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Town Dirctory.
Mayor A. R. Wilson.
Commissioners E. F. Younsr, J. II.
rrne, Dr. F. T. Moore, D. U. llood.
Marshal M. L. Wade,
CBURCIIES.
Metnodist Itev. G. T. Simmons, Pa&
tor. Services at 7 p. m., every first Sun
day, and a., m. and 7 p. mM every
fourth Sunday. Prayer-meeting every
Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Sunday
school every Sunday morning at lb
o'clock; G. K. Grantham, Snperintenl
dent. Meeting ol Sunday school Mis
sionary Society every fourth Sunday
afternoon. Young Men's prayer meetr
ing every Monday night.
Presbyterian,- Rev. A. M. ITassell,
Pastor. Services every first and" fifth
Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday
school every Sunday evening at
o'clock. Dr. J. II. Daniel, Superinten
dent. Disciples Rev. J. J. ITarper, Pastor.
Services every third Sunday at 11 a, m.j
and 7 p. m. Sunday school at 4 o'clock,
Mr. Ed Ballance, Superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night
? 7 o'clock.
Mi'sionaiy Baptist- Humlay school
very Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
li. d. Taylor. Superintendent. Prayer"
vit-eting every Thursday night.
Fre Will Baptist. -Rev. S. II. Wor
! y, Pastor. Services every Fourth
S'i,.day at 11 a. m. Sunday school everv
S'l.iday evening at 3 o'clock, Erasmus
Lee, Superintendent.
Pt.iiiKive Baptist Elder Bumice
YVool, Pastor Services evry thiriJ
Sunday at 11 a, tn., and Saturdaj' before
.,?rd Sunday at 11a. m.
LODGES.
The Lucknow Lodge No. 115 I. O. O.
F.. meets eveiy Tuesday night at 8
o'clock. R. G. Taylor, N G.; J. W.
Jordan, y. ip. ; . C. McNeill, Secre;
tary.
Pahii3-ra Lodge." No. 157. A.F. & A.
M. Regular communications every third
Saturday and every first Friday night.
Yi-uting Masons invited to attend.
J. Peausall, Secretary.
FrofssionL Cards-
Lee J- Best,
Attokxey at Law.
Dunn,
N. C.
nciioM in all the courts,
tion to all tmsiuesa.
Prompt atton
jan. 1.
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Attquxey at Law,
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Practices In all the surrounding counties.
D. H- McLean,
Attorney at Law,
0&e next dpor to pfitjtofll,-"?, DCNN, N. C.
(irnrnl Vrartfc. Will attend the courts
pf Harnett. Cupiprud,JlinslfU andtfiimi
cou couatiea.
Dr. X H. Daniel,
Dunn. Harnett Count-, N. C.
Oncer a socially. No other disease
treated. Positively will not visit patients .a
adistanc. Pamphlets on Cancer, its Treat
ment and Cure, will be mailed to any address
free of charge.
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VOL. iv.
J list From Georgia
TAKE TTIE SIDETRACK THEN !
To kcep in the middle of the road"
Is good in each dominion;
But not so wlien a rattlesnake
Is of the same opinion.
Say your say, an sing your song c
This old country moves along.
Rain or shine, an praise or blame !
Gets there, brethren, jest the same!
Day an night
She's rollia right!
Ain't this country out of slo-ht?
COTTON ! COTTON !
This Country may be npside down,
But keep on your Collars;
Cotton's foiling into town
Bale for twe-aty dollars.
Here's your cotton white as fleece !
Every bale yor. reu.ler
Buys the gab a dress a piece.
Old man one suspender!
This is tbe way a Georgia weekly
exchange views it :
4 We don't care nuthin' 'bout the
slump
Some day we'll win it back;
The 'possum's climbia up the stump.
The dogs are on his track.''
OKE OR THE OTHER.
Who is that fellow with his hair
all over his face ?"
"Don't know. But if he ain't a
joet, he's a football player."
A correspondent wants to know
who wrota the poem entitled.
-The world is Full of Beauty?"
Don't know b'.it it must have been
the man who oet on the
eleven.
winning
WHY HE WANTED IT.
'Why is Smith always singing,
Give me the OM time Religion ?' "
"Didn't take up any collection in
those days."
Thanksgiving passed off p'easanth
in Georgia. There's no election that
1 ay.
Politeness Won the Day
A gentleman from the West told a
good story the other day of a meet
ing between his dog and an organ,
gridder's rjaoi:kcy that will bear re
peating :
'One day an Italian organ-gnndcil.
accompanied by a trained monkey,
wandered into our town, and the man
stopped before my house to plav
Tne monkey was an intelligent littV
fellow, and w-3 attired in a jacket
r.nd cap. While his master wnt
:zrindlng out the music the monkey
hopped down from the organ when
ho had been sistina. and jumping the
fence caiue up into my yard. lie
it ucc p?ed by a fox te rier ol
mine, and the dog ma ic a rush at
!i'm. The monkey awaited the on
set with such undisturbed tranq dlitv
Lhat the dog halted wilhin a few feet
of him to reconnoitre. Both anim df
took a long, siu-a ly atare at each
other, when suJd?nlv the monkey
raised his paw and gracefully saluted
his enemy by raising his bat. The
oifjc; was magical. The dog's head
aud tail dropped, and he sneaked off
iuto the house, ana would not leave
it until satisfied th.v. ".is polite but
mysterious guesc h il departed.
Harper's Young People
The Newspaper Its Value
To produce a papc: requires the
liberal patronage and good will of the
merchants and citizens in general,
but it must be remembered that the
newspaper business is the most res
cpro.-al ot all l.ne of trade. It not
onh' expects life, bqt gives out life
id raturn. For the patronage whicl
, . .
i solicits and expects it. will carry
! tra'le to counter or business houses
i i.rcturn. Its business and the pco.
i i ... k r,, .,. :Q .flri..
the otner. In appealing thus to the
good people of a place for their sub
scriptions and advertising patronage
the newspaper is not soliciting bare
favors, but it proposes and does re
turn all the patronage it receives in
measures well filled, pressed dnwn
heaped up, and running over, SeK
ected.
25 Doxes of Oranges, 15 barrelts
App'cs, 500 units will o-- soli al
Denuin & Highs' by Xmri. tome
and get a bargain in frait.
U
Proprietor. -PROVE ALL THINGS, AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD,"
DUNN, N. G, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1894.
NEWS OF 01 STATE. ,
Maxton Scotish Chief: Deputy
Collector W. P. Gibson and Marsha
J, C. Parish captured a blockade
distillery belonging to W. J. Bar
field, uear Lumberton last week, to
gether with two barrels of syrup 'and
a small lot of whiskey. He was run
ning it under his kitekin, using the
chalmney as a smoke escape. . He
run hi3 cane mill and evaporater in
connection with his distillery. TLey
were all captured.
Deputy Collector Gibson reports
to Collector Simmons the seizure and
distruction, in Montgomery county
of an 80 gallon illicit distillery. The
supposed owner is Sol. Hay worth.
The owner wa3 not present bat the
deputies captured 75 large "porkers''
that were confined in a pen near the
still to ba fattened with "moonshine"
beer. The hogs were driven a
lot of stuff carried aay triumphant
ly. Raleigh Visitor.
Shot a Qatamount.
The dogs of Mr. FiDdley Haney,
who lives in South Clinton, recently
ave chase to a "varmint" that fres
quented the woods in Mr. Haney's
neighborhood. The animal was treed
n a pocosin and Mr. Haney went in
and shot it. The "varmint" prove!
to be a catamount, or what is com
monly know r.s a wild cat. It was
ibout three feet in length and yen
closely resembled a smll tiger,
Clinton Democrat.
..Burglar Caught
The burglar who stoled a watch
from an employs of Messrs. North
and Watson at Greensboro lst week
has been captured. When arrested
he attempted to resist and tried t.
get a pair of bra?s knucks out of hi
pocket. On his person were foumt
a lot of burglars' tools, a pirimy, key
ho!ds. and lots of keys. His name
is Ralph Uamler. He was wcli
Iressed and appeared to be about 35
years old. News & Observer.
Burned to Daath-
Mis3 Flora Dowell, a beautiful
yound lady about 18 years old, wa
burned to death Sunday evening. Ilei
elolhin" caught on fire. All the racm
bersof the famil'- were away attendi
a burial. All of her clothing wa
burned from her body. She lingered
a few hours and death relieved her
Pilfering. Tt was indeed a horrible
ight. NcY3 & Observer.
Confederate Monument.
The gmnite work for the North
Carolina Confederate Monument,
from .h Mt, Airy quarries will be
shipped to Raieigh this week. It
It- will be put in place as soon as i!
arrives. Tho ornamental work i
being carved at Baltimore, and U
cearlv ready to ship. The statu tt
and the medallions of bronzo, whic
have been cast in Municti, will r.rrivt
ibuut January 1st. The cost of th
complied monument will be 25
000. Of this the State two years ago
appropriated $10,000. and the Idie
"iave raised 7,000. They have had
to do this through two years of ex
ceeding7 bard timas, and all things
considered, have done remarkably
well. Eight thousand dollars re
mains to be raised. But the ladies,
God bless them, will never rest until
this eight thousand dollars is in h ind
and the monument built, paid for
and unveiled.--News and Observer.
Two Stores Bobbed The
Thieves Captured
Rocky Mount, December 7.
Thursday night two stores were brok
en into by thre-j burglars; one a
3'ouug white man and the otier.
ucgroes. They entered lluckuev
Bros.' hardware store Vv breaking
the glass transom oyer the door.
They took three pistols and cat-
trirtges, five fine razors and a
nam-
ber of fine pocket knives,
ridge & Rohbins store was
Hauht
entered 1 1, tninrlnD anfl t r 1 ". I" f.f !
uv luc uu.-v wt.u -
pants, a pUol worth $12.50, pocket
knives, shoes and a lot o, J-r
taken.
Officers got on track of the thieve
and followed them seven or tighj
miles inhe country, 3ud they were '
brought back to town. They were j
tried before Justice Tilley and j
bound over to the next term of court.
The young white man says he is frmo
Virginia, and his name is June.
The outlook is very good for t - e jen.
itcrstiary, and tne negroe-. will
-.nmnanu liim. -Tt will ottibblv
some time before luev nu snarize any
An Assassin's Cowardly
Attempted-
Bkntoxville. N. C, Dec. 4. A
cowardly attempt was made one night
last week to kill Mr. Porter Dupree,
one of the county commissioners for
Johnson county. Mr. Dupree was
sitting by the window at his home in
full icw of the would' be a9sasins
vrhen he fired a load of buck shot at
him. But for the glass in the wins
dow, which changed the direction of
the shot, Mr. Dupree would have
been killed, the ft.ssacsin beiDg but
a short distance- distance from tbe
window when he fired the gun,
No clue to th2 perpetrator ot the
deed has been discovered thu3 far.
It is 6aid that about two years ago.
one Thorn'on bu It a gin not, far from
Mr. Dupree's and that the gin was
burnt. When Mr. Thornton com
menced to rebuild, a threatening let
ter was sent to him warning him not
to rebuild. They accuse Mr. Dupree
of writing the letter. This is thought
to bs the cause of tbe shooting.
Burglary
The residence of Mr. Jacob Solo
mon was at his store on Gillespie
street, and Mrs. Solomon had gone
out calling, leaving the children in
charge of servant girl. Between 7
and 8 o'clock the girl entered Mrs.
Solomon's room to put the baby to
bed when she was almost frightened
out of her wits by seeing a man run
across the room and j imp out of the
window. She screamed loudly and
quite a large crowd assembled, but
;ne robber l ad disappeared, taking
villi him several articles of wearing
apparel. When discovered be was
to the act of opening a draw which
contained a considerable amount of
mone'. The girl thinks he was a
jo'ored man. This is the third time
in the last few months that this house
a been entered by thioves. Fays
tr-villo Observer. .
Fsll From a Second Story
Window
Tuesday, the 26th, ft the Oxford
Orphan Asylum, Maggie Bell, of
YYilniingfon,, one of the inmates,
ibout 13 years old, fell from one ol
he sccond-slcry windows of the main
ouildino to the ground, a d'stance of
ver twenty feet, causing a corns
oound dislocation and fracture of the
dbowj -int the eharp extremity of
one of the bones having been driven
.-ompletely through the flesh and
dun. An operation for the removal
of the elbow joint vas fouDd neces
-ary. IJpyond slight confusions no
fu'ther injuries wore found as the re--ult
of her fc.irful fall, and when last
.seen the young girl was resting
quietly and comfortably, Oxford
I-edger.
Cutting Scrape-
Saturday evening as Mr. Jack
Klhridge was driving home, he over
00k h;s v.agon and found se.-ited
thereon a negro man that had been
working for him, but who ha d stop
ped under unfavorable circumstances.
As soon as he discovered the fact he
ordered the man to get down, as he
dhl not keen a team to ride such
characters. The man alighted and
forthwith began to curse and abuse
Mr. Ethridge. When this abuse be
came unbearable Mr. Eihridge jump
ed from his buggy and begin a flog-
i?n" bee. The darky did not. relish j
this and closed 'in
After a short
aTiirrcrlfi the two men fell to
fell to the,
ground. Almost immediatedly the
fiCiro rose and fled, when it was di-s
covered that Mr. Ethride's arm was
badly cut. and thai he was bleeding
'reedy. The wounded man was
brought bank to town where a pby-
ieian soon put things in order.
Advaate.
TntrvH rwH nn THUS a little
Girl-
Quite a sad death occured near
Su'.phcr Springs Institute Saturday
afternoon.
It, seems that three men, who were
distant relatives of widow Hall, went
jtf er bome on
j
Friday evening io
They were pret
j full of ,.res,llator . and cne gave !l(ir
I three-yeaTold d-ioghter some wh:kv
which fhe drank, and later nl:ei a
little bottle full and let her have it.
She bank aU of the con'ea'.s ;u l
the next morning cite me need hiving
spasms. Dr. llorton was sent for
but arrived loo Sale to be of any ser
vice and the'.iil i diei that afternoon
at 4 o'clock iu great agon v.
I in 13. iriliv. -!.' aiiii:, n.i-v
there ! a Uw r r,:u'
ll.nn .
be ' thpv h--uld 'rece.v- f'fi
lic!:t fii of
r: And
a. o e
r
L livun
GENERAL KEVvS ITEMS.-
Train Robbers-
Charleston, Dec 7. A special
to the News and Courier says that an
attempt was made near Jiorence. S.
C, last night to wreck the north
bound passenger train on the At
lantic Coast Line. A piece of timber
fourteen fset long was laid oa the
track, parallel with and between the
roils. The engine, mail, baggage
and first class cars passed over tho
obstruction, but the sleeper trucks
caught the timber and dragged it
for a mile, when the trucks of the
sleeper were turned across the track,
tearing up the track for several huns
dred yards. The train was running
sixty miles an hour, aud had it left
the track at this point it would have
gonodowna 35 fool erubinkment
and resulted in great lossofiife; as
it was, no special harm was done.
Senator Hill, of New York, was
aboard the trs in in a special car.
Star.
KILLED BY A OANO OF NEOROES.
Savannah, Ga. Dec. 5. A tpecial
to the Evening Press says that B, T.
MauUlen, a bailiff in Brooks county,
was killed by Jerry Jeffreys and a
gang of negroes. Mau'den tried to
arrest them, when they shot him,
Jeffreys aod three others have since
been arrested.
Suicide a dat befouehismakriane
Mountgomery, Ala. Dec. 5. Hon,
II. N. Sudj;e, one of the leading cit
izens of West Alabama, and a prom
inent lawyer, committed suicide at
his horre at Entaw last night. His
servant on goinj; to his room found
biro dead shot through the temple.
The pistol was in his hand. Ilewas
to have been married the next day.
Swallowed Carbolic Acid.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 4. Mrs.
John Tilor Cooper, wife of one of the
Atlanta ex-Mayors, swallowed car
bolic acid this afternoon and died to
night in great agony. . The fa.aily
physician says it was suicide.
Anothei of the seven attending phy.
siclan pronounces it an accident
There i3 a good deal of mystery
about the death.
Horrible MuRusa of an Italian.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 5.
Mike Caboo, an Italian thirty years
old. was found murdered near this
city this morning. His head had
been crushed in wiih an axe which
was lying near, besmeared with clots
ted blood. The murdered man was
found lying on an old pine bed
stead outside a shanty used by ten
ders of a wood-rack located there.
Three Legroes have been arrested,
and await the action of the Coroders's
jury. It is said one named Swanson
owed Caboo mono v. nd that the two
men had recently had a dispute over
the matter.
Bishop Haygood III.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 4 Bishop
Haygood, of the M. E. Church
South, i3 dangerously ill at his home
at Oxford Georgia. He altended the
annual conference' of the church at
Home last week, but was too ill
much of the time to preside. Tbe
symptoms ot his case indicate pneu-
j monia
j Ghostly Georgia Stories
U'hilf .a fnrmpr in Houahertv coua
tv wa- crossing a creek late at night
he heard strange voices and then the
splashing of a horse's hoof behind
him. And vet, no other hun.an be
in2 and no horses save his own, were
visible. When he reached dry land
)e stopoed bis hot pc and listened.
j but the noise had cea-ed and there
! wa-s no sound other than the hooting
of the owls.
In Towns county a young medical
stuile;.t wrapped a white sheet around
his body and pla:ing n human skull
on hi3 head, knocked at tht door of a
nero cabin It vras some time be -
ftre the nea:ro and hi3 wife could bz
prevailed on to npan the door, and
when the ghostly apparition was disv
closed they jumped from the window
and fl:d to the woods
A negro who is said to have "the
evil eye" is circulating among the
negroes of Liberty county. He
-charms" them and cures diseases by
.1 Tl1' V lDO villi? 51L LiiCiU. ami "
!t. j mi ure rca3-rab!c.
he is said to
ie coim
lare feums from the cred
$1.C0 Per Year la Advance.
NO. 41.
Some Southern Stories.
A negro in Leon county, Florida,
received a pair of shoes Saturdaj J
which ha had made to order. They
... 1
measured 14 mcnes in lengm, 05
inches in width and each of the shoes
weighs 2 pounds and 2 ounces. Tne
negro weighs 200 pounds.
James Holley has crowing upon
his place in Orlando, Fla.. a coffee
tree two years old, which has just be j
gun to bear. It has twenty-two btrs
nea upon it now, and if it continues
to grow in the future as it has in the
past, a good crop is expected from iv
next year.
ka is the owner of the greatest car- I
- . . j ' . - I
losity of the bird kingdom a white
quail. The very rare curiosity was
. , , . . , j . I
idled by a sportsman a day or two
aon a snort distnnnp from th citv I
an nrnhPrl tn Mr. RUnrh.arrl who
will place ft with a taxidermist at
once to preserve it. This albino of J
the feathered tribe is certainly a curs
iosity and has boen the talk of sport I
sman ever since its capture.
The oldest resident does not re-1
member when water was so scarce in I
Hartford, Ky., before, says the Her-
family wells have been dry for weeks J
that were never known to fail before,
The public wells but barely suffice
for drinking purposes, and they gens
erally give out late in the evening.
Water is being hauled Irom the
creek for laundry and stock purposes
and the situation is getting more ser
ious eveiy day.
At Jacksonville, Fla., a woman I
mashed her ringer Sunday, for which
a man turned in a fire alarm, set the
bells clanging, the horns to blowigg
aod Chief Haney to spinning over
the pavement with the big horses to
the bose w&gons thundering behind. J
Of course it was an accident the
mashing of the finger and the alarm
as well, -When the woman pierced
the air with a shriek the man thought
that she was screaming because of a I
fire, so he pulled the knob and let it
go at that, calling out the whole fire
department. I
t in tt.. i . i. - r i v
dromon xy., uaa bu intra uuj
taking his age into consideration, in
the State, He is nine years old, is
four feet three and one half inches
high and measures thirty-nine inches
around the waist, fourteen and one-
half inches around the calf, and
twelve inches around the arm. and
tips the beam at 131 pounds. His
name is Mullen Metcalfe, a grandson
of the late Captain Ben Freeman, the
famous Kentucky river captain and
pilot, who was a very large man. If
there is another nine-yearsold boy in
the State who can beat Mullen's
mcasuremeuts he has not been heard
from.
Much has been said and written
about the burnicjr railroad fill of the
Kichmomd. Niciiolasville. Irvine and
Beattvville. near KWs station.
Estill county, Kentucky, but it will
be news to many to note ths fact that
this place has been on fire exactly
one year, notes tne lucumona ran-1
. ..... n- 1 t,
tagranh. Ia conversation with a re-
ident of that section the informa-
tion was gained that the place is hot-
terthar. ever. Some time since it
wes thonaht the names had ceescd.
v
but lately there has been something
like a rekindling nndersround. There
is no apparent danger; about the on
ly damage done so far is the burninj
of ties, vhielj
several limes.
have been replaced
Is it eternal fire?
Up in Galloway county, Kentucky,
t i
mere nves a man wnose name is
Uncle John Wyatt, and according to
the Benton Tribune, he is over one.
hundred yeais "old, and is now in
1 good health. Sixty years ago he had
j his fortune told, and the fortune tel.
ler t-Id him he would live to be over
j one hundred j-ears old. and that he
would be married seven times. Time
cashed on, and now he is oyer one
hundred years old, and two reeks
ago he buried his sixth wife and i?
now on the market for hi seventh
one, and he saj-s when the Cfcremwny
is performed that unites him to his
seventb wife then he is ready to die.
Clean Current and Citron, Batter
Nits. English- Walnuts a-d mixed
"1
inui; at Denning aad Miggs.
Prepared to do any Icinfi
of job' Work' from a 7
Column Paper to a
Shipping Tag.
The Food oie mure.
-'Do yoo meau.to predict thai U
our milk, eggs, meat and flour will ia
Uae future be made in factories?
I
..wk- f r it and
.. j r -
J better to make the s&ma material
than to grow them? Tbe firt steps,
and you know that it has always tho "
first step that coats, yon must rev
member, since I first succeeded 1n
maklnfif fat direction from Its ele
ment8, I do not say that we. shall
. nn !RU1 r.fMt. t on
nor do I bay that we shall ever give
you the beefsteak as we now obtain
and cook it. We shall give yon tha
sneaking. Its forms will differ, bes
1 fa ... ... . ...
cause it will probably be a tablet.
Dnf U roil Ka n t-oKlaf rf anv Vk1nP
uuk 1 V Kilt ww touiv v ui ww
, . m ,,,
1 thik entirely Satisfy the epiCUTH
can senses 01 vuo iuiur, iui jui
must remember tnat. the beefsteak of
to-day is not the most perfect of piQ-
tures either in color or composition.
"Tea and coffee could now be made
artifically," continued the professor.
u me necessity suouiu arise, or me
commercial opportunity, though the
necessary supplementary mechanic
cal invantions, had been reached."
"The essential principle of tobacx
bacco, as you know, is nicotine. Wa
have obtained pnre nicotine, whose
chemical conltitulion is perfectly un
Iderstood, by treating salomlnc, a
natural glucoside, with hydrogen.
Synthetic chemistry has not made
nicotine directly os yet, but it has
yet, and the laboratory manufacture
of nicotine may fairely be expected
at any time. Conine, the poisonous.
principle of hemlock, has been made
synthetically, and it is so close in
its constitution to nicotine and so
clearly of the same class that only
its transformation into nicotine res
mains to be mastereb, a problem
which is not very difficult when corns
pared with others which have been
solved. The parent compound from
which the nicotine of commerce will
be made exist largely in coal tar."-
From an interview with Professor
Bsfthelot, , the French Chemist, in
McClure's Magazine.
Tf,, nf RoilW Hftttnn.
0 s
los r by fare every
year 8 heavy and cotton insurange
consequently comes high
uecent experiments at waco, iex-
a, 8aw8 tne Atlanta Journal, seem
to Prove ltl a great reior m in tae
baling of cotton for shipment is at
uand- one toat wlU 8tv0 mactt
protection against fire and reduce ins
surance rates very materially. By
this new method cotton U baled un
der powerful pressure in cylindrical
packages which exclude tho air.
Cotton packed in this way not only
I occupies much less space than tbe
ordinary compressed bale, but is pro-
I nounced as incomDU8UDlc as a log or
mm m
wuuu
AC was ,oUna Umt y pulling up
ino nDro m one 01 inese cyiinancai
- m . t 1
balcs thc cotton could easily be ignit.
ed but Qst M 600n the looae coU
,on Darne "e nre went out ana vne
" . .... ..
I halA ana rrortll 1 nnhlirE.
" i""" j
The Waco experiment is attracti Dg
moch attention. In my opinion of
the 0011011 experts who witnessed it.
a complete reform in the balling of
cottonwill be brought about by this
new method.
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