The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-24
NORTH CAROLINA NOTINGS
A Fine Memorial Church-Fragrant Odors-Tonic Waters
Peaches-Snakes and Interesting Colored People
On the Trail O. the Lonesome Pine"
Editor of The Reformer

Editor of The Reformer:
/ could not compete with hotel rates
at Pinehurst and Southern Pines, boosted
for many society drones, who golf in win
ter and hover about high-priced coast and
mountain resorts in summer, so l took
the trail of the lonesome pine" to find
contentment at the famed mineral spring
in the society of courtly and hOspitable
whites and unique and original colOred
folk. 4 fiOwer-decked landscape stretches
broad and wide and piny woods and floral
odors make the air redolent Of their per
fume in an S2-degree temperature today
tempered by soft winds.
There was a mix-up with my weighted
suitcase coming down from Henderson. l
had stopped at Raleigh to salute JosephUs
Daniels. the most efficient head of the
American navy since Gideon Wells of
Hartford and the Lincoln administra-
ton. Folstead law enforcement is with
a tight rein in the old North state and
everything is being grabbed while the
grabbing is good. On arrival at Southern
Pines an inventory of my belongings dis
closed that / had lost two large bottles of
virgin olive oil and three pound boxes of
+. X. ThOmaS's prime maple sugar. The
cadaverous knight of search and seize
told me that the acetate of lime in maple
sugar was listed under the anti-drug act,
but holding the oil at bay made me SuS-
picious that it will contribute toward the
fabrication of the costly machinery in
motion to deprive the common citizen of
his inalienable and God-given rights.
Down at Wadesboro they have
launched a Volstead publication called
The Drycleaner" In the initial number
close to the throne of the Vermont state
constabulary and it treats on the marvel
Gus dexterity required in transferring
stocks from the humble home (nOne other)
to the official cellar without splitting. My
contribution to the newborn journal has
been returned, unused"
| have been introduced with no little
formality to the Reverend Rastus Jen-
kinS, pastor emeritus of the colored
church, on the Graham road and am be
coming much interested in his dusky
niece, Manda, who sings in the choir and
is a persistent solicitor for church and.
charitable work. Some of the missions
she represents, however. cannot be To-
Gated. | am told she has served four
terms in the state refOrmatory and will
soon begin another. Upon its completion
l think she will be nearly good enough
to enter the penitentiary-a judgment
formed by near contact. So persistent
have broken down and are in the work
shop for bridge, pOntoon, corduroy and
cement work. Her mouth has been greatly
overwOrked, and upon my friendly advice
she is singing through her nose to pre-
vent further wearing out of the mouth
and is using rock salt as a dentrifice
When she tunes up at an evening praise
service, and her voice dies away in deli
ciouS SuffOcatiOn, the mOcking bird. whip
poorwill and sweet nightingale wing di-
rect for the state insane asylum. Uncle
Rastus, who is close to 90-almost twice
as old as some of the eggs they serve in
a Bellows Falls restauTant-waS asking
me about Radio unfoldings and l
promptly called the air for him. as he
expressed a wish to talk with his loving
wife absent in Greensboro, and he later
gave me prQfound thanks, and added:
when | kiss her goo'-by l 'stinctly
heered de smack mo- an 40 miles way
Dis new 'scovery surely do prove what
Brudder Jasper said 50 long 'go-'De sun
do move" The aged Negro is no little
of a historian, and in reference to RevOlu-
tionary matters declares that the colored