North Carolina Newspapers

LAUS MORTIS. Nay, why should I fear Death, v Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breatb. He is like cordial Spring m m That lifts above toe soil each buried thing Like Autumn, kind and brief The frost that chills the branches, frees the leaf Like Winter's stormy hours That spread their fleece of snow to save the flowers The lordliest of all things . Life lends us only feet, Death gives us wings! , Fearing no covert thrust, .... ' Let me walk onward, armed with valiant trust; Dreading no unseen knife, . ,., , Across Death's threshold step from life to life! O all ye frightened folk. Whether ye wear a crown or bear a yoke, -. Laid in one equal bed, When once your coverlet of grass is spread, What davbreak need you fear? The love will rule you there which guides you here! Where Life, the Sower, stands, Scattering the ages from his swinging hands, Thou waitest. Reaper lone, Until the multitudinous grain hath grown. Scythe-bearer, when thy blade Harvests my flesh, let me be unafraid! God's husbandman thou art! In His un withering sheaves, oh, bind my heart! Frederick Lawrence Knowles (Dana Estes L Co.). A ETfllse Lover and a True, By E. LL her friends, and they were many, knew the secret A I which Jacques kept locked J up in that much-tried heart of hers. She was a tall and pie sant-na tared girl who, having married a man two years before, by the advice ef her friends and against tier own feminine instincts, had been deserted for her pains after a brief twelve months of married misery; by on, who had turned out a reprobate of the finest water. The cruelest part of. It was that, though the iron fetters of matrimony still lay upon her, the black Shadow to "vhleh she was linked had made no sign after his flight, had sent no token to say "whether he was alive or dead, or if he iwc.uld return some day. And while poor Jacques was thus waiting there came on the scene hand same young Captain Danegarth, fresh ttom campaigning in the Philippines, and he fell hopelessly in love with her the very first time they met. Had It been an ordinary case, Dane garth would have been man enough to get him gone at once when he realized that fact. But it was not an ordinary t?ase, he told himself when his love liegan to grow, and he to argue on it. The Shadow might already have drunk himself to death, he told himself; and If that were so No! he could not, and would not, leave her while all was so uncertain. Thus it came about that the soldier circled ever near and more near the flame, and the poor lady was o gracious all that bitter time that shallow observers said she had no lieart, and only her close friends no ticed how her hands tightened when there came a chance ring upon the door-bell. At first she had been aware JSjf the gallant captain only as a grace 3ftift presence added to the circle of her friends. Later on he became a wel come interest, and then, as he came more often, and the magnetism of his hidden sympathy fell upon her, some thing to look for, something to which tier troubled heart, groping about for - encouragement and support, instinctive ly felt it could turn without chance of -rebuff. At last the poor, distraught captain "bethought himself of asking advice, and, as often happens, got little good by it. First, he went to a certain vet eran colonel, knowing in the ways of the world, and having propitiated the oracle with its most favorite cigars, poured out his soul. "Well, my boy," said the voice of the old. warrior from behind the blue Havana cloud, "there are but two things to be done, and you won't par ticularly like either of them. One is to take the fool's way of desperation, and the other the wise man's way of wait ing; you will wait, and a kindly Provi dence will make a note of your good behaiiior." Tes," said the downcast lover, "I Oppose that is the only thing for it." So the poor man went off, very little comforted, his chin upon his chest, and for a day or two locked himself in the seclusion of his rooms, brooding, and planning all sorts of ridiculous wayg out or the dilemma. He was away so long that acquaintances be gan to make inquiries of each other when they met, while shaking their beads ominously young men were so tmpatient always trying to force the sands or Providence and oblige dull tooted time to jump according to their fancies. As for the lady, she, too, noted his absence, and as the color iwbich began to bud a little in her cheeks died down again, she learned for the first time, with a pang of self reproach, how sweet his presence had .become to her. ' Where had he gone? She did not "fce'Bftve for a moment he would do any thing desperate, but he might have fteen wise, which was just as fatal ifrom her point of view; he might have "fled while there was yet time, and her rpoor little heart went where heroines' Ihearts are supposed to be at the bare :ldeal She listened day after day with consuming eagerness for some mention Of him, and egged on his friends as wU as she could to make inquiries, I. A. until one night, downcast and miser able, thinking he had gone forever, she met him suddenly. It was In the refreshment roomat a dance. It was not often Jacques went to such things of late, but there she was that evening, left pretty and sad eyed In a corner,. while a chance part ner braved the terrors of the crush by the tables in search of an Ice for her. Then suddenly appeared Captain Danegarth, just as if her perpetual thought had conjured him into a ma terial being from the air. It was, how ever, no apparition, but the soldier in real flesh and blood, a little pale and grim-looking until his eyes lit on hers, and then the lady in a voice which was unduly glad in spite of all she could do, held out her hand and cried: "Oh, Captain .Danegarth, I am so glad to see you again! We thought you had gone away. Where have you been?" "In hiding; lonely and miserable." "Why miserable?" she asked, looking away to where in the distance a small bald head was struggling out of the throng, while a hand held up above it an approaching plate that tossed like a ship in a cross sea. 'You ask me why?" he said. "Yes!" she replied, with a curious foreboding flutter in her heart. The captain also saw the returning partner, and, moved by the impulse of the moment, stooped as near as he dared to the ear of the fair girl before him and whispered, "Why, why? Be cause I know your story, and cannot rescue you; because I am miserable and perplexed: because I love you." Never to this day has the lady made up her mind whether she suffered a more exquisite pain or pleasure at that moment. She was not often fright ened out of her self-control, but she was woman enough to lose her head on this occasion in a whirl of sweet and bitter confusion, and before she could recover again the interview that altered all her life took place. "Here you are, vanilla ice and ham sandwiches!" cried the other gentle man, arriving much out of breath. "All the biscuits gone had to bring ham sandwiches. Will they do?" "Oh, thank you so much!" said the martyr, smiling gratefully by a strong effort; "I fear they will not go well with the ice; will you eat them for me?" And then, turning to her com panion, she held out her hand and went on in a low voice: "Good-by, Captain Danegarth!" "But surely I may have one dance with you?" "I fear not." , "Then may I come and see you soon?" "No." "You are angry with me?" "Oh, I don't know. I know I ought to be horribly, dreadfully angry. Oh, please do go see how the people are looking at us!" And again she held out her dainty hand. He took it and hesitated; he would have liked to have kissed it, but dared not, bending slightly over it instead, and then, with a heavy heart, turned away into the crowd as she bid him. A few weeks later the Ladies' Auxili ary to the hospital arranged a Charity Fair and Bazaar, and the popular young captain had consented to ar range a booth with the war . trophies he had brought home with him. The hapless lover was coaxed Into taking a part in this by friends who were trying everything in their power to tempt him back into an ordinary, every-day frame of mind, and he had grudgingly consented, little guessing how momentous the decision was to be. Jacques was among the invited, and, though she had at first refused, yet she, too, in due time gave way to the blandishments of friendly adivsers. After the captain's reckless avowal it would have been more seemly if she had avoided any place where he could by any chance be met. But the cir cumstances were exceptional, and a bevy of friends would surround her, so she, too, went to her fate. The soldier was there, selling knick nacks to fair customers as though he had been brought up to it all his life, and telling war tales In the same good cause with an unreal cheerfulness. And the false light in his face turned to a touchingly real one when poor Jacques, all the lovelier , for the tell tale paleness in her face, came into the room, where few were yet assembled, saw him, as was inevitable, and after a moment of inward self-repression, came over to him with an air of as sumed indifference. "Have you any small articles, Cap tain Danegarth," she said, smiling, after the first greeting was over, "that one of little means but large sympathy could buy?" "Really, I hardly know what to offer you," he replied, the ardent lover in differently veiled behind the shop walker. "Here are some shells, all with their teeth drawn. That one wrecked a field cannon and then killed a man; It would make a good paper weight. And here are spent-cartridge cases, any number of them, mostly blood-guilty, and ugly things at the best for a dainty table." Then, glanc ing round the stall, and not knowing how close Fate was at hand, he ex claimed: "Stay! There are a few trophies I brought back myself, and one of them, this silver locket, has quite a history attached to it. A pretty thing, isn't it?" he said, tak ing from its tray and holding up be fore her a silver ornament, heart shaped, and about as big as a silver dollar, with an involved monogram carved upon one side of it. "The poor chap who owned this was fighting against us with the natives. He charged gallantly up a hill we held, and was mortally wounded by one of our tropers. I went out to him when the rush was over, gave him a drink of water, and held his head upon my knees, though he was an evil-looking customer, while he died. We buried him where he fell, and I took the locket from his breast, and possessed why I know not by an idle fancy that somewhere and somehow I might be able to restore it to the sweetheart or wife who gave it. Good God! What is the matter?" All the time he was speaking that much-tried woman had kept her eyes fixed upon the locket; and, as he ended, from out of her heart and over her trembling Hps went forth a cry a hu man cry of irrepressible emotion clear and unequivocal! She turned away as though she might have fainted; and in a moment the soldier's arm was around her waist, supporting her. But she struggled from him, and "Open it!" she cried. "Oh, open it and make sure! 1 may be mistaken." "Open the locket! It will not open, I have often tried." . "Yes yes it will! The little spring at the top, press, that!" There was a spring, though so cun ningly concealed among ihe ornamen tation that the captain had never be fore noticed it. But now he stepped back, the locket in his hand, and pressed it as he was bidden. At. the touch the side flew back, and there before his eyes was a miniature of a girl a beautiful girl! Who was it? Why, was he dreaming, was it possible? No; he was not dreaming. Another look, and the faot leaped into cer taintyit was Jacques herself! "Surely this is your portrait?" said the soldier in amazement. "Yes, and I gave it to him when we were first engaged." "Then the man whofell on that hill side, from whose breast I took this thing, which I have had through all these weeks of uncertainty the man who died in my arms was your hus band?" "Yes," answered the widow simply; and forthwith, sitting down on a con venient camp-stool, hid her face again in her hands and wept without reserve or shame. The American Queen. Servian Press and King Peter.' The ukase directed against the free dom of the Servian press, which was issued by King Peter, was the retort of that monarch to a number of news papers which have recently held him up to approbrium. The Narodny List was the greatest offender in this re spect, for each day it came out with a question of which the following are samples: "Who is the biggest rascal in Servia, and in what high place does he sit?" "Who has fomented all the troubles of the last reign?" "On whose conscience lies the guilt of the murders of Prince Michael Obrenovitch and King Alexan der?" "Who condones crime and puts a premium on treason?" True, the monarchical journals are no less squeamish in their manner of dealing with opponents. Deferring to the Narodny List, a semi-official jour nal says: "The scurrilous opposition rag evidently alludes to our sovereign," and adds that it should be suppressed. London Chronicle. How a Bet Turned Out. Yesterday morning an elderly man of clerical aspect slipped while crossing State street, near Lake, and sat down in the mud. "Bet you a dollar he swears when he gets up," said a bystander. "Done!" said another bystander. They went out into the street and assisted the fallen man to rise. Then he turned to them, pointed to his mouth, and made a few rapid signs with his fingers. But as neither of them understood the deaf and dumb alphabet the wager was declared off. Chicago Tribune, 13. H. Bull of ButzUron. In the blinding snowstorm Wednes day night the sole passenger on a trolley car into Butztown was a young 500-pound bull. He was picked up somewhere by the fender and thus carried for miles by the half-conscious motorinan. When the car stopped at "Butztown he made himself known by kicking through the vestibule window lights, and once getting free, scam pered away into the snowdrifts. Eas ton Free Press. WASHINGTON. Washington reports state that one of President Castro's political . foes is in New York getting the sinews of war for the revolt against Venezuela's President, long predicted. It is alleged that Government officials have evidence to prove that the West ern railroads entered into a conspir acy, with the Beef Trust to shut out competition. .Representatives of the Department a 01 .lusnce in American pons on me Gulf of Mexico have been instructed to closely guard against the clearance of any filibustering expeditions. against Guatemala. This was done at the re quest of the Guatemalan Government. General Morteza Khan, who succeeds General Isaac Khan as Persian Minis ter to Washington, was formally re ceived at the White House by Presi dent Roosevelt. Senator Allison, of Iowa, has broken the record for. -continuous service in Congress. President Roosevelt received a por trait of the Empress Dowager of China as a token of the Chinese Government's good will toward the United States. OUPADOPTEDISLANDS. The Porto Rico Legislature has passed a law, which Governor Wln throp will approve, for the mainte nance of a permanent representative in the United States, with headquar ters in New York, to promote the com mercial interests of the island and, par ticularly, those of coffee grqwers. The Porto Rican Executive Council revoked a $3,000,000 franchise granted to an American firm for an electric railway. Order prevails throughout Porto Rico, Governor W. H. Hunt reports. Never, since civil government was established, has there been a call for the military forces. We have relied upon the Porto Rican insular police, which is well able to meet auy situatiou that may arise. DOMESTIC. For the purchase of a site for a mu ficipal electric lighting plant, the New York Board of Estimate and Ap portionment authorized an appropria tion of $000,000. A new Grand Jury investigation of ;the Iroquois Theatre fire was started at Chicago. About fifty cents Gn a dollar will be paid creditors of the East End Savings Bank, at Columbus, Ohio. The Federal Grand Jury, at Mont gomery, Ala., returned a number of in dictments for peonage and white cap ping. With no reason known for the deed, Colonel Charles S. Arnol, one of tbe best known insurance men of th South, killed himself by shooting, at Atlanta. Ga. Collector of Customs Leach an nounced in Cleveland that he had found $50,000 in jewels belonging to Mrs. Chad wick upon which duty had not been paid. Twelve hundred children were taken safely from the Juvenile Asylum in New York City, when it caught tire, the drill being perfect. Dr. William Osier, of Baltimore, re peated his declaration that men more than forty years old have passed the period of usefulness to the world. Joseph McGrath. New York City's oldest voter, died at the age of 107. Trustees of the Metropolitan Art Mu seum in New York City re-elected J. r. Morgan president. Warden J. Warren Mead, of Auburn (N. Y) prison, has resigned after eight years' service, because of ill health. Bellevue and other New York City hospitals are filled to overflowing. The severe winter caused a great increase in lung diseases. Kansas blazed with oil-war enthusi asm, and a movement was started to create a State Commission to aid the Government investigation. Max Fidler, a quiitmaker, of Brook lyn, N. Y.. fell heir to $250,000, a part of a $400,000 estate accumulated by his uncle as a professional beggar in Rus sia. The officers of the Joy Liner Lareh mont on her arrival at Providence. R. I., reported to the police that John A. Hart, a passenger, had been murdered on board in the night. Gorernor Higgins sent a message to the New York Legislature recommend ing immediate action to create continu ous water-supply commissions for New York City and the State. FOREIGN. , Severs snowstorms prevailed in Northern " Spain and railway traffic was delayed. At an auction sale in London a rock crjstal ewer and cover from the An glesey collection brought $21,000. The Czar has held an important council at Tsarskoe-Selo, at which it is reported the possibilities of peace were discussed. The unveiling of the statue of Mar ti, the Cuban patriot who organized the revolution which ended with the overthrow of Spanish power in Cuba, took place in Central Park, Havana. The Austro-Huiigarfan Government is following the United States in send ing officials to Abyssinia to establish closer commercial relations. The trial of thirty-one Christians ac cused of the murder of a Jewess named Spivvok in the anti-Semitic riots ended at Kishineff. Nine of the defendants were acquitted, while twenty-two were sentenced to a month in prison. Plans of the Government for a mu nicipal gas lighting plant for the city of Paris were defeated in the Senate, which rejected a bill to that effect that had been passed by the Chamber of Deputies, and had been approved by the Paris Municipal Council. Peru has nrotested against the recent Chilean-Bolivian treaty. The strike in Warsaw, a special cable dispatch reported, has extended to all chemists' assistants. Japanese newspapers commented in sympathetic terms on the death of Grand Duke Sergius. SOUTHERN TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCK SB AN AND TRUCK GROWER. Vhy the "Butter Will Not Come.0 We are receiving a great many in quiries at present about churning and troubles connected with churning, showing that at this season of the year difficulty in churning is quite general. It is with hopes of reaching some whn mav nppd heln alonsr this line that thege f arc offere(L In order to understand and treat suc cessfully the troubles connected with churning, -wc must understand the process of churning. The fat in milk and cream is not in solution, but ex ists as minute globules. They are so small as to be seen only by the aid of the microscope. Churning is merely causing these little fat particles to unite until they, become visible, then the butter is said to "break." When they have reached the size of wheat kernels the churning should be stopped. Therefore anything that tends to pro duce a hard fat, tends to prolong the time required, for churning, because when hard, these little balls of fat will not unite when knocked together. It is pertinent that we inquire what brings about this hard condition of the fat. Among the most important causes of hard fat may be mentioned the fol lowing: 1. Cows nearly dry. 2. Effect of food. 3. Cold temperature. There is a change that takes place in both the size and texture of the fat globules in milk as the lactation period advances. The milk from cows nearly dry or giving only small amounts of milk contain fat globules that are com paratively small in size and very firm In texture, both of which retard the ease of churning. Certain kinds of food tend to produce a hard condition of the fat in milk. Some grains, and especialy cottonseed meal, cause the fat to become very hard. Too low a temperature is one of the most common troubles and the oiie most easily remedied. A few degrees of temperature makes a big difference. By using a dairy thermometer a few times you can determine the exact temperature to be used under your conditions, always bearing in mind that the lower the temperature that you can use and get butter in a reasonable length of time (thirty minutes), the bet ter will be the quality of the butter, and the more butter will be made. To remedy these defects, bear in mind the causes as noted above and take these precautions: 1. Try and have some fresh cows in your herd at this season of the year. 2. The churn should not be over half full. 3. Do not feed excessive amounts of cottonseed meal and dry roughage. If possible, provide some succulent food like roots and ensilage. 4. See that the cream is at the proper temperature for churning (sixty degrees to sixty-two degrees). 5. If trouble is experienced in churn ing, a vigorous souring of the cream will be found beneficial. During the fall and winter many times the cream does not readily sour, so it is. kept at a high temperature. The quality of such butter is not good, A much bet ter method is to add a little sour milk or buttermilk to the cream and hold at or Dear the churning temperature until sufficiently soured. J. C. Kendall, A. & M. College, West Raleigh, N. flints About Peaches. What is a good peach soil? In a general sense, any soil, whether sandy or gravel, clay or alluvial, will grow a peach tree, but tree growth is not the greatest consideration. Good flavor, fine texture and deep, rich color of the fruit are prime considerations. Ex perience proves that a thoroughly drained, deep sand loam, resting on a red clay subsoil fulfills these require ments better than any other type of soil. These soils abound in North Louisiana. In traveling through this section we see on every hand peach soils that the world cannot surpass. This is an important factor in the problem of ultimate success. Experi ence proves and scientific truth demon strates, that a high and dry. elevation is best. Water drainage is important and frost drainage is more important. The peach has jin inveterate tendency to burst into bloom on the first ap proach of warm weather, and frequent ly, belated cold "snaps" cut it off, some times partially, sometimes completely. A high elevation will, therefore, af ford partial protection, as by reason of the difference in specific gravity, the cold air settles to .the lower levels, while the warmer rises to the higher. Therefore, select the highest location for the peach orchard available" and give it the northern exposure. If planting on a large scale for com mercial purposes, the June buds will be found more profitable than one or two year old trees, by reason of dif ference in cost. The difference, how ever, in quality, variety, etc., is unually unimportant. The June buds, more over, have ths advantage of greater News of the Day. The Comte de Sampigney d'Issancant over 60 years of age and living in the Boulevard Beaut Sejour, has been the object of systematic sequestration for several years on the part of his own servants, Henri Sabourin and his wife, who made him believe that all his fam ily had designs against him. The Count never left his home except in their company, broke with his family and made a will in favor of the servants. These are now being prosecuted for using undue influence. FARM fiOTES ease in handling and of greater plastic ity in the hands of the operator that is, they can more easily and. success fully be given the desired shape. This is a question about which peach growers differ very widely. Some claim that fifteen by fifteen feet is suf ficient. Others say sixteen by eighteen. Many, adhere to the general . rule of twenty by twenty as giving the best results in the long run. The latter distance we always advise. For the best results, planting should be done in November. Trees should be ordered tc arrive about the 15th. The soil should be previously prepared and planting should proceed at once. The Dairyman's Mistake. Owners of milk cows often make the mistake of supposing that a young cow with her first calf will give only milk enough to keep the calf in good condi tion. And so the cow and calf are al lowed to run together, under the im pression that the cow can be taught all about submitting to being milked after she has had her second calf. Two mistakes, at least, are made in proceeding according to this view. Cows are largely the creature of habit. With the first calf everything is new and strange to them, and they then readily submit to be milked, regarding it as all right. But allow the calves to run with the cows the first season, and a habit becomes formed which may not be forgotten or overcome in a lifetime. When they later submit to being milked, there is very apt to be an element of protest in the submit ting. We thus see some of the effects of one of the mistakes. The other, and perhaps greater, mis take brings us up facing the condition where the calf running with the saw draws milk every hour or two, so that the milk vessels are not distended with milk, though the quantity secret ed in a given time may be quite large. And yet this is the proper time for distending the milk ducts and expand ing the udder to a good capacity for holding milk. If the wrong course is taken about these matters trouble is almost cer tain to be realized when the next or second calf comes. Then the wish will be to have the milk retained for twelve hours. If an error like that to which we have referred was made at the outset the udder is now more liable than it otherwise would be to Become hard; perhaps milk will be found leaking from the teats; perhaps nature accom modates the quantity of milk to the capacity to retain in, and so the cow becomes permanently a smaller milker. Much of the future character of the cow depends on the way in which she is managed and cared for wjien she has her first calf. Home and Farm. Who Made Money T The orchardist who had the intelli gence and industry to spray his peach and apple trees not less than three times. Mr. E. Riehl, one of j the larg est apple growers of Illinois is now harvesting his ninth successive fancy apple crop. He has sprayed hisx or chard every year for ten years. The spraying with the Bordeaux! mixture and Paris green have kept the foliage of his trees healthy and vigorous, and there have been no insects or fungi to damage the buds. He sold his apples at the best prices in the market, sim ply because he sprayed and kept his trees in the best of condition. Apples of his class are now selling in the Nashville market at $1,25 per bushel, while unsprayed apples grown in Ten nessee are selling for 75 cents. Why do not the fruit growers of the South fertilize, spray and cultivate their or chards in a way that would make them very profitable? Begin pruning in No vember and continue to put the trees in a healthy, vigorous condition be fore spring, spraying in February. Key, in National Fruit Grower. Irrigated and Unirrigated Onions. r During the past season an experi ment has been conducted at the Bee ville (Texas) substation on the subject of the relative cost and yield of irri gated and uiihTigated onions. One twentieth acre plats were used in the experiment and accurate accounts kept of the cost of labor for cultivation, irrigation, etc., n each plat. It was found at the end of the season that the cost of the one-twentieth acre irri gated plat was about $1.25 more than that of the unirrigated, while the yield was 1000 pounds greater for the first named plat. As the onions sold locally at two cents per pound, this made a profit of about $20 on the one-twentieth acre in favor of irrigation. During the period of the experiment five inches of rain fell, but this was so distributed that full benefit was not received by the crop. Had it not been for an op portune rain in the early part of April, it is probable that the unirrigated plat would have been almost an entire fail ure. E. C. G., in National Fruit Grower. Pointed Paragraphs. Hope Is the one thing you can t bunco the average man out of. It is just as easy to find fault vita a tallow candle as with an electric light. Many a man doesn't know what he it talking about until after it is too late. - You may have observed that a good many people wear shoes on their understanding.