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l: n A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VIII. NO. 2 MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1893. 01. CO A YEAR, ill II I ik 1 r y Xir j r: i r ft illy Ji -m-a l ' ' r ."6. Leland Stanford University, Cali Tc-rnia, receives about $13,500,000 in property and money by the will of the lata Senator Stanford, who built the institution in memory of his son. I .-I ij li ' .Jim! One of the scientific sharps has an nounced, notes the Detroit Free Press, (rhat if the funny little bean from which castor oil is squeezed be grown around the windows and doors of dwellings, instead of hop vines, hollyhocks, bur docks, fennel or sunflowers, flies will keep so far away that you can't heal cne buzz. The small boy will easily Lelieve this. The entire sum realized by theSpit zer sale of antiques in Paris, which has been one of the longest if not greatest on record, amounts to $2,400,000. Tbfl treasures collected by M. Spitz ere now spread over many countries, but England has a good share of the ppoil, and some of the finest specimens are already to be seen in the rooms of the very first dealers in objects d' art in London. Says the Chicago Herald, "John L. Sullivan is in his native Boston and is disposed to take a pessimistic view oi the pugilistic future. He maintains that after the Mitchell-Cor bett fight the prize ring will go to the dogs. The public, he says, is losing interest in pugilism and Sandow and Sampson, the strong men, whom he terms 'dese heavy-liftin' mugs,' are monopolizing the attention that should be bestowed on professors of the manly art of self defense. India is the country wnose prosperity and business relations with the world are most wrapped up in the silver question. The Baltimore Sun says: "It has been the only currency in the hands of the poor, and nearly all of India's population of 250,000,000 must be so classed, and the amount in circu lation is estimated as high as $1,000, 000,000. In addition to this a recent estimate places the value of uncoined bullion, largely in the shape of bar baric plate, vessels and ornaments of silver in the hands of? the richer na tives, at another $10,000,000. Ac cording to statistics furnished by our own Treasury Department last year's production of silver throughout the world was 152,000,000 ounces. Of this amount India absorbed 45,000,000 ounces, which was coined and went into circulation." The Southern States Magazine ob serves: "There appears to be an im pression among those who have seen but little of the South, particularly during the past two years, that the Southern planter or farmer is so abso lutely dependent upon cotton that if that single crop fails, ruin and desola tion to ihe entire farming community w ill follow. While it is true that a certain number of cotton planters still hold to the time-honored plan of plant ing nothing but cotton, the time when this could be called a universal con dition in the South has happily passed, fi nd a new and broader farming indus try has taken its place. In 1892 the cotton crop of the South was valued at about g315,000,00l. The corn crop was valued at $248,000,000, wheat over 40,000, 000 and oats about $2 5, 000, 000. These three products then were ol equal value with the cotton crop. Add ing to them the value of tobacco raised, over $22,000,000; of rice, about $10, 000,000; Florida oranges, about $3, 500,000, and of garden truck, fruit and vegetables shipped North, between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000, the total value of the products named amounts to about $40,000,000. It was only in the years immediately following the war that cotton was raised almost to the exclusion of other products. This was because the people were almost penniless and cotton was the one crop upon which advances could be secured. The condition of thiug3 has been stead ily improving, and within the past two years the lesson taught by planting too much cotton has been so impressed upon every one engaged in it that there has been a sreneral effort to raise more foodstuffs, and particularly to provide the food needed on each plantation or farm. The Southern farmer to-day is not solely dependent upon his cotton crop for a living. In western Tennes fee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, whiV some few are follow tng the old plan of purchasing food and planting cotton, the vast majority are raising diversified crops, and each sue ceeding year will see this plan carried cut in a greater degree. In Georgia and the Carolinas cotton-raising will soon hold second place, as to value, among the agricultural products of the States, not necessarily because lest will be raised, but because of the in crease in the production of cereals, fruits and vegetables. Through the western part of the cotton belt such a condition will not be likely to exist. but cotton will never again be raised in place of food products, as has been TO THE FARMERS OP THE WEST. Appeal to Send Bread to the Starving in New York. Sylvan Beach, N. Y. The delegates and speakers to the Formers' Alliance and People's Party State Convention have issued the following appeal: Farmers of the West: A cry of hunger and stirvation comes up from the he rt of the great metropolis New York. It comes from the throat of tens of thou sands of American cit"zens, who are without bread. It ascend to Heaven admist the noise of the call bDard on the Stock Exchange and the jingling of the gold on the money counters of Wall street. It is intensifi d by the tears and moans of starving mothers and famishing chil dren; men are becomirg desperate from waot, and the gaunt spectre of famine stalks abroad, unheeded by those who have grown fat by the pilbge of labor and the ravaging of industry. The lobby approaching the council chambers of the republic is titled with the paid agents of the monied oligarchy, ready to debauch the people's representa tives and weld the chains of financial slavery still more securely on the neck of labor. The money sharks are uurelenticg, the Government indifferent, and the pio pie desperate. By the pangs of hunger lawabiding, honest men are being transformed into reckless wolves, and this is the condition d( sired by the enemies of the people. Tbey starve them first in order to furnish an excuse to kill them afterward. Inn must not be- The starving poor of New York must not become the prey of de signing enemies. Farmers, you must feed them. We know you are poor. We know the labor of your hands is unrequitted and your perserverance unawarded. But thess men and women are your brothers and sisters. Their cause is your cause. Their starva tion and your poverty are the joint pro duction of our common enemy. Send speedily of your corn and wheat, your potatoes and bread stuff, that dis order and bloodshed may be averted. Let the President of each alliance call his alliance and act without delay. Ask y ur railroads to furnish transportation lree,as you give your substance. Organize relief committees at once, and communi cate with Mr. David Rosseau, 310 Mott avenue, New i ork city, who has been selected by us m the consignee of relief supplies, and who will arrange for their rrompfc and eff active distribution. J. B. Weaver, Iowa, I. E. Dean, New York, Mary E Leasr, Kansas, William J. Kerr, Colorado, Mbs.Marion Todd, Michigan, L. C. Paddock, Colorado. Delegates and speakers to the Farmers' Alliance and People's Party State Con vention. Yellow Fever in Brunswick, Ga. Washington, D. C. The source of the new case of yellow fever cannot be traced at present. The patient has bsen moved into the house lately occupied by Dr. Branham. which is kept strictly isolated, and has been disinfectsd by Surgeons Hutton and Carter. TAKING EVERT PRECAUTION AT BRUNS WICK. Washington, D. C. The marine hospital bureau hss made arrangements for thees' ablishment of a probation camp fifty-five miles from Brunswick, Ga., on the road to Waycross. The site of each camp, which will be under the committee of Surgeon W. H. II. Hutton, is high and dry, with good water. Two hundred tents were shipped for that point from St. Louis. This step was taken in case the yellow fever develops in Brunswick. Charleston, S. C The board of health of Charleston has determined te send one medical sanitary expert to each of the three railroad junctions leading to Charleston Diphtheria After Kis3ing a Bride. Jamestown, N. Y On Wednesday evening, in the town of Kiantonc, a few miles south of this city, the marriage oi Miss Aiken te Mr. Amsdell took place. The bride wa3 a very popular young wo man, and many friends were at her wed ding. She had a slight Eore throit, but thought little of it and made complaint to no one. Since the wedding the case has developed into one of diphtheria,and nearly a score of her friends who were at the wedding and kissed the bride when offering their good .wishes have been at tacked with the same disease. No deaths have occuiel yet, but many of the cases are veiy seii us, and the worst results an feared in some of them. The Farmer Held on to tbe Money. Houston, Tex. The following dis patch was received from Victoria, Tex . : "Considerable commotion was caused here by the refusal of the banks to advance any more money for the purchase of cot ton. The banks found thifr the farmers, instead of using the money received for cotton to pay debts or purchase supplies, were pocketing it and taking it home with them, thus taking it out of circula tion, and they propose to let the farmer hold his cotton instead of the money." The Houstou bankers say that Victoria banks have taken a breathing spell to see what Nw York does-with the exchange sent in already. The cotton market has been open about ten days at Victoria, which is in southwest Texas. Gov. McKinney, of Virginia, ha9 de cided to enter for the seantorship to su3 ceed Gen. Eppa Hunton. The Croton aqueduct, New York City, is forty miles long, having six teen tunnels and a collecting reservoir of 3.0O0.000.0U0 gallons capacity. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The latest Happenings Condensed The Victoria furnace at Goshen, Va , is preparing t blow ent. It will only bi operated long enough to manufacture ; the pies nt supply cf ore, which will re quire about a month. Low prices and general stagnation in the iron trade are the reasons given for ceasing operations. The plant employs more than 100 meu. The first two bales of Sea Island cotton were received latt week at Savannah, Ga., on Friday last, one con igned to W. W. Gordon & Co. and the other to But ler & Stevens. They were at ence samp led end placed on Eale at the cotton ex change. Two building and loan associations in Athens, Ga., have been placed in the hands of a receiver. A Georgia legislative committee, ap pointed to consider the question of en larging the -State lunatic asylum, will recommend that $120,000 be appropriat ed for erecting new buildings to accom imdate 600 additional patients. No action will be taken until the next ses sion of the legislature on the recom mendation. Industrial developement proceeds apace in the South, despite adverse con ditions due to financial stringency. The Chattanoog Tradesman reports that for the week ending August 14 there had been incorporated 33 new industries, in cluding two large cotton seed oil mills, several wood working plants, tobacco factories, tanneries, cotton mills and other enterprises denoting a continued diversification of the elements cf pro ductien. Committees of the various St. Louis labor associations begun Saturday, to urge all unemployed workmen com ing into the city to proceed to Wash ington and make a demonstration before Congress. It is said that 5,000 work men will gather there. Judge Brook, in the corporation court at Norfolk, has granted a charter to the Virginia Farmers' Insurance Co. The pur pose of the company is to conduct the fire and marine insurance business, with the principal office in Norfolk and power to establish branch offices. The capital stock of the company is to be not less than $25,000 nor more than $100,000. John Wingler, postmaster at Wake land, In!., took a peculiar method of re signing h:s office Friday, v He boxed up what government property he had and shipped it to Washington. He i3 a Dem ocrat and has been postmaster for ten years or more. Growing tired of his job, he several times sent in hi3 resignation, but it was never acted upon. Wingler says that h's last method was the only one that would relieve him from the care3 of office. A memorial niaible to Jefferson Davis is to le placed in the rotunda of the Georgia Capitol at At-anta, on the spot where the body rested before being con veyed to Richmond for final burial. The badge of the United Confederate Veter ans, a triangle and a bar, will be taken as the motive of the memorial, which is to have a height of about four feet. The badge will be represented on the four sides of the marble, and on the bars suitable inscriptions will be mada. AGAINST THE DISPENSARY LAW Judge Simonton Says the Twenty-fifth Clause is Unconstitutional. Greenville, S. C. The decision of Judge Simonton, in the United States Circuit Court, in the habea3 corpus case of Langford was filed. Langford is the agent of the Richmond and Danville Railroad at Prosperity. He was arrested and held, under the twenty-fifth section of the State Dispensary L:qucr law, for delivering to the consignee a keg of whiskey shipped fora an outride State. The sectioa referred to forbids any com mon carrier to transport or any agent to deliver packages cf liquor which have not the officiil certificate of the Stats Dispenser that they are for the use of the State Dispensary. The railroad company set up that this section was contrary to the Inter-State Commerce law. Judge Simonton sustained this view. The Treasury Paying out Gold. Washington, D. C. Orders have been issued by the Treasury Department to all Sub Treasurers to pay out gold over thp counters, the same as other clas3?s of money. The effect of this is to practicilly place the gold reserve among the avail able Treasury cash assets. As a result the gold balance has been somewhat re duced,bsing slightly below $100,000,003. The net Treasury balance is $11,750,000. Receipts continue light and expendi tures heavy, so that before the month of August expires tbe Treasiry balance and the gold balance may both be lower than now. Printers Strike in Richmond. Richmond, Va. The compositors in the newspaper offices of the Dispatch and Times refused to go to work Monday night. The trouble grows out of a dis agreement over Ihe eca'e of prices on type-setticg rrachin's and shorter hours between the JJewspiper Publishers' As sociation and the typographical union. The Times is now using type-setting machines end the Dispatch expects to have seven in operation in a few days. GROWING TEA. PROSPECTS FOR AN AMERICAN INDUSTRY OF HE FUTURE. Can It be Done He ? Experiment Tea Gardens of the Department of Agriculture Culture of the Plant la South. Carolina. f-fHEI I is pr - tea c y HE Department of Agriculture ushing experiments with culture in South Carolina, and the. forthcoming annua report will give a glowing account oi the prospects of this industry in the United States. Last summer the first pickings were taken from plants that sprouted in 1889. The product, sub mitted to expert tea tasters and mer chants, has been proRcnnced excellent and readily marketable at a high price. It is declared to have a character dis tinct from the teas of any other coun try. There is reason. to believe thai it can be grown with profit on a com mercial scale. Not requiring special curing for export, like Chinese and Japanese tees, the leaves can be dried for domestic trade and eold in bricks like other herbs. Ten years ago the Department oi Agriculture attempted to grow teas in South Carolina. The effort was aban doned without a fair trial, as is now believed, and it is being resumed. At the request of Uncle Jerry Rusk the Department of State issued requests to consuls at the tea ports for seeds of the best teas. Experimental gardens hav been established near Summerville, S. O., where plants of Japanese, Chinese, Formosa and Assam hybrid varieties are under cultivation. The first season's crop was thirty-eight pounds of the cured article per acre. It takes four pounds of fresh leaves to make one pound of cured tea. It is expected that from 400 to 500 poundi per acre of fresh tea can be raised yearly. In China the cost of picking is one cent per pound of cured tea. The cost in South Carolina is six cent! a pound. On account of this difference in the price of labor American teas can only compete with hign-priced imported grades. It is estimated titat the cost of raising a pound of tea in South Car olina is twenty cents, in addition to the rental of the, land. If successful this new field for agricultural enter prise will furnish an easy outdoor oc cupation for many who are unequal to rougher employment in the fields. Taking an average every man, woman and child in the United States con sumes twenty-one ounces of tea per annum. Just half of it comes from China, forty-two per cent, from Japan and the balance from India and othei British possessions. The first plant of this species grown in South Carolina was set out by Michaux, the French botanist in 1804, fifteen miles from Charleston. During the latter half of this century people in that section have cultivated little patches and larger gardens of tea, which have produced crops of a fine flavor, though usually not strong enough to satisfy many drinkers. It is believed, however, that the failure of pungency has been due to defective curing. Many families in that part of the country to-day grow what tea they require for household use. A Fayette- ville (N. C.) man writes that half a dozen bushes furnish his family of six persons with more tea than they can consume. His wife prepares it b.v heating tne leaves m an oven until they are wilted, squeezing them by hand until the juice is expressed from them and finally drying them again in the oven. The tea is then fragrant and ready for use. The tea plant is ever green. If leffc to follow the intention of nature it as sumes the form of a slender tree from fifteen to twenty feet in height. When grown for its leaves it has the appear' ance of a low spreading bush, being kept cut down. It bears a beautiful white flower with little scent. Bees are very fond of the blossoms. The seeds resemble hazel nuts. They have a hard shell and a bitter kernel. The capsules of these tea nuts make very pleasant bitters. In some parts of the South they are held to be as good for malarial fevers as quinine. Tea is usually considered to require a hot and damp climate. It cannot be too warm if sufficiently moist. It is said that a pleasant climate to live in cannot be good for tea. A cood tea climate cannot be a healthy one. Fever and tea go together. Such ara the opinions generally accepted on this subject. Nevertheless, tea that is grown in temperate climates is liked much better by many people. It cer tainly has a more delicate flavor, though much weaker. Teas that are grown at moderate elevations in the Himalayas fetch good prices in the London market. The point is that tea will grow anywhere, but not in many climates will it pay. An ideal climate for producing it is that of Eastern Bengal, where the thermometer never goes down below fifty-five degrees, and there is sometimes twenty-five fe?t of rainfall in a year. In 1858 the United States Govern ment obtained 10,000 tea plants from China, transported in boxes filled with soil, in which the seeds were sown just previous to (shipments Tho plants averaged eighteen inehes in height on arriving in Washington. They were at once placed under propagation and in a short time ihe stock was increased to 80,000 plants, which were distributed through the Southern States. The propagation and dissemination of the plants formed an important feature in the operation of the agricultural bur eau, then a division of the Patent Of fice, until 1861, when the war put a stop to the business for the time being After the war fresh supplies of seeds were imported from Japan. But in 2867 it waa found that an abundance of tea seed could be procured in some of the Southern States from plants given away in 1858. For several years th Department of Agriculture distributed annually from 5000 to 10,000 plants, reaching 20,000 in 1876. By this means it was expected to popularize the culture of tea as a domestic pro duct, with the hope that public inter est would in time be directed to its cultivation as an article of commercial value. Encouraged by reports of sue cessful culture, supplemented by sam ples of manufactured tea of excellent quality, the department devoted in creased attention to the propagation and distribution of plants. In 1878 and 1879 the number disseminated rose to 50,000 per annum. The cultivation of the tea plant is as simple as that ii the c arrant or goose berry. The seeds should be sown in nursery rows and the plants set out at the end of a year, five feet apart. No leaves should be gathered until the fourth year,, and the plants should be robust and healthy before picking be gins, for that process weakens them. A fair picktrr"will collect twenty-five pounds of leaves in a day's work. The early spring pickings make the best teas. These yield tho famous Young Hyson. At this period the leaf is very thin, having a large proportion of juices as compared with the solid matter, and is dried usually of green color, retaining a most delicious flavor. This grade of tea seldom reaches dis tant markets, as it speedily ferments if put in masses for shipment, and can only be conveyed in email quantities by land routes. It is unknown in this country and is one of the luxuries in store when tea culture becomes an American industry. Washington Star. Editorial "Ghosts." The French are a practical people. For many years it has been the custom for the more explosive Parisian editors to keep a "ghost"' round the corner. Generally the "ghoet" is sipping ab sinthe at the nearest cafe. But he is the titular editor. And when the paper falls foul of the authorities and the editor has to go to gaol it is the ghost round the corner that goe3. Tho scheme is convenient. Justice is satis fled and the paper comes out as usual. There is an established bureau in tho Rue Druot with a register and a tarilf, for the supply of "doubles" for wealthy citizens, v,ho are averse to herd labor. It does a very thriving business and does not limit its resources to catering solely for the requirements of news paper men. Any gay young dude who falls foul of the police can, by a littla judicious squaring send round to thj bureau for a substitute, who for a dol lar a day, payable in advance, will take his place in prison and do the al lotted time meted out for venal offenses. For higher grades of punishment the tariff is a little more, and usually comprises an extra sum of $10 for a new suit of clothes upon release from iail. Chicago Herald. Foreigners are wont to classify Aus tria amoEg the German countries. As a matter of fact her German speaking population is but limited, and annuallv losing ground. The increase in popu lation among the German inhabitants of Austria is but 5.17 per thousand per year ; the increase with the Italians in Austria is 5.92, and with the Slavonic races 7.93. Of 100 marriageable wo men in the German districts of Austria, forty-one find husbands ; among the Slavonic races the percentage is fifty two. One of the reasons for this show ing is that in the German districts of Austria the economic management oi affairs is almost prohibitory to mar riage among the younger sons and daughters of the peasants. The home stead goes to tho eldest son, whose brothers and sister. become his ser vants. Among the Slav3 the family property is equally divided among all children after the death of the father, and each one is allowed to b?gin house keeping on his own hook. F0RMT GIANTS. SOME OF THE BIG TREES OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. A Mammoth Stump Upon Which Thirty-Two Couples Can Dance The Mariposa Grove Ages of the Sequoias. 7T LTHOUGH the maivels of jL Tosemite fill us with won- V. der, her "big trees," some what apart from the novel sights abounding in the valley proper, must be classed among the wonders of the world. They were first seen in 1852, and many were named in honor of an old Indian chief of the Cherokee tribe. Their range is limited, being found only in California, growing en tirely in groups. They are separated into nine distinct groves, known as the Calaveras, Stanilaus, Crane Flat, Mari posa, Fresno, Tuolumne, King's and Eeweah Rivers, north fork of the Tule, and south fork of the Tule. The sequoia belt extends from the Calav: eras Grove, on the north, to the head of Deer Creek, on the south, a dis tance of 200 miles, at an average eleva tion of 7000 feet above the sea. The Calaveras group stands in the country of the same name near the in tersection of the Sierras by Silver Mountain Pass. This belt of trees ie 3200 by 700 feet, and within its limits stand ninety-two of the grandest monarchs ever seen by man. They Tary in height from 300 to 500 feet, and in circumference from ninety tc 110 feet. The most notable of these trees have been given such names at "Father of the Forest," "Mother ol the Forest," "Hercules," "Hermit,' "Pride of the Forest," "Siamese Twins," etc. From Calaveras to the south fork of King's River the species is found only in isolated patches, in fact, so sparsely are the groves distributed that two gaps occur, each forty miles wide, one between the Stanislaus and Toulumne groves, the other between Fresno and King's River. To the southward ma jestic groves and noble forests extend for a distance of seventy miles, the continuity of their belts being only broken by deep, precipitous canons. A fallen monarch, which once stood 450 feet in the air, with a diameter of forty feet, now lies beneath the shae of his neighbors and forms one of Cali fornia's most favored retreats. Here is another which occupied the com bined efforts of five men for twenty five days in severing his mighty trunk, and upon whose immense stump thirty-two couplea find ample room to whirl round in the mazy dance. Here, also, stands "Old Goliah," mighty and grim, with trunk and broad branches scorched and charred by fires that, judging from neighboring trees, un touched, must have raged many centu ries ago. At a distance of five miles from the Calaveras group is situated the Stanis laus grove, containing upward of 700 trees, equal in size and grandeur to any in the former grove, while Crane Flat can boast of trees sixty feet in circumference. A trip to Yoaemite is not complete without visiting the Mariposa Grove, which shares honors with the trees of Calaveras, and ia but sixteen miles distant. The Fresno, the most extensive of the northern groves, occupies an area of four square miles and is situated a short distance to the southward of the Mariposa grove. The northernmost assemblage of big trees to which the term forest may be applied extends along the dizzy rim of the King's river canon for a distance of six miles, the belt being but two miles in width. On the north fork of the Tule River Is found the most superb belt of se quoia. The northern groups contain few. if any. young saplings, while in the Tule River group there are young, hopeful monarchs in the prime and hearty saplings for every old time-worn and storm-stricken giant, who must, sooner or later, succumb to the de structive hand of man. The areas ol the sequoia belts increase as we go southward, although no perceptible increase is seen in the size of the trees. In King's River forest stands a weather-beaten old monument, whose diameter three feet above the ground is thirty-five feet, from which a plank can be hewn the entire width of the tree without cont aining the smallesi amount of rot, or even signs of decay. Soon after the discovery of these big trees the hollow trunk of one was shipped to New York City, whero it did good service for years as a grocery store. It is a common matter, indeed, for a stage coach to be driven through the trunk of one of these giants, with ample room to spare on either side, and it would not be impossible for a load of hay to pass through the hollow trunk of one of them twenty-fire feet in diameter. Five hollow treos formed the Hotel do Redwood, winch consist ed originally of an oftioe, ii bar-room, dining-room, lodging-room and v;nr terH for the uno of tho proprietor's immediate family. The onrly pioneers frequently set up housekeeping in ilia trunk of one of tlieno giants of tie forest, nor is this at all nt range, for here the pettier found ample tenement without Hie ltibor and expeiiH.j f greeting his dwelling and rendering it habitable by lathing and plastering. wufH'.'ient room wan her offe red by nature for the accommodation of lar'e family, who, in Hpaeioiis room pnrtitii ned from one another, muh aged to pass boueath its lluled Cor inthian column yearn iu comparative ease and coujfort. The ages of the largest trees hav only been a matter of wild calculation an I conjecture. However true this nmy !. their great antiquity cannot bo doubted, for in the ntnmp of one oi the oldest of thy Calaveras sroun recently felled whs counted uiw pin of 1300 circular ringn, although it in hardly probable that any of thene bi trees sprouted at a time prior to the Christian era. A good authority sde thut these trees live, 5000 t COOO yearp, although thre nre few RTo.vinj to-day that are even half hi old. However, the sequoiu, ut)lew de stroyed by man, will no doubt live through countless ages. They nro never sick, being exempt from the dis ease so prevalent among other conifer, and, wonderful as it may seem, appar ently never die of old age. These kings among conifers nro th? only ones of their species in tho world, and special care should bo paid to their preservation. On tho contrary, every known means of destruction i? brought into play. Mills almost num berless are located on tho boundaries of the sequoia belts, and their work of devastation is moving on with acceler ated sped. These mills, erected at a recent date, are also engaged hewing big timber from the magnificent for ests of King's River, and what tbe mill saw, with its never ceasing hum, leaves undone, is accomplished by tho forest fire's rapid strides in clearing awny tho refuse, the seedling and tho uapplinp;, leaving behind only unconquerable giants, burned and charred. The groves also afford a grazing ground for droves of sheep which stray over the mountains each year, nippling tho young trees and foliage, an 1 leaving behind them a path almost devoid of all vegetation. The entire belts of forests are swept annually by the fires of these "sheepmen," and, with but one exception, the sequoia suffers the most. Of these magnificent groves but one is to be held in perpetuity. The Mari posa, two miles square, which hai wit nessed th) events of agea past ami sheltered beneath it shadows the races of prehistoric tiniefl, has been im proved and reserved, and with it? new lease of life will live to welcome future generations when those which now rest under its branches havo long passed away. New Orleans Picayune. A Bantem Hon Ha!c'i33 Oaif. Several days bineo while ('liarl flinton'r. son was out hunting Marl -berries he ran across a nent contain in;; nine quail eggs. Tho eprgs were enre fully transferred from the newt to Mr. Hinton's home and there placed under a white banty hen. Ah a remit the little birds were hatched and ore now nearly a week old. The hen Hppenr to be very proud of her little family and takes the best of care of th-m. The happy family will be placed in : neat and comfortable little houc, nm ! especially for them, and it will be left for the hen to raise the birds as nh would a brood of chickens. MnrhbVd QLo.) Democrat-News. Stuttering German Children. There are over 80,000 ntutterinq children in the schools of Germany. The increase has been so great during the past four years that the defect ii considered contagious. The famous Doctor Gutzman is authority for the statement that the increase is due to mimicry; that the young mimics who imitate ttutterer? soon b"cunt in voluntary btuttercrrt. The schools cf the city of Breslau havo a total of 2100 stuttering children. Nw York Dis patch. It ie a matter of common occurrence in England nowadays for en auctioneer to sell a castle or an abbey, but it i rar that an entire village comes under the hammer, as will bo the cae when the historic Aldermaeton estate in Berk shire is disposed of at auction eooru This huge property comprises tho man sion house, situated in the centre of a fine park renowned for its ancient trees, together with the entire village of Ah dermajton. In the hot months, camels ennnot march on the desert longer than three days without drinking. 2oa ia th x&it."
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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