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Old Nick Whiskey Co., (S'iccessois to Jos. Williams) PANTHER CREEK, Yadkin Co., N. C Eietana & Danville B. B. Co. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, IN EFFFCT MAY i8th, 1890. TJATLT SOUTHBOUND. I No. 50. So. 52. Lv. Kichmond I 3 00 p 111 2 30 a ni " Hurkeville 5 0Gpm 4 30 a 111 " Keysville ' 5 4S p ni 510am " Danville j 8 40pm 8 05am A r. Ireenslioro 10 27 p m 9 42 a m Lv. Joldsboro 2 40 p m f5 00 p m Ar. Raleigh 440pm 90flpm I.v. Raleigh i 4r p m 1 00 a m " Durham i .". 48 p m 2 55 a 111 A 1 . Creenslioro 8 20 p m 7 30 a m Lv. Winston-Salem t( "0 P 6 I3 a m Lv. C, reei 1 si oro lo 37 p m 9 50 a m Ai . Salisbury 12 2J a 111 11 IP a m r Statesville ' 1 4!i a m 12 08 p m " Aheville 7 22am 422pm " Hot Spring J 34 a m 6 55pm Lv. Salisbury 12 32 a m 11 24 a m Ar. Charlotte 2 05am 12 4(1 p in Spartanburg 4 51 a 111 3 38pm " Oreenville 5 5t" a 111 4 4fi p m " Atlanta 11 00 a in 1) 40 p m Lv. Charlotte 2 20 a 111 1 00 p m Ar. Columbia 1; 3n a 111 510pm " Augusta 10 30 a in 0 00 p ni south r.or.m ; N. 1. Xo. f-3. J.v. Auista (:0pin 8 00 a 111 " Columbia 10:55 pm 12 50 pm A r. Charlotte 3 13 am 5 15pm I.v. Atlanta C. 00 p in 7 10 a m Ar. Creenville ! 12 ::." a in 1 48 p m " Spartanhur 130am 252pm ' Charlotte ! 4 2" a 111 5 : p m ' Salisbury j ' 02 a 111 7 05 p 111 1 Lv. Hot Springs jll 10 pm 12 24pm " Asheville 12 40 a 111 2 05 p 111 " Statesville 1 5 112 a 111 5 58 p m lr. Salisbury j 5 53 a in 6 42 p m Lv. Salisbury 07 a 111 7 12 p m Ar. Crcensboro 7 45 a in 8 40 p m Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a iiij12 30 a m Lv. Oreensboro 0 45 a m 11 00 p 111 Ar. Durham 12 01 p in 5 00 a m " Raleigh 1 05 p ni 7 45 a 111 I.v. Raleigh 1 05 p 111 1 00 a 111 Ar. Coldsboro 2 55 p in 12 50 p m I.v. Greensboro 7 55 a in S 50 p m Ar. Danville 0 32 a in 10 20 pm " Kevsville 12 18 p 111 1 55 a 111 " Uuikeville 1 00 p in 2 45 a in " KiclimoiKl :t:apm 5 15 am Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh. Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. Wain! 102. "STXTTOXST i a nd 103. h 00 a in 40 a in 11 00 a 111 1 H p 111 2 05 p in 2 J"i in 2 32 ill 2 44 p m i INi p 111 Lv. Ar. Lv. AVest Point Richmond Richmond Hurkeville Keysville Fort Mitchell Finneywood Chase City Five Forks Clarksville Solid a 11 Hu Hock's Stovall Oxford Ar.i I 10 p 111 t4 35 p 111 4 30 p ni 1 45 p 111 2 00 p 111 12 58 p 111 12 47 p m 12 .Ml p ni 12 10 p 111 1 1 55 a m Lv. Ar. l i i.l p III :t :!." p m 5 50 p ni 3 :m p in " ! 11 40 a 111 " j 11 24 a in " I 11 15 a m Lv,10 4o a m 4 1:; p in Ar 4 40 p in 5 15 p in Lv. Ar. Oxford Dabney Henderson Ar. Lv. 10 00 a m !l 25 a 111 3 55 a m . 4 p ni 4 i: p in llv Oxford Stem's Lyon's Holloway Durham Cary Ualeikli Ar. Lv. 10 4( a m 10 10 a ni 10 00 a 111 0 43 a m 0 25 a 111 8 33 a m 8 15 a 111 4 45 p in! 4 55 p ill 5 17 p 111 5 ;i p in :i p in o 5 n m Ar. Lv. f Daily except Sunday. Daily. except Monday. Dailv Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex opt Sunday 11 00 am., arrive Hendeison 12 05 p in., returning leave Henderson 2 10 n in., daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford 3 15 p 111. No. 50, leaving Ooldsluuo 2 20 p m and llalelgh 4 45 p in daily, makes connection at Durham with Xo. !. leaving at 00 in daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender son and all points on O. & H., O. & C and H. & M. roads. Passenger coaches run through between West Point and Raleigh, via Keysville, on Nos. 34 and 102, and 55 and 103. Nos. 51 and 53 connect at Richmond trom and to West Point and lialtimore daily ex cept Sunday. Xos. .Vi and 51 connect at (Joldsboro with trains to and from Morehead City and Wil mington.andat Selma to and from Fayette ville. Xo. 52 connects at (Jreensboro for Fay etteville. No 53 connects at Selma for Wilson. N.C. Xos. 50 and 51 make close connection at University Station with trains to and from Chapel Hill, except Sundays. SLEEFINU-UAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buf fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, Danville and Augusta and (Ireens fcoro, via Asheville to Morristown, Ten a. On 52 and 53, Pullman Uuffet Sleeper between Washington and New Orleans via Montgomery, and between Washington and Birmingham, Richmond and Greens boro, Raleigh and Greensboro and between Washington and Augusta, and Pullman Buffet Sleepers between Washington and Asheville and Hot Springs. Through tickets on sale at principal utatlons to all points. For rates, local and through time tables, apply to any agent of the company, or to SOL HAAS. J AS. L. TAYLOR, I rattic Manager, Genn. Pass. Agent. W. A.TDRK. Div. Pass. Agent, Raleigh, N. U. TOBACCO CULTURE. A VALUABLE AND INTERESTING TREATISE On the Subject of Topping, Priming, Curing and Handling the Weed. TRIMING 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," it 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 them 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 process 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. lopping, 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 lor himself. the reason given lor waiting until many plants are 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 quality more than quantity regulates returns. WORMINi; AND SUCKERING. 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 ot the planter, seriously damage his crop. Perhaps the next year they are few, and give him no trouble. It is the nalure 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 first moths hatch out in from five to seven days larvae 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 change to moths, and these 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. But rf 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 01 hne 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 iully 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 tr.e 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 top near where the knife enters the 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 after 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 at once, 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 placet! 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 hall 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 . mahogany, 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 mode. 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 TOBACCO. 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 ot the plants, and catch the color, yello7t,next to Nature's color, green, and to fx it indelibly. This 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 with the tobacco four thousand five hundred to five thousand pounds of water,which must be expelled in from eighty-five toone hundred hours. Charcoal produces an opep, 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 pipes, 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. The flue process possesses so many ad vantages over all other modes of curing tobacco, is so safe, if 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 yellowing process. Me dium tobacco will require from 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 tne ; judgment of the curer must be be his, guide. Inexperienced planters would ; do well to procure the services of an I expert curer, if they have tobacco j 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 cure 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 plants are exactly alike, no two barns precisely similar in every particular and that the weather may change every hour.is it reasonable that a fixed programme can be lonowed lor every curing with any reasonable hope of success? The experienced know bet ter. On work so variable, only general directions can be given. The next step is called 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- IIP! I 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 sweat. 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 xne 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 houts, 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 safe not to advance above one the Ar- hundred and ten degrees until tails begin to curl up at the ends, 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 lie expelled. When' the leat appears to be cured, advance five degrees every hour up to one hundred and seventy degrees and remain until stalk and stem are thoroughly c ured. 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, 90 degrees.from 24 to 80 hours. Second. Fixing Color, 100 degrees 4 hours. Second. Fixing Color, 100 to 110 2 de grees every 2 hours. Second. Fixing Color, 110 to 120, 4 to 8 hours. Third. Curing the leaf, 120 or 125. 0 to 8 hours - derrees an ho And continue at one T7 A. S V.. ,.4n1b ab,I ctsri 10T t-jt 1 i 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 187 1, 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, and new light has come through ex- o 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 warming up the barn for two or three hours, at a temperature of about 00 degrees, advance the heat rapidly up to 125 degrees or as high as it will bear without scaluing the to- bacco letting the heat remain at 125 degrees only a few minutes,, and then by drawing the fires and turning the dampers, cut off the heat and let the temperature of the barn descend to 90 degrees. This is generally called "sapping." The ration ale of the process is this: The heat, by expansion, opens the sap cells and 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 done to the tobacco. Following this mode, the yellowing process is greatly shortened, requiring from four to eight hours less to yellow sufficiently.and also hastens the second stage of curing fixing the color. It is well to state that there is so 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 r yellow in ' much less time than that grown in middle Vir ginia. Then again, tobacco will bear higher temperature in the yellowing process during some years than in others. Notably the season of 1884, was so dry and held so little sap when ripe, that many commenced yellowing at 100 degrees, and had the leaf cured in 50 hours. But this is exceptional, and for general practice would spoil both color and tobacco. The season, therefore, it must be borne in mind, greatly determines the amount of heat tobacco will require 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,nolding very little sap. Wetting the barn floor from time to time will assist in yellowing tobacco. Then there 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. By 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 mav 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 best 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 ot leaf, assorted with reference to color and size, and two of lugs. Of leaf tie six to eight Reaves 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 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, you'll have the satis faction of getting, at the least, a re munerating price for it, although poor and nondescript stock may be selling for less than the cost of production. jR. L. Ragland, Jfyco, Halifax coun- LITTLE JOE'S CRADLK. BY IRA C EDWARDS. Yer meen it all rite, Mr. Preechir, - An' I thank yer fur what ye have sed ; An' 1 s'pose you air right, but a creetur Can't smile when his heart is like led. Yer say the Lord knows what he's doln'. An' maybe he does, but it's quare That he'd bring to our home grief '11 ruin By robbin' that crib over thar. Yer say little Joe is with Jesus, That it's wicked 'n rash to rebel, An' I know that yer say't Jist t' ease us That he mite a-growed up jist for hell. Yer words don't give much conserlashun, Tho' yer meen it ter lighten our woe. But yer can't lift this black deserlashun Aa long as the boy lies ter go. I thank yer fer com in' to see us, But we can't see the thing in your way ; An' yer don't say a word that'll free us From the grief that is on us to-day . Es fur me, I ken bare up agin it, 'Coz I am a man, tuff'n strong, But Jist look at Jinny a minit. An say if yer think she'll last long. Her poor heart is br'akin' with sorrer She lies sot there all day '11 all rite. An' she won't come away, coz to-morrer 4. 1 1 1 IB. 1 . . . . one Knows ne 11 oe put out o signt. 've tried to pick up all his trinkets, His Stock in's 'n slivi 'n his Itih An' hide 'em away in the closets. uui 1 can t nnu a place mr the crib. I don't see no good in yer talkin'. Nor see what's the use fer ter pray. When all that is left o' the baby is oniy a lump o com ciay. He's dead, sir ; but God never done it, He wouldn't go back on us so ; If we've sinned we must 'a' begun it By worshipin poor little Joe. If yer can't ch'.r up little Jinny, An git lier away from her dea, An' start the hot tears from her eyelids, What's almost burnt out o' her lied ; If yer only cood git her to cryin' Twould help her to bare it, tha say. But I don't think 'twill help her a bit, sir, Jist now if a hundred would pray. Now, stop sir ! she air not rebellious. That kind 0' harrangin' won't do ; She's alius been meek 'n forgivin'. An' God knows her better than you. An if yer would do most to help us, Don t stop fur to preach or ter pray, But Jist make a sneek kinder quiet 'N take little Joe's cradle away. A GRASD SIGHT. Brilliant Battle or the Clouds Old Sol Peeps Over the Field. , (.Danville Kegister.J Those who failed on account of fright or for any other cause to witness the battle of the elements which took place just over the city last evening between 6 and 7 o'clock, missed a grand spectacular free show which may never be offered again in this latitude. Four black and angry clouds started from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern horizons at the same time. Each had its artillery in readi ness for work and all were in rapid motion. As the clouds came rushing onward, peals of thunder from one was answer ed by louder peals from the next, and vivid flashes of lightning from one were followed quickly by equally as brilliant sheets and flashes from the others. Thus they came on, seemingly mad dened by the anger, one of the other, until finally they met squarely over the city. Then for fully fifteen minutes such a spectacle as was witnessed from Danville windows was never before seen not even by the oldest inhabi tant. The instant one cloud would discharge its vivid flame of lightning and bellow forth its deafening thunder, the n:xt would take up the refrain, and its forked streaks of natural electric light would make zigzag cracks through the black veil of the overhanging cloud and a sound as it a hundred cannons had been discharged was heard. Then the third and fourth clouds as if deter mined to outdo their predecessors would quickly fall in line and their part of Heaven's artillery was used with all of its grand possibilities. This grand battle of the clouds went on for more than a quarter of an hour and in the meantime there was just enough rain and just anough wind to make the grandeur of the scene more startling and realistic. Finally, the clouds slowly and sullen ly withdrew, as if they had accepted under protest a drawn battle decision of a referee, and to show their dissatis faction at the decision continued for a half hour longer, as each slowly sought its own horizon to fire back shots of derision and defiance at its late competitors. The Western cloud divided its forces sufficiently to allow the sun, just before retiring for the night, to peep upon the battle field, and as Old Sol went to sleep, he left the forked streaks of lightning playing trick-track with each other with the four dark canopies form ing the' necessary checker-board for their amusement. Truly, it was a grand sight. rimpies, Dolls and other humors, are liable to aDDear when the blood eets heat ed. The best rembdy is Dr. J. II. McLean's Sai-saparilla. 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