NOTES OF A VACATION
SOME FACTS GATHERED AND INCIDENDTS OCCURRING DURING
THE SUMMER DAYS OF A VISIT TO WESTERN NORTH CARO
LINA. HOWARD A. BANKS.
Afheville, Sept. 1. This has been
a good summer for mountain tourists'
resorts. Southern Railway trains
have been crowded during the month
of August. Asheville, Waynesville,
Hendersonville, Black Moutnain and
its environs and other places have
been filled up with visitors from the
North and South, escrping from the
hot weather of the lowlands and of
the great cities.
It was a great pleasure to be the
guest of Mr. D. A. Tompkins, in his
summer home at Montreat. Mr.
Tompkins psends the greater part of
his summers now at this place, from
April to October. His charming house
hold consists of Miss Grace Tompkins,
his sister, who presides at his hospit
able board; Mrs. Tompkins, of Edge
field, S. C, a near relative; Miss Ab
ernethy, of Mount Holly, his stenog
- rapher; and Miss Davis, of Charlottte,
a trained nurse. The spacious piazza
looks directly out across the North
Fork of the Swannanoa river, a mere
creek at this point, which washes the
feet of Rainbow Mountain, a hill ris
ing to a sheer height of several hun
dred feet directly from its waters. The
mountain is named from its graceful
curve. The Montreat Association
owns to the top of the ridge, and it
would be well if the association would
build a winding road to the top. The
mountain would seem to lend itself
admirably to road building; and the
view from the top must be superb. It
is covered with a thick, short growth
of oak, out of which one single, soli
tary pine tree shoots skyward. The
Tompkins househoold calls it 'The
Lonesome Pine"; but there is no trail
to it.
To the southward looms up the Blue
Ridge, well named for no mountains
in the world are so exquisitely cerule
an. At various periods during the
day, the Ilulge from whatever point
one views it, seems to exhibit every
shade of blue. Sometimes it reflects
the color of the sky. At other times it
wears a tint of gray blue. At others
u is as deep as indigo. As evening
draws on, and the shepherd wind
blows up his fluffy flocks of cloud, and
they cast their shadows on the hills
below, the Ridge dons its royal pur
ple. The exploiters of one part of the
Western North Carolina mountains
were happy indeed in calling their
section "the Sapphire Country." Just
after sunset an artist's eye often de
tects a lilac tint.
"The world is veiled with tissues fair
ies wear,
The woof of sunshine, warp of pur
ple mist,
And thro' the hazy, soft-enchanted air,
The distant hills seem carved of
amethyst."
When one first comes into the moun
tains, he is affected by drowsiness. He
wants to sleep, and it is fine to lie
down at night, and sing to slumber
4o thp lullaVitr nf tha lrof,.;Jc .,-,! U
soft murmur of the Swannanoa, like
the sound of gently falling rain, and
know that you will wake up in the
morning under the breathing brow of
a mountain. I know of no place where
the mountains beetle more perfectly
than at Montreat. This is rest in
deed! It is the place to go if you
wish to escape genuinely.
"Far from the madding crowd's ig
1 noble strife."
IndriYing oyer the good roads at
Montreaf aild Black Mountain with
Mr. Tompkins or with members of his
household, we several times passed
the lumber plant at Black Mountain,
of Perley & Crockett, successors to
Dickel & Campbell. Its operation is
most interesting. It is sawing exclu
sively at present spruce pine. The
logs are brought up on a little narrow
guage mountain railroad which runs
many miles backward until within a
thousand feet of the top of Mt. Mitch
ell. We were fortunate enough to see
a train load of eight flat cars, loaded
high with spruce sawlogs, arrive at
the mill just alongside the Southern
Railway station at Black Mountain.
The logs were quickly dumped into a
lagoon by the side of the mill. Here
thev floated in the water for ten days
or two weeks. The logs will not dry
properly if they are sawed with the
sap on them, but water soaked logs
dry out in perfect condition. The
logs are skillfully manipulated by
workman with a long pole with a sort
of fish-spear on it. With this he
shoves the logs upon a moving chain,
which hustles them up into the mill
to the saws. Meantime, the waste
which results from the sawing is car
ried out of the mill by another chain,
and dumped in a heap at the far end
of the lagoon where a fire is constant
ly consuming it. It pays to burn it
up rather than to clog up the prem
ises with this waste. It is said that
there is enough spruce timber in the
mountains within the reach of this lit
Ite railroad to keep the mill running
steadily for 12 years longer. There
are enormous stacks of the sawed
lumber in the dry kilns, and the little
mill is operated with magnificent skill
and system.
While we were driving through the
Baptist colony at Ridgecrest, I noticed
over on a nearby mountain a whole
forest of dead and dying pine trees.
"A forest ffre, I see," I said to Mr.
Tompkins.
"No," said he significantly. "The
pine beetle."
I noticed everywhere in the Black
Mountain region the ravages of this
pest. It seems that nothing can be
done except to cut down the forests
and burn them. Some of the beauti
ful white pines on Dr. Cotton's estate
at .Montreat are being attacked bjr the
beetle, and I passed one irM! little
cottage yard which had been very
carefully planted out with white pine
and every one was ruined and dying
no rloubt injuring the value of the lit
tle mountain hoin, and at least nec
essitating the re-planting of hia shade
trees.
AMIDST THE MOUNTAINS
In the course of one of our conver
sations, Mr. Tompkins made the state
ment of a fact which I had never
heard before, namely: that the water
power of a cotton mill will drive more
spindles at night than it will in the
day time perhaps ten per cent, more
at least somewhere around that num
ber. Mr. Tompkins said that this was
a fact known to engineers, but said
that he himself could not give any
very definite rason therefor.
This is a bumper fruit crop year in
the mountains. Apples are a glut on
the market, at Waynesville at 50
cents a bushel. Shippers of apples at
Canton are paying the mountain peo
ple 40 cents a bushel. I fell into con
versation with a man named Justice,
who has an orchard of 2,000 trees
near Waynesville, and he says that
there is no Northern market for ap
ples, and he is looking southward to
see if he cannot find a market in that
direction which will yield him better
prices. Mountain wagons in Waynes
ville are loaded with apples and with
fresh apple cider at 10 cents a quart.
Capt. Robert Johnston, U. S. A., re
signed, of Asheville, has an immense
crop of apples on the old Boggs or
chards, which he bought several years
ago. The orchards are about two
miles from Waynesville, and are prob
ably the finest in North Carolina.
Capt. Johnston has not disposed of his
fruit. Haywood county fruit growers'
exchange is now having a rather hard
row of stumps to hoe, as they have
been without a manager for a year or
so, and do not know where to find one.
This is a serious handicap to the or
chard men in a bumper crop year like
this.
The mountains are a God-send, with
their colonies, and with their scenery,
enrapturing the eye of the artist; but
the most interesting thing in them is
the people, particularly the children.
Dr. James, of Harvard, the great psy
chologist, used to spend his summers
at Blowing Rock, and he paid a very
high compliment to the mountain
children, saying that they were far
brighter naturally than the children
of the New England mill towns. I
was taking a walk up the Eagle's
Nest road at Waynesville with my
children one day, and we came to the
moutain poultry farm of Mr. Hyatt.
It was in charge of a mountaineer
named Davis, and he very kindly
showed me his one thousand or more
white Leghors. He gets something
like $2.00 or $2.50 a pair for them,
and good prices for the eggs, too. In
one ran he had two hundred fine lav
ing fowls, which were contributing
very liberally towards the supply of
the Waynesville soda fountains, with
eggs for their egg-flips.
By the side of the road a little
shack had been put up, and in it was
an eleven year old mountain boy, Mas
ter Frank Davis, the son of th man
ager of the chicken farm. Frank was
running a little wayside store, selling
soda water, candy, mountain apples
and the like. He was an ambitious
youngster, tr.d said that while he did
not get his store started until the mid
dle of the season, he had nevertheless
at that time invested $4.00 in his
stock of candy and soft drinks, and
that within two weeks he had sold
out and had almost enough to double
his stock. Thus he had been going on
through the shank of the season. He
keeps his soda water on ice, and the
carriages passing to and fro from
Eagle's Nest, the splendid hostelry on
the top of Junalusl'a Mountain, give
him a liberal patrnoage. He said he
intended to start for school in two
weeks, down in Hazlewood; and that
he is in the fifth grade. He stated
very emphatically that he intended to
go through the eleventh grade.
I am goin' to Kit all the educa
tion I kin," he said.
"What are you going to be when
you grow up?" I asked.
I am goin to foller somethm' I
kin make money at," he replied.
frank has the traders instinct
strongly developed. Some day he will
be one of the big merchants of Way
nesville.
Higher up on the mountain we came
to the toll-gate, which is run hy
mountain family named Curtis. Here
we laid in a supply of balsam pillows
and alpenstocks, the small two
three room house was crowded with
children, and one of them, Lucy -Cur-1
tis, seven years old, was the main
hand at collecting the toll. She was
a very pretty child, and she, too, was
ambitious to learn, and had been to
school down at Hazlewood, at the
foot of the mountain, two milo3 dis
tant. She had numerous brothers and
sihters, but she was the belle cf the"
bunch.
A chance is all these mountain chil
dren need to make their lives success
ful. Governor Glenn used to tell a story
about a little girl, who lived with her
father in an isolated mountain cove,
and who graphically expressed the
loneliness and longing of her life when
she said to him:, "Every day I stand
and look up the road, but there ain't
nobody a-comin' and nobody a
gwine!" Rosy cheeked Lucy
Curtis could not make this plaint, for
her daily task is to collect the tolls
from the folks a-comin' and a-gwine.
But the life is simple enough in this
crowded mountain cabin.
An anaemic looking mountaineer,
who appeared to be the husband of
one of Lucy's older sisters, said that
he had recently been eight miles to
a distant mountain peak, and had
come back with an armful of balsam
canes and a tow sack or so full of
balsam needles the latter to be used
in making balsam pillows. He sold
his canes for 15 cents apiece, and
the balsam pillows with their scarlet
cases, sold for 25 cents each. These
cases, sold for 25 cents each. Thus
he gleans a little cash with which to
CRIMSON CLOVER AND HAIRY
VETCH SEED PRICES
Prices for imported crimson clover
and hairy vetch seed have recently
shown such a marked upward tenden
cy that specialists of the Department
fear that the cost of the seed, of
which Europe is the chief source, will
interfere with the increasing use of
these leguminous cover crops. In fact,
it is feared that the prices of the seed
of these legumes may go so high as
to make it inadvisable to plant them
this year.
Before the present European condi
tions arose, crimson clover seed was
selling at from $4 to $5 a bushel. Up
to August 15 there was a scarcity of
this seed in the United States, owing
to tne lact that the receipts from Eu
rope were smaller than usual. The
prices then advanced to from $7.50 to
$9.uu per bushel, bince that date lm
portations have continued to arrive,
until there is now more imported seed
available for fall seeding than there
was in this country a year ago at this
time. This seed, according to the De
partment s information, was all lm
ported at approximately the same
price as that sold for $4 to $4.50 ner
bushel in the early part of the season
The present high price, .therefore, is
regarded by the Department as un
warranted, from the standpoint of the
supply and the import price of the
seed. Some dealers are continuing to
sell at the former price, but these are
exceptions.
If the present high price is main
tained, the specialists are doubtful
whether crimson clover can be profit
ably used as a green manure crop for
seeding in corn or on vacant ground,
or under other conditions where the
catch is not reasonably certain. Un
der such conditions they point out that
it will be better practice to sow rye
this fall and use the difference in
price in adding nitrogen to the soil in
the form of nitrate of soda or some
highly nitrogenous fertilizer. The rye
will afford a winter cover preventing
washing and leaching, ana can be
plowed under in the sprinar to add hu
mus to the soil.
When crimson clover is being used
regularly as a winter cover croD in
orchard culture, or where local expe
rience indicates that a good catch and
a good crop are practically certain, a
higher price for the seed will no doubt
be justified.
A somewhat similar condition ex
ists with reference to hairy vetch seed.
There has been approximately six
sevenths as much seed imported since
November 1, 1913, as in the year pre
vious. This shortage, however, is
partly counterbalanced by the increas
ing domestic production of hairy vetch
seed. Wherever the price of hairv
vetch seed is found to be exhorbitant,
tne same change in farm practice is
recommended as that in the case of
crimson clover. From U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture weekly letter.
TAKING CALOMEL A BAD HABIT
So Powerful it Shocks Liver and
Leaves it Weaker Than Before
Dodson's Liver Tone is Better To
Take.
Nearly everybody who has ever
tried calomel has found that it firives
only a temporary relief. For calomel
is such a powerful drug that is shocks
and weakens the liver and makes it
less able afterward to do its duty
than in the first place.
I his is one of the reasons whv the
Asheboro Drug Company guarantee
Dodson's Liver Tone to take the place
of calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone is a
pure vegetable liquid tonic that will
cure constipation quickly and gently,
witnout any danger of bad after-effects.
It is guaranteed to do this with
a guarantee that is simple and fair.
If you buy a bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone for yourself or your children,
and do not hnd that it perfectly takes
the place of calomel, then return to
the store where you bought it and get
your money back with a smile.
buy a little coffee and sugar.
While I was at Waynesville, I was
at the home of Mr. D. M. Killian, a
mighty fox hunter. His hospitable
home is full of summer boarders, and
his yard is full of fox hounds, leashed
together in pairs to keep them from
ranging alone in the mountains. There
is a gentleman from Indiana. Mr,
Howe, who was a guest in this home,
and one of the greatest delights of
my vacation was to watch Mr.
Howes unwavering interest in
Mr. Killian's yoked dogs. "Can
walk together except they
agreed?" Not much! There
Mr.
two
be
were
about eight or ten pairs of these dogs.
io doubt thep made a musical pack
on the trail, but when they were not,
were thus strung together in couples,
tney were woebegone objects. One al
ways wised to stand up while the oth
er wished to lie down. Another did
not wish to travel and was squatting
on her hindquarters, while her mate
was pulling lrer along on the ground
I saw one hound who was evidently
very dry, making for the creek, and
pulling her partner into the water, al
though the latter wasn't thirstv a bit:
while another couple thus ordained to
'hang together" consisted of a young
hound not much out of puppyhood,
linked together with a very old doe.
This pup wa3 evidently intended by
Mr. Kiinan to be the old doe's darane.
It was frisky and playful and cheerful
and full of pranks and evidently want
ed to be everlastingly on the &o; while
the old dog had long ago passed that
period a.nd was surly and settled and
anxious to rest in peace. So while the
young dog frisked, the old dog simply
set himself in a rigid attitude and
growled. There was, however, no es
cape for any of the hounds.. That stick
about a yard long, round the neck of
each, held them together as inflexible
and as inexorable as the South Caro
lina divorce law.
CHAMBERLAIN'S LINIMENT
If you are ever troubled with aches
pains, or soreness of the muscles, you
will apreciate the good qualities of
Chamberlain's Liniber.t. Many suffer
crs from rheumatism and sciatica
have used it with the best results It
is especially valuable for lumbago nd
lame back, t or sale by all dealers.
CURING MEAT ON THE FARM
Useful Recipes For the Econonmical
and Satisfactory Preservation of
Beef and Pork. !
The best way to eat meat is to eat
it while fresh, for there is no way of
preserving it that will retain all the
nutrition and all the flavor. It is,
nevertheless, frequently desirable to
cure meat at home and there is no rea
son why this cannot be done satisfac
torily and economically. Salt, sugar
or molasses, baking soda, and little
saltpeter are the only ingredients necessary.
Ordinarily the curing of meat should
be begun from 24 to 36 hours after
the animal is slaughtered. This allows
sufficient time for the animal heat to
leave the meat entirely, but not suffi
cient to permit decay to set in. Once
the meat is tainted, no amount of pre
servatives will bring back its proper
flavor. On the other hand, if salt is
applied too soon, obnoxious gases will
be retained and the meat will possess
an offensive odor. It is also impossi
ble to obtain good results when the
meat is frozen.
Three useful recipes for popular
rorms or cured meat are given below.
The only equipment necessary for
them are the ingredients already men
tioned and a clean hardwood barrel or
a large stone jar or crock. In consid;
enng tnese recipes it is well to re
member that, on the whole, brine-eur-ed
meats are best for farm use. They
are less trouble to prepare and the
brine affords better protection against
insects and vermin. A cool, moist cel
lar is the best place for brine curing.
The.cellar should be dark and tight
enough to prevent flies and vermin,
Recipes for Curing.
Corned Beef. The pieces commonly
used for corning are the plate, rump,
cross ribs and brisket, or in other
words, the cheaper cuts of meat. The
loin, ribs, and other fancy cuts are
more often used fresh, and since there
is more or less waste of nutrients m
corning, this is well. The pieces for
coining should be cut in convenient
sized joints, say five or six inches
square. It should be the aim to cut
them all about the same thickness, so
that they will make an even layer in
the barel.
Meat from fat animals makes choic
er corned beef than that from poor
animals. When the meat is thorough
ly cooled it should be corned as soon
as possible, as any decay in the meat
is likely to spoil the brine during the
corning process. Under no circum
stances shoud the meat be corned
while it is frozen. Weigh out the
meat and allow eight pounds of salt
to each one hundred pounds; sprinkle
a layer of salt one-quarter on an inch
in depth over the bottom of the bar
rel; pack in as closely as possible the
cuts of meat, making a layer five or
six inches in thickness; then put on a
layer of. salt, following that yith an
other layer of meat; repeat until the
meat and salt have all been packed
in the barrel, care being used to re
serve salt enough for a good layer ov
er the top. After the package has
stood over night, add for every o-ne
hundred pounds of meat, four pounds
of sugar, two ounces of baking soda,
ana lour ounces of saltpeter, dissolved
in a gallon of tepid water. Three gal
lons more of water should be sufficient
to cover this quantity. In case more
or less than one hundred pounds of
meat is to be corned, make the brine
in the proportion given. A loose board"
cover, weighted down with a heavy
stone or piece of iron, should be put
on the meat to keep all of ft under the
brine. In case any should' project,
rust would start and the brine would
spoil in a short time.
It is not necessary to bofF the brine
except in warm weather. If the meat
has been corned during the winter
and must be kept into the summer
season, it would be well to wntrli thp
brine closely during the spring, as it
ib mure niteiy to spoil at that time
than at any other season. If the brine
appears to be ropy or does- not drip
freely from the finger when- immers
ed and lifted, it shou d be tnrnerl off
and new brine added, after carefully
washing the meat. The sugar or mo
lasses in the brine has a tendency to
ferment, and, unless the brine is kept
in a cool place, there is sometimes
trouble from this source. The meat
should be kept in the Vine 28 to 40
days to secure thprough corning.
Dried Beef. The round is common
ly used for dried beef, the inside of
tne thigh being considered the choic
est piece, as it is slightly more tender
than the outside of the round. The
round should be cut lengthwise of the
gram of the meat in preparing for
unoe Deer, so tnat the muscle fibers
may be cut cross wise when the dried
beef is sliced for table use. A tight
jar or cask is necessary for curing.
The process is as follows: To each
one hundred pounds of meat weigh
out five pounds of salt, three pounds
of granulated sugar, and two ounces
or saltpeter; mix thoroughly tno-tw
nuo tne meat on an surfaces with a
third or the mixture and pack it
the jar as tightly as possible. Allow
it to remain three davs. when ft ahnnM
be removed and rubbed again with an-
notner third of the mixture. In re
packing, put at the bottom the pieces
that were on top the first time. Let
stand for three days, when thev
should be removed and rubbed with
the remaining third of the mixture
and allowed to stand for three dava
more. The meat is then ready to ,be
removed from the pickle. The liquid
forming in the jars should not be re
moved, but the meat should be re
packed in the liquid each time. After
being removed from the pickle the
meat should be smoked and hung in
a dry attic or near the kitchen fire
where the water will evaporate from
it. It may be used at any time after
smoking, although the longer it hangs
in the dry atmosphere the drier it will
get. The drier the climate in d-phpm!
the more easily meats can be dried. In
arid regions good dried meat can be
made by exposing it fresh to the air.
with protection from flies.
Plain Salt Pork. Rub each piece of
meat witn nne common salt and pack
closely in a barrel. Let stand over
night. The next day weigh out ten
pounas oi salt and two ounces of salt-
NOW IS TIME TO SOW CRIMSON
CLOVER
This is the time to sow crimson
clover. I hope every farmer will get
busy and sow a cover crop, as shallow
soil with no humus and poor seed and
deep cultivation makes poor farms,
poor crops, poor roads, poor schools,
poor churches, and a poor people;
while a deep soil, well filled with hu
mus and the use of good seed, with
shallow and frequent cultivation,
make rich farms, large crops, beauti
ful homes, good roads, good schools,
better churches and a better people,
hope every farmer will do his best to
deepen his soil and add humus by sow
ing clover and all the legumes, and
get-more live stock and feed all the
roughage to make manure. We have
some silo forms on exhibit this week
to simply show the farmers that they
can build them and grow feed more
cheaply, say two and a half dollars to
four dollars a ton, take care of their
cattle as well in winter as in summer,
and in the wind-up make money; those
silos can be built for from fifty dol
lars up. I hope every farmer will get
to studying and put in practice on his
farm all the improved methods that
will build up the fertility of the soil
and make him an independent and
prosperous citizen.
S. E. COBLE,
County Agriculturist,
TO BOOM YOUR TOWN
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Be friendly to everybody.
Elect good men to office.
Keep your sidewalks in good repair.
If a poor man starts a protect help
him.
If a rich man starts a project en
courage him.
bell all you can and buy all you can
at home.
Don't talk the town down to strang
ers.
If you are rich, invest in something:
employ somebody.
it a project to improve the town
comes up, don't hoot investigate.
Don t let your personal antipathies
get away with your business Judg
ment. Follow the men who have the vim
and energy to go ahead and "saw
wood."
Be courteous to strangers who come
among you so they will go away with
good impressions.
II you don't like your town well
enough to speak welT of it, get out of
it and make room for better men.
Always cheer on the man who coes
for improvements, portion of the cost
will be nothing but that which is
right.
Don't kick at any proposed improve
ments because thev are not at vour
door, or for fear that your tax will be
raised nity cents.
Don t be afraid to stick- vmir hand
down in your pocket for money to
help a public enterprise. You owe
something to the community for be
ing so kind as to patronize you.
Don't! Don't! Don't! For heaven's
sake don't think your ideas" are the
only correct ones as to what improve
ments are needed, and how they
should be obtained. We heard an old
man say once that his name was writ.
ten down on every paper that came
around with the word "Temperance"
on it. Let your name be written down
to every paper that has "Improve
ment"' on it.
WHISKERS
M . (Boston Herald.)
The late William A. PeftVr. n.
Populist Senator at Washington was
famous for luxuriant" whiskeraga. His
.ffnio we preter this plural to
zymoes" tempted the fowl nf h
air to build their nests within tn i-Hr
their tender brood. These whiskers
were often caricatured, but the wearer
gloried in them and saved the carica
tures by pasting them in a scrapbook.
Did he not entitle a ch-ipter of the
book he dictated while ho was dying.
"Whiskers of Populism? '
Mr. Peffer, though born in Penn
sylvania, of German paunrtafyiv and
sojourning in Indiana, Missouri and
Illinois, was identified with Kansas.
Lnamp Clark n 1907 pronounced a
glowing eulogy on the whiskers of
Pike county, Missouri. Thre never
were such .whiskers elsewhere in this
little world of great wonders, or in
song os romance. He was tired to
this eulogy by the report that the
beard of one S. G. Brinkley, the pride
of Magnetic City, N. C, reached to
tne noor ana was the longest in the
universe. Mr. Clark said that the
beard of this Tar Heel was only a
goatee in comparison with whiskers
Of faithful MiSBOUrifln f-nnatitiipna
and he cited the case f Vnio;
Tapley, of Spencehburir. with ioj
ii ieet t incnes long; also the case of
Judge Elijah Gates, of Curryville,
. u niKumni nme ieet
length.
peter to each one hundred pounds of
meat and dissolve in four gallons of
boiling water. Pour this brine over
the meat when cold, cover, and weight
down to keen it under thp hrip m..
u, pacK Best u cut into pieces about
six inches square. The pork should be
kept in the brine until used.
Sugar-cured Hams and Bacon
When the meat is cooled, rub each
piece with salt and allow Jt to drain
uver mgnt. men pack it in a barrtj
with the hams and shoulders in the
bottom, using the stripB of bacon to
ii u in Deiween or to put on top.
Weigh out for each on hAy-Zt
pounds of meat eight pounds of salt,
two pounds of brown sugar, and two
ounces cf saltpeter. Dissolve all in
iimr ganons or water, and cover the
ineai witn tne pnne. For summer use
it will be safest to boil the brine be
fore using. In that case it should be
thoroughly cooled before it is used
For winter curing it is not necessary
. t., v.,... oacon strips should
remain in this brine four to six weeks
hams six to eight weeks. Ti,i i '
standard recipe and has given the best
of satisfaction. Hams and bacon cured
in the spring will keep right through
the summer after thev -i.rj
The meat will be sweet and palatable
if it is properly smoked, and the flav-
ui win DO gooa.
VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENTS
News & Observer.
That there is. need for changes in
the rViimtltntinn nf Vnrth rirnlln.
has long been recognized, and the
question wnicn was nrst met was as
to whether the best plan was to have
these changes proposed to the people
by means of a Constitutional Conven
tion or by means of amendments sub
mitted by the General Assembly to
the people. The last plan was adopted
and afte intelligent work by the com
mittee named to draft the proposed
a selection of those submitted, and
these are now before the people for
their adoption. ,
That these amednments deserve the
support of the people of the state is
the firm belief of the News & Observ
er. There are some which will be
adopted without any dispute, while
there is a contest as to some others.
Those which have been assailed are
amednments which are needed, for
they are for making of conditions un
der which North Carolina will be '.tble
to make greater progress than it has
in the past
The amendment whichv would pro
vide for a six months term of the pub
lic schools should meet hearty support
in all quarters. There is need for
more education in our state. In our
cities and in our towns we are provid
ing for this by means of special taxes.
But there is need for a longer term in
our rural schools, and the amendment
will provide for better facilities for
the education of the children of the
farms. The charge of illiteracy
against this state is one which hurts
it and the voters of the state should
do their part in ending conditions
which go to make illteracy.
And there is the proposed amend
ment to our taxing system. That
amendment should be adopted, for
North Carolina need it nnA naoAa if
badly. The present system of taxa
tion in the state is one which needs
adjustment. The proposed amend
ment would give to the Legislature
ation which would equalize matters
ana aisiriDute tne Durdens among all
the people. By means of it there
WOUld be nower O-ivon thp Clanafal lo.
sembly to deal with the question of
taxation as it is to be met today.
The people of the state will be do
ing the wise thing to adopt the pro
posed amendment to the Constitution
as it effects taxation, a measure which
this ftaner rnnsirlpra ni fair anA inof
Under the Rvstpm which it iranM oixra
power to put into operation the affairs-
oi tne state could be better handled,
and with far more satisfaction to the
peonle. Vntfl fnr the tnvoHnn omon.
ment by all means.
YOU CAK VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3
IF YOU
I. Are a' maTp ritizpn nf Mili
Carolina on erection day;
II. Are twpntv-onp vpnre nM nn
November 3, 1314;
III. Havp rpiW in XInrtl. r..,,
lina two yeara in the county six
inonins, ana w tne ward, precinct, or
election rlistrit- fnir tnnntha
ing the election- day. '
A. If VOU hfiv rnnnnui fmm ona
precinct, ward, or election district to
another in the aama mimfv urifk,-.
four months previous to the election
uay. you are entitled to vote in the
prctiuct, wara, or election district
from which you moved.
B. To have raidJoA tn tTna Sfat
county and precinct, ward, or election
district the required length of time
means more than merely to have stay
ed there on a visit or even on busi
ness: it means tn hovp MncinraJ ti..
the place your permanent dweliing-
F.nt, your nome, ut piace to which
yim mean to return.
C. If vou are a married mn m.
residence 13 where your family re
sides; if single, where you sleep.
v. Are not a lunatic or idiot;
V. Have never hocti nmrinJ
or confessed in open court, upon in
dictment, to a crime punishable by
imprisonment- in the State's Prison;
or 11 convicted of or confessed to
such a crime, have hoon ctnj
citizenship as required by law;
Ae registered in the precinct
where you offer to vote;
A. You are pntiHoH tn ho -or;ai..
ed if you
1. Can show to the satisfaction of
the registrar vour ahilitv tn
write any section of the Constitution
rsorui Carolina in the English Lan
guage. a. If you were qualified to vote in
any State on January 1, 18G7, or are
me nun, granuson, or otner lineal de
scendant of Rlirh a nnn i.n.i I
registered without showing ability to
' wnie, provided your name
was entered "upon the permanent rec
ord on or before December 1, 1908.
.J1, KfSfatration under this, the
Grandfather Clause," does not keep
you from having to be registered
again, if so required by statute, but
only abolishes the educational test as
toh0?e registered under this clause.
tl . Wl" take the usual oath to sup
port the Constitution and as to your
age and residence.
B. You are entitled to be register
ed on election day if you have become
eligible to vote between the day reg
istration books were closed and the
day of election.
1. Thus if your State residence
or two years were completed or your
majority was reached between the
clos'iig of the registration bocks and
November 3rd, you would be entitled
t0 oe registered on election day.
lar Ha,y Paid your poll tax for
1913 on or before May 1, 1914, and can
produce your tax receipt or will swear
t ml 80 ptW your PU ta
A. You can vote without having
paid your poll tax if you K
1914 or"8"1 f 8ge after May
foSfe" -
Int n7m pa!ng y?ur Pu tx on ac
count of poverty or infirmity.
T. D. WARREN,