Newspaper corresponding
should prove a very pleasant and
hjlpful pasttime for the younger
members of the family. It is a
dignified work, and one that it
pays to leam, as the way has often
been paved for highly lucrative
work on the city papers and mag
nzines by practicing as country
correspondents. Many of the
leading novelists of the world be
gan their literary career by corres
ponding for country newspapers.
The Reporter expects to offer
« nice prize in the future to the
correspondent who writes the
newiest and most sensible letters.
WHAT NOT TO WRITE.
THE
Danbury Reporter.
N. E. & E. P. PEPPER, Publishers
TERMS TO AN'Y ADDRESS :
One year, sl, •> mo. 50c , 3 mu. 2>
FEBRUARY 22,
A WORD TO THE REPORTERS
CORRESPONDENTS.
We appreciate your letters very
much indeed, They are the life
and soul of the paper. But by a
little thought you can make your
communications of a groat deal
m )re interest to the public in gen
eral and save ns a lot of trouble.
Here are a few rules which all
writers are respectfully urged to
observe, and all who desire to cor
respond for the paper will do well
to clip this whole article.
WHAT TO WRITE.
1. Deaths. Give full name of
djoeased,and the names of surviv
ing relatives, cause of death, tint*
of death, time of funeral, name of
officiating minister, place of burial,
anil any other facts pertaining to
t'ie event that yon can get.
2. Marriages. Names of con
tracting parties and of their
parents, date of marriage, name of
minister or official who performed
the ceremony, names of witnesses
present, future home of bride and
groom, manner in which bride
was dressed, aud any facts con
nected with either of the parties
or the occasion that you can think
3. Births. These are very im
portant and legitimate items of
njws, and every birth in the
neighborhood should be promptly
s ;nt to the Reporter.
4. Accidents. All kinds of acci
dents, such as cuts, falls, tires, runa
ways of stock, kicks from mules,
etc., where the injury to person
or prouerty is in anywise
s srious, should be promptly
r '.ported
5. Social Matters. Every ball,
party, dinner, reception, quilting,
etc., should be written up. Give
the place of the occasion, the
name of the host or hostess, the
names of all the guests in attend
ance, and every incident of the
ojcasion. These affairs are of
great interest to the ladies, and
men, too
». Church Notices. Give the
date and place where and when
there is to he a meeting. Aftei
the meeting give preacher's text
and size of the audience present,
and any report of the sermon that
you a-e able to make.
7. Miscellaneous. Everything
t'mt is news. Personals are inter
esting, removals to and from
the neighborhood, the biggest
hogs killed, new dwellings and
other houses being built, indus
tries of various kinds being start
e 1, big prices received for tobacco,
anything that's news, write it
down and send it in.
Puu't say '"Miss Scindy is wear
ing a broad smile, as lmr best fel
low called Sunday." Thisexpres-i
ion is so stale that it makes our| A Sub i ecl of Vital Interest to the
. , .. ■ People of Stokes County.
renders sleepy. Change it some- r 1
how. If you must record so un- Editor:
. . . , ~A I. o • The remarks you made in last
important a fact, say Miss ©cm-! , , J ,
I week s Keporter about preserving
dy is carryingan extended physiog- |the forests are worthy of serious
notuy, as her preferred victim paid j consideration, and we wish to offer
his respects.Jast Sunday." Some- a few thoughts along the same
thing like this would be au innova-, line.
tion very refreshing indeed. I There nr * vnrious reaßons wh r
_ , .wo should preserve our forests.
Don t begin with the state of . . , ,
The clearing up of so much of our
the weather. When your letter f oro3 t l nn ds, and poor methods in
reaches us the weather may have cultivating our fields have result
uiaterially changed. jod in giving us extremes of heat
Don't end with best wishes to^' I"*' 1 "*' cold and of wet and dry
,i t, . , ,% „„• weather that were almost unknown
the Reporter, etc. (>ur space is'
. j before so much of the land was
limited, atid while wo appreciate' , nu . . .
11 .cieired up. Iho temperature and
your felicitations, wo are compell- moißture con tent of the at
ed to cut out all surplusage. ' mosphere is not so uniform as it
Don't say Mr. A. B. C. called on used to be. And the rainfall is
Miss E. F. G. This can ho inter- 1 so generally or evenly distri-
ISKX)
i . ii i . > buted 8s it used to be, but is moie
esting only to those who are quick i '
, . , l of a local nature. The rain comes
at hieroglyphics, anil few of us . , a , ~
more in stoims and floods than
are that. fo inerly. And it seems to me
WHEN TO WRITE. that all these disadvantages con-
Write before everybody in the stitute somewhat of a sad com
county can have a chance to hear mentary on the intelligence of the
. u i 1 n neople. For I feel sure that in a
of the news, bend your letter so ' F
, , , ~ _ great measure we have or could
as to reach us not later than lues- , ... ,
have these things under our con
day night. ,trol. Or in other words, we have
HOW TO WRITE
Write plainly with a pen, if tout the temperature and moisture
convenient, and leave plenty of content of the atmosphere, and
white space between the words t!,e distribution of the rainfall,
, „ ~ ... . und thus prevent in great measure,
anil the lines. Write only on one .. , , , . , ,
the extremes of heat and cold and
side of the paper and number the of wef nn( , dry and the vio i onoe
P ft K e -- ! of the stornw and floods. B?t if we
CROSS-INDEX BADLY NEEDED, will not put ourselves and our
work in proper relation to the
laws of nature as regards these
things, we may expect to suffer
fur our neglect. For nature will
b3 avenged of her wrongs. But
how can we in any way modify
these things? I answer that we
may do it in various ways. Or in
other wcrds, there are various
things over which we have control
and which may be united and
I serve as factors to bring about the
desired results along these lines.
But of course, the results cannot
h> brought about immediately.
But by beginning now and work
ing along proper lines, in 25 or .TO
years we will have gained o tnsidei
nble control over these unfavor
able conditions. The two most
important things to do, is, first,
to stop cut*ing down the forests,
and secondly, to stop cultivating
any more land than can bo culti
vated in such a way as to produce
luxuriant crops and allow all the
o'her cleared land to grow up nnd
get covered with some kind of bush
or growth as speedily as possible.
To plant ac r is and i uts freely
on all our fields that wo cannot
cultivate in such a way as to
n ake crops of good growth and
abundant foliage, would be some
what like depositing money at
high interest for our children.
But you ask what all this has to
do with the seasons. I answer:
'Any thing that will catch and hold
.the water or rainfall and keep it
fiom running otf the surface of
the land into the streams or water
courses, acts as a reservoir t >st>,re
lup the water fur future use. And
, tliere is no better or morn valua
■li e reservoir for storing the rain
l b 1 ! for future needs of our croi s
, than our forests or wood lands;
{the deep mellow huinu'-filledsoils
of our cutivated fields excepted
For but little water runs off the
i surface of these forest lands, but
'it is stored in the soil near our
i fields, and then evaporated or
pumped back into the atmosphere
by and through tho leaves of the
t r ees, and only needs air currents
of the proper temperature to float
it over our fields and condense
and precipitate it in showers of
rain for the good of our growing
( crops. Whereas, if the land is
naked and bare as is the case with
most of our poor worn out fields,
tho rain coming in torrents as it
now often docs, most of the water
runs off the surface of .the land
ii.t i the streams and on into the
ooean, and must be evaporated
nn 1 wait for wind currents to
A cross-index book is badly
needed in the Register's office
here, as the old one is old-fash
ioned, worn out and many of the
leaves are loose and liable to he
come lost. Nobody but an astute
lawyer, or one accustomed by
long practice to the work, can
trace a title under the present
mode
The Board of County Commis
sioners would do well to purchase
an index-book of the latest pattern.
It would prove of immense nd-
vantnge to the people who are con
cerned in the rerords of the coun
ty, and would be a time and labor
saver
Consumption
2.
Cj There is no specific for
consumption. Fresh air, ex
ercise, nourishing food and
Scott's Emulsion will come
pretty near curing it, if there
is anything to build cn. Mil
lions of people throughout the
world are living and in good
health cn one lung.
SJ From time immemorial the
doctors prescribed cod liver
oil for consumption. Of
course the patient could not
take it in its old form, hence
it did very little good. They
can take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
and tolerate it for a long
time. There is no oil, not
excepting butter, so easily
digested and absorbed by the
system as cod liver oil in the
form of Scott's Emulsion,
and that is the reason it is so
helpful in consumption where
its use must be continuous.
«fl We will send you a
sample free.
Q Be tors that tl.il
ptctur:? in the form of
a i.tbel i> on the wrap
per of every bottle of
itwuL.oii VJU IfIV.
Sc"it f. B >wne
C! "L-lilJ
-'C' ! P :'l Street
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PRESERVE THE FORESTS.
the power to modify to some ex
bring it back to us before we get
i
ATSOTffTn j \
• • v
it. And ovon then it often comes
in such torrents mid witli such
gusts of wind the greater part of it
runs off the surface of the land
and into the streams again. But
while the forests aot aa a reservoir
and gather the water an 1 pump it
j into the atmosphere near to our
I fields for future rains, and the
future good of our crops, we may
make our cultivated fields serve I B
a reservoir to catch and hold the
rainfall for both the imtmdia e
and future needs of our crops.
But this can be done only by deep
plowing and tilling the soil with
an abundance of organic or vege
table matter. When we get our
fields or cultivated land in this
condition, and the remainder of
the land covered with forests or
some such growth, then by proper
cultivation we will make abundant
crops. For the land will take up
and hold about all the raiufall ex
cept that which percolates through
the ground to feed the springs.
Instead of the water running off
the surface of the land, washing
and robbing it of its fertillity and
sweeping on in torrents and de
structive floods to the ocean, it
will be stored in our fields and
forests for the immediate and fu
ture needs of our crops. And, as
already stated, the temperature,
the humidity or moisture content
of the atmosphere will be mo'e
uniform, and the rainfall m »re
evenly distributed.
Another reason why the forests
should not be destroyed is that
they break the violence of the
winds, and, as already stated, they
temper the atmosphere, making it
warmer in the winter and cooler
in the summer. Furthermore, the
forests must supply much of the
fuel, and all of the building tim
bers for the generations.
It may seem to the reader that
what I have said is all foolishness.
But if we will begin now and ob
serve and do the things I have
suggested in this letter for the
next 25 or 30 years I believe that
then we will have marie consider
able progress towards primitive
conditions, so far as destructive
floods and the extremes of wt-t
and dry weather and other climatic
conditions are concerned.
To sum it all up in a few words,
it seams that the thin.; for us to
do is to get all of our land in a
condition to catch and hold the
rainfall, and let it be pumped or
evaporated back into the atmos
phere through the foliage of lux
uriant crops, and the trees and
bush of the forests. Then the soil
will respond to our labors and
empty its treasures into our
hands.
DOG-KILLER
NirrW NorfolkiWestern RJI
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC 3, 1905
1 >ttil V
Daily Ex. Sun. J>aily Kx Sun
PM AM PM PM
2:50 7.30 Lv Winston Ar2.00 10.(X)
3.28 8.13 " Wal. Cove " 1.21 9.20
5.00 9.50 " Martinsv. "11.45 7.49
7.25 12.30 AT Roanoke Lv 9.20 5.15
P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M.
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exevpt Sunday 3:00 a m 4:30 p iii for .South
llosion a 1 Durham and intermediate »ta-
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t*. k I officer, or to
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