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Old Nick Whiskey Co., (Successors to Jos. Williams) JA NTH KK CHEEK, Yadkin Co., N. C If & Danville E. R. Co. ( ' )X I )ENSED SCI I KDULE, IN EIIICT FEBRUARY 16th, 1890. .SOUTH HOUND. Richmond. j No. ."0. Vo. -,. l.v. Kicliiiionil ;oopin :so a in " Hurkeville r (K) piu 4 L". a 111 " Keysville ' "1 41 p in ,r US a 111 " Danville 8 40 p m K 05 a in Ar. Oreensboro j lUL'Ipm t 42 a in l.v. Coldshoro I L'o p 111 T) 01) p in Ar. Haleifrh j 4 40 p 111 i 00 p 111 l.v. H:il i,'h j 4 4.". p in -I 00 a in " Durham "1 4S p 111 1! r,r a in Ar. Durham j K l'o p in 7 ."0 a 111 l.v. Winston-Salem j t " P " 15 a 111 l.v. Oreensboro 10 ."7 p m U ."0 a III Ar. Salisbury ' 2i) am 11 IK a 111 Ar. Statesville 1 4!t a in 12 TO p m " Aslieville 7 'SI a in 4 27 p m " Hot Springs !):;.'$ a 111 15 p in l.v. Salisbury V2 :u a 111 11 2: a 111 Ar. I :hai lotte L' 0.1 a 111 VI 40 p in " Spartanburg 4 "d a 111 : ",H p in " (ireenville " "t a 111 4 40 p in " Atlanta 1100 am y 40 p in l.v. Charlotte I'O a 111 1 00 pin Ar. ' 1 1 1 111 1 i ;v i ;n a m ." 10 p 111 " Augusta lo "0 a in ! 00 p m DAILY. NoltTlll'.olXD. No. 51 . No. .".'. I.''. A ui;:i-t:i t 10 p IH 8 ."i0 a III " 1 'iiliiinhia lo:;."pn) 12 fn pin A r. I 'li;u -lotte a 13 a 111 5 1.1 p in Lv. Atlanta c 00 p 111 7 10 a m Ar. (ireeiiville 12 am 1 4S p in " Spai'tanliiirg I 1 ."') a 111 2 .12 p m '' Charlotte j 4 2.1 a 111 .1 :o p 111 " Salisbury i 02 a m 7 0.1pm l.v. Hot Springs n in p iu 12 21 p in " Aslieville 12 40 a 111 2 07 p 111 " Statesville .102 am ( (Mi p 111 r. Salisbury .1 .1;; a 111 G 50 p m I.V.Salisbury f 07 a 111 7 12 p ill Ar. (ireeusboro 7 41 a in s 40 p 111 Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a 111 V2 30 a in l.v. I Greensboro ! 4.1 a m 11 00 p in Ar. Durham 12 01 p 111 .1 00 a 111 " Haleigh 1 0,1 p 111 7 4.1 a 111 l.v. Haleigh 1 0.1 p in j!) 00 a in Ar. Ooldshoro 3 00 p 111 12 50 pin l.v. Oreensboro 7 .10 a 111 8 .10 p in Ar. Danville 0 32 a 111 10 20 p in " Keysville 12 45 pm 150am Huikeville 1 3.1 p 111 2 4.1 a 111 " Hichnionil 3 41 p 111 5 15 a ni Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh. Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. "4aiid 102" STATIONS": I.15 and 103. Lv. West Point Ar. i 10 p in Ar. Richmond Lv. f4 4.1 p in Lv. Hichmond Ar. 4 40 p in " Huikeville " 2 45pm ' Kevsville 2 00 p in " Fort Mitchell " 12.58pm " Finneywooil " 12 47 p 111 diasewood " 1 12 30 p 111 Five Forks " ! 12 10 p in " Clarksville "111 .1.1 a in " Somlaii " i 11 40 a in Hullock's ' 1124am Stovall " lll.lam Ar. Oxford Lv, n 4 a in Lv. Oxford Ar. 10 (Mi a in Ar. Dabney Lv. 25 a 111 Henderton " S 5.1 a 111 sun a 111 0 40 a 111 ll 00 a 111 1 0i p m 2 or. p m 2 2.1 p in 2 ."2 p 11: 2 4 ". p 111 ' '" p III 3 20 p III :; :n p m 3 .in p iu 3 .is p in 4 22 p iu 4 ini p in 1 11 p 111 4 41 p 111 4 22 p 1.1 l.v. 4 41 p 11, - .11 p in " 5 17 pin " 5 .V, pm " ti.-Bip m " 7 !: p in Ar. Oxford Stem's Lyon's Hoi loway Durham" Cary Haleiuli Ar. Lv 10 4ii a m 10 p; a m 10 00 a 111 ! 4:5 a in ! 25 a m 8 33 a in s i,i a 111 Lv. t Daily except Sunday. Daily. except Monday. Dailv Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex cept Sunday 11 mi am., arrive llendeison 12 u., p in., returning leave Henderson 10 p in., daily except Sunday, an ive Oxford 3 1.; pin. No. 50, leaving tioldsb,. 10 2 20 p in and Kaleig 1 4 45 p 111 daily, makes connection at Durham with No. p., leaving at ii on p in daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender son, and all points on O. & H., O. & C. and lk- v M. roads. HassjMiger coaches run through between Nest lointand Haleigh. via Kevsville, on No. 54 and 102. and .1.1 and 103. " Nos. 51 and 53 connect at Hichinoiid 1 10111 and to st Point and Haltiniore daily ex cept Sunday. Nos. 5ti and 51 connect at Cold.-boro with trains toand from Morehead City and Wil iiiiTigt.ni.andat Selnia to and fro'm Favette Ville. No. .12 connects at etteville. tireensboro for Fay- No 53 connects at Selma for Wilson N C. os. .h) and .11 make cose connection at l'h,J2Miyrrtatiwn VIth ffahw ad from t liajiel Hill, except Sundays. SLEEriNli-CAH SEHY1CE. On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buf fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, Danville and Augusta and (Greens boro, via Aslieville to' Moiristmvn, Ten 11 On 52 and 53, Pullman Huffet Sleeper between Washington and New Orleans via Montgomery, and between Washington and Hirniingham, Hichmond and Greens Jioro. Haleigh and (Greensboro and between Washington and Augusta, and Pullman Buffet Sleepers between Washington and Aslieville and Hot Springs. Through tickets on sale at principal stations to all points. For rates, local and through time tables, apply to any agent of the company, or to tL !IA.S' J AS" L TAYLOH. 1 rathe Manager. (Genu. Pi.ss. Agent. W. A. TURK, Div. Pass. Agent, Raleigh, X. C. TOBACCO A VALUABLE AND INTERESTING TREATISE On the Subject of Topping, Priming, Curing and Handling the Weed. PRIMING AND TOPPING. Under this head there is a wide dif ference of opinion. Breaking off the small and inferior leaves of the plant near the ground is called "priming," which operation is done along with the " topping," if done at all. There are advantages lor and against priming, but all resort to topping plucking out the seed bud and adjacent small leaves with the thumb and finger. Some contend that pulling off the lower leaves saps the plants and retards growth, if the weather is dry. That permitting the lower leaves to remain on the stalk protects the upper ones from sand and grit, makes thera cleaner and therefore more salable. Sand and grit are the terror of the to bacco buyer. On the other hand, it is contended by some that by pulling off the lower leaves, which are gener ally useless, the remaining leaves re ceive more nutriment and contain more wax, oil and gum, and that the lower leaves harbor worms and make the worming proeess more tedious. It is best to wait until a considerable number of plants begin to button for seed before commencing to top. Top poing should be the work of experi enced and trusty hands men who can top, leaving any required number of leaves on a plant without counting. The secret of this no longer a secret to the initiated is, that the topper soon learns to know that counting the bottom leaf and the leaf that hangs over it in the third tier going upward, make nine leaves, including both top and bottom leaves. Fixing this in his mind, the topper has only to add to or deduct from this index leaf marking nine, to leave any desired number of leaves on each plant with, certainty and without counting. Young man, if you don't know how, get some old negro to show you. Topping, you will find, is a slow business if you have to count the leaves on all the plants topped. If the plants are not " prim ed," then the "bottom" leaf must be fixed by the eye, looking upward for the leaf in the third tier, which hangs over it, to catch the cue as before. If priming is done don't err in pulling off too many leaves. No regular rule can be given, so the planter must judge for himself. The reason given for vaitin2 until manv nlants are J 1 ready to be topped is mainly that more plants may ripen together and be ready for the knife at the same time. This is an advantage that ap plies with strong force to all tobacco intended for flue curing. The number of leaves to be left on each plant varies according to the time the work is done, early or late, the ap pearance and prospective development of the plant, the season, whether pro pitious or unfavorable, strength of the soil and amount of fertilizing material applied. On medium soils, in ordi nary seasons, the first topping should be from ten to thirteen leaves rarely more for brights. For sweet fillers from nine to ten, and for dark, rich shipping, from eight. to nine leaves are enough. As the season advances re duce the number of leaves accordingly; remembering; that nualitv more than quantity regulates returns. WORMING AND SUCK.KR1NG. Many devices have been resorted to in order to lessen the number and mitigate the ravages of the horn-worm, but the lack of general and continued efforts from year to year has brought only partial relief. Some years they come in great numbers, and despite the best efforts of the planter, seriously damage his crop. Perhaps the next year they are few, and give him no trouble. It is the nature of this insect to raise at least two broods during the year. The hawk-moth or tobacco fly usually makes its appearance in Vir ginia in the month of May. The eggs deposited by the frst moths hatch out in from five to seven days larva; of worms. The worm sheds its outer skin twice before it gets its growth. The growing stage of the worm lasts from twenty-five to thirty days, and after it has attained its growth it gor ges itself a few days longer, and then crawls or burrows into the ground, where it soon passes into the pupa state; and after some twenty-three or twenty-five days from the time of its crawling into the ground the pupa sends forth a moth to lay more eggs and hatch out more worms. Each moth is capable of laying on an av erage two hundred eggs. So that for every moth in May we may reasonably expect at least one hundred worms of the first brood; and if none of these are destroyed ; but all allowed to l . . t j . t cnange 10 moms, ana inese latter to raise a horde of worms, what wonder that the second brood sometime ap pears in such countless numbers as to defy all efforts to destroy them before they have ruined the crop. Every moth ought to be destroyed as they appear; and this may be done to great extent by injecting a few drops of sweetened Cobalt (which is a poison) into the flowers of the Petunia, Honey suckel or Jamestown (Jimson) weed, which will give them their final quietus. But this hunt for the moth is not gen eral, and if it were some would escape. CULTURE. But if every planter would wage a war of extermination on the first brood of worms unfortunately a thing rarely done they would never appear in such unconquerable hordes later in the season. The suckers should be pulled off every week as they appear, and ought never to be permitted to get over two inches long; for if permitted to grow large they abstract much that would otherwise go to perfect a rich, silky leaf. No planter need expect a crop of fine grade who does not pull off the suckers while small, and pre vent the horn-worms from riddling the leaves. CUTTING AND HOUSING. Do not be in a hurry to begin cut ting your tobacco until it is ripe, and enough fully and uniformly ripe to fill a barn. A thin butcher or shoe knife, well sharpened, and wrapped with a soft cloth around the handle and ex tending an inch along the blade, will do the work effectually and be easy to the hand. Try it. Put knives into the hands of experienced cutters only, men who know ripe tobacco, and will select plants uniform in color and tex ture, and will cut no other. Have your sticks all ready in the field, and placed in piles convenient sticking a stick vertically in the ground over each pile that they may be more easily found when wanted. Pine sticks, rived three-fourths of an inch by one and one-fourth inch, and four and one-half feet long, drawn smooth, are best. Start together two cutters and one stick holder the cutters cairying two rows each and the stick-holder walking between them.' The cutter takes hold of the plant with his left hand at the tnn np.ir whprp thf l-ni'fp pntors iV I- - ... .v.. law til IV. . . lil. stalk ; with his right he splits the stalk down the centre (observing to guide the knife so as not to sever the leaves) to within three inches of the point he intends to sever the stalk from the hill; and as the knife descends his left hand follows the slit or opening, and when the plant is severed from the hill, by a dexterous movement of the left hand the plant is straddled across the stick in the hands of the holder. When the stick has received about six medium plants, if intended for brights, it is ready to go to the barn, either carried by hand if near, or hauled on a wagon it distant. If it is necessary to use the wagon, prepare a bed sixteen feet long to hold three coops or piles, on which place tobacco as cut, and aftei placing twenty-five or thirty sticks of cut to bacco on each coop, drive to the barn to be unloaded. Tobacco suitable for brights is best nandled in this way, as it is bruised less than if handled by any other mode. Try it, planters, and know for yourselves. Very heavy tobacco will break less if, after being cut by the above mode, the sticks are placed gently on the ground and the plants allowed to wilt before being removed to the barn. But tobacco of medium size bruises less to handle it without wilting. Cutting and housing by this mode you never have any sun-cured tobacco. For brights, it has been found best to commence curing atonce as soon as the barn can be filled. "SUN-CURED TOBACCO." Just here it may be well to give our practice in sun-curing. If the crop is too rich and coarse for brights, then it may be good policy to cure it sweet. To do this properly, erect scaffolds at or near the barns, on which place the tobacco as soon as cut. But some, in order to obviate the hauling of heavy green tobacco, place the scaffolds in or near the tobacco field. But it is never safe to scaffold tobacco away from the barn ; for after the leaf is par tially dry it ought never to be caught out in the rain ; which may happen if the tobacco is placed on scaffolds away from the barn. When rain threatens, that on scaffolds near the barn may very soon be placed out of danger, but not so that on scaffolds afar off. But the flue-cured fillers command nearly or quite as much as sun-cured, and the risk is much less. To cure fillers with flues, let the to bacco be placed in the barn as soon as cut, and raise the heat in the barn to eighty-five or ninety degrees Fahren heit, and then go about other business. Kindle fires in the flues every morning, raising the heat to ninety degrees, and then leave as before, and continue to do this for four or five days until the tobacco is thoroughly yellowed. If the tobacco has much sap, it may be necessary to continue the yellowing process from five to seven days to yel low properly. When the leaves have assumed a mottled, piebald appear ance, run the heat to one hundred de grees and let it remain at that point for three or four hours. Then raise the heat two and a half degrees an hour until one hundred and thirty is reached. Keep the heat at this point until the leaf is cured, and then move up gradually to one hundred and sev- enty or one hundred and eighty, and thus cure stalk and stem. If cured properly, there will be much of the leaf maJiogany, while the remainder will run from a bright dapple to a cherry red. " SHIPPING TOBACCO." Dark heavy shipping, and nothing which does not possess size and sub stance is fit for this grade, may be cured with flues better than in any other way. Smoke from, the open wood fire is objectionable, and with the flue you get the heat, which is all that is wanted, without the smoke. Curing with open wood fires belongs to the past, and none but the old Bourbons will continue the old practice, because they know no better. Taste and fashion are against smoke, and nothing else is needed to banish the old and reccommend the new nicle. If a dark color is desired, which is not so fashionable as formerly, it can be secured as easily over flues as over wood fires. But the world wants colory tobacco, and this can be produced certainly better with the flue than in any other way. Besides, by the flue the leaf is cured sweet and free from smoke or soot. A skillful curer can produce the colors most in demand, and by the flue better, and with more certainity, than in any other way. The main object of the author is to induce plant ers, who have never used flues, to try them for all grades. CURING "BRIGHT YELLOW TOKACCO. There are two modes for curing yel low tobacco one with charcoal and the other with flues. The first is the primitive mode,but is fast giving place to the latter, which is cheaper and efficient, and is being adopted by most of our best planters. The chief agent in either mode is heat a dry, curing heat to expel the sap from the leaves, stems and stalks of the plants, and catch the color, yellow,zxt to Nature's color, green, and to fix it indelibly. Th is is the science of curing yellow to bacco. There are seven prismatic colors that of green tobacco occupying the middle of the prism. By the process of nature, leaves in drying decend in color from green, first to yellow, then orange, then red, and finally lose all color as they go to decay. Now, a quick dry heat, so regulated as to dry out the leaf and catch the yellow, and fix it, is the modus operandi of curing fancy bright tobacco. A barn containing seven hundred sticks of green tobacco, six medium plants on each stick, holds along wiili the tobacco four thousand five hundred to five thousand pounds of water,which must be expelled in from eighty-five to one hundred hours. Charcoal produces an open, dry heat, well suited for the purpose : but its preparation is costly, its use tedious, dirty and laborious and it deposits a black dust on the leaf that is objectiona ble. With flues (see diagram) con structed with furnace and nines, the wood is burned as cut in the forest or old field, and the whole process of curing is less costly and less laborious, and the tobacco cured therewith free from dust, and has a sweeter flavor. rhe flue process possesses so many ad vantages over all other modes of curing 1 r r touacco, is so saie, 11 properly con structed, and free from smoke, that when its merits become better known, it will come into general use and su percede all other modes. The first step in curing is called the steaming or VELLOwiNG process. Me dium tobacco will require fram twenty four to thirty hours steaming at about ninety degrees to yellow sufficiently ; but tobacco with more or less sap, larger or smaller, will require a longer or shorter time to yellow. Here the judgment of the curer must be be his guide. Inexperienced planters would do well to procure the services of an expert curer, if they have tobacco suitable f r fine yellow. The planter saves in enhanced value of his crop many times the money paid to the curer, and besides, by close attention, he may learn in one season to ciire well himself. Theory alone, however good, and directions, however minute, will not do here, but it is practice that must qualify one to cure well. When it is remembered that no two j plants are exactly alike, no two barns j precisely similar in every particular j and that the weather may change j every hour,is it reasonable that a fixed , programme can be followed for every curing with any reasonable hope of success? The experienced know bet ter. On work so variable, only general directions can be sriven. ine next step is canea fixing the color. When the tobacco is sufficiently yellowed, best leaves of a uniform yel low, and the greener ones of a light pea-green color, it is time to advance the heat to one hundred degrees ; ob- I I - - ..... mmm serving the leaves closely to detect sweating, which will soon redden and spoil the color, unless driven off. To do this, open the door and let it stand open, and if, after an hour or more, the sweat has not disappeared, open a space between the logs on oposite sides of the barn to let in more air, and per mit it to remain open until the tobacco has dried off all appearance of the sweatv Right at this point more curings are spoiled than at any other stage of the process. It may be well to re member what is a fact, that at least five curings are spoiled by proceeding too fast, to one failure from going too slow. Now stick a pin here But to go back to the barn where we have just dried the leaf, and where the thermometer indicates a fall of five or. ten degrees but this need not con cern the curer to put him out of hope, for a little cooling under the circum stances was necessaty we close up the opening and raise the heat to one hundred degrees. But a skilful curer detects the first indications of sweat, and prevents it by regulating the heat. Keep the heat at one hundred de grees for four hours, and then advance two and half degrees every two hours, until one hundred and ten degrees are reached. Here you have reached the most critical point in the difficult pro cess of curing bright tobacco. The condition and appearance of the to bacco must now be the curer's guide. No one can successfully cure tobacco until he can distinguish the effect of too much or too little heat in the ap pearance of the leaf. Too little heat, in fixing the color, operates to stain the face side of the leaf a dull brown color, and is called "sponging," and may be known to the novice by its ap pearance only on the face side of the leaf. Too much heat reddens the leaf, first around the edge and then in spots which are visible on both sides. Now, to prevent sponging on the one hand and spotting on the other, is the aim of the experienced curer. No definite time can be laid down to run from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty degrees. Sometimes four hours will suffice, then again eight hours is fast enough. While it is usual at this stage to advance about five degrees every two hours for medium tobacco, the condition of the tobacco often in dicates.to the practiced eye, the necessi ty for slower or faster movement. But it is sale not to advance above hundred and ten degrees until tails begin to curl up at the ends. one the Ar- rived at one hundred and twenty or one hundred and twenty-five degrees, this is the curing process. The heat should remain at or near these figures until the leaf is cured, which will re quire from six to eight hours.according to the amount of sap in the leaf to be expelled. When the leaf appears to be cured, advance five degrees every hour up to one hundred and seventy degrees and remain until stalk and stem are thoroughly cured. To run above one hundred and eighty degrees is to endanger scorching the tobacco, and perhaps burning both barn and tobacco. To recapitulate : First. Yellowing process, yo degrees.froni 21 to 80 hours. Second. Fixing Color, 100 degrees 4 hours. Second. Fixinsr Color, too to 110 2'i de grees every 2 hours. Second. Fixing Color, 110 to 120, 4 to 8 hours. Third. Curing the leaf, 120 or 135, 6 to 8 hours. Fourth. Curing stalk and stem, 125 to 170, 5 degrees an hour. And continue at one hundred and seventy degrees until stalk ' and stem are thoroughly killed and dry, which usually requires from twelve to fifteen hours. THE NEW METHOD. The curing process for yellow to bacco, as heretofore laid down, was first published in the year 1871, and was the first systematic treatise given to the public on the difficult art of curing yellow tobacco; and it has re mained substantially unaltered through six editions of the pamphlet, aggregat ing largely over 100,000 copies. Thousands in several States have taken it for their guide and been enabled to learn to cure successfully, without any other assistance. But the yellow to bacco industry has greatly progressed and extended during the past decade, 1 and new light has come through ex perience to further perfect the art of ,Curing. ; The following is given as the latest improvements in curing tobabco : House the tobacco as soon as cut, and after warning up the barn for two or three hours, at a temperature of about 90 degrees, advance the heat rapidly up to 125 degrees or as high as it will bear without scalding the to- uai.u icuing me neat remain at 12? degrees only a few minutes,, and then Dy drawing the fires and turning the dampers, cut off the heat and let the temperature of the barn descend to 00 degrees. Fhis is generally called "sanniner. 1 he rationale of the process is this: The heat, by expansion, opens the san cens ana starts the water to the sur- . - face.facilitates evaporation and hastens the yellowing process. this "limbering up" process, of high heat at the start, must be of short duration or else great injury will be a one to the tobacco. hollowing this mode, the yellowine piutc ia greatiy snortenea. reauinnir irom tour to eight hours less to vello'w CHrTIPIPn flir on.! 1. U--. 1 ..v..wwJ)a..u au iuimciis. me secona stage of curing flxinsr the color. " 13 "en iu siaic mat mere is so Tt- ?r ...all . . 1 . . great a difference in the character of tobacco grown in different localities. that no rule can be given for the yel lowing process, applicable to all. The tobacco of middle and western North ... Carolina, will yellow in much less time than that grown in middle Vir ginia. I hen again, tobacco will bear higher temperature in the yellowing pittas uumig some years than in others. Notably the season of tSR. was so dry and neld so little sap when . f ripe, that many commenced yellowing: at 100 degrees, and had the leaf cured m 50 hours. But this is exceptional. and for general practice would spoil potn color and tobacco. ine season, therefore, it must be borne in mind, greatly determines the amount of heat tobacco will rennire to be yellowed and cured. Some of the patented flues are so constructed that the heat is easily con trolled, and the tobacco smoked or steamed, or both, as may be necessary in the yellowing stage. Some tobacco will require neither to yellow right, while some other will dry up green or red without yellowing, if smoke or steam be not used to assist the yellow ing process. Smoke and heat will fa cilitate the yellowing of thin poor to bacco,holding very little sap. Wetting the barn floor from time to time will assist in yellowing tobacco. Then therd is an occasional barn of tobacco that defies all the known modes and appliances to yellow or cure bright. But for all practical purposes, whenever the curer has mastered a knowledge of the effects of too much or too little heat, as evidenced in the color of tobacco, clearly de scribed heretofore, he possesses a key to solve to solve the difficult problem in the science of curing tobacco. Bv close observation this lesson may soon be learned and then success is easy. After curing, as soon as the tobacco is sufficiently soft to move, you may run it up in the roof of the barn and crowd it close, or if the barn is needed for other curings, the tobacco may be carried to the storage barn or bulked down in any dry house on the premises. But be sure that nothing is bulked with green stalks or swelled stems, for if such are placed down in bulk it will be sure to heat and utterly ruin. ordering. If, after the tobacco is cured, the weather remains dry and it fails to get soft readily, so that it can be moved, 1 it may be brought in order in the fol lowing way : Place green bushes with the leaves on over the floor and sprin kle water over them copiously ; if the tobacco is very dry and the atmos phere contains but little moisture, and if the weather is cool, a little fire kin dled in the flues will assist in making the tobacco soft. Straw wet, or made so, will answer the same purpose. If the weather is damp, there will be no necessity to use either straw, brush or water. But when it is necessary to use any means to order tobacco, it is besj to apply them in the afternoon, that the tobacco may be removed the next morning. If the weather continues warm and damp or rainy, tobacco that remains hanging will be apt to change color, unless dried out by flues or charcoal. When this becomes necessary, build small fires at first, and raise the heat gradually. STRIPPING. Tobacco should never be stripped from the stalks except in pliable order, and the leaves on every plant should be carefully assorted, and every grade tied up separately. Usually there will be three grades of leaf, assorted with reference to color and size, aud two of lugs. Of leaf tie six to eight leaves in a bundle, and of lugs eight to ten. As fast as you strip, either hang the "hands" on sticks twenty-five to each stick and hang up or bulk down in two layers, the heads of hands or bundles facing outward. The latter mode is best, it you intend to sell in winter order loose, on the warehouse floors. If bulked down, watch fre quently to see that it does not heat. If the bulk becomes warm it must be broken up, aired and rebulked, or hung up if too soft. It is safer always to hang up as soon as stripped, unless you design to sell soon, and strike down in "safe-keeping order" in spring or summer. It is considered in " safe order" when the leaf is pliable, and the stem will crack half-way down from the tie. packing. If you sell loose, deliver in large uniform piles such will cost less, and your tobacco bring more in price. But to sell in a distant market, pack in tierces half-hogsheads make the best and cheapest to weigh about four K .. 1 . . : . 1 1 . hundred pounds net, taking care not to press the tobacco so as to bruise it, or pack it too closely together. The best leaf is wanted for wrappers, and it must open easily when shaken in the hand. Pack one grade only in each tierce, uniform in color and length ; but if it becomes necessary to put more than one grade in a tierce, place strips of paper or straw between to mark and separate them. Pack honestly, for honesty is always the best policy. The man who " nests" his tobacco will cer tainly go on the "Black List," and buyers have good memories. If your tobacco is fine, sound and nicely handled, vou'll have th taction nf afunr, ti, u,t , M muneratinfj- r.riri fnr ii nit 1 I . ' and nonaescriDt stock mav he sel inr for less than the cost of production. K. Z,. Kagland, Hyco, Halifax conn ty, va. "GOING." Tit MRS. B. H. HILL, JR. Just about a vcar aero the. follow! nor linps no iMiuusiiiMi 1 mill ma nn nr Mra I (on Jr., whose sad death has so shocked me puonc. ine silver latch is lifted " ami gentle, pure, poetic soul of the wiiterhas gone 10 me mystic land so beautifully de scribed by herself in the following verses "The silver latch is lifted and I am going Far far luvnn1 wlmra 41. . , ---- ..uvic VD jiuii9 niu KIO Like flowers of cold in menilnwa lilna The angels sprinkled in passing through The silver latch is lifted and I am going, I near the sound of the ri And I catch its glimmer where the trees eniace As the leaves brush cool about my face. ine silver latch is lifted nn.i I The flower kissed breezes of am going blowine. iAlen are And balmy sweet is the perfumed breath inab uirau io me line a winsper or death. The silver latch is lifted nri r m. 10 uid uiuuui ut iiiu uawn ere tna sun is ciowine. Ana aaown the hills hancr th mists nf Like the veil of lace a bride adorning. The silver latch is lifted and I am going About me lilies of God are snowintr. morn 1 nir rH 1 - ... . --- xiicj ib uraperies wnite or a winding Aim soon 1 11 sleeD neath their ne(i owcci. rfl.A , 1 . .... . . xiie suver laicn is nitea ana 1 am going-. 1 et fragrant the flowers the days are sow ing : Not a worm at the root, the blossoms have uncurled. For love is the gardener of my breautiful wurm. The silver latch is lifted and I am going; Ihere s a nightless home of God's bestow ing, Good-bye ; 1 take the invisible and iminor- lai nana, As lie leads me gently into the mystic Constitution. Excerps. IBellefontaine Examiner. rI" 1.- 1 r ! r t. iu uc aiways nnamg tauit makes a person very disagreeable in the eyes of nis mends. Selfishness is the meanest and most contemptible of all vices, truthfully re marks an exchange. Many people express positive opin ions when they really don't know what they are talking about. T ' .1 rr . xroviuence enecis a good many cures, Din if you notice you will find that a doctor always sends in the bill. ii biriK.cs us mat uarae Kumor is getting pretty well up in years. Yet years make no discount upon her rec ord. 1IT1 . . vvnatever else may be wrong, it must be right to be pure to be just and tender, and merciful and honest Robertson. All kinds of snakes are reported pientilul this season, says an exchange ocresogiaa; were atraid the crop was going to be short. When the number of people who do not work or earn their own liying is considered, it is not surprising that those who do work should complain of nard times. Life is not so short but that there is always lime enough for courtesy, says fcmerson. Irue; but what a large per centage of humanity fail to realize the fact ! Don't believe that everybody else is happier than you are. You'll wake up some fine morning with a well-defined case of dyspepsia if you encourage such brood ings. Don't worry and fret over small matters. There'll be a sufficiency of colossal matters to worry you in earn est before you get through with this little affair known as life. If the great change from the vigor and buoyancy of youth to the languor and infirmities of age, overcame us in an hour or a day, it would break the strongest heart. Time robs us of our youth gradually and by stealth.not un like the manner in which the sneaking tariff robs us of our earnings. This, pre-eminently, is the age of materialism, and of wonderful material progress ; when it is overpast, as some day it will be, the age of spiritualism and of spiritual progress will "be ushered in ; and a glorious age it will be. " We may not live to see the day, But earth will brighten in the ray Of the good time coming." As we of this world are wholly ig norant of the relation which the so called dead bear toward the living, we should continue to love those, who, in life have been dear to us as friends,and to fear those who have been our ene mies. It is not the part of wisdom to rejoice at the death of an enemy, or to pursue him beyond the grave with this world's animosity. OIVIS ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and aeU gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and liowols, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers aud cures habitual constipation. Syrnp of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly lieiieficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for pale i.. oOc and SI bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SN FRAXCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. new YORK. N.f. I port!- tiie rM .... I'rwwctua pout I OlKf., ..fnt tn nni'lir-atlfif, t. !. mn rnraini. T-'tirn.mil fmn. .11 I A. i.ij.t;u. 37 t.itu Am. liw Y. J. A. KELLY, CONTRACTOR AND DEALER IN LUMBER, HENDERSON, N. C. Orders for lumber solicits delivered, ?l.oo per hundred. ' House bill, apr. :i-ii l. JJl S. 1L V1JKIS, 1ENT 1ST, HKNIjRnKO.V, If. c. o Pure NltroiiH Oxide 'ns luiiiuiuMerril lor Hie painU-Ks retrac tion ut teeth. 5-?"Oilicc over E. C. Davis' inm ri SI reef. t . . Jan. l-a. J-J T. V ATKINS, Attorney and Counsellor ut Law IIEN DEKSON. X. C. Courts: Vann Or-mviiin , and the Federal iWt h t If uWkU. " 1C ,""non given to iieKoliHtlnK loans, net Moment of fKtiit. n...i iui".'.. cases. "" ATTOUNKY AT LAW, IIENDEKSON. N. C, OFFICK IN BUKWELL KCILDING. C'oUKTs: V.-mi- P.-... ttt - vill- IT.,i.,..i ""-. "arren.uran Supreme Court r Nortii 'c.irTdinT - --- vujMii nLiiM-N nun . i., i..i.i. and Mn.i.T. .7' , KSic,,ur Ji'Moe W. N. II. V.""1."? "On. AllL'UNtUH s. M Tucked Mr! M. Lorse'v. 11 " fwell Vj, o u. s. bauiuel V. I'liiliti. ollcitor Ueu Otice hours tf a in. to 5 p. in. mch.7 3i r M. P1TTMAN, ATTOHJJ IC"V AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. Prompt attention to nil i.f..ui ...... ueK. Practices in ih ni 'Z". ;"V"J"': courts. reoerai Oltice: Koom No. 2, Harwell Ilulullnir iiov5 1 c. M)HUVJ. IIAltfCIS, ATTOUNKYATLAWI HENDERSON, N. C. Warren and Vr..,X .. V.'Pt'',Jra"v'I' Dv r, ' c' WLLICOrFEH. V & ZOLLlX'OFFUir, A'ri'OltNiOYM AT LAW HENDERSON, N. C. Practice In f hi Warren. Halifax v ..V v" h ;!". .nl Federal o.,rUortLe8late Office: Iu Zoli eoirrV l,.w i. i nettKtreel war- feb. I. L. C. EDWAWIS, Oxford. N. (J. A. K. WOUTHAM, JIWAUIS V, WOItTHASI, neiiuerson, H. U. 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