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SAULS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Heafy ana Fancy Groceries. Keeps constantly on hand a full line of FAMILY GROCERIES AND umn - supplies Including Oats, Bran. Hay, Shipstuff, Corn, Meal, Flour, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, etc. SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. I. S. D. SAULS, Goldsboro, NC. Do You ?lesd SJachinery? Then write to "Dixie" and your vs'its will be published free. If you purchase from any of our ad vertisers, and will so inform us, WE WILL MAKE YOU A PRESENT of a year's subscription to "Dixie." Address, THE "DIXIE" CO., Atlanta, Ga. AT LAST. Daily and hourly we approach the verge, The silent verge, which mortals call the end. I hear the lapping of the far-off wave That bathes the shore whither we all do tend. I sit and listen long for one clear voic, A gentle call, which says, "Come, cros3 with me; The tide is deep and strong; thou shalt not fall; Nay, do not fear, for I will walk with thee." Frances II. Dering, in Harpers Weekly. JANE'S INHEEITANOE. BY IIELEX FORREST GRAVES. "Jane! Jane! we've come into a for tune!" "Look, Janie a lawyer's letter with a red seal !'' "It's Grandfather Ilolccmbe, Jane. Your grandfather not ours. I t's Janie who is the heiress, Rody." The shrill confusion of childish voices met Jane Talford's ear as she came into the shabbily furnished breakfast-room, all ready for school with the solitary ex ception of her gloves. The little bonnet, which she herself had trimmed with cheap roses, was tied under her round chin; and the serge cloak took oil something of the chilly atmosphere of the room, where coal was carefully economized and tho window fronted to the north for Jano was a teacher in a monster grammar school, where punctuality was one of the chief est of virtues. The four younger Talfords sat around the table in different stages of bid and tucker, eating oatmeal and drinking sky blue milk; and Mrs. Talford a pale, sweet faced widow, dressed in rusty black was vainly endeavoring to keep up some semblance of discipline in their midst. "Mother," cried Jane, "what on earth arc they talicing about?"' The stepmother glanced apologetically up. "The letter was addressed to me, Jane," said she. "I opened it; and the chickies are right. Your grandfather up in Sullivan County is dead, and has left you a farm of ninety acres." "With a house on it!" cried Marma duke, the oatmeal and the words striv ing spasmodically in his small throat. "And two cows!" piped Laura. "And lots of real woods, with nut trees and blackberries in 'em!" bawlel Roderick. "And a puppy dog!" supplemented little Roger, all in a broad smile. Two red spots came into Jane's cheek. Bhe leaned her elbows on the table and looked vaguely from one to the other. "Is it really true?" said she. "There's the letter," said her step mother. "Roger, keep your fingers out of the sugar-bowl! Read it yourself, dear. Laura, if you don't fiuish your bread and butter quickly, you'll be late for school !" "Rut I never saw my Grandfather Hol comb." "I know it, dear. lie was very pecu liar and he never liked your father." "Then," cried loyal Jane, "I don't like him!" "Nevertheless he has died in his bed, at the ago of ninety, and all that he has descends legally to you," added Mrs. Talford. "A stony farm and a tumble-down old house!" "But it's something, Jane. And a country home! I've always so coveted it for the children. Marmaduke is grow ing so fast, and Laura isn't strong, you know." "Then, mother, you shall have it!" cried Jane, jumping up and running around to kiss the pale, pleading face. "We'll go there at once and turn tho children loose in the pastures. You shall be housekeeper, and I'll spend my sum mer vacations there." "But, Jane, I can't stay there without you!" urged Mrs. Talford. "It would be too selfish." "Selfish, mother! It's the very thing ycu need; as for me, I've got to go around and around in the old treadmill to accumulate money enough to make a doctor of Duke and a lawyer of Roderick and a parson of little Roger. I promised papa, you know. The three learned pro fessions!" "Ycu are the best and noblest girl in the world, Jane!" said Mrs. Talford, her faded eyes brimming over with tears. How strange and beautiful the old farmhouse looked, mantled over with Michigan roses, with the blackbirds whistling in the apple orchard below and a persistent blue jay tapping at the bark of the old pine tree that shadowed the porch ! Jane had obtained a week's leave of absence to eee her stepmother and the children safely settled in their new home, and she also fell under the spell of this sylvan wilderness. She-patted the old horse ia the baan, made friends with the Juno-eyed cows, and threw sticks into the river for Ponto to swim after, greatly to little Roger's delight. "Oh, how" I should like to stay here always!" said she. "The city streets will seem dustier and dirtier than ever, after these fields of buttercups and crowds of daisies! And, oh, it is so lovely to be waked up by the singing of birds in the morning, instead of the milkmen's caits! But the six hundred dollars a 3 ear !" "We could live very economically here, Jane," coaxed Mrs. Talford. "What with the fruit and tho vegetables, and the neighbors say there are plenty of fish in the river " "Oh, it isn't the living!" said Jane. "It's the money for the children's educa tion. Mother, dear, we've got to face that!" "He's buried in the old yravejard," said Noah Turnbul!, who lived on the next farm "he never wouldn't hev nothin' to say to the new cemetery close by your mother, Jane. And it was his last wish that the rickety old tomb stone should bo took up, and a nice new one put In its place, with his name cut under hern, Didn't hev time to make no will; but them was 'most the last words he spoke. He never forgave Mr. Talford for lettin' Emily Jane lie there without no new tombstone over her." "Poor father !" cried Jane, firing up in defense of her beloved dead, "As if he hadn't enough to do to keep us all! I'm sure he would have done it if ho could." "I never knew about that, Jane," said Mrs. Talford, with a troubled counte nance, "or I'd have done without lots o! things to have tho stone replaced." "He wasn't best pleased," added old Turnbull, "when Adam Talford married ag'in. He thought ther' wan't nobody good enough to take Emily Jane's place." "Don't look so uncomfortable, mother, dear," whisperd Jane, hugging her little stepmother. "He couldn't know what a darling you were! "Nor how good you wero to poor little Jane!" "But the new stono must be erected at once, Jane, if your grandfather felt so about it." "Mother, it will cost seventy-five dol lars at the least," argued Jane. "I was up at the graveyard this morning, and the old one is quite good yet, though it's cracked across and sunk very low into the ground." "But I should feel so much easier, dear. Your mother, you know and Adam's first wifel I 1 should feel quite guilty living here in the house where he married her, with those last wishes unfulfilled. To please me, Jane!" "Mother," cried Jane, with a second caress, "I'd do anything in the world to please you!" Noah Turnbull went away and in dustriously promulgated the tiding3 that "Adam Talford's second widder beat Emily Jane Holcomb all to pieces for good sense and good temper. E nily Jane was always a snappish creetur, and that Jane is a smart gal. Earn? six hun dred dollars a year in New York City, I'm told. Six hundred dollars! No wonder city folks gits rich !" The village stonecutter took the or der. He was a handsome, dark-eyed young fellow, with vague ideas about 6ome day attaining to a studio ia Rome and a standard of "true art." He was intelligent above the average, and Jane and her stepmother became much interested in th? crude status . of "Pocahonta3," which he was trying to evolve out of an uncompromising block of marble in the back shop. "It encourages a fellow to have oeople understand him like that," said Harmon Faile, as he straightened the line of Pocahontas's third finger. And then he set to work to invent some pretty bas-relief of ivy leaves and crossed palm branches to be carved over the names of "Hezekiah Holcomb" and Emily Jane, wife of Adam Talford" for Mrs. Talford and Jano had decided that Grandfather -Holcomb must have a new tombstone also. Ths ivy leaves for the young wife; and crossed palms for the ninety-year-old patriarch ! -: "The iyms can economize ia ever so many ways," said Mra. Talford, gently, "but the dead should be cared for. It won't cost so very much more." Jane came down as soon as the sum mer vacation commenced ia July, to see about the setting of the stones. The children were riotou3 and rosy. Mrs. Talford even had become sunburned and plump, but poor Jane was pale and worn. "You are working too - hard," said Harmon Faile, scarcely heeding her cor dial praises of the ivy clusters and ma jestic palms. "Miss Talford, you ought to take better care of yourself." "Every one has got to work," said Jane, with a laugh. "No, they haven't," said Faile, hur riedly "at least not when there's some one else able and willing to work for them. I'm only a poor stonecutter, Jane, but my business is beginning to look up, and I can support a wife. Will you let me work for you, Jane?" Miss- Talford was rosy enough now. "But, Harmon, it isn't myself alone. There are the cnlldren to be educated, as my father desired " she began. "Ill help you with the children, Jane, pleaded Harmon, "if only you'll let me. I'll do anything in the world to win you for ray wife, I love you so dearly, Jane." And after this what could Jane an swer but "Yes." It was a sunshiny August day when they all gathered around the two grave3 in the old graveyard to see the new mar ble headstones erected. Noah Turnbull was there, with hi3 mangy straw hat on the back ol his head, and h'13 hands, aa usual, in his pockets. "Wal," said he, "old Gaffer Holcomb would be pleased if he knowed what was bein' done to-day. He used to come and set here lots o spells, and smoke his pipe and dig round the roots of the sweetbrier bushes and hundred leafed roses with his old spade. Dretful pecooliar man he was. Set lots o' store by the place Emily Jane was buried in. Eh, what's that? Struck the pick again a rock? Nonsense, Hiram P.inkerton! Ther' ain't no rock hereabouts. Ironl Ye don't cal'late you've struck an iron mine, do ye! A square box, stood close up again the foundations o Emily Jane's old head-stone! Git out! These ain't the days o' Cappen Kidd an' his treas ures!" "Wal, I dunno what ye'd call this, then," said Hirau Pinkerton, as he pried up the obstacle with such energy that it rose nearly a foot from the ground before it fell ajrain "Wal, I do vow!" shouted Ncah. "Jest one o' Gaffer Holcomb's pecooliari ties. Eh? Money in it? Gold and government secoorities? Folks wa s'prised when he died an' did n't leave noth . .. . i. u., 4Tiat? orvr n'rprkpne 1 in Din. tne iarui. uuk - "he'd made some poor investments, an' didn't like to own up 'bout 'em. An.; written', too? Bles3 ana save us! wha! did he write?1' It was Hirmon Faile who re;v aloud the words which were fainth traced on tho back of an old envelope: 'Being Dead, I Yet Speak. To Emily rane's Daughter: If you Fulfill my Last Desire and Erect a Suitable Stone over yoat Mother, you will Inherit what I Leava Otherwise it will Never Be Known until the Graves Give up Their Deal. In either cas.) pou will Receive your Deserts from Hezekiah Holcomb." "He allays was as queer a3 Dick's hatband!" croaked Noah Turnbull. But this 'ere beats all!" The new tombstones were set up that day the ivy leavesabove "Emily Jane," and the drooping palms over the remains Df the strange old man who had plotted this strange conspiracy within himself. The children went to bed early that aight and whispered ghost storie3 to each other, under the bedclothes. The neighbors spread the news of the strange occurrence far and wide. Mrs. Talford's happy teara dropped on the stocking she wa3 darning by lamp light for little Roger. "Wan't I right about the stones, Janie!" she asked. "You're always risrht, mother, dear!" said Jane. "It isn't a great fortune, to be-sure, but, oh, it makes such a differ ence to Harmon and me." And she sent in her resignation tc Grammar School 1001, and went dili gently to work on her wedding gown. Saturday Night. Mr. Keith has contracted with the Costa Rican Government for the con struction of a suspension bridge over the Reventazon River. As security Mr. Keith receives a concession of 800,000 acres of national territory - FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. PLANTAIX. The most efficient wholesale treatment of plantain is choking it down with dense crops of clover, or destroying it by cultivated crops, but this course cannot be used on large lawns. On small lawns or with a few plants each plant may De killed with a drop or two of sulphuric acid dropped with a rod on the crown of each plant, but care must be taken not to walk on the lawn till rain occurs, or the acid will cut tho 6hoe3. Without killing the plants, it may be kept from increasing by close lawn-mowing, sev eral times in the season, or a3 often as it quickly throws up its seed spike3 and before the seed can form. Both species of plantain are perennials, the broad leaved one being more common along foot-walks, and the narrow-leaved more frequently found in meadows and lawns. Both are foreigners. The seeds of the narrow-leaved are about the size of clo ver seed and becomo very readily mixed with it, and foul clover-seed thus spreads the weed. Country Gentleman. IMPROVING FLOCKS OK SUEEP. Though the price of wool is extremely low it is so necessary a product that if properly managed it may ulway3 be made profitable. Due regard must be had in this to the improvement of flocks as well as to the increase of weight and value of the fleece. A farmer who grade3 up his flock either for mutton or wool adds so much to its salable value that this alone makes a profit, though the wool crop may not much more than pay expenses. Continuing the same policy of flock im provement, the wool grower finds after a while that hft can sell his wool at greater profit. By this time he will probably begin to breed some thoroughbreds. In a few jiears the grades will be discarded as not sufficiently profitable incompari' son. The flock of scrub3 i3 thu3 replaced with one of pure blood with compara tively little expense except the first cost of a ram and one cr two thoroughbred ewes with which to start the business. This is the way that most of the success ful breeders began business. Few of them had much money at first. They have grown rich by beginning in a small way, constantly improving their flocks until they are worth many thousand dol lars. All the way up their sheep have increased in profitableness, and what they have done is possible to all who will give equal attention and care to tho business of flock improvement. Boston Cultiva tor. ROOFED BARS YARDS. It is, in my opinion, writes Doctor G. C. Caldwell, a successful way of making manure, to make it in a covered yard ; good manure can be made without ques tion by heaping in open space and fork ing over occasionally, but with less care a better product is likely to be the aver age result when made under cover; whether enough better to pay the cost of the shelter is perhaps an open ques tion; if the shelter were only for the manure the balance might be struck against it; and no coarse stuff goes into the manure pile (it is singular ad vice of one writer that it should not) the balance would certainly bo against it. But the cattle may enjoy this shelter and profit by it, since it gives to them a larger freedom to move about without exposure to storai3 or cold; anl with the aid of their tramping a very con siderable addition may be made to the value of the manure of the yard by work ing into the excrements the straw 01 other coarse stuff which, under con ditions that may often prevail, cannot be profitably fed ; there must, of course, be so much of such material that the ani mals will not be injured by too much wetnes3 under foot. Tbi3 coarse stuff put directly on the land is worth very little for fertilizing; when more oress decomposed in a well-aire 1 mixture with animal excrement3 it is worth much more. New Task Tribune. FARM AND GARDEN XOTE. It will not help growing chickens to be out in the rains this month. Pullets rarely make good mother3. Save some of the old hens for hatching. A warm stable and a good blanket will save grain and give horses more "get up." If horse-owners would discontinue ths use of blind bridle3 there would be few er skittish horses. A veterinary surgeon tells that silage is not a fit food for horse?, though excel lent fcr other stock. Farmers who are breeding stock for market should remember that it h tho high grades and not the scrubs that galn remunerative returns. The best kind of charcoal for fowls is patched corn. Roast until it is a dark brown, but do not burn it black. Feed once a week in winter. Tansy water is recommended a a de stroyer of the cabbage worm. Whero tansy crrowsin large quantities it will not cost much to try the remedy. Green fodder cora laid between layers of straw will keep well and impart of its good qualities to the straw, sj that cat tle eat it in winter with greediness, straw and all. Turpentine and sulphur given in the poultry food when the weather is damp is one of the cheapest and best preven tives of gape3. Keep th-.; fowls dry after giving sulphur. Apples that are picked in buckwheat chaff for winter use keep longer, do not lose their flavor und are hi a inclined to rot, and if a few are affected th? ca afl absorbs the juices, which prevents thcaa from affecting the rest. Though not as large as the Shropshire or the Oxford, the Southdown sheep holds the highest position among the mutton breeds for quality of flesh. It is also a very hardy and active breed, sub sisting where many of the larger breed could not thrive. Shoots growing around the trunk? of young tree3 rob the trees of nourish ment. They should never be allowed to start. If kept back for a year they will cease to appear. Grass around tho trunks will be more serviceable to the tree if the sod is cut and inverted. RECIPES. Escalloped Meat Beef, veal or mutton left over cold can be used for scallops. Chop, but not too fine, season with salt. Allow half as much bread crumbs as meat and a bowl of gravy. Butter an earthen bakin dish, put in a layer of meat, then pour over a little gravy, about two spoonfuls, and on top a layer of crumbs. Alternate the layera until tho dish is full, putting a thicker layer of crumbs on top. Bake twenty or twenty-j five minutes. Meat Hash Corn beef 13 be3t, but other meats can be used. Allow nearly twice as much cold chopped potato as meat, put two or three spoonfuls of butter in spider and half as mucb water. When hot, put hash in and covei fire minutes, set it on top of the: stove where it will brown on the bottom, ; not burn; after a while turn it over so a3 to brown the rest. Some prefer to use half a cup of sweet cream, instead of browning it. Boiled Corned Beef Put on the meat in cold water; allow one quart of water to every pound of meat. The slower it boils the better it will be. For every pound of meat let it boil fifteen minutes ; thus, a piec of beef weighing twelve pounds should boil three hours. If the beef ii to he eaten cold, as soon as if is taken out of the pot immerse it in cold water for a short time, in order to retain the juices. Tongue3 are boiled i tho ia:uc Lcaauer. The increase in the consumption o plate glass of late years ha? been enor mous. The production ia 1S30, meas uring 1,700,000 equare feet, of which 1,042,000 square feet were polished and 377,2i7 feet sold rough has risen to a capacity "f 000 Off) square feet. HOMER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.. Latest U. S. Government Food Repyrt. jlll m j?h ( , .f 0
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