if-a i ' I r : Iff' M I FLOWERS COLLECT ESTABLISHED 1832. - i m m m v t . i i r - i i i j .uutur. earoSina jBL Watchman. " OUR COUNTRY, MAY SHE EVER BE RIGHT, BUT EIGHT bit WRONG, OUR COUNTRY." " SIXTY FOURTH YEAR. NO. 36. SALISBURY,-. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897- I- - u p 1 ' 1 uur ii II - 1 ii- r-n The Wealth of Lore. I was as poor as the poorest, dear, And the world it passed me by; Bat not that; day ' : When yon Walked LoiVi way I For heaven itself drew nigh cweeinean : For heaven itself drew nigh. I was as lone as the loneliest, love, With never a dream of bliss : v lut not that day Wn vnn WitlVd Lava's vnv And leaned to his thankful kiss Sweetheart ! ri And leaned to his thankful kiss. And dear td my life is your love your love, And ray soul has ceased to sigh ; For sorrow seems But an echo of dreams, And the stars are in life's sky Bweejtheart! And the stars are in life's sky ! F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. FROM JIM." Dal! Jfjving tripped down the gar- deu path,; with its fringes of feathery. ferns and pale, sweet-faced violets. She was looking as cool as if the day were tilled with delicious sea breezes. Scissors in hand,' she stood and con templated the 8weetly-bloomiug flower-beds before her, tilled with their Id-fasjbibned favorites ; as well as newer, rrer flowers ! Another figure flitted np the garden path thjatnof a young man, tall, dark, IT y stalwart and handsome. The "dark, dark eyefc" lit np when he saw Dell, and be waved his band gaily to her. Isn't it warm today?" t' Bick said this with a profoundly look, as if afraid Dell might not yet have discovered the fact. Then he fanned himself vigorously with his straw hat. J Doou really think so?" with sarcasm, "Why, I was laboring un der the mistaken impression that it is rather cool. I'm glad you came to ,nndeceiye me," gratefully. I "Don't be ridiculous!" said Rick dertOD, severely. Then: "Won't" jou give me a flower, Dell?" with an insinuating smile. "Here is the'last rose of summer,' " said Dei!, cutting the "last rose" off its stemj with n vicious snip of the scis sors. 1'It's rather faded and old, but of course you don't mind," in a tone impossible to translate. "No, indeed," said Rick, provok ingly, while Belkpinned it to the la pel of his coat . "Of course I don't mind if it is a trifle faded." He was looking straight into her -eyes as be said if, and as he was her lover, Dell took a very unfair inter pretation of bis remark. "Dell, where did you get that ring?" , i - Rick Anderton took Dell's snow flake Tttl a hand on bis own great, strong one, and gazed at it; a frown, naif playful, half real, in his eyes. "Oh, somewhere !" said Dell, in a manner as exasperating as it was vague. "But which one do you mean, Rick?! This one? Why, you gave it to me. Don't you remember?' I don't mean that one," said Rick, the frown in his eyes growing ra.ore ominously dark, the ilayful expres sion entirely gone. "Tais oue, then? Aunt Belle gave h to hie on my last birthday. You've seen it ever so many times before, I'm qitesure." "I don't meau that one!" And Rick's voice was so harsh and stern and jealous that Dell almost skipped out Of her dainty slippers. She heaved a reluctant sigh ; there Was Only one ring left a dclicately ehf!S"d gold oneso she supposed she would have to tell him all about it. She meant to teach him a lesson, though, for being so jealous. fyhi8,"she began, with a charming, as well as exasperating air of reluct ance "erJim sent me yesterday. Isn't ii lovely?"gazing up at him with bewitching blue eyes. Rjck made.no reply, but held her hand tightly crushed in bis own, dis pleasure and pain in his eyes. "You hurt me. Rick," said Dell, plaintively, gently essaying-to with draw her hand. She was rather enjoying the scene, but she had n o intention of permitting her hand to be broken to bits. With an impatient gesture, Rick dropped it. , "Who is Jim?" he said, abruptly. 'A dear old friend of mine, Rick." with enthusiasm. "I only wish you knew J ins. You would bo perfectly .'1 1 beg leave to differ with yon," said Rick, freezingly. "I would not be delighted with him, for I'm 'sure he's a prig and a fool !" Dell looked snubbed. "But isn't the ring pretty?" she said, at last, holding it up tantalizingly. "And see what's' engraved on it." "To Darling Dell, from Jim." As Rick read, the passionate, jealous pain at his heart became almost unen durable. He dared not trust himself to speak, so he turned abruptly and strode rapidly down the garden-path. "Dell laughed, though just a little uneasily. "He will come back tonight,' she thought, "to ask to be forgiven for doubting me, and than how he will laugh when he knows all about it!" But the lovely blneeyes were a trifle clouded for all that when she returned to the house laden with flowers. Aunt Belle noticed the cloud and said : f "What is the matter with Rick Andertou, Dell? He walked away as if racing for a vager?" "Oh, he gotmad I'lsaid Dell, de lightfully vague, as was her wont "The mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel V " laughedAunt Belie, resuming her borne without giving further' thought to the, matter. She was quite accustomed to Rick'u and Dell's little squabbles, and did not imagine that this was anything more serious than usual. But Rick did not come back that evening, nor the next ; and Deli be came distrait and uneasy, and then in dignant. What a fuss Rick made about noth ing, on accouut of jealousy and ill temper! Why couldn't he have waited for an explanation, instead of starting off in such a huff?" Well, she was glad to get rid of him, and hoped it was for good and all. i kl But for all tbati Dell xMfrmttt fee quite happy. If Jonly Rick were not so inclined to misjudge her! Glad newsl Jim Harper was com ing on a visit, that very afternoon and Dell was to be at the railroad sta tion at two o'clock, with her pony phaeton. She made herself look very bewitch ing in a light summer dress, with great, golden-hearted pansies at her throat and in her belt. She wasradiautly happy. How nice it would be to see dear old Jini again! After all, this world was a very glad world to live in, in spite of the jealous Ricks who tried to make it so un happy. Rick Anderton was at the station, lounging about with a dissatisfied and not altogether happy look on his face. As the train swept up, shrieking iahd puffing, Dell flitted past him without even a nod of recognition, and gazed delightedly at one of the car wiu dows. There were not many passengers bound for this sleepy village, but among them was oue dainty little brunette, who threw herself raptur ously into Deli's arms. Rick stared in astonishment. He had heard, as naughty Dell well knew, that a certain Jim Harper was about to pay a visit to Mrs. Belle Irving, and he had haunted the station in order to find out what sort of a looking fellow this Jim was. He found out at last. "Jemima Harper dear old Jim how delighted I am to see you again!" gushed Dell, rapturously, taking good care to speak loud enough for Rick to hear every word. And then she and her old school friend drove away, whilo Rick Ander ton stood and stared after them like one dazed. . But when he came to her that even- ing, so repentant aud humble, what could she do but "forgive and for get. " Kick promised never to be jeal ous again, and bids fair to keep his word. Dell was a little sorry, however, that she surrendered so soon, for, as het old schoolmate herself declared, "Eiek would never have found so ready a pardon from Jim !" Saturday Night. . A Theory. Marie He seemed somewhat . dis satisfied, although I assure i him that he held the first placj in my henrt. Edith Perhaps he fears that some odo cite may be a dose second. iPuok. Cost of Wild Animals. Tbe most costly of wild animals held in captivity is the elephant A fine African elephant costs from $6,000 to $7,000. A fine Indian elephant would cost about $5,000. i Giraffes cost about the same as the best elephants, about $6,000 or $7, 000, but that quotation is really only nomi nal ; it would bo difficult to get a giraffe at any price. This is due part ly to their . increasing scarcity and partly o the difficulty of obtaining them,' due to the internal wars of the natives in the giraffe country. Giraffes very rarely breed in captivity. A fine hippopotamus would prob ably cost about $3,000. A good African lion, with a full and perfect mane, would cost from $1,000 to $1,500 ; a fine lioness $300 or $900. Good Bengal tigers cost about the same. Camels usually cost from $400 to $500 apiece. Many wild animals breed in captiv ity, and the supply of wild animals is now made up tb some extent from that source. In New York's menagerie in Central Park,' for example, a largo number of wild animals have been born, some of them of rare kinds and great value. The same is true, in a greater or less degree, of menageries aud of zoological gardens in various parts of the world. It is customary to sell or exchange the surplus ani mals so born. -Wild animals in captivity may final ly cease to breed. Wild auimals born in enptivily are not so likely to be as fine specimens as those born in a wild slate, and in succeeding generations they degenerate and become weaker and more susceptible to disease. This stock is improved by adding to it from time to time, wild animals from their native homes. New York Sun. AU J.Il&eUlUUS t9JIUla Few pedestrians who have passed along Walnut street between 7th and 8th have ever noticed the little black shingle extending from the third-story window of No. 715, and still fewer know that it has any significance?. Dr. Henry W. Leffmann, the well-kuown analytical chemist, occupies the third sWy front office of the building, and the shingle is a primitive means of announcing to his regular callers that he is in or out. The end of the board nearest to the window is hinged, and to the other is attached a, cord which passes over a pulley and dangles from the wall inside of the room. When the doctor is in he hangs his hat on a hook ou the end of the string, and the weight pulls the shingle up into a vertical position. When he puts his hat on before going out the sustaining weight is released and the sign board droi)s to horizontal. It can readily be seen from the street, and Dr. Leff mann says that automatic annunciators are crude when compared with bis scheme. Philadelphia Record. Structure of Coral Reefs. In order to prove, or disprove, the accuracy of tbe generally uccepted subsidence.or "Darwinian," theory of coral formations.it has been considered necessary to know more thoroughly one element in the construction of three peculiar formations uamcly,the thickness of the coral-made rock. With a grant of $4,500 made by the Royal Society of Loudon, Professor Liollas was commissioned to execute borings in the coral reefa of the Funi-Futi atoll of tbe South Pacific News has recently been received that the bor ings have proved unsuccessful, a quick - sand, by clogging the borehole, pre- venting more than a superficial pene- tration into the rock. It is now urged i the water in the trough was more pala that a secoud effort be made in the tablo to the cows than the branch - Bermuda islands, where greater facil- ities are afforded for such operations, if we are successful in the diary busi and where the general conditions for J ness we, mufst consnlt so smill r. thing success appear much more favorable. as the taste of the cows, and if they So Room for Argument. SheWhat were the happiest mo ments of your youth? He When I'd hear father calling my brother Jack to get up -in the morning, and knew that he'd make Jack get up before he got after me. Truth. General Booth has announced that the Salvation Army is to extend its operations over the whole Malay ar chipelago. The movement will be directed from the army's head quartert in Australia, FOR FARM AND GARDEN. PBOLEPIC APPLE TREES. There has .been a great crop of ap ples throughout the country this year, and probably more trees bore crops that will exhaust them for at least a year to come than ever before. When we visited apple orchards in Lincoln and Concord last September, we saw trees loaded more heavily than ever before. They were not the largest trees we have grown apples on, but some of them undoubtedly bore ten, twelve or more barrels of fruit.oount iug defective and poor with the good. At a low price per barrel these trees pay in a single crop many times more than the land they occupy is worth. We have, known this often to be done with plums, peaches and the smaller fruits. But what other farm crop can do this? The gardeners often do it, but with the addition of much expense for manure aud labor. American Cul tivator, '. don't waste plant food. If you feed in a stable don't throw manure out daily uuder the eaves of the barn and the water from the roof. Perhaps some of you would hardly believe it, but I have seen many barns where this wasteful practice is ..fol lowed yet. Don't throw the horse manure oat of windows or doors into a careless pile. This is an almost universal custom. The valuable plaut-fooi, half the value or more? is washed out of the cattle manure under the eaves, and most of the nitro gen ko8 into the air from the loose, beating pile of horse manure. Oftentimes one could make money faster, than he did in summer, by simply getting a wheelbarrow and wheeling out the cattle manure, and making a pile away from the barn and surface wash. Make the pile, broad and flat, and. if you ac wheel the horse manure to the same place and spread it in thin layers ou the same pile, along with the other manure.you save it in the best manner. It can be saved by itself, however, by sprinkling snd tramping. I used to put rubbiug posts on our manure pile out in the yard, so the cattle would go up on it and tramp it for me. And tbeuE al ways shovelled-it np around the edges before a rain, to prevent loss. Twenty-seven years ago I bought a wheel barrow, and begau doing just what I have advised above. Had I waited until we could build a large manure shed and cement floors as we have now, before trying to save the manure, we probably never would have had these improvements. T. B. Terry in Praotical Farmer. WA7.'EBIXO MILS. I do not tueun to advocate the prac tice of bringing the milk can into contact with the pump spout, but xlo wish to present for serious considera tion a point too often ignored in car ing for the cow. Ordinary milk has about 87 per cent water in its make-up, and in spite of all that may be said as to the value of proper feeding, it is a self-evident fact that without a proper supply of water it is impossible for the cow to give the usual amount of milk. Nevertheless, it is not sufficient ly understood that the cow should have water of the right kind, and at the right times. We hHve often soen cows come up from the pasture wnere mere was a A running stream tba: they1 had to pass on their way up, aud the first thing I they did after getting into the yard l was to make straight for the pump i trough. The reason for this was that j water, Whether we want to or not, ' prefer pump water to branch Water, j mu8t give it to them. It is absolutely j essential to the .highest production of milk that the cow have- all the water she want, and this she wip not have if the water does not suit- her taste. It is also important that the cow have access to water frequently. A camel may drink once in a week and thrive, but a cow ia not a camel by any means. She is uiug water all the i time iu miking niiik, and her reser voir is not constructed to hold enough water for any length of time. Ii a cow is turned . out oX a winter'a morning to drink water from which the ice has been broken first, she will not drink all she wants unless she has been parched by thirst, aud then she will stand drawn up with cold chills run ning up .nd down her. spine, and at the same time taking the feed that she Would otherwise have turned into but ter, and using it to warm the water that she has just filled herself with. Unless a cow has all she wants of water that suits her taste, she will not produce all the milk she is capable of, and we don't want to keep a cow un less she is doing that P. B, 0. in National Stockman. KEEPING FOWIiS IX CONFINEMENT. The idea that poultry cannot be kept in good health and in good lay- I ing condition unless they are allowed free range of the premises of their owner as well as the gardens of the neighbors is erroneous. If u house is well built and well taken care of, as well as the fair-sized yard connected with it and tho fowls are fed properly there will be nb chaneo for disease, and a good profit from the jegg prod uct will be assured. Two small rooms 10x12 ?r 10x14 for ten or twelve fowls is much better thau one large room for a flock of double that num ber and too it is much better that eisch small flock have its oue cock than that there be two or three with a large fldek as one cock is sure to rule aud there should never be more than ten or twelve hens with a good cock to ensure a satisfactory hatching of the eggs. A thorough cleaning of the roost boards and a stirring of the soil of the ground floor of each room daily as well as a forking over of a part of the ground of each yard in summer time, and a change of water in clean dishes, should not be neglected. It is an easy matter to overfeed when fowls are con fined to 6mall quarters, but it is very easy to watch, as one will if he has an interest in his Tvork, bo that jut the right quantity will be given so that all will be cleaned up at each feeding, and the fowls left with their appetites just sharp enough, so that they will not mope" but will keep themselves busy scratching for the few grains of !,,, . ,.t,,.i MUt.lt WUV IUH T III! ' ASVU DVIU151CM - when the soil was loosened with the fork or spade earlier in the morning, for ihe cleaning should be done first of all. Some kind of ground meat should be mixed in the dough in tho morn ing; a constaut supply of oyster shell and a little green food each diiy are necessary for thrift aud profit. Cab bage?, rutabages and apples are all goou. A buu ueiier winter supply i i t it i can be secured by cutting a sufficient quantity of young clover while it is in the leaf, but wish not much stem or blossom, and curing it sufficiently so that it cau be pressed in barrels and kept without molding. A large quan tity can thus be kept in small space, and if a little is cut flue and put in the hot water that is used for mixing the dough each morning, and mixed uj thoroughly with the dough, it will be found to bo a nice thing. Lawn clippings can be saved and used in the same way. Although this may appear like a good dcul to be looked after, it is not more thau there is in any other undertaking where there is auy hope or expectation of success; but all can in a short time be reduced to such a sys tem that the labor wilL be compara tively light. When considering the profits to be gained from the keeping of poultry the loss that mav result from allowing them to run at largo should of course be considered. What is there more tempting to the hevs than the sight of a newly plant- ed flower or vegetable garden? And if they can get a chanco what havoc trey can make scratching over the s'aoothlv made hed-j and in eating the , seeds so carefully planted, to say noth- i.g of tbe unsightly holes msde iu the lawns and burrowing in the paths in , . i i j t iLomeoiroB which they hke to dust themselves. And toohvoa waut to keep in the good ... . -, graces of vonr netgubors which Jou cannot do if you allow voar fowls free 3 their property as we. I as range over yonr own. There is n$. valid reason why fqwla shonld not be kept in their places 'as much as horses and cows. American Agriculturist. A house was sold on tho Comstock, Mexico, recently for $21, which cost $5,000 to build. BILL ARP'S LETTER. A HIGHLY INTERESTING RETRO f SPECTIYE COMMUNICATION. Suggests That All Pat riot ic Young- Ameri can Should Read of the Battle of New Orleans. - This is the 8th of January a day memor able in the annate of American history. The young people ought to read about the battle of New Orleans Jackson's great battle, where his troops in less than an hour killed and wounded 2,600 of the ilower of " -e British army and lost only eight killed and thirteen wounded. Never in the history of the world has a battle been fought in f hich there was so great dtsj arity of loss. Pakenham, who was in command of 12,000 troops, was the brother-in-law of Welling ton and had only a short time before ob tained a great victory over Napoleon at Salamanca. Jackson had only 6,000 untrain ed riflemen, and Pakenham was killed and his army routed and put to fligt t. This bat tle established the prowess of the snuthern yeomanry and made Jackson president. He was certainly a very wonderful man. He had but a little schooling in an old field school, and n?ver learned in the course of his life to use the English language correctly. When only thirteen years old an English officer cut him with his sword because he refused to blak his boots. His father died nar,ly, his brothers were killed in the revolu tionary war and his mother died from hard ship and suffering and scrhe grew up with an intense hatred of tbe BritishT The fam ily were Scotch-Irish, and my friend, George A.dair, would say that accounts for all his wonderful deeds. Ho had but little knoC edge of law, but was made public prosecu tor and was a terror to evil-doers. He gave the new state its name of Tennessee, and waged a war of years against the Indians, whom he subdued, not only in his own state, but even in Alabama, Mississippi and Flori da. He had to cut out roads werever he went with his troops and almost every great high way in the south from north Georgia to the Mississippi is still known to the old mn as Jackson's road. When on the warpath he paid no respect to orders from Washington, but pursued his own plans in defiance of the government. He was several limes wounded in battle and in duels with his political ene--mics, but seems to have lived a charmed life. Ho followed no precedents and made no alliances with political cliques. He was always original, self-wilied and defiant. John Forsythe was his secretary of state and Ber rien his attorney general, both from Georgia. He hated Adams and Clay and all the follow ers of Jay and Hamilton. He challenged Wlnfield Scott for a remark he made about ni:n. He turned Calhoun out of his cabinet because Mrs. Calhoun wouldn't assoJate with Mrs. Eaton, tho wif;.of the secretary of war. The whig papers had maligned Jack son's wife and Jackson never forgave the party for it and turned 2,000 of them out of office the first year of his administration. Ifis chivalrous respect for the female sex was the most winsome feature about his character.- Sam Houston and Davy Crockett had touKi.t www him. and were pis trusted po litical friends and advisers. ! UucerpriT Taylor, they had fought their way up in hard, dangerous warfare, and had but little respect for the limitations of law or the provoking delays of red tape. Almost all West Pointers have a similar contempt for the slow methods of the civil law, and es pecially for the writ of habeas corpurand appeal from court to court. I remember wnen Croneral Joe Jonnston ordered a court- , . , . . , . . . , mnftin or lnitnpri llu V n Tn trc tirn unlfllPrvl for striking their captain. Tho crime was committed at 10 o'clock in the morning. They were tried on the afternoon of the same day and .shot tpe next morning at sun rise. That is tho kind of swift !usjice that military men admire. There re some curious things about these old-time presidents. Three of them died on. the Fourth of July. Th first fourteen wore no beard; sixteen no moustache; twelve had no middle name;. five were named Jamo?; seven had thirteen letters in their uamoa, and every nam had the letU-r A in it, some where, except John Tyler's, and he was a vice president. So it is no use in nominat ing a man who has not that little vowel to give him luck, nor is thirteen an unlucky number amonc presidents. It is my mis fortune that I never saw a president. I looked toward Franklin Tierce once in New York, but he was so tangled up in a carriage with other gentlemen that I could not dis tinguish him. But I have seen quite a num ber of great .men some of them, indeed, who were greater than presidents. I saw Daniel Webster and ( Jay and Choato and heard them speak. Mr. Calhoun put his hand on my head when I was a lad and spoke kind words to me. I still reverence his memory, for he was a great and acood man. I saw and heard Jefferson Davis on the bat tlefield and on the platform after the war. I saw and heard all the great m; ii of Georgia who figured in polities in the '40's and '0's . The greatest speech I ever heard from any of them, it seems to me. was made by Waiter Colquitt, but I was a young democrat then and very susceptible. During the war I saw the great generals quite often. Lee and Johnston, Longstreet, ueauregara, fcany. Hardee and others. I never saw btonewaU Jackson but once, and then he was asleep, lying upon some straw in General Lee's tent. I Wish I had a photograph of that scene. It was about noonday. Lee, with his staff wero -dining at their camp tables, but Jackson was tired out with the seven days' fighting, and General Lee said, "Let -"Mm iwp; he needs rest more than food." All the great men I have ever seen are dead, save General Long street and General Gordon, whom our peo- nle have delighted to honor. Age is telling ; .JJ p'ioa fr0m the national tre-asury. . . - m a. 1 .1 i and so should all our other lieroes. Yes, and I their widows, too. t 1 Well the crlad crreetinjrs of Christmas ! times are over at our house, and bo are tho ! gad farewells, ine Danquei nan ia m.tw". i The long table has been shortenfd I uT to its accustomed length. The I holly and tho mistletoe have withered I and lost the glossy green that gave welcome to the hohthwrar and to the ehildreh who i a .T!. A cfl.l wfl(vtiTA cileneA i came iruui 'i " j broods around the family hearth, for we are j j a happy time, old and young. Old J-anta I Claus heailed th procession, andi thd little ; flka havl not BubBidcd yet. Lastprught w6 ; bad to get off our dignity and play with them. Everything wo eould think of , from j "C'lubflst'' to "Milybright." And we mad an -'Aunt Betty; for them and iniroauceu them to the king and queen, and we had mUgc, too sweet, delicious music that sof- tens us down and makes us think of heaven. Home and sweet contentment and loving children bring us as near to heaven as we can get in this sublunary world. The time was when I had ambition and wanted to ne a great man, but all that is nothing now. Domestic love is worth tverything else. "Sad is the home where love doautU 1 JJo longer nestles. But stricken by tome cruel doom, Its corpse live on the trestle'' -1 m . I i