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I 11 x v f 1 J 11 v 11 1 .-:ir',,Totj-i. 11 , ii 'ify-w iivt . A WEEKLY JOUBNAL FOB HOME AND FABM; GIVING BELIABLJB INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. VIOL. II. HIGH L AN DS, MACON COUNTY, JS'.je., DEC. 11, 1884. NO. 47. 'J r DID TOO INOf THAT TBI H1BHIJU1K SASH AND DOOR FACTORY PROPOSES TO FURNISH Wicdewi, Store Freats, tfeidiags ef all Patltris. 7 Algojjlanin, matching, sawing. at., at th lowest rates. ' Parties seeding work, ia- my- line -wi'l JLo well to gt my prices before par- ehasing elsewhere. Orders promptly 'filled and work guaranteed equal to tha.best. HIGHL1NBS SASH AND DOOR FACTOSY. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Proprietor. This . Saee Belong TO Zl.Z73Sa OUT. ."V NEW STOltE. flaring paid kr by - , I (eel that 1 can sell as cheap as the, cheapest,, lrJl: " -f-rr ' Therefore Ask a eoEtinaanee ef the liberal Patronage already girea Ee, aad weald here return ray sincere; thanks' fer . ' . saae. V ' ' If earefal and prompt attention le the wants f my casttiners . . entitle me o their trade, I prepese in this waj? ; tevsecure it. ANT ONE NEEDING PATENT MEDI CINE WOULD DO WELL TO GIVH t ME A CALL BEFORE PUR CHASING EL8BWHERB- ; ? i AS I PROPOSE BELLLNG Ar COSTi I PROPOSE KEEPING ON "HAND A TOLERABLY P AIR SrOCK t '0? FAMILY GROCERIES, v I HAVE -ALSO A GOOD STOCK OF BLIND BRIDLES, SADDLE BL ANK - ETS, EfC-lT - Sare f mbarrassaeat hy net asking jfer :- A. BAXTER WILON HIGHLANDS, N C, ": ' - lMPKOYE TOUK STOCK! XOTHXNO JO BO PROmABUS IN FARMINfl AS klOlNO' tHl BIST OF LIVE STOCK. HOUGHTOK TAM 8uu a : Paicns Jersey Cattle, Senthdewi Sheep and Essex Swiiae. . smRXNOBS Giviw to 'KOATH' CAROLINA PURCXASXRl cw ovbl STOCK. ' r- I3SIKP and SWISH ebowa by- C. KERR at N. C. Statb Faib at Raleisrb, were bou'grht at '- ' MOLGHTON FARM. s T. ftTBM BRED MALES A SPECIALTY, with which to trad-up common stock. LDDBBSSrHENRT JB. ALYORD. : ' MAHAOajt. - MoxraTAnrvxiXB, " A '. j ' Gaa Co Kbsj Tobjk. . ' " - ' ' -X .'. ' i' "t - - j' .- ' ii-. ? , ; i ; ;; . P. P. McLEAIf MILLS, Cowee, Macon Co , IT-C ire just finished. Constructed of the VERr BEST material. "FRKWC H BURRS" Fob TtfHBAT, , "ESOPUS BURR8" fob CORN, L . "UTCH ANOHOB BOtT- r " W CLOTH''7 , '.Airo . i " "ITTRBKA SMUTTBRi BRN NB tf ,Fbok Siltxb Crikk, 'Jfi Y. OaarsatMd U xcl kotk im quantity and , qvallty of MJtAli, aad EQUAL if ot cxcal, both im auaatit j and 'quality : of floor, ay and all milla in Wester Caraliia. ' la cannactlea wlta tfa abora is a first class BRBNUm CIRCULA SAW MILL, with m capacity for 7,596 fMt per day; " Ordarsfor VLOUR'oi LUMBER promptly fiUed. . la these mills, the people's intarests aro earefully protected, and satisfaction guar anteed. P. P. McLEAX, Pkoprietok . JSflCOflTS :-00KD SPOOli COTTON TOTJOAKBUYITOJ1 ROBERT X. PORTER, Franklin, K. C. I .009, iMMlfl WWW .000, $ljt0tCHIdt hr shecttr DO;Y0U KNflt; XORILLARD'S CLIMAX with Red Tin Tag; RtASFln? Gu Chewing; Navy Ctjppiiros-Vnd:"Kacirl BroWnand Yellow SNff iritha'Best in cheapest, quality coairsd? C ) saaaaaaoasaaaaiBMi m 2 ij Qooe 0200 7 mm . ana oa ; t.i.,.B Miscltief Makers. BY M 0 ! coda there in this world !) found Some little spot of kappy ground. Where village pastimes might go roana Without the village tattling 1 How doubly blest that place would be, Where all, might dwell ia liberty, Free from the bitter misery ; .,OLgoBsip's endless prattling.' If such a spot were really known, Dans Peace might claim it as her own, An4ia kjth mjghViU hf boi Forerer, sjnd forever I There l&o a queea wight reign and live, While every odc would soon forgive The little slights .they aught receive, And be offended never. The mischief makers that remove Far from oar hearts the warmth of love, Aad lead as all to disapprove ' What gives another pleasure. '. They seen to take one'a part, bat when They've heard bar cases, quickly then They soon retail them all again, ' . Mixed in a poisonous measure. And then they've such a cunning way Of telling tales. They whisper sly, "Don't mention what I say, I pray, I would not tell another.'' Straight to your neighbor's house they go, Narrating everything they know, And break the peace of high and low, Wife, husband, son and brother. Oh 1 that the mischief-making crew Were, all reduced to one or two, And they were painted red or blue That every one might know them. Then wouldour village Sure forget j To rage aad quarrel, fame and fret, And fall into an angry pet With things too much below them. For 'tis a sad degrading heart To make another's bosom smart, And plant a dagger in the heart . W ought to love and cherish. Then let as evermore be found ip quietness with all around, While friendship, peace and joy abound, And angry feelings perish. 'Seed Time &nd. Harvest. Rats, and Mice We ' are often .asked, the best way of catching these "vermin", especially rate, which are more difficult to manage than mice. The best treatment with both is, to keep them out. . In building a houee, the possibility of their entering should be kept in mind, and. the precaution of prop erly cementing the cellars should be tak en. In old houses, where these creatures have made themselves at home and found run-ways for many years, the task is mere difficult. Yet here,, care is needed to keep them out. With ingenuity and patienee all that are in the house may be trapped. When the house is once free of them, it will nct remain so long unless precautions'are used to prevent rats aad mice' from entering. They come in through open doors and windows much more fre quently than by burrowing. When once within an old house they find abundant hiding places, and often passages from one part of the house to another maae by their predecessors. Still much ; may . be done to circumvent them. All visible holes through partitions and doors should be stopped bv nieces of tin. Old fruit cans with the . solder molted offanswer ..forth purpose. The tin may be cut with a pair of old shears and tacked over . the .holes," firstnSbing within awl' places tor . the tacks. Where there is a hole through plastering, or between stones of the cellar wall, these may , be . effectually stopped with Plaster of Paris mixed, with coarsely .broken . glass. They can not work through this. It is well to make a study of the Ways of these, animals aad fol low them up. Of course, after interfering with their runs and holes as much as pos sible, it is desirable to- catch those that are in the bouse, as poisoning is not advisahlB in the dweUing. 'Even the taost wity and cunning old rat may be caught, if his sus picions are overcome by food in a trap ar ranged nottopring After he has learaed to feed in the trap regularly', it may be act. Wlien A Tai fas; bwn; eaught, the.trap should t leaked in water fori some days, else? others" wilV. avoid it. Trapping' iats requires . taslAmerican AgAculturikt. Lookififf for IIm Comforts. ' : ' :' '' ; ST. vf AUI, pAY.J ... -t ; Why, Mry, have! you come back-to bV a hired girl again T I thought yoa. left as to get married tnd have a house of youroWn." ; r"So I didmnm." ; - ' ," Well, what have you come back farf? r" "Well, ye see, mum, John's done pur ty well, an' we kep' a hired girl, too, and I'm kind o' tired av th7 way, pf .life. I thought I'd like t com back an' I boss again far awhile." . -: ' '!'-,iV.- " ,t"r!g- ' ' .c "Mrs. Cvros-H. Mekrinie, of Chicago, j-hlif ent toWP, Jacobs' the other day a JEhecfcf6r,f VUU, donated for the purpose W creating another building f r jtbeorphans ( the Thornwell Orphanage, o! tUUtOr V. :.: f . verdict for defixno- A NT. ' "r Tlae Only Correct Version mtf a Historical Dialnxe. SIED-TIKE AKD HARVEST. "George," said hisfather with a coun tenance more in sorrow than in anger; "George, some one ha cut down my fa vorite cherry tree: Jo you know any thing abont it t? . ; , . Young Washington did not quail before, his father's .aecufiing "glance. -He looked him straight in the ay 6, and an expression of honest resolution gleamed in the' clear eyes and frank connteaane. "My father," he said, "I will not de ceive yon. I do know something about it, bat that is net the issue at all. Yon have, in effect, charged me with being privy to the destruction of your favorite tree. Now, the question is, sine you hav lied information and laid this charge against me, what do you know about it V "I know yon have a hatchet," replied his father sternly. "I kaow what a boy with a hatchet is liable to do. I know that some one has cut down my favorite cherry tree " "Sttp right there," interrupted the fu ture father of his country. "You say this was your treet "I do." "How came it yoars t" "I planted it." "Now, sir, are you certain it was not on this farm before you came here T "No, sir, it was not." "Then why did you say so f " "Why did I say what!" "That's right; evade, quibble, crawl out of it somehow. All right. If you don't want to answer a fair, plain, simple question you don't have to." "But, I didn't say it was on the farm when I came here." "Oh, very well, deny it; is there any other retraction you would like to make f ' "I don't retract anything.' I merely de clare that I never said that tree was on the farm when I came here." "Oh, well, father, doa't get excited and talk loud. You may go back on your entire statement if yon wish. Per haps you will next try to . make us be- lievethat this forth "wasn't here, either, when you cam. ' ' Why of course it was here. I don' ' Didn't you say a moment ago that it wasn't t" "That was the tree !" i "Ah, yes ; you turn it off on the tree now. You've been talking about the treeall this time,' then 1" "Why, certainly I have." "Then you just admitted that it was here when you came t" 'No,-my.svri j that was. the farm.'? out not hair a dozen questions ago yon admitted :that;'Yoa said in these very words, 'Why of course it was here,' did you not t" "I said those words, but I was speak ing of the farm." "And yet jou. said bat this very mo ment that you had been talking about the tree. It is useless to continue this exami nation. My father, of all human vices lying is the commonest, and 1 doubt not it is the worst. Tt blunts our moral sen sibilities ; it leads as to distort and exag gerate simple statements of facts; it biuret our powers of intelligent observation, un til even a man of ordinary scholarship and intellect development Is unable to tell whether he is talking about a farm or a cherry tree.' - The complaint is dismiss? I doubt very much if you can even estab lish the fact that yon ever owned a tree. Go to the nursery, and if yoa intend plant ing a tree in the plac of the one you imagine yon have lost, yon had better take a man with yon to show you the ground, lest yon might plant the tree in your hatv: . You may go." Sadly the -old man turned away, but he told the man. who helped him plant the new tree that if he bad a hundred boys be wouldn't let another one of them study law.iE&&ert : J", Burdttte. Ctossamer Flannels or a Bnf ";& falo Coat. ' . :. j ' ' tKRRITORIATj enteb'Pbibb'. J . . ' .. '. ' : ' Captain Zach, a Piute who is said to have kicked up his heels andcavrted our the akaJi plaias'of Nevada for more than' eighty summers, being questioned in re gard to th' weather of th coming. winter said: "Yon see nm this winter he be one way of two. ' If he take warm road, he b tnor warm as any winter in long time; if h takoeold road h be worst winter vr yoa dam sec. He ho be lik common win ter he be big hot or big cold." ; VJonoe," said Deaa, ffis a groat Chris tiin ?- he will Jie and swar Uke a pirate,'?. "Did yon ever bear him swiar V asked a bystander.; ,"Y, h called; me a; darned fool the other day." "Well, - yon. doa't call thtt lying, d you!" "No, it ain't lying, "but it's swearing, just the same." Aad then Dean wondered why vrybody aughod d load. . " ' - ''""": ' Capital Errors.; Far too mneh money is spent ia buildings. . Formerly a barn "needed a -roomy- thrashing "flfM-, whereon to' swing tb flails. No- such thing is needed now. Two rows of posts some beams, ' girt and. braces, aad a tight , roof and walls are sufficient. An excellent cow stable, with all the modern improvements, can be built for $5. per - cow, and how much better to have 100 cows in $5 stalls, than 5 cows ia 100 stalls. c'; Anothereapieorbacanse a wast of capitaWi k'cVdr- horse and cows. . A $50 horse is not Worth one fourth as ranch at an that J worth $100. It will eat as much and oat as much for harness, and will neither do as much work nor live so long. A $20 cow that makes three pounds of batter in a week costs as much for everything, labor and utensils included, as one worth , 11 00 and makes ten pounds a week. t Another error is to work poor land. If any a man has broken his back and lost his heart on a poor farm which he has suffered to ran. down by bad management; He has spread his labor and capital over J 00 acres, when by confining himself to twenty-five or thirty ha .might have bo come happy and rich. The "way to re pair such a capital error is to begin with on field and get that into good condition, and let the rest lie, and so on through the farm; Oac'rich field will then . make it easy to enrich another or two ; and while the beginning is slow, it is downhill work, aad as the end is nearly reached progress, is fast and easy. The worst of all capital errors is for the farmer to neglect hii own imqrtvement oud cultivation. A man who has $10,000 in" a farm and stock may easily have twice as much in himself and make his work pay 10 per cent, on his value. He is the greatest part of his capital and -it is the greatest of all errors to misuse himself. - N. J. H. in N Y Tribune Yrhoa! Whta'p ! "Whoa! Whoa'p I" exclaimed a broad shouldered emigrant, as he drew up in front of a saloon in Blooming ton in an early day. "Dad, let's go in. an' have a littl corn -juice." Just then a man cam out of the log plac head-Tfr- hel, and muiimvmCit uiul striking', him arit hi fist at every revolution. ; Enough ! Enough !" yelled th van quished individual. "Ye-oop!" ahoated the vitr; "I'm th bast man in Illinois !'' . ; "Whoa! Whoa'p!" cried th .old man in the wagon, 'John ain't Wo in Eolo noyt" "Yas, pap !" "Well, we can't stand that kindo' talk. Git out an' whale 'im John." John came from th wagon and soon had the bully begging for mercy. "I'm the best man in Illinois," ahoated John. , "Whoa ! Whoa'p !" called the old man, as his bleared eyes flashed fir and his palsied bands .twitched nervously. "Somebd l bold this r team." A - - - stranger volunteered todp so and th old man walked up. tohis exultant son and said; ......... John, ver farcit that var old man's in l Eelynoy," and he ga him- a sound thrashing, while the bystanders applaud d. "I'm th best man in Eelynoy," th old man yelled, cracking his fists together, and jumping up auddown and. no one dispated bis word. As they went in the young man said : "You'r right, dad,, 'an yer boy comes next." How a Lady Sfeould Ifont. Th mott graceful way for. a lady to reach the saddle,, and the one that i taught in the best riding schools says the American Horsewoman, is by the assist ance of a gentleman. . The rider's edu cation will not bo complete until she has learned this method of mounting, which, when, accomplished easily and gracefully, is delightful to witness. In it the rider will hav three distinct points of support, namely, the shoulder of the gentleman, the united palms of his hands, and her hold 'upon the pommel. The stirrup having 'been placed across the shield of the saddle in front of the pommels, the ladyy holding the. reins and whip, with its point dpwn, ia her right haad, whioh must'rest upon thei second pommel,-?-shonld stand with her right side ' toward the horses left about four or fit inches from it, her left shoulder being turned siiguuy oaca. Anea taxing a. nrm now upon th second pommol iVwittr her '4 right hand, she shonld wtthj hand lift hr riding-skirt eooagli ' to en&ble hr to plac hr lft foot fairly Aad sqoarely into the gentleman's palms,, which should be elasped firmly togthr. This don, sh shonld drop the skirt, 'plac her left hand npon his right shCnlder, bend her knee and give the word "rWy'V or a signal, and at once spring from her right foot up and a little toward tb,e horse. The gen tleman at . the same momrit musi raise hii. kaads' and move them toward the horse. Th lady toast, when rising, press r bear lightly on his shoulder, and also keep, a firraholdron th second pommel, which she mast notrliaqaihantil sh seated. Th gentlcmaa should Jt hen lire mov thejsthrrupjfrom thefrnt(partf the. saddle; while thejlady transfers th reins to her Ielt hand.l passes herPrfeht knee over the second pommel, aad her left over the third.R8he will then be!readv to have her foot placed in the stirrup. TheTamtlier and UicScnool Boy. s . . BT KV. J, H. B. Ft the Enterprise : Net many years ago the anthorof this pie was going to a school taught four miles ft. E. of Franklic. The school was thr miles" from his father's hous, which distance ho traveled morniag a4 evening. To mountains or hills, to erosa., Oc morting, before was Co4 light, h harried off to school. Onth first hill, without thinking what k wat doing he stopped t pound a large tree with his boot-heel. To his groat sur prise a shrill noise wan heard, as h thought above him, he looked in that di rection, repeated th blow, and heard th sound in the other direction. H then gathered a club aad struck th tree, try ing to look both ways, ana found the an imal was in the tree. He then stepped below the tree, which had lost over half of its top, leaving quite an opening 7 or 8 feet above the ground. Thejaaimal mad its escape into ' the remaining branch f the tree. The' boy set his basket bv ana got him a withe as the boys say to "twist . it out,7 cumed thtfe, dropped his ft in the hollow, truth, and would have suc ceeded in getting his vermin jjia reach of hisknife bat his holt broke and it wnt back. This'aocident verhaDs. saved th boy's life He thought it might bIa pan ther, and climcd down th tree. Th boy is living yet. So it is in lif,vJoftetima whea we ajl w succeed. lnsaraac Rates. Th visit of Walter D. Wllbra, of the Southeastern Tariff Association, to - Greenville, S. C - has bad a badl!ffcc4. amWg' piejNrTty fcwldeTrfor"tbe fir ln suraf'cc' eonipanies which are 'included ia that insurance'organization have issued a new set ,or rates, which are regarded as exorbitant ven by the local insurance boardia this city. The inorease, howev er, exempts dwellings, the higher rates being confined to the business porton of the eity. Th ad vane : is about 75 par nt. over the present rates of insurance). Th new rates hav been put into imme diate operation. The local board, which is composed of agents representing the companies in the Southeastern Asaso fjktion, mad an earnest protest ' against the extortionate rates, but in vain. Thy will, however, renew their efforts t seenre a reduction to a reasonable basis. B wi nes men are very much incensed vr th advance, aad declare that they will either place their insurance in the North or take the risk of having no insurance, rather than be imposed on., The city is amply provided with apparatus for the extin guishment of fins, and fire wells ar convenient to the business portion of th city, and the authorities hope to erct water works, bnt even the latter addition al safe guards, it,is said, willnotnfluenee the association in th redaction of prices. State Chronicle. Ray and Anderson. Tke trial of Ed W. Bay. th setoriota raf itchell county murderer was emmcl la the Caldwell Superior Court last week. It is probabl that th trial of his oompaa ioa in crime, Anderson, will aot com oft until next term. It is thought that Say will only be found guilty of manslaughter. Eay is a relative f Joseph Garland, now serving a term of imprisonment hero 'for violating the Stat laws regulating th li quor traffic , : Latek Ray was convicted of man slaughtrand sentenced to the penitentia ry for twenty years. ' ' Homdde Mr. Leroy Morrow, who lives in l?eok. lenbnrg ooaaty a few miles from Bcattio' Ford in this county, shot' and almost in stantly killed Jha Wither, colored, oa Thanksgiving day. Withers was attempt ing to strike Mr. Morrow with a rail aad came into his yard for that .pirpoaa. r Af ter having repeatedly ordered' kim to fcav and seeing that h wa bent on doing hla an injary, Mr. Borrow shot him wkk kl pistor."" ' - , Promthe Chariot 0berver wa iatra . I'utt a corncr's inquest ,wa hold on Sat urday aad3toattth. jnry r.tnined a Tr dict, of -JastifiaW hooi?.-iW Press. ' : V ti "J CleveUnd's'pbpulartosjotity ln: allh r 1 i. v at --ft zf i Vl-Vs lit; . . r - . i f j. - - - ' - - i ff m . J
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