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MR. CONE'S APPIE ORCHARD.
Prof. J. N. Ingram in ("harlot us News.
I have lived in the fruit regions
of California, the Arkansaw Ozarks
and fruit belU of other countries.
Fruit culture has been a feature of
ray life's study. The history of
orchard growth on the mountains of
my native State has an unusual in
terest. In 181)5 Cone made a millionaire
by cotton factories erected a sum
mer mansion on the heights above
Blowing rock; and bought 4,000 sur
rounding acres. He began setting
out fruit trees on the lower slopes
and continued adding yearly to his
collection until he had covered his
slopes with a mammoth orchard of
33,000 trees. The trees on the lower
declivities produced fruit, but the
higher lands were not set with varie
ties suited to climatic adaptation of
their elevations ; they have not yield
ed fruit. The early frost last au
tumn killed a number of trees and
the late freeze in April when thrc
inches of snow fell on the mountains
destroyed blooms and not a bushel
of apples is now seen on the great
orchard. Mr. Cone found the Blue
Ridge climate has changed in later
years ; he did not know its tempera
atu re fluctuations, and failed to se
lect trees adapted to the weather va
garies of this elevation. The great
body of his orchard is, therefore,
barren. Much of his land has 3,000
feet elevation, is considerably above
the altitude of the mountain limber
twig apples, and is too high for the
fruit selected. He regards the orch
ard an apple grove to ornament his
estate.
The agricultural department at
Washington ha3 no fruit experimen
tal station of this elevation; it
cannot, therefore, give authentic
data on apple varieties adapted to
this altitude. The men delegated to
the national capital from North
Carolina have not had any experi
ment stations established in this
State, although Oklahoma Territory
secured one 12 years, with an an
nual appropriation of $30,000.
When I go to Congress North
Carolina will receive an experiment
station, and several other necessities
it has long reauired.
The development of fruit industry
in Western North Carolina interests
every resident in the State ; its pro
motion is a benefit to all its people
Much of our wild and mountain
lands are suited to selected orchard
culture. The state should be a large
exporter of choice fruit and berries.
Some enterprising benefactor is need
ed to test and discover the varieties
adapted to "the elevations, soil condi
tions and metereological eccentrici
ties of the Blue Ride slopes, whose
large and fertile areas are yet cover
ed with a wilderness, and whose pro
ductive lands could be turned into
fruitful orchards to supply our tables
and increase our revenues.
I suggested to Mr. Cone-that cir
cumstances seem to have , appointed
him the State's fruit , promoter,
Cotton growers have little leisure
for orchard experiments, but appreJ
ciate eood fruit and plenty of it,
Thev will grow cotton for the mills
if he will furnish apples.
Much lower Carolina country is
unsuited to fruit growing : the high
er and dryer mountain section yields
apples of superior qurlity.
Fungus soil formation, atmospher
ic dampness.fickle winds and climatic
variations render fruit culture on
the higher piedmont elevations prob
lems yet unsolved. .
To develop hi3 orchard, preserve
his Drobertv values and promote
fruit production throughout the Ap
palachian region I suggested that he
delegate an expert ppmologist to tne
Californian fruit orchards on the
Sierra Nevada mountains and to aim
liar altitudes on the Ozark apple re
gion, and to the mountain orchards
of Spain, Switzerland and Italy and
select fruit varieties suited to Blow
ing Rock, elevations. The Ozarks
and Sierra Nevadas are famous fruit
recrions and have similar elevations
and parallel latitudes to the higher
Ailechanvs. and would furnish m
structive lessons in Blue Ridge fruit
culture and selection.
Grass Valley, California, at 3,000
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feet elevation, produces great quan
tity of find fruit. Dutch Flat. Cat..
4,000 feet; grows superior apples.
Nevada City, Cal., 5,000 feet, yields
splendid fruit. Salt Lake City,
Utah, 5.600 feet, and many Utahs
and Idaho towns produce quantities
of excellent fruit.
feet, grows some of the world's
fineest apples the trees are prolific
producers of large size fruit. .
The mountains of many countries
grow nuts similar to the Blue Ridge
chestnuts and chinquepins ; many no
doubt would flourish on North Caro
lina ranges. Much valuable moun
tain land is annually denuded of its
splendid timber by lumber mills ; the
vacant territory grows up with un
derbrush. Our . mountain slopes
might be covered with nut bearing
trees and the State become promin
ent in the nut supplying trade, and
increase public prosperity. '
An experiment expedition is needed
to show the mountaineers the for
eign nuts suited to our mountain
soil, climate and altitude.
The of times fruitless orchards give
Mr. Cone great pleasure with their
floral display. When the apple, trees
are in bloom , they are things of
beauty. Botany never robed the
world With fairer glory. The trees
radiate with many hues and exhale
the sweetest perfume. Gorgeous
tints charm the mind and fascinate
the senses with ravishing odors.
April buds Jput forth snowy petals
and burst into a carnival of color.
Mountains rise like blooming boquets
and the trees breathe from the frag
rant lips of -a million blossoms. The
orchards become a fairyland of flow
ers and glow like a Florid ian bower,
torn by a passing gale from some
palmetto glade, and lodged on the
Alleghanean peaks.
This scented paradise wastes its
sweetness-on the mountain air ; birds
bathe their wings in perfumed dews,
and build their nests in wreaths of
flowers.
I thought that this wave of aroma
might be used for education. A per-
ume factory could be established
here ; the apple blossoms converted
into extract, sold and devoted to be
nevolence. The Asheville Industrial and Nor
mal Institute has expended from the
Northern Presbyterian Mission
Board $100,000 on the education of
the poor youth from the North Car
olina mountain counties. Many un-
ettered girls are received from the
cabins of the hills and the hovels of
the woods, and trained and developed
into polished womanhood, given
knowledge of books, equipped for
the work of life and returned to the
ranges to adorn humble homes, en
lighten the wilderness, act as teach
ers, nyrses, house-keepers and emis
saries of civilization and education
throughout the mountain region.
Many more untutored lassies can be
taken from rural wilds and returned
cultivated queens. The Institute's
capacity should be doubled.
Barium Springs Orphanage, in Ire
dell county, under South Presbyter
ian auspices, a retreat and school for
homeless children, where 100 home
less waifs find refuge from storms
and winter snows, and receive edu
cation, needs water works, seats for
a chapel and an additional building.
Its cots are crowded and its re
sources limited. Many destitute or
phans, who seek shelter under its
roof, are daily turned from its doors.
It has ample room for an Apple
Blossom Dormitory, and is. a worthy
subject for financial rememberance.
It could wisely use part of the ex
tract revenues.
Somehow it is in the atmosphere
that the next Legislature meeting in
Raleigh will pass a prohibition act
for the whole State. The Raleigh
Christian Advocate last week said
"Rev. R. L. Davis, btate organizer
for the Anti-Saloon League, is very
certain about North Carolina's going
dry when th next Legislature
metts. He thinks the next Legisla
ture will pass the measure that will
drv North Carolina from end to end
He savs that he has talked to the
Quakers, the Methodists and other
church bodies, ministers and laymen,
and all are in favor of a State law
such as was passed by Georgia the
other day."
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No grit no stemsbut simply a
chew of pure -tobacco!
BILKIMS UTTER.
KjUrljIi Enlrrprtws.
I got a letter f rum a feller in Wake
county yisterday, givin me fits fer
not startin on my trip er round the
Sante Fee, 6'0Oisubscribjed fer the Raleigh Enterprise
a-purpose ter read my letters, an
that he wanted the perseshum ter
begin ter move. , . ,
I hain't erquain ted with'my friend.
But I wan ter say that I expeck he
iz like a lot ov other folks in this
wurld he thinks that a feller kin
git everything ready fer a trip er
round the wurld in erbout fifteen
minutes by the watch. Apt ax any
way he thinks that the trip kin be
made in erbout three days an' a half,
flit takes lota ov time ter git the le
gal papers an' other things fixed up,
awl the kings an' emperors, an' dukes
in Europe an' in Russia an' China
hev ter hev time ter git the house
cleaned up an' git new tailor-made
suits ov clothes so they kin be ready
ter reseeve me, fer, no doubt, they
think I am sum great big man sent
over by the President, an' they air
rite much exsited over hit. I got a
letter frum the King of the Sandwich
Islands statin' that he wunted me ter
spend at least a month with him, an'
he didn't make any bones erbout
sayin' rite out that he wanted plenty
ov time ter git ready ter reseeve me
an'that he hoped he'd hev time
ennuff ter get a suit ov clothes made
an' order a barrel of flour frum Min
neapolis, Minnesota, U. S. A., so
they could hev some appricot pie fer
me. He sed that they had not
bought any flour in sixteen, years,
an' I gathered frum hiz letter that
he hadn't bought a new suit ov
clothes since he wuz elected king
more than twenty years ergo. ; Hit
seems that the climate iz so hot there
that kings don't wear much but dig
nity, an' the common folks don't
dress up in anything.
I can't keep frum lookin' at the
ocean an' think erbout what a time
Uncle Noah had when he wuz build
in' the ark an drivin' up two ov
each kind ov cattle an' other things
an' loadin' them in the ark for a sail
that mite last forty years fer awl he
knowed. Uncle Noah wug a mity
brave man ter git awl them lions,
tigers, elefants an' things in the ark
and start out fer a trip that mite
ast a life time an' make him seasick
every day in the year. An' I can't
help thinkm erbout Jonah when he
took the sail a-ndin in the stomach
ov the whale. We think we hev a
heap ov ups an' downs, but our
grate, great-granddaddies erway
back yonder thousands ov years ergo
did hev truble. Hit is a wonder that
they managed ter live frum the cra
dle ter the grave.
When I git ter Washington I want
ter discuss the R. F. D. mail service
an' the boll weevil with the Preser-
dent an' see what kin be done ter
remedy things. Jf they ain't sum
thin done the oountry will, be gone
purty quick. I understand that the
Postmaster Gineral iz goin ter send
sum postoffis detecktives down into
North Carolina before long an see
whether the R. F. D. service is a joke
or not.
I am pracktisin up a little on etty-
ket before I start up through Vir
giny so I kin pass by the homes ov
the first families without gittin shot
at fer travelin' through the country
without havin on a high churn hat
an' a peddygree. I hear that the
first families ov Virginy air power
ful perticular erbout such things.
I see by the papers that you air
havin' lots ov candydates for Gover
nor an' like down in good ole North
Carolina. I can't make out who sum
ov them air from this distance. If I
wuz at home I could search the direc
tories an' the registrashun books an'
sorter locate sum ov them.
Yours truly,
ZEKEJ BftKINST
Up to date the Jamestown Exposi
tion management has paid to the
government about $100,000 of the
$1,000,000 the government advanced
for the exposition. As the show is
more than half over it does not ap-
pear at this rate that the expositionClark and John Sharp Williams are
J will be able to pay out.
And when
they understand that
guarantee accompanies
No better tobaccos, made Uian .tnose
Manufactured by Baiixt Bbothem,
Winston-Salem, N. C -NOT
IN A TRUST,
CQUAL U5 fOa All; STfCUI UOU)
MTY fOR N0NL
ChariuUe Otnrrtrr.
A week ago a negro passenger on
a Norfolk &, Western train went into
the white coach near Martin&burg,
.. mi was accosieu oy two or
three young whit men who had
been drinking and asked what he
wanted. He replied that he was
looking (or a white gentleman. "You
fet out of here." said one. "We
on't allow coons in here." "Pull
down on him." said another. A
pistol was discharged and the negro
fell, with a bullet in his head. The
last news of him. two days later, was
that he "was still alive this morn
ing." Of course nobody fired the
shot. There were no arrests. This
recital is one to make a just white
man's blood boil. A short time be
fore this occurrence a white, man,
without provocation, from the news
paper reports of the incident, shot
a negro dead in the streets of Wins
ton. He was apprehended and we
are wondering what will be done
with him. Self-defense? It is not
worth while, in the sight of God, for
press and public to rail against the
courts when they set free a white
man and condone by silence the mur
der without any justification Of a
negro by a white man who goes
without arrest or is upon trial ac
quitted. If white men expect from
negroes respect of the law they
must themselves respect and obey
it. A weak and ignorant race is
necessarily influenced by the example
of the stronger and superior, and-
wicked, unprovoked bloodshed by
the latter naturally inspires lawless
ness in turn by the former. Punish
the negro for his sins, but punish
the white man for his. The people
who believe that the decree of crime
varies with the color or class of the
victim need to be reminded other
wise and to be bidden remember
that if there is escape here from its
consequences there will come a time
when judgment will be laid to the
line and righteousness to the plum
met. " Loathesome Methods.
Everything.
Because John D. Rockfeller has
been in the time-light recently in con
nection with the heavy fine imposed
by Judge Landis against the Stan
dard Oil Company, the New York
World has gone the limit. It has
sent some of its scavengers and
ghouls out in the world for the pur
pose of finding the father of John I).
t paints him as an old man, a drunk
ard and a gambler ; a bigamist and
cancer doctor and tries to show
Vit. !nld man Rnrkeffll'flr wm th
worst sort of a character.
Suppose he was. Suppose he was
the lowest worm in human form that
ever crawled upon the earth. Sup
pose he was wicked and low and vile
and despicable. If he were all these
things, he would not be as craven
as the publisher who would send his
human jackals on his trail to hound
him and seek him in an oblivion
where he had forced himself. Were
the elder Rockefeller all and more
than the World has painted him.
then he were a saint compared to the
fiendish ghoul who would go into
the family closet and bring forth a
skeleton and nang it in front of a
son who has been decent and respec
table as a citizen. John D. is a
temperance man; he uses no pro
fanity ; he has no bad habit". ; he
gives large sums of his money to
charity ; he is law-abiding and if it
happened that his father was all the
World has painted him. then John D.
deserves great praise for being as
good a citizen as he has proved him
self. , :
But in these days when the people
love to feed and fatten on the sor
rows of others, it seems that such
scavengers as the World are neces
sary to furnish the buzzard meal.
Ex-Senator Edward W. Carmack,
of Tennessee, will be one of the
speakers at Charlotte's Fall Festival
in October. W. J., Bryan, Champ
also on the program.
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OFGOOB
TOBACGO
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chewers see
an unlimited
every plug.
sound sweet
Sflr I coumG mi roost
One of the trant thinp In life
is akvp-that recurrin period of un
concioune. $0 like death. tl
wiuKHii wnim l no
life it impotable J
continuance ef
We think of it m a time of irfcct
rrt for all the onruw. rt it i ra
of great activity m the bodv. Trw
scavenger are then hard at work
removing the broken-down c!Is arul
the poionou waste product, and
the building up of new cclU g-r on
apace. The damagrd wnn ami
muscles are patched up and rrpairrxl
0 well as nomftimf tn l f.n
largrr and better than they i-rr
before.
This work Ernes on all the tim
but chiefly during sleep, for then
there U an arrest in the destruction
of the body tissues, and the reeon
structor forces can work Ia rttr
advantage.
What causes sleen. whv hhouM
lose consciousness, and why ard how
we ever come back amu'n toronari.mn
existence are puzzles of which the
physiologists and the metaphysician
have long sought a solution, but
have not yet discovered it.
It is believed that durintr healthy
sleep the brain is almost bloodless,
or at least that it contains Ic tlxl
than during the waking hours. We
know that sleep conies with difficulty
to one in a state of mental excite
ment, when the brain is tilled with
blood, and the arteries in the temnles
stand out full and pulsating. It it
on this supposition that most of our
endeavors to woo the drowsy god arc
based.
We should do no severe mental la
bor in the evening, but If we are
forced to write or studv at nitrht. we
should always and absolutely nut
aside bur work at least an hour be
fore bedtime, and spend the time !in
easy conversation, in light reading.
or in playing a quite game of some
sort, A simple, amusing game is
one of the best of means to pull the
mind away from the absorbing
thoughts which have possessed it.
and to cause an equalization of the
blood circulation throughout the
body.
An apple or a cracker and a class
of milk may be taken a few moments
before bedtime with the eflect of
drawing the blood from the brain.
but a hearty meal at this time may
prevent sleep by exciting the
digestive processes to disturbing
activity.
An abundance of fresh air in Ukj
sleeping apartment is a necessity to
sound and; really refreshing sleep.
The amount of sleep which is
needed is different with different
individuals, and depends somewhat
upon the activity of the reconstruc
tion powers. For the average adult
seyen hours should be enough, but
children need ten, and the very aged
all these can get.
REMEMBER
For want of a nail
For the want of a
i Riff l
law
Elastic Bookcase'
is the original and only per
fect sectional bookcase
made. The doors are non
binding, dust-proof, operate
on roller bearings, and posi
tively cannot get out of
order. Bases furnished with
or
without drawers. Call
and see them, or send for
catalog with interior views
showing them artistically
arranged in library, parlor,
den, hall, etc. No.' 103 is
the catalogue to ask for'.
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We have the sole agency for the sale of this In
dispensable piece of Furniture. Preachers, lawyers,
doctors, farmers, mill men and, everybody mat needs
I a book-case should call
Wernicke Units, Cabinets, Etc., Etc.
Bell & Harris
Kk H;l UrraU. fca com to the
nnsdawe;tht.thrr It rr.lin-l tw
j rnuvh JHn-,irir cwitUng i j trie-
j oorrcin irai un. a?vj that
a a rrvH many ubnrntni to U
!.! rvtem art grratly inconven-K-nrvd
It a lot of rrt talk irr the
wire. Iiui riuuArw (for rurh it it
Neyood a tUnibt U certainly not coo
!.ned to U-Kk Hul ttlone. but aremn
to l rjJemka!l ow the country.
There i rnoutfh lov-making ottr
the telephone $n thin community t
rr.ale a bras mar.krv hlumh Ak.i
hat U wore. it earned on at tho
ex-rtne of buminem and the great tin
etrnvenierwe of people who ar in the
habit of uing the telci-bone for buat
news jHirpme, Important line air
often held indefinitely by thcae un
Nushing public pooncr while bul
nesswaiu and tep for a chance.
There cem U In? but one effective
re nwxly for this great and growing
evil, and that 1 for all nuUrribers
who want their 'phone for buatncaa
purpose to register a united prvtet
and demand a rtamab!y time
limit to all conversation over the
telephone te trictly enforced. This
they have a jterfectly legitimate
right to do. We nhall not atop jut
here to dicui lh girl, who engage
in siHxmirig and love-making and
talking sweet talk over the telephone
f uther than to remark that her main
reason for rutvrting to this expedient
i that she wants a sweetheart ami
wants one awful bad, ami It may be
that nhe allow young man the
privilege of making love loher over
tle telephone bcrauiw they aeldom
call at her home for that purie.
Kvery man know that the young
man who entertains that high regard
for a young lady that would lead
him to he serious with her would
hardly he willing to commit his
messages of love to so public a thing
as the telephone.
Monkey's Awful AlUtk.
A Wilmington, N. C, dipatch
says while tlumlcring one day last
week. And iupponedly safe in its pa
rent's home, the infant daughter of
New ton Rowan, an operative at the
cotton mills at IVIgado village, near
that city, was attacked by a monkey.
The child's face was terribly gashed
by the animal's sharp teeth ami her
little hands which instinctively, no
doubt, went up to protect lierself
against the onnlaught were terribly
taeeratcd. Her loud outcries brought
aid from an adjoining room just in
time to nave her life. The ae,
w hich had been treated as "a pet.
scamjK-red away, but washunted
dow n and killed in the swamp nearby
several hours lateri
The general otliees of the SeaWrd
Air Line Railway, now located at
Portsmouth, Va., will le moved to
Atlanta within a year. , ,
the shoe was lost, .
shoe the horse was lost.
You know the balance.
"The Store That Satisfies
for fear that for the want
of a book that was Jost
for the want of the best
book-case ever sold to the
American People
The Globe
Wernicke
The boy might lose a good
deal of valuable time, pa
tience and actual knowledge.
and see our line ol Ulobe
Furniture Comp'y.
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