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VOLUME 19..
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 6, 1889.
NUMBER 19
A HE WILSON A
ILL ARPS LETTER
MdXKIXI).
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f..it
J,ore ' ier Way-
Aa Outlaw's Syni
ii "Xtgger."
inue.
kvere
liewrj
1: r OiiQ r
Yesterday an old friend wag
M'oupintf "s in a lawyer's
lli- presence Drougni
0li cheer and loving kindness,
1 1. .-niili f r9 a linn wf '?a
r ,. . - T 1 a? . ' ,
beneui' "uuu. v mm no iui.ii us
nipatnetic silence, until one
the party said : -He is a goon
an. - To ?ay he is a an elo
jent and learued man is not
,s highest compliment. I
i; . 1, L-i nKnnt ilia Kacf
il-l T 1 .9, 4A4V...
liail Midi 1 nuuw. auuiuci
ad with a sad earnestness : -I
that the world was full of
iem." And another replied:
'.Veil, wouldn't it simplify
;atters?" That expression
ruck me as peculiar, but the
V . . U 1 11 . I Li.
iOrel ttiougni ot it me uener
liked it. Wouldu't it simplify
latters? It would break up
hat, lawyer's office sure. No
mger would they live oil the
urreis of mankind ; but they
ould live better off of their
t i TTTV i. 1 .1
tve, l reciioii. vvnat wuum
ee ine of Jmlge Bleckley's
urt and Judge Milner's court
nd Judge Neil's court, and all
he other courts V uur cuiei
notice would be overworked no
lore and could spend all Burn
er on screamer muuuuiiu.
hern would have been no east
Lome cane, nor Tumlin estate
tie, nor Woolfolk, nor Hawes,
1 . - , i rr v ik -
Inr 1.CU013. xue cuunuuuaes
I lit J I 4 .l..nliK,.
K'o sheriif to cry at the door,
)h yea, Oh yes, the honorable,
jperior court has met accord
u t adjournment God save
he state ana tne nonoraDie
curt." There would be no
oiiftable, no jurors forced from
heir farms, nor witnesses, na
lefendants on the criminal
locket, no jails with locks and
ars, no murders or bloody
lints or hip pockets with pis-
Cl.h 111 lllflll. M UUJUU b in
l-plendid? Suppose we try to
et up funi a state ot anairs ior
wee1', or even a day just to see
he nitference. Wouldn't our
hurcbes brighten up and our
hoirs be Lappy when all the
little feuds and heart burnings
banished? wouldn't the
paperf all harmonize and
pread peace over the land?
Wouldn't the convict camps all
bebursted in twenty-four hours
r Governor Gordon would
have to pardon every mother's
ion because they would all be
reformed, you couldn't find a
ock iu a hardware store, ino
body would want a lock not
even a bank. The cashiers and
treasurers would all come back
rom Canada reformed and for
. . i a i...
men. inese iocks auu uara
are an insult to our humanity
never see one but it seems to
. , i i i
say "I can t trust you- - Aro
w a nation of thieves? The
banks all have an iron lattice
with but one little hole where
they c-Uove the money through.
A man watches that hole all
the time." His motto is "trust
no man. Sometimes lam invit
ed inside and feel honored, for
it looks like they are not afraid
of me. Of course they are not,
I with two or three pairs of eyes
on the watch and a head on
lie money drawer. I'll bet
they wouldn't 'give me. the
combination of the lock on the
bit? iron safe. Wouldu't it be a
novel sitrht to see all the' stores
unlocked -iu the dead of night
Why shouldn't they ? The cows
are put ud and there are no
Logs iu town, why not leave the
store doors open ? I see a
doctor's nhop open sometimes
but there is a skeleton hanging
up iu there. A live man set ins
10 oe atraui ot aeaa man
bones. I, notice that all the
goods, in the stores have a cost
inark that nobody understands
out tne selling mark is very
plain. The merchant would
trurit us so-netimes he, takes us
aside and whispers the cost and
ays he isn't makiug ten per
cent., but i he is making fifty
he don't sav nary word. These
hieroglyphic cost marks are
vuother insult tf our humanity.
siw a countryman go into a
t te and ask to see some pocket
knives. The merchant was busy
w'ui a customer, and so was his
'lerk. :l nil lm uairl t tVia man
in a cuiiti line way: "Just walk
around there behind the counter
a"l Dick out vnnr knifft and
Vj'riu,' it to me and I will price
ily you jiit walk around, my
hijid. and wait upon yourself."
j'ul ,'jH stepped over to his clerk
an', i'. i r- pered "wateh him,
Tom.'' Jt does look like every
"dy i watching everybody.
Watch and pray is the motto of
Uianv a saint in business mat
ers. SiitniosH evervbouv was
Client and candid and truthful
td industrious, what need
ju!d there be of so many
fer:s- j;i the stores. Travelers
us that there is a township
1,1 Switzerland where the stores
tave no clerks. The owner
W'irk-i ira rd on nr 1iu litflft
ariu part of the day ana when
a '-'u-tomer comes iu and finds
'lotjuly to wait upon him, he
wait- upon himself and either
t"lts the money in the drawer
"r leaves a memorandum to
have the goods charged to him.
Lts iTV 11., narhllft -mv na.hrr
Sittirfield's garden needs work
Xikl now why doa't he and
Lis clerks come and work it and
leave his store open. His? custo
mers can wait upon themselves
and they would like to do it
for it would look like confidence
between man and man nobody
likes this "watch him Tom"
sort of business. .
But 1 .reckon we will have to
keep "on watching and lock
ing awhile longer for the world
is not yet full of people like
that good man we talked about.
He hardly left the office before
I met a poor broken hearten
women and I saw she wanted
help for she had a paper in her
hand. She was dressed neatly
and had a good motherly - face
and her eyas were colorod with
tears. I was feeling in my
pocket for money when she
began her saa story and 1 soon
found she did not "want money
she wanted help to get her
bov out of the chaingang." 'Tie
NORTH CAROLINA THOUGHT.
What the Brethren cftlie Guill Think
an! Say on the Questions of the Say.
GIVE VS MANUFACTORIES.
To invite and establish new in
dustries in a town is a most impor
tant thing ior its business people to
do. To give sdpport to home indus
tries already established is equally
important, i
WILSOIL
-:0:-
A
LIVE, PEOGRESSlVE, COT-TW-MADE
TOWN.
WE STAND WI1H NEW YORK.
It is comforting to North" Caro-
lians to know that they keep well
np With the New Yorkers in all
attempts toperpetaate tne memory
of their illustrious dead in bronze
or marble. Every effort to raise
funds for that purpose proves a
monumental failure in both cases.
Wilmington Star.
YOUNG IN TEAES IT HAS STEPP
ED INTO THE FRONT RANK
OP PROGRESSIVE TOWNS.
was sick," she saia, "ana naa
been there two years and had
three more to stay if he lived
Rut ha urill nnt . Ht7 mnfli
longer and wants to come home
to me so bald. He is only six
teen and was drawn into steal
ing that money by bad men
He never was bad to me but he
strayed on with baa compan
ions. Oh, sir, won't you help
me to get my poor boy home
and the Lord will bless you."
Of course, I will" help let
everybody help. That woman's
cup of misery is running over.
She is a loving mother; she is
an humble devoted Christian.
Her hair is whitening before
itsitime whitened with grief.
The lines of womanly beauty
still linger on" her face. That
woman is the mother of ' Tobe
Jackson, the outlaw, the des
perado who used dynamite to
revenge himself. Tobe and
Sam are both outlaws' for they
broke jail and escaped. She
cannot see them but, this
lad
been down with a long spell of
fever and will die up there.
Can't you help me to get him
but and. bring him home and
nurse him? I am sure he will
never do bad any more. Oh,
sir, I don't think my boys are as
bad as the people say."
I don't think so. either. I
hear a good many people say
that of latel Heard a good
citizen say last night : . "There
are worse, men in town right
now than Tobe Japkson, for he
was kin d-healted always kind
to the poor and distressed, but
he- was desDerate in his re
venges when he thought he was
persecuted. 'He would fight
backeverytimei. If I was away
off somewhere and needed help
I would rather depend pn Tobe
Jackson than on some of the
saints around here. I saw him
lift up a poor, sick netrro one
day and carry him to where Be
could tret food and water. Lots
of folks had seen that nero
and' passed by on tire other
side."
But that poor, heart-broken
mother ought to have her baby
boy, as she calls him, and J be
lieve that when Governor (jror-
don learns the facts he will give
him to her. Mrs. Gordon will
I know. -
Two years is enough for a
boy. Give him a chance. Let
him come home and let him be
encouraged jwhen he gets home.
Just to tninK now mat gooa
humble woman has suffered all
these years suffered in silence
with no comforter - but boa.
While the bloodhounds were on
the track and armed men were
sacuring the country for Tobe,
THE SOUTH THE CENTRE
Ex-Mayor Hewitt is reported to
have' made a seusation in London
the other day by declarating that
the South would become the centre
of the world's hardware trade. The
ex-mayor was in the South a few
weeks before he went to Europe,
Perhaps the most modest of
the Eastern towns is the beau
tiful town of Wilson (the chief
town between Weldon- and
Goldsboro on the W. & W. R
R.), the county seat of Wilson
county. There is no more
beautiful or delightful place (
in the bounds of the Common
wealth and no town with the
same population that transacts
a larger volume of business. It
has not been accustomed to
blow its own horn or to sing
aloud its praises: It has, since
its incorporation in 1&48, when
it had. a population of only
and he evidently made good use of fifty souls, contented itself with
his time. Wilmington Messenger.
THE "FLY -BL.P WING" CONTINUES.
The "fly-blowing" seems zo go
on. It is said that the North Caro
lina Republicans excel all others in
the country for assailing each other
when office is at stake, luey seem
to lack a spirit of fairness and
manliness in their race after spoils.
This is to he regretted as it places
the State in an unfortunate posi
tion before the administration.
Greensboro North State.
POOR DELUDED MAN.
Mr. Hal. Worth, of Randolph, a
erandaon of the old Treasurer and
es-clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment at Raleigh, is a young gentle
man of whom the Landmark has a
high opinion and in whose prosperi
ty it would greatly rejoice. It is
therefore, with unfeigned regret
that we read the announcement
that he has recently bought a saw
is her baby boyj and has mill. Statesville Landmark.
A DISABLED VETERAN.
The last "disabled veteran" to
apply for pension makes applica
tion on the eround that he was
scared into fits by bushwhackers.
and has never been able-bodied
since. The way decisions are being
rendered now by Corporal Tanner's
co adjutors this veteran has a clear
A man who ha3 hts so well
rooted in him oucht to be a tit sub
feet for consideration. Wllming
ton Star.
FIGH INTOLERANCE.
The great danger of this country
is not i , Catholicism as some Pro
testant Dreachers would have us
believa. It is rather religious in
tolerance, sectarian bigotry, and
stolid indifference. Let the preacn
ers and editors of religious papers
fight these three enemies of Chris
tianity and Freedom with all the
weapons at I their command and
they will not have any.time to fight
supposed Catholic civil aggression
-State Chronicle.
LOOK AFTEU THE LITTLE THINGS.
The great mass of the people
must learn the-value of little things
before we can, as a people, become
prosperous. .. There is enough
wasted in every community to
make the people prosperous if what
is wasted were properly utilized.
F.vervthiria that can possibly be
turned to'acconnt should be careful-
lyoo Iked after and made to yield
a revenue, rne man wno iooks
after the little things and allows
nothing to go to wapte will prosper.
Mon roe Planter.
TWO FATAL PASSIONS.
They destroy ISind, Body and Soul-
establishing sufficient business
to handle 25,000 bales-of cotton
a year, with beautifying its
streets and residences, and with
knowing that no better oppor
tumties existed anywhere in
the East for profitable business
and a delightful home. It has
never enjoyed in the forty years
of its history what is known as
a Boom, but every year has wit
nessed a substantial and grati
fying growth. To be sure, cer
tain years haye been marked by
more activity -m . building, but
following such activity there
has come no standstill or going
backward. "That we go for
ward." in the language of
Moses, has been the motto of
the town from the day the first
whistle on the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad startled tbe
birds in the woods, where ihe
town now stands, to the present
dav. Wilson was fortunate in
tf -
its early history to have as its
leading spirits industrious, pru
dent men who preferred to
build on solid foundations rath
er than to become a mushroom
city in a day. To the wisdom
of these men who laid tne foun
dations deeD. broad and sub-
stantial is due much of the
credit for the present size and
business of the jtown. It also
owes another debt to its wise
Democratic ; founders. They
were a thrifty, hardworking,
unpretentious set of men. Tbey
lived in comfort but practiced
economy, preached Democracy
and lived it in their every day
lives. They looked upon man
as man and cared little for the
artificial distinctions. . jThey
built up no distinctions othe
than the distinction that the
honestest and .brainiest were
entitled to the first place. In
dustrious men who came ftom
a distance and made this their
home were received with cor
diality and made to feel at
home. The feeling of exclu
siveness which "first settlers"
usually exhibit was unknown
to them. 1 his broad and cath
olic spirit has evei characteriz
ed the town, ond made It a de
lightful home to all who ap
preciate this high and correct
standard. The yountr men in
herited the freedom from pre
tense and vain show from the
older heads, and the freedom
from it is one of the pleasant
individualities of the place. It
had 50 souls when it was in
corporated. Now it has up
wards of 2,500. Of that number
at least 1,000 have 'come from
nthpr counties and States ana
the town what it is. These
traits Industry, Freedom from
Sham and Show, and Devotion
to Education have been the
foundations upon which this
lendid etructure cf a town
has ben built. They have be
come, in large measure, in
grained into the characters and
lives of Wilson people and
made them the true, sturdy.
prudent, progressive men and
women they are every
where known to be. We have
but touched upon the causes of
growth and substantiat growth.
Let us examine briefly the
kaki.y mxroR v or wn.w?r,
which, though short, .we will
find not without interest. Wil
son does not live in memories
of the past. It lives in the ac
tions and deeds of the present.
1839 Wilson was a "Drimeval
forest." Only the binTs and
the bats heard the fiist train
that passed over the "string
pieces and flat rail" that then
constituted the now famous
Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road. About this time Mr.
James D. Barnes familiarly
called by all 'fJimmie D"
settled here, the train stopped
Sensuality and avarice what
rnin thev have wrought! The
and the press had its daily bul- oer day appeared an account heiDe(i to make the town. They
01 a man wno Decame miaiuai
ed with an adventuress, gam
letinsandthe people all over
the State were aroused, that
Woman was loving the villian
and praying for him and trem
bling for his fate. Oh, the
devotion of these mothers.
Boys don't do wrong1 please
don't don't bring to your
mother misery don't bring her
gray hairs down with sorrow to
the erave. Bill Arv.
bled on wheat margins, sacri-
ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY..-.
Mrs Florence Atkinson Arrested at
Elaoksi and tf'onnd Over to Court.
i
SHELBY, N. C., 3Iay 2!.-Mrs.
Florence Atkinson, who created a
great BeusatiOn in South Carolina
fifteen months ago by marrying
two men in tedays, was arrested
at Black's forbigamy and oounu
over to cmirlin a five huudred dol
lar i.inl.riie. first marriage was
to Augustus Mintz, aud was perr
formed clandestinely, while she
whs engaged to Dr. Atkinson, len
days later she married .the latter
Her flrttt husband told of his mar
riage and attempted to claim his
bride, but she denied everything
for about a month, during, wuicu
time suit. lived with Atkiuson
Hoou asrtie. confessed, she separat
ed from Atkinson, but letumed in
a short time and has been living
w.ith him in Chester and Yorkville.
T day she came to Black's on an
excursion and was arres'ed on a
warrant sworn out by J. h- Mintz,
father or her first husband. She
and; Atkinson both were aimtd.
The trial will attract gi.eat atten
tion. Charlotte Chronicle. ;
Bucklen's Arnica Salve-
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts.Bruises, Sores,Tetter,Chapijed
llands. Chilblains, Corns and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively
cares Tiles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect
i' l mftnao r Af'll Tl 1 1 .J1
IsauHiacuou, vi uiuj . .v..,..
Priced cents per box. For sale
by A. W. Rowland.
ficed his family, his honor, and
erood name, and fled from the
country a fugitive' from justice
His story is substantially that
of hundreds of other men who5
have been ruined in the same
way.
From1 the beginning . of his
tory men have been led to de
struction when they have fol
lowed the false lights of unhal
lowed passion and avarice.
What will a man not do when
in the power of an unholy pas
sion ! Herwill sacrifice every
thine that men commonly hold
dear, and betray the trusts most
sacredly committed to 1 him.
The Daosion for gambling Is
equally fatal in its effects. It
binds a man hand and foot who
has once yielded to its fascina
tion. It lures him on to one
crime after ! another, till rum
overtakes him. The gambling
on margins is one of. the most
alluring and most" Idangeions,
forms of vice." It iras causea
defalcations, embezzlements;.'.
'." larcenies' suicides, DroKen
Hearts ana ruiueu uumes
out number.
. , The warnings of this deadly
mania are constantly before the
public. There ought to be cul
tivated a sentiment that will
hold gambling on margins
equally as disreputable as
gambling with cards or dice, or
any of the devices o the de
structive passion. Society is
not safe, business stability is
hot assured, credit is impaired
wherever a man whose relations
touch any of these interests en
gages in gambling. juizaDem
City Carolinian.
were induced to come because
of the good openings in busi
ness and tecause of the warm
welcome they received. But
the greatest debt that the Wil
son nf todav owes td the Wil-
and the euphonious name of
Toisnot station was given
t ) the place. Mr. Barnes,
who left many descendents,
lived in a log shanty here was
R. R. agent, postmaster, and
chief merchant of the (Vil
lage of fifty people. Almost
what is now the entire town
was owned by Mr. James D.
Barnes and John W. Farmer,
both of whom have passed
away leaving sons to to take
their Jplace. It wa3 just ten
years after the railroad reached
'Toisnot depot" that the first
Board of Town Commissioners
were elected (tne town naa
been incorporated in 1848.) The
Commissioners were James
D. Barnes, John W. Farmer,
Arthur D. Farmer, J. D. Rotfn
tree, and Gen Josnua Barnes.
Gen Joshua .Barnes probably
enjoys the high honor of being
the only man in the State who
was a Commissioner of a town
of which he was not a resident.
Gen. Barnes lived two miles
north of the town was the
most distinguished citizan of
his section, and had served of
ten in the Legislature, and had
been particularly zealous in his
efforts to secure the incorpora
tion and upbuilding of the
town. His election was a com.
pliment to his well-directed
zeal. , The new Commissioners
laid off the town in the form of
a square, named the streets and
prepared for the upbuilding of a
large town. They had faith in
its future, and some of them
lived to see their expectations
more than realized. When in
corporated the name of the
town was changed from "Tois
not Depot" to Wilson. ' It was
named in honor of the brave
patriot, Gen. Louis D. Wilson,
who lost his life in the Mexican
war. He was the favorite, son of
Edgecombe county (the town of
Wilson was then in Edgecombe
county) aud in thirty years of
public life had made a reputa
tion for ability, honesty and
faithful discharge of duty that
made the people, when they
heard of his death, like Noibe
"all tears." Few men have
lived in North Carolina who
were as true to the people as
this patriot. Without good ad
vantages he attained honors
and great influence. These he
used for the betterment and ele
vation of the condition of the
people, and when he died em
phasized this love by devising
all his large estate (valued at
10,000) to the chairman of the
county court in trust for the
poor. Of this amount 12,000
was expended in erecting build
ings and . asylum for the poor.
Some was lost in bad invest
ments aud 18,000 of it was im-
Williams, who advocated the
new county, were elected to the
Legislature. When the' news
reached Wilson from Gen.
Barnes that the new county had
been established the joy of the
people knew no bounds. Can
non boomed, men came in from
the surrounding country and
the jollification and exultation
was in every heart. In this
victory the people gave thanks
to their two representatives.
The zeal, untiring labor, and
successful endeavors especially
of Gen. Barnes won for him the
lasting gratitude of the peo
ple. He had been often in the
Legislature and had a host of
friends throughout the State.
His popularity served the good
purpose of getting many votes
for the uew country. The fu
ture of Wilson was now assured.
Gen. Barnes lives to this
day an honored and loved citi
zen, to see the ripened fruits of
his patriotis labors. He was
the first chairman of the county
court. His advanced years
forbid his tiking an active part
in politics, but he is keeply
alive to all public questions,
and ha a large business interest
FOR THEFAEM.
31ATTEHS OF IX T.-BEST TO
THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
Original, Itnrrotced, Stolen and
Coin m ii tiim tel Article on
Fanning.
' The Advancb has always en-
deavoretl to do whatever lay fa its
power to aid the famera. We
propose to make the paiier of ma
much practical value to the tillera
of the soil ag It is in oar power,
To do so we expect oar former
irietida to help ns. We hope to
Lave at least one original article
from the in of some practical
farmer ever.- week and we here
and now earnestly request them
to assist ua in thi way -nd there-
by help in the practical education
of the farmers ot the btate. Ed.1
property if humanity will not
Western t inner.
LEA UN TO .IiA!T.
Every farmer should himself
undrrsUnd grafting, and be able
practically to do it. The art la
simple and easily learned. It
may not always pay the farmer
to do all the large Jobs of graft
lng that he has to do, since his
t3
Wia thi Suta Chrcniio Zix
Siy cf WUcn-
The town of WiIpoo i ei'aatcJ m
the Wilmington Jt WeUloa Vik V
roaL It in, with m extypuca,
the largest town oa the line of tlia.
road, la tn-tti'n Chronicle e
give a sketch of the r;e anil pro
pTKS of thm betntlfal plc. Lia;j
own time may be worth more! V0 sp!?t0VDjfT.a"lr
at methinele. But it Is the " .7n 1
tiicuurt Hir i nun ill .fti umui vi
in Wilson. The year after the
new county was formed a 9,000
Court House was built which
still stands. The business of
the town doubled. The town
continued to grow and before
the war, ;as before stated, it
was the educational centre of a
large section, as well as the
commercial depot. When the
tocsin of war sounded the men
from the stores and fields aud
tha boys from the schools
donned the gray and went to
tie front. No braver men
followed Lee and some of the
noblest of them found an un
timely grave, shot by the foe.
tVhenthewar was at an end
there was no grieving over the
What-Might-Have-P.eea. This
people live in df.i:k-j. They went
to work heriocdlly and enlarged
their business and extended
the borders of the town. Wil
son had been a popular resort
for refuges: and some of thtse
THE PARMER'S t-OXO.
The farmer stood at tit open door;
Looked ortb, and ?outh, and
East and West;
"Good wife the swallows are back
once more"--Back
again to their l.i-1 years nest.
I'm off to tbe field t j speed' the
plow;
Tbe birds are singi.ig oa every
bough.
"The skies are dream:ng or Bum
mer blue;
Trees are dreaming of rustling
leaven ;
And 1 have a dream -God make
it true !
Of Btaoding corn and of golden
sheaves;
Of meadow green and of new
made ha)'.
And reapers singing -it the dawn
of day.
1'ttle jobs, the setting of half a
jzen grafts not worth pending
for a professional grafter to do,
t':at thus are neglected from
y.;ar to year, simply because no
.ue Is at hand qualified to do
the work, l'rofesslonal jrraft-
r s make good wages setting
grafts at po much apieca. Most
oJ them have no assistant who
saws off the limb to be grafted,
while the grafter Lis the sclou
o the cleft which he makes,
and covers the w ound to ex
clude air. This and connecting
tie scion with the outer wood
of tbe branch, is all the art
there is in grafting Boston
Cultivator.
boyp, we must go
a. !1 cast the
'Call all the
a-held,
To speed tbe plow
seed;
God bles.- the 6ted, tnd make it to
yield
Plenty, both man aud beast to
leed;
God bless the seed and speed the
plow,
t or Dims are singing in every
bough. "
Then out with his boys the far
mer went
Into the fields the crght spring
morn,
teui;
made it their permanrut home, Rowine the seed with
and others came in from otner
counties and States. In 1867
the business portion of the town
was consumed by fire, but with
characteristic energy the work
of rebuilding speedily went on.
State Chronicle. Wilson edi
tion.
i glad con-
sowin ' tbe good
Singing, while
seed corn;
''God bless the bam.w, and bless
the plow;
The corn, the whe, and tbe
barley now !"
CHARCOAL.
Charcoal is a very valuable
p.rtlcle for poultry. It is a pow
erf al absorber of fuel gases and
infectious matters, and, consid
ering the Fomewhat mlscella
neous manner of fowls feeding.
is a very u-eful sweetener of
the crop and Intestines. It also
feems to stimulate "digestion
directly. Turkeys are pome-
times verv fond of it. Fowls
will not. however, eat It direct
ly. The powdered article may
be mixed with the soft rood
Corn burned or charred on the
tar, po as o keep its shape
rxcellent; but it must be re
membered that corn thus treat
d is no longer corn, but char
coal. If charcoal is given di
reetlv. it may be left in emal
riles, in pieces the size of
irrain of corn, or such pieces
remain after silting wood
ashes can. be used. lurkeys
f eem to require a great deal of
charcoal, especially when fat
tening, it is carbon in'a cheap
form. Fat is also carbon of
much greater value per pound.
a
as
SAM JONES TALKS.
Whatfcd Said in a Serncn at Dan
ville, Va-
More than 20,000,000 acres of
land in Washington Territory,
of nearly one-half of the whole
area, remain unsurv yed.
.-a A. Al r-W-.
son or ine past is luis : Lmn.rinmflt(i mv a county
thesfr early settlers believe that 5.1? " V- ' ivi,
the -chief glory and corner
stone ;of a town was In its In-;
tellect and freedom from, ig
norance. Even before the war
th town was noted as an edu-
with-
The use of electricity for lighting
purposes is older than most people
think. It was iToah who first
made use of the ark light. Albany
Express.
calional centre. Its boaruing
school population was almost
as large as its adnlt population.
People, .came .from tne sur
rounding counties, and made
this their home because of tne
suoerior educational advan
tages offered, bomewuere m
the fifties a beautiful school
building now the Wilson Col
legiate Institute was erected
and Prof. David S. liicnarason,
a scholarly gentleman from the
North, was made l'resiaeni. lie
built up " a school -lamed far
nnfl near for a hundred miles.
Hi Tfirmtation as a disciplina
rian and thorough, teacJVr yet;
lingers among the older psobt.
The influence of his'? lasting
york is still felt: In 1859 an
other large and commodious
school building was erectea ai
Wilson. It was called the Wil
son Female Seminary. Rev.
Cha3. F. Deems, D. D., LL. D-,
left the responsible position
of Professor of Literature at
the University when it was in
its Dalmiest days, to accept tne
Presidency of tnis oemiuary.
ir also became President of
t.h Wilson Male Academy.
With such institutions of learn
ing in its early days nson
ro a a ail v the centre of educa
ti.-mnl inflnences in a large ter
ritory. Dr. Deems did not stay
many years in Wilson but he
left his scholastic impress
thft minds of tne men
upon
and women who have made
debt contracted when Edge
combe county was under Re
publican rule. There is now no
"Wilson" fund in Edgecombe.
Part of that fund ought to have
eone to the new county of Wil
son when established but it
never received a cent of it. The
town of Wilson is a monument
to this great'man and its mag
ical growth almost leads one to
believe that there was magic in
the name. As an evidence of
how small the town was and
the economy of its officers, we
state that in 1851 the entire
town tax was 51.87. The cur
rent expenses of the year were
81S.14. In this year the plank
road was completed from
Greenville to Wilson and this
gave some impetus to the place.
J Its completion was on an occa
sion of as much, or more, rejoic
ing as we see to-day upon the
comnletion of a new railroad
line
The most vital date in. the
history of Wilson, however, was
February 15th, 180. on mat
dav the town of Wilson which
had been in Ldgecomc-e county
was made the county seat of
the new established county of
Wilson. Duriug 1834 the ques
tion of making a new county
out ot parts: of Edgecome,
Wayne, Nash and Johnston
counties was the leading ques
tion. In Edgecombe the elec
tion of members turned upon
this question, lhe feeling of
opposition was very great,
especially around Tarboro.
The canvass was of the most
exciting nature, but Gen.
Joshua Barnes and Col. David
"I am told that the good peo
ple of Danville are afraid to
bring on a prohibition election
afraid the thirty odd littlb
hell holes in your city will
clean you up. What are you
afraid of? Afraid. you will get
your head cracked at the polls.
Why, such Christians as that
would let a bull-necked bar
keeper take an old horse pistol
that hasn't been loaded since
the war, and run the whole
church out of town." The
speaker went on to show that
the church is not a peace so
ciety, and said God's people
had always been fighting by
God's command. Said he:
"Joshua was fighting and when
he saw he was getting the best
of it he looked and noticed that
the sun was about to go down.
Then he appealed to the Lord
and God told the sun, 'now
don't you movo an inch until
Joshua cleans them fellows up,'
and it didn't."
Still contending for a draw
ing of the line, Mr. Jones,
counting on his Augers, said :
"I will show you fi ve men one
makes whiskey, one sells it,
one (a member of the church)
rents tbe seller a house to sell
it in; one votes the seller his
license and one buys tbe whis
key, gets drank on it and dies
drunk, aud the last fellow is
the only one in the lot who is a
gentleman. . NoW how are you
going to separate that crowd to
send some to neaven and some
to hell ? It can't be done. God
being a just God is going to
send the whole lot to hell together."
It is cruel to make a good
hen hatch more than one set
ting of eggs without resting, al
though it may be done.
It would be better to sell a
poor horse or two to be able to
breed good stallions than to go M 1 and nothing else.
VsE KOr. C-OTTOX SEED MEAL.
But a new u?e has been found
for the hull and the cotton seed
meal after the cil has been ex
tracted. The meal has been
used mixed whith other ar
tides as feed for stock, but now
rattle are stall-fed for beef on
cotton seed hulls and meal
Uone, and it Is eaid they fat
ten quickly upon it and make
flne beef. The Atlanta Consti
tution states that a firm in that
v:ty cleared 20,000 lat year
b7 fattening beevef, to which
otton need hulls and meal were
If this
breeding Inferior ptock
will never be worth much.
that
Fathers are apt to give their
boys the poorest tea-.i and the
poorest tools on th j place to
work with ; but it is bad policy
if the boys are to t encouraged
to become good fan . rs.
The best food ' . r making
hens lay is a pwnd of lean
meat, chopped fine, given three
times a week to a IWkof twen
ty hens. But very, iittle grain
is required at this reason.
i'e so, there are possibilities In
the cottoa eeed hirb were riot
waken into account when the
r. utonoil industry v- estab
lished, and an additi value
of no small proportion Is ad
ded to It, It makes etck rais
ing In the cotton belt, where
crass and grain culture have
teen neglected or deemed Im
practical, a new and profitable
business, and ft should and will
uot only encourage stock raising
bat also the introduction and
foetering of better grades.
Young ducks dr nk water
very often when eating, and
should be plentifully, supplied
with all they can drink, but
should not be allowed on ponds
until they are well feathered.
Do yon notice some of the
chicks trailing their wings?
Look out for lice. Examine
beneath the wings, on top of
the head and about the vent.
Look closely and you will Cud
the cause.
ins
hat a Pity tha Presort Gereratica
Cannct Zz :y Tiers-.I
A lilKI. MKil'LD I.EABN.
To sew; to cook; to mend; to
be gentle; to value time; to
dress neatly; to keep a secret;
to be self-reliant; to avoid idle
ness; to mind the baby; to
avoid late hours; to darn stock
ings; to respect old age; to
make good bread; to keep a
house tidy; to-control her tern-
Is Consumption Incurable? per ; to be above gossiping; to
Head the following: Mr. C. H.
Morris, Newark, Ark., says : "1
was down with Abscess of Lungs,
and friends and physio:ans ro
nouueed nm an Incurable Con
sumptive. Began taking Dr. King's
ew Discovery for Consumption,
am new on my third iottle, and
able to overwee tbe work on my
farm. It is the finest medecine
ever made."
Jesse Middleware Decatnr,
Ohio, says : "Had it not been for
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption I would hare died of
Luug Troubles. Was given up by
doctors. Am now in best of health."
Try it. Sample bottles free at A.
W. Rowland's Drug Store.
make a home happy; to take
care of the sick; to marry a man
for his worth; to 1j a help
mate to her husband; to take
plentyf of active ..-xercise; to
see a mouse without screaming;
to read some books beside,
novels; to be light-Learted and
fleet-footed; to weat shoes that
won't cramp the ftet; to be a
womanly woman ur. ler all circumstances.
Another Eini cf Circus.
Wages at the Carnegie mills
are reduced on a new sliding
scale by from 20 to 2" per cent.
This may be all right, but it is
not the entertainment to which
Mr. Carnegie invite I his men
when he'uiged them t- vote
against the revision of the
tariff. Philadelphia Tiim-s.
Nobody ever sows ton many
kinds of grass seed on land to
be employed in grating.
DON'T DOG THE COWS.
Every one who has anything
to do with a cow fchould learn
thoroughly this fact: That
every annoyance and thing that
excites or frets her takes a pro
portion from both the amount
and richness of her yield, and
in just so much takes money i times the
We often hear of the "good
old days of yore." Why de
prive our children of the en
joyments of the old 'days?
Why not pas3 a law forbidding
steamboats from plowing the
water, railroads from running
on land, telegraphs from send
ing messages, telephones from
being used : all grate for burn
ing coal to be taken out, all
. toves to be melted for old
'iron, all water works in cities
be left empty ; the u?e of all
gas and other illuminators, ex
cept dipped tallow candles, to
be discontinued, and really go'
back to the "good old times,"
ay for five yeari. Then, if at
midnight on a cold, stormy
night, a doctor is wanted he
must be sent for, instead of
telephoning for him. If one
wished to send a message 'to a
distance, instead of telegraph
ing he mut write a letter and
send it by stages to its distant
place, and wait patiently for
days or weeks for the answer.
ben one g jes noma oa a
freezing nigul lie can pit vy a
wood fire, roasting on one side
while freezing on the other, and
reading by tne dim light or a
tallow dip, instead of the blaze
of a gaslight or the tnore
agreeable light of kero-ine. If
ho undertakes a journey, iu-
.-tead ox getting into the cars
and goins where he wishes, the
best he can do Is to take a stage
t four times the coat and ten
discomfort of the
th Mali, and it I the market town
lor hundreds cf as troclal
f armers as live in Sort a Cart-boa.
The fanners of that taction are
Industrious aud have om ftab
stantial progress aud ,:reat m-
prorcsnt in recent years. Cttoa
U the Maph crop and nawhi-re ta
the S?4t is it maJrt t great r
perfection and Mt MiaHer cv-jt.
)uring the past few eai cf i.crtA'
CIOJ-. l1o h lt lWMC'l X'J". .
depression caused by it than auy
town o which we hatv av linn -
dge. It has stcadilr gone t tr-
wart! in its fanning methods . j ""'
ell as it banine" eitun.:o3. . A. i
dnre ibrouco the rou-iiv tr: .
evid enc of tbe fact t hat t he tar mci s
are wide awake, fairly proT-ri,
progressive As aa hia-.t ration r.f
the prosperity of the i.;.lt we
will utate. anon the aathoiitv of
the sheriff that not a fool .! 1 ind
has been sold in the county iu mi
years for failure to pay taxes. Thue
is a greater disposition ti diver fy
tbe:r crops and a more intelligent
management. Last year a lew
farmers trieL raifling tolurro with
wonderful sue es. Id some parts
or Wilson the land is as wetl :t-lii-t-ed
to tobacco culture as tbe fatb inn
tobacco land of Graavii'e, sud the
futute will see Wilu ni pl.ie.-d ia
the list of brrght toliaco eoauli.'s.
Larger lot tunc have Wi a ta-le
in Wilson by merchants than in
auy other Eastern town of whicti
we bave any Definite know
ledge, lis business men Lave
understood bnw to sell gool nd
bare sold tbe farmers of lii'l a
dozen couaties their Mippl.cs. let
ter business men cannot be found
in the State. As evidencing tu , ,
volume of its 1umius- we mar
state that it yearly boy 2j," 0
bales of cotton and its nouual s ilt s
amonnt to upwards of a nuliioa and
a half dollars.
Asa place of residence. a well
as a business center, it ii.'-s ra-ny
adavtages lis wide s'u.idr 're t
with bough overhanging; its
heathy location, liein t ut. rely fie
from any miasm iic d.-raer or
tebdeucifcs, and its low d-aTh ia:e,
its high moral tone and the re
ligion iduuenree, its tducatitti.tl
advantages generous, tiosjctuule,
social population who are surpass 1
by no people iu all the c l ali
ties that make warm an 1 tieroied
friends all these coujire to mat
life Lere fall of happiness aad
pleasure.
1 rom the day of its nn-fp i
tion it La ttet-n aa t '.uc ,u .-u it
centre, la it eailv lu-'ori lh:e
were moie boarding pupils in '.he
schools than resident m 'lie town.'
It has large M-liool b:r.l.lit.,T sti4
another one will be mrtd th:
ver. The llifintu itiliue.ioeS
which bare cone out roui tte
school presided orer lv Uv Chas
1. Deetnt, I). 1) , LL. 1' till'K'P-
er l. I)., LL. U IVoL . I'- ii -j
Hoojier, LL. IK, Prof. J ia; 1 S.
Kirhardson, .1.11 y !.!,
LU 1- FioL Ilas '.l.
J. ii. I'.rcwe and otL.r eminent
educator who bare tngUT. in
Wilson, are to Ih in th b
and high character of lhe retd i:s
of tbe town. ,
Tbe greatest need ot WM-n t i
day it manufacturing. It ha s-r-r-al
tlourisume tuannfacln re
ferred to flsembeie in !.!.
Chronicle, lint there is abundant
roora fur tnote and the ieopV are
readv to rire cMpera! ioti to sy
parlies who will rstab.ikb any
manofacturinsestablishnieat. Ti't .
is one Cotton Mill in sucesIul
operation. It will require Utl-ru
more cotton mills, t-acb co'ng
fcl'iO.Ouf), to m an o fact ore tbe o-::. a
raised in the county. The --pl
in viion want the ttue !.- a
factories and will give n'es to any
parties who will establish I hem.
Taie are low the county Irr
from dtbt aud no plae i1cia
better ojHning fur ntuuitc uftng
of xll kinds, especially l tu.
The latuie ot the fr a :s !.r.ht.
Talking a lew day ao a pu.iuiurut
riti-ea of Italeigb wh t is ftu.ii.r
with the entire State, aad lhe ra'l
road ojierations be sai-1 that Wil
son would be belore m '.y yrUr
the most prominent station iti the
fa: passenger line of the Allan? w.
tastl.ine. It i g-nto -th
direrzing point conun Umi th
South lor freight and taM-:icer
whether tbey go by No; fulu, and oa
I'ast steamboat on the NewVt:i,
Philadelphia and Norfo'.k ra.'.ioaJ,
or whether ther take the Cot
Line to Washington O'y. I'
beauty and healthly 1'icaTlon to
gether with its other adrsrtas.
willkttract settler and bimj in
creased Uussiness to tbe j "ace.
from her owner's pocket. A
man who will peVm't it to be
done, much less, himself dog
the cows home from the past-
cars. Jel these ana other
modern improvements be fir
idden. and the "good old day"'
be brought back, how 1""
ure or kick and club them would it be before an extra
about thfc barn or y rds is not a i slon of the Legislature wonld
fit person to own or have charge
of -cows. It is not c-My cruel to
the defenseless cov ut Is ruin
ous to his own flaaooas, a rea
son that ought to appear
strongly enough to hi avarice
to compel proper treatment of
be demanded to knock "the
good old days" Into t pllnters,
and to restore the much better
modern days which w now en
;oy and for which we ought to
be most devoutly thankful.
Baltimore .n.
CC
This remedy is lerie i so ell
kut-wn and so popular tie-d
no mweaal mention. All w ho tre
used Klectric Ii:tcrs sm ta V)Q
f!i2 of praise. A jir r medic. ue
does not exist and it is - i a'h
to do all that is cl.iu.' i..t;ttc
li tter w;Il cors all d - - ! lL
Liver and Kidoew m ret;.ue
l'inp'.es. Ho.ls, Sill K u' i I
Other affection can--l V ,"a;.re
U l.v it! linvc ; j.
lite : system sod pre-n! - e". ii
care Vl MtanJ fefr W-r -i:i
of Headache, t'oo-tip it .: m. ! la
dietion try Klectnc l;;tt-r.
tire utisfsctioa cur;.t.ci, r
money refunded. Pin . .'.ots. 1
-'r bottle at A. W. i:-U:0
lJrag 8'. ore.
In all tbtre tare U u 137
sioaHiotke 1 fl.-tmt -s t'w ta
thi C'ty by those .av r'.t d lui t g
tbe Pearson tucetinc. Itii f
coarse doe not iriclae ths- con
verted In other secTlff aad fQ
bare connected tLeUis.-Uc i'h
tbe Church of iod in other e,ia.
mnnitieav Kaj eltevil O er .