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VOLUME 19,
WILSON, WORTH C A HOLLOA, SEPT. 5, 1880.
NUMBER 32
a
ARP'S LETTER
run
A
COl'XTRY
D.l I".
for
Disastrous t.'ojiscaumires
i too Much 1 i ii it. l'rettn
; What Erenj Farmer
Should lie.
fl,
).vm look like the farmers
: to be -happy. They made
est wheat crop that has
made for years, . and now
are heavy with corn
ill soon bd white with
Tlirf cattle are all tat
; . ii a fruit crop wals never
in (.Jeorgia, I reckon
:v happy, for they are
picnics ami barbecue.-
',),-. t anil reunions : among
-oldierH, and the camp
; have begun early and
on till -cotton picking
The Tanner's clubs and
AHianco men -seem to be
w-r- of the situat ion financi
, r-ligioiirdy and pr.K'tical-
.-.-ili kee
iie
ly-
: it
i r:
t.i
: r ,-pi.ious tanner is to be
il. The other day my. wife
1 were invited out to out
:. i:2 .".iliy Hood's to eat grapes
ml m. -Ions, and we went. He
v. s at the foot of the moun-
i, two miles Iroui town, and'
v. .- round the front yard swept
and the backyard, too, and
water pail and wash pan
I .! been scoured, and the
li.l lrea had to put on clean
rStlbes, and everything was in
; ;! pie order, for that is the
w,: ;; country . f lks do when
; . ' : l folks ar 3 coming to see
IK in. We know all about that.
;.:t it is rather embara.ssing
r!::"i town company takes
!i t ;:; unawares on a' wash day
r cleaning up day. 1 remeni-
"i.-r that on one occasion my
v lla could hardly get one of
tin' civil to go to the door and,
-.-:. ;i , .-l.e, did go she opened it
:;;i1 uot behind it and asked the
c 'inp.iny to walk into the par
lor until .sl'.e could change her
-iriiieiits.
i'.illy Hood is my ideal of old
Amur's prayer "give me neither
jiov. .-r'ty nor riches." lie is
just comfortable and had to
work hard, to keep so. lie is
yhvay-i ci.ie.erfu! and so are his
wio) anil children. His good
old i:oticr lives not tar away,
:n 1 i is married daughter is in
, i. lit. lit- lives iu a cottage
that ''s shaded by ' some large
ok?: tiers. The well with its
hi oaken bucket isi.ilhe back
yard 'aud the garden and orch
ard arri near at hard. Chickens
oC ail sizes are meandering
:i round, and the ash -hopper and
the dairy and the cider press
riiow signs of clean things
;.'(, id thintrs. There is nothing
iine euoutrh to be afraid of
iMthi'ig poor enough ;to excite
unit sympathy! every thin
TTT-.iurtabiy' tiiid that is all.
1 1 said if there's peace to
h. i. iuid in the- world a heart
t! I was humble might hope
. (.,: it here." ' "
! illy Hood was a good soldier
the war and he is a good
huiner iii' peace., aIe always
!.! his premium acr& in cotton
.;!, in com. I think that he
mi safely count on two bales
is bad I know, but Massachu
setts heads the list of crime.
Uid that is worse. If some of
our people can't read and write,
they are good citizens. It.du.ca-.
tiou i3not a guarartee for good
citizenship, night now the
overcrowding of the learned
professions is giving trouble in
Germany.'- Their press is dis
cussing ,the matter very serious
ly, and trying to find a remedy.
loo much education they say,
and it is breeding discontent
and socialism among the
graduates who can't find em
ployment to suit their high.
culture.) There are sev"enty-one
universities and twenty-eight
thousand students fn attend
ance, and the number is increas
ing fl iro timoa foatar tlian t V !
population. What does this
mean ? ""'
Pope said : -'A little .learning
is a danerous thing ; drink
deep, or taste niot of the Pear
ian spring." I never did be
lieve that ; but now here is a
new theory which says that too
many are drinking deep, and
the professions are all crowded
to an alarming extent. Is it
possible that knowledge is
coming to a discount, and much
learning is making people-mad?
Is it a fact that the number of
graduates in the universities
ought to be limited, for fear of
the safety of the
government" lias a young
man less stability and less
patriotism because he ha been
through the university ? Ger
many boasts of.the best educa
tional system in the world
She has compulsory education
and requires five years school
ihg between the ages of seven
aud seventeen,- and special at
tention is given to the moral
training of her -pupil's. The
- . I ' . 1' 1. 11!
iiuierauy oi ner population is
only 2 per cent, whicli is a
smaller ratio than any state in
our union and yet Germany is
alarmed at the spread of
socialism.
Well it looks like-, there is
another problem to solve. How
much education shall we give
to our children ? Pope is not
infallible even though he was
a "Pope." A little learning is
not a dangerous thiny. It is
good thing, a safe and harmless
thing and every human being
ought to have it. To read and
to write and to cipher adds to
the usefulness, the independ
ence and the happiness of
mankind. We can all agree
npon that. A common schoo
education does not put the man
It
idleness, which is the parent
of all vice, and before he
knows it he wants a division
and is at heart a socialist. The
negro does not have far to go
to reach thiSi point, it is his
nature to want a division. He
begins to divide early.
"How are you getting along
Dougherty ?" said 1 1 to a clever
old darky who was raised in
the family.
"Poorly, sir, poorly. It gets
worse and worse. My children
are giving me a power of trou
ble since they came from coN
lege. They won't; work nary
lick and they brings a crowd
of them lazy college whelps to
my house every day and they
have mighty nigh eat me out."
1 he working negroes give us
no trouble, but every now and
then one of these college bred
FOR THE FARM.
MATTERS OF INTEJIEST TO
THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
Original, Bofrowed, Stolen and
Communicated Articles on
Farming.
Sowing winter wheat is intel-
Uieentlv described in the Ameri-
editors or school teachers tries caia Agriculturist for Septem
ber, and some sound advice
given as to the proper fertilizer
to be used therewith.
It is not yet too lite to sow
rutabaga seed for a fall crop.
The Government
furnish any turnip
year.
will
seed
not
this
i
Ensilage is steadily growin
in favor. It will not be ten
years before silos will be as
common in this section as fod
der stacks.
be worth little more than com
mon fowls. No one who has
n-if tn..l it -qii iinnHTQUnn thA I :0:
amount of thought and roAT""?'W" EZ.LAX,
tlnT1.mUrv brneder must va wi UISK HATERS
to selecting the right birds foj
the breeding Hocks and to buy
ing exactly what is needed to
NAUTICAL LIFE.
IX SO UTHJEliX
Sea SoundintiH. TU st..;.
fortify weak points; nor can he
believe such work is interesting.
-Aiuericu.il Agriculturist.
of
Magellan. TJie Rio de Ui
Plata. SiHini.sU
Scenea.
o stir up a war betweeu the
races, and they have an idea
that they will be backed by
their northern, friends. But
they are mistaken. The north
has too much money invested
here now and is investing more
all the time. The north will
not take a part in a race war.
The northern mind is very
much unsettled on this prob-
em. On the last Fourth of
July a distinguished orator
made a speech in Farmiugton,
in Maine, and - said that the
nation had committed three
monumental bluudars one was
in opening our doors to all the
vagabonds of the earth ; another
was in not hanging Jeff Davis
aud Bob Lee and all the leaders
and officers of the rebellion,
and the greatest blunder of all
lay in giving the negro the
ballot and setting him up as a
citizen. He denounced the
poor darkey as being worse
than the Indian or then China
man.
Well, I wish they would
settle down and let us know
Montevideo, L'kugi:ay. It
was a lonir Kail d i.
Tin-', faumeics ALLIANCE. across the Southern I'loflc
Fhe Alliance has made re- the lh'.anda of New Zealand to the
markahlf progress in this State, lower extremity of Southern Atn-
l.av'nu:: nl-Al!ia'ices in many if ericr. Our course lav on the for.
not in .: very county in the State, I ty-cightii parallel of latitude, in
that Heep ovur the ocean, but ad
verse storuiM i-omiH'Hed ns to
change the mute farther toward
the south, The long days and
short nights followed eacli other
la close Buccession, lor it wan
nearuig tne end of the veai. Sev.
coiiuiosf"! of the verv best reD-
res' iiliiive iarmers, who are
not only representative farmers,
but representative citizens, the
equals in standii;u", worth and
influent-.
Ol
Mty in the State.
a loth brains and solid
worth in the leadership and In eral temno storms and g.t'e
the membership of the Alliance, caugni tiie ship id their embrace,
It is said that the farms of
the Northwestern States which
are valued at 5,000)00.000, are
mortgaged for nearly :$,tx )(),--
000,000. It will take a lot of
wheat, corn and oats to lift
these mortgages.
The farmers all over the
country appear to be more de
termined than ever not to use
the jute bagging. We hope
that they may succeed this
year even more truly than they
did last, and that the "trust"
may be "busted all to flinders."
not
terest
upon
i will
only on
of
U,e
nave
the
the
State
Messrs C. C Tally ' Sons
have one of the finest orchards
of fruit that is in this county.
They have already made over
1,000 gallons of cider from the
fruit that has dropped off. Oh !
how nice it would be if Uncle
Sam would just let us boil a
leetle of it: we could save so
farmers of North
notably conservative, but at
the same time progressive, and
when thus organized under
level-beaded, broad-viewed
leadership, the organization
caunot be other than beneficial
not only to the farmer, but to
the stale at iartre, whose pros-
witn that of the farmer. Wil
mington Star.
ts influence H winterly winds often failed us.
farming in- au1 ,1?-"y seas, frequently forty or
State, but fift feet rolled aero
itoif Tli our l,alu a:i1 kt'nt the vessel bob-
Carolina are
bing up ami down to such au extent
that a cratt, a tpiarter of a mile
away, would have passed uuneeu.
V e crossed the l0ih uieridiau ou
Monday, and the foHowiiijr day
was Monday also, a day t loity
elght hour, as a coinjieuiiation to
father I line, and au offset for the
loss of a day in turning our clocks
ahead wheu we came into thin part
of the world.
-hi:
FARM
. S A I A KT
iMTSTKY,
have always believed
ur farmers would find
profitable, if the land
mniKh ti-rnia ,if Hrinkilli' it.
wnat tney are going to uoaoouv Chatham iieCord.
it. in tne meantime lei us ub
catient. Let the south roll on
in her prosperity and let every
body be calm and serene.
Bill Ari
This Ueans Yon.
in
..net and sixty bushels of
l ' other this year aud his
ii. d(; crop, is nearly as good.
:i is a good citizeu and never
.-rumbles- about his taxes or
He
his
Sabbath
having to work the road,
.is a good Christian and
hiidren come to
.'u'Ol anu ue ai-w ays vJa ul
nl part to the preacher on the
iv,t day of every month. What
tlio world was full of such
. lies, such fathers and
, '... tj-crs and childien.
..i , (.i,iiani(ins innneenco ami health,
! ,' S fj.iii-s lamiraucc of wealth,
','!'" ,j )' who cruWus in shuiU-s likt'
' ,.,t "f ?i It ttti ami f fasu.'-
Tjiscious- grnpes
iu .fence on e ety
.at the gate eat
f. :iiid after a
'iu"i f sampte
.course oi
utiful,
the L'ar.
I . pt 'tran
v: ay roufi
'.i-.t'i-val
iu
in
peaches
nil then
f(iTard
-Ste.
as
ns, and
i few pears and
re t-acKed on. lop a
- -: ier was brought
i.i ike the repast comp
ils t 1 fnt. bnme Hai'e. and
! id only a lunch tor dinui
:.irls had prepared an extra
; -upper with a green corn
'Ming, attachment. When
'. -ictor left me next day
tl ou;;Jit 1 was asleep, ttut I
! 'him whisper to
; v.ifc that lie thought there
chance for me to pull
iili, fur my constitution
. ::Dinl one considering how
...'l imposed on it. Many
.iring friends called to see
, and while the morphine
- working I thought 1- heard
. .':(.(!) say that the hearse
i i-Dine, end I clutched the
t to see if I was really in a
'. It took me, about a week
. t stTaight again, but tuere
"i.ie gttod with the bad. I
; 1 tii.it had more friends
it 1 knew of, and I have
'-ived lots ofccugratulations
, iallv from the atreiit who
1 ocd my life.
Tiilly Hood is just a
1 i::Liiiii man with enough
''if ation to serve all hid pur
;J. lie reads the Bible and
wspaporsand the Sunday
. j boi ks, and no modern
: ; , and is content. What
'. lie want with more? Some
". i iniiiK tue wuria is on a
1 '"i about education, higl
'"""'.tiiii! classical education.
'1h said that Georgia heads
",; I'- t i.f illiteracy. Well, that
or' the state in any peril
does not produce any disinclina
to work for a living to work
tion in the common.avocations
of life. But suppose we could by
some enchantment, trive every
man and woman a collegiate
education, would we dare to do
it? Old Uncle Sam chops my
wood and cleans out my stable
and gets his daily wages and is
content. If lie was suddenly
endowed with my learning
would he chop my wood any
more? If not what would he do
for a living ; who would do the
cooliing and washing, and
scour the floors and kill
the chickens ? Who would dig
and plow and curry the mules I
and haul the wood and pick the
cotton and butcher the cattle
and hogs and work, in the
factories? Who would be
brakemen on the railroad or
firemen on the engines? Who
would be porers and araymen
and hack drivers in the cold,
sleety days of winter. The col
lege graduates, won't do it now
-would they do it then. In
fact, does not a high degree of
culture unfit a man for laborious
or menial pursuit. If it does
then what pursuit - is left him
when the professions are over
crowded as they are iu Ger
many. . '
Now neither tlie state nor
the tteoule are responsible for
the, unequal condition of man
kind Some vessels are born to
honor and some to dishonor.
Wort has to be done hard
work, dirty work, unhealthy
and perilous work, of else
everything would stop and the
human family would perish
We cannot help this. For
tune and misfortune move
LIong together .
"Some rise by sin, and some
hv virtue fall." Society is its
nwn regulator. , 1 have no just
cause of complaint that I can't
move iiijthe hrst circles, jam
happier in my own, and so is
everybody even qowu . iu uneie
Sam. the" wood-chopper. Our
white people are getting aiong
nrettv welt and the professions
are not yet overcrowaeu io a,uy
nlarmiutr extent. lhere i
utill rnn.n at the tOD. But the
Tioirrrtpq of the feoutu are fast
approaching the condition o
the whites in Germany. Their
colleges are turining out Scores
who pan fiud nothing to ao
nothing that is congenial to
thnir educated feelings. When
voinitr iiian, white or blacU
We have been insisting that
tlie way : for farmers to aid
each otbef is by co-operation in
every sense. Help each oth
er ! i Your Alliance preaches
this doctrine and it is not
the less true because- it comes
from our pen. And the Ad
vance holds that one of the
best means to help each other
is to tell how you succeed
with any crop, the preparations
you made, the time you plant
ed, the seed sown, the cultiva
tion given and all the details
so that your neighbor can try
A mass meeting of the farm
ers of the State has been cahed
to take place in llaleigh, Octo
ber 15th, at the same lime
State Fair will be hild
object of this meeting,
gather from the Call,
the farmers of the
opportunity to come
and discuss and hear
subjects bearing upon
agricultural industry,
the
The
as we
as to give
State an
together
discussed
the
We
that
sheep
is dry enough. It is of no use
to attempt to keep sheep
ou wet land, but a flock on a
farm will certainly ordinarily
prove profitable. As has been
said many times by us, and by
others, .-h.jep furnish a conveni
ent way for the farmer to ob
tain tie-h meet, a very desira
ble thine for the average far
mer an-, ins lamily. Diet is
such an important matter that
it initio almont be said that too
mut'h attention cannot be given
to it. U ur port, which is
eaten in tin- country to so lartre
au extent, was not the best in
the world, the health of our
people would be severely affect
ed, for our consumption of pork
is very large. We have always
believed that there was enough
iu this point alone to induce
farmers to ao to raisiug sheep.
Then comet the profit, and we
believ.' that a profit can be
madi from sheep, taking all
tunics iiuo consideration, even
under unfavorable circumstan
ces. Western Rural
it next year. The Advance has
opened a Department in its col
umns lor tnis
would be deligh
farmers avail
our offer. Many
purpose aud
ed to see our
themselves of
useful lessons
could thereby be learned that
must be necessarily lost except
to a few.
Getting it Sown Fine
Politics are getting high in
the "State of Wilkes." Last
year a widow woman whose
husband had teen a Democrat,
rented part of her land to a
Republican. The landlady's
and the tenant's wheat crops
were stacked together. Last
week was wheat-thresning in
that neighborhood. There
were two machines, one run by
a Democratic squad, the other
bv a Republican squad. The
landlady wanted the Democra
tic machine. The Republican
tenant swore he would have
the machine ot his faith aud
order. There was a lack of har
mony, and the laudlady got the
machine of her choice to thresh
hers one evening, and the ten
ant got his Republican machine
next morning. That's getting
it down
Chronicle.
The National Econojmist has
this to say of Capt. Alexander's
speech at the meeting of the N.
C. State Alliance Convention :
The address of President Al
exander is an Alliance docu
ment worthy of full considera:
tion. His statement that the
object of the Alliance is to pro
tect the producers against
monopoly and not to make
I ,vrt irorj itl ThA TA4A51 TT n.
those who propose entering up-, iu tbe Soutn and
on co-operauve uisiriuuuuu. .r w . . ... fnnfiaA
unci'-r;;;;-me!it, has this to say
of thu So-ith's fruit-growing
qualities and outlook:
' TLe fruit growers of Georgia
and other Southern States are
l ejoicin .r at the success of their
crops this season, especially of
the peach crop. For some years
past me j.eacn crop in parts or
the South has been only fair,
but this year opened so prom
isinglv that unusual prepara
tions were made to handle the
crop, yet in many sections hard
ly three-quarters of the crop
has been harvested, owing to a
lack of crates and refrigerator
cars. According to a letter in
the Atlanta Constitution, car
loads of peaches have brought
Mr. Edmund Foil, of Mount
Pleasant, raised on one and
three-fourtht acres of land
sixty-four aud one fourth bush
els of wheat. This is an aver
age of nearly thirty-seven
bushels to to the acre. The lot
on which this was raised was
about eight years ago full of
gullies large and deep enough
to hide a common. size horse.
Good farming and elbow grease
made this land capable of pro
ducing such crops. Concord
Standard.
i.I.l i r.tt TiiAN A (iOl.D MINE.
l.'i'.drtr the above heading the
'.alLiui'tiv .Manufacturers' llec
It is but natural that we
should feel pride in the beauty
of our country, in the si:ce of
our cities, in the magnitude of i
our commerce, and the va st -
ness of our wealth. We should
not forget, however, that the
true glory of a nation does not
consist in the extent of its do
minion, th6 fertility of its soil,
the splendor of its architecture,
or the extent, of its commeice,
but in the moral and mtellectu-
fine. Wilkesboro ai development of its people.
National Economist.
Shsw Practical Appreciation-
The late Judge David Davis
said this, and it is worth repro
ducing : "Each year the local
paper gives from $500 to 85,000
in free lines for the benefit of
the community in which it is
located. No other agency can
or will do this. I he editor m
proportion to his means, does
mora for his town than any
other ten men."
TOO LARGE FARM
The Home and Farm thinks,
and we agree with it, that as
a rule farms are too large. One
hundred acres is enough for any
farm. This amount of land
well cultivated will paodnce
more and better crops than 2io
acres half cultivated. With
this land the farmer with cue
hired man can do all the work,
except in harvest, when he will
need an extra man. He would
fin1 timn tn f.nt Yinh nlnTiJ- tl.
A'Sonthern View of Tfce New Policy. fen(3e and clean out the fence
corners, blast and draw off lare
has ac-mired a. hitrh strung
education and cain fmd nothing
rfrf v ;i to he beems to
brood over the" ' vr.'fls -.n
dition of things, lie sees
class around him" who. are
mentally his inferiors, but who
have accumulated property
and are revelling in wealth.
He sees, another class around
him who have made fortunes
by crooked practices, by extor
tion, speculation, monopoly
and nolitical intrigues. Hi
thoughts fester and fret
The white Democrats of At
lanta burnt one Federal official
in effigy a week ago, because of
his appointment of a colored
clerk. The colored Republicans
of North Carolina burnt three
Federal officials in effigy on
Saturday, because, as they
charged, "it is Harrison's policy
to give .11 the good places to
white men.'' Altogether, it ap
pears that the new "policy,"
whatever it is, ia in a
very bad way, and is not mak-
j mg- ior tne uuiuuusmtiuii
Char'Jsto2 News and Courier.
stones that he has worked over
for twenty years or more, pnli
the stumps and et them out
of the way of the plow and
mowinir machine, dig patches
repair the fences so as to keep
as high as 1.600. With the
fruit worth . a bushel and
the product of some orchards
iq iiuo the thousands of bush
els, a h' nre incomo can easily be
r-ei'i;. Several Georgia fruit
groves have made fortunes ou
this year's crop alone. Of
rotir.-e these highest prices
were :bt::!'! -d only for extra
g.tod fruit, specialties, n fact,
of some noted growers.
- I he result of this immense
crop will be the setting out of
many Pew and large orchards;
in fact, a letter just received
by the Manufacturers Record
from Florida states that the
peach bniiifss threatens to be
overdone, u h immense areas
have already been planted.
'thing more beneficial to
tlie South ';m happen than this
incrra-e ii: fruit growing. The
lesson of this year's big crop
will be that every railway will
ptifett its equipment before
next session, and be better pre
pared to provide transportation;
canning establishments will be
built i: ii-;M!y every fruit re
gio:;, so ;-:s to save the fruit that
cannot be shipped, and ice fac
torie n ii! be enlarged and new
I,
u.
his cattle on his own
prevent a law-suit
neighbor.
land
with
and ;
his!
GRADING UP THE FLOCK.
Ae the tree
lertuizeu oy iw
own broken branches auu lamug
leaves, and grocs Sit ot its own
decay, so men ana - nations are
bettered aitd improved ' trial and
re!nei oat of. tbeii mht hopes
i u mid bJurhtwt exp.ctatiou.
one
n. h:
of ice.
" I hi
made
owi.r
ble.-
of dolhn
industi it s
i that there wil be
Idpments for lack
tttrs peach crop has
...u.y fortunes lor the
, and wi!l bo au untold
ir to the South. Millions
will be invested in
important to fruit
It is easier to change from a
inohgrel flock to a pure bred
one than is generally supposed.
The simplest way Is to raije
graduallyrom capital breeding
stock enough birds to justify
one in selling all but that sort,
Wiiat ;s called "grading up I
the stock ims the disadvantage !
of "the fact tbafthe grade-up ' It is 1 to be an actual fact
birds would not be of establish-; that tram j printers are reform
ed breed for many generations, ! ing l iitl aro gradually retitinf
and during those years would J from the road.
growing aud shipping as the
result of this monster crop.
There will be no danger of
overdoing ihe Lusinead, certain-
I ly n L at tl. present growth of
i the South ."'
A line of coa sounding was ran
aVug the course at intervals of less
than twentv-lour hours, durin?
which it was necessary to come to
a standstill trout one to two hours.
in order to m tte a plummet line.
Fiftj -seven soundings were made
aud au average depth of twenty-
seven Hundred latuoms. or over
three milas, was found. Muy
marine- specimejs, sheila, corals
aud weeds, were brought up from
these great depth. In the act of
sounding, the lines, which are
maue oi piano-smug wire, are
operated by properly adjusted.
macnintry run iy ini power,
and uieasureiuen;' .... . ifceu with
great accuracy. l.eie.iu-t depth
reached in any of the be-as, iu
which oar lines were dropped was iu
the Southern Atlantic, wliere a de
pre.tsiou of fifty two bundled lath
oni", or ab tut six umcs. w.ia loiiiul.
Our ship entered t.,o strait of
Magellan at Cape Pillar, w here lof
ty lock, ou each side of a passage
less than a pole wide, or a gate
way from the open Pacific
Though its entiie IeLth of three
hundred and lift v miles, the width
of the strait vanes from one to
fifteen tuiles. Is ear its center, the
shoreu become precipitous, convey
ingtbe impression that, once joined
together, thev have leen torn as
under bv s iuie great convulsion o
nature. K uigiu from a few feet
to many hundred feet in height
with towering mountains behind
them ou the north and round-
topped hills on the south, the jug
ged shore-hues marked the Repara
tion pf Tierra del Fuego from the
continent. At its eastern extremi
ty the lands become low and sandy,
where a stormy gnu unites the
strart with the open bea. Along its
coarse a changing panorama is
presented, nnd sceues of pictur
esque and alpine beauty are revealed
in the lolty anow-covered ingui -tain
ranges, ia the hilt cloven
peaks, in great icy glaciers, aud iu
the valleys of somber forests, which
glide away in view of passiugsteam
erg.
Midway in the strai', lying on
the bttrrtierii hhnte, if tlie llttiti
Chilian town of Sml lVim, the
only M'ttleineiit ol white people iu
thi Uiul, a trading ost uilhthe
natives aud a stopping place tor
the VeSM-ls, wheie e Ul.tde ;i blli-l
landing. Ilete is a penal colony
of the t'inhau gitverniueiit, and to
the west is l'oit l'.iaiine, hu-li
was the scene of a sad tragedy ol
starvation a few ceiituiies ago.
The archipelago of Tieira del Fuego
or Land of Fireflies to the .-onth, a
group ot irregular, wuu ana ticwi
late lslamls, with broken and
storm beaten coasts, with high vol
canic mountains am) unpenetrable
forests, and with rivers ol ice creep
nig down worn tlie heights to
mingle with the waters of the two
oeeans, vrihch tuct-t in contention al
the lower point ol the America-.
Al tne remotes, t ieiuu oi inese
islands is Cape Hum, in rounding
which the distance is s huiiilied
miles greater th.m the strait
a route that is cti.-i lot s.uiiuc
vessels tn a u that ol ttui Migeil.iu
with its tugs and n:i k ami sudden
simalls.
The piople of mii1 hinds, i-epa
rated by thesTait .tie wnk-lv dnSer
eut in appearance rtii.i m u.ales ol
life. Tin li;cgans are short in
stature and repulsive in !M.ks, witl
black hair and rut -colored skin,
who live in mud huts with lgH as
companions ami with wives and
children as menials, and kiiImmsI ou
nsn anu oyster-, i uijgamy is
common among them, for 'one wo
man is not considered competent
to provide for a nun band in a In
coming manner, who Ion nuts by
the wigwam tire while the wivTii
are gathering luel and procuring
tcsHl lor lli family, llie children
of a household are many, but by
reason of exiHisiire- and neglect
in mfaucy less than half of them
rcacu auiut years, r.ous, arrows
and lance, are their' weapous of
war aud c-hnse, which, together
with their bou-ehold and tiahin
lmn'.emeuts, are of the rndett kind
The natives of Patagonia north of
the strait are ot larger sie and
of better form, and occupy a little
higher plane of life.
Leaving .tluy roint, witn ai
the savagery of its surroundioes
suggestive of the wry dawn of
civilization, with something of the
feeling of having tteeu ?i uiBportei
Dacic to the early pudo i-ac ages
of the world, with lie r.ati.p of th
glacial epoch upon ns, we pass-t
oat into the waters if rl.e .Atlantic
and directed th (-c.iis- -f the
hltip northward up the great ocen
with ninetyix decrees . ' I .titude
or nearly seven tl:,.te n . iu:Ies
between us aud l.on.e- In tbe
noath of the Uio de la Plata
which has a width of sixty miles,
we dropped anchor before the cap
ital or I rugnay that lien on the
left bank anrl InriL-a
i vu w lluu iUC
mill expanorthe rirer. a hon
dred miles or more across which
and a little above, is Buenos Ayres.
1 he city of Montevideo. iJthoueh
witnoat any labor ot note, is as fa
vorably located as any place ia
tbe wrold. Situated on a narrow
lonyneof rock, w.th tbe ocean on
one Mdo ami tbe creat river on ih
other, it reaches oat from the coast
ana preseau a long water-front.
The utreepj rise ia terraces one
above another, giving superior
draiuage and farnlAhine almost
every residence with a macaincerit
view of the sea. From the river it
has a picturesque look, although
comparatively low, ia keepiog with
ue country ia the background.
The city nas a popolation of
about oue hundred and fifty thous
and, and presents every evidence
of prosjienty. Klectric lights tarn
th night into day, and streets cars
run through all the thoroughfare.
for th rieoplo never wala when
they caa ride. Beautifal and costly
resiliences ami nne Defines blocks
line tbe principal avenues, and on
the curve of the bay fronting tbe
river are many charming villas.
that are built in tbe ane'eot Italian
style and surrounded with gardens
of fruit and (lowers, summer and
winter alike, that pre to the place
rue appearence ol perpetual spring,
The walls of tbe dwellings are of
Dricic and of great thickness as a
protection against heat and
moisture, som of which are point
ed iu iue most rantastic and gay
colors. The government buildings
are in inferor structors of two sto
ries, without any architectural
adornments. The cathedral is a
magnificent edifice, and tbe thea
ters, libraries and public buildings
will compare favorablv with tbose
of any modern city. The cemetery
overlooking tbe sea, contains many
costly'and beautifal tombs, moan
ment ana memorial, and is one of
the finest iu all tbe Americas. The
climate is salubrious, and a moder
ate temjKTature always prevails.
The ieople of the city show
tueir nationality and blood affini
ties la their pearances, amuse
incuts and modes of lire. Italian
opera Is in vogue. The ladies dress
in the heicbtb of the l'arislao fasb
ions, and divde their time between
church services, dinner parties and
balls. The gentlemen go to their
places of buseiess at seven o'clock
in tne morning, when their wives
and daugaters go to mass, and at
eleven retarn home for a breakfast
or seven or eight courses, after
which thev take a siesta, going
back to their couutiue-rooms at
three and dining with great formia
litj at seveu. Later in the evening
the social gayeties begin, tLe
daughters never appearing in tbe
streets or receiving aiteutiong from
gentlemen except In tbe presence
of an elderly woman. Tbe ladies
are famous for tbeir beauty and
fine complex t ions, which with tbe
symmetry oi lorm lade verv 'earlv
in their .tears, doubtlessly due to
their indolent habits. Tbe entire
Imputation, from the highest to tbe
lowest classes, seem tKwsesed
wtih fhe spirit of indolence. They
e superior equestrians. Tbe
goods from the shops are delivered
by horsemen, and tbe leader of a
udigeuce team is a saddle horse.
kven tbe beggars are on horseback
for a ragged and dirty creature
will gallop up to atranger and ask
for a ieuny. The popular aod na
tional amusement is bull-fighting
which takes puce auder the patron
ige of the president and of tbe
aristocracy, iu tbe amphitheater
which is thrown open anu
crowded every Sunday afternoon,
where 1 had the privilege of wit
nessing one ot tbe thrilling and
brutal contests in which tbe Span-
sh Americans so much delight.
SALISBURY.
Political Chat at Tia Xatirral Csji
til by Ozx Heslor fiepcrter.
-Senator Gorman is said to bare
presided over a secret meeting of
prominent democrat- held at a
country house in Maryland this
week to arrange a programme tor
tbe democratic minority in tbe
House. An informant says that
while it ws not definitely 'settled.
it was generally understood that
tbe republicans would not be per
mitted to make my radical changes
in tbe present roles of the Uoue,
nor will they be permuted to rtsest
democrats without good and snftlci
ent reasons.
If "be who beaitaies is lost.'
HOME CHAT.
a, a
Til Oft; II T FROM OVlt
What the Rrtthrrn t,f I he
are Thittkina ami Ixiymy,
A I JRtlLKu
IJetmrett Kujene llarr! and
Kngeue (tiistMini, North Carolina
nia l a l-ltlL4 tion l,.r it Air tA
kifs every rank of women. San-
fofd IAlrrs.
Can a rte KpaiM-r itoMr and be
ailii tituo oIh-d h ia the
lat one to It pid f i u. one trst
of all to throw cold w ater on and
rnn down the paj-r is be who does
somebody should be prepared to to I ftn-rilie t&r it, and who taost
in search of President lUrrison for
be still hesitates, and hesitates, as
to whether rt extra 8esion f
Congress shall be c:UI. I'xmi
people do not mlna s in; it Is fear
and not hesitation that ails tie
President. Perhaps it is and per
haps there will be no extra session.
uarlV li.i a hi i!t -fixer in
time tmt j. - .,1 f Ailed to
lav In Mibxmtt'x.n Mi. Illlr
Triet
f t tn
cabinet ofheers in town
time, lor the first time in
weeks.
at one
several I
Why is it tint a c;tv lhit p-p!
Mm . . " -
Cl.." teenue lif!l jjaoT Shops
M III! IU1I ' K.,, -.9
riotl- k.tei aud .!l.,-r iiulnivnt.nt
lome m kers. anil not
Oil! a tfWt I. . t t
Frank Hilton has printed a fac- I honor -m,.!, ..,'..
simile of a letter written i. Piril l,' - - ..r" .""TT"" '-"-i
a Mt . I " V.I..IIUHO.
oerTice yonimiMioner lioosereit.
and he want to know of Com.
misMoner if tbe writer roul.i pass
tne examinatmo roe cop int. From
the looks of bis writing Mr. Itoose-
velt must have taken lessons from
the late Horace Greeley.
oocieiy people, me lew that are
at present in the city are discussing
tne important (to then ) announce
ment, jnst made, that Mrs Harrison
will not shake hands at the White
House receptions this winter.
It is Mated that the budding of
the. war ship "Texas," about which
there is so much mystery, will te
investigated bv Congress. The
avy department is at present
trxiiig to tiutl out whether she will
float if finished under tbe present
plans, which were purchased of an
Lnglish firm or sh p builders, and
cost l.i,0.ki. The vessel when
completed, if it is ever completed.
will cost over -M,0(M. If
stopped now the Naval officers say
the loss will be more that -5J.oot.
Lverytwsly argues that tbe
Wot hi's Exoiiioa of 1SS2 should
ha beld under the authority of tbe
National (tovcrumcnt and in
representative American City.
I his is a strong uoub'e argument
in favor of its heme located at
ashmton, which is only city
completely controlled by tbe Gov
ernment, as well as tbe only city
in the United States of more, than
200000 population that can be strict
ly sjteaking, called an American
city. More tbau .hi per cent of tbe
inhabitants ol H ashing are native
born Americans.
Tbe fight on tbe Civil Service
law which is being made Lere got
rather personal, this week when
some inquisitive newspaper man
while fusing around at the War de
partment found a copy ol an order
issued In I-SSj dituij: ; Civil Ser
vice Commissioner l j u. ia from tLe
Armv. He sent it to 'ns paper
as a siecial and it was Uiegraphed
back to a local oier. It was bow
A Sf.V KSTKM tF.siltEU.
Tit dd stslrni .r oi kiotr roxl-
whicli Las U-cti the only Pjstetn of
our c-ounty, IN a failure so far as
gooa roa.is, Resales working many
bardhu. The mm who maumr.
at- a sst-tti, void or the t-rds of
the fid, ti. giving public high,
ways, trill have ac,.tt).hshed a
rntkt.ritmtortatiw j ih tot.l
second in its U i.. til, !.ii.ue other
Wille-ts.io 'lirouK !e.
"V "i i:.-i: it n in.
Tin- Itet I'at te have mnnee
that ran lie handled by J-Culatoni
iu that way oogH to wo Ihe eyes
of tl e js opl,-, . .l.'ijr (.orht to
Ikj umber inure tu.r less
than a dollar, tlx u.atter in what
Lands it may Iw Liun.I. The tnone
of a xiiiiitry ought to N. out of the
otrer ol sHTnUtot. lo fleet its
vahie e'lher IU the t.ti wav or tbe
I other. Cotxvrd 1 ,u,f..
S::arVirg for Cm,
In our own State the "rue
tion, as the colored brethren
call it, has been very "consider
able. Warring delegations
have camped at Washington
until sheer exhaustion and the
'resident's absence compelled
them to come home. There
lias been much bitterness de
veloped in the struggle for of.
lico. We realty believe that
u some cases llepubllcan an-
plicaLla woqld rather Lave
I)etntcratic, incumbents con
untie inoiuce than to see rival
vepublican applicanta appoint-
ed Molulft UegisUr, lHm.
Give Tnea Tcrk-
IN H I. l.Ks.
The it ei.lrti.e tne h.i ctflli
fi:nuiessf ihe uitlo Democrarv
and its devotion to ptmeiple is tbe
determination with t hirh it holds on
total iff li lot in. This issue is art
tssne Ihat ill be .u uutil tbe
reltwm is afY-tmiphshed, and tr w
CollstatlTlv K- kiiii? rt l1. nr.a r.f ita
growth iu .pul.ir favor... The peo
p'e are lein: jliir t.-. juid that
rapidly. Winston I.inv
TUr. kixii m;km;ii.
Our et.atily tm d mi-.-ation of
farmers bom New Kngland, who
know Low to uial.e laritimif tiav.
Their ptrsent e in i.ur ti i.ut mi'I .Ia
us good in U4.ia w.!s . ..tie of
hica is the rxattii letht v will aet
for our fain.ers. Ja tlie i. it t.lv
many ol .ur tpt,. atv lud jkt
they Lave too tnpe.h au.l want
a
i" s-r a rjas ol
in. aud buv small l um.
in our ts idst. IleJid
Leal.
e
I
a
rwme
el tie
;oui
I-I.r Till.-;
A Ctll Kills oulcori.e
I !h.
a
titgro
OUld
ever a rather sUutt lived sensation, I exodus froai North t
as a uuie invesugation at the ar ue to iaak a K-,b. ,t .l,atirt
department brought another order I nnepivocallv IVui. ci h : .:iC w ilh-
to light revoking tbe first one and
granting L;mau an honorable dis
charge. It is very aniair t. make
sucn attacks, nan tbe man wlm
foam, the first otder tnade auv itT-
A prisoner in Sing Sing tella
the warden that he waa eenten
ced to labor, and if be doe not
tret it he will go to court when
he gets through, and will find
out why. The Churchman pav
in comment: "Tha la a nw
point iu jurisprudence, well
as psychology the convict
Reeking to hare Lis sentence
enforced. Hut it shows in a
most lmpressiye way what is
the slow, wetrir, degrading,
and, lc fact, Intolerable pain of
enforced idleness."
ont effort t.n the pan of the whites.
loeauiant, the colon-. troresentA-
li W liotil tins Nta-.e. Suva ll.al frr,m
l ,i 4iioj (,! j..a, North
Carolina tiiiritti: lb imiiir' falL
quirj ii me tupaiimeni be would 1 1'1" mij i ay ol whom w ill go from
uts leaiueti oi nas xileuce oflne wrong negro otmtie ia tbe
theseoond, bH thai would have I KaMetn part d tl .- Male. Ashe.
DOlleu Ills sensation. T.. thm . I Vllle I ili-n f
. vv. i.i - - - - -
ol the moat prominent opiKo-nLi of
iuo utii oervice law, Dj it said
i. .. .... . , ..
iu-j uiurc aut suco met&ods as
that adopted bv this aensatinn
monger. Tkey are fighting tbe law,
not tne eentiemen who artv,m.
missiout-r under the law.
Tre country w.ll breathe freer
now that the Treasury detriment
as announoeu tbrougb acting
rvecreiary uaictieUer that It will not
permit a financial panic daring tb
present aaministratiou. Th an
rtouncemeut was mad to allav the
lear caused by a tiewi.Ai-r renort
ot a Wall street trut form.! in
either raise the price bow U-it.
paid by the Treasutv lr Is.uds or
to throw the country into a ft nan
cial pauio. The Wall sti-t sbaiks
may piake iu their bxis, r sh
when they lie-r about what ibis
brave actio? Secretary baa raid,
bat it is more probable that they
will laugh in their sleeves aud go
on in their hen-us as it be
bad said ooll,v.-.jr
CAll IX .KI!1 WAV.
The credit fjstt tn t bad in tnnr
i wan. it eurotira'e iu .t.r ijeuoe
i an.l etravjg4re 0:1 the one Laotl,
extortion and Uktirv on the other.
It makes theft rei.-t1,l,.
rn-iUhii. aud tains l.otrtea. It
shoul I t aVibsfK-,!. li ,ey man
in IttiMt.f-- K'rt, Ins .! . lr..tn tboee
who tr alJ t, t ,.tKJj, afjcwJ
to g'e t. IhttM' ulm et- rj,j ,,4
stl.l realize a Lal.dwne
Oxford tbt.h-os I'm n.l
ptoht.
it
11IH. . I.
tU''lf is-
lUocks of-Five Dudley Is
credited with saying that the
l.epati leans would "put come
elixir of lite into the Virginia
politician? before we eet
through with them." Dr. V ana-
maker baa demonstrated that
he is a political physicbin of
great ability. Kansaa City
limed.
A ins n is a fool, knows noth
ing of the progress of the world
and Las bat little charity la Lis
Heart wbo requires, every per
ron to think as he does and
conform to Lis own ideas of
right and wrong.
The na.ne of the new democratic
weekly paper to is- issued Lere
next week is to be tbe National
Iemocrat. It is intended for aa
tional circulation and indofMHl
by ex President Cleveland, lit
Speaker Carlisle and. other promi
neat democrats.
i
Tbe republican state as-ociat ion
are making th'ngs very lively
around tbe department here.
Tbey are bolder then ever tteiote
notwithstanding tbe civil arr,
law
MaLone'a resolations'iu Vir
ginia pledged the Ipubllcan
party' "sympathy and succor"
to the "disabled ex-Confederates
or the widows an3 ontrn
otded Confederate tidier."
lireak it gently t Foraker !
Tell it softly to the Uoo lr
shlrt shakers ! New York
World.
S
Mississippi leaaes all berronvirU
that is, all ba! Salliran. She
simply releases Lint.
Yet
to tool 11..-
af 1 Imi . tg.t' t .i:
t'l l-, . o. .,.
togtMi-t of ll.t
tiou ! N ttth Va:
tioti to tke !.
I;h's t , -i tl.e N.
Stwith. 1 hat toj-vt 1
t b a f pr. 'jr-i
a sfr-rgbt I ne
I.a.tmiore, p4-..,t:g Jhrotj-n the
morjiila.ati m the toie hue ,( least
resi.irnte; ILioagti North Carttlms,
and bt A!.t . .: e. Aheitfe
Cit r .
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ti i. I ..; t. tlATlog,
I : .a t.ir enter-
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