The farmer and mechanic., 1910-08-16

Thousand Doliars-A Picture OF an
Ideal Place for Vacation and the
Simple Life.
Mr. Archibald Johnson, editor of
Charity and Children, was in Raleigh
this week, returning from Wakefield
where he delighted the people by
talk" on Sunday, filling the pulpit
of DR.. Cullom. He is not a preacher,
but when he goes into a pulpit he
fills it" and gives the people some
thing to think about. He is native
Of Scotland county, the same neigh
borhood where John Charles McNeill
was born, and every summer &c.
there to live the simple me. lie mas
a home there, which he calls The
House That Jack Built" and he thus
writes in Charity and Children of his
vacation:
"Once a year for week this writ
pr throws off the harness and takes
his way to the home of his childhood.
That pleasure came to him the last
week in July.
Some people-a great many, in
fact-fly to the seashore or the noun
tains pay high rates for entertain
ment. swelter in their good clothes,
and imagine they are having the time
of their lives A few others go back
TO the place where they went bare
footed in their youth and knew moth
l.
on Sunday, with now and then
week day frOlic among the maidens
of the neighborhood
we prefer the latter. We see
plenty of people without going to the
springs to find them. 1t is pleasant,
Of course, to meet friends anywhere,
but in the multitude there is not
much rest. The way to rest is to be
quiet and comfortable; and neither
can be found in a crowd.
But besides the quiet and COM
fort there is no place like home, The
old familiar places as We'll as the
warm hearts of ones kinfOlks bring
refreshment to the tagged brain. The
dropping in of neighbors, the recount
ing of half-forgotten incidents and
accidents of boyish belgerency and ex-
uberance, the story of the struggles
and triumphs we'll as the disap-
pointment and defeat along the high
way-these things can be enjoyed at
only one place and that is at the old
home.
And to be feasted and jollied by
the neghbors in the different homes;
to slide up the winding Lumb Der in
forty dollar canoe with q skilled boat
man and rest on the bosom of an IN
let in the blazing sun waiting and
hoping for q tussle with a trout and
never get a nibble the plunge with
the boys in the cool waters and the
froIic with the swimmers-these
things are to be found in their per-
fection about Riverton made glori-
Gus in song and story by Charles Nc
Nell, whose body lies close by.
The Plutocratic Farmers.
More progress has been MADE IN
farming in North Carolina in recent
years than in manufacturing ana III
commerce. Scotland is one of the
smallest counties in the State, but II
is one of the richest Writing OF Whar
has been done in that county IN farm
ing. Mr.. Johnson says:
The best way to discover the ad-
vancing value of farm lands and the
prosperous condition of the farmer
is to revisit the scenes of your enid
hOol and compare the situation as II
was then and as it is now. Inc "rlIeI =,
we'll remembers a plantation IN the
neighbOrhood where he was reared
that was noted for it's poverty. Its
sand spots were white and Gistenlns
and the bottom patches were few ana
far between. 1t was notorious Ior lIs
humble bee cotton and its tran ana
feeble corn 1t now produces grea'
crops and the weak places average uE
with the bottoms. TWENTY-FIVE yeal
ago that place would have been con
sidered dear at $500; it sold las
spring for $4,000, and the bu. er is
chuckling over his bargain: Anotnel
plantation in that neiShborhood more
valuable than the one mentioned, was
worth a quarter of a century age
$4,000. The owner would not sell Il
today for 100000.
THE small farmer in the old days
with a hundred acres Of land ano
hardly able to make buckle anc
tongue meet, finds himself now worth
$10,000 That is the way things are
going in that section and althousr
property values have bounded TOT
ward more rapidly there than in moss
sections of the State, the progress II
the value of farm lands everywhere
mas been steady and strong. further-
more, the methods of farming nave
more than kept pace with the lncreas-
ing value of property. The use OF fer
tlizers is much more intelligent thar
formerly. Even the negroes have a
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