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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1892.
NO. 44
J-HIPS OF MOSS ACATE.
She ground covered with them
IS A PETRIFIED FOREST IN ARIZO
NA. From the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
is not hard to reach oue of the greatest
atural curiosities the petrified forest of
trizooa. Much the ncure.it point is the
ttle station of Billings, but there are the
fcanticst accommodations for the traveller.
.bout a mile South of that point one
.ay see a low, dark ridge, marked by a
ngle cottouwood tree.
Walking thither (over a valley so alive
ith jack rabbits that there is some ex-
Lse for the cowboy declaration "that
ou cau walk clear across on their backs!")
iue soon reaches the northern edge of
lie forest which covers hundred of square
biles. Unless you are more hardened to
foudurful sights than I am you will
most fancy yourself in some enchanted
Lot. You seem to stand on the glass of
gigantic kaleidoscope, over whose
liarkliug surface the sun breaks in
finite rainbows. You are ankle deep in
Lob chips as I'll warrant you uever saw
om any other wood pile.
What do you think of chips from trees
lat are rod moss agate and umethyst
bd stuoky topai and agate of every hue?
ueh are the marvelous spliuters that
over the ground for miles here, around
lie huge prostrate trunks some of them
ve feet through from which time's pa
eat ax has uewu them. I broke a
ciiuju from the hem of a treu three
tears agj which ha 1 around the stone
ith a remarkable array of large aud
pquisite crystals; for on one side of the
peciuien which is not so lanjo as uiv
aed is a beautiful mass of crystals of
lyal purple amethyst and on the other
l equally beautiful array of smoky topaz
One can get, also, magnificent cross
fectiousof a whole trunk so thin as to
k portable and showiug every vein and
year ring" and even the bark. There
(not a chip in all those milea which is
ot worthy a place, just as it is, in the
roudest cabinet, and when polished I
now no other rock so splendid. It is
be of the hardest stones iu the world
pd takes an keeps an incomparable
Wish. St. Nicholas.
kCIIKAPCOMPLIiTU FERTILIZER
B H.VTTLE, N. C. EXPERIMENT STA
TION RALEIGH.
A mixtuie of add phosphate, cotton
fed meal, and kainit will make a com
pete fertilizer, and of moderate cost, if
id iu the following proportions to form
ton:
1,2000 pounds of Acid Phosphate.
MO pouuds Cotton Seed Meal.
200 pounds Kainit.
The acid phosphate should run at least
- P cent, available phosnhoria acid.
he kainit should contain 12 per cent.
"tush, and the meal should contain 8 to
'-r cent, of ammonia. This
Jixture will yield 8 per cent, of phospho
'''acid, 1.78 jK.r cent. of potash and 2.08
''cent, ammonia, which is but little
'Wit than tlm
"iliz.T selling for 82.) and $20 per ton.
the itiirredijnu and the niixins? of
Pie above formula should cost nut more
"n SI 6 per ton, and possibly loss, if
- ingredients are carefully purchased.
Vou may have to ui.ish unsonielnmns
t ,,le kainit, but both acid pho-rihata
jHUeaUro.1 wys in fine condition for
fixing. By mixiuj, 10M on a
j"ooth fWr the whole may be rapidly
l" easuy mixed.
P. I'. make iii.Jcivo nnrnn .f ..I!
tiipoHuf Uheumatism, Syphilis, BUI
;on, Scrofula, Old Sore., Eczema,
la,ana nd Femalo Complaints. P. V. P.
powerful tonio, and un excellent up
l'ellr, building up the system rapidly.
I Old Sores, Skin Eruptions, Pirn
,es' Llccra and Syphilis, use ouly P. P.
-p wen ana enjoy the blessing
l 7d. . . derived froul the use of P-
tuui " J 01 Rnd PotM
Fur tnt - MT If i i
m" , N. C. W,M" tfrulor.
BEAUTIFUL PALATKA.
THE SOFT SPRING BREEZES AND THE
LAND OF THE ORANGE AND THE
PINE.
The oranges, the roses, the gardens in
Palatka are in their glory. Perpetual
spriug is Palatka's climate. Guests are
crowding in from culder regions every
sleeper brings its burden of health and
pleasure-seekers. The sport cither for
those who delight in angling or duck-
shooting is at its best. Palatka is the
very acme of Florida resorts. From
January 1st to 15th is the only real cold
weather ever experienced here, and that
period is tempered by genial sunshine.
From then on the flowers bloom as in our
May time, and nature puts on those gor
geous colors that have named this glorious
couutry Florida.
A stroll through Palatka's strets, under
the big palmetto-trees, the orange trees
laden with yellow fruit, the roses climb
ing in full bloom over the fences, the
sweet, white jessamine filling the air with
its grateful fragrance, is a dream of para
dise. White-capped nurses wheel their
infant charges, dressed in spring attire,
over the asphalt walks, and the frolicsome
misses, in gauzy mull aud laces, prome
nade regardless of the faot that January's
chilling blasts are blowing iu the frozen
North.
The dock at Palatka is laden with
oranges, and such oranges!
"Why don't we get this kind in At
lanta ?" I asked of a dealer.
'Because you won't pay enough for
them. We ship our fancy goods to
Northern markets, and this (juality brings
five dollars per hundred. Oranges are
graded down as low as fifty cents per
hundred. There is as much difference
in our oranges as there is in your peaches,
and the prices range according to quali
ty." Green corn on the cob, new English
peas, young onions and lettuce are in
the Florida gardens now, and the inook-
: i i - .i
mg uirus are siuging among me roses
while the grippe and the icy blizzards
rage in the cold North country. Atlanta
-Tmirri'il
FOSTER'S FORECAST'S.
WEATHER CHANGES TO OCCUR NEXT
WEEK IN THIS VICINITY.
The next storm wave following these
will be due to reach the California coast
about January 31, cross the Western
mountains by the close of February 1,
the great Ceuteral valleys from the '2d
to 4th, and the Eastern States about the
5th.
This will bo one of tho fiercest storms
of the winter west of the Mississippi
river, especially on Kbrurry 2 and 3d
It will affect tho whole conntry between
St. Louis and Denver and from Mexico
to Minnesota. A snow storm, a blizzard,
gales and drifting snows m ty be expected.
Tho cold wave will enter the Vpp't
Missouri Valley about tin 31, aud its
affects will bo felt far into the Southern
States, c tuning cold weither, as it moves
eastward, all over the country from Col
orado to Maine. ThN cold wave will
probably reach Florida about tho 4th or
Jih.
After pacing east of the Mississippi
both the storm center and the cold wavii
will lose force. Tim uo'el, howeVt-i', ill
bo quite severe in the reign of tho upper
hikes about the 4th or .rth, but not so
cold in tho Northeastern Stales.
Weather changes will probably occur
at and withiu 100 miles of Louisville as
indicated below, within twenty-four hours,
belore or after, suuset of the days men
tioned.
You can never tell what a slight cold
may lead to; it is best, therefore to' give
to give yourself tho benefit of tho doubt,
ind cure it as soon as possible with Aycr's
Cherry Pectoral. A day s delay, some
times uu hour's delay, may result in seri
ous consequences.
John, try the Fatent Sole Shoe. They
are the bsst I ever saw.
THE DAY OF YOUNG MEN. '
THEY ARE AT THE FRONT IN LARGER
NUMBERS NOW THAN EVER BEFORE.
The young man who hesitates to accept
or assume stations of responsibility and
trust because of his youthfuluess, and
wails for the dignifying and solidfying
influence of maturer years to fit him fur
the position, is not a close student of the
lives of men who have impressed their
names on their country's history. While
older men shake their heads and remark
in half-complaining tones that boys know
more than their fathers these days, yet
from no source does the ambitious, de
termined young man receive more cordial
encouragement and support than from
those same men who declare they are
being shelved for the boys. It is not
that youth knows more than age. But
when a youth, buoyant with hope and
confidence, his vision undimmed by the
doubts and prejudices engendered by
long acquaintance with the world, his
ambition not withered by years of dreary
struggle for subsistence, his heart full of
love for humanity, and his soul vibrant
with the grand possibilities of life when
such a youth, fresh from study and with
intellect well stored, can mouut at once
to the point reached by his father through
years of bitter experience, and from the
vantage ground begin the battle of life,
he is the better equipped of the two,
just as a "dwarf perched upon the should
ers of h giant can see further than the
giant."
Those youths who think young men
have uot a fair chance, and those older
men who think young m m n-.t able to fill
important stations, may each learn a lesson
from the record of the past.
Henry Clay was iu the Senate of the
United States, contrary to the Constitu
tion, at twenty-one. Webster was iu a
college at fifteen, gave evidence of his
great future before he was twenty-five
and at thirty ho was the peer of the
ablest man in Congress. Charles James
Fox was in Parliament at nineteen Mar
tin Luther had become largely distin
guished at twenty-four and at thirty-six
had reached the topmost round of his
world wide fame. Peel was in Parliament
at twenty-one. Napoleon at twenty-five
commanded the army of Italy. At forty
he was not only one of the most illus
trious Generals of the time, but one of
the great lawgivers of the wurld. At
forty six he saw Waterloo. Washington
was a colonel iu the army at twenty two,
President at thirty seven. Judgo Story
was iu Harvard at fifteen, in Congress at
twenty-uine and Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United Slates at thirty two.
Gladstone was in Parliuieot at twenty-two,
and at tweuty-four was First Lord of the
Treasury. William Pitt entered college
ut fourteen, was Chancellor of tho Ex
chequer at' twenty two, Prime Minister
at twenty-four, and when tliirty-Gve was
the most powerful uncrowned head in
Europe. Byron wrote "English BarJs
and Scotch Reviewers" at twenty-one
and published "Childe Harold" at twenty
four. Alexander Stephens weut to the
Legislature ut twenty -four and Congress
at thirty one. Henry Grady refused a
uoinination to Cotigre.s at thirty two aud
made his New England speech, which
gave him National reputaiiou, ut thirty
six.
These instances are only filed to remind
ol.l. r men that the world has ever been
ready togivetli-iincti n to young men
who command it bv their .hilities and to
show young men ofbruiusaud pluck that
nobody is trying ti keep them back. At
no time in ihe world's history has abili'y
been disregarded because coupled with
youth, and never were there more door
open to young men than today. Au
guita (Ga,) Chronicle.
Shakespeare will pie h excuse u if
we modify him thus: Thrice is he clad
who hath his system strengthened with
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and ha bit' naked,
though arrayed iu furs, whose blood is
poor with disease corrupted. Au incom
parable medicine!
W brntr. hi cause t'c P it"tit Sole
Shoe is tliu viily one biddu lU.u exclude
water, dust and dirt.
A FIEND.
JOHN BOYD SAYS HE CAUSED THE HOR
RIBLE ACCIDENT IN NORTH CAROLI
NA ON THE RICHMOND & DANVILLE
RAILROAD.
Twenty lives were lost in a wreck on
the Western railroad of North Carolina
near Statesville, early last fall. The
wrecker is now in jail in Charlotte. The
prisoner's name is John Boyd, and De
tective Tom Haney trailed him to his
hiding placa. Immediately after the
terrible wreck occurred the Richmond &
Danville company offered a reward of
$10,000 for the arrest of the wreckers.
Seven weeks ago Haney met a iiegro
team hand, who gave him a clue to the
story.
Haney decided to investigate it. When
three weeks ago it seemed sure that he
was upon the right track, Superintendent
McBee, of the Central, who knew the
country about Statesville thoroughly,
joined him. Two weeks ago Haney as
certained that a man in Statesville had a
package which Boyd had left with him.
Two days later the detective knew that
the contents of the package were $1,600
in bills, several watches and other jewelry.
Then the custodian of the package was
taken into tho secret and Boyd, with
whom he held frequent conversations,
was more closely watched than ever by
Haney, courted by his "banker."
Boyd had every confidence in the man
who held the stuff, and one night when
questioned told how he came to have it
That story was a full confession' of the
wrecking work by which so many lives
were lost. In his confession Boyd de
scribed the tools he had used, and told
what he had done with them. There was
a crowbar, a monkey-wrench and a spike
lifter. Each Boyd had hidden securely,
but in his conversation with his States
ville friend he described their exact hiding
place. Haney searched for the implements.
He found the crowbar just where Boyd
said he had secreted it, and it was the
implement in every detail Boyd had de
scribed. Then a half mile distant, at
the point Boyd had indicated, the spike
lifter was taken from a clump of bushes.
Haney induced the Statesville man to
arrange for another meeting with Boyd.
That meeting had three witnesses, and
Boyd described minutely how he had se
cured the tools, and how he pulled the
spikes, moved the rails, and ditched the
train. As he finished the recital, Haney
walked in and arrowed him. The pack
age was surrendered to the detective, and
in it was a watch which had been lost by
a man killed in the wreck, and was easily
identified. At first Boyd made a vigorous
objection, but dually gave in, and to
Haney and those with him repeated the
Htury. Boyd was brought hero and put
in j He told how he robbed the dead,
and says that others assisted him.
Signs of Spring. If you read these
maxims and take soma note of each small
thing, you may crme to bo a prophet and
foretell the gladsome spring. When
trees begin to blossom aud the violets to
bloom; when the bull frogs in the meadow
warble booiu-ali-booui-ali-boutu ; when
ilui-ks ro flying northward and bright
butti'ifli's are out, and robins go house
keeping iu ill! broken waterspout; when
gr:i"shi'ppers ar;? hnppinv'. and hlnck bats
com nut t night, and venture iu your
bed r 'diii attr.ut 'd by the light ; when
bird" fly down the rliiume, mid hens
wnlk in the door, and beetles held con
versions in the center of tin; fl.jor; when
the iiiu I is o'tr your slioe'ops as you
cross the new plowed bind vmi in n
count on it as eeiuiu that s.v.U tiling
i. near at baud.
Dyspepsia mid Mvcr Complaint.
Is it not worth the small price of 75c.
to free yourself of everysymptom of these
divrossins complaints, if you think so
call nt our s!o-e snd get a hot tie of Shi
loh' Vita'izer, rvi-ry bottle has a printed
guarantee on it, use according and if decs
you no good ii c ill tt you nothing.
Hold by W. M. Coheti.
I.ADUCS
Needing atonli or rhlMtrn who want build
in? up Kuoiiid tko
rrtovN i:ii: iiTTi:ns.
It U pionii'int to take, nnrpj Mtlnrit, Init
lOiciuJ, UUuUaui'ii uutt Livur Complaint.
THE SEABOARD AIR LINE.
A SYSTEM COVERING OVER 900 MILES.
Tho entrance into Atlanta of the new
Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad
which will be accomplished in a few
weeks, is an event the momeut of which
is not yet fully appreciated.
THE Q. C. & N.8 HISTORY.
The history of the construction of the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern road is
by no means an uninteresting one.
About 188G a few citizens of Chester,
Greenwood, Abbeville and one or two
smaller South Carolina towns, decided to
connect their several townships by a
railroad. They applied for a charter for
the Chester, Greenwood and Abbeville
railroad, and it was granted.
About $5,000 was raised and the sur
vey made. About this time General
Hoke made an examination into the situ
ation and suggested to the Seaboard Air
Line the advisability of purchasing this
charter and extending the road to con
nect with the system in one direction and
Atlanta in the other.
The charter was purchased, the name
of the road changed to the Georgia, Car
olina and Northern and separate charters
obtained in Georgiu and North Caroll
na.
It was then decided that Atlanta
should be one terminus of the road, and
Monroe, North Carolina, where it con
nects with the Seaboard Air Line system,
the other.
THE ROAD'S CONSTRUCTION.
The road has been about completed.
The grading has been completed to the
city limits of Atlanta, and the track laid
to within a few miles of that point.
The road when completed 'Till have
cost about $6,000,000. It is admirably
constructed, is built of sixty pound steel
rails, all the bridges are iron, and the
bed has been most carefully and thorough
ly prepared.
The bridges of the road are especially
fine ones. The one over Oconee river
at Athens is a superb structure. The
largest iron bridges are over the Catawba,
the Saluda, the Broad, tho Tiger,
the Enoree, the Savannah and
Oconee rivers.
ITS ATLANTA DEPOTS.
The purchase of a large tract of prop
erty fronting on Hunter street aud on the
railroad tracks this side of Oakland
cemetery by the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern road is already a matter of
general information among the Atlan
tians. The road will build its yards and
freight depot there, aud a temporary pas
senger depot.
THE Oil EAT SYSTEM OF WHICH ATLANTA
WILL BE TUB TERMINUS.
And now I come to the Seaboard Air
Liue system which has leased the Geor
gia, Carolina and Northern for a term of
ninety-nine years and which also also
owns a controlling interest of its stock.
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern
is tho link which makes Atlanta a termi
nus of this great sysiem. It is being
turned over to the Seaboard Air Line as
fust as completed.
COMPOSITION OF THE SYSTEM.
The Seaboard Air Liue fystcm com
prises tho following road.-:
The Seaboard and Roanoke, extending
from PoriBuiouih, Va.. to Wcldon, N. C,
a distance of eighty miles.
The Raleigh aud Gakn, from Weldon
to Raleigh in North Caiolimi, a distauce
of ninety-seven miles.
The Raleitih uud Augusta Air Line
from IlaUigii to Hamlet iu North Caro
lina, a distance of oue hundred aud seven
miles.
The Carolina Centra', from Rulhor
fordton to Wiluiingum iu North Caro
lina, 267 miles, conned ing the Haleigh
and AugWa Air Line vith I ho Georgia,
Carolina and Northern from Harnitt to
Monro , di.-tanec of ft 3 miles.
The Georgia, 1 Hroiiiiu and Northern
from Monroe to Allania, two hundred
and sixty eight mihv.
The Roanoke an I Tur River from Roy
kins, Viriuia, to Lciaton, North Curo
liua, 33 miles.
The LouUmrg branch, ten miles, and
the Pittsboro branch twelve miles, all in
North Carolina.
The Durham and Northern, forty-two
miles from Henderson to Durham, a
branch penetrating to the very heart of
the great North Carolina tobacco region,
and enticim all that cl ass of freight
o
north.
These are the land routes of the sys
tem, covering as I have said, 928 miles.
TWO STEAMSHIP LINES.
Besides this superb system of land
routes the Seaboard Air Line owns and
controls two magnificent lines of steam
ships. One is the Bay line, ruuuingup Ches
apeake Buy from Portsmouth to Balti
more the other the Old Dominion line
between Portsmouth and New York.
ATLANTA TO NEW YORK.
It can now be seen what a fine line of
both freight and passenger transportation
this system will be able to furnish from
Atlanta to New York.
Just let me explain.
When the G., 0. & N. is in proper
condition, through trains will be put on
between Atlanta and Portsmouth
Virginia.
One will be to take the Old Dominion
steamship direct for New York, arriving
there for breakfast the next morning.
Another will be to take a short water
trip over the Bay line from Portsmouth
just across the bay to Cape Charles Ma
ryland. There connection is made with
the famous N. Y. P. & N., popularly
called the "Nippon N.," for Philadelphia
and New York.
The through lint will be as follows :
Atlanta to Monroe over the Geor
gia, Carolina and Northern, Monroe to
Hamlet over the Carolina Central, Ham
let to Raleigh, over the Raleigh and
Augusta Air Line, Raleigh to Weldon
over the Raleigh and Gaston, Weldon to
Portsmouth over the Seaboard and Roa
noke.
CHANGE TO STEAMER.
At Portsmouth there will be two de
lightful routes at the option of the pas
senger.
AN ALL LAND ROUTE.
By changing at Wcldon, North Caro
lina, from tho Seaboard Air Line to the
Coast Line, a quick ail land route is
secured to Washington, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Wilmington and New
York.
THE FREIGHT BUSINESS.
Already the Seaboard Air Line system
is shipping freight from New York to
Atheus, hibcrton and upper Georgia
points.
freight will be brought through to
Atlanta upon the completion of tho G.,
L. & N . in about seventy hours, much
quicker time than is now made.
TURKISH WOMEN.
THEIR COSTUMES PARISIAN, BUT THEIR
MANNERS ORIENTAL.
The modern wouiau of Turkey, ac
cording to tho accounts of Osman Bej,
is far removed from the singing, daucing
prisoner of the imrcm, sipping aromatic
cahesh and smoking perfumed cigars
while she gossips, as the western faucy
dreams her. Among the higher elapses
on the contrary, she dresses accordiug to
Parisian models, speaks Freueh or English,
it not both languages, makes calls, leaves
cards and has lier"nt home" days, plays
tennis mid has ''ft o'cloek tea," and
fuini-b'-s her house according to luxuriant
New York or Puii.-iau idols, sotnjUiui '
even to the extent ot sacrificing 'I1
fill orituta! rug in favor of i jJ(Ck
Brussels carpet. . M T.
The O'touiau metropolis al
schools and stmiiu.iiii-s foryoii
aod the Turk Mi girl is expect
jut s much about mat hem'
sciences as the average Amen,
and a great deal more of fine nceu.
and gener-il housekeeping than the w
divan, i f in her philosophy. '
The Turki-b girl, despite her advance
me t, must still cover hrr pretty face,
and it is contrary to the faend rules of
Namtiiebran fi r the Turkish lover 10 take
his t cot heart to the theatre without her
mamma, but in spile of vt i!s and the
rules (if the dread Vammebran, the love
that laughs at ad barriers find a way to
unite true lo.er iu Turkey us hot';.
BraLdou DlLuw. .
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