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. - ; - . 4 V. 7 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM, GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. VOL. I. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C , NOV. 29, 1883. NO. 45. ' , . , - . ' . i " I I . ' jk "; 'Jl . 1 v 1 1 J.. i f ; - . Our Scale Offer Splendid Family Scale, Weighing from One-half Ounce 'to 240 Pounds for Half Price, and th e , Blue Itldge Enterprise One Year For Nothing. "We haTe made arrangements with the manufacturers, so that ve cars furnish one of these scales and the Extt.rprise foi ONE YEAR FOR ONLY $(, 1 eing one-half the usual price of the scale alone. Every scale is made of the vr ry hest material, nicely finished and fully war ranted by the Chicago Scale Co., to he accurate and durable, and is paru -ularly adapted to the use of farmers or others to whom it is desirable to know the correct weight of any article from a half ounce up to 240 pounds. Upon receipt of the above amount the Enterprise will be sent rcgalarly (pst- Jaid) for one year, and scales shipped by reight, direct from the manufactory, to any railroad depot, pecurely boxed, to any address. Subscribers who h&ve already paid for the present year, and who want one of these scales can send us a new subscriber or have an additional year added to their subscription, for the above amount. Every farmer should weigh all c sells and all he buys. If this is done five times the price of the scales and EiSTEiifnisE can be saved in a single year. Agents who may send subscribers un der this offer will have the names placed to their credit fur premiums just the fame aa ordinary subscriptions, ir Be particular to give full directions for , shipping. The Housewife's Faverwe, For Family, O ffice or Store, Weighs from a qu aiter ounce to 25 lbs. Tlw"' little scale is iri:idfi with rteel bearings and brass beam, and will weigh accurately any package from on quarter ounce to 25 pounds. It is ir :u -v.ih d to supply the great demand for a h use keeper's scale. Nothing of the !ind ever bavin? Wen sold before fir Jt'ss th:m from $8 to $10. Every c;ile in perfi-ct and will last a person's lifetime. It is also valuable in every fiW for weighing mail matter. There is no better scale made for postmas-ters", as it is as nicely adjusted as any letter balance. We will furnish this f-cale boxed and shipped from the factory to the nearest railroad depot to subscribers, with a copy of the Blue Riuge Enterprise for one year for $3.50, freight paid by consignee. Address Blue Ridge Enterprise, Highlands, Macon County, N. C. AMERICA TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS. All of our subscribers who tvill pay their subscription accounts to this paper in f ull to date, and one year in advance, tvill be pre sented with one year's subscript tion to the it AMERICAN FARMER" sixteen page agricultural magazine, published by B. A. K. Hackett, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and which la rapidly taking rank as one of the leading agricultural publications of the country. It is de voted exclusively to the interests of the Farmer, Stock Breeder, Dairyman, Gardener, and their Eonseholdtnd every species of industry con nected with that great portion of the people of the world, the farmer. The subscription price is $1 oo per yeat Tanners can Dot well get along without it. . I puts new ideas into their minds. It teaches them how to fared with profit to themselves. It makes the home happy, the young folks cheerful, the growler .contented, the downcast happy, and the demagogue honest. NfMMER L3ES3SJ mmm mmmmm i nam u yiv ." 11 83 A GRAND COMBINATION '84 , THE BLUE R1D8E ENTERPRISE . AND THE LOUISVILLE : WEEKLY COURIER-JOURNAL One yeaf for only $2.25. Tto papers for little more than the price ot one. By paying u $2 25 you will receive for one year.your home pap r with the Courter Jotral, the representative newspaper of the Sontbjf' Democratic p.nd for a Tariff for Revenue only, and the . best , brightest and ablest family, Weekly in the Uui ted States. Those who desire to examine a sample copy of the Cormrfcn-Journal can do so at this 8J (56. An Unputilislied Poem ty George w. Buugay. Shortly after the opening of the war of the rebellion, Geo. W. Bungay, at that time in the hf ight of bis popularity as a poet and story-teller, was on a lecturing tour througb northern New York. In a city on the St. Lawi ence be atopped at the house of a friend of Musical People, and at the request of the daughter of the house, wrote the following for an Album. It has never before appeared in print, though it w'dl compare with almost any thing of the kind in all the flood of rhymes called forth by the great struggle :"' THE SSOW. FLEECE. . GrO'l grant that the de&cending snow, Which whitens all the scene below, Like Gideon's fleece, May promise triumph ia the blow We strike for peace. Vast as the sheet in Peter's dreams, This fall of woven flakelets seems, Dropped softly down, On silent hills and frozen streams, And forests brown . As charity's br ad mantle white. Conceals our fatih s from' human sight, The falliDg snow Hides from our view the stains that might In crimson glow. A white veil, woven in theair, Falls on he young bride's golden hair, Whitening her head , And on her hero husband where His blood was shed. 0 build beneath our stormy sky, A haft of snow ye winds that fly Above his grave. But wail not, for they never die Whose hearts are brave. May sorrow, like the snow-flake soft, Fall on our hearts from skies aloft, And disappear And we like robkis in their croft, Sings songs of cheer. Ex. Our Wasiiinjjtaii Letter. (FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDSITT.) Washington, D. C, Nov. 23, 1883. Editor Blue liidge Enterprise : Without entering anyono'e house here I think it can be said that the ladies are as beautifully numerous, bat. not so numer ously beautiful as in New York. It is high tide here at s o'clock, and you see rivers of them following in all directions from the departments. Of course these yowg ladies are not in what is called so ciety yet. But many of then are better born, and better bred, too, than some who are there. Taken as a whole, I think they are most worthy and deserving They work hard, are honest and good. Nearly all their earnings go to help some helpless ones at home. No, they are not of she social elemenl. of which I began to write. And they ought to he glad of it, too. They are doing better. , But the world wants a social capital in America as well as an art capital, a sort of winter Newport or Sarat ga. But the extreme north is too cold ; the extreu e south is dull, stagnant, of doubtful interest to the young in quest of social excitement; to mammas with daughters, to rich young men who, in the course of time and nature, will woo and wed them And so with the nucleus of foreign legations to begin with where we touch the topmost reach of so cial eminence, "society" is slowly, but very Eurely, coining to make this her cap ital this side of the Atlantic. So far as the winter months go ''society" has been piv oting about between Boston, New York, Washington, and some of the winter quar ters S ju.h for some years, but it has at laBt, this year, for the first time entirely, I think, decided to settle down by the Poto mac. I may be mistaken, and it is a mat ter of very little importance Wo, but I put it down as a prophecy that Washing ton City is to be this winter and all suc ceeding winters, the social capital of our country. The "season'' proper, reckoning from the first of January, will be just fifty-seven days. A period of perhaps greater, certainly quieter, enjoyment will run through this and the coming month, and in the way of wedding festivities, dinner giving and the domestic cheer which has its outlet about Christmas, almost as much again of social life will be enjoyed. It is an easy prophecy to make about this time that the cc ming winter will be a brilliant one. -There are very few Washington winters any other way to the charmed cir cle who make it so, and whose movements are watched with more interest here than they would naturally receive elsewhere. The President is credited with a good deal of this prospective brilliance, so much, chatted about. 1 In the early part the series of entertain ments which will be given in honor of Gen. and Mrs. Grant, oh their visit at the residence of Gen. Beale, will set the giddy whirl in motion. It is not so definitely announced, but is quietly spoken of among a chosen few, that the weddiDg of a weal thy young lady near or on Shrove Tues day will make as happy a dosing festivity as that which marked that busy day last sflason. - Secretary Folger has been offered the English mission. He declined the offer, but has since been urged to reconsider bis decision' This is pretty conclusive evi dence that President Arthur is. trying to find an honorable place for Mr. Tolger outside of his own Cabinet. He is a very useless man inhi3 present position. Roscoe Conkling, when he was here the other day, criticized very severely the present Administration. Some of his re, marks should go upon record. He said that this Administration had passed from a listless existence into a comatose condi tion. The only sigu of life was a feeble beating of the pulse represented by the Department of Justice. AUGUST. MOXTISYAII SKETCKES. Tlie Xlieamal Belts. In October the aututnn woods which crown these mountains, is all aglow with spangled foliage, nature's cerements for her wintry grave which will soon be pro vided for every green leaf and blade of the vegetable kingdom. The changing hues of autumn reveal the famed thermal belts which wind their warm zones round the mountain sides, where frost does not ap pear till all herbage above and below these favored belts has been smitten. These belts are protected from the early frosts of autumn and the still more de structive late frosts of spring, and afford the best sites for tender fruits, such as the peach, catawba, and grapes of the Dela ware, and other fine varieties. The ther mal belts are generally but 10 to 40 perches in width, extending round the mountains a few hundred feet above broad valleys ; winding often over the tops of ridges that lie between the higher peaks. The warm air froja the valleys is pressed up by the colder air descending from the' mountain top3 as the sun disappears below the hori zon, and Jthose favored thermal belts, by the mingliug of thq counter currents, are kept near an even temperature during the night, and but little dew or frost is forme! wiihin their limits. When these wild mountain forests have partially given way btforetho changing process of agriculture, these bel:s will be the favored locations for orchards of the finest varieties of fmit, and a yearly crop almost reduced to a cer tainty. LAUREL, THICKETS. The laurel of various species is found here in all its gnarled magnificence, from the gigantic, gorgeous, blooming rhodo dendron, down to the tiny, dwarf ivy and kalmia. These dense laurel thickets, in some places covering hundreds of acres of low, level bottom of the most fertile, loamy soil, when cleared up, which requires con siderable labor and expense to accomphish, make the most productive meadows, and produce abundantly all crops, especially onions, cabbage, potatois and various root crops. The laurel has a shallow root, v hich is scarcely beneath the surface, re sembling in this respect, the quince, and 1 am persuaded, when cleared and brought under cultivation would prove the most congenial spot for that dwarf tree. The quinces I have seen produced here were of the smo: thest and finest in appearance I have met with anywhere. TROUT STREAMS. Winding through these beds are always found, clear, sparkling mountain streams, iuhabited by no other fish than the speck led trout. No species of fish are found in these mountain waters but tront, and it has not been many years since this game fish was introduced into many of these higher waters, by the Hamptons of South Carolina. Senator Wade Hampton and his brother, in ante helium days used to resort to these mountains to hunt and spend the summer, and finding no fish of any species in the streams, brought trout from lower down and planted the moun tain rivulets, and ere long they were sport ing in every spring brook that glances from the mountain side. Any land own er may have a trout pond here who will take the trouble to make it, and protecl the fish from poachers. HEALTH SEEKERS from all parts of the country are finding this region out and are resorting here for protection froic the trying climate of the northern winters and the malaiia poisoned atmosphere of the Gulf States ; the one seeking refuge from the stealthy steps of consumption, and the other from the parch ing and wasting fires of fevers ; and with them the prospector far mines (for all kinds of minerals are found in these mountains the geological report of North Carolina giving 187 varieties found in the State) the tourist and pleasure seeker; and tread ing on the heels of the former the men of industry, the farmer and mechanic, who come to redeem the land from its prima tive state and better fit it for the habita tion and comfort of man. Soon the Rabun Gap railroad will extend through these mountains, crossing the Jibae Ridge at Rabun gap, opening up this magnificent country to the approaches of the outside world. This region is entitled to the name given it as the Switzerland of America, and in the near future will rival the alpine foot hill, if not surpass them in its produc tions of. honey, fruits, butter and cheese, and its crowds of tourists in search of health, recreation and mountain scenery. for tlie Farmers. The Farmer's Advance publishes an article by R. S. Thompson of Ohio, from which we make the following interesting extracts : - .The power of the Grange, through pub lic agitation and the influence of the Grangcrpress, has already put a check, on the aggression of railway corporations. The question whether Legislatures have the right to control corporations aas been tested and determined in favor of the peo ple. In a number of States, as California, Kansas aud Texas, the result of this agi Ation has been the passage of suitable, laws reducing the cest of passenger travel" Numerous suits have been tried in the courts and the fact settled that rail road companies may not, even under com mon law, discriimtale between custom ers. Tbe'constant agitation t f the question, of people rather than party, from the Grange platform and throug'i the Grange press, is already awakening the people to their duties and their rights, and we hear the machine politicians bewailing the fear ful' amount of scratching that is being done. But farther and better, the direct influ ence of the Grange has had much to do with' making the Michigan Agricultural College the success that it is. The State Grange of Ohio secured the change in the Ohio State University, whereby it has been made in some measr e an agricultu ral school. The same work has been done in Illinois and Wisconsin. The Ohio and Illinois State Boards of Agriculture have completely changed complexion un der the influence the Grange has brought to hear upon it. The work of the Grange among the farmers in teaching them to think and training them in the methods of managing meetings, has made possible the plan of holding farmers' institutes by the State Boards, a plan by which great advance ment in agricultural education . is being made. True, these institutes have not been held by the Grange, but under the auspices of the State Boards of Agricul ture, and with the aid of the State Agri cultural Colleges, but the leading workers in ihern are constrained to confess that ex cept where the Grange has prepared the way, it has been impossible to make of these institutes a success. The Grange has been of incalculable value in awakening uiscus.-ion concerning the farm and the farmer. Tho-isands and hundreds of thousands of farmers who have never united with the Order are to-day reaping benefit from the spirit of advance ment which the Grange has awakened. The very opposition to the Grange has been a good thing in calling attention to the fact that farmers need to bestir them selves and provide better homes for their families, and better cultivate and manage their farms. The spirit of hospitality and fraternity that has been developed where the Grange has been successfully carried on is a won derful testimony to the value of the Grange. But time and space would fail us in at tempting to record one-tenth part of the work the Grange has already accom plished. Nor do we think this is the most important question. It is not what the Grange has done, but what the Grange has to do that most concerns us to-day or perhaps it would be better stated: What the farmers have to do by mutual assistance and combined effort in the Grange. Fasliioia Points. Velvet i all the rage. Hosiery is very cheap. The favorite balmoral skirt is black. Wool costumes are the correct street wear. Blouse effects on tight waists remain in favor. v m There is a retrun of favor to clinging dress draperies. -. Russian green combines with black, gray, or deep red. It is again fashionable to wear a fancy pin in the bonnet bow under the chin. Basques, as a rule, are short, and are pointed both back and front. Colored flannel skirts edged with wool en lace are preferred to white ones or bal morals. Parisian dressmakers discard all tleeves except the close coat sleeve for Btreet cos tumes. Plushes are now manufactured for skirts which are a perfect imitation of sealskin and beaver. Some of the new greens combine beauti fully with other colors, and they are be coming alike to the dark and the fair. Flat gold braid, put on in embroidery or in rows, forms the decorative effect on many handsome tailor-made cloth and velvet dresses. Embroidered materials are combined with plain ones, matching them in color. It ia well for a small of slight figure only to employ the fancy article for the ski' t and trimming. The favored colors for woolen goods are elephant, gray, giraffe color, different shades of strawberry, and "blue sapote." These materials are covered with ail kinds of fancy designs, generally arranged in large groups, placed very far apart. The de feigns are horseshoes, full moons and parts of moons, or bunches of flowers- Petting: A Polecat. FROM THE WESTCHESTER (PA.) VILLAGE RfiCORD. Mrs. John Raser, of New Centreville, Tredjffrin township, is the owner of a beautiful tame polecat, that appears to be very mu h attached to her. The animal was caught by her son last spring, when it was quite small, and cared fo Soon it commencad to grow very rapidly and showed a decidedly wicked temper when any one else than Mrs. Raeer came near it, making an effort to bite all who attempt ed to touch it but her. She could stroke its back, take it in her lap, or do whatev er she pleased with it, at will, and in a short lime it commenced to follow her around like a kitten. It was allowed to wauder about the kitchen when she was about, and did so in as frolicsome a man ner as a playful kitten of the domestic species as long as she was alone, but the D.omfnt anyone else appeared it would ruu and hide out of sight. Mrs. Raser is the owner of two English Beagle hounds and one large NewfouuJland dog. For the two former the little animal from its infancy always "showed a decided hatred, and soon commenced to attack them whenever they came near, always succeed ing in clearing them out of the house in perfect terror, by reason of the severe bites that it was able to give them with its sharp teeth and frisky movements, whenever it caught them inside. They have now got so that they keep well out of his reach. Toward the largedog it has always shown a different disposition, how ever. Instead of attempting to bite, it made friends with him, and now it can be seen following him in a frolicsome manner attempting to catch and play with his large, bushy tail whenever opportunity presents itself. "The other day," said Mrs. Raser to a Village Record reporter who visited her home, "ihe Newfoundland dog came ia with his tail malted with burs that had become entangled in his hair. As soon as Jumbo (meaning the polecat) noticed the burs ho set to extri cate them, doing so as nicely as it could have been done with the most nimble fin gers, and the dog let it go on whh its work until they were all picked out." The cat has now grown to its full size and feels perfectly contented with its home. It has grown less shy of the other members of the family and cf strangers, but still insists that none but Mrs. Raser shall touch it. It has made its nest in 8 closet, and whenever Mrs. R. is not about it will seek this and go to sleep. It has learned to know the hours when the fam ily takes its meals, and as regularly will put in an appearance to be fed at just such times. It will appear ill the dining-room and sit up on its haunches, begging at the side of Mrs. Raser, untishe serves it w ith its meal. If it changes to be shut out of the room it will come to the door and tap with one of it3 paws until it is heard and admitted. Its hair is unusually long and very glosssy. Immediately over its eyes there is a spot of white hair ex tending squarely across its forehead and then, after ending abruptly on both sides, passes backward, growing narrower as it does so until a complete triangle is form ed, but there the whito divides into two lines about one-half inch in width each aud six inches long, which curve graceful ly off iuto opposite directions, terminating on each side of the body just back of the shoulders. The rest cf the hair is glossy and perfectly black. Altogether, the ani mal is a very pretty one, and about the house U' is perfectly cleanly in its habit. It is not the first animal of a wild dispo sition that Mrs. Raser has tamed in a sim ilar manner, she having been equally suc cessful two or three years ago in domes ticating a ground hog, which last spring chanced to wander out on the track of the Chester Valley Railroad, near the house, and was killed by a passing train. To' show that the polecat has become thor oughly domesticated, Mrs. Raser informed our reporter that a few nights ago it had been left out all night, and next morning was found curled up on the door-step. Cliange of Time. Every body wants to know about the change of time that has recently, been made. This change, which went into ef fect ten days since, will change the rail road, running time between fixed parallels, but will Dot necessarily change our clock oc our dinner hours. Prof. J. K. Rees, of Columbia, S. C, in a recent lecture, thns explains the matter : He said that there was a common mis apprehension in regard to clock time and sun or actual time. Clocks do not keep pace with the sun, and there are only four times in the year April 15, June 14, Au gust 31 and December 24 when the sun and the clocka agree, As an instance of the difference, cn November 3. the sun is at the meridian sixteei minutes and twen ty seconds before the New York clocks indicate noon. Local time ia the keeping of occurate mean time at any given place, mean time being reckoned from a mean or second sun. Although the City Hall Clock and the eloek on" the Columbia Col lege observatory both point to noon at the same time, ihere is a difference of eight seconds in the actual time of the two . place?; Some years ago the rail roads in the United States bad nearly 100 different standards of time, regulated by lecal times. Various plans were suggested for a' more uniform system. Prof. Dowd, of Sarato ga, proposed four standards, taking Wash ington as the meridian. Then it was proposed that there should be a single standard for the whole country ; but this was not found practicable. In Maine, for instance, by the the single standard, it would be 4 o'clock when by the local time it ought to be (J o'clock. In 1875 Prof. Abbey suggested that the time be fixed for every 15 degrees of longitude, beginning at the 75th meridian and ex tending to the 120th meridian. This gives four standards of time, dividing the coun try into four belts of about 1,000 miles wide in this latitude. By this system the time iu Maine, New York and Savannah would be the same, and in each of the other meridians or belts there would be a similar uniformity. It is this plan which has been adopted by the rail roads and some of the cities, and which t ikes effect next Sunday. It will put hack Now York time four minutes. One Hundred Years Old. Mrs. Anna M. Greene, widow of the late Nathaniel Greene, celebrated her one hundredth birthday at Newport, R. I., Thursday. Her husband's fathor, Gen. Nathan Greene, was tho friend of General Washington. Mrs. Greene is in posession of all her faculties. Her eyesight wa3 re markably good up to about four years ago, but by the use of glasses she can read and knit rapidly. Her mind and memory are as clear as ever, and she takes a great interest in the events of the day. Mrs. Greene has ia her possession a handsome piece of jewelry of the initials of General and Mrs. George Washington, which was presented to her father-iu law by the fatfier . of his country. Interwoven in the initials" is a lock of hair from the heads of the do ner and his wife, She is in excellent health. Kacetia?. Practicing Economy. "Would you mind standing here till I go in and get a cigar V he asked. "Of course not," she replied ; "but don't you think, Henry, that smoking is offensive, and that it will be easier practicing econ omy after marriage if it is practiced during courtship f " "You're right," he said ; "I shan't smoke any more, sweet," and she looked unutterable love at him as they resumed their stroll. Jast then they came to an ice-cream saloon, and he said : "There, now, I meant to treat you to ice cream, but as you say, it ia best to prac tice, economy during courtship. Ten cents for a cigar, 30 cents for two ice-creams -40 cents saved in a single night. Lets go over to the iountain and. take a drink of water." They went, but she was mad enough to bite her own head off. An Ohio postmaster has resigned ! N. B. It was a woman who wanted to get married, and couldn't as long as she held on to the office. An Ohio womon who would prefer a husband to a postofSce is. a disgrace to the sex of her state. Hart ford Post. A lady in Toronto got to laughing over some amusing incident and couldn't stop. Finally, a doctor was called in, and he couldn't quiet her ; and she might have died laughing if a telegram had no arriv ed just then saying that ber hnsband'g mother was coming on a short visit. PMladelphia Call. If disease has entered the system the only way to drive it out Is to purify and enrtoh the bl hxI. To this end. as is acknowledged by all rcedical men, nothing is better adapt ed than iron. Tbe fault hitherto has been that iron could not be so prepared as to be absolutely harmless to tbe teeth. This diffi culty has been overcome by the Brown Chemical Company of Baltimose, Md., who offer their Brown's Iron Bitters as a faultless Iron preparation a positive cure for dyspep sia, indigestion, kidney troubles, etc. Mr. Spureeon, the famous Londoa preacher; being asked whether a - man could be a Christian and belong to & brass band, replied : "Ye6, 1 think liemight, but it would be a very difficult matter -for his next door neighbor to be. a -Carietian?,;. Lowell Courier, r The most reliable article in use for ' re- , storing grayiair to its original color and , ; promoting its growth.-is Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Rene wer.LvU -:4 VJH Mr. A. A. Miller, Armflald P. O., N. C, says : "My wire Has yroven your medicintt : to be good for nerbousness and general de . bility." . . -j.- : . 1 V .- k i , - - r V-1 -' Sf- jf" v. vv 3 . v. :r;.vif jN ""-'VrVV ' ' r ! . . ." :. -;' . ., - -.. -- vi. v i - ? - - . , - - 7' - t ' "-.It . S Z xV - - '!:
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