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7: ' V-r-.f --' 7 - .V WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. V.. I VOL. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C.f OCT. 9, 1884. NO. 38. 4't RlBGE ERPRISE. 'A m -" vs i 1- HP 2fV. 1 - V. . 1, I -, ,f ' 'i':t. -r - ? DID TOO KM THAT THE HIGHIANDS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY PROPOSES TO FURNISH Windows, Doors, Store Fronts, Mouldings of all Patterns. Also planing, matching, sawing. te. at the lowest rates. Parties needing work in my line wi1! do well to get my prices before pur chasing elsewhere. Orders promptly .filled and work guaranteed equal to the best. HIGHLANDS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY. TV. C. TROWBRIDGE. Proprietor. Starilii Apiceieiit! Cotton Cro:d3 gone Up Outside and Dcwnl ns ide ! Notwithstanding the recent ad vanco in Cotton Goods, we will eel Cotton Goods for the next 30 days 20 to 50 per cent lower than ever be fore. Best Califos at 5 and 6 l- cf. per yd., Popplins 5 cts, per yf Ginghams worth 12 cts., 8 cts. p yd., &c. CALL AT- o RIDEOUT & CO'S STORE for Best Bargain. VMS Real Estate For I offer for sale a tract of land situated in Sevier county, East Tenn., containing TEN" THOU SAND AND FIFTY ACRES (10,- 050 . This tract is situated about 24 miles from Sevicrville, the County seat of Sevier Co and 43 miles trom Strawberry Jriams Lepot, on st Tenn., Va., & Ga. R- R., 45 milei from ALnoxville, lenn. it is heavny timbered with CHERRY, ASH, SPRUCE PINE, BUCKEYE RED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR, CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK and other timbers of this country This tract has been prospected for GOLD and three veins have been opened. Tho ore was assayed by Stillman & Kopler, N. Y, City, and 'runs from $2.50 to $10.30 in gold, this' being meroly surface ore. There TaVcave oa this property known as the'ALUM CAVE ; contains mag nesia in larze quantities, from which EPSOM SALTS were extensively manufactured for tle Confederate army 4urine tho Mrar. This cave al- jso contains Alum and Copperas in immense quantities. About 150 acres near Alum Cave is exceedingly . fertile.' One of the finest HOTEL ; SITES w the South. Alum Cave : contains several MINERAL SPRINGS of medicinal ' properties. Excellent water power and fine tront 'fishing. No mosquitoes, and mag- ; nificent seenery. Price two dollars per acre. Address, - .-V ,.;?V'S-Ti KlXSXTr : . i ' .aighiwdsy-N. a ; Ptoblesse Oblige If I am weak and you are strong, Why then, why then, To you the brave deeds belong ; And so, again, If you have gifts and I have none, If I have shade and you have son, 'Tis yours with freer hand to give, Tm yours with truer grace to live, Than I, who giftless, sunless, stand, With barren life and hand. We do not ask the little brook To turn the wheel ; Unto the largetream we look The strength?! steel I We do not ask from silken band, Nor heart of oak or willow wand ; We do not ask the wren to go Up to the heights the eagles know ; Nor yet expect the lark's clear note From out the dove's dumb throat. Tis wisdom's law, the perfect code, By love inspired ; Of him on whom much is bestowed Is much required. The tuneful throat is bid to sing, The oak must reign the forest's king ; The rushing stream the wheel most move, The beaten steel its strength miut prove. Tis given unto the eagle's eyes To face the mid-day skies. Marietta Perry, in Youth's Companion. A Pointer For you ! FKOM THE NEW YORK WEEKLY NESS, MAT 1, 1884. WIT- To the Editor of tbe Wittiest : In the Witness for April lOtb, there is an article headed "Iowa and Oregon." The lady who wrote it is of the opinion that it is a wrong idea for people to move around iu h in this world in order to get gain, which is in the mam correct ; but, if I were in Northern Iowa knowing what I do, I would start for southwestern Kan sas as oon as 1 could. 1 was born in Hnry county, Iowa, and lived there un til I was fifteen years old ; then my par ents movi d to Warren county, then to Greene county, and at last I moved with toy wife and two children to Clay county, it being nearly in the northwest corner of the State. There we lived for three years, burning for fuel bay and green willows, facing tbe blizzards in Winter and grass hoppers in Summer. In 1878 we came to annoy Kansas, and here we are yet, and here tee expect to stay. In northwest Iowa we handled hay in putting it up and J feeding it ont about eight or nine months in the ar; here we have nine months to prepare food for three months. We have a beautiful county, very healthy and pleasant climate, and productive soil, good church privileges, good society and good nchools, good water and plenty of it. We do not raise sixty bushels of wheat per are, but can raise from fifteen to forty bufhels. One of our neighbors has 160 acres that he has raisod wheat on now three years in succession. He commenced m sod ; the first year he had 4,000 bush els (twenty-five busbale per acre), tbe next year 4,300 bushels, the next year 4,500, and this year he has the best pros ptct he has ever had. Others have done better than he. Cora will make on an average about thirty bushels per acre. Vegetables do very well. Land 1a not very high yet, but coming up all the time. So if any one wants a home in the land of flowers, now is the time to come. E. OZBUN. Cleveland, Kingman county, Kansas, April 15. Mr. Ozbuu states the ease very well, but he is too modest in bis figures on the corn crop. The report of the United States Department of Agriculture for De cember, 1883, shows that Kansas raised, taking the average of the whole State, 33.7 bushels of corn per acre more than Any other state or territory in the Union more than Illinois where the average was 25 bushels ; more than Texas whose av erage was 17.5; more than Arkansas whose average was 17 5; more than Ohio where the average was 2b'.l, or Michigan with 23.5, or Indiana with 27, or Wis consin with 21, or Minnesota with 20.8, or Iowa with 24.3, or Missouri with 27.5, or Oregon with 23.5, or Washington Ter ritory with an average of 23 bushels per acre. Topeka Commonwealth, May 9. One fact of peculiar interest in connec tioD with the present situation in the Arkansas Valley is that a heavy immi gration is now pouring into tbe extreme southwestern counties, abont the only section of the State where there is any considerable amount of government land unoccupied. There has been an abund ance of rain all through that portion of the State this year, and those who are settling there have eon6denee in the coun try, ad believe it will raise corn at well as Sedgwick county. Tftere is certainly no room for doubt that tbe rain belt b ex tending westward every year all along the frontier of these western prairies, and the results of settlement, cultivation of the soil, tree planting, etc., seem to justify the hope- that every acre between the Missouri river and the Kocky Mountains will yet be included in farm. The mot serious difficulty with which tbe farmers ot southwestern Kansas have bad to deal has been the hick of farm labor and the machinery in harvest time. It was very' difficult in some cases to save all the wheat on this account. Do not wait until next Spring to see the "Promised Land," but go4 there after seeding time. Write to W. J. C. Ken YOK, Passenger Agent, 133 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md., for maps, and de scriptive pamphlets, and rates of fare, whieh will be sent free. "Whipping: Children. A parent who don't know how to gov ern a child without whipping it ought to surrender the care of that child to a wiser person. Sportsmen once thoight it was necessary to lash their dogs when training them for the field. They know now that the whip should never be used. Horse men once thought it was necessary to whip colts to teach them to start on the spot at the word, and pull steadily. They know now that , an apple is better than the lash, and a caress is better than a blow. If dogs and horses can be thus educated without punishment, what is there in our children which makes it nec essary to slap and pound them ? Have they less intelligence f JEIave they colder hearts 7 Are they lower in tho scale of being f We have heard many old people say : "If we were to biing up another child we should never whip it. Instead of God doing so little for children that they must be whipped to goodness, He has done so mncb for them that even a whipping can't ruin them that is as a rule. But alas, many children are of such quality that a blow makes them cowardly, or reckless, or deceitful, or permanently ugly. Whip ping makes children lie. Whipping makes them hate their parents. Whipping makes home distasteful makes the boys run away, makes the girls seek happiness anywhere and anyhow. Whipping is barbarous. Don't whip. Baptist WveTcly. How Celluloid is Hade. While about everybody has heard, seen or used celluloid, only few know what it it is composed of, or how made. The following is a description of the process carried out in a factory near Paris for the production of celluloid : A role of paper is slowly unwound, and is at the some time saturated with a mixture of five parts of sulphuric acid and two of nitric, which falls upen the paper in a fine spray. This changes tho cellulose of the-jmper into pyroxline (gun cotton). The excess of acid having been expelled by pressure, tbe paper is washed with plenty of water until all tract s of acid have been remov ed ; it is then reduced to pulp, and passes on to the bleaching trough. Most of the water having been got rid of by means of a strainer, the pulp is mixed with from twenty to forty per cent, of its wr ight of camphor, and the mixture thoroughly tri turated under millstones. The neceeeary coloring matter having been added in the form of powder, a second mixing and grinding follows. The finely divided pulp is then spread out in thin layers on slabs, and from twenty to twenty-five of these layers are placed in a hydraulic press, separated from one another by sheets of thick blotting paper, and are subjected to a pressure of one hundred and fifty atmospheres until all traces of inoifcture have been got rid of. The plates thus obtained are broken and soaked in alcohol for twenty -four hours. The mat ter is then passed between rollers, heated to between one hundred and forty and one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, whence it issues in elastic sheets. Cellu loid is made to imitate amber, tortoise shell, coral, malachite, ebony, ivory, etc., and besides its employment in dentistry is used to make mouth-pieces for pipes and cigars, handles for table knives and um brella, combs, shirt fronts and collars and a number of fancy articles. N. Y Mail and Express. Origin of the Conscience Fund The Philadelphia ReeorcPt Washington correspondent says ; Every now and then you see an announcement in the papers to the effect that some anonymous person has forwarded to the treasurer of the United States at Washington a contribu tion to the Concience Fund. You sup pose from this that there is somewhere in the treasury a fund made up of such con tributions, which, by this time, must be of considerable size. Now, the fact is that there is no such thing as a separate fund for the contributions of the concience stricken. Such contributions have al ways been covered into the treasury under the head of miscellaneous receipts. The term "Conscience Fund" was the inven tion of old Treasurer Spinner, the man with an autograph which was autograph-' ioal. Twenty years ago, during; the war, a letter was one day received at the treas ury department from a roan who, enclos ing a check for 1, 500, said that that represented a little misappropriation of government funds of which he was guilty when acting as quartermaster in tbe army of the" United States. Then came the happy idea into Spinner's handsome head. "Wt eall that a contribution to the Conscience Fund," he said, "and have it announced in the newspapers, and per haps wnH get some more." The contri bution to the conscience was duly an nounced all over the country. The treas ury department promptly ot "some more." From that time fu ten years the contributions were very numerous. Dur ing the past ten years they have been constantly growing more callous or more tender. The nomination of Blaine and the nomination of Cleveland in the same year do not' help ybn to a solution. Ths Uootrftmtiona thems(aeMe fund have never been very large in amount. The largest evr made was $4,000, forwarded by a former internal revenue ganger in Chicago as the amount of the bribe he took from distillers who desired to de fraud the government. It will be seen that none of the big thieves who have fat tened en public plunder have ever availed themselves of this easy way of making partial reparation. . Balm ot Gilead. Ba'm of Gilead is a plant of the genus amyris. Its leaves yield, when braised, a strong, aromatic scent. From this plant is obtained the Balm of Gilead of the shops, the balsam of Mecca or of Syria. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm and somewhat bitter taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an odor- Liferous ointment or cosmetic by the Turks, who prifisess the country in which it is produced, and from its scarcity and value often adulterate it for the market. Th amyris is a low tree or shrub growing in several parts of Abyssinia and Syria. It has spreading, crooked branches, small, bright green leaves growing in threes, small white flowers on separate footstalks. The petals are four in number, and the fruit is a small, egg-shaped berry, contain- 'ng a smootn nut. xo obtain tue juice the bark of the tree is cut with an ax at the time when its sap is in its strongest circulation. "As the juices ooze through the wounds they are received into small earthen bottles, every day's produce being poured into large bottles and corked. When fresh, the smell of the balsam is exquisitely fragrant, but if left exposed to the atmosphere or in a bottle uncorked, it loses this quality. The quantity of bal . earn yielded by one tree is said never to exceed sixty drops in a day. It is, there fore, very scarce, and can with difficulty be procured in a pure and unadulterated state even at Constantinople. Its stimu lating properties upon the skin are such that the face of a person unaccustomed to use it becomes red and swollen after its application and continues so for several days. Josephus states that the Balm of Gilead was one of the trees given by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Farm, Field and Fireside. marvelous Kngineerinff. The London Inner Circle Bailroad is a marvelous feat of engineering skill. It runs thronghout its entire distance under the busiest centre of the largest city in the world, and the operations attending the excavation and construction have proceed ed without serious injury in or interrup tion of business or traffic. Quicksands have had to be passed through, beds of old rivers spanned, lofty warehouses and massive buildings secured while their foundations have been - undermined, and an intricate network of gas and water pipes sustained until supports had been ap plied from below. Added to this the six main sewers had several times to be recon structed. Day and night the work has been carried on for eighteen months, and now the engineers are able to announce that their tunnel is complete. The layr mg of the rails and the building of the stations are the only portions of the im mense work that remain to be done, and in a very short time trains will be passing over the whole of this Wonderful subter ranean road. Philadelphia Press. Camels in California Utterly wild camels may be seen n the deserts at the head of the Gulf of Califor nia, where they find a congenial home and multiply steadily, These are a rem nant of a herd which many years ago was imported by the government to act as beasts of burden for the army in New Mexico and Arizona. They served the purpose well, but were finally dispensed with, it is said, through the demands of the drivers of the pack trams of mules and donkeys whose beasts were frightened in' to stampeding by the sight and smell of the foreign strangers. .The camels were subsequently need by joiners in .carrying ore, etc., in California and Arizona, but a few years ago they were turned loose on the banks of the Bio Colorado, where they are fast becoming naturalized. -The Block Hills gold excitement long since cooled down to soberness, but there is renewed 1 aires t in . that region on ac count of the. discovery of extensive depos its of tin ore there, richer than' those of Cornwall, Eaga.Qd.-j-Chieaff9 Herald. : The Sun as a Soporific. Sleepless people and there are many of them in America should court the sun. The very worst soporific is laudanum, and the very best is sunshine. Therefore it is plain that the poor sleepers should pass as many hours of the day in the sunshine and as few in the shade as possible. The in jurious effects of shade is very .noticeable in plants growing in secluded places, and ladies who are accustomed to carrying sun shades. The invigorating powers of sun light is infinite ; and he whose skin is taw ny, seldom requires a pill. The Bottle Tree. The cattle if "Jueensland, Australia, take kindly to the bottle, or rather to the bottle tree, a curious vegetable production, whieh is pronounced a great boon to stock owners in time of drought. A correspon dent of the Maryborough CItronicle, in his notes of the dry season, reports that carts laden with large logs of the bottle tree are constantly plyingbetween the town and the stockranges. Both cattle and horses are fond of it, and have become so knowing that the sound of an axe or a tree falling in the scrubs will attract the stock within hear ing to the spot. If it is a bottle tree that the men are at work upon, the eager an imals retard operations by the preaistency which they show in crowding in for the succulent and mucilaginous chips. Homes tor Working: Girls. London, with its two hundred and fifty thousand girls employed in business houses can accommodate only four hundred of them in homes. Boston, with but one associa tion to attend to the work, has a home for a much larger proportionate number ; but London has been thinking about the mat ter only Bix years, and the English rates for board are very low, the highest be ing only one dollar weekly. Still Boston has ample reason for pride, especially Boston women, for it is they who have the honor of having brought about the present condition of things in Warrington street Boston Transcrept. The rivalry and greed of the European powers will soon make Africa a center of activity.' In these days events move rap idly. As the situation now stands, Egypt is under British control ; Tripoli is Turk ish ; Tunis is protected by France ; Al giers is owned by France, and Morocco is partly independent, partly Spanish and in momentary danger of French invasion. On the Atlantic coast the Azores, the Ca naries, Maderia and Cape Verde Islands belong to Portugal or Spain. At the Southern terminus of the Sahara France, England, Portugal and Germany all have a foothold. Between the mouth of the Senegal Biver and the Congo there is a medley of ownership. Senegambia is French ; Gambia Sierra Leon, British ; Liberia is independent; the Ashantee coast is mainly British ; Gaboon is French and the country around the mouth of the Congo in dispute. South of the Congo Portugal's claims extend to the newly an nexed territory of Germany. The English Cape colonies extend from the South of Orange Biver around the Cape of Good Hcpe and Northerly up the East coast to latitude twenty-five degrees South, which is the Southern line of Madagascar. Thence Northerly for fiteen degrees the Eastern coast is Portugese to the begin ning of Zanzibar. Parallel with this Portugese coast is the island of Madigas car, which the French are now fighting for. From these points it will appear that Africa is likely to be the theatre of several powerful European powers at no distant day. It cannot be expected that the whites of different nationalities will peacefully carry out their work of parti tioning the Dark Continent On the con trary, some of the bloodiest wars of the future will probably rage in this disputed territory, and they may be expected to occur within the next twenty years. A little girl living in St. Johnsville, N. Y., took a Congressional directory and wrote to nearly every person whose name appeared in that publication, ask ing him to contribute the price of a brick to their new Episcopal church, in which she was interested. She has received an swers from many of the most prominent men to whom she wrote, and now propos es selling their auk graphs, thus doubling tbe money now on hard. Christian Un ion. . The assessed valuation of property in jabama, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, which are the IS distinctively' Southern States, has in creased during the past year $205 718, 977, The increase, of wealth has been accompanied, with a slightly, decreased tax rate, although the expenditure for public schools has been quadrupled within the hut ten years. During the past year the railroad inuVage of - the Southern States has" increased 3,1S5 miles. Rural New Yorkerif : ' ' ' ' ' Arsenic and Tobacco tor Lice and Sheep Ticks In answer to CF. H. Pensylvania, I would say that I have tried nearly every thing for the destruction of lice on cattle, sheep ticks, etc., and have found one of most dangerous applications to be tobac co. I have known many deaths in conse quence of a thorough wetting with tobae 00 water for the. killing of lice, hi sheep, dogs, calves, full growth cattle, and at least two horses. The arseneous mix ture Which I recommended to the read ers of Country Gentleman, never to my knowledge, injured a single animal, nei ther have I ever heard of a single ease of injury caused by its use. The mixture, as I recommend it, has been used twen ty-seven years by persons well known to me in New York state in Niagara coun ty, etc. I have read the article you refer me to on page 415, issue of May 15, and did not remember it. The application is safe, and it is a prompt remedy, but, as a matter of course, all such drugs as arsenic must be handled with care. In the appli cation, the mixture must be constantly shaken while, being used. The animals should be kept warm immediately after the sponging and dry afterward. Wil ham Morns n Country (ienlleinan. At Hungerford, Mich., a company of visiting lumber dealers, after inspecting the new gang-saw mill, planing, and shingle mills, were invited to take a ride on a logging train back into the woods and to a logging camp. When the party were ready to return to show them what could be done, orders were given to cut down a Urge pine tree. It was felled, sawed into logs, loaded aboard the train, which carried it and the visitors back to the mill, a mile and a half; the logs were taken into the mill, sawed into lumber. and piled in the yard ready for a custom er in just twenty-one and a half minutes from the time the axes struck the tree. . What chance has natural growth to keep pace with any such mechanism a a that! People will not quit poking fun at us. A few days ago when a huge multitude had assembled at the mouth of the Nantahala river, to welcome the coming of the first train on the Ducktown Branch of the W. N. C. B. B. some one was mean enough to say that the engineer yelled out ''Take down your umbrellas ot you will scare the engine off the track I' And still meaner to add "Which was promptly done." If an eastern North Carolinian ''got this up," we wish to tell him that this was no worse than when the first steamboat came up the Chowan river , it is said, the sight of it so frightened the laborers that they dropped their hoes and ran out of the fields. "Q" in Biblical Recordee. The first monument ever raised in the United States in honor of a woman was unveiled, last month, in New Orleans. The name of the individual thus honored was Margaret Haugherj, an unlettered but devout Catholic, who acquired quite a fortune and spent it all for poor orphan, children, both Protestant and Catholic, The statue represents her sitting in a chair and clasping to her side a poor little waif who looks up trustfully in her face. The material of the monument is fine Italian marbleand its cost was $6,500. Thou sands attended the unveiling, " among ' whom were crowds of children from the orphan asylums in the city. How far yon little candle throws Its beams 1 80 shines a good deed In a naughty world. Didn't Know His Business. 'What are you doing there V demand ed the grocer of tbe new clerk, "I'm potting a little aand in the sugar. Ain't that right f "Right t Great geottl No. Yoq take a little of the sugar and put it in the sand. A good deal of fun is made of girls who are graduated from high schools, the wits insisting that such young women know nothing of cooking. Here is the latest joke of the kind. At a cooking school, the teacher said to a college graduate : "Please separate tbe fat from the lean. "But which is the fat and which is the lean f questioned the soft cultivated voice of the fair pupil. Kerosene will soften boots or shoes which have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new, Kerosene will make tin tea-kettles as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and- rob ' with it. It will also remove stains from clean var nished furniture. When one has had a fever and the hair is falling off, take a tea cup of sage, steep in a quart of soft water, strain it off' into tight bottle. Sponge the head with the tea frequently, wetting the ends of fee hair. X yonng man,' during an electioneering' ' contest, suddenly shouted out: "Hurrah , for Jackson I" at which a Whig exclaim -ed, angrily, "Hurrah for a Jackass V "All right, my man f said the youtht "We won't quarrel over such trifles f yon can hurrah for your favorite candidate o4 I'll do the same for niue.n - i .' - r 3: i 1 i .w, ..
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