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VOL. XXIII.
FEMININE DRUMMERS.
onnflESMFITf, IN RKI.LINQ THEIR GOODS
AND ARK COURTBOUSLY TREATED.
Atlanta Constitution.
Women arc gradually takin" to thi
road as drummers. Two were in Atlan
ta last week. One handles paints and
the other hardware. Mm. Miller, a, hand
some blonde, sells the paints, Blie says
that commercial travelling offers an in
viting field for her sex. "You get ac
customed to travelling and after a few
weeks do not mind the fatigue," she says.
"Women make good salesmen, if we can
use that expression. My sex started
in business by handling drugs, perfumery
soap and gloves. Now women we repre
senting dozeus of brancheB of trade."
"lou- are treated with proper re
spect?"
" Jt es, indeed. Women are not in
Bulted in America so long as they con
duct themselves with propriety. I think
we have some advantages over men. We
are not good story tellers, but wo despatch
busine
ness. Merchants are prompt
meeting their engagements, uxtf they do
not keep us waiting for an, audience.
Until the novelty wears off women will
have good success. After a while the
business world will get used to us, and
merchants will tell us as quickly as they
do a man that they do not want anything in
our line to-day that is, if they do not.
"A woman does not have to sacrifice
an iota of her femininity in this occupa
tion. Perhaps wo are shown a little
more courtesy and attention than men
1 nave never had a hotel cleric give me
anything but tbo best sample rooms he
had in the hiuse.'"
"How do the expense accounts com
pare? the reporter asked.
"Women have no cigar bills and no
but we won't speak of that. Possibly
the day will come when an ocoasional
dozen of roses will be allowed to go in
the expense account. As "we do not
smoke, I think it would be reasonable,
don t you? .
GOOD ROADS.
PRACTICAL HINTS FOB MAKING THEM.
' ThorJugh drainage ia the first require-
'rnent of a road, whether earth or stone.
Water is the great destructive element;
frost is also a destructive element, but
only as it acts on the water in the road
bed. Heat, collision and friction are the
remaining enemies.
, In order that the water may flow free-
ly off a road, the ditches must be kept
clear and the road-bed be of uniform
. curvature from crown to ditch. To keep
the road in this condition is of the utmost
importance.
To make a good road requires intelli
gence, good machinery and honest work,
The proper season to repair earth roads
is in the spring, after the frost has
he ground. A day's work then is worth night. De chicken is pe kinder
a week's work in July or August, when fowl, 'specially dew dat roos b. De
the ground has become hard and baked, darkey gen'ully carries a lai an' de
Do not allow the road to be ruined by 'flection ob de light makes uok like
rain or flood, when an hour's work will white man, so when de cl s cackle
turn the water.
iiie use ot broad-tired wheels.
The ootumon practice of using narrow
tired wheels is doing much toward keep
ing our common roads full of ruts. '
Do not dump broken stone into a wet
roadway, or fill ruts and holes of an
earth road with broken stone; use gravel
instead.
, See that the foundation is dry, bard
and oompaot, and the drainage ri"h', bo-
fore any stone are applied to a road bed.
Remember MaoAdam's advioe, that
. any stone you canuot easily put into your
. mouth should be broken smaller.
In making a new road, remember, that
the miuimam grade should bo about one
foot ic one hundred, and the maximum
, about six feet in one hundred.
Do not put logs in a new road:
PECULIAR AND AMUSwC.
A COLORED LAWYER POINTS 0UTJ0ME
TRAIT8 OP NEGRO CHARACTH
Washington Post.
One of the colored police court 1
yers
gives an amusing description of thmecu-
liarities of the colored man, "Hi
13
great man for excitement," "
atter
what the excitement is.
"He will laugh when others cr and
should a lady fall down and bred her
limb he will salute her with a earty
)lth! yah! iM' Htf ia a11 PPfP in
the subject of church, and will bog it
into all his business and other Insnc
tions. When he is on tnal thpegro
imagines that his- religion wilfigure
greatly in his favor before tbo coil
"Another peculiarity of thcblored
man is that he lias no regard foment.
i
He does not think about that: brau ho
tell a good ghost story; cau he dJe the
i
'Mobile Buck' or tbo 'iihortenindread?'
If he can, he is a great num. e old
darkey usually has good lungs, cj
in the
in convention you can hear hiiio the
fa nh est end of the halt as ho
claims:
'Whar sin is thar whar grate
'ceed-
iogly.1
"Still another peculiarity of
dark
plants bucd brother is that when
potatoes it must be done in the
tk of
the moon,' because it is his bi
potatoes; having so many eyes.
that
e the
light and being planted in the
rk of
the moon, they will scon come
see the great light of the sun
th to
nioou;
Among his many superstitions
pre is
ono that if you ccme into
Arsons
house afier sundown you must
per go
out of the same door you
cfed by
- backwards when you are readyklepart
other
dooi, otherwise the next time
call it
will bo under a cloud of troubl
"The colored man sometime
as an
idea of organizing a bank, and
hr one
who comes in wants to be pn
ut or
no,j Me hjt, office Tf thele not
successful they they raise thee and
successful they they raise the
cry, 'De bank's dun bust!'
create such confusion that t
I accomplish anything.
hence
never
"You will afterward find
fellow
who wanted to be president of
bank,
cary
some
great
a porter on some Pulman
shucking oysters or a waited
hotel, and he will declare
pomposity: Dat bank dun hbekase
de wouldn't listen to me. I dbld
em
dat de moon hadn't changed
Jl, Fse
porter
gittin' $10 a week as a Pull
an' when dey start anodder b:
it will
bast, too, if dey don't wait til
moon
change. When it change d; e evi-
denoe of prosperity an' lite tnkind,
but when de moon's in dar! never
undertake to do any kind usioess
'cept dat kind ob business di ills fur
I gittin' chickens on a dark nilpuz dey
left oebber cackles as dey duz oooulight
an' wake up de ham mn s Jut as'
thinks it am a white man a ea back
to bed, becase dere ain't no e pullet
lifters. Den I go an' git ( kens an'
wring dere necks, and dat
Reason ob
success.
)h, What a Cod
Will you heed the
The
signal perhaps of the sure
oach of
that mote terrible disease
himption.
Ask yourselves if' you
cford for
the sake of saving 50c, to
and do not nothing; far :
from experience that Shil
be risk
3 know
ure will,
cure your cough. It nevls.
This
explains why more than a
i BoV
relieves
ties were sold the pat yea;
croup and whooping colt
once.
Mothers, do not be wit
ht. For
lame back, side or dies'
Shiloh's
Porous Plaster. Sold by
Druggist.
Cohen,
WELDON, K. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 14,
EFFECT OF FREE SILVER.
A CONCISE STATEMENT TO REPUTE THE
TUEORY THAT SILVER WOULD DRL
UGE THIS COUNTRY IN THE EVENT
OF FREE COINAGE.
Hon. Clarke Lewis, of Missiippi, has
been a vigorous and consistent champion
of bi-metalism, and has earnestly labored
to secure legislation which he believed
would increase the supply of money in
the cotton belt, now insufficiently pro
vided for. Discussing tbo proposition
that gold would be replaced by wiver iu
circulation should the free coinage bill
pass, Mr. Lewis, in bis speech March 22,
said :
"The assertion most frequently and
most confidently made to defeat the re
monetization of silver in 1878 was that
the cheap silver of other countries would
be dumped on us and our gold carried
out in exchange. The enemies of silver
dwell on this assertion with peculiar unc
tion and immeasurable satisfaction as the
summary of all argument and the ultima
thule of all wisdom. 'Mark now how
plain a tale shall put you down.'
"From 18C6 to 1871, inclusive, when
we had free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver and when the world had every oppor
tunity to dump its silver on us, how much
silver was imported ? Fifty two million
four hundred and fifty thousand five
hundred and tbirtjsix dollars. How
much was exported during the same
period ? One hundred and fifty million
nine hundred and sixty eight thousand
six hundred and fifty-two dollars. This
proves there was a better demand in
foreign'couotiii s fur our silver than there
was in our country for foreign silver.
"Now, I will take from 1878 the
year silver was remonetized to 1882,
inclusive, and see how the case stands.
During that period $52,077,639 in silver
bullion and coin were imported into the
United States, aod during the same
yeriod the United States exported $65,
889,402 in silver bullion and coin. Are
not these figures irrefragible evidence of
the fallacy of the gold bug argument that
the remonetization or the free and un
limited coinage of silver would deplete
our country of gold by inviting the
cheaper m silver of other countries in
exchange for it? This is a mendacimw
piece of ignorant assertion, on a par with
many other utterances fulminated by
self interested and self-consequential
champions of an aristocracy in money.
"X be ratio of silver to gold in everv
other oountry that coins silver into
money is higher than it is in the United
states. Our ratio is sixteen ounces of
silver to one ounce of gold, while in all
the European countries save one the ratio
is 15J to 1, and in the exception 15 to
I, and there is no accumulation of cheaD
silver in any part of the world to be
dumped on us.
"When our government declared that
23.32 grains of pure gold shall be $1,
but that 371 i grains of pure tilver shall
be treated as a commodity, gold will, of
course, rise in value aud affnot ditadvan
tageously the price of labor and all coin:
moditios. Thi on2trj la i,uw uffenng
from the high price of money and the
low prise of labor and all the products of
labor, brought upon us by au undue
contraction of the oit sulating medium.
"L would not underestimate the unjust
burdens imposed upon the people by the
protective tariff, with its long train of
calamities, but I deliberately affirm that
the history of our most grievous wrongs
can be read in the financial legislation of
the past twenty-three years. Money, on
aoeount of its extreme scarcity (except at
commercial centers), has become abnor
mally valuable, and as money g.ies up in
value everything else goes down. The
RMnlM . .fit. .-I!.,
tjioira pit ui iub present luuooteauesa
.,( ' , I
v. .... u,raul luo peopie was contracted
-w ujuuuj nw uut iidu b' Tmun "in njy
it ia n Kn4 . 1 V 1 -
WHEN DE STARS FELL.
THE TIME THAT "UNCLE BEN" AND
"SALJINED HANDS."
"Des push de gate open, boss, and
cum right in I"
This is the friendly invitation that
greeted me as I stood one pleasant sum
mer afternoon before the humble cottage
of Uncle Ben, "tbo oldest inhabitant" of
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The old man sat in a rude chair in
the open yard, smoking his cob pipe,
lazily watching the clouds as they floated
over historic Missionary Eidge, Lookout
mountain and the shining waters of the
picturesque Tennessee river. Nearby
stood his faithful, sad eyed donkey and
uu uiu, unapiaaieu wagon, completing a
perfect picture of the now very rare old
time Southern darkey a ghost of the
vuuished years!
"How old are you, Uncle Ben?" I
asked as I took the proffered chair.
"Bless you, honey. I don't zanllv
- - " ' j
'member, but I wuza right'smait chap
w en de stars fell. '
"When was that?"
'Law, honey, ain't you nebber hearn
it? Mars John used to say it - wuz back
in the '30s."
, "And did the stars really fall ?" I
asked, in order to draw the old man out
ioseaey did. Dey tell des like it
wuzrainin gold, cn cracked w'en dey
struck de ground des like meat in de
fryin' pan. Mars John and everybody
wuz a prayin and a hrllerin': 'Do judg
. J . J .IT . .
mem uHy aone cuiui i wuz roastin a
big yam and I prayed de Lord not to
take me 'fore de tator wuz done.
"Bimeby Mars John he cum and say:
sezee: 'Ben.you'sa good nigger, en I
been thiokin' a long time I'd sot you
free, lou s free now, en you en Sal can
get married.' Thinks I, it wuz a right
poor time to jine hands, boss, w'en do
jedgement day wuz a breakin'
"iNex mawnio' yer cum Mars John
en say, sezee. 'Ben hitch up old Shady
and plow dat piece o' stubble land nex'
to de big road. Den I up and say, sez
I: 'Marster, I's free, and me and Sal
gwine to marry. You told me yisterdav
I's free.' Den Mars John he kinder shut
dat lef cross eye o' his'n and say, sezee:
'You black rascal, git out dat was den;
dis is now.' An' den he sav something
t tf o
bout do devil bein' a monk w'en he sick
and de same old satan w'eu he well. It
wuz des like de old song:
My old marster promised me
Dat we'n he died he'd sot me free,
But my old marster dead and gone
An' still old Samb's hillin' up de corn.
"Leastwise Sal en me gioed hands, en
I dun have six more wives since den,"
continued the old negro man confidential
ly. "My wives, boss, have been mighty
onhcalthy, until I got de old oman sittin'
dar. She's number seven, en I speot I'll
kick de bucket 'fore she docs."
And good naturcd number seven
chuckled, and said most emphatically
there would never be a number eight.
V ben I left the cabin the sun was
siuking low behind Raccoon mountain,
aod Uncle Ben was humuiiou th wrd:
ufao old plantation serenade sot ethiog
like this :
De old bee make de honeycomb,
De young bee make de honey,
De niggers make de cotton en eo'n,
En de w'ite folks gits de money.
cossuairrio ouked.
An old physician, retired from . prao
tice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Conmnnp
tioo, Bronchiiis, Catarrh, Asthma and
all throat and Lun Affections, also a
positive and radioal cure for Nervous De
bility and. all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative f'
ers in thousand nf av "", ' J
. . ,
ers in thousand of case
du, . mV '
niwi in. r
1892.
A PLOT OF POTATOES.
THE TRENCH SYSTEM IN THE GROWING
OF TUBERS A -VAY OF 8ECURINO
EARLY PLANTS.
Philadelphia Record.
Quite a revolution was effected by the
system of growing potatoes by the trench
method, for when experiments, showed
that a grower could produce over 128
bushels of potatoes on one eighth of an
acre, or at the rate of more than 1,000
bushels on an acre, as was done by Mr.
A. Rose, o Pen Yan, N. 5T., the new
system at once attracted attention, for
Mr. Rose also secured over 500 bushels
of potatoes on a full measured acre of
ground. It is not yet conceded that the
trench system is superior to the usual
plot culture, but as the potato season is
nearly here it is not out of ) lace to state
what the trench system is, in order tj'at
those who so prefer may make experi
ments in that direction the coming season
on a plot or two.
The lam? is plowed a foot deep and
Opened eigfit inches. The seed is then
plained and the trenches left open, the
dirt being filled in as the plant grows,
the claim being that by thus gradually
filling in as growth is made, the potatoes
produce more tubers, as well as larger
size and better quality, on account of
having more room and a better soil; but
when the trench is filled to tbo top rows
are level, and the usual level cultivation
is given, though some prefer to hill up
the rows, believing that by so doing
more moisture is retained in the soil.
The usual mode of growing potatoes is to
plant the seed from four to six six inches
deep, but as the trench system calls for
nine inches of depth, and of the width of
a heavy furrow to as much as three feet,
if preferred, tuber-bearing stems issue
from different planes, making several
tiers of tubers, fairly separated from each
other, instead of being crowded.
The nse of choice varieties, and the
cutting of the seed judiciously, is well
understood by all potato growers, and
the trench system is very simple, there is
but little to learn other than the fact of
enormous yields, but in order to secure
large crops the ground ia liberally sup
plied with a fertilizer composed of about
6 per cent, ammonia, 12 per cent, phos
phoric acid, and 8 per cent, potash. As
much as 880 pounds of fertilizer
per sere have been used, which was
sown in the bottom of the trenches, and
well incorporated with the soil, the seed
pieces being placed on this one foot apart
in the trenches.
25 YEARS HENCE.
Will the tariff question be settled ?
i
Will women vote for President and
national officers? - , '
Will Canada be a part of tne United
States?
Will the bond and endowment compa
nies spring up again?
Will men be able to keep secrets longer
ssd Luiiur liian women?
Will druuken people be allowed to
occupy oars with respectable people?
Will our citizens learn the wisdom of
investing their money at home?, .
Will men be able to get a shave and
hair cut by droppiug a tackle in the
slot?
Will charitable societies take more
notice of the adage, "Charity begins at
home?"
Will the t lephone be perfected so that
a person speaking can soe the person -J
the other end of the wirof
Willo " "-y to'
Is called u
It is caused,
and is general
10SS OF APpj
To treat constit
It is a mild laxaf
the digestive o
ing Simmons Li
promote digestia
ular habit of i
Biliousness an
"My wife wm w
tion and coughing-1
Aftrfourmomtut
ihc ii almoBt ent
and flesh."-W. 1
Take on
Which hat on tha
mark and Signatt
!
Hart
Everybody invited)
once. Our stock of
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in Bedford Cords, Broaj
Plaids and all the
are ready for inspection"
JC
In town
own. POOJ,.
MAKES. 15$
SF
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in all gr
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Cover np all sods in a road-bed.
h't a moat"