty
years. During hat time she gave
away one million and q half dollars in
the men. They are pushed and aided
public charities, and almost two mil
lions in private aims. She "a Bonn
bay it's first hospital for native ONE
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stand in favor of the government is of
value to Great Britain. One or their
biggest capitalists recently sal at a
Parsee mass meeting that his people
the violence and anarchy
advocated by the re~VolutiOnists of
other sects, and referred to the British
rule as an unmitigated blessing to In
dia.
The Hindoos are illiterate. Not one
in ten can read or write. The Parsees
are universally educated. Many OF
them are graduates of colleges and
schools and girls schools at Bombay
and other places in Hindustan for the
training Of their children.
Millions for Charity.
There are no more charitable be-
levers in the world than the Parsees.
They are always giving to public en-
terprises, and their institutions,
founded for their own people, have
cost many millions of dollars. Dur
ing the past year the requests of the
late NaOroji NJ. Wadia have been
largely distributed, and III addition
there have been other gifts from
Parsees here at Bombay aggregating
$500, 900. The Wadia bequests amount
to more than five million gold dollars.
All this was for the amelioration of
the condition Of the poor and the pro-
motion of education among the Par
sees.
l drove today past the Jametjee Jee-
Jeebhoy Institute, which was DUNDEE
sixty years g by a Parsee of that
name. He began life a poor boy and
died worth SO, 900, 900. A great part
Of his wealth went to charity. He
gave 100000 to hospitals, colleges
and rest houses, and about 500, 900 to
this school The governme of In
Ola took charge of the gift and agreed
to pay 6 per cent upon it as a loan.
Since then other Parsees have added
to the endowment and the capital Of
n institute is fourfold as large as
when started. The ParSees of Bonn
bay are building sanitary houses for
the poor Of their communities. Their
scheme is about the same as that of
the George Peabody trust fund, and
IN their money.
charities of Parsee women.
occH chaIlueS are not confined to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02

and the trustees of the P~unchayat de-
cided tina they could not allow any
interest in the church money to &C to
outside converts. nor would they per-
nit such onyert to warm their souls
at the holy fires or upon death to have
their flesh torn from their bodies by
The French lady has insisted upon her
to enforce them before the courts at
Bombay. The judges have decided
in her favor, and converts are now to
have the right to come into the church
under certain restrictions. However,
there was a minority decision. One of
the justices suggested that the aliens
might have separate empleS and
burial towers, and another has pro-
tested that the verdict might open up
the church to undesirable aliens and
ruin the prosperity OF the ParSee COM
munity.
The Faith OF The Parsees.
And this brings me to the faith of
the Parsees. You have often heard
them called worshipers Of fire. In a
sense they are so. They have fire al
they worship it, as one of them told
me, only as an emblem of the sun and
as the highest visible type of the Gre
ator. 1t is so with all religions sup
posed TO be purely idOlatrous. Upon
investigation one finds that the idols
are WorShiped only as the representa-
tive of a deity who creates and rules,
and not as sticks and stones endowed
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02

1t could nOt be heIia,..4
man nor have its foI,..r- " ce4so-.-,
Grafton to generation Us .s"m IN,
The Parsaac h.1:
in the r~esurractjor in '-. a,.s
beings before Ga 't-. ..... .s
this God crea+ad ...... --..
evil and tho otba1 'N' -l.E..s. .-
and the 49, vi good. ... .:...
spirits are aIv.a,os 4".-.s~
soul and accorE:. .-.- ... .
or the othar he - H. ....r-
descends to bnl nus tn .....
earth Determines b:it'S ".-.--
-, ''1 -.... s....
Xxx sacred llgt.
me ParSees look I,..
water and the sun. moor 49,. -.t
the creation of the spirit of. H..
especially revere fire. an. r...
the temples here at Bonnie. n
nave oeeh burning for u...r..
years. II came from Persf. Whit
was nfSt Hghted many pe.-.r..
before the Alohammedou~ ....
tie couhtfE ana drove tha~.
u II was carried by thu. e..
town OF OrmuZ on the Persian .-.
ahd with them to ~s-.--
lnala when the first Of thri. sa.- ..
10 Hlndustan. Later still th.. f--.-.
II with them to Bombay. ami If 10
ways Kept blazing in thu tyr,.as a
The ,Parsees do MOI permit srr.r.
to see this fire. They r...r1 -A.,,
worship too holy to have il 1f,natI..
others, and they make no uis,,.
religion. by gorgeous .n.~
and elaborate religious
am told that they look uDur fir.
me purest thlns upon earth. ~ sum.
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Copyright, 1910. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
BOMBAY, 1910.
The chest. the most powerful, the
most intelligent and most charitable OF
all religions is the ParSee, which has
its ~eaduuarte here at Bombay. l
use these terms in comparing 1t with
the other great religions as TO the
number of it's members.
There are less than 100, 900 Parsees
in the world: but their banks and
other financial institutions are scatter
ed throughout the far east, and their
possessions are untold millions. They
have to be considered in every bust
ness movement that goes on in India,
for they are the financial kings of the
country. They are noted for their
integrity and progressiveness, and just
now. when India is torn up by the
populistiC Hindoos, the fact that they
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02

q F'renc! Wornan Denied to the Iii
turcs-QueeG Features Of the Parsee
Taitl-The Holy Fire and Its faft
in Religion ZorOaster the Prophet.
Tie Towers OF Silence and DISPOSE
ton of the DeaG-A!iEIiOnS for Char
ity-Thc Big Gift Of a barsee
fEeiPeSS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-02

with supernatural powers. There is.
no religion upon earth that does not
contain beautiful truths. Otherwise
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Copyright, 1910, by Frank G. a
DGnter.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04

the tobacco market as given by the Farm
ers' Warehouse: Tho slight Season" the
first OF the week has given the warehouses
fairly good breaks. selling 100000 pounds this
week. Tobacco is coming in In very small
piles. Just as the farmers have stripped 1T,
composed mostly of the DOVER grades. which
are made UP Of the farmers last cuttings
the season being so slight that they are no,
handling their better grades. Prices are ac-
tive on everything offered. We quote the
following prices:
Lugs.. comrnon..... 4.oo Q& o.ba
Lugs good to medium ,.......... $50 % Csc
Luys- long Observation-Disclosures. $50 q $50
Short leaf ...,...,.............,... $50 a 500
Medium leaf..................... 750 q SIG
whipping Observation-Disclosures. 500 Qpl200
Short wrappers. ..,.............,.. 400 @ 400
VERY little being offered.
Fine wrappers, none offered
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Der size in ten years. after the last
corn crop has been cut OFF the land
and the pines given chance to grow.
If this be true, why may not the Pima
forest business be good thing in old
for our children who
will come on ten and fifteen and
twenty years hence. A pine grove
might prove a splendid asset for the
little dimple-faced baby now smiling
In the crib.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04

commercial world should be advised OF
1t. 1t is also important for all Amer
lean business interests to learn wheth-
er their own government purposes 70
protect contract rights against such
Kind of foreign legislation.
All of the above is very interesting
especially so in that 1t goes TO snow
how natural it Is for New EnglandeI
70 run like crybaby TO the govern.
ment for protection whenever els
boy hits him. Germany and It's auto
cratic Emperor ought not to be al
lowed to impose on American fertilizer
makers and consumers and IL Is hKely
that this great government OF ours
would have stepped into the breach
even If Mr.. Bradley with his big y
had never interposed But be that as
y may. the whole matter is now IN
the hands of the government, wh,cn
Will have a settlement in due time,
ynd that settlement wiB probably
mean that the mere matter of German
potash VIII not cut any figure IN max
Ing the prices higher for fertilizers TO
farmers. Certainly not for the coming
season
What Home Folks Think.
l had talk with the officials of the
Virginia-C Carolina Chemical Company
Who furnish most of the fertilizers r.,
laughed at the Bradley output.
$. t. Morgan. the president of the
company. had Just returned from Eu-
rope, and while he was over there
he naturally looked into this German
potash question AS a matter OF fact.
Mr.. Morgan's business in Europe was
to look after the business of the South
ern Cotton Oil Company and the
Charleston Mining Company. extensive
miners of and dealers in phosphate
rock, but being there he took some
part in the potash discussion. When
his government took hand in the
matter he left the whole business
there, and he thinks that Is where 1t
reticent and showed a decided repug-
nance 10 getting into print, he did say
that he feared no trouble to the Nir-
sinian and Southern farmers from the
potash situation in Germany.
While he did not say so in so many
words, 1T kinder leaked out that so
far as his company is concerned they
are pretty well fixed in the potash line
for some time to come.
In a further talk with Mr.. Morgan
and l. S. Crenshaw, the secretary Of
the company. I learned that there has
been decided advance in the prices
for Ammonia. and phosphates. which GU;
a considerable figure in the fertilizer
in the cost Of labor in all lines that
to the manufacture Of fer.
tilizers. may in time force the prices
of fertilizers up somewhat, but the adj
vance Will not be of any greater per-
centage than Is noticeable in every
thing else that people have to buy in
these days of high prices. And. surely,
of this the farmers who use fertilizers
cannot complain, for they are getting
more for corn than they used to get,
more for tobacco than heretofore.
more for hay and wheat and for every,
thing else they have to sell.
Anyhow, from all can gather. I do
not think the Virginia and Carolina
farmers will have to pay any more for
theE fertilizers the coming season than
they have been paying. Not being
] can't tell what may happen
La ar az, and I 1uould nnt like To e.llnss
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HAY CROP
It's GREAT VALUE
ect worthy of a special article.
grass Everywhere.
CONTINUED From First page.)

GRASS Everywhere.
my farm won't take in grass" or
this section is not adapted to grass"
are common expressions. but a very
mistaken idea. From the sands of the
seashore reaching away across the
plains to the mountain tops grasses
are found and others adapted to these
different soils and climate ready for
the use OF farm animals. study your
soil.
Write to your Commissioner OF Agri-
culture for help and information. Give
him all the particulars you can as to
the character of your soil, the crops
you have been growing, and the
topography of that section. He will
then be able to suggest the variety OF
grass to grow. Then. after thorough
preparation OF the land. SOW plenty Of
grass seed alone. On my farm in Albe-
marie county there was an old field
that had been cropped until 1t was
considered worthless, and had been
used for many years as a COW pasture,
only producing hengrass and briars.
had it plowed to a good depth and
seeded to wheat and grass, using one
peck of Timothy and one gallon OF
clover to the acre, and then applied
200 pounds Of cheap fertilizer At
harvest time I secured good yield
of wheat, and had one of the best
stands OF grass ] had ever seen.
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of Wyoming, tho landed estate OF the
late Peter Paul, and got for it some.
thing like $4,000. This property con.
sists of 5000 acres and vast Improve.
ments located In King William county.
I learn that Mr.. Howard is a SUD.
cessful farmer who has done well
in the Northwest, but has become
and the SHOWS and the other bad
things that worried him there Ife
got to reading the Indtistriai Section
of The Times Dispatch. and thus got
his eye focused on Old virginia--and
here he is and he brought the cash
right along with him.
There are ruinors OF several other
big farm sales. but as yet have not
been able to trace them down to the
cast-iron-fact point.
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real. ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS


locations are near the old battery Two
or three residences were started in
Woodland Heights during the past few
for two others to be built near the
corner of Hillcrest and Twenty eighth
Street overlooking the James River.
Out West.
In the far West End, that Is to say,
out on the Boulevard, there has been
some activity and whole lot of In
quiry. A. NJ. Grover, who represents
the West End Land Company, tells
me that he had good business the
past week, He sold the northeast
corner of Boulevard and Chaffln Street
to well-known man OF this city, who
will build his home thereon. This is
within a block of the corner recently
sold to Fl. NJ, Smith, Jr., at the corner
of Boulevard and Beverly overlooking
William Byrd Park.
Chamber of Commerce Deal.
OF course, the talk Of the week has
which the Chamber of Commerce
bulldinS is to make room for twenty
story skyscraper, and 1t is no secret
that all OF this talk Is a little disgust
Ing to the real estate agents. for It
may have been read between the lines
that the deal, IL, there be one, was
made without the help of agents and
the commission account Is lacking.
That was made very plain in tho
meeting of the stockholders and the
plalnness of the statement that no
agents commissions attach is most
naturally disgusting to the agents.
some OF them profess to believe that
no deal has been made, but inside
Information, information that Is not
alWays open TO real estate agents, but
sometimes worms itself into the
reportorlal breast. Is to the effect that
ne transaction by, which the Chamber
OF Commerce. building is to become
real skyscrapcr is Just as good
as IL 1t had been. signed, sealed ana
uueliVered, and the deed recorded in
me courts at the exorbtant fec rates
.na' inc present unjust laws allow.
DOinEa In Farm Lands.
Aside from the Chamber of Com.
iGnerce, deal, which Is really settled
iact, the feature OF the week In real
estate circles Is the unusual inquiry
iop farm lands, The hotel registers
Nov NOV that not few people from the
Western ana northwestern States arc
visitors to the city. Investigation
shows that a majority OF them aro
mere In search of Virginia farm landa
VEL situated; that IL to sny near to
,sNehnond or some other<good market
,op WHAT Western farmer can mako
or sale IN u good market
mere are rumors Of a number al
good sales OF farm lands made during
we week and prospects of others likes
~ 70 be made this week, and in other
nearby weeks, but OF tuose do moi
What they are worth However, i do
Know that Casscl,nnH h Co. made ono
OF the biggest Land sales of recent
years This hrm sold TO % Mr.. Howard
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DEVELOP NEN7 IN
IMP 0R TANT LINES
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bridge. and the old mud holes that I
tried to rattle through two years ago
are being converted into macadam
roads. That's what's now. You see,
one good thing brings on another good
thing.
Right there at that same place the
Southern Railway now has the finest
best built and perhaps the highest
and longest bridge on Its system: that
Is to say, on that part of Its system
And few miles up the river the Vir-
ginian Railway crosses the stream
with Its long cars on bridge of al
most equal dimensions.
Speaking about how one good thing
leads to another am inclined to get
back on the fruit subject. 1t has only
been year since the Virginia apple
and peach growers caught on to the
box packing idea, and I am told that
the improvement in the packing way
has already brought to Virginia moro
than 100000 that otherwise would not
have come. but believe I talked a
good deal along this line last Sunday,
and maybe anything might say now
would be but repetition. Possibly
half a million dollars profit in one year
from new idea Of packing looks large
to the average reader, and may be
accused of exaggerating a little. The
figures seem to me to be pretty ac-
,curate and am willing to bank on
them, and 1t may DO that before the
entire fruit crop gets into the hands
or the mouths of the consumers the
box pack profits Will run UP to- q mil
lion,
Lumber Now and Hereafter.
4hov n a 10 an NV
why there is so little said nowadays in
the Industrial Section about the lum.
ber interest OF Virginia. It IL not
thought that the lumber interest needs
to be talked about any more. AS a
matter OF fact the demand for Vir-
ginia lumber Is such that tho time Is
near OF hand when the supply will be
below the demand; that is, If the lum-
Der mills keep on cutting down tho
trees and cutting up the logs in the
way they have been doing for the past
several years in order to meet tho
demand for the best OF the timbers
that so into house building and other
things. took snapshot picture
the other dayisSf q little insignificant
looking sawmill' that sells all OF Its
product away UP II. New England. Less
than month ago was in mill that
was saving up lumber, every inch of
which goes into boxes that finally
flnds It's way to South America. encas-
ing soap and perfumes and oil. And
they do say that there is no timber
that will keep the perfumes and the
soaps and the oils IN the tropical coun-
tries except the Virginia old field pine.
Perhaps IT would be q good thing fpr
the Virginia farmers . plant and.
spronogata the old field pines, have
heard that they Will grow to box tim.
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POULTRY SHOWS
ARE EDUCATIONAL

CONTINUED From First Page.)
king of the universe. fine head and
eyes, feathers Sic as q coat of silk.
and you'll have to acknowledge that
blood lines Will tell.
The Richmond show.
All indications point this year to the
largest show the Virginia Poultry AS
ISOLATION has ever had. Their IDEA
was TO have 1t in the Horse Show
Binding as In 1907 and 1908. AS that
can't be had in January the committee
will probably take one of the large
stores on Broad Street, or possibly
the old Y. 81. C. A. Building. There
has been little delay In the printing
of the catalogues. but they are prom
Used now. December /. when they viii
be mailed without further delay. Judg
ing by the number of requests for
catalogues from breeders outside of
Virginia, and taking this as a basis.
I'll venture to say that Richmond city
will hold more poultry cranks spell
bound from January 13 to 10, 1911,
than at any time OF her history. Be-
sides the silver cups and cash
premiums. there are specials from
butchers. clothiers. jewelers.; in fact.
fellow is liable to get anything from
pair of free half soles and heels
to n suit of clothes. with a pair of
gold cufr buttons thrown in and a
golden fountain pen In the vest pocket
with which he can write his thanks
and appreciation Of the banner show
of the South.