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("Iff JPATRON J. "1 1 A ; v ! ! : U 9 VOL. 4. LASHER, NORTHA3IPTOX COUNTY, X- C, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1SD5. XO. 15. Speak no 111. .N- v. sj-ak no ill, a kindly word ,in ,...ver leave a sting behind; oh! to breathe each tale we've heard ' h fr taeath a noble mind. Fj11 ft a letter seed is sown ViV cl;fosinff thus a kinder plan. p,,r if but httle good be known, kt us speak the best we can. , the heart that fain would hide, . V.rt,!l fain another's faults efface; , I ; , v can 'it piea sune h uman pride T-j prove humanity but base. v; jet tis reach a higher mood, A in bier estimate of man; j;.- arnest in the search for good, ,i. 1 sjak of all as best we can. .,,.,, Hjak no ill, but lenient be j ,, other's failings as your own, If v . s n- the first a fault to see, V not the first to make it known. .- ,: : if is hut a passing day, ,, ;ij.s may tell how short its span; Ti - "b! the little time we stay, I-f s sjMj.ik of all the best. we can." Selected. HIS LAST LETTEI1 WRITTEN BY THE LATE W. J. CAPE HAKT J UST IiEFOUE HIS DEATH HIS TJtfJST IN GOD. Tin late William J. Capehart, ,,f llorlio County, an acount of v. hose life we published last week, was, from its first publication, a warm f riend of the PATltOX AND (Jr.KANKK, and in private and public" '.encouraged its editor and contributed to its support He off. mi used its columns to speak to the pooile. His constant aim was to do something to advance the' interest of the farming class. One of. .his last acts during his last and fatal illness was to write a letter for publication in his fa vorite paper, the Patron axd (J lhaneiu but as we were crowded for space it has been held' over till now, as it was one that would be good at any ti me. In it ho offers encouragement to the small farmer and expresses his gratitude to God for the suc cess he attained in life. Below is the letter: Koxoijel, N. C. March 12, 1695. f vav. No t w i th s ta nd i ng th e u n p r e r. 'dented depression in almost ev erv branch of business, the one and two horse farmers are in a better condition than ever before. They have a surplus of the staff of life on hand, with muscle to keep' the supply replenished, and a sound head to direct the work of the, muscle. This noble tyje of our population has from the dawn of creation executed their own work and never before have they been so bountifully re warded as now. It is not so with large planters; they cannot do their work and are dependent on others to do it for them, at a time when honest toil will not pay the om of production. This condi tion of tilings precludes the pos sibility of keeping up the larger farms. The average farmer does Ins own workand thereby retains i a his "pocket what the large farm- vr must pay ou t Labor and tax- Vs will consume the 20 horse man, while the signs of prosperity will be gleaming up all through the ranks of the average farmer. So you see the 20 horse man has too many horses and too many acres. He cannot work them all himself, and it will not pay -'to hire others to do it A radical change with the horse farmer is inevitable. G rass and stock is the only sal va t ion at the present low price of cotton.'". The man that does his own work and hires no help is hi de e intent can keep what he has ami add more to it But the 20 horse man must bid adieu to his old system, pull the bridle from the he:d of his horse smd l)ut the roxs on the ox and walk or lead to the plough and pasture. As to myself the All Wise Be ing has always been good and merciful. He' has kept me living for 73 years, blessed me with a com je te ncy and now I fi nd He has not deserted me. I am armed and equipped for the pend rng emergency, and for His manv favors I am ; grateful and for which He has my loyalty. W, J. Capehaut, Bread. Where ? How ? THE KOOX-TI PLANT. NO. 4. For the Patron and Gleaner. J The principal market for the Koon-ti starch is Key West though quite a quantity is shipped annually to the Bahamas, as also to Havana. c The Koon-ti starch is very fine and white when well prepared, although there is a great deal of difference in its quality, accord ing to the care taken in its prep aration. It used to bring much better prices than now, and a good deal more of it was made. Parties who had purchased land here, made their thing from the manufacture and sale of Kodh-ti starch, while waiting for their trees and crops to grow. It takes seven or eight barrels of roots, on an average, to make two hurid red pound s of starch ; and about 9.00 a week can be real ized from it The starch is used for laundry" purposes as well as for food, - many preferring it to corn starch or Bermuda arrow root When properly prepared, the beautiful, snowy powder is as good for puddings and pastry as corn starch is; and as good in sickness or for child rens use as arrow root In Dade county, Florida, it is an every day dish in one form of baking or another. 'And it is strange that so useful a product is not more widely known; as singularly enough, it is only a few years since, when a Florida editor was extremely anxious to learn something conclusive con cerning this interesting gift from Nature's elaborate store-house; but no one could be found capable of giving the desired information. KOON-TI PUDDING. Pour ' boiling water on some Koon-ti, and let it boil hard-made just as" -you would starch for clothes. Then add as many eggs, as much sugar, milk and flavor ing as for a corn starch pudding. Beat them well into the hot Koon ti prepared starch, and bake un til brown. It is delicious hot or COld. .. ; M. H. Rice. Lahaska, Pa. TO BE CONTINUED. Neighbors. A good neighbor is always the most desirable of possessions, al though in some cases their social value is underestimated. What constitutes a good neighbor is al so frequently misconstrued, j al though the sensible acceptation of the term is, the neighbor who is friendly without beingofficious, helpful without being superflu ously so, and finally, one who al ways respects the privacy of others' household affairs by a cer tai degree of formality of man ner. V . - ; ' The social neighbor is not al ways the useful one, yet each in her respective place has special influences to exert of equally ben eficial consequences. The- syrn iHithetic neighbor is also a popu lar one, but she has to exercise continuous tact lest her solacing influence may be occasionally ov erdone or utilized at untimely periods. The inquisitive neigh bor is always a dread to every body within the reach of her in trusive curiosity, as she does not seem to have any intuitive re spect for others' feelings as re ga lxl s thei r d i vulgence of pe rson al affairs to an outsider..-.:- The truest and most respected of all neighbors, however, is the one who always speaks well of everybody, who devotes the larg est share of her sympathies . to her own affairs,- chary of ad ministering" unsolicited advice, and who always waits until her social and useful capacities are requested, and never renders herself officious even in her most sanguine efforts at proving to be a good neighbor. A. M. Toohey. Frontier Life on the Plains. No. 14. ... - .. For the Patron and Gleaner. Keexiing in a supply of provis ions, clothing, etc., as well as ar ticles for the home and farm 20, 40 and 50 or more miles from town was altogether different from what it was on a farm only 10 miles, or perhaps half that dis tance away, especially when wo did not have means enough to lay in very much at one time. I " We only lived 20 miles from town and of course this was not so bad as it was for those who lived as far again or further. -We "would usually borrow from the neighbors ,as long as the neighbors had anything to loan us, and nearly all the neighbors would do the same until the whole neighborhood was in debt tojene another and did not have any thing more to lend, then some body who owned a team would go to town and do trading for the whole neighborhood. The man who was going to town would name a day, perhaps a week ahead, when he was going and we would all get to know about it in a rvery short time, then we would visit him and his family, take a little money or something else and tell him what we wanted. One would take a sack of wheat and. would want flour and bran, another would take a sack of corn and would want yellow meal, an other would take a sack of corn and would want white meal, an other would take 10 or 15 pounds of butfer or perhaps it would only be 5 pounds; he would want 25c worth of sugar and a package of coffee; another would take a dime for so much tobacco, another would want a little rice, and so on all the way around. Some times one person would want sev eral articles, such as a broom, a fence board JO ft long, one pound of nails and a spool of white thread - No. 30. The man who went to town would very. likely have a full load both ways; some times he would make the trip in one day, sometimes he would take two day s or even more if he lived further away than we did. While at town he would have to do business nearly all over, for there was the mill to go to for the flour and bran, the lumber yard for the 16 "ft fence board, the hardware for a pound of nails, the grocery for the sugar, coffee and tobacco; and while he was there he might have to get 5 cts. worth of blueing, and a gallon of molas ses, then he would have to go to the dry goods store to get the spool of white thread No. 30, and perhaps . two or three yards of domestic. Besides all this" he would likely have to do business with the dealer in farm imple ments, the harness-maker or shoe-maker not necessarily for himself but for some of his neigh bors.. :'. 4 When he got his load all on it would usually be a pretty good load, especially if it was in prairie breaking season, and a mixed up load it would be; and if he was not very ca ref ul he would let some of the packages get bursted and contents spilled. When he got home the neigh bors would go to visi t hi m again and get their goods. Of course they were all glad to get them and he was glad to accommodate them all without charge; it was f ree delivery, both ways on the part of the man who went to town.: - ' -.v" Now this looks like getting small quantities at a time, but this was the way we used to trade because we Tdid not have money to buy any more; we.would often get only enough "of one ar ticle to pay back what we had borrowed, ; then we would either have to do without or start to borrow again. The next time some other man would go and do the same kind of trading, then the next time still another would go, then another, and soon. Some settlers were stingy and would not go to town as long as they could send by some one else; but these were not liked very well and by and by had to go and do their . own trading. When they did they would usually go wi th out letting any one else know any thing about it In the very first settling of the country we did not want very much and that was not very hard to supply, even if we did live a long way from town; but as the settlers got morejand under cul tivation, raised larger crops, and got more property around them their wants became greater and consequently harder to satisfy at such a long distance from mar ket; there was more to haul off, and more to bring back, the trips had to be made more often, and became more1 tiresome, and final ly was becoming one of the great est burdens of our frontier life when a railroad and town was built near to us, which made life more pleasant in some respects, but added new burdens and made" the old settlers more distant to each other, in sociability. Richaiid Cooper. Fairfield, Neb. . . ' - Planting With a Cannon. Alexander Nasmyth, the land scape painter, was a man fruitful in expedients. To his mind, the fact that a thing could not be done in the ordinary manner, was no reason why it should be given up. His son relates the following interesting example of his ingen uity: . The Duke of Athol consulted him as to some improvements which he desired to make in his woodland scenery near Dunkeld. - Among other things, a certain rocky crag heeded to be planted with trees, to relieve the grim barrenness of -its appearance. The question was how to do it as it was impossible for any man to climb the crag, in order to set seed or plants in the clefts of the rocks. A happy idea struck my father. Having observed in front of the castle a pair of small cannons, used for firing salutes on great days, it occurred to him to turn them to account A tinsmith in the village was ordered to make a number of canisters .with covers. The can isters were filled with all sorts bf suitable tree seeds. The cannon was loadedand the canis ters were fired up against the high face of the, rock. They burst and scat tered the seed in all directions. Some years after, when my father re-visi ted the place, he Tvas delighted to find , that his scheme of planting by artillery had proved completely successful, the trees were flourishingluxuriantly in all the recesses of the cliff. The Friend. . What is a "Lady?" It would never enter into my head to think a person of great wealth and possessed of a fine es tablishment a lady, if she could turn in her own house from a beaming recognition of some star of contemporaneous fashion to bestow a frozen greeting upon a social make-weight or a poor friend of other days who had not kept pace with her in progress up the ladder of society, writes Mrs- Burton Harrison, in an interest ing discussion of the proper usage of-the terms "woman" and lady," in the April Ladies Home JournaL : To lay down a law for the use of the word in the present condi tion of American society would, I think, puzzle the most ingenious makers of social codes. For the time it must remain a matter of intuition when and where to ap ply the graceful courtesy title of Iady.'T Jell Davis Capture. General Henry Harnden, the of ficer of the Union army who cap tured Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, is in Chatta noga. to.day with the Wisconsin commissioners to locate the posi tions of the troops of that state in the Chickamauga National Mili tary Parle '' ,It is not true," said he, "that President Davis was in woman's attire when captured. It was a cold morning, about daybreak, when I arrested him, and he had a woman's sliawl over his shoul ders. The story about hoopskirts is totally false." Then General Harnden, who be longed to the First Wisconsi n Cavalry, told how he was given 150 jacked horsemen and given orders to capture Davis. They rode threo nights and three days without rest The capture was made near Invinville, in Irwin county, Georgia. Just before the capture a body of Michigan caval ry on a similar expedition, and General Harden's men collided. A fight ensued and two or three men on either side were killed, and a number were wounded be fore it was found out they were friends instead of enemies. When I reached the Davis canip," continued General Harn den, the first man I spoke to was the Texas gentleman, now Senator Reagan, who told rae that he was the post master gen eral of the Confederate States. President Davis was sitting near by on a log, with a shawt I pre sume his wife's, over his shoul ders as it was a cool mornim?. ilow did the story get out that he had on dresses and hoop- skirts?" asked the reporter. "Whin I went to Macon and reported . to General Wilson, my superior officer, he had the story telegraphed out as fast as I spoke, and the woman's shawl became exaggerated into female attire. In the excitement he may have misunderstood me, or the newspapers exaggerated it I have tried for years to correct the story, but have been unable to do so entirely. It is very hard for truth to overtake a lie. In Grand Army posts when I at tempt to explain it I am some times hissed. If the writer of history gets it correctcil for fu ture generations I shall feel bet ter." Chattanooga Dispatch, March 2G. Seeds and Words. I dropped a seed beside a path. And went my busy way, TiU chance, or fate-I say not which Lod me, one summer day, . Along the self -same path; and lo! A flower blooming tlere, As fair as eye hath looked upon. And sweet as it was fair. I dropped a sympathetic word, Nor stayed to watch it grow, For little tending's needed, when The seed Is pood wc sow; But once I met the man again, And by the gladsome way He took my hand, I knew I sowed The best of seed that day. Obituary, . Jacob T. Lassiter, son of Jesse and Tabitha Lassiter, was born in Nortli Carolina, Feb. 3, 1852, moved to Arkansas in 16G0. He professed religion in his 1-jth year and joined the Methodist church. South, in his 21st year. He was married to Tabitha A. Hicks, Dec 10, 1673. She died Dec. 15, 1674, and he was married to Hosie Ann Glover, Feb. 20, 167a He died at his home in Xonoke county. ArkT, Jan. 14. 1805. He leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn thei r loss. May G6d bless and sustain them. Brother Lassiter lived a consistent Christbn life till death. We knew where to find him. - Fiuend. T2acher "What is the mean ing of the word exeavatel'' Pupil -To hollow out,, - Teacher Give a sentence in which the word is properly used.1 Pupil Tho small boy exca vates when his papa licks him.' Tid-Bits. Attorney Jcc!;son, 11. C. iVactkvs la hs Cosrt of I.'ortli aptoo, IlalL'ax, Bcrtw asd adiolsin Couatic. Situation Wanted. A yours lady of serrral years expertuce de&lrcs a situation as teacber of a puUk' or private .liOoL Address. Mi CotsTJter B. Ktxsox Ante, Bruuswkk Co.Va. DC o.n. bhowii, W00DLAIID, II. C. Teeth extracted without pala. Bargains Just Received. Fancy Straw and Japanese Hor Matting S to 17 ivtils per yard. Floor Oil Cloth 1 to 2 yard wide to SO cent. 20 kinds Plata and Fancy Window . Shades on Hollers 15 to 35 et a t . Several Colors Cortaia 1olos vrith Brass Fixtures 17 ceat. . ?k Bureaus with I-Artru Mirrors at f3.r5 each. V 20 different styles Wall lapcr 4 to 8 cents pel" roll. Hundreds of other articles to elose out at a low price. ZSf Orders by mall will hare prompt attention. H. C. Spiers, KOTICE! Having qualified as executor ot William Gran tv deceased, late of Kortbampton county, North Carolina, this Is to notify all persons having claims against the es tate of said deceased to exhibit Uiem to the undersigned on or before the twenty -ehrht day of March, A. D, IS0V or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persona indebted to said estate will please mako Immediate payment. This the 2Sth day of March, 1S&V J. M. Graxt, Executor of William Grant, deceased. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. If you want a position for next year, or if you . desi ro a better sala ry, wo can be of service to you. Write for particulars. If you know where a teacher is wanted give us information and if wo can fill it you sliall bo re warded. Cha& J. Parker, Manager, Teachers' Aid Association, Raleigli, N. C. CLEVELAND HOUSE I J. S. Grant, Proprietor, JACKGorj, n. c. Tables supplied with the best the market affords, Livery stables attached. Special rates to countyofiiccrs. The -"TRUM!P,, THE EEST LOW PRICE WATOI EVE& WADS PRICEg2oSO WcrrzztzS to Is a . Perfect Timekeeper. Vol a poor Swiss, nor a "dock," but a perfect Amzrlzzn Duplex movenirnt. "' Co and czo this - Watch..- J. II LASSITER,
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