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A hundred years and more have passed since the revolution of 1776. Many changes have taken place during that time, but u
f so much importance as the changes in Farm Implements. 1899 sees another revolution while a peaceful one yet nonk
-,4- onHihat is thA revolution in Drill making. -The makers of the "BUCKEYE" Steel Frame Drill are Pinnro ;n u t. he 'ess
have been at it for yearsand we venture to say th other Drill will be found the Conveniences, the Up-to-Date Imnrm, SSs
and "handy" Arrangements which are a part and parcel of the "BUCKEYE
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Strongest and Lightest Frame.
Highest Wheels, making light draft. :
Fertilizer and WheatfFeeders alyays in sight.
"Double Run" Force Wheat and Oats Feeder.
Glass Fertilizer Feederswill not rust, gum or corrode.
Of course the Buckeye has many more features distinctly its
own, but we will let some of the best and most successful far
mers inthe county tell you about them.
See what they say about it.
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As Simple as Can Be.
Guilford Collegs N. C, Aug. 25, 1899.
Wakefield Hardware Co., Greensboro, N. C. .
j Gentlemen It is with pleaeure that I comply
with your request for a testimonial for the Buck
eye Drill. Jt is, I; think, the very best drill sold
on the market today. The draft is very light, it is
reasy to manage, does its work well and is, as
strongly constructed as any drill I ever saw and is
as simple in construction as any piece of machin
ery can be. It has certainly the best fertilizer
feeder eyer put on any drill. The feeder b9ing
glass will not clog or choke and will never rust,, as
is the case with cast iron feeders. It handles any
kind of fertilizer in the most satisfactory manner.
I left Acid Phosphate in it for six weeks at a time,
have, it cleaned to start the
and did not nave to
drill. It sows wheat and oats as well as I want
them put in, and ;for peas it is ahead Of them all.
You certainly have drill and no mistake.
Yours truly, Dr. D. A. Boberson.
Greensboro, N. C, Aug. 21, 1893.
Wakefield Hardware Co.
Dear Sirs I h aye' used several different kinds of
'drills and find the Buckeye Disc Drill the best of
them all. On clean
land it does good work, and on
grassy or stalky land it also does good work better
than the Hoe Drill. It will put in any amount'of
fertilizer wanted lip to 500 pounds. Also does fine
work in sowing peas and oats. Albert Peele.
If you have any idea of buying Drill, it
alogiie, or better than that, call and see us.
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Is Glad He Bought the Buckeye.
Hinton,1 N. C, Aug. 1, 1899. '
Wakefield Hardware Co., Greensboro, N; C.
Gents My Buckeye Drill is all right and I am
well pleased with it. I bought it in preference to
any other drill on the market. It is light draft
and works well. The Glass' Fertilizer Feeder is
the best of any. It will not rust or clog. I left
Acid Phosphate in my drill from last fall till this
spring and without cleaning it out, just poured in
more fertilizer and went to drilling. Could not
have done this with any other drill. It works all
right in rough, rocky land Much better than I
thought it would. I am glad that I bought a Buck
eye. You rs truly, H. M. Coble.
A Perfect Drill. "
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j Colfax, N. C, July 22, ISfr
Wakefield Hard ware Co., Greensboro. N. C
, Gentlemen I think the Buckeye Disc Drill it
best on the market. I had nerer used one till Vt
season and put in over 80 acres for myieU
others without an hoirs bother. There tut)
choking, no dragging, and the lightest drift I tin
overused. The wheat feed is perfect, the ferii.
zer feed can't be beaten and the land eurreyorit
correct, making a perfect drill. j
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11 be to your interest
Yours for
to examine the Buckeye, sold in the Disc and Hoe. Write us for cat-
business, ,
THE BANNER CORNFIELD.
A Patch In Illinois That Will
Produce 600,000 Bushels.
P South of Ava, in Southern Illinois,
from the brow of one of the Kinkdid
hills, can be seen the most magnificent
field of corn upon which the white
-man's vision has rested since the time
the Pilgrims landed and learned to
know the merits of maise in hasty
pudding, says the St. Louis Globe-
cDemocrat. The September sun Is put
ting the golden color upon 6,000 acres
'Of corn in one great field. This is tbe
banner confield of the world. It will
give this year 600,000 bushels of .corn,
an average of one hundred bushels to
the acre.
. Even from The nearest hill-top this
field appears to be a solid mass. As
far as the vision reaches the corn ex
tends without apparent break. On
closer approach the spectacle is even
more impressive. Tbe corn stands at
.an even height of fifteen feet. So
heavy is it that a man four rows from
the outer edge cannot be seen. At a
little distance the edge of the great
body presents an unbroken line. Close
view shows an occasional dividing
boundary in the form of a narrow
road or lane. On either side of these
lanes tbe corn rises Jike a wall high
above the wagon. Having once enter
ed the lane the traveler finds it im
. practicable to turn around. The only
thing to do is to drive to the other
eide of the great field.
Nobody has ridden through the
6,000 acres who question the estimate
of one hundred bushels to the acre.
And nobody who Jias visited the 'field
since the present crop began to mature"
can remember to have seen the like of
it before.
The banner cornfield of the United
States occupied wnat was recently
nig Lake, in the American Bottom;
water stood at a depth of -two feet
over an irregularly formed tract, per
naps iwoj mues wide and four miles
long in its largest measure. Lone aeo
an abortive attempt at draining was
made, but it failed of its purpose. Big
juaice continued to lurnlsn sport to the
duck hunters, but was worthless in all
other respects. Mr. Whitney Gilbreth,
oi Ava, began to speculate upon the
possibilities of reclamation. The fel
1 X a. 1 M m r rf-t :n .
luwcmzens oi Air. uiioenn are nuw
rather loath to recall the uucompli
mentary things they said about his
want of sound sense in wasting his
time with Big Lake.
I They saw. him put into the overflow
ed land his money until he owned
thousands of acres. They saw a drain
age district formed. A steam dredge
cut a channel 2.5 feet wide from tbe
lake to the" Mississippi river. This
ditch ranged from eight to thirty feet
depth. The citizens commented sar
castically and could hardly be patient
until the time to say, '! told you so."
That time never came to them. The
water drained from tbe lake into the
Cut and passed away, leaving in one
body 6,000 acres of almost inconceiva
bly fertile land. And .that is where
to-day ripens this mass of corn which
beats the world..
Southern Poet.
The Timrod Memorial Associa
tion of South Carolina has pub
lished a new edition of Henry Tim
rod's poems, the profits of which
are to be devoted to the erection of
a suitable memorial in honor of
the poet. The chief object of the
publication of this third edition,
however, is to restore to general
circulation poems that first ap
peared when the country's atten
tion was absorbed in tbe troubles
arising out of the Civil War, and
so failed to get the hearing they
deserved. They have been out of
print for many years, and the asso
ciation deserves the thanks of the
reading public for its efforts to
make it acquainted with one of
tlje three best poets, the .United
States has yet produced. A leaf
let, in which press comments have
been gathered by theassociation,
shows a hearty, appreciation of
Timrod in all sections .of the
Union. He was a South . Caro
linian, and his best verses were in
support of the Southern Confed
eracy, but genius commands the
applause even of enemies. '
The Test of Love.
"Tom, you ask me to be your
wife-to give you my heart, my all.
Think well of what you say, and
then tell me if you will erant me
one small favor."
"Anything'you ask, love."
"Then promise me that you will
never smoke another cigar as long
as you live." -
"I promise, dear."
"And does it cost you a pang?"
Not a pang. I'd rather emoke
a pipe any day ."Collier's Week-
The mosquito is doomed since
the Agricultural -department has
concluded that he propagates ma
laria and has instructed the peo
ple that a few drops of coal oil
spread on every yard of water
where he breeds will destroy his
larvae. This is going to be hard
on the mosquito and the people
who purchase his destruction, but.
think of the good it will do the
struggling Coal Oil Trust.
The first cotton mill in Kansas
will soon commence operations at
Independence.
GOAT LYMPH FOR INSANITY
Mr. Bush, .Who Was Consider
ed Hopelessly Insane, Sent
Home a Cured Man.
Joliot, 111.. September 23. Irwin
Fuller Bosh, a young man of Joliet,
was sent to Kankakee Asylum, last
March, pronounced hopelessly insane.
I To-day, through treatment with
lymph, from glands of goats, Bush is
home, completely restored in mind.
The lymph was discovered by Dr.
Roberts, a physician of Greene coun
ty,1 Mo. Its application to cases of in
sanity was made at a Chicago labora
tory, where Bush was taken last June.
He has been subjected to injections of
the lymph, showing steady improve
ment until he was discharged last
Tuesday, cured.
J Tbe treatment is said also to arrest
senility. Dr. Roberts has gone to
Europe to lay his discovery before
Prof. Koch, of Berlin, - and other for
eign scientists, with a view of having
them adopt it in insane asylums there.
Two Railroad Wrecks.
Denver, Col., Sept. 23. Six pas
sengers were killed and five injured,
one perhaps fatally, in a collision
on the Denver & Rio Grande Rail
road, at Reno Siding, near Florence,
at 4 :08 o'clock, this evening. The
trains in collision were the Philips
Judson excursion from the East,
and the east-bound fast freight.
Springfield, 111., Sept. 23. The
Chicago fc Alton limited express
was wrecked to-night at Elkhart,
eighteen miles from this city, by
the rails spreading and two pas
sengers were injured, one of whom
will probably die.
The Suicide of Mr. Burroughs.
' Raleigh, Sept. 23 J, H. Bur
roughs, a prominent farmer, magis
trate and influential member of tije
Baptist church, living 8 miles south
of j Warrenton, committed suicide
yesterday evening by taking car
bolic acid and Jumping into W. K.
Williams' fish pond. This morning
at 8 o'clock the empty bottle was
found floating on the pond and tbe
pond was dragged and tbe body
found. He leaves a wife and four
children.
Pana, Rockf ord, Carterville ! Let
the philanthropic friends of the
negro at. the north take these names
down on their memorandum books.
They are names that stand not only
for Republican towns in the Re
publican state of Illinois, but for
the actual attitude of the northern
people toward the negroes. At
lanta Constitution.
An Independent Official
In speaking the other day of the
great progress -which has
made in the postal service of the
country within recent years, Post
master Merritt told a storyjto il
lustrate that there were still parts
of tbe .United States i which had
not been touched by the spirit of
improvement. I
"I stopped in at the PostofHce
department the other day," Gen.
Merritt said, in reciting the story,
"and in looking over some of the
communications I chanced on one
that took my fancy mightily. It
came from the bead of one of Un
cle Sam's offices way out in the
Rocky Mountains, in an almost un
inhabited section, and appeared to
have been sent partly as a note of
information and partly as an ulti
matum to the government at Wash
ington. It read as follows :
Notice. This office will be closed
for the next three days, while the
postmaster goes on a bear hunt.
You can discharge me if you want
to, but I warn you beforehand that
I'm the only man that can read
and write -in tbe neighborhood.
TO BE RELEASED.
Fourteen American Prisoners
Will be Turned Loose
To-Morrow.
Manila, Sept. 26. Two English
men.held by the insurgents since June,
have arrived at Angeles and report
that the Filipino congress has resolved
that the fourteen American prisoners
will be surrendered on Wednesday or
Thursday. They have no information
of their whereabouts.
Charles M. Rockefeller, of the Nine
teenth Infantry, disappeared on April
last and no trace of him has been dis
covered. It is ascertained that the three
Americans the rebels, captured are
acting as officers of the insurgent
army.
To Look After Germany's Interest.
Washington, Sept. 25. As a re
sult of conferences between Acting
Secretary Hill of the State Depart
ment, and Dr. Von Helbacb, secre
tary of the German embassy, in
this city, the United States govern
ment has consented, in a friendly
way, to look after the interests of
the German empire in Venezuela,
during tbe progress of the pending
revolution, until a German warship
can be dispatched to that country.
The Catawba CottonNMill Com
pany, of Newton, has been charter
ed by the secretary of state.
GENERAL NEWS.
Tbe tomb of President Garfield,
at Cleveland, Ohio, is crumbling,
and the casket will be removed
pending repairs.
Miss Lillie M. Faust, of Ander
son, S. C, ran off and married Capt.
J. H. Grant, of tbe Twentv-ninth
Infantry, and will go with him to
the Philippines. -
A Western newspaper figures
out that if President McKinley
makes tbe trip to Chicago it will
be his fifth vacation tour thus far
for the present year.
Secretary of War Root has is
sued an order prohibiting the wives
of army officers from accompany
ing theix husbands to Manila on
government transports.
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
of New York, has just returned
from Europe. He gives it as his
opinion that the Philippine war
will not be, over for half a century
yet.
General Otis, in an interview,
says that if congress will declare
against passing legislation for the
Philippines until the revolutionists
surrender, it will be a death blow
to the war.
An unfriendly feeling towards
the United States exists among the
inhabitants of the interior of Bra
zil, and it is said to be stimulated
by the representatives of foreign
merchants.
Rev. Dwight L. Moody and Rev.
D. Campbell, D. D., two of the
world's most noted divines, are
holding a series of meetings in At
lanta. Dr. Morgan is the pastor
of New Court church, LondonJEng
land. The difficulty between the United
States and China regarding the
exclusion of Chinese from the Phil
ippines wilL be settled amicably
and to the satisfaction of China.
The door of the Philippines, closed
by order of Gen. Otis, will be open
ed again.
The entire cucumber crop in tbe
district northwest of Benton Har
bor, Mich., representing over 2,000,
000 bushels of small pickles per
season for the last ten years, has
in the last ten days been complete
ly destroyed by a foreign red bug.
The total loss to growers is esti
mated at over $100,000.
A correspondent of The Green
ville News, writing from Anderson,
S. C, says that a cotton seed war
has been on there for some tizi
past and as a result seed bai jucpti
from 14to 23 cents per bushel ii:S
a fair prospect of future jurrpi
It is a result of local competitic:
between the two cotton leed'ci!
mills. - ;
Governor Johnston, of AUbni.
has just granted a unique pirdca
to John Boston, a negro, of Ruisd
county. ! Boston was serving iters
for stealing chickens, and tbe g:'-
condition that for twel?e moctti
he should not buy, steal or sit u
other chicken or any portion there
of. . i
George D. Gear, an attorney cf
Honolulu, asserts that the Supres
court of Hawaii, by its ruliogt, a
sustaining a svstem of slater;
the worst kind" in the island,
violation of the constitution oft-
United States, and he asks fUj
the Attorney General be requeiu:
to declare whether or not tbe e-.
stitution does coier the island
The Democratic candidate
the governorship of Iowa has i dra
ped the free silter platform wits
thud tomake tht contest on z
palpitating issues. -By the;
token-Willian J. Bryan wM,J
take a prominent part in the
ho ree on teat -
Democratic candidate ior"
John R. McLean, thinks he
much better chance of
rtat'"-
o era
than on a free silver platform-.
Our Triangular Dispute.
London, SeDt. - ' x: .
Davies. Canadian minister
rine and at present cooo-J .;.
to England, regarding
American disputes, in fa"1
to-day, declared that ?-J!:ji
tions between hng'auu';. rr
in1
and the United States
ner. He is .till . 'i i
joint commUsion. but fc - 5-j
tell whether the eoo'Tjo!?
re-convene or not. u M
now - under , negotiation' t;.
was the establishment oi
ional boundary at the "
tween Klevini and 1 tue
rivers. . mist
A discugsion or m fce
needing
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and he had no tba: 4--
would be adjusted. V-'T
the only serious V1
mainin, when it tbr3
the estfblishment ot ft
.1. .T.oina COUH' "
complished.