THE
' PATROR
VOL. 3.
LASKER, XOKTIIAMPTOX COUNTY, X. (,, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 17, 1894.
N0.85.-
W. E. NICHOLS,
Successor to Nichols & Bri'ton,
WHOLESALE
Fruit, Produce and
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
fAbke a Specialty of
Eggs -and Poultry.
QUICK JIETLT.NS. ,
iO.j High St- - - Portsmouth, Va.
fiKFEKENTE: The Peopled Bank; .Tike
Merchant and Fanner's Batik, J. A. 1
Buxton &. -Co., Jackon, X. C. aud
Geo. M. Illloman, Woodland, X. C.
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OF SOUTH CAIIGLLXA.
Inclu'Tes the College, the Universi
ty, the Lawi School, the Medical
.'School and t&e Summer School for
Teacher.
College tuition 60.06 a year;
hoard $7.00 to $13.00 a month, i
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Session begins Sept. 6. ' j
Address; President Winston,
7-.V.H Ckapel Hill, N. C.
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE,
WAKE F012EST, X. C.
A Christian College embracing ten
Af-iil'Hic Sonols and the profession
al School of Law.
A select '.Library of 11,689 volumes.
A l;irg; ans! well funiMied Reading
Knout.
Th"rnn;hly -equipped XJj'innasiUBi an2
La bora to lies. j
Literary Societies unsurpassed in the
South. '
No secret fraternities allowed among
the sttulents.
Free tuition to ministers and sons of
ministers. - . .
Lo:ins for tke needy.
Hoard froru six to ten dollars per month.
A complete system of water works with
ample bathing facilities.
I'iie oramer Law Seliool opens uly 2nd
.Vi-vt fesyon begins Sept- 5th.
For further information "ddress
RE V..C. E. TAYLOR, ,Pkes.
The second term of this school will
open Sept. 3. 1804. '
UsuhI -eourses of studies pursued as
in otfier academies.
IJ(i.ud can be proeu red in good fami
lies at low rates.
The place is noted for good'heaith and
pe.nl moral influence. -
Tuition varies from $1.25 to $3.00 per
tnoiith.
For f u tKer 3artielars addres,
IiUFUS BRADLEY, Pkin.,
8 9-4t MwgarettsvMIe, N. C.
JOB. BOTH SEXES.
Union, Hertford Co., N. C.
P. J. Long (U. X. C.) Principal.
Miss Nannie Peebls(0.B Inst.) Assistant.
Fall term begins Monday, September
3, ISIM, and continues for nine months.
tuition:
Primary course, $1.25 per month.
intermediate course, 1.50
Classical course, ' 2.00
Mumc, (Instrumental), 2.00
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Hoard convei ient t" school at leason-at'-
rates.
I'or particulars address, ,
P. J. LONG, Principal,
-S-0-4t Union, N C.
SOXOBgi ACA.PEMY,:
A Hinh-Grade, Classical and Math
ematical School for
GIRLS AND BO S.
The 'fifth scholastic year of this popu
lar school will begin Monday, Sept. 3,
'l, and continues lor ten months.
LANGUAGE TAUGHT.
Ki glish, Latin. Greek, Krence-and
Airman.
TERMS, PER MOTir.
1'ii ma ry English,
Intermediate English,
Hi-rlit-r English, including the En
JI'ih Classics and the Hifiher
$1.00 i
l-OO
Mathematics, t
tliiruay.. V v t m
2.00
1.00
I
-""ic, 2.00
j e of Piano for Practice, 1.00
lrd from $8.00 to $10.00 per month.
Payable monthly when other arrange
,llem' ave not been made.
VMi'ig men desiring to study Lawean
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1 ' 1 ' 1 ai exeelJpnif nnnnrfimirr at tliis'
I lliiCipal,
S. L. JOIINSTON", A. .V -;
. Boxobel, N. C,
Frontier Life on the Plains.
No. 9.
..For the Patron and Gleaner. J .
I believe it will not be out of
place for me to write another fetter
on the care f Our horses, cows,
calves and bogs in the early days in
summer.
All picket ropes must have one or
more swivels oa them or they will
soon kink all into knots, or untwist
and come to pieces.
A horse should have a halter on,
although very few of them did, the
rope was just tted around the neck.
A swivel should be tied on the
end, of the picket rope, then the bait
er leaf! ekould be tied to the swivel ;
if two swivels were used, the other
would be tied next to the "picket
pin" or stake.
For cows we would tie a rope 10
or 15 ft. bag around their horns,
then tie tin's to the swivel. When we
watered either horses or cows we
usually untied the rope from the
swivel but sometimes we would null
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up the stake aad take the whole rope.
A here a family had 5 or G milk
cows, some member of the family
would lake an old ax and knock all
the stakes loose and let all the cows
go at once, then they could be driv
en back and . "staked" in much less
time than :f taken one at a time ; they
are not likely to run away when thre
are several of them. We generally
used a 7 16 rope fofpicketing horses'
and cows; some would use larger
and some smaller according to the
nature of the stock, for some stock
were harder on ropes than others. A
rope would last a year and some
times two years, but it was always
an asgrivation when it got old for li
would break so often and let the
stock loose; but where there were
several head picketed near together
and one got loose it usually stayed
with the others.
It was.a bard matter to keep sup
plied with stakes, for the first settles
had to use any kind of wood they
cuild get, which was ali right when
the ground was soft, but when the
ground got dry and hard the stakes
would splint and splinter ali to
pieces and then some of the stock
would only be Iraif "staked."
Later when iron pins came iu use
we did not have so much trouble, but
iron pins cost 2 cts. apiet-c and 25
cts. was a big pile of money to some
settlers.
Picketing horses or cows the first
time was always accompanied with
some danger for they would get the
rope around their hind foot, then be
gin to back, and keep on backing
unlii the rope became tight and eith
er slipped off the foot or pulled the
head light to the side, then fall down
on the head. I knew of only one
cow to get killed this way, though it
looked like sure death to see them
fall. Colts and calves never hurt
themselves on a picket rope. It is
necessary to be careful when picket
ing among hills ; the pin should al
ways be driven at the foot of the hill.
The gentlest of animals will get
the rope around their feet sometimes,
and when they are on level ground
they walk around until the rope
comes all right, but they cannot do
this on a hill side.
The Srst pig we owned in Kansas
would weteh about 50 fts. I got a
I inch rope about 15 ft. long, tied it
around ptegie's hind foot and thought
"what was the use of a hog pen any
way."
It rained a little that night and
next morning I wondered what made
piggie .so uneasy, sd I went out to
see, and found that the rain, had
caused the rope to draw tight and
piggir-'s log was swelling badly ; then
tl.n rfit.P from the
stake and tie that eud around the
other hind loot; then I cut the rope
froo the foot that was swelled and
it tjt l.r l I '
pig picketed all the while and
chaaged tfee rope to the other foot ;
this however was only temporary. I
knew there was a better way, and I
learned from our neishbor afterward
to buckle a leat&er atrap through a
ring any size ring will do and
around a forefoot at the same time,
then tie the rope to-ibering.
The strap will not become tight
when it gets wet, like a rope.
The first, pig pen I made in Kan.
sas was 16 ft. long and 8 feet wide.
made out of fence boards and 2x4
scanUiMg, with a cross piece in thsj
middle. When I wanted to move it;
t i.i ..r.i. ...i
ii wuuiu "tri. iui,u lue miuoie 01 me
pen and lift it up entire and carry it
anywhere, and no matter where I left
it the hogs were all ready in for I
did not let them out.
When I got "able" I built a pen
16 ft. square out of the same kind
of material, but I could not move it
so easily. Some men would get two
wheels, put one on each of two cor
ners, then when they wanted to move
it they would jast lift up the other
side and push.
Hogs shut up, in such little pens
wanted grass very badlj' and they
soon learned that by trying hard un
der the bottom board the pen would
move for them and in this way would
move it themselves.
RlCKACO COOPEE.
Fairfield, Nebraska.
The Grange. '
The grange does not confine its la
bors to four square walls, but invites
to public gatherings where practical
lessons may be enforced. Thus it
becomes a promoter of good-to all
the community. Maine Farmer.
The grange may be considered as
much of a permanent institution as
are our churches and our schools,
says Master G. iB. Horton of the
Michigan state grange, and will ever
be found on the side of justice, equal
ity before the law, temperance, mo
rality, education and all those things
that build up and mike a nation
great in all that we as Americans are
proud to hold-most dear.
No order which ever before existed
has accomplished so much for hu
manity with so small a tar upon its
membership as the Order of Patrons
of Husbandry. The initiation fees
in no state ereed $3 for men and $1
for women, while in most states the
fees have been reduced to $1 for men
and 50 cents for women, and its
monthly dues are only 10 cents per
member.
The grange, says State "Master
Geo., A. Bowen of Connecticut, is a
large, prosperous order, firmly estab
lished in every state of the union,
still growing in both numerical and
financial strength ; and conducted by
able, experienced and Self-sacrificing
leaders, who, from having worked to
gether for years, are a unit in details,
the Patrons of Husbandry have pre.
sented. a strong, well organized Or
der, prosperous in its business, with
a multitude of legislative achieve
.i : ..if.iu., ;
. : Normal and Industrial School and
than that of any other agricultural; n .. anny t c. a . r
J 'the Cullowhee sehool. Instead of
organization, and iossessing there-,. . , t. , . . i
Amimtt f tu higher education bein? supported by
spect, not to say admiration of the; .. . J
public for its judicious conservatism, j a tax on the many for the benefit of
Alpha Messer, Lecturer, National
Notice j
Is hereby given that a meeting j
of the delegate appointed by the '
county Democratic convention fori
Bertie and Northampton will meet counties in North Carolina there are
on Tuesday the 20th day of August j 5,523 tax payers; and they eontrib
1891, at liich Square, Northampton ntc as follows to support higher ed-
! county, for the purpose of nomina-
ting a candidate for the Senite fir
3rd Senatorial District.
J. S. GRANT, Ch'm '
. '
Senatorial Er. Com.
July 26, 1894.
J STATE EDUCATION.
FACTS AND FIGURES Til JIT XAKE
TLAIX THE WHOLE JLlTTEtt.
. xuere are aooun io.uuvi aue
children of school age in North Car-
Tl i ' . m r rrr
olina. Of these not more than 35.-
WU eiag ieSS Inan oneeo111. g
prl7ate 8chol3' Ieavin 335,000, or
j n,aetentfas- dependent upon State
.scnoois. .ne wBi;e coimren ouioi
' len in North CarIina if educated at
all, niU9t .be educated by State aid.
2. The money that supports the
common schools is derived from tke
'..II : . I. tl e
louowl,,S aurcw me pent iax. Bnes.
forfeitures anfl penalties, the liquor
lax ann a scuooi ias.m it cents on
every oiw 01 hsuju nroumv.
The
school fund is used exclusively foe
the common schools, nor can it be
used legally for other purposes.
3. For the annual support of com
mon schools in North Carolina is're-
quired about $761,000. fThe daily
cost of the schools is about $12,000.
It lakes $48,000 for fowrdays.
4. For the annual support of Irgh
er education for the whites in North
Caroliua is required ,$44,000 as fol
lows:
The University, $20,000
m
Agricultural and Mechani- t1
cal College, 10KQ
Norranl and Industrial
School, 12,500
Cullowhee Normal School, 1,500
Total.
44.000
This is the annual appropriation
for maintenance, and does uot in
clude repairs. !
This money comes, not from the
common school fund, but from the
general fund. It could not be added
to i tUe common school fund, unless
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by a sreciai act of the Legislature
Even if it were so added, and the
State institutions for higher educa
tion were destroyed, not four' days
would be added to the length of the
common school term.
5. The $44,000 annually appropri
ated fcr the support ofJiigher educa
tion cornea from the general fund io
the treasuryfjut does not include
poll taxmoney, which is appropri
ated to otlier purposes by the Con
stitution. No man in the State con
.tributes anything to support higher
education,! if he pays only poll tax.
All that he pays gos to common
schools and to support the poor. ' )
The property in the State is listed
at $260 000,000. A tax of If cents
on the $100 will yield $45,000. being
$1,000 more than is annually appro
priated to higher white education in
North Carolina. Therefore tax pay.
ers contribute as follows to support
higher education ;
A man who pays only poll tax
contributes nothing, A man who is
listed at $100 pays less than lj cts
A man who is listed at $1,000 ps
less than Yi cents. A man who
is listed at $5,000 pa s less than 87 J
cents.
Nine-tenths of the tax payers in
North Carolina being listed at less
than $1,' 00 pay less than 17 cents,
to support the University, the Agri-
: cultural and Mechanical College, the
jthe.fcw, it is a tar on the few for the
noor horn at the higher institutions
ftre the ones that get the benefit of
scholarships, loans, and labor for
self support. I
6. In one of the largest and best j
ucation : Only 546 pay as much as
17 cents, only 17 pay more than 87 carry a full line of lr,t-
cents, while 76Z pay nothing at all. lci CoiifcctionprW and Faiicy Gro-
I 7. H igher education in North Car' eerie. Tobacco and Cigars.
i ,. , -, 1 Call and ee ue.
olina costs Uie masses of the people j J J. BURNETT.
'pracucally nothing, and coat very C-U-3m ' ' JcIoih N-C
few tax payers over 17 cents. Ills
' the cheapest thing in the State and
yet the most valuable.
The oHection that not all attend
.
thc higher and therefore thar
: . hev An ot benefit all. aonlies eoual.
u, .l i tl. . .
. thirdH or the children of school age
, a XortkCarolina do nat tlted ike
JiaIjc . The objection is ft-
tal to any system.
8. What North Carolina spend
for higher education may be?t be
seen . by a comparison with the
aaoanU spent by otlier Slates. The
following figures are famished by
the State superintendents, and do
not inemde appropriations for re
pairs lui Id ingv&c. They represent
the annual appropriathms for main
tenance: North Carolina. $44,000$
Smith Carolina, $107,000; Virginia,
$129,000; Georgia, $61,(KX); West
V.rginia,$200,000 ; Connecticut. $30,.
000 V Vermont, $32,000 ; Uuode I?5
lan.l, $30,000 ; Pennsylvania. $130.-
O00 ; New' York. $506.000 ; Ohio,
$123,000; lichigan, $3fi,000; Min
nesota. $202,000; Illinois. $154,000?
Colorado,-$250.0C0 ; Nebraska, $196..
000 : South Dakota, $80,000.
The list is not compJete as every
State in the Union might be added.
9. It thus appears from facts and
figures (1) that North Carolina should
do more and not less for education ;
(2) that the masses of the people will
get neither lower nor higher educa
tion without State aid ; that the bur
den of supporting higher education
in North Carolina, rests upon very
Pew taxpayers and not heavily upon
them ; (4) that those who are making:
the biggest fuss about this burden
are not heljiing to bear it. X. in N.
O. Ch-onicle.
NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of
the sgtate of James - Wy Copelatid, w o
hereby notify all persons having claims
Haiustthe eame to present them to us
frp&ymeiit on or bi-fore August 1ft,
1805, or ihi notice will w. pleaded In
bar of iheir lecovery. Debtors will
uleaie pay promptly.
. J. OUTLAND, 1
J. W. .IESSUPS,
Sai.lie .1. Copeland.Jr. j
AdlllVs. of JA8. W. COPELAVD.
By B. S. Gay, their att'y- 7KMt
DR. G. M. BROWN,
-BE5II8T.-
WOODLAND, N. C.
Teeth extracted without paiu. .
HDET3AKFM ASS EES.T0SD RilLFJAD
I TIME TABLE.
In effect S. 30 A. M., April 16, 1804.
Dailj' except Sunday.
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I Train Train
NORTH BOUND. iNo.134 j Nu 3
I A. M. ' P. M.
Leaven Jackon, X. C, i 8:30 2:15
Mowfifld. " f 8:0 ;
Arrive Gum iwrry, " j 0:30 3:15
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! Train Tmlu
SOUTHnOtTND. jXo.4,. Xo.3.
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' j ; j I. M. 1 P. M.
Leaves rumbrrv,N.C. ? 12:15 j 4:30
, " MownVId, 12:-V5 f 5:16
Arrives Jackon4 1:J5 ! 5-59
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" P. Kf II, Gen'l Mgr.
Cha. Ehrhart, A'tfg. Sup't.
COLD DRINKS !
COLD DRINKS!
You can always get
Ice Cold Soda Water of all Flavor,
LMmon and Lime Ade,
Milk Shake.
Piaeipple kiiJ Lemon Sberbeta,
Claret Ice,
Soul.
Oococol.
Champagne MIf,
and ail kmu oi nrw-ciaw ice coiu re-
frehiug: Driuks usually served at a So-
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