Newspapers / The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, … / Feb. 1, 1906, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Gleaner. p HE GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1906. VOl j. XXXII. Alamance t , 1 IT I . .ETSl : ; This popular remedy never falls to ' effectually cure Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick f ieadache, Biliousness . And ALL DISEASES arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion The nntural result Is good appetite s i nnd solid flesh. Dose small; elegant' ! t.u gar coated and easy to swallow. No Substitute. j, ;s. cook:, ,:-.'-:;'' Attorney Law, GRAH M, . - . . N. C. Offloe Patterson Building Second Floor, . .' . . . WALTER E. WALKER, M.D. GRAHAM, N. C. OFFICE IN SCOTT BUILDING ITP STAIRS - . 'PilONE SO B. Leave calls at offloe or . Thompson! Diug uo. a. . ML WILL-8. LUG, JL ' '' PENTIST ... Graham .' . . North Carolina OFFICK in SIMMONS BUILDING . IohkOba r isitiv. W. f. Btkum, Jb, in ADM &BYNUM, Attorney uid Counselors! at Law Practice - reenlarl to' thf enarts. of Alb tiaiirt-eiianlY-- Aw?. J, W ly . JACOB A. LOShi J. ELMEK LONG, LONG & I-iONG-, Attorney and Counselors tit l iw. GRAHAM, N. C. ROB T C. STRUDWICK 'Attorney at Law, GREENSBORO M. C. licea in ibe courts of Ala- rand Guilford counties. The' Charlotte Observer, Every Day In the Year. CALDWELL ft TOMPKINS, Publishers. . J. P. O AID WEIili, Editor. $8.00 Per Year. THE OBSERVER Receives the largest Telegiaphic News Service delivered to any paper" between Washington and " Atlanta, and its special service is the greatest ever handled by a North Carolina paper. THE SUNDAY OBSERVER Consists bl 16 or more payee, and " is to a large extent made up ot original matter. The SEMI-WEEKLY OBSERVER. Printed Tuesday and Friday, 1 1.00 per year. The largest paper in North Carolina. . Send for sample copies. Address TOE OBSERVER -:. CHARLOTTE, N.C To tetter ee rtlie fee Soath's I tdlaa IhIhm Coll e. 1 f.w aeholerehtpe sis fl.rad 1. eaoa Mstioa at 1ms then eeal. BOUT DBXAY. WaiTI TODAT. BA-AIi BUSINESS COLLEGE, Eo, Gi New Type, Presses, I A -. -a - at i aniline now sivw j axe proaucing mt oasi . w - resulta in Job Work at J THIS Q LEANER OITICB;? a or rwwtf e fc ; n--,. rt fl I-'.'!'" i t ' t. . 1- -w . wraret p I r r f I " VJ wni i m ,XXXXXXCXXXXXXW00XXX3 Subscribe ;jl For -' ij! The Gleaner. jj o per year, j uOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I : ' - north Carolina's Foremost newspaper. kVtimTT'MJ in Upland F-r ro J J - - - - - arr Willi 11 1 1 M-l 1 1 III II ;; H poem til 1 1 1 1 1 1 111111 fl 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 It YOUTH AND AGE ' By Susan Coolidge - ' Have sweeter taste than feverish r,eal affords; .' That reason bns a Joy beyond unreason; ' That nothing satisfies the soul like truth; That kindness conquers in and out of season . " If youth could know why, youth would not be youto. If age could feel the uncalculutfng nrgeiic, ' The pulse of life that beats In youthful veins, And with Its swift, resistless ebb and surgence Make light of difficulties, sport uud pains; Could once, Just once, retrace (he path and Hnd It, That lovely, foolish seal, so crude, so young, Which bids defiance to all laws to bind It And flashes In quick eye and Hint) and tongiip, , Which, counting dross for gold. Is rich In dreunilug, v And, reckoning moons as smm, Is never old, ' And, having naught, has everything lit scenilng-- If age could do all this, age were not old. . - -t....l-S- pn n i ,H-M"H -l"l ROAD IMPROVEMENT. THE MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAY'S IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Million. Spent Annually n Them. Advantnae. of Tlie.e Roads to the Farmers What Good Hlarhwara ' Would Do Por Amerlea.M The question of good roads Is para mount to every other now before the American people. '. It appeals ; to : all classes and to all interests. Its proper solution will be of more benefit to the great masses of people than the build-: fng of the Panama canal. It -will do more to extend the trade and commerce of the country. It will add more to the happiness, intelligence and prosper ity of the people and will contribute more than anything else to their social elevation . and moral strength. The amount of time saved In domestic cou merce over and above that now expend ed iu passing over the execrable high ways of the country will go far to edu cate the people of the United States. The Internal commerce of this country Is probably equal to the entire interna tional commerce of the world. : Our for eign commerce in 1002 amounted to 2, 283,040,350. The agricultural products made nearly 63 per cent of the whole, or. considerably more than all other products combined. Nearly all this vast amount has to pass over public roads to reach railway stations or a market. - There are some things In the old world from which we should draw in struction and wisdom. France has the best roads on earth, divided Into four classes; First, national; second, depart mental; third, military, and, fourth, communal. The . national roads are built and kept up by the national treas ury. ..The departmental roads are a charge upon the departments through which they pass. The military roads are usually kept up by the government, but sometimes the government Is aided In this work by the department through which, the roads pass. The communal roads, like our civil district and town ship roads, are kept up by the com munes, but even these receive assist ance from the government when they pass through thinly populated regions. The national roads are paved like a street and have an average width of fifty-two and a half feet' The depart mental roads are thirty-nine feet wide, and the1 other roads vary in width. Not less than (7,000,000 Is annually ex pended by the French government to making new roads and repairing old Ones. :' . "7 ''-'-:' The maintenance of roads In England Is vested by parliament in turnpike trusts and highway boards empowered to levy local rates on all property. The revenues raised for repairing and bund ing roads is over $15,000,000 a year. This Is equivalent to over 40 cents an acre, or over $256 a square mile, for all the territory In England and Wales. If the same amount was levied- by the United States In proportion to area, ex eluding .Alaska and our new posses sions, it would amount to about $7V SO0.00O. - " :.--'. .. Among the many great advantage of these good roads in France and Eng land is one that has not been mention ed In any discussion of the road ques tion. A French farmer rarely carries his produce to market when be can work In the field. The time seiectea for doing this work Is bad rainy days or very cold days, when no work can be done oa the farm. At such a time the little covered wagon is filled with produce. The farmer is able to draw three or four times as much to market a a farmer ean In Iowa or Tennessee. It has been estimated that It requires ten days . hauling on an average for each farmer In the United States to carry his prod nee to, market. The twelfth census reported 6,739,754 fasiis In the 47nlted States, the number of persona over ten years of age engaged in agriculture at 10,4381. On the supposition that It takes ten days a year to deliver the produce of each farm to market it will be seen tnat in the aggregate there are over 57,000,000 days consumed In delivering the prod uce of the farm to the railroad or to market If this work is all done at a time when other work can be done on the farm and when the teams and men should be busy at other work It will cost $114,000,000 annually to deliver the crops to market allowing $2 a day for man sod team. But this Is aot all The increased tonnage that may be drawn over good roads with the same team as compar ed with the tonnage rarrled over bad roads will shorten the time bow re quired for the wort and will nuke so other great serine. So It may be set down as a fact that good roads will save' an Immense sum in delivering produce to market There are msny important benefits that need only be mentioned here for Instance, sav ing the wear and tear of wagons, tbe Injury to twins, tbe kaates of time go-l-;f to and returning from market placet, pienrnre each one experlenree 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 M I II 1 1 1 1 1 M I ft for Coday i l"H't I ' ' ' '"' ' 1 ipi4 - youth could know what age knows without teaching, . Hope's Instability and Love's dear folly. The difference between practicing and preaching, , The quiet charm that lurks, in melancholy, ; The after bitterness of tasted pleasure; . That temperance of feeling and of words Is health of mind, and the calm fruits of leisure . v , W"I"M"1"1' 1 1 1 I "1 1 M M HI' 1 1 ii In driving over goodronds as compared with bad ones, the social and moral ef fects of good roads and their contribu tion to domestic felicity, tbe lnrgel; creased value of farm properties when situated on good roads instead of bad ones, facilities with which children! may reach the schoolhouses and tbe means of consolidating small and in ferior schools Into large graded ones: All these things would come as corol laries to good roads. . We want permanent roads that will mark this age, as the Applau , way marked the age of Appius Claudius Caecus, which, though built twenty-, three centuries ago, is still In use. We should build -roads of such character that 0 beginning of the twentieth cen tury m be referred to In. the thir tleth m the era of good road building. J. B. Klllebrew, Government Road Ex pert Seaside Geometry. In the Alleynian, the school mag azine of Dulwich, appears a witty caper on "Seaside Geometry," from which we take the following: "'.Definitions. The . landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram- that is, an oblong angular figure which - cannot be described. , but which is equal to anything. " . AH the rooms being taken, a sin gle room is said to be a double room. Postulates. A pie may be pro duced any number of t imes. The clothes of a boarding house bed, .though produced ever so fat both ways, will never meet. j : ' Any two : meals at a boarding house . are . together less than' one square meal. On the same bill end on the same side of it tljere shall be two charges for the same thing. London Jig press. The New Cop at a Fire. There was a .fire the other day uptown, and reporters sprang up from every where and maae( for the scene. A green policeman, swelling visibly with importance, was trying to keep back the curious, who would have hampered the movements of the; firemen. :. When the newspaper men pushed their way through tha throng . he gruffly ordered then awny.- :''Z.y' :' - ;;""i' -''': i:: ' iv- - : "But we're reporters," they saji "We want to get some particular about the fire. - -; '. "-' "Ah, gVan; get out of here!" h growled. "You can read all about it in the papers tomorrow"-! Jf York Press. Hundred Mile- Oeeaa Boalevmrd. A syndicate of landowners in- the New Jersey coast towns has employed a firm of "Newark (N. J.) lawyers to draft, for presentation to the next leg islature, a bill looking to the construc tion of a boulevard along the. whole sea front of the state, from the Atlan tic Highlands to Cape May, says a Newark dispatch to the Philadelphia Press. The plan Is to have tbe great enterprise undertaken by the state. That will obviate the obstacles some of the coast towns are disposed to throw In Its way. Most of tbe coast places have ocean drives of their own. ' It will only be necessary to link these to have something like continuous ocean boulevard. The state will bav to fill in the gaps. If tht boulevard .sbuuld be built it will be 1 miles long tbe moat extensive seaside drive In the world. ; - ' " Meeaoriat Road. V, Reference has frequently been ma) to the fact that the men who have mil lions at their disposal and are desirous of banding their names down to pos terity as yh'lantbnoplsts. Instead of en dowing colierfre. libraries, erecting monuments, etc- should build roads over which posterity may travel, says the Good Boaus Magazine. In the light of tbe prearat It would appear that nothing could be more philanthropic or do mure good to mankind In gt-neral than the building of roads of this kind. A road would last for all time and would benefit far mora peopl-5 than the library or some other public Institu tion. Who will be tbe first to make himself famous by building memo rial road ? Father ef Hit Ceuntry. The sobriquet "Father of Hia Country" was first applied to 11a rius, the Roman officer who, B. C 102 and 101, woa signal victories over the northern barbarians. Mi nus declined the honor, but tha Came was afterward given to Cice ro, then to several more or lis worthy Roman emperors and finally i- n-- l : w k. V : .. nA;i t u, r.BeiuWU, . v.. -. ''-""-- , wi alo termed tbe "stepfather or j SUGAR CANE SIRUP. Result, of Two Years' Experiments ' Ia Georaln. , 1 Dr. II. ' W. Wiley of the bureau of ' -eframiiHy at Wasljliiston has mitdii a ICUli UU IUU .11 . I..VL1H1IVIIJ . MW.W been under way in Uio culture of sugar, cune and its umnufacture Into table Blmp at Wayoro38 and Cairo, Ga., of the principal problems presented for solution. : Dr. Wiley notes Urst the agricultural problem, This relutes to the character of the suit on which the canes ore grown la the regions of the south Atlantic and the gulf, where the climate Is fuvoruble to the production of sugar cane. The soil of these locali ties, as Ij well known, Is composed largely of sand, and the nutiye forest which once covered them was almost exclusively of pine. The pine tree Is one which grows with perhaps less drain upon the elements of the soil than-, almost any other forest growth. The quantity of organic material, how ever, which the pine tree deposits upon the soli is perhaps less than that of al most any other forest growth; heuoa f J It hnppcns that the virgin soil of these regions is iiut vmy uvul'jvui iu uiu mineral elements of the plant food, owing to the fact that they are com posed chiefly of siliceous material, but. also In material of organic origin namely, humus.' The natural fertility which these soils' have when first culti vated is therefore, rapidly exhausted by the ordinary system of cropping which has been practiced. It Is a fact which has been established by observa tion and experiment that soils which are somewhat deficient In fertility pro- uce crops of exceptionally fine tex ture and character. This is due prob- ab to fnct tM't an overabundance nf n, frwl f(1M ,nnt tn . .nm. what coarse as well as vigorous growth, thus modifying to a certain extent tbe quality aud flavor of; the food products which grow upon it. It Is probable therefore that soil of lim ited fertility r such as the sandy soils Of the regions mentioned, while pro ducing a smaller crop of sugar cane will give one of greater purity and therefore of greater suitability for the manufacture of table sirup than could be grown on rich, alluvial soils. -. The high purity of tbe juices of many of the canes grown in this region attest the accuracy of tills theory. What Fei-llli.allon Will Do. According to Dr. Wiley the results of the experimental work show that without Judicious fertilization the ton nage of sugar cane produced per acre Is very small, fulling sometimes to five tons and even less per acre. On the other hand, by Judicious fertilization, by proper rotation of crops and by tbe growth of cowpeas and other legum inous plants which help to furnish ni trogen for succeeding crops it is pos sible on the sandy soils above describ ed to secure very fair yields of sugar, thlrty-nlue tons per acre having been harvested in one instance. - The results of the agricultural ex periments show that It is comparative ly 'easy on the sandy soils mentioned to produce crops of from fifteen to twen ty-five tons per acre, The experiments In question were nrr toil ntif In f-fwtnarnrlon with nrsc- tlcal Georgia cane growers and sirup makers, and further details of them are given in Dr, Wiley's report Issued as bulletin 03 of tbe bureau of chem istry. Corn Belt Trpe of PI. , ' Today pigs readily mature at eight to ten months. The corn belt type is compact, blocky and short legged, with well developed shoulders, back, loin and hams, has a quiet disposition, a marked tendency to obesity and early maturity and Is frequently deficient In bone and In reproductive power. This type Is largely tbe outgrowth of feed, especially the use of corn, and environ ment Another factor In tbe develop ment of this type has been the market demand for young bogs weighing from 200 to 300 pounds. : It Is fortunate for farmers that tbe market demands a type of bog that is the natural outgrowth of a common feed and environment as it Is a well established fact that the risk Is less and tbe gains more economical with an early maturing type than a lato matur ing hog. Exchange. - In Feediac laser Bee Pal. ' . It has been. found by the Colorado experiment station that an Important consideration in feeding sugar beet pulp Is cleanliness In the management of troughs and feeding places when pulp Is used. Only such amounts of pulp must be fed at one time as tbe cattle will clean up with reasonable waste. Unless this be done tbe troughs will become filled wlth'froeen pulp in the winter and with foul, soured pulp during the warm weather. Also it was observed that cattle would not eat pulp that had been nosed over and breathed npoij previously. It was found to be folly to place a. large quantity of the feed In the troughs with tbe Intention of having a single feed last the greater part of the day. That practice resulted hi overfeeding the cattle at a single feed and causing an nnlimlted waste of pulp. . - ' Ohio Tobeeeo. The United States department of ag riculture bas Just Issued a bulletin (No. 29, bureau of soils) giving an ac count of Its experimental. work In the growing of Cuban seed leaf tobacco In the Miami valley. This work, conduct ed by the bureau of soils, was begun hi 1902 and has extended over three sea eons. The results achieved are pro nounced Tery satisfactory. Already considerable jmmber of growers are producing the Cuban seed leaf, sod In dications point to a largely Increased production of this type for cigar finer purposes. Tbe production of other types of tobacco, especially the Zlm tner Spanish and Ohio seed leaf, la also discussed tn the bulle-ln. Bow Spanew. Were Caraarht. la an old game book published In England In 1KM appeared tbe follow ing formula for tbe lessening of tbe sparrow pest) "Take some lw of wine and hemlock Juice, temper (hem to gether and steep a quantity of wheat therein for the pace of one night Then place the same in a spot where the birds I 'ort to feed, aad wben they have eaten tlareof they will drop down dead drunk. Toa miwli hemlock should not b BW.1 or there of possji;:n the bir 1! I a darnr ani rendering Uiem unhytTre tvl." - CHOLERA JN FOWL8. treatment Is Halnlr Prrwadvi lea late Iareet4 Birds.'..'..-!. Medicinal treatment for true cholera is of little value. Tbe disease Is so rapidly fatal that it la rarely discov ered until too late to attempt treat ment writes P. T. Woods, M. In Reliable Poultry Journal. No attempt to treat birds sick with the cholera should be attempted unless they are very valuable. For tbe safety of the rest of the flock they should be stran gled and cremated. ' ' The treatment la mainly preventive. Observe cleanliness and the usual common sense rules of poultry keep ing. Quarantine all new birds brought home from shows. Do not use eggs for batching unless you know they are from healthy stock. . In hot weather, when diarrhea Is prevalent In the neighborhood, do not feed eggs to fowls without first thoroughly cooking them, As soon aa the disease la discovered establish a peetbouse remote from the other poultry buildings, a place that can be. easily and thoroughly disin fected.7 Isolate all suspected case In the pesthouse as soon as you can find them. Give these birds a few drops of creolln In their drinking water, Just enough to turn It faintly milky, or give them drinking water in which baa been dissolved one one-tenth of a grain tablet of corrosive sublimate to tbe quart of water. A good borne remedy In any severe diarrhea and often In mild cases of cholera la to drop twenty to thirty drops of spirits of camphor on sugar aud dissolve tbe whole in pint of water. . Place this before the sick birds and allow no other drink. All birds which show marked symp toms of tbe disease bud better be killed and cremated at once. This is safest aud best Kill them by strangling or by a sharp blow with a blunt club, breaking the neck. Do not draw blood, as tbe blood Is Infectious and you do not want to spill It If they bleed, scrape up all blood and burn with the body and disinfect the place where it fell. Iiako up and burn all litter used In bouses or runs occupied by infected birds. Spray the runs and all parts of the buildings with a strong solution of creolln or a 1 per cent solution of sulphuric add In water, r ; Some of the quarantined birds may recover without other medicine than that advised for the drinking water, aa before mentioned. The proportion of creolln Is about one teaspoonful to an ordinary wooden bucketful of drinking water, I prefer tbe use of corrosive sublimate unless a large number of birds are to be treated. This manner of general treatment Is the cheapest and the easiest way of handling the dis eased birds. Individual cases may be treated In the case of valuable birds. These I give a one one-thousandth of a grain tablet of corrosive sublimate (mercury bichloride) every three hours. Food given should be easily digested soft food and fed sparingly. All drop pings should be disinfected and burned or burled deeply. If : no new cases develop within twenty days after the last known case was quarantined and the premises dis infected tbe disease can be considered checked. A Grand Mlnoreau The rose comb Black Minorca eock Regent whose picture la here repro duced from American Poultry Journal, was the winner of first prise at tbe St Louis exposition and created a sensa tion among the breeders and fanciers - KIVOBCA COCK MOXI . at that time. Regent la massive bird with true Minorca shape. He was bred and is owned by George H. Northrop of Raceville, N. Y, wbo re fused $1,000 offered for tbe bird at tbe fair. Mr. North rup placed Regent's value at $1,600. Merit, mt the Mlner.a. It should be no easy matter to name a breed that is as well suited to confinement as the Black Minorca. Where the Aucona would fret the Leg horn look dirty, tbe Plymouth Rock get too fat the Minorca will thrive. It is tame and tractable In disposition, lays very large egg of a clear, chalky whiteness, and most strains are very prolific. The plumage does not show the dirt, and the Minorca If property attended to will still look a handsome, well groomed fowl even In tbe most dingy surroundings. A. V. Meerecb. RatlM fw Chirk a. For chicks from ten days to two months try this mixture: Wheat fif teen pounds; cracked corn, ten pounds; hulled oats, fifteen pounds; Kaffir corn, five pounds; betnp seed, three potrods; granulated bona, three pounds; ground beef ecrape, two pounds; fine grit three pounds; crushed charcoal, two pounds. Add clabber and green bono twice a week. Chicago Inter Ocean. Moiatra aa Xlaa Bath. Moisten the dust bath sttghtty, as tbe fowls' natural duet bath consists of moist dust aad aot tbe dry powdered tost as la supposed by tbe majority f poultry raisers. - Tea lAttla A pretty trick may be shown by fasMonmg tittle man or a pWar out of clayey mud mixed with saod. While the figure kt still soft prase into ft seed of water cress which bas bean soaked for some boon tn soft tukewarm water. Wben tbe figure Is well covered wltk seed set It tntc a piste which at filled with soft Inkewar water mixed wltk a bit of Beaked Bme. Before long the figure will be covered wltk beau tiful velvety green cloak. VALUE OF WIDE TIRES. The Coat ef Baalta Croatia- Xedae ad hr Their Vae. - Wide tires should bs . used on all heavy vehicles which traverse atone roads, says the Kansas City Star. A six or aeven Inch macadam road will last longer when wide tires are used than a ten or twelve Inch road of the aame material on which narrow tires are used. From the limestone quarries at Spilt Rock to the works of tbe reducing sompany In Oeddes, Onondaga county, N. X., la about four and one-bait miles. Three or four years ago tbe work of Improving this four and one-half miles f roadway was accomplished. Rough quarry refuse and for a part of the distance field stones were used, all band broken to two and three inch lies. This Was cove-ed with fine, un sifted quarry chips, and a crown was given to the roadway with an elevation of about six Inches in a width of six teen feet Wagons were built for bant ing stone over this road with wide tires and axles of different length, aa follows: Front tire, seven-eighths of an inch thick and four Inches wide; dis tance between centers of front wheels, four feet five Inches; the rear wheels had tires one Incb thick and six Inches wide, tbe distance between canter of rear wheels being five feet eight Inches, Tbe axles were two aud one-half inches front and three Inches rear. ' Tbe constant use of these wagons during tbe last throe years bas produc ed a smooth, compact and regular sur face between tbe quarry and tbe works. The wide tires and varying gauges excited much attention at first and conflicting opinions regarding their utility were expressed. Tbe result Is eminently In their favor, and a general sentiment supports tbe use of these wagons for heavy' loads. Loads of stone varying from 8,000 to 18,000 pounds are continuously hauled over this road with no perceptible wear. The cost per ton of hauling atone bas been reduced from 80 cents to 60 cents, and a team can easily earn from $3.50 to $4 per day hauling wall stone, mak ing two round trips of nine miles each, or total of eighteen miles per day, HIGHWAYS OF SWEDEN. aw tha Oevernment Aids la Balld . law Gead Beads. At the St Louis good roads conven tion Captain A. H. Bernhardt of Stock holm, Sweden, referring to the matter of how the Swedish government and congress gave their aid and support in building good roads, said that the means for building roads were appro priated by congress in funds partly for estimating the cost and partly for the construction of tbe roads. j "The means are distributed by the government and congress, with sugges tions from the state engineering depart ment" be said. "The whole country is divided into road maintaining dis tricts, each one being independent of tbe other. All expenses of maintaining the public roads are defrayed by tbe respective districts, with the exception of 10 per cent that is paid by tbo state. When a road is to be built application la made for an estimate of tbe cost of same and specifications, and this work is carried out by officials of tha state engineering department 'If these estimates meet approval the toad district can apply for means from the fund to carry out this work, and If the government feels satisfied that there are good reasons for the con struction of this road the government appropriates two-thirds of tbe estimat ed cost and authorises tbe propor-xt specifications. Then the district has to sign a contract with tbe state engi neering department in which it is specified mainly that tha road is to be constructed in a specified time and In accordance with tbe specifications and thereafter to be maintained, and it is also subject to forfeiture in case of not being In accordance with contract . "While iu progress tbe work must be in charge of an engineer recommended by tha state engineering department and tbe work is supervised by an offi cial of the same department" EXPENSIVE FLOWERS. The Tall Craae la BaUaad la tha iNUaeteeath Centnry. . ' ... . I During tbe tulip erase In Holland in tbe last century In one year tbe sales aggregated 10,000,000 florin. Holland went tulip mad, The bulbs were quot ed on tbe Stock Extihange, Ownership In them was divided into shares. Spec viator sold them abort At on tun more tulips were sold than existed. At Lille a brewer sold iris trad and good win In exchange for a bulb, which wo thereafter known aa tbe brewery tulip. In Amsterdam a father gave on by .way ef dower with hia child. . There after tbe variety was' known as tb marriikav-of-my-daughter. At Rotter dam hungry sailor, happening on a few, mistook them for onion and ate them. The repast fcscam aa fa BM s a Cleopatra's pea-la and prob ably exceeded It In cost At Tbe Hague poor fellow managed to raise a black tulip. Tb rumor of that vegetable marvel spread. Presently be waa visit ed by a deputation from a syndicate. For that rare lamb of bis the deputa tion offered 1000 florins, which be re fused. He was offered 10,000 florins. Still be refused. Cascade of gold were poured before hia resisting yea. finally, tormented and tempted, ha uceumbed. There and then the depu tation trampled that tulip under their feet. Afterward it appeared that tb syndicate had already grown a gem precisely similar and, Unable to bear tbe tdea that a rival extatod. bad au thorised tb deputation, if needful, to offer tea times tb amount which It ' PJt.y Batoa. Look after small profit la your poul try yard, aa "cutting, tb corners" paves tb way to success. A.apti tying with ttoe killer will rid tb ptsmlaes of lie and mites, but they win ease bark la the course of time; bene spraying should B In dulged la sect) week. Drafts of air while roosting la l Jorioos to poultry. Gravel or grit should be sharp, a as to cut aa well as grind. Whatever Is don to keep dowa Uce will gtv good results throughout tb mraar. I9 aot permit Tic to appear aad multtpty snake war upon tbeiu at the start l-fe?t 553 FOLK MAKING UP. hen Little Brother's Sorrr After - Making Slater Anrr. '- When little brother's sorry. At flrat he pouta awhile, " And then about hia dimpled mouth There stows a tiny amlis. He look, at stater aldewlae. And. creeping very near, He offers her his rocking horse, The toy he holds most dear! - huxmaop. ' But sister snakes her flaxen bead. - "Why, then," be cries, "my kit.? i My knlfef My eandy Ilont , (I've only had one bltel) Ton won't have any toys at all? . Why, then, I'll alvs you-tbis! .. Because, you see, I'm sorry, - , ' So. stater, take a klast" -Hannah a. Ferrald tn Youth's Company ton. , PLAYING TURTLE. A Game la Which Every Oa la It ,. at the Same Time. Any number may play the game of turtle, and no oue player is "it," for all are "it" together. The game begins by each choosfhg tbe kind of turtle b Intends to be. On perhaps is a land tortoise, another a snapper, another a tnud turtle and so on. Then they all alt in a row, resting their chins oa their knees, and each holding his left ankle with his right hand and his right ankle, with hia left hand. This is a very difficult position to keep. At a given signal tbe turtles, start for a goal a short distance away. It is the object of the game for tha turtles to waddle to-the goal and back to tho starting point without removing their hands from their feet. Many let go before the proper moment; tbe oth ers shout "dead turtle" and keep on, leaving their unfortunate companion in tbe background. The rules of the game demand that he wait there until tbe first successful racer reaches him on bis way back aud touches him with his elbow, by which be is supposed to Instill new life into the poor dead turtle. The latter Immediately starts out again and finishes In the best style he can. A there are always several dead turtles, be Is never lonely In his effort to succeed. Tbe winner is, of course, the one who returns to tb Starting place first Japaaeee Lesea Ahaat aa ln.ee. A trurlous tradition exists about a strange Insect which is found only In HlmeJL a pretty little town near tbe center of Japan. It seems there one lived a rich noble In a castle on the outskirts of tbe town wbo was famous for the magnificence . of bis dishes, among which were ten bowls of solid gold. In his employ was a maidserv ant O-KIku, to whom was Intrusted the care of the plate. Oue day a gold dish was missing. She searched dili gently, but In vain, and in despair drowned herself in a well. Her ghost returned each night to the spot and could be beard counting tbe dishes slowly with sobs, "Ichl-mal, nl-mal, san-mal, yo-maL go-mal. roku-mal, cld-chi-mal, ha-cbl-mal, ku-mal," to nine. wben there would follow a loud, wall ing cry, and the uncanny count would begin over again. At last tbe ueasy spirit passed Into the body of an Insect whose bead somewhat resembled a ghost with long, tousled balr, and In that part of Japan it Is considered un lucky to cultivate the chrysanthemum, as the girl's name, O-Klku, means chrysanthemum.: t - Sofl Peed Par Heae. Many breeders believe that soft food that Is, crushed grains or paste la more easily and completely digested by the birds and that It produces more tender flesh, ssys American Agricul turist. In reviewing experiments to this line Helen W. Atwater In a farm en' bulletin of tbe United States de partment of agriculture says In ex perimenta made at tbe New York state station chickens, laying hens and ca pons all produced better results with ground than with unground grain. Ac cording to a test at the Canada ex perimental farms, chickens fed . a ground grain ration were wben dress ed 6 per cent heavier, were plumper. slightly yellower and of better appear ance than chickens fed a similar ration of unground grain. Wben cooked tbe flesh of tbe bird fed tb ground grain waa regarded aa Juicier, owing evident ly to a marked, though not excessive, disposition of fst tn tb tlasues- Leg weakness In fowls Is a form of abeutnatlsm and is frequently caused by tb fowls bring kept in damp, filthy quarter. Ascertain wherein the sur rounding of your fowls are lacking and try to remedy tb same. This Is also caused by tbe fowls becoming too fst Give your fowls a teaspoonful of bak ing soda to each quart of drinking water and feed a cooling ration, such a wheat braa. middlings and vege tables of varle-a kinds. . v - Wheat Bev vree Oat. - Be a ere that He awio amoae m. Chcar on New Teat's - He cire uautance ehould tempt him from HIS ate, teeotT to stray. Hie feUowa, etralahtwmy they beraa That aar-aat man to joen. They knew from Ion experience That eweartn en ta dosd. H kept hi. word. Thoe knowlne" men isc. New Year-a d he baa not erookp-i , thins hot ctraretie.. VXm Tbx. Aye. For coughs, colds, brr s, asthma, weak throat's, A lungs, consumption, t:ike Ayer's Cherry Pec l. Cherry Pectori Always keep a bottle of the house. We have L saying: this for 60 years,' so have the doctors. 1 I aa. and fer' Cherry Pwtorai family for l jnr. It it the bait mem. In tli. world, I knew, for aU throat aud n UroublBi-" Mas. 1. K. SoaoBOSS, Waltham, V, Ja.,sh)..si4S. : . ..j-o-avsi' aaaMMaaaaa-a fOT ' anonaaaJaer The Lunr : Daily action of the bowels la rc sary. Aid notur with Ayer's Graham Underwrite Agency SCOTT & AI.DRIC1IT Graham, N. C. Fire - -l '.T' W '!:"( 4 I Insnrauc Prompt Personal Attention To All Orders. Correspondence Solicited. f OFFCE AT TJIE BANK OF ALAT. Dyspepsia 0 Diaests what yea This preparation contains al digestants and digests all I Mia. II gives insiant, reuei m falls to cure. It allows you to tha food you want. The most sen. jtomactis can tana it. tsy iimum u,- ik...aala if Hv.nprit.ta have in cured after everything else faiM. nnsnnutloil for tha stomach. (Jill ten with weak: stomachs thrive on it. First dose relieves. A-diet unnecessary. Cures ail tomaca ire: 5 Prr-pared only by E. O. DrWrrrA Co,, cl AAA AAA A4 a AAA AAA AG in eadaclie 10 ' a. 01 This time of the year are signals of warninrr. Take Taraxacu m Co m - Dound now. It may save you a spell of fe ver. It will reguiat ) your bowels, set your liver right, and cur your indigestion. AeoodTonic. An honest medicine araxacii n 0, MEBANE, N. C. Weall Hearto Are dot to Indlreatlon. Ninety-nine of t one bondred people whs have r;-i:t : eaa remember when it was - ' a i nan. It hi a scientific fact that ij ; heart disease, oo errtnio. are ' tracaabl to, but are tr.e direct r?t- : resrlen. Ait food t.kn tr3 t e which falls of perfect e resii.-.n ! -SwwiiS te stomach, pu;:.rr ft t ? , kaart. This tmerfw-ea .. .h t . the heart, and In tua co-.. - c seHeate hut wital o aa be;:.- - ... . Mr D N O., .'-' h - VO m , b 1 - w- it. I r- K ii i . -awatfi. aad a c. --i r - Koe ol I and v. St-ala ar,4 ! SUtae-- - ; r" CM-; mem it
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 1, 1906, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75