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MR. CRAVEN'S SKETCH OF . BCRKE COUNTY ! ' On the first page of this iseee -we present the splendid historical sketch of the Origin and Name of Burke County, written by Attorney Brace Craven, of Trinity, N. C. Mr. Craven takes a different stand from that taken by The News-Herald sometime ago that Burke roxifty was named for Eom.ind Burke, aF we were taufhl by Wheeler and othrrs.; but we are after the truth Had are ready to ad mit that it was Thomas Burke .and not Edmund Burke for whom our county was named. The contribution is an authoritative one and one that will be read with intense interest by all our people and preserved by the many who take the right kind of pride in our history. We feel that we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Craven for his work, and we desire to express to him in be nalf of Burke county, a vote of thanks for it. "Bruce Craven" is a name that is known throughout this State, and when the readers of the daily papers see that name at the bottom of a contribution, they read it whether they agree to it or not, because they know they will find something writ ten with ability and in the best and most accurate English. He is not only an able lawyer and a genuine historian but he is a true scholar and a citizen interested in everything in the State, and when he writes some thing, the reading public takes no tice. The Morganton News-Herald. MARY PHAGAN SPEAKS Columns, .and columns, enough to make manv. volumes, have been writ ten about the tragedy in Atlanta that resulted in the lynching of Leo M. Frank. But, to our minds, says the Winston-Salem Journal, nothing more impressive, nothing trner, nothing finer, has been said than is written in the current number of the New Re public by Mary White Ovington. It is entitled "Mary Phagan Speaks" and is as follows: You care a lot about me, ou men of Georgia, now that I am dead. You have spent thousands of dollars trying to learn who mutilated my body. You have filled the columns of your newspapers with the story of my wrong. You have broken into a prison and murdered a man that I might be avenged. But why did you not care for me when I was alive ? I was a child, but you shut me out of the daylight. You held me within four walls watch ing a machine that crashed through the air. Endlessly watching a knife as it cut a piece of wood. Noise fills the place noise, dust and the smell of oil. I wish some of the thousands of dol . lars that you spent on the trial might have kept me in 'school. A real school, the kind you build for the rich. I worked through the hot August days When you were bossing the girls, or shooting birds, Or lounging in doorways cursing the nigger; And you never paid me enough to buy s pretty dress. You sometimes spoke coarsely to me when J went to and from my work; Yes, you did, and I had to pretend 1 liked it. Why did you despise me living and yet love me so row? I think I know. It is like what the preacher told me about Christ: People hatei Him when -He was alive, But whe"h He was dead they killed f man after man for His sake. , Wood's Special Grass nfl Clover Seed Mixtures own early In the fall yield full crops of hay or graz Ir.m Htm following year. There is no question but what our Special Grass and Clover Mixtures yield much better crops of hay, and the meadows or pastures will keep in good, productive condition very much longer than where only two or three varieties of grass or clover are sown. Our Descriptive) Fall Catalog fives full information In regard to these mixtures and all other Grass aL& Clover Seeds, Seed Wheat, Osts, Rye, Barley, etc. for Fall powng. C.ialog mailed free on request. Write for it and prices on any seeds you require. T. W. WOOD Cs SONS. : SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Vs. Children Cry FOB FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA Yon will find the shirt you want at VJrA Tacl, r-t.vH.i-.. ci . . --i Woed Cask, Clothing Stere, SUCGSSTXOHS TO BOOSTEKS OF ASHEBORO AND RANDOLPH COUNTY The editor has picked up the follow ing and put them together ior the benefit and guidance of those who want to help and not hinder Hie eause of get up and go en: Don't be the man who put M.et" isi city. Building good houses builds a good town. Good roads leads not only to town, but to money. Be a live one and the town will never be a dead one. A nice front porch has prevented many an old maid. Why should the town muzzle .dogs and not knockers? When some one plans to help .the town, plan to help the plan. A good way to make the world bet' ter is to begin with the home town. A town like a perambulator; k isn't much good unless it is pushed. Don't spend all your time U'.iing what yoa could do if you had some time. Be like a ball player. The thing he is always working for is home, Be one of the leaders of the town, if yeu can; but, anyway, keep up. Let's not be trying to stop some thing alt of the time. Let's start something. A good town will do more to keep boys at home then good advice. A town is like a girL It is won derful what a little fixing up wiH do for her. Opportunity knocks once at every man's door. Better be at home when the lady calls. The world owes every mail a living, but the street corner is a poor eollec frion agency. Don't look for soft snaps. The hard snaps are the ones that have the gin ger in them. Don't pend so much time talking war that yon haven't time to talk basiaess. If you would like to have some body working for yon, put a little money in the bank. It improves the soup to throw a little pepper into it. Same way with a town. If you spend all you earn some other fellow is banking your money. Many a young man goes away to seek his fortune, when Fortune is seeking for him at home. You've got to be a citizen to vote, bnt you've got to be a good deal more than vote to be a citizen. If yon will consider the men in this town who are well off you will find that most of them made their money here. The big things were not all done in the big town. The greatest poem in the English language was written in a country churchyard. There is only one better man than the man who gets behind and pushes, in an effort to improve the town, and that's the man who goes ahead and pulls. HOW EXPLOSIVES ARE MADE FROM COTTON Almost all the high explosives have cotton as their base. It is true that very good sportitig powder can be made from woodpulp, but as the editor of Nature remarks, "the artillerist would be in great difficulty if he were provided with such a propellant, be came in order to obtain any sort of regularity the nitration of the wood pulp has to be kept at a low point, and the ballistics, on which the artil lerists depends, would be suite thrown 0t." High explosives are cellulose highly nitratedthat .is, highly charged with nitrogen. This process consists of im merging cotton waste (that has been repeatedly teased, picked and dried) in a mixture of nitric and -sulphuric acids, in the proportion of 71 per cent. sulphuric acid, 21 per sent, nitric ac id and 8 per cent, water. After the acids have acted for the required time they are removed; the cotton is wash ed repeatedly and boiled several times in water. It is then pulped, partly. dried and pressed into moulds. The manufacturer does his best to regulate his output, so that it shall contain approximately eleven mole cules of nitrate to the quadruple mole cule of cellulose, as shown in the for mula, or a content of nitrogen that ranges between 12.93 and 13.05 per cent The process is. delicate and complex, for the proportions of acids and water must be exact and all must be chemi cally pure; besides this the cellulose must be ef uniform grade, which is a most difficult thing to obtain. To The Public "I feel that I owe the manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy a word of gratitude writes Mrs. T. N. Witherall, Cowan da, N. Y. "When I began taking this medicine I was In great pain and reel ing terribly sick, due, to an attack ef summer complaint.' ' After taking a ao.w iVa ion , iw penemwesi re almost im- TmwiiaWl For sale by ail dealers. RATION AND ATTENTION FOR DRAFT HORSE I in iHMbMI MIW' imr fT-J- "'" " r""" " ' An English Shirs. XBy D. O. THOMPSON. Purdue Experi ment Station.) The average farmer has not learned the fact that to attain tbe weight of a ion at four years a draft colt must snake ah average dally gain of about one and a Quarter pound from the time it Is born. Many colts that at weaning time give promise of develop ing into good drafters never become more than 1,300 to 1,500-pound horses, largely due to the fact that they were not properly fed. In the management of the draft colt It is better not to let tbe colt follow the mare .while she is at work, but to keep the colt to a box stall, making sure that there are ne loose boards or open places Id the walla In which tbe colt might injure itself, and It Is well to handle tbe colt from birth and get It accustomed to HELP SOLVE ONION PROBLEM Farmers Frequently Inquire as to Proper Storage of Crop Provide Plenty of Air 8paee. (By J. S. KNOX, ArkanMa Experiment Station.) "How shall I store my onions so they will keep during the remainder of the, summer and during tbe win ter r The above question is one that is frequently asked by the farmers of the country. The following sugges tions, If carried out, will greatly help in solving the problem: Do not allow the onions to remain In the ground after they are mature, but dig them when from 80 te 90 per cent of the tops die and fall over. Three or four rows may be piled to gether In windrows as they are dug and allowed to remain in this way un til the tops are dry, which will re quire several days, owing to the de gree of sunshine. It may be neces sary to turn the onions over at Inter vals of two days until they are thor oughly dry. Do not allow white onions to remain in the sun until they , turn green." : As soon, as properly cured In the Held, place the onions in bags and carry to the storage house. The stor age house should be well ventilated, especially , until the bulbs are thor oughly dry. If only a few bushels are to be ' stored, It is a good ldeato spread them out on the floor of a building. When placed in this way there is little danger of the bulbs beat ing or sprouting from moisture. Some of the regular onlcn storage hoises have a series of shelves one above the other, In which the bulbs are spread out to dnv. If you have to store them in bags leave plenty of alrW space between the different bags and be sure the bulbs are all cured before placing them in the bags. TAKE CARE OF FARM MANURE Every Reasonable Precaution 8hould Be Taken te Prevent Lose of Fertilising Qualities. Unless barnyard and stable manures are well cared for, a great part of their value Is lost to the farmer. Many farmers allow practically all the liquid manure to go to waste, yet liquid manure contains more fertilis ing value than solid manure, and every reasonable precaution should be taken to prevent its loss. Tbe loss from leaching Is large and can be pre vented by the ne of good floors and by keeping the stock well bedded. Fermentation Is another source of loss. It cannot be wholly prevented, bnt can be held In check by keeping the manure moist and compact. BUYING BETTER BEEF SIRES Continued Good Prices for Cattle Will Result In Greatly Improved Quality In Our Herds. The outlook for continued good prices for stock cattle has had the ef fect of encouraging farmers in the Southwest to buy better sires te head their herds. Recently a farmer paid without question $140 for a Shorthorn of proved quality. Five years ago be would have gone, straight up In the air had it beea suggested to him that a sire worth $100 would pay la his herd.. .It Is evident that continued good prices for cattle will .result In greatly improved quality la our herds. being handled wUh the halter. Coai him along, do not drive,. The following rations have been found valuable in growing draft colts: Until weaning time, in addition tc the mare's milk let it have such blue grass pasture as is available and givt it access to a bos containing a mix ture of oats, three parts; bran, three parts, and oil meal, one-half part After weaning, there is no bettor place for the colt than blue grass or clovei pasture, provided It Is supplemented with light grain ration and the coll given proper attention, and as a rough feed when the colt is In the barn dry, sweet alfalfa or clover hay free frorx dust with a limited supply of such other roughages as corn stover, oaf straw, timothy hay, or perhaps a small amount of high Quality corn silage. GROWING WINTER OATS Reduces Feed Bill and Prevents Washing ef the Soil. Variety Most 'Commonly Used In South Is Red Rustproof Winter Turf Is Hardy and Valuable for Pasture or for Hay. Every southern farmer should grow enough oats to feed his work stock during at least a portion of the year. In addition to furnishing feed grain at less cost than It can be purchased, fall-sown oats prevent the washing of the soli, by which much fertility Is frequently lost. There Is still time to sow winter oats In the gulf states, though this work should be done at once it good results are to be ob tained. According to specialists of the department, oats sown in the southern states during October or the first half of November may be ex pected to produce at least twice tbe yield of grain obtained from spring seeding. Winter grain may be sown on land which produced a crop of cotton, corn, or rowpeas the past summer. If this land has not already been plowed, It will be better to make the surface soil fine and loose with the disk or drag harrow than to delay seeding by plowing now. Better results are ob tained from sowing with the drill than from broadcast seeding, though it a drill is not available sowing the seed broadcast on well-prepared land usually results in a good stand. If the preceding crop was well fertilised, 100 to 200 pounds of acid phosphate will be all that the oats require this fall, though a little nitrate of soda will help the fall growth, especially If tne soil is hoi already well supplied with i nitrogen from the growing of cowpeas or . some other legume. A top dressing of 60 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda applied when growth starts in the spring will greatly In crease the yield. The variety of Winter oats most commonly grown in the South Is Red Rustproof. Appier, Lawson, Hundred Bushel, Bancroft and Cook are selec tions or strains of Red Rustproof which are said to be particularly val uable In some localities. The Ful ghum is a promising new variety which matures a week or ten days earlier than the Red Rust proof, and usually produces as much or more grain. As the kernels of all these varieties are large, from two and one-half to three and one-half buehels should be sown to the acre. Tbe smaller quantity Is sufficient If the seed is drilled early on well-prepared land, while three bushels or more are needed when the seed is sown broadcast late in the season. The Winter Turf or Virginia Gray Is a very hardy variety, which Is valu able for pasture r hay production, but which does not yield as much grain In the southern states as the Red Rustproof. On account of the small sire of tbe kernels, only one and one-half bushels of seed of this va riety are required. Wholesome Food for Hens. Experiments have proven that the flavor of the eggs is Influenced by the feed supplied the hens, hence it is of the utmost Importance to.eupply the hens with -nothing - but 'wholesome food., . -ASHEBORO WEDNESDAY- mm ll PERFECT RPFRIMFNB RF THF unrs an curious creatures ' GATHERED TOGETHER mi ONE IMMENSE THE CHAMPIONS OF ALL COUNTRIES COMPETE FEATS OF DARINO thi FniNCEL4 saueiis mid htm' MAMMOTH (MrmiMIISI HH MKt i IMM IF TMM INT VAIUABLS ARTISTS MALE Ml FBMALE RIDERS AERIAL ARTISTS. LEAPER8, TUMBLERS, OVMNASTS AND SENSATIONAL MIIMIFflN FEATS OF SKILL AND DARINO BY BOTH MALE M FEMALE PERFORMERS- i w nun if iKMCMoi ntus. The world's best im K EMIMTEI tfill Ml SEA UMS, AN IMMENSt Ins v IMMtflUHIUUB U3WIT1,. Im km fmm tmt, tUt-tlUIH USSt rieimij a mm stcil mcLoeuac. . W HI lg$H Mu Send Us That Soiled Suit AND LET US SHOW YOU HOW WELL WE CLEAN IT Ashsboro Pressing and Tailoring Go. W. P. ROISTER, Manager. NEXT TO REXALL STORE. PHONE NO. 137 OFFER DISC GRAIN DRILLS AT $60.00. Only have a few at this price. Come to see us at once. MCCItARY-REDDING HARDWARE CO. WE ARE ABLE And willing to do everything for our customers that a good bank ought to do. Why don't you open an account with us? With a record of seven years of successful business and re sources of more than two hundred thousand dollars, we solicit your business. Call ,to see us. BANK OF Won. C. Hammer R. C. Kelly HMAER & KELLY Attorney! at Law Office Second door from street in Lawyers' Row. DR. JOHN SWAM Dentist Office over First National Bank. Asheboro, N. C. Phone 192 a DR. J. F. MILLER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OSes Over Beak ef Eaadolpk. Askebore, N. C. 1 3' 35 WUbm 1 MENAGERIE AND ORACE. t.yr RAMSEUR DR. J. D. GREGG Dental Surgeon ..At Liberty, N. C Woodsy, Toesdsr ad Wednesday. At Ramseur, N. C, Thursday, day and Saturday. J. W. AUSTIN, E D. Pracfici Llnlted to Eys, Ear, Nos3 and Throat, Ssstk Malt St. atxl to P. 0. high row, I. c. Burkbardt's Lard, 11 cents is LAMBERTS CASH GKOCE
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