North Carolina Newspapers

Ii the Wflrli'sBroaa Field of Battle, Lives of Ricii Sen All Kcmind Us We can make our lives sublime ; And by Liberal ADVERTISING In the conflict of real life,: ADVERTISING Is the Secret Of achievement in the strife th' high'st summit climb, THAD R. MANKIKG, Publisher. Oarqt iTtsta, Cabot .tita, IE3jb ate3st?s IBt iTisansros -A-Tteistd IEEEeir." ISUBSCRIPTIOI $1.50 Cash. VOL. IX. HENDERSON 3. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1890. NO. 37. North Carolina's Fayorite. l 7 6 8 1 8 9 0 3 North Carolina's famous brand of PURE OLD WHISKIES Have been manufactured on the same plantation for the past 122 Years. 122 Rye anil Corn WMej; :Peaen and Apple Brandy OX HAND. New 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. Shipped in any quantity. Write for price list. Old Nick Whiskey Co., (Successors to Jos. Williams) I'ANTHEK CREEK, Yadkin Co ., N. C Bictioii & Danville B. B. Co. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, IN EFFFCT MAY l8th, 1890. DAILY. SOUTH BOUND. Ulil M No. 50. So. 52. Lv. Richmond 3 00 p m 2 30 a m " Hurkeville 5 0(1 p ra 4 30am " Keysville 5 48 pm 5 10 a m " Danville 8 40pm 8 05am Ar. Greensboro 10 27 pm 9 42am Lv. Coldsboro 2 40 p Ui f5 00 p m Ar. Raleigh 4 40pm 9 00pm Lv. Raleigh 4 4.j p m 1 00 a m " Durham 5 48 p m 2 55 am Ar. Greensboro 8 20 p m 7 30 a 111 Lv. Winston-Salem 6 30 p m 0 15 a m Lv. Greensboro 10 37 p 111 9 50 a in Ar. Salisbury 12 2G a m 11 19 a m Ar. Statesville 1 49 a m 12 08 p m " Asheville 7 23am 4 22 p 111 " Hot Springs 9 34 a m 6 55 p m Lv. Salisbury 12 32 a m 11 24 a m A r. Charlotte 2 05am 12 40 pin " Spartanburg 4 51 a in 3 38 p 111 " Greenville 5 50am 44(ipm " Atlanta 1100 am 9 40pm Lv. Charlotte 2 20 a m 1 00 p m Ar. Columbia fi 30 a ni 5 10 p m " Augusta lo:toam' 9 00pm DAILY. NORTH HOUND. No. 51. No. 53. Lv. Augasta G 30 p m 8 00 a m " Columbia 10 35 p m 12 50 p m Ar. Charlotte 3 13 a m 5 15 p m Lv. Atlanta 0 00 p m 7 10 a m Ar. Greenville 12 35 am 1 48 p m " Spartanburg 1 3!) am 2 52 p m ' Charlotte 4 25 a in 5 .'50 p in " Salisbury 0 02 a in 7 05pm . Lv. Hot Springs 11 10 p in 12 24 p m " Asheville' 12 40 a in 2 05pm " Statesville 5 02 a in 5 58pm S.T. Salisbury 5 53 a 111 C 42 p m Lv. Salisbury 07 a m 7 12 p m Ar. Greensboro 7 45 a m 8 40 p m Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a m 12 30 a in Lv. Greensboro 9 45 a m 11 00 p m Ar. Durham 12 01 p m 5 Offtt m " Raleigh 1 05 p ni 7 45 a m Lv. Raleigh 1 05 pm 19 00 a in Ar. Goldsboro 2 55 p in 12 50 p m Lv. Greensboro 7 55 a m 8 50 p m Ar. Danville 9 32 a m 10 20 p m " Kevsville 12 18 p in 1 55 a ni " lturkeville 1 00 p in 2 45 a ra " Kiclnnond 3 30 p in 5 15 a ni Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh. Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. 51 and 102 STATIONS': and 103 s 00 a 9 40 a 11 00 a 1 00 p 2 or. p 2 25 p 2 32 p 2 44 p 3 0! p 3 15 p 3 35 p 3 50 p 3 58p 4 13 p Lv. Ar. Lv. West Iint Richmond Richmond Uurkeville Kevsville Fort Mitchell Finneywood Chase City Five Forks Clarksville Soudan Bullock's Stovall Oxford Ar. Lv. Ar. fi 10 p m 4 35 p m 4 30 p m 1 45 p m 2 00 p m 12 58 p m 12 47 p m 12 30 p m 12 10 p in 11 55 a m 11 40 a m 11 24 a m 11 15 a m Ar, Lv, 10 4G a m 4 40 p 5 15 p 5 45 p mLv. Oxford Ar. m Ar. Dabney Lv. m! " Henderson " 10 00 a m 9 25 a in 8 55 a m 4 13 p 4 45 p 4 55 p 5 17 p 5 3t? p 6 39 p 0 57 p Lv. Oxford Stem's Lyon's Holloway Durham Cary Raleigh Ar. Lv. 10 4fi a m 10 1G a m 10 09 a in 9 43 a in 9 25 a m 8 33a m 8 15 a m Ar. Lv t Daily except Sunday. Daily. Daily except Monday. Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex cept Sunday 11 00 a m., arrive Henderson 12 05 p m., returning leave Henderson 2 10 p m., daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford 3 15 p m. No. 50, leaving Goldsboro 2 20 p in and Raleigh 4 45 p m daily, makes connection at Durham with No. 19, leaving at 6 00 p m daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender son and all points on O. & H., O. & C. and K. & M. roads. Passenger coaches run through between West Point and Raleigh, via Keysville, ou Nos. 54 and 102, and.55 and 103. Nos. 51 and 53 connect at Richmond from and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex cept Sunday. Nos. 50 and 51 connect at Goldsboro with trains to and from Morehead City and Wil mington.andat Selma to and from Fayette ville. No. 52 connects at Greensboro for Fay etteville. No 53 connects at Selma for Wilson, N.C. Nos. 50 and 51 make close connection at university Station with trains to and from Chapel Hill, except Sundays. SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buf fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, Danville and Augusta and Greens Woro, via Asheville to Morristown, Tenn. On 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet 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 stations to all points. For rates, local and through time tables, a.PPly to any agent of the company, or to SOL ha A,- . J AS. L. TAYLOR, traffic Manager. Genn. Pass. Agent. W.A.TURK, Div. Pass. Agent, Raleigh, N. C. LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT. The Beautiful Hymn Written by the Late Cardinal Newman. The following is the beautiful hymn which has made the late Cardinal New man immortal, for, like "Sweet Home," it finds a response In every human breast. He wrote it in 1823, when wrestling with many doubts and fears, at sea upon the Mediterranean, about the time that Lord Byron died in Greece : Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encireling gloom. Lead thou me on The night is dark and I am far from home, Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet ; 1 do not ask to see The distant scene ; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou Sbouldst lead me on ; I loved to choose and see my path ; but now Lead thou me on. I loved the garish day, and spite of fears Pride ruled my will ; remember not past years. So long thv power has blest me, sure it still Will lead me on. O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent till, The night is gone. And with the morn those angel faces smile. Which 1 have loved long since and lost awhile. THE KICKER. Some Famous Kickers Who Have Kicked to Good Purpose. r&scanaba (Michigan)Mirror. The Kicker is usually an unpopular man during the days of his sojourn ment here, but his views are vindicated in the long run, and he receives the huzzas and homage of mankind alter he has passed under the Dust and Daisies Forever. If a man has sufficient brains to see an evil, and sufficient backbone to kick against it, notwith standing it is upheld by press, pulpit and public, he is forthwith condemned as a Kicker by every mental Dwarf and Runt In Christendom, and is unanimously shunned and sneered at by the mob the poor, struggling, unlettered, crawl ing mob that he is sacrificing himself to help. Washington was a Kicker. He and his soldiers kicked for seven stormy years against the most unprin cipled government on the globe, and you and me, and all American citizens are now rejoicing in the result of that most Sublime and Star-spangled Kick the world has ever known. John Brown was a Kicker. He kicked against an institution that many looked upon as Scriptural, and as he had the reputation of being an infernal old horse-thief anyhow, they hurled him into eternity from the red arm of the scaffold tree. But the day came when millions were march ing to the music of his name a name that will live in song, story and his tory Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment-book un fold. Never a revolutionist lived or died who wasn't a Kicker; and never a martyr ; and never a man who sealed his love of liberty by surrendering his life upon the gallows or in the red flames quivering 'round the stake. All that Humanity is to-day it owes to the Kicker. Ay, and more all it can ever hope to become it will owe to the social or political recalcitrant 1 the man who is dissatisfied with the conditions that surround himself and his fellow-men, and who seeks to re form those conditions by Tongue, Fen, or Bullet, As best befits the cause. All honor and all hail to the Kicker! and the man who doesn't like this sen timent is a pavid prig and doesn't be lieve in interfering with the konsti tooted authority, no matter if that au thority Steams and Stinks With pollution. He thinks it the propah capah, y'knaw, to honor men in power, no matter if they are tyrants, perjurers, man-slayers, thieves, wench ers, or what not. Spaniel that he is, he takes the world as he finds it, and if its progress had been left to him, and the like of him, mankind would still be living in the condition of the Troglodytes still be dwelling in caves, dressing in the untanned hides of savage brutes, and feasting on the flesh of their fellow-men. About Printers' Ink. This is the day of printers' ink, and the prizes are for those who use it. Your traditions and prejudices may be to the contrary, but the world doesn't care a tig for them. The man who sits and waits for his trade in these days gets left. Don't advertise, don't quote your price lists, don't see that your city or your business is represent ed in your patronizing territory, and don't stand up manfully alongside those who are fighting for their rights and interests, aud there can ' be but one result shriveling up. Good sales men, first-class articles, gilt-edged credit are not enough. They are ex cellent, necessary but not enough. Fruiters' ink beats them in a long run. Uncle Sam's mails go every day, ear ning their freight of special offers, new crops, long credits, cash discounts, job lots and lovers' tales from every where. And in the end your trade is reduced. It's the world old story of the honeyed tongue and the open ear. In the fierce competition of these days old habits.and associations simply can not stand the pressure. The trade is for the man who uses Printers' Ink. Exchange. ABOUT CURING TOBACCO. SOME PERTINENT FACTS PRE SENTED BY AN EXPERT. The Cost of Curing the Leaves Both on and off the Stalk Contrasted. fCapt. W. II. Snow, in Danville Tobacco journal. j Editor Southern Tobacco Jour nal: Few men will be prepared to believe when told all the evils that can be traced directly to the pernicious and wasteful way of curing tobacco on the stalk. We have said before and ! here repeat that to the foolish system of curing on the stalk can be traced j nearly all the unsound or funked to-! bacco found on our markets ; a vast and useless consumption of fuel ; the building of countless numbers of cur ing barns, and the waste of at least one-third of the entire crop that is; grown in our fields. It causes the! construction of the huge prize houses, with all the redrying paraphernalia that cost vast sums of money and adds to one's insurance and expenses in count-j less ways. I Mr. Editor, let us look into the matter and make an itemized account against the tobacco stalk, and foot up the figures and see how much longer we can afford to keep the stalk at the double duty of both growing and cur ing tobacco. 1st. The waste or bottom leaves that of necessity go to waste in the stalk cure system equal one-third of the crop. This subject has been fully dis cussed in the Journal. Little more need be said to convince any reason able man that at the lowest estimate one-third can be added to the value of an acre of tobacco if the leaves are cured as they ripen when we prime and top at ten leaves. But if we top higher than ten leaves, more than one third is added to the crop. That the bottom leaves when properly cured are quite as saleable and in as good demand as any part of the crop no one will deny. In our first item, then, we charge up to the tobacco stalk a clear loss of one-third of each crop of tobacco grown. The crop of 1889 es timate is 220,000,000 pounds; one third of this amount is in round num bers 73,000,000 pounds; at ten cents per pound the loss on the crop to the farmers was $ 7,000,300 in one year to the debit side of the stalk cure. It is the universal testimony that a common log barn will cure 500 pounds with two cords of wood on the stalk. It is also admitted that the same barn will cure twice the amount of tobacco with one-half the fuel without the stalk. The excess of fuel used in cur ing one-half of the crop of 1889 above what would be required to cure the leaf foots up $ 1,300,000, which must be charged up to the debit side of the stalk cure. We have now wasted one-third of our crop and burned $1,300,000 worth of wood, to say nothing of the barn burnt and charged up $8,300,000 to the stalk cure on the debit side in two items. We will now charge the loss of 10 per cent, in weight on every pound of tobacco cured on the stalk. By this we mean to say that every leaf of to bacco is robbed by the stalk equal to 10 per cent, of its legitimate weight by being cured on the stalk. There are some who will dispute this, but to such we will only say let the scales de cide the question. Science and phi losophy is all on one side of the leaf cure, and we are happy to say that the scales are backing our science in every test. We have to charge up to the stalk in this one item $2,200,000 ; at ten cents per pound making in three items $10,500,000. We now come to one more item, Mr. Editor. We deliberately charge to the mistaken policy of curing to bacco on the stalk all the funky and unsound tobacco that is found on our markets. Well, how much is unsound ? No man can tell. The editor of the Southern Tobacconist in an editorial last April stated that 70 per cent, of all the offerings in the dark tobacco sections were unsound by reason of warm, damp weather. Well, why not lay it to damp weather instead of charging it up to the stalk? Plainly, if the tobacco had been stripped before curing it would have been bulked so compactly that it would be out of the power of damp weather to do it harm. The excess of wood we consumed was used to kill out the stalk. We killed our tobacco at the same time; we melted the wax; we baked the vege table albumen ; we rendered the leaf powerless to resist moisture, and when it was rehung to older for stripping it took in too much water, and when bulked it got mouldy. How much damage no man can tell. The dam age will foot up millions of dollars. The city of Danville has ft least ten acres covered with redrying houses, together with not less than one hun dred acres of tobacco rehung to dry out the water from tobacco that was over-cured and too' much ordered while hanging to the stalk on a damp day. Had the tobacco been cured in the leaf it would have gone to market sound and seasoned in bulk before marketing, thus from necessity, one eighth of the store-room would have kept the tobacco better ; would save the rehanging; the waste in color and shrinkage in weight and cost of hang ing, which I am told equals 10 per cent, of the gross weight. Another $2,200,000. Thus you sec, Mr. Edi tor, we sum up nearly $13,000,000 besides our funky tobacco and seven eighths of the cost of all the prize houses in the country as so much use less expense. We also charge to the mistaken pol icy of curing on the stalk the loss of vegetable manure equal to ten dollars per acre on every acre of tobacco cul tivated by robbing the fields of the to bacco stalk and suckers which right fully belong to them and should be re turned to them, instead of being carted away and wasted. Allowing one thousand pounds to the acre, which is a liberal estimate to grow 2 2o,ooo,oool a 1 : pounas, we naa tooacco growing on 220,000 acres last year at ten dollars per acre, and we sacrificed $2,200,000 to the stalk cure last season. This sum must be added to the $13,000,000 already charged, making $15,200,000, which can be correctly computed and rightfully charged to the stalk cure. While we cannot compute in figures the damage to the industry by reason of loss in color and unsound tobacco, which we may justly charge to the stalk cure and nowhere else. It would seem that we had charged the stalk with misdemeanors enough and more than it can bear, but we have more charges yet to make. Indeed, Mr. Editor, we are not half done with the culprit that filches our money on every side. We have another charge of a very serious financial matter. It is no less than 8 per cent, interest on all the capital invested. I don't see, says one, what the stalk cure has to do with the interest on the capital invest ed. Let me tell you, the tobacco stalk imparts its bad qualities to the leaf while curing. The biting, bitter, pungent element found in all new stalk cured tobacco comes from the stalk and from the stalk only. Add up the interest at 8 per cent, on all the capital invested in the manufacture of tobacco and you will be able to guess at the full measure of the financial mischief which the stalk does the leaf by the foolish notion that men have of curing the two together. If your cook should boil the stump or stalk on which the cabbage head grows you would think the cook was crazy when you come to eat your dinner. The to bacco curer commits a mistake equal in magnitude when he puts the filthy poison tobacco stalk into the curing barn with the leaves. When the to bacco is two years old it is possible to use. It takes two full years to neu tralize the poison ; to mellow the ni trates ; to decompose the nicotiannin ; to repair the mischief ; to take out of the leaf what was foolishly put in by the stalk in curing, because the curer did not know any better. No wonder, Mr. Editor, that a good chew of tobacco costs one dollar per pound. Two men out of every five you meet will admit these things to be true ; the other three have never thought of them. The subject is of the greatest importance to the indus try. It involves more than thirty mil lions annually. The tobacco stalk is the vortex, the "maelstrom" into whose capacious maw has gone the sweat, the toil and the hopes of many a planter, and the dollars of the buyer and the manufacturer. The business ! of the stalk is to grow tobacco leaves, The stupendous blunder of the age was made when the stalk was first used to cure leaves on. If there was one redeeming quality in the stalk cure the case would not look so foolish, but we have looked in vain for one redeeming point in its favor. If speed or cheap ness is the desired end then a mowing machine and a pitchfork will beat the stick -straddling out of sight. It is given out that the exodus of negroes from this State is to be re newed with vigor this fall and winter. The colored immigration society is co-operating with the railroad agents to further the movement. They will go to the North and West instead of further South as heretofore. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has just. received a knock-out in the United States Court at Cincinnati, Ohio. Manchester (Va.) Leader. The whole thing ought to be knock ed out of existence. It is a fraud for paying high-salaried officers to do nothing. We have failed to see any practical benefits the people have de rived from it. A Hint to Business Men. The late A. T. Stewart, in his day the merchant prince of New York, once said that every business man should spend a sum of money in adver tising equivalent to the rent of his store. That was true in his day, but so rapid has been the progress of scien tific advertising since then that .if the merchant prince were alive to-day he would undoubtedly recommend an ex penditure of a sum at least twice the rental of a store. The business man of to-day who is not satisfied to make a mere living out of his business does not need to be prodded with the sharp tongs of progress to make him adver tise, lie advertises steadily, scientific ally and intelligently. Lexington Led ger. English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish care ever known. Sold by Melville Dorse y, druggist, Henderson. N. C. apr. 10-1 c. FALLACY OF PROTECTION. THE TRUTH DAWNS AT LAST. A Protective Tariff is Not What the Farmers Want. The Atchison Champion, the lead ing Republican paper of Kansas, which has for more than thirty years advo cated a protective tariff, has at last seen the error of its way and now comes out boldly in favor of free trade for the Western farmers. Its plea is a strong one, and the arguments it uses will apply with equal force j to the agricultural South. We are in the same boat as the Western farmer, both ground to the dust by the iron hand of protection and the money barons of the East, who have been made enor mously rich at our expense. We pub lish the editorial from the Champion in its entirety. It is a good campaign document and can be used to advan tage by Democratic speakers in the coming campaign. The people of the South and West need more light upon the tariff question, and a paper like the Champion, that has always been Republican and advocated protection, is pretty good authority to quote from when it denounces the practices of its party: Read it carefully, Southern farmers, and learn a lesson therefrom : "When such recognized Republican leaders as James G. Blaine and Preston B. Plumb essay to depart very widely from their life-long convictions on the tariff question, it certainly will not be seriously contended that other Repub licans, who have never faltered in their adherance to the protective-tariff idea, forfeit their party standing or furnish grounds for impeaching their Repub licanism, if they too, upon mature de liberation, make bold to express views on that subject at varience with the accepted party dogmas. "For over 20 years the Champion has advocated and defended the pro tective tariff theory. It has argued this question with all the logic at its command. It has furnished columns of facts and figures in support of pro tection versus free trade. Sincere in its belief that the only true economic policy for this country was " protection to American industries," it has neg lected no opyortunity to set forth its advantages and to combat what it has invariably designated the free trade heresy. Recently, however, the Champion has discovered certain reasons for very materially changing its mind on this subject, and at this writing it has no hesitancy in declaring that, all senti ment and bias aside, while a protective tariff is a decided and almost tndis pensable benefit to the East, the great manufacturing and financial stronghold of our country, for the West, the great agricultural area of our land, it is a positive injury, a barrier to its progress, an insurmountable hindrance to its de velopment, and an effectual estoppel to its prosyerity. What has led the Champion to this conclusion, this radical change in its economic opinions? Briefly this: It has found that under the dominance of the protective idea the East has steadily grown in wealth at the ex pense and to the detriment of the West. In other words, that Eastern manufrcturers and capitalists have in creased their accumulations enormously while the farmers of the West have, during the same period, made no pro portionate gain, but on the contrary, have been reduced to a condition of vassalage, of tribute-paying serfs. To put it in still another form. The capitalists and manufacturers in the East, aided and abetted by a protec tive tariff, have made money in fabu lous sums, while the farmers of the West have scarcely been able to maintain themselves respectably. Not only so, but Eastern manufacturers and capi talists have, by reason of this protec tive tariff, been placed in a position where their financial power gives them practical control of our Government in all its departments, despite the votes and wishes of the people of the West ern States who, by reason of being large creditors, of necessity borrowers of and dependents upon the East, are virtually politically disfranchised. The Western farmer has no interest whatever in a protective tariff. His interest rather lies in the direction of free trade of access to all markets wherever his products may be in de mand. It is for his interest to sell what he raises wherever in all the wide world he can find a purchaser, and thus provide himself with the means of disposing of his sjurplus crops. Not only is he vitally interested in securing all possible markets, but equally so in buying what he needs as cheaply as possible. Sell where he may, and buy at the lowest figures ; this, selfish as it may seem, is what most concerns the Western farmer. Free trade will give the West the markets of the world, and an opportu nity to buy what it requires at less than half it now "pays for the same articles. Lumber, hardware, furniture, cloth ing, groceries and agricultural imple ments these the West needs princi pally. Free trade will bring these things to us at figures far below protec tive prices. In all this the Champion speaks solely from the standpoint of self-interest. It is with States and sections as with individual citizens self pre servation is the first obligation. A due regard to our sectional preservation, or .territorial interest, demands the adoption of free trade commercial reciprocity with all nations. The East, as we have stated, has grown dangerously rich by means of a protec tive tariff ; now let the West assert it self and use the means at its command to change its economic policy to one more conducive to sectional welfare. . The question is broader than party lines. It is more vital than mere for mal political organizations, and more essential than the dominance of any particular set of politicians, for it touches our life and is indissolubly in terwoven with our existence. -Protection continued 20 years longer and the West, with its vast agricultu ral, possibilities, would be a pauper bound hand and foot. Let us who live here in the West be fools no longer but let us exercise our common sense and protect our own interests by ob taining, just as quick as possible, the freest trade with all its attendant bene fits." Young Men Scare. Tho cry which cornea up from the wutv-rlng places is as regularly associat ed v. -it 11 iliis eoason in tiio public mind vj& c.Auiubers, ico cre:ra JUid russet loutitur shoes. It is worth noting, how ever, that the wail tin's year U Uioredeep end heartfelt t hair It has been for many seasons" past. If things go on at the present rate before long the government will be importuned to take a hand in supplying the summer resorts with young men. Their scarcity bids fair to rank as a public grievance. Some of the published lists of the entertainment given at the watering places are curious ly suggestive. In one dispatch from Narragansett, for instance, on Sunday the details of a "delightful impromptu picnic" were given. A list of the guests was append ed. There were four young men and twenty-seven young women. At an "in formal" dance in Newport on the same day it was said that for the first time in the history of that famous watering place girls danced with one another since there were not enough men to go around. Such a condition of thingb as this at Newport is absolutely unprecedented. It is not difficult to find out where the young men are by the way. They are grinding away in New York, and a can did and unprejudiced survey of the field gives the impression that in view of all the cireumstances they are doing pretty well. Newport Letter. ' Cucumbers m Food. Many people are under the impression that cucumber is very indigestible, and v-hen they cat it they do so under pro test and with apprehensions of possibly dira consequences. How this delusion can have arisen it is difficult to say, un less it be that cucumber is often eaten with salmon and other indigestible ta ble friends. It is not the cucumber however, but the salmon that sits so heavy upon our stomach's throne. Cu cumber, in fact, is very digestible when eaten properly. It cannot, indeed, be otherwise when.it is remembered that it consists mainly of water, and that those pin ts which are not water are almost ex clusively cells of a very rapid growth. In eating encumber it is well to cut it into thin elices and to masticate them thoroughly. Ehren the vinegar and the pepper that are so of ten added to it are of service to digestion if not taken in ex cess. The cucumber, as every one knows, belongs to the melon tribe; but in our somewhat cold country it does not grow to any very large size, and therefore it is firmer and looks less di gestible than its congener, the melon. Loudon Hospital. A Bug- with Two Green Lau terns. Mr. A. W. Habersham found on Ex change place a beetle about one inch long that lias back of his eyes two spots that give out a dazzling phosphorescent green light sufficient to illuminate' boa surroundings for a distance of several inches. When placed pn his back he rights himself with a spring and a snap ping sound. It is hence inferred that he belongs to the family "Elater. As such ;i beetle with lantern is not known to bo a resident of this country it is sup posed that Mr. Habersham's find is an immigrant from Brazil or some tropical country where bugs that carry lantern are not uncommon. Baltimore Son. Feminine Qualities In Great Men. Furthermore, I believe that in the highest minds a certain intermixture of this feminine element of intuition with the masculine element of pure reason is always present. Great wits jump; that is to say, they are essentially intuitive. Thoy see at a glance what plodders take roars and years to arrive at. There is in r'.I xeirius, however virile, a certain un dercurrent of the best feminine charac teristics. I am thinking now not merely of the Raphaels, the Shelleys and the jtlt'udelssohns, but also even of the New totw, the Gladstones and the Edisons. They have in them something of the womanly, though not of the womanish. Ia one word, the man of gen ins is com prehensively human. As he always re sults from a convergence of many fine blocks upon a single point, so also, it seeijn to me, he often results from a union or convergence of male and female ties. Grant Allen in Forum. Heart Failure. So Called. Heart failure" is interpreted at the health oCice as meaning heart disease. Dr. ITcShane, assistant health commis sioner, who is acting health commiseion er in the absence of Dr. Rohe, says that heart failure is no disease itself, but a ruit of a disease, and simply means "died for want of breath." Heart dis ease iteblf. the doctor Bays, is an indefi nite temi as well as heart failure, for there are many kinds of disease of the heart. There are no medical works nbich give heart failure as the cause of death, as the term simply means a fail ure of the vital powers from whatever may be the cause. The term heart fail ure is used of late years because the doc tors have nothing else to say, and in many instances it is assigned as a cause when a physician has not made a proper diagnosis of a case. Baltimore Sun THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE. ANOTHER WESTERN EXTENSION. Important Aetion of the Stockholders of the W. & W. Railroad-A Hundred and Fifty Miles of New Railroad to be Bniltr We take the following from the Wil mington Messenger of August 27th: We congratulate the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company upon the result of the stockholder's meeting here yesterday with regard to increas ing the stock of company in order to build several branch lines" now protec ted. The action of the stockholders will result in adding about a hundred and hity more miles of railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line system. As will be seen from the proceedings published elsewhere this morning, a part of the action taken is of special interest to Wilmington. We mean the decision to build the Nashville branch to Raleigh or Durham where connec tion is to be made with the Lynchburg and Durham railroad. That elegant gentleman, well known in our city, Col. Bennehan Cameron,of Hillsboro, was here representing the Lynchburg and Durham railroud with a view to furthering this project, and from him we ascertain that great enthusiasm is felt along the line of that road over the prospect of an early connection with Wilmington. The advantages of this prospective connection to our city are quite mani fest, as it will open up to us another line into the coal and iron regions of West Virginia and Southwestern Vir ginia, thus making it possible for the estabiisnment of a coaling station here. It will also give Wilmington direct connection with Cincinnatti and Chi cago by way of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Lynchburg, and also with the cities Pittsburg, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo by way of the Pittsburg and Virginia Railroad.which is soon to be built, and of which ex- Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, is president, l his connection will be particularly advantageous for the reason that the new line thus to be opened will secure an outlet to the seaboard for Western products. The following extract is taken from the report of the proceedings of the stockholders meeting above referred to. Editor Gold Leaf. Alter tne business before the meet ing had been brought up in detail and been freely and fully discussed, a reso lution was adopted authorizing the ex tension and completion of the Nash ville branch from its present terminus at Spring Hope to the city of Raleigh, or to uurhaw or to both, or to any point on the Lynchburg and Durham railroad. A further resolution was adopted authorizing an increase of the capital stock of the Wilmineton and Weldon Railroad company, under act ot February 21st, 1867, to such an amount as may be necessary for the completion of the Fayetteville branch to tne isouth Carolina State line ; the extension and completion of the Scot land Week branch from the Albemarle and Raleigh junction to Kinston and to Washington, and also the extension and completion of the Nashville branch to Raleigh or Durham, or to both, or to any point on the line of the Lynch burg and Durham railroad the con struction of these branches havine already been authorized by the stock- noiaers. The resolution gives to the Board of Directors the power to arranee all the details as to the opening of the books of subscription and the issuing of new stocK and provides that the proceeds of the sale of stock issued shall in each case be strictly applied to the construc tion and completion of the branch lines on account of which the same may be be issued. The action on the respective resolu tions was unanimous, and it is under stood that a meeting of the directors will be held soon to carry them out. 1 he completion of the extensions con templated will add 150 more miles of railway to the already extensive At lantic Coast Line. The Country Newspaper. The country newspaper is the most useful and least compensated of all the agencies which stamp the impress of progress upon villages. Without the aid of the local paper, local towns are, as a rule, thriftless and dead. It is the ladder on which men climb to local dis tinction as the .beginning of a wider fame. The beginning ot the local newspaper has always dated the in creased thrift and prosperity of the general community. The local news paper is the life of the locality, and the measure of its support also measures the advancement of the people. Ex change. D. Y. JCoper, Ilendorsen'a Plc-aeer orthosis man. One of the oldest and most success ful warehousemen in the State is D. Y. Cooper, of Henderson. The history of his business is the history of Hender son. No man U more extensively or favorably known in the tobacco trade than D. Y. Cooper. For years he has been selling tobacco for the farmers of North Carolina and Virginia, and no man ever gave better satisfaction to his patrons. His name is a household word in Nash county, and he handles a large amount of our Nash tobacco. His facilities for handling the present crop of tobacco are unusually good, and none who carry him their tobacco will have cause to complain of prices. Nashville Argonaut. Both the method and result when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta fently yet promptly on the Kidneys, aver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedjwof its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in 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 Fits is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one jho wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL UUISVIU. KV. NEW tORK. M.f. Mind wamtoriiur enrad. Banka laaniaA ia om readm. Titstimonwia fm rn.lt put tba kIoIm. Prmpactua ronr fmei. stot on application to Pmf. LuissUa, Stf i'lith At. N York. 8. HAltlllS, DENTIST, HKNDEKHON, X. c. Fure Nitrous Oxide Gas ad in In littered for the jRlnli-K8 extrac tion of teeth. rOfflf!n nvir F (! notk' atnm Xf.ln Street. tan ' l-a. T. W ATKINS, Attorney and Counsellor at Lawl JJENDEItSON, N. C. Courts: Vance, Qranvllln and WarrsD. anl the Pederal Court at Kalelgh. Hpeclal attention Riven to negotiating loans, settlement or estates, aul litigated cases. Jan.6 K. HENRY, " ATTOItNICV -A.T L.A.W.. HENDERSON, N. 0., OFFICE IN BCHWELli BCILPIKO. CouKT8:-Vance. Franklin. Warren, Oran vllle. United btates Court at ltaleliiu. and Supreme Court of North Carolina. KxriKKNCE:-Chief Justice W. N. If. ?nih i,on,- Augustus H. MerrlMon, Oov. Daniel O. Fowle, iion. T. c. Fuller, lion. T M. Argo, Dr. W. T. Cheatham, Dr. J, U Tucker, Mr. M. Dorsey, H. H. liurwell. Esq., lion. James Ed win Moore, Ex-Solicitor 0n ofU.8. Sarnuel F. I'hllllps. Office hours 9 a m. to 5 p. m. inch. 7 3 I fjl M. PITTMAN, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. Prompt attention to all professional ness. 1'ractlces In the Blate and Federal courts. Office: Room N'o.2, Burwell Uulldlne. nov 61 c. KKWJ. IIAItltIS, ATTORNEY All LAW) HENDERSON, N. C. Practices 1 n tne cou rta of Vance, O ran vl I Is Warren and Franklin counties, and Into Supreme and Federal courts ofthebtate. Office: In Harris Law liuilding. next Court House. ' W. H. PAT. k. C. ZOLLICOFFEB. JAY & ZOLLICOFFEW, ATTOUNKYH AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. Practice In the courts of Vance, GranvllU Warren, Halifax and Northampton, and 1 In the Hupi erne and Federal courts of the 8taU. uiiicooer a law building. Oar nett street. fb. fiia 1 L. C. EDWAHM, Oxford. N. C A. R. WOBTHAhf, Henderson. N. O- jgIWAUIS av WOUTIIAM, ATTORNEYS AT LA W, HENDERSON, N. C. Offer their services to the people of Vane county. Col. Edwards will attend all the Courtsof Vance county, and will come to Henderson at any and all times when his assistance may be Deeded by his partner. JR. C 8. BOYD, Dental mmflP . Surgeon. HE2f DEBSOK, V. Satisfaction guaranteed as to work and pric w. Offlc -jrer Parker A Clohs' store ;iohs Btor feb 4-a. un atrer Tbe Bank of Henderson. (ESTABLISHED IN iS8.) General Banking, Exchange & Collections. MONEYTO LOAN On improved farms In sums of 9300 and up wards at ueen per cent., and moderate charges. Loans repayable in small an nual Installment through a period of five years, thus enabliug the borrower to pay off bis indebtedness without exhausting hi crop In any one year. Apply to ffM. 11. S. BUKUWYN. At The Bank of Henderson. -yy W. II. S. 1UJKGWYN, Attorney and Counsellor-at-La w HENDERSON, N. C. . Office: In Tbe Bank of Henderson bulldiag. ill WtZ. 11 mm