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NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1890.
VOL. XI. NO. 2.
PRICE: $1.00 PER YEAR.
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PROTECTION AND
TUBE.
AGRICUL-
CN THK February nuaibtr of
ll The North American Review
w tie Hon. Roger Q. Hills takes
up the discussion of Free Trade and
Protection from which we ruake the
following extracts:
'The system falsely called protec
tion maintains that commence is a
gambling device iu which one party
wins and the other loses. Therefore,
if England makes anything inatrad6
with us, she is benefited and we are
injured. But the truth is both par
ties are benefited. We can produce
much that she wants better and
cheaper than she can, and she can
produce much that we want cheaper
and better than we can, and ex
change is beneficial to both. Our
vast system of manufactures stands
upon the same solid and immovable
foundation as cur agr.c
There are I -it faw thiDgs in either
thx cannot produce cheaper than
they can be produced elsewhere aiid
that article whope cost of production
is the lowest holds the market
t all competitors, lhrougu
out t whole history we have been
exporn.ij; a 5- . j part of our annual
crops to others v Sio could either not
produce them at ail or not at cheap
ly as tLe-y could obtain them by pro
ducing something else atid exchan
ging their surplus for oars. No
tariff levied upon agricultural pros
ducts can help them. It can only
hurt them, as it does by prohibiting
the import of the things that would
come to be exchanged for them.
We have the soil and climate adapt
ed to the cultivation of grain and
cotton and to raising the stock which
supplies the food for mankind. It
yields a larger return for the labor
expended than i ny other country.
We have more intelligent, enter
prising, and skillful farm rs than are
to be found in any other country.
We use labor saving machinery, and
make our labor more pro iuctive
than the labor of any other people.
These advantages enable us to pro
duce a greater quantity in given
time, and at a lower cost and hence
we can hold our own market against
the world. Instead of
claiming our marvellous growth as
the logical result of commercial re
striction, because it bag occurred
subsequtnt to the adoption of that
policy, it would be more satisfactory
to show how wealth is made and
trace it back to that source, if it be
the rightful one. How is the dollar,
the unit of the vast pile made?
The answer must be, by labor. That
is the producing cause of all wealth.
And the largest wealth will be made
where labor produces the largest
amount of products in a given time.
These products will take their largest
value where there is the largest de
mand for their consumption, and
that is in the markets where the
same article cannot be produced, or
cannot be produced as cheaply or
not in sufficient quantities to supply
the demand. Hence the surplus
must find its markets away from
home, where it is wanted, and not at
Lome, where it is not wanted. At
home it has its lowest value, because
it is not wanted ; away from home it
finds its highest value, because it is
wanted. But the person who wants
must have the capacity to buy ; this
he can only have by having the right
to sell and have his surplus conveyed
to his customer. This is commerce.
Having the right to enter the mar
ket where his product is wanted, and
to sell at the highest price he can
obtain, he is that much more able to
buy and pay for the surplus of oth
ers, and all parties having access to
markets where these products are
wanted obtain the highest prices and
accumulate the most wealth. Just
in the proportion that the market is
c'osed and the product driven back
upon the producer, just so is the
' price decreased and the ratio of ac
cumulation of wealth retarded. This
is what protection does. When
protection puts taxes upon the goods
of the foreigner that prohibits them
from coming here, he is rendered
less able to take in exchange the
surplus which we are ready and anx
ious to give.
ANTIDOTE FOR TAINTED
MEAT.
Clinton Caucasian
J certain farmer in this county,
L losing a quantity of meat
during the hot weather, took
it off and buried it. A few days after
a negro told the farmer that he liked
spoilt meat, whereupon the farmer
said that he was welcome to it if he
would go and dig it up. The negro
did so and was surprised to find
that the taint had entirely left the
meat, being absorbed we suppose by
the earth. Ho informed the farmer,
who took the meat back to his meat
bouse, and is now using the same.
MANURE AND MANURES.
Dixie Farmer
EAD again what was written
in last month's "Thoughts,''
under the head of "The Ma
nure Heap " "We will add only a
few remarks: Every inch of mod
erately productive soil contains a
large store of the elements of plant
fDod enough of some of them to
supply the demands of an abundant
annual harvest for a hundred years.
There are already upwards of two
tons of phosphoric acid and six tous
potash and much more lime, in an
acre of average soil, taken to the
depth of one foot from the surface,
and yet we get good results in the
crop from th addition of twenty
pounds of phosphoric acid and five
pounds of potash to an acre of such
land. Why is this ? It is because
the larger part of the-plant food in
the soil i? insoluable and almost ut
terly unavailable to the crop while
the email au..--unt we add is in a very
soluable ann i .iniidiately available
form. The art of improving land
consists esscut -,. ly such treatment of
the soil as will cause it to yield a
larger percentage of locked-up plant
food to our crops, while at the same
time we restore what has been re
moved by previous crops, and, if
necessary, add an additional amount
in the form of purchased fertilizers.
We have said that the larger part
of the plant food in the soil is una
vailable to plants. It is true, how
ever, lL.it some plants have the pow
er of appropriating much more of
this plant food than others. The
cow pea, Lespedeza and other legu
minous plauts are of this class. A
crop of peas or clover will get more
phosphoric acid, potash and nitro
gen from a given soil than will
wheat or cotton, or corn. Ween
the roots and stems of the peas or
clover decay on or in the soil, the
plant food these crops have extract
ed from it will ba let in an available
form, and just where it is wanted,
for the use of a succeeding crop of
corn, cotton or wheat. Thia is the
theory of green manuring, in a few
words. Nothing is ad Jed to the soil,
except probably nitrogen from the
a;r, by the decaying crop of peas or
clover, but a large percentage of the
before insoluble and inert elements is
dissolved and made fit for food for
the crops we wish to grow.
So there are three ways in which
the farmer may conveniently maintain
and increase the fertility of his soil,
not to speak of underdraining and
subsoiling, which are helpful to the
operation of all these. They are
first to return to the soil, as nearly
as possible, all that has been remov
ed from it by previous crops. This
is accomplished by making and com
posting all the stable manure possi
ble, returning the cotton seed or
cotton seed meal, either as such, or
in the form of manure, from the an
imals fed upon them. The second
is, plant renovating crops, such as
peas, clover, buckwheat, Japan clo
ver, ete or allow the land to bring a
spontaneous crop of weeds. The
The third is to buy plant food in the
form of commercial fertilizers. We
have mentioned these in the order of
their general importance and econo
my. The first the saving of ma
nure, is an all the year around oper
ation. The second commences at
planting of the renovating crop
adopted. The third, the selection,
purchase and proper mixing of the
chemical fertilizers.
HOW TO TEST SEEDS.
Illinois Station
T IS an easy matter to test the
vitality of grass and clover
seeds, by placing a given num
ber, say one hundred of the variety
to be tested between woolen cloths,
moistened with water. Care should
be taken to boil the cloths before
using, to scald the plate or pan in
which the cloths are laid, and to use
only recently boiled water with
which to moisten the cloths, in order
to retard the growth of fungi, or
molding. Two or more cloths may
first be laid upon the plate or pan
the seeds distributed on the upper
one, and another cloth laid upon the
seeds. Sufficient water should be
applied to keep the cloths moist. A
plate of glass laid over the plates or
pans would add to the efficiency of
the device by retarding evaporation,
and protecting the interior by float
ing germs of fungi. At a tempera
ture of 70 to 80 degreea Fahrenheit
good seed should germinate in from
a week to ten days.' Seeds will ger
minate after being under such influ
ences several weeks, but seed that
do not respond in from seven to ten
days under such favorable influen
ces can be of little value when sub
jected to the vicissitudes of an ordi
nary seed bed.
TOBACCO GROWING.
The Bulletin
pHE tobacco growers of the State
(U) have had, the past season, more
success than the growers of
any other clean cultivated crop.
While the leaf has betn light in
weight, it has been generally fine
in texture.
Having heard much of the success
attained ia the tobacco growing in
Nash county, I paid a visit to that
locality a few days since, to see and
know for myself. While there I was
the guest of Mr. R. H. Ricks, who
has probably attained as great suc
cess in the growing of fine tobacco
as any man in the State at least for
the past ten years.
Mr. Ricks had the past season in
tobacco, forty-five acres. The aver
age production per acre was 725
pounds, for which he will realize at
least forty-five cents per pound. He
has sold half his crop, lorty-five
! cents being the average. v hat he
has to sell is equally as fine, if not
better. Seven hundred and twenty-
five pounds per acre, at fortysfive
cents per pound, is a calculation
easily made, and shows an income
which surpasses anything connected
with farming that has come under
my observation in the State Mr.
Ricks informed me that he had a
white man employed for the past
five years as a tenant, and that this
tenant had saved from his part of
the crop during that time $5,000 in
cash, with which he now wishes to
buy a place of his own.
Mr. Ricks' lands, and also those
of his neighbors (who are also doing
well in growing tobacco), ia light
sandy, with an original growth of
long leaf pine, small oaks and hick
ory. There are thousands of acres
of just such lands in the southern
portion of Anson and Richmond
counties, and also in Robeson coun
ty, that with the same intelligennt
management will produce as fine to
bacco as the Nash county lands.
Mr. Ricks manures his lands very
heavily, using from twenty to thirty
dollars' worth per acre He con9id
ers the use oi nve or six two hrse
wagon loads of stable manure indis
pensib'e to successful tobacco grow-
ing, which ia included in the above
amount of cost per acre
Mr. nicks is a very practical man,
and grows clover and grasses, and is
raising horses, cows, and fine hogs.
He also has considerable dairy in
terests.
I also learned from him this fact
that he could not grow clover and
cotton together; that is, cotton will
not grow on land that has been in
clover, neither will it grow in close
proximity to it.
I saw a similar communication in
the Southern Cultivator and Dixie
Farmer, in which the writer asked
to have the matter explained why he
could not grow cotton after clover.
This ia a matter that should be in
vestigated by the Experiment Sia
tions of the cotton States, and is a
proper field of investigation, as it
directly affects the interests of the
farmer.
Johx Robinson,
Commissioner.
SUBSOIL PLOWING.
New York WorlJ.
ERY much has been said and
wri tf n on the advantages to
be derived irom breaking up
the hard compact subsoil underlying
the stratum cultivated. Commonly,
subsoils will be found lacking in the
element of fertility, and bringing
them to the burface will usually be
found detrimental rather than other
wise. Where there has been a con
tinuous shallow plowing of the sur
face soil for years a slightly deeper
plowing will add to the feeding area
of the plants, but unless the surface
soil is itself rich it must be accom
panied by liberal manuring. As the
great bulk of the roots of our culti
vated plants grow naturally near the
surface, it secrcs to me that fubsoil
ing for the purpose of increasing the
feeding area is not of sufficient im
portance to pay the expense; we
must look somewhere else for its
benefits if it has enough to recom
mend it for general adoption. It is
now comming to be pretty well un
derstood that when a crop has car
ried off from a soil of moderate fer -tility
the plant food that has been
used up in its production it must oe
supplied from an outside source and
cannot be obtained simply by deep
plowing, whether the subsoil is
brought to the surface or simply
stirred up and left in its place. So
far as my own observation and little
experience go, the advantages of
subsoiling mainlj consist in afford
ing additional storage for water that
may be drawn upon by the roots of
plants in seasons of drought ; and in
season of excessive moisture the
subsoiling may itself be injurious.
IS THE FERTILIZER TAX
GON8TITUTIONAC ?
News and Observer
N the year 1886 the Supreme
Court of the United States de -clared
a law of Tennessee,
which imposed a license tax on resi
dent and non-resident drummers,
was unconstitutional, as interfering
with the commerce between the
States. The Court held that it made
no difference that there was no dis
crimination made between domestic
and foreign drummers, those of
Tennessee and those of other States;
that all were taxed alike; for, said
the Gourt, "inter-atate commerce
cannot be taxed at all even though
the same amount of tax should be
levied on domestic commerce, oi
that which is carried on solely with
in the State."
Since this decision it has been con
sidered by many lawyers that "the
law of North Carolina which taxes
commercial fertilizers manufactured
within or without the State,although
in the shape of a license tax could
not be upheld. Although the decis
ion was by a divided court overrul
ing former decisions of the Supreme
Couit of the United States and now
that the personnel of the court is
changed, it may in turn be reversed.
Chief Justice Waite's dissenting
opinion was a strong protest against
it.
We are informed that a promi
nent Richmond fert'Iizer manufac
turer, who has been paying to the
State from 1,000 to 1,500 a year,
determined to test the validity of the
law, and has employed Col. J. W.
Hinsdale to take such legal steps as
would bring about a speedy solution
of the question. This firm, having
in every particular complied with
the law, received from the Commis
sioner of Agriculture a certificate to
that effect and a i equest that the
State Treasurer should issue the
license. Theieupon Col. Hinsdale
tendered to the State Treasurer the
500 license fee, accompanied with
a protest, ciaiming that the law un
der which it was paid was unconsti
tutional and notifying the State
Treasurer that a suit would be in
stituted for the recovery of the tax.
Under instructions or adyice from
the Commissioner the Treasurer re
fused to receive the money or issue
the license, and the commissioner
withdrew his certificate that the law
had been complied with. Any citi
zen has the right at any time to ac
company the payment of his tax with
with a protest. If the tax is right
the protest amounts to nothing. If
the tax is wrong t. e protest is ne
cessary to protect the tax payer from
an illegal exaction. It is claimed
that the law does not require the
Commissioner to make any certifi
cate, and that if it does, the Com
missioner has no riyht to refuse it,
simply because the manufacturer
proposes in a lawful manner to con
test the legality of the tax.
After his employment by the Rich
mond firm, his services having been
sought by that firm, Col. Hinsdale,
informed several other manufactur
ers, directly or through their attor
neys, of the action to be taken, and
suggeste 1 co-operation. It ia ex
pected that some will join in the
contest, but we are informed that
there has been no "pool" or combi
nation formed by these gentlemen.
If they choose to make common
cause to prevent the enforcement of
a law which they think injurious and
claim to be in conflict with the Con
stitution of the United States, they
will proceed strictly under the law
and in the exercise of their rights.
THE PULPIT AND THE STAGE.
Rev. F. M. Shrout, Pastor United
Brethren Church, Bine Mound, Kan.,
says : "I feel it my duty to tell
what wonders Dr. King's New Dis
covery has done for me. My Lungs
were badly diseased, and my parish
ioners thought I could live only a
few weeks. I took five bottles of
Dr. King's New Discovery and am
sound and well, gaining 26 lbs. in
weight."
Arthur Love, Manager Love's
Funny FolkE Combination, writes :
"After a thorough trial and convinc
ing evidence, I am confident Dr.
King's New Discovery for Cons ump'.
tion, beats 'em all. and cures when
everything else fails. The greatest
kindness I can do my many thous
and friends is to urge them to try it.'
Free trial bottles at T. R. Abernetby
& Co's Drug Store. Regular sizes
50c. and $1.00
Sick headache, wind on the stom
ach, billiousness, nausea,are prompt
ly and agreeably banished by Dr. J
H. McLean's Little Liver and kidney
Pillets. 25c. a vial.
TO PRESERVE PORK.
The Bulletin
I rER the hogs have been
Jjy nicely dressed, cut up as de
(55 sired as soon thereafter as
practicable, lay on the ground with
fv-sh side np meat houses generally
have a ground floor, and are con-
;nint places for the purpose put
as much salt on it as it will conven
iently hold. Let it lay in that con
dition until next morning, wnen all
the animal heat will have disappear
ed, and most of the blood be extract
ed. Then it should be taken up and
salt well rubbed in, after which ap
ply from half to a teaspoonf ul of
pulverized satpetre to each piece of
joint; then pack away in bulk for
;,o weeks, when it should be re-
salted and re packed, and allowed to
remain for two or three weeks, when
it should be taken np, washed
clean, wiped dry and hung up.
I have never had meat treated as
above that was not well preserved
and perfectly sweet. Before hanging
my hams, I put them hock foremost
into sacks of cotton goods with open
end well secured with a strong string,
which is also used for hanging the
hams, after which I immerse in a siz
ing made of water and good hard
wocd ashes brought to a boil. It is
necessary to keep the sizing well
stirred, as the ashes settle to the
bottom of kettle very quickly Hams
thus prepared will keep indefinitely
John Robinson,
Commissioner.
RESTING THE SOIL.
S absolute rest good for the
6oil? Sir J. B. Lawes says not
On the contrary he claims to
have proved by experiments oft re
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peated that land at rest and unoc
cupied by a crop wastes and loses
fertility. Soil kepi constantly at
work, he says, is gathering strength
and fertilitv, both from the atmos
phere and through its own gradual
decomposition, which is effected by
the roots of the crops it nourishes
Roots have ability to decompose the
mineral elements of the soil and to
gather matter from the air, both
which are changed into plant food.
When in a porous condition, too, the
son oxidizes organic matter and ac
cumulates nitrogen, but it must be
kept porous to render it effective.
iience, when not actually growing
crops, it should still be kept active
by working it with a plow, and par
ticularly manuring it. There is a pre
valent idea that land loses much o:
its manurial taeasures by percolation
after rains. Experience proves rath
er the opposite. Sandy land that
has been salted will show in dry
weather following rain the fine white
saline efflorescence on its surface;
and clayey soil will show the same to
a much greater extent. The lesson
from practical facts like these is ob
vious. Plow your fields in the fall,
incorporating each with a heavy
coating of good manure. This will
keep them active all winter, and you
will find in spring that the manure
has been decomposed and becomes
part and parcel of the soil itself
greatly enriching it and insuring it a
proportionately increased crop of
whatever it is asked to produce.
Thus it is, like mercy, twice blessed,
blessing bothhim that gives and him
that receives.
EPOCH.
The transition from long, lingering
and painful sickness to robust health
marks an epoch in the individual
Such a remarkable event is treasured
in the memory a d the agency
whereby the good health has been
attained is greatfully blessed- Hence
it is that so much is heard in praise
of Electric Bitters. So many feel
they owe their restoration to healtl
to the use of the Great Alterative
and Tonic. If you are troubled
with any disease of Kidneys, Liver
or Stomach, of long or short stand
ing you will surely find relief by
use of Electric Bitters. Sold at 50c
and $1 per bottle at T. R. Abernethy
& Co's Drugstore.
There is danger in impure blood.
There is safety in taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.
100 doses one dollar.
WE CAN AND DO
Guarantee Dr. Acker's Blood Elixir,
for it has been fully demonstrated to
the people of this country that it is
superior to all other preparations f or
blood diseases. It is a positive cure
for syphilitic poison ng, Ulcers,
Eruptions and Pimples. It purifies
the whole system and thoroughly
builds up the constitution. For sale
by J. C. Simmons, the druggist.
COTTON ON THE FARMS.
OVASHr5rGTOx, February 10. The
y cotton returns of the Depart
ment of Agriculture for Feb
ruary gives local estimates of the
proportion of the crop which has left
plantations. The consolidation
makes 90.4 per cent, leaving 9.6 per
cent still to ero forward. About
nine-tenths of the crop has. there -
ore, been reported in sight, or ia in
small stocks unreported in hands of
country merchant or in transit The
State averages are as follows :
Virginia, 87, North Carolina 9,
South Carolina 90, Georgia 90, Ala
bama 90, Florida 93, Mississippi 91,
Louisiana 89, Texas 92, Arkansas 90,
Tennessee 87.
The average date of the close of
picking"fa about the same as last
year iu Georgia, Mississippi, Louisi
ana and Tennessee; is earlier in the
Carolinas, Florida and Arkansas, and
later in Alabama and Texas. The
average of county dates is Decem
ber, 12, ranging from November to
Jauuary.
The proportion of seed sold to the
oil mills has been found difficult to
estimate, but is apparently not much
over 25 per cent of the crop, possi
bly between 900,000 and 1,000,000
tons. The largest proportion re
ported is in Louisiana, followed by
Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Ala
bama and the Carolinas. The aver.
age State prices as consolidated are :
Carolinas and Georgia 18 cents per
bushel, Tennessee 17, Florida 16
Alabama and Mississippi 15, Louis
iana 14, Texas and Arkansas 13.
returns oi quality are very
high, except in Virginia and North
Carolina ana in Tennessee and
Arkansas. It is superior in all the
States of the Gulf Ooast The per
centage of lint from seed cotton is as
follows : Yirginia ?0, 2iorth Caroli
na 31 5, South Carolina 32.7, Geor
gia, 32.2, Florida 32.3, Alabama 33.5,
Mississippi 32,3, Louisiana 33.5,
Texas 32.4, Arkansas 32.2, Tennes
see 32.
The damage by insects was great
est in Arkansas and Texas. In Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennes
see, and North Garolina it was gen
eral but less severe. Georgia and
South Carolina suffered less. The
loss from boll worms was in Georgia
Alabama, Louisiana and Texas great
er than that from caterpillars.
PEACH ROT AND BLIGHT.
RWEN F. Smith contributes an
r interesting article on this sub
ject in the recent issue of the
Journal of Mycology. He says that
this disease is what has frequently
caused immense losses to the peach
growers of the country. It attacks
sometimes the blossoms and wood
as well as the fruit if the season is
favorable for its development. It
has sometimes destroyed an entire
crop in a very few days. Sometimes
the fruit is destroyed whila on the
way to market, and rots in the mid
dlemen's hands. He points out that
it is not necessary to bruise the
fruit to give the disease entrance,
but that it may itself puncture the
skin of a healthy peach during moist,
warm weather, when it is most ac
tive. This fungus growth, or dis
ease, as it is commonly called, is
distributed from peach to peach by
means of its spores or seeds, which
are scattered in great abundance.
These spores (seeds) pass through
the winter in a manner similar to the
rot of the grape ; that is, in the de
cayed or rather dried-up, fruit of
the peach. But he also finds that
the same fungus attacks and causes
rot in apples plums, and cherries.
He thinks that by destroying all the
rotten peaches and ether fruits, a
great deal will have been done to
stop its ravages, especially if this is
carried on carefully for several years.
To be successful, growers should
unite in this destruction of decayed
or dried up fruits, and none should
be left on the ground or on the trees.
In order to destroy them effectually,
they must be buried cr burned
Simply piling them up is of no avail.
He says when this disease has at
tacked the blossoms and destroyed
them, many other causes have been
looked to for a solution of what was
a mystery, such as lack of polleniza
tion, etc.
A DUTY TO YOURSELF.
It is surprising that people will
use a common, ordinary pill when
they can secure a valuable English
one for the same money. Dr. Ack
er's English pills are a positive cur
for sick-headache and all liver .troub-
lea. They are small, sweet, easily
taken, and do not gripe. For sale
by J. C. Simmons, the druggist
EARLY CABBAGES.
'HOSE who did not
snnr anx-
cabbag seed in the fall need
not despair. In fact, I have
ong ago quit the fall sowing of cab
bage seed. In a mild fall, such as
we have had. cabbage seed sown in
this latitude in September will have
a very large proportion run to seed
without heading. The sowing of
seed in the fall and transplanting
into frames for the winter is a troub
esome job. Seed sown now will be
a utue late, ous wui sua come in
fairly good tim . It would have
been better in this latitude to have
sown them early in January. My
practice is to sow the seed in shal
low boxes in a warm green-house,
early in January. As soon as large
enough to handle, prepare another
set oi uoxes oy nixing inem nan iuu!Tallib;fl to hp mtonW
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of fine rotten manure, and finishing
with good soil. Into these, set the
plants about 75 in an ordinary box,
1 by 2 fees in area. Place the boxes
in an ordinary cold frame, and keep
the sashes closed until they recover
from the transplanting. Then give
air on all occasions, except when it
is freezing, so as to get the plants
hardenedjoff for planting out in
February or March. They can be
taken to the field in the boxes, and
lifted out with trowls, and sat with
a lump of manure on each plant, and
will grow right off. Plants started
in this way early in January, will
beat the plants from seed sown in
September, and seed now sown and
treated thus, will be but little be
hind the fall sown plants, and none
will run to seed- There is no vari
ety yet introduced, that will beat a
good stock of Jersey Wakefield in
earliness. Northern gardeners call
the Winningstadt much later, but
with us, it always is close upon the
heels of the akeheld, and is much
larger. Henderson's Early Summer
is one of the best and is about the
same season as Winningstadt. Fat-
tier's Improyed Brunswick, I have
always found much better than Early
Flat Dutch
It will always pay, no matter how
much fertilizer you have given the
soil before planting, to have some
nitrate of soda on hand, and at every
working give a light top dressing.
The rapid growth and increased
earliness, will well repay the ex
pense-
To those who have inquired where
the 3x6 foot h t bed ashes can be
had, I will say, that Cooke, Clarke
& Co., of Norfolk, Ta, will furnish
them piimed and glazed at 1.S0
each, or the plain sa&hes without
glass for SO cents each.
W. F. Masset.
N. C- College of Agr. and Mech.
Arts.
POISON OAK.
The following extract, taken from
a letter writen by Mr. E. A, Bell, ful
ly explains itself :
While surveying land in 1SS3
accidentiy handled poison oak vine.
and in less than three hours (the
eruption usually resulting from such
contact begin g in ten days) my face
was swollen and disfigured, and my
hands and arms seriouslyjtffected-
I immediately begau taking Swift's
Specific (S- S- S. and after taking
three large bottles I found all signs
of the breaking out entirely removed
I was led to suspect its return at the
same time next year, but it did not
nor has there been any indications of
its return since.
My little boy, eight years old, was
afflicted with the same poison in
18S4. After taking several bottles
of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) the erup
tions entirely disappeared. A very
slight form of the same eruption re
turned during the next spring, but
we then resumed the S. S. S., an
having taken enough during that
season to make the cure permanent
he has not since had any return o:
the disease. Swift's Specific S- S.
S.) certainly effected thorough cuies
in both these cases, and I regard i
as a most effectiv remedy for all such
diseases.
E. A. Bell, Anderson, S. C
Treatise on Blood and Skin disea
ses mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.
Atlanta, Ga.
A CHILD KILLED.
Another child killed by the use o
opiates given in the form of Sooth
ing syrup. Why mothers give their
children such deadly poison is sur
prising when they can relieve the
child of its peculiar troubles by
using Dr. Acker's Baby Soother. It
contains no opium or morphine.
Sold by J. O. Simmons, the druggist
WOJIAXS A D TrAJTCEJlES T.
A quarter of a centuary ago a mar
ried woman of thirty was extinguish.
ed u cder a cap and remanded to the
regions of dullness, says the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. Her growing daugh
ters monopolized her thought and
time. They were first in everything
their wishes, tastes and inclina
tions were all in aQ. At forty she
had quite done with the active in
terests of hie- All that remained to
her was the supervision of the do
mestic economy, the missionary
society and the endless making of
patch work. Her time was not
something to be economized, too
It
invo lved no choice of duties, no sub
stitution of the more important fcr
those less pressing, for she had cone
beyond those which were classified
under the head of natural responsi
bill ties.
The existence of unmarried wo
men was even more circumscribed,
for they had not even natural re
sponsibilities home, husband and
children with which to occupy
themselyes. It was this disregard
of the experience and wisdom which.
ought to come with years well lived
that won for us the pitying contempt
of Europeans. The American spoil
ed child was justly looked upon with.
horror as dominating society and ar
rogating to itself the place and dis
tinction which, in Europe were re
served for its elders.
We have learned at last one whole
some lesson from our neighbors on
the other side of the Atlantic, and
the women of maturer years mar
ried or unmarried is slowly claim
ing and taking her righful place. It
is astonishing what things are be
ing done by grandmothers women
past fifty, who have raised their
children and have them "settled in
homes of their own." Once they
woull have droned in the chimney
corner over tneir Knitting or me
patchwork above mentioned. Now
they have been inspiied by the uni
versa! spirit of enlightenment and
must do their part in the work of
the world outside of home. Nearly
all of the philanthropic work of the
present has been originated and is
controlled by mothers of grown
children, or by unmarried women
past forty. They constitute the
larger part of the me mbership of art
and literarv clubs and of the societies
connected with the churches.
The writer visited a friend several
years ago and saw upon her walls
several studies in oil, remarkable for
their strength and originality. vTlien
the hostess was questioned she said :
"They are my mother's work. She
never knew that she had any talent,
and never took a lesson in drawing
until she was past fifty. Now she
paints incessantly, and it is a con
stant pleasure to her and to us alL"
China painting has been taken up
late in life by women who served an
apprenticeship, not in the line of art,
but in cooking, sewing and house
keeping.
In a Western city the organist in
one of the large churches is a gray
haired woman between fifty and
sixty. She is an enthusiastic musi
cian, and could not read a note until
she waa fifty years old.
Helen Hunt Jackson waa forty
years old before she found in her
writing a solace for bereavement and
sorrow.
In the country the farmers' wives
are interesting themselves in tem
perance and politics- The general
circulation of the newspapers has
been a godsend tc them, and they
have been quick to act upon its Bug
gestions and so broaden and bright
en their lives.
The days have passed in which
women are to be wives and nothing
more. Their duty in that direction
will always be paramount to every
other consideration, but for the cul
tivated and active mind it is cot
enough. Knowledge and wisdom
confer power, and power in either
man or woman will finJ fitting scope,
as water seeks a level. The educas
tion of women within the last 25
years has revolutionized society, and
the blessings which have come with
it are cot only permauant, but they
will be increased.
The ultra-conservative who cannot
adjust themselves to the new condi
tions may well say, with the dough
ty Sir Anthony Absolute, "All this ia
the natural consequence of teaching
girls to read." But what ia done
cannot bt undone, and no feminine
human being in possession cf her
faculties will give up one inch of the
solid ground which has been gain
ed.