The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-04
Pays TO Look troup1

rate and keep il up is a r..-
record.
Pays To Look Nrouna
Shakespeare got after
who live back in the stic5ze ..
said one time that ~br- ae
youths have ever honarz
realize the truth of such
when we break away from
and wander out into the t
see how things are done al....
would not be surprised If ".
a good thing if the folks
section of the State could -..
days off occasionally and ea
see what the folks are 6e.-.
other section. I imagine III
people of the rest Of the :
get down into the country
Raleigh and Washington a~s
around, going just as far r. e..
they felt disposed. and strrr.-
talk with any good farmer alan. e.
road where the train St0pr..
would go back home much --..,
in knowledge Of how to II. -
Once Again-Nore PeopIe
But it all came back kto tfu ,
thing. AS we pulled out from. <Ha..-
night began to close around .-..,
saw but little of the courtry +~..,
there to the westward. We mad ss.r
enough for the trip. The lessen v..s
+ plain. North Carolina needs .h..
tive million more people as out,l IL
they can be assembled The ta.
good Americans chasing off to.rt..q.t5
| Canadian Northwest to raise .r.. -r..r
| Of a wheat a year and mi4htr --,s4
| else when they could for less money,
| and a shorter journey come tl -re
| valley of blessings got the doctor ev
| cited as nearly as he can get excited
North Dakota appropriated q few
weeks ago $4,000 to advertise rh4
| advantages of that State wher. +he
| thermometer goes down to 49 Geereee
| below zero in winter and up t. 1u- In
| summer, and people will actually a.
| out there in droves not knoWirr thar
such place as Middle North Carolina
| is on earth. If North Carolina had as
limited crop range as North IA
| kota and North Dakota had as vide
a crop range as North Carolina Would
| still be far more desirable place t0
live htan North Dakota. But with
North Dakota having limited crop
| range and North Carolina a wide one
the advantage is all on the one side
But the people do not know it, North
| Dakota keeps it's name out where IN
| can be seen. North Carolina has not
| learned the value of the big noise
There is one exception to this state-
ment. The Sandhills country has the
knowledge of what noise is worth a J
you can hardly turn around but what
you hear somebody talking about the
Sandhills. Now it is q dead certainty
that that section which calls itself the
Sandhills is not particularly better
than some of the rest of the state H.
l - L. H.
looked on as worse than a joke. Now
it is one Of the most widely known
sections of the entire South, and il
has used the one method that is oper
to all other parts of the Stare. that
Of saying something about itself 0r
every occasion.
Il Getting Into Raleigh.
We left Norfolk the day We made
: the journey, the Doctor and al
o'clock in the morning. an hour afte'
a late breakfast. Our train did no
seem to think about US on the roa(
! / South and West, and when Dime
time came we bought some ussa'
: paper sandwiches from a highway rob
: ber for ten cents apiece. The tran
stopped for supper at the same n."c
it stopped for dinner, and when It Il
nally pulled into the union station b
Raleigh about nine or ten O cioca d
: night the old town looked good, ~
: you can always find something 10 ny
: on in Raleigh. We walked up Jh
. street in the bright glare of the man
electric lights and it was right -hlt'
. eSting to two Hill Billies from lp ,
: the black jacks. Doc is quite q pn-I
: osopher, and we found as much e u
! terest us in the crowd we met ar
!. their peculiar airs and customs a '4e
, found to smile at in our country nam
1 SO we were all pretty we'll entertain
Presently we found the hotel Il"
: after we had been assigned to o'5i 9el
: : arate inches in the catacombs We "Ts
: : in pursuit Of vittles. We strucF
: dining room and Doe asked II IL N'
, , too late to get a bite to eat "-,-'
: seemed to please the managlng eo-4
OF that department who lntorh"~
: that the eat works do not smut p"
! in the town until long after darn-
Studying Out The Menu.
Isn't it fierce to try to find oul I"
! you want to eat when you have +.
page catalog Of various edible +
haf NJ n rIx1 hoh .