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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16
OLD NORTH STATE"

IL OLD MIN i l
By MRS. L. E. CAIN, Raleigh, \. c.
Grand old North State. e love thee! We love thee!
From the blue skyland, o the waving sea
We love thy hills thy streams, thy mountains grand.
Tv solden waving fields, all DER the land.
We are proud of thy forests. towering nigh.
The sturdy oak, the longleaf pine,
The walnut, the maple, the trumpet vine,
Thy luscious fruits and flowers that vie
With all the world, beyond compare,
Blooming DER hill and dale s bright and fair,
Hiding off in the SWeet-Scented dell
Where waters flow, and With muslc swell.
CHORUS
Oh, grand old North State! W e love thee! we love theet
From mountain-top to the blloWy sea,
From Currituck to far Cherokee.
We are proud of thy sons aye every one.
Who fought our battles and victory won,
Who stands or the Right, who crush n Wrong.
While burst from their hears sweet Iibertys song,
Who justice and honor and ruth proclaim.
Writing in History thy fair grand name.
Oh, grand old North State W r. proud Of thee
%. From the blue skyland to the waving sea,
From CurTituck, to far Cherokee.
Thy Flag doth wave all DER the State.
Our ear beat true to Liberty great,
And ready r. e at u Country's cl
To defend or homes, Il land, aye all,
Oh! grand Old North State! We crown thee, We bless thee!
From the mountain-topsto the billoWy sea,
From Currituck to far Cherokee!
We r proud of thy daughters, thy women grand
Who bless Our homes all DER the land!
In peace @ "a a patriotic band,
Working, giving with true hearts and hand.
Oh. grand Old North State, we bless thee, crown thee
From the blue skyland to the waving 60:
From Currtuck Q far Cherokee!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16

oonn cartwright, Of IEvona. Mo
8 81, has eve used tobacco
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29

homestead" (Speaker to De sup
1:Oo-Dinner in the College Dining
Hall.
200 to 4:Oo-Conferences on Live
Stock. Agronomy, n HORTICULTURE
as on Tuesday.
WOmcn's Section:
900 p. m.-"Beautifying the
Home"-By Mrs. Lindsay Patterson,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
2:15-"Cooperative Marketing
By Mrs. J. z. Green, Marshville, n. {.
2:3o-"Is the Country Produce
Satisfactory to City Customers? II
not, why NOTIFY Mrs. CrOome, VIII
2:45-"Preparation OF Vegetables
for the Table'-Mrs. w. N. HUT, Raj
eigh, N. c..
3:OO-Questions and Discussions Of
Market Products.
400 to 900 p. INSTRUMENTATION
of Strengthening and Cutting Meat An
Conducted by the Animal Industry
Division.
6:3O-Supper in College Dining
Hall.
500 p. m.-Address-By Prof. T.
C. Johnson, Norfolk, Va.
S:45-Address-By Mrs. Henrietta
Calvin, Washington, D. G.
Thursday, August 26.
900 to $3.50 a. m.-Judging Live
Stock at Animal Industry Building
and Barn.
Mems SesctiOn i'm Pullen Hall.
$3.50 a. m.-"Farm Accounts"-By
J. NJ. Johnson, Office Of Farm Man
agement.
1O:0O-"What Tare Should be AL
lowed in the Marketing of Cotton
| BY Maj. w. A. Graham, Commissioner
of Agriculture.
10:30-"The Value Of Official Cot
ton Grading"-By O. J. Mcconnell
Office of Markets, Washington, D. C
11:0O-"The Economic Value O.
Good Roads'-By D. H. Winslow
Office of Good Roads, Washington, D
11:30-'Land and Loan Associa.
tions"-By Mr.. John Sprunt Hill
Durham, N. G..
Women's Section.
$3.50 a. m.-"Demands of Northern
Markets'-By Mrs. Jane S. McKim
mon, Raleigh, N. G..
S:45-"Cooperation of Town ant
Country Woman"-By Mrs. E. K
Graham. Chapel Hill, N. c.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Preserv,
Making-By Mrs. J. D. Redfern, as
sisted by Mrs. Cora Downer, Wades
boro, N. c..
Neutrality-suspicious..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29

clubs. 81 members; Colorado. . e,n.-
2S2 members: Connecticu, : 80,
and 3S4 members: District ~ CnI~-S
bia, 3 clubs 135 members: Flor4e
clubs, 127 members; Porto Pc ;
club. 81 members: Georgia, ! T.,
54 members; Hawaii. ? clubs. s. NJ
bers Idaho, IL clubs. 354 memhars.
Illinois. 3 clubs, 270 members -
diana, IL clubs, Sill members. low
clubs, 329 members; KANSAS 10 cl~te
FAT members; Kentucky 4 clubs -;
members: Louisiana ? clubs s. men.
bers: Maine 4 clubs IS members M.
~sachusetts % clubs SS1 emb4~s,
Michigan, Is clubs, 7s4 menu
Minnesota. s clubs. 211 memhArs
Missouri. s clubs, PAL members. Mo-,
tana, % clubs, s14 members. Ea.
braska, 9 clubs, 26s members; Ne.
vada, 4 clubs 1876 members. No.
Hampshire, 4 clubs. 222 members,
New Jersey, z clubs. 1T members
New Mexico. . clubs, ESQ members;
New York. 80 clubs 1857 members.
North Carolina, 2 clubs, s6 members.
North Dakota 4 clubs, 13S members.
Ohio, 80 clubs, 916 members: ONE.
homa, 8 clubs, 81 members; Oregon
9 clubs. 4O4 members; Pennsvlyani,
80 clubs, 1,547 members: Rhode l.,
land, 4 clubs. 1877 members; South
Carolina, l club, 26 members; South
Dakota, S clubs. 1873 members; Ten.
nessee. 3 clubs, So members: Teas
IL clubs, 41O members; Utah. (
clubs, 325 members; Vermont. 2
clubs, 373 members; Virginia, clubs.
112 members; Washington, y clubs
421 members: West Virginia. clubs.
40 MEMBERS; Wisconsin,, 10 clubs
294 members; Wyoming, 6 clubs. 49,
members.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
MOCK ORANGE IN LINE
FOR IMMORTALIZATOIN,
One Reporter Certain 1t Deserves
Niche in Hall of Wooden Poetry.

One Reporter Certain 1t Deserves
Niche in Hall Of Wooden Poetry.
Philadelphia North American.
Some Of these days a song writer
will pen some verses about the mock
orange bush that grew in his grand
mothers backyard and immorta1ize it
the same as the "Old Oaken Bucket"
and the old tree in "Woodman, Spare
That Tree" Then we'll all make an
nual pilgrimages to the mock orange
bush and pay III respects to a vet
eran Of the garden who has long de-
served them.
They're just bursting into bloom
now in this latitude, and hat means
almost every garden is being filled
with their fragrance, Before another
week ends, the bushes will be masses
Of flowers of the purest white and
veritable perfume plants.
The mock orange came to America
along with the early colonists from
Europe. The n planted In your
great grandfather's garden probably
is blooming yet The bush has a habit
Of starting un new shoots from the
roots every year, SO it virtually per-
petuates itself.
1t gets it's name from it's resemb-
lance to the real orange blossom, al
though the mock orange is Of an en-
tirefy different family. It Is related
distantiy to the hydrangea. There is
a native species. found in the noun
tains of the South, but it's blossoms
are not fragrant
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
Walking for Speed.
Outing Magazine.

Outing Magazine.
In starting on the track the novice
should hold himself as erect as DOS
sfble, without, however, leaning at all
backward, the arms at the sides. with
the fOrearms in a horizontal position.
at right angles to the part Of the
arms above the elbows. He should
have a feeling Of being well balanced
on his pins"
The weight must be kept on the
heelsEtherein lies the chief secret Of
walking fairly.
Speed depends on two factors, the
length and the frequency Of the
stride. Experiments prove hat the
length OF the stride becomes greater
as the frequency increases.
Arm action should be carefully Gull
tvated. Properly used. the arms seem
to act as levers to lift forward the
body. besides helping to balance it.
In each stride one foot should be al
ways on the ground and at some mo-
ment OF the stride some part Of both
feet should be on the ground sinful
taneously-that is the first necessity.
Second in Importance is to have the
walk heel and toe"-that Is, the heel
OF each foot should strike the ground
Enthusiastically first, and the too OF
each foot should be the last part to
leave 1t. One should not walk fiat.
footed. with The ball of the foot or any
part except the heel striking the
ground before the heel does. Lastly
the knee should be locked. at the
end Of each stride-the grounded les
should be sti0 and taut as the ioose
! leg swings out for the next stride.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
MUST WASTE MANY SHELLS
IN ARTILLERY ACTIONS
French Expert Accounts For Heavy
Expenditure of Ammunition.
New York SIM.
York Sun.

New 1OIh ouI.
Lieutenant-Colonel Boissonnet en-
plains in the Temps some OF the
nan reasons which make spend
thrift artillery one of the necessary
factors Of victory:
The French "75' is a weapon OF
marvellous precision, but even with &
new gun and the shells in perfect
condition., after g great number or
shots from a distance Of 5000 metres
the shells "ffl De found to have fatien
within a radius of 96 metres and halt
the shells will have fallen in a strip OF
about "a metres. The gunner there
fore, has to regulate his fire 50 that
the object aimed at Will be in the
centre of this most thickly-covered
strip, a task which against trenches,
even after aerOplane reconnaissance.
requires a considerable expenditure OF
ammunition, and when it is remem-
bered that the trench itself is not
much more than a yard or so wide IT
will be realized that for every three
or four shells which burst in the
trench there are a vast number which
explode before or behind it.
The need for heavy shell expendi-
ture against trenches Is already great,
but it will become more urgent stu
after the siege period is over and real
field fighting again becomes possible,
when the artillery will have not the
fixed target Of the trench line bue
the thin mobile ranks of skirmishers
as its objective.
Against moving infantry unless 1t -
advancing In close formation regulat'
ed fire is a matter Of some difficulty
Infantry which finds itself between
the first shell which has burst behind
them and the short shell which has
burst in front Of them do not wait the
avalanche which is to follow, but rush
rapidly forward beyond the first short
she'll, where they fling themselves 20
the ground under what cover they
can find. The arttllerymen now tnae
they are somewhere in the neighboI-
hood, and to begin again the tr "a
reg1age would only be a loss Of time
SO that the only thing for the ar
tillery to do is to shorten its range ~
| 100 yards " SO and sweep with shafP-
mel the whole Of the zone where the5
| imagine the enemy's infantry TO be.
A battery of "75" guns fires no less
than 80 shells a minute. and It Is
only with rapid intense fire thar th0
shrapnel fragments can sweep q
whole countryside and break an
enemy's attack. The same thing ap.
plies when the artillery is taking par
in an offensive. They have TO cover
the whole zone OF the enemys nom
with a shower Of shells, forcing tht
gunners to take shelter and plnnlns
the infantry to the ground Whlle lAe4I
own troops are advancing to the a.
tack.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
TAKES POISON AT ALTAR.
After Lighting Candle to Her Patron
Saint Girl Tries To Die.

After Lighting Candle to Her Patron
Saint Girl Tries To Die.
Bridgeport, Conn, Dispatch TO ~"
York World.
AS the congregation was leaVILs
the Roman Catholic Church OF the
Holy Rosary, where she attended mass
yesterday, Miss Catherine DohertS'
aged IS, lighted a candle to her p
tron saint.
Then she obtained some water anu
swallowed four bichlooride OF Hti-
curry tablets containing 80 gram Z"
she knelt before the altar.
An altar boy discovered her man,
mate form there and she was remottt
to the Bridgeport Hospital. Her caSc
is attracting much attention, own
to the fact that she chewed the az
lets and washed them down WITH u
| water to hasten action. Deep love -
long standing which was unrequlsuFN
is believed to have caused the dee"'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29

Prune any shrubbery that mas pc
come scraggly or is growing too lhi0A'
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

i was parried with the offer as riposte
 The answer to this was unanswer- able and final: q don't need any dol lar"
 Such is island philosophy. The sea will always provide fish, the land all other actual requirements, and since this will be as true in the future as today, why trouble to lay up for ones children? Even tobacco and coffee are homegrown, so only imported lux uries require effort to obtain Most of the real work of the island, such as curing vanilla, is done by Chinese who value money for it's own sake. They bake the bread, run the restau- rants, and own most of the small stores.
 Nevertheless the natives are splen- did people physically, no doubt an in- heritance from their warlike and ath- letic past. The men are often well over six feet and tremendously mus cular. The women are erect, grace ful, beautifully formed, and often very handsome. Their brown eyes are un- usually fine. Their black hair is long and waving.
 Polynesian races differ slightly in color, that of pure Tahitians varying also with caste and exposure, but the commonest type is an olive gold not darker in shade than the skins of Chinese and Japanese but warmer and less yellowish Their features are pleasing and contain nothing Negroid or Mongolian
 The typical native dress is the pa- reu, bright colored patterned cotton cloth much like the Burmese sarong, twisted by the men around the waist and by the women around the breast. The latter. however, rarely wear it away from home, except bathing or fishing, without loose over dress. The men also are more and more com ing to regard the pareu as informal, comfortable for home and work wear, but to be replaced by coat and pants on dress occasions. These customs vary much with the distance from town. Flowers constitute the chief adornment, worn in wreaths and singly over the ear Carriers come in from the mountain valleys with loads of plantain naked except for a loin cloth but with garlands of ferns and flowers.
 Are Social People. The chief Tahitian characteristics
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

are social. Feasting, dancing and sing ing are always in progress, usually on a wholesale scale. The entire village participates on the slightest excuse. Anything that can be done alone is un- popular. Even in fishing, the single venturer is regarded as pothunter and no sportsman, the gentlemanly way being to set a net in the lagoon and invite the neighbors to a drive, afford ing much noise and frolic, or to or ganize a deep-sea expedition for al- bicore.
 In several stays on the island the writer was never allowed to fish with hook and line from a single canoe be- cause, while all right for a commoner who needs fish, it is not the thing for quality to do, The visitor is struck with the invariable good nature of the people. They rarely quarrel, drunk or sober. Violence is practically un- known. Murders are so infrequent as to be little more than traditional and l, even fighting is extremely rare.
 Like all Polynesians, they are won- derful swimmers, and probably excel all others as canoemen, Whereas. in Hawaii the canoes seen today are pure ly utilitarian, the Tahitian retains his navigating ancestors love for naval architecture. Racing canoes carrying 20 paddlers or more are built with great ceremony and beating of drums and carefully kept from the weather in houses constructed by the district.
 These canoes have beautiful lines and are incredibly fast So are also the sailing canoes, which carry tremen- dous canvas and are trimmed by the gymnastics of the crew. who balance themselves on lateral spars extending from the side. They also have out riggers, but in racing these are not allowed to bury themselves and so im- pede progress
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19
BY NO MEANS NEW DISCOVERY
Ancients Were We'll Aware of the Value of Perfumes in Treatment
 of Diseases.

It was recently announced, as discovery in medical science, that nausea, after surgical operation under ether, could be prevented by patients inhaling favorite perfume This may be new as a post-operative treatment, but it is an old palliative for travellers afflicted with nal de mer on land or sea, for train sick ness is almost as common as sea sickness. Numerous headache col ognes" as we'll as favorite perfumes have been found efficacious as pTe' ventative of nausea at sea. Many travellers find that even the aroma ot an orange or lemon helps them over threatened attack of seasickness. One need not peel or eat the fruit. The desired result can be secured by merely scratching at the skin and thus liberating it's aromatic essence.
 History states that perfumes were used by the ancients both as medic aments and as instruments of injury, so it would appear again that there is nothing new under the sum-" Ger tain groups of colognes have peculiar effects; for instance, the fruit essences by blending produce the odor of any fruit Their use is inhibited by the fact that they irritate the respiratory organs, producing coughing ana head aches Other perfumes have sedative effects, and their use is recommended for nervous people. The employment of perfume as a preventive of nausea would therefore seem to be merely a variation of the principle of using col ors in the treatment of peculiar ail- ments, with perfume the appeal be- ing made through the sense of smell.- Kathleen Hills in Leslie's Weekly.
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

wsTw AIIITI, the largest island of the
 Society group, and by many
 # travellers believed the most
 beautiful in any sea, lies nearly
 south of Hawaii and about sev- enteen degrees south of the equator, writes E. T. Allen in American For estry. First touched by Portuguese and Spanish nayigators, it was de- scribed to Europe by Wallis f176D and Bougainville (176S). They gave such lively account of the beauty of both island and people, and of what they considered the idyllie perfection of it's semiwild, semideveloped society, that much was written, especially in philosophical France, to argue that here was proof of the necessity for re turn to nature by the human race.
 Bougainville named it New Cy- iherea. His companion, the naturalist Commerson. called it Utopia and wrote extravagantly of the virtues which he said 1ourished because the natives had no conventional restraint
 Cook and Forster's visits soon fol- lowed (1769 to 1774), bringing fuller information, and in 17SS England sent Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty to get breadfruit for introduction into her tinied later, put back to Tahiti. sailed from there again with party of na- tive men and women, and disappeared from the world until found long after on Pitcairn island where they found ed an isolated colony that exists to- day, is perhaps better known than any other episode in Polynesian his tory.
 Of Aryan ancestry, practically or wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in- fusion by their exodus from the main land in the remote past, the Tahitians were and are still about what would be expected of a people much like southern Europeans. but who have been isolated for ages under all the passionate influences of the tropics
 "The Garden of Eden"
 Rainbow colored fish play through the coral along the sea wall at your feet. the placid green lagoon meets a skyline of palms on either hand and seaward, beyond tiny palm covered islet where a queen once had her fortress, the surf rolls creaming on the barrier reef from the blue trop- teal ocean, rippling in the soft fresh trades. Behind the town, itself hid
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

THE new collars give one the choice of barring the throat, leaving it more or less yelled, or covering it com pletely. But almost without exception they are high at the back. many of them very high, and the neck is lost to view. In the greater number the throat is open, there are fiaring revers at the side and a turnover portion at the back. Within these lines the va riety of ways in which the collars are cut is really bewildering. To judge by this, everyone is to wear novel things in neckwear, and every style is to be suited
 Besides the turnover collars, with revers at the sides and vestees at the front, there are smart styles with standing plaits across the back. These are cut squarely off at the sides. leav- ing the throat uncovered, but are fin ished with long vestee at the front. These, like other standing effects, are supported by fine wires. They are very high, reaching not much below the top of the ears.
 Then there are the graduated ruffles of fine lace which are favorites on gowns of lace and net and on after noon gowns of taffeta or faille or crepe de chine. They are not so high
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

that is wired with fine wire, to curve outward from the ears and neck
 This smart little affair is trimmed with a twist of narrow satin ribbon and occasional clusters of the smallest chiffon roses set about the face It is finished with rosette of the ribbon at each side
 The third cap was made of fine dot ted swiss and shaped like a baby's cap. A frill of cluny lace, very scant, fell about the face, and an insertion crown. Between the insertion and the frill a narrow band of ribbon ex- tended about the cap, ending in long loops and ends at the left side.
 The fanciest and most novel of caps in this gay array had puffed crown of colored silk set in a brim of Irish lace. The lace was wired to stand out in four points, one at the front. one at the back, and one at each side. It had no trimmings, the richness of the lace making this unnecessary. Many simple caps were shown made of lowered voile and marquisette. They have puffed crowns and short capes of the material and were trimmed with lace and little ribbon roses in several colors. One of the prettiest of all was made of sheer openwork swiss embroidery for the puffed crown, and a double ruff1e of lace about the face. Satin ribbon two inches wide was twisted about the crown and tied in a bow at the front. l. JULIA BOTToMLEY.
The Pulaskian., 1915-02-19

at the back and gradually grow mar rower at the sides and front, finally disappearing at the top fastening Of the bodice. But they also require wir- ing with the finest of silk-covered wire, to give them the sprightly pose required.
 One of the new collars of sheer ba- tiste finished with fine embroidery is shown in the picture given here. It is a good example of type of collar which is featured among the new dress accessories for spring. Equally strong as a novelty, the new very high, standing collars (high at the front as well as the back, attached or unattached to the blouse. are con- manding much attention and may prove the fayorites. Just at the mo- ment the sheer collar, high at the back and turned over, open at the throat, is liked finished by band of narrow black velvet ribbon which ties over it around the throat and ap- pears to support it, although fine wires really do the work.
 There is a lot of wear in the col lars of embroidered batiste; they pro- vide an inexpensive and dainty means of freshening up the dress.