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VOLUME 7. RICH SQUARE -NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, ,1893. NUMBER .34. mgr. :Mgfe .3 1 Fifty Years Ago. T5il Is the stamp that the letter bore W hich carried the etory far and wid,' Of certain cure for the loathsome for Thiit bubbled up from the tainted tid Of tin; blood below. And 'twas Aycr's name And hi sarsaparilla, that all now, know, That was just beginning Its fight of fame "With its cures cf 50 year ago. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the original Barsaparilla. It has behind it a record for cures unequalled by any blood puri fying compound. It is the only sarsaparilla honored by a medal at the World's Fair of 1893. Others imitate the romedy ; they can't imitate the record : " I ! gQ Years of Cures. W. PAUL MOORE, D. D. S Xt& Jackson, N. C. v i ... 23T Office at residence. The Jackson ancT Rich Square Telephone Co. INCORPORATED-UNDER THE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. Splendid service. 4 Polite agents. Has connection with Jackson, Rich Square, Bryantown, Lasker, Pote- casi and Woodland. Messages sent to any point on. the line for 10 cents. f 5 Connects with Western Union Tel egraph Company at Rich Square. DR. W. P. MOORE, President. J. M. WEAVER, Secty. and Treas. : General offices: Jackson, N. C. Farm For Sale. I offer for sale. my farm situated in Roanoke township. 2 miles from Bryantown and 2 miles from Reho both and known-asT,he Wiley Jen kins' farm. Contains 105 acres. Apply to. M. H. Conner, ! Rich Square, N. o. SHOES. You will find the well known Bav State Shoes, for Men, Boys, La dies and Children at the new store of L. J. & M. R. Bradley, Jackson, N. 0. W. B Wynns,of Margaretts y lllc, is traveling salesman for them, Honey, 1 have received, from the well known Myrtle Rest Apiary a nice lot of Hone', put up in pound originaLpackages, cheap. Mills II. Conner, Rich Sqaare, N. C FARM FOR SALE. . Two miles from Potccasi a one horse farm in high state of cultiva tiun, good buildings, under a good i fence; one of the best driven wells of water in the county. Can be - bought cheap. For further informa lion call on' or address, G. M. Do WELL. Potecasi, N , C MATTRESSES. rossos of all grades. " I want the pa tnviuige of the traded I think I ca please in quality and price. Give me a trial order and see if I can't pioase you. Address,; J. O. QOPEtiAND, Suffolk, Va. Land for Sale. j 1 will sell my farm near Lew. iston, containing two hundred acres move or less, about a two horse crop cleared and suited to any crops raised in that section. Plenty o! umber for all plantation purposes atid immense quantity of fire wood and in easy reach of the town. The farm lies along the Roanoke & Tar wver k. R. Good, stock range and k'oou neighborhood. Will sell for 'j50-00 cash or $700.00 to pay 1200, w cush and balance on easy pay ttent. Would be cheap for $1000 rite to ;T. J. LaSSITER, -7:29.. Ahoskie, N. C TV, TV Uk ChickeiiS and Eggs. - a j.i jnty of ttjetu. give your 110118 D'xie Hog and Chicken Pow "av'r. Itcurcs Cholera in Hogs ami PORTO RICO Something ' About Our &ew Pos sessions in the West Indies Fairest Land on Earth. From the Atlanta Constitution. For this is the fairest country that the eye hath ever seen or sun shone upon Ch ristopherColumbus 're port to Queen Isabella, af ter his discovery of Porto Rico- In that strict diplomatic sense which no layman comprehends or tries to, if he be wise -our diffl c Jty with Spain may not be class ed as a war of conquest and we are all entitled to the proud and patriotic emotions which are born of such marked unselfishness But although our motives have al ways been oi the best anM ttn whole "-. world knows that we be gan the struggle with nothing to be gained besides the credit of riu m ph, : America has w rested rom the Spanish crown"? the brightest jewel in the little.clus. er that remains, andwill give it suchya setting as it deserves. For Porto Rico is ours; eternally, ev erlasting, indisputably ours. That it always should have been, because of common interests, geographical and otherwise, is now the frank declaration of the natives, but that plea cuts but small figure in the premises at this late date. Geographically, hings are so much mixed in'the West Indies that other interests have and always will be para mount whenever there is proper-. ty to be dividedup among the nations of the earth. That Columbus had a good eye for real estate has been pretty well established already, and it should be said that when he ex pressed his opinion of Porto Rico he "had returned to Spain after his second voyage of discovery to these shores and when, from his store of personal observation and experience, he was prepared to pass judgment as an expert. The verdict of the centuries since has not reversed this judgment, and today the words of the great dis co ve re rliave recalled themselves to many who are looking upon the island for the first time, and the ten thousand good Americans now here are finding something new every hour to admire and to marvel at in this wenderful coun try, which is, in all truth, the fairest that any of their eyes have ever seen before Clean, bright beautiful, picturesque, in the sub limest sense of the word, it robs Cuba of her famous title without sensible dispute, and becomes the posished pearl of the Antllies be fore the gaze of the world Its Territorial. Value. In Yvriting of Porto Rico under present circumstances, however, it is best to point out briefly in starting the tremendous, value of the island to us in a commercia and strategic sense, lest the read ei might understand from a bare description of the scenery that Uncle Sam was simply possess ing himself of a bit of territorial brtc-a-b'ric The real condition is q ui te the contrary. The peo pie who have made the place the garden -soot it is were aided in the. beginning by nature with a lavish hand and amid such sur roundings it is not strange that they have come to be progressive energetic and as vigorous in push ing their business relations with the rest of the world as America itself. The climate is not condu cive to the stagnation which- ex ists in "neighboring islands; the soil, well-watered and fertile sup ports more people than any other portion of the West Indies twen ty times its size, and the inhabit ants have that in them which should, and unquestionably will. make us glad to extend the warm hand of good f ellowshi p as wel as the more formal right hand o good citizenship. And both will be appreciated and deserved. . The necessity of our owning land somewhere in theCaribbein is,, perhaps," more generally un derstood now than it ever was be fore, owing largely to the spec ta cle thay the Schley and Sampson fleets have presented in dodging neutrality laws" and idternationa complications for so many weeks in oider to pick uphereand there scraps of coal and provisions. Colonel P. C. Hanna, of Iowa, the Americanconsul at JarrJuantwas compelled to take refuge in St Thomas, a foreign port because be nearest aground over which he American' flag flew was too ar away for him to be of service to his countrymen who were look- ins to him for. protection. A housand reasoas could be urged in favor of our acquiring one of he islands, but in face of the re cent education of the p ople on hat point it is unnecessary to mention more than these. Had not Porto Rico fallen to our lot if would have been best to hive re vived the old scheme to purchase St. Thomas and St. Croix from Denmark for, in spite of their small ; size, they would at least have given us some sort of rep resentation in waters in which the stars and stripes have too ongbeen strangers. . SOMETHING ABOUT THE ISLAND. As it is, howe ver,' we are to take possession of a piece of property which leaves nothing to be desir ed. Its Size, it is fourth in the group, Cuba, Hay ti and Jamaica, all heading it on that'score, but it oses little on such account when all other conditions are taken in to the comparison. It lies'seven ty miles east of Hayti the famoas Mona passage with its scores of beautiful little islands flowing be between,.nd its exact location is 17 degrees, 50 minutes and 18 de and 62 degrees, 37 minutes and 67 degrees, 10 minutes west-long itude, thus giving it the shape of an irregular parallelogram. It is 108 miles loug, 37 miles wide and contains 3,550 square miles of the finest soil that prod nces life and vegetation; to adorn'any section of the earth. Prom end to end it is traversed by a range of hills, in which hundreds of streams find birth, and flowing through1 fertile valleys to the north and south, gives the coun try a system or irregatiou which has called for butlittle in the way of improvement . or alteration from man. There are more than t . . . 1,800 streams altogether in the island, forty: seven of which are of sufficient, size to bo put down on the map as rivers, and most of which are running the year round. " - The mountain range is not of sufficient height to seriously im pede interior transportation, and it is through them that the mag nificent roads -have been built about which I bave already had so much to say. , The highest peak is El Yunque, which lifts a single'spur 3.600ft into the air in the Sierra de -Loquillo, close to the northeast corner of the island Glorious forests still cover all the highest portions of the hills, and give to the island from the sea a character which first intimates to the travele-r what he may with reason, expect on shore. There is a rugged beauty in these hills that will tempt the brush of many I'd American painter; a grandeur not sol umn or suggestive of the primeval, but rather full of noble majesty which almost makes one believe that some giant sculpture worked them out of the solid rock ages ago. Rising from the water clear and snap, with not a swamp or marsh T to make uncertain its strong lines, Porto Rico is phys ically the finest appearing island that the sea holds in her restless em brace, --and for the rest of it one may safely say . that it im proves on better acquaintance . SOME INTERESTING COMPARISONS. The exact population of the is land is given as 806,708 by an offi- icial census recently, concluded and of, these only about one-fourth are negroes. With all the figures above mentioned before him one can get a be tte r idea of the mar velous resources of the place and the probable position Pork Rico will occupy if inducted into the galaxy of states than in any oth er way, for they are somewhat startliug when brought home in direct comparisons. In size she will rank . third if admitted to statehood, only Rhode Island and Delaware containing fewer square tni'es. But in population she will rank twenty-fourth, exceeding such siates as Maine, Vermont New Hampshire, Connecticut, West Virginia, Florida, the two Dakotas combined, Montana, Ida ho, v Wyoming, -U tab, Colorado, Oregon,. Washington and,Nevada. She contains more people than half a dozed oi some of our small er states put together and for her size she will make a showing al most beyond belief. San Juan, as is well - know n, is the most densely populated city in;tho wrld, more people living then on less space tnan even in tht crowded towns in the interior of China, and " the country does al mostas welt in proportion; not an acre of ground going to waste on the island from endtoend. ; . . To appreciate this fully we .will draw the comparison finer, ami take the state of Nevada for th; purpose of illustrating it. ' Porto Rico contains 3,550 square mile; in Nevada there are more thai. 110.000. In Porto Rico there an. 80(X708 souls; in Nevada there are 45,761. In other words, even man, woman and child in Nevada has nearly two and a half 2.41 to be exact square miles in which to. "slosh around, "as lark Twain expresses it while his future feL low citizen in Porto Rico has to do the best he can on a scant two-i hundred-and-fiftieth, part of a square mile. It does not seem like a just .division of property rights, ana the situation will f ur nish a text for socialistic sermons in future, even if it does not lead to a stampede from the .island to the prairies. Other states could have been selected with equal ad vantage, but Nevada came first to mind, and I have gone over the figures with the aid of the news pa pet almanac-here without the slightest desire to say or do any thing to the disparagement of the great commonwealth lately the scene ofMr. Fitzsimmon's nota ble triumph. '; . THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOM. For a moment it would seem that, if these unusually li vely sta tistics are to be believed, the peo pie in: Porto Rico fall over each other in going about their daily business or that one half the is land is forced to keep quiet while the other half works, put there is no jostliug at alL;and;insteadof the place seem indyircrowd ed , there appe -rs to be room for em' igration and -opportunity for all sorts ot original enterprise. Its wqnderful how much a man doou one twehundred-and-fiftiethpart of a square mile, if, like native Porto Rican minds his own busi ness and lives as close to' the gol den rule as frail humanity allows There is even a possibility that the presence of so many people on the island has contributed to make it such a paradise, for it has rendered necessary the build ing of many handsome, cleanly little cities; the keeping in excel lent sanitary condition of the per feet bijou habors that indent the coast on all four sides, and ihe es tablishment of thousands of ideal farms and plantations in the inte rior, where each agriculturist, not having much ground to look after, takes the very best of care of that which he has. v Every day since the army land ed we have gone in comfortable carriages off into the iuterior and by this time we are well acquaint ed with the Porto Rican small far mer. who, on five acres of ground, li ves better and makes more than an industrious Georgian does on five hundred. His one-story house white and clean, stretcher its ample length in front of the stable buildings and barn and in the fields his cattle the finest Jbat grow browse lazily. One time in Cuba a razor-back cow was sighted by some of Castilo's insurgents, who captured her af ter a long chase and fierce strug gle and gave it to General Shat ter as the great prize o4 the war. Here .- the fattest and sleekest cows that ever gave milk are as plentiful &s cocoanuts and hand some ox teams pass our carriages in endless procession going into town with produce or returning em pty at all hours Of the day. -1 1 is but another instance that re minds us of the difference be tween this and the Santiago cam paign. ' - LIFE IN THE INTERIOR, The broad, hard road, circles in and out throcgnthe mountains, lined with trees which shadeit and keep out the 6un and heat even at midday. Sometimes the hills rise- , abruptly to, great heigh trt t-oveipd with forests of the rreat orUou trt-es. ; with tlash!ss of -ci!or bore and thor where tho lRnlnurna. burst: ioffj flower. Mahryaiiy nndmn ugo aru iron wot id ard"Rihfo ar- all in evidence, too, "and the royal poi nciana shows its glorious bloom -at intervals. Horsma?-from-the big sugar estaten arf passed every-.-few minutes. &iA they bow courteous!; or stop to invite you in to Vave refish ments. If yon go as you sloutd always do you will find your?! " ivciining in a hammock sippini rum and limes and ice walpf (ihey even have ire facorify i; Porlo Rico) and wondering hov it could be that you had never inowu there was such a eountrv on the map before. : The plaatationhoase. with ewJ ery door and window open,. iook;- cool and comfortable, in trueant(- helium fashion, 'and off in th- rear are ;the, sugar houses, with smoke pourimr out of the tah stack and the whirl of the machin ery : sounding : ever so faint and far off. You ask your host if al! Porto Rico is t imilar to that which you have seen with its clean farm-houses. beautiful roads, extensive plantations, fac tories and hospitable residents. and he' smiliiJgly informs you that" it is. The roads are not so good, in places, but they will all be put in shape this fall, and he goes on to speak of the gratitude he feels that'the Americans have come to save the island from the devastation , and sufferings of au internal war. For, he says, the people had been so over-taxed and overburdened by Spain's corrupt or incompetent methods that they would not be able to en dure in silence much longer. He drops into the story of those things naturally, and you can seo that he is" sincere and you tell hi nr. you hope the day is not far distant; when all the rights and protection of American citizen ship will be thrown around him. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS- It is a little difficult to under Lstand why Spain laid so heavy" a. hand upon the little island, for she might otherwise, have.saved it With '""so large a population, the exports, of course, amounted to but little, for the people were able to consume about all they produced, - but the internal reve nue returns have always been tremendous. Their products are sugar, tobacco, cotton, coffee, cat tie, irice, maize, yams, plantains, oranges,- .cocoanuts and all varie ties of tropical fruits. . Nearly every-pound of the tobacco growu t-. t: . . in Jr'orto - itico goes V avana where, - under the government monopoly, it is made into cigars and cigarettes. The exports last year amounted to 15,592.550, of which" $10,616,650 was in coffee, $2,855,750 in sugar and 669,350 in tobacco. The' total imports were $16,867, 600,' and 'consisted mainly: of cotton, : woolen, linen silk goods, metal, hardware, pro visions, aleSr wines, canned goods, etc. The . United States has al .wlys enjoyed a fair share of Por to Ricos outside trade, and it has been increasing steadily during the last few years. , - Bananas and plantains are won derfully prolific, bearing fruit in ten months from planting. The plants virtually last sixty years, being equally long lived with the cocoa palm, which produces nuts in six or seven years, and there after during the space of an ordi nary HfeYits yield being reckon ed at 106 nuts ai year. The annu al product of bananas is given at 200. 00. 000, and of cocoan u ts 3. 000, OOP. The . entire range of tropi cal fruits is represented here. such as the guava, lime, orange, agaucate, sapod ilia and avocado pear, while all the sub-tropic veg e tables may be raised, including those of the sou th te m pe rate zone, such, for instance, as are grown inFlorida. Tlic mineral kingdom has- not been so exhaustively ex ploited as the vegetable, but more than" traces have been found of copper,- coal and iron, as well as vast deposite of salt- The riv crs at one time ran to the sea over beds of golden sand, and from the streams today (as in the neighboripg.island of San Domin go, where the fi rst American gold was discovered), the natives washl out nuggets by the crude pioeejK as; of that distant day when Ag uvnaba went prosixctinff with lis false friend. Ponce de Leon SOME PHYSICAL FEATURER The ro a r no na t i ve q uad ru perls here larger than th a$rou and the armadillo, but birds art relatively numerous. xh a fu of -tine sonjf and some of briiliani u'umagp. AH doraestiofov ls dt- veil here,arrcr'thw great pastures ot the- northeast and southpaw support va5t bercdsof rattle and torsos, which snrh'ce not on'v for the needs tsf the inland, hut-arp xriortod to altpirts of the West notes, being held in hihesTeptn Phere are no potsonotis, reptiles to be feared, but insects of nines ionable character are too uunWi aas for comfort. . This island, in deed, were : a paradise without them, . Even with them the inhab fants seem to experience little rouble The worst of these are the scorpions, centioeds. taran- ulas, wasps, mosquitoes, some species of ants, ticks, chigoes and fleas. The heat of a tropical cli tnate ; like - that of Porto Rico. which, though rarely exceeding 90 degrees, is continuous, is con ductive to the breeding of insect pests of all sorts. Nearly " all the commerce pass s at either San Jnan, the capital, or rooce, on the south coast. where the American troops now are. The latter city has recently outstripped. the former insharpe competition, 'and iu the harbor here at present merchant vessels of four countries are lying,1 wait ing to discharge their cargoes as soon as the war tariff can be ad justed by General Miles. San Juan is on Morro island and reach ed its limit of population at -24.- 500. Ponce has already touched 38.000 and is still growing brisk ly. It is one of the finest little cities ifi. the world, with some up- tDdate'Qmunicipal methods that might bo borrowed with profit in the states. -The auxiliiary fire de partment is raade-upof the young men belonging to the best fami lies itf town, and they have a re cord for "fearless and effective work that would dp credit toa vel eran association, JL hey seem to be a sort of red-shirted rough riders, and when they turned out in the parade in uenerai Miles' honor - the other day the public manifested their affection in con" tinuous cheering. - - CHANCE FOR AMERICAN ENTER ( PRISE. . . When, one speaks of the people here as Porto Ricans reference is . - made to a distinct class, and not to the homogeneous population which makes of all the rest of the West Indies islands perpetually uncertain factors in international matters. -The fact that the ne. ct rnai - g ra n co cmn.ll n. mi nrxrit.ir has done - much to bring about this . condition of affairs, and. the aristocracy. of the original inhabi tants, which has been transmit ted irom generation to genera tion and is still given rigid recog nition, has.contributed much to ward the same end. That they were Spaniards in the beginning counts! for bat little, because not one scintilla 01 patriotic leeiing has survived the more than three centuries of misgovernment and they are today as thoroughly tli vorced from Spain as though not a drop of Castilian or of Moorish blood had flowed io the veins of their remote aireestors. They -are used, too, to looking after themselves for Spain has been - contented to let the island manage its own affiirs so long as it was propt in the payment of the exorbitant demands made up on it in the way of taxation. All of the interuat improvements and the adoption of modern business methods are d ue to the enterprise of PoruRiciahs themselves, and to them belongs the credit for put ting the island in the shape in which i t i 3 to be recei veil by th e Untied States.- But. of course, much remains tabe dona before it is all that the new parent gor ernmont' is., and: ia the building of hot;l. the e stablishment of banks, building and loan ussocia tions. tefjegraih and telephone lings, jnauraaco cotnpinies and the thousnud and one industrie s that . follow - in the va!re of the uoW of progress there js ample oprtunity Tor thousands oi fort unes to be made by those who are intelligent "and quiclr enough to u l i UI Frea factc.iy ta cc::cin. 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Daily News & Observer, six months 8.B0. weekly North Carolinian and Far mer & Mechanic, making semi - weekly, ouo j'oar - , . 1.00. Address; ' News & Observer, Raleigh, N. C Turnip Seed . a hi ii f irj ap ' ply of new crop Turnip and Ruta Baga Seed put up in four ounce pack ages. Price from 6c. to 8c. per pack age. I have the following varieties:- " Purple Top, Southern Snow Whito Globe, Long White cowhorn, South ern Prize, Purple Top Yellow Ruta Baga, Wood 's Improved Purple Top Purple Top Turnip and Purple Top Yeliow Ruta Baga : are 6 cents per package (24 cents per pound); the other varieties are 8 cents per pack age. These are the very best new crop (1898) seed, bought, of the leading Southern seedsmen . Prompt atten tion given to mail orders. . M. H. Conneb, .' Rich Square, N. C. bon't Tvbacco Spit aad Snwaa Tr lil Awajr. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be ma;-' net So. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. 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