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VOL. I.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. 0., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1(, 1884.
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HOME CIRCLE.
A HIGH-TEMPERED GIRL.
"No, I won't!" said Theodora lfeed,
impetuously; "I won't! I won't!
so there's an end of the matter."
Theodora was busy making pear
marmalade, with a pocket hand-kerchief
fastened, Ueatrice Cenci fash
ion, over her luxuriant brown tress
es, a huge, cheeked apron enveloping
her trim little figure, and sleeves
rolled up above the elbow.
Deacon Powers si ood opposite, ner
vously feeling of his bristly chin.
Theodora was' young and pretty,
with limpid, hazel eyes, rings of
brown hair straying like lloss silk
over her temples, and rosy lips.
Deacon Powers was elderly and
wrinkled, with nU' indescribable
sharpness in his face, as if it had
worn away, in contact with the
world.
"It's getting io he e.n imposition."
said Theodora, bru-kely. "L ist wvek
we had two tract distribulot-. here.
and week before that old Dr. Dod
dington and his wife and three chit
dren stayed here five days, so that it
should be convenient tor the semi
annual convention. In fact, I don't
remember a single month without
company since we have lived at the
parsonage. And we have no girl now,
and papa has the neuralgia; so you
must tell this young clergyman to
my somewhere else. 1 won t nave
him here!"
, "Hut, my dear Miss Reed "
"I'm not your 'dear Miss Reed,
said Theodora, vehemently. "If I
was, you would try to spare me a
little of all this annoyance, i es, 1
know I am the minister's daughter,
and as such, am expected to have
neither feeling or preference, nor
sensibilities of any kind, nut J m
human, after all: and I decline to
keep a perpetual free hotel for every
1 r il T i 1
one wno comes in tins uireciion.
"Your predecessor, Miss Reed-
the lamented Mi's, bmiley was
never averse to entertaining the
sain ts' reriroachfullv uttered the
deacon. "Her door was ever open
and her amiable hospitality "
"Oh, yes, I know!" said Theodora.
"And she died at forty. I intend
to live a great deal longer than that.
She was killed by sewing-societies
and company, and Dorcas meet
ings. I've had enough of that sort
of thing, and I mean to stop. If
the church-people wish papa to en
tertain all creation, they must raise
his salary that's all."
t'But, my good young friend '
A.t that moment, however, a third
person unexpectedly appeared on the
scene. The door between the par
lor and kitchen, which had, unper
ceived, by Miss Reed and Deacon
Powers, stood slightly ajar, opened
a tall, frank-faced young man
stood there, with a decided color on
his cheeks.
"Deacon Powers," said he, "please
assure this young lady that I will
not trespass upon her hospitality.
Perhaps we had better go on to the
next place at once."
There was something in his air
and manner which caused the deacon
to shoot out of the kitchen window
like an arrow from the bow, and the
next moment Theodora was. alone.
She colored and bit her lip.
"It's all true," she said, "every
word of it. But I'm a little sorry
he heard it. Perhaps he wasn't to
blame, after all."
And Theodora went vigorously on
with the pear marmalade, until the
old clock m the corner struck eleven ;
and then she poured out a cup of
chocolate, and ran up stairs to her
father's room. !
his
rest-
, stmlv table, with his tonildes
nig oil ins nanus, ins (-mows
: " i i i i i
lli.i chaos of hooks and papers
ThtM) wi'iit. lo !iis side at once, urn
laid her hand on his head.
'Papa," she said
wistfully, 'i-
your neuralgia worse-'"
'Wry miudi worse, Theo," he
said, lifting his pain-glazed eves to
her e.iger. questioning young face.
"I do not believe t hat I tan preach
to-morrow : I do not believe that 1 j
ran ever prepare a sermon." I
Theodora looked agha.t.
"lint, papa." said she. ''what can I
you dor" Old Dr. Dronton is out off
town, and " , , j
"My dear, said the poor clergy- j
man, pre.-sing his hands to his t hr: l-
bing temples, "you must send a nolo j
to Mr. Hervey, and ask hiiu, to oi:i- j
eiate in my place, as a special !
favor." "
"Who is Mr. Hervov?" asked
Theodora.
''I don't kr.ov," sighed Mr. I feed.
'I only know that he was to be at
Wind Held this week. Most prob
ably he will be at the Star hotel."
'Very well, papa." said Theodo -
ra, teignmg a el.eerinlness that she
was very far from feeling. ''Drink
vour chocolate now, there's a dar-
ling,
least
and don't fret
bit in the world.
yourself
and I will
fh(
see
thai ;'H f tta ? j::i
sle- ra i imwii
bivelr' tn i iiiii'x'in; .
A sub-"; ll w ! e i 1 1 1 1 1
air
- i...,
was
i
t we
the pulpit, and lure
it
ve
o'clock on Saturday!
She sat down and wrote a little
note, com ultiug the dictionary more
than once to make sure of no errors,
and cMefully copying the whole, be
cause of a spattering little blot
which fell, as if "of malice afore
said," directly across the second
line.
"J)t:Ai: Mi:.1Iki:vi-:v: -Will you orant !
us the great favor of j:vai !iiuy in papa's I
place to-morrow? Ife is very ill i j
neuralgia, and is unall' even to pre-j
pare a sermon. Wo shall i . great ly ob- j
ligedifyou will dine with us to-iuor-;
row alter ehi;re!i. j
Thkoiioua i;r.:;. !
And after satisfying herself that j
it was all quite right, she carried it I
herself to ttfo Star hotel. !
.airv I lervev was jtot, m.i
dn't been !
in since morning.
Put thev would irive him
the
note
i M 'recti v " ' i -us arrjv
i - ;
) I 'I ! ! 1
hurrieii liMii again,
coin - of i he aftl a 'On
oivd h ) i i'ro.a t In? h-v.
.Old
. a
Ml
il t b
tie
bi'ougii i a
h was . n- j
v bile on
Card, on oii
side
of whic
Hervey,"
irraved, "Her
the other was written
u...:n. . l "
the
word?
wiui pleasure.
And the
ministers nauguter, on
thought intent' roasted
i I T i
hospitable
a pair of
chichens collected the in-
gredients lor a salad, made a peacii
pie and "naked a loaf of bread, which
Wiis light and white as sea-foam.
"I'll show him that the country
girls understand good housekeep
ing," said Theo to herself.
Mr. Reed was not able to leave
his sosa the next morning, so Tlieo
put on her pretty blue-and-white
muslin dress and the gypsy hat with
the roses that became her delicate
complexion so perfectly, and went
to church, after first seeing that the
table was all spread for the cold
dinner, and the coffee-pot simmer
ing on the stove.
The church was full.
Mr. Hervey was a rising luminary
in the theological horizon, and al
most every one in Windfield had
heard of him, so there was no lack
of an audience.
But to Thedora's ineffable dismay,
the tall young man who walked so
composedly out on the platform was
no other than the frank-faced per
son who had stood on her kitchen
threshold, only the day before, and
overheard her diatribe, on the sub
ject of undesired guests. ?
Under the shadow of the roses
she turned redder still.
"Oh, my tongue my unlucky
tongue!" she said, frantically, to
i i r. -it i
herself. "I always knew it would
lead me into trouble!" What must
he have thought?"
And, as may be inferred, Theodo-
1 11 ! 1
ra s
devotions albeit, sue was in
reality a sweet, sincere little chris
tian did not do her much good
that morning.
Mr. Herver came across into the
parsonage when the sermon was
over, and held out his hand to blush
ing Theodora.
"We meet again," said he, with a
smile.
"l ean t heli) it' burst out Theo
dora, in desperation. ' I meant ev
ery word I said, Mr. Hervey; it was
all true. But but it didn t apply
to vou!"
''I understand," he said, quietly.
ment, for I merely wished for a
temporary shelter while they were
refurnishing my room at the Star
hotel. But I con easily see, now
that I have thought, the matter over
1 1 i j 1 i i f
in a new ngnt, mat a ministers
family must be sadly pestered with
volunteer guests. Pray think no
in fire of it, Miss Reed."
Mr. Reed was sit t in 'jf before
And ho spoke so frankly and pleas
antly that Theo became quite at her
ease, while he carved the chicken,
and she prepared the crisp lettuce
and limpid oil for the salad.
lie was taken up to Mr. Reed's
sick' room after dinner, and had a
pleasant chat with him before the
afternoon service.
You have done me a great favor,
sir," said the elder clergyman, when
at length he parted from his guest.
"And we should esteem it a privil
ege my little girl and I if you
would make your home 'at- the
parsonage during vour stav in town.
Should we not, TlieoV"
Theodora hung down
and turned pink to the
her head,
very roots
o! iir Hair.
"Yes," she said, almost inaudiblv
in asi:
hidin
amed
r her
1
to say
face on
so.
his
i. papa
j T
uiuer. i nave ojuaveu so uauiv
ver should have taken it j . r
granted that Mr. Hervey was like
the rest!"
And then, infinitely to Mr. ller
vey's amusement, she told the whole
storv of her interview with Deacon
f Powers
Mr. Heed
smiled,
as lie
strol
vOtl
Theo's head.
''My little
irirl ,"' said l.e
girl is only a little
"and sometimes for
tois'ae is an unrulv
i ire
ts ti
the
f,
Mr. Ib-iV'-v .-."iii tie- -i. mi
lu'llii'l i. ll - .' iiiJ li.t
proof sheets of a thologu-a! volume,
and liked the quiet and seclusion of
the little village.
Perhaps, too, 1 e liked something
else about it. At all events, although
he did not make the parson aire his
j home, he spent a great, deal of his
i time there.
! "Theo." ho said, one day they
! had become fast friends by this
! time- "you h:ie tasted so many of
iihe petty trials and annovanre- ot
ing :i minister's-" daughter that 1
wonder ii von would ever consent to
l.e a li'ili'.-ier s vvp.e
ei i. s;s:u
MM
I i:eo
!!-!
.1 f
laughing,
u pend a
minister
half
good
would,
who the
i I I
!i-;iing,
lie;
upon
was.
"Suj.pose it was I feuit 11- rvi v ?'
"Do you rii't'iv mean it?'" said
T!: sia'ali nlv growing i;"avo.
IS
ange
isn t n,"
' !:IV !l '.lit
aa
1 hf
!.., 1
;o .-mc:i
IliUtL
it
pr
vi-r
io nrs: a
1
aw
t
i ii-i-V.
', it i- a
;i HI i-nt ire.lv :
on
i
your i;i
:-' niv w
! hand-; i;
awe and
hw
'J'hee, will you
Th o placed la
lnvolv look of
ife?
1 hi
:tii
hap-
'l
iiiness, and answered :
"i will !"
Deacon Powers could not compre
hend if. at, all.
"If he marries such a hiirh-tem-pored
girl as that," said the deacon,
lie does it at his peril. Why, I nev
er was so berated in my life as I
was that day at the parsonage."
"J bit, pa," said the deacon's daugh
ter, "every woman finds her master
soon or late. Now, I think Theo
dora Reed has found h;rs." Helen
Forrest (irures.
Patience Rewarded.
A good old story, probably enough
to have actually occurred more than
once, is afloat again with two Toledo
ministers' names attached! A cir
cus was in the city, and minister
No. 1 was on lire to see it. but, had
compunctions of conscience. Now
his liberality of belief would permit
of the children seeing all there was
to be seen, provided'- they had some
good-sized masculine protector with
them. But unfortunately for him
he had no children, and was there
fore to use an unorthodox expres
sion "in a hole." Finally he hit
upon a plan. He went to another
preacher ami tried to borrow his o
year old boy as a companion to the
circus. But it' would not work, No.
2 remarking: "I've waited a long
time for my boy to get big enough
to go to a circus, and now I want
to use him mv.-elf."
A Photographer s Trick.
A photographer of Berlin has
been sent to the penitentiary for a
peculiar fraud. He pretended that
he could make photographs of gen
tlemen so life-like that their dogs
would be able to recognize them.
Wrhen the photographs were held up
before the dogs of the owners the
dogs would wag their tails and lick
the pictures. The other photograph
ers of Berlin grew jealous. They
watched their colleague and finally
discovered that he put a thin layer
of lard over the pictures, which the
dogs, of course, smelled and then
licked off.
By taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla
many a poor sufferer who submits
to the surgeon's knife - because of
malignant sores and scrofulous swell
ings, might be saved, sound and
whole. This will purge out the cor
ruptions which pollute the blood,
and by which such complaints are
originated and fed. f
Ssnatcr Vanc3's Spsech.
On Tuesday Seiiator Z. B. Vance
addressed the people at Hickory and
preached "the political gospel as it
has been handed down by the fath
ers." For two hours and a half he
entertained and instructed the peo
ple on political questions which vi
tally affect their welfare.
KEI'UISLICAX CORRUPTIONS.
He read from the address put
forth by the Independent Republi
cans of Massachusetts, who now re
fuse to support Blaine and Logan.
It was a severe inditment of that
party for its innuiherable corrup
tions, and coming from Republicans
(he contended) it was good evidence
against that party.
Senator Vance arraigned the Re
publican party for its repeated
VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION
of the United States, and the rights
of the States. He referred to the
Force Bill and the Ku Klux prose
cutions, in which r(KJ men were ar
rested and dragged from their homes
to be tried before Judge Bond, the
most infamous Judge that ever sat
on the Bench in this country. These
men were tried, many of them found
guilty by packed juries, and sent to
Northern prisons where they under
went terrible sufferings. And after
all this suffering the Republican Su-
nvi'Mue t Miirt i!-rjio(i th:t. th- law
uinl.-r which i his tuft i.;- w.- ioi -t-
';.s iiiici'iit il ut i'ii;.:.
1 ii II'iiuiiii-;.ii pari." h:'i :.!-
tempted to control elections in the
South by having those elections
conducted under the surveillance of
Federal officials. The intimidation
of voters for the purpose of prevent
ing them from voting the Demo
cratic ticket was also held unconsti
tutional by a Supreme Court com
posed of Republicans. The object
of the unconstitutional legislation
was to terrorize the people and to
keen the Republican partv in power.
On the
question or
CIVIL RIGHTS
the Republican party had also vio
lated the Constitution. They had
passed a bill in which they had at
tempted to force on the people the
recognition of the, negroes the-so-cial
eoual of the white man. but
j their own Supreme Court had decid
I ed after much delay that that also
! was unconstitutional.
: Now that thf attempts to humble
! the white p-j.h' of the South had
i ben declared uii'coiii'i utional by
i their own Court, the- persist in the
j agitation of the Civil Rights ques
tion, lliey pledge themselves in
their platform adopted at Chicago
to use their most earnest ekorts to
secure to the colored people all civil
and political rights, lie here drew
the distinction between civil and po
litical rights, showing that the pol
icy of the Republican party is to
force the negro into the hotels, the
steamboats, the schools and ceme
teries, as the social equals of the
whites. They propose to keep up
the agitation of this question after
the Supreme Court has decided the
legislation on tne subject to be un
constitutional, and this is done to
curry favor with the colored voters.
Senator Vance discussed the ques
tion of Revenue, and predicted that
if the Democrats got control of both
blanches of the National Govern
ment, they would immediately
AllOI.ISlI THE INTERNAL REVENOE.
He ridiculed the hypocritical posi
tion of the Republican party of
North Carolina, whose leaders are
Internal Revenue officers, on this
question. They pretend to be in
favor of abolishing the Internal
Revenue, but insist that the Demo
cratic party cannot be trusted to do
this work. There position on this
question may be well expressed in a
resol ution framed to read as follows :
''Itesotced, That we are a nuisance,
and that we ought to be abolished,
and that nobobody can be trusted to
do this, but us."
He referred to the objection raised
against abolishing the Internal Rev
enue, that it would make high du
ties necessary. This opinion was
entertained by many Democrats, but
it was a mistake. Lower duties he
said would produce greater revenue
by increasing the imports. This
truth he illustrated by reference to
may articles not nowr imported by
reason of the prohibitory duties lev
ied on them at the Custom House.
He contended that with a surplus
on hand of $400,000,000 in the
Treasury, and an annual excess of
8100,000,000 the Internal Revenue
could be safely abolished. Such a
measure would restore the equilibri
um between receipts into the Na
tional Treasury and expenditures.
The speaker illustrated the opera
tion of a high Tariff by reference to
railroad steel bars. The duty on
thse in 1881 was $28 per ten. Dur
ing that year 180,000 tons were im
ported into the country, tor which
the government obtained duties
amounting to four and a half mil
lion dollars. During the same year
the home manufacturer turned out
1,300,000 tons of the same commod-
itv, for which they obtained a price
enhanced to the entent of the duty,
or 2S per ton more than would
have been paid for the same in the
absence of any duty, or 30,400,000.
This was the amount of tax levied
on the people of this country in one
single year, not for the benefit of
the government, but for the benefit
of the men w,ho made railroad steel
bars. This he contended was un
constitutional, for it was levying
taxes not for public purposes, but
for the benefit of private individuals.
This position was illustated and for
tified in a forcible' manner. He de
sired to see a reduction of the high
dutied levied by the Tariff. The re
sult of such reduction would be that
the country would receive two great
benefits. 1. The Treasury would re
more duties from the imports. 2.
The people would obtain cheaper
goods.
i
. A. A.
TIIK INFLUENCE OF THE TARIFF ON
THE WAGES OF LABOR
was discussed, and the fact held up
to view that whilst the consumer in
this country is restricted to the
home market by reason of the high
duties on many articles, the manu
facturer has the market of the
world in which to obtain
abor to
carry on his business.
The impositions to which the farm
pf5 pvo ti7 liiorfpil w fbo tariff wuf"
j M rt r; V"l bv tie- -j'i:ikr a '"id fle-v
vvh' uig"'l to a.-"- .ill'' :.srt fhir
riuiil in l hi iiiVi-rninciir as lh
equals or manufacturers, fie read
from the Democratic platform show
ing that it favored high duties on
luxuries and low duties on the nec
essaries of life, thus laying the bur
dens on those able to bear them. He
also read from the tariff laws show
ing that tine goods paid lower duties
at the Custom House than common
er goods sf the same class, and that
the Tariff enacted by the Republi
can party was so framed as to favor
the rich and discriminate against the
poor. And this he said was the
Tariff "Old York" voted against, re
ducing, when the Democrats at the
last session of Congress tried to re
duce duties 20 per cent, by passing
the Morrison Bill.
He read from a Report by the Bu
reau of Statistics a statement that
the consumption of foreign good in
j the United States is $12.00 per head.
I ane the amount of duty paid is$o.7C
! per head. The value of home-made
; g ds consumed annually in the
i -lit
country h .t.40 per head, and the
tax paid on this class of goods bv
reason of their increase in price, pro
duced by the Tariff is $15.04 per
head. I he whole tax is nearly nine
teen dollars per head. In compari
son with the vast sum thus paid as
taxes by the people under the oper
ation ot the tarili, the State and lo
cal taxes sink into insignificance.
Whilst you pay $10 to Federal Gov
ernment you pay about 33 cents
per head to keep up your State gov
ernment! Years ago you huled
the Republican party from power in
North Carolina, by reason of their
extravagance and corruption, yet
the amount of State tax imposed by
them was very small in comparison
with burdens imposed by the Repub
lican party in the shape of Tariff
legislation.
A considerable portion of the
speech was devoted to State affairs.
But as these have been discussed in
this county by Gen. Scales and Capt.
Kitchin, of whose remarks we have
heretofore made mention, we omit
further reference to the subject.
Senator Vance illustrated many
of his positions by apposite stories,
and his entire speech wras received
with great applause, and produced
an excellent impression. Piedmont
Press, Sept. 6th.
Meddlesome People.
All communittes are more or less
infested"with a class of individuals
who, forgetful of their own interests,
are all the while intermeddling in
the affairs of their neighbors, sug
gesting, prescribing, complaining,
fretting and abusing because certain
things do not joint up just in con
formance to their own wishes and
interests. Such individuals are al
ways repulsive in the eyes of decent
society and should be shunned by all
good people. Small villages are
mostly infested with this clas; yet
the small-pox would be tar prefer
able. It is a principle greatly to be
abhorred, and one of the most difficult
to surpass, being the result of ex
treme ignorance and low raising.
Beware of the meddler. Correspond
ence Enterprise.
Mr. Alex. H. Merritt, at Way
Cross, has a ditch 300 yards long,
one end of which sends its water in
to the tributaries of North East and
the other into the Cape Fear. Thus
water which separates there comes
together no more till it reaches Wil
mington. Caucasian.
It has been definitely determined
to hold a fair at Charlotte October
58 to 31.
The Quaker Bridge Road.
Dr. Chas. Duffy. Sr., called to see
us yesterday and we had a pleas-
ant conversation concerning the
Quaker Bridge Road. The Doctor
will soon be seventy-six years old;
has spent fifty years of his life in
Onslow county, and bids fair to be
among the living there for several
years yet. He was among the first
to drive a buggy over the new road
and we desire to give to the public
his opinion of it:
''What do you think of the road,
Doctor?"
"Well sir, the OJlslow side is a
fine road, but the Jones county side
is a scandalous piece of work. Capt.
Mclver has made a nice job of his
end of the road, and if the Jones
county end was finished up as it
ought to be it would be the finest
road in the State."
Do you think the Onslow people
Avill visit New Berne any more after
this road is completed than they do
now?
"Oh yes, The road will be a great
benefit to the laboring class of peo
ple; the people who constitute the
substantial class of our population.
It is the only real improvement that
has ever been given to the people of
Onslow county by the State. We
have been cut off from-Wilmington
bv filling up t-bc New inlof. so to
can f gvt th"!'" without goo';.' armiinl
I- rviug Fan siv-al. a ihitig"fnu ani'
ioie-rtaiii run I. hu a h.;t starts
for ilniiii-;;t.ii M' ituv'e ii,. idea
when it will get there, and when
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one is loaueu aim sianeu ior uns
low we can't count on. the time it
will arrive. Why recently the mer
chants got out of pork while wait
ing for a boat from Wilmington;
no meat could be had only what
little bacon the farmers had put up
for their own use. Now half a
day's drive will put us in New
Berne, or in one day we can come
to Quaker Bridge, get a load of
goods and go back home the same
night."
"What do you think of the lands?"
"I think 'well of them. By all
means the Legislature should have
another road cut from Isaac Brock's
to Geo. Smith's: but if the "people"
give away the present road for a
tramroad or railroad, why the Legis
lature will hardly aive them another.
I think it would be n good idea to
connect the Core Creek road with
j the Quaker Bridge road: but 1 don't
i i i i t f ni i
I see now the people oi irenton can
be benefitted much by the Core creek
road unless they make it a railroad."
Here the Doctor bade us good bye
with the injunction to be sure and
not report him again, as we did last
fall on one occasion, as neing opposed
to steam. He regards the Quaker
Bridge road as a great work for the
Onslow people and we trust it may
prove equal to all his and the people's
expectations living in that section.
AVo Berne Journal.
The Navy.
Our Navy, once the pride and boast
of the American, has, under Radical
management, for the last twenty
years, dwindled down to such insig
nificant proportions that we, as a
nation, are the laughing stock of
the world for calling such a con
glomeration of old tubs a navy.
What has become of it? Why it
has been retailed out and the pro
ceeds goes into the pockets of Iiob
erson and others of his kind.
No longer than a few weeks since
one of our best tear ships, carrying
on board a portion of the goverment
bar room supplies, cruising off the
coast of Massachusetts for political
purposes, met writh a sad fate, this
was a large part of our fleet of tubs,
and was run into, not bv a monitor,
but a coal barge, and destroyed,
iroving a total loss, unless the
iquors can be saved by divers.
Now is there not great danger that
the balance of our glorious navy,
where there -are nearly as many of
ficers as men, and growing smaller
by Radical mismanagement, may be
utterly wiped out by the fleet of
oyster pungy's that will soon whiten
the waters of the Chesapeke Bay
with their wings in search of the
bivalves. The Rads are howling be
cause our honest House of Repre
sentatives refused to let them
have money for campaign purposes
under the plea that they wanted it
to buy cannon for the old sea cof
fins. Durham Daily lleporter.
The steamer Conoho was run down
by the propeller Fairchilds in Curri
tuck Sound on Saturday night and
sunk. The Conoho wras coming to
Baltimore, whilst the Fairchilds was
on her way with a cargo of general
merchandise to landings on the Roa
noke river.
Gov. Vance in his Mooresville
speech said old, York, as he called
himself, was going over the country
trying to talk about the tariff and
he don't know any more about the
tariff than a pinerooting hog did
about predestination and free agency.
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FIELD AND FAEM.
Beautifying- Farms.
Great progress has lieen made bv
farmers within the hist year not
only in making their farms more
productive, but in making them
more attractive. This in a large
measure is the result of prnsjierous
farming. Those who had debts to
pay, did not feel able to spend
much in ornamenting their places;
but since they have freed their1.
selves from this burden, they ha
lteen more disposed loittind to thjSr
apjcarance of things.
There has been also an advancw
in taste. There are not so many
now, as formerly, who decry all at
tention to the ornamental as a waste
of time and money. This race of
niggardly and boorish men is fast
dying out. Increasing intelligence,
the circulation of agricultural read
ing, the formation of agricultural
societies, the infusion of a larger
element of educated and cultivated
men into the profession, have had a
powerful influence in securing more
attention to the aesthetics of farm
ing, instead of having everything
expended, for more pecuniary re
turns. And this is a great advance.
It ennobles the pursuit of the farmer.
Man is a creature of fas'. and nof,
mj- grub; and !: vim iiglots
tn i-nbix at- and gi,tifv ihi "b-nio.rit
In his ilatiir. !'gcai- hiilt-lf.
.Any nie- may form ;. pi -i i y ( ..rivcf
estniirtic il ih- iniellecilial, if noi,
of the moral state of his neighbors,
by simply looking over their farms.
The one who allows his buildings
and lands to lie in a slovenly state,
when he has the means of improv
ing them, may bo a money-loving,
but he will also bo a slovenly man
with no elevating iiistimf.s.
It is a groat mistake to suppose
that money spent in reasonably im
proving the appearance of a place
is thrown away. It may he doubted
whether there is any more direct
method of increasing its pecuniary
value. Certainly its market value
will depend very much Ummi its out
ward appearance. Tasteful and well-
painted bmlditrg, nrtt tirranged "
yards and gardens with neat fences,
shade-trees properly disposed, good
farm fences and cleanly-kept fields,
will set off a farm to great advantage
and make an amazincr. difference
when it comes to be sold. And even
if it be not sold, these things will
add amazingly to the enjoyment of
it by its possessor, if he be not blind
to everything but the dollar.
Every man, too, owes it to the
community in which he is living,
to general reputation and to pub
lic enjoyment, by making all his
surroundings as attractive as possi
ble. There is such a thing as pay
ing too much attention to the out
side and to show; but there is rea
son in all things, and a measure of
time and attention and expense
should be devoted by every one to
make his farm and his home more
and more attractive every year that
he lives.
Tobacco.
Tobacco is now grown in eighty
seven of the ninety-six counties of
North Carolina, but it is a staple
in perhaps not more than a dozen
of these. Rockingham, Person,
Caswell and Granville counties con
stitute the flower of the tobacco
belt, each raising in 1870 about 4,
500,000 pounds, and this year the
crop in each one of these is estima
ted at 5,000,000 to 5,250,000. The
whole acreage of the State in 1882
was 04,482, and it is estimated that
at least 70,000 acres are in cultiva
tion this year. The whole tobacco
crop in 1882 amounted to 32,275.702
pounds. AJ1 the leading authorities
now agree that the crop of 1884 will
approximate 65,000,000 pounds. But
the best feature in thtf raising of
tobacco there is, that North Caro
lina lead the tobacco States in the
average prices obtained for the leaf.
As shown by the censes the average
price paid for North Carolina to
bacco is $14.10 per hundred pounds.
Deducting $9.33, the actual cost of
production there, a net profit of
$4.77 is left to the producer. The
White Burley district in Ohio yields
an average profit of only $4.30,
while Pennsylvania gives $4.13,
Connecticut $3.89. Wisconsin $3.53,
New York $3.12, and so on down
the list. This annual profit to the
North Carolina fanner of more
than 51 per cent, would indicate
that the growing of tobacco is the
most profitable agricultural work
done on a large scale in America.
M. Ray, living near Bartow, Geor
gia, has a tomato vine 9 feet long.
Dr. Paterson, of Sanitaria, had one
12 feet high on July 4, and it has
grown considerably since that time.
Ayer's Ague Cure acts directly on
the liver and biliary apparatus, and
drives out the malarial poison which
induces liver complaints and bilious
disorders. Warranted to cure, or
money refunded. f
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