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8 1. o CM st Ktw:ripir in the County, . Established itt1875. $1.00 i;!r YearIn Advance. Large and increasing circula ton in Alamance and adjoining count ies a poi n t for ad vertisers. :N0E LEANER "Keeping EveiL ". success." . EATiSFiT.:::;::.3c:?:;ir: Job Prinlin;'. All kinds Co . w ! I ing, Pamphlets, Posit -i neatly and promptly exccr. lowest prices. H VOL. XXV. GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAYFEBRUARY 23, 1899. NO. 3 from factory to Imrtde. - A $1.75 o Boyi thij Whit Enameled Steel Bed , k in either 54, 48, 49 or 361n.widtbs, Length ! Zif filler. Giurmnteed the 4 I strongest bed made. S. - .st- mho mS-Lmm., ah.. . X t lands of bargains tn Furniture, Clothing, Bed ( j dine,, Crockery, Silverware, Sewing Machines, v Clock, Upholstery Goods, Baby Carnages, X i ' Refrigerators, Pictures, Mirrors, Tin Ware, ( h Stoves, etc., and m buying from us, you tare m from 40 to 60 per cent en every thing don 't X ' ' forget this. .. . - . r . - . i We publish a lithographed catalogue of Car 4 k pets, Kug. 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Tonn. ,. ,. . of JBron,Ca.,yst " Wlien ! flrft look Wine of Cardul we had been married three years, but eouifl not have any children. Bin iiiui.uij Uteri bad a One girt UaDy." SLl it . '. Anger..' v .'.-- "' - ' '''' The wholesale denunciation of fin ger never yet allayed, much less ex tinguished it, for to one who Is on. deT its influence the causes that gave it birth appear to be entirely sufficient to warrant its exiBtence. There ia in bis mind a "reason, t cause, an excuse, perhaps even a ' justification for what is bo ruthless ly condemned, and the criticism which ia blind to these ia utterly de spised. Anger Indeed has many causes, and to blame it in toto with out examining them is manifestly unfair. It may have had its rise in a Btrong sense of Justice, in a right eons indignation at cruelty, in a re sentment at eclfishnces and dishon or, and may thus be a natural and valuable means cf resisting such things. Even where tbo wrong is not a real but a fancied one, there is still the excuse cf & mistaken judgment Whoever would allay this paefiion in another most first of all Dd out what gave rise to it, and the sprit of sympathy that this rill iDduce will go far to establish Lis influence. Xew York Ledger. Tktecs Tkt Are Told- r natoT CiiiKiii.cr cf JTew Kampihirs In cr:iig ll-.murb tho. senate a bill sp-t-'ri.i!irig ?!5,C00 trt a govemmoiit i i iiaf-:u-ry in that state. , - Tl.e th'atich acclimariiotioo of the ;t.!r..-.Uaa pboaroct in MaswarhBsetUis t 1 hy a comfpondent who rereot jr t il cn cf ifcs Csb and gamv r n"rtf that slate, at bis home, u : : --r. J- - ;, hntts is the first strife that 1 f urra -,: 'l tospmd a la rjT a iu on nt Of t -7 in i.: .tm pin if out tuixrroWii in e.;o,(.o having hern epprrrrl i '. 1:.e i. ti nal MorVman smti, re m to C t Z'-r of Masachnsetts it t:r r.;Vt i,:3;! t'i'H abe to stuip t t ..' i r t.' . no nuiiifT lw tnryb ! ;;r; r-'-j rintI f. tbat parpr.." v-',. t.;i j Wore th; iia- -Y . . iff . Si I.N 8HAD0W. . The wgrhl was fair, and very fair; :. Bine nky and muubins everywhere; . .Bat 'mid the flowering of the world . One little bud kept closely anrled. " In vain the wooing sunshine smiled, -. - The little bud was not begtulod. . : , - But when the night wept wild With rata - TJpon the desolated plain -Might through her shadows saw unclose . - The petals of the hidden rose ; r- A rose of love, to scent the years. . Ah r &rn and take It through year tears 1 . . E. N cubit in Black and White. FRECKLES. - . . He was the most peculiar chap that ever came to Dnnston's school, not ex cepting even Mason, who shot the doc tor's wife's parrot with a catapult, and after he had been flogged offered to stuff it in the face of the whole:-school and nearly got expelled. ; Freckles was so colled" owing to his skin, wfiSfch was simply S complicated pattern much like what you can See in any mop of the Grecian archipelago, This arose.' he thoughtj from his having been born in Australia. Anyway, it was rum to see, and so were his hands, which had red dish down on the backs. Eis eyes were also reddish a sort of mixture of red and gray specks, and -they, glimmered like a cat's when he was angry, which was often.-. His real name was Maine. His father had made a big fortune sell ing wool at Sydney,, and his grandfa ther was' one of the last "people to be transported to Botany Bay-r-through no fanlt of his own. After he had been on a convict ship two years a chap at home confessed on his deathbed that he had done the thing Maine's grandfather was transported for. So they naturally let Maine's grandfather go free, and "he was so sick about it that be never came back home again, but married a farm er's danghterv near Sydney ana settled out therelor goodT Maine didn't think much of England and was always talking about the Aus tralian forests of blue gum trees and bush and sneering rather at the si2e of our forests round Merivale, though they were good ones. He never" joined in games, but roamed away afone for miles and miles into the country on half holi- L days and trespassed with a cheek I never saw equaled, tie coma run-uae a nitre, especially about half a mile or bo, which, as he explained to me, Is just about a distance to blow a keeper. Cer tainly, though"often chased, he was never caught and never recognized, ow ing to-things be did which he had learned in Australia and copied from famous bushrangers,! His great -hope some day was to DeZa bushranger him self, and he practiced in . a quiet way every Saturday afternoon, making it a rule to go out of bounds alwaya His get np was fine. Me, being fond cf the coun try and not keen on games, he rather took to, and after I bad swornon crossed knives not to say a word to a soul (which I never did till Freckles left) he told me his secrets and showed me his things. If you'd seen Freckles starting for an excursion you wouldn't have said there was anything remarkable about him, but really he was armed to the teeth and bad everything a bush ranger would be likely to want in a quiet place like Merivale. Down his leg was the barrel of an airgun, strong enough to kill any small thing likes cat at 85. yards. The rest of the gun was arranged inside the -lining of his coat, and thoslugs you fired, he carried loose in his "trousers pockets. : Bound his waist he had a leather belt he got from a sailor for a pound. .- Inside the leather was human skin, said to be flayed off a chap by cannibals somewhere, which was a splendid thing to have for your own, if it was true, and in the belt a place hsd been specially made for a knife. Freckles, of course, had a knife in it a bowie knife that made you cold to see. He never' used it, but kept it ready, and said if a keeper ever caught him he possibly might have to. In ad dition to these things he carried in his coat pockets a little spirit lamp and a collapsible -tin pot and a bag of tea. Lastly, Freckles had a flat lead mask with holes for . the eyes and mouth which he always fitted on when tres passing. rV.;." ' ' 1 - " . . ' .'' Once, as an awful favor me being ranch smaller and not fast enough to run away from a man he let me come and see what he did when bushranging on a half holiday in winter. "I shan't ran my usual frightful risks with you, " he said, "because I might have to open fire to save you, and that would bs very disagreeable to me, but we'll tres pass a bit, and I'll shoot a few things if I can. I don't shoot much. Only for food." - ' '' " He made me a mask with tinfoil off chocolate, smoothed out and gummed on cardboard, but I had no anna, and be said I hsd better not try and get any. We started for the usual walk. Chaps were allowed to go through a public pine wood to Merivale, but half through,' by a place where was a board which warned us to keep the path, Freckles branched off into some dead bracken and squatted down and put on his mask. I also put on mine. Then be fastened bis airgun together and loaded it and told me to walk six paces behind him and do as he did. His eyes were awfully keen, and now and then he pointed to a feather on the ground or an old neetor a patch of rum fungus or a crab apple still hanging on the tree, though all the leaves were off. " Once he fired at a Jay and missed it, then fell down In the fern as if be was shot himself and remained quite mo tionless for some time. He told me that he always did so after firing that he might hear if anybody bad been attract ed by the sound. It was a well known trash man's dodge. Once we saw a keep er through a clearing, and Freckles lay flat on bis stornich, snd so did I- He knew the keeper well and told sue he had many times escaped from him. : Well that gives you an idea of Frec llos, and the affair with Frenchy. which 1 am ffoing to Wl you of. showed thai be reaUy was cut out for bnr a ur ic. Frenchy, as we called him, was M MirheL He didn't belong entirely to Dunrton's, but lived in Merivale and came to us three days a werk. and went to a girls' school the other three. He was a rum, ollUh chap, whose treat peculiarities were to make puns ia Eng lish and to si pil to our honor about fTPrj-tLinsr. lie wi-mld tUr.g s fcLVw comt.jy one 6,-r mi wave h.s rms sod rrelij near- j ly Jnmn ort of his fkin, and the nfitj day to wonH bring up a whacking psar fr.r the f . '.'- he'd slmprd or a new, kT.;rr --tuin. He r-fy D'or'yj eri'A - f.1 he t Si c l- nerves were lrishtrtTiy.lriciry, and of ten led him to be harsh when ho didn't mean it He couldn't keep order or make chaps work if thoy didn't cbocie, and Stegglee, who had an awfully cun ning dodge of-always rubbing him up the wrong way and then looking crushed and broken hearted so bs to get things, which he did, said that Frenchy was like damp fireworks, because von never knew exactly when he'd go off or how. . '' : -." " -,: One day, dashing out of class with a frightful yell, Freckles got sent for, and went back - and found monsieur raving mad.. - It seemed that Freckles had yelled too coon before he was out of the classroom, tn fact, and Frenchy had got palpitation from it. He let into Freckles properly then. He said he was his "bete noire" and "nn sot a vingt- quatre carats" which means an 18 X carat ass in English, but 84 carats in , French and "one of the ' aborigines : who ought to be kept on a chain," and many other suchlike things! . Freckles turned all colors, and then White, with a sort of blnlth tint to his lips. ' He didn't say a word, bnt looked at Frenchy with such a frightful expression that I felt soi lething would happen later. All that ' happened at the time was that Freckles got the eighth book of .Tele machus to-write out into French from English, and then correct by Fenelon, which was a pretty big" job if a chap had been fool enough to try and do Jt, and M. Michel went off to Meri valc with a big card fluttering en his coattail with "Ici on parle Francals" written on it in red pencil. This I had managed to do myself while Frenchy was jawing Freckles. -I told Freckles, but it didn't comfort him much. He said there were some things no mortal man would Stand, and to be called Van aborigine" because a man was born in Australia seemed to him about the bit terest insult even an old frog eating Frenchman could have Invented Hap- pening to himof all chaps It was espe cially o thing' which would have to be revenged, seeing what his views were. He said; ' :-'--S:: " "I couldn't bushrange or anything with a clear conscience in the future if I had a thing like this hanging over me. It's the frightfulcst sor on my char acter, and I won't sit down under it for 80 Frenchmen." . . " ' , Then he said he should take a week to settle what to do, and went into the playground alone. , '?-v .. Next time Frenchy came up he was just the same as ever awfully easygo ing and jolly and let Freckles off the Telemachns, and offered him 0s classy a knife, with a corkscrew and other things, including tweesers, as'ever you saw Just the knife for Freckles, con sidering his ways. But it didn't come off. c Freckles got white again when he saw the knife ana said: - ' .: Thank you, monsieur"! don't want your knife, and the imposition is half done, and will be finished next time you come." ' ' Then Frenchy called him a silly boy and tried to make a joke and playfully pinch Freckles by the ear. But nobody saw the joke, and Freckles dodged away. Then Frenchy sighed and looked round to see who should have the knife, and didn't seem to see anybody in par ticular, and left it on his desk. - He of ten sighed in class, and sometimes told us he was without friends, unions he might call r.s friends, and we said he might - . --..,!.- . When he went, Freckles told me he considered the knife was another Insult Then he explained what he was going to da ' He said:. , ?'. "I shall finish the impo. first, so as not to be obliged to him for anything, and then I shall stick him up." ' "Stick him upt Howt" I said ""It's s bUBhranging expression," he explained "To 'stick up' a man is to make him stand and deliver what he's got. I see' my way to do this with Frenchy. He always goes and comes from Merivale through the woods, as you know, and now he's up here on Friday nights coaching Blade and Bet terton for their army exam. Afterward he has supper with Mr. Thompson or the doctor. There you are. I wait my time in the wood, which is jolly lonely by night, though it is such a potty lit tle place hardly worth calling a wood. Then be comes along, and I. stick Mm up." . '-.. ' '- - . ' "It'a highwsy robbery," I said. "Ton might get years and years of im prisenment"- t "I might," he said, "but I shan't Ton must begin your career some time, and I'm going to next Friday night I've often got out of the dormitory and been in that wood by night, and only the chaps in the dormitory have known it"; . ' ,..'. ''- " ' Well, the night cams, and all that we heard about it till afterward was that about 11 o'clock, or possibly even later than that, there was a fearful pealing st the front door of Dunston's, snd looking out we could see a stretcher and something on it That something was actually Freckles, though the few chaps who knew what was going to be done felt tare it tuuet be Frenchy. Be cause Freckles is B feet 10 inches' and growing, and Frenchy isn't more than 6 feet 6 inches at the outside, and a poor thing at that But it was Freckles all right and two-laboring men bad brought him back, and Frenchy had anne with them. Not for five weeks afterward, when fecklea could cet uu snd limn about did I hear the truth, snd 111 tell it la his own words, because they must, be better than a chap's who wasn't there. He seemed frightfully down in the mouth and said that be could never look feDows in the eyes again, bo it cheered him telling me, and when I told him he was thundering well out of it he admitted he wss. He said: "I got off all right, and the moon was as clear as day, and everything just ripe far sticking a chap up. Then, like afoot, having. a longiah time to wait, I didn't just stop in shadow be hind a tree trunk or something in the usual way. hut thought I'd do a thing I'd never b-mrd of bmhrangers doing, though Indian thugs are pretty good at ft. 1 went and got tip a fare which has a branch over the road, and I thought I'd drop down almost oa top of Frenchy to start with. And that's just what 1 A-1 A.n rwilv I drormed wtop.m and eauM down pretty nearly on my bead owing to slipping; somfchow at the start, w nsi did exactly hsrpMt to me se I left the tree I she! Turret tuow. Anywsy Fiwhy cam al"tff snre ewafrb, and I dn.piL and he jturjwd I sboolj think fnliy a yard into the air, bnt that wss all, becanr!' in falling I hit a mot (it vai a Im h tr ) tn. wint and tTvke f'K' ir 5a ir-js- t't ' m- i thins; in my cfet and couldn't stand. Consequently, of course, I couldn't stick him ur. The pain-was pretty thick, but feeling what a fool I was seemod to i rcr.ke me forget it. Anyway, finding it I was useless thinking of sticking him i up. I tried to hobble into the fern and 1 get out of slKht, and finding I couldn't ! crawl I rolled. But, of course, yon cant . ryll away from a chap, and he came after me, end my mask fell off while I I rolled.'' and ha recognised mo.'' " .'Mon Dieu I It is the" boy Maine !' be said. .'tJpcak, child I . What in the wide world was this V . ' . . "I disunited ray voice and said wasn't Maine, and that he'd better leave me alone or it might be the worse for him yet ... Bnt be wouldn't gor and chancing to get queer about the bead somehow I went off, 1 suppose, though it wasn't for-fchg. When I came to, he was gonc.Xnt he rushed back in a nun- utcwilh that rotten old top hat he wears fruTof water he'd got from the puddle in the stone pit , He deuced my head and made me sit up with my Back against a tree. Then, feeling the fright fulness of it, aiain begged him to go and let me bo. I said: . " ..'You don't know what you're do ing.- I'm no friend to yon, bnt the dcadliestcnemy you've got in the world very likely, and if i hadn't fullou down at a critical moment and broken myself I should have stuck you up, M. Michel. So now yon know. ' -;v j: -Jfr:- "Ho said to himself: 'The poor mad boy, thp poor , mad boy I . I will run a toutes jambes for succor. ': But I told him not to, I began to get a rum hot pain in my side then; but I felt I Would gladly have died there rather than be obliged to him. I said: " -:-:'. ; ; '- rs " 'Yon called me an "aborigine," which is the most" terrible thing you can call ah Australian born chap, and you wanted to-pass it eff v.-th a knife with a corkscrew and tweesers in it Bat you couldn't expect me to taker it feeling as I did. Now the fortunes of war have given you the victory, and, if you please, I wish you'd go. " ; "He wouldn't, though. He said he wouldn't have hurt my feelings for anything. He seemed to overlook alto gether wbat I was going to do to him and asked me where it hurt me. , I told him, and he said it was his fault fancy that and wished he was big enough to carry me back. I kept on asking him to go, and at last, after begging my pardon like anything for about a week if seemed, he went . But I heard him shouting and yelling French yells in the woods, and after a bit be came back with two men and a hurdle. They pres ently took me back, and what Frenchy 's said since to the doctor I don't know. In fact, I didn't know anything for days. Anyway I've bad nothing hut a mild rowing and very good grub, and I'm not to be even . flogged, though that's probably because I broke a rib or two, not including the bone in my leg. But I'm all right now, and I think it was about the most sporting thing a chap ever did for Frenchy to treat me like that, ehf I shouldn't have thought it was in a Frenchman to do it, espe-1 daily after I told him what I was go ing to do." - "Yes," I said,, "that's all right But what about bushranging t" "It's pretty sickening," he said, "but I feel as if all the keenness was knocked out of me. ' If a chap can't so much as fall out of a tree on a wander er's path at the nick of time without smashing himself, what's the good of bimt" '-.- " '- "Besides." I said, "if it hadn't been Frenchy, but somebody else of a differ ent turn of mind, he might have taken you at a disadvantage and kiiled you." . "In real bushranging that is what would nave happened." admitted Frec kles. "As it is, I feel months, perhaps years, will have to go by before I feel to hanker" after it again. And mean time I shan't rest in peace till I've paid Frenchy." "How f" I asked. "Well. I believe it's to be done. He's often come to see me while I was on my back in bed, and he's told mo a lot about himself. He's frightfully bard up and a Boman Catholic, end hopes to lay his bones in la, belle France, with luck, but be doesn't think he'll ever be able to manege it He told me all this, little knowing my father wss extremely ; rich. . Well, you see, the mater wants somebody French for the kids at home, which are girls, and knowing Frenchy bars this climate I think Australia might do him good. He's 63! years old, and it seems to me if the guv 'nor wrote snd offered him his passage and a good screw be'd go. I have made it a personal thing to myself, and told the gov'nor what a good little chap be is and wbat s beautiful accent he's got and the Sblng that happened in the wood." The affair- dropped then, and about six weeks after, when Freckles wss get ting fit again, he walked with me one half holiday to see the place where bs was smashed up. The bough was a frightful high one to drop from even in daylight ; also it was broken. Freckles got awfully excited when he spotted it "There, there I" be said. 'That's the best thing I've seen for 13 weeks I" "I don't see much to squeak about," I said, "especially ss the beastly thing early did for you." "Bnt can't yoo see It's broken. That's what did it I thought I slipped, and if I had I shouldn't have been made of the stuff for a bushranger; but, its breaking is Jolly different That wasn't my fault The most hardened old hand mast have come dowutben. In fact, yon couldn't have stopped up. Ob, wbat a lot of misery I'd have been saved through all these weeks if I'd knows' It broke in a natural sort of He got aa extraordinary deal of com fort out of it and said be should return to his old wsys agaia as boob as as could run a mile without stopping. And we found hit lead mask, like ed Ke4- iy's. just where it haddrcrped when be rolled over 5n tberTti, ana pgweicrmien ncurtey and prmnvmlaare acute to- 'u Be has long sickle feathers and de fUmmatious of the ilung and IT no I nl(1led early, the pullets from bim promraUaythe worst y b n,, layers. inflammation or we ww-" a onre in a wornlerruiiy snor timo. T" in COUCH GYiiUP Cures Fteurisy snd Pneumonia. rc-rHi.i-4 pfaMl Wf SMHWB RancMH rntcajoa, Al aJ.oxacpeia, 5 a . Makes the food more delicious and wholesome n aovat BAKiwe sownes oo., stw veaw. it like a friend or a Tlog. That's the end, except that his fatherdid write to Dunston, and- Dnnston, not being very keen about Frenchy himself, seemed to think he would be just the chap for the girls of Freckles' father. Anyway he Iwent-and be cried when he said "Good' by" tg the school, and Freckles told me that when be said "Ooodby" to him he yelled with crying and blessed him in French, and said that the sunny atmos phere ,of Australia would very likely prolong his life till he had saved enough to get ills bones bacK to t'tance. So he went, and Fecklea went after him mnch sooner than he ever expected to, because the keepers finally caught him in the game preserves sitting in bis bole under the stream bank frizzling the leg of a pheasant which he had shot out of a tree, with his airgun, and Dunston wrote to his father, and his 'father wrote back that Freckles, being now 14 aid' apparently having less sense than when he left Australia, had better return and begin life as an office boy in his place of . business. - Freckles told me that Office boys in his father's office generally got a fortnight's holi day, but that his mother would prob ably work up his governor to givo him three weeks. - Then be would got ft proper outfit and track away to the boundless scrub and fall in with other chaps who had similar ideas and begin to bushrange sofiously. But he never wrote to me, and I don't know if he really succeeded well. I'm sure I hope be did, for he wss a tidy chap,, though queer. Eden Phllpots in Idler. Matrimony mud easiness la Africa. The sailor who had a wife in every port he visited has his counterpart in the native trader of west Africa, who has a wife in every village with which he trades. There is one important dif ference Jack's wives helped to spend his money, whereas the trader's wives help to make it. Miss EIngsley tells us of the custom and also gives the expbv nation. It would be useless for the trader to sit at home and wait for his customers to come to bim, because each village is usually at feud with all the neighboring villages, and the inhabitants dare not venture beyond their own district on pain of being robbed firt and eaten, aft erward. On the other hand, It is obvi ously a risky thing for the black trader to travel from village to village with an assortment of .'the very goods best cal culated to arouse the cupidity of the guileless African. To lessen the danger be resorts to fre quent matrimony. In every village he takes a wife from one of the most im portant families and so secures a fac tion who favor bim. The African wife is not subject to jealousy, and so each of the wives is more than content to have a husband who can keep her sup plied with cloth and beads to outshine her neighbors. Her male relatives are proud of the connection with so impor tant a man and hope besides to be es pecially favored in matters of business. In return tbey take his part in disputes and help him to collect his debts and treat him generally as a respected mem ber of the family. ; ' e First Rem en m Dawk. - Although banking was practiced among the Egyptians 600 years before Christ, and among the Romans almost tn its modern form 1,800 years ago, yet, according to Gilbert, the first "run" of which we have any account in history of banking occurred in the year 1007. At that date the bankers of England were the goldsmiths, wbtNiad a short time before begun to add hanking to their ordinary business, and bad be come very numerous and Influential. In 1000 the Dutch Beet sailed up tae Thames.-blow. up the fort at Sbeerness, set fire to Chatham and burned some ships of the line. - ' This cresfed the greatest consterna tion in London, especially among those who had intrusted their money to the bankers, for it was known that the lat ter bad advanced large sums to the king for public purposes, snd it was rumored that now the king would not be sble to pay the money. To quell the panic a royal proclamation was issued to the effect that payments by the exchequer to the bankers would be made as usual. In 1671 tbrrs was another run on the London banks, w ben Charles II shut up the exchequer and refused to pay the bankers either principal or interest of ths money which they bad advanced On this occasion many of the banks and their customers were ruined. Pitts burg Dispatch. : Pert. Sue Brette Does not applause denote pleasure in an audience t - i FootUgbt Why. certainly. "I notice yoo always get more ap plause when yen go off the stage ths a when yon come on. " Yonkers States nan. . " ' A subject that should l thoroughly understood by amateur breeders is cotv tamioatico. -liii -claimed try some pout' trymen that a ben once mated with a talebird of a different breed cannot afterward bs relied upon to reproduce bar variety tn its purity. . Others claim that after ths bus has been separated for a certain length of time snd mated with a pure brvf male of her variety she will brePd trut to her kind. A breed- tf cannot be too careful, and if be keeps B DOfnbcr of breeds the safe plan U to , fcp (beg, tepunUd the year round. There is something to be known in j ''rrr' -T' I .M,.i rJ 1,W mnA vltfnr and ahrmld J be upright and in color a bright scarlet . resKHe should have strong, clean limbs, : with plenty of bone, unless of the) Asiat ic breeds, which are feather leggwt, ' The whole srrjaaranos should Indicate I One Minute Cough Cnre, cures. I Tbat Is what W was ssase tec. - Sr. ASPARAGUS CU LTU RE.' Said to Be Well Pleaalas! to Every body Coaeeraed Therein. Asparagus seems to find favor among those who cultivate it largely, on ac count of its strong market value. An Illinoiseorrespondent of . the Ohio Farmer says, every thrifty market gar dener will find one of bis best invest ments in an acre or more of it - Some reasons for this are: "There is no easier vegetable to grow, and beds, when once established, if properly tended, yield more and psy better each season. At a long distance shipping vegetable it ranks among the very best The plain truth is this it makes money for the grower, yields a profit for the middle-1 man, and, most of all, pleases the con sumer. " This grower's methods are at follows: '-: . Variety and Size to Plant We re gard the Columbian Mammoth White as the most satisfactory variety in cultiva tion. Not only are the stalks of the BOW TO SET THS PLAKTS. largest sice, but they are ' produced abundantly and very early. They are nearly clear white in early growth and remain so in favorable weather until three or four inches high. . This sort commands an extra price, not only on a fancy market, but from cannerv who find that when put up under a spe cial brand it sells so readily at a higher price as to warrant them in paying the grower, an extra pried for growing it We prefer to use only well grown 2- y ear-old stock. " , BoiL Tbo soil on which asparagus plants are transplanted mnst be made very rich. From 100 to 300 loads of rich stable manure to the acre well plowed in makes a good start for a good crop. Select a good sandy loam slopinrto the south, if possible. The groan t should be plowed as deep as pos sible and farrowed off from 4 to 0 feet apart. Ground thus fitted enables the roots to take hold at once, which is of great importance, as the more strength and size gained on the roots each year places you that much ahead and en ables you to secure a good profit from your bed the second season after plant ing. How to Plant Ws usually set the plants in early spring, as soon as the ground can be worked, 18 inches apart in ths furrows which have previously been prepared, with the rows fonr feet apart It will require 8,000 plants to properly plant an acre. As illustrated in this column, there is a "right way" and a "wrong way to plant It re quires a little more time to set the roots in proper shape, but it pays. The roots shonld be spread apart, not bunched. 1 The crown should be covered with four Inches of earth. By shsllow planting crops corns earlier than if planted deep er. After planting has been done the ground should be properly leveled and good cultivation given throughout the season. The bed shonld be well clesned svery autumn and salted at ths rate of one barrel of salt per acre, as this stim ulates tbs roots and retards the weeds, A good dressing of manure should also be given every falL A well planted, ana tended field in full bearing should pre sent the general appearance given in the second cut Bleaching. The young snoots can bs bleached snd made extremely tender by covering with straw or leaves, and I would suggest that planter give toll mode of . bleaching at least a trial, as It is a worthy method. How to Cut Use a sharp knife and cut even with ground. Lata cutting is not sdvised, as the roots will become sxbsusted if tbe shoots are not allowed to develop. Remember the leaves are tbs Inngs of the plant , Bunching. Tbe sprouts should be of good size when cut Arrange in bunches eight inches across butt end. After tbey Asraaaeus is thi risu). bars been neatly cut snd tied place the butts of tbe branches in trays of water one inch deep, taking cars to keep tbs tops dry. This prepares tbem for tnetr Journey to market, and tbey arrive in nice condition when they are handled in tbiswsv. Packing. Use a light new, clean that will bold about two dozen bunches, 8tencil your asms on each ease, for if your asparagus pleases tbe tmrchaser your stock will always be in great demsnd and command a higher price than that which is poorly grown or badly packed. IJasa mm4 rtmm Dlanawa. The effect of Hum la different forms kas been tested at ths Rhode Island sta tion, with not entirely conclusire re sult, on varioos diseases of plants, ia- eliding cranberry and sweet potato aia- eases snd a root disease of airaua. Slacked lime was found to be effective tn reducing soil rot of sweet potatoes and quicklime la checking or prevent ing the rout dUosse of alfalfa. Practical experience has taught ths rowers of eariv potatoes to have the greater part of the nitrogen ia their po tato fertilizers In the form of nitrate of soda, d Tending upon its quick action to hasten ths development of ths crop. DeWItt'a Witch Haxel Salvoj Cares Pit, frcela. Sara. fi 1 s'M'.asS'i tiilir Greensboro Tobacco llarl: ROR HIGH PRICES. Sold over 5,000,000 pounds last year for an average of $7.57 'pov 1 pounds. This is the highest average made by any market in piedmont i. Carolina. . - Over f,"2G0.OO pnid out daily to farmers for tobacco during the i yea. - . -frs the best market in the State for the farmer. Our Warehouses are large, commodious and np-to date, whose pro i i etors stand without a poor as slesmen of the weed. , Every large firm in the United States and a number of foreign firms ai represented by our buyers. .,. . Tobacco centre, manufacturing centre, trade centre, railroad ci ntre, educational centre. - ." .- , ' " . , Our own manufacturers have a large capacity and are increasing tlu ir trade daily and must have tobacco. . We have the strongest corps of buyers in the world for the warehou it capacity.."' M ,. :" ;v We want more tobacco and must hare it if high averages will bring it. Try us with your next load and be convinced of our merit. Greensboro Tobacco Association. I wish to call the attention to tbo fact that the Burlington 1893 by the late firm of Tat & There is no insurance agency in North Carolina, with better facilities for placing large lines of insurance, that can give low er rates or better indemnity. Only first-class companies, in every branch of the business, find a lodgement in my office, . With a practical experience of more than ten years, I feel warranted in soliciting a share of the local patronage. I guarantee full satisfaction in every instance. Correspondence solicited upon' all matters pertaining to insurance. , I am making a specialty of Life Insurance and will make it to the interest of all who desire protection for their families or their estates, or who wish to make absolutely safe and profit . able investment, to confer with me before'- giving their applica tions to other. sgentu. N - -Very respectfully, JAMES P. ALBRIGHT, ; BURLINGTON, N. C. ooooooooooccooccccccccccJ ISUBSCUIBE TOR THE GLEANER, t 31.00 per Year in Advance. Vet tbe Saw Ume. Talleyrand was a striking example of tbe time worn theory that brilliant men usually marry women of little intellect. Tbe diplomatist's wife was very beautiful, bnt so utterly ignorant tbat she frequently made tbe most absurd mistakes. One day Talley rand Invited tbe famous traveler, Denon, to dine at bis house. Before dinner be whispered to hia Wife: . "My dear, M. Denon is a famous person, and I wish you to be espe cially polite to bim. He may be useful to me at court, so ask: tun about bia travels and make yourself agreeable. Hia wonderful voyages will Interest you." . .- Mme. Talleyrand did her best to please her husband and during din ner devoted herself to the distin guished guest, wbo was sadly pus, tled by her singular questions. The amiable lady, wboae reading about travels and travelers bad been con fined exclusively to "Robinson Crn- soei," had conceived tbe idea tbat her guest wae tbat hero and, much to tbe astonishment of tbe company, askod bim at last "bow be bad left bis faithful Friday." " Denon, although naturally em bar. raesed for bis bos toss, wasnevertbe lees so amatod that be could scarce ly bide bis amusement The story of If me. Talleyrand's blunder was known all over Paris and became tbe subject of great de rision. Even Talleyrand's diplomacy could not conceal bis mortification at this unparalleled display of igno rance. Youth s Companion. , taatwesd Oeeea Oatenr. The new oolon culture, ss most resd era ought to know by this time, is sow Ing tbs seed ia boxes or slsewbere snd later setting out tbe plants. On ad v sa ls gs gained by this method is gsining time. Prepare tbs around, and if free -. .ta mnA la mI tilth when the young plants ere set tbs weeds do not catch up. A Coonecticut ststiou bulletia sums ap tbs advantages thus: Insures a clean crop, even on smutty land. Minimises ths loss from cut worms. Crop is three or four weeks earlier. Crop is M pr cent larger with native varieties, snd tbs increase may be 100 per cent with foreign. 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