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2 T!:e Vet My X*«tlicr Wore. [I-\ r the !*rat:'! Carolinian ] I ftHtid it '»ii • day of I rum aged anone The tt.iu iit a r!o«et i 1. And tooV. it down from -a u«r»- i* bu. £ I'pou it i iron hold. I gazed upon it with a Mali* A- Il oJteii done before. V. hen but .» am) T.j.i.i'ip- 'd : Thif ,v«" rny Jar her F >re, "l w.if :aad* oJ ve.V'-t, Li^ r, *B . Whi-h glared ;(»■ the nooi.-.av ft • r ;i beauty ro my n'» i*er *a. -» •p.efore it* rare wa» run ! i ried to fiiiouth 1 ' F wrinkn-* a * h> . Hut thoy wuotd rtui»«»th r.o more. For time ha 1 pla- 1 them there * » On the v*-nt H!\ fri'h'l 'A :« . i'ut now it «a" faded old iiC'l wot Ff, The buttoUH i 11 nerf i»«t. Tbe collar *a split, the bar* "as *•» rrt 'I tie front 1 tempest To«wed. 1-Bt st*ll it wati near mid V> u-'' > , # This relic now ofyorv. Fur it brought ba k tender memorie- . i'wae th' j >*; st lay father wore. 1 h'inir it bak in the closet .arc W here it had hung for ve&rs. Then turned avrav *ith a f»ad len-o h^-urt And felt the ri«iuK te;ir., tome H r artiuK from my eyes and Then I . th«- ckmet du.r. And left it hanging trier* again, '1 he ve«t my father woie. —TAM'Y FLL!F. Marih f! flj • FACTS FOR THE FARMERS. ! i I)IRi;tTIOXS FOR IMPROVING ] Till-: FI-RTIUTY OF HOIK , Some Practical Hints about Se curing Increased Productiv ity from tlie Kands or Southern Farms. | . Tbere is nothing more evident to | the careful observer than thai, indi- i vidual and national prosperity de pends on the productive qualities of the soil. A\ here the soil is rich and the fertility is maintained wealth will accumulate, line cities will grow, j school houses and churches will be built, attractive homes and all the j luxuries attending prosperity- All ! industries are quickened or deadened , bythe degree of fertility attending j the soil. Where (he soil is poor, or j has long been worn out, a corres ponding decline and want of thrift are noticeable. These facts should be of great interest to the farmers, to the manufacturers and all indus tries of our lend. Every farmer knows the superior pcwer of a fertile soil in the produc tion of crops that liberally repay him for his labor, but perhaps every I one is not equally advised as to the various ways of enriching his lands, nor does he embrace every opportu nity within his power to improve them. The farmers should look to 1 the importance of this subject. Their farms may be becoming ex hausted, until they do not produce profitable crops, therefore they should embrace every chance within their means to render their soil more fertile. Many means of im proving the soil are neglected for want of information, and when new plans are recommended they are adopted slowly. In order to be able to improve the soil we should under stand its nature and geueral charac ter. for without a knowledge of what our soil wants we may, in our effort to improve it, apply substances that will have no effect or be an in jury to it. The surface of the earth which furnishes a basis for growth of plants is not, as some may suppose, only a medium in which the plaut may root itself to be able to main tain its upright position against winds and rain, but is a store house of food also, from which the roots of the plant may select such substances as are necessary to promote its growth. The farmer, to undestand the true theory of the food of plants and the operation of fertilizers, must discard from his mind the idea thai these earthy, saline substances, found in the substances of his crop, are merely there by accident, or absorbed by their roots accidentally from the soil. These substances are always found in the plants and they vary in amount at different stages of its growth. We find irom chemistry that many of these inorganic constit uents vary according to the soils in PRESS AND CAROLINIAN, MARCH 21. which tLe plants glow, yet a ct-uam nunb-r of them are indispensable to their development. All substances in solution in a eoil are ab.-sOibt-d by tLe roots of tbe plant-, exactly as a imbibes a liquid and »11 that it contains wit Lout selection. Tbe übstam ea thus conveyed to plants MP retained in greater or I'-ss quan tity, or ure entirely separated, when not- suited for assimilation. TLe re sults of chemical researches *ill be found very seiviceable to the farmer in the investigation of tbe composi tion.and uses of all fei ti! zers. TLe plants of var ous kinds which ( the farmer cultivates differ material ly in tbeir demands on the soil for Mistenance. Tbe grand perfection of agriculture consists in knowing how to adapt with precision the ele ments required as food, and the modes of culture necessary in differ ent soils to favor, in the LigLest de- , gree. growth and fullest develop- ( ment of plants of various kinds. One of the most important points connected with practical farming is to know what elements particular plants take from the soil, and what must be applied in order to restore ! the deficiency with least expense. All the substances found in a fer tile soil, however small the quantity of some of them may be. are essen tial to maintain fertility, and all must exist in tbe soil to insure a fine crop, although they need not al ways exist in precisely the same pro portion. Any one of these primary substances in superabundance will lessen the fertility. We know a farmer who applied all the ashes accumulated through the winter for several years to a piece of ground without any appreciable effect on the crop, and finalh has come to the conclusion that there is no fertiliz ing quality in ashes. Sometimes a soil has too much of one constituent part, and without the farmer knows the wants of his soil he may apply more of the superabundant substan ces. Sometimes a soil may have all the elements of plant food, but they are locked up by strong union with other substances, and plants cannot appropriate them to their use, unless something is added which w ill de stroy the natural combination and release the fertilizers and render them available to the wants of crops. While soils are divided and subdi vided into various classes, yet the ; cnief varieties which the farmer has to encounter are sand, clay and hu mus. These are fertilizing in the proportion they blend together. Sand is a fertilizer of clay soil, and clay is equally a fertilizer of sand. The betfer these earths are mixed in the respective soils the more satisfac tory will be the result, but their principal excellence is that they per manently improve the soil to whicL they are applied. A sandy soil maj be improved by growing a succes sion of green crops and turning them under. The humus thus fur nished will supply those character istics of the soil lacking in the sand To improve humus soils, apply an) means that will hasten decomposi tion of the humus and convert th plant food it contains into available forms. This may be done by drain • age and cultivation, by which th soil is exposed to the air, and by ad dition of lime. Soils are seldom s rich, but that there may be a matte] of §ain to improve their fertility and a few so poor but that witl j proper tillage and manuring i may be made to produce good crops Apply such manures and tilage a: will make heavy soils lighter, am lighter soils heavier, cold soil warmer and drv soils more moist am I * cooler. I 1 » s The empress of -Japan, who is sooi l coming to the United States, wil j Lave in Ler suite two manicures, r dentist, fourteen doctors, ten fai - dearers and a vast number of femal i attendants. A Reminiscence of tlte lial Kiei-tioii of 1840. , !.i Mv fir>t introduction to politics* ov- f curred during the famous Harrison and Van Buren campaign of 1840. 1 -j was a mere Blip of a girl living in Marshall county. Virginia, on a faim .. lying in a rich valley bordering the r Ohio River. My father was a s»tanch ,• Jeff- rsonian Democrat, and many .■ were the tierce wordy battles fought \ by him with any of his neighbors s who happened to be Whigs or "Tip i and Tv" men. as thev were named. c Our house was one of the regula-« t tion double houses with an L exten- f . 1 sion: wide poarches ran along the i side and rear of the "L," and a large portico with seats each side occupied j the place of honor at the front of the! . I J main house. When the sun was in a \ certain quarter of the heavens the! l combats would take place on the t porch: when the sun had sunk to rest 1 ( benii d the high hills on the "Ohio { fide" of the river, the wordy disputes ( would occur on the front portico. i j Of course I sided with my father, j and thought William Henry Harri- j o •> son was decidedly the weakest and;* most cowardly general that ever was ! nominated for President. My ideas were considerably mixed 1 on the subject of "running for the t ] White House," as to where the "race" 1 was to be i un. and how long the race- j 1 course was. I had a cousin who | 1 could outrun all of Lps schoolmates ' | aud I wondered whether Harrison or | Van Buren could run faster than he. I was brought up on the good old j j plan that "children should be seen ! and not heard and never ask ques-! | tions,' so I pondered the "race" ques tion while I fashioned a red petticoat! and hung it up at the front gate on I the end of a cane fisbpole. I can see it now as it swung gaily to and fro, by the gentle gales that usu- j ally in that region blow from the south during the summer months. ; ( A "red petticoat" frequently was hung out by the Democrats in that campaign in derision of the claim of bravery made by the friends of Gen eral Harrison. They said "that in stead of being a brave and conquer ing hero at the battle of Tippecanoe | he disguised himself in a 'red petti ' coat' and hired a squaw to take him j over the river in her canoe; and that | he quaked so with fear that the squaw cautioned him: 'Sit still, Massa, or you'll tip-e-'anoe.' *' Well, the election was held, and as : "every schoolboy knows resulted in the making General Harrison our' President. My father was as corre spondingly disappointed as his Whig friends were elated. I sorrowfully took down the "red petticoat" and consoled myself by putting it on a • doll made out of a pillow. The smoke of the battle cleared I I away, winter passed and toward the - | last of April word came that Presi . dent Harrison was coming up the r Ohio River on a steamboat, and that . guns would be fired at intervals to . let the loyal know when he would i pass so that they could flock to the r banks of the river and wave their . j hats as he was borne along in tri -3 umpb. Sure enough we beard the » guns, and I wanted to fling my "red . petticoat" to the breeze in defiance. 3 j But my father said, "No! Harrison .' is now our President and we must j pay him all due respect." I was as r much u mixed' ! then as I had been about the "race." 1 could see no j difference whether I flaunted a red j rag before or after the defeat; but I have long since learned the justice of s my father's decision. I One of my father's bitterest oppo -8 nents. stanchest Whig among the 1 stanchest, beard the gun as the steamboat came booming along and wishing to do especial honor to the President-elect, ran to the bouse to 2 put on his Sunday suit, forgetting 1 that it was doubtful whether the a President could even see him from a the guards of the boat. In his haste e be could net dress with his usual dis patch. but th; boat was coming near r and nearer, and be ''started to run . utton as he ran.'" when stubbing his je against a stone down he fell and □lied inglorious!}' in the spring mud 'he boat passed by, and the "Squire" eturned to his house a very sad. mail" and muddy u»an. I think for lie succeeding thirty years of my if her s life a reference to the above :i?-.co never failed to call forth a eai tv I have witnessed inanv » G • cems ince then, haveleained toajl -1 i •reeiate the questions at issue, have ried when the love J ones went forth , 0 battle in our Civil War, have had he privilege of seeing Polk, Taylor, ,'iilmore. Lincoln, Grant. Hayes, jarfield. Arthur, and Cleveland, and lope to be able to -ee General Ben amir Harrison take his seat the -Ith >f March, 1880; yet I doubt if with nv gray hairs and added years, I hall feel as much joy at the success >f Benjamin Harrison, for whose Section I prayed, as I felt at the Section of "William Henry Harrison n 1840.—C. W. P., in March Wide Ywake. Senator Vauce'H Wonderful Mem ory. Senator Vance has a very good memory and seldom fails to recog nize a person he has once met and observed, but one of his constitu pnts got away with him a short time igo. The senator was. standing with several of his friends in the ro tunda at the Capitol, when a stran ger approached and offered his band, saying: "Why, senator, how tire vou ?" The hand was taken and grasped warmly. ''Quite well, sir; how have you been ! '*Oh, I've been fine, never in bet ter health, but I don't believe you remember me." '•Oh, yes I do, perfectly. Your face is quite familiar. It's only name that escapes me.' 1 "My name is John Buckwilleu." "Sure enough, John Buckwillen. Of course (and he shook the man's hand a little more vigorously), I dont 1 see how I forgot it. Let me think—where was it I saw you last?" "Well, senator, the fact is, you never did see me but once." "Only once—you must be mista ken," "Oh, no, I'm not. It was at the old church on Deer creek. You remember when you spoke ther6 to tLat awful big crowd ?" "Yes, perfectly. So it was." "I'm the man who was sittin' up on the ladder in the back of the church. I was in my shirt sleeves and did a good deal of the shoutin*. That was as close as I ever got to you."—Washington Critic. A Judge'* Decision. One of the keenest things ever said on the bench is attributed to Judge Walton, of Georgia. While holding a term of the Supreme Court at Au gusta he sentenced a man to seven years in prison for a grave crime. The prisoner's counsel asked for a mitigation of the sentence on the 1 ground that the prisoner's health was very poor. "Y'our Honor," said he. "I am satisfied that my cli ent cannot live out half that term, and I beg of you to change the sen tence." "Well, under those circum stances," said the Judge, "I will change the sentence. I will make it for life instead of seven years." The prisoner chose to abide by the original sentence, which the Judge permitted him to elect.—Macon Telegraph. An Imperative NcceMlty. W hat pure air is to an unhealthv locality, what spring cleaning is to the neat housekeeper, * 0 is Hood's Sarsaparilla to everybody, at this season. The body needs to be thoroughly renovated, the blood purified and vitalized, the germs of disease destroyed. Scrofula, Salt Rheum, and all other blood disor ders are cured by Hood s Sarsapa rilla, the most popular and success i ful spring medicine. TIIK I.OCAV. OI»TIO> I.AW*. Tlie Amendment* Thai Were Made. The recent Legislature amended tie local option law of North Caro lina in several particulars, to wit: 1. Auy township in the State whether it held, or did uot hold an eiect'on last year, may hold a local option election this year. '2. The time of holding the elec* tion is changed from the first Mon day to the second Monday in Juae, and the elections can only be held every two years. 3. Returns of elections are to be made to the County Commissioners by whom the result shall be de clared. 4. Druggists will be allowed to sell liquor only upon the prescrip tions of those physicians who are members of the State Medical Socie ty, and will not be allowed to refill those prescriptions. 5. The presence of barrells, casks, bottles, tlasks, etc, on a man's prem ises containing alcoholic liquors, will be evidence of intent to violate the law and will be punishable with SSO fine and thirty days imprison ment. G. The law prohibits the sale of all "intoxicating drinks" so as to in clude in its provisions wine, beer, peach cider, and everything that will intoxicate. The above are the main features of the amendments made to the law and, it is very important that the | people of the whole State be in formed that local option elections may be held this year and not again until 1891. If, therefore, a town ship wants prohibition, let the peo ple go to work, at once, and get one fourth of the qualified voters of that township to petition the Couuty Commissioners to order an election. If such petitions are presented to the Commissioners by the first of May they will be in time. We hope every township in the State will vote tbis year. Let's try to make the fight general.—Spirit of the age. It is said the problem which is troubling Mrs. Harrison almost as much as the Cabinet problem has troubled her husband is how to make the five bedrooms in the White House accommodate her large fami ly. Gen. and Mrs. Harrison must have a room, Mr. and Mrs. McKee must have a room, Mr. and Mr*. Russell Harrison must have a room. The babies and nurses must have a oora. Thi* leaves onlj' one for vis itors. It may end in Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison living outside. It will certainly bring about a renewal of the effort to have the White House enlarged, so as to give the President as many bed rooms as other men with $50,000 a year. Why not McKee and Russell Har rison both take their families out side ? Gen. Harrison only, aud not his whole family, was elected Presi dent. Never lie-in. In going down hill on a slippery track. The going is easy, the task getting back; But you'll not have a tumble, a h'ip nor a stop, Nor toil fiojQ below, if vou stav &• 7 » • the top. So from drinking, and smoking every sin, You are safe and secure if you never begin; j Then, never begin! never begin". You cannot be a drunkard uni£ ;S you begin. Gone Forever. If the Republicans keep up j present high tariff for the next • years, and the Democrats are £° l able to carry the next election that issue; the party will be forever as a national party. — ham Plant, .* ;
Hickory Democrat (Hickory, N.C.)
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