The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-19

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hours Of Pres" Battle. The struc.
ture was built in 1S43. and its squat.
" proportions. the building matrlai
of hewn pine. sparsity Of
all testify to the ancient tinge OF inc
building. It's erection preceded the
building of the city of urham-th
a flag-station on the Southern: no
railway entered Chapel Hill and nine
hours were often required to make
the trip over land to Raleigh.
In Touch With Humanity.
The buoyant. sprightly nature or
Doctor Battle, whose heart beats IN
sympthy for all humanity. is not al.
ways clustered in a denizen OF odds
and ends of historical data. The
multitudes. simply folks Of the every
day brand, enjoy his rich companion
ship and delight to hear his rlch an
ecdotes and humorous incidents. n
young and the old, the highbroW n
the man-abOut-tOWn, eaten him IN
the clutch of conversation in his dali
Nv trips from his home to the postof-
flee, or as with can in hand he takes
rugged jaunts through the forests.
His beneficent spirit. ~OutSpOken
through kindly eyes and a counter
ance unruffled through the years,
responds sympthetically to the pull
sating throb of a fellow man, Wheth-
er friend or tsranger.
His rare ~personage and rich COM
partnership is shared with nature,
simply the seemingly funrespOnsive
woods. trails through the forests.
| streams and the birds Of the air. One
Of his long nursed hobbies is the car
ing-fOr and feeding of wild birds that
circle about his home-WoOdpeckers,
cat birds, robins and others species
of the untamed variety form p
ship with him. He has devised a
method of supplying food daily to
birds that frequent his grove and
those Of passage e. route to other
climes. Fats obtained from the vii
lage meat market and seeds are rem
dered accessible to birds by a hang
ing plate laden with these tempting
foods. Worm-eating birds. he ex-
plains, relish the fats obtained from
the market as a means Of ~sustenance.
untrodden trails and by-paths
through the unfrequented forests
around Chapel Hill might be enumer-
ated as belonging to his fund Of hob
bies. OF the former, he has in his
possession one from every country in
the world, excluding Australia and
South America. Among his priced
variety of walking canes are counted:
a hippOpOttamus cam from the Nile,
lemon cane from POmpae, olive from
Marathon, Swiss-Alpine stock from
Switzerland, rosewood form Jamaica,
ash cane from forest Of Arden, and
one carved from the banks Of the
Tweed. His collections Of hickory
canes represent all makes, twists and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by him in a
lump as "snake-killing canes"
{ A Misunderstanding Man.
The city-deSigned park appropri.
ates it's thousand of dollars for up.
: keep and it's founder is rated a bene.
{ factor. Battles Park-dedicated tc
l | tho an IF TIC h,Jl1~ --~Lo
! among it's pleasure-giving, shady
r hooks countless spots Of mystifyine
: haunts m names implying refresh.
ing and invigorating touches by those
that sojourn awhile. Three miles o.
] pathrs and beaten trails were cut an6
9 laid out by DR.. Battle. "Give me {
! niger to sweep out the paths one,
T a year; I'll do the rest" explains thi!
: picturesque peronality, who dali.
d journeys unbeaten trails in commun
: ion with nature.
From the ~promOntory of accmu1at
g ed achievements of more than a hal
e a century in a busy career, "Pres.
Battle was insistently sought to sin
gle-out two achievements that on hi
eighty-third birthday were promi
) nently in the foreground Of his mem
DRY. lingering with his gray chin
Q whiskers and peering over his dim
K med eyeglasses, he reflected fo
many minutes before rendering a de
cisiOn so directly inQuisitive about hi
& own life-work. He then recalled hi
lc early advocacy of the measure to es
y tabllsh experiment stations in Mort
r. Carolina to make tests In fertilizer
n n soil analysis-and he singled TIN
GU as one Of his proud achieve
of ments. He added this anecdote to i
at lustrate the instant opposition Whic
crystallized against the measure i
North and South Carolina. He WI
'e making a speech in advocacy of til
- measure in South Carolina, and WI
ts storming the opposition with the al
a alogy of the doctor who prescribe
lg s~trychnine or arsenic to a patieI
without first a-scertaining the diseas
. This he said, has a striking sim
L larity to you farmers who present.
potash for your land when it neet
On Observation-Disclosures seeking tt
Sh soils aliment." An attentive liste
er. nudging the Southe Caroli1.ian
the next seat to him, spoke vi