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LASKER, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895.
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Why are Roses Red and
White?
I i ,ni an old scrap book. 1856.
VT-" J'rl t'ie roses re:iI"t' tljeir heads
j j ! ns sacred bowers,
Tii,.v fiuuri shod o'er the emerald beds,
Ti.i- hrit-'litest of the flowers!
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.... the snow o'er mountain driven;
p .!. as the pearls of ocean; ,
r ( , tlx- cloudless vault of Heaven;
- A ' ioVf.lv as devotion!
i ;,.,tt. i. and without a thorn,
,., ,;,,! the tree they blew, ;
V th' forbidden fruit was borne,
,, : i!o'rs of all kinds grew.
I , , Kve passed, to rob that tree,
A virgin' rose she crushed;
j ,., !;,, u. rs ;ishamed her fault to see,
l,:...pil down their heads, and blushed.
i; ,! v.i,.-ii the Savior of mankind
; .-n.k-l from on high, .
I . His of purity! we find
I !,, -i,x's lost; their eye!
v.'... ;..u- they're blended,-red and wliite
I i,- n-il blushed at the fall:
I , , su.iw buds opened to the light,
. i';,,. laiui in white Christ all inall!
W.S.Shipley.
Queries and Answers.
Th' following queries were sent
is bv si Northern reader, which
w vlVrred to Bart Moore for
;illVtT.:
I . What is a Tuckahoe tuber?
It is a curious vegetable of the
Soul In ni states, on the Atlantic,
i.Twin' under the surface of the
truMind, like the Tuffle of Europe.
It is sometimes called Indian
i)!v;i(l or Indian pone.
l I Vpper trees grow in Cali
fornia, what are their character
istics':'
Tin; tree usually so called has
iio real consanguinity with the
l.'jlT tree, but is a member of
i Ik Anucard family known bot-
.inically as "schinus mulle or
uinlli." the latter epithet repre
sonted.it is said, the.' Peruvian
name of the plant. The resin is
'is.-d for medicinal purposes by
the Peruvians, it has similar
' properties to mastic.
The Japan Pepper tree is "xan-
thocylum piperitum," the fruit
has a hot taste.
The China' tree or Pride of In
dia -is sometimes incorrectly
called pepper tree by some. ,
:!. Please describe the log-carts,
mentioned in the Patron and
il.KAXHR. ,
Tlie cart known with us, as the
log-cart," is one specially made
for the purKse of hauling large,
hoavy logs from the swamps and
woods to steam mills or to slrid
u ays on railroads, for the jiur
lsc of shipping. A log-cart con
sists of two large, heavy wheels,
longue land roller with lever and
two large chains attached one
chain is placed on the tongue.
The wheels are of different sizes,
some IS or 20 feet in circumfer
ence, banded with four inch tires.
T1h tongue is about eleven and
the lever ten feet long. It is
1 1 awn by horses, mules or oxen.
In loading, the team and cart are
made to straddle the log, the
levr is lowered and the chains
attached to the roller, are made
fast to the log, one each side by
the iron grabs at their end. The
lever is then drawn oyer the cart
by a -Tope, passed through a pul
ley and securely tied to the
touirue. This raises the log. The
bain on the tongue is then
pasod under the front of the log
and ""tightened, and also securely
fixed to the tongue. This brings
the log on a level or swings it. It
is then ready for hauling.
lv What is meant by carts and
win els?
Webster defines a wheel as a
circular frame of wood, iron or
ther metal, consisting of a nave
or hub, into which are inserted
IH)kes which sustain a rim or
felly, the whole turning on an
axis."
He also defines a cart, as "a
carriage with two wheels, fitted
to be drawn - by one horse or a
yoke of oxen.
1 n 0 reat Britian carts are usu
ally drawn by horses. In Amer
ica horse carts are used mostly in
cities and ox carts in the country.
4. What is Paddy?
Paddy is rice in the rough, be
fore being husked. In Japan,
fields planted in rice are called
laddy fields.
Bart Moore.
Crab Towu,
Government Ownership of
-Railroads.
For the Patron and Gleaner.
Although not a Populist I favor
the government ownership of
railroads. The following are some
of the reasons why I favor the
policy of the government's own
ing and running the railroads.
First because the people would
be greatly benefitted by it In
all the countries where the gov
ernments have become the own
ers of the railroads the priee of
traveling as well as freight bills
has been reduced at least one-
half and in some cases even mora
The rail road is now as much a
necessity of the public as the post
office. Private roads and private
conveyances except for neighbor
hood use are now almost un
known. It is seldom that a per
soil having fifty miles to travel
either for business or pleasure
thinks of any other conveyance
than that of the railroad. Even
an irregularity in the running of
a train now causes the most se
rious inconvenience to the public.
It is not likely that the railroad
system will ever be abandoned.
For land service it had to a great
extend superceded steamboats
and canals, and as to the old time
staere with four ad six horses
they are unknown.
The railroad has therefore be
come a public necessity.
Their ownership and manage
ment is now in private hands.
Can they continue to be run by
individual enterprise? My ans
wer is that they cannot These
roads are all run by wage labor.
It is wage labor that builds them;
it is wage labor that builds every
engine and every car that is used
upon them. It is wage labor that
keeps them in repair, and loads
and unloads every train. It is
wage labor that performs every
species of work necessary for the
successful running and working
of the entire enterprise. More
than one hundred and fifty thou
sand men laborers are necessary
to the services of this great
American enterprise. These men
are formed into leagues and so
cieties for their mutual benefit
and protection every where.
Whenever they become discon
tented from any cause they not
only cease to work themselves
but they band together to pre
vent other laborers from taking
their places. This stops travel,
stops freight and stops the mails.
The srreat strike in Chicago little
more than a year ago is supposed
to have cost the country more
than one hundred millions of dol
lars.
During its continuance many
sections of the country were put
almost in a state of starvation.
This srreat strike was not con
fined to Chicago but it extended
from city to city. Neither pri
vate enterprise nor state troops
were able to control this great
uprising of the laboring class.
When the Federal government
sent its troops forward in a very
short time all was quiet The
leaders saw in this movement of
the government a person which
thev dared not brook. If the gov-
ernment owned the railroads as a
matter of course all of this would
cease ana minions ui uuums
would be annually saved to the
ix?ople. For a hundred or even
a thousand laborers to strike
amounts to but little. These
places could be filled in a day or
two. The trouble is that these
trikers retain their positions and
refuse to leave and prevent oth
ers from taking their places. The
government could replace this
abor without the fear of inter
ference from any person or per
sons.
The government ownership of
the railroads would therefore pre
vent muce blood-shed as well as
the destruction of millions of
property. It would save to the
farmer and the producer one-half
of his present freight bills and
one-half of his passage money.
It would give peace and quiet to
the country. It would remain
one of the principal means by
which the overgrown money pow
er now oppresses the poor.
It is not low wages that causes
these strikes. It is because of
discontent At the time of the
great strikes more than a year
ago it was found that these very
men had bank accounts amount
ing in the aggregate to over four
hundred thousand dollars. Those
who did not sjend their money
gambling and for intoxicating
drinks all had bank accounts
Wages were fair and the price of
food was low. The cause of dis-
content was the great fortunes of
those giving employment to this
labor. As long as these working
men of Chicago and other cities
saw the men for wiiom they were
working swimming in wealth and
spending thousands of dollars an
nually for luxuries, and building
palaces and castles, they could not
believe that they were getting
their full share of the profits of
the business.
It was not their necessities that
troubled them, but it was the
flaunting in their faces the untold
wealth of those that they con
sidered no better than them
selves.
They believed that these rolling
millions were the profits of their
own labor, and it was just sim
ply more than human nature
could bear. If thev work for the
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are heard: It is only where per
sonal or individual interests are
concerned that this discontent
arises. If the government is en
riched by their labor they feel that
"they are as much a part of the
though I am somewhat of a Bel-
lam yite I do not say that the gov
ernment should engage in agri
cultural and mechanical enter
prises. It is only where the pub
lic welfare is concerned that the
government should take hold.
Who would now take the post
office system out of the hands of
the government and run it by pri
vate enterprise? Let us see a
moment about this. I can now
send an ordinary letter from here
to California for two cents by
mail. If I send it by freight train
or by express I must pay 25 cents
for the same letter. If I send a
package from here to New Or
leans weighing half a pound by
mail I pay 8 cents for it If I send
it by freight or express I must
pay 50 cents for it. The writer
some two years ago or more was
at a point where he had occasion
to send a telegram a distance of
some one hundred and forty miles
and the charge was ten -cents.
The line belonged to the United
States government. The same
day and on the same occasion he
sent a telegram one hundred and
twenty miles in a different direc
tion and the charge was 40 cents.
This last line was run by private
enterprise- Some opponents to
this scheme contend that it would
be dangerous for the government
to own the railroads. They say
something about a central gov- j
ernment Is it any worse or
could it be any worse for the gov
ernment to run the railroads than
to run the post office? It is only
the politician that talks about the
dangers of a central government
The plain "citizen especially the
farmer has no fears in that direction-
It is true that the citizen
might be deprived of some of his
liberties. The glorious privilege
of paying forty or fifty cents for
his telegram would be denied him
he would be narrowed down to
only ten cents. Instead of pay-;
ing two dollars for his trip on the !
railroad under the new system he j
would be allowed to pay only one j
dollar. The politician however j
would be denied the privilege of
riding on the railroads free of
charge; but what has the citizen
got to do with that?
If the citizen can get his tele
grams for half priee and his pas
sage on the railroad for half price,
and his crop carried to market
for half price he could afford to
stand a little centralization what
ever that may mean. The writer
however is so stupid that he has
never been able i to take in the full
purport and meaning of that term.
Brown, however, who is present
here to-day tells me that it in
some way curtails the liberties of
the people. I once heard a tem
perance man trying to induce an
inebriate to join his society. The
principal objection which the
drinker made to taking the pledge
was that he was bargaining away
his liberties. The next morning
the temperance man found his
friend in jail behind some iron
bars. He asked him what he was
doing there. The drinker told
him that having taken a glass too
much he was put there for dis
turbing the peace. But replied
the apostle of temperance, can
they take away a man's liberties
in that way. The man behind the
bars did not wish to argue the
question at that time.
The railroads and the trusts
now own the Government and the
Supreme Court Would it not be
better for the Government to own
the trusts and railroads and the
Supreme Court too?
Carlton.
Rehoboth, N. C.
Bread. "Where ? How?
TEFF-BUEAD. '
For the Patron and Gleauer.J
In the Order Graminea3, we
find that Teff (Eragrostis abys
sinica), is an annual grass grow-
g to the height of two or three ;
feet The stem is rather weak
and branching, the large top when
in fruit bending over gracefully.
The panicle is large and diffuse,
the branches fine and much sub
divided, the spikelets small, sev
eral flowered, and on slender ped
icels. This grass was introduced from
Abyssinia, where it is cultivated
under the name of Teff, and is
used by the Abyssinians as food.
It has been cultivated in some of
the Southern States, and is said
to be remarkably productive and
valuable for hay. It may be cul
tivated at altitudes of 6,000 to
,000 feet where maize can hard
ly thrive. It is said to mature in
four months and to vield fortv
times its weight of seed.
The traveler, Bruce, mentioned
Teff with approval; and it is said
to make a white, delicious bread.
Funk & WTagnall's Standard Dic
tionary (the very latest out), de
fines Teff as "An important ce
real... of Abyssinia, the flour
from whose seeds is baked into
bread."
The Teff seed has been diffused
by the Royal Botanic Garden of
Kew. England: and, more recent-
y, lias been distributed by the
Agricultural DejKirtment of the
United States, to several of the
Experiment Stations, where it is
underroinsr a trial.
The suggestion enters our que
rying brain, as to the expediency
of introducing foreign cereals;
when our own staple crop wheat
brings to its producer but hfty-
hve cents per Dusiieis, witn oui
tardy demand. To our womanly
instinct the grand possibility for
our future lies in utilizing our al
ready proved cereals into bread
for the hungry; and doing-away
with that demon alcohot which
s the cause of thousands of inno
cent women and ehildren going
b roadless, while our native grains
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are worse man wasieu in iu in
creasing manufacture. May He,
who can see the end from the be-
srinnimr, hasten the coming glad
day, when our bread -grains shall
find their legitimate channels ior
wholesome food only!
M. H. Rice.
Lahaska, Pa. ,
" to be continued.
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Frontier Life on the Plains.
No. 15.
IFor the Patron and Gleaner.
A covered wagon (many would
say prairie schooner) is a common
sight on the plains, especially in
the fall and frequently in the
spring.
Easte rn people on
seeing
SO
to
man v cove rea waonns romc
o - o 1
and fro would think there is
great emigration going on out
here, and yet it is strange to them
to see about as many covered
wagons going .bast as West and
about
as many going ooutn as
North. - v
A good many are actually mov
ing; some further west for the
first time, some north, some
south, and some back to where
they came from, others simply
changing localities as we have
done.
A good many of those in cov
ered wagons are just prospect
ors, men "going out to see the
country, ".. perhaps-witha view of
locating if they find a place that
suits them.
But a great many covered wag
ons, perhaps one-third of them,
and some years nearly half are
only people goiner a visitiner, to
see their relatives or friends in
some other county or state,
In the fall of the year farmers
generally have not very much to
do unless there has been an un
usually large crop of wheat oats
and rye raised.
A good part of the fall it is too
dry to plow, and as there is not
likely to be much rain, a good
many families and parts of fami
lies put a cover on their wagons
and start Sometimes their trips
will only extend 40 or 50 miles,
sometimes it may be a hundred
or a hundred and fifty, and I have
seen people who have traveled
this way for a distance of from
300 to 500 hiiles "just ou a visit
and to see the country."
It is an agreeable way to trav
el; the air is dry, the roads are
splendid, and damping out" is
the charm of the trip. There are
not many people on these great
plains that have not at some time
taken at least one trip that re
quired at least two or three
nicrht's camping: out; many of
them have taken several trips
that would require sever! week's
camping out on each trip.
In traveling this way they will
go all the way from 25 to 50 miles
per day, generally from 30 to 40;
it depends on the load, the team,
the heat and the country through
which they travel.
Some people like to travel fast
er than others; they will buy
their horse feed and make long
day's travel and short noons.
Others take all the pleasure
they can on the trip; they will
stop long at noon, early in the
evening and start not very early
in the morning, giving their
horses plenty of time to eat grass
when they stop either for dinner
or for the night and thus save the
expense of horse feed, or at least
part of it.
They will start with 2 or 3 day's
provisions, arid after they are
used up will buy at the towns
through which they go. They
will buy chiefly such food as is
already cooked, or that does not
need cooking, as bread, crackers,
bologna, cheese, ginger snaps,
&c, but some like to have warm
meals once or twice a day; they
will make coffee, fry meat boil
potatoes, &c
If vou or any of your readers
ever visit these plains in the fall
I would advise you to arrange
with someone, afteryou get here,
to travel with them in this way
for a month if possible; you will
learn more of the people and
country at less expense than you
can in the same time,-traveling,
by rail and stopping only in the
cities and towns.
RlCHAUD COOPEIL
Fairfield, Neb.
p. S. Our wives like this mode
of travel as well as we da
W. Paul Moore, D. D. S.,
Jackson, If. C.
ISF' OSoe at residence.
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Teeth extracted wlthoot pain.
W. W. Psehlesrk Son.
ATTOnriEYO-AT-LAYV,
jACKsoir, ir. c.
Office No. 1 West of the Hotel Burgwyn.
One of the firm will be at" Rich Square ev
ery second Saturday in each and eTery
month, at Woodland eTery third Saturday,
and at Conway every fourth Saturday, be
tween the hours of 11 a, m. and 4 p.m.
R1 TT
Attorney at Law,
Jackson. N. C.
Of Practice in the Courts of North
ampton, Halifax, Bertie and adjoining
Counties.
NOTICE-SUMMONS.
North Carolina, to . .
Northampton County, Superior Court.
T. J.- Vaughan, U. Vaoghan and B. II.
Winborne, Executors of Uriah Vaughan.
deceased,.
against
Jno. D. Bottoms, Administrator of Jno. G.
Edwards, Joseph A. GarrUa, Trustee,
Thos. P. Edwards, Jordan Edwards, Al
bert Sidney Edwards, Sarah i-1 Edwards,
Jno. D. Bottoms and wife, Henrietta
Bottoms, Atlas Coggins and Tbeodosla
Coggins, his wife, and John N. Vaughan,
Defendants.
The defendant, Jno. N. Vaughan, will
take notice that he Is hereby required to
appear at the August term 1895 of the Su
perior Court of Northampton county, N.
C, to be held in Jackson on the 1st Mou
day in August, and answer or demur to
the complaint in the above entitled action,
which is brought to hare the Deed of
Trust, executed Feb'y 13th, ISSfl, by J. G.
Edwards and wife, Martha S. Edwards,
to Joseph A. Garriss, Trustee, declared
fraudulent and void. This the 16th day of
May, 1895.
5-2KSt J. T. Fltthb, C. S. C.
NOTICE!
Having qualified as administrator do
bonis non on the estate of Newit Harris,
notice is hereby given to all persons hold
ing claims against said estate to present
them to me for payment on or before April
30th, 1896, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. Debtors to said es
tate will please make immediate payment.
This Apr. 18th, 1895.
J. A. Bcrowts, Adm'r d. b. n.
By W. W. Peebles & Sox, Attys.
, NOTICE!
Having qualified as administrator do
bonis non with the wUl annexed of Humph
rey Gums, deceased, notice is hereby given
to all persons holding claims against the
estate of said decedent to present them to
me for payment on or before April 90th,
1896, or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. Debtors to said estate
will please make immediate payment. This
April 18th, 1835.
J. A. BiBOWTs, Adm'r d. b. n. c. t. a.
By W. W. Peebles & Sox, Attys.
HOUSE MOVING.
Yes, it pays to use printer's ink. -
We hear of side lines and out lines. For
more than ten years I have worked at
house moving as a side line; have moved
nearly two hundred houses. No need of
any one now straining himself to move tle
old way. In writing to me please describe
the house, the distance and the conditiim
of the way. Heavy houses a specialty. No
failure yet. E. S. EtxioTV,
3-14-lr Rich Square, N.C.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
If you -want a-position
for next year, or if you
desire a better salary, we
can be of service to you.
Write for particulars.
If you know where a
teacher is wanted give
us information and if we
can fill it, you shall be re
warded. Chas. J. Parker, Manager,
Teachers Aid Association,
Raleigh, N. C.
Undertaking Department!
We carry af all times a large
stock and com pie te assortment
of Burial
Canlzofa and Cofflm
n all sizes and in quality from
very handsome Solid Walnut and
Broad Cloth Caskets to the very
cheapest grade of Coffins.
r5TPrompt attention to filling
orders at all times.
Quxton & Daufjham,
S-16-ly Rica Square, N. C.
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