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Batlf. aiyiaaaly (or ta raata. fit tad Urroah asaawuaiaU anaaar uaproramaaai (or U l.aftin .ffiwiaiw, aaatad braMamaad aiauxw llcbtatf, vtu maaa Trl-Waek.1; Trlaa Mtwara iTav Baraa aad t3!a6to til j.liaaul n Till r boaUiaro la. It, aad a Maw Mara wlin Ui AUaoUt aad tiorth. Carolina HL H. lMrVa r Baraa ry Monday. Wd aaiymirniiiririaliTiii" tat aimaaMatya, faaNvan aaoaa at aViaaoka I .tan 3 foln aa4 rataratac, aad tna irta afford arery ara. - , Daaaaaaaa- 1. 10. " ' Tlia Taifw muni uli Lloa. oon1t i n oi tha YltaUaaraa . a Cav, WorfoiK 8001 hfro ' KB. Maw f ark, ftalla. and Norfolk R. K aad PaanaytTaai H. B.. form a raltabia and i.aa ir Ua.aOariac aaaartor faetnuaa for iu( aaiaawgaa- aad fratl araaaporiatton. )a aiaaafia amcapa at autaUMtA City. i . arhiok BolaaCraaaamt ba kiadedoa ear to j M uraa(lk ta daaitaattaa LMraaaaJ fooaa ao ba abiaaad ra atrt - (knlli. Umiiiii dattw aa foiiowa 1 Wvm Haw t ark. by Paaa. IL U flax B atartA Elm. fiia yliadWa.la. or t'bLbv. W. A B to. av.auaaa.B4. 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Hi abaioatt. aad all pulata Bortby oaa taataMby Blaar aad knioat of aUU BJDC rVBTXB. 81 Maaatw, . . , W Las-t at.. Kaltlmora. JAB. W. BtoUAB&ICK. A-t aortoik. Va W r Ctyda A CO.. Pbtav-alpaia, 11 BoaU vaa Tark A Balto. Traaa. Ua. Ptar BortA rrrc B. Mmaaaaaa, Boataa. U Caatral wharf. a. ta Bawk walk Pxmdaaaa. &. L ftataalaaa iuaiiia.Tanilijaaod natordaya York daily - Parao.. WaitanaayaAfaiardayr - fkl tad labia, blaadajrm. Wadaaa Ptasrtoaaaak aatnrdata. b Mb badlak rrraa. aad rai aa to all aotoa at taa d"iX Taraat org aaa o tTU BtB B HOB Or VUL Alt imp tea k. c ujm, B. H. OBAT.Akaal. Saw Baraa. 5. C. m BEST KNOWN REMEDY. -aualuc- Cur. ta 1 aaA Oaa, wwb.at rmla. aa wata BtrwMara Coaaalaa ao a raaraataad abaotetaly b.i ailwi Unalt d by obyalcrfaaa. Kaaa aabM wttkaaak awttla. Frtoa il anld by d aawlata. BVawai af Bab ammaa. A naCTw .rvvltl,w n.Ta G to weak nm af fwnhfal arret-, awty . 1 wiu m fall yibjalai. ar nai raja. FRCIaf aaaraa. A ayfaaitU ani-ial work 1 aboald ba faad by r-ry C Ftl AtlBxttio 6l N. C. Railroad TIMM tamlm a, 2, la BAawt 1 JO P.M. 19SQ. rriday.J Oct. Uooro Eabt OODTQ WajJ So. il. r. L. No. SO. StAtioB. Ar. Lt. QoUabora 11 10 no Lav Otaaab 10 73 10 S3 Kiaatoa 9 4 S 9 M Srw Baraa 8 17 8 3' loraaaad City am fl 47 Dallr. r3CHKSU-B OoUta W 1ST NO. f. Mixed Pv X StAtiot-t. Paaa. Train. oa 9Q 4 M 4M 4 11 4 44 00 ) 7W fm Uodo Bast Ho. l.t Hrxad IX at Paaa. 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Sa La DHL i si SCROFULA It I that imparity In the M.o.l emsulatinf In the kUu.W of tho 4b9 nnaigMly lamps or rwf'.ii rt minful running ore cn , which. ic- a? ck. ; r "- ar:. A M left, o '; iich d.--u-r .:'" ; -: ' eye, eui, or noeo. ft-n causing blimlncss t rfn-: which Is the ori;!ri of plrr.i -'.f. rxr.- eeroas iw' . or the m v.y nth. r t!or. csriar.y -ri!l t " h::ra. r luira.si upon the i-irifv ra. . . uddeilh. n-iii the m.t i::.";.ti most renerxl of U d;HM r x-T- A r.. Uot-.. for Tery few rrous .'J ei.'..rv.y freo from it- How Can It Be CURED pT taklrr IT ol'i Sirarrt'-U. whih. tj ih remukiblo c-.:r- 1. ao.-oir; '..h' !. often when other medic'-nr har fiiioJ, hi proren Itaftf to b a potfr.: in.l poc"'lir TCjielna for thi dis-o.. S.-rr.o of those rare ire reollT wonderful. If you ju.T.t fr'-rr icrofulA. b fure t.i try H00J SarPa.-.::a. "My dojtitrMry wis ifflloteJ with v-r f tloossorenrck fmra the time sh wis 23 m. .nths aid till h bn ii years cfi'. Lur.-.r foi-ml In tarr nf-k. ar.d or. of th?m iftor mta to the sii of - ; ijon-! egg. . nnnii or for of ft three years. We garr bar Hool'i 8ampri". when Uo mrop 11 iBdlcailoos of ivrofuU fUre'.y d v ppcrevl. and now she mi t.i b a hoalUiy ehlM." J S CiiiULi. Nauxlglit. N. J. N. B. Ba tare to get only Hood's Sarsaparilla by C. L HOOD CO.. Apolhet'... lwU. IOO Dosos Ono Dollar t; EUABAHTEED CURE FOB CATARRH 1 ALLAN'S IMPROVED PINE NEEDLE CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3c!cy & Co. . .. . n i il A 1 ii. ;LE CIGAR CO. :hold. k. j. HO MORE EYEGLASSES MITCHELL'S Eye-Salve A Obrtata, Safa, and Effactl ra Bcmady ror SORE, WEAK, & INFLAMED EYES? Producing iMig-Stgfitwness. A Restae a, ny th Sight of tte Old. CatmTiwIVqm, firtnnlatioirk. Sty Tianrt, Red Eyes, fcUtted Eye Luhes, aXB f IABCITXJ BTKl KCU-T 113 mill ITT CXX8. Abo, aqaally adlcacioo. whrn nad In otfarr Bsaladtaa. raeb m Clear.. Ferar itarea. T.aara. fait Himb, Bara.. Pllea, or waareTflrlaaammatlonriTiiu. MiTCHKlJL' AAX.r may ba oaavl to advuitaa. Said by all Dr.rxl :. at '2i Ceat. ROOFING. CirM-KLA'sTlC UOOFING KL1.T coU aoly S.0 prr IDo tTre feet. Mat oa a good roof fur y.ar.. ao I anycn.ean pu: 1 ao. Sand ataxnp lor i.mrle and lull part Ocalara. QtJM ElSTIO IUoIS,i i'o B A II W tarr Bktia r w a t . NewYokK L.1 apU 41 tin Aceota Wanted. iTHAT- FIGHT The Original Wins. C. F. SimmaDS. St- LoaU, Prop? M. A. Sajti moatB LWft Mctdicmet, Eat'd us u c . 9 uotirt DiriATf J tcilifl. Prop'r A. Q. Simtnou Lit- r R f8TUJtr, r, Et'd by rihn iSrA . A. S. M. B AJ for drT TVaVTtl ITTd IXTrlOESTIO? BlL!Ol. B ES, Domini tta a, -Sick H-ulxiachbLo t A rrT 1 tx , Sot Stomach. Etc, Rt- T H. KrifflA Pmkfnr f FL Oiorcfi, Ail Am a. Teon.. wr.ifi : I fjunk 1 abosld htrt txn dad but tor your Genuine M. A. S:m ooci Livr Medicine I hart wOmrtirofj had to Bruhjtitut "Zeiltn'a itufC'fcr your Mrdi ciae, bat ii duc't unc; ihr pwrpoate.' Dr. J. R. CriTM, Editor rid Bp::$J, Metr.ph:. Tcnn. iitj: receired a rirlm-c o( tout Lner Medicine, aad !.a usetl hxifof iL It worki like a chArm. I want no bettrr Lir Rcx'aror anJ rer taaaAlj no more oi Zc.a'i rsai-xt CLEARANCE SALE X 0UUaadC3iarch O... OrM froam baas, at SPOT CXA-!! PliltE-S, V wttbr "-. Naw plaa ,1b A WORD mi aala rratad uui paid V ABOUT PIANOS. B.V) SAVED fcr tw-Onir Bt ta 83 '"-ivy awatblr. Bac Rar rmla m 9m 9 rear. . irvt. ted ' 0 r-rery parrhaarr. W. hae. uimV met 1 Pud Ourf limited rd ta v Pl.t NO ta aald br U laraart rW.l1 at fili. aad la wartb It. tao. Ha CMecp PiMtot told. i-irel 1'cr lot A RUNS EASY. CINS FAST Cletss SEED PERFECTLY. Mikes FINE SAMPLE NEVE CHOKES ar BftCAXS THE ROLL THE CELEBRATED BLOOm Ha All LATEST IMPROVEMINTS la BWI.Ml 11 Willi mm Bnak w&lch In- al ' - wan .paad. Tbla faamra la pacollax to t k. of Ota aad la vaad on no otnar. An t I Lf " Ul tRAXTMJIuil Ar CKellrrr-e-d . Of I'KtltiHT at any B . etaUon or I ; '-iii,T of r-.y Raarolar otaamboat LliM In -' '."I If wa h.T no a Lit ar you. tna Oaoaral Southern Afftot. a' UIIOO DrA'Tiisn. tt . illWUUrtnaf lUXli, OSGOOD U.S. STANDARD af" a B aXt, lBdlfct Bwaiat, fkillr WatiBBtdw. OlAdr pfBwB 4kaw Fawdl wrlavdlaaj MUka, ItAtiSSU. tiB4W L' Ba Bd , T J JPRUNKENhfESS Liquor Habit, WMUfWe WVJTLO TXOtfSMfTOJnarSS BTlAlrfES GOLDEN sPEnnc It ra iMcWra In coffm. t. or In articles of f ,xd . witaout in lawifait of punt lr CstcesAArj It U svt)eBil tdi f havJAdtaaj and Ml tTtct a porixiBV- oat aji4 ftpwKlr ruff, wlitihtr tb pavtient la g Dioorii driD ki ror an acooo. u- w rert . II .NEV ER rAlLatt. i I OpraUrw BO qllflJf Bi)4 wrlth BTorb rrtaioty tftAt ta patitnt aodr(os do lacoa- en.o--, aad aoon h; comjtft reform a iioa La tTfeCtdKl. war pde tKKk. f It'. Tc t i-d O. R- N. Duffr, draggirt. New B4?me, N. C. jy 15 dwy FOR MEN ONLY! I DfltrTTVr TwlOtTaryAJXriro BAJTHOOT): m a ww. a, ( aad BEaTOUB cuixrrr: fTTTTJ T1 Wamlrawa af Bady aad Biad: Sflwata U U AfcXi af Enwrptr Itiiwii hi OUarToaaa. anaooa fT aa nicaMnurn atiurs 1 a rit-rs.f ioer. mi TIUTIUT- .It a. mm ia.au a. ba. Ml niH.1i., mw4 wim mtlmt aaaaj baa, ill. 111 UH BtilaAt C4L lllf Ala, a. I. I 1 V 1-.- .-- Warn jfflOfifr war' w iw -w r . . k S Ton J 11". II ' 'IB ft i nail inly k. t 11. BU, t. M' istta. i II I U . A r-1 1 iii 1 w " h I .1,1, , 1 rvor 111 :o I 111 'si m.is .1 1 'He H . ni t- . .f 1 t.mt :.i:r. A r. Tho b In : The v Ai.,1 in ci ry w is tho t 1 . t 1 o r tho ; 1 . v :i loa.ir.t 0 m : 'io rr.ir'Ji. ? Sijn: ; e w .1 m it Ami vol at t nu's. I A 1..)W 'if saJnos X'Kin his fac w;is sc And iftMi m Ins joym The ah Ailt of dneg ouhl in' 1 u h Tlui uinht :t was a t 'lir.tma-s 11; it Tho quests were in th hail. Tlia holly with its berries fair I Was decking every wall; And musio from tho harp ao sweet i Mado pleasure's round of joy completo. I What made the squire turn ao pale, Aa 011 the Christmas air ' Thsre rose without the manor halls 1 A voi-e so sweet anil clear".1 Who sms without?" the 'Squire said: 'Not her, no', her. for she is dead . rhat 'piaii.t. old so.ir, he know it well: She san it hen a child That trirl. sold i;aunlter of his house That pirl. h' wayward, wild. Who disappeared, ono Christmas r.iht F 'iL'ifr from her lather s siht. 'i ; '. hrinL.' tho sincrer in,' he said ; T fa ;n would se her face." The hall door opened, then a form. S:nl wearing beauty '8 grace, Wa ivod slowly in, with drooping head My ohi.d '." was all tho 'Squire said . Forgive, forgive '," the siuht r wailed, Aud knelt down at his feet: The truosts ama.ed. all athcieJ round To hear her to a seat; The 'Squire raised her, and in tears, S:i.d, " l iuid, I've waited many yoars "To say the woid that now you crave. My friends, the lost is found, Tho dove's returned ; her weary feet Could tind no standing 2round The ark of safety Rires her rest," Aud then he clasped her to his breaat. And a 1 the guesU cried out in glee, And pressed the 'Squire's hand; This was the happiest Christmas night Iu England's "merne" land. Ah, would that all who've turnod aside. Would but come home at Christraas-tide'. Chicago News. (.HKISTMAS CUSTOMS. Thr Inlerestin? and Historic Record of Their Origin. You need not go back to the hills of Jadea and the time of the Ilerods for this festival of oars, beaatifal as the faith is which allies oar observ ance of it to that place and era. For the tlrst aathantic record of the celebration of the feast of the oativiy bears date at a boat the middle of the second centary, and even then no tradition existed which might fix its date with even approximate certainty. Among the early christians in the second and third centaries various dates were chosen on which to celebrate the nativity. Some churehes ob served the 1st of January and some the Cth, while still others held their services on March 20, or the Jewish passover, and yet others on the date ot the feast of tabernacles, or Sept. 29. Jast previous to the reign of Constantino, however, a writer informs as that the eastern churches had agreed to observe the festival on Jan. G, and the western churches had fixed apon Dec. 25. About 340 A. Pope Jalias I. fixed the date for ail churches, east and west, on Dec. 25, which has since been kept as the feast of the nativity by all christian nations. SIR ISAAC SEWT0S3 THEORY was that the nativity and other ecclesiastical anniversaries were orginally fixed at cardinal points of tne year, with no real reference to the dates which they were sap posed to commemorate. Thus the annunciation of the Virgin Mary was placed at the vernal eqinox, the nativity at the winter solstice, and the feast of St. John at tha summer solstice. Ia this, pagan precedent was followed. The heathen nations of old noted the changes in the heavens, and regarded the date when the sun turned on Lis course, or when he crossed the equinoctial line, as marking a time of sufficient importance to the world to be hon ored with a festival. After the festival was established, it was very easy to pat the name of a god or goddess to it, or to invent a legend to explain the connection. It w.irt not a chance occurrence that christiau festivals so often coincided in data with the feast days of ancient Rome or those of theJews. The teachers of the new faith found the existing festivals SO FIRMLY FIXED in popular affection that no preach ing agaiust their observance as idolatrous could make the people torego them. I he old feast-day. therefore, received the name of a christian saint, which effectually removed from its celebration the taint of paganism. Thus we under stand wny many strange customs have come to bo attached to par ticular days. There is no reason why noisy merry-making should have come in medieval times to be characteristic of Christmas save the fact that it was a part of the saturnalian games at the winter solstice in Home, on which the priesta of the third century engraft ed ' the christian name and the beautiful story of the nativity. (Jar custom of decking onr house and churches with evergreens comes to ns from the Roman saturnalia. Nay, more, we can trace it directly back to toe ivy wreaths that decked the temple of Bacchus and the laurel bonghs twined round the shrines of Apollo. We fiQd the same custum prevalent af the cele brations of the gods ot Hellas, and among the northern nations, the Scandinavians and Dane, the more abundant growth of evergreen plants fostering to even a greater degree this l'OETU" LOYS for greenery in decoration. In deed, the love for decorating houses, etc., with flowers or green leaves at festivals is as old es human nature itself. It is found in the customs of every nation, and prob ably had its earliest origin in the desire of primitive man te keep on the good side of the woodland spirits. The priesta of the church at Kome objected to the custom, and indeed positively forbade 1: as savoring too strongly ol Bacrhm and Apollo, but they could not wean the people lroni it. The great festival of the Sc.uidi navians was tl e feast of Od:n, held at the time of the wiuter solstice. It was inn L;ed, ns the feast-days and hol:d.H of northern nations always are, principally with great eating ai-d greater drinking. When the Ai'.gio Saxon came to combine the Roman saturnalia with the T Scandinavian t nle, it was small Hon wonder tha" he made a roaring' jolly day of it. Indeed, t h dedi id eation of this festival to a marred H anniversary was a r "1 m 1 ir nm 1 e bo I :: twoen the clergy and tin laity, but never a harmonions o::0, for the church was in constant prote.-t against I'RADITK'NAI. REVELRIES. The custom of kissing under the mistletoe we get from aScandi uavian mth. Loki, an evil spirit, hated Raider, the Apt l!o of northern mythology, and sought to kill him. Hut Friga, Haldol's mother, had sworn bv l,e vervthing that springs from fire, air. e trth, or , water,'' not to harm the crli'i!,i. favorite. The mistletoe nut coming in this category, Loki made an arrow of it ami gave it to tho' t!iud god lleda to test. The god of i darkness shot the arrow, and I Balder was slain. But as all the 'gods and goddesses prayed for the restorat:0'i of their darling, Odin ! brought hi ni back to lite again. !The mintletoe was then given to ' the goddess of love to keep, and i every one passing under it re ceived a kiss, to show that it was 'the emblem of love and not of 1 death. j It may interest thoe who v.ihir ! all things the more for their an tiquity, to know that long before , I Christianity found its way into the iland of the Norseman before the I sea kings under Ctnute turned 1 their drago;; headed pros ;.i,ird ! the chalk ri ff of Albion' i tic stalwart ou;hs of Seaud 1 n a 1.1 'claimed i i ;-1 n but es in-in C.ir ', haired maidens. ! "I'NDKU THE MISTI.ETi E I J 'W'' at Odin's feast, and found the sport j quite as agreeable a.s do the ou' hs of tho pre -enr d iy, in Sciii-'.inavi-i or fdeewhero. Oar Christ m is tree we get from Germany. Perhaps the poetic ido.t of making spruce and fir bear fruit out of kind and season, to brighten the dullness of wintry hours, may be taken from a legend of the times of Tbor and Odin, but it more probably had its origin in medieval pageantry. We have taken it from Germany, and that but recently, for GO years ago it was a custom unknown in EDgland. Coleridge, in describing a visit to Germany in 1826. gives a graphic account of the Christmas tree custom, as ono of which he had never before heard, and peculiar to the German people. It came to America with the German settlers of Pennsy 1 vauia, who kept up the castom decades before the descend ants of the Puritans adopted it. THE CCSTOM OF GIFT GIVING comes to us from a legend of medi eval Italy. St. Nieholas, a Bishop of the church in the fourth centary, inherited a large fortune, all of which ho gave away in charity, dowering portionless maidens and aiding poor children. A legend which tells how the good Bishop restored to life three children that had been murdered, caused him I to be regarded as the patron saint j of children, and it soon came to be j the castom for the elder members 1 of the family to give little of toys or sweetmeats to the little ones on ' the eve of St. Nicholas' day, which waa Dec. G. In southern Italy this is still one of the great festi vals of the year, and far more preeminently the children's day there than Christmas. It is easy to see how this festival, falling so near to that of the nativity, became in most instances to be combined with it. Santa Clans is onlv St. N icnolas in Holland speech. This saint who, in Italy, tha. hr.mt.nf hihirtli wa amnnisnits: i prepare me oeu in me of tall and imposing presence, be- came in the Deutsch leeond short- legged and pot bellied, and the npr-r-ssitips of tha Himate snoiilipd his garments of fur. HANGING VP THE STOCKING was a Netherland castom also, and as this was generally suspended by the hnge, open fireplace, the 6tory that the saint made his entrance through its cavernous mouth fol lowed very naturally. The addition of the Bleigh and the reindeer was also necessary to explain satisfac torily to the children how the saint could visit all the cities of the lowlands in the short space oi a single night, Krish Kringle i often upokeu of as the German Santa Claus, but this is an error. Krish Kriogie is a corruption of Christ Kindlein, or the Christ-child, and is derived from a wholly different legend, which describes the Saviour in the guise of a child bringing gifts to tne little ones on the anniversary of his birth as a human infant. This legend tha poetic Germans allied with their Christmas tree, and have always preferred it to the old fat S inta Clans of Holland, with his Christmas stocking and his reindeer. Few of the customs of the old English Christmas are still with as. The ynle log, the huge Christmas candle, the mummers and maskers, the lord of misrule, the waits and carols, the noisy games of snap dragon, and the ovei flowing wassail bowl to all these onr Puritan fathers swore eternal hatred a DEVICES OI' SATAN, and we have inherited their preju dices. Further, the refinements of civilization and the absorbing oc cupations of modern life would naturally rentier distasteful the recreations to much enjoyed by the coarse-grained Anglo Saxon, with plenty of leisure ou his hands for boisterous amusements. Though we count far less on the pleasures of eating and drinking than our ancestors in the times ol ihe Tudors, we have retained their preferences for a bounteous feast at Christmas time. With us, the turkey takes the place of a peacock, the boars' head and the goose, but we have the plum pudding and the mince pie still to havoc with onr digestions. xVnd if we have not the wassail bowl of those old times we have in some instances, other bowls and vessels, large and small, ' whose sparkling contents are warranted to fnrnish quite as fine a quality of headache aa the best wassail ever concocted under the Plantagenets or the Tudors. Alice Chase in '-The Interior." We are never go we are thankful. strong as w hen ChildrenCry JorPitcheKsJJastoria 1 My i . ( n . Rmtli, Lot ' Tho ..: 1 ie sky, ' v 0 ic. ; . 1 .1 :- ko.I -ielty 1 n 1 1- T .! ir. ...dir. ..nil , ).;..t 1 "!ii:in. 't man, h' line, 1:;;: i. A ,u-. ;( ;t llo.I 1 Ho k 1 1 1 1 ,s Ho wil! t a. ;. Aim i ' o i . 1 1 1 y ilicir oi u shall he nf Juil.-; o.'iiuior ii all 1 o pi t o;- at Tup tho bar i. ko.I Tho -;n TIio n An.l !,.. W.l: .. ThllS (,M 1 1IH1-T h'.lVi F.t un..t! lalo do. lir.i-t - 1 dood i"i o: 0 IU ' I wa uld 1:1 ' ;l 't be IV I ,-' b She love She love me hoi, i in o v. h e n T ' 1 or mail ; id .ir had: uT. she a s :-!:-. in t t! An', w :-hc iai s a iiima.s , ... s mo w : i k 0 1 10 1 n't Lin; as! 1 don t That il- o.l'. . r : He w, ci vi:i h"l!l .. r.n : 'oil! irk' i. ln".i my i'i !, :u : A io An A:.' i abs me up u r l.or an o hi .11 p:ii i hiU' ii u in v I'.i. a mi ii. I h ' It C otv I'ca as a Money making ( rep. is HOW Weil llliiiel stood ri;:it am id. mis, esi-eciaiiv those of cert the . oai'.y mo.--t f.uiiiiy are- pceu :o utilizing ih it ingredient t( the adapted Vidti aide a: m os p here nitrogen. This element cocnrs very in t he atmosphere in fact large over i of the entire weigh: of the air is nitrogen. The value of this amount of nitrogen, if reckoned by ordi nary calculation, would amount to the enormous sum of 1, 070, 700, 721 070,400,000. In this form it is such an inert element that ordinar ily it will enter in no combinarion, and only in exceptional cases can it be utilized at all. Same plants in growing are able to make use of some of it. For this purpose the cow pea is admirably suited. In an experi ment carried on at the N. C Experiment Station the cow pea wa found to grow almost as well in pure sand supplied with all the fertilizing ingredients except nitro gen as where nitrogen was sap plied. Io connection with this the fact that this plant is a very vigorous grower, and whan drv contains from 2 to 3 per cent, of nitrogen, makes it verv valuable as a source of nitrogen for our worn out and exhausted lands. Taking an average crop at tODS of hay per acre and the ammonia valuation at thirteen cents per pound, the value of nitrogen accumulated by the vines would be from twenty five to thirty dollars per acre for each croD. saving nothing ot what is etored in the roots. F. B. Carpen ter, Assistant Chemist, N. C. Ex periment Station. To Save Sweet 1'otatoes. There are a great many ways to save sweet potatoes : almost every iman nas a way oi nis osvn. iiere ! is tho way I have had the best re nsual way. 1 then take around etob three or four inches in diameter, sharpen and drive in the center of , the i bed : this stob should be four or five feet lonjr. 1 then scatter a little straw over the b-:d, put in the potatoes until the hill is the de sired size, then I make a pipe oat of six inch hoards about eighteen inches long and slip it over this stob aud let it rest on the potatoes now the straw is put on eight or ten inches deep. I then, for con venience to get into the hill during winter or spring, make another box out of six iuch boards with nothing but the two sides and ends, no top or bottom, the ends I cut twelve inches long and the sides twentv six inches long, so when the -ides are nailed on to the ends, it is l:!x2I inside, this is laid up and down oa the straw bat near the bottom of the hill ; then I make a cover to tit this in this way. Cut a ! bodri1 1 "ls-49 ihes, jast the size of the box or lrame outside measure ment; then on the edges of this cover nail on all around it three iuche slats, letting one edge come even with the top of the cover and the other part will form a flange or lip to li'" down over this box; thu you wi.l break the j i;it aud have it proof against trust iu Georgia. For convenience to remove this cover I nail a hand hold across it. Thus I have a very convenient opening to the potatoes, nothing being in the way after this cover is removed but the straw. Then in the nsual way I cover tho rest of the hill with boards or barrel staves, and cover this with dirt eight or ten inches deep, draw out the cen ter stob, leaving the eighteen inches pipe standing as a little chimney, thus we have an opening from the bottom of the pile to the open air. Now put a shelter over it all, and it is complete, and in tho spring when the potatoes are all removed, pot all these boxes and stobs under vonr house for next season. K. T. M. Forsyth. Ga. The richest deposi: f ilver ore ever uncovered in the South is re ported from Davidson county in a large vein ot carbonate carrying 70 to 100 ounces of silver and 30 per cent, of leul to the ton of ore. April !", 1S01. was tho first day of the late Civil War, and May 1, 1SG5, as its last. This has been officially dtcidcd by the United States War Department. Character is what a man is when he doesn't know that anybody is looking at him. Ten thousand suns can not rn'oke anything plain to the man who has no eyes. 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