The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], March 14, 1905, Page 7, Image 7

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PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
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OUR SOCIAL CHAT
mtonded for this department
A" v la ;reSBed to " Aunt Jennie," care
0? rro;?esseiTee Farmer, Raleigh, N. C.
!:
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Aunt Jennie's Letter.
it necessary to remind
. .,, contribute to this depart-
Ir.t I would appreciate it if
,.v.m;M kindly let me know their
, .:! In fact, if they care to
!:, ir articles published I must
, -ntry Girl's picture is
well
,.t ars :iiro T was laughed at
; 1 said that I believed the day
v ... 5l, t Tar distant when the white
v, . .. would he compelled to learn
?,. S. K. Ms letter shows you
!.;: it li:: eme already in her sec
n -n. and the complaint is general
r. i-li.'iit the State.
W". H. V.U'xr. I am plad you came.
V liave enjoyed having you with
X(". y.ur stay was too short, we
. t Ti to have you go. Yes, am-
u.,u i all right, provided you do
Ki ll. v. rything else subservient
it. and thus lose the best of life.
( '..in.- again.
r.::!t"ns bit of history is cspe
,I;;!!v v. -adable and we wish others
w.. ;! 1 j his example. Jackson
w !- ; :i orphan, you know, and a
.!'-:!. ;).. n,a:i. He learned to walk
"props" ami his tread was
! ; !. V's. we should rear the
pi- ';.::; i:t. If we can succeed in
.. !?!! -pi -rating the burial place of
a notf.l hnn-orist who was not even
a vi' of this State, it certainly
l. Ii. ovts t. bestir ourselves in
i tf..rr to iiopor the memory of a
m Vr nt. a native son of our
ar M North Carolina.
S.vrml "boys" have written, but
rh. r. ?- room for more.
AUNT JENNIE.
One Wcman on the Cotton Outlook.
I ;:r Aunt dennie: Again has
tlit- ii M iiitain labonl, and brought
f"iih th.- -anie old mou?e; this time
I.irn-r and stronger than ever be-t'-
r and indeed he ought to be, be-e.r:-
.;is lived to grow grey with
:i. .!! ! it is to be presumed wis-
S.t n..w wo c;iii look forward to the
tin" wln-n t can sell cotton for
i:trc n cents cr pound, or more.
'Jl-if i. provided that France,
h:;ul;:i:t!. (Mrmany, and other for
1 !-p c.untrii's give ui the notion of
ra;r.ir (tton in Africa, which, of
" : . tin y will do, when they learn
t::.! ottoii farmers in the United
:' ;in intending to reduce
"r. and make them pay more
t r i-.;im:i. All this sounds very
to -those who are in a sit
- ti to raise cotton. But it
tn!.-s me that the most important
-'t this time is to consider how
v- t' raiso and gather the cotton.
n member there was great
:! hunt last year of scarcity of
J '! r .dl over the cotton States, and
,! ' said that some cotton re
! I in the Hi Ids ungathered. I
' is a problem in this com
1 :''-M'y. People cannot hire hands
to cultivate their farms for love nor
money. And it is next to an impos
sibility to get a load of wood cut.
And as for cooks, it is funny to see
men riding all over the country of
fering big prices for women to do
the cooking.
So, I think while our farmers are
pledging themselves to increase the
price of cotton, they would better
be bringing some laborers here to
till the soil and raise the cotton, not
saying anything about other crops.
We have always been depending
on negro laborers, but unless the
whites stop renting them land that
dependence is nothing.
MRS. S. E. M.
Bertie Co.. N. C.
Andrew Jackson's Birthplace Should be
Marked.
Dear Aunt Jennie: I have been
listening for some time to the Chat
in your pleasant circle, and have
concluded to respond to your cor
dial invitation for the boys to join
you.
One thing I have been thinking
of: the people of North Carolina are
too prone after they have made his
tory, to let others have the credit
for their deeds of heroism and sac
rifice. I think that we ought to
know how to "blow our own horn."
I am going to write a bit of local
history, or rather something about
one or two great men from this part
of North Carolina who made his
tory. Andrew Jackson, the seventh
President of the United States, was
born about seven miles from where
I am writing these lines, in the Wax
haw settlement, March 15, 1767. His
parents lived on Twelve Mile Creek
near old Pleasant Grove Camp
Ground, in Union County (then a
part of Mecklenburg County). And
be it said to the shame of North
Carolina, the spot where this great
man was born is only marked by a
pile of stones in a cultivated field
about three miles south of the town
of Waxhaw. I dare say that there is
not a case of similar neglect in the
American Union. Think of Jackson!
A man who President Roosevelt says
was the greatest President the
United States has ever had, with the
exception of Abraham Lincoln. A
man who gave the British the worst
licking they ever "toted," whipping
12,000 veterans of Waterloo in one
half hour with G,000 raw troops, kill
ing 2,000 British, and losing but
eight men himself. A man who had
the courage to defy the whole bank
ing system of the United States
when opposed to the welfare of the
common people.
Aunt Jennie, let us have the in
fluence of your fertile pen to create
a sentiment which will demand that
the birth place of such a hero shall
be marked properly. This part of
North Carolina is rich in history of
the early and stirring days when
this Republic was founded. But the
good women, who are ever foremost
in perpetuating the memory of our
heroes, have begun a movement
which will result in marking these
historic spots. The Daughters of
the American Revolution have, dur
ing the past year unveiled a monu
ment at the birth-place of James K.
Polk, the eleventh President of the
United States, who was born in
Mecklenburg County, near the vil
lage of Pineville, about twenty miles
from the birth-place of Andrew
Jackson.
BRAXTON.
Union Co., N. C.
Ambition: Worthy and Unworthy.
Dear Aunt Jennie: For some
time I have been at the door listen
ing to the "Chatterers," and enjoy
hearing them so much I have de
cided to venture in tonight.
Aunt Jennie, isn't it strange that
people are never satisfied? They
long for something; they get it, and
then, they want something else just
as much, and seem to be no better
satisfied than at first. There's, with
almost every one, "a vague unrest
and an aimless longing." And why
is this? It seems to me that it
should not be so. We should try,
and seldom fail, to be contented
with the lot God has assigned us.
No matter how hard it is, it is His
way, and His ways are always the
best. Of course, we sometimes see
those to whom life is nothing but
pleasure, as it appears to us, but, if
we could look into their inner lives,
we would seldom find one that did
not have as great a desire for some
thing, as ourselves.
I do not mean we should not have
ambition, but, don't let that ambi
tion master you. Be' sure you are
master of your ambition, and you
are all right.
I think when we know any thing
to be unattainable, it is very wrong
for us to grieve over that which God
has made impossible.
But we must be very particular in
drawing the line between the attain
able and unattainable.
After all, the real, greatest, no
blest purpose of life is to live a
Christian life, and everyone can do
that. That is one thing God has
made possible with all. I am sure,
Aunt Jennie, you are wishing me to
make an end of my stay, but if you
will let me call again, I shall gladly
do so. ELISE.
Johnston Co., N. C.
One Way to Kill Love.
Dear Aunt Jennie: Although I
have been a silent reader, I would
like to come in now and chat awhile.
Why doesn't Margaret tell us more
of the "Land of Flowers"? I en
joyed her letter telling about Christ
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I want to help Nellie out. I, too,
believe "a woman can win love or
hatred." Some women, after they
are married, seem to think they can
be as cross and unpleasant as they
want to; it makes no difference
about the husband, they have him
fast.
Now I want to say: Don't quarrel
him into measures. Don't think to
show your temper is being independ
ent. Remember, you promised to
take him for better or for worse.
You knew him before you married
him. If she will be as sweet and at
tentive to him as she can, when he
comes home at night, he will not long
for the club. Instead, sometimes
she meets him with a snappish word
and tells him of everything unpleas
ant that has happened that day
about the housekeeping. He, of
course, begins to get cross, and from
bad to worse they quarrel.
This is one way to win hatred.
COUNTRY GIRL.
Halifax Co., N. C.
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