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VOL. 4.
LASKER, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N rCM TIIURSDAYrSEPTEER 12, 1895
NO. 37.
All
Diverse.
1 For the Patron and Gleaner. J
M (j:uki tliinks good folks are few and
aUeivd far around,
, ext rv man is for himself and for his
nation bound;
, ill savs "old time religion" is .jgood
, ...ough for him
1 dan s to think lie will not sink while
,,th-r sinners swim
vn r.t-ii'hbor fears that all are wrong who
' dou't with him agree,
Tint we P
or folks will all be soon where
the darkey used to be;
mill thinks for us there soon will dawn a
brighter, happier day,
won't fool with "Cleveland's rule,"
.t,ut vote the otner way.
Hut what does mammy think i I know her
head is level, sure
ci i don't believe in fussing o'er the ills we
i-aunt cure.
t- "-meets good people all along Life's
-tt-rful, sunny way,
iid wishes she could always be as kind
autl true as they.
Hermit.
NOIiTHAMPTON SKETCHES
HK KKAD WITH GREAT INTEREST
, all nokthamptonians
appreciates them.
Newport News, Va.,
Sept 2, 1894.
Mk. Ewtor: I. have enjoyed
rending "Carlton's" "Historical
.Skt'trh of Northampton," and I
'am sun? many others have also.
Many events of long ago have
IrtM-ii recalled to my mind.
Smith's Church was the first
church I ever attended. I at
ternled there when quite a small
boy, in company with my father,
and while he and other devout
Methodists'-' worshipped and list
ened to stirring sermons, deliv
ered by Rev. Arnold (whose
horse, by-the-way had a very long,
bushy tail) I was deeply interest
ed in looking at a foot-pripton the
arched wooden ceiling. I had
been told it 'was made by an In
dian. On one occasion old Mr.
'Hilly" Bottoms, while thereat
tending church, was sitting on a
Wnch with only three legs, and it
turning over withMm gave him
a very ludicrous fall. Even Mr.
Arnold laughed soma Mr. Bot
toms, who had a very deep, bass
voice, took the fall good natured
ly. I regret that "Carlton" can
not continue his sketch, relating
in his most interesting and happy
style, events of a later period. I
am sure all Northamptoniaus ap
preciate his articles, and earnest
ly wish his remaining days to be
liaeeful and happy.
i J A B.
Vii S. A. Norfleet, of Ber
tie, who was at school at
Jackson for two years 1836
and 18o7 in a private letter
to the editor of September,
in shaking of the Northampton
sketches 'says: "The reminiscen
ces of your Rehoboth correspond
ent are quite interesting to me as
they recall many characters and
iiH'fdcnts .with which I am thor
oughly familiar, and many others
which he does not state."
How's This!
W otier One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for an' case of Cattarrh that
cannot be euie by Hall's' Catarrh
Cure. I
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have kuown
V J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
ami believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan
mllv .nhle to carrv out any obliga
tions made by their tirm.
Wtr & Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo. O.
Wai tM;, KixNv'x & Mabvix, Wholesale
lrutfjrists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
a'titii: directly upon tle blood and mucous
surf.uvs f the system. Price, 75c. per bot-
Sold bv all druggists. Testimonials
FOR SALE OR RENT.
A giKxl two horse farm, con
winincr 154 acres, good buildings,
nvenient to post-office, grist
'mH and cotton gin. The farm is
in a xxl state of cultivation.
Any one wishing to buy a farm
ould do well to look at the place,
further particulars apply to
It. W. Fleetwood,
s -lm Jackson, N. C.
INDIAN ttlYEU, FLA.
What Education has Done
for the Country.
THE-LARGEST HOTEL ON EARTH
"GIVE A MAN AN EDUCATION,
TURN HIM LOOSE AND
HE'LL STRIKE OIL
SOMEWHERE.''
I have been such a rambler
that local ties are not very strong
with me, but a person never gets
so far from the stamping ground
of childhood as to loseinterest
in the welfare of those who were
companions of by-gone days.
It has been a pleasure to me to
read in 'The Patron andGlean
er" the great interest being man
ifested in Northampton for the
education of your children. Edu
cation is the only safeguard to
moral and social progress. It is
the corner stone for the prosper
ity of a country. Where educa
tion is ignored every thing is at a
stand or retrograding.
The pioneers, of a country are
generally uneducated. They will
hold a country indefinitely with
out development or progress of
any kind. There have been a few
pioneers in the Indian River
country for half a century. They
were uneaucatea ana Knew no
more of the outside world, or the
tit
natural resources around them,
than if they had not existed. So
much for the want of education
An old timer told me he was thir
ty years old before he ever saw a
school house or knew any thing
of a God. But an educated and
thrifty people have changed the
state of affairs. In the immedi
ate vicinity of where the old tim
er lived Henry Flayler,- of New
York, is preparing to build the
most costly hotel on the earth.
He already has a hotel in the
county with seven hundred rooms
but that will only play second fid
dle to the other. The East coast
or Indian River country will be
the winter resort for the U. S. as
fast as accomodations can be pre
pared. A tourist to Lake Worth
last winter told me he had to tel
egraph a week in advance to se
cure a place to stand while there.
I think I stated in a former ar
ticle I believe this the most heal
thy country in the world. I will
now give my reason. There are
but two general causes for sick
ness. One is the changes of tem
perature which produces colds,
such as bronchial troubles, pneu
monia, consumption, rheumatism,
etc. Our temperature averages
here about seventy-five the year
round. I nave seen it eighty-five
in January and seventy in J une,
while changes are never sudden.
The other reason for the good
health of this section is the at
mosphere is so impregnated with
salt and sulphur that it complete
ly absorbs all atmospheric pois
ons.
Indian River so called is not
a river. It is an arm oi tne ocean
about one hundredand fifty miles
long and averages about two
miles in width. It is tide water
with a penensular about one mile
wide on the ocean of alluvial land
very productive for winter vege
tables. Our resources are all be
ing developed by educated and
energetic people from the old
States. Hence I sar Northamp
ton is oa the right track. ,Edu-
cate your men and women and
turn them loose. They will take
care oi io. i anu siruie uu
somewhere. Educate the people;
thev will hunt up and develop lo
cal surroundings that would oth
erwise lie dormant and worth
less. It is the education, pluck,
and energy of a people that makes
a country worth living in. Uhey
hunt up and bring out its re
sources. Indian River is not the
only place for success.
I think it the best place l Know
for women with one exception.
If they object to marrying they
had best keep away. Otherwise
they have many advantages. Our
mode of farming is particularly
adapted to women's management
being"vege tables and fruits Be
sides we have to import all our
school teachers f romotherStates,
and new ones every season, as
they': have To marry in spite of
themselves, or break up schooL
and skip the country.
Mont. Hardee.
Jensen, Fia.
Uy life a Failure.
For the Patron and Gleaner.
For several months I have been
writing articles for the entertain
ment of the readers of the Pa
tron AND GLEANER. Kind friends
inform me that most of these
communications have been ap
predated by its readers. It is
my purpose to continue these
contributions as long as my
health will allow me to do so, or
as long as the readers of the Pa
tron and Gleaner may wish to
read them.
Although a native of this coun
ty I am personally known to but
few of its citizens. It has been
suggested that it would add some
what to the interest of th'ese con
tributions if the readers' knew
something about he author. I
have always had a horror of hear
ing a man talk or write about
himself. Egotism is always of
fensive. But as my life in the
main and especially in the closing
out has been "A failure" I have
no success to flaunt in the faces
of those who have had to struggle
for life.
Of course this little sketch is
not a history of my life. It is on
ly so much of it as is necessary
to connect me in some sense with
the tone and temper of my con
tributions to the Patron and
Gleaner.
In one of my articles heretofore
contributed I have already stated
that I was born in Gumberry on
the 1st orNovember, 1817. I left
the county in February, 1837, and
went to Mississippi to better my
fortune. Fifty-eight years of ab
sence in a manner destroys my
citizenship, Two years ago I re
turned here almost a pauper and
an invalid for life. I had outlived
my day and generation and but
few personally knew; me. I re
turned in response to a native in
stinct to be buried in the soil that
gave me birth.
As I have already stated, I was
born and raised in that romantic
portion of Nor thorn pton county
called Gumberry. Tradition in
vests old Gumberry with some
strange legends of olden times. I
was raised within a mile of an old
revolutionary soldier; by the
name oi jonn iviunaen. rrom
this old soldier I learned many of
these olden tales.
John Mundell was a private in
Washington's army for seven
years and "was in many battles.
In 1837 when I left the county he
was said to be nearly a hundred
years old. At tnai nme ne was
the oldest man I had ever seen.
He had three children, two girls
and one son. His son s name
was WJJJiam and the daughters
names were Fanny and Charlotte.
They have all been dead many
years.
When I first left this county I
went to Jackson, Mississippi.
This was known as the period of
flush times. I soon became a
merchant in that fashionable city
which was the capital of the State
and is still the State capital. Be
ing backed in my mercantile en
terprise by an uncle reported to
be wealthy I of course belonged
to society circles. Some years
after this I became enamored of
a young lady of that place posess-
injr many charms, and besides a
graduate of a female college of
high reputation. Having myself
qui tuated" from the bestoldfield
schools of famous Gumberry, I
placed a pretty high estimate on
my own attainments. Whatever
my delinquencies may have been
I could always tell my xwn story
pretty well. And when, like
Othello, I "told her of the perils
and dangers of my life, I thought
that, like Desdemona, she would
first pity and then love me. But
ooking in my face with all the
smiles and enchantments of her
artless beauty, she said to me.
No, I cannot marry you; you
are not my equaL our ed uca-
tional advantages are inferior to
my own; I cannot raise you to
my own standard of cultivation,
and I would have to sink to
yours. Although deeply humU-
iated by what she said I felt its
ITU III 2111(1 inrce.
-
In a short time after that I en-
ana, as a student I never saw
her afterwards. She married a
. - . i
brilliant young lawyer and they
moved to ShreveportonRed Riv-
er where she died of yellow fev-
w v n uvr
had been President of the College
while I was there. I then attend
uuncjauj m avw
leans, and after being admitted
to the bar Judge Shattuck re-
ceived me into partnership with
him in the law. This partnership
continued until 1849 when he - re -
moved to California. For more
than thirty years I continued in
practice in the same town.
Although raised a Baptist I
married into a Methodist family
and besides I went to a Me tho-
dist college and therefore became
a member of the Methodist
church. During my married life
I buried an only child three
times. All are now dead and
gone. Our last child was a little
girl five and a half years old. She
had never been sick a day in her
life until her last sickness. She
aiea 01 aiptnena. one was a
t t - m ti ii n 1
beautiful child with unusual in
telligence. She was well ad
vanced in books for her age and
could sing several Christian
songrs with accuracy. Besides
she played quite well on her own
little guitar. I have never yet
been quite able to recover from
lueia in,uuiy
wmcn ner aeaua nxea upon me.
From the time that 1 hrst be-
came a Sunday school scholar at
old Vassar's meeting house (now
Elam church) it was always my
purpose to become a preacher,
This purpose I kept to myseit as
my lifetime secret In this view
I refused every offer of position
or place and strictly held a pn-
vate station all my Me except
that of military office during the
war.
During the war I acted as
Colonel, Provost Marshall, Quar
termaster and Commissary.
xueae iuiuSa wcic ucwcaoiuca
more uiau muniiauuxi. x
suuaieu mai 1 nau irom ume 10
time to fill all of those positions.
My fixed plan of life was to ac-
cumulate a fortune sufficiently
large for the income to support
me in the most ample manner be-
fore entering the ministry. This
point I reached several times, but
I was desirous of adding a little
more to it. Delays brought on
dangers. One misfortune after
another greatly reduced my
means and then came unfortunate
speculations in trying to recover
what I had lost Very soon my
fortune was all gone and I was
left almost a pauper. I was now
too old fand too poor to have any
influence in the pulpit I have
long since abandoned any thought
of trying to preach toothers.
The little articles which I have
furnished to ; the Patron and
Gleaneii and which I expect to
continue to furnish to it for pub-
hcation for the enjoyment and ed-
mgs , i
muauvu iwmiou .u i
stance drawn from my memory
of by-gone days, when I had the
.immictwin vurtr a t nno I
time my mind was well stored
with illustrations, for pulpit ser-
vice. I have had a great desire
to lecture in the
Methodist
church in Jackson before I died.
A suitable accasion would be
some Sunday afternoon when it
would not conflict with any other
reliirious services. I have de-
lay ed, the matter too long, how
ever. I am now too feeble to
stand on the floor long enough to
deliver a lecture. .1 personally
knew the ancestors of many of I
a - ' " -' - - - r - 'MnHBMHBMBaaaaMBmBH
the people ofJackson and its sur-
roundings and it was for this rea-
son that lc wished to talk at that
place.
If I shall be able to introduce
in my contributions any word or
Ilhnnrrht m n ntnH tn mnl-n
uu mtm &a mr - - - - - - m.m m 11111 n. ww a i m
one of my readers a better man
before, then something will harf I
been saved from the wreck.
For many years I have been
out of the profession of the law
and sometimes a wanderer in for-
ipu uic piuwjaaiuu, ifiusucu uuu
broken hearted and left Louisiana
where I had spent most of my
i iiio tu muKtj my nuuie iqu ioreign
country. For seven years I lived
on the Bermuda Islands under
the British flag. After spending
seven years in a country where
1 1 never saw a human being that I
had ever seen before I returned
to America. My love of country
brought me back. I could not
hear to die in a foreign land and
be buried among strangers. es,
brought me back to my own dear
native land.
The bird that flies to yonder skies,
'Though nearer-heaven jet seems unblest;
And with wing nntired and bosom true,
Flies back again to its own dear nest.
When God shall tell this soul depart,
This form return to mother earth;
May the last breath that fills my heart.
Throb where it started ipto birth.
And should affection shed a tear,
And friends so dear linger round my tomb;
The tribute would be doubly dear,
If given by those of home, sweet home.'
Carlton.
Rehoboth, N. C.
Bread. Where ? How ?
CHESTNUT BREAD. NO. 6.
(For the Patron and Gleaner.
From this chestnut flour as de-
scribed in a former article, vari-
QUS reparations are made bv the
Italians? Lucchesans, etc., such
as polento (a kind of pudding like
bur So-called mush or hasty pud-
ding of Indian meal), and various
kinds of cakes, fritters, and a
heavy kind of bread.
The ;various methods of cook-
mg the chestnut flour are known
under the popular names of necci,
pattoni, castagnacci, cialdi, fritel-
n etc., and the food so made is
sweet and agreeable to the taste,
and healthy. The country peo-
pie cook the chestnuts in water,
and make use of this water as a
annK ior cnesi irouoies, coius
ana ary coughs, ana in most
cases it has proven very be nenci-
aL A decoction from the stewed
heaves in water is esteemed an
excellent remedy for the hoop-
ing-cough.
The food made of the chestnut
which is most in favor is the po-
henta, made by simply boiling the
chestnut flour in water for ten or
fifteen minutes, with a little to
flavor, taking, care to keep up a
constant movement of the paste.-
and clearing the edges of the
cooking utensil so that no part
becomes burned, which would
thus spoil the mess. It is eaten
with cream, butter, ham, etc. and
8 most healthy and nutritious.
Another kind of food made from
the chestnut is called necci, which
hs flour formed into a cake, and is
made by first mixing the fiour
with cold water, and then making
cakes, or bread as it may proper-
My be called, piled on each other.
Inn1 cnrvi m trwrl Vxr Vinc fn n 1ta VtiC I
' , -..l
pressea ior me purpose, anui
nioistenea oy water; tne wnoie
mass is then cooked over a hot
fire and the cakes taken off one
ov one, wnen tne leaves areai
taste, and may be eaten with but
termilk cheese, Bologna sau
sages, and meat
to he continued.
M. II Rice.
Lohaska. Pa.
BELLE OF WINSTON
It sweeten the breaih and preterves
the teeth. The best 10c pin on the
market. For sale at the leading; stores.
W. Paul Moonv D. I). S.,
hlliTrr) Jackson, II. C.
tSTOSSce t iraSdeoce.
DE. G. U. BB0T7IT
u - - - . .
WOODLAUD IT. C.
Teeth extracted withoot pain.
W. W. Pssbles '& Son.
ATTO 17 n CYO ATLAV9
JACKSoir. n. c.
iw una will dp ai KtCO CMjnaTT tX'
07 JCODd siy i each aoa exrrf
XTL2Z?V:
I wwa "w noun or 11 &. m. xo 4 n. m.
Attorney at Law,
Jackson, N. C.
CSTPractkes In.tbe Court North.
ampton, Halifax, Bertie and adlolninr
counties.
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW,
- JACKSOM, fl. C.
1 Wtices in Northampton and adjoining
counties and wherever his serrk are U.
sired. Offloe in North nd
T v M VMVWdtt
ROANOKE INSTITUTE,
ro BOTH SIXES.
STRICTLY WOriSECTAniAn.
Instructors competent and ex-
ixjrienced. Instruction thorough.
Expenses very moderate.
Session of 40 weeks opens Seiv
tember 4. 1895.
For circulars giving full infor
mation, address,
J. A. Jones, A, D.f U. K. l Prin.,
9-5-1 m. Woldon. r n
P. N.STAINBACK,
"Weldoa, IT. C.
Specialties . . . i
Buggies and Wagons.
Metallic Walnut and Wooden
Burial Cases.
J3TPrompt attention to orders..
Undertaking Department !
We carry at all times a large
stock and complete assortment
of Burial
Caolzots and Ccftins
in all sizes and in mmlit fw,
very handsome Solid Walnut ad
Broad Cloth Caskets to tho vrv
i cheapest grade of Coffins.
"Prompt attention tofillini;
orders at alUimes.
Duxton a Daucham,
1 Rich Bqvare, N. C.
.
The
J AS. SCULL,
rnoPBiEToit.
Hotel
Burgwyn,
. .
JACKSON. N C.
Liverv Attached.
Tills Hotel, I lulled on the mot
desirable lot in Jackson for a hotel.
Is well furnished throughout and do
effort! spared to Ct It for the Coo
venJence nd comfort of lt patron.
THE TAItff WIU IE tOFfUEO WITH
THE f EST IKE MAJlXf T MfCAOS.
Terms to ulttbe Umen. 1-4-tf
J. K. HAMSEY,
Contractor and Builder,
JACKSON. N. C.
Esua&tcs, plans and speciQc&tious
furnished on application.
l'rtm1 o( font ltrt - trivn In all nrr
. . " .
saUaracUoo guaranUI,
ENGINES,
GINS AND
Ucx7 and Old, for sale Cheap.
I have on hand several second
hand engines, some good as new,
suitable for ginning cotton, also
several cotton
Gins and Presses
which I am offering for sale at
remarkably low prices
Call on or address
J. HV Futrell,
Woodland, N- C.
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