$1,00 a Year, in Advance. ' " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Single Copy 5 Cemts. VOL. XVI. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY. AUGUST 25j 1905. N0.23 I'J. k WHEN I By Kugene It mm"? to ni( often in s'.len.-o. When the nroilxht spnlti'is low iVIipii the black, mien-tain shadows Seem wraiths of the Ions ns;o ; .' ! .va.vs with throb of hcariaciio "Ut thrills each pulsive vein, the old. unquiet lollMilli; - . i' the peace of honic agaia. I'm sick of the roar of cities. And of faces old and strange : I know where there's warm Hi of welcome And my yearning fancies ransu Back to the dear old homestead. With on nching sense of pain : But tlvre'll be joy in the coming When I go home again. I By Special Desire. i ' t I always thought her a pretty girl, and sweet and charming; but, from her own account, there seemed to be ko many people in love with her already that I thought personally I should do much better by merely maintaining a friendly interest in her. Besides, I always knew that if ever I did fall in love it would be with quite another sort, of a girl some one who would be much more prepared to render me homage than to expect it as her own due, which was Miss Courtenay's way of going through life. Still, in spite of her many airs and graces, which rather amused me than otherwise, we re mained good friends on the whole, and I am sure I gave her no possible ex cuse for thinking that I was one of her latest victims, fcr the simple reason that I had not in any sense succumbed to her fascinations, and never pre tended to disguise the fact. I had known her now for quite a long time. I should say it, was about six months from our first meeting. At our last meeting, which had been the day before yesterday, I had introduced a great friend of mine to her Bertie Beauclere." He was a tall, handsome fellow no brains, certainly, but still the sort of type that I felt pretty sure would appeal to her. She really did seem to take an ardent fancy to him, which was another proof that my esti mation of her character was a fairly correct one. I judged her to be friv olous and shallow a girl to be taken with superficial show rather than a woman to love a men for his sterling worth, which'is really the only kind of woman I should ever feel inclined to love myself, for I don't set much store by blue eyes and a pink and white ,skin. It is .the beauty of the heart ''and mind that appeal to me far more. I think, as a matter of fact, that there are a good many men like my self, so that, when she used to enlarge to me sometimes upon her conquests, I invariably discounted half she said. I didn't believe she had a tithe of the success she made out. Here "as I, for one, quite unscathed. It was really astonishing to me to see the way Beau clere made up to her, and I began to think there might be something in her charm after all. But then, "if she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be?" All the same, I felt vexed I had in troduced Bertie to her. I didn't want to see her make a fool of my best friend. I didn't want to see her make a fool of herself, either, and the way she encouraged his idiotic compliments was a revelation to me. I had taken it for granted that sne was a coquette, but I had never actually seen her in the role before, and I didn't know now these things were done until then, and I learned a good lesson that afternoon. Bertie fetched and carried for her like a dog, and the other men seemed to go down like ninepins, too. I had really meant to look alter her a little myself, but I realized my forethought was quite superfluous. The next day I thought I would call on her and have a quiet chat. I found her in what she was pleased to term her "study." Not having left school long, she kept up an amiable fiction for the benefit of a fond mother and a doting father. I suppose that she did a few hours' daily practising and reading within its sacred four walls. I always liked to find her in the study. For one thing, it showed, if not a serious bent of mind, at least an effort in the right direction; and, for another, her family never ventured to disturb her there. She said it inter rupted her train of thought. I sat down and, after having helped her with a difficult problem the same problem, I was fain to observe, which I had tackled for her last time I began to talk. "You and Beauclere seemed to hit it off pretty well. I always thought he ' liked a bit of bluestocking in fact, preferred' brains to beauty." "You don't think me clever, then?" ghe asked. "I didn't say that exactly. I think you are clever in your own way." "But you think my beauty is in ex cess of my brains?" "We won't say beauty," I deprecated. "That is a word only applicable to Greek goddesses. But you're certainly sweetly pretty." GO HOME. Fiold. When I so home acaln ! There's music That may nsver die nway And it sc'iiis the band of angels, on n mystic harp to play. Have touched with a yearnins? sadness on a beautiful, broken strain. To which is my fond heart wording When 'I go home ugiiin. Outsldf of my darkening window Is tht? erent world's crush anl din, And slowly the autumn's siiadows Come drift inc:, diil'tiny; in. Sobbing, tlie nigln winds inurmur To the plash of the autumn rain; But 1 dream of the jrlorious greeting When I go home again. "Oh," she said, with her eyes down, "you think me pretty, then?" "I wasn't giving you my personal opinion," I replied guardedly, "but what seems to be the generally accept ed one." "I don't know so much about that," she said, with a tos3 of her head. "Mr. Beauclere thinks me quite beautiful and clever." "Beauclere's an ass!" I said hastily. And then, feeling frightened at the ominous silence which ensued, I en larged my sentence by adding: "Why, he went down without a degree!" "Perhaps he didn't want one. I'd sooner have a straight nose than a degree any day," she retorted scorn fully. "And scarcely anyone here knows you are a valedictorian, though I'm sure I've told scores of people." I rubbed my nose ruefully. I am forced to admit it is distinctly of the forced to admit it is distinctly of the Wellingtonian order. "It was nice of you to trouble to tell people," I said dubiously. "I'm sure you meant it kindly. But whatever made you do that?" "Oh, I felt bound to say something in your defence. At that garden party yesterday, as you were walking past, a girl I know said: 'Who is that awk ' Perhaps I'd better not tell you what she thought of you," she added, isterrupting herself. "It might hurt your feelings." I laughed. "No. Tell me," " 'That awkward, plain looking man, who is going about as if he thought all the women were in love with him?' " I roared. "Did she think that out loud?" I asked. "I believe I can guess who the girl wa.s." "No, you can't guess," she said cross ly, "because I shan't tell you. Natur ally, when I saw the impression you were creating I had to' say out loud you were a valedictorian, as much for my own benefit as hers. It was a sort of excuse for you." "And did it satisfy her?" I asked, admiring the way she spoke of herself in the third person. "It was a consolation," she admitted. "I shouldn't have thought Venus stood . in need of consolation with Adonis at her feet, not to speak of other admirers." "You seem to think," she said, pout ing, "that I couldn't win love if I tried, or even if I didn't try." "If one tries," I said sententiously, "one can get most things one wants." "But of course you wouldn't fall into the trap," she asked merrily. "Leave me out, please. We settled that question long ago." "Oh, I'm fairly satisfied with my progress since then," she returned airily. Her assurance was really amusing. "You're quite welcome to my scalp when you get it," I returned, smiling. "Oh, no," she said, shaking her head, "it's too clever a one for me to know what to do with! You are so clever," she went on, wistfully looking at me. "I didn't understand your last speech at the debate at all. You'll exprain it to me some day, won't you?" She drew near, and the wistful look became coaxing. "I'm not clever!" I declared, feeling flattered by her appreciation. "I'm only a dogged sort of an individual." "Well, perhaps I'll have a try on my own account," she said, throwing her self into a chair, "only you must give me facilities." "What am I to do?" I asked her. . "You mustn't use long words which I don't know the meaning of, and which only confuse me, and you must unbend a little and meet me on my own ground. And you mustn't wear a blue tie even if you have got blue eyes, be cause I like- a red tie vitn a nice brown skin. And if you come to see me tomorrow I'll tell you if you've got the right color." When I got home I looked in thi glass with a sudden dislike for my blue tie. I bought a scarlet one, feeling sure she was right. I should never have thought of it myself; but then women understand these things so much better than men she has such taste. I shaved myself carefully next day, criticising my sunburn, and won dering if she really meant I had a nice brown skin. The bright-colored tie, o different from my usual sober tints, raised me in my own estimation, and I sallied forth with a feeling of assur ance born of it. It was still early, and I found her in the study arranging some flowers. My spirits wero dashed by her recep tion of me. "You don't mean to say you really walked through the town in that tie?" she asked. "Yes, I did," I said, feeling worried. "Don't you like it? I thought you told me to get a red tie." "Yes, but I never thought you would fcr my telling," she returned. "What ever made you do that?" "Goodners knows!" I responded. Then I laughed awkwardly. "I think I can give you a reason, such as it is. It has just dawned on me. I'm like all tho rest, I suppose. I love you!" "Oh," she said, with a complacent little smile, "that was in the pro gramme I mapped out for you." "And you'll love me, too, won't you?" I said, coming up to her and leaning my hand on the back of her chair as I put the momentous ques tion. "Oh, no!' she said, looking down. "I'm not going to love you. That wasn't in my programme at all." "Couldn't you include it," I said, "by special desire?" "Whose desire?" she asked quickly. "Mine." "I don't believe," she said, tracing a pattern on the tablecloth, "that you really do love me." "I'll try to prove," I said, "only you must give me facilities." "What do you call facilities?" "Well," I said, putting my arm around her waist, "this would be one." "I I don't mind giving you that one," she said hesitatingly. "It's quite sufficient," I declared, "to encourage me to take the rest." San Francisco Bulletin. A WEIRD TALE. Englishman's Story of a Warning Brought in -a Grewsome Way. This strange experience happened some 15 years ago to a very intimate friend of mine in Gibraltar bay, not far from where, he often lives. I had the story from; his own lips. When the telepathic experience oc curred he had not been long in sunny Spain. Behind ' him, in bonnie Scot land, he had left his young bride till he should get settled down in his new clime and occupation. He was going one day about his work, as usual, buoyed up with the prospect of meeting soon his loved one (for she was then on her way out to him, on board a steamer which must now be skirting the northern coasts of Spain), when suddenly he experienced a strange sensation, heard his wife's voice wailing, and saw. as he thought, her form all dripping and wet. Instantly he felt as if some terrible calamity had happened. And sure enough, in due time, the telegraph brought the sad news that, at the very hour of his strange experience, the ship in which his wife was out ward bound had struck upon the rocks, hundreds of miles away, and all on board had perished. How, almost frantic with grief, my esteemed friend, accompanied by an other acquaintance, went north and searched for days fcr his wife's body amongst those washed 'ashore by re curring tides on that Spanish coast is apart from our purpose. But he told me all with his own lips. I have never been a believer in spiritualism, have never seen any thing in tablerapping and suchlike, ex cept to laugh at; yet I think the cor rect attitude to take up to well-authenticated telepathic experiences as dis tinct from spiritualistic humbug, is Hamlet's in his conversation with Ho ratio: "O day and night, but this is won drous strange!" "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philoso phy." Correspondent of the Weekly Scots man. Boyish Aptness of Hiram Maxim. When Sir Hiram Maxim, the famous Inventor, first left school he was em ployed as a carriage painter, and his ability with the brush was plainly shown by an incident which occurred one afternoon. A man called to see j his employer while the latter went out. On his return Hiram informed him of the visit. "I forgot to ask his name," the boy jaid, "and so I drew that," pointing to a sketch on a board. So life-like was the hasty sketch which Maxim had done that his em ployer at once recognized his visitor London Tit-Bits. Boston Man's Ways. Skinner I say, Smarte, can you give me change ior a dollar bill? Smarte Upon one condition, my dear fellow. You must give me the dollar bill. Skinner Oh, if you mean to be sc particular as that I'm afraid we tan'l do business together. Boston Transcript. r SOUTHERN d - b.C5) TOPICS OF' INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. j A Vis Hospital. Ruralist tell his methods with pigs as follows: With a large herd of Berkshires it is necessary to have a hospital where you can place those that get hurt or need treatment for scours, whooping cough, constipation and other ailments that pigs are subject to just as are members of the human family. The hospital should have several wards so that each trouble can be treated after its kind, but in each ward there should be a low, flat box kept supplied with harcoal, ashes, salt and i- little lime, for more pigs are troubled with indi gestion just as people, than with any other trouble and the above prescrip tion is a lino alterative and does more to strengthen and improve the digest ive organs than anything I have ever tried. Pigs, like some people, will sometimes gorge their stomachs and thereby thwart digestion and be "off their feed" for weeks, hence it is very important to feed a pig only as much as he will clean up at once, but he should be fed four to six times a day according to the age and digestion. Never, under any circumstances, feed pigs under ten weeks of age sour milk, nor should their dams have it, for it is certain to bring on scours. After they are three months old there is nothing better for them than milk with white shorts. Bran is line for cows and ma tured hogs, but not fit for pigs. An old doctor, and a mighty good one, who had retired to his farm, and lived ad jacent to me, told me thirty -five years ago that lie had found out what gave pigs the blind staggers, set them crazy and often killed them, and that it was nothing more than jimpson seed that they would eat in the fall of the year after they had finished up the wheat stubble and succulent bites of clover, then why let the miserable weed go to seed? Full it up by the roots when the ground is moist, do this every sea son for two years and you are done with it. Tigs are sometimes farrowed with but one opening in rear and that in tended for the discharge of water but strange to say that one opening acts for the discharge of both liquid and solid, and I hae had such pigs to be the finest and most thrifty of the litter, but of course they are only fit for the pork barrel and should never be al lowed to mate with the boar. The first case I ever had of this I shipped the pig, which was a very handsome one, to a doctor, and his close observance of such things soon brought to light the trouble which he reportotl very promptly and to which I responded at once with another pig, and told him to eat the first one at my expense. I have a case of this kind now, from an imported sow, by an Imported boar, in the fattening pen, and he, she or it is the most voracious "growingist" tiling you ever saw. It is a common thing for one testicle only to be visible. I had a case lately where neither was visible and a decid ed "depression occurred where there should have been just the reverse, but 7hen he was butchered they both were formed and fully two inches from their natural position. Sows are nearly always bred entirely too young, this early breeding diminishes the size of the dam and also of her progeny. A sow should never be bred under ten months of age, and it is much better to wait until she is twelve months old and well matured, then, and only then, tan you expect to get best results. This talk about practically starving a sow for one. two or three weeks just after farrowing is all wrong; there is none of them that would not be improved, and their pigs too, by moderate feeding of shorts and bran mixed with greasy water, commencing eighteen or twenty-four hours after farrowing. A sow would become so nervous and ravenous rs to trample to death and possibly eat her young if starved as some recommended. Of course you should commence with one fourth feed first three days and then gradually increase it for ten days, after which time give her all she will clean up four times a day. After just two weeks, in cold weather, you can let her have a moderate ration of corn night and morning. About the third week her pigs will begin to nibble at this. I write this from thirty-five years' experience. I have told you before in this paper how to get the pigs to eat mush at about four weeks of age. Cholera or Swine Ferer. During these times when science- is heading a fast-moving procession of advancement, and unexplored subjects being made paramount issues among the leading scientists of our country, It is well that the Southern breeders get into the "band wagon" and accept those discoveries that will tend to keep down diseases and thus save their herds. ' Along the medical line, espe cially, has the advancement been very notieable. Of course thete discoveries FARM fOTES. - a - - r are largely for the benefit of the hu man and not the hog. This is a rule which works only one waysome peo ple are like the hog, but the hog Is not like some people. Some few prac tical discoveries I have made in regard to diseases of the hog which may be of value to the Southern breeders, are as follows: Several 3-cars ago when n hog was taken sick the people rapidly came to the conclusion that tho disease was: cholera, now it is swine fever or pneu monia. If you will study the disease you will find they are the same. Swine fever or pneumonia is just forerun ner of tho dreaded cholera. Hogs are affected in a dozen different ways The disease very seldom comes in the summer, the first symptoms appearing generally with the first cold spell in the fall, and is caused by the hog first taking cold. They sometimes run at the nose, while others will refuse to eat. Others will swell up in the joints and get down so they can't walk, some will have such high fevers that the hair will come out and they will sim ply dry up on foot: some will have blind stagger3 ?nd die with fits and some will lose their ears. This can all bo avoided if you wiil begin right and at the proper time. Your herd should be given your attention at all timou. You should have a nice, warm place for them to go at will and sleep, but. be sure you do not let too many bed together. During my experiences along this line a large number of farmers have called on me for assistance when the disease broke out in then herds. In each instance, I have found tho fault to be with the owners, in not having suitable accommodations for their stock. Most of them have their hogs in a large lot with only the "pale blue" sky for shelter. Keep them clear .of vermin, give them good food ami the profits you will reap will be surprising. Several years ago our country abounded with thick forest trees which furnished shelter for our stock, but the woodman's axe has robbed the lazy breedei of this commodity and he must seek shelter or suffer the conse quences. A hog that has a good, warm shelter, with nice clean bed ding of straw, will live .aid thrive off just half the food that Avotild be re quired to keep the hog which runs at large and goes to sleep when the sun goes down, and is forced .to back up against a cold. Northern blizard. I have often been asked the question how I made my hogs grow so fast. The secret of my success is simply the above remedy. No man can have a nice herd and see them about once a week. I have had hogs to die just adjoining my premises and would never have a sick one. I do not deny that swine fever or pneumonia has not appeared in my herd; it has, but by close attention I have been very successful. losing only a few small pigs. I doctor my smaH pigs through their dams. A sow that is in pig at Hie time she has swine fever or pneumonia will stand the dis ease better than the other hogs, but their pigs will nearly always come dead, with no hair; she v.ll carry tiiem, however, to the full time. Every breeder has a remedy, which he rightfully thinks is the btst. The remedy, however, is not the most im portant. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Study this and make it practical; you will profit. More hogs die to-day from lack of at tention than any other cause. I trust what I have written will be of practical benefit to some breeders. Tl omas B. Carney, Murfrcesboro, Tmn. Mock Orange on Iloirie Ground. What sort of a home is it that doea not have a mock orange or syringa bush? Lilacs and mock orange are the two flowers that do most to fill the whole world with fragrance and make June the most intoxicating month in the year. If you want the most fragrant variety of mock orange get the old-fashioned kind. A much show ier, but Lss fragrant kind, has flowers an inch and three-quarters across, and of a purer white. It is also a more graceful bush; the old kind is rather stiff. Frunlnjr Grapevines. The pruning of grapevines consists in cutting back the right amount of the current season's growth the amount which experience says a grape of a certain habit of growl 1: and certain amount of individual vigor should re spond to properly. The pruning of grapes is a simple matter when their habit of growth is understood. We prune either to check or stimulate vigor, to encourage fruit production, or, ou the other hand, to discourage it. The Garden Magazine. A portion of the wall which, was built around old Londou by the Ito' maqa is now being destroyed by build-ers,. LASTING RELIEF. J. W. Walls' Super intendent of Streets, of Lebanon, Ky.f says: "My nightly rest was broken, owing to irregular fn-tio-n of the kidneys. I was fullering intensely from severe pains in the small of my,; back 1 and through the kidneys and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secre tions. Tin amount of doctoring relieTed this condition. I took Doan's Kidney Fills and experienced quiet: and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Fills will prove a blessing to all sufferers from kidney disorders who will give them a fair trial." Foster-MIiburn Co.. Buffalo, 'N. Y . proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. The man who does not fear failure seldom has to face it. T.arTle Cirt Wer STtot One size s:nnller after usia? Allea'3 Foot Ease, n ro wder. It makes tight or new shoe? easy. Curo swollen, hoi, sweating, achinfj feet, ingrowing nail?, corn? and bunions. At all drus?sists and shoe store3, 25c. Don't ac cept any substitute. Trial package Feee by mail. Address. Allen Olmsted, LeEoy, N.Y. trv Norway servant girls hire for half a year at a time. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, soften the (rums, reduces inflamraa tion.aliays pain.cureswind colic, 25c. a bottle. London, England, lays out for poor relief $22,000,000 a year . Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever use J ior all affections of throat and luas. War. O. Endslet, -Vanbureu, Ind., Feb. 10, 190!). Stealing bicycles has become prevalent in Birmingham. England. Itch cured in 30 minu't. by WoWofd'1 Sanitary Lotion. Never i'aiU. Sold by all 4' druggnits, SI. JNlau oruers promptly nuea by Dr. E. Detchoo. Crawforlsville, Ind. i A diamond mine in South Africa yielded 5 .23 every minute last year. 4 - An Ex-Chler Justice's Opinion. Judge O. E. Lochrane, of Georgia, in a letter to Dr. Diggers, states that he never suffers himself to be -without a bottle of Dr. Biggers' Iluckkberry Cordial for the relief of all bowel troubles, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, etc. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50e. bottle marketing: I'ot.ito Crops. . ... , In line with the classic case of the oyster shippers, cited by Tresident Hadley of Yale University in his book on Railroad Transportation, is the case of the Aroostook . potato growers brought by Preideht Tuttle of-, the Boston & Maine Railroad before the Senate Committee on Interstate Com merce. Nothing could better sbowliow a railroad works for the interest of the localities which it serves. A main dependence of the farmers q the Aroostook region is the potato, crop, aggregating annually ight , t& ten million bushels which fiad.n mar ket largely in Boston "and theadiacent thickly settled regions of Xjw Eng land. The competition of cheap Water transportation from Maine to all points along' the New England coast keeps railroad freight rates on these, pota toes always at a very low level. Potatoes are also a considerable out put of the truck farms of Michigan, their normal market being obtained in and through Detroit and Chicago "and other communities of that region.- Nof many years ago favoring sun and ' rains brought a tremendous yield of potatoes from the Michigan fields.-. At -normal rates and prices there would have been a glut of the customary, mar kets aud the potatoes would have rot-i ted ou the farms. To help the potato growers the railroads from Michigan, made unprecedentedly low rates on potatoes to every reachable market,: even carrying them in large quantities to a place so remote as Boston. " The Aroostook growers had to reduce the price on their potatoes and even them', could not dispose of them unless the Boston & Maine Railroad reduced its already' low rate, which it did. By, means of these low rates, making pos sible low prices, the potato crops of both Michigan and Maine were finally; marketed. Everybody eats potatoes, and that year everybody had all the potatoes he wanted. t While the Michigan railroads made rates that would have been ruinous to the railroads, had they been applied to the movement of all potatoes at alt times, to all places, they helped their patrons to Gnd markets for them. The Boston & Maine Railroad suffered a de crease in its revenue from potatoes, but it enabled the Aroostook farmers to market their crop and thereby to obtain money which, they spent for the varied supplies which tho rail roads brought to them. If the making of rates were subject to Governmental adjustment such radical and prompt action could never have been taken, because it is well established that if a ratp be once reduced by a railroad company it cannot be restored through the red tape of Governmental proced- I ure. If the Michigan railrosds and the I Boston & Maine Railroad had beeu subjected to governmental limitation they would hae felt obliged to keep tip their rates as Jo the railroads of France and England and Germany uu-i der Governmental Jiuittlon asi let! the Dotatoes roWEschaus - i L

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