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tSNT EWTO"N VOL. XI. NO. 4. NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890. PRICE: 81.00 PER YEAR. 1HE TERPRISE. f t - j. 3 I 1 iter POVDE Absolutely Pure. ThiB powder never varies. A marvel of purity strength and wholcsomeness. More economical than tLo ordinary k:nds, ami canr.ot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum of phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Bakino Powdkk Co., 106 Wall St., N. Y. CHAS. W. RICE, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Newton, N. iJ. TyJ L. MoCORKLE, A T'J ORNE Y A T LA W, NEWTON, N. C. VOUNT HOUSE. W. E. YOU NT, Proprietor, NEWTON, N. C. roll furnished room ; polite and attentive ser vants; table supplied with the best the market affords. A. R LYNCH, Attorney at Law, NEWTON, - - - N. C K01I37 to L0i.1T QN IMP HOVE D FAUMS IN sums of $300 and upwards, on long time and easy terms. For par ticulara, applv to L. lwitherspoon. Attorney-at-Law, NEWTON, - N. C. MO KEY TO LOAM. We will loan money on pood rc.il estate security n bettsr terms than ever before offered in thw State. For full infurmuiion call v;n the under signed. A. 1'. i-YNCi! & M. E. toWRANCE. J. E. THORNTON, I"" EEPS constantly on hand all sizes of Wood IV Cotrlns. AIju burial Kobes Strangers sending for Collins must send good go cunt j Shop one mile north of Court House. JVewtoii, N. C J. B. LITTLE, .m-.-ij rr.A r. 1 i ir.n i i.m NEWTON, N.C. Office in Yount Shrum't Butldinf. Dr P F LAUGENOUR, DENTIST. A Graduate of Baltimore Ventat Oellegc, ailh lev eral yaere etperieuce.) Does everything pertaining to dentistry in the ben manner possible, at reasonals prices. Aching teeth made easy, treated and filled so that they will never ache again. Extracting done without pain by usiug gas. OJftcttn Main ttreetOppotite the M. O. Bherrill Building SHOE SHOP ! ! We have employed good workmen and and are Tunning a flrat'class la the second story of our building. Boots and Shoes of any grade made to order. Shoes kept on Land. Mending promptly done. YOUjYT SERUM. A WORD TO THE PUBLIC ! Tin: m;wto i; iiskkis siioi We are prepared to do all kinds of work in our line in first class style. Sobrness and cleanliness strictly observed. Will do our utmost to make onr shop a pleasant place to our customers. Careful attention given to Ladies and Children at residence or shop Earnest Ij. Jl'oore, Prop. -BrAD FIELD'S FEMALE- REGULATOR CIFIC MENSTRUATION , OH MONTHLV SICKNESS IF T.KCN DUR1N6 CHANGE. OV WtT. BrtKT . u KHGE.R SUFFERING yilllBC AVDIDLQ JSOOK TO'WOMAN'P BRADFIELD REBUIATQR CD. ATLANTA GA FTa.CtT The improvements inaugurated on this page this week will be a perma nent feature. We will have two col uma of illustrated farming matter and one of household matter each week. The Enterprise, as a news and agricultural paper, is becoming popular everywhere. Friends can aid us materially by recommending it to neighbors and sending in sub scriptions. ODD WAYSJTO PROFIT. SPECIALTIES THAT BATS BEER FOUXn TO PAT OX TUB WARM. The Man TVh Made Money oat of Koatt-Ing- Figs The Venture in Male Raising that Made a Farmer Rich Raising Pigeons for the Table Makes Money. There is really too little variety in American farming. I was convinced of this the other day by a friend of mine who said he was making money on an old, worn-out farm that he had bought for $5 an acre on the tide-water lands of Virginia. Tobacco took all the virtue ut of this soil years before his grand father was born. "How on earth do you do it?" said L "With nothing but pigs and cows. " Tell me all about it. " "Well, the story is simply this: That land will hardly raise grass, but I have managed to seed about ten acres of al falfa and its roots are going down to the subsoil. This insures me hay enough for winter. I never pasture the alfalfa, but cut every blade of it I have 300 acres, of which about forty acres are in second-growth oak which yields a plen tiful supply of mast in the falL I keep one man, and his wife is a good butter maker. I have thirty cows and as many brood sows. My sows average two lit ters a season, for I keep fattening and selling off the oldest ones all the while. The porkers I fatten on my milk. I don't sell much good butter that is, not your gilt-edged butter that will bring 45 to 60 cents a pound. My average price is 28 cents. I get never less than $2.50 apiece for the pigs for roasters and somehow I find the market always good. My but ter and winter pork pay all the running expenses of the place, and the roasters make my profit, which last year was $1,600. " "Pigs for luck, " I said to myself. A few days afterward I was telling this story to another old friend from a rocky side-hill up in Pennsylvania. "Pshaw! that's nothing, " he said. "I am making money, too, up on my per pendicular farm, " I had guessed as much, but did not know how he did it. "Tell me hov," I said. "Well, I was 40 years old before I no ticed what any fool ought to have known that a good mule always brings a good price. " It is so from Boston to San Francisco, I don't care where you go. I am making money out of mules. It took time and a good deal of money to get a start, but now I am under headway, I am coining wealth enough to salt down in mortga ges on better farms than my own. There is good grasses among the hard lands on my place and I always have plenty of sowed corn and timothy put away for winter fodder. I tried to keep cows, but there was more hard work and compe tition than I could work against. One day the mule fever seized me, and I sold all my cows but one. and after putting aside money enough to live on I went to Pittsburg and bought the worst looking lot of old mares of the street car com panies ever you saw. The average price was $31. I took the poor old things home the freight cost almost as much as the critters and turned them out on good grass. In a month some of them were way up in flesh and spirits. A lit tle after I bought a good jack. The next year I had the f unne3t little drove of long-eared mules I ever saw. There were twenty-six of them, every mare had her colt, and the way those mules grew! I fed them oats after they were weaned never less than two quarts a day and in the winter gradually increased the ra tion with a little corn. When they were two year olds I sold fifteen of them for $1,900, nearly $130 each. I now have 200 biood mares and I have bought up all the worthless mountain land around me. I hire three men the year around, buy my oats and some corn, and have a good business. A mule raises easier, is tougher, and grows faster than a horse, and the prices vary much lass than they do in the horse market. But the greatest thing I have heard of in a long while for money making on the farm is pigeon breeding. There are sev eral extensive breeders in the South and West and they are finding it a source of large profit. A pigeon is just as easy to raise as a chicken, and a great deal easier than a turkey or a goose. The right so; t of a place is the first great essential. You need a separate building for them. An entire floor of some two-story out building is the best. They always like to be above ground and to look down on everything around them. Besides there is a seme of security in elevation. Another thing is to keep your pigeons roosting in one place so as to save the roof of your house or barn from their droppings, which are not a desirable in gredient of cistern water. This annoy ance deters many from having the birds around. But it can be obviated. It would even pay to put up a small cheap pigeon loft on high posts at some distant point on the farm. Good mother pig eons will raise four broods in a season and do it welL The young birds achieve independence and roam wider and wider, always coming home to the birth spo and never with empty craws. In a grain country the food that four or five hun dred pigeons pick up is never missed and it certainly amounts to a good deal when you come to sell your surplus stock. . There is a good deal said about breed The less said the wiser we all are. Tha common pigeon is as good stock as any. The homing or carrier pig( on is from this stock straight and there is no better specimen of the bird kingdom,considering the qualities of strength, endurance, and courage for flight. Of course it doesn't sound well to talk about raising homing pigeons by the dozen for the table. It is like eating Sunol or Maud S. steaks. But it will pay you to use good carriers for your male stock in a breeding loft. A cock carrier is a bird of great energy and he will "rule the roost" to your decided profit. It is a good thing to be near a market New York Is the best, of course but Philadelphia, Chicago, or St Louis are nearly as good points. There is always a fairly good demand. You need never take less than $5 for a dozen good plump birds, if you make the right connection with the hotel or restaurants that need your product And you can sell thirty to fifty dozen in a season and get even bet ter than $5 on some of them. For a boy on the farm, with fair play and some spare time, there is no better pursuit than pigeon breeding. He can make it pay if he wants to. W'entwobth. Profitable Hog Raising in Texas. W. S. Herndon of Tyler county, Texas, writes: "I began to raise blooded hogs in 1878, and continued tillJanuary, 1888, when I sold the entire stock to George Bentinck of this city, reserving four small pigs from a gift I butchered the four pigs November 29. Mr. George Bentick weighed and cut them up. and the four weighed net 1,355 pounds. They were one year old less one day, and were raised on premises, mostly as scavengers, having small feed of corn in addition, till the last two months. " During the jeriod of ten years I often raised hogs that weighed 360 pounds net at 1 year old and not one ever died with cholera. The stock was prolific, thrifty, and healthy. For many years I planted goobers (peanuts) and fattened my hogs on them, and this food makes the largest hogs and the best meat at the same time. "This is a good country to raise hogs, and everyone may, with little effort and small money, raise his own meat If Smith county alone would raise her ba con, it would save at least $300,000 per annum for circulating among her people. It would do more the quality of meat would be greatly improved, and our home markets would equal any in the land for good healthy meat. "I have made this statement because requested to do so not with any reason able hope of our people being profited by the fact, because I had this extra blooded stock of hogs for 10 years, often published the fact, offered pairs of pigs at $5, and I think sold a single pair, gave away several pairs, finally sold the stock to George Bentick, and he informed me that he had made $300 on the stock the first 10 mouths. " Case for a Sand-Bag. Within two or three years the use of heated band-bags in place of freestones, or the more comfortable but sometimes treacherous rubber water-bags, has "in creased in popularity to such an extent that it is needless recounting their mer its; but to those who have never used them we would say that, besides retain ing heat a long time and being easy to handle, their greatest recommendation is their easy adaptability to any spot or position in which one may wish to place them. Some have an as sortment o f t -' them on hand, 'f.':: from the long f: roll and small square ones for the sick room, to the comfortable "foot-war m -ers" for the family use. One of the lat ter is shown in our sketch, or at least the outside case is . 3Mv shown. The saitd-bao cask. sand-bag itself is only a plain, oblong case of stout twilled drilling or thickly fulled flannel, so thick and firm that none of the sand can work out through it, and yet soft and yielding ; it should not be filled quite full, as that makes it too solid and hard. They are so often soiled by coming in contact with the stove or some of its furniture that it is best al ways to have one or two cases into which the bag may be slipped after being heated. The subject of our sketch is such a case. It is made of cream-white linen towelling, soft and thick ; it is a plain case a little larger than the bag, open at one end where the front and back are both rounded off to form short flaps, which are folded one over the other and held in place by a button and button hole. On the front side the following suggestive lines are worked in outline stitch with coarse red marking cotton : I bring thee hot sands. Hot sands from the shore, All golden and glowing, So shiver no more. Should the case be a small one inscrip tion might be only: I bring thee hot sands, Ho shiver no more. The cases are sometimes made of pretty colored flannel embroidered with silk, but the towelling or soft canvas, or denim, is better, for they may be washed with out injury. American Agriculturist There are three sorts of strawberry plants, pistillate, staminate, and he maphrodite. When only one kind is planted it should be the latter. About Good Batter. One would think that every dairyman would try to produce butter which the consumer would take off his hands at a profit Such is not the case. Western dairymen are waking up to progressive methods of butter making. Their mar ket for choice creamery butter la broad ening year by year. Not only does the western dairyman send his fine products to the Atlantic cities, but also to the Pa cific slope. In the first ten days in Oc tober Los Angeles received five carloads of eastern butter. She has imported 227,000 pounds of butter in the last six months. California depends on Iowa and Wisconsin for her choice butter. a. -3 Bt n. - .: -' THE VINEYARD. From a paper read at a Kentucky Farmers' In stitute. For a vineyard, high, welKdrained lands, with southern or eastern ex posure, is most to be desired, which should be prepared by plowing un der in the fall, a good supply of ma nure, and again in the spring plow and harrow it well just before set ting the vines. Thrifty vines one year old are as desirable as any The depth of setting should be, to a certain extent, governed by the depth of soil. Six to eight inches is not too deep, when the soil will admit without setting them in a bed of clay. The advantage of deep sit ting is, that the main roots may run below the point of future culture. Should they run near the surface tbby are often torn op and exposed to air and sun at a time when they should be in active service of the vine and fruit. When thus set the cultivator should be run between the rows fre quent enough to keep the ground loose. The weeds and grass that may be about the vine should be scraped away with a hoe and the ground about them loosened with a potato digger, which will not cut off soch roots as are nearest the surface. Avoid fresh manures coming in con tact with the roots of the newly set vine, put on top of the ground about them, give tbem plenty of it well decomposed. Fresh manures are not desirable about them at any time,as they exrite a rapid and exten sive growi b, which does not mature early acd is killed by frost in win ter. When the young vines continence growing allow two of the strongest shoots to grow rub off all others as often as they appear. It is a matter of little importance whether they be tied up or allowed to run on the ground, as tue first year's growth should be cut off in the fall, leaving, as in the first instance, two eyes. The same culture mentioned for the first year may be continued annually, only ceasing to cultivate in future just before the grapes begin to color. The pruning and training after the first year's growth depends upon the sytem and form of support the grow er may choose for permanent use. A single stake or post iH used most, and has some advantages in setting a few vines in a small space, about gardens and town lots, which, with the- advantage of plowing two ways between the rows, are all that I can discover. The advantage of having the entire space between the vines one way for their distribution when fruiting renders a three-wire trellis more desirable with me. To the first trellis the young vine should be tied when it attains proper length in the spring or summer of the sec ond year. Three feet being near enough to the ground for the first trellis, the other two equally divid ing the space above it on thj post, which should stand six feet above ground. In the fall of the second year cut the vine off just above the first trel lis, unite and lay the vine on the ground, and, if Decessary, a light weight may be used to keep it down until the following spring, when it should be again tied to the trellis. The training after this time again depends upon the plan chosen by the grower, it being a safe rule to cut from half to two thirds of the new wood off each succeeding fall, and lay the vine downN as was done the year previous. Distribute the vine carefully on the trellis, not allowing two to come in close proximity, and the difficulty described will be avoided. B3 keep ing the vine small, under the renews al system the trouble of matted vines can be pa tly avoided on a single post. It is well to remember that grape vines and leaves love the sun ; the fruit the air and the shade. The trellis afford plenty of space for a fine row of leaves above the fruit, which can swing beneath, clear of all obstruction, with a free circulation of air. It is a good maxim to make haste slowly in growiner a vinejard. Do not at any time allow an over production of fruit, and especially on young vines ; two or three bunch es on a thrifty two year old y.ne might be permitted to grow to test quality, etc., which may be slightly, but not fo well flavored as when the vine becomes older. Prune close in the fall or early spring, t nd when the forms are sufficiently developed to discover the best ones, thin out by cutting off oneslhird of them allowing the finest to remain, which will make up in size and quality what you have lost in numbers, and the thrift and health of the vine will be preserved. With out close pruning you will soon have to climb for your grapes, be sides the nearer the old wood the bunch is grown the finer will be their quality. Summer pruning, when practiced at all, should be at tended with care. To equalize the general growth of a vine by nipping off the end of a disproportioned one might be well enough, but severe pruning is thought by some of our wisest and most successful cultiva tors to be injudicious, only showing to what extent the vines may be mu tilated without producing immediate destruction. Very fine fruit can be produced by cu ting off the end of the shoot just two or three leaves beyond the last bnnch of grapes, and rubbing off all laterals as they appear, in this way giving the grapes the supply of nutriment which other wise might have passed into the cane cut off. As already suggested, there is doubt as regards the final - result of such treatment of the vines. It is it"pmtnt to thoroughly clean the vineyard in the fall of each year by rnking all the leaves, decayed grapes and wood that was cut off when pruning, which should be burned. In these it i3 claimed that germs of rot and mildew are fostered, and being close at hand are ready for another destruction in due season. Tnis attention, with properly thin ning the fruit in the spring, using paper sacks when the grapes attain the size of duck shot, with an occa sional spraying with solution of suN phate of copper, mixed with lime water, will insure a fair yield of fruit in our worst seasons. GRADY ON THE SOUTH. Henry W. Grady in New York Ledger. In 1860, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, were the richest States in the Union. In 1880 they wtre, with the exception of Idahor the three poorest In the above comparison wealth is measured by the holdings per capita of the citi zens of each State. After twenty five years of peace and or unusual prosperity, Georgia has just reached again the total of her tax books in in 1860, minus her property in slaves. "What a pull it has been ! Through the ashes and desolation of war up the hill, a step at a time, nothing certain not even the way ! Hindered, misled, and yet always moving up a little, until shall we Kay it? the top has been reached, and the rest is easy ! The desper ate days of starvation the doubtful days of experiment these are over. And now the world will witness a change in the South, little less than magical. The ground has been pre pared the seed put in the tiny shoots tended past the danger point and the day of the mighty harves is hfre ! The Comstock lode is, perhaps, the richest spot of the earth. And yet, all about it is bleakness and mis' ery. Its teeming riches have gone to build up distant cities and carry great currents, of which the miners gasping in its depths, hear but dim report. The cotton field is a Dew Comstock lode. And for years the farmers fought in destitution, as the minei's fight, while the bales of cot ton, as of silver, went to enrich the cities beyond their horizen. At last they learned how to catch the ebbing sea at the edge cf the patch, and throw its enriching flood back on their own fields. The long leafed pine now standing in Southern forests, would yield, at $10 a thousand feet the crudest form in which it can be rendered $500,000,000 in excess of the total taxable value of the South, including cities, railroads, farms, personal property, everything. That is an enormous possession ! 13ut that does i.et satisfy the New South. Made into furniture, that pina would bring $50 instead of $10 a thousand feet. And so, in something over four hundred and fifty factories, she is turning it into furniture. EVERYBODY KNOWS. That at this season the blood is fill ed impurities, the accumulation of months of close confinement in poor ly ventilated stores, workshops and tenements. All these impurities and every trace of scrofula, salt rbeum,or other disease may be expelled by taking Hood's Sttrsaparilla, the best blood purifier ever produced. It is the only medicine of which "100 doses one dollar" is true. 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 fcr blood disases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning, Ulcere, Eruptions and Pimples. It purifies the whole system and thoroughly bui ds- up the constitution. For sale by J. C. Simmons, druggist. LIVE STOCK. THE HOG HIS HEAXTH AST) SURROUND INGS. A mericanFarmer. Colonel F. D. Curtis, an authority on matters pertaining to swine says : toProbably the most importont thing to be considered in the rearing of hogs is what they shall eat I have spoken of the want of philoso phy and danger in foul water, in breeding, keeping too many together, want of change to fresh fields, the lack of grass, and the curse of fat Each of these are important to a greater or less degree, according to circumstances. Some of the condi - tions enter into the very foundation of the business of pig-rearing and some affect the hog during his whole life. Food is something which has its effect every moment, and if it is not suited to the animal it will overcome all other things and break down the best constitution with the best sur roundings. Hence, it is all impor tant to know what to give the pigs and the hogs to make strong Dlood and bodies. Manifestly confining the pig and the hog to one kind of food all its life and this one kind of food deficient in some of the most important, yea, vital elements, for a full development of the body, is a system of feeding which must be deleterious and should not be fol lowed. Yet it is. Why? Because it has been done. We grant our forefathers fed corn, but they never fed it a it is fed now Tbey used it as a rounding-up food, making the body first on a variety of foods. They used to winter the pigs over and give them the use of a pasture ; sow oats and peas, tnd harvest them, and haye them ground and steam their meal with boiled potatoes. The later fed hogs had corn. The exptrience of the fathers, which was a success, accords with science, that hogs should have a complete food. and the old-time combination made it completely. It is a modern notion that corn is everything and enough for a hcg. This idea and practice is the result of 'progression, so called. It is the outgrowth of the 'early ma turity' doctrine, and anything to do with it. Early maturity means with most people, simply fat or weight 1 1 makes baby beef and, as I haye said before, animated lard. There is no substance in such kind of food, or in such kind of animals, . especial ly for fathers and mothers, in com parison with the old-fashioned hog grown on clover or grass, with veg etables, apples, oats, peas, potatoes, experience, and time. Here are all the chemical elements for a perfect body, with a big chunk of wisdom thrown in for a laster. Their hogs made good food, everybody ate them, and the pork barrel was the magic spot where the bones and sinews were strengthened to toil as men now realize. These hogs never heard of hog cholera, or of any of the other diseases now so common, and the natural heritage of corn early maturity. "There is reason somewhere, and why not accept the most natural one, and then, like sensible men, try to correct the evil? These hogs had arteries and veins full of good blood, strong nutritious blood, while the modern improved, early matured hog has a little blood, lacking in phos phate, bone materia, albumen, mus cle and tissue, and general stamina or physical 'force, which corn does not impart. Hogs thus made up fall an easy prey to all kinds of dis ease, and the longer this system of feeding and rearing is kept up the weaker the hogs wiil get and the more liable they will be to take dis ease. "The farmers have been educated to despise the 'old rail-splitters' and the 'sun fish of the south, but it is a fact that the flesh of these much de rided hogs is more palatable and di gestible than the mass of early ma tured and improved hogs of the pres ent. They make the best bacon, and the bacon is the best sample to show np the composition of the hog. There is more difference in the side than in any other part A modern model pig will have a side of solid fat, as compared with the semi-wild hogs of the south. One is food, and the other may be, for those who like it ; and one trouble is so many don't. We ought to make pork that every body could eat, but we never can do it by rushing the hogs from their birth and giving them all the corn they will eat. Here is a chance for a reform in the quality of the meat, and by going a step further we may make a greater change, both as to the quality of the flesh and in the health of the hogs. "Wheat bran and middlings should be the chief grain food of pigs. When several months old, corn can be added to these, coupled with this food, which should be more of the wheat than the corn ; there should be a pasture range ahd su h vegeta bles and fruit as may be supplied. The suggestion mav not be amiss that, in some parts of the country at least peas may be grown for the hogs. Peas make better pork than corn. Oats will take the ulace verv a. J well of the bran and middlings, with the hulls sifted out for the calves. Hogs thus fed can walk to market and stan 1 up better during the tran sit Buyers can afford to pay more for them, as there will not be so much waste in cooking and on the table by an excess of fat The fu ture of our pork interests does not rest entirely in the corn-cribs, but in considerable part in the brains of the farmers." 'THE ALLIANCE BILL. S e n a to r Vance has intro duced a bill to establish in every county of each of the several States a United States Agri cultural Depository, to be under the control of the Treasury Department, and under conditions which prescribe that the average gross amount per annum of cotton, wheat osts, corn and tobacco produced and sold in each county for two years previous exceeded $500,000. The bill also provides that one hundred citizens of the county shall petition the Sec retary of the Treasury requesting him to locate such a depository, and to appoint a manager, who shall give bond for the faithful perform ance of his duties. The bill further provides that any owner of cotton, wheat, corn, oats or tobacco may de posit the same in the nearesr depos itory, and receive therefor Treasury notes equal to SO per cent, of the net value of the market price of the products. The manager of the de pository shall give to the depositor a wa ehouse receipt showing the amount, etc., of the deposit, its val ue, the amount of notes advanced; but the interest on the money so ad vanced is at the rate of 1 per cent per annum. These deposits of cot ton and other staples may be re redeemed by the holder of the ware house receipt at any depository by the surrender of the receipt and the payment in lawful money of the same amount originally advanced by the depositor, and such further amount as may be necessary to discharge all interest that may have accrued against it, and all insurances, ware house and other charges. The terra of office for a manager of a deposi tory shall be two years. The sum of $50,000 is appropriated to carry out the provisions of the bill. WELL AND HA PHY. I take pleasure in submitting the following statement of facts that you may know the great benefit that has resulted from the use of your Spe cific in the caee of my little daugh ter, now ten years of age. The chiH. when two years of age, had a severe attack of 6carlet fever, which left her with a shattered constitution. Among other evidences of impaired nutri tion was what the doctors called softening of the bones. In her fifth year she happened to a slight "acci dent which resulted in the disloca tion of the hip joint, and, from the irritation thus set up, terrible ab scesses of the hip ensued. The ab ccesses, despite the best medical treatment that could be obtained, remained for three years, discharg ing continuously. At this time, through the influence of friends, I put her on your S. S. When this treatment was commenced the ab cess was very large, having six per forations, pus discharging through them all. During this treatment several spiculse of bone came out, and by the time she had finished her fifth bottle the abscess had entirely healed, her appetite and general health had been restored in shorty she was well and happy, and so con tinues. Mrs. J. A. Wtegner, Lower Main St., Slatington, Pa. Treaties on Blood and Skin Dis eases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlan ta, Ga. Exposure to rough weather, get ting wet, living in damp localities, are favorable to the contraction of diseases of the kidneys and bladder. As a preventive, and for the cure of all kidney and liver trouble, use that valuable remedy. Dr. J. H. Mc Lean's Liver and Kidney Balm. $1 per bottle. Itch, Mange, and stratches cn hu man or animals cured in 30 minutes bv Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by T. R Aber nethy & Co. Druggists, Newton, N. C. Jan. 10. 1 yr. ladies' (Column. New Iblxigs in Hats. The style in hats is wholly new and decidedly tasteful. The boat shape con tinues, but so trimmed and balanced that the effect is charming. The tendency to high pokes goes on and the style is going to help out girls of short stature. Hera are two pretty designs seen on the street the other day. They were in solid colors and depended almost entirely on form for their beauty. Incidentally, let me say, the cost of head gear is coming down. The milliners can't get the high prices they once flourished in. A Tomato-Colored Saab. "There is no doubt about it tomato color is the thing, " said one wise woman to another yesterday. "I don't know whether it is because we are less used to it, or because it is really more striking than anything else, but I assure you that woman carried the day, or rather the night thanks to nothing but that sash. Well hate to follow in her wake, of course, but I told my dressmaker she must get me up something in tomato color and white that won't look like an imitation. " All this as tribute to a woman who re cently appeared in the very familiar black net dress of the period at the op era house, and snatched victory from comparative defeat with a tomato-colored empire sash, and was considered by the men to be tiie most strikingly and handsomely dressed woman in the house. Tomato color is particularly adapted, too, for linings where the lining is ex pected to show, as in opera cloaks, and for gowns that fall loose over petticoats ; but it is to be hoped that it will never fall into the hands of the indiscreet, L e., the majority, for it is certainly a color to then cause havoc New York Sat urday Review. The Trixey Coat for a XJttle Girl. The Trixey is a very popular little coat and so simple in construction it can be made at home with or without a pattern. It will ad mit of tasteful orna mentation, but the prevailing fashion sensibly discourages display in the ordin ary dress of chil dren. Our picture shows a very simple style, such as is now much in vogue, how ever, in the large cit ies. The usual length is about half-way be tween the knee and ankle. Some moth ers make these coats even longer than the one shown in the picture. It is not a heavy garment, but rather a light one. It is made of cloth or cloth-finished flan nel and lined with silk, satin, or soma pretty bright woolen fabric For Toung Indies Wear. Some new style of boullion cups hare Eprays of sea-weed and moss decorating; the inner side. There are two handles, one on each side, of serpentine design. A "girl of 16 wears a green chasmero cut with a princess back, and one piece left front-lapped at the waist-line to form a graceful fullness in the front of the skirt. A V of black veil trims the front of the bodice, and three rows of velvet ribbon are placed down either side of the V ending on the right side of the waist line under a rosette. The sleeves and collar are trimmed with two rows and rosettes, and across the front of the skirt are five rows ending in rosettes on the right side. The idea of one piece, fronts slightly lapped, and then falling like a draped skirt is gaining ground both for ladies and misses, but one must warn all home dressmakers that the proper effect and fit are hard to obtain. A bright Gobelin blue serge is arranged with one very broad box plait in front kilt plaits on the sides, turned toward the back, and a full gathered back, with a border of one row of black velvet two inches wide, and two or three rows an inch wide on either side of this. The round bodice front is tucked to imitate a square yoke, with the fullness; then slurred at the waist line under a girdle of the serge, striped with the velvet ribbon, which is sewed, broadly in the side seams, narrowed considerably, and the ends crossed and tucked up out of sight The bodice has a basque back, and buttons invisibly up the front The leg-o'-mut-ton sleeves have deep MuSa trimmod witlx ribbon, and the high turned -over collar has three rows af the same. An Uncommonly Pretty Hat There are a great many pretty things in hats the present season, and it must be said that the designers have as a rule selected graceful and attractive shapes. mere are some nov elties, and our illustra tion shows one that will com mend itself to all per sons of good taste. It is a n unusu ally pretty and becom ing hat and has a curv i n g and Klirrrirlvrnll- -to ing brim of shaggy felt while the crown is of velvet, gathered in Tarn O'Shanter fashion upon a narrow velvet band, with a bird placed at the front New Sorts of Embroidery. Bokhara work forms a feature in the present London exhibition of art em broidery. It is an embroidery in colors on hand-woven linen, carnations being one of the favorite designs. Eagusa work, another novelty, is a kind of floral embroidery worked on fine silk canvass. A quantity of antique ec clesiastical work of the Spanish and Ital ian school is also shown, worked on white satin, and one Italian piece has a crimson rose worked on either side, and a spray of tiny flowers in exquisitely harmonizing colors through the cente Si JiP
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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March 7, 1890, edition 1
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