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CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1896.
VOLUME XLIY-NUMBER 2272
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Professional
DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM.
Office 7 West Trade St.
Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat.
Apr 3, 1996
J)R. E. P. KEERANS,
Dentist,
Office 7 West Trade St., Charlotte
jS. C
Nov 2, 1894.
JJTJGR W. HARRIS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office, Noa. 14 and 18 Law Building,
July 6, 1895:
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vy TTF.ERANS.
Attorneys at Law,
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Oct 20, 1895
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Attorney at Law,
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Attorneys at Law,
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D
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TOMMIE SLICK: THE LIFE OF A COUNTRY LAD,
ROW TOMMIE SLICK WAS BROUGHT tJP
TO BEGIN WITH HE TROUBLES HIS OLD SCHOOL TEACHEB
FROM THE START.
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xom went down to hard work on
his books just after work was over
on the farm, in August. He began
in earnest to fit himself for entering
college in the early fall and by Oo-
tober 1st, all was ready and Tom Ou
the train. When be looked before
him he saw a rough and uncertain
course, tie knew tbat bis road was
one bard to travel. Bat the deter
mined mind of this lad was fixed.
He saw in the long run a brilliant
future, if perchance be could pull
through the rough of college life.
When lorn reached the college
campus bis heart beat with fear and
his mind turned homeward. He was
not home-nick, but he was afraid to
stand the entrance examinations.
The day on which he arrived was
the day get apart for the English
examination. Tom, after a 200 mil
ride, brushed himself up and went
to the room in which the examina
tion was to be he'd. Thjre stood
the most dignified English profes- r
imaginable. He was copying the
questions from a paper to the blacl el
board. The first one was: Give
an example ot a verb used as a
noun." Tom was chilled through
and through at the sight of tbat
question. He couldn't get his mind
to act at all. bo it was with the
whole bunch ot questions, lhe poor
fellow bad made a desperate begin-
ning, lie was crest-tallen. liut the
next day he stood examinations oi
Latin and Algebra. On Latin be
did nothing but on Algebra be mad
perfect, not mtss;ng a thing, lhif.
helped him up a little. Early lhe
next morning Tom got a note from
the professors in English and Latii
asking him to cad at once. Tom
obeyed. The professor of English
told bim tbat his work was not sat
'sfactory. But he would try him
The professor in Latin gave bim an
oral examination and saw Tom in b
oetter ljht, and be promit ed a trial
At thrs partial success the little hen
of this story was encouraged. H
at once made up his mind to make
the fight of his life. The trial wan
all that he asked.
After havirff secured a comfort
able room in one of the college build
ings he got down to bard work
Every right he burned the mid
night oil. From early morn till late
at nierht he tugged at
he tugged at his dooks.
About the third week alter lorn had
entered, sitting studying in his night
shirt, he heard a drove ol boys run-
ning up the steps toward his room.
He became somewhat frightened for
fear of being blacked, though haz
ing had been abolished by a set of
resolutions, Tom still feared. That
night he reckoned well, lor in a
minute a heavy stockybuiit boy
dashed io the room and blew out
the light. Tom sprang to his feet
and crabbed a piece of plai k and
prepared for a fight, The room was
lull of boys and every one seemed to
be shouting. Tom had squared him-
self in a corner, lhe first man that I
. . , I
went to hi
im received a desperate
blow from the puce of plank in I
Tom's hand and rolled upon the
floor Tom cried out: '"Light tht-
I lamp and you can black me." Crie
came from the crowd: "Catch him,
black him, knock bim down," etc.
But not a man would move on the
little tough looking country lad
standing in the corner. He still
cried: "Light tbe lamp and you can
black me." S on one ot the leaderb
struck a match and told lom to
come out. He marched out aud took
two swipes ot blacking, one on each
cheek. The mob dispersed and Tom
washed his face and went again to
his work
Tbat was his last night
wiLh the "Mollies. liut mauy
poor fellows, who roomed near him
bad to dance and sing for the sopho
mores for hours at the time for sev.
eral weeks. Tom never went out ot
bis room except to get his meals and
to go on recitations. A steadier boy
was not to be found, liooks, dook-
and nothing but books got" his at
tention. v hen Christmas came be
had lost flesh and color. But when
tbe results of bis examinations were
posted he bad done better than ht
expected. He passed on all the sub
jects in bis course bu one. Alter
spending a wees at nomeauring tne
holidays, he went back to bis woik
much invigorated.
Tom, while at home tbat week
was a different boy from what he
had been, in days gone by. He
cared nothing for parties, dogs or
sports of any kind.
During the spring term -torn
worked hard, all day and most of
the night. He did better tban in
the fall. On leaving college in June,
he was compelled to go home and
work on the farm during the sum
mer in order to regain his health.
While Tom was at home he sa
the little blonde-haired girl that bad
so long been dear to his heart. That
same bashful feeling kept him from
talking to her except now and then.
He would think mighty hard but
say nothing. She had been off at
Dcbool and was bright, lom was
dull and uneducated when compared
to Sallie. But one day at church
Sallie was alone in a buggy oy
where Tom btd o pss. He walked
up with his heart in his mouth and
sooke. She greeted htm with
femile and said: T am so glad to thing in breaking into UJlonel tfaw
see you Tom, I have heard so much son's cbicken-coop, Rastus?"
of you recently." Tom was overcome "Yassir. I knows bit wuz wrong,
with joy and excitement combined. Jedije. but it was so dark, sub, I
However, he managed to muster up couldn't see j .b' whar I wuz. I
courage to take a seat when asked meant to break into Jedge WiUesby's
to by-the girl that be so dearly sah hes so deaf it would ha' beeo
worshipped. Sallie knew it not, but gafuh." Harpers Banr.
- HIS SURBOUNDIGS ETC..-A BAD BOY
b ber ejde gat tfae b tbat Joved
her ah nn mhAr nrUon nnfH sk
never onea thontrht of tmah a thin,-.
But Sallie sdmired Tom and often
thought of him Tn fnt.nhn ih
a great deal ot Tom. Io the bassv
tnai a ay oeiore church they had a
nice little talk. was entirely
pleasant to bth. Tom forgot him
self and ta'ked with ease and very
fluently. Sillie was charmed with
him, but she never allowed him to
suspect it. In truth she was about
as bashful as Tom. The few mo
ments spnt there in blissful con
versation served only to intensify
the fire already aglow in Tom's
heart for'that beautiful blonde-hair-ed
country girl. To part was too
sad for the timid boy. Onee in he
was all right. AH the same the two
parted not any wiser than when
they met as to their feeling for each
other.
Time went slow and Tom grew
anxious to return to bis work. In
the fall when be took the train for
his college, who should he meet face
to face but Stllie
- There she was
on ber way to school. T..m ws
unable to control bis pas-ion for the
girl. He made right for her and
wis greeted with the same sweet
'mile. S'ie asked him to take a seat
by her side, wh'ch he readily did.
The train moved on and on, but the
young couple knew nothing of what
was going on except their conversa
tion. I hey talked over their child
hood days and then took up the life
at college. After having talked 80
or moie miles they had to part com
pany. Tom was better satisfied.
During the last days ot his vacation
some one bad told bim tbat Sallie
considered bim a very brilliant boy.
That was, to Tom, the greatest com
pliment poiible and coming from
Sallie it nearly set him wild. He
vent his way repining, and so did
Sallie. A;d soon after landing at
1 1 is boarding house, Tom wrote a
nice note telling Saliie a beautiful
story, but be b 'gan to doubt. He
was afraid she would not answer it
So into the fir.' the little note, load,
d with Tom's most happy thoughts
was c.8t. Time after time the same
thing happened. Tom was afraid,
Now and then he would send an in
vitation to her and always received
a note of thanks.
After seeing her on the train that
day, Tom never saw her again fur a
year and a half.
Christmas a year
now saw her at a
fr0m time Tom
party.
Tom Slick's second year at col
lege was a desperate struggle for
existence. He bad no money and
no one to borrow from. But noth
ing could shatter the determination
of a boy like Tom. He was a boy
with an iron will. He would work
at iiight and on Saturdays to earn.
money to live on. Regardless of
the rough and rugged road Tom
stood wel! io his class. The boys
liked him, and tbe faculty admired
and appreciated his determination
step by step be was
rising in the
who came in
estimation of all those
contact with him. But be bad
changed somewhat in his habits.
No longer could you find him in his
room among bis books, quite the
reverse was true, he was most likely
to be found on tbe campus with a
crowd of boys in day-light, when he
was not on recitation, lie was a
great joke cracker. After getting
started well in his books be then
got out among tbe boys and was
more at home. H was slow to talk
but quick to catch oo. lom was a
student of human nature. One
trlimose of a person's face was
I enough to give him
a decided opin-
l ion. He was rarely ever tooled m
ion.
.
I bis diagnosis of a man's countenance,
So this life among the boys was not
new to Tom. He loved this kind of
iife.
continued next week.
Hanged Murderer Walks off.
TrjjscoQEE. Ala.. Nov. 26. - Last
Friday a negro named Henry I)iw
son was hanged here for murder by
the sheriff. He was a large. 200
nounder. and when tne trap was
r " y a
iorungr be fell bo hard that he al
most broke the rope. Fifteen min
utes after the fall he was cut dowD
and tbe physicians present pro
nounced him to be dead from stran
trulation. '
His body was turned over to his
friends for burial. They put it in
a coffin and started with it in a
wagon for.the Buchanan place, sev
eral miles distant, where the an
nounced the bnrial would take
piaie.
A nepro named Reubin Rice
made tbe statement that Dawson is
not dead; that as soon as the wagon
was outside of the town tbe lid of
the coffin was p z d cffai d whiekey
and other restoratives were applied.
with the result that the supposed
corpee was resuscitated, and after
an hour or two was recovered suf
ficiently to walk.
The evidence to the truth of tbe
stetement is that the negroes having
the remains in cbargs bave lelt the
neighborhood, and no evidence of a
new-made grave can be found about
tbe Buchanan place.
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A fatal error.
"Don't yoo know yon did a wrong
A CHILD ADOPTED BY A BEAR.
A Stolen Pennsylvania. Boy Found in the
' Mountains.
William V. Molntyre, writing to
the New Y. rk Worid from Gordon
Heights. Pa., pays that little Fritx
Yor6t, a mere b iby bod just turned
thrte yearB of age, who was kidnap
ped from bis pareDts six months ago,
in a manner strangely dramatic, if
not melodramatic, bas just been
foun nder circumstance as start
ling a vas the event cf his tak ug
off.
Fritz was the only child of Mr
and MrK Hans Yorst, a thrifty, hap
py joung married couple, who had
a humble but comfortable litt'o home
back ip the mountains near. here.
nans was absent from borne from
earlv mornio? to the evening, for
be worked in a. bituminous coal
mine some little distance away. One
day about noon, while Hans as
away at work as usual and hi wife
and little boy were in the cozy little
kitchen eating their midday meal,
Mrs. Yorst was startled by the ab
rupt entrance of two men. She was
thoroughly alarmed when she recog
nized in one of them a former lover
whom she bad r. tber unceremoni
ously thrown over when she mar
ried Hans Yorst, and who hal made
some obscure threats which those
who knew bis dark, sullen tempera
ment did not regard quite so lightly
as did Mtp. Yorst.
HOW FKITZ
WAS STOLEN.
The moment tbe startled mother
recognized bim and saw the fixed,
vicious determination tbat was in
bis face she grabbed op ber child
and made a feeble, quivering effort
at bravado, demanding to know
what tbe intruders wanted.
We want tbat brat of Yoret's.''
said the ii.ted lover, '"nd what's
more we're gin' t'i have him."
So poor little Fritz was dragged
screaming and kicking trom bis
mother, who fought furiously but
idly against the overv helming odds
against her. Mrs. Yorst then taint
ed away, of course, which was a
great help to tbe villains, when it
came to biding and gagging ber, a
ceremony to which they devoted so
much pkill and care tbat it was sev
eral hours -after before she
managed io free ber-elf, and then
she was loo much exbausuu irom
the shock and fright to do anything
pave lie moaning and subbing on the
floor of the houre.
In this plight poor Hans found
:ier when be came home from tbe
mine at night, and when he learned
what bad, happened bis Jury knew
no bounds. It took only a glance
to fee tbat bis wife bad not been
seriously harmed, so be left ber to
console herself as best she could and
plunged furiously into the darkness
to bunt tor his stolen boy and
scoundrels who had taken bim away.
Tbe neighbors for miles around,!
when they beard of the outrage,
were almost as angry as poor, dis
tracted Yorst himself, and joined
him readily in the seaich, scouring
the mountains in every direction,
but with no result.
For days Yoist and his friends
searched far and wide for tbe kid
napped boy, but as tbe day ran into
week and tbe weeks into months
one by one tbe kind-hearted neigh
bors dropped out ot the chase, con-
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vinced tnat it was useless, until at
last only Yorst himself was left, and
he losing heart with every dragging
day tbat passed. Finally be, too,
gave up in despair and settled down
in bis blighted little borne to live
tbe thing out with bis heart-broken
wife as best be cou'd.
THE FATHER'S VAIN SEARCH.
Six months passed and nothing
was heard either ot the boy or tbe
men who stole bim until one day
recently when old Cal Fisher and
Jim B one, two famous hunters
hereabouts, appeared unexpectedly
i ai iuo u
i n .i . . i? i -
tnem ine strongest, mue oi nuraani-
ty anybody hereabouts had ever
seen, it was a nine oegritnmeo,
briar scratched, inconceivably dirty
and besmirched boy. Ouly the
remnants of c'othing were hanging
to him, and even tbat rotted and in
spots leaving tbe body bare. He
was trembling with irigbt, yet ever j
now and tben made fierce efforts to
scratch and bite bis captor;).
But through all the hideous
plight be was m tbe mother recog
nized ber lost Fritz. Jim Boone
went off to fetch Hans home from
the mine, and old Cal meanwhile
remained behind and told tbe moth-
ey bow it was he bad found the boy.
It was in a deep, savage recess in
tbe mountains, about 10 miles away,
CaI said, and he aud Boone, who
were bear buntors, bad baited for
rest. suddenly they heard what
sounded like a child's laughter,
Going in the direction whence it
came they saw Master Fritz, and
with Master lntz was a cub bear,
and between the two they were
having a high old time. They roll
ed and played together and now
and then Fritz varied tbe perform
ance by chucking tbe cub bear into
a pool of ice-cold mountain water
cloe by and laughing loudly as bis
playmate floundered spluttering to
land again.
IK THE BKAR'S DBS'
lhe instant tne hunters appear
ed the boy fled in terror, with the
cub lumbering and stumbling at hi
heels. Bo'h disappeared in a dark
cleft in the rocks, and when Cal
and hi companion got tbe:e tby
were met at the entrance by tbe
grim muzzle ot an old she bear wh
gave them & hot fight before she
was killed. As she fell dead at last
both the cub and the boy ran out
and nestled op against her body,
whimpering and snarling at tbe
common enemy. The cub wag kill
ed and FnU cap' ued, although he
nought like a ii tie demon. At la-t
I he was coaxed and soothed into
quietness, but when he was asked
where he lived, only answered by
ciying in German lor. his mother
and father.
1hn Cal and Boone remembered
HansV lost boy ond felt sure they
bad found him, and set out for the
Yorst borne to sea it he could be
identified. , Al. the way on the
journey the boy talked a strange
Jrgoo, bait words and bait mere
animal grunts and growls. When
restored to his mother his entire
nature heem-id changed. Under a
doctor's care, however, he is slow
ly resuming his former self, although
his mother is s'ill scbocked now
and then to hear bim utter fierce,
inhuman growls and to see him drop
ou ail fouis, using hir bar.ds as bis
forefeet.
A BEAK AS
The theory
A FOSTER MoTHEB.
is that the boy wa
die, that he crawled
in tbe rocks f r shel
abandoned to
into the cleft
ter and was adopted as her own off-
pring by tbe she bear who lived
there with her cuo. It is believed
: bat he not only became attached
to his savage foster mother, but
thai he and the cub both erot their
ustenar.ee from the same moterial
fount. ' The doctor who has had
charge of the boy professionally
since his, restoration to eis parents
is fully convinced of this and tbat
n no other manner could the child
have been kept alive
POLITICAL PROBLEM.
Sev. Peyton H. Hoge Reccommenda an
Honest Restriction of tne Suffrage.
Petersburg, Va., No 28. At
Tabb Street Presbyterian church,
Rev. Peyton H Hoge, D. D., ot
Wilmington, preached an eloquent
Thanksgiving sermon on Christian
civilization. Dr. Hoge, speaking on
political issues, said: .
"We have not reached our pres
ent state seemed the death kneu
of the Union, and when the several
armies of tbe Union were marched
around this devoted, city and its
faithful defenders had to retreat,
many thmghtlhat the pret-ervation
t the Union meant the end of lib
erty, and that tbe S uth could only
oxist as a conquered province, but
we have lived to see the last tract
of hostile legislation removed from
the F.deral Btatule books aud ex
Confederate law-ti'Vers a' d soldiers
high in the councils of the now
tru y United Sate. I i this very
m )utb tfter a campaign ot unusual
ntolerance and bitterness, we have
seen our people return everywnere
to their own affairs and accept tbe
decree of the ballot as unhesitating-
y as though it had been attacked
by cannon and bayonets.
'In our own section we bave one
peculiar problem, the greatest per
haps that ever confronted a free
people the sudden enfranchisement
of our poorer classes To my mind
the worst evils of that experiment
were not found in the first years ot
corruption, and misrule, but in tbe
fact that for a whole generation
every question of policy and ot men
has had to give way to the sole
question of white supremacy, and
ihat our younger poiticians bave
had ty study no political question
but tbe sole question of bow to car
ry elections. We have recently
seen signs of the breaking of tbat
yoke, but another danger comes be-
tore us the carnival of corruption
to follow where white men divide
and begin to bid against each other
for the bl ck man's vote. For my
self, I can see no solution tor the
problem except an honest restric
tion of the ballot, vigilantly applied
to black and white alike, and a
secret ballot to protect the colored
vote alike from the corruption of
the white man and tbe oppressor of
his own people."
Raising Onions from the seed.
All thing considered, if means of
protection are at hand in case ot
very cold weather, and unless we
are planting on a very large- scale
we prefer planting in tbe tall.
Shonld a drought then occur in the
spring we are iu a measure insured
against serious injury. Unions . re
quire very rich, deep, fintly pulver
ized soil, wmch should . be Tvell
drained. It is also impossible to
raine tbem successfully without re
liable seed of approved varieties.
The American varieties are belter
suited to some section and keep Ion
ger tban tbe Italian or Spanish
kinds, although the flavor is not so
delicate as thole of foreign origin.
In raisin? onions from the seed, two
methods arn used. One is to sow
tbe seed in the field in tbe early
spring where they are to stand
without transplanting until gather
ed. Tbe other is to sow the seed
in protected situation or coia irame
in the fall and transplant io the
spring. Or they maj hi sown in a
hotbed under glass in January or
February, or even as late as March,
according tov latitude, and trans
planted as booo as the ground per-
mit.
Tbe larger part of the crop grown
in the united otaies is prouueeu
by the first method tbat is, seed
sown in toe open ground, xne
advantages of transplanting are,
larger bulbs and ot more uniform
siz:-; increase -in yield; earliness oi
maturity. The last is a yery im
portant consideration. In tbe spring
as soon as tha weather permits, tbe
young plants should be et out.
Used in Germany.
Gofse Grease has been used in Germany
for thou.-ands of yeon for Rheumtttem,
Neuralgia, sprains, bruises, etc . and found
to be the mos re iable remedy known. Al
ways "1 J under guarantee If it does you
no g m d Uk it back to your druggist and
get your mon y Made cn'y by Goe
Grtate LiDimeot Co., Gre-n txtro, i. '
AprlQ-ly
WASTE OF GIVING FREE SEED.
Secretary Morton A fain Recommends Its
Discontinuance.
Washington Diapa'ch, 22 J.
In bis lourtb annual report, the
Secretary ot Agriculture shows thai
tbtre will bave been covered back
into the Treasury sice i March 7
1893, over $2,000,000. Toat this
great econo y was effected without
any 1 ss of efficiency be attributes to
the personnel ol tbe fotc u-uier civil
service rule.
The seeds distributed gratuitous
ly by tbe government weighed 230
tons. The cos' of carrying them
through the mails wag over $70,000
iacb congressman received .nough
io plant 163 acres. For the cum ot
year, at present prices, the amount
required by Congress will muk each
Congressman's quota double what it
was last year. The Secretary calls
this an unnecessary and wasteful
expenditure of public money, and
hopes Congress may put a stop
thereto.
Secretary Morton refutes tbe idea
thai the farms of the West and
South are more heavily burdoned
with mortgages than tboae of tbe
Esstand Northeast. States along
the North Atlantic, he says, are
quite heavily incumbered with farm
mortgages, and New Jersey carries
a debt of this kind greater in pro
portion to its farm valuations than
any State in the Union. In Penn-.
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa, Kansas, Texas and
Alabama, tbe rates of interest are
less for money secured by farm mort
gages tban for money secured by
ther realty. The rate of interest
charged on mortgages upon resi
dential property other than faran
averages eighty-four hundredths of
one per cent, less than the rate of
interest charged upon farm loans.
During the fiscal year just ended
tbe exported products of American
farms aggregated $570,000,000, an
increase of 817.000,000 over the pre
ceding year. The principal market
for American products is found in
the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and ber colonies.
American agriculture, manufac
ture and commerce are steadily
gaining more trade, and thus fur
nishing an enlarged wages fund, on
a gold basis, out of which some mil
ions of American laborers are skill
ed artisans draw their yearly re
muneration, and upon which tbey
ind their farmers largely depend tor
employment and comfort.
Selling Cotton Seed.
We have alwavs maintained that
tbe farmer gains more by us-ing his
cotton seed as manure than by sel
ling, when the price is anywhere be
low $10 a ton or 15 cents a bushel.
Tne following analysis show the fer
tilizing proper' ies of a ton each of
whole cotton seed and cottou seed
meal.
Whole seed, 1 . ton, nitrogen, 61.4
pounds; phospbroic acid, 20 4 pounds
potash 33 4 pounds; C. S meal, ni
trogen, 1416 pounds; phosphoric
acid, 56 pounds; potash 36 pounds.
Tbe ruling price for seed this fall
has been $7 00 at tbe market. De
duct $100 for hauling (it is often
more, if the distance is considerable)
and we bave $6 00, or less tban 9
cents a bushel for the seed. Cotton
seed meal bas been selling at $18 00
a ton. xi we excoange wnoie seed
for meal, according to these' price
it will take three tons of seed to pay
tor one of meal. In other words,
we lose in tbe exchange on the three
tons of seed 42 6 pounds of nitrogen,
5 2 pounds phosphoric acid, 34 2
potash, besides tbe valuable bumus
which the whole seed would furnish
to the soil. In ,tbe exchange we
give these items extra, and actually
haul them to the purchaser free of
charge. In useing the whole seed
as a fertilizer tbe valuable oil is
wasted, for as yet bas only a com
mercial value. No agricultural use
has been discovered for it either as
an improver of tbe crops or the land.
The waste is to be deplored, but
cannot be well avoided so long as
tbe larmer cannot get a remunera
tive price for his seed. We bave
heard some intimations cf an agree
ment among purchasers to fix the
price of seed at a figure, wbich will
not pay the farmer. Be this as it
may, the farmer is not compelled to
sell his seed, and in view of tbe
nhnvA fitrnren is verv unwive to do
so, except for a full price or a fair
exchange.
Shed Rooata for Turkeys.
Turkeys will always seek a high
roost, and tbey rt sort to tree limb
instinctively to escape danger from
enemies tbat m. y r aoh them on tbe
ground. The limbs of trees, how
ever, are not suitable roosting
places, as tbe turkeys are thus exs
posed to cold and driving storms,
frequently their feel becoming fro
zen to tbe limbs. An open Shed.
with roost as high as can be locat
eo, win Berve as & protection, ana
mav be made either of boards or by
arranging cornstalks on stakes and
. .. .
poles in some manner so as to ac
oomplish tbe purpose.
Food Talne of the Apple.
Dr. Ben'z?r, a German scientist,
furnishes she following reasons wby
the apple is desirable as an article
ot food :
. 1 It is brain food.
2 It excites the functions of the
liver.
3 It promotes a sound and quiet
sleep.
4 It disenfects the mouth. "
5 It agglutinates tbe surplus
dcid of tbe stomach. -
6 It obviates indigestion.
7 It l a good prevention aga:nt
diseases of tbe tbrwat.
Fall Plowing.
We bave in former papers from
time to time cal ed attention to tbe
importanoe ot fall plowing on our
heavy clay lands or on those with
an under strata of stiff clay fobsoil
We bave also pointed out the im
portance of supplying vegetable
material to tnese soils, in order to
gain the full benefit of such fall
plowing. But perhaps it will not
oe amiss io reiresb our mu ds as to
the powerful ii fluence wbich bumus
or decaying vegetable matter exer
uses on an characters ot soils: also
its office in perfecting, as it were.
he work wbich f II i lowing beein?.
m supplying lnd with bumus from
W mm . - '
any source utbould not bo overlook
ed tbat in giving it this riant food
we at tbe same time eucouraie
chemical combinations with the
ocked up elements already in tbe
land. On all clay soils, more par
ticularly, there are mineral deposits
of pUnt food, but they are in such
form that growing plants cannot
appropriate them. Tbey ara not
soluable in water alone, and it be
comes necessary tbat we suppply
some more powerful dgent to accom
plish tbe work of changing and die-
solving them. The carbonio acid,
wbicb is constantly being generated
by decaying vegetable matter, is
known to be an effective solvent of
mineral substances, and becomes at
once tbe factor to transform these'
otherwise unavailable deposits into
uch soluable elements tbat the
plants can draw upon them fr sus
tenance ond development. Humus
herelore not only feed tbe plant
direc'y. but is tbe active agent by j
bich we secure additional plant
food supplies from surroundfog con
ditions of soils. Humus baa also
the direct mechanical effect of loos
ening stiff clay soils and enabling
tbem to absorbe and bold
larger amount of moisture
from rains and from the atmosphere
The etiffest land, if well supplied
with bumus, will rarely crust or
bake even in tbe most protracted
drought. On Bandy land bumus has
the opposite effect of holding to
getber tbe toe loose particles, and of
preventing tbe escape of moisture.
A porous soil well filled with humus
s also an eminently moisture-ab
sorbing as well as moister-holding
soil.
It is tbe presence of moisture
more or less on - which the success
of our main crops depend. In our
usual summer drought it is tbe land
which retains tbe moisture that de
velops the best crops. This drought
reculting quality of bumus filled
soil is greatly aided by its power to
bold the water, which in dry weatb
er is pumped up from the subsoil.
Unless the land is very hard and
bare the winter rains as tbey fall
on the surfece are absorbed and
sink into lower depths. During our
usual summer drought it is the ten
dency of this water to return to the
surface and then be evaporated into
tbe atmosphere. . This can be ef
fectually prevented by a supply of
humus, which will check this evap
oration, and bold tbe moisture in
reach of tbe thirsty plant. Humus
from all decaying vegetation, but
more especially from leguminons
plants, is a source sf nitrogen. It
also helps the soil to absorb bf at.
Land well supplied with humus i
usually more exempt from blig' t
and from the presence of destrue
live iusects tean on fields where
clean culture and continuous recrop
ping in cotton has used up all tbe
vegetable matter in" tbe soil. We
hope we bave said enough to arouse
a vital interest in this subject. All
things else being equal, it is the bu
mus filled soil wbicb will make the
best returns. Being convinced of
this fact,we should set about b. cur
ing bumus making materials from
every - available source. The pea
crop is our main dependence at the
south for supplying this most im
portant converter of raw materials
into available plant food,-but clover,
grass and rye (the latter may still
be sown), even the natural growth
of weeds and grass, which spring
rp after every cultivated crop muy
be made to contribute a share to the
successful result.
Erery Tonng Man
should be possessed oi certain in.
formation without which milliors
contract pernicious and most de
structive habits habits which make
young men prematurely aged, pale,
i naggara, itsiiess, uevoia oi amouion,
easily tired, languid, . forgetful and
incapable; fill mad-houses and swell
tbe lists ot suicides; separate bos
bands and wives; bring untold suf
fering to million, even unto lhe
third and fourth generations. Pa
rents, guardians and philanthropists
can do no better service to tbe ris
ing generation, tban to place in their
hands tbe information and warnings
contained in a little book carefully
prei
spared by an association of medi- I
- l cal men who have bad vast xperi-
ul'0 " im iuo grave
I maladies here hinted at, and tbey
i , . . . . i , . - .
icermai vney owe u io numanity to
warn the joung of tbe land agaicst
certain destructive babita which are
far more prevalent than any layman
can imagine, and wbicb if persisted
in gradually. undermine tbe consti
tution aod health and destroy tbe
future happiness of tbe victim. Cut
out tbis notice and-enclose it with
ten cents id stamps (to pay postage)
to worlds JLHspensaty Medical As
sociatioD, Invalid's Aote! and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo,. N. Y., and
the bfok will be sent, eer-ure from
observation in a plain sealed envel
ope.
Hsila
dfwtart
Is. tasS83
Absolutely Pavom
A cream of tartar baking powder. Ilisrh-
et of all in levenin atrenzttt. Latest
United States Government Ford Report
ROYAL 15AKINO 1 OWDER (JOMPANY,
Hew York.
o:-8PRLNQ H A It D W A R E-.-0:-We
are selling the only
RIVETED COTTON HOE
on the market, and it would Pat
you to examine our stock.
THE GENUINE
DOWLAN COTTON PLAN
TER
always gives satisfaction and is
the one for all farmers
to buy.
TURN PLOWS
' OF ALL DESCRIPTNSO
low Shapes, Sweeps, Single-Trees, Back
Bands .
Trace Chains
:o:- anda complete stock -:o:-of
HARDWARE.
Call in and see us.
J. H. WEDDINGTONi&Co.,
Old Stand, 29 E. Trade St.
March IS. 1H96.
Bear in Mind
THAT WE HAVE AN
UNEQUALLED
Stock of Goods for the Fall
and Winter Season.
We are ready to supply a'.l your wnnla in "
Dry Goods of every description, especally
DRESS GOODS,
The moat superb line ever shown upon.
this market. Oar JACEE TS and CAPKS
can not be compared by any house here
abouts. Our new prcea are fetching. We ask
but a close examination of our complete
stock, then we are sure ol your trade.
REMEMBER
We can show yoi goola that you can't
find elsewh re, and the ordinary, every
day articles that are tbown elsewhere can
be had from us as cheap as any house any.
where will tell them.
Our
Furniture
DeP3.rtlHeilt
i - -
Is the talk of the town.
Cheap enough, everybody
says. ' .
OUR CARPETS,
RUGS AND
CURTAINS
Are within the reach of every
I AXT
f yon want to be ex
J actly suited come to see US.
We will do the rest.
D. H. BARUCH,
H. BARUCH'S OLD STAND.
MINING MACHINERY
FOR SALE.
H5ilver pla'es for 2(8' mp taill, 4J feet
lone, in perfct condrion; two M-inCb
robber b- Its 60 feet line, hose and fittings,
dies, p ates, ejec'ors, etc., for sale nt a bar
gain. All or In part.
WM. Kit MA1UJ3.
. Stanley Creek, N. O.
Oct. 15 lm. '
iWanted-fln Idea
VTha ti ttl
of some l "
ttllDg tOpMrj
Protect yoar thfT may bring yon w t -
Write JOHN W&uDEHBURN ft CO.. latent
sera, Washington. I. Cfor their SI.Kju r.am
tad Usl ot two auaurad lurcnUeoa wi aO.
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