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NEWSPAPER ENPRPRISE
A BRIGHT IDEA IN JOURNALISM WELL
CARRIED OUT.
The Uastonia Gazette's Public Spirit
Comes In For Flattering Mention
Fditor Marshall's Census Scheme
and What a Leading Publication
says About it-Other Towns are
Followihg Suit.
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One of the most praiseworthy
schemes we have ever known for in
creasing circulation is that recently
put in practice by Mr. W. F. Marshall,
publisher of the (Jastonia (N. C.)
(inzette, a progressive and clean seven -column
folio weekly which we have
l)ttore had occasion to call attention to
on account of the spirit of enterprise
exhibited by its publishers.
The scheme we have particular ref
erence to is the taking of a complete
census of the town. It is the best ad
vertisement that could K)ssibly have
leen given the locality, and, indeed,
we know of no place which could be
better advertised to the outside world
than by the publication of a complete
census of its inhabitants. Such a
scheme arouses the interest of the en
tire community. The taking of a cen
sus always marks an important epoch
in the history of a town or city, and
tends to add to the money value of
every fixture within its limits.
J AKKN AT A TIME MOST OPPORTUNE.
A particularly important point in
connection with this census lies in the
bet that it was uken on June i, 1895,
that day being the central point be
tween the regular government census
dates of June 1, 1890, and June 1,
1900. We believe the credit is due to
Mr. Marshall for being the only mem
ber of the newspaper fraternity to
whom the happy thought occurred of
improving such an opportune occasion
by obtaining and publishing a census
of the people. It is an event worthy
of leing chronicled in the history of
the state, and the information obtained
thereby will undoubtedly be used in
the compilation of future documents
relative to the growth of the vicinity.
HOW THE WORK WAS DON K.
The introduction to the statistics
contains a declaration of the objects of
the census; a classified list of the per
sons counted and omitted, and some
rules governing the work of enumera
tors. Then follows the ward divisions
and name of the individual in charge
of the canvass for each ward. The
report itself covers not only the statis
tics of population, but those of educa
tion and church membership. The
tedious work of classification and com
pilation was all done in the Gazette
office, and completed in time for the
regular edition, which also contained
the usual complement of general
news.
It is needless to say that such an un
dertaking created a great demand for
the paper, and an extra large edition
had to be printed to satisfy the
call.
A (,1'ESSINi; CONTEST WHICH DIDN'T
NEED A PRIZE.
One other feature coonected with
this remarkable work was the publica
tion of a list of guesses on the number
of inhabitants, which had been called
tor in a previeus issue; and a curious
fact brought out by these figures was
that the lowest guesses were by the
oldest inhabitants. No prize was of
fered. Willing to Oblige.
They are telling a story at the ex
pense of a young North Carolina girl.
The girl is charming, but like a great
many other charming people 6he is
poor. She never has more than two
evening gowns in a season, and the
ruin of one of them is always a very
serious matter to her. She went to a
little dancing party last week, and she
wore a braud new white frock. During
the evening a great big red faced per
spiriug man came up and asked her to
ihxice. He wore no gloves. She
looked at his well-meaning but moist
hands despairingly, and thought of the
immaculate back of her waist. She
hesitated a minute, and then she said
with a winning smile :
"Of course, I'll dance with you, but
if you don't mind, won't you please use
your handkerchief"' The man looked
at her blankly a moment or two.
Then a light broke over his face.
"Why, certainly," he said.
And he pulled out hi9 handkerchief
and blew his nose. Life's Calendar.
My hoy was taken with a disease resem
bling blond r flux. The first thing I thought
of was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
l'iarrhiert Kemedy. Two doses of it settled
the matter and cured him sound and well.
I heartilv recommend this remedy to all
persons sutlering from a like complaint.
will answer any inquiries regarding it when
stamp is inclosed. I refer to any county
otlicial as to my reliability. W.M. RoACli,
J. 1., l'riinroy, Campbell county, Tenn.
For sale by Melville Iorsey, druggist.
Harper's
Magazine
tember.
for Sep-
Kuvid Graham Adee will contribute to
the September Harper's the history of
"Malbrouk se'u va-t-eu guerre," thesong
that Trilby hang at her Paris debut, and
trace it down from a remote pastf through
important historic movements to a tune
now familiar in every civilized coun
try. In the stune number the third paper in
Poultney Itigelow's "German Struggle
for Liberty" series will describe the de
moralization of Prussia through the
cowardice and taenson of the nobles, the
revival of patriotism among the people
through the efforts of Xcttelbeck, Schill,
(ineisenau, and Scharnhorst, and the
famous conference at F.rfurt, at which
Napoleon alternately daisied and
insulted the Csar and the German
princes,
Ozrolzcn-, Caroltnta, He a. vest's Blesshtqs
GOD BLESS fc'iY FRIENDS.
KY J. M. LEACH.
God bless my friends!
Hy the hurtling, poisoned darts of
Why
Or when success doth crown our souls
plate,
A nursing friend the ugly wound will
dre.ss,
And fearless friends will warn us in suc
cess. tiod bless my friends!
(iod bless my friends!
When on the madly rolling sea of doubt
Our souls are tossed, nor hope withiH nor
'out.
A gentle friend will turn us f ioim the night.
F-01 l uic saving cross, an named witli
light.
God bless my friends!
.... iio'l Mess my friends!
n ..right-eyed amity and social cheer
it with us round our boards, and friends
are near,
How dear the humblest home, how glow
our hearts!
All shallow thought of little self departs.
Ood bless my friends!
.... G1 bless y f Mends !
n PVtfI'ty 8,inl3 tender souls to dust,
YY hen burdens eat our hearts away with
rust,
a. 1'...
a menu win give, and aid with
pusre
ami smut
And crashing weights seem lighter grown
the while.
God bless my friends!
God bless my friends!
When death steals in our homes and skulks
away
leaving the eyes closed we loved alway,
When the first days of secret grief are
passed,
llow sweet a friend who'll love you to the
last.
God bless my friends!
God bless my friends!
I love and trust them, for they've proven
true;
They chide and praise me and are tender
too.
They are to nie all that I hope of man,
lhe test of ages, promise of our land.
God bless my friends!
God bless my friends!
lien 1 shall leave this world I love
much
so
t or realms which mortal foot
touch.
can never
"l'were sweet if all my friends were stand
ing nigh,
And I might say this last herat-born good
by; "God bless my friends!"
Washington, D. C.
Heroism on Southern Battlefields.
Gen. Heth who was in the Confed
eral Third Corps (Gen. A. P. Hill's)
and a personal frieud of Gen. Long
street, was introduced by that gentle
man to our representative, and with
true Southern courtesy the old gentle
man now in his 71st year, contributed
in Ionia Lion on several pertineut ques
tion He was asked:
"General, can you recall any in
stanes of peculiar bravery which
cam under your observation in bat
tley" "Yes," he replied. "I think one of
the most gallant that I ever witnessed
during the late war was an act per
formed by a man now possibly forgot
ten among the hosts that struggled on
the fields of battle in our Southern
laud. Capt. Slade, who was on my
staff, on the 5th of May, 18C4, led a
charge on foot in the midst of a perfect
hailstorm of musketry and artillery,
and after most heroic effort, succeeded
in regaining possession of an abandoned
cannon and returning with it suc
cessfully to our lines. The chances
were thousands against his coming
back alive but with a courage born of
desperation he was successful in his
attempt."
The She mw ell Verdict.
f Charlotte Observer.
The press of North Carolina was
never so nearly unanimous as to any
matter as it is in its opinion of the
result of the Shemwell trial at Iexing
ton. Not one that we have seen ap
proves the verdict. Four have said,
substantially, that the sworn jury which
heard all of the testimony and had the
opportunity to note bearing of the
witnesses was a better judge of the facts
than the outside irresponsible pub
lic which had to depend for its infor
mation upon incomplete newspaper
reports. This is the nearest a defense
that has been suggested and this, as
has been said by only four of the
papers; the others are out-spoken in
their condemnation. As the press is
so is the North Carolina public, as
nearly as we can judge. By the way,
the State Press Association at its meet
ing in Greensboro adopted a resolution
calling for reform in the procedure of
the courts in criminal cases, the idea
being to give the State something like
an even chance in the trial ot a cause
and not leave all the advantage on the
side of the defendant.
HINTS OS TOBACCO CURING.
Major Ragland in his treatise on
tobacco curing, says:
For all practical purposes, when
ever the curer has mastered a knowledge
of the effects of too much or too little
heat, as evidenced in the color of tob
acco, clearly described heretofore, he
possesses a key to solve the difficult
Iproblem in the science of curing to
bacco. By close observation this lesson
may soon be learned and then success
is easy. There is an occasional barn
ol tobacco that defies all the known
modes and appliances to yellow or
cure bright.
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 pre
mises. 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.
PECULIAR in combination, pro
portion and preparation of ingredi
ents,l Iood's Sarsaparilla possesses great
curative value. You should TRY IT.
HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1895.
YELLOW TOBACCO.
THE PROCESS OF FLUE-CURING THE
GOLDEN LEAF.
Seasonable Hints for Beginners and
Others The Experience of a Practi
cal Man and Recognized Author
ityMethod Most Practiced by Suc
cessful Planters General Rules for
Quidance, Ac, 6k.
tMaj. K. L. Ragland. J
CUTTING AND HOUSING.
Do not be in a hurrv to be pin 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
soit 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 carrying 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 decends 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
if distant. If it is necessary to use
the wagon, prepare a bed sixteen feet
long to hold three coops or niles. on
which place tobacco as cut and placing
twenty-hve or thirty sticks of cut to
bacco on each coop, drive to the barn
to be unloaded.
Tobacco suitable lor brights is best
handled in this way, as it is bruised
less than it handled by any other
mode. 1 ry it, planters, and ktioro for
yourselves. Very heavy tobacco will
break less if, after beine cut bv the
above mode, the sticks are placed
gently on the ground and the plants
anowea to win oetore 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.
The first step in curing tobacco is
called the
STEAMING OR YELLOWING
process. Medium tobacco will require
from twenty-four to thirty hours steam
ing 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 curer must be
his guide. Inexperienced planters
would do well to procure the services
of an expert curer, if they have tobacco
suitable for fine yellow. The planter
saves in enchanced 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 himsell. 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 followed for every
curing with any reasonable hope of
success? The experienced know bet
ter. On work so varied, only gener
al directions can be given. The next
step is called
FIXING THE COLOR.
When the tobacco is sufficiently yel
low, and the greener ones of a light
pea-green color, it is time to advance
the heat to one hundred degrees; ob
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 opposite
sides of the barn to let in more air,
and permit to remain open until the
tobacco has dried off all appearance of
sweat. Right at this point more cur
ings 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 slew. Now stick a pin here.
But ,0 go back to the barn where
we have just dried the leaf, and where
the thermometer indicates a fall ol five
or ten degrees hut 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 skillful 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
twa and a halt degrees evey hours,
until one hundred and ten degrees
are reached. Here you have reached
the most critical point in the difficult
process of curing bright tobacco. The
condition and appearance of the to
bacco must now be the curer's guide.
No one successfully cure tobacco
until he can distinguish the effect of
toa 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 it ap
pearance only on the face side of the
jeaf. 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 de
grees every two hours of medium to
bacco, the condition of the tobacco
often indicates, to the practiced eye,
the necessity for slower or faster move
ment. But it is safe not to advance
above one hundred and ten degrees
until the tails begin to curl up at the
ends. Arrived 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 require 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 1)0 degrees,
from 24 to 80 hours.
Second. Fixing Color, 100 degrees 4
hours. Second. Fixing Color, IOO to
1 10 2 degrees every 2 hours.
Second. Fixing Color, 110 to 120, 4 to
H hours.
Third. Curing the leaf, 120 or 125. 0
to H hour.
Fourth. Curings stalk and stem, 12o 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 successlully, 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
perience to further perfect the art of
curing.
The following is given as the la
test improvements in curing tobacco:
House the tobacco as soon as
cut, and after warming up the barn
for two or three hours, at a tempera
ture of about 90 degrees, advance the
heat rapidly up to 125 degrees or as
high as it will bear without scalding
the tobacco 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 rationale of the process is this:
The heat, by expansion, opens the sap
cells and starts the water to the surface,
facilitates evaporation and hastens the
yellowing process.
The "limbering up" process, of high
heat at the start, must be of short du
ration 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 yellow in much
less time than that grown in middle
Virginia. Then again, tobacco will
bear higher temperature in the yellow
ing 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 j
in 50 hours. But this is exceptional,
and for general practice would spoil
both color arid tobacco.
The season, therefore, it must be
borne in mind, greatly determines the j
amount of heat tobacco will require to
be yellowed and cured. j
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 ol thin poor to
bacco, holding very little sap.
Attend TTrrp
CLAIMED BY DEATH.
a tun ur nuui
ACCOMPLISHMENT.
He Was Born in Saxony and at the
Age of 20 Was Commissioned First
Lieutenant In the Crack Regiment
of the King's Brother President of
the North Carolina Dairyman's As
sociation, ccc.
Ashevilie Citizen.
Many people of Ashevilie. and of
fthe State as well, will learn with
much regret that a cablegram has been
received announcing the death, on the
28th of July, at Sotschenbroda. Switz
erland, of Baron Eugene d'Allinges,
who for the last five years had filled
the position of farm superintendent on
the Biltmore estate. A progressive
and incurable malady called Hodg
kin's disease, had rapidly destroyed
his naturally strong constitution, and
althought sent to one of the best hos
pitals in the North, and finally at his
urgent request to Europe, all efforts to
prolong his life failed. He sailed
from the shores ot America on the
16th of July.
Eugene d'Allinges, who since his
father's death more than a year ago,
bore the title of Baron d'Allinges de
Coudre et de Earinge, was born in
Zwsian, Saxony, where his father held
a government position. His parent
age was of Huguenot extraction from
south of Lake Geneva, in Savoy. . As
the only profession open in Germany
to men of his class, he entered the
army, and at the age of 20 was com
mission first lieutenant in the crack
regiment of the King's brother, Prince
Charles. A friendship there begun
with a brother officer, Prince Henry
of Battenburg, was continued ever
after by correspondence. His ability
as an offieer is proved by his appoint
ment for a special three years course
to the Imperial war school in Berlin,
to which only the most promising
officers from the various German states
are sent, an appointment usually lead
ing to the coveted position of a gen
eral staff officer.
He married Vera Menchikoff, a
beautiful Russian, who had been edu
cated in the Imperial school at St.
Petersburg, and under the special care
of the Czarina, who was much inter
ested in her. The Menchikoffs are
a noble family whose estates and past
services to their country are historic.
After his marriage, the absurdly small
pay drawn by an officer of the Ger
man army, some $35 per month,
joined to an sufficient private fortune,
necessitated his withdrawal from army
lite. For some time a brave effort was
made to earn a living for himself and
family by turning to account his
thorough classical and literary educa
tion, but his success being indifferent
he finally left his eldest son with his
wife's relatives, and started for the
West to try ranching.
On the way a visit to old friends in
Ashevilie changed his plans, and he
purchased a small farm near Arden.
Here, in a strange country, he and his
wife both courageously attacked the
untried problem of farming; he manag
ing the farm, while she undertook the
care of the young calves, many breeds
of poultry, and helped in the dairy.
The scanty income from a new farm
he added to by tuition in the neigh
borhood and in Ashevilie which called
for many a hard start at daylight and
ride through the mud and sleet to
keep appointments. His energy and
preseverance coupled with natural tal
ent attracted many to him, and when
the question of a farm being formed
on the Biltmore estate came up, the
position of superintendent was offered
him. As a farmer he was always
searching for and experimenting with
newly introduced or untried crops,
in the hope of finding something of
practical use of his brother farmer. He
was the first in this vicinity to try on a
large scale crimson clover, teosinite,
soja beans, flat peas, sacaline, and many
others. His well known interest in
dairying caused him to be elected first
president of the North Carolina State
Dairymen's Association at its forma
tion last fall at the Raleigh fair.
A thorough master of German,
French, Russian, English, G reek and
Latin languages, Baron d'Allinges
excelled in all literary attainments.
Hating driving, as fit only for women
and invalids, the saddle was his home;
and the sight of his erect military
figure on his horse will be remembered
and missed by many. Charming social
manners, a deep knowledge of his fel
low men, natural tact with a genial
and ever ready courtesy, gave him a
wide circle of friends and acquaint
ances. His associations with his fel
low workers on the estate and with
friends in Ashevilie were most pleas
ant, and all who knew him well will
mourn his being taken in the prime
of his life.
Only one child survives him, a fine
sturdy boy ot five years, the eldest son
having died in Germany.
How's This?
We offer one hundred dollars reward
for anv ease of catarrh that cannot be
cured by taring Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J.CUENEV & CO., prop'rs.
Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known K. J.
Cheney for th last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West Jc Truax, wholesale druggists, To-
! leilo, OSiio.
j Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, wholesale
1 druggists, Toledo. Ohio.
I Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internalK-
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system . Price, b cents per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Dr. MIW Pain Pills, cent a dow-
The Glory of Youth.
A few days ago ex-senator John J.
Ingalls addressed the students ot the
Kansas university, Lawrence. In the
course of his remarks he said:
"It is magnificent to be young. There
is a superb glory and fascination about
youth. The morning of lite, the
springtime of the soul. Youth is the
enviable epoch. Wc lose something
when we cease to be young for which
time brings no equivalent or compen
sation. Of youth everything can le
predicted. The heroes, the artists,
the poets, the philosophers, the leaders
of the bar, the great captains of indus
try are young. The wealth, the pleas
ures, the dignities, the destinies of the
.world arc the inevitable heritage "of
the young. Some of these heirs ol
fame and fortune and felicity I have
no doubt are here, but as they look
back from the apex and high divide
of success, and recall this hour, they
will leel that there is no joy which the
world can give like that it takes away
when we cease to lie young. To us
who have taken our places anddone
our work comes the desolating thought
that we shall grow no more. We have
been weighed and most of us found
wanting. We have been scrutinized,
gauged, and measured. Our specific
gravity or levity, our cubic contents
and our dew point have been ascertain
ed and registered; we have become
monotonous. The earth grows fatigued
with us, but it greets the young
with ardent and and impatient accla
mation. The young are to do the
work and win the victories in the fu
ture, and there are many to be won.
They are to reinforce the wasting ranks
and fill up the skeleton regiments of
conquering armies of the civilization
of the twentieth century. Life's un
desirable exultations may subside; its
hope and fate may chill and grow dim
with years; its undismayed courage
may falter at last; its daring dreams
of conquest may smoulder to embers
and gray ashes, but the unforgotlen
radiance of youth sheds an imperish
able lustre upon the wrinkled andven
erable earth from the golden "and
purple fissure of the eastern sky. It
would, thereof, be a fiction and insin
cerity to pretend to be unconscious of
the honor and the opportunity of
appearing before these chosen repre
sentatives of the youth of Kansas, or to
be unmoved by the pathetic but in
spiring suggestions of the place and
the hour."
Everywhere we go we liud sonic tine who
has been cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. It
is the greatest curative agent. It is the one
great blood purifier and nerve tonic.
Hood's Pills for the liver and bowels
act easily yet promptly and effectively.
Jeff Davis on Horace Greely.
Duriug the course of a ramble
through the State Capitol at Mont
gomery, Ala., I fell in with the late
ex-Governor Watts. An old portrait
of Mr. Watts was among the many
likenesses of eminent Alabainians
which adorned the walls of the library,
aud I could not help ohserviug its re
semblance to the picture ol'Mr. Greeley
when he was in manhood's prime.
Mr. Watts Biniled as though he were
pleased with the comparison, and I
asked him if he cared to give his esti
mate of the character of the man who
undoubtedly stood for a greater power
against the policies of the Southern
leaders and statesmen than any other
man of his time. Upon reflecting a
moment he said he would answer my
question by telling me how Jefferson
Davis replied to an inquiry of his re
garding Mr. Greely.
It was just after Mr. Davis had re
turned from Fortress Monroe and Mr.
Wattswas curious to "know what his
vanquished, though unreconciled, chief
thought of Mr. Greeley's singular action
iu signing the famous bail bond. He
therefore put this direct question to
him:
"Mr. Davis, what do you think
impelled Mr. Greeley to do what he
did?"
"Now, Mr. Davis was nothing if not
earnest aud emphatic in his conversa
tion,'" said Mr. Watts, "and after rc
sponding in sort of Yankee fashion by
asking me if I knew Mr. Greely. and
receiving a iiegetative reply, he said,
"'I thought you did not know him:
or you would not have asked that
question. Thsre was but 0:1c under
lying motive in that man's action and
that was pure goodncsH. He performed
that service to me because he is a great
big hearted man.' "A letter in the
Aeic York Tribune.
Young Horse Nothing but work,
work, work. I have a great mind to
commit suicide.
Old Horse Have patience; When
you are so old that you can't walk,
you'll be advertised as suitable for a
lady to drive, and after that you'll
live in ease and luxury. New York
Week Is.
STAMPED OCT
blood-poisons of every hum and naturm,
by Dr. Fierce Golden Medjeal Durovery.
It roue every organ into beaitby action,
purifies and enriches tho blood, and through
it deances and miewi the whole system.
All Blood, Skin, and Scalp Diseases, from
common blotch or eruption to tba worst
Scrofula, are cured by it For Tetter, Salt
rheum, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, and
Carbuncles, tha "Discovery" is a direct
miiuHt
XXX, ot Carney, Hold
win Co.. Aa writes:
J suffered for one
quarter of a century
with "feTer-sore" ulcer)
00 my l't and edema
tous eruptions and irave
up all hope of ever tjelns;
well again. But I am
y "-y W tiappv to say mat jour
BI V y S Y Ur. Pierce's Golden Med-
JK VX JV
X?a ical DlscoTery made a
s. complete cure of my ail-
Caxoli'K Wkkikt. mci.t. although I had
tried different doctors and almost ail known
gwmedies without effect.
PIERCE...GUflE.
ISDBSCRIPTIOH $1.60 Cash.
no. ;4.
Spring Medicine
Alt the Ills of the Season Cured bf
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
"In the aprinsr I was all run down, my
appetite w as )oor, and had never head
aches. I was also atitk-tcd with liver
and kidney trouble, indigestion and
constipation. A friend advised me to
take Hood's Sarsaparilla. I did so and I
began to feel much better. I could
loep nights, and
Enjoy Cood Rest.
I also began to t at more and my food di
gested well. I have now taken over
seven bottles and everybody tells me I
am tho picture of health. When I felt
bo badly I weighed 110 pounds, although
Hood's n Cures
my usual weight had ticen 130 pounds.
I now weigh 155 pounds and I owe It all
to Hood's Sarsaparilla." Mrs. LeOKA
8. Bemosr, Salem, North Carolina.
HOOd'S Pills ' lire Constipation by rpU)rlug
the porlstallie anion of the .ilimenUtry canai.
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Itcautifitl locution. Mineral Sptings.
I " iu'i u.il 1 cil healthtuliu'ss. 'on iiumIhui-.,
well furnished buildings, with open liie
nlaces. Thorough instruction by the very
best teachers. Keliucd home lite. Prac
tical training in domestic affairs. Kutiie
cost of b'.iitiiliug and tuition, including
Latin. $s.uo per month. Miu-ic Hint Ait
only '. oil per month ctra foc'cstch.
For Catalogue address the Ft iucipal.
Rev. C. A. HAMPTON, All Hcalinff, N. C.
VIRGINIA COLLEGE'",
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Opens Sejit 1 isti.-,. )u(. tf tlm leading
Schools for Young I.ailies in the South.
Magnificent buildings, all modern improve
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European and American teachers. Full
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Music. Students lroin twenty States. For
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Clean-! mud lf'U.fMi lit 9 hair.
I'rmtiMi- a ltitr.a"t yrwih.
Nfvr Kail to Meat or o iray
Hair to jt Youthful Color.
Curt- p iwn a ft lar lanUig.
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Weak l,mu'. IMnhtv, I tit tfetnn, lBifi,'!ak in lift. iUrU.
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m MORE EYE-GLASSES,'
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EYE-SALVE
A Certain Sale and Effective Remeff lor
SORE, WEAK and INFLAMED EYES,
i'rtul ii r 1 11 ft Lnng-Hialitrilurnm, ml
llvHtttriiiy thf Sight ' thf .
Cures Tear Drops, Granulation, Klyc
Tumors, Red Kjes, .Mailed Eye Lashes,
AND PROnWIV'O QVU-K IttXlEF
AMI PtttMANKNT CCltE.
Al. equally -ltl-wloy w wlira u-l In
nllier mnliMlIt-. nucli m I Irrr. l-v-r
Knri't, liiinuni. Nail Klieimi. Itn
or Hlirrrirr Inllniiminilon ril la.
Ml l 'IIKI.IN N limy - uwd So
ttfltnutaice.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT 23 CENT?
STILL AT WORK.
My business is gradually iiiCiea,ing and
it gives me pleauie to state that I am
fully pirpaied to do all wot fc in my line
iromptly and iu a sati-factoi v maiiiii-r. I
lave a full set of new loachim-i y , tools.
Sic., and can do anything iu the' Hue of
rooling. gulteiing, j-x,utij.g, and repairing
of eveiy de-)Ci iptiou.
I make a specialty of repairing cooking
stoye-., lock-, g!i!i, pistol-, IiUmg keH,
mending tiuwate, etc. I'rice-, reasonable
and work guaianteed.
TOBACCO FLUES.
I have every facility for doing this cla--
of woik and .-hull make a - cialty of it
this season. As I ex(-Ct to be kept bii-y
would advi-e that order- be placed as
early as po--ilile. Nothing but the be-t
material-, u-d ai.ii workmanship up to
Stan-lard.
If how-t v..!K, fair aiid juaie dealing
j and low chaises count for anything iu a
j wot king man's favor, I will go to the too.
i I am not cot;?cr.t to occupy any middle
i position in my business, and am determined
j to win my way to tin; front by force of
; merit and just de.-erts.
; Prices as reasonable a is coti-i-tet:t with
: first-class work. Kcuo-mber the place
building opposite Ur. tucker -
W. T. CARTER.
RABBIT AND POULTRY
NETTING.
ttTtitM) Hilt II UTHKU moKliTlO!.
j Salem, N. a
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