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i . 4- 'ifi.-' I V - ; ; : i' 1 v.- ,v ' m : CBROHICLE. WILKBSBORO, N. OJ China has to-day twenty-six porta open to foreign commerce. ? . j - The silverware belonging to Queen Victoria's table .would keep her from starvation'for the rest'of her life, if the worst came to the worst. It is valued at $12,5ti0,000. , ' , The Uhicagorallroads have decided to elevate their tracks, and will go right at it. "They are tired of paying for the people they kill," explains the Hew Orleans Picayune. J j If Turkey should be wiped out, it would mean the loss to Russia of an annual sum of $7,500,000, which Tur key pays her by way of indemnity, and will have to pay till 1977. ; . - V Rudolph Cronau declares that he has . , indisputable evidence that the re mains of Columbus still rest in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, Hayti. He asserts that the remains'transf err ed toSpain in 1795 were those pf the great discoverer's son, Diego. - The Louisville Courier-Journal states that the question of keeping down the cotton acreage for 1896 is attracting a great deal of attention in the South. The cotton exchanges are urging planters' to diversify their crops and plant no more than they 4 did in 1895. V The Statement Yearbook for 1885, an acknowledged authority on statis tics, gives the area of British Guiana as, 76,000 square miles, while in the issue of 1895 the same country is credited with an area of 109,000, v No treaty is cited to account for this in crease of 33,000 square "miles. This seems to the Pathfinder a matter for scientific investigation. Of the in crease of species thero is definite knowledge,' but he matter of terri torial multiplication is anomalous, in fact without explanation, unless it be due - to alliuvial deposits along the coast. "' " - v The New York Herald 'says that "the cable despatch of congratulation addressed by the Emperor William to President Kraeger, of the Transvaal Bepublic, which is worded in the cus tomary phraseology of messages from one Chief of State to another, is an historic document of far greater im portance than it appears at the first glance. It is the recognition of the absolute independence of the Trans vaal Bepublio and a repudiation of the rights of suzerainty which - England claims to exercise - over the South African Republic by virtue of the con vention of 1884, which provides that the South African Bepublio shall con clude rfo treaty or engagement with any State or NatjLon other than, the I Orange Free State, nor with any na tive tribe to the eastword or westward of the Bepublic, unless the same has been approved by Her. Majesty the Queen. This passage is the sole foun dation for England's claim to suzer ain rights over the Boers, which is now denied in the German Emperor's message, issued after calm delibera- , tion;-in council with his Imperial Chanpelor and with his Ministers of - Foreign Affairs and of the Navy. The Atlanta Journal says that "Georgia is to have another immense colony of Northern and Western set - tiers, if the plans of four gentlemen who are now in this State materialize. The names of the members of the party are : Messrs. W. W., Taggart, of Breck inridge, Minn., -who was in the last Legislature ; . C. H. Fairall, of "West , Branch, Iowa, Tand a brother of Judge Fairall, of '; that State ; John J. - Gamble, of West Branch, Iowa, and , A. J E. Sansburn, of Breckinridge, 1 , Minn. These gentlemen, who are all veil known in their localities as bus! , 'ness and professional . men of high - .rank, have been in nearly all of the States of the South prospecting for .. suitable lands on whioh to establish . the colony which they have in mind. They have about concluded to negoti ' ate for a tract of: 80,000 acres in the southern part of this State, having . been ; more r impressed with . Georgia than with any other State in this sec tion. It is their; purpose to secure this land and divide it into lots 'of V c farms; which will be sold or rented, at the choice' of the settler. ; The,, move- -. ment which started some time ago and culminated A, in the great Fitzgerald colonv in Irwin ; County, has caused a deep current of interest in the South to be awakened throughout tne riortn west, and in Minnesota especially there ""Aiaa strong desire on the part of people to come to this section, xne winters are so fcevere . in . the Northwest that the people are growing tired of the country1. THE "OUr-OF.DTE" COUPJUB, We are "so out of afe- they say, t Ned and I;'. . ' . We love in an old-fashioned way, - v Long since gone by. - ' Hsays I ani his helpmate true ' - . In everything; , ! . ; , , . ' jnd I well, I will own to you els my king ; - L , We met in no romantic way '. Twlxt "glow and gloom;" Ha wooed me on a winter day, d in a room; - - , . Ye:, through life's hoars of stress and storm, When griefs befell, r Love kept our small home corner warm, ; , :lnd all was well, ' , thinks no woman like his wife - it. let that pass; Peirhaps we view the dual life ough roseate glass; Even if the prospects be not bright, We hold it true ' J - 1 1.1 3 HI -W MAIwHmM o Heaviest uurucua uiajr gwnugUk - hen shared by two. ' i " Upon the gilded scroll of fame, . Emblazoned fair, i - I cannot "hope to read the name " I proudly bear; But, happy in their even flow, The years glide by; We are behind the times, we know -; Ned and L 4-E. Matherson, in Chambers's Journal. THE POOR DUCHESS. T was really very hard on the poor Duchess, es pecially after all the toil and labor, she had un grudgingly expended on her unattractive pro geny. Her lot had al ways been hard enough ever since she had been a JJuchess: even before her wedding cake had grown stale she had been coping with difficulties, brutal difficulties which it required all her strength of mind to faie ; and now, when a good share of those difficulties were laid to rest with hex husband, the late Duke, in the fainily vault at Longlands ; now, when she had just managed to retrieve the shattered, ducal fortunes by bringing of the engagement of her ugly, dis sipated son, the present Duke, to Claudia Putnam, the richest American heiress of the season, now for this bljw to fall upon her, it was really top bad.' The only balm to her anguish was that it had fallen at Ijonglands, in th wilds of Yorkshire; and that the whole thing might be hushed up and hustled into oblivion without any one being any the wiser. She had gone to Longland to recruit after her super human expenditure of energy during the London season ; her only guest was Claudia Putnam, 'her son's fiancee wijth whom bhe was busy planning alterations and renovations for the v regime. A. Jut the moment was robbed of all its savor by .this horrible catastrophe; th s what else could she call it? ths drivelling idiocy of the least plain most hopeful of her six ungainly dansrhters. She would have keot the haJteful story entirely to herself if she cojild, but her heart was too full for silence, besides Claudia had her fair share - of Yankee shrewdness she might suggest a brilliant solution of the problem so, - as they sat over a cup of tea in her boudoir, the Duchess ooened her new trouble to her future daughter-in-law. - f 'I'm afraid. Claudia, dear." she be gan, tat we are going to have ser ious trouble with Henrietta." Claudia was very fond of the Duchess, so she tried to look sympathetic,' though with. Lady Henrietta, who was wrapped up m parish work, who wore impossible clothes and did her hair grotesquely, she had no sympathy whatever. 'Dear me!" she replied, "rm sorry to hear it; I hope she's not sick." 'Sick!" repeated the Duchess, 1 wish she were, or anything half so sensible. The fact is. she has been anil got herself entangled in a most unbecoming love affair." . Miss Putnam opened her blue eyes very wide, arid set down' her teacup with a lerk. "My 1" she exclaimed, "and wh on earth has been makinsr loye to Henrietta?" The 9 Duchess lowered her voioe. "My dear," she said, impressively, "it is Mr. Uibson, the curate. She vows sh will marry him : isn't it awful?" thi ught Claudia to herself ; aloud she saj d: "Have I ever met Mr. Gibson?" 'Certainly not, dear. We do not in te him here. Ho s not a crentle- m n." :, w Then where did Henrietta meet hi 'Oh, in cottages, and at the ohooL u see, she likes parish work, and I encouraged her it sets such ; a good example and we've always had a mar rid curate before V however, when Mr. Gibson came I never thought of chaperoning her, because," you "see, he isn't a gentleman.'1 f . ; j"But I suppose Henrietta thinks he will make her a suitable husband?" , j"My dear," cried the Duchess, ? 'she can't possibly think so. Why, t his father keeps a saddler's shop ! He hasn't been to the University. Oh, it's al ;ogether dreadful, and she's as ob st nate as a mule about it.' 7 ; She broke off as the door opened to admit a young man in a shooting suit. Hp was a plain, insignificant looking personage, with an air of extreme self approval. rr :. v , , ? . ("I've just been telling Claudia about this stupid affair of Henrietta's," went oh the Duohess. i ' . rAud what does Claudia think about it?" asked, the plain young man, who wpi Claudia's accepted lover and who deposited his long limbs on the sofa beside her and tried to bestow a fes tive caress on the hand nearest' to him. - ' ' . j VI guess I'm pretty well taken by stirprise," said Miss Putnam, drawing iiaua out or Her lover's reach. wm I, , said the Duke, placidly, "I'm dashed if I can imagine what he sees in Henrietta. She ain't pretty ; t'other way about, rather; she's got no money; and she's years, older than he is. I'm dashed if I'd , marry a" wo man like Henrietta, even if I was a saddler's son. Ivin dashed if I could even feel spoony on her." ' Mies; Putnam looked at him. She was going to marry a man very like Henrietta, and she did not feel very spoony on him. She had accepted him for sundry reasons, love being by no means the first or foremost. , i "He must be an awfully susceptible dhap,' went on His Grace, "to lose his heart to a girl like Henrietta. And he's so obstinata, too, about it ; seems as if he really cared 'about her. I thought, perhaps, it was mostly am bition her title and that sort of thing, you knowand I've offered him all my influence in the way of a leg-up to preferment, but he won't hear of it. . Funny thing, ain't it I Now, if it had been a girl like you, Claudia " ''Duchess," cried Miss Putnam, sud denly interrupting her lover, "I have an inspiration. You just send Hen rietta away. She can go to Jericho, or anywhere else, for a month or so, and when she comes back the engage ment will be broken off. I'll manage it." Sue .wouldn't answer any questions.' She said she thought she understood the exact lay of the land. They might leave it all io her. So to her it was left, and the next day Lady Henrietta was packed off to a married cousin 4n South Wales. The following day, at Lady Hen rietta customary hour, Miss Putnam walked into the village schoolroom. She wore a dainty blue cambric frock, which fitted her as no frock in Hen rietta's lifetime; had ever fitted her. The little boys and girls opened their eyes wide to look at her, so did the school mistress, and so did Mr. Gib son, the curate, who was hearing the whole school in its churoh catechism. "Good morning," said Miss Put nam, sweetly. "I am staying at the Towers. I have come in Lady Henri etta's place this morning. She has gone away for a few weeks, and she would like you all to know it." She looked around the room as she said it, and finally fixed her eyes on the curate's frank, simple face. "I hope," he began hesitatingly, "that Lady. Henrietta is not ill. This absence is so un unforeseen." "Guess not," said Miss Putnam. "She isn't ill, phe neyer was better in her life, but the Duchess thinks a change will do her a world of good." "Her Grace is very cruel," mur mured the curate. "I beg your pardon?" said Claudia, blandly. I was about to say," resumed the curate, turning to the expectant chil dren, "that as her Ladyship is unable to come this morning, you will be de prived of the interesting object-lesson she generally gives you. I'm sure you will all be very sorry." "Oh, they shan't miss their object lesson," said Claudia, still more blandly. "I've promised Lady Hen rietta to give it to them for, her." The curate had been in the habit of staying for Lady Henrietta's object lesson to keep order for her, he would have said had the Duchess questioned him. So he stayed to keep order for Claudia, which was quite superfluous, for if her manner of ad ministering instruction was not of a nature to keep the attention of rest less children, there were her fascinat ing gown and her pretty trinkets, not to speak of the charm of her face, to hold her audience spellbound. And when the lesson was over he had got into the way of walking with her Lady ship along the school lane and through the park. He escorted Miss Putnam to-day, because he wanted to ask how long his liege Lady's banishment was to last. "I don't know," was Miss Putnam's reply. "I suppose she wont come back till the Duchess chooses. "The children will miss her sadly," moaned the curate. "Guess she must make it up to them," said Claudia, graciously ; "I've promised Henrietta to stand as much in the gap as possible.'' Me gave her a grate mi looic "Wnen shall I come and give an other bbjeot-lesson?" she went on "to-morrow? f "Oh, no," said the curate; tb- morrow's geography day. Her lady ship always gives a geography lesson on Thursday." So Claudia put on another bewitch ing frock, varied her trinkets and did her best with a goography . lesson on Thursday. On Friday she wrestled with sum3, and by degrees she learned the whole school routiner She also visited, under Mr. Gibson's escort, one or two of Henrietta s old women, who, he ' thought, would , feel them selves neglected in her absence. Her fiance laughed at heri see what you are up to," he said ; "of course, it's a clever move, but it's rather rough on a susceptible ass like Gibson." :" "Why do you call him an ass?" asked Miss Putnam, sharply, "because his father is a saddler?" "It's a splendid opportunity for you to make yourself popular in the par ish dear," said . the Duchess. "Of course, wfcen you - are mistress , here. you will like to be popular among the Kl suppose I shall,? said Claudia, musingly., I -''''..'.'-" : " But in spite of her incipient popu larity she would not have the marriage hurried on ; she was equally deaf to the Duke's impatience and the Duch ess's hints.. ' . , - : . : ; "There are such heaps of things to do and to think of, before .anything can be fixed," she said vaguely when her fiance urged the matter upon her. - "Well, get on with the heaps of things, then;" he retorted, "and don't piffle away so much time at that con founded school.'' 4 , . in 1 Viatiishment in South Wales. ' - Finally, Miss Putnam's , stay at Longlands came to a rather unsatis tory end, "for she went away to London leaving the wedding day unfixed and the hangings for the new drawing room unchoosen. " , , -, The day after her departure there were two letters for the Duchess, one from the curate, ""the other from Miss Putnam. She opened the former first, . because she felt more curious as to its contents. . . Madam," it ran. '.'although Tour Grace did not seriously entertain my proposal for the hand of Lady Henrietta, I feel myself in honor bound to 4et you know that my eyes have been opened to the folly and unsuita billty of the marriage for which I would fain have had your sanction. I.have written to Lady Henrietta explaining, as far as I can, the folly of our past, and begging her to for give me if she 6e in any way a sufferer by. our mistake. I am leaving Longlands at once therefore the embarrassment of any further meeting will be avoided. ; Yours faithfully, , W. Gibson." The Duchess heaved a sigh of in tense relief, f This was Claudia's do ing. Claudia was a right down clever girl. She had certainly spent a great deal of valuable time in treading in Henrietta's footsteps, but she had dis enchanted Mr. Gibson, and lifted a horrible incubus off the family shoul ders. She was really far too good for that stupid, muddle-headed xson of hers ; still she, the Duchess, supposed that a title was an infinite attraction to a born democrat, so things w.ere after all, not so very uneven. Then she took up Claudia's letter. "Dear child," she murmured, as she broke the seal. "My dear Duohess," she read, and with each succeeding line her dismayed astonish ment increased; "I'm glad I came to stay at Longlands before fl took the irrevocable step to the altar. , I don't want to say anything nasty or mean, but, really, I never did care about the Duke;' I only accepted him be cause I thought you'd make up your mind to have me for a daughter-in-law; I should have made him perfectly miserable if I had mar ried him. Mr. Gibson finds, too, that he made a great mistake in thinking he cared for Henrietta. He explained it all to me, and I am quite satisfied. He and I are going to be married before Advent. I shan't mind having a saddler for a father-in-law. Yours always, Ciattdia. Putnam." The Duchess threw the letter across the table to her son. "Bead that, Southdown," she said; "we've got Henrietta out of her scrape most splendidly." It really was too hard on the poor Duchess. St. Paul's. A Victim ot Reform. For twenty years an old clerk in the appraisers' "building had worked in the same little room. In all that time the single window whioh was intended to light the room had never been cleaned or opened, ancLwas covered with cobwebs and dust. For twenty years the old clerk had worked by artificial light and the wails that were once white had turned black and grimy. ; During all the twenty years the floor was never swept and the door was never opened except to let the old clerk in or out. For twenty years the old clerk worked away at his desk,, smoking an old pipe almost ' continu ously, but he would never let a speck of the old dust or so much as a breath of the moldy and fetid air escape from the room. For twenty years the old man worked in that room and was never sick a day. A short time ago Collector Wise ordered the window cleaned, the place swept out, the walls whitened, the old furniture removed and new substituted, and gave the old place a general overhauling. A ven tilator was put in the window and the transom, was propped open, so the room was well aired and lighted. The old clerk sneezed all day when he went back and sat in the fresh air, and the light hurt his eyes so that he had to go over and buy a stronger pair of glasses. On the third day he took his bed, and it was a week before he was out. Since then he has not been well a day, and- he is begging the Col lector to stop up the ventilator, close the transom and put a shade over the window. San Francisco Post. Lodging in a Bope House. The latest addition to the. curidsities of St. Louis is what Secretary Saun ders of the , election commission calls a rope house. It is a combination sa loon and hotel at Levee and Spruce streets, - kept by a man named Peter son. , r Across the room the proprietor has a rope stretched tighly , and in v front of it and parallel with it is a. row of ordinary wooden bottom chairs.. Every lodger, upon payment of five cents, is given a chair and is allowed to sleep with his head resting upon the rope. They are allowed to sleep until 6 o'clock in morning. Promptly at that time the bartender is required to see' that every lodger is awakened and made to move xn. This is accomplished by striking one end of the rope with a bung starter.1 The blows have pretty much the same effect as striking the sleeping boarders on the head with a billy, and they generally move on. , v , f .v , If this fails, one end of the rope I is unfastened and the remaining sleepers are allowed to fall sprawling on the, floor. Chicago Tribe ne. , A Bare Copper Com. Fred D. McDonald, a druggist, of Kennett "Square, has just, sold an old copper coin for $200. The coin is very rare. It is of the date of 1783, and on one side has the bust of Wash ington and ; the words :." Washington .rifl Ti'ihfirtv." and on tha othpr 'nnt ,, - TT. innlr tn i. J J -1.1 cenu iiuwa. uuo virtu, w .:: braue u his store for its face value, one cent. Philadelphia Record. Scarcity ol Cuban Cedar. ' . - - ' . . - '; There' is ; said to be a scarcity of Cuban cedar for cigar boxes since the outbreak Of the revolution in that country. A good substitute, and one often used, however, is cumber wood, which is dyed in the popular color. And Lady Henrietta, was ' still TYISE WORDS. ; Frenzy Is the safety-valve of folly, ' How fast we learn in a day of sorrow If thou desire rest, nnto thy soul, be ust. . Nothing multiplies so much as kind ness. The fire of hate usually flashes in i the pan. ' - ' ' . Humility is the truest abstinence in the world. Discretion of . speech is more than eloquence. A sunbeam in the heart is bound to , light the face. ; Sometimes a man doesn't like justice when he gets it. - A man without mirth is like a wagonj without springs. Jit never does any good to talk re ligion ,with a snap like that of a steel 'trap, '.'v; C ,i . 1 It is easy to discharge a man who realizes that he is not, entitled to any thing, i ' . The woman who marries a man to reform him is a noble example of wasted effort. When you call a fellow . a gentle man and he gets his back up it s a sign that you are lying.. The dignity of the law is interesting to contemplate. The men made the laws and then they represented justice by a woman with a bandage around her eyes. They have hoisted this travesty around on monuments and court-houses too much. Justice has been "going it blind" long enough. An Enormous Tortoise. There is reported from the Isles Eg- mont, in the Indian Ocean, hot far from the Isle Maurice, the capture of an enormous male laud, tortoise, the largest thus far known. These islands are without fresh water, though one of them has a salt lake of considerable area. They have not been known hitherto as the resort of land tor toises,' though the neighboring islands have them in abundance. ' This tortoise and his mate have been on the island recently at various times. Hera are his chief dimensions : . Inches. Height when walking 29.92 Vertical circumference 126 Horizontal circumference 157K Length of back 65.35 Length of breast plate .39.37 Depth of concavity of breast plate. . . . . r 4 Length of tail........... 14.97 Length of hind foot. 23.62 . Circumference of hind foot . .. ........ 19.68 Length of fore foot . . . 24.40 Circumference of head near the eyes. 16.53 Length of neck. 19.97 Weight. 529 pounds. A curious fleshy excrescence on each" side of the shell is conjectured to be designed as a protection to the latter when the creature is in certain posi tions. It is not known in other land tortoises, though it may be a pecul iarity of aged males. This tortoise is 126 pounds heavier than the one now living at Port Louis, Isle Maurice, re cently known as the largest captured living. Cosmos. A Detective Mystery. "Tho most mysterious affair I ever knew in detective circles, said a well known sleuth,' "was a case in the West. A detective had become famous by reason of his success in ferreting out heavy robberies. It seemed that none of the professionals could escape when he once started upon their trails. Mm a 1 Alter a time au suon cases were placed in his hands. ; The first one that he could not discover, the thief was a big bank robbery, then after a year or two another, then another ; this reputation was suffering, . but it was still good, as during the same period he was successful in other diffi cult cases. He was taken sick with fever, and while delirious told how he himself had perpetrated the robberies, describing every movement in detail. When he recovered, it was claimed that his failure to unravel the myster ies had caused the raving confessions, but other men were put : upon them and they failed to find any-clue what ever. The detective retired and lives inelegant style, but whether-or not he was as successful in eluding law as in enforcing it will probably never: really be known." Washington Star. Winds Aflecting Lake Levels, The subject of lake levels being just now a snbject of discussion , it seems appropriate to call attention to one factor of the subject not generally un derstood, namely : the vast influence of the prevailing winds as affecting the level of water at any given point on the lake. Here in (Jhioago a strong southerly or westerly wind will lower the water eighteen inches in the course of ten" or twelve hours, while a north erly or easterly wind will aa promptly bring it back. , This - driving about of the water by the winds in the great lakes aGects late levels by driving the water over - the Falls of Niagara as much or more than any other . factor.' A strong west wind drives the water of Lake Erie to the eastern end and greatly increases the flow over - the falls, which, in 'turn, is replaced bv an increased flow from Lakes Huron and Michigan, and so lowering' all in turn.. Chicago Tribnne.-':' ..;.:.';.- .. r Curious Claim to DistinptfAnl ; A Scotchman with ai curious claim 4-n. ' Ai ot in At. inn Viao lnat- ns.-i vv w. ., juaw uicu XXX XJvllU burgh. His name was William Cairns, and he had read through every line of the twenty-four thick yolnmes of tho Enoyclopsedia Britannica.' He was a brother of the' late Principal Cairns, head of the United Presbyterian Col 16 ui wwu, uu uner aevotmg fch best veara nf "hfa Mta. 4.-wt.. he settled down in Edinburgh with his brother, and found, congenial work in )iouMUi6 bu;; xuuex ior: tne 'jbritan- ni'i.' ' Thin nciaoiiUii.rl iu. ' a- . of e very-line in that ponderous work.' "Ka-Ot Vtlj- Tin, , . . KOT7 Drug Store. rryBrbs., Wilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, Medicine v Oils, Paints, Tarnishes and Everything kpt in Firit-Olasa Drug Store. Prescrintions Carefully 1 Store in the Old Steve 'Johnson Building, just opposite the Court House. Be Sure to Call and See Tim -DEilEB IN ' DRUG PATENT MEDICEIIES,' . k .! . . , y TOBACCO, CIGARS, Cigarettes Fancy and Toilet Soaps, etc., etc. Presorintions Tronutly and. accur ately filled. Situated in the Brick Bote! Building. LITlYtFP STABLES, . C. yELLBOBII. PROP. Situated on Main Street, east of thi Court House . Qood horses aad new ve hicles of all kinds re idy for ' the accom- i mod&tion of the traveling miblic. ttorsei carefully ! fed and attended . to. Gin us a trial and see how we feed: A .C. WELLBORN, Wilkesboro, - North Carolina. R, N". HACKETT, Attorneys at Law, . WILKESBORO, N. C. , Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. , v IOAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney - at - Law, ' Will nractlca in all tha court. Datlei : In real estate. ' Promnt attention nald to collection of claims. . T. B. Fdtlbt. H. L. Gbxzkm. FIHLEY & GREENE. Attorn eyo - ot -v Law, , ' WILKESBORO, N. O. Will nractice in all tha court&J Col lections a spcialt7. Real estate sold ooH A Painter's Damaged Hand. There Is no more skilful rlsrht hand . v. ... ' j in the world than that of the Russian ' painter Verestchagin. Yet his right, hund is thumbless. . His right thumb was . bitten by a leopard some years ago. and ; had to be nmnntated. The rpiddle finger also of his. right hand is lamed and useless, as the result of a shot-wound which the artist received ou the battle-field. More than tliis. tho small bones of ; the ; centre of his' right, hand were also partially shatter- ed by ' a fall on the ' Tlnssfn n fstftnnes. and his right arm was broken in the same accident ' Nevertheless it Is with tnis damaged right -hand that verest chagin paints his Wonderful pictures. ; ' Crowing Good Coffee in Iowa. Considerable Interest has been creat ed; in Marion County, Iowa, by the ex periment of , Jacob Bruce, a farmer k torth ; of ; Knoxville- at coffee-raising : on a small scale. , . In the spring of 1894 Bruce planted seven crralns of flhe Rio coffee, and in the fall harvested half- a-gallon of an excellent quality. Most of this . he replanted last spring in fifteen rod plat of ground, and now 1 . Li a. ' m . . xius eigne uusneis or conee, or an aver' age of eighty-five bushels per acre. He is satisfied that the crop is a sure. one in hia locality, and thinks it can be grown on a. large scale and at an ex cellent profit. a man cvn. never be a true gentleman in manner until he is a gentleman at heart. ''-;'' vnn wftt ml MIT it I. STALEY & CO, w n . v.a -l vski V'." ' .... m j via HUM J very' best friend..
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