The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07

PHILOSOPHY of Earthquakes. In
view Of the earthquake which de
s1royed San Francisco a few years
ago. this article is very interesting as
Well as instructive. There was gen
eral demand that the writer deliver
a public lecture on The subject and
many leading citizens Of California.
including United States Senator's.
congressman Judges. the Governor.
and men prominent in every profess
SION and calling Joined in a letter
asking that he deliver an address en-
the subject giving as a reason that
We believe that a lecture thereupon
at the present time would be Of gem
iTal interest and ten perhaps To
quiet public apprehension"
1t IS significant that all of his val
uaple manuscripts were destroyed in
the late San Francisco fire.
II is strange that neither Cations
BOOK nor the many fiattering news
paper notices Of his writings contain
any reference to quite q p~retentious
poem written :a7d published by him
IN 1896 under the title The Indian
GallO~s n Other Poems" He was
Their ? student at Harvard.
The Indian Gallows was situated
in that part Of BERTHE County on the
Roanoke River known now and then
as the Indian Woods" the tract of
land ceded to the Tuscarora Indians
by the State Of North Carolina
through Governor Charles Eden. 1t
was a very remarkable curiosity, and
as such was frequently visited by per
sons from a distance. 1t consisted Of
two gigantic oaks. standing at least
Is feet %asunder. with a branch
growing from one of them into the
other. which constituted the cross.
This branch was more than Is feet
from the ground and had many large
| trunks growing perpendicularly upon
it. resembling trees without roots. 1t
3 Is evident that the top of one Of the
oaks must have been bent, clipped,
and inserted into the body OF the
other: yet SO exactly was this done
that with the closest inspection 1t
could not be determined to which tree
the cross originally belonged. In a
!. violent storm some thirty years ago
one Of the trees was uprooted and
fell. The other stood but a year or
two with the extended cross. 1t soon
decayed and was cut down. Thus
t persisted these Siamese Twins Of the
e forest. The Indian Gallows' is a
beautiful narrative Of the ndian ira
e ditiOn accounting for the freak Of
s the forest in Bertie County. This
publication is very rare and | urge
a that a republication Of the sans
v De Undertaken. IN 1857 SaCca
+ rusa and Longboord, chiefs Of tn
, T~uscaroras. came to BERTHE Count,
for the of releasing all prop
erty rights Of that tribe to lands il
Berthe County. They visited the I'm
# dian Gallows'' and found marks o.
one OF the trees which they sal
indicated that two men and one WON
# an had beer executed on the gal
- lows"
William Henry Rhodes kept i
20 close touch with his relatives in BERT
ic County. His brother, Lieutenant Z
le A. Rhodes. was one of that immOrta
L band Of Co. c. 11th North Carolini
re Troops whose conduct and Drawer
Re made III hills of Gettysburg renown
K ed in song and story.
e Mr.. Rhodes married Miss Susar
re McDermott, of Cruckerne, Somerset
shire, England. She with six chi
I'd dren survived his death, whic
es occurred April IA, 1876. Every mar
n Of respect and honor was shown hir
a and eloquent tributes were paid t
r his great character and work.
ID His great domestic happiness
ne beautifully portrayed in a poem t
his wife on Our Wedding Day"
IN A dozen springs and more, dear SUI
Have doomed and passed away
e Since hand in hand and heart
- neart,
-, We spent cur wedding day.
~ Youth bIossomed on our checks, dea
Sue.
- JOy chased each tear Of woe
When frs we promised to be true
~ That morning long ago.
n
he Though many cares have come, dea
is Sue,
,se To checker life'S career,
%. AS down its pathway we nave trod,
he In trembling and in fear.
<" Still in h darkest storm, dear Su
That lowered DER our way
a We chung the closer while it blew
nv And laughed the clouds away.
Ov
ar It's true our nome IS hdHloIe, sue
es. And riches we have not