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TOBACCO IN CUBA. Tobcco Land Slls for $1000 an - - . - i ' . , Acre A Single , Acre Produces $3000 Worth of Tobacco. '- , . Messrs. Editors - In your last issue! I had something to say of the manu factureof cigars, in 'Havana.'" Of course it is the delicacy of . flavor and aroma of the Cuban tooacco that makes the - Havana cigar so famous and I had a great desire while in Cuba to go out and see the tobacco fields which were- just then ( Christmas) at their most flourisn ing period. Hence it might not: be unintereting to. your readers, all of whom are acquainted with tobacco culture, to know something of the cultivation of the costliest tobacco on earth . In what I shall say, however, I am stating no what -1 myself saw, but what' I gathered from guide books or heard in con versation. - - While tobacco may be raised in most of the island of v Cuba the 5 su perior qualities come from that part west of Havana, covering the prov ince of Pinar del Rio and the west em portion of the province of Hav ana. Not only so but even here only on the eastern slopes of. the mountains and at a good altitude above the sea are the finest grades to be found. How almost priceless must this land be when a single acre here produces as high, as $3006 worth of tobacco. The plantations, which are small fields of ; about: ten! acres, are some five thousand in number and one authority says that about ten pounds of tobaccok seed are needed to the acre.' What strikes us as strange is that the plants are set out in late Octo ber or earlv November and are cut some three months later about February the first. My. friend, Buck Farley, says that he might buy him a farm down there to work during the winter mouths, but the price of $500 or $1000 an acre rather dam pens his enthusiasm. 1 he ; young plants when abqut three inches high are bedded out in furrows two '.: feet apart. . . - j Every plant is watched -with -the tenderest care ; each leaf is constant ly examined, the green worms kill ed and the furrows kept clean,. The small leaves are; picked, on ana when full grown the head of the plant also; that is, it is --'topped.'' This leaves the big leaves, general ly about ten in a number, to expand and spread in the , sun. , i The color of the leaf is bright green unti mature, when ir begins to turn yel low. ' 'They are then gathered by cutting the stalk .m such a manner that two leaves remain on each piece of stalk. The leaves are then strung over their poles in the -dry ing houses, one leaf each side t of the pole, and left to dry; about five weeks. The drying bouses are large, airy barns," thatched - with palm leaves, the inside being arrang ed with rows of poles one above the other." In other words the : inside arrangements is much like'' pur barns, but their .'"curing is: far different. When the leaves are taken down they, are put together , in bun- of about ' one i hundred leaves ad then into bales of about eighty bundles and "wrapped ; in . palhi weaves. These were the bales I saw stored in the lower 'floor : of the great cigar factories in Havana. Of the whole island the crop is I csumaieaat, some 500,000 bales . . y . f ensiun .raoara. r The export of this tobacco stead- . The liberal' p 10 visions to the ,new ily increased .reaching in 1895, pension act passed by the last Leg 299,000 bales of-100 pouiu(is each isiature ;have resulted in, aery butfin i896Twith the oncoming of iarge increase in' the nnmber pf political troubles and war dropping applications' for pensions, in this to, less1 than ;half that amount State, r j . ' . During those troublous:' timesthe $0 great Jsthe number that plantations suffered 'severely as . did State Auditor Dixon has deemed it rue sugar plantations;, now with the return of peace and ,the establish- ment of a stable government ..by the Americans the- cultivation of the best product of the sorrow-soothing weed will flourish as never before in the history of this bright ' Pearly of the Antilles. - . Wiixiam Linwood Foushe. v Belief for thePebple Oomes. Washington, D,C June il To- day for the first time since the " war revenue taxes were in 1898 the American people can have their chewing gum. use their per- fumery. and cosmetics send tele- grams and express packages, insure theirlives and transact legal and financial:business without paying Uncle Sam for the privilege. The new revenue tax which goes into effect to-day relieves the public of about S.ooo.ooo in. annual ex- penditures and deprives the govern.- meht of a similar . amount . - of, in- come. - Included:amone the articles on which the tax 'has een;; repealed rinf ritAti "orp ivsnV rtiooVe hiiic f lading f or .expert; bond ; or obliga tion Tyv, trtinVtifA" Vmnfvjftv fert ifT- cates of damage, certificates of de- posit, charter party, chewing "gum, commercial brokers, sight drafts, "uucc iu iuc umucr oi pen express receipts, life insurance 'pol- sions a?Plie4 for is much greater icies, leases, manifests fori custom- tha? wa? expected, that Auditor; house entry, mortgages or convey- ances in trust, orders for payment of monev on stent or demand, nef- fumery kn& cosmetics, power of at- torneypromisory riotesroprietary medicines protests, telegraph : mes- sages, telephonemessages, . United StatesWey orders and warehouse receipts. Tunnel Caves in in Baltimore 1 Baltimore, June 26.T-Wifh , a great roar, the Pennsylvania. rn&.- caved in early this morning and through.east bound train No.-78 from' NeW 'York to Jacksonville; was neariy caught , .The engineer heard the first crash of the falling wall and stopped . . - . . . ' Debris is piled up in front and at the side of the engine. Engineer Merelv ; and fireman . crawl ed ; out and escaped from1 the west end. -. - - -- - . - 1 . The coaches and baggage .car were hauled back and out the east end. Tmmediatelv after i the cave in the,watermains, laid above, the tun - neUburst and ? torrent of water J swamped against te sides ; increas - ing the diameter of the hole. Shade -. - " t t 4 . ' k r r 1 J 1 . trees, coDDiestone. ;ana: curDing crumbled away like! paper and'at 3, a.: m." the top . : of thfe" tunnel gave way. carrying iuii5f oi eai lu imu. the hole. i Furniture Firms Unitfi. " .High' Point, N: , C June 27 . The Globe Furniture Company and. the jHome Fnrniture.two,of our largest- manufacturing concerns, consolidated and; will, incorporate under the lkws of j the, State of New ' Jersey with a paid up capital nf tcoooo- , A - W ord xf .-Warning to the. County advisable to sound a note of warn- ing. ; Yesterday ' he senFout . to the various cdunty : pension boards a letter in which he says: .'"; 'The number of pension blanks called for and sent out from tnis. office'has been unprecedented. At least thirty thousand (30,000) have gone to the different . counties. . If one-half of, this number get upon the pension roll, the amount- paid to each ?e wil1. b so- small it will not be of any ; benefit. I ask you to use , your utmost diligence against ; the admission' of any one not ea-rly entiled ' a Pension, 1 would also quest that the name and postoffice :. of; each applicant approved by your Board be plainly writte? on. a typewritten list, if pos- sible, of each applicant and their Pqstoffice accompany the, approved appncauon wnen sent ro;tnis omce, order that no mistake may occur herein making, out and forwarding the pension warrants.' ' 7 ' v it rwas -expected tnat.. tne new Pension act would cause some con-i siderable increase . in the number a99; was made to the pension fund by the. 'last. legislature,: but -Lhxon has deemed it well t to caU anon to tne necessity tor care- Iumess ana investigation in pass- mS on tne apphcations. , -styear about 6, ooo. pensions were Paia tne amount as expend- cu wa& a""u"3.s : -nis year tne appropriation is 200,000. x Handsome Donations. ' ' Talking-with prof.tH. M. Wilson yesterday concerning the 1 Textile Department of the , A.: and M:: College, -of which he! is the heaa, ne.oii us ot a iae ; increase the donation from New England bere th manufacturers expressed mfest ?? . department detonations m the most approved machinery amount to about $25,000 and has been secured through .the friends of the school. At the " animal . meeting of the Baptist Orphanage, at -Thomasville, the sermon by Dr. Barron, remem- ber, will be preached on ; Thursday night, July, 23rd, at 8 o clock and the address by Hon; R. B.Glenn 1 will' be delivered on Wednesday following at -ir-o'clock. . , , - 1 . Baltimore, July r.This "city is ; the hottest place in f the United 1 - - - , - States. The thermometer this afternoon: registered ioii relative humidity about 65 per, cent?; One death and several prostrations. . are reported : - Washington July i.T-This is the; hottest day we have had this year.. Twenty-two cases of heat pros-j trations were treated at the : hospi tal one of whichresulted fatally, The, thermometer registered , roo at two o clocks Tonight it is close and oppressive with the mercury in the nineties. jMob Takes' Vengence. k; Suffolk, Va. July ; j lJoseph J Walton, a dead negro " suspend ed from Ghobon's bridge twentyfive feet above Mehearin river, four-miles south of ' Lawrenceville Va . is a horrible object lesson in lynch , law ethics Walton met his .death be cause he was accused of attempting a criminal assault on pretty sixteen year old Kate" Clark, daughter of J: H. Clark, who - lives nearTrip lett's.Va;:- - No Reduction of Force in Cuba. Washington, -June 29.-r-There is no intention on the ' part of i the ,war JJepartment to ; reduce the military force 5 in Cuba at the ; pres ent time or in the immediate future, The present force of "nearly five thousand men is. held in Cuba ion the recommendaticn of General Wood and th,e Secretary will de pend on General Wood's advice as to the reduction 01: the torcei ', v : - Hot as Blazes. New York, July 1 .The intense neat , continues toaay. up to late s hour' this afternoon s 28 deaths had been reported. inGreat er New York. i. J An Answer to Foraker. General Forsaker, in order to have powder- for his ; campaign decTarea strongly for the-rights of ?the negro in the South. Unless : these are -.ge- cured there mast hbt be any restbra tion . of- the democratic nart -to" power -j . The tfcw:. York-Void-, calls'' the turn well by Baying. ' . Very good; the repnblicans hae controlled the state of Ohio absolute ly for thelast ten years; how' many negroes. hive they rewarded !with office? ' ' S- r- .'' ;;:. We would amend- by ; suggesting 11. -1 1? .: e i : ': a ' ' ' 1 ' tnat in. neu 01 omce tne repn Diicans gnouia, maKe tne negro secure in seeking - work : in . republican , states. tufion. The Public Man as a Husband. . ,.;No public abt. of President Jc- ivuney nas ever enaearea -mm so -;--v . treatment of his sick. wife. v There j. i i v. - ; is note ; of plaintive pathos in, her recent interview in; which she says that for 25 years, she has been .an invalid; yet Mr. McKinley s has never uttered one word of unkind ness to her. She: lbngs-like all true . women-rfor a tjme when he can lay aside the cares of State, and The Ohio lyncherand barn burner ferS special advantages r. to ;student3 has.proven himself, to be quite up of Agriculture; including free tuition to insaverage or nis ciass.v-uonsti an X belong .wholly to her. r 1 A ;man; wholgaySf ' j;Thet: trial' of 'the war of J can refuse' to attend: Harvari com- mencement and "thereby forfeit the t t r t" V '-r ' '. aegre.oiij.j.v-in:oraerw,wawn by the - bed of san ailing . .woman, shows -high qualities that' outbreak all of statesmanship -or diplomacy, Man's first duty Js :to the wife; of his:bpsom rather than toi ihej 'State, The reaV "patriots are , women! the wiyts of professional men who' stifle the womanly- Reaming for "the ; presence 01 tneir?nusDanas, m oraer 1.1 I'll . 1. t ? ; .- .:, 1 . 1 . ' tnac ine pa one may nave tneir: inn service. .Fpr tne toils and tempests refuge ; like 4 ihe home graced j with the love of a good woman. Mr. Henry T. Kineditor King's Weekly, was,, married in Edgecombe county to Hiss Blanche, Brantrhnn . Thpr willliro in (lrpn. yille. ; - ' , The Situation in the Coal Fleldo BlueneldW V. j June 29. Two bodies were found in a pile of drift at Iandingraff today The bodies ; were badly I decomposed ? and . were promply burned. : ? y Passenger trains are rim between points where the ; track . has been repaired, but there, are at' , ." least forty miles not' yet connected,, but it is, expected that the'linev will be in shape for a train to get Ithrough tomorrow. A number 'of coal com panies resumed; worlc i this morning and loaded over stwp hundred cars. Rain storms continue 'to visit this section and delay .work on repair. There is no suffering. The tele graph lines haver been gottonup as far as Vivian. fc y ' , ' A Boy Weighs 690 Pounds , Norfolk Landmark: Mr. Louis Lewark, qI Currituck county, N. 0., has J;he diCinction of being the 1- big gest man in North Carolina. - Lonis isonly" lTvjears oilfr ; and tips;, 'the. scales at 690. pounds. His shoes, which are.al way s made to op 1 e r by a firm ;iri Elizebth City, have the fol lowing dimensions: Seventeen inches instep, thirteen inches toe - to heel, five inches accross the ball of " the shoe and thir tv-one ; inches around the shoe, i A man of ordinary build can place bcth of hi8 feet m one of these shoes withease Lewark en joys perfect Health and is as ; strong as -aVbulI, being - able- to, lift the "weight that would require ; . th e effort of six ordinary men Entrauc Examinationcfor r A. s and : ;: ,M. Ooliego -u v "Candidates for admission to the . AM, College at Raleigh will" be.ex amiiied byl the County Superinten dent of Schools in the court-house at 10 o'clock, a. m July 11. The College ;is;giving instruction, in; the most important lines of practical ed ucation, and its st udents are in great demand; always securing profitable employment on graduation.. It , of - lodging and work on the College farm.4 The textile building is no7 being erected, " A Professor of fancy - J i -Ji!Ll: . i y-i.y .1 1 .1 weaving anu uyeiug nas oeen, - auaeu to : the Faculty, and about $20.000' of textile machinery secured. As dorm- ltory accommodation is very limited , , , , - ' . , it would be well, for , candidates to apply" early;. Wrie to President Winston Raleigh, X, C.,'for catalo-, gue! and booklets.' See r advertise- ment. . -: ' - . i . . , ' . Here's a law, suit that illustrates" how great folly men may be guilty The rWilkesboro : - Chroniclo the pirchforks' came off Saturday kf- Atkina .shnn and Hi T, rfi I . -'.1 1 r - p. h. Atkins: were bound over to court for assault with deadly weapon, The entire troubled over a fewieet of 'and worth ' something like $2. Eour. lawyers appeared" in the cees, and they were good ones. :t ' . : ' . , The losses sustained by -the West tl vd mated that.thev will amount to S3 11 I . --r . T OOU.OUU. JN earlv two-third3 of tho miners are lett absolutely homelc::, woods or on. the mountains. - Got. White says that her fears the loss cl life will amount to 1,000. . Anotl;. of h ZZ 111 ' 6 i -AA m, . , , exceed 100. ihe trail , of t. wreckage extends for SO r??T - Kegro looters were shot end kilh i
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