VOL. XXII.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1892.
NO. 45
A: BABY'S DIARY.
PAD MAY 00 ANY DAY NEXT WEEK,
BUU AS FOR ME IV'E COME TO
STAY.
First Week As near (is I nm nblo to
judge from appearances, niy arrival has
kicked up quite an excitement in the
household. I havo been weighed, and
figures were given at eight pounds. I
have fils been carefully inspected, and
have he m pronounced sound in wind
nd limb. It's a go as far as I am con
cerned. My young dad seems to be
tickled half to death. When he heard I
was a boy he went out back of the house
and jumped on his hat for joy. If I
don't m:iko him jump for some other
cause before I get over this redness of
complexion then you can play marbles on
my huld head !
Second Week Nurse is here yet, and
I'm on my good behavior. She looks to
me like a woman who wouldn't take much
sass from a youngster, and I don't want
grow until my muscle works up a little
more. Several parties in to see me, and
I had to listen to the usurI congratula
tions. Some talk of bringing mo up on
a bottle, but 1,11 have something to say
about that later on. I'm lying low and
taking things easy. Dad is still walking
arouud with a grin on his face. When
he remarked that I was just the quietest
and most good-natured baby in this com
muuity I came near giving myself dead
away. There's a surprise in store for
that hayseed, and it'll bit biiu like uluad
of brick.
Third Week Everything so-so. Nurse
goes Saturday night. She brags about
what a little darling I am, buc she's
talking for wages. I'm quite sure she
mistrusts me. People keep coming in to
paw me over and look at my feet. The
general verdict is ahem ! that I'm just
the cutest, handsomest young'un ever
born. That's all bosh, however, and I'm
not at all stuck on my shape.
Fourth Week I told you I'd do it,
and I did! The night after the nurse
left I took up that unfinished business
with dad, aud along about 1 o'clock in
the morning he was the sickest mau you
ever saw. I didn't want to kill him in
one night, and so saved some of him over
for the next. Colic, you know. All
babies have it, an 1 1 wasn't going; to be
left out. Kicks, squirms, wriggles, yells,
with d id trotting up and down, until he
finally shook his fist under my nose and
said: "You little red headed devil, where
in the h 1 did you come from, any
wuy?"
Then I let up a little, but I've got a
lot more colic saved up. The happy grin
has quite vanished from his face, and
they say he has lost five pounds. That's
4Uij:ht. I propn e to take a hand
from this on. If the old man gets out
to the lodge again this winter you just
'skmehowit happened. I'm keeping
toe run of things under prorer dates, and
now and then I'll dish you up half a
column or so, and let you know who's
running the house.'
LlClvlXU TI1I3 EDITOR.
;What are you crying about?" asked a
kind-hearted stranger of a lad who was
standing in front of a newspaper office
weeping as if hU heart would break.
;2 '.'!, dad's gene up stairs to lick the
I editor."
I "Well, has ha come down yet?'1 pur-
i Sued the irentla Smiiaritun.
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rJ indulging in a fresh burst of tears,
'ud I'm expecting the rest every ruin
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THE WAY TO FLORIDA.
EM PERKINS HAD BEEN THERE AND
POUND OUT.
There was a blizzard up North and
tho New Euglander was in a hurry to
snuff tho roses at Charleston and Savan
nah and see tho alligators and pick or
anges in Florida.
."I've studied these guide books till
I'm blind," ho said. "I wish some old
traveller would toll mo in a word how to
go South easy."
'I'll toll you," I said; I've been there
a thousand times."
"Well, how?"
"Why, just throw that guide book
away. There isn't, and never has been,
nor ever will be, but one great straight
coast line to Florida, Havana, New Or
leans, Galveston and Mexico."
"What's that?"
"Why, tho 'Atlantic Coast Line.'
Now, you just go into any ticket office in
New York or Boston and ask for that
coast line ticket. Then pin it onto your
coat, jump onto tho Pennsylvania road
and you'll bo in St. Augustino picking
oranges or at Tampa, Florida, walking
onto a Havana steamer in twenty-four
hours."
"What will I see on tho way?"
"Why you'll slide through Washing
ton and see Arlington Heights, Alcxan
dria, Fredericksburg, where Hooker and
Burusido tried to cross lha Rappahanock
louil giiUe tiirough luchmond, see
Petersburg and the Wilderness fortifica
tions. You'll see Guldsboro and then
drop down to Wilmington on the ocean
On you'll go, sniffing the ocean breezes
all the way to Charleston with its pal
mettoes, and Savannah with its beautiful
live oaks and hanging moss. You Are In
the tropics from Wilmington down to
Jacksonville, Palatka and St. Augustine,
or around on the Gulf of Mexico to
New Orleans and Galveston."
"And no trouble at all?"
"Not a bit. You step into the Pull
man at Jersey City and walk out of it in
Florida. The coast line is a great system,
All roads wait for it and you can't get
left. It don't run up to the sterile red
hills, but down through the everglades.
It is the Sea Island cotton line, the rice
and the palmetto line. It is tho an
tipodes, and that is what the live Yankee
ii looking after." .
"Does tho Coast line make time?"
"Why, it destroys time. It kills it
dead.. Trains on time? Well, when
the Atlantic toast train pulls into
Jacksonville over the Plant system, you
will see the mayor and common counoil
standing there waiting to set their watches
by the train, and if tho train is five
minutes late the whole State of Florida
waits for it. Eli Perkins' Syndicate
Letter.
LOOK OUT.
THESE MEN WERE KILLED BY OVER
WORK.
Senator Beck's death resulted from
overwork.
Henry Ward Beecher succumbed to
overwork .
Zach Chandler died of apoplexy due
to overwork.
Family troubles nod overwork killed
lloraca Greeley.
Secretary Folger fell a victim to the
demon of overwork.
Vnatoriiluiub, though, a giant m
strength, died from overwork.
Dan Manniug died from lack of eier
cise and excessive brain labor.
Edwin M. Stanton's death was super
induced by overwork and worry.
Family troubles and overwork killed
ex-Senator Pendleton, of Ohio.
r
Worry and disappointment killed
Charles Sumner, Henry Clay and Daniel
Webster. Washington Post.
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THE THIRD PARTY.
IS GETTING ITS SUSTENANCE FROM THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Atlanta CoMlilution say?: A
ively sensation has developed at Wash
ington in the report that the Third Party
movement in the South is being backed
by tho Republican national campaign
committee. It is said that the Republican
committee is quietly at work com jaunica-
ing with prominent advocates of the
Third party in Georgia and other South
ern States, and that Republican cmhsaries
are zealously at work in this new effort
to break the Democratic integrity of the
South, as they have been unable to do it
by any other method. The report goes
that tho Republican campaign committee
has set aside a liberal contribution from
its campaign fund to be used in spread
ing Thid party doctrine in the South, If
this report is true, the Third party move
ment in Georgia is baing supplied from
the Republican national campaign fund
with the wherewith with which to do tho
work of breaking up tho Democratic party.
It is a sharp trick of the Republicans,
and there seems to be uo doubt that there
is something in it. A well-known Re
publican, on being asked concerning tho
matter to-night, said:
"Supposo it is so, though of course I
know nothing about it, would it not be
all light? The Republican party never
has had a fair showing with the South
solidly Democratic, and it never will until
that condition of affairs is broken up. We
cannot do it by making a straight fight
as between Pwiwraey and Republicanism!
but if the apple if dic rd is thrown into
the Democratic ranks by the Republican
managers it may have the effect of divid
ing the Democrats and giving the Re
publican party a surer foothold in the
South, It is fair politics, and it seems
that the scheme, if such a scheme is on
foot, is being worked to decided advantage
from the reports received from the
South."
Active Republicans are in correspon
dence with the Republican campaign
committee on the subject, and in some
Southern States it will be observed that
many of the most active leaders of the
new patty caoe from the ranks of the
Republicans. Whether or not the Alii-
ancemcn of the South are going to be
fooled to any extent by this Republican
trick remains to be seen. But the Alii
ancemen in Congress say that they will
not be, and that the farmers will remain
true and steadfast to the Democratic
party and will work through it their
great mission of financial reform, which,
if not successful through the Democratic
party, cannot be won at all.
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It has been truly said that half the
world does not know how the other half
lives. Comparatively few of us havo
perfect health, owing to the impure con
dition of our blood But we rub along
from day to day, with scarcely a thought
unless forced to our attention, if the
the thousands all about us who are suffer
ing from scrofula, salt rheum and other
serious b!o"d disorders, and whose agonies
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who know that their blood is disord. red
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blood, iu great or small degrees, they
certainly mean to include you.
"Johnny, Johnny," said the miuistcr
as he met an urchin one Sunday- after
noon carrying a string of fish. "Do
these belong to you?" "Ye-os, sir; you
see that's what thev got for chasing
worms on Sunday."
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MICHT WRECK THE TRAIN
A PLACE WORN ON THE WHEEL MAY
THROW THE CAR OFF THE TRACK.
"There's a flat wheel on this truck
under this end of the car," said an Erie
official who sat in the back seat of the
roar car of a passenger train. "That
must bo taken out. It might wreck tho
train."
"What's a flat wheel?", asked the
scribe.
'Listen," said tho railroad man " You
hear that rapid pat-pat pat of the wheel?
That's caused by the flat wheel. On a
spot on the surface of the wheel a flat
place is worn. It may be done, aud is
generally, by setting up a brake so tight
that the wheel blips on the rail. Let it
slip but the least, yet a small place no
argcr than a silver dollar will be woru on
the wheel. The next time the brake is
set up hard the wheel stops with that
same place on the rail and it is worn
arger.
"By the time it is a couple of inches
in diameter it begins to pound every
time the wheel turns Instead of run
uing a true circle us- it revolves the wheel
strikes flat on the rail when the flat spot
is reached. The consequence is that
when tho flat spot has grown to be three
or four inches across it is a very danger
ous thing. Every stroke against the rail
by the flat side of the wheel is liable to
break the wheel aud ditch the traiu."
Around the shops aud at nearly every
cripple track in the railroad world these
flat wheels may be sceu. As soou as one
is discovered the pair of wheels affected
is taken out and sent to the junk track to
be cast into new machinery. The flat
spots arc plainly perceptible, but they
would hardly be judged by the unititiated
to be of sufficient importance to be one
of the most dangerous elements of rail
roading, yet such is the case. -Bradford Era.
FARMING VS. PLANTING.
We frequently hear men spealc of
"resting" land, particularly in the cotton
belt. By "resting" they mean allowing
a field to lio a year between crops of cot
ton, and grow up in all manner of weeds
and grass, and ripen quantities of seed to
give trouble in future crops.
Now, as we before remarked, we can
not "stimulate" inert matter, neither can
we "rest" it. Laud does not get tired
it simply gets starved, lhe so-called
practice of "resting" is a little better, iu
some respects, than annual clean culture
in cotton, inasmuch as the wild growth
protects the land from the sun aud fur
nisbes a little vegetable matter to plow
under. But the true way to rest landjs
to feed it by keeping it at work growing
crops that will add food to the soil and
enable it to produce larger crops.
The true use of commerieul fertilizers
is to give a heavy growth of recuperative
crops, betweeu our sale crops, to enable
us to feed stock and raise more home
made uiauure and to store up uitrogen in
the soil for other crops. And herein
consists the difference between lhe farmer
aud the planter. The Grt uses fertilizers
freely to euuMu him to make a tiore oi
fertility iu his soil aud to draw thcoc
livideuds iu this shape of constantly in
creimiui! eroiis, while luo plauter draws
on the origin .1 l rioit in bis soil uuti
his drafts ar dishonored, and then gam
bles in fertilizers, taking the chances o
seasons us to whether they will pay him
or not his account with the soil bein
continually overdrawn, until the bank
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THE AMERICAN DESERT.
ONE OF THE STRANGE CORNERS OF OUR
COUNTRY.
The great American desert was almost
better known a generation ago than it is
to-day. Then thousands of hardy Argo
nauts on their way to California had
traversed that fearful waste ou foot with
their dawdling or teams, and hundreds
of them left their bones to bleach in that
thirsty land. The survivors of thiso
deadly journeys had a very vivid idea of
what that desert was; but now that we
can roll ai-ross it in less than a day in
Pullman palace cars its real aud still
existing horrors are largely forgotton.
I have walked its hideous length alone
and wouoded, and realized something
more of it from that than a great many
railroad journeys across it ha-'e told me.
Now every transcontinental railroad
crosses the great desert which stretches
up and down the continent, west of the
Rocky mountains, for nearly two thous
and miles. The northern routes cut its
least terrible parts; but the two railroads
which traverse its southern half the
Atlantic & Pacific railroad and the
Southern Pacific pierce some of its
grimmest recesses.
The first scientific explorati n of this
region was Lieut. Wheeler's survey, about
1850, and he was first to give scientific
assurance that we had here a desert as
absolute as the Sahara. If it-i parched
sands could speak their record what a
story they might tell of sufferings and
death; of slow-plodding caravans, whose
patient oxen lifted their feet cea.-elessly
from the blistering gravel: of drawn
humau faces that peered at some lying
image of a placid lake, and toiled franti
cally on to sink at last, hopeless and
strengthless, in the hot dust which the
mirage had painted with the hues and the
very waves of water.
No one will ever know how many
have yielded to the long sleep in that
inhospitable land. Not a year passes,
even now, without word, of many dying
upon that desert and of many more who
wander back, in a delirium of thirst.
Even people at the railroad station some
times off, lured by the strange fascination
of the desert and never come back, and
of the adventurous miners who seek to
probe the golden secrets of those barren
and strange-hued ranges there aie count
less victims.
A desert is not necessarily an endless,
level waste of burning sand. The great
American desert is full of strange, burnt,
lagged mountain ranges, with deceptive,
sloping broad valleys betweeo though as
we near its southern end the mountains
become somewhat less numerous and the
sandy wastes more promiueot. There are
many extinct volcanoes upon it, and
hundreds of square miles of black, brist
ling lava flows. A large part ot it is
sparsely clothed with tne hardy grease
wood; but iu places not a plant of any
sort breaks the surface, as far as the eye
can reach. The summer bent is un
bearable, often reaching )3(! in the
shade; aud a piece of metal which has
bt-cn in the sun can no more be handled
ihun can a red hot stove. Even iu winter
the mid day heat is insufferable, while t
night tee frequntly forms on tho waier
tanks J Im dally range of temperature
there is sail to tie the greatest ever
riwirdi-d anywhrre, and a change of 80
d.ivi s in a few hours is not rare.
Nicholas.
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