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aw i i -m i ,i r i r aar amaw - . - M- 1 1 "-W II 1 1 im - f ii mm 11 . . . . M. JJSE; FI&NILIN TIMES. " VOL. XXI. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report TQ PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. The Superintendent of Public Schools of Franklin county will be in Louisburg on the second Thurs day of February, April, July, Sep tember, October and December, and remain for three days, if necessary, for the purpose of examining: appli cants to teach in the Public Schools of thin county. I will also be in Louiisburg on Saturday of each week, and all public days, to attend to any business connected with my office. J. N. Harris, Supt. Prot'owsional cards. 21. COOKE & SON, . ATTORNEYS- AT LAW, L'tCISBURG, 5f. C. ill ntten ! the courts of Ka.,!i. Franlc nr '.nviii , Warren ho V, tv xtintie., Risi huiTemo Cmri of North 0;i-lu:p, iUja thi K cih nit i n ! District. Courtis. jyi. J. E. M ALONE. Office two doors 1-elow Thorn 8 & '.yoockt' Iraif store, adjoining r. 0. L. Liiis. jyK. W. H. NICHOLSON PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. LOUISBJKG, N. i. E. W. TIMBERLAKE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOCISBL'RQ, N. a Otflce on Nash street. r. S. SPRUILL, ATTOR NEY- AT-L AW, L0CISBUR8, n. c. Will attend the courts of Franklin, Vanc OntnvilK Witrnsn aiid Wake coacties, also the Supri-me Court of North Carolina. Prompt Rtt. nti in given to collections, &c. N. Y. QULLEY. ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, TKAFKLIXTON, rf. C. All legal bmHiness promptly attended to. T THOS. B. WILDER, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, LOUISBCKS, V. C. Oll. c on Main street, .one door balow Ervele not. I. w M. PERSON, ATTORNEY- AT- L AW, LorisBcr.G, n. c. Pri'rtii-us In ail courts. 03ice in the Court II o a so. ( is it q HAS IT DONE v CAN IT DO 5 The orisrin.il and only pnnine Componnd Oxycrn Treatment, that of Drs. St.irkey & P:iln is a Hfientinc adjnKtmcnt of the ele ments of Oxygen and Nitrogen magnetizad; b-a the compound is so condensed and land" portable that it is 6ent all over the vr!d. it lias been in use for ovpc twenty years; thousands of patients have been treated, nud over one thousand pliysicians have ned it and recommended it a very signifl r.int fact. ' f'ompoTind 0-xygen Its Mode of Action in i 'lesiilts." is the title of a book of 200 pH-tres, published by Dre Starkey & Palen, vhii'h gives to all inquirer fnll information h,h to tnH remarKaoie curative agent and a good record of Bnrprisirig enres in a wide rang of chronic cases many of them after lining abandoned to die' by other physi ri.iriH. Will he mailed free to any address on application. Drs. STARKEY & PAL.EX, i r.oo Arch Streot, Philadelphia. Pa. 120 Satter Street, Sap Francisco, Cal. Please mention this paper. The Central Saloon. I desire to say to my friends and customers that leave moved my Saloou on Court street, in the house formerly occupied by Fer rell Parrish, where I am better prepared to accommodate them. Mv Saloon will hereafter be known as and I propose to deal out to mv custom-rs the very BEST AND FINEST LIQUORS. My special Brand is Nathan Gilmore's Rye, 8 years old. It is extra fine. In fact all of my whiskies are t i r -top and contain no "head-aches.'' Respectfully, J. W. Ponton, Proprietor. NOTICE. . By virtue of the power conferred upon me in a certain agreement to execute title, executed on the 27tb day of August 1891, I will sell at the Court House door inLouisburg. for cash, on Saturday, March 4th 1893, a certain lot or parcel of land in Franklin county, Louisbum township, adjoining the lands of ra. Ridley, Pleas Yar borough, Hilliard Malone and others, it be ing the lot of land contracted by me to be sold to R. F. Perry, and now occupied by hiim For description of same see Book 85, page 359, Regis try of Franklin county. This Jan uary, 27th, 1893. . H. A. Cbenshaw F, S Spbuilv Attorney. v . WHAT THE CENTRAL Scritoefs Magazine FOR 1893. PARTIAL PROSPECTUS. FKASCE3 HODflSON BUBSSTT witl contribute the first serial to appear in a mt?panoe from hr pn for many yers, enti tied "The One I Kuew the Beat of All." n. C. BUNJTEH will famish a aeries of six sketchs entitled "Jersey Street and Jersey Lane." Illustrated. BOBXRT GRAVT wil relate the further Josephln.i iu "A sequel to 7 he ReflecUons of U M . . 1 Til.-. . t A. . , a M-u-rid Man ;Hn. ' will contribute apolitical uovel of great pow the i (r- rtitWThe Copperhead. BY THE AL'TH )I; OF 'JETBY." Miss S. B. Elliott. Vn .-. hor cf -J.rty," wili write a re.liaU story cf i( amout the :tf, "la.. liurtct ai-jr- , iot " i --t -)xaL r.sMisi CFNCE.-... i .rlyl tr r to j "U'l a ;i.;.t v. f th ,t rjuuf '. .riyl. rt-ii- .1 . Olll !. 1 U. . I. .. i '' ir ' a - ro--'-nt u r Kt ., o i By U)- 1 L-.;ii (rt i-c .,f'"' ' .j Hi :v.i j, i.j, ;; . r.ti-rt.';;: rrm ;... . . v i". thai ca-'try. !' . ,; v th - uthu: iiisior? I ni f -.tart of th ui y , will loi'tinu- ; .y aom -. v t iegpap rs. j-uoti(, thi t, Tr w.;r i-orresponii' -uta, -.Villi vri i bald For; -es, ;4Uvi th rs. ii iu.- r:.v tw. IV.V.t" ;i. Ii a v i - u: ul r.y -.tri.,.- iifjs. , jr- h- A series of r!i.l s ojj :he lit w o'k i n i in many .a!jijig-th.-. . hiei w. yfx-'.uiv.- of profeesions) in whi.fc in. n ;jaru th -ir um i hooj. tx sen. H wn pU MlsU-M 1. t--r Ml tho giving theitn,ir.j.-.sioiiiui uit i y th-sexhii upuii .lAecvnf olf rv-.-i-:-. cf i.t, c-nh . itan iin'i foreijrji: u.anv f.f r y ir ition ir- era will be aiso irtiats who riil illustrate theii serv- own articles. Mi?Ci?LLA:,"K.;r:i ri ticles. Forth r .'Gntrii.utioiHj t-i th'. Poor in Kreat iuri..xr s ;i.utrat tl pp-r on I the London pi,n for Houo a-i (o Invxlui chil aron, tc. (. ist'i-i iA inU-r. st.vlso wili t Prof ti l'.priii n auThorituiye i.-rount oi th -. Peary Sei'.tf Kxp-ult:on alius! rut.,) a very inter-' tstmg- arrti-1-.-. by Oet ive Uaiiu-) on the exhioi- ! Moaoi wymaii'B art tow oiiig on in P.ris, i Hto arriol' s upon artistiu sabjecu, accouuta ' "f tr.ids. et.. et . IHS ILLUSTBATIOys nf th" year wi'J represent the work not only of th-. weU-kxowii ilustr,tdrs, tnt many cr iwings will also apih;.ir by artiste who are Vest known as paint rs. TERMd : $3. a Yt ar; 2c. a NnnVber. SPECIAL OFFER. The numbers for 1SS2 and a sus-ription for 189S. 4 Oil. The Mia:, with imK nnmbers, bound iu Uoth, $6.00. Now is the tim.- t.j sub scribe. Charges SckirT5r's So-, 743 Broadway New York. 1893. HARPER'S MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED. Harper's Magazine for 1893 will continue to maintan the unrivaled standard of excellence which has characterzed it from the beglning Ainougthe noteable features of the year there will be new novels by A. Conan Da We, Con stance Fenimore Woolson, and William Black Short stories will be. contributed by the most pooalar writers of the day, including Mary E Wilkins, Kiehar-1 Harding Davis, Manraret Deland, Brander Matthews, and many others. The illustrated descriptive papers will embrace articles by JuUan Ralph oh new Southern and Western smbjects; hy Theodore Child on In dia; by Poaltney Bigelow ou Russia and Qer- manp;ny Kicnan aar Jing Davis on a Lon-' don Season: ny Col. T. A. Dodce on Kastern I Riders; etc. Edwin A Abbey's illustrations of Shakespeare's Comraedics will be continued Literary articles will be contributed by Chis Eliot Norton, Mrs. Saraes T Fields. William dean HoweUs, Brander Matthews, and others. HARPER'S PERIODICALS. 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CONSOLIDATED SHOE CO. Maanfacluicis, Lynn, - - Mass. Shoes made to measure. 1 .FOR SALE BT F. N. & R. Z. EQERTON. SUen for Four Moath. ' "On one of my cruises ; I had a big black West Indian in the crerT." said a whaling captain. -'One da j, fox some reason, he jumped overboard.- The eea was a little rough, and it was quite awhile before we got the boats lowered, and we lost eight of him. But we pulled back a little way, and I soon saw him "tmrning with all his might, but in the epposite direction from the boat I relied to him. and when he saw he was discovered he made no further effort to get away. And where he was going is more than I know, for it all happened m midocean. We hauled him into the boat and made for the ship. It was four months before we made port, and yet in all that time Sandy, for that was hii name, never spoke a word. No one on board oould get a sound from him. "Sometimes he would lie down on the deck and seem to be asleep and some of the crew would slip up and stick him with a pin. At first be would twitch- a little and then would not move at alL We made a bed for him down below and kept him away from a knife or other weapon. You could tell him to take the wheel and he would steer right enough, but if ron asked him what course the ship was making he was silent as the grave. And when we made the first port he went ashore, and I never saw him again. But seme of the crew said he regained his tongne on land and thought he had been 'playing us all the time. But it was a strange case." San Francisco Examiner. Now About London Dudes. I wieb to atr.jnrc tor the benefit sole ly of the yorth vho dtbires to be English, that the turning np of the troupers at tho feet is qratQ the '. nir. and indicative nf "squally" weather in London; that it is also quite Ibt. tnnR to be vory glow, p vlnfr.llv slov--. i- jraeo-h. And that to be tray intxjrcsi in r;-ihita or anybody is a Eeriotis ft ir. v'-.s ri; Venp. The cdvic toprecer.eon s.l ct-casiorie 'i Cied and Btony pate is trite a&d rJtogothcr tin neoessarj . 1 ar.i quite well assured that the man who writes a book on how to be English, if ho goe to his grave un wept, mihcnortd and tmsung, wiU at I cart have made enough out of tlie work to defray tho eirnse of his burial. But I wunt to 6iy thiit the thing above ail others is to hive a small appetite, par ticularly at luncheon. In the near neighborhood of the city hall is a "hole ia the wall." where many of our most successful lawyers take their midday hite in some cases a most sub stantial bite. There was quite a gather ing i" this resort the other day at noon. whaJfthe very latest in London makeup arrived. Leisurely waikiES to the bar the "Londoner" drawled. "Waiter, give me a lit, jnrt a bit, of toast and a glass of milk." In the silence tha ensued up on this light desnarKi. it is reL&ted that the waiter, in tho excitement of the mo ment, buttered the toaet aad neglected to put waiter m the miLt TTashington News. t I.oOlr d Too Wtrrldly. An Auburn ma was rebuked for iu-d-nlgiug in a prORcactty ia a prayer meet ing not long ego, but still daring spirits oeoBKioiMilly transgress ia tfeat way with out beoag gTidireced. It relarted at a re cent parish raeetrng ia Richaaoad, Me., to see about calling a pastor, a well known citieen prociraeot in ohtirch af fairs took ocowsioQ to remark on the ap parent icdifferenoe of church members to the object for wfeicfc the meeting had been oafle. Ee hod hoped, he sed. to see the church membership fully represented, but it was with nraoh regret that he noted their ab sence. At the oocclvsioa of the gentle man's remarks a wonm in the congrega tion wfeo had grown xmtmxy un4er his critictsm verrtnred to smggaei that there a fair repreeeetatioa of the eocleei eetioal feody preet, tndaoang by a wave of her haad several church members oocupytag ses im different parts of the house. For a moment ft looked like a knock out in favor of the wman. but the gen tleman wse equal to the occasion, and straightening up he remarked with his usual gravity. "It ny be that our members look amd appear eo mnch like the world's people that I did not recog nize there." Lewirtxro Journal. Here is a beTrtiful extract of one of Whittder'B letters to Ehrabeth Stuart Phelps: I have just been reading Canon Far rar's sermons on the ""Eternal Hope," and I agree wtth him in the title of one of thea, that ,Lrfv is Worth Living." even if one eant sleep the biggest part of it fiway. Thee and I get more out of it, after all, thsa these sieek headed folk who deep o" night. I qurfce sympathixe with thee in what thee say of the "causes." Against aft my natural incli nations I have been faghtmg for them hail my hfe. "Woe is me, my raother!" I can say wtta the Id prophet, "who has borne na, a man of strife and conten tion. " I have Buffered dreadrally from coarseness. nM seeking, vacatv and stu pidity asnetig aesnciatea. aa well as from the eoidness. open hostility, aad, went, the ridkocle of the outside world: but I now eae that t was beet, and that I needed it all. Oentory. Leech was at his best as an entertainer in his own home. Dean Hole asked him one iy, after Leech had given him a delectable dinner at his lodgings in Boar borough, how he made each good cham pagne cup. "The mgredients,' he re plied, Mef which this refresbmg heisi ttge ii oovnpoeed, aad which is . hly reconsmended by the faomlty for erlosrs gciag'bi-oad. stop ping at home, are dinpgn, kand aerated water, but in ooMaqnt-ade of ad fajacmg years, I always fergef the selt zer." Rxchaage. We r't Balleve Tt. " Husband (to wife at tho theater Have you brought the opera glass? Wlfe-WbaVl cant use tt. - "WhynotT, "I forgot to bring my ttjaincnd braa- LOOISBURCr, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY A Hovel Diving BU. Archibald Price, one of the pioneer ettlera of Kanawha valley. West Vir ginia, was making maple sugar in a grove across the river from his house, when he caught sight of three Indians skulking in the vicinity. "The var mintsr he said to himself. "80 they mean to pounce on me when Tve two pail o' sap aboard." He waa just starting for some of the more distant trees. Of course he changed his purpose on the instant, but he waa quick witted enough to give no sign of the fact, and for a few moments busied himself about the boiling place, whistling merrily. If he set oaT across the river in his canoe, the Indians would pursue and shoot him. He had a brother who was a sea diver. From him. he had learned something about diving bells, and he now took a sudden resolve to make hii kettle serve hm in that capacity. Hs emptied it. tmt in such a .way that an observer at a little distance would have supposed he was filling it from a tub standing near. As soon as it was emptied he lifted it quickly, and hurried down the river bank, where he raised it, in an inverted position, over his head, the rim resting on his shoulders, and walked into the water. The bank was steep, and the water was soon up to his shoulders. Keeping a firm hold of the kettJe, he proceeded. The water got deeper and deeper until it was several feet over the top of the kettle. The improvised diving bell answered its purpose excellently, supplying air for him to breathe until he emerged on the home side oi the river. So Mr. Price saved himself aad his iron kettle from falling into the hands of the savages. Youth's Companion. Th R!m m1 Fll m Famllfe. A family, like a race or a aation. does indeed bud, Sower aiid run to seed, and the seed must be transplanted to new soil in order to br.d and flower again. Now a part of the foolima anceatorship of the past resulted, in the creation of aristocracies bailt on the foundation of an illustrious ancestor. Ve are gat ting wiser and better. We are putting our arietocrVies closer to the primal source. We are learning no longer to respect a man because his ancestor was better than himself, but because he him self is an ancestor. Th farce at royalty is played out: the farce of rank and . caste is in a moribund condition. All men will soon learn to laugh at the claims of kmg descent. Many men laugh at them now. And this in itself is an imaaense step in advance. Snobbery, vulgarity, pretension these hideoos trait will soa be of the past. Our grandchildren, freed from the ab surd ideaa. the abenr4 reetrictions of Benrieavage inception, will b larger, more generous, more tolerant better, in short, than ooreeivea. Fresh and vigor ous blood will intermix with the worn out desoendasrta of great men. and in due trine greater men from the stock will He bom to the future. Every suc ceeding age sees the abandonment of some superstition which has checked the progress and development of the race in tbe past. William 6. Walsh in New York World. l New Hiiiniyhk Pmn effective and crcatbr stranliSod An method proflucrng a photographic rcpi eseiitation in the form of aa intaglio engraving, or. as it is gsemfly called, a photcfefavure," is being intrednced. Thenewmethed ie intended to reduce the time occupied in the process, which usually takes many days te a few hours, and to dispense entirely with the supple mentary aid of tfce skaUfal engraver. Its essential featnre hea in the fact that the picture, instead ef being obtained from a graduate depth ot the emrwriag. is produced from a sonken surface of uniform depth, the gradations of light, barf tone and. shade being effected by minute tines and stipples of varying thickness, but of uniform riWann apart from center to center. The picture is made up of eerrni distant stipple, varying from a aukroaoopic point up to a sise where they ooaieaoe in a sobd biaok. the beif tenea consisting of stipples nfxTBt 1-e00th of an inch in di ameter.' If a coarse stipple im need the effect varies from that of Ekenaetznt and approaches more nearly that of a line of engraving, the light nhadac being made up of percepti ale tinea and stipples, like the effects of a steel or copper plate en graving of equal texture. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Cenpartioii of Birth lUtM. There are 88.000.000 people in France, and daring the last five years the in crease in population has aalj been 134, 600. La 46 depssrtmests out of a total of cm uiw 10 kuuuj a aznusiraon. it is not due to any high averaee of deaths. atthongh infant mortality is higher than it snorua be. rt is one to the sznaB num ber of children born. The average birth rate has fallen to 21 or C3 per 1,000 in habftaajts Tras is a phenocaemally low rate when1 Contrasted wtth 88 to 80 in Grermacy. 85 or 86 in Italy, 88 in Eng land and 80 in Switzerland. The per centage is lower in Fmdos than in any other country; so that , there is a rapid increase "m rival oountriea and Francs remains stationary. C2ooago Hsrald, 'f Ignatius Loyola's followers have erect ed a monument to bis memory over the spot where tbe fortunes of soar decided I that Canada should be a free British j country. -TheesmiU' Beta-eat stands j in tbe city of Quebec en th ground ; oonseorated by the blood of igfwh aol- diers. and in front of ft has been placed 1 a colossal stasne of the f evader of the order. Torosrte ICafl., The salary aad ensoHsoente of the Prince of Wales, snypoaed to be about fSOO.000. woald probably be enongh fox h private needs were he awt pot to so largean expense m periortmnj: royal and social obligations which naonld be un dertaken by bis royal mother. Hew York'Preai ; 3, 1803. NOTES FROM THE BILVILLE GEOR GLi BANNER. The preacher has just returned from conference He had to walk sixty miles, without 6aying grace, but when ho got home he took up a collection and gbt enough to buy a wisp broom. We have been running for sher iff for six days, and we are almost out of breath. But our father be fore ns waa a runDer, and it runs in our blood. Our lecture season commences next Wednesday. Thatis,)our wife returns home that day. Some peofle are always finding fault with this world, but, taking it all in all, it's about tbe best world we were ever in. Since our last issue we were ex pelled from the church for non-payment of pew rent. We immedi ately stopped the preacher's paper and he hasn't bpen able to take up a collection 6ince. Revenge is sweet. We have had to abandon our trip to the world's fair. We couldn't stand the thought of peeing (ieor- g-ia represented with six pquashes, a few pumpkins and a half-dozen long-handled gourds. We had the good fortune tohave a cow killed by the railroad and we got $20 for her. Now. if we could only manage to let 'em kill us, we'd get $10,000. The Billville military company broke up in a row. No privates. We are still frozen up and only able to issue a half-sheet. Most of the ink is ice, and our devil Las been eating it for three days. There is only one blessing about this weather and that is rabbit ! We have had rabbits for break fast, dinner and supper for six days past, and they are mighty filliu' things ! All who owe us will do well to call and settle at once. It i true our shot gun got froze, but we've been thawing her out by the tire for three days, and will soon be ready for them. We have resigned the butcher business. Not one soul brought us a cow, though we said they would be thankfully received. We return thanks to an unknown friend for one load of wood. All that we need now is an ax and somebody to split it. When the preacher had retired last night, some thief broke into his home and stole the pound party which bad been given him by his congregation. It consisted of one pound of flour, ond pound of lard, one pound of sugar and seven pounds of faith the latter being the chief diet of the preacher. We have about 500 second-hand New Year resolutions at this office, which we will sell cheap for cah. Each one of them is warrauted to last three days. No one remembered us -at New Years except the sheriff. lie called around and closed us up, as usual; but we "set up" to a jug of moonlight liquor and a local notice and were open before night. New Year's callers, in the sflape of friendly relations, areetill pour ing in on ns. We try to say, 'Make us thankful for what we are about to receive," but after we have received it we are too weak to say anything. Some men are born lucky. We knew a man who insured bis life for $1 000 one day and died tbe next. Where White Caps Are Needed. Winston Republican. Some men are too meau to die, and there is one that claims Wins- as his home. By excessive: drinking and genuine cussedness, his wife was forced to leave him and their toddling child was re tained by the brnte and placed with his aged and afflicted mother, with whom he made his home. He baa now decamped and the commit tee for relief found the poor old mother Satnrday alone and help less with tbe child, and not able to bring in wood or prepare food had shebeen blessed in these particu lars. The whipping post may be barbarons, but a dozen lashes across the back of this rascal would prove simple justice well applied. DOES FARM 15 G PAY T We have always believed and believe now, that a man can make more money farming, on the cap ital invested, than in almost any other legitimate business. Let us look at this matter a little. Men often reach conclusion with out proper considerations, and their conclusions are usually wrong. We will take a farm with 300 acres of land worth nay $-"3,000, and with $2,000 worth of stock, implements, etc., making an investment of $5,000. A far mer thus situated and outof debt, makes first a good living for his family. They have not only tbe substantial supplies, but an abun dance of fruit, milk, butter and everything a family needs. In addition to this they have a team and vehicle for visiting their friends, going to church, etc. Now then suppose this man, when he winds up the year, simply pays off everything and squares up with the world and has no money left, what has he made on his $5, mi investment? The answer is, a comfortable support for his family. Any man in town, to have lived as well and had as many luxuries, would have had to pay out not less than $2,000, and with no more capital than the farmer had, he could not pos sibly have done it at any busi ness. But a farmer thus situated if he farmed upon correct meth ods, would, exo-pt in the case of extraordinary misfortune, make more than the support of his fam ily. His farm would be improv ing aud becoming more fertile every year, his stock would be increasing, his orchards would be be getting larger, the buildings and other improvements on his farm would be added to, and in hundreds of ways he would be getting better off. Of course in the above remarks we refer to men who farm upon a proper ey b" tt-m and with correct methods, and not to the slip shod farmer. Now then it is a well known fact that there are many men engaged in farming who make a comfort able support for their families who have not a capital of $1,000 invested. It requires capital to make money, and a man has no right to complain of a purvuit as not being remunerative, when he has no capital invested and is doing business practically on borrowed capital, which is the case with many farmers in this couutry No matter what a mn is engaged in, there may be disadvantages which handicap him aud debt is one ot them. The farmer who is in debt labors under a great dis advantage, but so does the man in any other business. We do not propose to paint farm life in too glowing colors. It has its difficulties, but so does every oth er calling. What we desire to do, is to disabuse the minds of many engaged in farming, that they are subject to more reverses and labor under more disadvan tages than men in other callings. This is not trne. The farmer lives the moet independent life of any class of people in the world. The cry of the demagogue has been heard in the land. He has tried to convince the farmer that he is the most oppreseed of all classes and auy additional amount of nonsense. We do not under estimate the depression in agri culture and the difficulties the farmer has to encounter, but they are no greater than are common to men in all other callings, and we would infuse a spirit of hope fulness and confidence in the large class of our people'engaed in a pursuit, than which, none is more honorable, and in our opin ion, none more profitable. War renton Record. Keep it in the house. Good advice from tbe Captain. Cap tain 8. C. Walker, Company C, 1st Regiment, Indiana Veterans Legiou, LaFayette, Ind., writes I have used Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup in my family for the last two yeara, and advise all having children never to be without, it. NUMBER 50, Champion Speller cf North rarolmi The following concerning th Gold Leafs champion speller is Uken from the News-Observrf. Many of our readers know Mr. J. J. Allen, and will cheerfnlly me. cord to him all that oar contem porary says, It will be re mem bered that he vanquished all com petition in a "spelling bee" at Raleigh some weeks ago, where- jupon the Gold Leaf nominated 1 him as North Carolina's represpn tative in the international gpell- ing match at the World's Fair, j If Mr. Allen consents to enter th 1 contest we have no fears as to th result. The Newa-Obeerver says J this of him : : Mr. Allen, of Franklin county, the champion -peller who aston- ished the audience and van quished the entire line of cons tants at the recent "spelling bee" in Raleigh, was in the city yes terday. There will be at Chica ' go during the World's Columbi an Exposition an international ; spelling match, and Mr. Allen will be there to champion the ' prowess of North Carolina, and ir all human probability will bring back to the Old North State the ' laurels of the great contest. ' If be enter? the list in thii great battle of orthographers it ; is safe to wager that he will come off conqueror. He is nothing less ' than a prodigy as a speller and I has been ever since he sawed down a clas of over forty the first day h went to school, when a mere lad, on the word fustian. He has been in many, a heated spelling contest ever since and has coped with many distin guished scions of lexicography t'tit has never been whippel yet. 1 Mr. Allen says he has a menta' : photograph of every word he ha ever seen or heard spelled, and ; these mental impressions never become blurred or uncertain, and S if the committee in charge of tU j Chicago contest does not get ou j of the limits of Webster's Una ; bridged he has no fear of being tripped. He has never miasel i fire. He dces not talk of what j he can do, but all you have to d. I is to call out the word you wani j spelled and Mr. Allen will grind I out the letters that spell it and j tell you the 11 timber of page in tb j bargain, if it is to be found with I in the covers of "Webster's Blue j Bsck." The faculty amount to . j phenomenal, if not an occn!' j power with him. It is in no wii 1 the result of hard application. U j he goes to Chicago he will bring j back the trophies of the victor. I ' - - .. , 1 Experiments in KerUllxlnff Soils. The tabulated data of exper 1- ments with fertilizers, famished by the Maine Experiment Sta tion, on tive farms in different parts of the State ia of genersi interest. Dissolved bone black, 500 pounds per acre; muriate cf potah, 100 pounds, and nitrate of soda, 150 pounds, were at - plied singly, two by two and all 1 three together on fourteen dupli cate plats, two plats remaining uumanured. Iu three cases the crop grown was potatoes, and i one case each barley and corn. In four out of five of theee ex periments the increase in the crop waa produced at least ex pense with either potash or phos phoric acid, or a combination tbe two. In the fifth experiment (with com) not only the largest crop, but the crop in which the mcreaae waa prodnced t leaT expense, came from fertilizing with muriate of potaeh awl ni trate of soda. In an experiment wlthfprig versus fall manuring fo oats, xit the rate of five cords of manure per acre, spring manuring gaw the largest yield of grain. Tbr largest yield of straw came from the fall manure plot. Many a man has been betrayed by a kiss after takiDg a drink cf whisky. Bingharaton RepabH can. Salvatien Oil,.ibe greatest enre on earth for paitva an anodyn has no equal rn .the,' market U is without donbi 4be beM iioV uenL 25 cent.