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!1 A'- .. - I.'l ... rf. rjt-. - () Jk0 A W -A ill Will . 11 I1 SI : I fi.oo a Ycrt in Advance. ':; " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy 5 Cents," VOL. XVI. : PLYMOUTH, N, C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1905. NQ.39.V ; V PIONEEKS.. Strike through the forest to the clearing, strike! , ' Blaze I ho kIojv trqil. through tangled bush and brier. . , : pioneers, take prairie, gulch nnd pike,. And pwing the blows that tingle and in ' ' spire! Cut greatly onward to the real desire. Tui all your man in toil, And if you take the junjle tierce with lire, "Soon shall you out upon the "placid soil 5oyond the huge turmoil! The lassoing branches of the sapling wil low, The lariat ropes of clinging ivy strands Shall be burst through, as when, a sea of billows Strikes the breakwaters and spreads up the guilds! ,Ou. pioneers, to unmanned sea3 and land! The world love pulls you over With all the tug of huge and grappling hands And all the grip of love! Strike on, earth lover! Forever still a rover. K3aGK?eA R B A R A STANFORD 55 movf-fl sihoiif tlif srmnv B 5 room, arranging a vase of wnwi . iuw..w-Wi.hi. iW,,..,,ww,L.aMi,) ii.iiiii,iiWIi.iiHi.w, mn.i wMum- a clialice'of hothouse flow ts there; adjusting the lace curtains so that the westering sunshine fell In on the India matting as through a veil making a dainty shimmering shadow of the apple trees as the wind swayed their blossoming branches. She was the most strangely beauti ful womau Duke Rivers had ever seen, and as be sat on the veranda outside the French -windows, smoking a cigar scarcely less delicately fragrant than the sweet May daj-, and watching all her graceful movements, every- one of which was a poeni of itself, be was thinking how it happened that this glorious, enchanting creature bad be come an inmate of bis grandfather's house; and wondering, even more sur '. prisedly, that she was still free, with .' that ravishing beauty and fascination, of hers. He sat quietly in the comfortable chair, bis handsome blue eyes growing warm and eager as they followed the girl from place to place; a ad then, when she sat down a moment at the open" piano and struck a half-dozen preliminary . chords' before she sang an aria from "Traviata," he flung away his cigar, and went in through the window, to meet her luminous eyes as he stopped beside the instrument. y "Don't stop, Miss Stanford. You al- ways stop as soon as I come in." He dropped his handsome head a lit tle nearer her; she laughed, and de liberately arose from the piano stool. - "Do I, really? You know, Mrs.; Riv ers would be very much displeased to hear me sing for anybody." "And if my august sister-in-law should be.giiilty of such poor taste what then? Barbara walked slowly toward the tpen window, where the declining sun f shot its almost level rays full into her grand young face a face so exquisite in its health, and, pupity. arid rare beauty that 'ere,u the searching only added to its charm. As Rivers followed her. with intense reproach in his eyes, she lifted her own to hi3 again, fairly dazzling him with their splendor. "What then?" she would gracefully give me my conge, Mr. Rivers." . "Would she? Would she, really? Then sing to me, Miss Stanford, so I can Vnke you myself." Barbara laughed. 'How generous you are! And I never had such a delightful position as here at Broadacres. Please do not for jret I am not independent, like Miss Forrest. " I am not that fortunate lady, remember." "It is not at all likely that I shall forget you are not Miss Forrest," he said, eagerly. "You are something far more enchanting and beautiful than she or any mortal woman.", He was looking straight in her face, watching the brief little flush that so seldom disturbed its pale fairness. Even now she took no notice, apparent ly, of his intenseness. "Well Miss Forrest is the most fa vored woman I ever saw. She is rich, .and her own mistress, and " She hesitated, in her pretty, grace ful way. "And what?" he asked, tenderly. "That, is enough, I am sure," she added, lightly. "Is it enough, Barbara?, Would riches and Independence be all the goods of the gods you would ask?" Somehow, their talk was growing rery confidential; somehow, Duke Riv ers was realizing that this woman with the wine-brown eyes, and droop ing lashes, and perfect hands was cre ating a delirious, intoxicating havoc in his heart this exquisite creature whose name was Barbara Stanford, and who Was a hired servant in his grandfather's homestead a paid at tendant on his elegant, aristocratic sister-in-law's caprices this lovely crea ture fit to be crowned and throned. ;t A light flashed up in her eyes at his Reach ont! The earth is stale where over- human! Wring oft' the rime of ages, out the old! Be Adam and Eve, 0 man and woman, Start a new world with vigor that will hold And set your lusty children starward .goaled They cannot lling too high, Let for their sake the mighty earth be rolled All naked to the broad, inspiring sky! There live, and greatly die! iluge waters through primordial gulches pour, Vast peaks lift through the clouds a sword of snow, There lie full valleys and the roaring shore Alan only there is lacking! Let him go! There start the race that shall stretch out und grow And make the whole worl'd over! Strike axes, pioneers! Hew blow on blow, You vanguard of humanity! Earth lover, Forever still a rover. . New York Sun. words, and then her lids drooped swift ly, letting the long, thick lashes lie on her cheeks like a shodw. "It would not be enough, Barbara 1 know that. With such a woman as you, love should be lord of all such love as I " A mischievous little face suddenly thrust itself in between the lace cur tains. "Please, Uncle Duke, mamma says, will you please come up to her room? Miss Forrest is there, and they want you." Somehow, it made a break in the harmony. Somehow, after young Duke had vanished again and they two were left standing along together, the thread of their conversation would not be taken up again, and it was Bar bara who dissipated the rather awk ward embarrassment of blank silence that fell upon them. "Happy Miss Forrest!" she said, with a laughing little grimace that showed to perfection her small, strong teeth, white as milk, and her exquisite curve of lips and play of dimple in cheek and chin. He shrugged his shoulders and went out; and Miss Stanford stood several minutes just where he had left her, a grave, thoughtful look coming into her eyes, a compressed, almost merciless expression gathering on her firmly closed lips. Then she heard voices from some one descending the stairs, then Leila or, as 'she was always called, Lallie Forrest came down, followed by Mrs. Rivers and Duke, and Barbara stepped away from where she was, that they might not see.her, yet where her eager, jealous eyes could watch Lallie For rest's sweet, serious dignity of manner as Duke Rivers walked besids' her to the carriage that had just driven up to the mount, and was in waiting. Five minutes later, before the car riage was lost :o lur gaze down the shady turnpike, old Mr. Rivers came in a fine, handsome, courtly old gen tleman of sixty, whose eyes lighted at sight of her, as ho went across the room to where she stood. "Well, my little girl! It is within one minute of the time when I said I would come to hear you tell me wheth er or not you would accept an old man's love, and his narne, and his home. Barbara! my darling, may I hope?" For she had bewitched him, and all his magnificent fortune, his prince ly home, the grand old name, the unas sailable position as his wife and mis tress of Broadacres, were lying at her feet, to be taken or rejected. It was a wonderful streak of for tune, and Barabara had told herself so, over and over, in the twenty-fopj hours since Mr. Rivers had made Ms offer of marriage to her. A wonderful piece of good luck, only handsome Duke had been nearer the truth than even Barbara had dared whisper to herself when he had said that for such as her love should be lord of all. Aud she never could, by any possi bility, care for Duke's grandfather, with all his courtly manliness, and his riches, and his position, because she loved the grandson, the magnificent young fellow who was confidently ex pected to make love to, and marry, Lallie Forrest. And Barbara felt a great, wrench- I ing pain at her heart that was a strange commingling of anger, and dis appointment, and jealousy, and mis ery, as she imagined Duke and Miss Forrest off riding together in the sweet May sunshine. Mr. Rivers gently interrupted her wandering thoughts. "Well, Barabara! Remember I have been patient for twenty-four hours, and now I want to know how it is to be. Child, can you let me have you for my blessing, my treasure? Can you come to me and love me with all your fresh, young heart? Because, unless you can, dear, I would rather you would frankly tell me- what will be a sore distress to mei" ----- To be mistress of Broadacres. To own the very house and carriage with which Laliio Forrest was riding that minute. To rise higher than the haughty woman who paid her fifty dollars a month for services rendered. To have diamonds and be able to sign unlimited checks should she? If she could only crush down that fierce longing for Duke Rivers if only "We shall be a very pleasant fam ily circle," Mr. Rivers said. "You are aware that Duke and Lallie will be married in a few months, and un less you consent to be my little wife, I shall "be very lonely." He smiled down in her suddenly swift-paling face, and for just one anguished little minute her breath seemed leaving her lungs, her heart seemed as if grasped in a cruel iron hand, and then it was over, and she smiled in answer. "It is because I cannot comprehend why you should want me, Mr. Rivers! If you really do " She had no need to finish her sen tence, for Mr. Rivers drew her to him in a sudden, glad embrace. "My own little love! You never" nev er shall regret this. If ever a woman experienced what it was to be an old man's darling, it shall be you, my Bar bara!" And, after she had escaped to her room, she walked up and down, up and down with a white, drawn face that would have horrified both of the two men, with her small, fair hands tight ly clinched,, trying to beat down the jealous longing for Duke Rivers, with his handsome, eager eyes, and thril ling, passionate voice, and masterful way that had completely conquered her. Once that evening she went up to Mr. Rivers as he sat at an open win dow, in a pleading little way that was absolutely irresistible. "Please don't mention our our en gagement, will you? It will be un pleasant for me until I get a little used to it. Wait until I tell you, will you, please?" He caressed the fingers that lay so lichtlv and coaxinsrly on his coat sleeve. - "If you wish it so, Barbara. It is fortunate that you spoke so early, for I had fully intended to explain it all to Mrs. Rivers and Lallie Forrest when they have finished their lawn tennis. It is almost too dusky for them to see now." And, despite the prompt, gentleman ly acquiescence to her whim, Bavbara also comprehended he would have pre ferred it otherwise. "When they finished their lawn ten nis," Mr. Rivers had said; and when they finished it, Mrs. Rivers and Miss Forrest, and Duke, junior, went into the brilliantly lighted parlor where the old gentleman sat, and Duke went straight to the dusky corner in the ad joining room the music room, and Mrs. Rivers' morning parlor where Barbara sat in a low easy chair, look ing out into the starry darkness. "I will not intrude. Miss Stanford," he said lightly and half, inquiringly, as he went up to her, so near that he could see her ravishingiy beautiful lace that was even more glorified by the paculiar shadowy light; and then, catching up one of her hands that lay like a lily petal on the arm of the chair, the selfsame hand his courtly old grandfather had kissed scarcely an hour before, he drew her to him up from the chair. , " "Because," ho went on, In a quick, passionate whisper that thrilled every 'nerve in her frame, "because I will come to you anyhow. I have been dying of impatience to finish what I would have said this afternoon. Barbara! Barbara! you must love me, you must love me! Will you? Darling, do you?" Beyond the hopelessness of it, the cruelty of it, seeing that he was en gaged to Xallie Forrest, the speechless ecstasy of it all surged like a wave of light and life over her. and in one, just one little moment of weakness, or, rather, of desperate, reckless longing and heartaching for this handsome pleader, who had no more right to speak than she had to listen Barbara lifted up her face, which had that in it that made him stoop and kiss the quivering crimson lips, over and over, and held her close to his breast. Only for one little second; and then she broke away from him with an im patient, despairing little cry. "No! What good can come of this, even if we love each other? Duke! Duke, Rivers, was there ever such irony of fate before! We love each 'other, and you are to marry Lallie 'Forrest, while I. am engaged to your grandfather." She fairly flung the last words at him, and he looked as if she were speaking random words. What are you saying, my darling? I am to marry Miss Forrest? Perhaps people think so, but certainly it is not so, as the lady herself can testify. But I don't understand what you mean by saying you are engaged to marry my grandfather, Barbara." An anguished little cry came from her lips, and she shrank back into the chair again. "He asked me, and .he said yon would marry Miss Forrest and and my heart almost broke, but I told him yes. Duke! oh, for Heaven's sake, don't look at me like that! I loved you so I love you sol'.. For a look of ; sudden disapproval and gravity was merging into one of scorn and contemptuous displeasure. ,"It certainly was a Strang way to manifest your love, Bavbara; and, see here. Somehow, it has hurt -me. 1 couldn't think of being a rival of my grandfather's. Let us forget it all." And he turned, away from her. all his feelings in a state of revulsion for this fair creature who would have so deliberately sold herself. Just then old Mr. Rivers stepped through the door, and went up to her, kindly, resolutely,, as one does who feels morally obliged to discipline an erring child. "Nor could I dream of marrying the woman who is in love with my grand son. Barbara, we have all made a great mistake, but, thank Heaven, it is rectified in time. As Duke said, it will be best to forget it all." Duke Rivers, however, did marry sweet Lallie Forrest, after all, and a happy match they made of it. And poor Barbara Stanford? Do you reserve for her censure or pity? New York Weekly. CIENTIF1C NDV5TRJ The bicycle industry is still flourish ing in Great Britain. One firm of mak ers has just placed contracts for a new building amounting to over 33,000. Peat was used exclusively as fuel on Swedish railroads during the "past year, the custom being to mix it with half its weight of coai. This mixed fuel has proved satisfactory for freight service. The clock in the tower of the New Naval College, at Dartmouth, which will be opened shortly, will mark time as kept on board ship, striking eight, six. four bells, etc., and will be the only clock of its kind in England. The storks which spend their sum mers in Austria-Hungary and their winters in India and Central Africa are also marvelous travelers, and make their journeys twice a . year in un broken flight each time. From Buda pest, in Hungary, to Lahore, in India, is 2100 miles in an air line, and the storks make the journey in twenty -four hours. A great deal of attention has re cently been drawn to the experiments of Mr. John B. Burke, of the Caven dish Laboratory, Cambridge, England, where, by putting radium into tubes of sterilized bouillon, he has produced puzzling phenomena which have been regarded as possibly indicating the spontaneous generation of living or ganisms out of non-living matter. Every known precaution was taken to exclude living germs, yet under the apparent influence of the radium bacteria-like forms developed la the tubes. 'On Time. War correspondents would have us believe that the entire proceedings oi the Japanese army in the recent war form a kind of exalted bookkeeping. Not only were victories won, but they were won at the specified moment. The New York Times says that a cer tain colonel had sought Field Marsha'. Oyama, and asked permission to sacri fice himself and his command by cap turing a certain redoubt. "Which redoubt?" asked Oyama. The colonel told him. Oyama consulted his notes. "Sfv lirother." said he. "such giory is not for you. It has been assigned to another. Besides, it is early dawn now, and that redoubt is set down to be taken at 10.30." The redoubt was captured on time. Wise Child. Mr. Joseph Mordecai, the well known portrait painter, tells in M. A. P. a quaint little story in connection with one of his best subject pictures, the "Murder of the Princes in .the Tower." One day in his studio he was discuss ing the progress of the work with a brother artist, and observed that he found it difficult to get a suitable man to sit for the principal murderer. "I want a villainous, horrible looking fellow." he said. At these words one of the little princes, a diminutive model with an angel face, looked up from the couch where he was lying beside his brother, and piped: "Please, sir, I wish y-i'd have my father. I'm sure he'd just suit you.". Odors of the Mountains. If you notice a strong spicy and "woodsy" odor about any woman these days, do not imagine that she has adopted a new perfume. It is balsam that you smell, for. the lady has just. returned from the Adirondacks and brought with her a balsam pillow as a souvenir of her stay in the mountains. Of course she jammed the pillow into a corner of her trunk when she packed up to come 'home, and equally, of course, the strong smell of balsam per meated everything. It is as much a mark of the returning vacationist as is the cut of tan. - mm r SOUTHERN FARM y fOTES. TOUCS OF INTEREST Tn the Pt tHTFR. XTnftnti.v Aun TQnrif nsnwem k : f L"--" ' ! Feeding; UoaBtin? Ear Cora. Corn is often fed to cattle when go ing out of the roasting ear stage with fairly good results. In investigations made several years ago when compar ing corn ou a water free basis, that which was not well matured gave about as good results per pound of dry matter as that fully matured. In some sections of the South it is not an un common practice to feed corn when passing out of the roasting ear stage to cattle and other classes of stock with results that are in some instances quite surprising. Where grass is abundant it is not necessary that grass be fed in any considerable quantities until later. Sujrar Krets For nogs. n. C. M., Rome, Ga. I am raising a larger amount of hogs than formerly. In connection with other feed for them I have raised one-half ton of white sugar beets. Tlease tell me the most economical and profitable way to feed them, whether cooked or uncooked, and, if cooked, what other ingredients to mix with them? Answer Mix the -sliced, or boiled and mashed, sugar beets with corn meal at the rate of six to eight pounds of beets -to one pound of corn meal. If j'ou have a root slicer use it and feed the beet3 raw with the meal, if the hogs will eat them. Cooking does not add to their value. One pound of corn meal is equal in feeding value to about six pounds of first-rate sugar beets. Coal Ashes In the Garden " We frequently see the advice given to use ashes as fertilizer, but the writ ers of such items do not always specify whether wood ashes or coal ashes is meant. As is generally known wood ashes have a considerable value as fer tilizer, largely because of. the amount of potash contained, in them. Large quantities of unleached wood ashes are yearly brought from Canada and used on our farms; in some sections they are extensively used on grass land. The late Robert Bonner, the noted horseman, applied wood ashes for sev eral years in succession to his meadows and for something like twelve years after the last application of wood ashes these meadows have had no fertilizer except a moderately heavy top dressing of stable manure each fall; the crop yearly has been a most satisfactory one. Coal ashes can be utilized to ad vantage around orchard trees where the soil is heavy or clayey in charac ter; they may also be used as a mulch around shrubbery and small trees to coHserve the moisture in the soil. These ashes are less objectionable for such purposes than the coarse stable man ure generally used. . - I.Rrj IVack Peas i'rulaed. ... With u?, writes W.B.J., in Home and Farm, tne large black pea has given the most satisfactory results. It is a strong, and vigorous grower, makes a great mass of haulm, matures and dries early, so that dry pods can be gathered in September; and' In yield of seed exceeds, we believe, all other varieties. It is as good as any for stock or for hay, and the green peas in summer or the dry peas jn winter are in every way as sweet and savory and nutritious for man as any variety of twelve or thirteen that we have ever grown.' " ' "- For an all-round pea, for any pur pose required by the farmer, we be lieve there is nothing better than the large-seeded, all-black variety. There is a small-seeded kind, but not so good. Let the farmer try to work this sort out from his seed. And for planting purposes, or for use on the table in winter, a portion of the crop should be planted rather late in July, in order to have seed not infested with that great pest of this crop, the little pea bug. At the South, the early sowings are invariably in fested with this insect. Farmers who would make a specialty of the black pea for seed would doubtless find, it profitable. At $1.50 to $2.30 per bush el of seventy pounds the crop pays well.- Use Potash and Lime. Nearly all of the soils of the South will be benefited by the use of lime, and especially tuose on which potash Is liberally ueed, as it seems evident from the analysis of many SSuthern soils that there is not enough of that element present to enable potash to give its most satisfactory results. The principal crops grown in the South and the kind and amount of fertil izer best adapted to their use follows: Corn sorghum and the coarse fodder and grain growing cereals: Cotton seed meal 300 pounds, nitrate of soda 150 pounds, acid phosphate 830 pounds and muriate of potash ten pounds. Use at the rate of 300 to 500 pounds to the acre. For wheat and other small grain bearing cereals use the stane mixture but. at the rate of 150 to 350 pounds. - - a- nwrriiMimw iMiinimiMii I'll. t i'I Cotton: Cotton seed meal 250 pounds, high, grade acid phosphate 400 pounds and muriate of potash 150 pounds. Use at tb.; rate of 300 to 500 pounus per acre. x uiuiura. . T I :..T, 1 : High grade :ifid ihosphate 3, muriate ' of ptnsli 150 3oO pounds, pounds. Use at the rate of 4y0 to GOO. pounds per acre. , Liberal applications of a complete fertilizer should be made on all gar den and truck crops and on orchards. Use a fertilizer at the rate of 400 to COO pounds composed of a mixture of SOO pounds of cotton seed 'meal, 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 400 pounds of muriate of potash. Profes sor Soule. Black Kost of Cotton. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has since September I received numerous samples of diseased cotton bolls, showing blackened sur face and in many cases having the Im mature lint exposed and rotten. These diseased bolls show the pres ence of the spores or reproductive parts of a parasitic fungus Colleto trichium gosszpyium. The fungus seems to be spreading in North Caro lina and already does very serious damage. The estimated damage now; caused is about one-half the normal" yield on the Infected areas. The spores or so-called seeds of the fungus live over winter in the ''dis eased bolls and stalks of the preceed ing crop usually left in the field. The spores undoubtedly live upon the seed stored in barns and cotton gins. Whem ' this seed is planted or when infected seed is planted upon infected soil the fungus starts growth along with the seed and grows up through the young plants, eventually coming to the sur face of the stalks and forming black patches on stalk and boll. .'Great dam age is done to the growing" crop by; the threads of this fungus choking tne sap vessels of the -leaf-stalks, thereby causing the leaves to fall offj t When young bolls are seriously infect ed they stop growth, open' ahd 'expose? the immature lint which soon rots." ij The only practical remedy for. this disease is to rotate crops so that cot ton will not come upon the same land oftener than once in three years. Seed cotton should never be taken from the piles at gin houses. The seed should always be carefully selected from healthy and prolific plants In th field. Such selection, together, with a proper rotation, will prevent, the loss now caused by the disease and will at' the same time improve the strain and increase the yield of the. crop. 'J- t The use of fungicidal sprays uponv" cotton is ' not recommended. Gerahi McCarthy, Biologist N. C. Depjt. Agrl- culture. . Suirhifj Rj c. Eye is a crop that grows on poor land and it does good work in the way, of holding plant food that might leachi away during the winter months, and it is also effective in, keeping the soil from washing away when the heavy, winter rains come on. Rye is not only a good crop in the way of looking after the physical condition, of the soil, but it is" one of the best "grazing crops that we have for .wiater , and spring months. '.W'e are putting our rye in as convenient at this season of the year. Our practice is to use Uyj disk harrow so as to break up the topr of the soil, therebjnwking a good seed bed, and then seed this land to rye about the rate of one bushel per acre. As a rule we have the rye to follow corn. After the corn is either shocked or put into the silo, we get the land in condition and seed the rye. Wo have a few lots, however, that go to rye for the grazing of our hogs In winter. About an acre lot was seeded the first of August, and then three or four lots will follow so as to have an abundance of green grazing for the large and small pigs. Rye can be pastured, or it can be left standing until it gets to be a foot, or even two feet, above the ground when it can be mowed and every day; a small quantity given to the wort, stock or cattle or hogs. This method cf handling rye crops is known as soil ing, and it has many friends who pre fer to cut the rye and haul it to the barn, where it is fed rather than haver it grazed from the field. Still It makes no difference-a3 to the method of using the crop. Every farmer should have his rye field for furnishing green food during the winter months and spring, when no other kind is available. I find for our work rye an invaluable aid, and we could not think of faming without having fifteen or twenty acres each year for this purpose. Whoever; tries this system hecomes a fi'lend to it, and finds it helpful and a good means of carrying on the work; and providing au abundance of food for all classes of farm animals.' and' wo should also bear in mind that live stock farming is profitable only with,' an abundance of good foo3. C. , W. Burke tt.. in the Progressive' Fariuer. i