'FOR OOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." , $1.00 a ycarin advance. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, $fifijffiY 15, 1895. NO. 32. VOL. VI. Koauoke Publishing Co. , The art of ruby'mafcing'la now ex terisively practice'! Tha ffe'm'a'th'uB produced are known Vo the trade as ''(fixna,u "and areMarpfely used for Jewelling "wat'chee. One effectrnoted'")y the New York Ledger, of emigration to the West and hard times everywhere is tlio fall ing off in the valae of farm lands. People in the central part of New York State say that many holdings can now be had for half of what thej were rated at five or eix years ago. These farms are neither abandoned nor played out, nor has any marked decrease in population occnrred about them, but the farmers have the West ern, fever and want more room, ot they are anxious to get into town and work at trades. A Now York electrotyping firm is said to have hit upon the idea of elec trotyping articles of apparel which, it is desired to preserve as mementoes, A baby's first shoes, for example, may be preserved, .indefinitely in metal. "We. might give other instances," comments the Chicago Ilerald, "but, although we should be sorry to dis courage the firm, so far as our own experience goes mementoes do not generally take the form of wearing apparel. . Bach things as Tommy's first trousers and Johnny's first 'top' hat would scarcely make good sou Tenirs." . There has been a singular dearth ol invention in. naming the many small lakes of the West, lamentsthe Chica go Ilerald, and fine old Indian names have been deliberately discarded.in order that p6isons of unlovely sur names might be honored geographi cally. The Indian names when trans lated aro often found to embody an almost photographic picture of the lakes upon which they were bestowed. The' French names that superseded some of the Indian names, and are likely to bo superseded in their turn by modern commonplaces, aro often pretty and historically suggestive. Good horses ' are cheaper in some parts of the West now than - dogs in tho East, for there are few dogs not "owned by some oue, while -horses can not be given away. All over the West horses have, been nstounJingly cheap for some time, and two or threo dol lars has been a good price for a good animal. A hundred head of ranch horses sturdy, unbroken broncos from Wyoming, were sold in Denver for $D0 and the freight recently. It is reported that a big stock firm in Idaho has turned more than 250 ponies adrift to shift for themselves during the winter, as it was cheaper to do this than to provide food for them. The firm could not get even a dollar apiece for them. According to Major H. H. C. Dun woody, of the National Weather Ser vice, the weather crop service of the National bureau ranks next in import ance to tho work of making forecasts. The system of gathering reports upon which the weather crop bulletins are based has been greatly perfected in re6ent years. The crop bulletins of the States have been improved, and ore now more complete thin at any pre ious time,- and the increased circula tion that these bulletins have attained amply attests their value. It is be lieved that there is no other class ol information to which so much space it devoted in the public press to-day. A file of these bulletins, for all the States for a year will form thejnost complete history of the weather conditions attending the - growth, and develop ment of the several crops throughout the .country, -More than ten thou- sand crop correspondents are to-day , co-operating with the National Weath er Service through the State organi zation ; three thousand voluntary ob servers are furnishing monthly reports of daily observations of temperature and rainfall ; and over eleven thousand .. persons assist in the work of distribut ing .the weather foreoasts of the Na tional Weather Service. 'This" lattoi work has been more rapidly pushed during, the "past year than any other feature of State Weather Service work. With the continuation of the present liberal policy toward these service " there will be in a comparatively shori time ro important agricultural com munity in the United States, with the proper mail facilities, that will nol - receive he benefits .of the forecasts, "WINTER FANCIES. Winter without And warmth within Tha winds may shout And tho storm begia ; The snows may pack At the window pane, Aui the Bltlos grow black. And tho sun remain Hidden away The livelong day But here In here is the warmth of Miyl . Swoop yenr spltofulest Up the fia, VIU. winds-"3o ! Whnt in the world do I cure for you? O dellghtfulest Weather of all, Howl and squall, inl shake the trees till the Inst loaves fall' The joy one feels, In nn ensy chair, Cocking his heels In the dancing air That wreathes the rim ot a ronrtnsr stove Whose heat loves better than hearts can love, Will not permit The coldoBt day To drive away TUo Cxo in his blood, and the bliss of it! Then blow, winds, blow 1 And rave and shriek, And snnrl and snow Till our breath grows weak - While here in my room I'm as snugly shut As a glad little worm Iu the heart of a nut ! James Whltcomb Riley. BOOM LOG- BILL. O moro moi- man than Boom Log Bill could be found in the lumber camp. No one' knew whether his cynic ism was natural or acquired, but cer tainly it was of o high, misanthropi cal quality. Many years ago when Bill was a dashing college sopho more and stood at the head of his class in football, his fancy fell a-turning to ward a young lady who occupied a conspicuous place in the senior medi cal department. They were bethrothed, and so great was Bill's infatuation that he became even mire oblivions than ever to his studies and devoted him self more assiduously to football. Both graduated, Bill having somehow been pushed through, whilo his fiance at tained high honors. An engagemeni of long standing followed. The rea son of its duration was because Bill could not find anything to do, and, al though he would have been willing to marry anyhow andehanceit, the young woman with prudential foresight de clined an jdliance without any visible or apparent means for sustenance. The pride of the football team was in despair, but finally concluded to go West. Here his fortunes did not seem, to improve perceptibly and another long interval ensued. One day as Bill was following the lowly occupation of digging a canal through land that was to be irrigated a message was brought to him announcing the marriage of his sweetheart and asking him to forgive her, as the years were fleeting and for tune was a laggard so she had con cluded to take time by the forelock and become the bride of another, with the assurance of daily sustenance. This was a great shock to Bill ; he lost in terest in his work and became simply a machine as he plied his shovel in the dry soil ol Arizona. His heart was in the East and his labor became a veri table task : the canal was interminable.. He did not even have the means to go East and hunt up his rival. Bill,' being a misanthrope, held him self aloof from his companions ; mis anthropes usually do. He was heartily and generally disliked and detested ; misanthropes usually are. When the lumber men- came in at dinner time, Bill took his place at the end of the table in the cook shanty and the greater his isolation the more he liked it. Ha never had a word to sav ; not so much as "Pass the pickles, please,' or "Throw the crackers this way," bul when anything wasn't handy he went without rather than address himself to the others. He worked as silently as he ate ; even when a log escaped lrom the skit? he did not use profanity ; when a tree fell the wrong way he bad no comment to make ; when the sugar gave out in the cook tent he had no expletives to hurl at unfortunate Alphonse : when the meat was too tough to masticate or the olco not quite up to the standard ho 1 accepted the conditions in an unalterably cyni " cal manner, making no complaint 'or praising "iothing. While the other men seated themselves around the big range and told a few stories in the evening, when Alphonse was making biscuits, he turned in and slept until early morning when he silently dressed and went into the woods. The cheer ful toot of the mammoth horn at meal time brought no cheerful light to his eyes. With this effective presentation of a misanthrope, dead to the better feelings of humanity, indifferent to the enticements of good fellowship, it may be well to proceed to thedenoue raent. In a lumber camp, as everyone knows, space is ntilized and the men sleep two in a bunk. Bill's companion T?as the antithesis tc himself cheer ful, lively as a cricket, jovial and manly a very Hercules in figure and an open hearted, affable fellow who had few ot the vices of his compan ions he neither drank to excess on periodical visits to town nor expended all his wages in spring, when the logs were in the streams and the camp was over. He chaffed the misanthrope a great (leal. Their conversations usu ally were conducted on one side. "Bill," said this hero of a thrilling tale, "what makes you such a cross grained cuss?" Bill onlv snorted. , .;-. "Whv don't you mingle with tho y v , boys? I'm sure you're not such a sour, disagreeable, detestable, unde sirable, ugly, mean, unsocile chap mi 1 1 L 1- as ron eaem. xnev sav Denemu rough exterior there is often a fine in terior. It does seem hard to imagine Jhat there is anything pleasant or nice about you, Bill, but why don t you surprise somebody Borne day by show ing that you are just a trifle less self ish, mulish, obstinate, set and cussed? See if you can't make your nature be lie your face." Bill snarled and turned his face to ward the wall. "All right, old chap," remarked tbe other. "Pleasant dreams." Then he took a picture from his bosom. "You nnclit to have somo woman to think of, Bill," ho added almost tenderly. "Then von wouldn't be such a sour, contemptible, disagreeable chap." So saying he pressed his lips to the pic ture. Bill started and stole a look at him. The face of tho misanthrope became convulsed. "Who is she?" he asked in a hoarse tone of voice. 'So you are interested, are you?" said the other, laughingly. "Who is 6he? My wife, to b'e sure. We wouldn't be separated now but for the hard times. And then there's the baby to think of, Bill. But there's a good time coming, Bill, when the snow melts and the flowers peep from beneath the covering of ice ; when the hills are covered with verdure and the world awakens to life and love. Then shall once more be with my darling. Good night, old chap. I only wish you as pleasant dreams as come to me. " With that he turned on his side o.nd slept with the picture pressed to his heart. In the misanthrope's mind a thousand conflicting thoughts ran riot, for in the sweet face he had rec ognized his former love, while lying by his side, sleeping so' calmly and restfully in the same berth was the man who had robbed him of that which he held most dear, and changed him into one of the most miserable creatures in the world. With a curse Bill opened his clasp knife and his arm hung suspended over the sleeping man, the blade direoted toward his heart. Then the thought came to Bill that to kill him it would be necessary for the knife to pass through the pic ture of his old. sweetheart. Carefully he removed the picture, and. holdinar it in his hand, raised himself on his elbow and gazed at it The tears came to his eyes ; finally he replaced the picture, and, shutting the knife, laid down by the side of the main who had stolen his love, but not to sleep. The other never knew how near the cates of death were to him that night. The next day Bill was as cross as ever. He ate his breakfast silently and went into the woods without, a word to any one, walking apart from the others. All day he worked with a woman's face ever in his mind and Mind rn.ee consumins his heart. ". The day was a Btormy one, and the great flakes of enow spread a thick mantle on the deep, white covering which nb-nadv lav -unon the earth, It had - , turned bitter cold and the wind swept mournfully through the tall trees, making them emit the most melan choly sound in the world, the requiem of the pines, when lost spirits seem rushing madly by. Bat all day a temp est, too, had been raging in Bill's heart. Toward nightfall he started to retrace his steps toward the camp. He had been working on the out skirts of the iorest, and the foreman and the " others were well on ahead of him. Suddenly Bill came across a prostrate figure that ol his buoyant companion lying sense less in the snow, having been struck by a falling tree. Loss of conscious ness had been immediate, and in the blinding snow his misfortune had not been observed. Bill stood there for some momenta. The battle he waged with himself was a long one. Perhaps if he left him there he might yet win the woman he loved. His death would be attributed to the blow from the falling tree and the cold. He was nol yet dead, but the exposure in that cold would soon stiffen the motionless form. With anger in his bosom, Bill turned away and started toward the caniD. Ho had gone some distance j- - --- when he paused and reflected. The pathetic face of the wife arose before him ; the pale, appealing face of the woman he loved. It was late in the evenier when Bill staggered into camp with his heavy load. A doctor was sent for and then BUI" went to bed, assured that the ntlior was out of dancer. When his rival recovered he thanked Bill pro fusely and slapped him on the shoulder, and with a suspicions moisture in his eyes, told him that he was the dearest old cross-grained cuss in the world and (bringing down his huge fist) he would defy anyone to say otherwise. The two shook hands and there was eladness in the heart of Boom Log BilL "I have only one regrcT, Bill," said the other. "What is that?" growled Bill. 'T have lost the nhotosrraph of the sweetest girl in the world." The misanthrope hung his head and said nothing. The other had no sue picions. After all he was most con cerned in looking forward to spring tvhon he would once more hold the original to his breast and the sad part iaa would bo a matter of the past. Detroit Free Press. FUN. Most servant girls have portable characters, that is to sav a writteu recommendation. Puck. Mrs. Sniffwell " Why, Bridget, you have been eating onions !" Bridget 'Shure, mum, you're a moind reader. These are the days when you won der what he or she has made up his or her mind to give you. Buffalo Times. Teacher "Now, Charlie, tell us what you know about Croesus.' fiWlifi "Dudes wear 'em in their pants." Harlem Life. Visitor "Have you any watch dogs here?" Johnny Suburb "ISo'm ; dm we've got some alarm-clock roosters." Street & Smith's Good News. It is always hard to associate quar rels and unpleasantness with a nouso that has vines growing over the doors and windows. Atchison Globe. Mrs. Binks (reading) "Women can endure pain better than men. Mr. Binks "Who says that a doctor or a shoemaker?" New York Weekly. Young Tutter "What we want in our society, Miss Maude, are brains, brains." Miss Summit "But how are you going to supply them?" Vogue. "The telephone is like a woman ; it tells everythings it hears." 'Tee, that's so. And it's unlike a woman, too ; it tells a thing just as it hears it." Life. "Father," said the' boy, "what is insolvent?" "'Insolvent,'" was the repiv, "is merely a long word ussl to describe a short .condition." ington Star. -Wash- Turned Down. tv, wish to rezar.l me." he tremulously asked, "only in the light of a friend?' She sifihed. r wonldn't mind.'1 - the faltered, "if it was a littlo darker than that. meter in the cell;.! V" fv O caught her subtle meaninjj. Pucli. CANAIGRE. NEW CROP FOR SOUTHERN COTTON DISTRICTS. Canaigre Is the Prince of Farming riant s, and Can Be Raised AU Through the South Meth ods of Cultivation. $-2 "TV FEW years ago, says a Dallas exas) letter to the New York Post, several articles appeared in Nothern jour nals showing that canaigre could be produced in the West and Southwest at a large profit, and figures were pub lished later by the Agricultural De partment shewing the relative cost oi cultivating and marketing the roots and the prices received for them in the open markets. In Arizona and New Mexico tho plants were imme diately brought under cultivation, and large farms have ever since been producing annually two tons of can iagre roots. But it is only recently that the plants have been cultivaten in the Cotton States, although in Cal ifornia and Tuxas it has been amply demonstrated that this prince of tan ning plauts succeeds satisfactorily along all the rivers and valleys. It has been demonstrated in the last year that canaigre will grow not only where the wild plants are found, but almost everywhere in the cotton belt where there is a sandy loam ol moderate moisture. On the stiffer soils it does not io bo well, but even there it will produce paying crops. Some of the more enthusiastic grow ers in Texas assert that it will even tually prove as widespread in its growth as Indian corn. It is certain that it is one of the greatest boons to farmers in the cotton belt. It is prac tically a new crop for the South, and one of extreme value. The process ol extracting the tannic acid for tanning tiurnoses is not verv difficult or elab- orate, and farmers could do their own fermenting and distilling at a verv email expense, and in this way in crease their own profits. At Tovah in the Tecos Valley ol Texas there is a large canaigre plant where the tannio acid is extracted from many tons of the roots every season. The farmers all through the valley supply this factory with the roots, and the industry is so popular that the old crops are being aban doned. Heretofore the large factories have simply sliced, dried and packed the roots for shipment to New York, Chicago, or BostoD, where the tannic acid has been extracted by secret pro cesses, but the factories down here will soon do their own extricting and ship the concentrated article to the large leather-making centres. A visit to some of the canaigre farms in the Tecos Valley gives one a more adequate idea of the new South ern crop than any description can. The planting is usually done early in the fall, not later than the first of No vember if possible, and by early spring they are in blossom. Loose, sandy soil is selected, and after the ground is broken thoroughly single roots of the plants are dropped in rows nearly three feet apart and from six to nine inches apart in the rows, and about five inches deep. When. the young leaves begin to come upt they look like a field of beet? or sweet potato Tines, although as they develop the contrast becomes more decided. In fast, the roots of the canaigre plantii have the general external ap pearance of sweet potatoes even to the time of digging, and they are pro duced in hills of from three to a dozer, varying in size and qualify, The weight of each tuber is from two to eighteen ounce?, and when a hill is first pulled up, a stranger might be forgiven if he declared that it was a o hill of wild sweet potatoes. An acre carefully cultivated and ir rigated will yield from twenty to thirty tonn of crceu roots, which when dried for nhiDinent will shrink to seven or ten tons. The value of can aigre-rooto properly dried variessome- what in this country and in Europe. Good roots one year old will yield from twenty-three to thirty-three per cent of tannic acid, while oak and hem lock bark contains only eight to ten per cent. In the rough, driel state canaigre-roots sell to-day at from $23 to $30 per ton, and tho prices in Eu rope range from to $39. The tannic acid from canaigro is superior to that obtained from any other source, and it is especially adapted to tanning uppers, fine saddlery, an I fancy leathers'. It is said to be valuable in the manufacture of dyestuffa ; and mordants. According to the present demand for dried canaigre-roota the lowest estimate of the yield would be -$175 per acre, with the average prob--ably at 225 per acre. The cost ol planting and cultivating a crop of canaigre is about the same as that of a sweet-potato crop, leaving much larger profits for the farmer. The land where the canaigre plants thrive is comparatively cheap and is held in abundanceby many, farmers and grazers who do not pretend to use more than one-quarter. Sheep, cat tle, and hogs roam over these wild stretches, and many of them nibble at the young leaves of the wild canaigre plants. All through the cotton belt further north experiments have been made which show that this plant can be raised tT ,ere almost as successfully as in Arizona or Texas. Canaigre ia a Spanish name, but its speeifio botanical name is Bumex hymenosepalua. It i3 found, growing wild in the valleys and river bottom of Western Texas, Arizona, Mexio, California, and New Mexico. It has long been used by the Indians and Mexicans as a medicinal plant, and when taken in sufficient quantity it ii a purgative. .The leaves have the general taste and properties of jhu- barb, and cattle enjoy oatinga limited quantity of them. The roots are dark externally anl yellow" within. The cultivated canaigre is much larger than the wild, and cultivation and ir rigation increase the yield enormously. Female Pugnacity Boys earlier inheritance is all in the way of offensive -weapons, of bows, bats, balls, and noise, with a tendency to teasing and bullying, a feature for. which the male has been famous, the sufferer who was put upon being the female the weaker vessel ; 'weaker because the males fought with one an other for her; had she fought with her sisters for the males she could have been the stronger and the big ger brained. ; The female, however, does inherit ft pugnacious instinct, chiefly defensive. She has had to fight on behalf of her young ones, and in such cases the ma ternal instinct becomes very strong indeed. Children show this char acter ; and I witnessed in one of mine n very curious exhibition of what . might be called perverted 'instinct arising from a conflict of inherited as sociations. She was quite a littlo girl and was nursing her doll with all possible expression of affection, lov eng it, kissing it, and calling it all the endearing names she knew. Up came her brother and began to tease hei. In an instant the pugnacious idea was aroused in defense of. the doll, but, having no available weapon in hand, 6he seized the doll by the hind legs and, wheeling it aloft, brought its china head down with resounding force on the cranium of her brother. He retired, howling and discomfited. She, excited with her triumph, .re turned to the caressing of her doll with redoubled ardor, quite uncon scious of the incongruity of her ac tions, an unconsciousness which heightened the comicality of the inci dent. Fopular Science Monthly. A Costly Mink Skin. . "That is a very fine mink skin job have," said a citizen to Frank Bots fuhr. "It ought to be a good one," was the reply, "it cost me enough." Further inquiry elicited the informa tion that the mink had been killed on Mr. Botefuhr's place, up on Cornell Mountain. 1 It had made away with fourteen of his prize chickens, valued at $14, and was then caught in a trap Bet by the man in charge. When it was found that the animal was trapped the maD took out a fine shotgun to kill it, bul concluding it was not worth while to waste powder and shot on so small a varmint, struck at it with the butt of tho gun. The mink dodged the blow,1 and the man becoming excited whaled away at it again and smashed . the stock of the gun. The making good . 1 .1(1 - IV . this damage cobs uiun, ou m mink skin cost $26 net. Mr. IJote fuhr is not anxious to get enough skins at the same price to line an over ooat. Portland Oregoaian,

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