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'CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER,. KOVLMBL?. Z3,.1ZZ3. STATE WimfM ' G0SS1F BY FRED ' One'ofjny euDnt recollections of Raleigh M of a negro, then rather An old man, riding a very line horse, 'carrying a gold-headed cane and look in vnrv d trained indeed. Thin Has Os car AUton, a member of a very noted f.miiu In Vnrth Carolina. He died Mm.vhtft bout ltKS. I think. Helwith a little ipray of forget-me-not wa always a free man and so his f f ather had been before him. ana na 1 ... 1 (n f o t h uSth the j white people of his family. He had owned slaves, several of them, and had a good farm. Some of his former ' -1.. Ku. ilaintKrlintl in RliU'llh and round-about. Sunday I was talk- lag With SOBie colored men about Als- w sau fui u 1 1 v ' occasion Alston went out W Ohio to tA winter anH leased a house. He asked his landlord if he could fur nish him a woman for a cook, and 41... a mulattn WDtnail I'H lilt' 4 j&CML U.. ' ...... . . . . - - -. - round. He made inquiry and found ' that the white man. the owner of the ikouM, had a negro wife, and thatj ' - !,-. u.Ant f , . him um n P 1 1 1 1 W kviuu y nj " . was their daughter. Alston very promptly deided ho did not want her. Alston educated his daughters quite ' highly and one or two of them were excellent performers on the piano. That the way of the transgressor to hard is illustrated forcibly In the case of ex-Sheriff A man. of Sampson county, and it points a moral. Aman got to speculating in futures and be came involved to the extent of $40,400. His private fortune, amounting to some fifteen thousand dollars, went by the board and he embezzled county and State funds. He (led, changed his name and went first to Oklahoma, which Is quite a refuge for such men. tout there he found he could get nothing to do because he could give no refer ences and would tell nothing about himself. While there he had a very close eaJL A man walked up to him on the street and told him he knew who he -was: that he was Sheriff Aman, of Sampson county. North Car olina; and was wanted on two charges, embesclement and forgery man replied like a flai h that tho nan had made a mistake, that his name was Jonea, and he was a detec : tlve, at these words throwing back the lapel of his coat and showing a badge of one of the detective agencies, which he had picked up somewhere, with it being a card giving the name he had given. That very night Aman got away froth that place. He went to Texas, to Florida, to Alabama, then back to Florida, .and everywhere his hoodoo nnrsued him and he could find no rest His hoodoo worked while he lept and was busy all the day besides. The thing grew on him so that it fi nally got on his nerves and he decided . Chat he would rather go to the penl - tentjary than continue to endure such life. So, with his money almost gone, for he had left home with only $450. lie wrote to a lawyer of Sampson county to meet him in Alabama and that he would surrender himself. They net, Aman put himwlf in the lawyer's hands, was taken back to Sampson uri put In a farm house In the coun try, near Clliton, and kept so quiet ly that nobody knew he was there, until .11 of a sudden the case was called and he was produced in the court room. He was acquitted of the charge of forgery, but convicted of that of emberxlemcnt and was given tour months in the county jail for tak ing county funds, and next goes to the penitentiary live years for mak ing away with State funds. It Is strange, but true, that he is a great deal happier now than he was while wandering about, frightened every mo ment, and a prisoner in mind, though free as te body. There is a very good lesson In all this case. The question ot hats or no hats In Church, has been brought to a sharp issue in the Baptist Tabernacle here. For some time it has been a point there, more or leas, but now the new pastor has made the final announce ment." This brings to mind the ques tion that there are a number of min isters who conttnd that St. Paul com manded, so to speak, that women should wear hats In church, but oth ers say he did no such thing, and that the head-coverings in the east In St Paul's time do not apply st all to what are worn now-a-days Not to bs lr teverrnt, they say that St. Paul, were be on this earth to-day, would speak directly and loudly agaln.t the mon ster hats which are worn, and which shut out so much in lh! churches The (sstor of the Tabernacle remarked that the big hats of the day dlstrac: the attention of worshippers to a great , degree. It Is certainly true that wor shipers In a church like to see the minister's fare and that many of them Cannot do so. I know I was sitting behind a monster hat and was de lighted when the order came "liars Off!" It was no wonder the men laughed, and some women, too, for tk. mj. m n hit ho A with eTcr.llent ' Judgment, gone to the church bare Jieeded, laughed as much as anybody. Conditions charge and th? rule of yes terday is not the rule of to-morrow, and so there may be more or less of a fight on this hat line in many other places. It is very evident that the 'coast artillery service Is going to be very pouiar. At present there will be a ' four -oompaii y bataliion and this will do duty at Fort Case;l, of course. It is learned that Port Macon, at ' Beaufort harbor, la to be modernised. : This means, of course, that none of tbe old work will be usd. Tho fort Caswell of to-day is not the Fort Cas well of yesterday at all. for the old fort, almost entirely torn away, is only used as an electrical station and BO one would recognize it in Its pres ent shape, unless he was thoroughly, familiar with the old place. So Fort Macon will be a series of batteries along the water front; several of thea ' cms doabt; and it win be a very Ira- - POnMl UUMC, 1 VlliaUill'IlilK U1C WdLII rn mmrmncm tn the Inland waterway. - the biggest thing of this kind the United States nas yet undertaken, ot h harbor at Reaufort will h- ' immrtant. for the channel will . be deepened, no that large vessels can Ig7T 11, SWa UH1B will fa a awu H I f n garrison also at tbe fort, and necessar ily there will have to be considerable -'reserve corps, which will naturally ' coma from this State. XUUCISJIl WU4, viwi nwii7 inumni, lavs m very striking memorial gate way at the entrance to the Confederate Cemetery. saooe-is very naoa ' aon fiesh-oolored granite and is a sift and th Daughters of the Coa federaey wilt" eeor the remainder. This entrance-way will -fe quite near the first .monument erected to the Confederate dead in this State, and will be In plain lew from the street car line, only a abort btock away. Old fcatt are tn great request these 4 ays. Men are going around through th country buying them, and they thr ship tUem Vorta or U1 M t nsm, reshape them, la mny shape de s ftd, and turn t&sm ever to the coun- A. OLDS. try merchants. And old hate are mad to serve. This brings to mind some thing which occurred the other day. A man received at a little country postortice, a box, postage paid, and when he opened it there was a hat for his wile; a snoaay disc leu areair. end a bundle of straw, wheat heads, loose in the box. The' whole affair could have been secured for 10 cents in .i five and ten certt store, but he had paid a dollar for the outfit, and was immensely proud because there were no charges on it and took It home to his wife with great glee. It had come a good many hundred miles, from one of the big order houses, and no doubt the hat had sten years of service In other forms. All who hive been interested In the work of the farmers Institutes agree that thev aro tremendous factors in country life in North Carolina and j that if the people from the rural, districts can be Induced to come to them there will ba a wonderful lm-j provement lit a ft yearn. There Is mighty hard living In some parts of! the country, among persons who are; bpoken of in common parlance as "the poor whites.'' These people elm- i ply do not know how to cook, in a great many cases, and the general run of people simply have no Idea how hard they live; with the same! things every day; everything flooded with grease, and far too little atten tion la paid to cleanliness. They j simply do not know how to do things) and some of them feel that they are beyond tlio pale and are not cared for, by anybody. Now these are the people sought to be reached. They are the weak links In the chain. They need BUULBUUU ill I1UIIIO 111C. .Tl'lll" Ul illo" peoplo can be found within a few ni . tj.i i -v. - . - 11U1C0 Ul AKIVIKII. ftlllllll OUUUU I' I i church bells. Their houses are untidy n a,. ih nAr.nn.llv ,ilr,r V lit ti. .t . ' Lnnin .nrt'Souifht out some soldiers In a caring nothing about sanitation t h rirflnir ram rtt fnnri and hard from the cradle to the grave.' Life wasn't intended to be this sort nf thin it all Knm. r,f these Deonlu are very hard to reach and as on moves towards them with the help ing hand, they recede. How few people realize the latter-;"6 lway ,"1,e1'1,,m w ,wo ' day responsibilities of the United' last h came home- Wllhe na States. Strange to say in the old days. Although with very little and regarded as the then trading cen- .... tre of the world, the crossing place w'h the" n wrds within your reach, was Jerusalem. Now if crossing lines Select one letter, please from each; are drawn from the north of Europe j You'll find a new word, well and wlreless and the south of Europe and the north1 ly. of Asia and the south of Asia it will ' If. like friend Quest, you seek It be found that they intersect the Unit-1 LITERAL. ed States In Ohio. In other words this county has become the world's centre; nearest to Europe, nearest to Asia, and since all the greatest things ever aecompusnea nave oeen .n me norm temperate sone It will be seen that for geographical reasons the United States is just now the base point of the world. The Chinese, with four hundred millions of population, die so rapidly that If a man starts from Raleigh for, say Peking, by the time he reach- es that city one million, two hundred thousand people will have passed away from this earth. The figures al most stagger belief but they are true. There are four thousand missionaries to these four hundred million people. It can be seen, therefore, how press ing is the call for missionaries for China and the Far East; that country which, as Kipling expressed It, Is be- . ' , . united States has more favor from! China, now-a-days than any other country enjoy-i, and It Is kindness which has brought about this wonder ful change. Some years ago, on the; Shaggy THREB1 sad his master were gay-colored paper fans which come! firmest of friends, from China in such great quantities, As canines and small boys will be; there were to be found the most hor-' But Tom's hammock, beloved by them rlble expressions in the Chinese1 both, was a point characters, which so few here could About which they could never agree. read, denouncing the "outer barba-j rlans" and their religion and telling One day THREE) sat watching, with people that the missionaries killed great envious eyes, children, took out their eyes and ato.Tom snuggled in cushions, enjoying the them; all this being a sacrifice to their; prise; god. Now all this sort of thing I' And lie seemed t be pondering. In slew done away with. America has stood by; doggy-wise, China three times, and now luck Is what plan to ONE-TWO Tm his TWO turned. The missionaries by their j could devise. kindness as ministers to the soul andixn t once (rom tne aoorw,y 0NB to the body have done wonders; lm quickly he sprung, other words the doctor could do mora; AnJ ge,med to make ,tra,eht for th, than the preacher. Then, too, the Unit-, wood ea mates nas smoa in a great, measure between China and the greed of the old world. It all goes to show, how the times change, better, too. and for the; Last week W. N. Hutt, State hortl- cultural. returned from a trip through the central and southern I aiuien in wnicn ne was looKtng ud data on the commercial culture of the pecan. Professor Hutt made a special study of the pecan tree In Ha'. native home In order to compare Its i growth and behavior with the pecan trees growing In the Old North State. The pecan Is a native of the alluvial lands along the Mississippi river. It is surprising what a range of soil con ditions are made use of by the pecan tree In its native home. It Is found, too, that the pecan tree has a consid erably wider range of growth from north to south than Is commonly sup posed. It is found growing from the ' Uuir of Mexico to almost the Great Lakes of the north. It attains its greatest sue ana proa uctiveness In trie rich alluvial lands of the middle Miss- isslppl basin. In Louisiana and Misa-;DS issippi it is not uncommon to see P-jor can trees considerably over 100 feet in neignc. wnne actual measurements of their trunks range from 14 to 19 iw in ariuinirrFncp. vunsiaeraoie j interest is being taken in the central and Southern States in the planting of commercial pecan orchards. Individ-tTha dancers wereVlrglnlan, ual trees are often found producing 1 An1 ,n the old Dominion, from 200 to 00 pounds of nuts. Farm-T aflve my frank opinion, era are beginning to appreciate the' They dance extremely well, value of th pecan tree and to reckon The music tinkled lightly, on Its commercial nossibilities. In the The river rlpled brightly; Southern States many commercial! orchards have been set and a few are already coming into profitable bear ing, several cases are recorded of named varieties that produce as high as 10 pounds of choice nuts six years after planting In one pecan orchard Professor Hutt took notes on grafted trees that had been bearing profita ble crops since they were seven years old. A few of these trees under spe cially favorable conditions had been yielding 120 worth of nuts a year. On the rich alluvial lands pecan tree grow very large, are late ip com ing Into bearing, but produce enor mous crops of nuts. Observations were taken" on one tree in Mississippi that this year produced 110 pounds of nuts. These nuts were selling at tt cent per pound. On sandy lands pecan tree grow mono slowly and com Into bearing earlier, but they need Urge applications of fertilisers. In th southern area of pecan cul ture especially, many One varieties f nut hav originated. Ther is as wioch difference between a seedling ecaa trees grow mot alowlr. aa between 'Wild - Crab and a Bonum apple. This yar in Florida there Is verj Jarge crop of pecan nut being harvested. Named varieties bring from It to St cents per pound, while the wild seedlings from the woods are worth but If cents. In North Carolina we are very fa vorably situated as regards the cul ture of the pecan tree, especially in the eastern or coastal plain region of the State. In the rick overflow lands along our rivers there are excellent opportunities for the culture of these splendid trees. The trees are set 60 feet apart and the middles may be used for the growth of crops which will pay for the use of the land till the trees come into bearing. There 1b not a farm in the eastern part of this State which can afford to be without at least a few of these valuable trees. Tains Answers to pussies and Inquiries in con nection with this department should be mailed so B. R. Chad bourn, Mslrose, Has. sTJ LETTER KNIOMA. Young Quentln Quest was of the people Who looked beyond the village And long (or life on broader lines , , . , . , . . y" , ' " "'7" V" " . He ventured to the smoky cavern .That thereabouts Is called "the 'And then, on wild adventures bent, n anllr,m g"slP I should like to throttle living .declare these soldiers had a ). suiior ncxi caugm vjuenun s eyti taught him curious knots to Then, to adorn his manly breast. He bought himself a gorgeous . And falling with wheelwright folks. He worked a while at making' 111 Ills postal cards relieved all fretters; S9S BOTANICXL DISSECTIONS. 1. Dessect a personal plant allied to camomile and get a disease and not many 2. A trailing plant of the genus cucurbits and get a hydraulic machine anJ reIatlve.. A Bnowy flower ot th :genu, Delphlnum and ,et blrd of th, family Alaudldae and something that projects. 4. A poisonous umbelliferous herb ot several species and get a border and a tuft of na)r 5 An annual plant of tho genus iberls and get confectionery d cluster. 6. A succulent plant of the genus Sedum and get a gem and harvest. 7. A fragrant flower of the genus Poll anthes and get a pipe and a shrub of the genus Rosa. S. A plant of the genus Digitalis and get an animal of tho genus Vulpes and a covering for the hand. 9. A tall, yellow-flowered plant of the genus Solidaga and get very precious and a wand. 10. A trifoliate plant that baa been adopted as a nation's emblem and get asythlag feigned and a stone i t itiifu PLADJELTJA- W-OURAM. 'A rabbit. I knew," said Tom, springing .. v. ,. But THREE, when Tom reached him. turned sharply around. TJVa llrhtnln hln Inn lera nned over ,h, -rnnfl And ere for ,uch con1uct ,, caue might K. fn,, . th. .amA -lth a swift. Joyous bound. a n t Tom. though ONE-TWO-THREE, enjoyed the Joke well. And, an old man now, wrinkled and gray. He still tells the tale "how a bright TWO-THREE dog Get tbe best ef your grandpa one day." MABEL r. 08 ANAGRAM. WHOLE contributions seldom If furnish A RICH TABLE for the poor, but that fact should not stand In tbt way of furnishing such tables as can be fur- nlshed by such evidences of good will, Especially during the holidays should all done that csn be accomplished In that sny other way to satisfy the hunger and aiiviate the sufferings of the poo who at that mo are usually the most 'needy. TEE AITC1L mi urtvf rM-rvr Up rode a stranger sightly. As evening shadows (ell. His voice was Just a-qulver. As with a chilly shiver: "What do you call this river r Inquired th horseman bold. A youth made "This is the And turned to Who said that she was cold. M. c a 02 RIDDLE. I eannot walk, eat, nor talk. Without me no being would ever bare bad axist eacaL I am in everything and yet in nothing at an. t exist in fire, in the. air. and In the bl lkw of tb ocean.- I ess, found in all cities, kingdoms and em pire. ' AU articles possess me continents. Islands, livers. fh, birds; also sunshine and rain,, although I- belong to neither. I am essential t the Hfe of all things. ever ceompnylng 'wldom, and thrift, and -yet have birth in idleness and lgnsr- arte. ; No one- ever Bred er died, witbsut m. . bespit U, at last I an Jmw4 F hsrallity and disgrace,' biding with the vilest criminals. - What am IT .; --"W : sW-TRIFUE LETTTER ENIGMA.; lo "thoughts" ef. old November; la "eteighridea" we reraembert . -.. ;', In "braving" wintry weather; ' ' ' ; In "singing hymns" together; In "making someone" better; la "sending1 heme a letter. Each new recurrence ot the Autumn' cheer Brings grateful praises for the bounteous rear. TRANZA. 04-TRANSPO8ITION. Ths FIRST was one of the SECOND scholars In all the country. He was not In the least superstitious and so never had any fear of meeting a THIRD how ever dark and stormy the night. His parishioners were very proud of him and some of them called him a FIRST ot tne "right FOURTH." Whether he ever ate FIFTH of either stomachs or entrails was, In their opinion, wholly immaterial. T. H. No LIMERICK. A youngster who liysd at Melrose, Whirled round on the tips of his toes; Saying, "Where will you see Any dancer like me?" When he m SHANNON. ANSWERS. 888- Wood-chucks. 88l. Second, send. 1 Savage, sage. 8. Locust, tObt. 4. Select, sect. f. Pocket. poet t. Dawdle, dale. 7. Relief, reef. 1 sale. 11. Middle, mile. 12. Denied, deed. 890- An egg. 891 Esther, Psalms, tDanlel, Romans, Extb, Acts, Ruth. Timber, tier. . Better, beer. 10. Sample, 852 Mister, merits, timers, mitres, re mits, smlter. 83 Humanity. x 894 Man-hat-tan. Here is Mr. Madsen's Letter The Herplddo Company. Detroit, Michigan. Dear Sirs: "I have been using your New bro's Herpiclde for the last year here In my shop together with others, such as are used In Barber Shops, but my customers all call, f or Herpiclde now, and will not stand for any other. 1 hold the best trade of this town and they al ways want the best the world afford Many of them say that If it had not been for my applica tion of Herplcide they would be without hair to-day. Any one with hair falling out can save It by using Herpiclde, and there will be no hair in tho comb or brush any more If the rubbing is done thoroughly. You cannot kill a weed by cutting off the top, you must get, the bottom. The same applies in the case of dandruff; get at the bottom of It with Herplcide, and you will have good results." (Signed) M. S. MADSEN, Mgr.. Villa Barber Shop, Haywards, Calif. Send 10 cents In stamps to The Herpiclde Company, Dept. 41, Detroit, Mich., for sample an1 booklet. Two sizes: 50 cents and $1.00. At Drug Stores. When you csll for Herpiclde, do not accept a substitute. Applications at' Prominent Barber Shops. R. H. JORDAN & CO., Special Agents. jMKlvIMlMllJU' U sCk. FOR AIJL COOKING PURPOSES Iflnlll IL . DjD CfiODIiOSE Kcvr CTeab-Cokn-ee! Prodact TtuU ' Ueals and - Hide Ekia Imperfect 'f tfODS. - -.. . i-.i'ite''v'.'v' -.;-V,r i"..- ' A peculiar feature ot peaUm, a' new skin discovery, i that IP is naturally aean-coiored and contains no grease, so that when used on the -face . for th complexion, or for pimples, red noses or any other . Inflammations, blemishes or discoloration, it pres ence cannot be detected. It can thus be applied, in the daytime,' th natural color of the skin being immediately restored and. the actual healing and curing process accomplished in a few days. It can be had of any pharma cist who sells pure drugs. R. H. Jordan V Co. make a specialty of It Fifty cent worth wljl answer either for th trouble mentioned or in curing 'ordinary cases of ecxema. Itching stop at once. . The Emergency Laboratories, No. 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York, are th sole dispensing agents for poslam in th United States, and will send an experimental quantity free by mall In plain wrapper to all who write for it This will shew re sult after an overnight application. 8S& L Webster Daniel, Noah, Thomas. 2. Franklin Benjamin, Sir John. William. Adams John, John C, Isaac, Sarah (Flower). 4. Jackson Andrew, Charles F.. Helen Hunt (Fiske), Thorns J. ("Stonewall"). . 898 Cabala, cabal, oVba. cab. ca. C. Nursing Mothers and Malaria. Ths Old Standard GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC drives out malaria and builds up ths sys tem. For grown people and chil dren, BOc. Malaria Make Pmlc, Sickly Children. The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC drives out ma laria and builds up the system. For grown people and children. 10c. 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