j. A C C. Daniels, Ed's and Prop'
VOLUME 20.
BILL ARP'S LETTER
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II A I L & l OllM R UINS
GARDEN.
MIS
jnd The Wrtck Reminds Ilim
of Sherman's Visit Years ago
Watch lh e Lead Horses Always
Ami Keep on The Good Side of
2ii- Women. s
I thought it was Sherman.
Ko, I diiiii't, either, bat some
howit reminded uieof Sherman.
We Lai company for dinner
children and grand children
and ail other kin folks, and
were winding up the general
repast with strawberies and
cream when; suddenly there
was a clap of thunder that
shook the elements and brought
a starm of wind and rain and
haii.o swilly that it stopped
the feminine conversation.
Jlrs.' Arp looked at me and I
looked at. her for a moment.
There was a wild racket and
a rattling overhead and
against the windows, and j in
the back hall, like a thousand
guns had opened fire upon our
deroted household. The long
back hall was opened f the
wind and the hail .stones rolled
an1 bounced furiously through
it and int the front hall and
cvered the floor. Most ; of
them were like marbles, but
many were as large as walnuts,
and such a fall of hail has ;not
been seen in these parts for
years and years. The wind
blew like a young cyclone, and
it took ill hands to close the
windows and slam the doors.
Mrs. Arp looked out and ex.
claimed: "Qh the pit, the
flower-pit. Just see the hail
crushing through the glass."
The horse and the cow were
grazing in the front i ' lot, and
suddenly waked up to the
situation, and set;out on a
run, and galloped round ana
round, but found no place of
refuge. The peacock screaihed
land made for the house, but
his beautiful tail was in his
way. He had too much rudder
for his irhip, and soon .found
himself away down into the
grove. Too much -tail is bad
pressing for anything in a
storm. Old Fido, our superan
nuated dog, gave an indignant
bark, and slowly trotted to the
piazza. The leaves aua twigs
Irom the forest trees in the
law a filled the air and
traveled with the storm.
The ground was white with
hail, "and it - banked all
np against the house and-fence
several inched deep. I would
like to be up in the clouds and
see Low that thing is done.
The children screamed with
delight and wonder, for they
had never seen anything like
it before, but it was no delight
to rue, for I knew it carried
destruction in its pathway.! I
thought of the farmers' cotton
that had just made a. narrow
jscape from the' frosti
. thought of my garden and
green-hcuse, and all the, pretty
flowers and plants that LI had
toiled so faithfully over to
please Mrs, Arp. I could - see
them bend and shrink before
the icy blast that stripped them
of their leave aud flowers. More
work; more work for me
ruminated. And sure enough
;my beautiful squash vines that
were i eginnmg to bloom - are
torn all to pieces, and so; are
butter-beans that were just
reaching their, young tindrels
to the poles. ' ;
i said I thought of Sherman
1 aLways think of him in
.May when the. strawberries
come. Just twenty-six years
ago we had a strawberry feas
one uigrit at our house straw
terries and cream forV suppe
and alittle later on old Sher
"iaa Detan to scatter ihis un
feeling shells right over the
house, and we all waked up to
the horror of the situation, and
found thatGeneral - Jonhston
AiaToTdBred-anotber fall back,
anil that Rome was being
abandoned to her fate. I; had
: Partaken vtoo much of straw
berries and cream and (they
Jre holding a secession meet-
lH withiu my corporate limits
but all suffering and beut up
3 1 Has we had to get up and
depart those coasts premature
ly, in the darkness of a foggy
"Wit, and meander away to
parts uLknown with vigilacce
and alacrity. All night; long
nustled from , the foul in
yadr and left bur beautiful
110,11 to his meicv and
our
strawberries and cow
to his
whv I
appetite. And that's
thought of Sherman when the
hail storm; broke up our feast.
Kt it is all right. I can
Plant more beans and 1 more
lisbesi. I have already
Planted my garden twice this
priu.aud I can plant it again.
u is not near go bad as war,
at)d, thanks to the good Lord
r nis mercies, we are .not
1 r
ruuuiug irom onerman now
with a one-horse, rockaway fall
of infantry and the maternal
ancestor looking back everv
few minutes to see if the Yan
kees; were coming to take
them from her. But jqow
everything is calm aud serene
There are some : little distur
bances in the political horizon;
they will soon pass away. Just
before an election there are so
many fellows "sidewipin'
around huntin' for the Jorthog
raphy of an office," as Cabe
saysj that the people do get exs
cited a little, but it "will soon
pass away. Them what's in
want to stayin lust one more
term, they say,so as to wind up
neir. "business, nut its always
one more term. It's like "to
morrow" s that never comes.
These Alliance men are going
o wake upMbe old veteran
politicians for one time I reck
on, nut they had better watch
heir- . lead horses, for some
won't pull a pound except they
are in the lead, and. they are
not worth a cent to hold back
when the wagon is going down
grade.' Watch your lead
horses, I say. A long time
ago there was a knownothing
party that called themselves
he American party, and their
motto was "Put none 'but
Americans' on guard to-night.'
t was a party - of good princi
ples and good patriotism and
good! intentions, but ambitions
men.jgot at the. head of it
and they wouldn't work any
where but in the lead, and
they run away and turned the
wagon over and spilt the con
tents, on of whom I was
which. It was an oathbound
secret organization and on that
account was attacked by Alex
Stephens and others, and was
overthrown. Well, it does make
outsider feel helpless. I
don't wonder that our members
of congress are disturbed and
our aspiring lawyers who would
ike to go tefthe legislature, but
we can all risk the farmers one
ime and then judge them by
heir; works. If they do any
worse then send Larry Gantt to
congress,! don't care. He wants
fifteen cents for cotton, but let
him go. I traveled with seventy-!
five women to Rome and back
Atlanta last week and they
were? all for Larry because of
that'spiendid tribute to woman
he had in his paper that penit
ent confession that he had not
been as considerate a husband
as he should have been. These
good women" were on a state
temperance mission to Rome,
but I don't think they alluded
to Larry's exalted temperance
proclivities-It was the mani
festation of his late subjugation
to a proper appreciation of the
marriage relation that filled
them with admiration. But
they were not for Colonel
Slaughter for anything or for
any fflce. He is the high raiN
roadE official who gives ha If -rate
fare- lo excursions, and he re
fused to commute these temper
ance women because there were
less -than & hundred. That is
the I reason he gave : but Mrs
FeltOn told me confidentially
that it wa3 because they could't
vote nor hold office. "A hundred
indeed' said one of them
"Fiftv men can start out on a
champagne or whlsKy excursion
and Vro anywhere for a nominal
fare : but here are seventy nve
noble women, whose mission is
to save the youne men irom
ruin and save the state and
save the railroads and every
thing else, and Colonel Slaugh
ter says you haven't got women
enough you must pay full
fare." I wish the colonel could
have been there. He would
have thought there were women
enough. My opinion is there
were 150, ac least. One good
women ought to be counted as
two men. anyhow. I count that
way at. my house. Colonel
Slaughter had better reconsider
and refund that money. The
mission of these noble women
fa worth more to the railroads
than a press excursion. It em
braces the good sober conduc
of .1 all their omciais, irom me
1 . v - m "A.
nreaidents to the braKem9n
and will give them sober pas
sengers who won't get hurt and
then sue tor damages, i naa
rather be Larry Gantt than
Colonel Slaughter now. I don't
know where Larry's farm is nOr
the size of his cotton-patch, but
he may have fifteen cents a
pound fojr the cotton he raises,
and nobody will complain. We
are all for Larry at my house,
i Bill Arp
' To Mothers.
T?nr nnwards of fifty years, Mrs
winslow'd Soothing Syrup has
been used by millions of motberB
t.hAir ch dren wmie leemms
-ith nvr failinff safety and sue
Cfks. It Soothes th ebi Id r softens
tf.fe trnms. allav8 l pain, regulates
tbe bowels, cares wind colic and is
f ko ht. rpmftdv I for diarrhoea.
Mrs. Winsloww's SootHing Syrap
u for nale bv draegiats in every
t'part bt the world. Price aatwita
bottle,
"IET Alt TnC
WILSON", WILSON COUNTY. NORTH CAliffftoA. MAY 2!). IMK)
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THE STATS MUST EDUCATE HER
CHILDREN.
PROP. MCIYER'S POWERFUL PLE&,
A Strong Array of Facts and Figures
in Behalf of .the Public Scho 1
. System of The State, "Which Can
: And Hust ,t 9 Mads llore Efficient,
In 'the Court House fin Wil
son on Thursday, May 15th,
Prof. C. D. Mclver made a
masterly speech on the-uecessi-ty
of better ?public tdncation.
The main points were as fol
lows :
1. Education Is a necessity.
To an educated man all things
are possible ; there are no pos
sibilities to the averp&u man
without education. Drudgery
is his doom. Intelligence is
freedom, ignorance is slavery.
The majority of intelligent
people recognize this truth and
act on it no far as their child
ren are concerned. If . an ig
norant man is a slave to other
men, an ignorant community is
a slave to other communities,
and an ignorant State to other
States. The intelligence, free
dom und prosperity of North
Carolina depends on the intel
ligence, freedom and prosperi
ty of her individual citizens.
2. If education is a necessity,
then PUBLIC EDUCATION IS A NE
cessity. Statistics show that
there are in North Carolina
360,000 white children. The
future 'of the State depends
upon these .children. - If they
become, intelligent men and
women "our future is bright.
These children must be edu
cated if the State is to be great
and prosperous. They must be
educated either in private or
public schools.
The following table of
official statistics was put on the
blackboard : ?
No. of white children in the State, . . . 360,000
No. of white children attending pri-
VEtetcbools, 20,003
No. of white children attending pubUc
schools or ffoinjr nowhere 310.000
That is, one out of eighteen
white children is row being
educated in private schools.
Eleven go to the public schools
and six do not go to school at
all.
The future of the State de
pends on the seventeen, and
cannot affordsf or them to
be brought up without enter-
ng a school-house. The State
says these children must be
educated. If their parents
can afford to have them become
ignorant men and women, I
cannot. My salvation depends
on them, and they will be here
to bless or curse me after their
parents are dead and fortrotten.
lor "men may come aucT men
may go: but I go on forever."
.This is the pinciple of public
education. It is not a charity.
These children will grow up in
ignorance unless the State edu
cites them. Q he State says it
cannot afford that and isthre
fore obliged to levy a tax for
their education.
There are counties in North
Carolina tnat naven't a per
manent private school in them,
and tbe average number of
permanent private schools in
all the counties is surprisingly
small.
3. The truth will answer every
objection brought to public
education. Mr. A. says public
schools break down private
schools and if there were no
public schools private schools
would be more numerous. But
tne iact is tnat tnere are near
ly tenchildren in the private
schools now to where there was
one when the public schools
were inaugurated. Moreover,
throughout the country where
in the public schools are mos
numerous and most efficient
there we find the largest nam
ber of good private schools.
Mr. B. says I don't ant to
be taxed to educate Smith's
children. But he is not taxed
to educate -Smith's' children
but to educate the States
children. The State levies the
tax not for Smith, but for the
general good, that is for itself.
And Smith might, with ' equal
right, say I don't want to work
roads for Mr. B. to ride over. ' J
don't want to cay ' taxes to
build his bridges. I don't
want any electric lights or
sewerage or railroads, and I
don't think 1 ought to have to
pay any tax for any of these
things. I a school tax - is
WRONG, ALL TAX IS WRONG.
Mr. C. says wo are too poor.
But poverty is the very strong-
estr reason why we 'must
educate our people. Poverty
and ignorance both are worse
than death. A poor man can't
afford not to be educated.
Scotland and ueroiany are
naturally poorer than North
Carolina,but by reason of their
i belief in education, they are
EIDS TIl&C AIBTST AT, BE
leading the thought of the
world- to-day. We can- edu
cate oub CHILDREN IF j WE ABB
ANXIOUS ENOUGH ABOUT IT. LET
us bemembeb; that . EDUCATION
13 A NECESSITY AND NOT A -' LUX
URY. .. -,,;' .,; i. : ; . f. .
Mr. V. says I don't mind pay
ing taxes to ..educate white
children, but I don't: waut to
pay for the education .of the
negro. - ' -X U -hf,
In the first place, the! negro
in North Carolina pays for
about one half of his own edu
cation. Poll- taxes in this
State pay ? 10,000 more to
public education than property
does. In many large : negro
gro counties the negroes pay
by poll tax, fines and penalties,
and liquor license (and the man
who drinks the liquor pays this
tax) nearly all the money ap
propriated to the negro schools.
When the average white man
in the State pays $5 to the
public pchool fund about $1.25
goes to the negro schools and
$3.75 goes to the education of
white children. Furthermore,
a white child in Wilson county,
or any other county, where
there is a large number of ne
groes, after dividing- with the
negro, gets-more from property
tax, to 6ay nothing of the poll
tax, than a white child does in
any county where there are
ew or no negroes. All these
hings show that the. negro is
not so great a burden as many
suppose. i v .
But af'.er all, the situation is
simply this: The whites and
blacks must both be educated
or both be left in ignorance.
Will you starve the seventeen
white children in order to
starve about ten blacks ? Can
patriotic North Carolinian
refuse $2 to the children of his
own race because at the same
ime he must pay $1 to the
negro 7
The average tax on every
man, woman and child in JNortn
Carolina is only 39 ceDts, where
as the tax paid by the average
citizen in the United States, is
wo dollars. In Virginia it is
93 cents; in Mississippi, 67
cents; in Arkansas, 72 cents; in
Florida, $1.27: in Texas, $1.33:
in West Virginia, $1.52. South
Carolina alone pays less" than
North Carolina, and it f pays
33 cents per head. I
The tax rate in our. State is
very small. A man worm
$20,000 is assessed at about
$10,000 and pays to public edu
cation $12.50 a year. So the
man who is really worth $10,
000 is assessed at about $5,000
and pays $6.25 A farmer who
is worth aoout 13,000 or $4,000
is assessed at $2,000 and pays
for the education of the State's
children $2.50.
Is it a wonder that! our
schools are inefficient or that
our teachers are frequently in
competent? If the tax was
doubled, it would add to our
prosperity. No people i ever
eot Door by paying money for
schools, public or private.
The address closed with an
appeal for better and cheaper
educational facilities for girls
This can be . brought about as
it has already been brought
about for boys. At the ! Uni
versity, Agricultural and Me
chanical 'Jollege, Wake Forest,
Trinity and Davidson from
two-thirds to four-fifths of the
tuition is paid by the State and
the BaDtist. Methodist and
Presbyterian churches, i The
tuition fees at any respectable
male College or Unlvsrsity
collected from students are
rarely more than on fourth of
the runnlnz expenses. At
Howard University these j fees
amount to only one-Bixth of the
expenses. 8 j
The State in the name of
patriotism, and the church in
thename cf religion, and the
DhilanthroDist in the name of
humanity have all gone in
partnership with every) boy
who wants a higher education
and offers to pay the larger
portion of his tuition, but
patriotism, religion and j phil
anthropy have generally said
to the boy's sister, "we have no
help for you."' A white boy or
negro boy or negro girl can get
a collegiate education in Worth
Carolina if he or she can get $5
Or $0 II UIOUIU IU1 OApOUSOD)
but a white girl must have
from $18 to $50 a month and
then be taught by a faculty
that does not cost as much as
the facultv employed to teach
the other classes.
Sacramento, April 27, 1889
L. L. G ODDARD & CO., i
Agents for Radam's Microbe
Killer. Gentlemen My son, four,
teen years old, was cured with less
than one gallon of Radam's Mi
crobe Killer, after being given up
by physicians as incurable, with
enlargement of the heart. My wife
was also- cured of a severe bron-
chial trouble, after a failure on the Republican politicians. They
part of physicians to relieve ber 1 1 uk th b(jt tney dont
consider it far superior to all known " . ln niLma
remedies. E. B. KiekpatbinK, I w,ant Mm to nM tYie sam9
For sale by Doane Herring. ' elevator;
TUV COUHTIIY-S, TUT UOD',
THE EDITOR'S DESK
TIMELY COMMENT. OJf IIM
) H JPORTAST MVEXTb. )L I
Short Tar agranhs on
Topics",
I lAyely Interest , or
vance Readers,
BusyJ.ch;
Be such a man, live such a
life that " if every. t man- were
such as you, aud every life a
life i like :; vours, this H earth
ouiq do uoa a ; raraaise.
Phillips Brooks. "
Mr. Thomas 8ettle, of Reids-
ville, is one of the brainest
young Republicans in the State.
Ue has been in Washington
City and told the Post that
Cheatham would very probably
De beaten in this district, lie
seemed to be disgusted with
the present administration.
Since ' the formation of the
cigarette trust last,. March
chromos and photographs are
not given away with, cigarettes.
As they had long since quit
using tobacco there is nothing
left now but the rice paper and
the drugs they use.
The Democrats of Boston
would have placed the country
under everlasting obligations to
them had they sent John' L.
Suliivan to Congress. We are
afraid f they missed a grand op
portunity. Czar Reed would
not have dared to count this
distinguished gentleman pres
ent when he did not vote.
We know how to keep a
boquet of roses fresh all the
way across the Atlantic ocean,
but as the ' majority of ' our
subscribers think it mighty
hard to pay $2.00 per year for
the Advance, the information
is useless to them, as they will
never need it.
Mrs. Langtry thinks that "a
woman of the deadest white
skin, with light blue ; eyes and
blonde hair becomes a poem
when she dons a yellew gown.
A spring poem, perhape; but
unless she has lots of money
the editor may reject her all
the same." Mordstown Herald
A Kansas Jury ia a curious
compound. Their verdicts are
almost as good readingaslngalls
speeches. Recently a man in
that State stabbed his brother,
but the wounded man survived.
Ths jury's verdict, was : "We,
the jury, find the defendant
guilty of manslaughter in the
third degree, had the prose-.
cutifig witness died."
The? horror of the French
Revolution is a matter of his
tong. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana,
says the only difference between
the Commune and the Com
mittee of Ways and Means,
which fixed up the McKinly
bill, was that the Commune
proposed to' take from the rich
and give- to the poor, the latter
to take from the poor and give
to tne ricn. mis is it in a
nutshell.
The Greensboro North State
goes for the Republican press
in the following manner : "Tbe
newspapers are responsible for
dragging from obscurity thous
ands of conceited blunderheads
and blatherskites who would
never be heard ol if the papers
were conducted on the right
basis.'' Of course it . has in
mind Harrison and his motley
crew of grabbers.
We .have heard that the
handsome Jeditor of the Elizs
abeth City Carolinian, Dr. P.
John was . a "masher" in his
younger days. He is there fore
pordonable for the following,
because he probadly knows
what he is talking about. He
says: '-The latest device of
girlhood is a fancy for stuffing
pillows with their love letters.
There is one thing about the
contents of these pillows ' that
can be depended upon with a
marked degree of certainty
they are sure to be soft 1" We
suppose it was a folly peculiar
to youth and Brother John has
taken care to remedy himself
in this particular.
Mr . C. P. Huntington is a
New York millionaire and
President of the Pacific Rail
roads. It is said that he will
not ride in an elevator with a
negro. He is a good Republican,
however, and this leads the
Wilmington J Star to remark
that be has no objection to a
colored man but don't think it
is lucky. In going up he fears
he might come down. In this
Mr. Huntington bears a strik-
l' A
inz resemmance to tne
ARB TBBTIUV
, The catch-as-catch-can style
of tariff debate is not: quite so
dignified as the Greaeco-Roman
but as a producer, of climaxes
it baa no ; equal. Washington
Post J
One "of the neatest retorts,
we, , ever, read was ? made
years ago by Dr.- iWarren,iox
this State, who is now a very
successful. Jew York physician.
He was being eross examined
by a lawyer who declared that
a doctor ought to be able to give
an opinion of disease withont
making mistakes.
VThey make fewer mistakes
than the lawyers," responded
the physician.- - -
"That's not -so," said , the
counselor; "but doctors'- mis
takes are buried six feet under
the ground and a lawyer's are
not."
"No," replied Warren; "but
they are ; sometimes hung as
many feet above ground."
. Won Thi Wager. ;
The publication yesterday of
the expressive disapprobation
of CoL Creeey because a cor
respondent said he had been
forced to cut an oyster in sev
eral pieees to eat Lit, recalls a
story that the late Judge Ashe
was wont to tell with delight
and amusements He said that
years aid -: years - ago, when
oysters were a rarity in
Wadeaboro, a restaurant keeper
one day received a bucket of
such unusual large size that all
of the town people were called
a to see them. Tne keeper of
the restaurant offered to bet
$5.00 that no man In town
could eat an oyster' whole. No
one succeeded until late in the
day, when the wager was offer
ed to a man kno n for his
extreme "nieeness," r H I par
ticular about his food. He
was such a man as the vernacu
lar "nice nasty" describes. He
accepted the wager, ' walked
nto the restaurant, and swal-
owed the oyster whole.
" Well," was - the astonished
ejaculation of the restauranter,
"I did not believe it could be
done. Three other men have
tried to swallow that very
oyster and couldn't do it.''
The "nice" man was so dis
gusted that the oyster refused
to stay in his new abode.
State Chroniele.
- A B3autifnl-Legtnd.
After Stonewall . Jackson's
death, at Chancellors vi He, a
story became current in the
Confederate army whfch the
soldiers lovtd to repeat over
heir bivouao fires that, on
account of his extreme piety,
when their famous chieftain
fell, a detachment of. angels
left the heavenly gats to visit
the battle field and escort the
hero's soul into paradise. The
celestial squadron searched the
close strewn plain, but without
effect.
He whom rthey sought
could not be found, and they
returned mournfully to heaven
to report their want of success.
But lo, on arriving they found
the spirit of the " immortal
warrior there already. Stone
wall Jackson had made a flank
march and got to heaven be-
fore thorn.
v
The Superior Court Clerk of
Guilford county is a Republican
but he is no farmer. The
Greensboro North State cays :
Clerk Holton has got farming
down to a fine point. He bought
a pair of sheep shears yester
day to cut his oats with."
ONE FARMER'd WIFE.
Birdlike she's up at dajdawn'a
blush,
In summer heats or winter anow--
Her veins with healthfal blood
aflu8b,
Her breath a balm, her cheek a
rose ;
In eves tbe kindest eyes on earth
For she has that which few possess
Health, - strength,' and perfect
happiness."'
But this farmer f" .wife is wiser
than tbe majority of her rural
sitters. She has as many household
cares and responsibilities as they
duties here duties there, duties
without numbers. Bat while others
droop and languish beneath their
work, she keeps up her wonderful
health, vigor and energy by the
use or nr. rierce s jravoriie rre-
scription. This is the greatest
medicine on earth for overworked,
"workout" and feeble women
generally. It ia the only medicine
for women, sold by druggists, under
a positive Guarantee ' from the
manufacturers, of giving satisfac
tion in every ease j See guarantee
on bottle-wrapper.
Kansas City, Mo. I have been
afflicted with kidney trouble for
over a year. 1 commenced using
Microbe Killer at your suggestion.
I have not finished my second jug
and am completely oured. Yours
respectfully. Gus. D. Welch,
Clarke & Welch, Printere,1213
Wain at St. For by Done Herring.
THE FIEST WESDIN3.
Jn The Da s When '"The
Morning
I i Stars Sang Together."
! What a morning. that was of
the world's first wedding ! Sky
Without a cloud. Atmosphere
without a chilh Foliage with
out a crumpled leaf. Meadows
without a thorn. It shall be in
fchurch the great te mple of a
world, skyodoined, mountain-
pillared,' sapphire-roofed. The
sparkling waters of the Gihon
and the Hiddekel will make
the fount of the temple. Larks,
robbins and goldfinches will
chant the wedding march.
Violet, lily and rose burning
incense in the morning sun.
Luxuriant vvines sweeping their
long trails through the forest
aisle upholstery of a spring
morning. Wild beasts standing
outside the circle .looking on,
like family servants from the
back door gazing upon the
nuptials ; the eagle, king of
birds; the locust, king of in
sects; the lion, king of beast,
waiting. Carpet of grass like
emerald for the human" pair to
walk on. Hum of excitement,
as there always is before a
ceremony. Glass blades and
leaves whispering, and the
birds a-chatter, each One to his
mate. Hush,, all the clouds.
Hush, all the birds. Hush, the
waters, for the king of human
race advances, and his bride.
Perfect man, leading to the
altar a perfect woman. God,
her father,, gives away the
bride, and angels are the wit
nesses, and tears of morning
dew stand in the eyes of the
violets. . And Adam takes the
round hand, that has never
been worn with work or stung
with pain, into his own stout
grasp and says : "This is now
bone of my bone and JElesh of
my flesh." Tumults of joy
break forth and all the trees of
the wood clap their hands.and
all the galleries of the forest
sound with carol and chirp and
chant, and tbe circle of Edenic
happiness is complete; for while
every quail hath answering
quail, and every fish1 answering
fish, and every fowl answering
fowl, and every beast of the
forest a fit companion, . at last
man, the immortal, has for his
mate, woman, the immortal
MARRIED Wednesday, the
1st day of June, in the year 1,
ADAM, the first man, to EVE,
the first woman, High Heaven
officiating- T. De Witt Tal-
mage, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Eansom, as Seen by a Georgian.
Mat Ransom is the dude of
the Democratic benches. He
is a startungiy clean looain?
man, and his laundried togs
shine and glisten as ho walks
around ana about, rcansom is
af very nervous man. He is
rarely ever at rest, but occu
pies his time in strolling about
the chamber and shooting sly
glances into the galleries set
apart for females. It has been
said that he holds the people
of his State pretty much as
Colquitt holds his Georgians
by his wonderful personality
He ia kind a nd obliging to
every north Carolinian who
comes to Washington, and
under the Cleveland adminis
tration he fixed more of his
people in office than any two
Senators from the South.
Washiugton Cor. of Atlanta
Journal.
ULCEEiTED SOKE THROAT.
Two years ago I had Ulcerated
Sore Throat, and was so weakened
and reduced in flesh that my trienri
thought it impossible for nie to
recover. I was attended by the
very best physicians, but their en
deavors to relieve me were futile.
May mother seeing Swift's Specific
(S. 3. S.) so highly recommended,
decided to give me a couree of it,
and after taking the first bottle
was greatlv relieved, and aftr tak-
ing several oociies l was enureiy
cured. I have not bad any signs
of a return of the disease fiDce.
Clift Bloxton Williamsburg Va
THE GRANDEST HE EVER SAW
Mr. W. J. Colman, a prominent
citizen of Gainesville, Fla , writes
the following under date of Feb. 10,
1890 : fI comtracted a severe case
of CJontagious Blood Pusiou that
gave a great deil of trouble, and
baffled th bhyfc'cians ot thlSN place
I was finally advised to try Swift s
C3.aAa a U H o ii rl I nan axv
with great pleasure, that a lew
bottles of it has entirely cured me.
I have no hesitancy in saying that
S. 8. S. is the grandest blood
medicine ! ever saw, ana cancaeer
fully recommend it to auy one
suffering as I was.''
t Treatise on Blood and Skin dis
eases mailed free. -
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The crop reports for May have
been received bv the Agricultural
Tlenartmant. There is a bad fall
ing offas no oat crop will be maue
The correspondents alt agree m
saying that the apple crop will be
a large one. but there will be no
oeacbe. The peach crop prom
ises to be the smallest on record ru
this State,
81.50 a Tear, cash in Advance
NUMBER 19
WHMsflHsHHBHsWj
; F0RTHEFARM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO:
TILLERS OF THE SOIL,
Original, Borrowed, Stolen and
. . Communicated A rticles
Fdrming. '
on
Col. Polk, President of the
National Farmers' Alliance, has
been pushing Senator Vance's
warehouse bill before! the
Senate Committee on Agricul
ture. He asked for more cur
rency, and Dr. McCune declared
that the system had proved
feasible and practical in Cali
fornia, where the Granger
bank, in 1889, loaned $3,000,000
on certificates issued to farm
ers on .wheat deposited in
warehouses owned and con
trolled by them.
A correspondentof The In
diana Farmer, after describing
how tbe government loans
money, to banks at 1 per cent.;
says: "Again, the government
builds warehouses and gives
warehouse receipts ,for the
distillers' spirits, whi'Jb com
mand almost their face value
in currency. Now, why can't
the government be as good to
the hard handed farmer as to
the soft handed banker and
distiller?"
We have been urging the
farmers of this county to di
versify their crops and they
have done so this year to an ex
tent never before equalled. The
Dispatch Farmer, of Georgia,
advocates the sub-treasury
plan, and makes the following!
point : '.'The poor'fariner can
not diversify his crops while
his creditors are demanding
money, and cotton -alone will
bring it. With more money in
circulation these debts could
be discharged in a shorter time,
for the productions of the farm
would bring a better price aud
the demand would be far great
er. The manifold blessings
that would attend the adoption
of our sub-treasury plan cannot
be estimated."
The farmers of the South
"rtowued" the Jute Bagging
Trust. The combinotion, it is
reported, has reached the con
clusiou that it will be more
profitable to dissolve their
league and seek incorporation.
According to The Boston Com
mercial Bulletin eight compa-
nies, with a . rated annual ca
pacity of 31,000,000 yards, will
ba incorporated under the laws
of West Virginia aa the'Ameri
can Manufacturing Company,
with a capital stock of $1,000,
000. Fourteen mills will re
main indedendent, ith a ca
pacity of 30,000,000 yards.
COST OF KEEPING A HEN.
According to the poultry
editor of the Farm Journ the
feed necessary for 100 hens for ...
a year is as iouows ; i.uw
nnds clover hay chopped,
1,000 pounds potatoes, 2,000
pounds corn meal, 1,000 pounds
oats, 100 pounds cotton seed
meal, 800 pounds barley meal.
Supposing these amounts to be
nearly correct, as we presume
they are, the cost of the articles
will be about $70, which is 70
cents per hen. Auy respectable
hen ought to lay egga enough
in the course of a year to bring
$1.50, or more than double the
cost of her keeping. If . this
figuring is correct the poultry '
business ought to pay better
than most.branches of farming.
WHEN IT BEGAN.
In a letter to The California
Nationalist, J. S. Barbee says :
"The Farmers' Aliiance origin
ated in the county of Lampass,
Texas, in 1874. It was got up
by five hard working farmers
v 1 A f . . t A
as a nome proiecuon against
the large cattle syndicates of
west Texas, who made their
grand round up every spring,
and it was not regarded then
as stealing to brand all the un-
bianded calves that unfortun
ately fell into the round up, no
matter whose cow the calf
claimed as its. mother;
"The man who had the best
cowboys and worked the earlest,
hardest and, latest generally got
the most calves branded, ihese
five merf called themselves
The Farmers' Alliance.' Their
first step was to organize, and
then to co-operate, and the
first attempt to co-operation
in the form of a compact,
which provided the first one
and then the other of the five
members should be in his
saddle day and night as long
as the round up lasted, and
see to it that their calves
escaped or received their own
brand,"
The franchise for a street Tail-
road in Oxford has been granted
to a syndicate of Baltimore, Raleigh
and Oxford capitalists, with $5.00
000 to back their money talks.
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