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WILSON f WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. MAY 15. 1890
NUMB Ell
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ETTEFt
11 V 7 '"
7 Dance lht Fia-on
g- -in
- to stop thinking
r ce problem, and'
and Speaker Reed.'
1 ilr- tl ltf,
-i t (, . U . a
Hiiu -J ' auiiuttiiBrt auu eve
f..ir.g. el-e of -a. turbulent ua-
lure . I 'iii going, to boycott
-ry t liiiitj now except doraesic
dff.iii. I'm going to stay atl
fi.mie find vork, and if I read
a 'pap r at all it will be with
one eye ou tbe head lines and
nothing else.
('hey say , that exercise is a
r .-medy for trouble trouble of I
(ijii.il or trouble of body. G&C
up a,nd move arouiid lively.
sMy !.d father wa? afflicted with
rheumatism, and when the
han p i ins began to worry
liini lie. would take his long
tuicli ami tart out oyer the
f irm a i limp, and grunt, and
drar l imself along until he scot
warmed up, and in an hour or
si would come bick feeling bet
ter. A man cut mope and
oft d yer his . tr ubles until,
as ..'; -e siys. "they get more
luie&er a.td uiire,iggravatine;r."
He told me that he had tried
liver mediciue - and corn juice
and - various "anecdotes" for
disease, but that a right good
sw.it 'tf perspiratia.ii was '.the
bt tiling for p man tr a beast.
LW used to cure mules of the
c-li by trotting them around
until the sweat came. -
I ha.vn'r trot the colie nor the
rheumatism, but 1 feeJ such a
constant uxorial goneness that
I have tr step around lively to
forget myself- I feel just like
J had lost my tobacco. The
sparrow are regaling .on my
straw1 erries. The happy mock- t
ing birds are singing their tee
diddlo and too doodle, and the
lordly picuck scream-, and
struts, and spreads his inagnifi
ceut tail, and all nature seems
gay a:id -joyous,- but -how can
th lord of creation sing a glad
played prompter" for the white
folks at a thousand frolics and
knew every step and turn of
the heel-tap and the toe, but
he had never seen such a double
demi-8erairquiver shuffle as that
old buzzard loped around that
mule.. He stood aghast. He
spread his arms just half and
half and bent his back in the
middle, unlimbered his ankle
joints, stiffened his elbows, and
forgetting both the day and the
place, he followed that bird
around that mule for four solid
hours and caught the exquisite
lope exactly. At dusk the tired
'buzzird soused his beak into
one of the dead male's eyes
sand bore it away to his roost.
while the old darky loped all
Lthe way home to his cabin
door feeling ten years younger
,for his masterpiece. Tho buz
zard-lope suits an old man
splendid, for it is beat perform
round, and the barn, and coal
house, and chicken house a:id
all. We have painted the gates
a lovely red, and striped ' the
green-house, and Carl wanted
to stripe the calf with the same
color as a meandering ornament
to the lawr, but he couldn't
eatch him. I have planted' out
Madeira 'r vines and Virginia
creepers and tomato plants, and
we have declared war atrainst
the Epgish sparrows that des
stroy more strawberries than
we get. We, will have things
fixed up when the maternal
comes home. I. reckon she will
come some time. Come home
spoiled like I do as when I take
a trip off and am pitted up by
genial friends. It will take us
a week to get her back in the
harness, but it won't take her
half that long to get us back.
We've got two picnics on hand
and a fishing frolic and there
THE EDITOR'S DESK
-:o;-
TIMELY COM3tENT OX
POUT ANT EVENTS.
IM-
ed with rheumatism in one leg "e five pretty girls from Ce-
soiig when his lady is far away
in a'SiTdiige iana. A letter irom
there says: ."Mamma is having
a good time and is behaving so
nice te ererybody." Of course,
ul course. And I'm" nice to ev
erybody here especially the
ladies some of them'" come ev
ery day,-come to comiort me
they say. I'm having a pretty
gooi time considering. We had
souie fine music last night, some
cif the boy's came home willi
.,rl to practice fcr a serenade
t the spriug chickens. They
Lai .a -guitar, ..aud some harps,
and a triangle, and were right
good lingers besides, and 1 en-
3 yea it immensely Jessie is
a .musician, too, and when she
struck the wrong key. with -ome
sal 11 tatory notes like, "Oh.Jinuy
is your ash-cake done," and the
."Highland Fling," and -Ruu
Nirger Run," accompanied by
the sweet harps and guitar, I
just couldn't keep my old ex
tremities subdued and they got
me up and toted me around on
light fantastic toe amaziu. I
, was all by myself in the next
roombut I had lots of fun. It
does a mau good sometimes to
uubenri himself and forget his
antiquity. I like a little horn
pipe or la pigeou wing on thf
sly sometimes. It may be origf
XvM s in or it may be hat therf
is a tim to danc, as Soiornoi
sas, but I like it. My bear4
is rowing gray, and there's not
many hairs between my head
and the. ceralean heavenstbut
I m obliged to have some recre
ation, especially when Mrs. Arp
is away. You ought to see me
caper around to the music with
a little grand child, a three-year-old
who chooses me for. a
partner whenever, the music I e
gins. She knows the dancing
tunes as well as I do, bless her
little heart. My boys have got
a new step now that they call
the "buzzard Iodb." that is
grand, lively and peculiar The
story goes that an old darkey
lost his aed mule, and found
him one Sunday evening lying
dead in the woods and forty
nine buzzards feasted on his
carcas. Forty-eight of them
flew away, but the forty-ninth,
whose feathers were gray with
flge,-det:linea to retire. Looking
straight at the darky, he spread
iiis u iu3 about half and half,
a-e me American eagle on a
-..eiiftr dollar, and tucked his
tail under his body and drew .in
ios cliin $nd pulled down his
vest and began to lope around
the dead mule in a salutatory
manner. He was a greedy bird
and liked his meat served rare,
ana rejoiced that he now had
the carcasaa.il in himo1f onn
iaud St. Vitu3 dance in the other
iand is- said to be a sovereign
remedy for both. .
F Some folks don't care
much about music some don't
care anything about dancing,
bat some folks like both, be
cause it is their nature and they
can't help it. It is just as nat
ural for children to love to
'dkuce to the harmony of sweet
sounds as it is for them to love
to play marbles or jump the
rope, or any other innocent
sport. The church allows its
member to pat the foot to mu
sic, but condemns dancing be
cause it leads to dissipation and
bad company, but we shouldn't
I let it lead the young folks that
'-way. The church condemns
jminstrel shows and minstrel
Iongs, but has lately 'stolen
from them some of their sweet-
best tunes, aud set them to sacred
verse, aud is all the better for
it. Who does not appreciate
the "Lily of the Valley" that is
now sung to the "Cabin in the
Lane." Puritanism, and me
nace, aud long faces, and as
sumed distress are passing
away. The Methodist discip
line that forbade jewelry, and
ornaments, and - fine dressing
has become obsolete, for it was
against nature what our crea
tor has givrtu us to enjoy let us
enjoy in reason ana in season
aud be all the more thankful
.for his goodness.
I believe' in music. Joseph
jHenry Lumkin, our "great chief
justice, said there was music in
call things except the braying of
f an ass or the tongue of a scold
I believe in the refining influ
ences of music oyer the young,
and if an occasional dance at
home or in the parlor or a
nfriend will make the young
folks happy, let them be happy.
hi read Dr. Calhoun's beautiful
lecture that he delivered before
pthe Atlanta Medical College,
a lecture on the human throat
as a musical instrument, and I
Was charmed with its science,
pits Instruction and its literary
beauty. I read part of it to
ihese boys that were practicing
for the serenade about the
wonders of .the human larynx,
that in ordinary singers could
produce 120 different sounds,
and fine singers like Jenny Lind
could produce a thousand, and
Madam Mora, whose voice com
passed three octa ves, could pro
duce 2.100 different notes; and
about Farinelli, who cured Phil
Up V, king of Spain, of a dread
ful malady by singing to him,
and after he was t ally restored
he was afraid of a relapse and
hired Farinelli to sing to him
every night at a salary of fifty
thousand francs, aud he sang to
him as David harped for Saul.
Music fills up so many gaps in
the family. The young people
can't work and read and study
all the time. '.They-must have
recreation,' and it is better to
h&ye it at home than hunt for
it elsewhere. If the old folks
mope and gruat and complain
around the house it is no won
der that the children want to
get away. And they will get
away if they have to get mar
ried to do it. I have known girls
to marry very trifling lovers be
cause they were tired of home.
This reminds me of a poor fel
low who was hard pressed by a
creditor to whom he owed forty
dollars, fle came to employ us
to get a homestead for him so
as to save his little farm. ''Are
you a married mini" said l.
"No, I ain't," said he: "Well,
you will have to get married
-.before you can take a home
stead," said I, "Is there no
clever girl in your neighbor
hood whom you have a liking
for?" He looked straight in
the fire for a minute or more
and then rose up and shook his
long, sandy hair, ana saia;
. - Till
"Gentlemen, tne iig are up, xn
I havato shindig around and'get
ment coming here to night and
on the whole I don't think I am
as lonesome as I think I am.
"So here' a health to her whos' away." '
. Bill, Arp.
NATIONAL POLITICS-
of
Comment on Th9 Work
.National Government.
The
They've got so now they'll
have to begin pensioning the
people who will be iujured in
the next war. All other classes
seem, to be exhausted. Phila
delphia Times. Ind.
The passage of the 42.000,-
000 pension bill after a three
hours' debate by means of - the
caucus machine goes to show
that the tendency of machinery
is to lessen the hours of human
labor. Philadelphia Record,
Dem.
In his response to the, toast,
"The Republican Party," at the
dinner of the Americus Repub
lican Club at Pittsburg, Satur
day night, Speaker Iieed vigor
ously waved the bloody shirt
by championing Federal inter
ference in Southern elections:
What confidence does this
hopelessly bankrupt party de
serve trom tne .American peo
pie? Utica Observer, Dem.
fhort Paragraphs on Topics of
Lively 'in f rest I for Busy Ad"
vanceIieaiter8. !
Education, is a necessity not
a luxury The State should
supply this necessity to every
child.
i
The Sanford Express an
nounces the candidacy of Capt.
JameS D. Mclver for Judge
McRae s place.
The Sanford Express has dis
covered the whereforeness of
spring poet,ry, It prescribes
pills as a sure cure for the mal
ady.
jnaications point to tne nom
ination and election of Capt.
A. II. A. Williams, of Granville,
as the next Congressman from
the 5th district. Henderson
Tolnohawk.
We see from the papers that
the handsome Mary Anderson
is to be married and retire from
the stage. As brother St. Clair
of the Sanford Express says:
"Mary hath chosen the better
part a husband rather than to
remain on the stage."
The stability of the nation
demands the education and ele
vation of the people. Charac
ter not money must be the
criterion ty which men are
judged, if the manhood of the
nation is to be brought up to a
high plane.
We see that Mrs. "Stonewall"
Jackson is preparing a biogra
phy of her husband. The peo
of the South will always revere
the name of "Stonewall" Jack
son and a biography written by
his wife will be received with
enthusiasm by our people.
The avenues of usefulness
for women should be multi
plied. There rig much work
that women might do thai is
less tiring on them than the
classfof work they do, and yet
public opinion closes the doors
of so many honorable avoca
tions to them.
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We are pleased to see editors
honored. 8everal of the breth-
I ren have been elected Mayor of
their respective towns. Surely
there is no class of citizens who
do more political work, and yet
no class who receive so few po
litical honors. Brethren this
ought not so to be.
Almost every week when we
pick up the Statesville Lands
mark we are impressed with
two things : The excellence of
the paper, and the hearty, gen
erous uiannerin which the good
people of Statesville hold up
brother Caldwell's hands in his
efforts to give the people a good
'.'An' the britches pocket ain't
confined to.no section nur . lo
cality ,neitheir":ontinued Uncle
Jabez; "it reaches out an'
takes in the whole country.
It's jost as much of an institoo
tion fer Nbo Englan as fer tht,
Percific slope. Thur is Seniter
Hoar, for instance. Look at 'im
oyer there. See" how -he t?oes
walkin' around with both
hands shoved down into his
pockets. He's thinkin out
somepin tj say, an when he
gits it thought out you 11 see
hell set down in his chair and
pull out his bunch o' keys an
fumble. with em sort o fidgety
like till he can git the floor:
fer when a Seniter gits a thing
all thought out an is ready to
say it, it seems an awful long
time to him till his turn comes.
On the other hand, theres Seni
ter Stewart of Nevady. If you
ask him a question, first thing
hell doll be to. poke his hand
into his pocket, wrist an all. j
Thats to help him think, j
North er South dont make no !
difference, either. Theres
Seniter Davis of Minnasoty -
that man over there that looks
like he might be a son of old
Generl Ben Butler he thinks
best with his hands in his
pockets, and so does Seniter
Eustls of Louisiany aud Seniter
Cook of Texas. So you see it
' FOR THE PAEM.
HA TTERS OF IN TER EST TO
TILLERS OF THE SOIL,
Original, Sorrowed, Stolen and
Communicated Articles on
Farming.
newspaper and to help build up goes all over the country.
the town. When the people
show their appreciation for a
newspaper they give the editor
a new imDuIse and a new in
centive to labor, and he does
better work because he feels
that it is a labor of love.
THE BSEECHES POCKET
Tha Only
Distinctively
Convenience.
American
Speaker Reed's policy may
be summed up in one word
force. Give, him a law ol his
own devising and plenty of
bayonets to enforce it, aud no
doubt he would be able to pro
duce most surprising results in
connection with elections in
; The editor of the, Goldsboro
Headlight recently took a trip
through Moore county. That
paper says everybody in that
section is solid' for, C. B. Ay
cock and there is not the least
doubt that he will be the next
representative in Congress.
We are sick and tired of the
disgraceful lying tricks of the
New York Sun and World to
injure Grover Cleveland in the
niblic estimation. Both papers
are low bred assassins of char
acter the editor of neither pa
per "nows wnat decency or
principle is.
the South. Albany
Dem. -
Times,
Not so Bad,
If anybody thinks the eandidT
ates ou the Republic'iri State ticket
didn'e get anything he m mistaken
Look at this; O. II. Dotkery, for
Governor, is Uunsiu Ue.KTal m
Brazil. J. C Piitchanl, lor Lieut
Governor, Deputy Co lector Inter
nal Revenue. G A. B'oham. for
State Treasurer, U. 2S.-cramp -Deputy
at Salisbury, J. F M Kesson,
for Auditor. U. S. Court Coin mis'
Nioner. T.'P. Devereux, ior At tor
ney General, District Attorney oi
the Eastern Distrct ot rsorth Car
ollna. The candidates for S.-en'ta
ry of State aud Superintendent of
Public ln-tiuetion are et uiipro
vided
State.
for. Greeissboio Konh-
Since Harrison has been
President no one feels that i
requires either brains or char
acter to fill the office and can
didates for the Republican
nomination are. numerous. Ev
ery little crossroads politician
now feels that it is perfectly
riirnt ior mm to asuire vo me
Republican nomination.
The Asheboro Gourier
ha- hi
shown a briar 20 Wet 6 inches hi-jh
In a recent issue sister Stu'jbs.
of the Orphana' F
rhyme anent the
of Oxford .Female
There are several aspirants
for Judge Shipp's place on the
Superior Court Bench. We do
not know the men who desire
the office but we do know that
Judge Shipp is pronounced by
our lawyers one or tne Dest
Judges on the Bench. He has
a strong hold upon the bar of
this cmnty at any rate.
What is the greatest distinc
tively American convenience ?"
I asked this question in the
Senate gallery.
"The bith," said a pale man
with a light-blue necktie..
"Pie" said a man with a
double chin.
"Nonsense I" exclaimed a
stern looking citizen. He was,
of course, going to add somei
thing to this exclamation, but a
man with curly hair interrupt
ed him with :
"Yep; nonsense is a great
American convenience. I be -lieve
that I would go further
and say it is a great American
necessity. If it were i not for
the American love of nonsense
our busy, nervous people would
get no rest at all and we should
breakdown." ,
Does Senator Hale do his
thinking with his hands in his
pockets ? asked a youug man
from Maine.
I guess he does, answered
Uncle Jabez with a sly twinkle,
fer Ive been a-settin here for a
good many weeks an I never
seen im put his hands in his
pockets yit. -
Mr. Blaine thinks a good
deal with his hands in his
pockets, said a gen? -rnan who
spokeas if he kuo, iv hat he
was talking about,.
Like nough, then that ex
plains .why Seniter Hale never
has to put his bands in his
pockets, said Uncle Jarz, and
the young man from Maine
took up his hat and went away.
Jus then Senator Plumb, of
Kansas arose, to address the
Senate
There now, said Uncle Jabez
triumphantly; now youll sefe
whats the 'greatest American
convenience, bee 7 tie alius
starts a speech with his hands
chucked down into his pockets
half way to the elbow. You
kuow it takes a heap -more
thinkin in the first part ' of a
WORK IN SWAM P.
. The farmer who has a muck
swamp on his farm has a mine
of wealth. Every ton of pure
swamp muck, that consists of
decayed vegetable matter free
from sand, is worth from bn
to three dollars per ton as it
lies on the bank after having
been dug two or three months
and dralned.Tt contains from
one and a half to three per
cent of nitrogen, inert and in
soluble,i t is true,but made easily
available by judicious treat
ment. At the price q inert
nitrogen iu fertilizers? that 1
contained in a ton of good muck
is worth from two to six '; dol
lar, counting the price at ten
cents per pound. Thousands
of farmers buy nitrogen , in
fertilizers at nearly double this
pric, when by makiug com
post of the muck they may get
from twenty to sixty pounds of
available nitrogen from every
ton of it. Tbe winter season is
the best time for working in
a swamp, making drains, and
getting out the mujk Ameri
can Agriculturist.
t aired'
c mure
but
"Shut up," said the stern man. speech than in any other part.
"x didn't say nonsense was a
convenience. I only said 'non
sense!' because the men . said
pie and bath were. I was go
ing to say, when you interrupts
ed me. sir. that the railroad is
Arter you git it to goin, and git
sort o wound up to it arter
you git yer mind sort o' in the
habitro' thinkin yon nont have
to help it so much. But right
at the start it comes hard, an
If newspaper men were paid
for one tithe the work they did
in advertising their towns and
booming their home enterprises
they would become bloated
bond holders in a very short
time. Greensboro Patriot.
And yet some of them have
to pay the town in which they
labor to develop, a tax for the
privilege of existing.
the greatest of all conveniences. I you have to give your mind, a
Fr.omTa poem on Ben Harrison,
the Midtret, in New York Satur
day Globe, we; copy the last
stanza t ' . ' J
We made a bitter bargran, Ben, 'at salrly now
we rue.
To change a man like Grover for a focklesa
coof like you ; -
Cut we'll be wiser next time, Ben, and nine"
two will show 1 !
That we hae learned our le6s5n weel, Ben Har
rison, my jo! ,
ieusl, diops into
closing exereises
Seminary, and
-ed he lopcd around with alacri-I that money, for I'll be dogond
ty. The old darky was a fiddrefl if I'll get married for forty dol
Q ri n 1 , . - 1 fl ..ni r,' "
"uu li oy instinct ana in
spitation. He had danced,all
xne dances and pranced all the
prances of v, his neighborhood
for half a century. He Lad
lars. Good mormn
We are working hard now
TPinnvatinir and rerjairing the
home inside and outside. We
have whitewashed the fence all
disports herself as follows;
"Three more weeks, and then vacation.
And 'then we stand on Oxford station ;
No more beef and no more hash,
No more of Horner's boys to 'mash.' "
The record for t he largest amount
ot buiter produced by a cow in one
year ha3 been ruokcju by a cow
owned by D F. Appleton, oi Ips
wicb, Mass., who, with three days
to spare, produced 941 pounds 11
ounces. The previous reuord was
936 poands ouue?p, held by
Landseer's Fancy, owned by Dr.
William Marrow, .Nashville, Tenii.
The Fayetteville Observer says:
"The engineer corps of th-Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company, Mr.
Latta in command arrived here on
Monday evening lasr, and it is
tneir design to commence work im
mediately on the southern exten
sion ot the Wilson & Fayetteville
branch of the great Coast Line
A. W. Venabie died in Oxford
Monday morniDg, aged 36 years, of
pneumonia.' He was a- factor in
North Carolina journalism, at one
time editing the Torchlight and
News of Oxford. In 1875 he was
professor in Horner & Graves2
school. For the past 6everal years
he resided at South Boston, Va.
The negioes are endeavoring
to induce Harrison to appoint
a negro as Sepretary of Oklaho
ma Territory, The negroes
have practically taken posses
sion of ( that Territory and they
want to'show, their capacity for
self government by having con
troll of tlie sanie. We would
like to see the experiment-tried
provided it is not tried in the
South, j
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Greensboro is undoubtedly
one of . the most progressive
towns in the State. ! She at
present, among her other innu
merable attractions, has several
candidates for the ' Congres
sional nomination.. There are
some men in that city who can
"beat the hide off of Brower"
while the patriots of a similar
mind are to be found all over
the district.
The press and the people of
the country do not blame Har
rison for putting Republicans
in all the offices of the govern
ment. They dispise him for
the. hypocritical cant in which
he and his party indulge when
they promise to respect the
civil service laws. In violating
the laws of the land, after
swearing to observe them, he is
a perjurer, aud as such he re
ceives, as he should, the hearty
contempt of the whole people.
Imagine, if you can, how we
should get along without rail
roads. Why, sir, we could
hardly live in cities without
the street railroads, to eay
nothing of the lines that con
nect the different parts of this
country."
"You ain't none o' you got at
the real situation," said Uncle
Jabez Larrabee. "Britches
pockets is the greatest con
venience of 'em all, an' they're
distinctively American, ' too,
which is more than you can say
of the bathtub, er of pie, er.of
railroads."
"Do not other people have
trouser pockets ?" asked the
pale man.
"Mebby they do," answered
Uncle Jabez, "but they don't
use 'era as Americans do. Thoy
jest carry keys and knives and
loose coin in 'em. But look at
us! We use our breeches pock
ets for mittens an' fer helpiu'
us think, an'"
There was a smile all round,
and a voung man in plaid pants
humorously asked
"We &o our thinking with
our t reeches pockets, do we ?"
lift, you know, vvaai, mat is
what Semiter 'Plumb is doin
m -w t - m 1. .
now. mats wny nes go nis
hands clear down in his
britches pockets that way.
Now, you watch him. Bimeby
youll see, hell git his thinkery
sort o' oiled up an set agoin at
the right gait, and then hell
left bis right hand out of j his
pocket an to do some gestura-
tin with it, lettin the left hand
stay where" it is to .help his
mind along ' a little, lhen,
bimeby, arter that, hell take
his left hand out, too and his
thinkin machine ill run along
alone all rightr A train of
thought, said Uncle Jabez,
dropping into almost poetic
simile, a train of thought ia jest
like any other tram -just like
a railrood train. The bigger
an heavier it is the harder it is
to start but when you once get
itagoin then the bigger an
heavier it ia the farther it ill
run without help. Thats the
way Seniter Plumb alius-starts
with his hand way down deep
in his pockets, an thats .why
arter a while he takes em out
an jest lets the momentum
SIL03 AND ENSILAGE. '
The subject of ensilage is one
that has received considerable
attention at the hands of the
Advance during the last two
years. 11 is one that should
occupy the attention of every
farmer. ' Last year we publish
ed a letter from Col. EliasCarr,
of Tarboro. one of the leading
farmers of North Carolina, In
regard to tne preparation or a
silo and ensilage crop. Mr.
James R. Young, of Vance
county, has a timely article in
the Henderson Gold Leaf in
which he says : "I believe en
silage a good thing and a great
need to our section." Me as a
practical farmer and. knovs
what he is talking about. We
would like to publish his ar
ticle entire but it is too long
f pr us. We only quote enough
td show that every farmer who
desires can raise and handle
a crop of ensilage. Mr. Young
says:
"WHAT IS ENSILAGE ?"
The answer to this question
is made necessary because some
people need the information
while many need to have their
prejudices removed by a plain
statement and fuller details.
Ensilage ' is t forage cut green
and not cured but preserved by
being packed' in an air-tight
apartment called a silo. Thus
you can preserve all of your
forage in its very best state fox
food and at the least cost.
Not only is it the best state for
food but all of it is saved, e. g.:
You .save not only the fodder
and shucks of your corn bat
the stalks also. You can put
up in your silos almost every
known forage plant grown. The
following are used, being nam
ed by me in tbe order of their
use and adaptability to use for
ensilage, viz : Corn, peas,
clover and grasses, oats, wheat,
rye and vjarious other forage
plants. You observe that I
named corn first It certainly
will make the most to the acre
and 1 believe, all things con
sidered, the best ensilage.
Many pull off the ears and then
use the balance for ensilage,
while others make a much finer
food by cutting up and putting
in the silo ears and all. In
using the latter no grain ration
is necessary for your stock.
outside, and inside two
nesses of board "yith
caoer between. Noth io
ia' necessary for the sides
there must of course be a vrQo
top. iTbe cpst of the building
of a silo in this section will bet
about Sl.50 or 2.00 per ton,
where everything must be
bought and the labor hire
To arrive at the size that yo
need it is only necessary to
know that a cubit loot will !
hold 40 or 50 pounds cf ensil-
age, wnicn ls enougu iof ku
animal for one day. Thus a
silo 10 feet by ten feet and loV
feet high will hold V0 tons of
ensilage, which will feed one "
animal "1,500 days, or 10 animals
for 5 months. "
In conclusion, allow me tai
indulge in, a few plain state
ments bearing on the "subject.
Ensilage will give you the best
and cheapest forage you can,
in my opinion, get. Now, don't
misunderstand me. If you wish
good food, you must", put good .
food into the silo, rno silo
does not claim to make but
only to keep youc forage. The
plant must not be cut too green
but be allowed to begin to dust
before the plant is ready for
cutting. The whole stalk-Is
then richest and will make -bst
ensilage. This explains why
we here make better ensilage
than they do in the North and
North-west. .Their suxhons are
too short to allow frc proper
maturing. Again it is a mis
take to suppose that 'ensilage-'
is only for those; who have
many heads of stock.'. " Every .
farmer can have it. - it in only
necessary to make your t-i!o in
size according to the mirabei: of ."
your stock. The silo mu -'t .ber
divided in compartnion's, -so',
that in feeding from any one at
least J o 1 J inches of ensilage
will he used each dar .
TOM OCEILTEEE'3 ZZZZ:, '
I
"Cns Em Out," tha Sclutx:n 'o" tHr
"There is considerable trouble
between the Ncrlh and the
South relative to the treatmeirt
of the negroes down in Dixie,-'
said ex-Congressma i Tom
Ochiltree last night at thelloff
min house; "and that reminds
me of one of cur Texas darkies
named Sam, whom I '"used, to
have in my service. Sam could
read, and in the newspapers Iim
had seeri so much of the love
the people of tho North bear for
the colored mau that he ' con
cluded the North was the placo
for him. So to-Iowa he went,
where he was pretty well treat
ed. The people there railed
him "Mr." and .shook hands
with him, and -talked politics
with him as if he wer n i equal,
but nobody seemed .auxiotisto
have Sam work for Li; .
"To a very consid'able extent they ve given his thinkin carry
we do," answered uncle Jabez it along.
seriously. "Ef you don't hap-
en tol)elieve it, you jest set
here in this gallery a few days
an' watch the men who are
elected to do the thinkin' for
this 'country. Now there's
Seniter Evarts, fer instancevan'
he does a heap of mighty hefty
thinkin', too.- 1 kin tell you
you jest keep your eye on him,
an' you'll notice that when
they's .some question up that
he's interested in he winds one
leg clear around the . other, tin'
SOCKS nis nana ciear auwu mvu
his briches pockets as fer as it'll
go, an' sets thur an' thinks like
sixty. I've noticed that every
time he sets that way it's
been sort o' risky business fer
any other Seniter to stir him
up. He seems to keep a hull
pocketful o' his best" thoughts
down there, an when he sets
with his hand on 'em he kin
jump up an' scatter a han'full
of 'era over the Senit 'thout
losing any time at all. '
I tell you, gentlemen, its a
question o' britches pockets, an
its to britches pockets moren
to anything else that Ameriky
owes her greatness.
And Uncle Jabez look up at
at me with an expression which.
said : Aint I right? ". .
I put my hands into my
packets and reflected hong be
fore I committed myself.
Ben Wylde.
Everybody who attended "the
Weldon.aud Rocky Mount fairs
last vear remembers seeing two
men in fantastic garb who wander
ed over the grounds playing a vio
lin and guitar and singing comic
songs. Thev were tbe Roberson
brothers and were from Wan en
coanty. Nobody expected anything
good from men who could make
such abortive music, and we are
not. surprised to learn that they
were arrested last week for nsing
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
WHAT TO PLANT FOB ENSILAGE.
By all means sow some corn;
how much will depend on what
you need. : An acre of land will
raise from five to twenty tons
for ensilage, according to land
and season. By my use of the
word "sow' don't be mislead
into making the "sowed corn', so
common in this section. Let
your stalks stand from 10 to 15
inches apart in the rows and let
rows be the usual distance
apart that every stalk may
bear a shoot or- better still an
of com. Mauure your land
well; it is cheaper than culti
vating so much. Then you raise
peas, clover, grasses, &c, all of
which do well for ensilage aud
give you a variety of food. -It
is best to cut up the corn or
other ensilage before putting
it in the silo but it is not nec
essary by any means. S
THE SILO.
At one time it was thought
necessary that. the silo should
be built in the ground of stone;
Now it is settled that it is not
necessary to put in the ground
and that for many reasons wood
is preferable to stone.- It must
be strong and air-tight. The
usual and cheapest way is to
use six or eight inch upright
studding, two feet apart for the
"After awhile all h:. -money
was gone, and he then e nclud-
ed that the best thing Le could
do was to go back to Texas-; so
he started on foot, hoping to
pick up enough food on the way
to keep him going. Tlie first
place he i reached was a farm
house where a man fr-oui New
York lived. The farmer was
very polite, but -wheu'fucd vs.s
mentioned, said ..limes "were
bard and he didu't beiiave he-
had anything to spare. lie
tried several other farm houses
but always with the same re.-uit
everybody was very 'polite,
but nobody gave him any food.
For two or three days he didn't
have anything to eat, until ho
came to a place where a man
was out in the front yard mow
ing gras. To him be toM the
old story of. leaving Texas, of
his bad luck in Iowa, and of his
desire to get back to Galveston.
and of his great hunger, lief ore
he had concluded his st:4ry the
farmer Interrupted hira : ' You
black idioT he. exclaimed.. 'Why.
didn't you have sense enough to
stay In Texas ? ' . Sam's face
brightened instantly. ic al
most fell upon his kYus for
joy, and he crie d$o u t; 'Loss,
jrou dunno how vglad i is to see
you When did you lv aye the
souf yoursef ? Oh, boss, but I
is glad to git 'moug '-friends -agin'.'
'Goin the houso there,
vou black .fool,' said the farm
er, 'and git soma chuck; Per
haps, you will know enough
another time to stay where you
belong.'" -N. Y. Star.
A banking house Ins txfj organ
ized at Marion with a'cijntu! of
$50,000, The cit!zins tnok ay-half
the ftock, and Rich 11 of
the Farmer's fBank of Ktiiriicay,.
took the other half, It 'wiil 6peu
July 1st.
-In' the elections held on the fiisfc
Monday . Lautinbufg v-cnt dry,
Maxton wet and Kockiugh'ain voted
for high Mic'ense. In that town
license costs 300 now. Yv'a -huig-ton
voted in favor of mnni SlO,
000 worth of bonds to v devoted
to the purchase of rich f way
and terminal property for i. branch
of the Wilmington & Weluon rails
way, ,
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